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#Google calls for weakened #copyright and export rules in #AI policy proposal - techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/goog…

Google calls for weakened copyright and export rules in AI policy proposal | TechCrunch

Google, following on the heels of OpenAI, published a policy proposal in response to the Trump Administration's call for a national "AI Action Plan." The
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#Google #ai #copyright
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AIPAC ur bags
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AIPAC ur bags
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from slave labour to pollution, data harvesting to copyright theft... it would seem industry can't make an honest buck once it gets to a certain size. Break 'em up I say!

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In one dog breed, selection for utility may have selected for obesity - arstechnica.com/science/2025/0… " Selecting trainable dogs may have gotten us dogs that would do anything for a treat. " plausible... #dogs

Have we accidentally bred some dogs for obesity?

Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
#dogs

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I don’t often tear into the Democrats. But I have to call them out when they’re about to go with their worst political instincts. My write-up on the possible Senate Democratic capitulation: open.substack.com/pub/statusku…

Senate Dems: Don’t Be Complicit

Senate Democrats believe they are in a political bind, but that’s true only if they lack resolve and lose the narrative.
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This online database tracks the 100+ legal challenges against #trumpmeltdown - mashable.com/article/trump-law… more, please....

Dozens of lawsuits against Trump chronicled in handy online tracker

Keeping tabs on the numerous challenges to the Trump administration just got a little easier.
Chase DiBenedetto (Mashable)
#trumpmeltdown

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#Mastodon is taking off! But Internet history provides numerous examples of other promising platforms for the digital public sphere that have died untimely deaths (remember Second Life?).

@rwg and @aram, who have reviewed the history and looked at the challenges, and still bullish on the #Fediverse.

Do you think Mastodon will have staying power? theconversation.com/the-fedive…
#MastodonMigration


The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls

The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.
The Conversation
#fediverse #mastodon #mastodonmigration @Robert W. Gehl @Aram Sinnreich
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Regezi
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Regezi
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🤫 more than Mastodon or Pixelfed...
I'm still thinking about whether there could be a Fediverse where, for example, controversial (state) representatives would be read at all..? On which additional levels would journalists have to move in order to still see the controversial things despite being hidden or blocked?
Even if I feel extremely comfortable here (would like to read more science here) - some aspects of the former Twitter may be difficult to implement...
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Troed Sångberg
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My Mastodon instance need no external funding. It thus has provably more staying power than any commercially funded service.

@rwg @aram

@Robert W. Gehl @Aram Sinnreich

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#Covid #Vaccines Have Paved the Way for #Cancer Vaccines - wired.com/story/wired-health-l… "The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients." but will #muricans be allowed to use them...? #vax
#covid #vaccines #cancer #muricans #vax

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No lies detected.
X post by Acyn (@Acyn ). The text of the post quotes Walz, stating, "WALZ: If trade is so bad with Canada. He was the guy who signed the deal. I think this is how he ran business. He stiffed contractors, he stiffed workers. He doesn’t pay his bills. He declares bankruptcy. The one thing is his claim that he’s the business president. He is the worst possible business executive that I have ever witnessed." Below the text, there is an image from an MSNBC broadcast featuring two individuals in suits sitting at a news desk. The background shows a cityscape at night with lights. The ticker at the bottom of the image reads, "THE TRUMP ECONOMY: 0R’24 AMPS UP CANADA ATTACKS AT EXPENSE OF U.S. ECONOMY," and includes the MSNBC logo, a timestamp of 8:14, and the label "LIVE."
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Elfbiter
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Elfbiter
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Note that there really are businesspeople who think that _that's how business should be done_.

