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  • GOP South Carolina voters blame Biden for grocery prices, Emerson poll finds

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  • The most corrupt people leading the most ignorant. This is right-wing politics.

  • According to this news story, AI is subtly making devices more expensive. Who would have guessed? Everyone! 🙄

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  • I just had my laptop stolen. I bought it new for $2600 last year. This year a replacement with similar specs seems to cost $5600. Pretty subtle, but I still notice a difference.

  • Trump just lost his battle to force a university to release its “list of Jews”

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  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

    www.reuters.com /legal/government/capital-one-says-it-closed-trump-organizations-accounts-after-anti-money-2026-08-01/
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Springfield Haitians receive letters from ICE, ankle monitors

    www.cincinnati.com /story/news/politics/2026/07/30/springfield-haitians-told-to-report-to-ice-office-in-cincinnati/91112180007/
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    Trump just lost his battle to force a university to release its “list of Jews”

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/08/just-lost-his-battle-to-force-a-university-to-release-its-list-of-jews/
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    Why not just steal from YouTube?

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  • Because someone has to pay for the storage and bandwidth, which is hugely expensive. To fund it they'd have to charge subscriptions or run ads, same as Google.

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Trump seeks the extradition of pro-Palestine activist and donor James ‘Fergie’ Chambers amid a widening crackdown on the U.S. left

    mondoweiss.net /2026/07/trump-seeks-the-extradition-of-pro-palestine-activist-and-donor-james-fergie-chambers-amid-a-widening-crackdown-on-the-u-s-left/

  • Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

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  • In ISBNdb’s now-removed marketing materials, it admitted that getting caught destroying printed books during the scanning process would not be a good look. “The optics problem is real,” ISBNdb’s site said. “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy.”

    So their solution was to do the evil thing secretly?

  • US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

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  • Any other country would employ people with basic knowledge who would spot this at once. But Trump (with the help of Musk and a handful of fratboys) fired anyone like that. Knowledge, expertise and competence are a negative in their eyes. They want ignorant sycophants only.

  • US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

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  • No Nambia either. And where's the Democratic Republic of the Covfefe?

  • Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators

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  • This fight between two tribes over ancient mythology will never stop and should take place back in their respective shit holes, not in places trying to reduce ignorance in human society.

    That's not what the student demonstrators are doing though. They're drawing attention to an ongoing genocide supported by their governments and their universities. They're working to reduce ignorance in human society by making sure we don't forget an ongoing crime against humanity, and highlighting how governments and universities in Canada collaborate with those perpetrating genocide. This is not a tribal matter. It's not taking sides for the sake of one "tribe" or another. This is basic concern for fellow human beings who are being tortured, starved and massacred.

    To look at that and say "take it elsewhere; universities are for reducing ignorance but not about that" is to demand the ivory tower lock its doors to whatever goes on in wider society. It's unrealistic. Universities exist and operate in wider society and can influence society's ethical and intellectual standards. Students should demand better from their universities precisely because universities can set an example of rejecting comfortable ignorance for uncomfortable awareness. When they don't do that they end up co-opted by, and doing the bidding of, political power.

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators

    breachmedia.ca /canadian-universities-set-up-a-secret-network-to-crack-down-on-student-palestine-demonstrators/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators

    breachmedia.ca /canadian-universities-set-up-a-secret-network-to-crack-down-on-student-palestine-demonstrators/

  • Do Not Buy The War Crime N64

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  • Ah, but would an absolute dipshit say something like this, on the occasion of winning a US military contact?

    For Luckey, the contract transition is his own watershed moment. In his blog on Tuesday, he wrote that the announcement is "deeply personal."

    "Everything I've done in my career — building Oculus out of a camper trailer, shipping VR to millions of consumers, getting run out of Silicon Valley by backstabbing snakes, betting that Anduril could tear people out of the bigtech megacorp matrix and put them to work on our nation's most important problems — has led to this moment," he wrote.

  • AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books

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  • There's no legitimate purpose for destroying these books.

    There are non-invasive ways scan books. But the destruction is an added bonus. These companies make a copy of these public domain books and then pulp the remains. They're rare, so that means they're hard to find (that's what rare means, after all).

