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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)


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in reply to chobeat

When this baby bursts we’re going to see some serious shit.









Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents


Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals

US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.

The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.

The justice department has also dismissed at least three felony assault cases it brought against Angelenos accused of interfering with arrests during recent immigration raids, the documents show.

#News

in reply to Davriellelouna

Netanyahu lies as much as Trump but with more consistent evil. At least Trump’s lies are sometimes just absurd.
in reply to Davriellelouna

Of course reality begs to differ, with the starvation campaign having started back in the 90s:

imeu.org/article/fact-sheet-le…

"Starting in the early 1990s, Israel made it increasingly difficult for Palestinians and commercial goods to enter or leave Gaza, which along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967."

From 2018:

oxfam.org/en/timeline-humanita…

"Today, one million Palestinians in Gaza don't have enough food to feed their families, despite receiving food assistance or other forms of support."

2023:

euromedmonitor.org/en/gaza

"Under international law, Israel is an occupying power although it already ‘disengaged’ from the Gaza Strip in 2005; it still continues to control entry and exit from Gaza by land, sea and air. Likewise, it controls Gaza’s population registry, telecommunication networks and many other aspects of daily life and infrastructure. Rather than undertaking its duty of protecting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, Israel has been placing Palestinians under a suffocating blockade, which constitutes an unprecedented form of collective punishment in a stark violation of international humanitarian law."


in reply to zero

Ven der Leyen is a conservative. She's doing what all conservatives do when facing Trump.

What I don't get is why the EU hasn't sacked her.

in reply to phutatorius

see if she'll survive a no confidence vote if it happens now
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in reply to Davriellelouna

Arm the gorillas, give them a man to protect their home. Let’s see someone mess with bazooka wielding gorilla
in reply to Davriellelouna

Gorilla habitats, forests, and world climate at risk as the developing world aims to maximise GDP using the same methods as the developed world. Sadly, protecting nature still doesn't feed people, or finance a developing nation.

To be clear: I'm not happy about this choice but I can understand it. It would be very hypocritical of me to sit comfortably in one of the wealthy, developed nations that has caused climate change, refuses to give up luxuries to slow climate change, won't implement a carbon tax or a tax on the very wealthy to fund climate change technology, and judge Congo.



China pushes back at US demands to stop buying Russian and Iranian oil




in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

It would have never happened if they were using any chinese alternatives like Deepseek or Qwen. but here we are in the dystopian world ruled by westerners 🙁
in reply to china🇨🇳

Only because Google doesn't index Chinese sites =P Deepseek had an access control bug when it first launched and Qwen is owned by Jack Ma.

in reply to zero

Shaolin, and buddhist tradition could be something for the Chinese to really be proud of. It's a shame they haven't managed to protect their heritage from greed and abuse in the modern times.
in reply to lerba

Some how I'm not surprised at this, he sounds like a commercial minded person.
in reply to lerba

Corruption is ubiquitous with everything. It's a shame any of us didn't do better. We can start here, now.
in reply to zero

“Celebrity CEO Monk” is a real sign of the times


Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank


in reply to Saleh

'Israeli settler' aka Zionist
in reply to Luouth

"Israeli Settler" who is plainly on the video shooting at a crowd, named, internationally sanctioned and fully identified. But let's just call him "Israeli settler" for the headline...
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in reply to NoForwardslashS

"State sanctioned terrorist" might hurt the feefees of the terrorist sympathizers, though...
in reply to NoForwardslashS

Israeli settlers financed by the state of israel, yet country refuse to impise russian and iranian levels of sanctions to israel
in reply to Saleh

A statement released by the Mount Hebron Regional Council reads: "We will be there to support him and to call on the IDF and the government to demonstrate sovereignty—arrest the attackers, not the victims. Yinon stands on the front lines for us; we will stand there for him."


They are clling the murderer a victim.

israelnationalnews.com/news/41…



Buying Private tracker invites


Are any of these services trusted? Would a private tracker lock your account as soon as they figure out you bought your way in?

And can anybody vouch for or against [redacted]?

Edit: pretty sure the site I asked about is a scammer so I removed it so nobody goes there. I had completely misspelled the tracker name when contacting them and they didn't correct me.

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in reply to brownmustardminion

Its really easy to get into MaM and TL, from MaM you can get invites to quality mid tier trackers such as BHD, Orpheus, Seedpool, Aither, ANT, and LST. For the vast majority of users that is going to cover all their needs.

Its just not worth spending money to buy invites.

You basically need a seedbox on the higher tier trackers and at that point debrid services are a better value.

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in reply to upstroke4448

Those debrid services cause no seeders on the file you are trying to acquire.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
in reply to Appoxo

It does not "cause no seeders". It just doesn't typically seed (although some do offer seedbox options). Its a leecher, like the millions of users who torrent without port forwarding or stop seeding after the file is complete.

For debrid users it doesn't matter. The PT try hards do all the seeding and the media itself is typically already cached on the debrid services servers.

My point being if your going to pay to access pirated content, buying a debrid service is a much better value then a PT invite or a standalone seedbox.

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in reply to upstroke4448

Welp...I better stop seeding public tracker content on nyaa for a ratio of 6:1 and just bail now.
Remember: If nobody seeds anymore, where will you get it by torrenting? At that point it's useless and you'll need to use either the interwebz or usenet.
in reply to Appoxo

Its like your only reading half the comment before you need to regurgitate random points about the importance of seeding, which is not at all the point. This should be obvious as I clearly stated the point.
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in reply to upstroke4448

It does not "cause no seeders". It just doesn't typically seed


You're (and the service) are a leech*
^* With an option to be only a semi-leech.

For debrid users it doesn't matter. The PT try hards do all the seeding and the media itself is typically already cached on the debrid services servers.


You leech from PT and then the media is cached (read: temporary. So how long? 2 weeks if it isnt popular?). So where are you getting the file from if not from me and other seeders keeping the torrent afloat?

My point being if your going to pay to access pirated content, buying a debrid service is a much better value then a PT invite or a standalone seedbox.


Seedbox? Maybe not $/h or GB. But entry to higher entry trackers (if that's what you are after.
If you are after small encodes or 720p YIFY encodes this aint it. At this point you might as well just stream from pirate websites because the quality is the same.
Nothing like a ctrlHD, FLUX, NTb encode but rather just, well, meh and blocky output.
PT invites? Agreed. The user will be banned either because they couldnt keep quiet or someone up the chain caught wind and banned the invite tree)

Sufficiently read your comment now?

in reply to upstroke4448

I'm struggling with this part -- new to MAM, but not seeing chats in irc or in forums directing people to music trackers.
in reply to mountaincalledmonkey

With MAM you basically want to grab a ton of freeleech torrents so that you can max your BP out. For example I seed about 350 torrents for 550bp/hr which means every 3ish days I have max points.

You spend all that on upload credit. Once you have 1tb upload credit you can access the invites section of the forum.

From there you can get an invite to Orpheus, which is a very strong music tracker. There also some other good mid tier trackers.

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in reply to brownmustardminion

No, yes, no.

There are exceptions. You’ll run into people saying that they bought an account into some tracker years ago and that was their doorway in to everything. Maybe some of those people are telling the truth.

Just get in the normal way.



Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canada starting Aug. 1


Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, citing that Ottawa had retaliated with tariffs against Washington.

“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump said in his letter to Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, posted on Truth Social.

in reply to babysandpiper

Trump is named in the Epstein files.

Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.




A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia


Japan’s embassy in Laos and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a rare and unusually direct advisory, warning Japanese men against “buying sex from children” in Laos.

The move was sparked by Ayako Iwatake, a restaurant owner in Vientiane, who allegedly saw social media posts of Japanese men bragging about child prostitution. In response, she launched a petition calling for government action.

The Japanese-language bulletin makes clear such conduct is prosecutable under both Laotian law and Japan’s child prostitution and pornography law, which applies extraterritorially.

This diplomatic statement was not only a legal warning. It was a rare public acknowledgement of Japanese men’s alleged entanglement in transnational child sex tourism, particularly in Southeast Asia.

It’s also a moment that demands we look beyond individual criminal acts or any one nation and consider the historical, racial and structural inequalities that make such mobility and exploitation possible.

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in reply to Pro

Japan’s official warning wasn’t triggered by a government audit or diplomatic scandal. It came because Ayako Iwatake saw social media posts of Japanese men boasting about buying sex from children and refused to look away.


Ayako Iwatake the real hero.




As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution


I'm sure I'd be preaching to the choir if I told you that it's time for us to immigrate from übercorp owned social media and services. All of you have done so, so that's not the point of this post. Even though we are on these new platforms, the fediverse is still sensitive to requests from governmental bodies and organizations. Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same. Due to the size of Matrix's biggest homeserver matrix.org, the admins of said homeserver are beginning to follow the OSA and have already raised their minimum age to 18+. And instances who don't follow the Act could be subjected to insurmountable paperwork and even blocked from the UK, Australia and other countries enacting these outrageous laws soon.