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Browser Use, one of the tools powering #Manus, is also going viral - techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/brow… "Browser Use is one of the components Manus employs to execute various tasks, like clicking through site menus and filling out forms." #ai

Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral | TechCrunch

The virality of AI 'agent' platform Manus from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has benefitted another tool: Browser Use.
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#ai #manus

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Corruption is the name of the game for the entire GQP

Marjorie Taylor Greene Urges DOJ Probe Into Tesla Protests—A Possible House Rules Violation Since She Owns The Company’s Stock forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2…


Marjorie Taylor Greene Urges DOJ Probe Into Tesla Protests—A Possible House Rules Violation Since She Owns The Company’s Stock

Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Violated Ethics Rules: Urges DOJ, FBI Investigation Into Tesla Protests While Owning Company’s Stock
Zach Everson (Forbes)

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Popular program to promote women becoming aerospace engineers is at risk
"Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…

Popular program to promote women becoming aerospace engineers is at risk

“Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all.”…
Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
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Al & Val's Modern Homesteading
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My niece is an aerospace engineer. She's gone from working on one of the the SLS engine stages to now managing a DoD project that's recently been in the news. She's received the Army's top civilian employee award. Without her, both projects would have been far longer in development.

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fun post:

nanochess.org/transputer_opera…

in the early 90s I got a job writing code for a professor, and the computer I used at work had an expansion board full of transputers. alas, I never did anything with it beyond loading a hello world


My teen years: The transputer operating system

History of the evolution of my C compiler and operating system for transputer when I was age 16.
nanochess.org
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John Regehr
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I wonder if this prop unintentionally illustrated the ergonomics of their programming environment
a four-handled coffee mug promoting the Inmos T9000 Transputer
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Matt Blaze
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Also, that seems to illustrate timesharing, not multiprocessing. Multiprocessing would probably be a single handle attached to multiple cups.

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In our latest office hours, we chat with Design Manager Laurel Terlesky to talk about the cross-platform design system she and her team are building. If you're curious about Open Source design and/or the look and feel of Thunderbird, check it out!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Design

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/v…


VIDEO: The Thunderbird Design System

The Office Hours Team chat with Design Manager Laurel Terlesky about moving from 28 shades of blue to the new Thunderbird Design System.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#OpenSource #design #thunderbird
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@lps Thanks! We also have an account here that automatically posts whenever we upload a new video to our TILvids channel, @thunderbird@tilvids.com
@Thunderbird @lps

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How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record. Parts 1 and 2. By Peter Kaufman

A fascinating look at how video dominates our era, and how we can establish truth in the video age.

openculture.com/2025/03/how-th…

openculture.com/2025/03/how-th…

How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2

Eastman giving Edison the first roll of movie film, via Wikimedia Commons This piece picks up where Part 1 of Peter Kaufman's article left off yesterday...
Peter B. Kaufman (Openculture.com)

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And there you have it. comicsands.com/musk-daughter-i…

Vivian Wilson Reveals Musk Uses Sex-Selective IVF

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)
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Tiny Gamer Alec
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Is anyone remotely surprised? The man is a colossal egomaniac who wants to leave a literal army of mini-mes to control the world when he finally fucking dies.

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That makes sense.
It is common for foot surgeons to perform foot surgery with their feet.

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This is a form of dogfooding and an important incentive mechanism too keep up foot quality.

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XKCD: Off by One

Source: xkcd.com/3062/

It does come at the cost of a lot more off-by-40-50 errors

Off By One

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I'm getting a couple of things digitized for a small exhibition in the fall called Fashion Police: Legal and Social Regulation of Women's Clothing, including this fabulous memento mori image about the fleeting vanity of fine clothes and other fashionable pursuits. id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/991538…
A handcolored late 18th century engraving depicting a woman bisected vertically to represent life (left) and death (right); in life, the woman stands in a park with a high hedge, fashionably dressed, holding a fan in her gloved hand, at her feet are items representing earthly pleasures--playing cards, a masquerade ticket, a book on gaming, and a book of "Romances and novels"--in death, she is depicted as a skeleton, standing in a cemetery before a large obelisk gravestone, holding an arrow which points towards a wormed skull and a bone lying before the gravestone; the upper portion of obelisk is engraved with biblical verses on death and vanity, the lower with selections from Hervey's "Meditations among the tombs", Alexander Pope's "Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady", and a line from Hamlet, Act 5, scene 1.

