Knowing: Still Only Half the Battle (Bill Grueskin/Columbia Journalism Review)
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Knowing: Still Only Half the Battle
On showing receipts. Plus: Build the wall? Not if you need a filling. And an obit goes awry.Columbia Journalism Review
Why Ford's Made-in-America Strategy Hurts It in Trump's Trade War (Sharon Terlep/Wall Street Journal)
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Opinie: Erfbelasting is efficiënt en veroorzaakt juist nauwelijks economische schade
Iedere belasting brengt economische schade met zich mee vanwege de gedragseffecten die de belasting veroorzaakt. Maar bij de erfbelasting ligt dat anders.Quinte Stout (DPG Media)
How Older Job Seekers Can Improve Their Chances of Getting Hired
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Older Job Hunters Can Improve Their Chances of Getting Hired
Entering a competitive job market can feel intimidating for mature job seekers, but, there is hope for experienced professionals.Jameelah Mullen (Black Enterprise)
Isle 🏝️ is my new #FPGA project.
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Chinese drone giant DJI launches its first entry in the 360-degree camera market
This marks DJI’s major push into the broader photography market, where it competes against vendors like Insta360.Hannah Wang (South China Morning Post)
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AI evals for MCP in AIOps
Risks associated with agent deployment at scale can be avoided by embedding AI evaluations into MCP-driven AIOps workflows. Read about this solution.Zichuan Xiong (Thoughtworks)
[ Russiagate ] Nouvelles révélations, nouvelles implications
Le gigantesque scandale du Russiagate continue. Les preuves de l'implication directe et active de hauts responsables du renseignement américain s'accumulent.
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Il est fort probable qu’un certain nombre de très hauts responsables du renseignement – CIA, FBI, DHS (le département de la sécurité intérieure) – ainsi que des politiciens démocrates, Hillary Clinton en tête, finissent en prison.
Les dernières révélations de nos confrères Alex Guttentag et Michael Shellenberger ne laissent que peu de doute. Ce qu’ils rapportent provient d’une annexe classifiée du rapport de John Durham, le procureur spécial chargé d’enquêter sur les circonstances dans lesquelles le FBI a lancé « Crossfire Hurricane », l’enquête visant Donald Trump, alors candidat, puis président en exercice. Cette annexe a été découverte dans une pièce secrète des locaux du FBI, à l’intérieur d’un « burn bag », sac spécial destiné à stocker les documents sensibles avant leur incinération. Le président de la Commission sénatoriale sur le renseignement, Chuck Grassley, vient de la déclassifier.
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FBI Helped Clinton Campaign Orchestrate Russia Collusion Hoax To Distract From Email Investigation, Newly Declassified Intelligence Suggests
There is no evidence, say Democrats and the media, that the Obama administration manufactured intelligence to create a false narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win. Recent document releases by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, they claim, are a “nothingburger.” Gabbard’s accusation that the Obama administration and intelligence community led a “coup” against Trump is…
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Le Russiagate est bien un plan qui fut ourdi par la campagne d’Hillary Clinton afin, dans un premier temps, de détourner l’attention des électeurs d’un autre immense scandale, celui du serveur e-mail non-sécurisé que la candidate démocrate avait opéré de la cave de sa résidence et par lequel elle échangeait, alors qu’elle était secrétaire d’Etat, des informations et des documents classés secret défense avec des cadres du parti démocrate.
A l’origine de ce plan, on trouve Julianne Smith, ancienne conseillère d’Hillary Clinton, puis conseillère adjointe à la sécurité nationale de Joe Biden puis représentante permanente des USA à l’OTAN. Smith dispose de liens très étroit avec l’Allemagne puisqu’ayant débuté sa carrière au German Marshall Fund et émargé à la Bosch Stiftung, dans l’obscure officine Berlin Global Advisors et à l’American Academy in Berlin.
Hasard ? On retrouve un peu partout dans cette affaire les empreintes digitales bien marquées de l’Open Society Foundation de Georges Soros. Ici celles de Leonard Bernardo, aujourd’hui vice-président exécutif, qui - hasard encore - a commencé à travailler pour l’Open Society à Moscou.
