'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar.
Now, some say, following an audacious attack by Ukraine that saw hordes of drones smuggled into Russia and then deployed on June 1 to wipe out dozens of long-range bombers, it has arrived on their doorstep.
In the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, drones struck air bases, shocking Russian authorities and citizens.
"It was a fiery hell," residents of the Irkutsk region told RFE/RL's Siberia Realities.
In Siberia, some 4,000 km away, residents appeared to be shaken.
"Now the war has reached us too," residents told Siberia Realities.
'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar. Now, some say, an audacious attack by Kyiv deep inside Russia means it has arrived on their doorstep.RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities (RFE/RL)
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After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-06-11)
After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-06-11)caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-deny…
———>> Since May 27, some 160 people have reportedly been killed in massacres at these #GHF sites, which people in Gaza are reportedly beginning to refer to as a “death trap”.
>> But, again, … Israel and its spinmeisters were crying antisemitic blood libel at the very suggestion that #IDF troops would fire upon people trying to obtain food.
>> Even without the CNN report [edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/mid…], Israel’s own actions since June 1 have proved that Israeli forces do indeed deliberately fire upon starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid. Israel lied. Again.
>> … They’ve been caught lying so many times that there is no reason to take any of their denials seriously.
#CaitlinJohnstone #CrimeAgainstHumanity
@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a controversial federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which executive orders or policy initiatives they will help advance.
New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
Trump will continuously monitor all federal workers for “trustworthiness.”…Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Britain doubles down on defense boost with new fleet of nuclear submarines
The United Kingdom plans to build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and increase military spending in response to threats from Russia and Trump.
The United Kingdom will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a boost to military spending designed to send a message to Moscow — and Washington.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain “cannot ignore the threat that Russia poses” as he pledged to undertake the most sweeping changes to Britain’s defenses since the end of the Cold War more than three decades ago.
Britain doubles down on defense with new nuclear submarines
The U.K. will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a boost to military spending.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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And the US will bird dog or sell out your fleet locations at every turn. Morons.
Hang Farage and make some real moves, greedy cowards.
Personally I would instead consider how the recent advances in drone technologies could be applied to underwater operations and/or water-based launch platforms.
Nuclear submarines feel like a relic of the cold war at this point.
**a stealth submarine receives a long wavelength communications about an enemy craft due to enter its area the next day. she changes course towards the kelp forest it passed earlier, knowing the risk of prop entanglement. Nothing her crew can't handle. She notices that she has developed a certain liking to the flavour now, as she begins grazing on the long slimy leaves.
Immediately her internals begins to work at dehydrating, digesting and then producing the derived materials which feed directly to an intricate set of machines that weave back and forth, materializing a small fleet of self guided swim drones that will soon find themselves swimming towards the unsuspecting enemy soon.**
Major companies abandon law firms that signed deals with Trump: report
Major companies in the U.S. have begun shifting legal work away from prominent law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ reported on a legal luncheon at Manhattan's Cipriani restaurant in May, where Brooke Cucinella, a top lawyer at the hedge-fund Citadel, told other lawyers present that they like working with lawyers who don't run from a fight.
Not only are firms that struck deals losing clients, but those actively challenging the Trump administration in court are attracting new corporate business, per the WSJ.
Major Companies Abandon Law Firms That Signed Deals with Trump: Report
Law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration are facing corporate consequences according to reports.Sophie Clark (Newsweek)
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It makes sense.
How do the clients know that these law firms aren't sending every bit of confidential information to the Trump administration, attorney/client privilege be damned? Even if they are breaking the law in the process, why would it matter? The Trump administration can just hand-wave that away. Even if the law firms don't want to turn over the information, what do you think they're going to do when Trump says "Hand it over or I've got another EO waiting on my desk to be signed."?
These law firms have been compromised, and no sane client should be retaining them.
Populist Nawrocki’s triumph threatens Poland’s place at Europe’s top table
Victory of radical-right candidate could seriously destabilise the coalition government of pro-EU prime minister Donald Tusk
The victory margin of the nationalist Karol Nawrocki in Poland’s presidential elections may have been wafer-thin, but it marks a huge upheaval in the country’s political landscape whose impact will be felt not just in Warsaw but across the EU.
Backed by the previous ruling conservative Law & Justice (PiS) party and, openly, by Donald Trump’s Maga movement, Nawrocki, a radical-right historian, defeated his liberal rival, the capital’s mayor, Rafał Trzaskowski, by 50.89% to 49.11%.
His win means PiS retains a size-11 boot in the door of Poland’s politics that could seriously destabilise the coalition government of the centre-right prime minister, Donald Tusk, and threaten the country’s newfound place at Europe’s top table.
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Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher's price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.
Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Walmart announced plans to raise prices on some products in May as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs.Marni Rose McFall (Newsweek)
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
the US struck a secret agreement with Ishii. In a memo to General Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964), commander of Allied forces in Japan, Washington recognized that although war crimes had been committed, the experiments led by Ishii and his colleagues were "almost incalculable and incredibly valuable to the United States."In exchange for the records of Unit 731's experiments, the US granted Ishii and his assistants immunity. Ishii died, and his collaborators went on to have careers in prestigious universities and private laboratories.
