Mark Ruffalo Says Disney Stock Will ‘Go Down a Lot’ if ABC Cancels ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’: They Don’t ‘Want to Be the Ones That Broke America’
Mark Ruffalo: Disney Stock Will 'Go Down' if ABC Cancels Jimmy Kimmel
Mark Ruffalo says Disney's stock will 'go down a lot' if ABC cancels 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'Jack Dunn (Variety)
Venezuela Announces Capture of Alleged DEA Agent With Massive Drug Shipment
According to Cabello, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug trafficking and justify external aggression. "The four detainees are saying they work for the DEA," Cabello told state television, calling the alleged plan a "maneuver for destabilization."Authorities said the boat originated in Colombia's Guajira region and was connected to a trafficking group called "Los Orientales," allegedly led by Gersio Parra Machado. Cabello argued that the operation demonstrated Venezuela's commitment to combating narcotics without resorting to lethal force. "We don't apply the death penalty," he said, drawing a contrast with U.S. military strikes on alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean.
Venezuela Announces Capture of Alleged DEA Agent With Massive Drug Shipment
According to the country's Interior Minister, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug traffickingPedro Camacho (Latin Times)
Fetterman denies Gaza genocide, claims it’s a “just war”
Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.
Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”
Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”
He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”
This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.
Fetterman denies Gaza genocide, claims it's a "just war"
Democratic leaders in US House ignore constituents on Palestinian rights as Trump targets activists for those rights.The Electronic Intifada
Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman
Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman
Three teenagers and one adult arrested in Renton after an alleged attack left a 39-year-old woman hospitalizedOlivia Empson (The Guardian)
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‘These results are sobering’: US high-school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet
‘These results are sobering’: US high-school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet
Educators worry about absenteeism and smartphones as NAEP report shows scores at lowest levels in two decadesAnna Betts (The Guardian)
Fun fact; despite this, student's scores across the nation on standardized tests like the SAT and PSAT were higher than ever last year, with many students achieving perfect scores.
It's almost like the College Board lowered their testing standards to disguise just how terrible U.S. students are.
You know, it's funny. In high school, the College Board felt like some prestigious sort of organization of academics ... I mean, College is right in their name!
Ah, to be young, dumb and able to get 59-cent tacos.
Ding ding ding.
It's a shame that standardized testing got so corrupted for profit. While it's always had a bias towards wealth, a high score on a well crafted standardized test is something very studious students can achieve regardless of race, gender, or class. When a perfect or near-perfect score was something to seriously strive for, it provided an easy to understand route for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to still attend prestigious schools, oftentimes on academic scholarships. Fast forward to now, and you're seeing most of the prestigious schools in the U.S. start to refuse SAT scores because they know it's become such a racket.
More like a great deal of high school students simply don’t bother with sat/psat as the institutionalization of academia has made school so aversive they’re desperate to be done as soon as possible combined with a culture that glorifies anti-intellectualism.
Basically you’re seeing a selection bias. Quick web search shows about 16.8 million us high school students. In 2023 about 3.65 million took psat (lower bar, usually offered in school) and in the class of 2024 about 1.97 million took the sat at least once. So about 25% took psat and 12-13% took sat.
So basically it’s a representation more of a fairly small subset of privileged children who have access to things like supportive families that emphasize the importance of education, paid tutoring, private education in areas where public school are bad, public schools that are simply better funded, more affluent, etc
‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition
‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition
Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate actionFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”
Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started...Brenda Chuinkam (Yahoo)
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Returning objects in a collection vs. IDs
Re: Returning objects in a collection vs. IDs
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://social.example/alice"
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"attributedTo": "https://social.example/alice",
"attachment": {
"type": "Note",
"attributedTo": "https://social.example/bob"
}
}
}It contains an embedded
Note that is attributed to another actor. There are many possible ways to embed an object, and malicious embedding could be difficult to detect for the origin server.
ideally you would traverse everything and replace anything you don't understand with "id" references.
