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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20502760 > **_Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet_** > > Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing. > > “It seems like fiction, but it isn’t,” the left-leaning Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12 [reported](https://www.pagina12.com.ar/772291-parece-ficcion-pero-no-lo-es-milei-plagio-su-discurso-en-la-) on Friday, claiming Milei had “copied, word for word, a monologue” by the television show’s fictional president, Josiah “Jed” Bartlet. > > Suspicions over Milei’s address surfaced this week when the political columnist Carlos Pagni [flagged](https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nuevos-reclamos-nuevos-sujetos-otra-indignacion-nid02102024/) the “extraordinary” similarities between part of the president’s speech and words uttered by Martin Sheen’s Bartlet 21 years earlier. “Didn’t anyone else notice?” Pagni wrote in the newspaper La Nación, before transcribing the words of both men.
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=3002 > Chapter 95: Page 35 > >Likely just a bunch of .cvs https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fvtblh/chapter_95_page_35/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30176676 > Amazon .com has been accused by a U.S. labor board of illegally refusing to bargain with a union representing drivers employed by a contractor, the agency announced on Wednesday. > > The complaint from the National Labor Relations Board claims that Amazon is a so-called "joint employer" of drivers employed by the contractor, Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), and used a series of illegal tactics to discourage union activities at a facility in Palmdale, California. > > BTS drivers voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union last year, becoming the first Amazon delivery contractors to unionize. > > The NLRB in the complaint, which was issued on Monday, said Amazon broke the law by terminating its contract with BTS after the drivers unionized without first bargaining with the Teamsters.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20404230 > *Last June, fans of Comedy Central – the long-running channel behind beloved programmes such as The Daily Show and South Park – received an unwelcome surprise. Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, unceremoniously purged the vast repository of video content on the channel’s website, which dated back to the late 1990s.*
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=3001 >Chapter 95: Page 34 > >USB seed https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fuacay/chapter_95_page_34/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=3000 >Chapter 95: Page 33 > >Well... huh. https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fsrz7t/chapter_95_page_33/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2999 >Chapter 95: Page 32 > >Names you can use! https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fqlbyw/chapter_95_page_32/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2998 > Chapter 95: Page 31 > >Still busted https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fp1y6m/chapter_95_page_31/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2997 > Chapter 95: Page 30 > >Hold your horses, Annie https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fngfd3/chapter_95_page_30/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2996 > Chapter 95: Page 29 > >A name! https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fl65vc/chapter_95_page_29/
variety.com
> Cast members for “Black Mirror” Season 7 have been revealed during Netflix‘s Geeked Week. > >Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Patsy Ferran, Paul Giamatti, Lewis Gribben, Osy Ikhile, Rashida Jones, Siena Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Paul G. Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross and Harriet Walter are joining the sci-fi anthology series. > >Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Jimmy Simpson, Milanka Brooks and Osy Ikhile will also return for a follow-up to the Season 4 episode “USS Callister.” Season 7 will consist of six episodes and air on Netflix sometime in 2025.
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2995 > Chapter 95: Page 28 > > It's not really fair https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fjmwj6/chapter_95_page_28/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2994 > Chapter 95: Page 27 > > Kind of a problem https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fhyk2m/chapter_95_page_27/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2992 >Chapter 95: Page 25 > >Get it while you can (sleep). https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fe462g/chapter_95_page_25/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2991 >Chapter 95: Page 24 > >Wake up, Bugsy! https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fcjjfd/chapter_95_page_24/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2990 > **Chapter 95: Page 23** > > First seen [here.](https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=981) https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1fa9561/chapter_95_page_23/
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There was discussion about implementing Hashcash for Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3204
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2989 > Chapter 95: Page 22 > >Friend! https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1f8n1tk/chapter_95_page_22/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2988 > Chapter 95: Page 21 > > Can't see it. https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1f70lpz/chapter_95_page_21/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2987 > Chapter 95: Page 20 > > Just regular stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1f4p2ux/chapter_95_page_20/
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2986 >Chapter 95: Page 19 > >Just gone. https://www.reddit.com/r/gunnerkrigg/comments/1f33x7f/chapter_95_page_19/
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"Abolish corporate personhood" doesn't go far enough. Abolish corporations. Companies over a certain size should be forced to convert to either a worker-owned co-op or a non-profit organization. Human society needs to evolve past being centered around maximizing shareholder profits.
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It's a bug in the dark theme CSS. On the light theme it's a much more subtle highlight.
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A scary possibility with AI malware would be a virus that monitors the internet for news articles about itself and modifies its code based on that. Instead of needing to contact a command and control server for the malware author to change its behavior, each agent could independently and automatically change its strategy to evade security researchers.
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It was 2 weeks but then he improved the firmware.
The idle power draw of Bangle.js 2 is now down from 1.3mA to 0.3mA. We've mentioned 2 weeks battery life as a conservative estimate in the campaign but we've just blown past that. You should now be looking at around 1 month of battery life if you're just using it for looking at notifications and the time.