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Media reports, citing White House officials, indicate the US president is likely soon to fire the head of the central bank, which is supposed to be independent within the federal government. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/trump-likely-to-fire-powell-soon-white-house-official-says

Kyle Memoir 🍉52m ago

Trilobyter 2h ago

The Costa Brava, near Tossa de Mar

#MeerMittwoch #photography #seascape #mediterranean #Catalonia #Spain #travel #travelphotography

Kyle Memoir 🍉53m ago

nixCraft 🐧3h ago

Another privacy nightmare is here. Microsoft Copilot Vision AI can now look and scan your entire computer screen in background 😱 When you share your desktop or any specific browser or app window, Copilot can see what you see and talk to you about it in real time. It can help analyze content, provide insights, and answer your questions, coaching you through it aloud. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/07/15/copilot-on-windows-vision-desktop-share-begins-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

Copilot on Windows: Vision Desktop Share begins rolling out to Windows Insiders

Hello Windows Insiders, we are beginning to roll out an update for the Microsoft Copilot app on Windows via the Microsoft Store which introduces the following changes and improvements to Copilot Vision on Windows: Desktop S

Windows Insider Blog

Kyle Memoir 🍉54m ago

Gerry McGovern 5h ago

Tech bros are the new suicide bombers.

"Current data centers go through about 500,000 gallons of water a day, but the newer, bigger facilities currently in the works will require millions of gallons daily."

AI is an exponential surge in energy, water and materials. As we approach civilizational collapse, Big Tech has gone into hyperdrive.

https://www.newser.com/story/371879/ai-data-centers-are-thirsty-just-ask-the-neighbors.html

A Big Problem With AI Data Centers: Water

New York Times looks at the immense needs of such facilities

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Kyle Memoir 🍉54m ago

ESO 1h ago

🚨 Astronomers have witnessed the dawn of a new solar system!

Using ALMA and JWST they observed the first specks of planet-forming material — hot minerals beginning to solidify around HOPS-315, a baby star 1300 light-years away.

This marks the first time a planetary system has been identified at such an early stage in its formation – a window to the past of our own Solar System.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2512a/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al

Kyle Memoir 🍉54m ago

Charlie Stross 5h ago

Wearing a red baseball cap in public these days, REGARDLESS of any text, is like wandering around Berlin in 1933 wearing a red armband with some sort of black symbol in a white circle. Either you're a Fucking Nazi, or you're happy to be mistaken for a Fucking Nazi.
https://wandering.shop/@zip/114862496494921166

zip (@zip@wandering.shop)

A red hat is a fucking red hat. I don't care if it says something clever because I probably won't see it. You're just using their branding and you look like one of them.

The Wandering Shop

Kyle Memoir 🍉55m ago

Simon Forman 2h ago

Don't think of "the homeless" as a group or a class, that's the first step in dehumanizing us. Normal folks want to avoid thinking about how it could happen to them, so there's a strong psychological "force" to perceive homeless folks as "not like us". The simple truth is that there are lots of different reasons why people wind up on the streets.

Kyle Memoir 🍉58m ago

Radley Balko 4h ago

Baltimore has started treated violent crime like a public health issue. The city is literally "sending social workers," as the law-and-order right derisively puts it. And it's working. popular.info/p/the-secret...

The secret to Baltimore's extr...

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉1h ago

Melissa Fehr 2h ago

Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)