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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

I hadn’t thought of Flashdance in decades.

With a score by Giorgio Moroder, and with ingenious costumes that are utterly au courant, Flashdance contains such dynamic dance scenes that it's a pity there's a story here to bog them down.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

naw, im just eyeballin from a pov where no ones hands are clean, but no one seems to want to talk about that.

That’s not true at all. No one is claiming that anyone’s hands are clean. Nothing is perfect, and refusing to choose between imperfections is fantasy.

if we care about humanity, the evil that is religion would be up front and center just as much as the greed it hides behind.

📺 If Morality Exists Everything Is Permitted, a follow-up to 📺 Why Sam Harris is Wrong - A Critique of Sam Harris' "The Moral Landscape".

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

“Every imperfection is just as terrible as every other.” Mr. Gotcha strikes again.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One shouldn’t ignore the imperialist states’ contributions to the collapse.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No you. You are not immune to anticommunist propaganda.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

However it was involved in some controversies where the dev team showed themselves biased

This is meaningless without specifying what bias.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a while. The Soviet Union would have been steamrolled if it hadn’t made a pact to stall for time to industrialize & militarize before the inevitable Nazi assault.

On the other hand, they wouldn’t have had a space program without the Nazi scientists…

The difference is that they only used their labor; they didn’t promote them to leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I should think so from our tool use.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Didn’t Moses part them?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There was one place, until the colonoscopy.

 

https://archive.today/wV4j5

Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman who transformed himself from a Beijing insider into an anti-Communist crusader and ally of the American far right, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for defrauding investors, including many of his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mr. Guo, who had made a fortune in Beijing as a real estate developer and had forged an alliance with a corrupt intelligence official there, fled China in 2015, settling in a $68 million Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park. There, he took to social media and YouTube, denouncing the Chinese Communist Party and luring thousands of followers convinced that Mr. Guo would harness his wealth and inside knowledge to bring democracy to China.

He took them into his confidence and they showered him with money, buying shares in his media company, dubious club memberships and a fake cryptocurrency that he promised would make them all rich beyond belief.

Mr. Guo, also known as Miles Kwok, used that money to fund a lavish lifestyle, buying an estate in rural New Jersey, a mansion in Greenwich, Conn., and a $4.4 million Bugatti supercar. He was arrested at his Manhattan apartment in 2023 and convicted in federal court the following year of racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud and money-laundering conspiracy.

Judge Analisa Torres of Federal District Court in Manhattan said on Monday that Mr. Guo had “preyed on people seeking to bring democracy to China,” causing them “substantial financial and emotional harm.”

She handed down a 30-year sentence, the punishment requested by federal prosecutors, who had likened Mr. Guo’s crimes to those of the notorious fraudster Bernard Madoff.

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Geothermal gradient (en.wikipedia.org)
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See also, 📺 Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

Hans-Georg Moeller is a professor at the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at the University of Macau, and, with Paul D'Ambrosio, author of the recently published You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity.
(If you buy the book from the Columbia University Press website and use the promo code CUP20 , you should get a 20% discount.)

 

Since February 2026, the XLAB large-scale network threat perception system has detected a new malware family active in cyberspace that adopts a Loader + Core (two-stage loading) architecture. Currently, the family has spawned multiple variants, with the main core functionality being the execution of large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. It also possesses strong cross-platform adaptability and continuous evolution capabilities.

Although the family's current activity level and influence in DDoS attacks are not yet comparable to some mainstream botnets, its speed of technological evolution deserves significant attention. Research has found that the family is undergoing a comprehensive technological transition from C to Rust, and its anti-defense and traffic encryption techniques are also iterating rapidly. Based on the shift of its technology stack from C to Rust and the characteristic of early core payloads encrypting three duckdns C2 domains, we have named it RustDuck.

In terms of sample propagation, the spread chain of this family mainly covers IoT devices, web applications, and enterprise infrastructure. The attack methods primarily involve weak password brute-forcing (Telnet/SSH) and the exploitation of various RCE vulnerabilities, including device vulnerabilities in Android ADB, TVT API, Ruijie, TP-Link, ZTE, and others, as well as web/component vulnerabilities such as ThinkPHP, Jenkins, YARN. It also combines several historical CVEs (CVE-2025-29635, CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2018-8007, CVE-2024-1781) to expand the attack surface. Overall, it presents a combined propagation characteristic of "weak passwords + IoT vulnerabilities + Web RCE", capable of covering routers, cameras, Android terminals, and server environments, enabling large-scale automated intrusion and payload delivery. Currently, over 20 IPs have been observed participating in spreading the RustDuck botnet, with the most active implant source IP being: 176.65.139[.]204

 

Are oil prices really about to crash overnight? Could the Iran War trigger a global food crisis in just 3 months? What happens when a financial crash expert connects the dots between military escalation and the collapse of your food supply? In this video, our financial crash expert breaks down the real economic earthquake behind the US-Israel-Iran war and why food prices rising is just the beginning.

