Röde Orm @TheAngryAnalyst

The CEO of the Axel Springer publishing house, Matthias Döpfner, acknowledges that the West is at war with China and Russia and must emerge victorious. To achieve this, his publications, including Bild, Welt, Business Insider, Politico Europe, and The Telegraph, will disseminate any narrative. Yesterday, Döpfner's media outlets amplified news about a banking crisis in Russia. They are tasked with promoting propaganda and churning out thousands of articles about the triumphant, free Ukraine and the terrible Russians. The head of Axel Springer calls himself a "non-Jewish Zionist" and demands that the European Union engage in wars. He believes that "neutral journalism does not exist." This teenage-like ideologue is the CEO of Europe's largest media corporation.

The FBI director's girlfriend has lost a defamation case against a right-wing influencer who suggested she was an undercover Israeli “honey-pot.” thedailybeast.com/keystone-kashs…

🇹🇼 An explosion occurred at an industrial facility in Taiwan

Why were the early keyboards from the 1970s-1990s “boring beige? Early computer keyboards weren’t beige because folks lacked imagination. They were beige because a strict German workplace safety rule effectively outlawed pure black and pure white. In the late 1970s and 1980s, computers were still serious business machines—descendants of typewriters and adding machines that were expected to disappear into the office background. Germany, a major market and an early leader in workplace ergonomics, took that expectation and turned it into regulation. The Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) and related safety rules (notably around DIN 66234 and the 1980 ZH 1/618 guidelines for visual display terminals) set tight limits on how office equipment could look and reflect light. The core worry was eye strain. Office workers spent their days shifting focus between bright white paper and the machines in front of them under harsh fluorescent lights. A pure black keyboard created extreme contrast: every glance from paper to keys forced the pupils to dilate and contract like a camera aperture working overtime. Pure white equipment created the opposite problem—blinding glare that bounced straight into the eyes. The approved solution was a muted, low-contrast middle ground: beige or light gray with a matte finish. Reflectance had to stay in a narrow band neither too dark nor too bright so the eyes could rest. Because companies like IBM and Apple wanted to sell the same hardware worldwide, it was far cheaper to design one compliant beige keyboard than to tool up separate color versions for different markets. Europe’s rules effectively set the global palette. Beige also happened to be a manufacturing gift: the plastic was inexpensive to produce in off-white shades, and the color forgave dust, fingerprints, skin oils, and the inevitable scrapes of daily office life that would have looked catastrophic on black. That compromise held for nearly two decades. Then the late 1990s arrived. Computers stopped being purely office tools and became home appliances. The paperless office began to feel less theoretical. Manufacturers finally broke free of the old standards, unleashing the candy-colored translucent plastics of the original iMac G3 and, eventually, the silver and black machines that dominate today. Yet many RGB lit keyboards cause the very eye strain as the DIN rules tried to stop. So the next time you see an old putty-colored keyboard, remember: it wasn’t a failure of style. It was the visible result of German engineers trying to spare the eyes of a generation of office workers and the rest of the computing world simply followed along. This is by far the best keyboard ever over engineered and manufactured. The buckling spring IBM Model F (yes it beats the Model M).

Sex Pistols “Pretty Vacant” (Japan, Filthy Lucre Tour 1996) The reunited original lineup (John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock)

@iconjack @julie_kelly2 @grok how many meanings does the slang word "86" have?

Michael Caruso is the County Clerk who forced Palm Beach residents to invest $1 billion in Israel bonds – 18% of the county's total portfolio

Maine @TheMaineWonk

4 days ago

‼️‼️ More on FL GOP Michael Caruso: He is accused of molesting TWO generations of his family members. Under the new pedophilia law in Florida (which he supported), Caruso could face execution for these crimes if tried and convicted.

