Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers. But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared.emptywheel
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
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Part of this is because whenever something works, it inconveniences Doug Ford and his buddies so they make things worse.
Banning speed cameras is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Of course drivers don't give a fuck.
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Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.
More than 400 members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were accused of misconduct in 2024, leading to at least 20 dismissals and resignations.
According to the RCMP, it logged 443 cases of alleged misconduct in 2024 involving 408 employees. Nearly one quarter of these cases resulted in “serious” disciplinary measures, such as being declared ineligible for promotion or being forced to forfeit more than 80 hours of pay. Ten RCMP employees were also demoted to a lower rank or level, which was more than double the number of demotions made over the previous two years.
Five per cent of the misconduct cases, or approximately 22, resulted in termination or direction to resign, which was the most severe consequence. Over 70 per cent of cases led to remedial or corrective measures such as special training, close supervision or deferred promotions.
The misconduct cases were revealed in the RCMP’s Report on the Management of the RCMP Conduct Process, which was quietly released on Jan. 21. The report from Canada’s federal police force covers the 2024 calendar year.
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Five per cent of the misconduct cases, or approximately 22, resulted in termination or direction to resign, which was the most severe consequence.
Well, it's progress. We used to promote them and put them in charge of standards and training.
Honestly, this could be a good thing. It may look like more misconduct is happening, but it also could be the same amount as always. Only now it's coming to light and being dealt with.
ACAB, but maybe, just maybe, there's a little bit of light on the horizon?
Google’s Project Zero team found that WhatsApp can download a malicious media file without you doing anything at all.Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
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Basically, Epstein was the manager of Putin's wealth.
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Epstein had some connection to REDACTED from MIT Media Lab and I think that’s Joi Ito.
Epstein tried repeatedly to set up a meeting to sell Putin on the idea of bitcoin in 2014.
That particular meeting fell apart, because Epstein realized it would look terrible to visit Putin so soon after the shootdown of MH17. But I wouldn't be shocked if they did successfully meet sometime later.
Some people have joked that the only practical use case for bitcoin is to make financial crimes much easier. But what if that's not a bug, but a feature? Perhaps the whole objective of bitcoin's invention was to make financial crimes easier for Putin and the Russian mob.
Ito introduced Epstein to Jeremy Rubin (core bitcoin dev), which turned into Epstein directly funding Rubin. Search for "Jeremy Rubin" in the files and you'll find checks to him, docs about the formation of "Deploy Capital LLC", potentially backed with Peter Thiel who was trying to invest in Level One and Bitmain. Iozzo was involved in that stuff too: justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…
So if that's all true, is bitcoin just a bunch of Putin's money? Nothing here is conclusive, but it isn't so far fetched anymore, either.
But suddenly, this bizzare email exchange makes some sense. Epstein and Ito were panicking about the feds tracking down Putin's wealth, because they knew following the money would lead right back to them.
Also, now we might know where Epstein got his mystery billions! Because they weren't his billions, they were Putin's.
The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
To be fair, Marxism has killed a fuckload of people.
Edit oh no people down voting who don't like the truth
this guy wouldn't pay for sex
Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. Torvalds Linus
There were also single contact people that can be explained by Epstein operating a honeypot. If he couldn't work with you, he would get blackmail on you. And then you get scenes like this in The Simpsons after Matt Groening's name appeared on the flight list.
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The Simpsons (1989) - S06E19 Comedy clip with quote And tonight, the following celebrities have been arrested: Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share.Yarn
You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.
Who is talking about people that are perfect in every way? Do you think that people believe that Linus Torvalds is perfect? He is not. We don't need people to be 'perfect', but not being part of a child molesting ring is good start.
Jpeg XL is such an unsexy name though. (In my opinion) JPEG is already seen as an ancient format, there are plenty of even main stream memes about it's artifacting quirks. And now you just want to slap more stuff on it? Make it extra large. Sounds like bloat to me!
To be real for a second; I'm sure it's a fine format and suited for the future, but the name really does put me off it a bit 😄
To be fair, the UI Control Panel of Windows has become more and more fragmented. Windows 11 is slowly transitioning different settings into the Settings App. It's going slow and I have no idea if Microsoft will ever finish the job. When Windows 11 was first released, Settings had so many shortcuts to Control Panel elements that it was totally useless. My thoughts (hope) are that Windows 11 is what Windows Vista was - a transition that would be a bloody mess - and at some point Windows 12 will come and people will like it because they reintroduce elements that people miss and fix some of these inconsistencies.
But how things are run, it will probably be filled with even more reasons to ditch Windows.
Qanon was correct in the same way your conspiracy theorist uncle was right about MKULTRA. There's a quick summary that can give a pretty big overlap of them and reality, but that's not why these people believe this, and the more details, context, or scope you add the less they align.
Qanon is an intellectual descendant of the satanic panic, and the framing it uses is very much in that line of thinking. It's framing it as political enemies raping young children as part of a dark ritual that involves blood libel.