But anyway, I feel like we're getting too carried away about a very niche aspect of the whole thing. Almost like on that SocialHub forum.
In my own AP extensions I always just act like C2S doesn't exist because I've never seen it used in practice, and it's wildly impractical to use anyway.
Zoroastrian Tower of Silence, near Yazd
Eclectic Decks on Instagram: "Zoroastrian Tower of Silence, near Yazd"
eclecticdecks on August 19, 2025: "Zoroastrian Tower of Silence, near Yazd".Instagram
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Dozens of workers disciplined after Charlie Kirk shooting, from journalists to Jimmy Kimmel
This is so fucking over the top. Kirk was not a political figure; he was a shit-stirrer.
Where was this outrage when the speaker of the Minnesota House was killed? She actually was a political figure, and yet ... crickets.
The sanewashing of Kirk and his positions is abhorrent and has no place in a civilized society. As far as I'm concerned, the world is a better place without him, but given how much shit is falling apart because he was killed, we might have been better with him living to be a racist asshole for quite some time.
Fucking airline pilots are being fired for tweets?
Dozens of workers disciplined after Charlie Kirk shooting, from journalists to Jimmy Kimmel
Employers and officials are cracking down on comments considered ‘inappropriate’ after far-right activist was killedAnna Betts (The Guardian)
The Most Effective Method Discovered So Far to Boost the Human Brain:High-Speed English Oral Reading
High-Speed English Oral Reading for Cognitive Enhancement 2
This paper presents a novel cognitive training method based on daily high-speed oral reading of English news articles. The method involves reading aloud at double speed or faster for 30 minutes per day.figshare
The Last Days Of Social Media | as AI slop and sexbots kill mass social media networks, "a billion little gardens" sprout in their place | NOEMA
The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.James O'Sullivan (NOEMA)
New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trump’s Policies
New York and several other Northeastern states are forging a regional public health coalition to issue vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts in a rebuke to the Trump administration’s shifts on health policy.Gov. Kathy Hochul announced New York’s involvement in the initiative on Thursday morning.
“By standing with our partners across the Northeast, we are ensuring that New Yorkers have the protection and the information they need to stay safe and healthy,” she said in a statement.
The effort is similar to the West Coast Health Alliance — a bloc of four Democratic-controlled Western states, including California — that issued its own vaccine guidance this week.
Both the Western and Northeastern regional coalitions reflect efforts to shore up public health efforts and give a government stamp of approval to vaccines at a time when federal public health institutions are in retreat.
[OC] Connection Timeout: A Cyberpunk Novella About Mesh Networks, Hacker Culture, and Fighting Surveillance Capitalism (DRM-FREE
Connection Timeout: The PingStarved Chronicles
In 2030 Barcelona, the internet is a corporate prison. One hacker holds the key to freedom.Andrés "PingStarved" Reyes spent decades fighting for digital liberty, but the cost was everything—his relationships, his family, his soul.Gumroad
What is Sinclair Media and Nexstar? And why do we need to care?
Local TV giant Sinclair demands Jimmy Kimmel make 'direct apology' to Charlie Kirk’s family, donate to TPUSA
The nation’s largest group of ABC affiliates, said Kimmel’s on-air remarks about Kirk’s assassination were “inappropriate and deeply insensitive.”Ariel Zilber (New York Post)
shocked, shocked at all these *racists*
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amazing how much shittier it is to be in the rat community now that the racists won. before at least they were kinda coy about it and pretended to still have remotely good values instead of it all being yarvinslop.
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it would be nice to be able to ever invite rat friends to anything but half the time when I've done this in the last year they try selling people they just met on scientific racism!
@sneerclub Next step in rat ideology will be: we will ask our perfectly aligned sAI to invent a time machine so we can go back and [eugenics handwave] ourselves into transcendental intelligences who will be able to create a perfectly aligned sAI! Sparkly virtual unicorns for all!
