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My initial live stream audio podcast test (via a video stream on #YouTube) seems to have gone well (I only intended it to run a few minutes, ended up going over half an hour).

Still need to figure out the best ways to announce upcoming streams, and I know RSS is desired by many (my blog has had an RSS feed for ... well, sorta since the dawn of time), but it isn't immediately clear to me that the blog RSS feed would be suitable for this purpose.

Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

in reply to Lauren Weinstein

I agree and, like you mentioned, RSS isn't ideal either. Email is going to be a non-starter for many. It's an interesting question. I'll be curious to see what you settle on.


Most Americans can't afford a minimal quality of life, researchers say

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Do autistics have fast reflexes?

I seem to have them even in my middle age. I mean like dodging fast things coming at you or avoiding crashing into things, etc.

Wondering if this is a thing with autistics or just with people with ptsd 😉

#askingautistics #actuallyautistic

  • I'm autistic and have fast reflexes. (85%, 12 votes)
  • I'm autistic and do not have fast reflexes. (14%, 2 votes)
14 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago





europesays.com/2161367/ Politics latest: MPs ban doctors from raising assisted dying with under 18s | Politics News #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom


Trump Is Calling Handcuffed Senator Vile Racial Slur: Author

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Charles III (or "the Fat"), who died OTD in 888, purchased peace from Viking raiders at the infamous 885-886 Siege of #Paris, leading to his being deposed in a coup led by his nephew cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc… #travel




europesays.com/2161365/ Money blog: Gold nears record high and oil prices soar as uncertainty grips markets | Money News #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom



Interview: "Matthew Miller has blood on his hands” Former State Dept diplomat, Hala Rharrit

Rharrit accused Matthew Miller of “careerism” after he recently admitted that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, which he regularly denied while serving as a spokesperson.

democracynow.org/2025/6/12/glo…

#GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS @palestine #GlobalMarchToGaza .

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garbage levels are 21% and falling

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Pentagon Insiders Reveal Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Angry and Unshaven Post Leak Scandal

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Google just keep doubling down on their uselessness. I'm picking someone up at Burbank airport tonight. According to the AI twaddle, there is a cell phone lot to wait in for arriving passenger. They even give an address. The first several links Google gives are sites that are nothing more than bot-generated crap from the AI answer.

There is no such lot at Burbank. It's damned near impossible to find that info online now.

#AIisStupid #GoogleISDead #TheEndIsNigh

in reply to W6KME

Two ways to circumvent this (other than using a decent search engine, which Google is no longer):
1 add "fuck" or "fucking" to your query. Apparently the AI will not answer questions that include this.
2 Select tools -> and switch "all results" to "verbatim"

I'll note that Google results started to go downhill well before they introduced LLM garbage. This has just made a bad thing much worse.

in reply to Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏

@alan I rarely use google any more. The issue is that none of the alternatives are as good as Google USED to be.
in reply to W6KME

It's a sad state of affairs, for sure. For the most part I've found Qwant to be decent. At least the results it returns tend to include my actual search terms. you'd think that would be a basic requirement, but no.
in reply to W6KME

@alan I think it’s hard to compare any current search engines with how good Google used to be, because SEO has changed the search industry so much since then. I don’t know if any search engine will be that good ever again, including Google if they somehow turned around and tried their best to improve their search again.
in reply to Dave Rahardja

@drahardja The sad fact is that the content adapts to the algorithm. It used to be you could ask "how do I do X with Y" and you'd get a page that told you how to do X with Y. Hurrah!

Then they decided that people wanted "authoritative" results, which meant a bias to longer form answers. So now you ask "How do I do X with Y" and you get a page that is "what is X, how did X come to pass, what's the history of X, blah blah blah fucking blah" and if you're very very lucky, somewhere in there, there's actually something on how to do X with Y. Often not.

That page that used to be the top result is still out there, buried somewhere on page 200.

It's Google's algorithm that's enshittified content, but in a lot of cases the concise answer you want is still available, waiting for a different engine to rank it higher, and some engines are starting to do a decent job of just that.

in reply to Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏

@alan I think any search engine that becomes dominant will be gamed by SEO. As long as that second, better search engine remains small, it will be ignored and continue to be good. Once they reach some critical mass (like, say, 25% of search volume), SEO will start paying attention to them and gaming their pages to divert results to their clients’ sites.