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Email du directeur Eurasie de la Fondation Soros, aujourd’hui Senior vice-president, Leonard Bernardo
Les services de renseignement néerlandais avaient transmis en 2016 à la CIA des notes provenant des services russes qui, sur la base d'interceptions électroniques des communications de think tanks et de fondations liées au parti démocrate, révélaient l’intention de Clinton de monter une opération visant à présenter Donald Trump comme un agent du Kremlin.
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Nagasaki mayor reveals outline of this year's peace declaration
The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki is set to call for an immediate ceasefire in conflicts around the world during a ceremony to mark the 80thBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Osaka Prefecture enacts first nationwide ordinance banning elderly people from making phone calls while operating ATMs
To combat the increasing issue of scams, Osaka Prefecture implemented revised regulations on August 1st, which include restricting mobile phone use at ATMs.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
MLPerf Client 1.0 AI benchmark released — new testing toolkit sports a GUI, covers more models and tasks, and supports more hardware acceleration paths
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MLPerf Client 1.0 AI benchmark released — new testing toolkit sports a GUI, covers more models and tasks, and supports more hardware acceleration paths
A useful new tool for navigating the highly fluid world of client AI performanceJeffrey Kampman (Tom's Hardware)
Fans travel from near and far to Lake Forest every summer for Chicago Bears training camp
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Eight — August Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 238, for a total of 2200 movies.
* Next director: Bob Fosse.
* But first: Another three 1954 Best Picture nominees.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Seven — July EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 203, for a total of 2165 movies.* I really gotta double back down on the Best Picture nominees.
* Probably start Sam Raimi soon, though I dunno if I'll rewatch what I've already seen.
If I were grading this just for being shot on location in Hong Kong in lovely DeLuxe Colour, I might rate it quite highly. But this is completely impossible to defend.
Outdated to the point of unwatchability.
Did wonder why, aside from European financial production incentives, this had to be set in Europe instead of America, and, it's because the bad guy train goes everywhere the good guy car does. That tracks in Europe. Utterly unbelievable in America.
(Bautista nothing to write home about but innocent.)
So the film has to work on its own, and, frankly, it doesn't. The story is uninteresting, the performances mismatched with both the film and each other, and the occasional snippets of score are discordant to all of it in a distracting way.
(I say this as somebody who likes the goofier scores of the Pertwee era.)
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He's a boxer, she's a taxi dancer with a boss who's very nosy about her private life. They live next to each other, and exchange occasional glances across each other's windows.
(Between this and "Sweet Charity," I've seen two movies about taxi dancers in my life and I've seen both of them this month.)
@kurt Taxi *dancers*, not drivers.
*looks up the Taxi movies* Love the journey depicted in this sequence of posters.
The gap between the visual style and everything else is much narrower here than it was in "Fear and Desire," and next to the Best Picture nominees from the same year I'm in the middle of right now, it's the best-looking movie of 1955 by a country mile, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
Like a story with more than three beats!
At the current rate of progress, Mr Kubrick may well put out a watchable film by decade's end.
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He asks a local for a quick job, but she refuses to employ him on Labour Day, so just offers him breakfast.
Meanwhile, her daughters are getting ready for the day--
"Well, if you fussed with yourself a little, maybe you'd have a date for the picnic today."
We have picnic, I repeat, picnic on the horizon.
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"Who are you?"
"What's that matter? I'm bigger than you are."
Hm, not big on this romance starting with some light intimidation of a harmless goober kid.
William Holden shirtless count: 2.
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Holden's in town to see his old buddy Hal, who's the type of guy to play golf on the lawn with his dad.
Hm, next to his buddy and his obvious love interest, Holden maybe too old for this part.
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"I never could wear another fellow's clothes, you see, I'm sort of beefy around the shoulders. I should have all my clothes tailor-made."
"Nobody'd mind if you took it off!"
boy you can tell this is the movie that kicks off the Age of the Chest, it's as horny to undress Holden as is legal under the Hays Code
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It’s the last Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time for the Mystery Classic — an older film, but you don’t know which one.
The hints this month:
* Y2K.
* Scrap an E, and he becomes a hero. (Schrap een E, en hij wordt een held.)
Dunno if that second one even works translated! Anyway!
The Mystery Classic was 2000's "American Psycho"! (Bateman -E = Batman.) Very good! Still very funny! And appreciated the opportunity to rewatch it knowing how it ends.
