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nice content (lemmy.sdf.org)
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the other side (lemmy.sdf.org)
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http://archive.today/2025.07.18-171953/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/world/europe/felix-baumgartner-dead.html

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme adventurer who hurtled to earth from more than 24 miles high in 2012 and became the first human to break the sound barrier while free-falling, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident along the Adriatic coast in Italy. He was 56.

His death was confirmed by Red Bull, the energy drink company that sponsored him, as well as by the Italian authorities.

Mr. Baumgartner crashed to the ground a few yards from a swimming pool in the town of Porto Sant’Elpidio, the mayor, Massimiliano Ciarpella, said on Friday. He said that Mr. Baumgartner had become ill during his flight and had lost consciousness by the time of impact in a part of town popular among tourists. An autopsy was to be performed, he said.

Mayor Ciarpella called Mr. Baumgartner “a figure of global prominence, a symbol of courage and passion for extreme flight.”


How The Times decides who gets an obituary. There is no formula, scoring system or checklist in determining the news value of a life. We investigate, research and ask around before settling on our subjects. If you know of someone who might be a candidate for a Times obituary, please suggest it here. Learn more about our process.

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Bun was spotted when I pulled my car into work, hanging with a couple crows. Made me dread the work day slightly less!

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under my umbrella (lemmy.world)
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Apologies for the blurry image. They were rather far away and I had to zoom in.

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We've published a response with corrections to iFixit article presenting a highly insecure and non-private option as being the best choice for people who care about privacy:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private

Not bundling Google Mobile Services doesn't mean a device/OS has good privacy.

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Changes in version 138.0.7204.157.0:

  • update to Chromium 138.0.7204.157
  • change default value for "Protected content" (DRM) site setting to ASK instead of BLOCK (we changed this from ALLOW to BLOCK because ASK wasn't an option at the time we changed it)
  • stop marking 64-bit-only builds as multiArch to enable installation on devices supporting 32-bit apps such as 6th generation Pixels
  • use Vanadium Config version as the subresource filter rules version instead of having a separate version for it

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 138.0.7204.63.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.

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the lawyer (lemmy.sdf.org)
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This baby bunny visited for the first time this afternoon.

@bun_alert_system

#bunny #rabbit #wildlife #animals #photography

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http://archive.today/2025.07.17-200544/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/justice-department-brett-hankison-sentence-breonna-taylor.html

The chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights unit has asked a federal judge to sentence a Louisville police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor to one day in jail, a stunning reversal of the unit’s longstanding efforts to address racial disparities in policing.

Last year, a federal jury in Kentucky convicted Brett Hankison, the officer, of one count of violating Ms. Taylor’s civil rights by using excessive force in discharging several shots through Ms. Taylor’s window during a drug raid that went awry.

Mr. Hankison, who is white, was the only officer to be charged for his actions during the botched operation that prompted of protests across the country. His shots did not kill Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who worked as an emergency room technician. Two other officers, also white, fired the fatal shots, but neither was charged.

He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, and a judge will consider the government’s request at a sentencing scheduled for next week.

On Wednesday, Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, asked the judge in the case, Rebecca Grady Jennings, to sentence Mr. Hankison to time he had already served, in addition to one day in prison and three years of supervised release.

In the filing, Ms. Dhillon suggested the prosecution was excessive, arguing that the Biden Justice Department had secured a conviction against Mr. Hankison after his acquittal on state charges and the ending of his first federal trial in a mistrial.

“In this case, two federal trials were ultimately necessary to obtain a unanimous verdict of guilt,” Ms. Dhillon wrote, adding that Mr. Hankison, now a felon who was fired from his job five years ago, had already paid a substantial penalty for his actions.

“The jury’s verdict will almost certainly ensure that defendant Hankison never serves as a law enforcement officer again and will also likely ensure that he never legally possesses a firearm again,” the filing added. Such requests are typically filed by career prosecutors who worked on the case. Wednesday’s filing was signed by Ms. Dhillon, a political appointee who is a veteran Republican Party activist with close ties to President Trump, and one of her deputies.

