God Save Us From This Dishonorable Court
Ruth Marcus,  Columnist  -  Reader Supported News / The Washington Post

_Stephan: The Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, criminal Trump, and the christofascist Republicans in the Senate, after years of effort, have achieved what they have wanted: a Supreme Court that is not a court based on justice and laws, but a court dominated by a corrupt political cabal. In one decision that cabal has transformed the United States from a democracy into a qu … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals
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_Stephan: Since we are now reduced to being a semi-kingdom, potentially ruled by a rapist and crook, if Americans elect Trump as king I think this is what we should prepare ourselves for: Military tribunals, and the persecution of anyone who has offended the monarch. Look at what has happened to people like Stormy Daniels who behaved as citizens should, … ⌘ Read more

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South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans
Olivia Empson,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The christofascists have achieved yet another win in gutting public school libraries. South Carolina, a Republican Red State, of course, has now made it possible for the christofascists to make sure that school children can only read what they approve. As a result, an already rather poorly educated state wil … ⌘ Read more

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Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks
Loz Blain,  Staff Writer  -  New Atlas / The Japan News (Japan)

Stephan: Here is a fascinating bit of good news from Japan. The country’s engineers, scientists, and, leadership have come up with a technology to get freight-hauling trucks off their highways.

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R9OS: Plan 9 in Rust
R9 is a work-in-progress effort to build a Plan 9 kernel to Rust. It was started a couple years back by the maintainers of the Harvey OS distribution of Plan 9, who threw in the towel after “loss of traction”. R9 is a reimplementation of the plan9 kernel in Rust. It is not only inspired by but in many ways derived from the original Plan 9 source code. ↫ R9OS GitHub page For now, the project is obviously mostly focused on running in virtual machines, specifically Qemu, in which it can be run … ⌘ Read more

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10 Shocking and Gruesome Founding Father Facts They Don’t Teach in School
The Founding Fathers of the United States weren’t as perfect as we sometimes make them out to be in the history books. In fact, some had downright gross and gruesome secret aspects of their lives. Of course, that should make sense. They were human, after all. Just like other humans, they were imperfect and tempted […]

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The Ten Most Vicious Los Angeles Killers
L.A. Los Angeles. The City of Angels. Whatever you call it, it’s a fascinating place. Los Angeles County draws millions of visitors seeking the sand, sun, and glamour of Southern California, from Hollywood to Malibu to Pasadena. It’s home to movie stars, rock bands, and the exceptionally wealthy. While there’s plenty to love about Los […]

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macOS Sequoia Supports HDMI Passthrough for Dolby Atmos Content
In macOS Sequoia, several Apple apps have gained a new HDMI Passthrough feature that enables a Mac to send an unaltered Dolby Atmos audio signal to a connected AV receiver or soundbar.

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[LFF] [6.5 XMR] Revuo Monero code enhancements and rebranding. Please consider chipping in!

I am looking to raise 1,000 EUR worth of XMR to cover the back-end changes for the site and replenish funds spent paying designers. Maintenance is taken care of via the CCS, trying to see if this platform yields result when seeking funding for other enhancements.

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rottenwheel submits CCS proposal to maintain ‘official’ Monero website for 3 months
rottenwheel1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to maintain the Getmonero.org3 website for 3 months (July-September 2024):

I will maintain the “official” Monero website (https://www.getmonero.org/) for the next 3 months (2024 Q3): July, August and September. Aid in general project endeavors assistance, such as Matrix/IRC moderation, assist plowsof’s CC … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 10 July 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 10th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

Agenda overview (unconfirmed)
  • Updates. What is everyone working on?
  • Potential measures against a black marble attack3
  • Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs4
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[ANN] [CCS] Límite: All in all, our film went to 17 festivals and received 6 awards.

As noted in the previous update, we qualified through theatrical exhibition and were one of 187 short films in competition for the Oscar. Unfortunately we did not make it to a nomination.

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The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman
Once upon a time, the IBM PC was released. In the IBM PC BIOS, you could enter characters that weren’t present on the keyboard by holding the Alt key and typing the decimal value on the numeric keypad. For example, you could enter ñ by holding Alt and typing Numpad1 Numpad6 Numpad4, then releasing the Alt key. ↫ Raymond Chen … ⌘ Read more

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