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
Newly uncovered documents confirm Japan's ambition to develop biological weapons during the Pacific War. The infamous Unit 731 of the Imperial Army in Harbin, China, was not the only group to use human test subjects.Philippe Pons (Le Monde)
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
The model works well for the Kremlin because it allows it to easily recruit freelancers, or “disposable agents” as they’re sometimes called.Elisabeth Braw (POLITICO)
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“We anticipate worsening conditions across all directions this summer,” said the senior lieutenant in the Kostyantynivka area. “Personnel are exhausted. There are not enough rotations. Everyone is operating at the edge of their limits.”
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Bitcoin e il rischio crollo del 75%: verità o esagerazione? Il mercato delle criptovalute è costantemente soggetto a cicli di espansion...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was extradited from Lebanon to the UAE in January, with no information disclosed to his family as to his charges and whereabouts.Qaradawi was arrested in Lebanon in January, and extradited to the UAE over a video he posted to social media while visiting Syria, in which he expressed critical views of the Egyptian, Emirati and Saudi authorities.
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In March, a group of United Nations human rights experts raised the alarm over Qaradawi’s continued forced disappearance, and called on the UAE to disclose his whereabouts.
They further expressed concern regarding the legal process of Qaradawi’s extradition, which was triggered by an arrest warrant issued by the little-known security body, the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC), saying that the move was politically motivated and not based on legal criteria.
The extradition process orchestrated by the AIMC, they said, “is being abused by some states to silence criticism, shut down dissent, and pursue activists beyond their borders”.
The Arab Interior Ministers Council: What is it and why are there human rights concerns?
Read More »Qaradawi is one of an increasing number of perceived political dissidents targeted for extradition by the AIMC on seemingly political charges.
The experts also warned that Qaradawi could face further extradition to Egypt, where he faces a three-year prison sentence for “spreading false news”.
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
The family of disappeared Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi have issued a plea to the Emirati government for his release, as he marks 145 days of solitary confinement at an unknown location in the country.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Russia is using its army to try and take more of Ukraine. It's using its passports to control the population
For more than three years, every time 67-year-old Iryna and her husband stepped beyond their front door, the Ukrainian couple feared for their lives.
They could be caught up in shelling or in a drone strike — or end up being interrogated by security agents at gunpoint as they tried to cross a checkpoint in the southern part of Kherson region, an area still under Russian control.
Iryna, who CBC News agreed to identify only by her first name due to her concerns about retribution from Russia, said she and her husband felt they had no choice but to get Russian passports last year. That was when the local stores closed and it became impossible to get groceries without going through a Russian checkpoint.
Like many other Ukrainians, she and her husband accepted Russian citizenship because they feared what would happen if they didn't.
there are people here who believe the english language doesn't only deserve zero respect, it deserves active disrespect. I personally use proper punctuation and grammar when trying to be authoritative, but i also think getting upset about people not following arbitrary formalities is pointless in this context. no capital is involved; no laws either. so long as i am understood, who fucking cares?
if that's not an energy you can get comfortable with, then i really doubt this'll be the only problem you have with lemmy's culture
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
About 320 tons of fin whale meat were unloaded at Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, with some 1.6 tons set to be transported to six markets across the country including Tokyo and Osaka as raw meat.
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of Okhotsk.Japan Today
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That's fair. But Japan is harvesting fin whales that are second in size to the blue whale. Those whales are facing a huge proplem with overhunting.
The Faroes hunt is for pilot whales and dolphins which are not facing as an extreme population degradation.
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules - DeSmog
“The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March.Sam Bright (DeSmog)
Coming soon:
Brawny Paper Towels made from Great Smoky Mountains National Park trees
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Hello there! I was using Wayland for quite a while and things are more or less smooth (NVIDIA proprietary driver). I think it’s time for Manjaro to move to Wayland by default for both Plasma session and SDDM.Manjaro Linux Forum
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Wayland had/has a couple of missing features. Personally, it's nothing I use so I've been on Wayland for years now, but if you care about those missing features, then they won't work.
Honestly I don't even remember what they were anymore. I think screen capture was a big one though.
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal - DeSmog
The Alberta premier suggested feds could “carve” the northern port out of the legislation, making way for a new oil corridor to the coast.Taylor Noakes (DeSmog)
Manjaro Linux tornará o Wayland ativado por padrão
O Ubuntu não é a única distribuição Linux planejando uma grande mudança, pois o Manjaro KDE Plasma também planeja migrar para o Wayland.
Em uma postagem no fórum do Manjaro, Artem Grinev, responsável pelo KDE, intitulada "Manjaro KDE Plasma planeja migrar para o Wayland", ele afirmou: "Tenho usado o Wayland há um bom tempo, e as coisas estão mais ou menos estáveis (com o driver proprietário da NVIDIA). Acho que é hora do Manjaro migrar para o Wayland por padrão, tanto para a sessão Plasma quanto para o SDDM."
A postagem é curta e direta, com um pequeno FAQ e algumas opções de votação para os membros do fórum do Manjaro relatarem sua experiência atual com o Wayland.
Na imagem: a versão mais recente do Manjaro KDE Plasma
Esperamos que, quando a mudança for realizada, tudo ocorra sem problemas.
Mais detalhes na postagem do fórum.
Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they're going all-in with GNOME on Wayland.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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A BILL To prohibit the delivery of opioids by means of the dark web, and for other purposes.
Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
Here is the text of a bill introduced to Congress (US), ostensibly to combat the trafficking of opioids over "The Dark Web". There's a nice definition of "The Dark Web" at section 4.
I like the part where it says people are using "The Dark Web" both within the United States and "at the international border".
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1975/text/is?overview=closed&format=xml
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Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Felt that. Lemmy perfectly replicates (and improves) on the things I liked about Reddit. I don't need or want an algorithm for this, because you can just subscribe to all the communities you love anyway.
