Trump forgot about the Streisand Effect.

He was a very effective user of it, and now the tables have turned.

My impression from reading Institute for the Study of War’s blogs is that Putin is a “moderate” in the perverted sense. There are actually much worse people, with real power in Russia, that could conceivably take power, and he kinda keeps everyone in line.

So maybe the people in a position to depose him have no interest in doing so, not just for their own interests but because the resulting power vacuum would not be fun. And I’m sure he makes the possibility extremely difficult.

There is one guy who tried, and actually came surprisingly close: Yevgeny Prigozhin. He started a small rebellion, and it might’ve worked with a slightly different roll of the dice. He seemed kinda populist and Trumpy to me, with a lot of grassroots support from the more militant factions in Russian politics, especially on social media… if Trump was the leader of a notorious mercenary outfit.

He died in a plane crash exactly 2 months later. I’m sure its a total coincidence.

They probably host it themselves on inferentia.

What specifically did they find that’s juicy? The text in that forward?

Because TBH those quotes are about what I’d expect.

More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.

The outcome always seems to be “what’s most beneficial for Netanyahu’s survival.”

And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?

Makes sense. Thieves filtering for easy marks is probably older than writing.

More than just a dispute over data, though, the Wikipedia editors argued that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt often acts as more of a partisan actor in the Israel-Palestine conversation than a neutral source of information.

Greenblatt has called US anti-Zionist student protesters Iranian “proxies,” compared the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to a swastika, and praised Elon Musk just days after the Twitter owner endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory as the “actual truth” last November.

Is this the story of the world now? Some old rich guy watches a little too much TV/Twitter and sends a major organization off the rails?

…I guess it always has been.

I get why, but I’m still a little surprised they haven’t done it already.

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Is it that dramatic though? NBC calls it “a widely expected move”

I’m sure the annotations will be intelligent and insightful…

I grew up in suburban DFW, and King of the Hill is not really an accurate parody…

It’s a documentary.

You think I’m kidding, I am not.

No, it ended when attention optimization and monetization became the objective.

If social media was all “dumb” it would be totally different, though I suppose keeping third party monetization out is always difficult.

DeSantis’s disaster response was good. He did an excellent job the last few hurricane seasons, including when Ian hit us, and he’s cognizant of how crooked the insurance companies were, among other things.

Say what you will about everything else (and I have a lot to say, trust me, I would not vote for him), but y’all are just demonizing him because he’s a Republican. And, quite fairly, for some destructive party line policies.

Also… y’all haven’t seen anything yet. I was in this rain, and again, it’s nothing compared to Ian or the upcoming season.

Because it makes the line go up?

Sustainability doesn’t matter. Musk’s hype holds the market value up (in the short term), and kicking him out could tank it from the controversy alone. That’s all that matters.

I like to think many investors are buy and hold, long term institutional, Warren acolytes or whatever, but in reality the outlook is just so short for so many people now. What matters is the next day and the next quarter, and they can just bail out after that.

Indeed, though I prefer skipping extensions on mobile because (as said above) native implementations tend to be faster and more power efficient.

Ublock is probably an exception though. It’s quite fast.

An old Snapdragon 845 phone, lol. A razer phone 2.

It just feels sluggish. Pages render slower, especially larger ones, and it eats more battery, especially with extensions like adblockers running.

It’s especially apparent because the RP2 is like the oldest 120hz phone. Bromite (aka chromium) feels like butter in comparison.

I don’t on mobile because it’s way too slow.

But I guess that isn’t applicable to this post because mobile Chromium doesn’t have ublock anyway…

And on linux, I have firefox issues with wayland because of some Nvidia thing. Chromium too, but its less severe and I can actually get GPU acceleration working.

Going to plug Cromite (a continuation of Bromite) for a great Chromium fork with built in adblocking, and no nonsense like Brave or whatever: https://github.com/uazo/cromite

Also great on Android (which it was originally developed for).

Forks maintained by a hero dev are less than ideal (and not sustainable TBH), but this is where we are…

This is desperately needed