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🦔Delta's CEO said AI will boost profits by 50% by setting a different ticket price for every passenger in real time. The airline uses an AI system called Fetcherr that generates a unique price for each shopping request. Delta told Congress last year it was not using personal data for individualized pricing. Its investor presentation described building toward offers for "you, the individual." Airlines are exempt from FTC pricing oversight. My Take This is what AI does for a company like Delta. It doesn't make your flight better or your bag show up faster. It watches how you shop and figures out the most you'll pay before you close the tab. Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft charging 42% different prices for the same ride at the same time, and the House Oversight Committee found one case where two people got quoted $76 and $24 for the same trip. Delta is building the airline version of that, and every carrier will follow because the economics are too good to pass up. Walmart told us this week that families are choosing between gas and groceries at $4 a gallon. Delta's answer to those same families is an algorithm that squeezes them for every dollar they have left. Airlines are exempt from FTC pricing rules, state laws are preempted by federal deregulation, and the CEO told Congress one thing while telling investors another. When people ask me where the trillions going into AI actually end up, I think Delta just gave us one of the most honest answers we've gotten. Hedgie🤗

Chief engineer at Honda BTW

🇦🇪 The United Arab Emirates has completed the construction of cope cages around fuel storage tanks in Abu Dhabi.

The EU cannot survive economically past 2028 without a war to blame for its own failures. This has never been about defending Ukraine.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen

a day ago

As we prepare to celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day, we raise the Ukrainian flag in Brussels. So it can fly proudly at the heart of our Union, where it belongs. Ukraine will reclaim its security. Its freedom. And it will take its rightful place in our Union.

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This forecast was made even before current rise of bond interest rates There are two options: 1. France cuts its absurd pensions and state spending voluntarily 2. The markets will force them to do so, as they did with Greece during the first Euro crisis Which one will it be?

Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet

3 days ago

France taxes literally everything and still runs a fiscal deficit of 6% during good times. Given the socialist mindset, there will be no reforms, the absurd pensions and overblown big state will continue until France faces a debt crisis The next Euro crisis will start in France

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BREAKING: The secret vaccine purchase agreement that South Africa signed with Pfizer has been released. Unknown efficacy Unknown adverse events Unknown long term effects Leaders around the world recklessly turned their citizens into lab-rats by signing this garbage. Insane.

Trans-identified male Petra De Sutter (Paul), who has been the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium since 2020, and was formerly a member of the European Parliament, gave a TEDx talk in Brussels in 2018 praising Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" as a vision of a future to aspire to. In the talk, titled "Tele-Babies," De Sutter, a former gynecologist, praises gene-editing as a moral imperative and quotes Julian Savulescu, who has co-authored an academic paper on "why eugenic selection is preferable to enhancement." "In the world of Aldous Huxley, procreation is not something that is connected with sexuality or with relationship or family-building anymore. You just go to a clinic or a factory, if you wish, and you give your gametes. After so many months, you can pick up your child, which has been genetically enhanced and designed according to the features that you want." De Sutter has previously been accused of a conflict of interest when campaigning to alter laws to permit the surrogacy industry in Europe. He has openly profited from surrogacy practices in the hospital where he worked as a gynecologist, University Hospital of Ghent, and co-developed a surrogacy clinic in India called Seeds of Innocence. pace.coe.int/en/news/6355/p… assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xr… ohchr.org/en/special-pro… sistersofeurope.com/women-are-cond… timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/… thejakartapost.com/news/2020/10/0… architecture.live/seeds-of-innoc…

This morning Trump proudly announced a deal to lower beef prices by reducing quotas and tariffs on imported beef. But that's also an admission that tariffs increased prices paid by American consumers. If removing tariffs lowers prices, then imposing them must have raised prices.

