I cannot believe it. I thought it was The Onion.🤦 ...they should paint it blue?
"The cascading fountain in Meridian Hill Park is seen with brown water following ongoing restoration work by the Trump admin in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 2026. REUTERS/Brad Ulery"
- Meidas Touch
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They haven't "Blocked data centres" they moved them to poorer less organised communities.
NIMBY
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Amateur.
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"Z 71 4x4" on a pickup truck panel with annotated calculus solution in black marker
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Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young usersDiana Novak Jones (The Independent)
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A woman broke down in tears at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital during a protest demanding the evacuation of sick and wounded patients. “No one leaves this place,” she cried. “
The only ones who leave... leave to Allah.” Her words reflect the despair of thousands of patients trapped in the Gaza Strip as Israel keeps the crossings closed, preventing many critically ill and injured people from traveling abroad for life-saving medical treatment.
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Israeli settlers storm the area surrounding Abu Ra’fat Mosque in Al-‘Ushr area east of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
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After 3 years in Israeli detention camps, Israeli occupation release Palestinian detainee Hossam Al-Razza from Nablus, in poor health, due to systematic torture and starvation.
Palestinian former prisoner Maher Abdul Latif Younis died today after developing a sudden health issue, nearly three years after his release from Israeli prisons, where he spent 40 years in detention. Younis was released on January 19, 2023, after serving four decades in Israeli prisons. He was first arrested in 1983 at the age of 25 over his involvement in resistance activities and his affiliation with the Fatah movement.
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Between water and power, this is per-fect.
"This map shows the price of electricity across the US right now.
Blue means power is cheap (sometimes below zero).
Yellow means normal.
Red means prices are spiking.
This is the cost behind AI data centers, summer heat, and old infrastructure.
Everyone talks about AI. Fewer people talk about the grid that has to power it.
The next shortage in America will be electricity."
- The Finance Newsletter.com
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what else did you expect?
They are all corporate ad space!
Except @TexasObserver and few others, but they are statistically nonexistant in terms of "market share" and reach…
A very courageous thing to do but if the major wasn't already resigning his commission, he should probably think about doing so. Whiskey Pete is about to make his life hell. 😔 They already arrested him but decided not the charge him apparently.
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Jason Watson praised former Congressman Al Green for repeatedly pushing impeachment efforts and urged lawmakers to take similar action against TrumpGopika Subramanian (MEAWW News)
And, right on cue, we have two oath takers who wish they were in the military breaking their oath in order to arrest another oath taker who IS in the military for standing by the very same oath.
USA in a nutshell!!
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Will there be a big banner at the Trump Arc ruin or the ferris wheel which can be seen from the stage with a portrait of Epstein?
Or umbrellas. When opened an sorted in the right way they show a huge portrait of Epstein.
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@frlan 2/2 "...I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.
Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire"
Letter to The New Stateman in 2023
Universal healthcare is NOT some batshit crazy Marxist theory, it was consensus politics in many countries for decades after WW2.
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This 2023 letter to the New Statesman by Dr Stephen WatkinsMichael White (The Poke)
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Indicted not in jail! Prediction: Comey's case gets thrown out.
BTW my prediction % is pretty good!
I predicted that Kelce and Taylor would marry 1.5 years ago on Valentines Day. I was only a little off on the timing.
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@PerryM He's sitting in jail though! (did I miss a release on some bail or other?...)
👍 (didn't know you were into predicting celebs 💍 ...)
Yes Luigi's in jail but Comey's not. Luigi's case bothers me. I wish they'd just release him and maybe give him a $$$MILS for time spent and all the people he helped.
Yep .. predicted Marilyn Monroe and JFK but got shot down on that one!
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Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren't their problem.
Continued:
He told me he's not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn't go away. They did everything right. Two incomes. No debt.
Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
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I don't know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don't.
"Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall."
@JustinMac84 👍 💯 amen...
That's because the 'everyone' in question isn't quite starving yet.
I am sad that in the USA it has to come to cases like this before accepting that social ideas might be better than capitalist ideas.
