Gruppo di famiglia in un interno aka Conversation Piece by Luchino Visconti, 1974 betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2... #movies

Gruppo di famiglia in un interno aka Conversation Piece by Luchino Visconti

🎬 Marvelous, and marvelously underrated.

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Russian disinformation networks are targeting France’s 2027 presidential election with deepfakes, fake news reports and false health claims about potential candidates, according to Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communications. www.kyivpost.com/post/84831

Deepfakes, Fake News and ‘Rigged’ Vote Claims: Russia Targets France’s 2027 Election

Ukraine says Russian disinformation campaigns are targeting France’s electoral institutions, with Telegram and anonymous sites used as key channels to spread pro-Kremlin narratives.

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The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · yesterday

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · yesterday

two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8

Ihr müsst dringend die fünfte und letzte Staffel #BabylonBerlin schauen! (Die vier anderen sind egal.) Das sind wirklich acht mal eine Stunde lang Reklame für ein #AfD-Verbotsverfahren. Antifa-TV mit Multimillionen-Budget! Und ein Berlin, in dem man leben möchte.🖤 www.ardmediathek.de/serie/Y3JpZD...

Babylon Berlin - Staffel 5 der Serie - jetzt streamen!

Die fünfte und letzte Staffel der Erfolgsserie in der ARD Mediathek. Die Drehbücher beruhen auf dem Roman 'Märzgefallene' von Volker Kutscher . Die Autoren und Regisseure der Serie, Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries und Tom Tykwer, legen in der letzten Staffel den Februar 1933 unter das filmische Brennglas: Selten wurde eine Gesellschaft in so kurzer Zeit radikaler aus den Fugen gehoben als Deutschland in diesem chaotischen Monat. Nicht nur Gereon Rath und Charlotte Ritter - alle Protagonist:innen der Serie müssen erkennen, dass sie nur noch wenige Wahlmöglichkeiten haben: sich ein- und unterzuordnen, ihr Leben in der offenen Opposition aufs Spiel zu setzen, den Rückzug in die innere Emigration oder die Flucht ins Exil anzutreten. In diesem entscheidenden Monat eröffnet sich aber auch die Möglichkeit, den Gang der Geschichte in letzter Sekunde noch zu verändern. Mit Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Peter Kurth, Matthias Brandt, Leonie Benesch, Lars Eidinger, Misel Maticevic, Fritzi Haberlandt, Christian Friedel u.a. | Buch: Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten und Achim von Borries | Regie: Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries und Hendrik Handloegten

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Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2d ago

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us all

LET ME BE CLEAR: OUR JOB HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO CHANGE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES SO BOMBING KIDS & OTHER SYSTEMIC EVIL ISN'T WHAT HAPPENS That I saw a layperson do a graffiti does not mean I've never considered this q there's like, a reason I was an early signatory to this

Rabbis Support H.R.3565

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important theological question just dropped (nb generally Jews don't tend to go for the heaven/hell construct, but REGARDLESS our focus is on our obligations down here, SO.)

Poland scrambled fighter jets after a Russian jet-powered drone exploded just 4 km from its border near Yahodyn-Dorohusk on Thursday. PM Donald Tusk confirmed a "very massive explosion." www.kyivpost.com/post/84758

Up to 25,000 North Koreans are making drones in Russia for its war against Ukraine, sanctions monitors report. Russia also issued 36,400+ visas to North Koreans in 2025 — 98% for “students,” a channel the report says is used to evade UN sanctions. www.kyivpost.com/post/84736

Russia Employs 25,000 North Koreans in Drone Production for Use in Its War Against Ukraine

The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) has found that up to 25,000 North Koreans are working at several facilities assembling Shahed and Geran drones.

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"For the first time ever, Japan has sent jet fighters to India for joint exercises." A notable accomplishment in Japan-India security cooperation, and a profound statement on Japan's growing influence in Indo-Pacific security. 🇯🇵🇮🇳 thehill.com/opinion/inte...

Japan joins India in military exercises to counter China

The ongoing exercise showcases Japan’s growing military capabilities.

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Belarus has reactivated signal relays that Ukrainian officials say help Russian Shahed and Gerbera drones maintain contact and fly deeper into Ukraine. www.kyivpost.com/post/84739

Belarus Reactivates Relays Helping Russian Drones Strike Deeper Into Ukraine, Kyiv Says

The equipment amplifies signals for Russian Shahed and Gerbera drones, allowing them to fly farther into Ukrainian territory after entering from Russia.

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First listen (this version): Japanese CD transfer June 1993 of The Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep, originally released November 1972 rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #Progressiverock #music

New Yorkers should know whether the apartment they’re looking at is real. That’s why we’re working to require apartment listings to clearly disclose when images and videos have been generated by AI. Finding a home in New York is hard enough without artificially generating more problems.

Is That Fireplace Real or A.I.?

Listing sites are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns.

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it would take you literally like 20 minutes to get an eager economics or computing science academic on the phone to explain to you that this is all bullshit, but that would disrupt the interests and goals of extraction class paper ownership, so you get this weird ass journalistic simulacrum

I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this

OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)

The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.

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YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

yeah the whole “he did this just to destroy it” shit didn’t work regarding musk and twitter either. if he’d wanted to destroy it he just had to chew through a few more wires to take it offline. instead he used it to spotlight what a fascist dolt he really is.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

a lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful.

Ellison also invested in Theranos and thought Elizabeth Holmes was magnificent. He’s not playing 4d chess he’s losing a game of Go Fish to a 7 year old who’s lying about their cards.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

a lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful.

辣手神探 (roughly: Hot-Handed Super Detective) aka Hard Boiled by John Woo, 1992 betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2... #movies

辣手神探 (roughly: Hot-Handed Super Detective) aka Hard Boiled by John Woo

🎬 Bloodshed in style.

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We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

Video Game Prologue Still Going https://theonion.com/video-game-prologue-still-going/

but Matt Taibbi and all the other contrarian substack trolls told me the "russia hoax" wasn't real

Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 4d ago

quite something this paragraph.

Kremlin official Nikolai Patrushev threatened that Poland could “cease to exist” within days in a conflict with Russia. His remarks followed Polish FM Radosław Sikorski’s warning that NATO’s air superiority would give it a decisive advantage over Moscow. www.kyivpost.com/post/84548

Putin’s Aide Threatens to Wipe Poland Out in ‘2 or 3 Days’

Nikolai Patrushev threatened to use Russia’s “entire arsenal” against Poland after Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said NATO could quickly defeat Moscow if attacked.

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