Blocking UK users to avoid this is almost a necessity, and as Labour is attempting to get lawmakers to outlaw VPNs, we could be seeing the equivalent of the UK Great Firewall soon. However, it will take significant amounts of time, money and paperwork to outlaw VPNs and to get ISPs to block sites and protocols. This is where federated and open source platforms have an advantage, without being shackled by bureaucracy they are able to quickly adapt. But this is not sustainable, and eventually the UK will become even more overreaching in order to gain more control over people's Internet usage.

Darknets such as Tor, I2P and Yggdrasil are a potential solution, however they have multiple issues. Tor is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers. I2P is scattered in implementation and cannot handle high load. ~~Yggdrasil is alpha software and requires IPv6, which in many countries is simply not possible to use~~. Whilst these darknets are extremely resistant to censorship from other countries, with the only way to fully dismantle them would be to shutoff all access to the Internet, they still are not capable of handling modern Internet usage.

We might need new completely independent mediums seperate from the Internet to avoid this. Physical bluetooth mesh networks or other technology is an example. Maybe even a new version of dial-up. All I know is that governments will not stop here. I might seem like I'm overreacting here, but we need to be prepared for what is coming.

CORRECTION: I was told by a peer that Yggdrasil peers must have IPv6, however one does not need an IPv6 enabled network to use it, they just need an IPv6 operating system/device, which virtually every modern operating system including Windows and Linux does. Yggdrasil is actually Beta software.

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in reply to pelespirit

I love it when wild animals yell at me.

Whether it's that guy at the bus stop who blocks the traffic or the one with the bible and the speaker that renders his words into nonsense noise...

They're all a part of our ecosystem!


in reply to Domino

Fucking good. I hope this royally pisses off the shitty duopoly and we actually get a proper market again.


Brazil to double down on Brics in defiance of Donald Trump


archive.is/OfDB6

Celso Amorim, lead foreign affairs adviser to leftwing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told the Financial Times those attacks “are reinforcing our relations with the Brics, because we want to have diversified relations and not depend on any one country”.
in reply to schizoidman

I believe in the BRICS proposal. For any of you who don't, if you lived in a third world country you would understand what the missed potential is all about. Latin America is somewhat integrated, but people from Brazil could do scientific exchange with Uzbekistan, or an Algerian could be a professor in Senegal. The human potential is so great, because there are a lot of people who are left out from the current state of things.

Everyone wants to go study or be a professional in Europe, but what about all the other countries? Doing the hard thing (working together to reach new heights) is difficult, but it is the only way forward. And that's what the BRICS propose.



Our Genocide


  • .

PDF:
- Full Report.
- Summary.


Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on Gaza, underway for more than 21 months, has included mass killing, both directly and through creating unlivable conditions, serious bodily or mental harm to an entire population, decimation of basic infrastructure throughout the Strip, and forcible displacement on a huge scale, with ethnic cleansing added to the list of official war objectives.

This is compounded by mass arrests and abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, which have effectively become torture camps, and tearing apart the social fabric of Gaza, including the destruction of Palestinian educational and cultural institutions. The campaign is also an assault on Palestinian identity itself, through the deliberate destruction of refugee camps and attempts to undermine the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 

The term genocide refers to a socio-historical and political phenomenon involving acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Both morally and legally, genocide cannot be justified under any circumstance, including as an act of self-defense. 

Genocide always occurs within a context: there are conditions that enable it, triggering events, and a guiding ideology. The current onslaught on the Palestinian people, including in the Gaza Strip, must be understood in the context of more than seventy years in which Israel has imposed a violent and discriminatory regime on the Palestinians, taking its most extreme form against those living in the Gaza Strip. Since the State of Israel was established, the apartheid and occupation regime has institutionalized and systematically employed mechanisms of violent control, demographic engineering, discrimination, and fragmentation of the Palestinian collective. These foundations laid by the regime are what made it possible to launch a genocidal attack on the Palestinians immediately after the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.

The assault on Palestinians in Gaza cannot be separated from the escalating violence being inflicted, at varying levels and in different forms, on Palestinians living under Israeli rule in the West Bank and within Israel. The violence and destruction in these areas is intensifying over time, with no effective domestic or international mechanism acting to halt them. We warn of the clear and present danger that the genocide will not remain confined to the Gaza Strip, and that the actions and underlying mindset driving it may be extended to other areas as well. 

The recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule, demand urgent and unequivocal action from both Israeli society and the international community, and use of every means available under international law to stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

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The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk


You could be forgiven for looking around Reddit and saying "this is the most Left wing place on the Internet".

But there is an even bigger Left wing bastion of insanity, Transgender orthodoxy, and unchecked out of control Moderation. And its called "the Fediverse"

Never in my life have I seen such a Hive containing the Damned and Reprobates of life.

A wise man once said "I may had voted for Obama.....but you people are insane".

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in reply to ToastedMuffinMan

I was about to agree with you based on the title, but the rest of your post makes that a downvote instead.

in reply to RandAlThor

All it took for the West to so much as begin turning on Israel was pictures of skeletonised children.

If America and Europe truly believed in "Never again!" we would have carrier groups running 24-hour sorties and bombing Tel Aviv into the stone age. Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.

Nope! Instead we paid for this genocide. Solid return on AIPAC's investment!

I'm fucking sick. We're seeing images out of WWII concentration camps on the 2025 news. Cut Israel out from the world of decent men. They've forfeited their right to exist. Sorry guys, used to root for you. Never again!

in reply to shalafi

I'm pretty sure Yemen is outside of Africa, yet America and Europe have not gone after Saudi Arabia and the UAE for their war crimes there.

What might be the connecting factor here?

in reply to shalafi

Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.


Are you not aware of many wars around the world like Myanmar (and rohingya genocide) and Ukraine? What about yazidi? You're straight up delusional if you truly think any country with sizeable power would get flattened, especially nuclear-power.

in reply to REDACTED

Israel only has power because America gives it to them. They would collapse overnight if we went rolled into the Mediterranean looking for a fight.

Hell, if America pulled our support, their neighbors would flatten them, Sampson Doctrine be damned.

in reply to shalafi

USA didn't give nukes to Israel and the neighbour thing you talk about was already tried in arab-israeli war.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/i…




Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups


Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.

In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society.

Multiple international and Palestinian groups have already described the war as genocidal, but reports from two of Israel-Palestine’s most respected human rights organisations, who have for decades documented systemic abuses, is likely to add to pressure for action.

in reply to greenfire

Two ~~leading human rights~~soon-to-be-terrorist organisations based in Israel


I guess this would be the important internal test for this society. Wether they'd snap out of it and face the crimes they committed and drastically change direction as a result. Or wherher they double down and increase domestic repression against dissenting voices who bring up those crimes. I bet on the latter since that's where many economic interests are vested and it would avoid instability at least for a while.

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lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
octopus_ink

Thanks, good point, I think I just had a subconscious need to take a sideswipe at the reality that, had the US I was taught about in school not been a fabrication, we would not today be in the circumstances we are in.

I'm carrying a certain baseline level of rage pretty continuously since Jan 20, 2025, and it sometimes leaks out at inappropriate times.

Edit: No, since the morning of November 6th when I awoke to find myself having this reaction:

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in reply to floofloof

I thought we learned about 80 years ago that appeasement does not work
in reply to Rolder

We also learned that Nazism doesn't go well, but apparently we can only maintain these lessons for one or two generations.
in reply to Rolder

Some people did

Some other people learned absolutely nothing



Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar


Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
in reply to psx_crab

Malaysia mediating a ceasefire should instantly qualify Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize, don't you think? /s
in reply to gigachad

It's interesting how different the reporting is between outlets in SEA vs in the West. Almost every article I see in the Western press features Trump prominently, whereas in most the regional press he's mentioned either in passing or not at all.


Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause


in reply to Saleh

in elementary school i had a Jewish teacher. he taught me way back in 1998 that Israel was something called "fascist." he told me he didn't want to burden me too much before i was ready to know what that meant. but he told me no Jewish person could ever support fascism and remain Jewish at their core.

years later he showed me why he always wore long sleeves when teaching elementary school. it was to cover a tattoo on his arm. it was a number the nazis had assigned him when he was the age i was when we met (3). "this is why fascism is bad," was the message. "it almost killed me and my entire family," was the spoken justification for why no Jewish person could ever be fascist and remain linked to their Jewish identity.

he told me about some of the people who didn't make it out of auschwitz he had loved. his mother. his father. his sister. another little boy he made friends with at the death camp. countless people he never learned the names of but who always took a moment when they saw him to hug him and tell him they loved him, and that they envisioned a future for him where he told their stories to children so that no one would ever enact this kind of evil again.