Don’t get me wrong: I think Google has done a lot of damage to their own search quality, primarily to extract more money from advertisers, but I think SEO also shares a lot of the blame.

in reply to Dave Rahardja

@alan In a better world, no search engine is dominant, and a plurality of search models crawl the web: ad-based, paid, domain-focused, regional, etc. and it is impossible for any site to game them all.





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Friday update: The Global March to Gaza is ongoing

"Organizers anticipate around 4,000 volunteers from 80 countries will join."

1000s of participants are already in Egypt to begin the journey to Al-Arish on Friday, hoping to arrive in Rafah on Sunday.

After some delays & deportations at the airport, the organisers said “We hope to be able to work hand-in-hand with the Egyptian government".

en.pressbee.net/show3998147.ht…

#Egypt #GlobalMarchtoGaza #GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .

in reply to DrALJONES

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later update: "Activists marching to Gaza stopped in both Libya & Egypt"

Forty participants of the Global March to Gaza (from France, Spain, Canada, Turkey & UK) "have had their passports taken at a checkpoint on the way out of Cairo."

Separately, the Soumoud convoy was stopped at Sirte in Libya. It requires authorisation from Egyptian authorities to reach Gaza.

middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li…

#GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS @palestine #GlobalMarchToGaza .

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europesays.com/2161361/ Top 14 – Les notes de Bayonne- Clermont : Cheikh Tiberghien règne dans les airs, Facundo Bosch au sol, Bautista Delguy hors-sujet #france #Nouvelles


Interview: "We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State”: Rep. Ilhan Omar

"It will be a dark day if we do not stand up for ourselves, for our Constitution &8 for our republic.”

Omar discusses the increasing authoritarianism, crackdowns on anti-ICE protesters in LA, targeting of pro-Palestine students on college campuses

And Trump's plans for a massive military parade coinciding with his 79th birthday on June 14.

democracynow.org/2025/6/13/ilh…

#TrumpsPoliceState #USPol #ICE #Racism .

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⛔️🇺🇸Israel's Attack On Iran Could Be Test Of Trump's Resolve To Keep US Out Of War (more) rferl.org/a/33442469.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset


One way or another
You did it your way
Now the tide is high
And we've got no place to go
When the levee breaks

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'Doesn’t make any sense': Guardsmen blast MAGA governor over protest deployment - Raw Story

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I'm outside

This may not end well

It's bright and cold

Some shirtless man jogging just jogged past

That burny thing in the sky is doing its job

Hugz & xXx



europesays.com/2161359/ What If … the U.S. Wasn’t Robbed in the 2002 World Cup? #germany


HR3943
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to provide notice to students receiving work-study assistance about potential eligibility for participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in House

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#HR3943 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress #newbill



Interview:

On Friday, 2 days before scheduled US-Iran nuclear talks...

...Israel launched an unprovoked attack on Iran, killing top military officials, nuclear scientists & civilians.

Israel described the massive attack as a “preemptive strike".

Analyst Trita Parsi says Trump appears to be coordinating with Israel to try to force Iran to capitulate on nuclear disarmament.

But Netanyahu likely wants to draw the US into war with Iran.

democracynow.org/2025/6/13/isr…

#Iran #Israel #US #USPol .

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in reply to DrALJONES

Sources is a difficult question. You sometimes have sources on special aspects. You can find quotes of politicians and stuff. But they don't use to talk blatantly about their intentions. They say, what they want the public to believe.
Of course, there is not the one and only master conspiracy, a central world plan. But there are a lot of smaller conspiracies, that even don't hide, that they are, like Bilderberger Conference.
One of the most enlightening statements on US geo strategic objectives is made by Zbigniew Brzeziński: The ressources of Siberia belong to the whole world! That was in the mid 70ies and can explain all US moves since then. No regards of Rep or Dem govs.
in reply to wauz ワウズ

@wauz

Thanks, yes, I'm not talking about what the perpetrators say, etc. but rather about what investigative or scholarly research says on any one of the million and one corporate-imperialist crimes against humanity, eg, Matt Kennard's work on the (now renamed) ISDS.

Basically, the plutocracy and its puppet govts run the world's financial, & hence political, systems*, but the complexities within that system can't be properly addressed by generalisations.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2MUFZ_yfs



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If you can, go protest tomorrow. No protest is ever 100% safe, but there is safety in numbers. And there will be numbers. Which is good. Because we need numbers right now.

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Iran strike heightens tensions in the region as talks with U.S. now in freefall strategic-culture.su/news/2025…