Marburg virus death toll in Rwanda rises to 11 as travellers in Germany test negative: "The Rwandan government said there were 36 confirmed cases of the virus in its latest update, with 25 people in isolation ... the average case fatality rate is about 50 per cent."

neolib · 2024-10-04T09:45:25+00:00

I think it's more Ebola-like, so "vomiting blood, coughing up of blood" (from wiki entry for Ebola) can result in these infected "bodily fluids" all over the place.

neolib · 2024-10-03T09:55:30+00:00

24 September 2013

neolib · 2024-10-03T08:54:54+00:00

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/25-surprising-facts-squirrels-154240324.html

neolib · 2024-10-02T04:48:45+00:00

cc /u/In-the-clouds

neolib · 2024-10-02T03:26:06+00:00

Buzbee said his firm expects to file cases on behalf of 120 people, an equal number of men and women, who allege they were exploited. Buzbee said other alleged perpetrators who will eventually be named in the suits “will shock you.”

...

The youngest of the victims was a 9-year-old boy who was allegedly sexually abused by Combs and others while he was auditioning at Bad Boy Records in New York City, Buzbee said.

In another incident, Buzbee said, a 15-year-old boy was told by Combs he would make him a star but he needed to visit him privately, away from his parents. He allegedly forced the boy to perform oral sex on him.

neolib · 2024-10-02T00:21:49+00:00

Don't miss this one:

A strike on Nevatim Airbase, verified by The Post, @JakeGodin and others. One of the heaviest documented so far.

https://x.com/evanhill/status/1841240507411845255

neolib · 2024-10-02T00:13:13+00:00

As I understand LLMs are bad with arithmetic and questions about letters in words because of tokenization (random google result: https://docs.mistral.ai/guides/tokenization/ - "process of breaking down text into smaller subword units, known as tokens.").

If you didn't try that for testing and really need to do calculations use Wolfram Alpha (by the creator of Mathematica): https://www.wolframalpha.com/ - it can do integrals and charts even.

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolframAlpha

neolib · 2024-10-01T02:26:47+00:00

Netanyahu has a window of time due to both domestic politics in Israel and the US elections to make these moves. Republicans have essentially promised him a free hand, while Dems are afraid of giving Trump a reason to call them pro-Hamas or Hezbollah in a tight election.

https://x.com/Andrew__Roth/status/1840915811638116511

neolib · 2024-10-01T01:28:52+00:00

2h ago / 11:06 PM UTC

Israel says it has begun 'limited, localized and targeted' ground incursion

Israel Defense Forces troops have begun a ground incursion into Lebanon, Israel said, adding that the operation will be limited in scope.

"A few hours ago, the IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon," the IDF said in a statement.

neolib · 2024-09-29T18:02:55+00:00

cc /u/Oyveygoyim

neolib · 2024-09-29T16:20:24+00:00

thedailybeast.com

This is not The Daily Beast article btw, but a summary of washingtonstand.com article (which is a Questionable source according to Media Bias/Fact Check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-stand-bias-and-credibility/).

So it's better to just ignore it (and its' title) and look at the original reliable source it links to: https://news.gallup.com/poll/651092/2024-election-environment-favorable-gop.aspx (which was already posted btw: https://saidit.net/s/politics/comments/eqft/2024_election_environment_favorable_to_gop/).

neolib · 2024-09-28T12:49:54+00:00

Video: https://x.com/Charles_Lister/status/1839691513862725927

UPD

A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday.

...

Nilforushan, 58, was killed Friday in the strike in Lebanon in which Nasrallah died, the state-owned newspaper Tehran Times reported. Ahmad Reza Pour Khaghan, the deputy head of Iran’s judiciary, also confirmed Nilforushan’s death, describing him as a “guest to the people of Lebanon,” the state-run IRNA news agency said.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-revolutionary-guard-general-dead-hezbollah-israel-airstrike-46d2133e594b9c4ce448a6b683802995

neolib · 2024-09-27T08:03:57+00:00

From replies:

This is a long bridge that links Hillsborough/Pinellas counties over the Bay.

