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Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks (Washington Post)

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More photos from Epstein's estate released by House Democrats as deadline to release DOJ files looms (Annie Grayer/CNN)

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NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux Driver Brings R590 Series To Stable

NVIDIA has promoted their R590 driver series to stable with the release today of the NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux driver as their latest new feature branch version...
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🇦🇺#GuvernulAustraliei va înăspri legile pentru sancționarea discursurilor instigatoare la ură și va acorda ministrului de Interne noi competențe de a anula sau a refuza vizele celor ce “promovează ura și divizarea” sau care vin “din enclave teroriste”, precum #Gaza. Măsurile, în urma atacului terorist de zilele trecute și într-un moment de intensificare a #antisemitismului.

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#Știri #Palestina #Israel #FâșiaGaza #Australia #Rasism #Terorism



From Project Gutenberg:

Lapsia

by Teuvo Pakkala

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/13338



Anthropic’s AI vending machine tried to order stun guns to the Wall Street Journal.

During testing, the AI agent also ordered a PlayStation5 and live betta fish, and staffers convinced it to give away almost everything for free, losing a bunch of money. Sounds fun!

Anthropic’s response was that this was all part of the stress testing plan, actually, and that one day the model would “probably be able to make you a lot of money.” Maybe just not any time soon.

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RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people (Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR)

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in reply to Mastodon Users

Why does the number of users increase and then sawtooth - never actually increasing overall? Is it an issue of where and how the data is being captured?
in reply to Graham Ward

@edintone great question! I've wondered the same thing myself. When in doubt, zoom out. If you scroll back enough and get to early November one of my counts was 10,537,011 so overall, it is indeed increasing and the roughly +20k per week is accurate. My guess is those saw tooth dips are when larger instances like mastodon.social either intentionally or unintentionally purge inactive, suspended or spam accounts from their database.


0.3743997516455632 + 0.19559970373870245i at zoom 1.4486837477e+05.


Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors (New York Times)

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Netflix snags Elle Duncan from ESPN to host live events

Elle Duncan will host Netflix’s Skyscraper Live broadcast next year.

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#annual : lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season

- French: annuel

- German: jährlich

- Italian: annuale

- Portuguese: anual

- Spanish: anual

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A change of maintainership for linux-next lwn.net/Articles/1051179/ #tech #linux


#BBC Kenyan debutant Munyua shocks De Decker at Worlds w.st/NuhaR
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