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Amazon has launched its new Alexa tablets with a premium focus to directly compete with the iPad, according to Eric Saarnio and Kimmo Lehtosalo, who emphasize the importance of high-performance hardware, the Android operating system, and the integration of Alexa+ into the user experience. #Amazon #Tablets #Tecnología (translated)

Vicky Dávila stated that SEMANA had known of the existence of information under chain of custody that would be delivered to the Prosecutor's Office. According to what she wrote, the material included 147 terabytes of data, 40 computer devices, five cell phones, and tablets, which would allow investigators to track the actions of Petro's government in the DNI and bring those responsible to justice. https://t.co/PG9ydJsxRS #Justicia #Investigación #Gobierno (translated)

🚨 RELEVANT INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A GREAT EXPERIENCE THIS INFORMATION IS OFFICIAL, IT IS IN THE VIP PACKAGE EMAIL, SO IT APPLIES TO THE ENTIRE EVENT ✅ WHAT IS ALLOWED 👤 Every minor under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 🚌 There will be no official parking for the event. It is recommended to use public or alternative transport. You can check the TransMilenio routes that work best for you to arrive on time at the event. 💧 Remember to stay hydrated and eat well before arriving, in line, and during the event. 🍔 In the lines for entry to the soundcheck, you will find restrooms, food and beverage sales, and an exclusive point for pre-sale merchandise. 🧢 Wear a cap, hat, bandana, or similar to protect yourself from the sun. 🌧️ Wear jackets, vests, or waterproof ponchos to protect yourself from the rain, in case it rains. 🥤 Only packaged food and beverages in plastic containers are allowed in line before entering the soundcheck. 🚫 Once access to the soundcheck is granted, you will not be able to bring any food or drink into the stadium. 📍 In the north parking lot, there will be a meeting point for lost persons (minors). 💊 Current medications prescribed by a doctor. You must show the prescription, and it must match the name on your identification. 📱 Cell phones and power banks. 💜 Light sticks and official event merchandise. 🔋 Extra batteries for the official Light Sticks. 👂 Earplugs. 🚕 Upon exiting the event, there will be a safe taxi zone on Transversal 28. 🎒 ALLOWED BAGS 🎒 Backpacks/bags that do not exceed 30 × 30 × 15 cm, preferably transparent plastic, vinyl, or PVC. 👜 Small handbags, with or without a strap, not exceeding 16 × 11 cm. 🎽 Fanny packs not exceeding 16 × 11 cm. 🛍️ Transparent storage bags like Ziploc or similar, of medium size. 🚫 NOT ALLOWED 🔪 Weapons, knives, chains, sharp and/or glass objects (bottles, mirrors, etc.). 🎈 Inflatable items. 🎭 Masks and/or balaclavas that cover the face, inflatable costumes. ⛓️ Accessories or clothing with spikes, points and/or chains, nor large belt buckles. 🚫 Drugs, narcotics and their associated paraphernalia. 🪑 Folding chairs. 🎸 Musical instruments. ☂️ Umbrellas. 📷 No cameras for photography or video, drones, or smart glasses. 📱 Tablets or iPads. 🤳 Photography tripods and/or selfie sticks. 🎙️ Audio recording devices. 📻 Walkie-talkies or radios. 🚬 Cigarettes, open or closed packs, vapes, or lighters. 🔥 Flares or any type of pyrotechnic element. 🍔 Food and/or drinks when entering the stadium. 🥤 Cups, thermoses, and any kind of rigid and/or glass containers. ⚽ Balls or frisbees. 🐶 Pets. 🔴 Laser pointers. 💡 Glow sticks. 📣 Horns, vuvuzelas, whistles, or whistles. 🖊️ Markers, pens, or paint in any form. 💡 LED gloves. 💊 Non-prescription medications. 💄 Liquid makeup, perfumes, creams, or gels. 🎒 Large backpacks. ⛺ Tents, chairs, and/or blankets. ⚽ Shirts related to football teams. 🧴 Aerosols. 📢 Banners with sticks or poles. 🛍️ Promotional items or products of any kind. 💜 Keep this information handy and review it before leaving home to avoid inconveniences when entering the event. #EventoSeguro #Recomendaciones #InformaciónImportante (translated)

Tripoli intercepted 100,000 tablets bearing the late Libyan leader's image shipped via Europe in a Renault Master van, while Benghazi's investigators separately seized captagon tablets assessed to have originated in Syria, where the al-Assad regime once industrialised the billion-dollar trade. #Libya #Drugs #Gaddafi