i grew up in the south. while i was in school he introduced me to some of his friends in Appalachia.
- a cherokee man who wanted us to know his culture wasn't backwards, outdated, or novel. it was just his life
- an old man who had trouble writing because he'd been shot on blair mountain
- a gay woman who wasn't sure she believed there truly is such a thing as a "man" or a "woman" at birth, but rather that these are things our society we're supposed to be

These are just a few examples. there was always some marginalized person at his place teaching him how to make a recipe that he'd introduce to us before they moved on.

he told me in 2016 shortly before his death that his only regret in life was being a hypocrite. he told every person he ever imparted wisdom to to never hate, and to never let someone convince you to hate someone you never met. within the camp, there was a schism between people who blamed Poles and Ukrainians alongside nazi Germans for theis presence there. he told me the person who held his hand and walked him out of auschwitz was a Ukrainian man. my teacher didn't speak Ukrainan, not yet anyway. but he led him to a stew pot, hugged him, and gave him a bowl of borscht, made in the jewish style rather than the Ukrainian style. he learned in that moment that no one is ever simply part of a group, or that any group is simply represented any individual in it. people are complicated and groups are complicated.

but what made him feel like a hypocrite ever since the 1960s was that he couldn't find it in his heart not to hate israelis. he felt so deeply offended and betrayed by the usage of symbols he identified himself with to implement the very things that had taken from him nearly everything that it made him hate. i knew this man for the last 21 years of his life. the idea that he could hate anyone was… shocking. it… kind of shifted my world view forever because like… he never allowed himself to share this hate with anyone. he would criticize israel in action, he would tell us the star of david was not meant to represent what they used it for, he would explain to us their recontextualize the menorah to mean something it oughtn't was hurtful, but the idea that there were people on earth he didn't have the patience to listen to because he found them so wretched and vile that it twisted his soul in a knot was new to me.

i don't hate the israelis the way he hated them. i don't think i'm capable. not without the pain he suffered. but i do find them offensive on his behalf. i do think often about how wretched a person must be to wound the soul of someone so unfailingly patient and kind. i think about the crises of faith their re-contextualizing of his symbols gave him. but most of all i think about what he told me (paraphrased because this is a memory and memories change a little bit every time you access them)

"Some of my elders tried to teach me to hate the Ukrainian and make my way to Israel when everything was over. A few considered themselves Ukrainian in addition to being Jewish and told me that the way to make the world safe for Jews wasn't to go to Israel, but to go anywhere the poor and downtrodden are and help them resist their pharaoh. The soldiers who freed us were mostly Ukrainian. They fed us borscht because they knew from first hand experience that a starving belly can eat borscht without vomiting. Borscht makes you strong. It gives you power. The russian commanders wanted to send us to reeducation centers and bring us into the fold of authoritarian communism. One of the Ukrainian soldiers falsified documents for me and my Uncle to come to the United states to stay with 'our family' (his family) in hopes that we were more likely to be allowed to be ourselves here.

"Here in the United States, that soldier's cousins would tell me that under nazi occupation, Ukrainians were offered, in effect, 3 choices for survival. Collaborate with the Nazis, work with the antisemitic underground movement, or join the red army. Many like that soldier chose the red army even though it meant giving up on the dream of an independent Ukraine for a long time because Jews had been their friends and neighbors for 1600 years. They chose when faced with their burning home to save their friends rather than any of their own possessions. It was a grand act of kindness given to us by an entire group of people who had already suffered immensely under Bolshevism.

"Israel does not represent to me any future for the Jewish people. They are the same death cult that tried to kill me as a child for the unforgivable crime of existence. Every day, I work to make the world a better and safer place. Everyday it is made harder by people who claim that they do it in my honor. It hurts me in ways I cannot describe. Someday a time will come you will need to assemble a coalition of misfits. People will despise every member of your group. If you do it right, you will find at least one Ukrainian who will find you. They will be building their own band of misfits. Our people lived together for 1500 years before the Time of Separation started in the 1880s. We work the same way in times of desperation. We learned it from each other. It will be okay in that time to be selfish in your help. It will be okay to see someone in need and and feed them some soup for the selfish reason that the world will get safer for you when people in more danger than yourself are made safe."

i have spent the decade since his passing at the age of 76 trying to become the person he always hoped i'd be. he spent a lifetime trying to figure out his religious identity. i find myself on a similar journey, having started my political life as a democratic socialist, then moving into the space of anachocommunism and now operating in a space somewhat between anarchocommunism and religious anarchism. but the one thing that has never changed about my politics is the core of what drove his religious practices. it's basically the following principles:

  1. if you are hungry, i will feed you
  2. if you are thirsty, i will water you
  3. the only people who will be denied either of these gifts will be racists
  4. racists in hunger will be offered food, but not water

edit i math bad from 2016-1940 and missed my teacher's age by a decade

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in reply to The Quuuuuill

Your teacher sounds like an incredible person. Thank you for sharing his story.
in reply to Saleh

I found this the other day:

Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Ariel Sharon criticised the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as an act of "brutal interventionism" and said Israel was against "aggressive actions" and "hurting innocent people" and hoped "the sides will return to the negotiating table as soon as possible".


