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  • Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI

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  • Awww, he should ask Copilot why people don't find AI impressive.

  • Is there a city clearing zombie game?

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  • Project zomboid more or less... set the settings to avoid zombie respawning.

  • Trump signs bill compelling the Justice Department to release its records on Jeffrey Epstein after months of pushback

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  • https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr4405/text/enr

    So above has the full text of the bill for your reading. With the obvious caveat that the Trump admin follows the law only when and however it feels like it, here are the categories of info being sought:

    Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall, subject to subsection (b), make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices, that relate to:

    (1) Jeffrey Epstein including all investigations, prosecutions, or custodial matters.

    (2) Ghislaine Maxwell.

    (3) Flight logs or travel records, including but not limited to manifests, itineraries, pilot records, and customs or immigration documentation, for any aircraft, vessel, or vehicle owned, operated, or used by Jeffrey Epstein or any related entity.

    (4) Individuals, including government officials, named or referenced in connection with Epstein’s criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity or plea agreements, or investigatory proceedings.

    (5) Entities (corporate, nonprofit, academic, or governmental) with known or alleged ties to Epstein’s trafficking or financial networks.

    (6) Any immunity deals, non-prosecution agreements, plea bargains, or sealed settlements involving Epstein or his associates.

    (7) Internal DOJ communications, including emails, memos, meeting notes, concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates.

    (8) All communications, memoranda, directives, logs, or metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents, recordings, or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.

    (9) Documentation of Epstein’s detention or death, including incident reports, witness interviews, medical examiner files, autopsy reports, and written records detailing the circumstances and cause of death.

  • Epstein files bill allowing Bondi to "redact" details comes under scrutiny

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  • The bill has in the provision that those redactions must be specifically targeted and temporary. Redactions must come with a summary and legal justification.

  • Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face

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  • This judge was like, Texas had a whole plan to gerrymander away PoC while pretending it has nothing to do with race as approved by the Supreme Court. The DOJ can't keep their mouth shut and are too incompetent to understand the nuance of the case they were citing.

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

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  • Make sure not to tell the staff about the flatten command.

  • Federal judges block Texas from using its new US House map in the 2026 midterms

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  • Block it everywhere, implement independent districting everywhere.

  • Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog

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  • Right, but more diversity of providers will reduce the exposed risk profile from both unintentional and intentional disruption.

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

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  • I think it depends on how much the implicated billionaires and some of the smarter Republicans are involved in editing the files.

    If the Trump admin is doing it alone, I bet that this redaction will be completed so sloppily and incompetently, there will be enough crumbs and hints leftover that we'll be able to paint a picture to see more on how Trump and Republicans are involved.

  • Canada Detained This Legal Scholar En Route To Palestine Conference

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  • Okay the article adds a good amount of context over the three hour detention.

    Sounds to me more like foolish incompetence from CBSA is what turned to more than 5-10 minutes of questioning into 3 hours of waiting. Nothing aggresive but more a bureaucratic torture, the Canadian way.

  • Zohran Mamdani reaches out to the White House to set up a meeting with Trump

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    • Trump Mart - city owned grocery stores
    • Trump Transit - fast and free buses
    • Trump Childcare (I mean the normal kind) - universal free childcare to 5 years

    If Mamdani can pull off the craziest reverse psychology to get his agenda using federal money, in return for a gaudy golden facade with which Trump can bemuse himself... that would be a great turn of events. New Yorkers would be totally aware that this is Mamdani's platform but go along with it.

  • Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog

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  • No one's going to bother DDoSing your dinky little server

    In the age of AI we now live in there's more money in data centres than sense, and both venture capital backed businesses and malicious actors (am I repeating myself?) can cast stupidly wide nets.

    That said I want to see more alternatives to cloudflare, like a Euro option.

  • The CAQ Forced An End To Montreal’s Transit Strike

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  • There is a similar concept of "work to rule" within many industries -- to not do any duty beyond what is in the contract or collective agreement. So no overtime, no additional duties aside from what you've been paid for. It's been used by teachers unions in Canada a fair amount, since they have been relied upon to go above and beyond all the time for the kids they teach, while their salary does not compensate for it.

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    [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame

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  • United Airlines says a window seat doesn't need to have a window.

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  • I've thought it over again after reading your comment, if airlines really wanted to weasel out of offering a window, and didn't want to call it an 'outer wall seat' for clarity, they could call it a "window-side seat", "window-adjacent seat", or "window-end seat". That would be like the American product saying "chocolate-flavored candy", where it's technically true and only misleads enough not to be afoul of the law.

  • Ottawa’s austerity plan pushes women out — just before pay equity kicks in

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  • No disagreement from me there.

  • ‘We need a mass program of deshittification’: Avi Lewis on rebuilding Canada’s public services

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  • No problem! On CBC's introduction of Lewis:

    Lewis, who lives in Vancouver, is the grandson of former federal NDP leader David Lewis and the son of former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis.

    So it's not disqualifying or anything, he's his own person as much as anyone, but he does come from multiple generations of high profile leadership within the NDP.

    Secondly, several of the provincial NDP leaders had been acclaimed to their position i.e. ran for leadership or nominated without any listed rival candidates for leader

    • Marit Stiles, ONDP
    • David Eby, BCNDP
    • Kate White, YukonNDP

    And in one of those cases there was animosity after Anjali Appadurai was disqualified from the race by BCNDP party execs.

    That in addition to the federal NDP not performing well this year's election, in one part due to a fear of diet Maple MAGA but the other due to Singh and the party's workshopped messages weren't resonating with the public and some groups of voters taken for granted like youth and unions.

    So I would imagine party members at large may be concerned with a potential continuation of "Let's fight the billionaires, corporations and wealthy in an unspecified manner!" "Let's say the word 'affordable' a lot but not connect it to anything concrete" (that's Poilievre's line right now) "We'll de-shittify your life somehow and make it better!" kinds of messages.

    I wholeheartedly support Eby in BC, but every NDP-affiliated party should look inward, acknowledge and address reasonable concerns, and see how they could do better for Canadians as well as their members.

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    [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame

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  • I think the comm name and display name not matching will make it a bit confusing for people to post to...

    I suggest calling it "Steam Deck and Hardware discussion"

  • Canada probes Chinese truck bodies as imports surge, pressuring domestic builders

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  • You are correct on that. Something interesting to note, this novel truck engine operating principle is more like a diesel-electric train engine than a car.