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Arthur Besse

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • 'Democracy Manifest' / 'Eating a Meal? A Succulent Chinese Meal?' Viral Video is Officially Preserved in Australian Archive

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  • TIL :(

    I've updated the post to link to the wikipedia article; I probably would not have posted this if I had seen that first :/

    It's odd that the petapixel article doesn't mention he's a nazi or that his identity was unknown for nearly 30 years after the incident as wikipedia says; it instead implies he was already known for other things by saying he "starred in theater productions and television shows" 🤔

  • 18 years after Californians voted for High Speed Rail, with the SF-to-not-quite-LA segment still >12 years off, state is now exploring High Speed Buses to connect SF and LA in 3h at 140mph (225km/h)

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    .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

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  • colonies

    If you think China colonized Xinjiang, well... yeah, they did. But that was 22 centuries ago, a millennium before the [people now known as] Uyghurs had even arrived there. The demographics and ruling empires unsurprisingly changed a few times in the ensuing millennia, but since the Qing dynasty committed the Dzungar genocide there (from 1755–1758, with help of several peoples including Han and Uyghur) it has mostly remained a part of China.

    The ancient history is interesting, but more recent events (eg Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups the US has been funding there) are more relevant to the present situation.

    I did watch the first three minutes. Everything he shows is true, everything he explains as interpretation is just full of shit.

    What specifically is he full of shit about? I recommend watching more than three minutes of it.

  • Caption this.

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  • "The eagles are coming!"

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    .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

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  • Here and here are two texts on the subject which cover some of the same things as that video (albeit not from a first-hand person-from-the-US-traveling-in-Xinjiang perspective like the video does).

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    .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

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  • Uh well actually-

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  • It looks like they have an AI generate all of the valid images.

    Are you suggesting that the Voight-Kampff test is being administered by robots?

  • Elementary

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  • Star Trek @lemmy.ml
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    Elementary

  • Sydney Sweeney

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  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • It's been 20 years since Microsoft cryptographer Niels Ferguson said "Over my dead body" about a BitLocker backdoor. But the very next line of that blog post was "Well, maybe not literally---I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet---but certainly not in any product I work on" and he doesn't work there anymore 🤔

    (Ferguson was also one of the cryptographers who pointed out the backdoor-enabling design of NIST's Dual_EC_DRBG in 2007, six years before the Snowden disclosures confirmed that NIST did indeed backdoor it on behalf of the NSA.)

  • Security @lemmy.ml
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    Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP (software-based compromise of "Confidential Virtual Machines")

    xca-attacks.github.io /fabricked/

  • cursed suburb with artificial lakes so everyone can say they have waterfront property in the middle of a desert

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  • cars [...] non-gas pollution

    The HOA's Architectural Guidelines confirms:

    Also, as explained in the HOA rules i linked in my other comment, people can't swim in the lake (or eat the fish they stock it with; it's strictly catch-and-release fishing) because it's filled with reclaimed wastewater.

  • Bulgaria wins 70th Eurovision contest with Dara and Bangaranga

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  • i see, thanks.

    from that guardian link:

    The decision prompted condemnation on Tuesday from Graham Linehan, one of the show’s creators, who accused RTÉ of using the show as “a tool of antisemitic harassment” and said it was an “act of pointed, gleeful counter-programming”.

    of course sitcom-writer-turned-professional-transphobe Graham Linehan would also be a zionist, that tracks 🤦

  • cursed suburb with artificial lakes so everyone can say they have waterfront property in the middle of a desert

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  • no joke; link goes to the rules PDF

  • cursed suburb with artificial lakes so everyone can say they have waterfront property in the middle of a desert

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  • cursed suburb with artificial lakes so everyone can say they have waterfront property in the middle of a desert

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  • fellas, is it woke to eat unleaded baked goods? 🤔

  • Bulgaria wins 70th Eurovision contest with Dara and Bangaranga

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  • i am curious to hear it, but am not going to increase the view count by clicking that link. (hopefully the boycott leads to substantially lower viewership than other years...)

    does anyone have a reupload, preferably on some file hosting site which doesn't publish view counts?

  • Bulgaria wins 70th Eurovision contest with Dara and Bangaranga

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  • Microslop official documentation on how to ground an AI

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  • about their MDASH copilot model

    that's satire, right?

  • Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit

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  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957

  • Videos @lemmy.ml
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    Its Bisan From Gaza, This Is Life After 'Ceasefire'

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Trump's deadly trap: By rejecting Iran's proposal, US enters a strategic nightmare with no escape

    www.presstv.ir /Detail/2026/05/11/768410/trump-deadly-trap-rejecting-iran-proposal-us-enters-strategic-nightmare-no-escape
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    US Democrats call for acknowledgment of Israel's nuclear arsenal

    www.presstv.ir /Detail/2026/05/10/768372/Democrats-call-for-acknowledgment-of-Israeli-nuclear-arsenal
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno returns to the country for corruption trial, after five years abroad

    www.telesurenglish.net /moreno-ecuador-sinohydro-corruptiontrial/
  • Python @lemmy.ml
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    Python 3.14.5 is out!

    blog.python.org /2026/05/python-3145-is-out/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Iran submits response to latest US proposal for ending aggression

    www.presstv.ir /Detail/2026/05/10/768380/Iran-reply-US-proposal-aggression-end
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate: Our large-scale experiment with 19 LLMs reveals that […] even frontier models corrupt an average of 25% of document content by the end of long workflows

    arxiv.org /abs/2604.15597
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

    matduggan.com /the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

    matduggan.com /the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
  • Videos @lemmy.ml
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    SecondThought

    Corporations Are Tracking Your Face…And It’s Getting Worse

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    Victory Day Persists as Russian Symbol of the Defeat of Nazism

    www.telesurenglish.net /victory-day-persists-as-russian-symbol-of-the-defeat-of-nazism/