X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”Bjarke Smith-Meyer (POLITICO)
Feds forcibly yank woman in medical scrubs from car as she screams she's a US citizen
Feds forcibly yank woman in medical scrubs from car as she screams she's a US citizen
Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen.David Edwards (Raw Story)
I'm really glad you took it in this way. I'm happy to have given you something to think about and to bring something positive to you, if that's what happened. ❤️
Hey, I have smaller problems than you and I'm stressed af too, so I can only imagine. You never know what people are going through.
Take care!
[US Sen. Patty] Murray: ICE dog attack on WA man ‘should shock the conscience’
from Seattle Times
Dec. 6, 2025
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is calling for the immediate release of a Clark County man whose attorneys say was mauled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement dog despite not resisting arrest.Undercover immigration officials detained Wilmer Toledo-Martinez, of Vancouver, Wash., outside his home on Nov. 14. An ICE agent pretended to be a construction worker, claiming he had hit Toledo-Martinez’s vehicle and needed to exchange insurance, luring the family out of their home, according to the senator.
Another agent was waiting for Toledo-Martinez outside, releasing a dog that then mauled him, according to his attorney. As of Saturday, Toledo-Martinez, was being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
They've been convinced that their suffering is the result of minorities and not rich people.
Kind of like how Democrats have been convinced that their suffering is the result of racists and not rich people.
The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report
A new, disturbing detail in the “drug boat” controversy that has enveloped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the past week calls the purpose of the entire operation into question.
According to an exclusive report from CNN, the alleged narco-trafficking boat that the U.S. military targeted on September 2 in a “double tap” strike, which killed 11 people, wasn’t even heading to the U.S.
Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who was in charge of the operation, reported to lawmakers that the boat they struck was actually en route to link up with a larger boat that was heading to Suriname, a country east of Venezuela, two sources with direct knowledge of his remarks said.
Bradley also said that it was still possible that the alleged drug shipment could have eventually ended up in the U.S., the sources told CNN—rather dubious justification for a strike that left several people dead.
The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report
This new detail eviscerates Pete Hegseth’s argument.The New Republic
That's not what they looked like. Here's some of these boats:
Notice it's not really built for comfort. There's no cover for the pilot or passengers, and there's a large cargo area. It's very different than what a civilian boat looks like.
Anyway, I don't know how many times I have to say this. It being a drug boat or not doesn't make it legal to destroy. It doesn't justify anything whether it's a drug boat or not. It's just a lot easier to convince people of the right thing if you don't start from crazy conspiracies. There are drugs being smuggled. This isn't a secret. Arguing that there aren't drugs being smuggled makes you sound equally as reasonable as someone saying that aliens actually blew up those boats. There's a lot of evidence to the contrary that needs to be explained.
Fine, keep arguing these aren't. Whatever. How they fuck do you explain narco subs? It's either cartels building them to smuggle drugs, or nations building them and filling them with drugs as some massive conspiracy to manufacture consent against drug cartels, and no one has spoken out yet. It's much more likely the former.
It's not an attack on America. It's just people making money. No shit there's no excuse. That's literally what I've been saying. Drug boats or not, it isn't legal or moral.
Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump’s peace agreement hangs in balance
Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodia on Monday as a new wave of fighting erupted between the southeast Asian neighbors, marking the potential collapse of a peace plan presided over by Donald Trump just two months ago.
Both sides accused the other of launching strikes along their disputed border Monday morning, after weeks of simmering tension and the earlier suspension of progress on the ceasefire agreement by Thailand.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/asia/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-december-intl-hnk
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Pro-Israel candidate Kast, son of Nazi official, wins Chilean presidential elections
Pro-Israel candidate Kast is new president of Chile | The Jerusalem Post
Son of a Nazi official, Kast will replace a Chilean administration led by Gabriel Boric, a vocal critic of Israel and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
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An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card
An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.
Länsstyrelserna i Dalarna, Södermanland, Västmanland, Västra Götaland och Örebro län har beslutat om licensjakt efter totalt 48 vargar. Jakten var tänkt att starta den 2 januari 2026. Besluten har överklagats av flera olika organisationer. Däribland Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen, Svenska Rovdjursföreningen och föreningen Nordulv.
blog.zaramis.se/2025/12/15/for…
Signal installation in a Distrobox
Signal only provides a script for .deb based distros on their official website. The flatpak is currently not ideal because it stores encryption keys in plaintext.
The provided link suggests an automated installation in a Ubuntu Distrobox including automated updates. Useful for every distro that does not natively support .deb packages.
signal-distrobox
Automating Signal installation in an Ubuntu Distrobox. Useful for Atomic Desktops, or any distribution that does not natively support .deb packages.Codeberg.org
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Edmonton sees record increase in frostbite amputations, despite innovative treatment
Like many Albertans at this time of year, Louis Francescutti is thinking about the weather.
“The snow fell last night, so temperatures are well below zero,” said the Edmonton emergency physician.
“As we speak, there are probably men and women out there developing frostbite right now. And so my colleagues probably later today or tomorrow will start treating this year’s round of frostbites.”
“About two to three weeks ago, I saw two patients that had infected amputation sites from last year’s frostbite,” said Francescutti.
“In other words, we are still dealing with frostbite from a year ago. And now these men and women are still homeless and chances are they’re going to reinjure themselves again.”
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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.Martin Alderson
Claude CLI deleted someone home directory and wiped his Mac
Source: Reddit Post.
Claude CLI deleted my entire home directory! Wiped my whole mac.
I was having the Claude CLI clean up my packages in an old repo, and it nuked my whole Mac! What the hell? Has anyone ever had this happen? I’m trying to figure out if this is even reversible. So much work lost..
