Should Portugal share Manuel João Vieira with the Americans? The candidate who promised wine on tap and a Ferrari for everyone, and who made it into the ballot for the first round of this year's presidential election.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 3h ago

Promising free DoorDash for all would probably be a winning 2028 presidential platform at this point. No, I don't know how you pay for it. Tax Elon Musk personally into oblivion or whatever. Maybe we can bribe SCOTUS to look the other way.

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

I just love the Open Sea exhibit in the Monterey Aquarium. Simply magical and without parallel.

So what are we having for lunch? - Something scraped off the sides of a wall.. 😳💨😅 Try some "Uzbek Tandoor Baked Buns" - They're nice, and unique. #foodie #centralasiancuisine

Angola's Largest Telco Breached Hours Before IPO: https://bit.ly/3TEMw1h by Robert Lemos #DRGlobal

Angola's Largest Telco Breached Hours Before IPO

Unitel, Angola's top mobile operator, continues to recover from a cyberattack that disrupted the government-owned telco on the day of its public offering.

bit.ly

This is Fran. She decided to make you a bowl of her famous bean soup. The secret ingredient is toe beans. 13/10 (TT: franfrannoodles)

When "Time After Time" stopped the entire room on The Tonight Show in 1984 Original post

Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

The cat showed the guy who the boss was 😂 #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday #LifuX

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

Excavations Uncover Altar of Vilnius' Great Synagogue, Destroyed in Holocaust www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

'This was once the heart of Jewish life' • Excavations uncover altar of Vilnius' Great Synagogue, destroyed in Holocaust

Archaeologists uncovered parts of the prayer hall, the women's atrium, colorful floors and plaques with names of congregation members, providing a 'moving, almost personal familiarity with the people ...

haaretz.com

US and Brazil are in a big feud, refusing diplomats - this is because Lula, correctly, says the Trump administration is aiding his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro (former Pres Jair Bolsonaro's son), and helped interfere with the previous Presidential election

US revokes Brazil ambassador’s visa in escalation of diplomatic feud

Move is retaliation for Lula’s government refusal to approve Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasília

theguardian.com

This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life

This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life

"The Solomon Siren" remembers Kale Island, submerged a decade ago in the Solomon Islands

smithsonianmag.com

The creepy technology—which records and tracks any cars it catches on camera—is being misused by a growing number of officials for reasons beyond doing their job www.jezebel.com/a-flock-came...

A Flock Camera Reckoning Has Been Long Overdue

The creepy technology—which records and tracks any cars it catches on camera—is being misused by a growing number of officials for reasons beyond doing their job

jezebel.com

New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

404media.co

This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

These 25 Artifacts Explain America www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The 25 Objects That Explain America (Gift Article)

Want to understand this country? Look at our stuff.

nytimes.com

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Cybersecurity, Then & Now www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/c...

Cybersecurity, Then & Now

Since 2006, Dark Reading has been at the forefront of covering cybersecurity. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

darkreading.com

¡Feliz quinceañera! Te ves hermosa. (✍️: the Onion)

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras

BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...

theonion.com

go head on up to floor 7 if you’re gonna be a little bitch about it

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

Dracula is pretty well-groomed for a dude who can’t see his own reflection in the mirror.

Did you know the banana "tree" isn't actually a tree but it's the world's largest herb? [📹garden .my.lifee] Original post

I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

huffpost.com

How did we find Ian Dixon, a wanted member of the Kinahan cartel, on a padel court in Dubai? Search Party recounts how Bellingcat and @thetimes.com traced the digital trail that led to the alleged money handler for one of the world's most dangerous crime cartels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=49NZ...

Cartel member found playing Padel

YouTube video by Search Party

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Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.