Meanwhile, Mastodon and Pixelfed are a struggle. Tagging is key since there's no algorithm, but even after following like 50+ tags, I still don't see exactly what I want in my feeds. I love fanart of games and anime, so I tried to pick pixelfed.art, but even then I don't see much, and also realized a large amount of artists are on mastodon.art instead, and the federation struggles to show me people not on Pixelfed. Hell, both official and 3rd party clients sometimes break when viewing a non-pixelfed account page. You seriously have to work to curate a feed on these places that make you want to come back.
I was never really a Twitter person, but I absolutely used Instagram and Pinterest a lot to look at art before I dropped them, so now I use Tumblr to not shut myself off entirely from fan content. So it's not a matter of me not liking Fediverse services like Pixelfed and Mastodon, but them lacking the methods necessary to make viewing content easier.
Don't get me started on Misskey, the language barrier isn't a problem for me as I am learning Japanese. But I feel a little lost with the UI, and once again, trying to find artists on other instances.
Right-wing opposition candidate Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election
Right-wing opposition presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s presidential election, official results show. With 100% of districts having reported results, Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote against 49.11% for his centrist, government-aligned rival, Rafał Trzaskowski.
Turnout stood at 71.63%, which is a record for a Polish presidential election, beating the 68.23% seen in 1995. It is also the second-highest turnout among all post-1989 Polish elections, behind only the 74.38% at the 2023 parliamentary election.
The outcome represents a remarkable victory for Nawrocki, a political novice who had never previously stood for elected office and trailed Trzaskowski in the polls for virtually the entire campaign. It will also have a huge influence on how Poland is governed during his five-year term.
Trzaskowski, who is deputy leader of Poland’s main ruling party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), would have worked closely with the ruling coalition of PO Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
However, Nawrocki, technically an independent but whose candidacy was supported by the national-conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, is likely to wield his veto and other presidential powers to stymie the government’s agenda, just as the current PiS-aligned incumbent Andrzej Duda has done.
Trzaskowski, a multilingual former minister for European affairs and member of the European Parliament, would also have favoured closer relations with Brussels while Nawrocki – who was endorsed by the Trump administration during the campaign – is a eurosceptic who favours strong ties with Washington.
Sunday’s run-off vote came two weeks after Trzaskowski and Nawrocki had emerged as the top two candidates among 13 who stood in the first round two weeks earlier.
The initial exit poll, published immediately as voting ended at 9 p.m., placed Trzaskowski narrowly ahead, on 50.3%. However, with a margin of error of around 2 percentage points, that poll made the result too close to call.
Updated versions of the exit poll published later on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday – which also included the first official results as they began to filter through – showed a reversal of the situation, with Nawrocki now leading on 50.7%. That led many analysts to call the win for Nawrocki.
Among the first to congratulate Nawrocki on Monday morning was Duda, whose second and final term in office ends in August this year.
“It was a difficult, sometimes painful, but incredibly courageous fight for Poland, for how the affairs of our homeland are to be conducted,” wrote Duda, who endorsed Nawrocki during the campaign. “Thank you for this heroic fight until the last minute…Thank you…for the victory! Bravo!”
Duda, who himself defeated Trzaskowski at the 2020 presidential election, also thanked the losing candidate for his “determination in the fight for the presidency…[and] willingness to take responsibility for Poland”.
Neither Nawrocki nor Trzaskowski have yet commented on the result, but the first foreign leader to issue congratulations to Nawrocki was Petr Pavel, president of the neighbouring Czech Republic.
“I believe that, under his leadership, Poland will continue to develop its democratic and pro-Western direction and that our countries will continue their mutually beneficial cooperation,” wrote Pavel.
The final election results must also be confirmed by the Supreme Court’s chamber of extraordinary review and public affairs.
However, that process is shrouded in controversy because the chamber – which was created as part of the PiS party’s judicial reforms when it was in power – is regarded as illegitimate by Tusk’s government.
An attempt by the ruling coalition to change the way that the presidential election results are validated by the Supreme Court was vetoed in March this year by Duda
Sunday’s run-off vote comes at the end of a months-long campaign that has seen the interrelated issues of security and migration at the forefront.
The war in neighbouring Ukraine has seen both candidates pledge to continue efforts to bolster Poland’s defence capabilities through expansion and modernisation of the armed forces.
Nawrocki, however, has taken a much tougher line regarding Ukraine itself, including signing a pledge not to ratify its accession to NATO if he becomes president. Tusk, as well as Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, criticised that decision, saying that it echoed Russian demands.
Both candidates have also pledged to clamp down on immigration and on the support given to immigrants already in Poland, though again Nawrocki has taken tougher positions.
Trzaskowski, meanwhile, has pledged that, if he were to become president, he would seek to sign bills liberalising the abortion law, introducing same-sex civil partnerships and undoing PiS’s judicial reforms.
Nawrocki, by contrast, holds deeply conservative views on social issues and has pledged not to sign any bills ending the current near-total ban on abortion.
During the final stages of the campaign, Nawrocki was hit by a series of scandals. It came to light that he had lied about only having one apartment. Not only did he own a second, but various questions came to light over how he had come to possess it and how he treated the elderly, disabled man living there.
Subsequently, a leading news website, Onet, reported that Nawrocki had helped procure prostitutes for guests at a luxury hotel where he worked as a security guard. Nawrocki denied the claims – based on testimony by anonymous former colleagues – and pledged to sue Onet.
