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The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington views the move as a way to counter censorship. Reuters reports: One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user's traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked. Headed by Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, the project was expected to be unveiled at last week's Munich Security Conference but was delayed, the sources said. Reuters could not determine why the launch did not happen, but some State Department officials, including lawyers, have raised concerns about the plan, two of the sources said, without detailing the concerns. The project could further strain ties between the Trump administration and traditional U.S. allies in Europe, already heightened by disputes over trade, Russia's war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump's push to assert control over Greenland. The portal could also put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

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California's recently-proposed AB-2047 would require 3D printers sold in the state to be DOJ-approved models equipped with "firearm blocking technology," banning non-certified machines after 2029 and criminalizing efforts to bypass the software. Adafruit notes that unlike similar legislation proposed in Washington State and New York, California's version "adds a certification bureaucracy on top: state-approved algorithms, state-approved software control processes, state-approved printer models, quarterly list updates, and civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation." From the report: Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan introduced AB-2047, the "California Firearm Printing Prevention Act," on February 17th. The bill would ban the sale or transfer of any 3D printer in California unless it appears on a state-maintained roster of approved makes and models... certified by the Department of Justice as equipped with "firearm blocking technology." Manufacturers would need to submit attestations for every make and model. The DOJ would publish a list. If your printer isn't on the list by March 1, 2029, it can't be sold. In addition, knowingly disabling or circumventing the blocking software is a misdemeanor. [...] As Michael Weinberg wrote after the New York and Washington proposals dropped⦠accurately identifying gun parts from geometry alone is incredibly hard, desktop printers lack the processing power to run this kind of analysis, and the open-source firmware that runs most machines makes any blocking requirement trivially easy to bypass. The Firearms Policy Coalition flagged AB-2047 on X, and the reactions tell you everything. Jon Lareau called it "stupidity on steroids," pointing out that a simple spring-shaped part has no way of revealing its intended use. The Foundry put it plainly: "Regulating general-purpose machines is another. AB-2047 would require 3D printers to run state-approved surveillance software and criminalize modifying your own hardware."

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Принц

Feb. 19th, 2026 09:23 pm
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Настоящий принц в наше время редкость. Как я понимаю, он пытается примерить кому-то хрустальную туфельку.

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Автор продолжил цикл «Альфа-ноль» десятым томом:



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Что ж, неприятного старца поубавилось - жду продолжение...
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This is the difference between the current administration in the USA and the rest of the world: this admin won't prosecute people who declare loyalty to the current junta.

Andrew was taken into custody early Thursday and held for 12 hours for questioning, then released. According to the latest release of The Trump-Epstein Files, Andrew gave confidential information to Epstein that was available to the Royal Family. There are also allegations that he made arrangements with Epstein to have a woman trafficked to the UK for him to have sex with.

While Andrew was stripped of his royal titles, he is still in the Royal Line of Succession, at #8. The UK would have to pass a law to remove him from that position. The King and rest of the royal family were not given advance notice of his arrest. Today is Andrew's 66th birthday.

He is the first royal in almost 400 years to be arrested and accused of a crime. Other royals have been accused of civil fines, such as speeding.

Virginia Giuffre sued Andrew in 2015, alleging that he raped her on three occasions when she was a teen. She took her own life last year. Her family welcomed news of the arrest.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-prince-andrew-arrested_n_6996e21de4b0cc086c708735

?

Feb. 19th, 2026 05:36 pm
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Сегодня левитт назвала трампа президентом мира.
Трамп пригрозил Ирану ,если Иран что?
А мета разрабатыает программу, в которой ИИ будет продолжать соц.общения за умерших .

***

Feb. 19th, 2026 07:19 pm
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 Я предполагаю, что Эндрю виноват. Но у него взгляд покойника, система его затравила. На мой взгляд это называется доведение до самоубийства. Но системное.

