The AfD are campaigning hard to bring back Hitler’s pre-1941 racist forced deportation platform (Nisko and Gurs), and also to block clean energy and make Germany more dependent on foreign states like Russia.

Johannes Kieß, a researcher specialising in right-wing extremism at Leipzig University [explains why a Nazi agenda of the AfD isn’t the only thing that attracts German voters].

“When it comes to energy policy, the AfD’s electoral success is not driven by constructive or innovative policy proposals,” he said. Instead, he argues, the party’s appeal is built on emotion, mobilising resentment directed both at “those at the top” — the political establishment — and “those at the bottom” — perceived outsiders.

Coal instead of wind power
The picture is different when it comes to the economy. Businesses say their biggest challenges are the shortage of skilled workers and high energy prices.

While Saxony-Anhalt’s coalition government of the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD) [and the FDP] is betting on expanding renewable energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and volatile energy prices, the AfD is backing fossil fuels instead [helping Putin maintain power].

Business leaders and economists have therefore cautioned against the AfD entering government.

Advising caution against the AfD entering government is like giving caution against Trump entering government. The only real difference is Nazis aren’t illegal in America.

It seems the word is out that Palantir was founded by actual Nazis and has been engaged in literal genocide. The question becomes whether Peter Thiel will ever face sanctions and eventual trial, before he can start a third world war.

A leaked schedule for the “retreat” hosted by Dialog, an invitation-only group cofounded 20 years ago by Thiel and entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, featured discussions on topics including preparations for a third world war, battlefield technologies, nuclear energy and cult-building.

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“It’s not the kind of conference that we should be hosting in Ireland,” [Zoe Lawlor] said. “It doesn’t reflect the fact that the majority of people here stand in solidarity with Palestinian people and want sanctions on Israel and are horrified by the genocide that’s almost three years in now.”

Lawlor said venues “need to show a lot more discretion about who they’re going to host for conferences”.

Sounds like the agenda was written by a 12 year old in 1983: world war, nukes and cult building.

No nation in this day and age should welcome Nazis, but we just saw Argentina play their cards on that front with Thiel.

Seems backwards to me.

You make a camera. Then you make a wireless version, which adds chips and software to the base.

Nikon is claiming they went the opposite direction. They made a wireless camera, and now it costs them money to subtract hardware and software. At best, subtraction means the “base” wasn’t a modular design.

Nikon routinely works directly with various government and industrial partners who require that a camera lack wireless connectivity hardware, like WiFi and Bluetooth chips, typically for security reasons. These cameras are generally produced in limited quantities, Nikon says, and have long lead times.

While Nikon would usually work directly with customers who require a specialized camera like this, the company has heard from its retail partners that they, too, have customers with these specific needs, so Nikon elected to make a small number of the Z6 III (No Wireless Connectivity) available in the public marketplace through its retailer network.

At worst, they know they can charge the people who need safety more money, because they are dealing with large budgets and a non-negotiable requirement.

Drop Site is reporting an integrity breach in its purest form, related to the Intercept leaving a dormant Signal username on a “Become a Source” page. The username was taken over and then a social media account describing itself as “Investigative Intake” solicited tips in roughly 100 posts between February and May, pulling in prospective sources.

Drop Site suggests the takeover exploited Signal’s recycling of dormant usernames. The Intercept framed its username switch as “security best practices”. Best practice actually would be an integrity breach notification, but its chief legal officer declined to address how the account had been seized, how long it persisted, or whether prospective sources were warned.

The Intercept executed a silent rebrand instead of a proper breach notification, while promoting itself to journalists for live training on responding “before, during, and after an online attack“.