emoji mechwarrior2 • 2 days ago • 95%

Alt tags watchful, smug, doubt, red

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slate.com

> Every Time My Son Sees a Particular Fox in the Neighborhood, He Gives a Devious Smile. I Know What He’s Up To. This needs to stop. Edit updated with link

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www.theglobeandmail.com

> Was there any official permission obtained, or any dialogue with the Russian state? > > *There was none, because they’d never allow me to go. Even the state-funded media that the government trusts, very few go to the front and when they do it’s very managed. I had been working at the CBC, and then they got kicked out of Russia in the summer of 2022. So I didn’t have a press card. I was self-employed. I couldn’t have even applied for official accreditation..* > > Before the CBC, you worked for the Russian state-controlled media company RT, which is banned in Canada. Naturally, this has cast a propagandistic shadow over your new film. > > *I worked for RT Documentary, not RT News. RTD is a sister channel of RT. When I worked there from 2014 through 2020, my focus was on the Middle East. I had an obsession on all topics concerning ISIS. Originally, I put forth two conditions on my employment: I’ll never have any narration in my films, and there will never be any correspondents. I would never have someone saying, “We’re on the border of Iran and Syria and this feels like this,” because that’s where you can add narrative that you haven’t filmed yourself. I offered them cinema verite, for television, and they agreed. And then the relatively liberal atmosphere in which we were working started to change, so I quit to start working with the CBC.* > > In this film, we don’t see any of the devastation caused by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. There are no Ukrainian voices. Why limit the perspective? > > *Because I had no access to the Ukrainian side. There are few journalists able to work in both countries. For me to go to Ukraine as a Russian, I would be branded a spy or attacked. The fact that I used to work for RTD doesn’t help. I wouldn’t have been able to cover both sides of the front.* > The Russian soldiers onscreen start off mostly convinced that they’re on the right side of history, with one repeating the Putin lie about how they’re there to fight Nazism. And yet there’s never any pushback from you. Why not provide context? > > *I had no idea I would be able to film this world. It was nothing short of a miracle, because I was missing this human portrait from the war on the Russian side. Anything they said, I was there to listen, not to preach about what I know about the war. They were completely shrouded from the rest of the world. The Nazism, we hear a lot about that in Russian media. But it’s their reality. When making documentaries, we want to show the reality of people and their motivations – what they believe. But you see, I ask him again later in the film why he’s still fighting, and he says he doesn’t even know.* > There is a lot of conjecture online about whether or not the film received Russian approval or funding. > > *One-hundred per cent, no. I’m trying to be calm, but I want to ask how the hell does anyone think the state would pay me to go to places where Russian state media is not even allowed? There’s a lot of criticism online because I worked for RT. We also have to understand that Russia is the world’s biggest country and RT is Russia’s biggest broadcaster. If you can make the stories that you’re not ashamed of, then you go for it.* Other reporting https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/sep/07/documentary-russians-at-war-accused-of-false-picture-soldiers-invading-ukraine https://nypost.com/2024/09/07/world-news/critics-cry-propaganda-over-film-portraying-russian-soldiers-as-victims/ https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/09/06/sympathetic-view-of-russian-soldiers-creates-controversy-at-venice-film-festival https://kyivindependent.com/documentary-humanizing-russian-soldiers-fighting-in-ukraine-sparks-outrage-at-venice-film-festival/  https://myrotvorets.news/na-venetsiiskomu-kinofestyvali-huma/ 👀

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www.creativebloq.com

> But the most striking aspect is that the use of the webcam. With your device's front-facing camera, the game tracks your eye and head movements to make sure you're staring straight ahead at that screen. 

sfstandard.com

> “Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife,” Zuckerberg announced to his 14.5 million followers.  + wife guy +  > The sculpture is by Daniel Arsham, a New York-based sculptor who makes everything from giant Pokemon cards to NFTs of Porsches. His work has been featured at some of the most acclaimed museums and galleries in the world. (Last month, he was also accused of violating federal law for firing an employee who supported a workers union, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board. But that’s another story.) 

chat mechwarrior2 • 1 month ago • 100%

If someone who isn't me wanted to open the little service panel on the top of a coin operated laundry machine similar to the pic, how would they determine the right key, and where would they buy it? What would they find inside the panel, and how does it work? 

