We are extremely grateful to those have donated so far for your prompt and generous gifts! Your support keeps our hamster wheels turning quickly! Our next target, as we explain more fully below, is continuing our expanded daily Links. We have responded to the Trump turbocharging imperial breakdown by going from 45 to 55 daily … Read more
The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in the Israel Lobby’s face, and caused all of his supporting artists to quit in … Read more
Meta’s Muse mascot is named Jolly. It’s an adorable, cuddly representation of Meta’s AI agent that you can dress however you want—like a doll. At the company’s recent Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s furry Muse donned a toga and laurel wreath. In Instagram ads I saw for Muse, the mascot wore exercise gear and … Read more
Back in 2023, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $75.4 billion. I can’t remember when exactly I started to hear the quasi-joke people would make: Xbox is going to eat Activision Blizzard, and Activision Blizzard is then going to eat Xbox from the inside out. That is no longer a joke, and it’s more or less … Read more
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rebuilt the company’s board just weeks after its previous directors tried, and failed, to oust him. The board, which was announced to staff Friday, is an eclectic group that includes a best-selling science-fiction author and two co-founders of the now-defunct social app IRL, TechCrunch has learned, and Mullenweg has confirmed. … Read more
Home > Law and Politics > VPN providers with over 100,000 American users could be ordered to block pirate sites under the bill Rep. Darrell Issa introduced last week. The full text shows that VPNs were added after last year’s discussion draft, which only mentioned ISPs and DNS resolvers. How a VPN should block access … Read more
By The Rev Kev, a long-standing member of the commentariat Naked Capitalism has started its annual fundraiser, so please head to the old Tip Jar, just under the Snow Leopards and donate bigly. That way, you can sit back and be proud of yourself during the rest of the fundraiser. It takes a helluva lot … Read more
Iran’s IRGC has been striking various US targets and an average of two to three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on a daily basis, as gas prices hit working class Americans where it hurts. On this episode of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh explains how these blows have been compounded by … Read more
Tenda ME6 Pro (3-Pack): Affordable and easy to set up and use, this dual-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh offers decent speeds and range on the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands from the main router, but you’ll need wired backhaul to get good speeds from the nodes. Connectivity was patchy, sometimes dropping for no discernible reason. I don’t … Read more
You’ve got a Lambda running in production and a shiny new image sitting in ECR. The lazy move is to update the image URI, walk away, and hope for the best. The problem is that this swaps the code for everyone, instantly, with no safety net. If the new version is broken, congratulations, it’s broken … Read more