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etc-hosts··on Tim Curry has died
This year I saw him roll out on his wheelchair and he had the time of his life. Not sure how others felt.

https://old.reddit.com/r/timcurry/comments/1tzyqt6/sf_clue_q...

etc-hosts··on Starbase, LA
Mussolini and other Italian inventors-of-Fascism figures were closely allied with the Futurism movement and Marinetti.

https://www.booksontrial.com/mussolini-and-marinetti-a-timel...

etc-hosts··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
I haul my garbage home in my backpack like a good little global citizen but the lack of trash cans in San Francisco is crazy

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Trash-c...

etc-hosts··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Servitor
etc-hosts··on My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
Lewis wrote about and gave plenty of interviews outside of the book about how incredibly inciteful SBF was... basically up until the moment of his arrest.
etc-hosts··on Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
hard to run your production in Iron Mountain backup tier
etc-hosts··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
On Saturday, he said that American negotiators “asked too much and offered too little.” Among other things, Mr. Carney said that American negotiators pushed to roll back Canada’s efforts to promote Canadian and French language content in online streaming services, subsidies for industries like publishing and film production and even mandatory labeling in French, an official language in Canada, as well as English on packaging.

“We were close to reaching a comprehensive agreement with the U.S., but they made changes, including threats on French language and culture and Canadian culture that would never be acceptable for that reason,” Mr. Carney said in French. “That marked the end of that stage of negotiations.”

etc-hosts··on Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar
I read the article, I don't take away from it that Canadian lumber is suddenly 50% more expensive. It explains that tariffs for some Canadian lumber products was set to 50 percent at some point (or maybe lowered again, and raised, it's hard to tell since the Trump administration has issued 50+ different tariff directives in the last year), and that Canada walked away from negotiations recently.

I tried to do some more research before my coffee finishes in 5 minutes, you're right it's not ALL Canadian products or even all Canadian lumber products.

etc-hosts··on Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
Every response from GitHub must be deterministic. OpenAI and Anthropic do not have this problem.
etc-hosts··on US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
Since the US for now controls the non BRICS financial system, any individual we Sanction loses all access to any money they have stored with entities that use computers.
etc-hosts··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
I only get mad when an airline temporarily misplaced my luggage.
etc-hosts··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
It looked like the mayor was getting railroaded at the time.

Look up her current scandal and FBI case involving the local garbage company.

etc-hosts··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
The Parties and Capital have multiple tools for disciplining Labor, health insurance tied to your employment status is one of the more effective ones.
etc-hosts··on NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
current administration is guided by the looniest of the loons Claremont Institute, who truly believe that any dollar not spent on border defense or offensive military capability is wasted.
etc-hosts··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
Representatives of the US government threaten to drone bomb anyone they disagree with all of the time now
etc-hosts··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Every time I got an ad for Falung Gong or Epoch Times related properties or that annoying Epoch Times Russian-American ( Roman in this article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/technology/epoch-times-yo... ) I used to screenshot it and email it individually to every single Google Board member I could find.

I haven't seen any Epoch Times ads in Youtube for a while... maybe it worked !

etc-hosts··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
I immediately thought they might be trying to de-anonymize article Commenters. Maybe I'm being too paranoid.
etc-hosts··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
What does a newspaper need "actionable intelligence" for?
etc-hosts··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
FDE sounds like they are allowed to open carry
etc-hosts··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
the Thiel Anti Christ Chats at Garry Tan's house is run by Anduril founders.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/michelle-stephens-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trae_Stephens

It's hard for me to understand how any of this is very Christian.

etc-hosts··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
News outlets have been reporting on how the Terrorgram, O9A, 764, and murder loving European fascist groups have been organizing on Telegram (it's in the name!) for years.

Discord at least attempts to do some moderation about this.

Telegram's strategy to deal with violent extremist groups on its platform is to not ban them but just make it hard to discover. But this doesn't stop someone already in the groups from inviting their buddies. I bet they actually prefer it this way.

etc-hosts··on A graph that should be front-page news
Observations like this is why the Trump administration is dismantling instruments that can observe the effects.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatori...

etc-hosts··on Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
When Google hired Guido van Rossumm, they put him through the same trials they require of every employee who is thinking of contributing Python code. Then they yelled at him for making Python inefficient.
etc-hosts··on Grok 4.5
> tightly integrated with Twitter

Not sure that is a good thing.

etc-hosts··on Grok 4.5
He seems to spend most of his free time trying to incite a race war in the UK with his twitter posts.
etc-hosts··on Grok 4.5
> More like I think Musk's proclaimed ambition

are you talking about making the Moon and Mars livable?

etc-hosts··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
PG&E still exists to maximize returns for its investors.
etc-hosts··on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack
I thought the channel is strictly for being sad that Kinesis in IAD is down again.
etc-hosts··on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack
Chime was awesome! Also you could shove in Snapchat filters. pointy ears.
etc-hosts··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
There may be a few here, but xaispacex has bought a very large amount of nvidia GPU since then for their TN datacenter .
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