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China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead China’s government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital technology a major goal.…

ICYMI: China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

a man in a suit is smiling and saying good one . ALT: a man in a suit is smiling and saying good one .

"rubber-stamp parliament" lol compared to the US House of Representatives? GTFO!

"GENERAL ELECTRIC OSCILLATING METAL FAN", Toronto, Ontario, Canada. September, 2008.

🇨🇦 📷: J.R. Rowan

* made using the original Canon EOS 5D digital camera

#photography #ClassicMono #monochrome #blackandwhite #abstract #fan #lines #pattern #shape #curve #dark #EastCoastKin

How to Leak to Us The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of fairly and responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news that changes the…

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Her pathetic attempt to stay relevant?

#Oakland macro #photography

Tentative ID: Stipellula capensis, the Mediterranean needle-grass, Cape rice grass, Mediterranean steppegrass or twisted-awned speargrass, is an annual grass from family Poaceae.

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Stellaria media - Wikipedia

This might be Stellaria media, chickweed, an annual flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world, where it is a weed of waste ground, farmland and gardens.

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Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has changed over the decades.…

FYI: Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

pepperidge farm remembers is written on the screen of a tv ALT: pepperidge farm remembers is written on the screen of a tv

Ah, the days of babysitting a computer feeding it floppy after floppy to install an OS, good times

a close up of a cartoon character with the words how wude on it ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with the words how wude on it

Rude!

Trump to Mass Death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Would be great to see his face when this 👇 would happen! 😂🤣

There go your SNAP, ACA etc down the drain

Focus stacking with 8 shots and medium variance

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

More tiny flowers, this time with ruler for sense of scale
1/4" = 6.4mm

#Oakland macro #photography
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OM 60mm F2.8 Macro

One of the best movies ever made. Thanks!

a man in a suit and tie holds up a cup in front of a sign that says china ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds up a cup in front of a sign that says china

Hen hao

Ships in Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge attack At least 10 vessels have changed transponder messages in apparent attempt to avoid becoming targets

Ships in Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge attack ft.trib.al/Ln0QksW

Hutts and aphids are genetically related

Block employee says the company dangled a 75% pay raise to get her to stay after layoffs — but she decided to quit "I saw my company discard half of my peers and double my pay," the former Block employee wrote. "That's not an honor. It feels shameful."

"I saw my company discard half of my peers and double my pay," Takeda wrote. "That's not an honor. It feels shameful and dehumanizing."

Block Worker Says She Quit After Retention Bonus Offer

Henry Chandonnet
Sarah E. Needleman
Tim Paradis
Mar 5, 2026

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a statue of a snake with three heads is in a cave with chinese writing on the bottom right ALT: a statue of a snake with three heads is in a cave with chinese writing on the bottom right

They cut off the head and (at least) 5 new ones sprang up

peepeepoopoo @DeepDishEnjoyer FOR THE LAST TIME HE CAN'T TACO EVEN IF HE WANTED TO THE REGION IS NOW FILLED WITH ESSENTIALLY INDEPENDENT WARLORDS WHO HAVE MISSLES AND DRONES AND THE HATE ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM 3:41 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 250 Views https://x.com/deepdishenjoyer/status/2029658607659192732

nobody seems to fucking get this!!!! "the enemy gets a vote" but moreover trump/israel deliberately killed all the people at the top controlling the enemy, which does not destroy the enemy but in fact turns them into a dozen new, smaller enemies!! I feel like i'm going fucking insane

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

There is No Middle Ground on Encryption Encryption is back in the headlines again, with government officials insisting that they still need to compromise our security via a backdoor for law enforcement. Opponents of encryption imagine that ...

See also: Government backdoors in encryption

There is No Middle Ground on Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org

BY DAVID RUIZ
MAY 2, 2018

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Bing AI promoted fake OpenClaw GitHub repo pushing info-stealing malware Fake OpenClaw installers hosted in GitHub repositories and promoted by Microsoft Bing's AI-enhanced search feature instructed users to run commands that deployed information stealers and proxy malware.

Bing AI promoted fake OpenClaw GitHub repo pushing info-stealing malware

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime