Leftovers

• Sami ☛ The interweb sucks

  The [Internet] annoys the hecc out of me. Almost on the daily, I’m bemoaning the endlessly enshittificated[1] websites and AI slop[2] shoved at me through every crack and crevice possible. It might just be nostalgia talking, but it feels like things used to be better.

• Roy Tang ☛ Forty-Six

  I didn't really have anything planned for this post, so I'm kind of just going to ramble about different things for a while. Most of the things I wrote about last year still hold true. Time continues to be weird. The past year has been challenging.

• Brandon ☛ Smokin' Ribs

  Let the meat rest a bit. I served it with potatoes (roasted in some of the rendered beef fat from last weekend) and smoked corn, smoked in the husk with the ribs during the last hour of cooking. Note: to finish the corn well, turn the smoker to high for 15 min after you pull the meat off. This is what our plates looked like tonite (and we have leftover meat that will make dinners a good chunk of the week!):

• New York Times ☛ Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56

  When she became YouTube’s chief executive in 2014, Ms. Wojcicki was hailed as the most powerful woman in advertising. She had made Google enormously profitable, and she was expected to repeat the trick at YouTube. She led Google’s ad business and played a key role in its acquisition of DoubleClick, an advertising technology company, in 2007.

• Science

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-01 [Older] Did life on Earth begin earlier than we think?

  • India Times ☛ Flood of 'junk': how AI is changing scientific publishing

    These are a few of the most egregious examples of artificial intelligence that have recently made their way into scientific journals, shining a light on the wave of AI-generated text and images washing over the academic publishing industry.

    Several experts who track down problems in studies told AFP that the rise of AI has turbocharged the existing problems in the multi-billion-dollar sector.

• Education

  • Deccan Chronicle ☛ Internet Connection Mandatory In All Govt Schools: Minister Lokesh

    He said that in the next five years, government schools should be on par with private schools in the quality of education. The Internet would be made mandatory in all government schools.

• Hardware

  • Rlang ☛ The deep rabbit hole of DIY small ergonomic keyboards

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-01 [Older] Germany: Beer sales down despite Euro 2024 hopes

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • The New Stack ☛ How LLMs Guide Us to a Happy Path for Configuration and Coding

    Some argue that by aggregating knowledge drawn from human experience, LLMs aren’t sources of creativity, as the moniker “generative” implies, but rather purveyors of mediocrity. Yes and no. There really are very few genuinely novel ideas and methods, and I don’t expect LLMs to produce them. Most creative acts, though, entail novel recombinations of known ideas and methods. Because LLMs radically boost our ability to do that, they are amplifiers of — not threats to — human creativity.

  • Cendyne Naga ☛ An Imprecise, Inaccurate but Offline-First Search Index

    The appearance property is used to control how an element looks. By setting it to none, we're telling the browser not to apply its default styling.

    It should have ended there. Instead, it then hallucinated and said that removing the default styling will harm accessibility and then repeated the CSS above but with another non-existent attribute aria-label: "Check me";. When in actuality, about every article will say use the built in html to represent a checkbox and style it as you will, with appearance: none to reset it. This attribute, aria-label, does exist for HTML but not CSS.

    I continued this flow of occasionally asking for a specific property or effect, or an example of a property being used such as transition.

  • The Atlantic ☛ Generative AI’s slop era

    I found two of Shevelenko’s quotes especially striking. First: “One of the key ingredients for our long-term success is that we need web publishers to keep creating great journalism that is loaded up with facts, because you can’t answer questions well if you don’t have accurate source material.” And second: “Journalists’ content is rich in facts, verified knowledge, and that is the utility function it plays to an AI answer engine.” Each statement seemed to betray an attitude that the creative output of humanity amounts to little more than fodder—which seems particularly grim in light of what we know about how AI is trained on tremendous amounts of copyrighted material without consent, and how these tools have a tendency to present users with false information. Or as I put it last year: “At its core, generative AI cannot distinguish original journalism from any other bit of writing; to the machine, it’s all slop pushed through the pipes and splattered out the other end.”

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • India Times ☛ GPS spoofing incidents spike 400%: Does it make a plane crash? What should we know

      These incidents often involve unauthorised ground-based GPS systems that broadcast false positions to the surrounding airspace, aiming to disorient incoming drones or missiles.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • The Register UK ☛ Report: Myths about tech still plaguing the IT world

      Compounding the problem is the age range of the users surveyed – you'd expect this cohort would be more tech-savvy but they nonetheless still appear subject to the same myths and misinformation that pervades the average friends and family WhatsApp group.

      David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team, said: "Our research underscores the significance of a well-informed approach to cybersecurity and digital privacy.

• Defence/Aggression

  • New Eastern Europe ☛ Four signals regarding Russian economic problems in the "war of attrition"

    At first glance, it appears that the Russian economy has largely adapted to the shifts and sanctions that occurred following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, new developments suggest that the state may not be able to maintain this new model in the mid to long term.

  • India Times ☛ Can online voting be secure? experts in Las Vegas try to hack new platform

    The platform, known as Secure Internet Voting, or SIV, is ran by a U.S. firm of the same name. Allowing people to vote from their phones or computers, it is already being used in small pilot programs around the United States.

    But it faces significant hurdles to greater deployment: most states do not allow for the widespread use of online voting due to security concerns, instead opting for paper ballots that are auditable.

  • Michigan Advance ☛ Jan. 6 police officers call Michigan 'epicenter of preserving of democracy'

    The [insurrection] of former President Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6 left five dead and 140 police officers injured, as well as almost $3 million in damages to the U.S. Capitol.

    Trump falsely claimed during a press conference Thursday that his speech on Jan. 6 drew a bigger audience than Martin Luther King Jr. had when he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

  • Glencroft Ltd ☛ Children and young people reveal motivations to move as screen time explodes

    However, over half of the seven to 14-year-olds sampled (53%) are using screens for more than three hours each day when not in school, with almost a quarter (24%) of 11 to 14-year-olds spending more than six hours a day on devices. Spending time on screens increases as children get older, but their time being active does not.

  • Bulwark Media ☛ Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris Win

    But that won’t happen, because Trump doesn’t lose. He beat Joe Biden in 2020—remember? So if he’s not the rightful victor on November 5, an entire army of Republicans is ready to block certification of the election at the local level.

    No need to worry about mayhem on January 6, 2025 when Congress meets in joint session; the election deniers plan to stop a result right away if it looks like Harris is winning. Their goal: Refuse to certify anywhere—even a county that Trump won—and prevent certification in that state, which prevents certification of the presidential election.

  • Raw Story ☛ MAGA has game plan to halt elections if Harris takes lead: report

    Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias, publisher of Democracy Docket, told Rolling Stone, "I think we are going to see mass refusals to certify the election…. Everything we are seeing about this election is that the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared."

    Stoddard warns that "there are more than enough such individuals in these key posts to bring us to a constitutional crisis."

  • Rolling Stone ☛ These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers

    Rolling Stone and American Doom compiled its list of election-denying election officials by culling media reports about refusals to certify results and other denialist behavior — and by searching the social media profiles of hundreds of election officials in the six swing states.

    The investigation revealed hundreds of posts from officials expressing belief in lies about the 2020 election and skepticism about November, as well as myriad posts about every right-wing culture war issue and conspiracy theory imaginable — a veritable stew simmering with the toxicity of the online American right.

  • New York Times ☛ 3rd Teenager Arrested Over Planned Attack on Taylor Swift’s Vienna Concerts

    The authorities said the 18-year-old was connected to the main suspect and had recently sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.

  • VOA News ☛ Plot to attack Taylor Swift show in Austria linked to Islamic State

    "Concerts are often a preferred target of Islamist attackers, large concerts," said Karner, listing the 2015 attack on Paris' Bataclan venue and the 2017 bombing at the Manchester Arena where U.S. pop star Ariana Grande had played.

