Orange Expat

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Helping to navigate your safe retreat from the mayhem.

NEW: My midterms cheat sheet features 670+ races—up and down the ballot, & why they matter. Now it's in PDF, printable form! Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the Senate map, & use it your worksheet on election night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Dirty US election campaign How dubious polling institutes want to harm Democrats with fake data The self-proclaimed US opinion research institute "Wedgewood Polls" admits that almost all of its polls were invented. SPIEGEL research shows: Fake data in favor of Republicans is not an isolated case 1/

(S+) Schmutziger US-Wahlkampf: Wie dubiose Umfrageinstitute mit Fake-Daten den Demokraten schaden wollen

Das selbst ernannte US-Meinungsforschungsinstitut »Wedgewood Polls« gibt zu, dass fast alle seine Umfragen erfunden waren. SPIEGEL-Recherchen zeigen: Fake-Daten zugunsten der Republikaner sind kein Ei...

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Three weeks ago AI founders were all over the press making vague but portentous comments about the existential risks and power of their models. This week their models are part of a widespread security failure around critical systems such as your bank account..a more immediate and serious risk 1/

I enjoy a wild theory but Vance just straight-up hates women - HATES them - and is a guy so steeped in MAGA and Thiel nonsense he doesn't have any read on how this would play outside of those groups.

The press is covering the golf course theft at East Potomac National Park, but missing that most people are using the park for running, biking, fishing, picnicking, and just hanging out on the waterfront. Trump isn't just stealing our golf course, he's taking a huge, free-to-use waterfront hangout

Tourist map of East Potomac National Park.

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

... the answer is to not use platforms like Insta, and bring communities to social media built on open protocols, such as atproto or ActivityPub, where the account holder has way more control.

Soon, you can expect your Amazon deliveries to be accompanied by invasive AI surveillance via smart glasses. Amazon claims this tech will improve deliveries, but with their track record...we're betting this is really just a privacy nightmare. www.cnet.com/tech/amazon-...

Amazon Delivery Driver Smart Glasses Will Snap Pictures of... Everything? - CNET

Amazon continues its rollout of AI smart glasses to help streamline the delivery process. Meanwhile, the privacy concerns are growing.

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The thing about Gillis's monologue isn't just that it's misogynistic; it's that it's misogynistic in the most unoriginal, dated, cringe-ily 1982 would-be Andrew Dice Clay way. Like, wow slut shaming women in workout clothes, where'd you dig that fossil up

OSHA Inspector at the Cheesecake Factory@milesklee.bsky.social · 3w ago

they had SNL on mute at a bar Mads and i were in and during Gillis’ monologue she was like “you can just SEE him not being funny”

Yandex is Russia's leading IT giant;its cloud infrastructure supports not only the civilian sector but also business systems&government agencies,meaning the consequences of the attacks on it are systemic: Damage to data centers caused disruptions to over 80 of the company's services (including

1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️

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