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Conversations with an AI: Part one in what promises to be a series of many…
AI has benefits. It can provide a massive boost in productivity for creative work, coding, and even (with a lot of fact-checking) research. And while I...
#wonder

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As global tariff tensions rise, here's the latest on U.S. trade with top partners
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/g-s1-53502/global-trade-tensions-trump-tariffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@World News

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Photo of a sign with a McDonald's logo and text "We value you, your growth and your contributions. THIS IS A NO-QUIT RESTAURANT Because we feel that many situations can be resolved, it is the policy of the restaurant that an employee cannot quit until he or she talks to the Restaurant Manager or the Area Supervisor." Second panel is Yeonmi Park on the Joe Rogan show saying "In America, you are not allowed to quit making hamburgers"
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Wiley Miller
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Wiley Miller
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So...does that mean they'll keep getting a paycheck when they don't show up for work anymore?
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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Last time I had an exit interview (not with McDonald's) the HR lady asked why I was leaving, listened what I had to say, and replied, with a sigh "that's what everyone is saying at the moment.". So HR knew what was wrong, so they must have told management, and management had decided they were happy with the resulting loss of staff.

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Something very strange is happening inside Super Nintendo (SNES) consoles as they age: a component is running faster as time goes on.

404media.co/super-nintendo-har…


Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages

Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Funes
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maybe they're running out of time so the song is playing faster

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/me looks over at the invention of the desk job with some serious side-eye

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Have we accidentally bred some dogs for obesity?

Selecting trainable dogs may have gotten us dogs that would do anything for a treat.
Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
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Raven667
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people have been domesticating themselves for receptiveness to reward and away from violence since the invention of civilization, so I can see how being more sensitive to reward can create a feed(ing)back loop
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mhoye
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mhoye
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@raven667 “domesticating ourselves” is sort of a pernicious way to say that societies continue to exist because they work better than the alternative.
@Raven667

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Text overlaid an image of George Orwell reads: “A PEOPLE THAT ELECT CORRUPT POLITICIANS, IMPOSTORS, THIEVES AND TRAITORS ARE NOT VICTIMS... BUT ACCOMPLICES. ~ GEORGE ORWELL”

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Android 16 is inching toward its eventual launch with new "Accessibility-Focused" third beta release. pcmag.com/news/android-16-thir…

Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release

This release brings the next version of Google’s mobile operating system to 'platform stability.'
Rob Pegoraro (PCMag)

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"A growing number of patients are seeking care at UCHealth after accidentally applying nail or lash glue to their eyes, mistaking the adhesive for eye drops. Doctors warn that ...."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news
UCHealth sees uptick in patients mistaking nail glue for eye drops
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#news #weird #weirdnews #offbeat #odd
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Harassment, Stalkers, Death Threats: A Day in the Life of Women on Twitch

Valkyrae, Cinna, and Emiru were threatened on a livestream — but they’re not the only women dealing with constant harassment

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

Paywall Free: archive.today/7wJKZ

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #twitch #threats #women #harassment


Harassment, Stalkers, Threats: A Day in the Life of Women on Twitch

Twitch streamers like Valkyrae, Cinna, and Emiru aren't safe from harassment online or IRL.
Alyssa Mercante (Rolling Stone)
#news #socialmedia #technology #women #threats #Tech #twitch #harassment

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Because of tariffs and recession fears, Americans are more likely to buy a sedan instead of a pricey SUV or truck.

But Detroit doesn’t offer any sedans. Foreign automakers do.

In Fast Company, I explained why car bloat leaves the Big Three uniquely vulnerable to Trump’s economic chaos.

fastcompany.com/91296810/detro…

#cars #trump #detroit #trade

#trump #cars #detroit #trade

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*rubs thighs*

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An electric sports car that weighs less than a tonne... and costs just £65k?! Meet the Longbow Roadster

Lighter than Alpine's A110 and cheaper than a BMW M2, this two-seater packs supercar pace and a 275-mile range
Felix Page (Autocar)
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar
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There's no windshield. Do you wear a helmet or just grin and eat bugs?