✅ How the iran war 2026 is already pushing oil price spike beyond what markets can handle
✅ Why a full-scale iran nuclear war could crash global energy markets overnight triggering food supply collapse within 90 days
✅ The truth behind trump war iran escalation and why ordinary people will pay the price at the grocery store
✅ How the global food crisis is being accelerated by dollar instability and unchecked military spending
✅ What the US, China & Russia are really fighting over and how it ends your access to affordable food
✅ Iran's nuclear capability decoded and what it means for Middle East alliances and global supply chains
✅ The hidden link between energy market crashes and the fastest-moving famine the modern world has ever seen

Questions this video answers:
➡ Is the Iran war already causing food shortages?
➡ How will rising oil prices lead to famine?
➡ What is Trump's real agenda behind the Iran conflict?
➡ Will the dollar collapse because of the Iran war?
➡ How close are we to a global food supply crisis?
➡ What happens to food prices when energy markets collapse?
➡ Is a financial crash in 2025 now inevitable?This isn't speculation, it's geopolitical analysis backed by facts most channels are afraid to cover.

 

Amid a worsening flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy are once again requiring new recruits to get vaccinated against the influenza virus, according to ABC News. The move comes two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rescinded the U.S. military’s mandate that they do so.

As of June 23, 2026, at least 222 recruits on the base have fallen ill and four have reportedly been hospitalized.

In his April 21 announcement making the flu vaccine optional, Hegseth cited medical autonomy and religious freedom, describing the vaccination requirement as “overly broad and not rational,” telling troops that “your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.”

The flu shot requirement that Hegseth ended had been in place since 1945, with one brief pause in 1949. It was part of a tradition of military vaccine mandates nearly as old as the United States itself.

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Covert Fascism and Oligarchy in the USA (americanexception.substack.com)
 

In honor of the contributions made by Church and McCarthy, I wrote this project and the accompanying article to show how anyone can write a tiny Lisp interpreter in a few lines of C or in any "C-like" programming language for that matter. I attempted to preserve the original meaning and flavor of Lisp as much as possible. As a result, the C code in this project is strongly Lisp-like in compact form. Despite being small, these tiny Lisp interpreters in C include 21 built-in Lisp primitives, simple garbage collection and REPL, which makes them a bit more practical than a toy example. If desired, more Lisp features can be easily added with a few more lines of C as explained in my article with examples that are ready for you to try.

There is more: two sequels to tinylisp

In addition to tinylisp, I've written two other small classic Lisp implementations that share similarities with tinylisp, but expanded to include over 40 built-in Lisp primitives, strings, macros, exceptions, execution tracing, file loading, and a REPL:

  • Lisp in 1k lines of C with garbage collector, explained uses mark-sweep/compacting garbage collection. Unlike tinylisp however, a separate pool of free cons pair cells is used to construct lists. The garbage collector frees up space in the pool using mark-sweep. Space is freed up in the atom/string heap by compacting the heap after mark-sweep using pointer reversal.
  • Lisp in 1k lines of C with Cheney's copying garbage collector, explained uses Cheney's copying garbage collector. Like tinylisp, a stack is used to efficiently construct lists, i.e. by pushing two cells at a time on the stack to allocate cons pairs. Heap allocation simply pushes atom/string space up from the bottom of the heap (towards the stack). The garbage collector frees up stack and heap space by copying the active cons pair cells, atoms and strings to a new stack/heap.
 

It turns out yesterday’s mass strikes on Moscow which were meant to coincide with the Euro Council meeting were pure Hollywood spectacle: the drones themselves were stuffed full of kerosene mixtures in the way Hollywood stages car explosions to look more “dramatic” by producing thick plumes of oily smoke.

In the video below, a shot-down drone can be seen jettisoning its special FX package.

It now makes perfect sense how Ukraine was able to fabricate such an eye-catching mise-en-scene, as each downed drone managed to pockmark the horizon with its own PR-ready plume:

The actual damage to the refinery itself turned out to be disappointing, as only a few oil storage tanks were actually destroyed.

In fact, much of Ukraine’s recent narratives have been rapidly falling apart. The Crimean “isolation” turned out to be a total bust, as even top Ukrainian accounts have outlined the steps Russia swiftly took to reverse any issues Ukrainian drone attacks have managed to temporarily cause.

 

tubeup uses yt-dlp to download a Youtube video (or any other provider supported by yt-dlp), and then uploads it with all metadata to the Internet Archive using the python module internetarchive. It was designed by the Bibliotheca Anonoma to archive single videos, playlists (see warning below about more than video uploads) or accounts to the Internet Archive.

Prerequisites

This script strongly recommends Linux or some sort of POSIX system (such as macOS), preferably from a rented VPS and not your personal machine or phone.

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