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#Meta has been up to no good for a while - always?
Is $1.4 trillion a reasonable amount for these cases? Who knows.
Is it reasonable compensation for all the evil theyâve done? Iâd argue yes.
Itâs essentially their entire market capitalization as a penalty.
engadget.com/2209332/meta-is-fâŚ
#SocialMedia #News #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Tech #Accountability #US #USA #America #UnitedStates #Engadget #Reuters #Consumers #Digital #MentalHealth #Addiction #Lawsuit #Corporation #Legal #Zuckerberg #App
Meta Is Facing $1.4 Trillion In State Lawsuits Over Social Media Addiction
Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.Steve Dent (Engadget)
Vera Drewâs âTrandemicâ Wins Transgender Film Centerâs Inaugural Found Footage Fund Award
#News #MarkDuplass #TransgenderFilmCenter #VeraDrew
deadline.com/2026/07/vera-drewâŚ
Vera Drewâs âTrandemicâ Inaugural Transgender Film Center Fund Winner
Drew will receive a $25,000 cash grant to support production of 'Trandemic.'Zac Ntim (Deadline)
NEW: Amid Mounting War Casualties, Pete Hegseth âDefunded and Impededâ Efforts to Protect Civilians, Lawmakers Say
Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administrationâs gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the militaryâs moral standing and may violate federal law.
propublica.org/article/hegsethâŚ
#News #PeteHegseth #Defense #Politics #Trump #Iran #War #Pentagon #Congress
Never let these genociders rest.
Report: Hind Rajab Foundation has welcomed reports that Israeli genocider Itamar Ben-Gvir has cancelled his planned trip to NY for a UN policing conference.
He cancelled the trip following calls for his prosecution & planned anti-genocide demonstrations.
Israeli leaders have travelled the world expecting impunity. That expectation is beginning to erode.
middleeastmonitor.com/20260705âŚ
#USPol #EUPol #IsraeliCrimes #news #gazaGenocide #palestine #ArrestGenociders .
Report: "Spain blacklists Palantir over domestic security concerns"
"Spain's government launched a blacklist of CIA-backed Palantir Technologies from public & private state-controlled entities".
"Other European states have taken similar steps as Palantirâs reputation for gross human rights violations spreads".
Election wins prove pro-Palestine US campus protests didnât fail: Activists
"In New York, Darializa Avila Chevalier, an activist who participated in the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, won a Democratic congressional primary against a five-term incumbent.
Avila Chevalierâs win was one of several victories for pro-Palestine candidates in New York last week.
Last year, Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, in part thanks to the efforts of young pro-Palestine activists who powered his campaign.
In Colorado on Tuesday, Melat Kiros, who was fired from her law firm in 2023 for a letter defending Palestinian rights supporters from accusations of anti-Semitism, ousted a House member who had been in Congress for nearly 30 years.
Candidates backed by supporters of Palestinian rights also won key races in Pennsylvania and New Jersey."
aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/3/elâŚ
#BoycottIsrael #HumanRights #AntiFascism #News #USPol #Activism #Gaza #Palestine
Election wins prove pro-Palestine US campus protests didnât fail: Activists
With Columbia University set to be represented in Congress by former protester, advocates see ânew wave of hopeâ.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
As #Trump rebrands DC festivities as a "spectacular Trump rally," broadcasters should look elsewhere to celebrate the #UnitedStatesâ 250th.
As with so much in DC, Trump took over. His effort to rebrand the Washington, DC, events, provides #media & #news outlets an opportunity to instead look around the rest of the country â so do it.
Ignore the Trump rally.
As an example, PBS will turn to Williamsburg, Virginia, instead of DC.
#journalism #FourthEstate #propaganda
cnn.com/2026/07/03/politics/amâŚ
"Requiem for America on the Fourth of July"
Neoliberalism or "cutthroat capitalism is the poison that destroyed our democracy."
"It gave the billionaire class & corporations the ideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose crippling austerity, hollow out democratic institutions, buy off our two ruling political parties & deform our courts into appendages of corporations & the rich."
Source: Chris Hedges substack July 3
#USPol #EUPol #US #neoliberalism #fascism #news .
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #scotus
Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes From âShadow Docketâ â ProPublica
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.Ken B. Morales (ProPublica)
Texas #Democrats asserted themselves as a unified party of the working class against the all-powerful billionairesâveiling underlying tensions over diversity, progressivism, and Israel. texasobserver.org/texas-dems-câŚ
#Texas #Palestine #politics #USpol #news
Unity and Discontent at the Texas Demsâ Corpus Convening
The convention showcased populism as the core of the party's messaging. Will it hold true in November?Eden Shamy (The Texas Observer)
We love @Mastodon's new Collections feature. Here's one for all our editorial desks in the fediverse.
