Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 39309 |
Comments: 2720
Disney+ is experiencing a wave of subscriber cancellations following ABC's decision to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The suspension came after Kimmel made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which drew complaints from FCC chair Brendan Carr. The move has sparked significant backlash from viewers who see it as an attack on free speech.
Key Points:
Disney+ subscribers are canceling their subscriptions in protest of ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The suspension was prompted by Kimmel's monologue comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and subsequent complaints from FCC chair Brendan Carr
Subscribers have taken to social media to announce cancellations and express anger, with some reporting website crashes due to high volume
The issue has sparked real-world protests, with demonstrators gathering outside Disney studios in Burbank, California
The suspension has been met with both condemnation and praise, highlighting the political divisiveness of the decision
""This affects every aspect of free speech. We should be able to express ourselves. That's the point of art,""
Jon Stewart Goes Full State TV to Nail Trump on Kimmel
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 32893 |
Comments: 1275
Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show for a special segment satirizing Donald Trump's media influence by rebranding the show as 'government-approved' state TV. The performance used over-the-top MAGA flattery and hypocrisy-exposing clips to critique Trump's threats to free speech, specifically his role in the censorship of Jimmy Kimmel.
Key Points:
Stewart created a 23-minute satirical segment presenting The Daily Show as 'new government-approved' state TV.
The act was a direct response to ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump's FCC Chair.
Stewart used exaggerated MAGA praise and shushed the laughing audience to maintain the satirical tone.
Clips were shown to highlight the hypocrisy of Trump and his supporters regarding free speech.
The segment concluded with the entire cast reciting a pro-free speech message in terrified unison and performing a song of praise for Trump.
""Now, some naysayers may argue that this administration’s speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy, a thin gruel of a ruse, a smokescreen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation, principle-less and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance," Stewart concluded."
Jimmy Kimmel went ‘way too far’ for TV execs, says Fox News host who called for execution of homeless people
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Score: 10499 |
Comments: 338
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade criticized ABC's decision to suspend 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' for comments Kimmel made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, stating the comments went 'way too far' for television executives. Kilmeade's criticism was met with online backlash, as he had recently faced his own controversy for suggesting homeless people with mental illness who refuse help should be given 'involuntary lethal injection.'
Key Points:
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade commented on the indefinite suspension of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' by ABC.
Kilmeade stated Kimmel's comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk went 'way too far' for television executives.
Kilmeade recently faced backlash for his own on-air remarks suggesting 'involuntary lethal injection' for homeless people with mental illness who refuse help.
ABC suspended Kimmel's show after affiliate groups Nexstar and Sinclair called the comments 'offensive and insensitive.'
Former President Donald Trump celebrated the show's cancellation in a post on Truth Social.
""The point is that Kimmel’s comments went way too far for some television executives. Not for me, not for you, but for them," Kilmeade said."
Stephen Colbert Revives Right-Wing Alter Ego to Rip Donald Trump on Free Speech
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 9468 |
Comments: 223
Stephen Colbert revived his conservative alter ego character to satirize Donald Trump's administration and its pressure on free speech, specifically addressing the FCC's role in getting Jimmy Kimmel's show canceled. Using his right-wing 'cousin' persona, Colbert performed a segment offering satirical advice to TV hosts on how to avoid controversy by censoring themselves and aligning with White House messaging. The segment served as a pointed critique of censorship and the erosion of free speech under political pressure.
Key Points:
Stephen Colbert revived his conservative alter ego character to comment on the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel's show by ABC under pressure from Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
The segment satirized the Trump administration's sensitivity to criticism and its pressure on media outlets to censor content.
Colbert's character offered satirical advice to TV hosts to avoid controversy by self-censoring, repeating White House messaging, and reporting on others.
Colbert opened the show by stating 'Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel' and called the network's decision 'blatant censorship'.
The performance served as a warning about the gradual erosion of free speech and the dangers of appeasing autocratic tendencies.
""You can have your rights just as long as you don’t use them," Colbert suggested. "All you have to do is repeat whatever the approved message from the White House is today.""
AOC rips ABC over Kimmel and votes ‘no’ but House still passes Charlie Kirk resolution with 95 Democrats joining in
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Score: 4898 |
Comments: 780
The House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with 95 Democrats joining Republicans in support. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among 58 Democrats who opposed it, condemning Kirk's past 'ignorant' rhetoric and also criticizing ABC for pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show.
Key Points:
The House passed a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk, who was recently assassinated, with a 310-58 vote.
95 Democrats joined all voting Republicans in supporting the measure, while 58 Democrats opposed it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voted against it, calling Kirk's past rhetoric 'ignorant' and citing his controversial statements about race and Jewish people.
Ocasio-Cortez also criticized ABC for pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air.
The resolution condemned the killing and called for a recommitment to 'respectful debate' and American values.
""His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans — far from ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ as asserted by the majority in this resolution,""
Deno is raising $200k for the legal fight to free the JavaScript trademark from Oracle
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 2071 |
Comments: 201
Deno has initiated a formal legal petition to cancel Oracle's trademark on the term 'JavaScript', arguing it is a generic term. They are raising $200,000 to fund the crucial discovery phase of this federal litigation. If successful, the term would become public domain, freeing all developers and companies to use it without fear of trademark threats.