Until then every person seems wanting to be a not-yet-millionaire ignoring the whole matter to a later time, don't they?
The only people who defend it are those making shitloads of money from it.
And who are fully covered for everything. Somehow.
The system is brilliant at taking money from ordinary people. It is crap at delivering healthcare. So it depends what you want from it.
im telling you. You have guns in USA. Just use it. Not a single billionaire should walk safe on the streets. They have stolen money from you and your country.
Your economy is based on not paying your insurance claims. They lied to you and let you and your children die. Gather and make them pay.
#BeLikeCanada and put the lives of humans before the profits of corporations. ⬆️
Good news for many #Americans on the #FourthOfJuly , #Canada has greatly expanded its citizenship eligibility, eh! immigrationnewscanada.ca/new-c…
#Resist healthily!
#MedicareForAll #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 💪
Canada has implemented sweeping changes to its citizenship framework in 2026, affecting millions of current applicants and prospective Canadians worldwide.Satinder Bains (Immigration News Canada)
One assumes this story is about the USA?
Americans like it this way. Otherwise, as they say they are a democracy, they'd do something about it.
You can now Venmo the US government to help pay down the $39.4 trillion debt.
I wish I was joking.
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@FluentInFinance An image shows a web page titled "Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt" featuring a five-step progress bar labeled "1 Before You Begin", "2 Complete Agency Form", "3 Enter Payment Info", "4 Review & Submit", and "5 Confirmation", where the number 1 is enclosed in a circle. Under the heading "About this form", text states, "Use this form for contributions to reduce the public debt." A section titled "Accepted Payment Methods:" lists "Bank account (ACH)", "PayPal account", "Venmo account", and "Debit or credit card". At the bottom are buttons labeled "Preview Form" and "Continue to the Form," next to a "Cancel" link. The footer reads, "This is a secure service provided by United States Department of the Treasury. The information you will enter will remain private. Please review our privacy policy for more information."
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lol, lmao even
Is it tax deductible?
All checks written to the treasury shred the money sent to them.
Because the federal government creates money by spending it. The treasury by statutory law has a zero interest infinite credit line with no obligation to pay anything back with the Fed.
Every check written by the treasury is money creation, checks sent to the treasury destroy the money.
People are voluntarily shredding their dollars, while billionaires have money printed directly into their pockets.
Say, rather, that some people think it's tyrannical overreach for the government to do anything that would meaningfully improve anyone's life of whom the people in question disapprove, even when preventing that action would also benefit them.
NEW | Rashida Tlaib announces she will force another congressional vote tomorrow to end U.S. support for the Israeli apartheid regime’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion in Lebanon.
Tlaib said more than 4,250 people have been killed, with 12 children killed or maimed every day, urging Congress to end U.S. backing for Israeli war crimes and to demand an end to Israel’s invasion and illegal military occupation of Lebanese territory.
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instance admins are the real heroes of the fediverse and open social web.
they turn our software into real communities.
so let's not forget them, and everything they do for us.
pay them, thank them, remember them. they are the glue of this whole network.
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exactly, they are deserving of amazing props for this public service... but, not that Canadian guy who is accused of robbing that community centre in Alberta.
mstdn.ca : no thanks to that guy.
Everyone else, thanks
Well done all around.
@dckim he was falsely accused, notice how there is no recent press about any charges or anything?
It was an accounting bug, and his name was dragged through the mud, and months later he still hasn't been charged.
But everyone was so quick to judgement without any clear evidence or proof, that is what is scary.
46 years ago today
Something Better Change' is the debut album by Canadian punk rock band D.O.A., released on this day in 1980
Chuck Biscuits - Drums
David Gregg – Guitar, Keyboards
Randy Rampage - Bass
Joey Shithead - Vocals, Guitar
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No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.
#AI #browser #technology #Google
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Kudos for doing such an amazing job.
I wish we were to have a truly independent search engine, free and with no AI nonsense.
We can't have a web in our terms when the big search engines are getting us less and less genuine results each day, even these are buried by AI nonsense, and are soon to be scrapped.
