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The Pentagon is sending additional bomber aircraft and Navy warships to West Asia to strengthen the US presence in the region, US officials announced on 1 November.

The AP reported that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered several B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft, tanker aircraft, and Navy destroyers to deploy to West Asia, citing four US and defense officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The US has vowed to "defend" Israel.

thecradle.co/articles/us-bolst…

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Elon Musk admitted that he knows that Donald Trump’s policies if elected president would crash the economy, but thinks that the price is worth it.

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#Gaza #Palestine

A Gaza-based doctor involved in the vaccination campaign told Anadolu that the initial phase began two months ago, with plans to launch the second phase four weeks later in both northern Gaza and Gaza City.

However, offensives in the north delayed the rollout, leading to a partial implementation.

Palestinian Health Minister confirmed Thursday that northern Gaza could not proceed with the second phase due to the ongoing hostilities.

aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israe…

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Seems like #Matrix is now popular enough to attract #spam. Something I only knew from #XMPP until last week but now I also receive strange stuff from random people via Matrix.
in reply to Björn Schießle

I recently got some weird spam from a #matrix user to my #xmpp account over the matrix.org #bifröst bridge.
They spammed some bifröst error at me and asked how to fix it. No idea how a mtrix user assumes a random xmpp user has to fix their bridge. 😂
in reply to Björn Schießle

IIUC it's nazi bots trying to make you vote for Trump or something, and IIRC it happened 4 years ago too.


“Became apparent that #Trump’s feeling of midsummer tedium marked crucial moment in his political career, setting off chain reaction that nearly destroyed his campaign & cont’s to threaten his chances. Even as they battled Dems in race…margin of error, some of Trump’s closest allies spent closing mo’s of campaign at war w 1 another: planting damaging stories, rallying to defense of wronged colleagues, preemptively pting fingers in event of defeat” 1/..
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@philip_cardella YVW. I knew it wouldn’t be accessible to a lot of people, so I threaded.


> #Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there.

@pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

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in reply to bm IS MOVING

dont trust billionaires social networks. besides bluesky promoting crypto :honkknife:


@pluralistic is as clear-eyed as ever here, and I agree wholeheartedly with this take on #bluesky:

“Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there.”

pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

#enshittification #mastodon #fediverse





"Trump is leading the country off a cliff and that the only one with a parachute is Trump." Must-read.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…



Ach, das ist schön hier mit euch bei Mastodon... Wollt ich nur mal gesacht haben... :)

#fediverse #mastodon #schönhier



in reply to Deniz Opal

was just musing on the utterly still gloom in winchester. it's quite pleasant, really.




Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has turned his account on X, his social media platform, into a pro-Trump megaphone and joined the former president for raucous rallies.

Perhaps most important, though, is the $130-million-and-counting effort led by his super PAC, America PAC, to deliver early voters in battleground states,

an operation that rejects much of the conventional wisdom about how to win the White House.

nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/elec…

in reply to Chuck Darwin

I might be going out on a limb, but I suspect that Musk has as much firsthand knowledge of running get-out-the-vote efforts as he did building electric vehicles, rockets or neural implants. He's only a conduit for money and a primary reason why real campaign finance reform - including overturning Citizens United - is necessary to save our democratic republic.


Just tried Shiny Python v1.2's new ui.Theme.from_brand() with Stanford's identity standards - loving how it looks in light ☀️ & dark 🌙 modes!

Code: github.com/stanford-brand-yml/…

#Shiny #pyshiny #python #brandyml




Better GitHub Co-Authors is a browser extension made by @swithinbank that makes easier adding co-author credit to PRs on GitHub.

It adds an "Add co-authors" button to the PR merge UI, automatically collecting all participants and generating "Co-authored-by" comments for easy credit in the commit message—perfect for acknowledging reviewers and commenters, not just code contributors! 🌟

github.com/delucis/better-gith…

#opensource #github fosstodon.org/@openresource/11…