U.K. Reform Party leader Nigel Farage is once again under scrutiny for his finances. The News Agents ask how long his "man of the people" act can go on, with his five homes, ÂŁ5 million gift from a crypto billionaire, and ÂŁ270,000 payment for advertising gold bars. "He's raking it in from gold bullion, whilst he's also talking about getting rid of workers' rights, getting rid of the minimum wage, getting rid of the protection for people in their employment," says Emily Maitlis.
#NigelFarage #UKPolitics #News
Will Nigel Farageâs finances end his ambition of becoming PM?
Nigel Farageâs finances are once again under scrutiny, after his earnings were revealed for work outside of politics, and that he had only declared two of five homes to Parliament. How much longer can he play the role of a man of the people?Michael Baggs (with Emily Maitlis & Lewis Goodall) (The News Agents)
NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLCâs fictional website and a search engine thatâs thrusting unreliable answers on users."
propublica.org/article/google-âŚ
#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence
A president cannot edit the Constitution with a Sharpie. #BirthrightCitizenship #SCOTUS #14thAmendment #Politics #News #LGBTQ #Resist
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What Survives the Morning: What Burns Us Now, Always Has
Any Child In the US Born to Any Parent is a Citizen of The US, Now and AlwaysWendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
"Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally"
@donnydonny for @sludge
readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trumâŚ
Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally
The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.Donald Shaw (Sludge)
Researchers conclude that:
âAfter billions of doses, we now have an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence...This review affirms that mRNA vaccines are a safe and highly effective platform."
news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vacciâŚ
Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise - UBC News
Comprehensive review brings together global evidence to strengthen public trust and counter misinformation as mRNA vaccines expand to prevent and treat more diseases.UBC News
Fucking shocker, always the right ainât it
#brexit #BrexitLies #politics #toryscum #tories #conservatives #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #immigration #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #BrexitLies #TaxTheRich
Drei Stunden gratis, dann zahlen: Meta schränkt lokales KI-Brillen-Feature ein
Meta kassiert jetzt fßr eine Funktion, die lokal auf KI-Brillen läuft. Wer sie weiter uneingeschränkt nutzen will, ist dennoch an ein zeitliches Limit gebunden.
heise.de/news/Drei-Stunden-graâŚ
#Entertainment #KĂźnstlicheIntelligenz #MetaPlatforms #MixedReality #news
NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
propublica.org/article/supremeâŚ
#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
Report: "Children & Infants With Bound Hands in Gaza Mass Graves"
Civil Defense teams at Nasser Hospital "recovered more than 390 bodies from three mass grave sites.... 78 children were among the dead."
"Bodies found with bound hands & gunshot wounds to the head indicated field executions."
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has been systematically documenting mass graves across Gaza since October 2023, so far recording 130+ sites.
israelpalestinenews.org/euro-mâŚ
#USPol #EUPol #GazaGenocide #news .
Euro-Med Monitor: Children With Bound Hands in Gaza Mass Graves
The UN demands independent investigations as international pressure mounts for insight into mass graves found at Gaza hospitals.contact@ifamericansknew.org (Israel Palestine News)
NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year â less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahomaâs water wells.
But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem.
propublica.org/article/enid-okâŚ
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Pollution #Water #Regulation
Enid, Oklahomaâs Fight to Protect Its Water From Oil and Gas Pollution â ProPublica
Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the stateâs biggest industries.Al Shaw (ProPublica)
NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were âfactually unjustified.â
But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
propublica.org/article/aclu-trâŚ
#News #DOJ #Trump #Law #Police #Reform #Oversight #ACLU
ACLU: Violent Policing Continues in Cities Where Trump DOJ Abandoned Reform â ProPublica
Police forces with records of unconstitutional policing continued to engage in excessive force even as the Trump administration declared federal oversight unnecessary, according to a new yearlong review by the ACLU.Topher Sanders (ProPublica)
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Switching from Desktop Linux to FreeBSD.
đžPeople have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux-based or Unix-based operating systems today. Take FreeBSDâs customized desktop version GhostBSD, for example. The basic summary here is that GhostBSD is rather impressive and easy to set up for a desktop.đž
<https://www.ghostbsd.org/>
âď¸One of the most significant differences is probably that Linux is just a kernel, with [usually] the GNU/Hurd userland glued on top of it to create GNU/Linux. GNU and BSD userland are similar, and yet different, with varying levels of POSIX support. This effectively means that FreeBSD is a singular OS with rather nice documentation. Also FreeBSD have single package manager [pkg] for all derivatives thatâs simplifies things a lot. The bhyve hypervisor makes running VMs a snap. A robust ZFS filesystem is also a big plus.âď¸
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve>
What counts against desktop FreeBSD in the end is a less refined experience in some areas, despite FreeBSD being able to run Linux applications courtesy of binary compatibility. With some developer love and care, FreeBSD might make for a nice desktop alternative to GNU/Linux before long, one that could be tempting even for the die-hard Windows holdouts among us.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5668752 "You may like:
Switching from Desktop Linux to FreeBSD.