Why Weak Societies Choose Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would be a system that allows politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, an eerily relatable dystopian novel, with this idea at the forefront. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, there is no overt oppression. The state does not have to stamp on human faces with its jackboots or erect an inescapable surveillance state. Rather, the people of Brave New World happily chain themselves with meaningless pleasure and distractions. The authorities do not rule through terror and rage, the central elements of 1984, but instead give the people everything they ever wanted. A pharmaceutical called Soma becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, likens it to Christianity without tears. While religion requires years of moral training, Soma allows citizens to achieve peace simply by swallowing tablets. It is the perfect escape from reality, a holiday from the facts. Lenina, the female counterpart to the protagonist Bernard, cannot comprehend why he refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard states, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina sees this as a sort of pathology and repeatedly encourages him to take the wonder drug. Bernard explains, “I want to know what passion is.” He understands that there is more to life than merely being content, craving genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than being emotionally regulated by the World State. Lenina’s bewilderment stems from her conditioning to regard unhappiness as a technical problem, encapsulated in the society’s common saying that “a gram is better than a damn.” The people of Brave New World are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the scientific state, relieving people of the responsibility of parenthood. This grants them the ability to engage in promiscuity, where everyone belongs to everyone else, while filling their free time with cheap entertainment and endless sporting events—what would be referred to as slop today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through the lens of fear, while Huxley saw it through pleasure. There was no need to ban a book in Brave New Worldbecause there was no one who wanted to read one. An abundance of low-quality information rendered censorship unnecessary because no one could hear the truth through all the noise. Huxley threw shade at civil libertarians who passionately opposed tyranny because they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Humanity in its rawest form is portrayed by John the Savage, an outsider free from the World State’s conditioning. Upon coming face-to-face with this spiritually neutered society, he completely rejects it: “I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” Huxley’s dystopia is not imposed on an unwilling population but instead requested by a hollow one. Which leads us to the question: How do people become so weak that they get on their knees and beg for totalitarianism? Good times make bad times possible. Once a certain level of luxury and safety is achieved, people start to resemble the hobbits from the Shire. They are so far removed from evil that they forget it even exists and become defenseless in the face of it. Andrew Lobaczewski, who studied the psychology of totalitarianism from inside Poland’s communist takeover, wrote: “During good times, people progressively lose sight of the need for profound reflection. They lose the capacity to differentiate human nature, and emotion begins to dominate intellect. Once a critical mass starts operating on the pleasure principle, any excess mental effort seems like pointless labor.” Lobaczewski warned that it is not as simple as some people losing the ability to think rationally. It is worse, because those people then shame anyone capable of doing so. A clever, liberal, and merry individual is a good sport. A more far-sighted person predicting dire results becomes a wet blanket, a killjoy. The ability to have uncomfortable conversations without emotion taking over is, in Lobaczewski’s view, an indicator of whether a society’s future will be good or bad. It is easier to think about pleasant things. This leads people to eliminate any data or facts that cause them discomfort. That becomes a habit and eventually a custom accepted by society at large. Once the general populace accepts that inconvenient truths should be left unsaid, it becomes incapable of reaching correct conclusions. After all, how could you ever describe a picture that you refuse to look at? “Catastrophe waits in the wings of the communities that lose the capacity for psychological reason and moral criticism,” Lobaczewski wrote. “It is on the other side of this weakening of thought that the processes of the generation of evil are intensified at every social scale until they give rise to bad times.” It is precisely man’s dreams of happiness that can lead to chaos and suffering. This hedonistic view of happiness contains the seeds of misery, feeding the eternal cycle whereby good times give birth to bad times. Friedrich Nietzsche viewed socialism as demanding comfort for the greatest number of people possible. To question whether it is good for the masses to live in comfort has become a form of heresy. This reveals the spiritual atrophy that so many suffer from. Considering only the weak believe comfort to be a virtue, it is what Carl Jung would describe as the infantile dream state of mass dependency: the desire to gently slip back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care. Except this lack of friction has consequences. The perfect state destroys the soil in which great intellect grows. Genius, struggle, passion, strength, and wisdom are required to build a safe and abundant society. Yet once a certain level of comfort is achieved, it can destroy the very virtues required to obtain it. Nietzsche observed that it is the warmest heart that aims to alleviate suffering and hardship but fails to realize that it thereby wills the destruction of its own foundation. Comfort breeds mediocrity, which is then called good. Small people want one thing above all: that no one hurt them. We have taken this pathology to such a degree that we now obsess over hurt feelings and call this virtue. Pleasure, in its proper place, is a byproduct of meaningful goals, not a goal in itself. Aristotle saw that pleasure and comfort distort perception and proper judgment. While they do not cause us to misjudge something like geometry or mathematics, they can destroy our ability to decide what is worth pursuing and, therefore, what to do. Consider The Odyssey. Homer depicts Odysseus’ men on the island of the Lotus-Eaters, where they taste the fruit and lose all desire to go home. Much like Huxley’s Brave New World, they are not imprisoned. Rather, they simply stop wanting anything more. Odysseus has to drag his men back to the ships while they weep to stay. This is what comfort can do to men. It empties them of purpose. We intuitively understand this but fail to apply it to our own lives. We must make the same choice as Odysseus when he refuses Calypso’s offer of endless comfort and immortality. He knows she is more beautiful than his wife Penelope waiting at home. He knows that he and Penelope will grow old and die, a fate he could avoid by staying with Calypso. No one who reads these stories wishes he had stayed. We want him to choose the hard way home because if he took the offer, he would stop being admirable. Yet staying is exactly what our modern society asks of us. We are told that the island is the good life. But what happens to the man who caves to this temptation? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche imagines a risk-averse society taken to its logical endpoint. The elimination of all struggle produces a man so diminished that he fails to possess even self-contempt or higher aspiration. Safety and sameness become the highest goals, creating “no shepherd in one herd.” Anyone who seeks to be anything more than normal becomes an aberration to be dealt with. Or, as Nietzsche puts it, they have “made the wolf a dog in man himself, man’s best domestic animal.”