    The planned attack also recalled a foiled plot by three IS-linked suspects against Vienna's gay pride parade last year.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-01 [Older] European Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day: A personal account

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] Nigeria: Curfews in place amid reports of deaths at protests

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] Several injured in explosion at Nürburgring race track

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • RFERL ☛ Putin 'In The Dock': Freed Activist Pivovarov Says Russian Opposition, Ukrainians Share Goal

      Andrei Pivovarov was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the West and Russia on August 1. In an interview with Current Time, Pivovarov said he will work from exile to create a "dialogue" among opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    • France24 ☛ Russia evacuates tens of thousands in Kursk region amid Ukraine offensive

      Russia said it evacuated more than 76,000 people from its western Kursk border region on Saturday, according to the state-run TASS news agency, as Ukraine pressed on with its biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began almost two and a half years ago. In response to the incursion, Russia launched a military operation and sent additional troops, equipment and aviation unites to try to stop Ukrainian troops from advancing.

    • JURIST ☛ US, UK, and Canada impose more sanctions against Belarusians over human rights violations and support for Russia

      The US, UK, and Canada announced more sanctions against Belarusian individuals and entities Friday, all pointing to human rights abuses in Belarus and its support for Russia in the war against Ukraine. The countries moved for slightly different reasons.

    • RFERL ☛ More Bodies Identified At Site Of Supermarket Strike That Killed 14 In Ukraine's Donetsk

      Work crews have finished dismantling the remains of a shopping center in Kostyantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where a Russian missile struck on August 9, killing 14 people and injuring 44.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukrainian Forces Attack Black Sea Gas Platform Used By Russia For GPS 'Spoofing,' Navy Says

      Ukrainian naval and and military intelligence forces have attacked and damaged a former offshore gas platform used by Russian forces in the Black Sea, the navy's spokesman said on August 10. D

    • RFERL ☛ Belarus Summons Ukraine Envoy Over Alleged Drone Airspace Violations

      The Belarusian Foreign Ministry on August 10 summoned the Ukrainian charge d'affaires over alleged airspace violations after authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed Ukrainian drones had flown over the country's border with Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Russia Imposes 'Anti-Terror' Measures In 3 Regions As Ukraine Continues Incursion

      Russia has imposed anti-terror measures in Kursk, site of a Ukrainian military incursion, and two nearby regions as well as Bryansk, and Belgorod.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Belarus boosts troops at border, summons diplomat after accusing Ukraine of airspace violation

      MOSCOW - Belarus sent more troops to reinforce its border with Ukraine on Saturday, saying Ukrainian drones had violated its airspace in the course of Kyiv's military incursion into Russia's Kursk region.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Pushes Back at Ukraine’s Cross-Border Assault, but Kyiv Presses On

      After several days of fighting in southwestern Russia, both sides are claiming successes. The battles are still being waged.

    • LRT ☛ Following ban on cars, Lithuania turns attention to Belarus-bound buses

      Following the introduction of a ban on cars registered in Belarus to enter Lithuania, the number of passenger busses travelling between the two countries should also decrease, says Lithuanian Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė.

    • Meduza ☛ A roll of the dice Ukraine’s surprise incursion has opened a front on Russian territory, but the operation carries significant risks — Meduza

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Pro Publica ☛ Uvalde School Shooting Records Provide New Details, Reaffirm Previous Reporting

    Most other records released by the city, such as body camera footage and audio of 911 calls from children inside the classrooms, were detailed in previous reporting from The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE after the news organizations independently obtained hundreds of hours of investigative material through a confidential source.

    The Saturday release is the first major disclosure of documents by a government agency involved in the flawed response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. It was part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit between the city and the news organizations. Three other government agencies — the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office — continue fighting not to release any records.

• Environment

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-01 [Older] Pakistan: Lahore records heaviest rainfall in years

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-01 [Older] Nepal: How monsoons bring rain, landslides, and tragedy

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deccan Chronicle ☛ Amazon Web Services to significantly expand data centre operations in Telangana

      Amazon Inc, has expressed keen interest in making significant investments in expanding its data centre facilities and workforce in Hyderabad here.

    • Bert Hubert ☛ Nuclear power: no, yes, maybe, but not like this

      But we should not focus on what such a plant could achieve today. The painful truth is, you won’t get a new nuclear plant before 2038 (taking into account the years you’ll spend on tendering, permitting, lawsuits, financing, construction, commissioning). And by then things look entirely different.

      Well before 2038, we’ll have other ways of creating carbon-free power whenever we want. Extremely rapid improvements in battery storage and especially hydrogen production mean that nuclear will by that time no longer be the best or even an acceptable option.

    • Task And Purpose ☛ A guide to all the parachutes American paratroopers ‘ride to work’

      American paratroopers use a wide range of parachutes. Large formations use quick-snapping static line rigs whose designs date to the parachute regiments of World War II. Special operations teams train with highly maneuverable freefall canopies developed covert missions. We asked a pair of longtime paratroopers from both the regular Airborne and special ops world to tell us about the equipment they call their “ride to work.”

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-01 [Older] Should bulldozers make way for hamsters?

• Finance

  • Entropic Engineering ☛ DEFCON 32 Statement

    Once the manufacturing was fully completed, we were offered a one-time “take it or leave it” amount worth well under half of what we were owed pre-stoppage. Given that what we were owed was already discounted by 25% in order to hit agreed upon cost targets, this has had a huge impact on our small team. We are also still owed substantial sums for parts that we purchased on behalf of DEFCON for use in the badge. Again, all subsequent offers to negotiate a settlement in good faith have not received any productive response.

    We have also continued to pour lots of time, effort, and love into the project post-stoppage. I want to be clear that we never expected to be paid for this post-stoppage work, but simply did it as a labor of love for the community.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • India Times ☛ Cisco to lay off thousands more in second job cut this year, sources say

    The number of people affected could be similar to or slightly higher than the 4,000 employees Cisco laid off in February, and will likely be announced as early as Wednesday with the company's fourth-quarter results, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

  • [Repeat] Silicon Angle ☛ Cisco could reportedly let go 4,000+ workers in new round of job cuts

    The report comes six months after the networking giant let go a similar number of employees in a restructuring initiative. The initiative cost Cisco about $800 million, mostly in the form of severance costs and other offboarding expenses. The company stated at the time that the job cuts were meant to facilitate “further investment in key priority areas.”

  • Reuters ☛ Exclusive: Cisco to lay off thousands more in second job cut this year

    Cisco (CSCO.O), opens new tab will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas, including cybersecurity and AI, people familiar with the matter said.

  • The Washington Post ☛ Trump Media reports $16.4 million quarterly loss

    The poor financial results, laid out in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, don’t come as a surprise. In April, Trump Media said it lost more than $58 million last year, sending its stock plunging more than 21 percent in one day. The company flagged then that more losses might be ahead as it sought to expand its user base.

  • India Times ☛ Cisco may cut more jobs, and likely higher than it laid off in early 2024

    Sources reportedly told Reuters that the job cuts could be similar to, or even slightly exceed, the 4,000 employees laid off in February 2024. An official announcement is expected alongside Cisco's fourth-quarter results, potentially as early as Wednesday, August 14.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] US author James Baldwin: A voice against racism

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] US: Harris 'honored' to be Democratic presidential nominee

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] Vadim Krasikov: Putin's trump card in the prisoner exchange

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] Vadim Krasikov: Vladimir Putin's trump card in prisoner swap

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] Venezuela election: Masked assailants raid opposition HQ

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-08-02 [Older] Venezuela: US says opposition candidate beat Maduro

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • El País ☛ How Wikipedia is surviving in the age of ChatGPT

      There has always been a risk of fake articles appearing on Wikipedia. Here’s just one example: for a time, the page of a Northern Irish radio presenter stated that he had been a promising break-dancer, but that his career as a dancer had been cut short by a spinal injury. But this was just trolling. Sometimes, however, the fake information is for promotional purposes or to spread disinformation. Wikipedia has a long tradition of tackling such problems. Its committed community of 265,000 active volunteers has kept these problems under control. But the rise of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is posing new challenges.

    • NPR ☛ A brief history of swift boating, from John Kerry to Tim Walz

      Their accusations are widely understood to be false. Military records (released by Kerry’s campaign) backed up his combat claims. And while most of the swift boat veterans who spoke out against Kerry did not serve with him directly, the ones who did publicly supported his version of events.

      In a 2018 Fresh Air interview, Kerry said his critics “just made things up … left, right and center,” and that the proof his campaign offered was no match for their “alternative facts.”

      “The problem was that the right wing got behind this with major funding from some of the very same names who are doing major right-wing funding in the country today,” Kerry said. “And they started to pick up on these alternative facts and pushed them out there in the context of … television advertisements.”

    • France24 ☛ Musk's false X posts on US election viewed 1.2 billion times, says watchdog

      False or misleading US election claims posted on X by Elon Musk have amassed nearly 1.2 billion views this year, a watchdog reported Thursday, highlighting the billionaire's potential influence on the highly polarized White House race.

      Ahead of the November election, researchers have raised alarm that X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ Maduro wins presidency and Venezuelans mourn freedom

    The current situation in Venezuela has been rapidly worsening and deteriorating due to several factors such as; hyperinflation, food shortages/food crisis, suppression, and increasing levels of crime. As a response, the government has incited authoritarian crackdown methods and tactics in the hope of “eliminating” the high crime rates, and overall violence in the country. However, despite these challenges, Maduro has managed to cling to power, using tactics such as cracking down on dissent and controlling the media to maintain his grip on the country.

  • [Repeat] RFERL ☛ Rights Watchdog Concerned About Pressure Faced By Stand-Up Comedians In Kazakhstan

    In recent months, many stand-up comedians in the tightly controlled former Soviet republic complained about the situation following the jailing of two stand-up performers over their performances.

  • The Moscow Times ☛ 87-Year-Old Man Assaulted on Moscow Bus for Alleged Wagner Criticism

    Dmitry Grinchiy was attacked by two fellow passengers who claimed he called Wagner fighters “murderers” as their bus passed a memorial to the mercenary group, OVD-Info said.

    Video of the incident shows two men aggressively twisting Grinchiy’s arms, shouting and cursing at him, and trying to drag him off the bus to “hand him over” to the police.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • RFERL ☛ Belarusian Journalist Under House Arrest In Serbia Removed From Interpol Wanted List

    The international police agency's warrant for Hnyot’s arrest was issued at the request of Belarus, which accuses him of tax evasion. Hnyot has denied Minsk's accusations and called them politically motivated.

  • VOA News ☛ Philippine court orders corporate regulator to restore media firm’s license

    Rappler had previously argued the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic arm of EBay founder Pierre Omidyar, was a silent investor. Omidyar cut ties by donating the depository receipts to Rappler's staff.

    Rappler was founded by Ressa, won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize along with Russian investigative journalist Dmitry Muratov in a decision widely seen as an endorsement of free speech rights that had come under fire worldwide.

