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One year after Charlie Kirk's death, the organization is a joke — even on the right

When Charlie Kirk was alive, his wife Erika had a retrograde role that was easy to understand. She didn’t use the word, but she was a tradwife.

Her position at Turning Point USA, the organization her husband co-founded in 2012 to promote conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses across the country, was essentially to dote on him as her leader.

After they married in 2021, she became the evidence that Charlie Kirk was living up to his own beliefs about male leadership — and female submission — at home during the crucial period that he was rebranding himself as an evangelical leader from the secular libertarian he had been.

Today’s game is Minecraft. “What is that monstrous monolith” you might be asking? Well. That’s my Childhood Minecraft world I built with my sister way way back on the earliest version of the Xbox 360 edition. I’ve been wanting to back this up for a while before that thing bit the dust. Let me tell you. It was a nightmare. I first, had to transfer it to my Xbox one. Thankfully I had already done that back in 2018. Then I had to transfer it to Bedrock edition. That butchered it a little. But that’s fine. It’s still mostly the same.

That’s where everything went to hell. My first idea was to simply just copy the save to a USB Drive, because surely that’s a feature Mojang has, right? Nope. Not at all. My next idea was to go back to Xbox One edition and see if I can back it up there. Also nope. I legit couldn’t figure out where it is in my library. I have a digital copy and from what I understand Microsoft didn’t yank it away. I have to assume I misremembered and i just had a physical copy.

So after all that I had to try some sketchy app called My Files Explorer. Thankfully it let me at the world files and back them up. Then I used something called Chunked to convert it to a 1.8.8 world. With that at least 2 of my childhood worlds were secured. Unfortunately the rest are all still stuck on the 360.

As for the world itself, it’s a lot less amazing and more so just sentimental. I have a cat pit I built to keep my pet cats. I know. I was far from a creative kid. On the plus side I gave them a TV so they wouldn’t get bored.

For the other world me and my sibling built a castle. A rather big one im proud of I might add. I remember this wall took nearly a week of building. I felt so damn proud when I finished it. Then I started building an outer tower I never finished.

There was a stable here with the first ever redstone contraption I built. It was a red stone gate on the stable. It’s sloppy. Messy. But I was damn proud of it when I first built it. It’s hard to believe this is where I got my start messing with things like that. Just an hour ago I was trying to wire up a Channel to my Jellyfin server to “recreate” a tv Channel for example.

It was weird visiting all this again. I was young when I started it. Now I’m more than old enough to have a kid of my own. It’s surreal to think about. Maybe if I ever have a child I’ll pass it down to them and see what they do with it. It’s a fun thought.

I had the chance to interview Mike Miller, the developer behind Halo: Combat Devolved, an ongoing project that aims to bring Halo: Combat Evolved to the Game Boy Color (and retro handhelds) using GB Studio. I've been playing through it on my Brick Hammer, it really feels at home on there.

We talked about the difficult process of translating Halo's weapons, enemies, vehicles and levels to such limited hardware, the creative solutions he's come up with along the way, why authenticity sometimes means changing the original game, and what he's got planned for future levels. If you've ever wondered what Halo would have looked like as a '90s Game Boy game, or wanted to hear a bit more about how he's made it all happen this one should be right up your alley!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51671840

📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it's AI!

Data from 2009-Now, however the Social Media corp claims "users have granted Pinterest a license".

What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn't a thing in 2009!

It even includes "limited personal information".

Grounds for a lawsuit? 🤓

¹ Never heard of this unit ever before, but even if we assume 1 ROW = 4-6 Pins that is 2-3 BILLION user Pins!

² Post would sound way worse wouldn't it?

🔗 Source: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest

Rae The Doe Comic Strip 2026-09-08 | Comics Kingdom

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Vladimir Putin short if he comes face-to-face with the Russian president at the G20 summit later this year.

The U.S. is hosting the annual gathering in Miami and U.S. President Donald Trump has said he'd like Putin to join. The Kremlin indicated in the spring that it's possible Putin will take up the invitation.

During an unrelated news conference on Thursday, Carney was asked about what he might discuss with Putin should he attend the summit in December.

"The message will be simple: 'Get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month,' and I'd leave it at that to be honest," Carney said.

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Putin hasn't attended a G20 summit since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The International Criminal Court has an active arrest warrant for the Russian leader.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted G20 finance ministers in Asheville, N.C., earlier this week with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in attendance.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1943390/new-files-reveal-eu-plans-to-accelerate-deportations-to-syria

I had the chance to interview Mike Miller, the developer behind Halo: Combat Devolved, an ongoing project that aims to bring Halo: Combat Evolved to the Game Boy Color (and retro handhelds) using GB Studio. I've been playing through it on my Brick Hammer, it really feels at home on there.

We talked about the difficult process of translating Halo's weapons, enemies, vehicles and levels to such limited hardware, the creative solutions he's come up with along the way, why authenticity sometimes means changing the original game, and what he's got planned for future levels. If you've ever wondered what Halo would have looked like as a '90s Game Boy game, or wanted to hear a bit more about how he's made it all happen this one should be right up your alley!

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1387768/why-balls-have-a-stitch-line

How do I find submissive men on this app? This app is kind of like Reddit but not and I’m still learning how to use it!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expects to meet Donald Trump in the second half of September and plans to press the US president for ballistic missiles and support for Ukraine’s “Freya” missile program as Kyiv seeks to revive stalled peace talks.