Key Points:
Deno filed a formal Cancellation Petition with the USPTO to free the 'JavaScript' trademark from Oracle.
The campaign aims to raise $200,000 to fund the expensive discovery phase of the federal litigation.
Funds will be used for professional surveys, expert witnesses, and legal filings to prove 'JavaScript' is a generic term.
Oracle officially denies that 'JavaScript' is a generic term in their response to the petition.
The case is framed as a broader test of whether trademark law can prevent corporations from squatting on generic terms.
"If we win, “JavaScript” becomes public domain – free for all developers, conferences, book authors, and companies to use without fear of trademark threats."
Breaking away from Google services with self hosted alternatives has been a bigger project than I expected
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Score: 227 |
Comments: 111
The author details their year-long effort to migrate away from Google services by self-hosting alternatives. While they successfully replaced email, calendar, and contacts, they encountered significant difficulties with Nextcloud for photos and files. The project revealed the hidden complexity behind Google's convenience and forced a reevaluation of what is truly worth self-hosting.
Key Points:
The author successfully transitioned email to a self-hosted server with a custom domain.
Calendars and contacts were moved to self-hosted CalDAV and CardDAV services.
Attempts to use Nextcloud to replace Google Photos and Drive were fraught with technical problems and instability.
The project highlighted the sheer number of Google services integrated into daily digital life.
A major challenge was deciding which services are worth the effort to self-host versus accepting the convenience of a large provider.
"The hardest part has been deciding what’s worth the effort to self-host and what’s better left alone. Some swaps have been straightforward, but others (like Nextcloud) have made me realize just how much Google’s convenience hides behind the scenes."
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Score: 191 |
Comments: 54
ZobTube is an open-source, self-hosted software tool designed to help users organize and view their personal adult movie collections. It allows for high customization, enabling users to sort content by various metadata like kind, length, actors, categories, and channels.
Key Points:
Open-source software for organizing personal adult movie collections
Self-hosted, meaning users run it on their own computer or server
Highly customizable with metadata like actors, categories, and channels
Based on open-source technologies
Available for download and discussion on GitHub and Reddit
"It aims to be highly customizable, allowing setting everything to match personal preferences."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 115 |
Comments: 0
Rust 1.90.0 introduces the LLD linker as the default on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu for improved linking performance and adds native Cargo support for publishing all crates in a workspace. The release also demotes the x86_64-apple-darwin target to Tier 2 with host tools due to Apple's discontinuation of x86_64 support and GitHub's removal of free macOS runners.
Key Points:
LLD is now the default linker on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, offering improved linking performance.
Cargo now natively supports publishing all crates in a workspace with `cargo publish --workspace`.
The x86_64-apple-darwin target has been demoted to Tier 2 with host tools due to platform changes.
Several APIs have been stabilized, including signed integer subtraction methods and new trait implementations.
Previously stable floating-point and slice methods are now stable in const contexts.
"In the vast majority of cases, LLD should be backwards compatible with BFD, and you should not see any difference other than reduced compilation time."
Thomas Paine, in Agrarian Justice, proposed a land value tax (and inheritance taxes) to fund a UBI in 1797, 82 years prior to Henry George's Progress and Poverty.
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 110 |
Comments: 9
Thomas Paine's 1797 pamphlet, 'Agrarian Justice,' proposed a revolutionary system of social insurance funded by a tax on inherited land, predating Henry George's similar ideas by over 80 years. He argued that private ownership of land, a common natural resource, created modern poverty and that the community owed a debt to those dispossessed by this system.
Key Points:
Proposed a universal grant (a precursor to UBI) paid to every individual at age 21 and as an annual pension after age 50
Funded by a 10% inheritance tax on all landed property and a similar tax on other inherited wealth
Argued that poverty is not a natural state but is created by the system of private land ownership
Established that landowners owe a 'ground-rent' to the community for the property they hold
Significantly predates Henry George's 'Progress and Poverty' (1879) by presenting a land value tax as a remedy for inequality
"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race... that the system of landed property [has] created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before."
When are "substantially larger improvements" coming to Anthropic models?
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 62 |
Comments: 34
The author expresses curiosity about the timeline for 'substantially larger improvements' to Anthropic's models, which were promised in the Claude Opus 4.1 announcement. They note that while a 1M token context window was released, they have not yet experienced the major upgrades in areas like coding ability that they were expecting.
Key Points:
Anthropic's Opus 4.1 announcement promised 'substantially larger improvements' in the coming weeks.
A subsequent 1M token context announcement for Sonnet 4 was made, but no other major updates have followed.
The author was expecting significant improvements in coding ability, such as a Sonnet 4.1 or 4.5 release.
Over a month has passed without the user experiencing these substantial upgrades.
The author clarifies they are not disappointed, but are curious about the timeline and any potential delays.
"I was expecting something like Sonnet 4.1 or 4.5 that would show huge improvements in coding ability. It's been well over a month now though and I feel like I haven't experienced anything substantial."
