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Meditations in an Emergency -- So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)
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Meditations in an Emergency
It's good to be shocked, but don't be awedDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
DOGE-curious Dems dwindle after early Musk moves (Punchbowl News)
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DOGE-curious Dems dwindle after early Musk moves
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'Thanks to us, the Americans know how the modern Russian army fights, who fights and who pretends, who are professionals on the battlefield.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Snap says TikTok uncertainty benefited its business | TechCrunch
During Snap's fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future has positively affected its During Snap's earnings call, CEO Evan Spiegel said the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future h…Lauren Forristal (TechCrunch)
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Francia, Alemania y Reino Unido rechazan pretensiones de Trump sobre Gaza
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Gemini’s response no longer says that Gouda makes up ‘50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.‘
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The r/linkedinlunatics subreddit really is disturbing. I already viewed LI as myspace for office drones, but now it's covered in weird tech bro, “I get people rich" charlatans?
What is even happening.
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Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.
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Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More
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ErinInTheMorning [Feb 5] -- The US State Dept has begun scrubbing mentions of trans people from its website, changing "LGBTQQIA+" to "LGB" in what appears to be a clear attempt to drive a wedge between gay and trans people. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
State Department Travel Safety...
State Department Travel Safety Website Changes "LGBTQI+ Travelers" to "LGB Travelers"
The change is an attempt to insert a divide in the LGBTQIA+ community by the Trump administration, and to erase transgender people from any consideration or recognition.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production,
federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments
created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources.
The review
— laid out in a Monday order from new Interior Secretary Doug Burgum
— is raising alarms among conservation groups concerned that Donald Trump will shrink
or eliminate monuments established by his predecessors,
including Democrat Joe Biden.
Burgum gave agency officials until Feb. 18 to submit plans on how to comply with his order.
Among the sites most at risk are
Bears Ears
and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah,
where state officials fought against their creation.
Grand Staircase-Escalante holds large coal reserves,
and the Bears Ears area has uranium.
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Trump administration will consider redrawing boundaries of national monuments as part of energy push
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered federal officials to review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources.MATTHEW BROWN (AP News)
Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
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I was reading the petition demands that are rightly detailed.
I started wondering whether "Provide a clear, precise and comprehensive definition of conversion practices, which shall cover all practices that seek to change [...] a person's [...] gender identity [...]" could be misinterpreted (wilfully, perhaps) by some as including voluntarily-chosen HRT for trans people that has a positive rather than negative psychological effect, unlike what this is combatting.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—
BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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By the way, since I know there's a lot of Germans on Mastodon:
The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352… ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the 8th country to endorse the petition!
15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:
¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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not-so-funny sidenote: there's a FI citizen petition for the same subject now in the parliament, but as we are saddled with at least one religious party in power, they're just stalling the handling. Why? Because they can.
And also because they are thoroughly foul people as well, but I guess that was obvious already.
You don't need to sign up for an account or anything.
It literally takes only a minute to enter your information so they can check if you're actually a real person.
I find this important to mention with these things.
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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it's also important** to mention that this is an official EU website, they already have the data you have to give them to sign - it's not like it's some mid shadiness proxy petition site
**maybe lowering activation energy for signature
steadily increasing at a rate of 500 votes/minute, IF this keeps up, it'll be done in around 5h :o
Of course keeping it up requires everyone's support in shouting it from the rooftops
The process of signing it is a bit offensive, the EU wants to read your ID card…
I was also confused by the text, because it is so broad that the “or others” include the hormonal therapies for trans people, which are not pseudo-medicine, but they do alter the gender expression of these people (as desired).
Yeah it's maddening that the exact closing time is not posted on the website. In normal business, I would assume that "deadline 17 May" means: submit by 16 May 23:59. But I have seen some people post with apparent confidence that it's 17 May 23:59.
(CEST? CET? Le sigh.)
Thank you for your help promoting!
Amazing, more than 900.000 signatures. Hundreds of thousands have signed this week.
EU citizens: IT REALLY TAKES ONE MINUTE TO SIGN. Just your name and your ID number. No registration, no electronic ID, nothing. DO IT NOW because the deadline is tomorrow.
OKAY WOW. WOW. THE WHOLE THING WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. WOW.
The EU citizen initiative petitioning the European Parliament to outlaw "conversion therapy" ("curing" LGBTs via torture) has met its threshold (1M votes and 8 countries supporting).
One week ago I sincerely thought y'all wouldn't make it. Amazing work Europe (and hi5 Germany, now country 8).
This is an incredible statement at a time the US/UK govt are forcing conversion (medical detransition) for trans minors.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
![Signatures collected online
1,018,657 of 1,000,000
[Map with eight countries highlighted green]](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/26552416 "Signatures collected online
1,018,657 of 1,000,000
[Map with eight countries highlighted green]")
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UPDATE: Nine. 9 countries. Sweden passed the threshold *while I was writing that last post*.
The "end of the collection period" is May 17 (so seven hours from now… plus 24 if the person who told me it's *EOD* May 17 is correct) so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the numbers and convince EU Parliament you're serious. Also:
- If 4,343 Italians sign, it's ten countries endorsing
- 5,308 Austrians makes it eleven
- 6,794 from Portugal makes it twelve
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.
and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%
ANOTHER UPDATE: About three minutes ago on the website, France literally hit 1000% support for the anti-"Conversion Therapy" initiative. France really showed up here, with ten times the threshold support FR is literally half the supporters on this initiative. Apparently the people of France really, REALLY don't want their trans friends medically tortured
(if this is a boost, see upthread for explanation)
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I’m having a problem understanding your convoluted grammer.
Is it go for therapy or no go.
@ipd I'm sorry, there is a 500 character limit and it makes my text awkward…
The proposed law bans therapists from trying to turn LGBTQs into straights.
I like that law. Personal choice and autonomy. Is it passing or not, so far?
Spectrum plus you tube interruption with psyop ads == brain injury and diminished mental capacity today. Or you got any spare spoons?
... aaaaaand Italy made it.
Italy!
What's next? Poland?
Come on, Denmark, just 1800 votes to go!
(I can't remember /when/ I voted, just that back then, I saw no chance in hell of this ever getting the necessary support. Wow.)
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I just wanted to say that I woke up today and saw this post (8am CEST). I thought: "well that's a cool initiative. I guess I'll sign this. Also gonna tell my (50% queer) friend group and family about this, but let's face it: 200.000 Signatures in less than a day? Not gonna happen."
And now, we're not that far from hitting TWICE AS MUCH signatures. This kind of made my day.
There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/… ) asking the EU parliament to ban "conversion therapy" (pseudo-medical efforts to "cure" queers). It's at 1.2 million votes over 1 million; surplus votes are good because some votes may be disqualified, so EU nationals, it's still worth voting!
One thing I notice, it looks like DENMARK and CROATIA are *so* close to passing— under 1000 votes each. Does anyone here know how to inject a message in the Danish internet?
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I gave it a shot: mastodon.online/@atjn/11452402…
Seems like the Danish channels are already flooded with posts about it, maybe there arent enough danes on Mastodon yet?
Anton 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@atjn@mastodon.online)
Hvis du synes at det skal være ulovligt at torturere transkønnede i EU, så skynd dig ind og stem her: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home Vi mangler kun 1.Mastodon
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