Meanwhile, Trzaskowski faced questions after it emerged that hundreds of thousands of zloty had been spent on Facebook adverts supporting him and attacking Nawrocki.
The provenance of that money remains unclear, but there is a chance it came from abroad, which would be illegal under Polish election law. Trzaskowski has insisted that he and his staff had no involvement in or knowledge of the campaign.
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Pols:
Stop calling us stupid! We are anything but that! We are a proud and noble people!
votes back in power right-wing nut jobs who fucked them over the last time
Specific to elections: provide a principled left wing candidate with a platform that people can hear
For real substantial change: by taking away power from the powerful and giving it to the people
Most people agree with most leftist ideas (at least in theory), they've just been misinformed about what those ideas are and their true practicality
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
TL;DR
- Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.
- The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
- While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROMs
Google has confirmed it isn't discontinuing AOSP, but it's making a change that makes it harder for devs to build Android for Pixel phones.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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Idk man.
I love my OP12. But we're switching carriers to a Verizon MVNO which "won't work" with my OP12, so I bought a Pixel 8 Pro on sale last week and need to switch over.
I'm starting to wonder if that "it won't work" is bullshit tho...I've got a Verizon SIM in slot 2 and it works fine. Maybe I'd be missing out on 5G speeds? I got 5 bars on my tmo sim and my vz sim...but my Tmo got 1.1Gbps down, and my Vz sim only got 70Mbps.
‘Absolutely Brilliant Result’ – Zelensky Says All Operatives in ‘Spiderweb’ Drone Op in Russia Safe
Late on Sunday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on social media that all of the operatives of the nation’s security services, SBU, who had participated in a a raid earlier in the day that knocked out about $7 billion in Russian military aircraft within the invading country’s airfields, were safe in Ukraine and accounted for.
The operation was dubbed “Spiderweb.”
“An absolutely brilliant result,” the president wrote.
“A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time,” Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
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"You sure you just don't want to work or something"
Alt Text:
Disabled fantasy: Being able to sit in the room with all the doctors who ever asked if you were maybe just making your symptoms up...while they experience your symptoms. And ask them if they're making them up
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Poland presidential election 2025: rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins, official results show – live
The populist-right opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice party (PiS), has won Poland’s presidential election, defeating his pro-European rival Rafał Trzaskowski, in a nail-bitingly close contest.
Official results showed Nawrocki took 50.89% of votes in the runoff, with Trzaskowski on 49.11%.
Nawrocki’s victory is a major blow for the coalition government led by Donald Tusk and is expected to prolong the current political deadlock in the country as well as complicate the country’s position in Europe.
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Everything I've read is they can veto legislation, act on international affairs, etc. Absolutely not largely symbolic unless a Polish person would like to correct me.
Especially a big deal considering the current coalition is very weak and can barely agree on legislation anyhow.
Yeah he can veto and has to appoint ambassadors. The previous president didn't do that out of spite, so we were unable to recall people who should've been fired. They sent out people who aren't ambassadors technically, but fulfill that role.
So yeah, salty rightwingers doing everything to fuck Poland over out of spite. What's new.
Insanity. The people of Poland will be deeply regretful in time.
Well at least the next Behemoth album's lyrics are sure to be deep, angry and amazing. Nergal is going to be PISSED about this stupidity.
UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5093117
The UK's neo-liberal New Labour regime happily lies in bed together with fascist Tel Aviv.Snip:
UK prosecutors are colluding with Israeli embassy officials to classify protesters resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as terrorists and to imprison them on heavily politicized grounds, an investigation by The Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg showed.
“Documents released by the British government reveal that London has been coordinating with Israeli officials to prosecute protestors associated with activist group Palestine Action for disrupting the operations of Elbit Systems, which manufactures deadly weapons being used in the genocide in Gaza,” Klarenberg wrote.
The documents suggest that Israel has successfully lobbied the UK to abandon well-established legal standards in order to charge activists resisting Israel’s genocide under harsh counter-terror laws.
UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
Activists disrupting the production of Elbit drones used by Israel to kill civilians in Gaza are being prosecuted under UK counterterror lawsthecradle.co
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That's well beyond merelly "neo-liberal" and already into Fascist.
Mind you, Israel bought the current British Government by having Israeli-linked Jewish Organisations support the campaign that smeared Corbyn as an anti-semite in order to topple him from the leadership of the Labour party and bring these guys in which, in due course given that the UK has a First Past The Post electoral system, rotated positions with the Tories and became the governing party, so zero surprise that the British Government is just a puppet of the Israeli regime.
I'm just glad the UK has left the EU so that their rot doesn't interfere with how things work in the EU (it's bad enough that we have Racist and increasingly Authoritarian Germany and Austria, not to mention the outright Fascist Hungary, we don't need the country were de facto the two main parties are Fascist).
Nah, this isn't uncharacteristic for neoliberalism. Siding with fascists for imperialist reasons is the neolib way, and the Brits traditionally use a less restrained hand when censoring speech.
Even in the US, with our near free speech absolution, neolibs were supportive as cops cracked down hard on peaceful civil disobedience. If that's what American liberals were willing to do when bought by Israeli lobbyists, this makes perfect sense for the British version of the Democratic party. They'll be replaced by the proper fascists come next election anyhow.
I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant for a decade up to Brexit, and my feelingby the time I left was that they by then were pretty close to just being a posher version of Fascism.