Stanford

Feb. 19th, 2026 05:05 pm
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Январь 1998, Калифорния.
Наш первое жильё было совсем недалеко от Стэнфорда, немного больше 10 км, поэтому одну из первых (а может и самую первую) семейных экскурсий-прогулок мы устроили там.
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Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Pro, a reasoning-focused upgrade aimed at more complex problem-solving. 9to5Google reports: This .1 increment is a first for Google, with the past two generations seeing .5 as the mid-year model update. (2.5 Pro was first announced in March and saw further updates in May for I/O.) Google says Gemini 3.1 Pro "represents a step forward in core reasoning." The "upgraded core intelligence" that debuted last week with Gemini 3 Deep Think is now available in Gemini 3.1 Pro for more users. This model achieves an ARC-AGI-2 score of 77.1%, or "more than double the reasoning performance of 3 Pro." This "advanced reasoning" translates to practical applications like when "you're looking for a clear, visual explanation of a complex topic, a way to synthesize data into a single view, or bringing a creative project to life." 3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn't enough, taking advanced reasoning and making it useful for your hardest challenges.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. "You've likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it is currently unvetted and high-risk for our environment," he wrote in a Slack message with a red siren emoji. "Please keep Clawdbot off all company hardware and away from work-linked accounts." Grad isn't the only tech executive who has raised concerns to staff about the experimental agentic AI tool, which was briefly known as MoltBot and is now named OpenClaw. A Meta executive says he recently told his team to keep OpenClaw off their regular work laptops or risk losing their jobs. The executive told reporters he believes the software is unpredictable and could lead to a privacy breach if used in otherwise secure environments. He spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly. [...] Some cybersecurity professionals have publicly urged companies to take measures to strictly control how their workforces use OpenClaw. And the recent bans show how companies are moving quickly to ensure security is prioritized ahead of their desire to experiment with emerging AI technologies. "Our policy is, 'mitigate first, investigate second' when we come across anything that could be harmful to our company, users, or clients," says Grad, who is cofounder and CEO of Massive, which provides Internet proxy tools to millions of users and businesses. His warning to staff went out on January 26, before any of his employees had installed OpenClaw, he says. At another tech company, Valere, which works on software for organizations including Johns Hopkins University, an employee posted about OpenClaw on January 29 on an internal Slack channel for sharing new tech to potentially try out. The company's president quickly responded that use of OpenClaw was strictly banned, Valere CEO Guy Pistone tells WIRED. "If it got access to one of our developer's machines, it could get access to our cloud services and our clients' sensitive information, including credit card information and GitHub codebases," Pistone says. "It's pretty good at cleaning up some of its actions, which also scares me." A week later, Pistone did allow Valere's research team to run OpenClaw on an employee's old computer. The goal was to identify flaws in the software and potential fixes to make it more secure. The research team later advised limiting who can give orders to OpenClaw and exposing it to the Internet only with a password in place for its control panel to prevent unwanted access. In a report shared with WIRED, the Valere researchers added that users have to "accept that the bot can be tricked." For instance, if OpenClaw is set up to summarize a user's email, a hacker could send a malicious email to the person instructing the AI to share copies of files on the person's computer. But Pistone is confident that safeguards can be put in place to make OpenClaw more secure. He has given a team at Valere 60 days to investigate. "If we don't think we can do it in a reasonable time, we'll forgo it," he says. "Whoever figures out how to make it secure for businesses is definitely going to have a winner."

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Minecraft: Java Edition is switching its rendering backend from OpenGL to Vulkan as part of the upcoming Vibrant Visuals update, aiming for both better performance and modern graphics features across platforms like Linux and macOS (via translation layers). GamingOnLinux reports: For modders, they're suggesting they start making preparations to move away from OpenGL: "Switching from OpenGL to Vulkan will have an impact on the mods that currently use OpenGL for rendering, and we anticipate that updating from OpenGL to Vulkan will take modders more effort than the updates you undertake for each of our releases. To start with, we recommend our modding community look at moving away from OpenGL usage. We encourage authors to try to reuse as much of the internal rendering APIs as possible, to make this transition as easy as possible. If that is not sufficient for your needs, then come and talk to us!" It does mean that players on really old devices that don't support Vulkan will be left out, but Vulkan has been supported going back to some pretty old GPUs. You've got time though, as they'll be rolling out Vulkan alongside OpenGL in snapshots (development releases) "sometime over the summer." You'll be able to toggle between them during the testing period until Mojang believe it's ready. OpenGL will be entirely removed eventually once they're happy with performance and stability.

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Для полного счастья

Feb. 19th, 2026 05:57 pm
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А теперь два президента дуэтом исполняют вынос инопланетян из шкафа. "Я их не видел, но они реальны". "Я их тоже не видел, но Обама разгласил секретную информацию". Уж не знаю, политическая это новость или нет, но, на мой взгляд, это в любом случае перебор. Ну их всех нафиг, рептилоидов. Пойду посмотрю, как там сегодня кто в Милане откатался: Лиу, говорят, взяла-таки золото каким-то образом.

Вечернее обозрение

Feb. 19th, 2026 06:37 pm
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Трамп на год продлил санкции против России
(с) СМИ


Журналюги сами не понимают, что пишут. Санкции бывают президентскими или от конгресса. Президент может продлить или отменить только президентские санкции. Но в отношении России их нет или почти нет. Те что есть, введены конгрессом. Их нельзя продлить, потому что они бессрочные. Снять их тоже практически нельзя. Процесс снятия может занять 30-50 лет. Поэтому, когда из Америки говорят что-то о снятии санкций - это сказки для лохов. Такого нельзя сделать в обозримом будущем. Поправку Джексона-Веника снимали 40 лет. (Это санкции времен Брежнева за невыпуск евреев из СССР). Сняли уже при Путине. Вот такие законы.
Я читал, что в отношении России действуют еще американские санкции, введенные про Государе Императоре. Возможно, это неправда. Но это похоже на правду.

Obigovi pamyatni monety

Feb. 20th, 2026 01:26 am
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     Мой конь убогий совсем застыл,
     Сбивает ноги, плетется просто, не жалея сил

Тиждень дома через мороз (типу, нормальний Новий рік). Почищені фали, катасетум. Сайт Нардотто закритий, їх каттлея і El Ranchito дають корінці на огризках. LG E400 Optimus L3 White в гаммі Катрусі в Екзоветі... Зимові фуфельки ☹ Прийшло : Наша зброя – розум
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Palantir joins a growing tech migration to Florida. Unfortunately, the beleaguered people of Colorado will still be subject to the fed-funded dystopian techno-panopticon Palantir is building.

Presidential Power Rankings

Feb. 19th, 2026 04:50 am
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Posted by Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho celebrate Presidents' Day by talking about the best and worst presidents in American history.

война компроматов

Feb. 19th, 2026 03:00 pm
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я фотографирую, как света света вытирает разбрызганные сливки, а она как я собираю рассыпанные по полу семечки
вот главное назначение смартфонов
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The IRS's IT division has reportedly lost 40% of its staff and nearly 80% of its tech leadership amid a federal "efficiency" overhaul, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday. The Register reports: Kaschit Pandya detailed the extent of the tech reorganization during a panel at the Association of Government Accountants yesterday, describing it as the biggest in two decades. ... The IRS lost a quarter of its workforce overall in 2025. But the tech team was clearly affected more deeply. At the start of the year, the team encompassed around 8,500 employees. As reported by Federal News Network (FNN), Pandya said: "Last year, we lost approximately 40 percent of the IT staff and nearly 80 percent of the execs." "So clearly there was an opportunity, and I thought the opportunity that we needed to really execute was reorganizing." That included breaking up silos within the organization, he said. "Everyone was operating in their own department or area." It is not entirely clear where all those staff have gone. According to a report by the US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IT department had 8,504 workers as of October 2024. As of October 2025, it had 7,135. However, reports say that as part of the reorganization, 1,000 techies were detailed to work on delivering frontline services during the US tax season. According to FNN, those employees have questioned the wisdom of this move and its implementation.

