"#Trump lost. That is, if all legal #voters were allowed to vote, if all legal #ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala #Harris would have won the #Presidency with 286 electoral votes."
"The nasty little secret of American #democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote."
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Looks legit. I wonder, what it would take to deny #USA the title "democracy". 🤔
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#håkanblomqvist #jiddisch #judiskhistoria #socialism
Israel has killed at least three people and injured 31 in south Lebanon on the day Israeli forces were due to withdraw under a ceasefire deal.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health on Sunday said Israeli forces opened fire in at least two border towns on “citizens who were trying to return to their villages”.
The Israeli killings violate a ceasefire agreement, under which its forces were supposed to withdraw from Lebanon at 02:00 GMT on Sunday.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/i…
Israel kills 3, wounds dozens in south Lebanon in breach of ceasefire deal
Attacks come on the day Israeli troops were supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon and allow people to return home.Al Jazeera
Dutch poet and essayist Martinus Nijhoff died #OTD in 1953.
His debut was in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar ('The Wanderer'). He was a literary craftsman who employed skillfully various verse forms from different literary periods. Some of his best-known works include Het Uur U (1936) and the long poem Awater (1934).
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#books #literature #poetry #literarycriticism
Whenever anyone asks me, "Do you have any questions?", often my brain thinks of nonsense I could spout to them, because it thinks it's funny to sabotage me.
"Yes, who would win in a fight between a giant squid with chainsaws on the ends of its tentacles and an ultralion?"
Trump routinely calls economic data ‘fake.’ Here’s why that’s dangerous
CNN — Federal economic data is one of the purest forms of infrastructure, says Erica Groshen, a former commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “These data keep our economy running as much as roads and bridges do,” she said.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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“Democratic capitalism” is just capitalism that hasn’t managed to fully devour democracy yet.
Gov. Hochul looks to advance nuclear power as wind energy faces headwinds
With green energy facing a deep freeze from Washington, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent call for steps to advance nuclear power may prove crucial for the state to hit ambitious climate targets while courting energy-hungry high tech, experts said.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Did Ukraine leave nuclear plants unprotected from Russian strikes this winter? – Firstpost
Under the scrutiny of the lawmakers are Ukraine’s state-owned atomic energy firm Energoatom and Energy Minister German Galushchenko.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Gaming | BattlEye anti-cheat in War Thunder enabled for Linux ✅
War Thunder: a free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles and naval craft - old & modern.
So - things are looking up also on the anti-cheat enabling front for Linux!
More developers should join in for the new era (where people want to move away from Windows even in gaming requiring AC) 🙂
👉 warthunder.com/en/game/changel…
#gaming #Linux #WarThunder #BattlEye #anticheat #MMO #developers
Update 2.43.0.72 - Updates - Game - War Thunder
Play for free with friends in the most realistic online gamewarthunder.com
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Hedy Lamarr, le génie scientifique éclipsé par la beauté
L’actrice Hedy Lamarr est décédée il y a 25 ans. Inventrice de génie, elle a conçu un système de codage des transmissions de données, utilisé notamment dans les télécommunications.CNRS Le journal
@renchap, directeur technique de Mastodon, est non seulement excellent dans son interview mais dit quelque chose de très juste :
> Bluesky ou Threads ont plus profité de la vague que nous, c'est certain. Notre budget annuel doit représenter à peu près le coût d'un ingénieur pour Meta, donc les choses avancent moins vite. C'est une question de moyens, mais […] nous sommes là sur le long terme.
C'est ça que j'affectionne chez Mastodon. Ils/elles avancent. Le réseau se développe, les fonctionnalités arrivent. Pas de changements brutaux et déceptifs pour améliorer la rentabilité, mais un projet, des valeurs, et la communauté au centre.
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Forgive me for being thick but fibre optic cables only have light transmitted through them don't they or am I wrong ? Do the fibre cables under streets carry power too ?🤔
fibre cables are usually just light and the lasers through them are very weak (miliwatts) and wont cause any damage if broken. Certainly no sparks.
That said there is research on this topic in coal mines and coal mine equipment. But those lasers are usually in the watt range and serve other purposes than data transmission.
My main worry would be what other cables are in that trench, as they are often multipurpose.
The premise of Universal Basic Income is that unemployment will be so high & persistent that we’ll raise taxes on the people with jobs so the unemployed can live middle class lives.
It’s more likely we’ll have a Butlerian Jihad than AI will cause that future to occur in the U.S.
Potential Impact of App Version Changes on Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms | Flash News Detail
On January 26, 2025, a notable event in the AI sector occurred when Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) tweeted about the need to upgrade the LegendaryBaconG App to its latest version, although the app is no longer available (Ai 姨, 2025).BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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