Zed Industries hires developers through an alternative path based on exceptional open source contributions to their GitHub repository, rather than traditional applications. The article highlights two developers, Junkui Zhang and Anthony Eid, who earned positions by consistently shipping quality PRs and building rapport with the team. This approach allows the company to identify passionate individuals who deeply understand the product and its mission.
Key Points:
Zed identifies potential hires through consistent, high-quality contributions to their open source GitHub repository
Successful contributors engage with the team, demonstrate consistent code quality, and build rapport through pair programming
Junkui Zhang became Zed's top external contributor by implementing Windows support over 10 months
Anthony Eid worked on Zed's most highly-requested feature (the debugger) before being hired
This hiring method finds developers who are genuinely passionate about the product and its mission
"These aren't drive-by contributions. The developers we eventually hire have typically: Engaged with the team, either through GitHub Discussions or our Discord channel, before opening PRs to align on direction Demonstrated consistent code quality across multiple contributions Built rapport with team members through live pair programming sessions"
the0 - An Open source algo-trading bot orchestration system
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Score: 28 |
Comments: 5
The0 is an open-source, Docker-powered orchestration system for algorithmic trading bots, created to solve the author's frustration with expensive cloud services and clunky setups. It is a language-agnostic platform that handles deployment, scheduling, and monitoring, allowing users to focus on strategy development. The project is now free and open-source, and the author is seeking feedback from the self-hosting community.
Key Points:
Solves the problem of cleanly deploying, managing, and backtesting multiple trading bots
Docker-powered and language-agnostic (supports Python/JS)
Handles scheduling, container deployment, and monitoring automatically
100% free and open-source, no longer a commercial product
Author is seeking feedback on architecture, setup difficulty, and missing features
"I couldn't find an open-source tool that fit my needs, so I built one. It's called `the0`, and it's a Docker-powered platform for orchestrating trading bots. It's language-agnostic (Python/JS supported for now) and handles the scheduling, container deployment, and monitoring so you can focus on the strategy."
Why catching short-lived processes requires eBPF on Linux but just a header on macOS
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 13 |
Comments: 3
The article compares how macOS and Linux map network packets to processes, particularly for short-lived connections. macOS uses the simple, built-in PKTAP API which provides process info directly in packet headers, while Linux requires complex eBPF programs that hook into kernel functions. This contrast highlights the different OS design philosophies of high-level, purpose-built APIs versus low-level, composable primitives.
Key Points:
macOS's PKTAP provides process information directly in packet headers, making implementation straightforward with no kernel programming required
Linux requires complex eBPF programs that hook into kernel networking functions, involving steep learning curve and build complexity
PKTAP works out of the box but is macOS/BSD-specific and limited to what Apple exposes
eBPF is incredibly powerful and flexible but requires understanding kernel internals and handling version differences
The 16-character limit on process names in Linux's comm field truncates application names like Firefox to 'Socket Thread'
"The contrast really highlights different OS design philosophies: macOS provides high-level, purpose-built APIs versus Linux offering low-level primitives that can be composed into powerful solutions—albeit with significantly more complexity."
Funding Baltimore’s Redline with a Land Value Tax Shift for Affordability and Stability
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Score: 12 |
Comments: 0
The article advocates for funding Baltimore's Redline transit project through a Land Value Tax (LVT) shift. It argues this approach would promote affordability and economic stability by encouraging development and reducing speculative land holding.
Key Points:
Proposes a Land Value Tax (LVT) shift as a funding mechanism for the Redline transit project
Aims to increase housing affordability and economic stability in Baltimore
Argues that LVT discourages land speculation and encourages productive development
Seeks to create a more equitable and sustainable tax structure
"Educating and advocating for a Land Value Tax Shift for Baltimore, MD, USA."
What are the effects of rising real estate prices in countries with very high home ownership rate?
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Score: 6 |
Comments: 8
The article examines the effects of rising real estate prices in countries with very high home ownership rates, focusing on the impacts on different types of homeowners and the broader economy. It questions the appeal of anti-inflation policies like Land Value Tax (LVT) when a majority of the population are homeowners who desire asset appreciation.
Key Points:
Renters, poor people, young people, and migrants are negatively impacted by rising prices.
Young people may stay with their parents longer due to unaffordable housing.
The effects on homeowners who own only their primary residence, including poor homeowners, are a central question.
The overall economic impact and effect on inflation are considered.
The political challenge of implementing policies like LVT when most voters are homeowners is highlighted.
"What are the selling poins of LVT and other anti-inflation policies for real estate when almost all of the population of a country are homeowners and want their assets to appreciate?"
This article provides a foundational introduction to Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform. It explains Kafka's core architecture and its primary use cases for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications.
Key Points:
Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable pub-sub messaging system.
Its core components include Producers, Consumers, Brokers, Clusters, Topics, and Partitions.
It is designed for high throughput, allowing it to handle massive volumes of real-time data.
Common use cases include real-time analytics, data integration, and event sourcing.
Kafka decouples data producers and consumers, making systems more resilient and flexible.
"Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable pub-sub messaging system that enables you to build distributed systems and real-time data pipelines."