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Endearing-but-not-so-fun-fact: LeVar Burton stepped in for Reddick on Vox Machina as the voice of Thordak after his passing.

The Eric Andre Show s2e7

Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements online

Bo French, a Texas Republican running to lead a powerful state agency, has a history of making controversial social media posts, including calling for the public execution of Democratic leaders, according to a recent investigation from CNN’s KFile team.

French, who is running to lead Texas’s railroad commission, has recently faced criticism from members of his own party after making a racist post on social media. Powerful Republicans, including the Texas senator John Cornyn, said they would not support French in the upcoming election.

But the latest spat over French’s social media has led to a deeper look at his online history. In a review of old posts from social media accounts that seemingly belonged to French, CNN’s KFile team found that the Texas Republican repeatedly called for public executions of opponents.

In 2020, French used a now-suspended X account to seemingly call for the execution of former president Barack Obama and other Obama administration officials that he believed had disseminated false information about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

User Jose Coixao (@notnotzecoxao) posted a short video on X showing the KytyPS5 emulator getting the game to its main menu, on a system with a GeForce RTX 5090 and a Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Frame rates were reportedly around 2 FPS, and no gameplay was shown, so this is a boot-to-menu result for now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76153514

Healthcare is a social right, not a privilege to be rationed by corporate insurers and canceled by government fiat. The fight against the assault on social programs cannot be separated from the fight against the capitalist profit system.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1430600/file-notification-systems-leave-windows-linux-android-and-macos-vulnerable-and-can-be-ex

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Bailey, who oversaw some of Trump’s election crackdown investigations, to resign about a year after assuming role

Bailey, a hardline conservative and former attorney general of Missouri, began serving in the unusual co-deputy director position with former deputy Dan Bongino, a podcaster who had no formal FBI experience, in September 2025.

Since Bongino left the FBI in January, Bailey has been serving as co-deputy director with Christopher Raia, a former FBI special agent and New York field office official. It is unclear whether Trump plans to pick another deputy director to serve alongside Raia.

In his role at the FBI, Bailey had been overseeing some of Trump’s election-related investigations, including one related to 2020 ballots in Georgia. He was present in January when FBI agents executed a search warrant at an election office in Fulton county and seized ballots among other materials from the 2020 presidential election.

Though Bailey said he was leaving to spend more time with family, a New York Times report indicated that Bailey and Raia had somewhat of a contentious relationship with Patel and went long stretches without speaking to each other.

Previously on Star Trek: The New Cable Management:

Source: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/117347139169589960

This thing is pretty fun.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1430453/aoc-ai-systems-want-us-to-be-dependent-and-outsource-our-cognition-to-a-machine-and-they

AI needs 2 things. It needs capital-intensive resources. But it also needs an uneducated population that cannot think, that is not educated, that relies on it so that they can sell cognition back to us.

Brace for another administration of austerity and victim blaming rather than taxing the wealthy.

Surely, it's the people who are ill, poor and foreign who are to blame for the state of the country, and not the rich sucking up all the money.

As far as I can tell, this is just trying soften the blow and curtail the pushback these policies will inevitably face.

The time to cut funding, if ever, is when things are going great. That is the opposite of how things are now.

Hey comrades :) !!!…. Just checking in from our side with a little update

I need to come back with a much more serious update about the eight queer refugees I’ve been telling you about.

Yesterday around 3pm, a group of men who identified themselves as police came to where the eight were staying and demanded to see their legal documents.

The refugees explained that they had been registered by UNHCR and were still waiting for their legal documents to be processed.

According to the refugees, the men then started questioning them about why they “look weird” and why they behave like women.

The situation became violent.

Two of the refugees were beaten and seriously injured. The others ran away.

They were also forced to leave the reception area and they were told that the men would come back and that they did not want them there.

Right now, they are scared and don’t know where they can safely stay.

I contacted the UNHCR hotline in Juba and reported what happened. I was given guidance to address the immediate physical-safety issue through the police, along with reference numbers connected to the report.

I wish I could do more from here.

I’ve been sharing their story because they arrived from Kakuma hoping to find safety and instead they’re now facing another situation where they don’t feel safe.

And this is exactly why the $2,990 we’re trying to raise matters.

We’re trying to help them with safe shelter, food, clean water, mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, clothing, medication, cooking needs and eventually help David restart his bakery work.

We haven’t received financial support for them yet, but I want to thank everyone who has continued to bump and share their posts.

If you can’t donate, please boost this.

Their story needs to keep circulating.

Small note: the fundraiser we’re using is still being updated by our organizer, so the page may still show the previous goal and story for now. We’re working on getting it updated to reflect the needs of these eight refugees.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11579151

Russia continues to relocate Ukrainian children; however, compared to the early years of the full-scale war, it is employing different mechanisms, specifically, transfer to camps, sending children to Russia for "education," separation from parents during "filtration" procedures, and the appointment of Russian guardians, according to Maksym Maksymov, head of the presidential initiative Bring Kids Back UA.

"In the early years of the full-scale war, the dominant methods were mass transfers of entire groups from boarding schools and orphanages—such as the evacuation from Kherson Regional Children's Home in the autumn of 2022—and the removal of wounded children via hospitals during active combat operations. Today, different mechanisms are at play: transfer to so-called 'recreation camps,' sending children to Russia for 'education,' separation from parents during filtration, and the appointment of a Russian guardian for the child," he said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

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Maksymov added that these camps have become a mass-scale channel; notably, according to Russian officials themselves—as cited in an OSCE report—approximately 53,000 children from occupied territories were slated to go to "re-education" camps in the summer of 2025, with another 50,000 scheduled for the summer of 2026.

"Some of these transfers are framed as ostensibly voluntary. Parents are threatened with the loss of parental rights or the seizure of their child if the child does not attend a Russian school, participate in militarized programs, or go to the camps. Consequently, the formal 'consent' given by parents is very often the result of coercion rather than choice," he noted.

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It's just I get so bored stuck at home all day apart from hospital appointments, and what else am I supposed to do? But it's so stressful, why is everyone so horrible there? Even seeing other people get bullied stresses me out. I always tell myself I won't look at it any more, but then I always find myself browsing it again.

This time someone asked a simple question: Why is a fictional character in this book so poor when he has a full time job as a teacher? A couple of people explained that teachers are badly paid in the USA but like 400 other people jumped in with rude nasty comments to the OP about how stupid they are for not knowing american teachers are underpaid. The OP had clearly stated they weren't american and was just asking a simple question.

On another subreddit someone was waxing lyrical about how poverty is a choice, if you're poor, you've chosen that and the government should not give benefits to anyone as it just encourages them to be lazy.

SteamOS ARM now runs on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 handhelds! This image is only for 8 Gen 2 (SM8550) devices. If you have a KONKR Pocket FIT or AYANEO Pocket S2, don't flash this! Stay on v1.2 with the v1.2.1 hotfix, v1.3 for you comes later as an update.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/46096987

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It's the one time this sort of thing worked.

Bonus panel