The Pinnacle of Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would allow politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion—because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley’s *Brave New World* explores this idea through an eerily relatable dystopian society. Unlike Orwell’s *1984*, Huxley’s world contains no obvious oppression. The state does not need to “stamp on a human face—forever.” Instead, citizens willingly chain themselves to pleasure and distraction. Authorities do not rule through terror, but by giving people everything they think they want. Soma, a government-approved drug, becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustafa Mond, the World Controller, compares it to Christianity without the suffering. By swallowing a few tablets, citizens can escape reality—a temporary holiday from the facts. Lenina cannot understand why Bernard refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard says, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina views his desire for authenticity as a kind of illness. Bernard wants to experience passion and recognizes that life involves more than contentment. He craves genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than emotional regulation by the World State. Lenina’s confusion results from her conditioning, which teaches her to view unhappiness as a technical problem. This belief is captured by the saying, “A gram is better than a dam.” The citizens of *Brave New World* are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the state, relieving people of the responsibilities of parenthood. Their free time is filled with promiscuity, cheap entertainment, and endless sporting events—what might be called “slop” today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through fear, while Huxley imagined a society where oppression would be unnecessary because people would willingly surrender themselves to pleasure. There would be no need to ban books, because no one would want to read them. An abundance of low-quality information would make censorship unnecessary; the truth would be drowned out by noise. Huxley warned that people’s “almost infinite appetite for distractions” could make tyranny not only possible, but welcome.

💥HEUTE VORMITTAG WIRD ES KNALLEN!💥 Ganz Deutschland schaut heute gespannt auf die Monitore, Fernseher, Tablets und Handys. Den Massenmedien läuft der kalte Schweiß runter und sie hoffen das höhere Mächte helfen. Kein Wunder bei dem, was sie in den letzten Tagen alles versemmelt haben. 🦅#TEAMHEIMAT🇩🇪 - Bitte Teilen - https://t.co/2thMjjSy5X #Deutschland #Nachrichten #Massenmedien

Bundestagsabgeordnete haben allein 2025 insgesamt 1.670 Handys und Tablets für 1,5 Millionen Euro auf Staatskosten bestellt. Manche gleich neun, andere griffen noch schnell nach der Abwahl zu. Welche Parteien pro Kopf am meisten zugreifen, werden Sie nicht erraten — und das https://t.co/vYRXJ1ODv7 #Bundestag #Steuergelder #Handybestellung #DE

In einem Artikel von Nikolaus Harbusch wird berichtet, dass Abgeordnete, einschließlich bereits ausgeschiedener Parlamentarier, massenhaft neue iPhones und Tablets auf Kosten der Steuerzahler bestellt haben, wobei einige Volksvertreter innerhalb eines Jahres bis zu fünf Luxusgeräte anschafften. #Steuerzahler #Abgeordnete #Luxusgeräte