The Epstein situation in contrast is that the rich, powerful, and influential run in overlapping social circles and within them there are people whose role is to facilitate connections (Peter Thiel actually facilitates a similar role). These people may also facilitate other connections like drugs (there's so much drugs in the Epstein stories) and pimping. The pimping for the elite, at least by one of these people, also seemed to disproportionately traffic adolescents and many of the rich, powerful, and influential clients, friends, and connections of this man seemed to either partake in his underage victims or knowingly look the other way in order to maintain these beneficial connections.
Both of these are very bad things involving the rich and powerful engaging in pedophilia, but the former is utterly fantastical and originates in a panic with no evidence and itself lacks evidence, while the latter is a realistic situation that has a lot of evidence for it
Raping children is what you call 'not perfect'?
No, simply no — try that comment again only do it without defending child rapists.
As much as people fucking hate when this line gets rolled out and for good reason.
There's a reason chronophilia is a term. Infantophilia, pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, teleiopholia, mesophilia and gerontophilia. Are all different things.
Actually properly respecting, and using correct terminology can and should be a thing as it prevents unreasonable harm in instances where things are perfectly fine.
For example a 18 year old ephebophile. That's fucking normal, even tho in the eyes of the law it's punished as a sex crime. A 18 year old and a 17 year old with a 6 month gap gets fucked because we don't actually take into account logic when it comes to this topic.
So that 18 year old is now a "pedophile" a term with horrid implications and life defining punishments legally and socially just because we all refuse to actually educate ourselves of the terminology and actual research on the topic.
Because the word pedo has such a huge social negative (for good reason) that we basically just all collectively go stupid as fuck and go straight to the worse punishment we can with out ever considering logic.
It also makes further research into the topic absurdly hard to do and secure funding for. Because of the massive social problems with attaching your name to such research.
Cause even researching it can result in you being attacked. There's been a number of instances iv seen where research on the topic dead ends because no one is willing to actually attach their name to the subject. Or when something gets published it gets dragged through the mud because it's a easy headline.
So we never actually find healthy and effective methods to deal with the problem. We just attack, mislabel, don't think and cause more harm by not actually trying to deal with it. Because the problem is "icky".
It's quite interesting. My great grandmother apparently used to talk about the Roman Catholics abusing children and mothers in the Magdalene Laundries and people saw her as a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Squid Game in a way is also a story about the rich elite participating in sickening immoral activities
That's the thing, some conspiracy theories are going to be true, most aren't, and some will bear a passing resemblance to the truth.
The main tool at our disposal here is skepticism. Are the claims being made plausible? Are the motivations realistic? Is there evidence from reputable sources? Am I approaching this with a critical mindset? Am I focused on the explicit claims, or am I allowing people to "yes and" this? Am I letting my emotions or preconceived biases and prejudices cloud my judgment?
I'm kinda surprised that him proposing that the US should throw Ukraine to the wolves (Russia) didn't completely tank his career. In hindsight, for the past 20 years he's kinda just turned into a tankie (or at least tankie-adjacent) due the the US's misdeeds in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
While the US has done wrong, that doesn't automatically make its adversaries right.
5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
Gig workers and 2-2-3/7-7 shifters that are often forced to work on the off-days:
people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18
It's mostly "people younger than 16 should not have sex with people 18 or older", because legal age does not match age of consent. Even then, there are some regions that tend to disagree, most notably China, Central Europe and South American countries that put the lower bound to as low as 14. But it still leaves 18-year olds to be open for grooming by perverts of any age. And that, according to DHS, 8% of women had sex with somebody before reaching the age of 14, 41% had it before age of 16, and 67% before 18, putting any such "dogma" into further questioning.
Disclaimer: Not proposing anything here, just pointing that answers to those questions are far from being settled upon.
Our previous president son is on the files. There was a news article where he explained that Epstein had contacted him for fundraising or some other legal thing and they met somewhere once for a short while but that's all. There was also other finns, like one young woman who applied for an assistant job on some of his businesses but didn't get hired.
So, while there's a crapload of people who should be convicted and thrown in a jail there's also a ton of people who don't have anything to do with pedo-ring or anything else. Good to keep in mind that having someones name on the files alone doesn't mean too much.
And just to avoid any confusion, if you are mentioned in the files more than Jesus is mentioned on the bible it's not an accident or one time thing. Allegedly that applies at least to Trump and there should be a small and dark cell somewhere ready.
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Majority of the world works 40hr or less which is basically a 5/7 schedule.
We aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave
I get this, in my own house. We need speakeasy for linux.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.
I'm a long time Linux user and cannot get everything on my laptop to work (just the built in microphone, but still).
Epstein's "day job" was being a socialite. He was the guy who knew everybody. If you wanted an introduction, he could do it. He was the guy who made sure that the riff raff stayed out, even if they were rich.
I'm pretty sure that everybody knew he was always around "young women", but I strongly suspect that most of the people he interacted with didn't know about the child sex abuse. They were there for his "rolodex".
