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Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

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A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

This is a Nazi's wet dream, because they have always been enemies of thought, and now they have a machine that eloquently sells their animalistic ideas.

A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future.

Pipaluk Lynge knows the history of how Indigenous people have been treated in the United States. And she’s well aware of the holes in the country’s health care system and its yawning economic inequality.

Ms. Lynge, one of Greenland’s top officials and the leader of the Parliament’s foreign and security policy committee, chafes at President Trump’s offer to buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, and his insistence that Greenlanders would be better off as Americans.

“We’re not going to sell our soul,” she said. “We’re not stupid.”

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Example: Like in Iran.

The congressional map approved by California voters to boost the number of House Democrats was upheld Wednesday by a divided federal court, which said they were legally drawn for political purposes and not as an act of racial discrimination, as Republicans contended.

Proposition 50, pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and approved by more than 64% of the voters on Nov. 4, was immediately challenged by the state’s Republican Party and the Trump administration. While the Supreme Court has allowed states to redraw their districts in order to help a favored political party, the Republicans argued that the California maps were designed to benefit Hispanic candidates in Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley.

The U.S. District Court panel disagreed in a 2-1 ruling. The majority cited the Supreme Court’s Dec. 4 decision allowing Texas Republicans to redraw their districts in order to gain five House seats this year – rejecting arguments by Democrats that the new lines were racially discriminatory.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared a state of emergency in the energy sector, with particular attention on Kyiv, which is reeling from Russian attacks that have left residents without power, heating, or water in subzero temperatures.

Zelensky said a task force will be set up in Kyiv to coordinate the response around the clock, adding that newly appointed Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal leading efforts to support citizens and communities under the emergency measures.

"The consequences of Russian strikes and worsening weather conditions are severe," Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel.

A spokesperson for Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said that the seriousness of the situation in Kyiv and across Ukraine requires unprecedented coordination between authorities and energy providers.

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Seemingly 'SOS' is replacing network bars

A GoFundMe campaign for a Detroit autoworker who called Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” was suspended from the Ford plant where he worked on Tuesday. But it looks like he’s going to be alright financially. A GoFundMe campaign set up for the Michigan man has already raised over $400,000 and counting.

TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old line worker, told the Washington Post he was suspended from his job for shouting “pedophile protector” at Trump during the president’s visit to the Ford F-150 plant. Trump responded, either by audibly saying or just mouthing the words, “fuck you” twice. The president then extended his middle finger as he kept walking.

Two different videos posted to social media captured the exchange, including the first published by TMZ. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung defended Trump’s actions, telling the Washington Post: “A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.”

Militaries are generally prohibited from storing military logistics vehicles and equipment at nuclear power plants under international humanitarian law. Article 56 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions specifically requires parties to armed conflict to “endeavor to avoid placing military objectives, such as troops, weapons or military vehicles, in or near nuclear power plants.”

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