Sarah Rogers just posted the files she asked @DataRepublican to leak. Read them. Then ask why Public Diplomacy needed a civilian’s handle to say it first. State’s Global Engagement Center existed to track foreign propaganda. Russia. China. Iran. That was the legal box. In 2020 the box disappeared. GEC sat inside the Election Integrity Partnership. Stanford Internet Observatory. University of Washington. Graphika. Atlantic Council. Ticket system. URLs in, takedowns out. DHS CISA was in it. GEC was in it. A GEC staffer worked the partnership nearly full time through election day, lived in the ticket queue, and joined the Slack on a personal Gmail so the building could pretend it wasn’t there. Alex Stamos, who ran EIP, said the quiet part: the partnership existed to do what government lacked legal authorization to do. Because doing it directly would violate the First Amendment. EIP’s own report: every “repeat spreader” they named on Twitter was an American right-of-center account. Less than 1% of the claims they chased were foreign. GEC’s job was the 1%. They worked the 99%. When a GEC-EIP staffer flagged a video of U.S. federal employees and contractors talking post-election disruption in D.C., they admitted they couldn’t act because it was domestic. Then they submitted the URLs anyway. Sunrise Zoom calls. BLM and Shutdown DC planning resistance if Trump won. Citizen journalists put it out. YouTube killed it for “community guidelines.” GEC had already flagged it. EIP made it a top “misinformation” target and tracked something like half a million tweets. Stamos to the platforms: we’re writing this up as disinformation, you might want to act before we drop that. TikTok moved. The GEC staffer celebrated “quick action.” That’s 2020. 2022 they ran a “gendered disinformation” report with EU partners. July. They treated insults and stereotypes like a foreign influence op. Same season Nina Jancowicz’s Disinformation Governance Board was getting laughed out of DHS. GEC logged Tucker, “Ministry of Truth,” chin jokes, Americans saying she was a political activist, and filed it as a disinfo narrative against her. Internally they were emailing the same doubts: Steele dossier, Hunter laptop, Trump comments. Then they told Congress, October 2023, that GEC does no domestic work. Rogers posted the receipts. Hearing stills. Emails. Tickets. A packet that had already gone to Congress stamped “not for public release.” She called the markings FOIA redactions. The Hill stamp is not a FOIA black box. It’s a handle that says this copy doesn’t walk out the door. Then she posted the whole thing on the Under Secretary account in an hour. So she could do it herself. She just did. The files are GEC eating Americans. The method is why you should care. Official speech wouldn’t carry. @DataRepublican’s would. State wanted the drop with someone else’s name on it, deniability if the stamp turned into a problem, and a researcher’s audience doing Public Diplomacy’s job. If it’s a release, you release it. You don’t slide a “not for public release” packet to a civilian and wait.

BREAKING: Canadian PM Mark Carney suspends all trade negotiations with the U.S. after “unfair, uneconomic” last-minute changes to the deal. At midnight the U.S. will implement a 50% tariff on ~$28 billion of Canadian goods, and now, Canada will match it dollar-for-dollar. “We will not allow any nation to determine our future.”

Mark Carney @MarkJCarney

21 hours ago

My statement on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations:

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The cancel-culture mob are out for Nathan Cofnas once again. He should not have lost his role at Ghent University, writes General Secretary of the Free Speech Union Lord Young of Acton in The Spectator. It is ironic that the ‘be kind’ brigade now think it is perfectly acceptable to whip up hatred against Nathan Cofnas, the scholar who exposed Jason Arday’s academic misconduct. The FSU has helped Nathan before with his legal fees when he challenged Emmanuel College’s decision to terminate his research fellowship following a backlash over a blog post in which he argued that genes play a role in racial outcome disparities. This was after Emmanuel had initially defended his right to free speech. Now, the mob is looking for its pound of flesh. Nathan has been suspended from his role at Ghent University and will most likely be sacked. The university now appears to be suggesting that its actions are justified because of the volume of correspondence it has received. As Lord Young writes: “His sin, apparently, was not to expose Arday’s plagiarism, but to talk about it in an unseemly way afterwards – a sleight of hand we encounter again and again at the FSU: it’s not what you said, but the manner in which you said it.” This risks setting a dangerous precedent. It sends a troubling message to other young academics who stumble across examples of misconduct in their fields: if the wrongdoer is the beneficiary of DEI, who will dare speak up? Read more from @toadmeister in The Spectator 👇

We will not accept this any longer @andyburnham ‼️

GB News @GBNEWS

a day ago

‘This country is a joke…you can only push the British public so far.’ Adam Brooks despairs at the Home Office issuing a guide to asylum seekers on how to ‘not to rape women’ in the UK.

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@DanCollins2011 Same here. How else will I be able to maintain escalation dominance?