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incited by mods' removal of this post  More pics here https://xcancel.com/BARFJAMiN/status/1822010191078195236

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www.theguardian.com

> Documents provided under freedom of information laws show the total cost of Operation Bourglinster, the AFP investigation into a boy known as Thomas Carrick, was $507,087 > Victorian children’s court found that police encouraged Thomas in his fixation on Islamic State during an undercover operation after his parents sought help from the authorities. > 17 April 2021, his parents went to a police station and asked for help because Thomas was watching Islamic State-related videos on his computer and had asked his mother to buy bomb-making ingredients such as sulphur and acetone. > Thomas, an NDIS recipient with an IQ of 71, was first reported to police by Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and then by his parents because of his fixation with Islamic State, which included him accessing extremist material online and making threats to other students. > Thomas was investigated and charged with two terror offences by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT), which comprises Australian federal police, Victoria police and Asio members. He was the youngest person ever charged with those offences

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www.businessinsider.com

Yes I'm posting more business insider click bait slop  > introduced in a glossy, A24-style promotional video in which fresh-faced Zoomers speak to an AI pendant that provides emotional support, commentary, and playful jabs in the form of canned text messages. "This show is completely underrated," it texts a woman while she's watching a show and eating falafel on her lunch break. Then it texts, "How's the falafel?" The woman is seemingly heartened by this. "It's dank," she tells her necklace, "I could eat one of these every day."  dank > online commentary grew only more heated when Friend's founder, a 21-year-old Harvard dropout named Avi Schiffmann, revealed that he spent $1.8 million of Friend's $2.5 million funding to buy the website domain "Friend.com." > > "People think it's outrageous that I would buy a domain like that, but this is the point of VC money," Schiffmann told me in an interview.  > Schiffmann admitted that the online reaction to Friend is not what he expected. "I honestly think it's because the video was too good,"  > Schiffmann's original vision for an AI hardware device was a pendant that would act as a more standard-fare AI assistant called Tab — he once described it as a "wearable mom." But after spending a lonely night in Tokyo, he began considering a more intimate version  > venture-funded AI-friendship necklace is something of a hard pivot for Schiffmann. In 2020, when he was 17, he built one of the first COVID-tracking websites. Anthony Fauci presented him with a Webby Person of the Year award. He went on to build a tool that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters and a website that helped refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine find people offering spare rooms and couches around the world HOLD UP "a tool that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters" ??? > "These are all really just big art projects to me," he said. "I haven't been able to come up with a stronger intrinsic [reason] why it's worth doing anything like this at all. It's just something to do and I'm bored. But maybe I've just read too much Camus."  > Of the many AI hardware devices that launched in recent months, such as Humane's AI pin, Meta's smart glasses, and Rabbit's AI-powered R1, Friend is the most personal contender. Not only does it aspire to be a close confidant, it's also privy to all its users' conversations. As in, it never stops listening. The incessant eavesdropping that people fear when it comes to devices like Siri and Alexa is a selling point to allay Friend users who fear being alone. Friend needs to have access to every aspect of your life in order to work, Schiffmann said  > Based on the public's initial reaction to it, Friend appears to be a long way from product-market fit, in that people do not want this product. Schiffmann disagrees. "People underlyingly want this," he told me  > When it comes to creating Friend, "every decision I made was guided by personal vibes." 

> Hirohiko Araki discusses his first public art piece at Osaka Station, The Fountain Boy, drawn alongside JoJo Stands ranked by their power. https://jojo-news.com/2024/07/29/hirohiko-arakis-first-public-art-piece-the-fountain-boy-unveiled/

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diapers? 

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Dog, medicine, pill

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Cat, medicine, pill

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Cat, medicine, pill

chapotraphouse mechwarrior2 • 2 months ago • 96%

www.bbc.com

Damn I wonder if scare mongering over fake "chinese police stations" contributed to the effectiveness of this scam 

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www.ctvnews.ca


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www.theverge.com

> On Thursday, Musk reposted a chart that claims Europe is suffering from a “fertility crisis,” saying “civilization may end with a bang or with a whimper (in adult diapers).” 

podcasts mechwarrior2 • 3 months ago • 94%

www.businessinsider.com


earth mechwarrior2 • 3 months ago • 100%

Rare video shows elusive deep-sea squid cradling her gigantic, translucent eggs

games mechwarrior2 • 3 months ago • 100%

  yeah I bet you wish to restore Zenobia

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  Yes