![In its dealings with other countries, Donald Trump’s administration is following a clear agenda of undermining liberal values, fomenting discord and withdrawing critical financial support. One of the administration’s first acts was to drastically cut funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, then shut the agency down completely. Independent estimates suggest that these cuts have already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of them children, and will lead to millions more deaths in the years ahead. It is trying to shutter Voice of America, a federally-sponsored news agency founded to fight the Nazis and promulgate democratic values throughout the world. The administration has vocally supported extreme right-wing parties like the AfD in Germany. He has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement environmental accords and the World Health Organization. He has severely reduced aid to Ukraine, a democracy struggling to survive conquest by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
So it might have seemed out of character when Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, suddenly announced on Monday that the United States is prepared to offer open-ended financial support to Argentina:
[a screen cap of a Scott Bessent tweet declaring Argentina systematically important]
But although in this case America is offering aid rather than taking it away, our new Argentina policy is part of the same Trumpian agenda.](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/10542515 "In its dealings with other countries, Donald Trump’s administration is following a clear agenda of undermining liberal values, fomenting discord and withdrawing critical financial support. One of the administration’s first acts was to drastically cut funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, then shut the agency down completely. Independent estimates suggest that these cuts have already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of them children, and will lead to millions more deaths in the years ahead. It is trying to shutter Voice of America, a federally-sponsored news agency founded to fight the Nazis and promulgate democratic values throughout the world. The administration has vocally supported extreme right-wing parties like the AfD in Germany. He has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement environmental accords and the World Health Organization. He has severely reduced aid to Ukraine, a democracy struggling to survive conquest by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
So it might have seemed out of character when Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, suddenly announced on Monday that the United States is prepared to offer open-ended financial support to Argentina:
[a screen cap of a Scott Bessent tweet declaring Argentina systematically important]
But although in this case America is offering aid rather than taking it away, our new Argentina policy is part of the same Trumpian agenda.")
Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?
This is about ideology and Trumpian fealty, not America’s interestsPaul Krugman
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The 7 Best AI Features for Your Smart Home and How to Get Them
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The 7 Best AI Features for Your Smart Home and How to Get Them
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A frigging spreadsheet editor in Go!
At the after conference for Fyne Conf, a member of the community wanted to show us what he "toyed" with for a few weeks/months. It seems nobody there knew him.
After passively listening to everybody chatting, he decided to show it.
And he DELIVERED. He implemented some kind of clone of Excel, with cell/column/row merging, text bleeding over next cell on the same line, etc.
INCREDIBLE WORK.
And, he asked humbly: "do you think people might find that useful?".
- "I don't know dude, you just implemented one of the hardest/most complex software on Earth. I bet people would be interested. I know I am"
It's incredible the amount of hidden talent we have that don't even think they made something crazy.
Anyway, here is a screenshot of a spreadsheet with all the quirks and stuff that Excel does. It's so IMPRESSIVE!
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How Six Students at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra Made Tender San Sebastián Drama ‘The Imminent Age’ in Under a Year
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Six Barcelona Students Make Fest Hit 'The Imminent Age in Under a Year
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Colin Farrell on How Addiction Affected His ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Performance: ‘I’m Glad I Only Damaged My Body and Brain, Not My Bank Account’
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Colin Farell Talks Addiction, Luck in 'Ballad of a Small Player'
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We just got our first official glimpse of the OnePlus 15
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We just got our first official glimpse of the OnePlus 15 - Android Authority
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25 September 1911 | A German Jewish woman, Hilde Stern, was born in Nuremberg.
During the war she lived in Nagysalló in Hungary. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Man spared jail over attacking Quran-burning protester - EUROPE SAYS
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Forza Horizon 6's Location Officially Revealed
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foam delorean car from back to the future hovers in the air
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'The Life of a Showgirl' is out soon: What to know about Taylor Swift's new album
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#BradMehldau
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Brad Mehldau - Live at Vienne 2010
For your information, Brad Mehldau plays 'My favorite things' for the first time in this performance, but it is omitted from this video.1.My favorite things ...YouTube
Max Mara responds to rising global tensions and temperatures with lightness on Milan runway
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Andreia Galvão na AR, a denunciar fascismo ✊❤️
“Baixos salários, habitação inacessível e instabilidade são a asfixia da democracia”
A estreia parlamentar de Andreia Galvão foi no debate com o primeiro-ministro. Criticou Montenegro pelo fim do travão ao aumento das rendas em novos contratos e pela eternização da precariedade dos jovens inscrita no pacote laboral.Esquerda.net
Any help finding this sauce? - EUROPE SAYS
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Yankees’ Max Fried aced 1st regular season in pinstripes. Now, even bigger test awaits
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Yankees’ Max Fried aced 1st regular season in pinstripes. Now, even bigger test awaits
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'Painfully divided' GOP shows 'cracks' amid in-fighting over looming shutdown: insider
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I'm pretty sure the escalator stopped itself when it saw #Trump coming
"Oh hell nooooo"
Can't blame the thing
Peggio dei balneari, l’idroelettrico è bloccato da concessioni eterne: miliardi di profitti privati, zero
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Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking
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Google's ChromeOS Will Combine With Android Next Year to Supercharge Big-Screen AI
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#WritersCoffeeClub 25Sep—How many works do you have in progress at a time?
Hahahahahaha!!! That's hilarious!
Infinity. It's pretty close to infinity.
(I have 6 files on my desktop (therefore 'active' works) but am known to open other files quite readily and also start NEW SERIES without warning.)
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Blue-White Breakdown Live: Making our Penn State-Oregon White Out predictions
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Blue-White Breakdown Live: Making our Penn State-Oregon White Out predictions
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?Jacob Judah (MIT Technology Review)
I took the new AirPods for a run. They did a lot more than play music.
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British AI firm Nscale raises $1.1 billion in Nvidia-backed funding round
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British AI firm Nscale raises $1.1 billion in Nvidia-backed funding round
The investment highlights continued demand for high-powered computing infrastructure required to train and run powerful AI models.Ryan Browne (CNBC)
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in reply to emptywheel • • •Here's my post on the Milei bailout, which includes @warren.senate.gov's comments as well as details about how this undermines soybean farmers. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/s...
Scott Bessent Links Bailout of...
Scott Bessent Links Bailout of Argentina to Trump's Election Interference, Even as Argentina Poaches US Soybean Markets - emptywheel
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