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If you don't know what is this, please see this post: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/11096964

there's this cool game I want to share: Breakout 71

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We actually never went anywhere, we just continue to be a couple of working shmucks with very little orgone left at the end of the day to promote a damn podcast. Can you imagine a more humiliating activity? “Hey everyone listen to my podcast!” Disgusting behavior.

In all seriousness my dear friend and super producer has been putting his whole ass into producing this little mini-series of ours about Florida.

The whole idea is to apply a lil of the ol Dialectical Materialism to the hot house horror story that is the history of Florida. It’s a very personal story for me and something I have struggled to understand my entire life.

We are most certainly going to get things wrong because; 1. We are fallable (and I, personally, am kinda lazy) and 2. Florida history is very contentious and there is a lot that is still hidden/lost/unknown.

I invite all of you to check it out and please subscribe if you can. We are also seeking out interviews with Floridians and particularly anyone with an indigenous background. So if that sounds like you and you wanna sound off about what these mayo-ass white boys are missing, we would love to have you!

Hope you enjoy the show and shouts out to @comradesharkfucker, who had us in regular rotation last i checked. Comrade shark fucker approved podcast here. Check it out!

Also check me out on Bluesky @butlersghost.bsky.social Super producer himself: @Brokenwindvane.bsky.social And the show @brokenwindpod.bsky.social

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We're now moving toward so-called "whitelists" and secure websites with identity verification. More precisely, governments will initiate AI-powered hacking attacks to take over platforms and websites without identity verification. I think even Lemmy could be affected. Let's also add that bots are already virtually indistinguishable from humans, and in the future, it will be completely impossible to distinguish them from humans, no matter how hard we try. I fear this will ultimately lead to the emergence of semi-offline platforms where all participants know each other in real life and communicate using templates so that AI can't identify them.

Here's a post where I expressed my crude theory about the end of the world, if you're interested —> https://lemmy.world/post/39150842

https://xcancel.com/Denizen_Kane/status/1991248070714224646

In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. Notably, 36% of reporting states recorded their highest homeschool enrollment numbers ever — exceeding even the peaks reached during the pandemic.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/42209784

Prosecutors said Friday that Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should carry on unimpeded, urging a judge to reject a defense push to dismiss charges and rule out capital punishment over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public statements suggesting Mangione deserves execution.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan also asked U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett to deny the defense’s bid to suppress certain evidence collected during the arrest last year, including a 9 mm handgun, a notebook in which authorities say Mangione described his intent to “wack” an insurance executive and statements he made to police.

“Pretrial publicity, even when intense, is not itself a constitutional defect,” prosecutors wrote in a 121-page court filing, citing prior rulings from the Supreme Court and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

As for the evidence, which Mangione’s lawyers contend was collected without a warrant and without him being read his rights, prosecutors said police officers were justified in searching the suspect’s backpack to make sure there were no dangerous items. His statements to officers, they said, were made voluntarily and before he was taken into police custody.

Rather than dismissing the case outright or barring the government from seeking the death penalty, prosecutors argued, the defense’s concerns can best be alleviated by carefully questioning prospective jurors about their knowledge of the case and ensuring Mangione’s rights are respected at trial.

In many cultures, coins are used as votive offerings, usually through the act of throwing coins at or in specific objects such as rivers, lakes, ponds, wells, fountains, bells, vehicles, and other objects to pray for blessings, avert disasters, and make wishes.