AFAIK, Startpage results are taken from Google's engine, so it is not really independent.
Now that Google is ditching search results, I wonder what is Startpage going to do. Probably the same.
@jgg
My early understanding was also Google, but that my IP is not revealed to them. Not sure what engine they use now, I could not find out via the Privacy link at the bottom of their home page. Using their "Anonymous View" link in search results is supposed to be fully private.
Anyway, by using Firefox, Startpage, uBlock Origin, Privacy badger, and the included Startpage Privacy Protection, I very, very rarely see any ads.
The "About" link in the home page hamburger also has good info.
Startpage has always acted as a sort of a proxy to Google. That gives us more privacy (but beware of what you put on your search terms) and no ads, which is nice; but the quality of results of Google Search is lowering each day; and they are going to stop showing them anymore soon; so Startpage is very likely going to be left in the cold. You may have issues with US government control of the search results bias.
@IntangibleSloth
Duckduckgo results, according to Wikipedia, come from a diversity of sources, including Google and Bing, so they are not really independent, and as Google is removing real search results, with Bing very likely doing the same, they may be doing the same soon.
They made recently a poll about AI, with 90% of people refusing it; their answer was creating the noai version. That reveals a strong pro-ai bias, since the right thing would have been refusing to use AI at all, or creating a ai.duckduckgo.com and leaving the main domain AI free.
@jgg
This may not be what you are looking for but have you tried Mojeek or Marginalia Search?
AFAIK they are both mostly independent search engines with little to no (AFAIK no) AI integrations
The only catch that I have noticed is that searches from them can be pretty spotty from time to time. But with Vivaldi search shortcuts that shouldn't be too much of a problem
If these do not fit the criteria you mentioned then I apologize.
this isn't gonna be as detailed as I'd like because I don't have it in me atm, but in short, I want a carbon copy of how the Firefox bar behaves, because that's one of the strongest features of Firefox IMO.
A bit longer: I find the address bar the absolute worst feature of Vivaldi. The defaults are *painful.* No I don't want it to auto-highlight everything when I click once, wtf? No I don't want terrible irrelevant suggestions. It should be unobtrusive, *unchanging*, and not in my way.
Like yes I know I can customize half this stuff and I have indeed poked at settings in a state of great irritation more than once, but if I'm having to twiddle a bunch of settings out of the box to get an address bar which doesn't break half my UX expectations, it's a problem.
Chromium's address bar manages to just be not as good compared to Firefox (though it seems to have improved in the past couple years?), I find Vivaldi's actively hostile to the point of anger.
Vivaldi has a lot of good features but the address bar is so fundamental to how many people use a browser that IMNSHO it should be an area where experimentation is conservative and behind opt-in options, where maximum effort at UX (both theory - does this work like most people expect - and polish - is this rough around the edges in any way) should apply, and where change should be exceedingly rare.
anyway thanks for all your work regardless, overall I am a fan! 🌿
@YurkshireLad
this was an early design decision when things were less creepy
it's not the end of the world
and perhaps vivaldi can transition, but it's a huge ask, and you know it
in the meantime stop being such a douchebag and show some appreciation for the post above
instead of immediately launching into masturbating your ego over this endless endless "bUt I wAnT pErFeCt" that infests social media, and means absolutely nothing, this lowest common denominator empty whining
@petrichaos @YurkshireLad
it infects social media
perfectionism, toxic idealism, purity
as an entitled basis to complain about every. goddamn. thing.
and always zero appreciation from these assholes shown, for the only thing we are ever going to get, from any entity in this world, on any topic:
progress
it's simply a basis for edgelord trolling on baseless malcontent
or it's a personality disorder: stunt vibing ego masturbation
it's a parasitical social interaction on us all
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his comment is utterly invalid
perfectionism is for immature losers
and i will attack him for it, because it's the dreariest lamest shit. it's the toilet of social media. whiny shitbags endlessly complaining because we haven't achieved purity. never a kind word for good progress, good effort, positive statements
i despise these entitled karens, and they are legion
anything else i can help you with today?
