Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with a firm once run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick may date back 11 years further than previously known, according to a newly unearthed document flagged by independent journalist Kaitlyn Pierce, who writes under the name Kait Justice.

Lutnick told The New York Post last year that he had cut off all ties with Epstein in 2005, but the Justice Department's release of Epstein-related files quickly contradicted that claim. The files showed Lutnick visited Epstein's private island in 2012 and that the two maintained contact through at least 2018.

Lutnick and Epstein were also discovered to have been “in business together as recently as 2014,” per CBS News, with the two of them both signing onto a deal to acquire stakes in a now-defunct technology company called Adfin.

Sign me up for that

Over 26,000 people signed a recent letter calling tor the UK government to track the movements of Britons who have served in the IDF and conduct independent war crimes investigations.

That letter was also signed by over 70 prominent figures including Green party leader Zack Polanski, genocide scholar Martin Shaw, and anti-apartheid politician Andrew Feinstein

When you post on reddit, instagram etc. you're giving the company your valuable data. (And it often is valuable, you put your thoughts into it and all that). Consider if you take 15 minutes to create value content, you'd get paid $5 or sth if you were doing it commercially. Now all that value is donated to big tech companies. (that's the only reason why they have value at all.)

So what's the problem with that? The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I'm not joking. Look at these:

when i want to see content on reddit (for research) or instagram (for local community) they don't allow me to see the data that users have contributed. Reddit claims that it blocks VPNs for "security reasons", meanwhile i'm using VPNs in browser's incognito mode to not be tracked. Instagram wants you to sign in sothat they amass more users and can take leverage of the network effect even more.

I can understand restricting who can post to limit bot activity, but reading must always be possible. After all, it's our data. That's exactly what happens when you give your data to big companies to "communicate with other people": your data becomes a source of income for them, at our expense.

I just wanted to make a new character, but I struggled choosing a color for her. I named her Lyra.

A friend suggested a summer and winter coat, to keep the markings

I really like her, do you have any coat suggestions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50636966

President Trump has tried to strangle Cuba by blocking its oil imports. But six months later, the island is finding ways to endure.

July 27, 2026

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50636966

President Trump has tried to strangle Cuba by blocking its oil imports. But six months later, the island is finding ways to endure.

July 27, 2026

President Trump has tried to strangle Cuba by blocking its oil imports. But six months later, the island is finding ways to endure.

July 27, 2026

He's a man of the community

We cannot retroactively apply such modern, western identities to the inhabitants of the past and we must be careful not to misgender or misidentify them – especially if our only evidence for how they might have identified comes from hostile writers.

In attempting to fact check the sexual slurs and propaganda from the biographical facts, there is a danger that we lose sight of the fact that ancient Romans did recognise a huge variety of sexual orientations and gender identities – just as we do today. To attempt to crudely ascribe modern labels to ancient figures such as Elagabalus is not only to strip them of their agency, but also to oversimplify what is a wonderfully, fabulously broad and nuanced subject

When I edited the first draft of this image and sent it to my photography people, I immediately got back "are you trying to cozy up to the Seattle Tourism Board?"

Maybe.

This is me, yet again, chasing that ideal I have.

Also as an aside, if you ever find yourself standing in the spot that makes this picture possible, on the weekends you can see a plane land in the bay every couple of minutes or so. They also take off from there. I leave where I'm standing as an exercise to the viewer.

Thanks for seeing my work!

https://programmingpalace.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/story-of-generations-funny-pic/