Maybe Fascism is really just the natural end state of Neoliberal Capitalism: you can only go so far in helping the few pillage the wealth of the many before you have to start throwing the empoverished masses some outsiders (immigrants, other nations) and powerless insiders (like the poor and minorities) as scapegoats to distract them away from the (very much local) powerfull that are making them poorer, and as people grow increasingly skeptical of the traditional propaganda machine (for example, all the celebrating of a "growing GDP" doesn't work quite as well when people feel their pockets getting ever lighter) start forcefully cracking down on any dissent that's gaining traction and endangers the interests of the powerful.
Certainly I can't seen any end state of Neoliberalism that's not either Revolution or Authoritarism: all those politicians who got used to an environment were it's entirelly legal and totally normalized for them to get non-executive board memberships, gold-plated consulting gigs and millionaire speech-circuit fees from people they were "friendly" towards whilst in power, aren't going to turn to the people whose "friendship" yields such payouts and tell them they're going to start having to take a smaller cut of the country's wealth and pay more taxes, hence the only ultimate outcomes left are either some kind of Revolution of the masses that forces a cleanup of the political system, or increasing authoritarian measures to stop the masses from rebelling and given that if they're already rebelling it's usually too late (certainly it's far harder to stop it, impossibly so with no damage), what's normally done is to control information and to keep the masses divided and fighting amongst themselves - hence things like Identity Politics, which you can see in the US being fully weaponized - so that they don't rebel again the powerful.
Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?
I'm just curious if anyone knows of an effort to build a federated version of something like Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, etc. I'm not really a fan of the centralized control, commercial tie-ins and profit motivations of those and similar sites, but the community of collaboration and remixing designs means they are basically indispensable for time efficient 3d printing, they're basically like the Github of 3d printing.
For me the ideal would be to have a federated alternative where users can host and share their own creations and collections, as well as rate and comment each other's designs to help improve discoverability of the best models in the community. This seems like something that would be a good fit for the ActivityPub protocol but I'm not sure if there is something like this already out there. All I could find is this old reddit post that seems to have gotten a lot of support (and good suggestions for features) in the comments but has gone nowhere as far as I can tell.
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There are always needs for self-hosting for everything.
I can see some education institution set up their 3D model instance, and make it federated with other entities.
The problem is content discovery, right? As I said before, people are working to fix that right now.
Social web is basically similar to early internet, where discovering new things is hard.
Analysis by CSIS makes it clear that restricting ethane exports is a desperate measure that "inflict more damage on U.S. companies than Chinese competitors"
U.S.-China Trade Talks in London: Ethane Export Controls and the Need for Better Economic Statecraft
A new commentary from the CSIS Economics program analyzes the myriad issues with the recent U.S. ethane export controls.www.csis.org
Hexbear federation?
Some context and history on the topic.
I wanted to ask if there is change in opinion on this topic, while slrpnk was down I had account federated with Hexbear and it didn't seem that bad. Yet I way be just propagandised enough to not see the problem.
What do you think?
Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup
Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup
Government’s draft legislation also includes ban on releasing disposable party balloons into the environmentSam Jones (The Guardian)
Indian Aircraft Bound for London Crashes on Takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, 244 on Board
Indian Aircraft Bound for London Crashes on Takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, 244 on Board
An Air India passenger aircraft carrying 244 people crashed on Thursday afternoon in the northwester...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Tehran unravels documents exposing secret IAEA-'Israel' collusion
Iranian media outlets on Thursday published a series of documents that reportedly reveal covert coordination between IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and "Israel", a collaboration Iranian officials say was designed to politicize the agency’s oversight of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
The documents were obtained by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in what was described as a high-level intelligence operation, sources revealed to Al Mayadeen.
According to reports by Fars News Agency, the documents expose a long-standing partnership between Grossi and Israeli officials, showing that the IAEA chief repeatedly acted in alignment with Israeli directives regarding Iran’s nuclear file.
The unveiled documents implicate Merav Zafary-Odiz, "Israel’s" permanent representative to the IAEA from 2014 to 2016, as playing a pivotal role in advancing Tel Aviv’s position within the agency. According to the documents, she regularly criticized Iran’s cooperation during Board of Governors meetings and accused the previous IAEA chief, Yukiya Amano, of disseminating “inaccurate” information about Iran’s nuclear progress.
Tehran unravels documents exposing secret IAEA-'Israel' collusion
Iranian intelligence files raise serious concerns about the IAEA’s impartiality, exposing years of behind-the-scenes coordination with “Israel” to undermine Tehran.Al Mayadeen English (Tehran unravels documents exposing secret IAEA-'Israel' collusion)
$1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up
not only created a fake AI company that was ‘all humans, no intelligence,'” he also “dared to falsely report 300% revenue to investors.”
Name: builder.ai
$1.5 Billion AI Company, Builder.ai, Collapses, Accused Of Fraud
Builder.ai, one of the United Kingdom’s most hyped AI startups, is now broke and accused of being a complete fraud.Douglas Charles (BroBible)
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable.www.inkandswitch.com
Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking
Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking
Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad’s Mac-style multitasking took so long.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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Technology reshared this.
Multitasking is a feature of an operating system that is already there.
And window management on a touchscreen - I guess tiling is fine. Maybe.
Una giungla di fenomeni.
Se non riesci a concentrarti su cose serie per più di mezz'ora, è tempo di un post cazzaro.
Può anche non riuscire.
Tanto, sul #Blog, chi ti scova?
Una giungla di fenomeni.