(lolsob, this is all so predictable)
Texas State expels student for allegedly mocking Charlie Kirk shooting
Texas State expels student for allegedly mocking Charlie Kirk shooting
Governor Abbott called for expulsion, with university decrying video ‘trivializing or promoting violence’Anna Betts (The Guardian)
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The Wolf and The Lamb - Fables of Aesop
Tyrants need no excuse. A Wolf catches a Lamb by a river and argues to justify killing it. Doesn't matter as the Wolf needs no excuse.DaBoss (Fables of Aesop)
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent
More about 'Flexoelectricity' here:
nature.com/articles/s41567-025…
One more surprise in the 'ice' category ... which is now up to 19 forms. (Know of any other solids which float on their liquid form?)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_o…
"The details of the chemical nature of liquid water are not well understood; some theories suggest that its unusual behavior is due to the existence of two liquid states." - WP
New age-gating laws aimed at making the internet safer actually threaten free speech
New age-gating laws aimed at making the internet safer actually threaten free speech
Laws aimed at restricting children’s access to harmful content online may also undermine privacy and restrict free speech.The Conversation
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) moved to subpoena four global banking giants to investigate their dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The House Judiciary Committee will vote on Raskin's motion at the end of its oversight hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel, who has been hammered with questions about his handling of the Epstein case and whether evidence was being withheld about his relationship with President Donald Trump, reported Politico.
Only one Republican vote is need to adopt the motion, which would likely get support from all the panel's Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has been leading congressional efforts to get the Epstein files into public view.
House panel seeks Epstein documents from four banks in possible subpoena
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) moved to subpoena four global banking giants to investigate their dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Travis Gettys (Raw Story)
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.joel.drapper.me
Rural Georgia hospital to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts
Rural Georgia hospital to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts
St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services to one location, the hospital announced last week. The closure of St.Patrick Saunders (WABE)
Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/27629015
Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.
The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.
“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’
Great yet ?
Suspect sought after car rammed into FBI gate in possible ‘act of terror’
Suspect sought after car rammed into FBI gate in possible ‘act of terror’
Donald Henson allegedly drove at high speed toward main entrance gate of Pittsburgh field officeEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
How low the bar has fallen. If you run into a gate, it's an act of terror?
What, are people going to stay away from that gate in the future because they're scared of future gate attacks?
Now, if you run into the gate with your car full of explosives and detonate them as your last act, we might have a starting point. But the concept of terrorism has gotten so increasingly muddied since 9/11 that people will believe anything is terrorism if told.
Well, except mass shootings. Those are just Second Amendment things. Nothing to see here.
Minneapolis police say more than a dozen hurt in homeless encampment shootings
Being homeless means the opposite of "safety in numbers." I've only let one other vandweller know where I park. It's safe, well lit and has nearby businesses with washrooms, which is a pretty decent setup.
Locally, residents are also very aggressive to homeless camps. Thankfully, no shootings yet, but there's this pervasive belief that we're all addicts with machetes just waiting to snap or run into a busy street.
I get so sick of "the homeless are the problem, not soaring housing costs and a deteriorating job market that led to homelessness."
Minneapolis police have said over a dozen people have been hurt in two separate shootings at homeless encampments across the city on the same day.The first shooting at a transit station wounded five people, and happened in an area that had seen two prior shootings in the past month.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara rued the shootings as disturbingly commonplace.
“Here we are yet again in the aftermath of a mass shooting. This is not normal,” O’Hara said.
Minneapolis police say more than a dozen hurt in homeless encampment shootings
Police chief says ‘here we are again in the aftermath of a mass shooting’ after incidents in two separate locationsCy Neff (The Guardian)
"I get so sick of “the homeless are the problem, not soaring housing costs and a deteriorating job market that led to homelessness.”
