https://theycantalk.com/post/818804955999830016/design

Tucked into their FAQ about the Steam Machine release was a mention about making your own Steam Machine by installing steamOS to a computer you already have. AMD only for now.

Based on recent comments this feels like a discussion we should have. So..topic, basically.

I'm not looking to be chief noisemaker on this, but I stand by what I wrote in !privacy and what's in my post history.

https://lemmy.ml/post/48724623/26190950

Let's have at; do we want a [AI] and [NOT AI] tag. Why or why not?

My Dad is Dracula

Aw, I miss my old Furby.

In an extremely odd case, a single 79-year-old patient was granted early access to Eli Lilly’s powerful, still-experimental obesity drug retatrutide through the Food and Drug Administration’s “compassionate use” program—raising immediate questions if that sole patient is President Donald Trump, according to a report by Stat News.

Lilly’s retatrutide is a highly anticipated next-generation obesity drug that targets GIP and glucagon hormones in addition to GLP-1. It is currently in late-stage trials to treat obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, and other conditions. Data from a Phase 3 trial that Lilly released in May indicates that patients with obesity (but without diabetes) who took the drug for 80 weeks lost 28 percent of their weight, an amount comparable to bariatric surgery.

Millions of Americans with obesity are eager to get the drug, with options being limited so far to enrolling in a clinical trial or trying to obtain it by dodgy methods.

But according to a barebones public notice and Stat’s sources, a single person has been granted early access through the expanded access, aka “compassionate use” pathway, which is typically used to grant access to patients with a “serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition” and who are not able to enroll in a clinical trial, often because they are too ill.

The access request was first made in April, when the person was 79 years old (Trump turned 80 on June 14). It was made by a senior clinician at the National Institutes of Health named Ranganath Muniyappa, who requested it on behalf of a patient with refractory obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, and pulmonary hypertension, which is high blood pressure in the lungs. Sources told Stat this patient had spent a year on tirzepatide, a drug that targets the GLP-1 and GIP hormones. But the patient had achieved only moderate weight loss on the drug.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9705839

Ottawa is seeking new partnerships in Japan as Chinese EVs enter Canada.

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A related report says that a record-setting number of Canadian executives are in Tokyo this week to participate in what has become the largest Team Canada trade mission in the Indo-Pacific region.

Nearly 300 people representing 175 Canadian companies will gather at the Sheraton Miyako hotel in downtown Tokyo to network with Japanese executives. The Canadians have one goal in mind: to forge partnerships in the land of the rising sun.

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Japan is Canada’s fifth largest trading partner with more than $35 billion dollars in conducted in two-way trade last year. It is also the third biggest investor in Canada. But Carney’s January agreement with China’s President Xi Jinping to remove nearly all the tariffs on Chinese EVs is raising concerns. The flood of cheap Chinese EV’s across Asia has cut into the bottom lines of every Japanese automaker.

The Carney-Xi agreement caps the number of Chinese EVs entering Canada this year to 49,000 vehicles, in exchange for lowering Chinese tariffs on agricultural products such as canola and seafood. The terms need to be renegotiated in order to extend beyond 2026.

“So basically, this fall there need to be discussions about extending the canola and other tariff relief that Canada got. And the question is, will China ask for more concessions?” Nadjibulla said, adding that she expects Industry Minister Melanie Joly to face tough questions in Japan about whether those quotas will be increased, and under what terms she will allow Chinese car companies to build vehicles in Canada.

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Carlson supported Trump in 2024. After the war began, he apologized for supporting the then-presidential candidate and “misleading people," saying it wasn't intentional.

But of course...

“Not gonna support the Democratic Party,” Carlson was quick to add, speaking late last week on the show “Can't Be Censored.” “I don't know what I'm going to do.”

(When it comes to the "Tuckers" of the world, no matter how much they might hate the GOP, they still hate the Democrats just as much, if not more.)

Tesla CEO was one of Donald Trump's most influential supporters during the 2024 presidential election.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9705126

The Philippines is forging closer defence ties with Canada as both countries attempt to limit Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and confront concerns about supply chains and disinformation.

“The bilateral relationship between the Philippines and Canada has entered a new phase, a new era, and I’m very, very optimistic,” said Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.

“We are aligned because the both of us uphold the rule of international law.”

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Teodoro said his country has other maritime boundary disputes with Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia, but none of those countries undertake “subversion” as China does.

He said Beijing is driving information operations that seek to undermine sovereignty, even if China dismisses those claims.

Teodoro said Canada could partner more on trade, logistics, critical minerals, energy, cybersecurity and agriculture, because both countries understand the importance of supply chains and protecting underwater cables from being held hostage in a political dispute.

“The danger is there. The imminence, I do not know. But what we need to be doing is to reduce that imminence, because the probability exists,” Teodoro said.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s principal focus in recent weeks has been lining up support on Capitol Hill ahead of his upcoming Senate confirmation hearings, with a specific focus on winning over GOP skeptics. But Donald Trump’s controversial former defense attorney has more troubles than lining up 51 votes.

As this week got underway, Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers Defending American Democracy and a group of 101 former federal and state judges filed a complaint against Blanche with the New York State Bar, which included a formal request for an ethics investigation.

The 73-page complaint specifically focused on three areas of alleged misconduct:

• Blanche’s role in orchestrating the creation of a $1.776 billion compensation fund, widely panned as a “slush fund,” and an IRS audit shield for the president and his family.
• Blanche’s role in “abusing the investigative and prosecutorial powers” of the Justice Department to target the president’s perceived political enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey.
• Blanche supervising the DOJ’s “flawed response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, including the disclosure of thousands of records containing sensitive victim information.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66670892

After the conservative activist was shot, Ruhtenberg wrote things like "live by the sword, die by the sword" and "you reap what you sow" and that she disagreed with Kirk's views about the Second Amendment. Ruhtenberg also said that "whoever shot [Kirk] should go to prison."

State public defender Jeff Wright testified during the appeals proceedings that Ruhtenberg was fired because her posts were perceived as condoning violence.

Ruhtenberg then sued the state and Wright in federal court for First Amendment retaliation. In May, they settled and Ruhtenberg was awarded $125,000 in damages.

The Iowa public defender's office and Wright did not respond to a request for comment.

Ну що, цей день настав 😈

Наші Аси на модних МіГ-29 ✈️ рознесли ворожі позиції разом з живою силою та БК бомбами українського виробництва🔪

https://t.me/soniah_hub/16537

More information about Vyrivniuvach.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-built-glide-bomb-vyrivniuvach-cheaper-homemade-option-2026-5