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  • Trump says France must scrap tech 'sales tax' or face 100% wine tariffs: NY Post

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  • Someone should tell Trump tariffs on French wine will just boost sales of California wine. Maybe he hates California enough to back off.

  • Eric Trump messaged UFC insider asking if White House fights were 'rigged': report

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  • I think UFC was real at one point, but it's been owned by the same parent company as WWE for a few years now, so they might be more similar these days.

  • Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal

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  • This is the same Fox that owns Fox News. So now Roku's advertising push can include a side of misinformation.

  • UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company

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  • Hopefully?

    Yes, I hope the fighters get paid with actual money they can use to pay any medical expenses that result from the fights.

  • UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company

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  • The UFC said some fighters will receive bonuses in World Liberty Financial crypto called “stablecoins”, whose value is pegged to the US dollar. World Liberty named the currency “USD1”.

    It says the crypto is being used for bonuses. That suggests they are also getting other pay, hopefully with actual money.

    “This sounds like advertising,” Todd Phillips, an expert in crypto at the Klaros Group, told the Guardian. He said “Paying the fighters in the USD1 stablecoin would have the same economic function as writing them a check but announcing to the world they are doing it in USD1 sounds like they are adverting to the world that USD1 is out there and that it is connected to the UFC and the White House.

  • Cassette Beasts 2002 | Announcement Trailer

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  • I still have mine. It has an FM receiver and runs off a AAA battery, so it's handy for listening to the radio for updates during a big power outage.

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    Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape of 16-year-old boy

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  • The article links to a local one with much more detail.

    Assistant District Attorney Charles Robinson minced no words in the opening remarks of his argument.

    “We’re talking about an elected public official who had sex with a child at a children’s birthday party,” Robinson said, noting the party was for a child turning 15.

    [Defence Attorney] Johnson made a remark about the victim’s age, telling Judge Savoie, “The fact that this case was a couple of months away from not being a crime is a valid point to me, Judge.” He repeated the point later, saying, “Less than two months and it would have been massively inappropriate but not a crime.”

    She will serve her 90 days in jail and, upon release, will be required to undergo regular drug screenings and psychological therapy. Her two five-year suspended sentences will remain in place and can be activated if she violates the terms of her release.

  • Court ruling makes factory farms harder for the public to investigate

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  • Works fine for me; either the plea appears randomly or pihole stopped it.

    Anyway, they have a full-text RSS feed to skip it altogether.

  • Federal Adviser Says Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ for Gas | The Tyee

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  • This isn't an "A Guy Said a Thing" article:

    A list of proposed data centres, which provide the computing power for AI, gives clarity on what kind of energy resources the federal government hopes to grow. Massive data centres proposed for Alberta, including the Kevin O’Leary-backed Wonder Valley project, will have their energy needs “supplied by natural gas,” the Privy Council document reads.

    The Privy Council document lists about 15.5 gigawatts of new gas capacity planned for data centres in Canada, although it notes that “it will not be possible for Alberta to connect all data centre projects in the short term” to the electric grid. Carney’s new AI strategy puts forward a lower estimate, suggesting that Canadian projects will require 5.5 gigawatts of power.

    If the high-end scenario of 15.5 gigawatts materializes, it could cause an increase of somewhere between 33 and 63 megatonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions, Joshi calculates, “effectively undoing the past 15 years of emissions reductions in Canada.”

    It didn't have to be this way:

    Carney could have insisted as part of his AI strategy that data centres be powered by renewable energy, said Keith Stewart, a senior energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada. But Stewart said the document shows that the federal government views AI as part of a fossil fuel growth strategy.

    “This makes it clear that one of the main reasons that the Carney government wants to expand AI data centres is that so Big Oil can sell more gas,” Stewart said.

  • Iran Adds Elon Musk Companies To List Of Military Targets, State Media Reports

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  • Just in time for the SpaceX IPO. Let's see if they can scare away some money.

  • Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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  • The "Third Way" in liberal politics involves saying things that working people love, but doing things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works …right up until voters notice that you're not doing the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen.

    And boy did Canadians find a Third Way bullshitter to move into 24 Sussex Drive: Mark Carney, an austerity-crazed central banker who will endorse incredibly progressive policies…provided he never has to do any of them. When it comes to championing working Canadians while royally screwing them, Carney is the only Canadian politician capable of out-Trudeauing Trudeau.

    But we shouldn't reject Carneyism due to the mere fact that Carney refuses to deliver Carneyism. The problem with Carneyism isn't Carneyism itself – the problem with Carneyism is Mark Carney.

  • Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

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  • This is where the "nobody needs AI to search the internet" part comes from (emphasis mine):

    Historically, any potentially harmful content surfaced by search engines has been protected from direct liability because that surfacing was considered largely unavoidable when helping users sort through an enormous tangle of information online. But the German court emphasized that AI search engines do not enjoy those same protections because AI summaries merely provide “an additional function—one without which the use of the search engine would still be (and is) possible, and without which users are perfectly capable of finding results amidst the ‘flood of data.’”

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  • I'm surprised Southern Baptists allowed women pastors in the first place.

  • Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

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  • The court caught that too:

    The court also seemed to take a dig at Google for expecting users not to “blindly trust” AI overviews, noting that the AI tool’s utility “would be significantly diminished if the ‘AI overview’ were generally regarded as unreliable and if every single displayed link required independent verification.”

  • Live updates: Trump says Iran will ‘pay the price’ for taking too long to negotiate | CNN

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  • They're taking so long because they know Trump won't follow through on his threats. More threats aren't going to make them hurry up.

  • Republicans Blame End of Crucial Program DOGE Cut on Biden

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  • Curtail O&G out of the Middle East

    That's got O&G producers outside the Middle East looking to up production

    Flood the market with electricity-hungry data centers when the cheapest form of electricity is wind/solar

    A lot of data centers are using methane and diesel generators, plus they suck up huge amounts of water

  • Trump’s Going To Game 3 And Doing What He Does Best: Making Everyone Else’s Life Harder

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  • Did you really need to post a second article about how Trump was going to go to the game? The game happened yesterday so articles about how it might go aren't especially relevant.

  • Another sleepy Don moment

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  • The Knicks were on a 13-game postseason winning streak, then that fucker showed up and boom it's over.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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