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100 years, 100 moments: How women shaped a century of music
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2025/03/13/g-s1-53160/how-women-shaped-a-century-of-music?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Music @music-npr

@music-npr

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BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 TRAILER KLAXON FOLKS!!!!

youtu.be/1iqra1ojEvM?si=WRG9zv…


Black Mirror: Season 7 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Lose your mind. Lose your reality. The Emmy Award winning series returns with six new stories. Nothing is as it seems.Watch on Netflix: https://www.netflix.c...
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Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence
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Photo by The Onion on March 13, 2025. May be an image of 3 people, people standing, newspaper and text that says 'BI Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor's Residence the ONION'.

Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence

WASHINGTON—Following a daring operation that saw authorities seize the man’s property and detain him in an undisclosed location, FBI director Kash Patel announced Thursday that federal agents had uncovered 43 terabytes of free speech from local prote…
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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🎉 Le site est en ligne depuis 48 heures, et 60 responsables informatiques de collectivités ont d'ores et déjà rejoint France Numérique Libre.

Merci à toutes et tous ! ❤️

→ france-numerique-libre.org/ins…

#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Collter #Colter #Collterr

Nous rejoindre… – France Numérique Libre

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#OpenSource #freesoftware #logicielslibres #collter #colter #collterr

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Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells
New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars.
independent.co.uk/tech/battery…
#lithium #batteries

Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells

Anthony Cuthbertson (The Independent)
#lithium #batteries

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Google has a fix for your broken Chromecast V2 unless you factory reset
Just keep your Chromecast plugged in, and it should come back to life.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Google has a fix for your broken Chromecast V2 unless you factory reset

Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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Philipp Hügelmeyer
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Thank you, managed to bring my Chromecast V2 back to live after I changed the date in my Android Phone to last week.
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Haley
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That's a relief, my parents have been moving recently and I had to break the news to them that if they set up their internet right away then they'll have to wait before they can watch their shows on the TV like they normally do

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GOOD NEWS: The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Dave Weldon to be the director of the CDC.

Weldon has opposed vaccines throughout his political career.

Thank you to everyone who called their Senators. Advocacy works!

Axios: White House to pull CDC director nomination

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Felt good to be blogging on the @glitchdotcom site again after a long while. blog.glitch.com/post/why-we-na…

Do you remember why we named this thing Glitch?

Oh man, this is probably the longest we’ve gone without blogging since Glitch launched.
blog.glitch.com
@🎏 Glitch

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Developers: Describe your job in three emojis. 🤔🔒💻

#AppSecThursday #TalkAppSecToMe

#AppSecThursday Banner
#appsecthursday #talkappsectome

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Trump's insane.

"The White House has directed the military to draw up options for increasing the US troop presence in Panama to achieve Trump’s goal of 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal"

And *yes*, this does include:

the "option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force" #PanamaCanal #Trump

nbcnews.com/politics/national-…


Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say

The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.
Courtney Kube (NBC News)
#trump #panamacanal
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...raise their heads.

The fate of Ukraine is being played out in the trenches, but it also depends on those in the United States who want to defend democracy, and here on our ability to unite Europeans, to find the means for their common defense, and to make Europe the power that it once was in history and that it hesitates to become again.

Our parents defeated fascism and communism at great cost.

The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.

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Long live free Ukraine, long live democratic Europe."

Claude Malhuret speaking to the French Senate Tuesday March 4 2025. You have just read the transcript of a speech that will live forever in the history books.

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Got Junk? Then Build This Scrappy TEA Laser

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Got Junk? Then Build This Scrappy TEA Laser

A piece of glass, some bits of tinfoil, a sheet of plastic, a couple of razor blades, and a few assorted bits and bobs are all it takes to build this TEA nitrogen laser. Oh, and a 5,000-volt flybac…
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