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Posted by Michael Dioguardi

Few Americans today realize that until the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913, US senators were appointed by their state legislatures, not by popular vote. This development had an unfortunate effect upon US politics, further damaging the original federalist governing arrangement.

Борьба с перекосами

Feb. 19th, 2026 11:36 pm
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Году в 19-м я открыл аккаунт в жж в общем-то с одной целью -- показать приехавшим из россии, что их интересы прямо противоречат тому, что им бобруйцы вешают, и что и из давно приехавших здесь не один патриотический бобруйск имеется. Тригерром послужила такая история: я случайно через фейсбук главцензроа увидел диалог, когда недавно прибывший спрашивал френдов, какие есть партии, кто за что, и какие разумные опции для выбора. В ответ, не знакомый с ним (но хорошо знакомый со мной) старожил написал, что главная проблема в Израиле -- судебный активизм, и он советует голосовать правее ликуда, чтобы с этим бороться... Ну ок, приехал лох, раз ему все равно, за что голосовать, почему бы не помочь по-быстрому, пока он не разобрался, что к чему...

Короче, я решил, что должен хоть как-то показать, что бывают и альтернативные точки зрения. Сейчас, по прошествии шести лет, можно подвести итоги и посмотреть, насколько хороши для приехавших из снг были эти советы. Будет не один пост. Главные тезисы здесь, а детали и примеры потом.

Оппозиция в кнессете разбиралась с вопросом, почему из бюджета 8М на организации репатриантов почти всё пошло на досов, йешивы, организации синагог и прочее богоспасаемое дело. Заставить туда прийти министра будет слишком жирно, да и жирного коалиционного ёлкина -- тоже, ограничились паяцем на должности гендиректора министерства, заявившего, что: "Не существует и никогда не существовало политики дискриминации репатриантов из стран бывшего СССР или других общин. Напротив, речь идет об исправлении накопившихся за годы перекосов. В проведенном нами масштабном опросе с участием около 25 тысяч репатриантов 52% указали на неудовлетворенность социальными связями в общине, а 34% сообщили, что у их детей недостаточно социальных контактов. Эти данные обязывают инвестировать не только в индивидуальную помощь, но и в развитие общинных связей и социальной устойчивости."

Вот типа вам, дорогие репатрианты, соц связи в йешиве и синагоге. И достаточно. Как несложно догадаться, дискриминация репатриантов из снг не только имеется, но дико усилилась при нынешних. И по очень простой причине -- в ликуде давно решили, что власть надо брать демографически. Сразу после выборов, им даже хватало ума говорить это вслух -- привыкайте, демография поменялась, это навсегда. В первую очередь ставка на харедов и вязаных, Ну и социально близких репатриантов, главным образом -- френков из Франции, религиозных из Америки. И наоборот, если вменяемые израильтяне видят в большой алие 90-х из снг благословение, которе дико продвинуло хайтек, академию, преподавание в школах и медицину, то ликуднички с религиозными видят в них главную причину того, что они демографического перелома и власти ждали лишние 15-20 лет. Это совершенно неверно электорально, но в большой степени верно по демографии (больше образованных, меньше религиозных). Отношение соответствующее. Но если раньше оно было на уровне коллективного бессознательного батюшек и ликудного быдла, то в нынешней коалиции все это вырвалось наружу во всех их решениях и в представительстве, о чем поговорим в следующем посте.

P.S. В особо интересное положение такая ситуация поставила старожилов бобруйцев. Когда надо таки выбрать, пусть и на словах... И, сдается мне, что их стандартную реакцию можно охарактеризовать, как предательство своей общины. В общем-то поэтому ликуднички себя так и ведут, что могут -- нет реакции. Уважающий себя френк, не говоря о хареде, так бы себя не повел... Поэтому сейчас все правительство ездит на свадьбы и бармицвы захолустных френков среднего звена, а ради бабасальника в мухосранном нетивоте откладывают заседание кабинета, а русских в коалиции представлено процентов на 15 от голосовавших, и правительственные павианы им советуют лучше иврит учить прямо с трибуны в кнессете.

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