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Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president
www.cnbc.com Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

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Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president
www.cnbc.com Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

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Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump
  • He might be popular here on left-wing Internet forums, but his voters don't turn out.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-banked-on-young-voters-heres-how-the-numbers-have-played-out

    Bernie and Warren are great at pushing progressive policies into the public consciousness, don't get me wrong.

  • Apple denies violating US court order in Epic Games lawsuit
  • The Apple filing criticized what it called an attempt by Epic to make Apple's "tools and technologies available to developers for free."

    Wouldn't that be fucking great. Man, if only.

  • Do the "Ernest needs to add more maintainers to KBin!" comments remind anyone else of the xz social engineering malarkey?
  • When I started to read breakdowns about the social engineering behind the xz backdoor I was like, "Waaaaitaminute, I've seen that sort of talk before." I found it notable to point out the similarity and maybe poke around at it.

    People decided to use the thread (to my excessive chagrin) to talk shit about kbin and rehash the exact same pressures I was attempting to analyze.

    It's a shame, because I noticed similar patterns was looking forward to some good discussion about it here. Alas...

  • Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100
  • I mean... they didn't specify it had to be random (or even uniform)? But yeah, it's a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people..

  • 'Donald Trump did this': New Biden abortion ad features a woman who says she almost died because of the Texas ban
  • I think you got the wrong takeaway from that story... The character of God rebukes the dead man for not accepting the practical help of other people. It's just framed as though God sent the rescuers to convince the "believes in miracles" crowd that no such things exist.

    Consider a simple rewording: instead of "I sent you two boats and a helicopter" you read "Two boats and a helicopter came to save you." This solves your only hangup and doesn't even change the story. Your beef is with the aesthetic component, not the meaning of the story.

  • Balatro 1.0.1 Patch Notes
  • Added toggle for 'Reduced Motion', removing the swirly background and gyrating card motion

    Judging by other comments online people seem to love the aesthetic, but I IMMEDIATELY turned off the CRT, scanlines, and screen shaking settings. It was just too much for me. I'm so happy they're letting me take out the last thing that is fucking with my vision after a long play session.

    Changed the first shop in every run to always include a normal Buffoon pack as one of the pack options

    I think this is a good change too. Might still be a little RNG reliant, but this definitely helps when more often than not, I restart the run after taking a look at the first couple of shops.

    Upcoming blinds/tags can now be seen in the shop immediately after defeating a boss blind/cashing out

    Also a worthy change.

    Changed Fibonacci - costs $8 instead of $7, because Fibonacci

    lol

    Changed Seance - Now uncommon and $6, was rare and $7

    Awww, I'm disappointed that the Magic TCG reference is now a little less on the nose.

    Overall there's a LOT of balance changes in here. I'm a little concerned that LocalThunk might have bitten off more than he could chew. Especially given that the blinds' base values have been reduced to make the game easier. Though, is it to make it "easier" or "less RNG heavy?" I guess we'll find out soon enough.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'
  • So they just have to make good enough games to avoid two complete flops in a row. Which is impossible

    BG3 made a lot of committed repeat customers for Larian, I don't think it's impossible their next game will sell very well based on name recognition and good will alone. A guarantee? No. But a safe bet.

    It’s the equivalent of the rich billionaires saying if you want a house just work hard and buy one. It’s not hard! Why are the poor people complaining?

    If this is the source of your rage posting, that's a lot of misguided anger to point it toward Larian. Are we gonna complain about the one-man developer who quit his job to develop Balatro? Yes he was privileged enough to have savings to dig into, but neither him nor Larian are anywhere in the same ballpark as EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, etc. They're just the wrong people to get mad at.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'
  • Your other comments which are the same comment repeated to everyone. I also don't see any logic, just ragebait.

    Blocked by OP, lol

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    *Permanently Deleted*
  • Ever since reading about the challenge of deleting an image from your profile, a GUI for that. It should not only be an API call, not should you have to contact your instance admin to do it. It should be completely self-service from your profile page.

  • Jon Stewart on Israel - Palestine | The Daily Show
  • The Problem With Jon Stewart had much more biting commentary, and you could see that he and his writers had much more creative control to speak their mind. The Daily Show just doesn't have the same bite, or the same wit, or the same strength of conviction.

  • Texas GOP meets group suggesting death penalty for women who seek abortions
  • Yeah there goes verdantbanana, right on schedule.

  • Texas GOP meets group suggesting death penalty for women who seek abortions
  • These aren't facts. You're laundering a broken dog whistle through a couple Wikipedia links. Crawl back into your cave you troglodyte.

  • Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
  • Which is still weird.

    Alexander Sawchuk, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California ... along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. ... Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy. The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

    Everything about the story sounds like it was a rush job, a decision made on a whim, after exhausting their existing catalog of test images. And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession? They don't even say who it was, probably to protect them from any embarrassing professional consequences. To me, that's probably the strongest reason to retire it: it's unprofessional.

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    Democracy, Deepfakes, and the AI Balancing Act
  • https://www.infoterkiniviral.com/p/contact-us.html

    Street : 70945 Roxane Well Suite 870,East Websterton

    No state, no country, fake town, fake street, fake account, fake website. Fuck off.

  • Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity
    wedistribute.org Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

    It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

    Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

    It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

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    US Steel, once the world’s largest corporation, agrees to sell itself to a Japanese company | CNN Business
    www.cnn.com US Steel, once the world’s largest corporation, agrees to sell itself to a Japanese company | CNN Business

    US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

    US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HarkMahlberg @kbin.social
    Blocked users who move instances don't stay blocked

    Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all.

