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THE DOORS
The Doors
1967 U.S. pressing

Jim Morrison was not a poet. I will not tolerate that nonsense. To call him a poet is an insult to ACTUAL poets. So get out of here with that shit.

He WAS however, a GREAT rock singer, and a great frontman. And the first Doors album (the only album of theirs ON WHOLE that I’ve ever given a shit about), is one of the most electrifying debut albums ever, of any genre.

It came out a whole ten years before I was born, so I can only imagine what it must have been like to experience it in real time, and experience that band live from 67-68.

My favorite “classic rock” album of all time.
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OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature that made some sensitive conversations publicly searchable.

The search-engine-indexing feature recently went viral online — if you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets, and more potentially damning scenarios.

Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s CISO, shared in an X post Thursday that it will be removed starting Friday morning.



Slovenia becomes 1st EU state to impose arms embargo on Israel byteseu.com/1245326/ #ArmsEmbargo #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelPalestineConflict #IsraeliGenocideInGaza #Slovenia


Protests in Israel - Haaretz


Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition


from Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan

[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]

Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
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Protests in Israel - Haaretz




Lord Hunt smashing it out of the court! YES to sortition!

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Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre wanted files released before her death, family says nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epste…


Fake: Germany Alleges NATO Preparing Provocation in Kaliningrad byteseu.com/1245324/ #Europe #NATO



AMOLED Linux?


As I get older I am LOVING dark mode on everything. Does anyone know how to make the UI for my Debian Distro 100% AMOLED black almost like an Inverted color scheme in windows 11?
in reply to WaffleWarrior

You don't need to change desktop environments just change your shell theme. You can do it on Gnome with the extension User Themes. While your at it grab blur my shell.
in reply to WaffleWarrior

I havent used Ubuntu in a long time but im guessing its a similar process to Debian. Open terminal and type

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager


Go into the extension manager. Click browse and search for and get blur my shell, and User Themes. Go to gnome-look.org and go to the gnome shell section and find a theme you like. Place it in the /.themes folder (located in Home create this folder if needed), then click the gear next to User Themes and select the theme you added.

Make sure you get a gnome theme that is made for your current version of gnome or itll look janky. Blur my shell will take your desktop background and fill in some of the dead space with that. There are other nice extensions too. Lock screen Background, AppIndicator and KstatusNotifierItem Support, Caffeine, Weather O'Clock, are some i use.

Mess around with it a bit and get a feel for it is my suggestion. It should be easily reversible so dont be afraid to try stuff out. (You can turn extensions on/off with a click)

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in reply to WaffleWarrior

You know, putting up a black theme on your desktop environment is not difficult, you can probably find some online for your DE. The problem is the screen of your laptop/PC. Unless your laptop/monitor is a very expensive one, or a Mac, chances are you're using a cheaper panel. And slapping a 100% black theme there won't make it as black as you imagine it to be (as in your phone, for example, which usually use good quality screens).



Over 10% of people in the US have type 2 diabetes. One in ten! I had no idea it was that high. Holy crap.





How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump's Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl (Michael Daly/The Daily Beast)

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A study shows that Starlink is just too messy and congested to take seriously, but don't tell governments (such as the US) as they're sadly embracing a whole lot of them by giving away more subsidies (BEAD funds).

techdirt.com/2025/07/31/study-…

Speaking of which, here's the latest satellite numbers. Grim indeed. (h/t @sundogplanets)

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#satellites #stats #space


I'm updating satellite numbers for yet another talk.

There now 8,077 Starlink satellites in orbit, 1,240 have already been burned up in the atmosphere, depositing all their metal, plastic, and computer bits in the stratosphere as weird vapour (data from planet4589.org/space/con/conli…)

12,238 active satellites now catalogued. The fraction of Starlinks is actually holding pretty steady lately because so many other operators have started launching. Over 200 satellites launched this month.






Myanmar ends state of emergency in some parts before planned elections | Politics News byteseu.com/1245316/ #AsiaPacific #Myanmar #News #Politics


Other writers, these writer decks turn your laptop etc into special writer focused spaces. Lots of options! writerdeck.org/ #Tool #Tech #Technology #CLI