the high mountains are mesmerizing, challenging, and compel some people to climb them because there is nothing else like that feeling, they are also merciless. RIP Nims, you were one of the greatest mountaineers. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mountaineer Nirmal Purja killed in Pakistan avalanche, his company says
The Nepali-born climber was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.
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🥺Forever legends aren’t measured by the summits they conquer, but by the people they inspire to climb higher. Rest easy, Nirmal Purja. Your legacy will outlive every mountain. What’s your favorite memory or lesson from Nimsdai? 🏔️🇳🇵❤️ #NirmalPurja #14Peaks #Nepal
🧗♀️🙏 One of the most accomplished high-altitude mountaineers in history has been confirmed dead following Thursday’s devastating avalanche on Broad Peak (8,047 meters) in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range. 💔😞
Nims Dai Purja Confirmed Dead Following Broad Peak Avalanche in Pakistan
Britsh-Nepali climbing legend Nims Purja is confirmed to have lost his life in the Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan.
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Ian Hancock's book "The Pariah Syndrome", about Romani slavery and persecution, is available for free online! His book "We Are the Romani People" is also good as a basic introduction to history and culture.
The Pariah Syndrome - Table of Contents
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so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
I doubt that I will see a more beautiful post for the rest of this week.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.We admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?
What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.
This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.
Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato
It’s well past time consumer health wearable companies step up and start providing transparency reports and stronger encryption options. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports
Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and
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the pushback against the odyssey movie is so funny because it's now so clear that conservatives are just not culture makers. there is no conservative answer to this film.
Israeli strikes kill 6 in Gaza including a little girl since early this morning, according to hospital sources
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
man i just can’t with the claude-written announcements. you made an interesting thing, why not describe it in your own words? “but here’s the biggest unlock, and it’s the part that’s hardest to see” i already read this all day
Cloudflare@cloudflare.social · last mo.We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers. https://cfl.re/4bo49YW
Making Sepp Blatter look like Nelson Mandela here
VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
UEFA statement on the Balogun case
Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun
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It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.
Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · last mo.I think maybe tomorrow is canceled
"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.
Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN
Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the billionaire tech investor said the Vatican’s concerns could discourage America in the AI arms race, warned of a democratic-socialist takeover and explained wh...
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So ICE waited more than a week to disclose a 85-year-old German man died in ICE custody.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · last mo.ICE just announced the death of the 21st person in immigration prison, Adrian Andreas Florian, an 85-year-old man from Germany. He died June 24. There's very little information in the press release but it sounds like he may have had dementia. Absolutely horrific.
Israel is currently occupying Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian lands but it’s Israel’s right to exist that we have to worry about No state has the right to exist. People have the right to exist.
i don’t wanna be on the road with these things
Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · last mo.I somehow missed the news that one of the Tesla Semis has killed someone for the first time.
New from 404 Media: we've got leaks from Amazon, GitHub, Adobe, Citi, and more. The big takeaway is that companies in all industries are suddenly throttling their employees' AI use because AI is actually too expensive. Cutting off access to some models entirely www.404media.co/companies-ar...
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
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Digital sovereignty at the UN: Inside the global push to replace US cloud giants with #opensource tech - www.zdnet.com/article/digi... "with many arguing that open source is now core critical infrastructure and that proprietary American companies can't be trusted. "
Digital sovereignty at the UN: Inside the global push to replace US cloud giants with open-source tech
Digital sovereignty emerged as the defining theme of this year's UN Open Source Week, with many arguing that open source is now core critical infrastructure and that proprietary American companies can...
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Since nostalgia poisons the brain of boomers, I keep hearing this stupid fucking argument about when they were young, they had hot days in the summer too, & we just got on with it. Agree, just tell the trains, the subway systems, the powerlines, the melting tarmac, to suck it up & get on with it.
It’s going to take a lot of voter education to explain to young voters the concept of “regulation, regulators, and why they’re important” after they grow up in a world without effective ones
Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · last mo.This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...
Suck up, punch down is the only way they know. It's reflexive. These men have no actual sense of self.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2mo agoLadies and gentlemen: our Titans of Industry www.wired.com/story/trump-...