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Nel cuore impenetrabile della giungla malese, dodici intrepidi avventurieri affrontano un viaggio estremo, tra fango, sudore e liane, alla ricerca di un montepremi da dividersi alla fine del percorso. Ma non sono esploratori, non sono ex militari, e no, nemmeno boy scout. Sono... professionisti digitali. O qualcosa del genere.
I loro titoli? Un tripudio di inglesismi, abbreviazioni e parole che, messe insieme, sembrano generate da un algoritmo ubriaco: content creator, consulente creativo, digital strategist, autore di contenuti web, project manager di progetti fluidi (ma quali?). Alcuni sono “ex manager”, che non si capisce bene se vuol dire che hanno lasciato la scrivania o se è la scrivania ad aver lasciato loro.
Li vediamo marciare tra le zanzare e i serpenti come se dovessero raggiungere il Wi-Fi più vicino, mentre il sudore scioglie l’ultima traccia di ceretta alle sopracciglia e i loro zaini sembrano contenere più prodotti skincare che strumenti di sopravvivenza. Il vero pericolo, però, non è la natura selvaggia: sono le tentazioni.
Ad ogni bivio, una nuova prova morale: una bistecca tomahawk da 240 euro, una suite con aria condizionata e minibar, un massaggio balinese a otto mani. Se uno di loro cede – e, spoiler: cedono spesso – il montepremi si riduce. Tutti si indignano, ma poi, alla tentazione successiva, cambiano idea. Perché rinunciare a una Jacuzzi in mezzo alla giungla solo per lasciare agli altri qualche euro in più?
E qui sorge spontanea una domanda: se questi sono i lavori del futuro, noi che ci svegliavamo alle sette per timbrare il cartellino abbiamo sbagliato tutto? Forse. Ma resta il dubbio: cosa fanno, esattamente, queste persone?
Uno dice: “Creo contenuti emozionali per il web”. Che potrebbe voler dire scrivere una poesia, girare un reel con la nonna, o semplicemente filmarsi mentre beve un cappuccino con lo sguardo assorto. Un altro è “strategic planner esperienziale”, cioè, se abbiamo capito bene, organizza eventi dove la gente si sente ispirata a investire in sé stessa. Un terzo “ha lasciato la finanza per seguire il cuore”, e oggi racconta la propria trasformazione interiore tramite podcast. Spoiler: la finanza sembra sentirsi benissimo anche senza di lui.
Certo, i tempi cambiano, e non tutti devono sapere riparare un tubo o accendere un fuoco con due sassi. Ma in certi momenti – tipo quando piove da tre giorni e bisogna costruire un riparo – l’assenza di skill pratiche diventa più evidente del fard sbavato sulle guance. E la giungla, quella vera, non fa sconti ai CEO di sé stessi.
Alla fine, mentre il montepremi si assottiglia e le prove si moltiplicano, resta solo una certezza: nella giungla digitale di oggi, l’unica vera sopravvivenza è farsi notare. Anche se l’unica cosa che si è costruita, finora, è un profilo LinkedIn pieno di parole che non significano nulla.
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Egypt detains 200 Gaza protesters, including about 30 from Netherlands
Egyptian authorities have detained approximately 200 pro-Palestinian activists from more than 40 countries, including about 30 from the Netherlands, ahead of a planned protest march to the Gaza border. Many Dutch participants reportedly said they were subjected to “unjust and humiliating treatment,” including being held for hours without food, water, medical care, or information.
Approximately 100 Dutch nationals had traveled to Egypt for the march, representing a diverse range of backgrounds, according to the Dutch public broadcaster NOS. Among them were students, teachers, healthcare workers, retirees and artists. Organizers said 18 members of the European Parliament were also expected to join the protest.
One of those detained was the sister of Mark van Rennes, the captain of the protest ship Madleen, who is currently imprisoned in Israel. She was among approximately 30 Dutch activists deported from Egypt to Istanbul, Turkey. She has since confirmed her arrival in Istanbul and is expected to land at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport around 2 p.m., likely accompanied by many of the other deported Dutch citizens, NOS reported.
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Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali
Since arriving in Mali in 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in former UN bases and military camps shared with the Malian army. Our investigation, as part of the Viktoriia project, reveals secret prisons where abuse and torture are carried out with total impunity.
Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Wagner’s Secret Prisons in Mali - Forbidden Stories
For more than three years in Mali, Wagner mercenaries have detained and tortured civilians in secret prisons located in military bases, according to Forbidden Stories’ investigation.Louise Berkane (Forbidden Stories)
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Cool state department propaganda bro. I prefer state department funded admissions of letting terrorism run rampant in the region across years and years of expensive military deployment, though. africacenter.org/spotlight/fiv… I don't think anyone is taking the Guantanamo Bay guys seriously with the "hey look, a Russian bird!" shit. You are not going to convince people that Africa is worse off with the Russians and Chinese.
If you DM me I will be happy to send you videos of the Ukrainians torturing their own soldiers with an electrified bedframe, which I got from Azov Telegram myself. That is, if you're curious why I can immediately intuit that "Viktoriaa" is full of shit.
Five Zones of Militant Islamist Violence in the Sahel
The spike in violence in the western Sahel is marked by differing actors, drivers, and motivations, calling for contextualized responses.the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (Centro de estudos estratégicos de África)
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in reply to Darkard • • •Reminds me of wildfires.
Australia was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history, and it was said that, while wildfires are inevitable, climate change contributed to the scale of them.