đžPeople have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux-based or Unix-based operating systems today. Take FreeBSDâs customized desktop version GhostBSD, for example. The basic summary here is that GhostBSD is rather impressive and easy to set up for a desktop.đž
<https://www.ghostbsd.org/>
âď¸One of the most significant differences is probably that Linux is just a kernel, with [usually] the GNU/Hurd userland glued on top of it to create GNU/Linux. GNU and BSD userland are similar, and yet different, with varying levels of POSIX support. This effectively means that FreeBSD is a singular OS with rather nice documentation. Also FreeBSD have single package manager [pkg] for all derivatives thatâs simplifies things a lot. The bhyve hypervisor makes running VMs a snap. A robust ZFS filesystem is also a big plus.âď¸
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve>
What counts against desktop FreeBSD in the end is a less refined experience in some areas, despite FreeBSD being able to run Linux applications courtesy of binary compatibility. With some developer love and care, FreeBSD might make for a nice desktop alternative to GNU/Linux before long, one that could be tempting even for the die-hard Windows holdouts among us.")
FreeBSD 15 probably will include KDE as DE installtion option
The devs are busy working right now in offering KDE as DE during the FreeBSD installation process. KDE Desktop Installer Option For FreeBSD 15.0, our goal is to extend the FreeBSD installer to...The FreeBSD Forums
Israel kills four Palestinians in Gaza as attacks on tents continue
Israeli forces restrict Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque and block the call to prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque.Ali Mustafa (Al Jazeera)
We Can Still Stop Californiaâs 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-câŚ
#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #3dprinting #Surveillance
We Can Still Stop Californiaâs 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Ignoring EFFâs warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Interview: Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen et al say:
"I'll just spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the government outright... I can then have the government reward me with billions of dollars of contracts".
If the SEC, FTC or anyone else "is investigating my companies... I can just tell them to knock it off, & they'll do it."
20 yrs ago, Musk couldn't do that. But then SCOTUS said "we'll allow it."
thenerdreich.com/attack-of-theâŚ
#USPol #EUPol #Musk #news #oligarchy #SCOTUS #Autocracy .
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Attack of the Trillionaire: Elon Musk's Fascist Clown Car
Dave Karpf joins the Nerd Reich pod to break down Musk's trillionaire status, Thiel's Argentina exit, and Palantir's fascist manifestoGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
Report: Israeli prisons are "a tool for slow & direct killing of Palestinian prisoners".
Israeli forces detained Bani Mufleh in June 2025 without charge under Israelâs administrative detention policy & released him in January 2026.
Mufleh posted a photo of himself showing "part of his brain skull removed as a result of surgeries he underwent while in Israeli detention."
Many families are too afraid of re-arrest to report cases
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#coward #murderer #traitor #racist #nazi #idftraining #ice #fuckice #homan #tomhoman #noem #kristinoem #mullin #markwaynemullin #news #history #politics #uspol #uspolitics
Jesse Duquette on Instagram: "So apparently ICE has big feelings about people posting that their guy Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good, lied about having âinternal bleedingâ, and fled the scene like a cowardly loser (also known as an ICE agent) so definit
14K likes, 201 comments - misterjesseduquette on June 26, 2026: "So apparently ICE has big feelings about people posting that their guy Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good, lied about having âinternal bleedingâ, and fled the scene like a cowardly loserâŚInstagram
NEW: OPB and ProPublica found that water from one of Oregonâs most iconic rivers, the Deschutes, is largely given away to wealthy landowners who are turning the high desert green with lush pastures and landscaping.
propublica.org/article/deschutâŚ
#News #Oregon #Farming #Agriculture #Water #River #Drought #Law
Oregon Water Law Benefits Wealthy Landowners at Farmersâ Expense â ProPublica
In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners â but a century-old water law entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume.Emily Cureton Cook (ProPublica)
Report: British Medical Association drops IHRA definition of antisemitism over healthcare workers being punished for expressing their views.
NHS England formally adopted the IHRA definition in October 2025.
The IHRA definition "risks conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, potentially restricting legitimate political speech & advocacy for Palestinian rights."
middleeasteye.net/news/uk-doctâŚ
#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #news #palestine #fakeAntisemitism #NHS #IHRA .
UK doctors reject IHRA definition and back protections for staff speaking on Palestine
The British Medical Association (BMA) has voted to drop the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, saying it had a âchilling effectâ on free speech in the workplace.Areeb Ullah (Middle East Eye)
âď¸đşđ¸Iran struck ship in Strait of Hormuz proving it has a hold on who operates in the straight, not Trump (CNN VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #Trump #America #Maga #Republicans #Media #UAE #Oman #Jordan #Qatar #UK #London #Israel #TelAviv #Bahrain #SaudiArabia #News #Kuwait #Headlines #Iran #Tehran #Lebanon #Gaza #Palestine #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