Where I live, a one bedroom apartment is about 1700. Renting a room goes for around a grand. There was a time when it wasn't hard to be poor and still keep some kind of roof over your head but that time is past.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield quits, accusing Unilever of silencing social mission
That missing comma in the original hed is rather unfortunate. I'm honestly surprised both Ben and Jerry are still alive!
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield has stepped away from the ice-cream brand after nearly 50 years, according to a post by the other founder, Ben Cohen.Cohen’s post shared what he said was a letter from Greenfield in which he called it one of the “hardest and most painful decisions” he had ever made.
Greenfield said the company had been silenced by Unilever and its independence to speak up on global issues was “gone”.
“If the company couldn’t stand up for the things we believed, then it wasn’t worth being a company at all,” Greenfield said.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield quits accusing Unilever of silencing social mission
After nearly 50 years, Greenfield says he cannot ‘in good conscience’ continue; Unilever has previously rejected similar claims by Ben & Jerry’s social mission boardGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Sure, but this is also Unilever altering the deal, pray they alter it no further.
In 2000, Unilever struck a $326m deal to buy the business, a move that at the time reportedly did not please Greenfield, with stipulations including the creation of the brand’s own independent board to allow it to continue to take progressive stances on social and political issues and uphold its core values.
LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, asking 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?'
At least they have a sense of humour about it in the press release, but seriously, how does combining two dumpster fires improve the situation?
Also, TIL LimeWire still exists as an entity. Also also, what fucking assets does Fyre have to offer?
LimeWire, the filesharing service that set the internet ablaze in the 2000s before being shut down for copyright infringement, said Tuesday that is acquiring the rights to Fyre Festival.And it appreciates the irony.
"LimeWire Acquires Fyre Festival Brand — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" the company titled its news release.
LimeWire said it would “unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre — one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into real-world experiences, community, and surprise.” The company offered no additional details about how the Fyre brand will be relaunched.
Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Robert Redford, star of Hollywood classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, has died aged 89.In a statement to the New York Times, his publicist said the actor died in his sleep at his home in Utah.
Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-winning directorAndrew Pulver (The Guardian)
Demostren que la crisi climàtica va alimentar i fer més intensos els incendis de la Península
Demostren que la crisi climàtica va alimentar i fer més intensos els incendis de la Península
L'estudi científic de World Weather Attribution demostra que la probabilitat d'incendis tan extrems s'ha multiplicat per 40 a causa de l'escalfament global, provocat per l'acció humana3Cat
𝐄𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐨, 𝐥𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐧̃𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐲 𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐨.
High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present - Nature
The air bubbles trapped in the Antarctic Vostok and EPICA Dome C ice cores provide composite records of levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane covering the past 650,000 years.Nature
A return to coal
A return to coal
Civilisation has a series of building blocks similar in their way to Maslow’s hierarchy. Food, water and timber are obvious enough… although not so easily acquired in a complex industrial civilisatioTim Watkins (Consciousness of Sheep)
VIDEO (molt interessant!). Marc Castellnou, bomber, sobre els incendis a Catalunya
Acte institucional de la Diada Nacional de Catalunya a les Terres de l'Ebre
L'acte institucional de la Diada Nacional de Catalunya a les Terres de l'Ebre s'ha celebrat este dimarts 9 de setembre a la plaça dels Dolors de Tortosa, on ...YouTube
Turiel: Crónicas de la caída: Septiembre de 2025
Crónicas de la caída: Septiembre de 2025
Queridos lectores: Mientras escribo estas líneas, hay todavía manifestantes en diversos puntos de Madrid, sobre todo en las inmediaciones ...crashoil.blogspot.com
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in reply to Powderhorn • • •It has changed quite a lot. With folks getting priced out of Seattle, outlying areas tend to catch those people. Long story short, Renton is fine for the most part.
This story is fucking scary though. Open violence and hate at a very public place
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in reply to Powderhorn • • •In case anyone in need is unaware: A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks.
It would have been better to wait and form a group of other victims of this harassment, stand side by side with one another, and then confront them. Don't assume people will have your back.
A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks
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