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!
Most Americans can't afford a minimal quality of life, researchers say
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Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life'
The Ludwig Institute's Minimal Quality of Life Index found that, in 2023, only 40% of Americans earned enough money to get by in relative comfort.Ryan Ermey (CNBC)
Bringing microbiome science into everyday clinical care - EUROPE SAYS
The article summarizes results of research and possible future clinical applications of the microbiome and provides instructions for doctors. MoreEUROPE SAYS
Redefining health science in the age of exposomics - EUROPE SAYS
We live in the age of -omics. We have genomics to study complete sets of DNA. We have proteomics focused on all the proteins within our cells. And we haveEUROPE SAYS
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)
Have had to develop fast reflexes to save myself as I tend to walk into things.
Like walls.
Politics latest: MPs ban doctors from raising assisted dying with under 18s | Politics News - EUROPE SAYS
The assisted dying bill currently says that the service should be available to patients within four years.EUROPE SAYS
Trump Is Calling Handcuffed Senator Vile Racial Slur: Author
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Trump Is Calling Handcuffed Senator Vile Racial Slur: Author
The president found a way to justify the assault on Sen. Padilla in calls to confidants.Kenneal Patterson (The Daily Beast)
Flânerie — Along the Seine
The flâneur is the idle stroller observing society. Let's flâne along the banks of the Seine with no specific purpose.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Money blog: Gold nears record high and oil prices soar as uncertainty grips markets | Money News - EUROPE SAYS
Dodgy adverts impersonating a famous dermatologist and promoting products that don't exist have been uncovered on social media.EUROPE SAYS
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.
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Ex-U.S. Diplomat Joins March to Gaza, Says Biden Official Matthew Miller Has “Blood on His Hands”
Activists from around the world are arriving in Egypt ahead of the Global March to Gaza, set to launch June 15, when thousands plan to march to the Rafah border to call for an end to Israel’s genocide against Palestinians and its blockade of the terr…Democracy Now!
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Pentagon Insiders Reveal Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Angry and Unshaven Post Leak Scandal
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Pentagon Insiders Reveal Hegseth Is Angry and Unshaven Post Leak Scandal
With the Pentagon plagued by scandal, the defense secretary’s behavior has taken a turn.Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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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".
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#Egypt #GlobalMarchtoGaza #GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .
Global March to Gaza activists report delays, deportations at Cairo Airport ...Egypt
Global March to Gaza activists report delays, deportations at Cairo Airport organizers of the global march to gaza announced thursday that approximately 170 activists slated toEGYPT INDEPENDENT (PressBee)
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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.
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#GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS @palestine #GlobalMarchToGaza .
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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.
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#TrumpsPoliceState #USPol #ICE #Racism .
“We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State”: Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump’s Authoritarianism
Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota joins Democracy Now! to discuss the increasing authoritarianism of the Trump administration, including its crackdown on anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles, targeting of pro-Palestine students on colle…Democracy Now!
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Israel's Attack On Iran Could Be Test Of Trump's Resolve To Keep US Out Of War
The Israeli military operation against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities and ballistic missile program and the US reaction has set up a test for US President Donald Trump and his campaign promise to keep the United States out of foreign conflicts.Margret Johnston (RFE/RL)
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
'Doesn’t make any sense': Guardsmen blast MAGA governor over protest deployment - Raw Story
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'Doesn’t make any sense': Guardsmen blast MAGA governor over protest deployment
Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) decision to activate thousands of National Guard troops for protests has left guardsmen scrambling, with at least one officer slamming the move as senseless.Daniel Hampton (Raw Story)
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
What If ... the U.S. Wasn't Robbed in the 2002 World Cup? - EUROPE SAYS
The United States men’s national team could have made the 2002 FIFA World Cup final — in fact, they should have.EUROPE SAYS
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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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.
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Israel Attacks Iran, Killing Top Military Leaders, Scientists; Hits Nuke Sites in Expanding Conflict
Israel has launched a large-scale military attack on Iran, killing top military officials, nuclear scientists and civilians in the deadliest attack on the country in decades. Iran has launched drones at Israel in response.Democracy Now!
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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.
@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
Peter Phillips: Giants - The Global Power Elite
Eight men have as much wealth as half of the world’s population (more that 3.5 billion people). The personal wealth of Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, is $16...YouTube
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Iran strike heightens tensions in the region as talks with U.S. now in freefall
Trump is now in a tighter corner than ever about trying to bring peace to the region. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us:…Strategic Culture Foundation
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#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Canadian Senate passes resolution on protection of Ukrainian children, condemns Russian attacks
The Canadian Senate has adopted a resolution on protection of Ukrainian children from Russian aggression. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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