@Vermontmelbguy

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Irish Australian based in Melbourne Australia.
Now primarily on Bluesky with same id

Victorian Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 3 April 2026

From 22 Mar to 28 Mar 2026:

🔸COVID positivity rate: 2.5% (-0.6%)

🔹COVID: 294 (Stable)
🔹Influenza A: 93 (-10%)
🔹Influenza B: 36 (+64%)
🔹RSV: 276 (+33%)

Source: https://health.vic.gov.au/infectious-diseases/victorian-respiratory-surveillance-report

No, Instagram didn’t suspend Zohran Mamdani’s account for being ‘too socialist’

A news article from a questionable website falsely claimed that Zohran Mamdani’s Instagram account was suspended for being “too socialist.”

The Verge
Les Wexner is still alive... drag him before Congress and have MTG, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, and Anna Paulina Luna pepper him with insane questions under oath. We are 🇺🇸 and this is what we deserve! MAKE THE PANTY MAGNATE TESTIFY!
Never let people tell you it's impossible to deGoogle your life. 💪
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Domestic racially motivated violent extremism perpetrated by violent white supremacists is the foremost terror threat in the United States, and the disparity is significant.

The glorification violence and its acceptance have fostered an elitist-driven rage.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-12-05_-_testimony_-_wray.pdf

https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2009/04/15/secretary-napolitanos-statement-right-wing-extremism-threat

#nokings #resist #usa #europeanunion #Canada #nato #eu

@mattblaze Standard plug in for some of the online shopfronts, which can be gamed for better pricing.

1. Add the thing you want to your cart.
2. Go through enough of the purchase workflow to reach the payment method, then walk away without committing.
3. Two days later, email: “We missed you, will you come back if we give you 15% off?”
4. Complete your transaction with a 15% discount voucher.

Works every time :)

Remember, top Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov & others on Russian state TV didn’t hide their excitement about “their boy and girl,” Kash Patel & Tulsi Gabbard, becoming the Director of the FBI & Director of National Intelligence in the US. The darkest time in US history.

#eu #Ukraine #europe #Uk #europeanunion #Baltics #nato #LetUkraineStrikeBack #usa

Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. States are the only ones who can even try to regulate AI in the US, since Congress has been captured by Big Tech.

In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.

#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.

Information is power, knowledge is power.

Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.

#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy

The goal of the companies who run AIs is to

1. get us all to use AI until the point where

2. we're dependent on AI, then

3. remove all access to AI and

4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,

5. which will periodically rise

6. while the service becomes worse and worse.

It'll be enshittification of enshittification.

enshittiception