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Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores says she was FSB informant for nearly 3 years before escaping Russia

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The article details the several ways she sabotaged their information gathering attempts and how she eventually had to leave after she was told to get involved in an assassination attempt. Meanwhile, you are a TIE fighter pilot for the empire as far as I can tell.

She didn't offer herself up to "be a rat", she was threatened and detained over and over again while they tried to butter her up, acting like she was helping them was the most immediate way to stop the harassment until she eventually left on her own. She could just have as easily complied, become rich, and had no one know about her complicity.

More tankies and tankie tactics should be outed this way.

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US, EU move toward landmark biometric data sharing deal that give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to fingerprint and other biometric records held by EU member states

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The only thing that makes the EU bureaucracy seem like it's functional are competing national interests. When all nations are being targeted by foreign automated propaganda through their social networks to promote shifts in their governments to allow this sort of bull, it doesn't even matter that the US is directly issuing threats against the EU, only just what corrupt long time career politicians can get out of it.

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The water wars have started, and it's not between countries, it's between neighborhoods and data centers.

It's about the cheaper method of cooling, there's no need for them to have to waste water if they recycled it correctly. It's really a war about the latest hot investment getting all the socialist policies from the government versus people being milked through do-or-die capitalism by a government that only does the bare minimum to fulfill their obligations to them.

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You will not be missed

The data set and the algorithm are still there, it's just not available to the public anymore. I wonder who will still get access to it. This just seems to follow the general trend of oligarchs encouraging startups to do anything and everything to disrupt an industry, go as far as they can, and then pull them out through any pressure, government or corporate, as they try to scavenge what they want.

Besides that, there's still alternatives alive, local or otherwise, and I doubt the people who were using Sora are suddenly going to stop without trying to search for alternatives first. People are celebrating after just chopping off the first head of the hydra.

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Crocsarella

There's basically two sorts of people: the one's willing to overlook the aesthetics and the one's who aren't. There's a reason hospital staff wear them. They are not designed to look good, they are designed to let the humidity from your sweat evaporate instead of letting it accumulate into a damp breeding ground ripe for a host of foot conditions. For some people it will matter more than others.

There's plenty of Crocs designs that don't look ugly, but I hope they continue to be unpopular as that keeps them cheap. It's risky to switch to other brands with this sort of design, Crocs got it right.

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Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage

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You are talking about going against a cartel of oligopolies that have locked down the technology sector with the IP they control and who have cutthroat control over where the latest technology is deployed. What we at home can do is playact "It's back to the 90s!" and go back to the technology we had several decades ago, which is more viable than it sounds.

If they want to act like cartels with the greatest and latest, nothing is forcing people to use it. Unfortunately, the technological divide will still be there. Tech minimalism, go human, recycle old tech, we have a lot of crap we've disposed off over the years that would otherwise still run fine. To create competition, there needs to be the breeding grounds for it, and if that means having to do with what the lunar lander did, then do so and exercise that brain in the process too.