The section in my video is very low-lying and near end of one side. It gets higher in the middle before another low-lying section on the other side.

https://x.com/BayNews9Jeff/status/1839432174417658051

neolib · 2024-09-26T08:23:25+00:00

cc /u/In-the-clouds

neolib · 2024-09-25T07:06:03+00:00

Just thought that's an interesting angle which I didn't see in other articles. Also who are those "powerful music industry figures" exactly, I wonder?

neolib · 2024-09-25T01:29:03+00:00

The bodyguard implied that Diddy himself was victimized early in his career by other powerful music industry figures, and said he blames the ones who 'trained him and taught him the music business' for Diddy's alleged crimes.

'Puff wasn't born a monster, he was made into a monster,' he said.

'He was made into a monster because of what happened to him, and because of the things he had to do.

'To keep it frank, he was doing to other people what was done to him... that's a learned behavior.'

He claimed: 'They was heavy into the drugs, they was heavy into beating women, and doing things at that crazy stage that's going to make him think he can get away with the same things that they was getting away with back then.'

neolib · 2024-09-23T19:57:20+00:00

The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, had dropped off a box at an unidentified witness’ home several months ago that included a letter addressed “Dear World,” in which Routh wrote, “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”

Apparently referring to Trump, Routh added, “He ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

The witness had contacted law enforcement on Sept. 18, three days after the incident at Trump International, to inform them of the box. It also included ammunition, a metal pipe, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones and various letters, according to prosecutors.

neolib · 2024-09-23T19:49:48+00:00

News story:

A Chinese rocket narrowly missed a landing on Sunday—the video is amazing

Deep Blue Aerospace is just one of several Chinese companies working on vertical landing.

A Chinese space startup conducted what it called a "high-altitude" test flight of its Nebula-1 rocket on Sunday, launching the vehicle to an altitude of about 5 km or so before attempting to land it back at the Ejin Banner Spaceport in Inner Mongolia.

The test flight went well for about two and a half minutes before the vehicle experienced a problem just before landing and erupted into a fireball.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/a-chinese-rocket-narrowly-missed-a-landing-on-sunday-the-video-is-amazing/

neolib · 2024-09-23T18:46:13+00:00

Archived: https://archive.is/9QBEn (as charlotteobserver.com blocks both Tor and my country)

neolib · 2024-09-22T19:57:58+00:00

Hmm, for me Tor works decently enough - maybe 5 minutes per CF check (and there's a check every 4-5 minutes). Still enormous waste of time, but not hours at least.

neolib · 2024-09-22T19:33:21+00:00

What are your thoughts on bananas?

I don't eat them that often, maybe one per a week or two. So I don't think I would consume too much pesticides with them.

neolib · 2024-09-22T16:45:08+00:00

The Guardian story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/mike-lynch-luxury-yacht-wreck-bayesian-extra-security

Sicily: fear of foreign actors prompts security request for wreck of luxury yacht

Officials concerned about sensitive hard drives of tech mogul Mike Lynch, who died in sinking of Bayesian

...

Italian authorities confirmed to the cable news outlet that the hard drives could be of interest to foreign governments, including Russia and China, and they had requested that the vessel be guarded closely with surface and underwater surveillance.

...

Lynch was believed to have connections to British, American and other intelligence services and had sold Darktrace, a cybersecurity artificial intelligence company he founded, to US billionaire Orlando Bravo, co-founder and managing partner of Chicago-based Thoma Bravo, in a $5bn deal earlier this year.

The Cambridge-based company was co-founded in 2013 by Stephen Huxter, a high-ranking figure in MI5’s cyber defense team, who became a managing director at Darktrace.

Huxter hired Andrew France, a 30-year veteran of GCHQ, the British intelligence and security agency, as the company’s chief executive. Former MI5 head Jonathan Evans also sat on Darktrace’s board, along with Jim Penrose, a 17-year veteran of the US National Security Agency, among others in the security field, according to Politico.

Lynch’s previous company, Autonomy, which he sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2011, was also connected to UK and US government agencies and reportedly specialized in “advanced computer eavesdropping systems”.

neolib · 2024-09-22T16:26:17+00:00

NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/americas/elon-musk-x-brazil.html

Elon Musk’s X Backs Down in Brazil

In an abrupt reversal, the social network’s lawyers said it was complying with court orders that it had previously defied. Brazil’s Supreme Court could allow the site to return next week.

...