    Then, they can turn around and sell their dataset to AI companies.

    The destruction is the point.

    Capitalism always creates perverse incentives. The most profitable thing you can do is seize something readily available and make it impossible to get without paying you.

    But which companies are doing this? It sounds like these are companies that supply training data to AI companies. I think we need names.

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    Missouri Couple Found Tied Up and Shot Dead After ICE Deportation

    newrepublic.com /post/213627/missouri-couple-found-tied-shot-dead-ice-deportation
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Missouri Couple Found Tied Up and Shot Dead After ICE Deportation

    newrepublic.com /post/213627/missouri-couple-found-tied-shot-dead-ice-deportation

  • Shopify CEO draws criticism for apparent support of giving wealthy more voting power

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  • The problem he sees is that the rest of us still have some.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    The prosecutor investigating U.S. boat strikes and torture in Ecuador in connection with the Trump war crimes, blowing up those boats off the coast of Venezuela, was assassinated.

    thehill.com /opinion/lindseys-lens/5994532-us-boat-strikes-allegations-investigation/

  • Trump Flips Out at Protester Calling Him “Pedophile Protector”

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  • We all need to communicate better. Yeah the pedophiles!

    Hmm

  • RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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  • Please note: All Upgrades have been put on hold due to the double cost of Memory Modules. The option to upgrade the supported GPUs has been disabled on the booking page.

  • DOJ Charges Alleged Cop City Activist Over “Duress” Password That Wipes Phone

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  • Yes, though I don't suppose he'll ever be free of surveillance by various countries' intelligence agencies.

  • DOJ Charges Alleged Cop City Activist Over “Duress” Password That Wipes Phone

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  • Maybe they'll make it a crime not to carry evidence of something they think you should have evidence of.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    DOJ Charges Alleged Cop City Activist Over “Duress” Password That Wipes Phone

    truthout.org /articles/doj-charges-alleged-cop-city-activist-over-duress-password-that-wipes-phone/

  • DHS admission suggests sham emergency will justify ICE arrests at midterm polls

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  • ICE will be doing its best to provoke an "active public safety threat" wherever it can during the elections. They'll turn up and start grabbing people out of voting lines, or just threatening people, and as soon as anyone protests it will be an active public safety threat. Then they'll either shut the polling venue down or cause so much trouble outside that no one dare approach. Once the election is done and there just happened to be active public safety threats in Democratic-leaning areas only, the Democrats will decide they have to play by the rules and accept the result in order to protect democracy.

  • Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it

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  • It's the Telegraph. The whole thing is a pile of half-assed right-wing nonsense. It's what happens when a middlebrow Tory propaganda broadsheet dumbs itself right down for the internet in the age of MAGA.

  • Memory chip maker CXMT debuts in Shanghai, up 470% at open and becomes the largest listed company in China

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  • The USA is close, with a two-week concept of a plan.

  • GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

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  • What a coincidence that it was the guy protesting the police who was also suspected of possessing such materials. If it turns out they had real independent grounds to suspect he had such images, I'll change this view, but for now I assume that's the cops' standard line to shut down people's questions. Just say they thought the political target had CSAM, and immediately people see him differently, plus the police can accuse anyone who challenges their actions of supporting pedophiles.

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    GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

    www.androidauthority.com /grapheneos-duress-pin-us-prosecution-3691271/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

    www.androidauthority.com /grapheneos-duress-pin-us-prosecution-3691271/
  • Privacy @lemmy.world
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    GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

    www.androidauthority.com /grapheneos-duress-pin-us-prosecution-3691271/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    ICC prosecutor Khan removed over sexual misconduct allegations: Sources | News

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/7/24/icc-prosecutor-khan-removed-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations-sources
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    EU governments adopt return of Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “The true losers are our children”

    www.patrick-breyer.de /en/eu-governments-adopt-return-of-chat-control-1-0-breyer-the-true-losers-are-our-children/
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    Amid deadly temperatures, GOP advances bill to ban federal heat protections for workers

    therealnews.com /amid-deadly-temperatures-gop-advances-bill-to-ban-federal-heat-protections-for-workers