CLAUDE response - I found the problem and it's really bad. Looking at your log, here's the catastrophic command that was run:
bash
rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/See that \~/ at the end? That's your entire home directory. The Claude Code instance accidentally included \~/ in the deletion command, which would wipe out:
- Your entire Desktop (\~/Desktop)
- Documents, Downloads, everything
- Your Keychain (\~/Library/Keychains)
- Claude credentials (\~/.claude)
- Application support data
- Basically everything in /Users/...
This explains why:
- Your desktop is gone
- Your keychain was deleted
- Your Claude credentials disappeared
- The error at the end says "current working directory was deleted"
Cheers to AI: ADAM Robot Bartender Makes Drinks at Vegas Golden Knights Game
ADAM Robot Bartender Makes Drinks at Vegas Golden Knights Game | NVIDIA Blog
In Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena, fans of the Golden Knights are getting more than just hockey — they’re getting a taste of the future.Scott Martin (NVIDIA Blog)
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in reply to jlow (he / him) • • •European Commission has an active account on their own instance
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
bfg9k
in reply to MicroWave • • •The world is being run by children.
Fucking insane.
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SupraMario
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean • • •ripcord
in reply to SupraMario • • •Because they fucking suck.
It just floors me the kind of excuses they come up with.
Same with leftists still buying Tesla. Which is still a fucking lot.
SupraMario
in reply to ripcord • • •burntbacon
in reply to SupraMario • • •3abas
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean • • •Every time I said this, I get downvoted.
People on here get really weird about and start downvoting and insulting people who call it X, because they refuse to accept the stupid new name... What are you clinging on to? Twitter is DEAD.
Yes, the new name, X is stupid. It's now the Nazi platform X, accept that and stop using the Nazi platform. Your line in the sand is way further back than it should be, you can't keep using the platform and insist you're giving the finger to Elon by calling it Twitter.
Stop using Twitter, accept that Twitter is dead. Stop using the Nazi platform.
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in reply to 3abas • • •3abas
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean • • •No it's not... They kept the domain because it costs $8/year and it would be incredibly stupid to let it go, even for Elon.
But it forwards to x.com
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
in reply to 3abas • • •3abas
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean • • •blueribbonsports.com
ameancow
in reply to 3abas • • •I've gotten pushback from places I really wouldn't have imagined for saying that we all need to kill our social media, starting with Twitter.
I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays but PLEASE, Lemmy lefties... speaking directly at you right now.
DO NOT KEEP USING TWITTER.
When you use twitter you generate views for other things, those views translate into monetary rewards for people in other countries who have been paid to destabilize your country. You are not saving anyone, you're not helping anyone. It's a half-dead platform that empowers some of the worst people in the world.
"But people use it in other countries to organize resistance and several other excuses that make me sound addicted!"
I do not care. They have other means. You're not a revolutionary. Just put it away and spend that scrolling time walking and meeting people and reading about local progressive candidates in your area you can back and support and actually make a fucking difference instead of trying to get your twit
... show moreI've gotten pushback from places I really wouldn't have imagined for saying that we all need to kill our social media, starting with Twitter.
I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays but PLEASE, Lemmy lefties... speaking directly at you right now.
DO NOT KEEP USING TWITTER.
When you use twitter you generate views for other things, those views translate into monetary rewards for people in other countries who have been paid to destabilize your country. You are not saving anyone, you're not helping anyone. It's a half-dead platform that empowers some of the worst people in the world.
"But people use it in other countries to organize resistance and several other excuses that make me sound addicted!"
I do not care. They have other means. You're not a revolutionary. Just put it away and spend that scrolling time walking and meeting people and reading about local progressive candidates in your area you can back and support and actually make a fucking difference instead of trying to get your twitter arguments clipped and shared on reddit.
burntbacon
in reply to ameancow • • •I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch... she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.
ameancow
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in reply to cv_octavio • • •cv_octavio
in reply to kbobabob • • •"I'm addicted to being an online asshole" is a tricky one for me to muster sympathy for in the cockles of my heart.
It may very well be that I'm not cut out for the role of cult deprogrammer.
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in reply to HazardousBanjo • • •For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.
Honytawk
in reply to MicroWave • • •Great, so now any ad from the EC we know is either a scam or propaganda.
Makes it quite obvious.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •Cool, then fuckjng get some balls and block Twitter altogether.
See how quickly they rolled over when Brazil blocked them and they realized everyone was moving to Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon, giving lots of other people the same idea.
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in reply to Phineaz • • •Phineaz
in reply to Foni • • •I assure you, this is not an irrational fear.
A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
Foni
in reply to Phineaz • • •If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don't understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It's as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.
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in reply to AlexLost • • •- YouTube
www.youtube.comNico198X
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in reply to someguy3 • • •someguy3
in reply to ferrule • • •A law is a law, a ban is a ban. JFC.
And no they won't go away if all they can do is post ads JFC.
ferrule
in reply to someguy3 • • •someguy3
in reply to ferrule • • •JFC I have to be more specific? A law that defines allowable products is a law. A ban is a ban. If you want to ban a COMPANY that's a ban on the COMPANY. not a LAW that defines allowable products.
Do you seriously think a company that has to adjust something just throws their arms up and says "Oh I guess we're banned"? When the EU required USB-C ports did Apple just say "fuck I guess we're banned, we'll withdraw from the EU and lose all that revenue" or did they just put in a USB-C port. JFC. That law did not ban Apple the COMPANY.
JFC I'm leaving this conversation.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •This by itself should be enough to have Twitter banned, at least temporarily.
You don't just get to retaliate for getting fined for breaking the law. That's how you upgrade a fine to a prison sentence if you're a regular person.