Saw loads of Americans call it alarmism, abd not an issue because it was just Australia.
Then the next year America was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history. Suddenly those same people were wondering if it could be that climate change thing.
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in reply to krashmo • • •Oh totally.
I’m on the us west coast and the national news (think USA today, cnn, fau, etc.) is all “there is smoky weather over there or smthn, anyway here is a monkey dancing” each summer (local news is covering the smoke obviously)
BUT as soon as it started drifting eastward and reached Nyc/DC then the news lit up with it about climate change/hazardous conditions.
Funny how that happens
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in reply to NOT_RICK • • •and now we collaborate quite nicely! we share fire fighting helicopters and fire fighters often fly over to help each other, since our seasons are offset
hopefully that remains and isn’t just seen as “giving things away” and used as a bargaining chip in a perverse game of number go up
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in reply to dinren • • •Are you implying Ukraine was wrong to pull off this attack?
Because that smells like Russian apologism.
Edit yeah you can see whenever you catch Russians when they're thought they were being "smart". It's honestly ridiculous how low your bar is for that. It's almost like interacting with another species.
veroxii
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to veroxii • • •Well this attack is to make Russia realise they should stop killing Ukrainians?
Ukraine isn't doing it for fun, you know?
There were dozens of long range bomber destroyed. Bombers which have been dropping bombs on Ukraine, killing people.
So now there's less of that.
So... why the comment about "maybe stop killing people?" That's literally what Ukraine is trying to achieve with this.
Edit you downvote all you want Ruski bots
corsicanguppy
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to corsicanguppy • • •Oh I do. Lemmy is filled with Russian bots, who the fuck cares about votes? Lol.
So it's a pacifist comment then?
Because either it realises this attack destroyed equipment thats used to kill people, thus leading to less killing (ie on the way to stopping killing) or it's a "Ukraine shouldn't be bombing Russia, everyone should just live in peace" which is just dogwhistling Russian propaganda as there's definitely not any actual Ukrainian pacifists here.
And they're the ones getting bombed. But you're just here for a snarky oneliners, you don't possess the capacity to argue it.
Run along kiddo
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Yeah, anyone who isn't a screaming idiot can see it.
I'm a Finnish person, in the Finnish reserves. I gladly kill Russians who break international laws, like the pathetic sack of shit Putin is.
And I can prove that.
I'm not like davel@lemmy.ml who claims to be American while sucking Putler's cock, spreading Russian propaganda.
From the downvotes and still not receiving an explanation to the first comment, yeah, everyone with a basic education from a developed country would know, yes. I assume that grouping doesn't involve, among others, you.
Dare you say any of those things or are you a pussy afraid of getting arrested over writing things online and then "having an accident"?
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Yes, the old "mentally ill people have nothing to contribute".
Ever stopped to think about how stupid that fucking argument is, since more intelligence usually means a highers likelyhood of mental disorders?
Some of these leading professors in bipolar diseases take heavy doses if lithium for their personal bipolar diseases.
Disregarding that, the implication you're making is that there aren't Russian trolls on Lemmy, and definitely not a concerted effort of any sort, ever. And if there are Russian troll on Lemmy, they certainly wouldn't lie about being Russian trolls. Like davel@lemmy.ml is always admitting he's a Russian shill.
Oh no wait, he's always pretending to be an American.. How weird, isn't it?
Edit, weird how you stopped accusing me of being a Russian troll?
(also inb4 Russians calling it nazi cross, it's a cross used in military symbols all over the world, extensively in Russian military as well)
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •There is a ignore button for you to use.
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth. Tells a lot about you, as a person.
So, you don't believe in Russian disinfo?
Why did you stop calling me a Russian troll?
Why can't you answer ANYTHING?
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Whst exactly do you think I've asserted at any point in this thread, except for personal facts about me, like that I'm part of the Finnish Defence Forces?
I've explicitly stated I've not asserted anyone being definitely something. So please, do enlighten me?
Perhaps your English isn't yet on the level where you can distinguish "assert" and "imply"?
JcbAzPx
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in reply to JcbAzPx • • •JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Do you really think the gish gallop works online?
Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Ironic.
Do remind me, what have I asserted?
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •You realise you're still avoiding insanely simple questions, right?
Unlike some, no matter what I say here, I don't have to fear physical reprisal. Unlike Russians. In Russia, being a journalist is extremely fucking dangerous, and that's why most Russians are afraid for their lives and would never admit what a small-cock authoritarian Putin is.
JcbAzPx
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in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Eugh. Such a bore, just vomiting the names of fallacies, not even understanding how one uses them.
Well, make it clear for everyone. You admit that Putin is a war criminal who should be seized and trialed for crimes against humanity, IMMEDIATELY? Right?
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Why on Earth would you imply I "think otherwise"? Oh right, your verbal skills aren't enough to answer a single fucking question in English.
I forgot, izvini comrade.
edit just a reminder, this is my personal knife, and it's explicitly for killing Russian war criminals;
JcbAzPx
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Stress on the pronoun "I" there.
I'm manufacturing defense of Putin? Me? A member of the Finnish Defence Force? A Finnish reserve member, trained to kill cyka ruskis?
Me who's saying Putin is a pathetic balding whore afraid to even appear in public because his country hates him so? Putler, who has an ICC warrant ouf for his arrest?
icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukr…
I bet you don't dare to say any of those things.
Please, prove me wrong in that aspect. Please
ps how much military training you have?
Dasus
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in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to Tja • • •No, I didn't misunderstand it at all.