i'm calling out their toxicity
"no, you!" is not the genius argument you think it is my best friend
i will certainly not stop calling out this personality disorder of "demand perfect, never be supportive of good work and positive effort" whiny useless shit
you certainly do not have to like that
you are free to mute, block, ignore, etc to your heart's desire
and so welcome to mastodon, and enjoy your stay
in this life
we are tolerant, except to the intolerant
we are sensitive, except to the insensitive
we are nonviolent, except to the violent
etc
and we are not toxic, except to the toxic
if you are not familiar with the Vivaldi account, or other major accounts, they attract this sort of endless pit of pathetic reply guys: they fill your screen with harsh whiny demands for perfection
never any appreciation
they are toxic shit
and i will call them out on it
@benroyce @H0W25 @YurkshireLad
Proposing new features or refinements is another way to contribute to a project. Criticism is too, if it is made in a constructive way. Telling someone always that he is perfect and should never change can be terribly damaging in the long run, since it leads to self-complacency, stagnation and even narcissism. Software projects usually have more features to implement and bugs to resolve than resources to do it; but knowing what users demand is always useful.
The toxic criticism is when somebody throws a "Your browser is shit!" or "XYZ is much better!" with no explanation.
He may have started with a 'I love Vivaldi', it would have been nicer, but I think it was implicit somewhat. The irony here is that you have been far more harsher with him than he was in his first comment.
Anyway, I agree that it would be much better if Vivaldi were to have a homemade first class engine, but I'm not sure if the company has enough resources to do that. Pretty sure they would love to. In any case, it would take a long time to do that. About other engines, the only other mature options are Safari and Firefox engines. I don't think depending on Apple would be much better, and the fact is nearly everybody who makes a new browser chooses to use Chrome engine; I'm not sure why, I suspect Firefox's is not nearly as easy to reuse, but I'm only guessing.
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Well said
I would merely reply that the "no Chromium" in demanding terms without any appreciation is under every post Vivaldi makes
other large accounts also get these sort of endless pointless unhelpful pefectionist criticism without consideration
it's mindless and you're certainly welcome to consider my comment as unnecessary but i will merely say i'm on a trip about it becaise i'm sick of it
i'm not blocking you, jimmyb, you're blocking me
if i recall our conversation which led to the rupture correctly, you were vomiting whataboutism that blames the west for russia invading ukraine
i called you out harshly for your lies, as you deserved
hilariously enough, that makes this "arrogant American Supremacist" more in line with average european sentiment than you
but i'm glad i made an impression
now stop making stupid excuses for kremlin imperialism
That's good to heard you won't cave into AI like the other browsers.
What about my Vivaldi cat ear logo change? I think it would be a hit!! :3
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@wafflesies
is Brave still full of crypto shit?
that's a bigger turn off for me
@wafflesies
i understand their whole BAT "basic attention token" model
you're downloading an entire catalog of ads and then being matched to ads locally, so i admit the privacy aspect
but it's still rather smarmy no? you get little tokens for viewing ads? yuck
i would like to offer an even better model to you:
no ads. block 'em
and crypto money schemes are looking quite tattered and decrepit nowadays, the whole sector is a dead end
it seems to be a late 2010s fad that is fading
as long as you realize all these crypto scheme models are going bye bye. it's antiquated already. the world is moving past crypto (thank god)
and vivaldi is not "monetized by google"
that's a lie
vivaldi does search engine partners and bookmark partners
vivaldi does not sell user data, build profiling algorithms, or accept monetization from Google
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-busin…
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.Christian Dysthe (Vivaldi Browser)
@wafflesies
vivaldi's default search engine is Startpage
look, you can like brave and dislike vivaldi, that's your prerogative
but this is the second comment in which the basis for your preference is not based on the actual facts
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That is a fitting metaphor: AI as a big tidal wave.
The proper response to big tidal waves is to seek higher ground and wait until the waters recede. Then you clean up the filth and debris that it has left everywhere and repair or rebuild what was damaged. In the end, you get to terms with the fact that some things and some people were irretrievably lost, and that some of the landscape has changed permanently.