Shortly after Mr. Trump was sworn in for his second term, his political appointees at the Justice Department ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence, according to two internal memos sent to staff.

In May, Ms. Dhillon announced she was backing out of Biden-era agreements with Louisville and Minneapolis that were intended to enact policing reforms in the wake of the Taylor killing and murder of George Floyd, calling them “overbroad” and bureaucratic.

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cum 4 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Look, I know there's all kinds of drama going on, especially after the YouTube livestream etc, but this woman is so cool:

  • she's a helicopter pilot, and a really good one. Landing a helicopter on a boat? That's gotta be tricky stuff.
  • she speaks four languages.
  • CEO of a environmental ocean protection nonprofit.

She's super educated, of course; Oxford, preparatory schools, the works. All high marks. Brilliant girl. Computer programmer since her teens, in what, the seventies? Brilliant.
Her dad died suddenly, which really must've affected her, and she always suspected he'd been murdered. She overcame anorexia as a girl; one of eight kids.
She dumped a Count, was friends with a prince, but despite being basically royalty, she chooses to protect the oceans and teach (and fly her helicopter!).

So, when this woman is being compared to the devil, when they're saying she's harvesting blood from children – they actually believe that – when she's getting doxxed, when court proceedings were illegally taped by cultists who believed she was a witch with literal magic powers, I just think we should recognize what a rad Lady she is. It takes guts to go through all that.
So, when the régime kidnapped her, it's no surprise that they're torturing her— lights on all the time, being kept awake in a tiny room, given a number instead of a name... terrible.

Anyway, everyone seems to be against her, but she's actually a really strong, smart, resilient girlboss.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/rant
 
 

For the third time since I've lived here in a moderately sized city in the UK, I've seen a black male argue with white trash. I don't know why or how they keep managing to find these "people" and end up arguing with them, and I'd be remiss if I wasn't aware that the pale ones are likely to have found him and started it. The first was a friend of my neighbour and after their heated debate he just swore "Ni****s!" (I abhor censorship but in this particular case I'll let it slide, lest this entire rant be censored). Knowing how systemic oppression of the ethnic majority is ignored or censored, and I see nobody standing up for the victim, that sent me into a fury. Well, today was the third event with the same dark-skinned dude. He had just stopped following this heavily tanned piece of trash that was spewing weird shit. ""Not like us", no, we're nothing like you!" ... "That's why we're going to Mars and you ain't!" My maggot in Christ none of us are, not even the trillionaires. What are you jacked up on.

I know there is a growing issue with even members of the public who support cruelty, practice bigotry and oppose liberty, and the density of assholes in my area may be, and have been, higher than I know. I am at a disadvantage when it comes to seeing just how broken our community is, because I'm basic white. But I want to fight this. I refuse to lay back while the very people I share oxygen with are actively damaging others' lives. How fucking dare the cruel, the unjust and the greedy exist anywhere they please.

My country's leaders have just imprisoned another liberation activist under the guise of terrorism with zero evidence. Small, frequent signs that the land I occupy is becoming more hostile to humanity, to life. Intentionally causing harm to the existence of an innocent being goes against my moral code, and it sure as fuck is more important than laws manipulated by those in power.

Justice for Palestine. Free Mangione. Fuck fascists. BIPOC and LGBTQ+ lives matter.

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http://archive.today/2025.07.17-134137/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/arts/music/connie-francis-dead.html

Connie Francis, who dominated the pop charts in the late 1950s and early ’60s with sobbing ballads like “Who’s Sorry Now” and “Don’t Break the Heart That Loves You,” as well as up-tempo soft-rock tunes like “Stupid Cupid,” “Lipstick on Your Collar,” and “Vacation,” died on Wednesday. She was 87.

Her publicist, Ron Roberts, announced her death in a post on Facebook. He did not say where she died or cite a cause.

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Negative Snow (lemmy.sdf.org)
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