But, the end result is that because he was the guy who knew everybody in a position of power, his network shows who has the power. My guess is that at least half the people he had in his network were not into child sex abuse, and didn't know that he was involved in that. But, I have only the world's tiniest violin to play for those people. I think they're guillotine-worthy because of their abuses of power, and how they hoarded obscene amounts of wealth. For far too long, the ultra rich have had a good public image in the US. People should have been furious with them just for hoarding all that wealth. And, the Epstein folks are the ones who not only hoarded the wealth, but spent it to gain power, which they used to warp society to benefit themselves. So, now everybody's disgusted with them and hates them, it's for the wrong reasons, but at least they're hated.
Considering his lack of public statements and actual support for Israel and zionism I'd argue your wrong.
Conservatively moderating a shit show that is Israeli subject matter is one thing (and I've been banned from reddit for pointing out how bat shit insane zionism is) but actively supporting the regime is a completely different thing.
Epstein's "day job" was being a socialite.
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because he was the guy who knew everybody in a position of power, his network shows who has the power.
Exactly. He was actively seeking out wealthy and influential people to add to his circle of influence.
Weird, Linux always worked for me on pretty much any computer I ever threw it on, apart from a issue on an old (pre nvidia-open) Asus ROG laptop where it would kernel panic sometimes when resuming from sleep when using nvdia and video going black after screen going to sleep when using the Trident driver on historical pentium 3 era machines.
Overall for the great majority of laptops linux works perfectly fine out of the box. When in doubt buy Thinkpads, those are warrantied to work well, any if there's a quirk it will be properly documented together with it's fix.
I do kinda agree. That's everyones first impression when I talk about it. So you want bigger jpeg?
Just call it jxl I think.
Epstein was likely embedded into this system as a black mailing agent by someone who already knows it.
The ICE part seems a bit extreme though. I think the whole reason ICE is allowed to act like this is to terrorise immigrants, ethnic minorities etc so they leave the US in their own accord. And what easier way to terrorise people than to stalk their kids like a bunch of pedos.
sudo apt-get install friends
Awesome package! Still figuring out what it does though 🤔
Former prime ministers Stephen Harper and Jean Chretien sat down for a fireside chat in Ottawa to discuss the topic of “Canada and the World,” moderated by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).
Ahead of the conversation, Harper received an RCGS Gold Medal at a ceremony in Ottawa, in recognition of his “distinguished career in public service,” according to the organization.
Harper on nationalism
“We are living in an age of nationalism,” Harper says, adding that Canada has no reason to not being nationalist. “We have a lot to be proud of.”
Former prime ministers Stephen Harper and Jean Chretien sat down for a fireside chat in Ottawa to discuss the topic of 'Canada and the World,' moderated by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).Spencer Van Dyk (CTVNews)
When he was talking about Policy and judging how it's going to look years later, and remembering his policy of muzzling scientists, he earned my bombastic side-eye.
Fucknut chair of the IDU is a fascist through and through.
What about merging the Reform Party with the Cons?
Campaigning on banning gay marriage?
The weekly scandals while in office?
He didn't. He's in charge of an organization pushing conservative values globally. He's involved directly or indirectly in everything that's happening.
It's all coordinated.
Yes, he's the chairman of IDU.
*Note the presence of people representing far-right and religious parties in the organization.
Mozilla finally landed today the long-anticipated AI Kill Switch controls for Firefox, which let users strip the open-source web browser of any AI-powered features, and you can test it right now in Firefox Nightly.In December 2025, when Mozilla appointed its new CEO, the company developing the popular Firefox web browser revealed that it was working on an AI kill switch that would let users completely disable all the AI features that had been included in the past few releases, estranging more and more loyal users.
Now, the AI kill switch is finally a reality as it landed today with the latest Firefox Nightly update. The implementation is called “AI Controls” and can be found in Firefox’s settings as a standalone section. From there, users can toggle a setting called “Block AI Enhancements” to remove any AI features.
Mozilla has implemented the long-anticipated Firefox AI Kill Switch controls that strip the web browser of any AI-powered features.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
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El 16 de enero de 2026, cientos de miles de cubanos marcharon y se manifestaron en La Habana para rendir homenaje a sus compatriotas muertos durante el asalto de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela dos semanas antes.world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
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El 16 de enero de 2026, cientos de miles de cubanos marcharon y se manifestaron en La Habana para rendir homenaje a sus compatriotas muertos durante el asalto de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela dos semanas antes.world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
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According to a Saturday report in the New York Times, concern over ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for deportation.
In an interview with the New York Times, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described "marauding gangs of guys just walking down the street indiscriminately picking people up."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Mozilla is launching a new option that will allow you to turn off AI-powered features inside Firefox, including abuilt-in chatbot, AI translations, AI tab groups, and more.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Adobe Animate will be discontinued on March 1, 2026, as Adobe shifts its focus to AI.
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Austria’s data protection authority has ruled that Microsoft unlawfully used tracking cookies on a student’s device through its education software, marking a further regulatory setback for the company’s use of personal data in schools.
The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) has ordered Microsoft to stop using tracking cookies in its Microsoft 365 Education service after finding that the company processed a pupil’s data without valid consent.CADE – Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment
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