Less good how this guy's schtick times ten is just what every modern douchebag dingbat manosphere maroon is like now? I do realise expecting media literacy from the fascist fuckcanoe brainrot brigade is like expecting cheese to sing, but if you think this guy is aspirational, woof, yikes, eek, etcetera.
Movie great, though!
"I got a rose tattoo."
"Where did he put it?"
"Right over my heart."
Title explained, short film over.
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She got a rose tattoo over her heart... And this guy, who is happily married to somebody else also has a rose tattoo over his heart...
clearly they're members of the same cult
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"I'm dressed okay, I'm not naked!"
"Oh, I'm so ashamed I could die ashamed! Mama, you look disgusting!"
1955 not on board with casual fridays
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Love "Jaws." "Jaws" fucking rules. Love getting to see it on the big screen again, love watching it sat next to somebody who, like me 5 years ago, so doesn't see that one jumpscare coming that they launch themselves out of their chair and across the room.
The shark is just a machine, it eats, it swims, it fucks. It's a biological process given the form of a monster. The mayor of Amity is that, but for capitalism, and I would simply blow him up, also.
The start of the last paragraph, I thought you meant literally, the prop is a machine.
Which is how I've always seen it because I've never seen Jaws but I have rode on the Jaws ride at Universal at least 20 times.
Just a really solid, enjoyable four-star studio comedy. Love laughing along with people in the cinema, even if it's with six other people in a room that seats 250.
Ends the way it should, and I'll defend that.
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Not got much to say about this. Very likeable cast.
Should try to solve the murder, I guess.
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"I've been in this job for nearly thirty years, I'm not gonna be pushed around by four bloody pensioners!"
see, that's the kind of thing a modern cop should really be genre savvy enough to know not to say
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"He's dead."
first suspect never did it
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"Come on, you clown, sing us a chorus from Pagliacci!"
huh a Pagliacci reference that's to the opera instead of the joke
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god, the horseshoe being his undoing
racism'd himself to death
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the carelessness of airport luggage handlers, the quality of 1950s suitcase latches, and by oizys, this motherfucking dog,
many true enemies in this one
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"I've seen much more formidable objectives. Much, much worse."
hm, no, this seems pretty impregnable
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by oizys
how can you look at this and not seen a suicide attack, it's an absolute meat grinder
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"The case made against these men is a mockery of all human justice."
as fairness goes this does seem rank amongst the un, yeah
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"We do not question the will of God, my son."
this is surely all the will of General Mireau, who everyone here could simply agree to shoot
Just incredible. Harrowing. Makes the similarly-themed "The Caine Mutiny" look like a pleasant picnic.
You think the combat sequences are gut-churning, but it just gets more and more nauseating from there.
Once again I've remembered to end the #MovieThread exactly on schedule.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Nine — September EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 274, for a total of 2236 movies.* Have started Stanley Kubrick.
* Coming up on some real long ones.
Belastingdienst staat voor dilemma bij vervangen van twee cruciale computersystemen
Privacy: Uiterlijk in oktober moet de fiscus een „gedegen plan” presenteren om twee cruciale computersystemen „zo snel mogelijk” te vervangen wegens privacyproblemen. Maar zo makkelijk gaat dat niet.NRC
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Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for July 2025
A fresh month is here so time to take a look at what has been popular over the last month on Steam Deck, and time for you to tell us what you've been playing.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
📢 10 septembre : Un grand mouvement se prépare pour une rentrée sociale explosive !
Beaucoup de personnes et de sensibilités se retrouvent autour du #10Septembre ; et dans la mesure, où une mobilisation ça se construit collectivement, nous t'invitons à t'emparer du sujet 😌
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in reply to ReneDamkot • • •Als een bedrijf naar de volgende generatie gaat, verplicht 20% of 36% moeten krimpen om de belasting te kunnen betalen, klinkt eerlijk en logisch?
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in reply to Marcel Kasteleijn • • •Wat Ik niet snap is dat die kapitale villa van paps en mams ook niet belast zou mogen worden als de kinderen die erven.
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in reply to Hans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻 • • •Daarnaast wordt er in beide gevallen jaarlijks al flink wat belasting betaald over bezit en omzet. Dan komt dit dubbel en dus oneerlijk over.
Blijft lastig.
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in reply to ReneDamkot • • •Economie is lastig, zeker als het om de effecten op landelijk en mondiaal niveau gaat.
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