    On Mastodon, if you don't like your instance or it's in the process of shutting down, you can migrate your account to another instance. I was aware of this feature, but I hadn't considered how such a move federates to kbin, until now.

    I had blocked a user of a niche Mastodon instance, and then they migrated to a larger instance. After the migration, I started seeing their posts again, with my blocklist only containing the old account, not the new one.

    Now to my knowledge, this feature of Mastodon is not a standard component of ActivityPub. I think it's a great feature actually, but I'm concerned that enables a sort of harassment whereby an attacker can harass someone, get blocked, migrate to another instance, and continue harassing their target. This feature being non-standard, I don't know how it gets broadcast to other instances, let alone if/how kbin should handle it.

    Should kbin automatically update blocklists with the newly migrated account name and instance name? That feels like the ideal solution, but I don't know how feasible it is. Just wanted to open this up for discussion and awareness.

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    Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools
    projects.apnews.com Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools

    Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

    Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools

    Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

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    On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners
    apnews.com On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners

    On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison on Friday.

    On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners

    On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison on Friday.

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    [News] House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown
    www.nbcnews.com House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown

    The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it before Friday's deadline. It would keep the government funded through early next year while Congress debates spending.

    House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown

    The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it before Friday's deadline. It would keep the government funded through early next year while Congress debates spending.

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    Senate confirms top Navy, Air Force picks as Tuberville feud intensifies
    www.politico.com Senate confirms top Navy, Air Force picks as Tuberville feud intensifies

    The move comes as several GOP members confront the Alabama senator over his blanket hold on nominees.

    Senate confirms top Navy, Air Force picks as Tuberville feud intensifies

    The move comes as several GOP members confront the Alabama senator over his blanket hold on nominees.

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    RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll
    thehill.com RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll

    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…

    RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll

    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…

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    [News] Mike Johnson elected House speaker, ending 22 days of GOP stalemate

    Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) won the floor vote for the House speaker gavel on Wednesday, ending the weeks of stalemate and failed nominations that followed the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

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    This carpet took years off my life just looking at it.

    Like I'm pretty sure this is the color of the blood that Akira Kurosawa used in Ran. It's fucking haunting.

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    [Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice

    Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares

    I tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes with the broadest strokes or you settle in for a rabbit hole made entirely out of onions and ogres. Conspiracy theorists flock together and constantly try and rope each other into the orbit of their personal hobby horse conspiracy, so once you break the surface suddenly you're digging through endless side stories, each with their own cast of characters, trying to figure out if some tertiary claim is true, was maybe true in the past but is no longer true, or was never true, and discover that the only sources on the matter are the same three people quoting each other in an endless circle of false legitimacy.

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    [News] Dianne Feinstein, longest serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90

    Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HarkMahlberg @kbin.social
    "In 1 hour" post at the top of microblog/newest: bug or feature?

    Does anyone else see this post by t2aki at the top of https://kbin.social/microblog/newest ? I'm not sure if it's a federation bug, like some kind of miscommunication between kbin and their instance on the timestamp of the post, or some kind of scheduled-in-advance post that is set to go live one hour from now. I'm not even sure it will ever stop being "1 hour from now."

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HarkMahlberg @kbin.social
    So funny thing about [#kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/kbin). [I post a photo thread.](https://kbin.social/m/wizardposting/t/413339/My-favorite-magic-ability) I go to my profile and see the thread. I cl

    So funny thing about #kbin. I post a photo thread. I go to my profile and see the thread. I click on the image preview icon. I immediately get sent to https://kbin.social/u/undefined. Not only is Mr. Undefined a real user, hello @undefined, but somehow my image now directs to his profile.

    As I dig into Firefox dev tools to find out why, I see that uBlock Origin has blocked the request for my image. But that's odd, I have no specific blocking rules for kbin, and kbin.social doesn't run ads. What's up?

    So it turns out my image got uploaded to the following URL: https://media.kbin.social/media/ad/b2/adb203028331eada7f99f2b4547cbc0a7efc0ba4e203a71d9d193c02d38aa4f1.jpg

    .../media/ad/... That's what uBlock was upset about. So by blocking that request, the target of the AJAX fetch is... undefined. Hence my trip to a random user's profile. XD

    \#kbinMeta

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    I've been reading the discussion around this EFF article all day and it's fucking *exhausting.*

    I've been reading the discussion around this EFF article all day and it's fucking exhausting.

    \#infosec

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    Oddly, I don't feel disgusted about having a robust list of blocked users, communities, and domains on the fediverse. Instead it actually feels like I have some level of control over what I see, rathe

    Oddly, I don't feel disgusted about having a robust list of blocked users, communities, and domains on the fediverse. Instead it actually feels like I have some level of control over what I see, rather than say, "suggesting" to YouTube that I don't want to see more neo-nazi propaganda and hoping it actually listens to me.

    \#fediverse

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    [News] Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision
    apnews.com Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision

    With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.

    Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision

    With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.

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    Gaming @kbin.social HarkMahlberg @kbin.social
    30 hours into [#baldursgate3](https://kbin.social/tag/baldursgate3) and I'm convinced that playing Sockem Boppers is the best strategy.

    30 hours into #baldursgate3 and I'm convinced that playing Sockem Boppers is the best strategy.

    \#gaming

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    HarkMahlberg HarkMahlberg @kbin.social

    Programmer and Airplane Enthusiast.

    "You just don't know how AI works" earns you a block.

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