I'm clarifying it.
You don't understand how clever Russian disinfo is. That is a comment that should be read as "Hey, Russia, please stop and Ukraine won't have to keep doing this to you" but it can also be read as "War is always bad, so this too was bad".
The fact there's two options and this is a pro-Ukraine article means it needs clarification. Because Russian disinfo accounts rely on things like that to build credibility to their accounts. If you're not completely sure when checking an account, if it's a little messy to figure out who a person is for and who they're not for, you're more likely to give up. And then that account can continue.
Lemmy is fucking infested with Russians.
And if you think this is cynic or paranoid or whatever, I've a bridge to sell you
TheFrirish
in reply to Dasus • • •Mate, as much as I want to believe you and I think you are right in general terms, in this particular case it is a false positive I have not tagged this account and I've glanced the account and I didn't see anything that would be tankie like.
However yes lemmy is infested with Russian disinfo but this ain't it chief.
Dasus
in reply to TheFrirish • • •I'm definitely not implying the first account is pro-Russian. (I didn't even check the profile)
I'm just pointing out there's an alternative way to see it, and we should be mindful of the sort of language we use and the implications it has.
Tja
in reply to Dasus • • •Dasus
in reply to Tja • • •Ah well, if you trust everyone on the internet, dear stranger, then so do I.
Henceforth I shall never question anything. It's not like bad actors actually exist.
Why bother retaining any sort of suspicion towards anything? It'd just be a waste of energy. Well meaning people have never been taken advantage of as far as I remberer.
Thanks, wise old Colin
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in reply to Dasus • • •6nk06
in reply to Dasus • • •That's the issue. You misunderstood and you try again and again to be right on the internet. It won't work. May I suggest some meditation? meditofoundation.org/ is free.
Medito Foundation - Building a more mindful world
Medito FoundationDasus
in reply to 6nk06 • • •Youre simplifying it.
Why is it that people online think they're masters of nuance, and other people just don't even understand what the word means?
Do you have any idea how good Russian disinfo is? That's like the only thing I'll ever give them credit for; spycraft and manipulation. They're fucking experts at it. CIA relies on machines and could never manufacture campaigns to shift Russian public opinion on the scale that Russia manufactures opinions in the Anglosphere. Russia uses people, and extremely effectively. Social engineering more than hacking, simply put.
I meditate daily, probably since you were born. If you speak Finnish, I'd suggest listening to Väinö Pertamo "Itserentoutushypnoosi" to learn the basics. Unfortunately even if you find the clip and manage to read the words said in it, I don't think it will work, because it's so much about the timbre of dr Pertamo. Basically more than half the lesson is not about the words.
Anyway, that aside, the point is I genuinely am glad of the downvotes. That will make some people question, why? It is quite the innocent comment. But to say it's obviously the meaning which is more likely, is well, to fall into the trap.
I'm not saying what it is. I'm pointing out that vaguely positively comments on Ukraine communities are something which Russian accounts use at the start to render credibility to their accounts, without having actually said anything that's not in-line with their propaganda.
You can jest and say I misunderstood and am making shit up, or that I'm being paranoid, but again, I simply care more about actually having this argument out there than you mocking me for it. For all I know, (and I underline I do not believe in this at all, but it is possible, if not even plausible), you're part of it. As me making that point would reveal that tactic, rendering it less useful unless it's "thoroughly debunked".
That's what happens with all of it. Once I caught davel@lemmy.ml, we went on for days, him claiming he's American. Now he doesn't even post anywhere else than lemmy.ml, because he knows he can't mod, so he doesn't want to, because he knows I or some other troll-hunter will be on him like stink on a pile of shit for the pretend-American he is.
And he's probably not even paid, just a nationalist moron. The people who actually get paid aren't that stupid.
Because again, Russia is terrifyingly good at manipulating people.
Although a part is ofc the ubiquitous nature of English and somewhat arcane nature of Russian. It's easier for a Russian to pretend to be from the West than the other way around. Except in voice chats. Reminds me of when I caught a Russian on the Irish national discord. He claimed he was Irish, but lucky for me their egos are easy to hurt. Dude didn't even know what a limerick was or where Limerick is. Once I managed him on voice, he had such a strong fucking Russian accent, and the most pathetic attempt at hiding it and trying a cartoonish Irish one.
It was hilarious.
So again, mock me all you want. No such thing as bad pr when it comes to talking about Russian disinformation
Russian state-sponsored disinformation campaigns
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in reply to nickwitha_k (he/him) • • •barsoap
in reply to AES_Enjoyer • • •...it's not recognised in e.g. Germany either? Crime is recognised by law which plenty of states consider plenty. Punching people outside of self-defence is wrong doesn't really matter to many jurisdictions why you're doing it.
Protections against workplace etc. discrimination were introduced in 2014, gay marriage is on society's agenda but as so often the first reading was controversial and now there's a war and the constitution can't be changed, anyway.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland. Ukraine is a post-soviet state so the starting point was "not great, not terrible" (that is, it wasn't literally illegal to be gay but no social acceptance whatsoever), and is moving in the right direction. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Do note that the likes of right sector don't have wider societal backing. Politically, they're very much fringe.
AES_Enjoyer
in reply to barsoap • • •Yes, Poland is a reactionary hellhole too. Being compared to Poland in gay policy is fucking dire.
I hope you're right
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in reply to spaghettiwestern • • •No it fucking wasnt, they just destroyed some planes and you watched them burn from a few kilometers away. Victim complex ass people.
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