  • VOA News ☛ Journalists detained, threatened amid Venezuela election unrest

    Five of those arrests came in the past week, with authorities accusing the journalists of terrorism-related charges. Media workers have also been threatened, injured and expelled, according to data from media associations and free expression groups.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Lou Plummer ☛ The Norman Rockwell Painting That Changed the Internet For Me

    At the very end of the exhibit, off to the side was a single painting by itself in a little dimly lit alcove. I went over to see it and it was one I was unfamiliar with. It showed three young men. One lie dead on red Mississippi clay. One was on his knees clutching at the third who held him while looking defiantly at an unseen group of gunmen. The painting was Murder in Mississippi and it depicted the last moments of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the Freedom Summer of 1964 near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

  • JURIST ☛ Amnesty International calls on ICC prosecutor to take immediate action in Venezuela

    Amnesty International sent an open letter to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday, calling for immediate action against Venezuela for its crimes under international law.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • India Times ☛ Warner Bros has killed Cartoon Network’s website: Here's where you can find all those popular shows

    Warner Bros. Discovery has pulled the plug on Cartoon Network's website, redirecting visitors to its Max streaming service in a move that forgoes free access to popular animated shows.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• MacRumors ☛ Apple Pressures ByteDance and Tencent Over App Fee Loopholes in China

  Apple is putting pressure on Tencent and ByteDance to make significant changes to two of China's most popular apps in order to remove loopholes that circumvent Apple's typical 30% commission, Bloomberg reports.

  The loopholes are linked to mini-apps that allow users of Tencent's social-messaging app WeChat and ByteDance's short-video app Douyin to play games, hail taxis, and make online purchases without leaving the app.

• The Korea Times ☛ Google's shocking court defeat

  The trial began when the Department of Justice filed a legal suit against Google in 2020 claiming the firm had violated the antitrust law by controlling about 90 percent of the U.S. search market. “It is a huge victory for the American people that antitrust enforcement is alive and well when it comes to competition,” said Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic U.S. senator, who heads the Senate’s Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee.

• Copyrights

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-08-03 [Older] Music Labels' AI Lawsuits Create New Copyright Puzzle for US Courts

  • Futurism ☛ New Startup Analyzing AI Outputs to Find Out Where They're Stolen From

    Are generative AI models mass plagiarism machines? Many would argue that they are. For creating products that regurgitate other people's content, AI companies lock down billions of dollars in investment, while the creators whose works were purloined by the machines get nada.

    That's the way tech entrepreneur Bill Gross sees it, and he says he has an answer. His new startup, called ProRata, claims it will launch its own chatbot-slash-search engine that will use a patented algorithm to identify and attribute the work used by AI models, and through revenue-sharing deals, make sure that everyone involved gets compensated.

  • Variety ☛ Celine Dion Disavows Donald Trump's 'My Heart Will Go On' at Rally

    Former President Donald Trump has a long history of using popular songs at his campaign rallies without authorization — by the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Linkin Park and even Celine Dion — many of which have titles or meanings that hardly seem to imply victory, like “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and, in the current case in point, “My Heart Will Go On,” Celine Dion’s theme song from the 1997 film “Titanic,” in which thousands of people die on a sinking luxury liner.

  • Hindustan Times ☛ Celine Dion mocks Trump’s Titanic tune blunder, slams ‘unauthorised’ use at rally: ‘Really, that song?’

    Celine Dion was clearly not impressed by the former president’s playlist. The legendary singer didn’t hold back when she discovered that her iconic song, My Heart Will Go On, from the Titanic soundtrack, was played at a recent Donald Trump rally without her permission. She mocked the choice, questioning the suitability of the ballad for the event and slamming the unauthorised use of her music with a sarcastic quip.

  • TMZ ☛ Celine Dion Sends Warning to Donald Trump After He Uses Song at Rally

    They're making it clear ... Celine didn't give them permission to play it, and she's not endorsing political candidates to use her song.

    The statement ends with a question to the candidate ... with the group questioning why Trump would use this specific song.

  • Torrent Freak ☛ What's the Safest & Most Trusted Site to Download Pirate Streaming Apps?

    The title of this article contains a question, one that in various forms has been asked millions of times over the years. The reason the same question still gets asked countless times even today, is simple: the answer, should one even exist, is never true for long, even if we assume it was initially true. So what's the harm in asking?