Now, X’s lawyers said the company had done exactly what Mr. Musk vowed not to: take down accounts that a Brazilian justice ordered removed because the judge said they threatened Brazil’s democracy. X also complied with the justice’s other demands, including paying fines and naming a new formal representative in the country, the lawyers said.

...

Mr. Musk “has bowed down,” Paulo Figueiredo, a right-wing pundit who had his X account blocked in Brazil, wrote in a post on Thursday, when X first hired new lawyers in Brazil, signaling a shift in stance. “It’s a very sad day for freedom of expression.”

A day later, Mr. Figueiredo said he understood Mr. Musk’s stance “and appreciates his efforts.”

neolib · 2024-09-22T16:22:28+00:00

I didn't follow this whole situation closely, just stumbled upon that subreddit one day - maybe there was some sort of coup among mods or something, it looks like they confined all political discussion to that megathread for now.

neolib · 2024-09-22T15:32:41+00:00

Related: /s/SaiditCanary/

Also sort of related: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/d13k/is_it_possible_that_owneradmins_of_saidit_may/166cp?context=3

neolib · 2024-09-22T15:10:17+00:00

And oppositional Pikabu users moved to an actual reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Pikabu/

neolib · 2024-09-22T14:34:46+00:00

Channel name:

deNAZIfication - Special Military QperationZ WORLDWIDE

Pure Kremlin propaganda, obviously.

neolib · 2024-09-22T01:15:51+00:00

cc /u/In-the-clouds

neolib · 2024-09-22T01:14:16+00:00

Published July 15, 2023

neolib · 2024-09-20T15:18:23+00:00

Because you like it? Not every dead person is mentioned on social networks, besides there are dead people whose bodies weren't retrieved, those are also not counted here.

neolib · 2024-09-20T14:58:54+00:00

That's number of dead with known names, i.e. absolutely minimal number ("but the actual number is believed to be considerably higher. Some families do not share details of their relatives’ deaths publicly - and our analysis does not include names we were unable to check, or the deaths of militia in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.")

And "Western media is starting to acknowledge" is bullshit: BBC Russian service and Mediazona are calculating this number for 2 years.

neolib · 2024-09-19T14:29:39+00:00

cc /u/YoMamma

neolib · 2024-09-18T02:06:40+00:00

https://saidit.net/s/all/new/ is all posts, https://saidit.net/new is posts from subs you subscribed to or default ones (not sure).

neolib · 2024-09-18T01:57:53+00:00

I see it now, there's a small delay while slow saidit server processes things.

neolib · 2024-09-18T01:51:43+00:00

I can propose to post things like this to my /s/diary/ sub

A chronicle of the daily lives of saiditors

neolib · 2024-09-16T21:39:51+00:00

Btw did you see these articles on possible Trump's adultery with Loomer?

https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/ejgd/it_looks_like_trump_and_laura_loomer_are_a_couple/16skc

neolib · 2024-09-16T21:23:53+00:00

Trump visited a Trump Organization property on 428 (nearly one in three) of the 1,461 days of his presidency and is estimated to have played 261 rounds of golf, one every 5.6 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_golf

neolib · 2024-09-16T02:03:22+00:00

The Guardian's liveblog:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/sep/15/donald-trump-shooting-florida-golf-course

neolib · 2024-09-15T20:08:26+00:00

Updated title:

Trump rushed to safety as Secret Service opens fire on man with AK-47 near golf course

neolib · 2024-09-15T18:21:21+00:00

That's magnora7's problems :)

neolib · 2024-09-15T18:00:23+00:00

The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, has removed a series of sensational articles relating to the Gaza war after claims that the material was fabricated by a “freelance journalist” who had also misrepresented his résumé.

...

The Perry affair comes on top of growing disquiet over the paper’s recent direction. In February, the Sunday Times Whitehall editor, Gabriel Pogrund, aired his misgivings about the paper on social media, including over its murky ownership arrangements that have puzzled observers.

“The coarseness and aggression of the JC’s current leadership is such a pity and does such a disservice to our community,” wrote Pogrund. “It also once again poses the question: who owns it!? How is it that British Jews don’t know who owns ‘their’ paper. Moreover, how can a paper not disclose its ownership? It’s an oxymoron. I hate having to pose the question publicly but I asked privately more than a year ago to no avail.”

cc /u/YoMamma

neolib · 2024-09-15T17:15:42+00:00

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