I’m quite sure that the current AI craze will go somewhat like that.
@ahau Riding a tidal wave will just leave you stranded inland. Of course there are still barriers and of course there will always be specialists. Specialists are the people who can see where AI gets it wrong. They are the people who understand, while AI does not. Cannot. If AI can replace you, you weren’t a specialist to begin with.
The thing is: you need to be a specialist to get the most out of AI. And you cannot be a specialist on everything.
I'm only here for Four Seasons jokes.
so far I've seen none.
"Using an AI to browse for you is like paying a robot to go out to dinner with your friends and give you a text summary of the evening when it gets home."
That dinner-summary analogy hits the nail on the head. The corporate push for AI isn't about saving you time; it's about killing your curiosity so they can control the bottleneck of what you see and what you don't.
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Without human exploration, the diversity of the web dies. But capitalism demands we replace active exploration with inactive spectatorship, turning users into passive consumers of synthesized noise.
They are industrialized tools built to monetize convenience by destroying human agency. It’s a relief to see at least one browser team choosing humans over the investor hype cycle.
good choice but the statement honestly looks like something AI would construct to post on LinkedIn 😊
My suggested alternative is "No AI. None"
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European?
Startpage uses Google as their source including their mandatory ranking.
If you want European the only choice is @Mojeek .
@too_little_caffeine @Petesmom +1 to this
help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools…
Add and manage custom search engines in Vivaldi and customise the use of search engine nicknames and Search field visibility.Tony is helping (Vivaldi Browser Help)
@matt @Skwerlgyrl @Petesmom I know that System1 Startpage owned, but there isn't any data which Startpage send to it, nor to any other third party
Here you can read the whole story
@gudenau it's not Chrome, it's Chromium, and there's huge differences
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-diffe…
What should you make of the fact that Vivaldi shares its engine with Google Chrome?Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Browser)
That makes them the best... chromium based semi-proprietary browser.
If this is the best, that gives you an idea on how the rest are handling it...
on one hand, it's great that vivaldi is against AI when even firefox is starting to force AI features into their browser
on the other hand, vivaldi is a fork of chromium which is a project that's developed mainly by google. it has a near monopoly over the web browser market which is extremely unhealthy and dangerous. vivaldi also likes to pretend that they're super pro-consumer and pro-FOSS, but while they do publish vivaldi's source code, they use a custom license that doesn't allow forking. in terms of chromium browsers, i'd say it's better than the trash tier browsers like chrome, edge, and brave, but it's much worse than ungoogled chromium
Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show theintercept.com/2026/06/18/is…
Company records reviewed by The Intercept show Israel urged Facebook and Instagram to take down posts supportive of Iran.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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🇨🇦 just forced the MPs on SECU committee to gather at 11:30 PM Ottawa time to rush through voting on #BillC22 amendments.
No reading them, no debating them, just a LPC committtee majority stone-fadedly rubber-stamping government motions while ignoring anything else.
A shameful abuse of democracy in the service of a deeply dangerous surveillance bill.
We are NOT done with this fight, be sure of that!
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Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of censorship bills masquerading as “children’s online safety” measures, with states like Massachusetts, Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, Sout…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Your not alone..
"This is not a Drill"
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Me: Do you still use Facebook?
Her: Yes.
Me: Are you going to give them your passport?
Her: Absolutely not.
Me: [explains what the age limit means]
Her: Looks like I won't be using Facebook any more.
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New episode: The Tomato in England
The first tomato plants in England were noted around 1590, but there aren’t many recipes until the 1720s. Why did it take so long?
The stories you may have heard are probably wrong.
Dr Serin Quinn explains what really caused the delay.
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Happy 68th Birthday to Eric Boucher aka Jello Biafra, former, lead singer and songwriter for the Dead Kennedys, founder of his own music label Alternative Tentacles, born on this day in 1958, Boulder, Colorado
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you know shit is bad when fucking vivaldi has one of the best stances on AI, and it's not even fully FOSS
No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.#AI #browser #technology #Google
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