A partir del 31 de julio de 2026, una nueva ley de la Unión Europea permitirá a los consumidores reparar sus móviles y tablets incluso después de que haya expirado la garantía, obligando a los fabricantes a ofrecer servicios de reparación y piezas de repuesto, con el objetivo de reducir la obsolescencia programada y fomentar un modelo de consumo más sostenible. #DerechoAReparar #ObsolescenciaProgramada #Sostenibilidad

Zelfinchecken in hotels wordt steeds gebruikelijker, waarbij gasten vaak achter een receptie komen zonder menselijke interactie, door middel van digitale oplossingen zoals tablets en chatfunctionaliteit, als odpověď na personeelstekorten a snahu o snížení nákladů. #Zelfinchecken #Digitalisering #Gastvrijheid

An deutschen Schulen fehlt nun das Klopapier! 800 Schüler können nicht mehr in Ruhe "scheissen gehen". Reiches Deutschland! #Schule #Bildung #Klopapier #Poing Hintergrund: An der Realschule Poing mit rund 800 Schülern fehlt wegen einer Haushaltssperre seit über einer Woche das Klopapier. Nach Angaben des Landratsamtes wurden die vorgesehenen 8500 Euro bereits ausgegeben und die Papierkosten könnten auf rund 20.000 Euro steigen. Ausblick: Laut Landratsamt könnten als Nächstes freiwillige Leistungen wie Schwimmunterricht, Tablets, Weihnachtskonzerte oder Chemieexperimente eingeschränkt werden. Schulleiter Peter Popp warnt zudem vor ausbleibenden Reparaturen und Einschränkungen im Schulalltag. Wenn selbst Unterrichtsmaterial fehlt, zeigt das den enormen finanziellen Druck auf die Schulen. Vielen Dank für den wichtigen Hinweis! Quelle: Merkur https://t.co/iSpvM5krRj #Schule #Bildung #Klopapier

In der inklusiven Band Saar musizieren körperlich beeinträchtigte Mitglieder mithilfe von Tablets und einer neu entwickelten Software, die es ihnen ermöglicht, Töne allein durch Gedanken zu erzeugen, während sie auf eine Preisverleihung der Special Olympics vorbereiten. #Inklusion #Musik #Hirnstromtechnik

🚨 Tech companies like Apple and Google have three months. Activate safeguards on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children or we will bring forward legislation to force you to do so. https://x.com/ukhomeoffice/status/2063976128692273615

Solidarity and rapid action saves lives. Through close cooperation between the #EU and Japan, we secured 1,400 Favipiravir antiviral tablets for #hantavirus patients in 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 and 🇪🇸. Preparedness means having trusted partnerships in place before crisis strike #Solidarity #EU #Hantavirus #FR #NL #ES

#JIMIN transformou uma conversa profunda com Namjoon em “They Don’t Know ’Bout Us” “‘They Don’t Know ’Bout Us’ foi uma música que o Jimin realmente desenvolveu muito durante o processo. Ele sempre dizia o quanto tinha evoluído nessa sessão, tanto no canto quanto na forma de escrever melodias. Antes dessa música, eu, o Jimin e os compositores que estavam conosco fizemos uma faixa chamada ‘Weak’. Enquanto conversávamos sobre o que queríamos transmitir, eu mencionei a frase: ‘You make me weak’ (‘Você me enfraquece’). Porque, pra mim, era exatamente isso. E, na verdade, essa frase era direcionada a vocês. ‘You make me weak.’ É algo que você diz para alguém que ama. ‘You always make me weak.’ Isso pode ter um significado bom ou ruim, algo meio ambíguo. Depois, o Jimin me perguntou: ‘Hyung, por que “You make me weak”? Por que eles te deixam fraco?’ E eu respondi: ‘Porque eles não sabem sobre nós. Eles não podem saber. Nem eu mesmo me conheço completamente.’ Enquanto conversávamos sobre isso, acho que o Jimin achou essa ideia muito interessante. A ideia de que: ‘As pessoas me enfraquecem porque não sabem quem eu realmente sou.’ No dia seguinte, eu e o Jimin fomos para salas separadas, e foi aí que, provavelmente junto com o DOCSKIM hyung, eles pegaram um sample e transformaram isso em ‘They Don’t Know ’Bout Us’. Se vocês assistirem à performance, vão ver aqueles rostos e olhos aparecendo nos tablets e nas telas. Então, originalmente, essa música começou como algo escrito para os ARMYs… mas acabou se tornando uma música bem mais agressiva, direcionada às pessoas de fora que acham que sabem sobre nós, quando na verdade não sabem.” #JIMIN #TheyDontKnowBoutUs #ARMY