Saudi forces arrest pilgrim for raising Palestinian flag in Mecca


in reply to Saleh

They're complicit as well but the pious spend money and these c*nts collect. They've been in bed with the West for a long time by now.
in reply to YappyMonotheist

They have been in their own bed all this time, which sometimes is shared with the west.

in reply to Saleh

I like the guy, finding an illegal drug lab and just thinks, ah nice, gotta try a glass with those 'vitamins'


SYRIA: Authorities must investigate abductions of Alawite women and girls




Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder


in reply to Domino

How have humans gone from the Stone Age to being able to manipulate subatomic particles in just a few thousand years?

And it’s not just normal subatomic particles. My mind is kind of blown when I think about this.

in reply to neon_nova

And likewise in a time with such a strong pushback against knowledge, science, and innovation.. Oh the things humanity could achieve without these destructive forces!


Scotland streets fill with protestors as Trump arrives to play golf


in reply to floofloof

Why no throw eggs and bricks ? the easiest way.
US won't fight for it self, let alone the politic spam about Trump.
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in reply to KMAMURI

Its a golf course, you will need a good arm... Or a taco cannon...

(Internet, write that down, we need to make a taco cannon)

in reply to Bahnd Rollard

Trebuchets have been able to do this for at least a few years.
in reply to modus

Trebuchets are just medieval siege weapons from the trebuch region of France, everything else are sparkling catalults.
in reply to floofloof

"All plebe Sports that are not GOLF will be Banned from now on! Thank you for your attention to this matter."


Thai military fires artillery toward Cambodia amid escalating tensions



in reply to jwr1

Man I've been seeing so much about these over the last few weeks, I'd love to get my hands on one
in reply to pfizer_dose

I just picked up a 2pack of devices from the Amazon link in that article. Planning on messing with them this weekend. I figure I've spent more than $60 on random projects that went nowhere before, so this can't be that bad.
in reply to jwr1

I sent this link to a friend who's really into internet radio (like CB used to be cool for nerds) who also loves to 3d print. He lives in a plains state, where this should work really well.


Telegram banned in Nepal


cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/1059058

due to iligel uses telegram banned in Nepal government.



Telegram banned in Nepal


due to iligel uses telegram banned in Nepal government.


in reply to PattyMcB

Couldn't you say that about most news anyway?
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in reply to PattyMcB

Have a little empathy maybe? Foreign people are still people.

in reply to Pennomi

Yeah, this is some weird ass US defaultism/eurocentrism or whatever. Like there is no center of the world, this is still relevant to tons of people even if not to westerners.

By their logic why post any local news related to france/US, since it doesn't affect most of the world?

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in reply to PattyMcB

First they came for the nepalese and i didnt speak out because i wasnt a nepalese.

You know how that goes.

in reply to Arun Shah

It would be nice if they banned it everywhere. It seems like a large portion of the scams I see online involve telegram.
in reply to cmnybo

We should ban phones as well because people get scam calls.
in reply to cmnybo

Plus: shady managing of the network connections that could lead to mass surveillance, poor E2E encryption, and now a partnership with Musk.
in reply to cmnybo

A large portion of all scams are conducted directly or indirectly via the internet, we should ban it

/s



Trans toilet rules 'may force Scottish museums to close'


An interim update from the EHRC, published in May, said that “trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities”.

However, a response from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which supports around 455 non-national museums and is funded by the Scottish Government, said EHRC’s proposals may “force some museums to close”, or “risk leaving trans people with no facilities at all” if changes could not be made.

in reply to Tony Bark

Reminder - because trans men are almost always treated as invisible in these conversations - UK law makes it illegal for trans men to piss anywhere at all. Trans women can use the men’s, but trans men cannot use the women’s or the men’s.

It’s fucked.

in reply to andros_rex

trans men are almost always treated as invisible in these conversations


Seconded. There's almost zero solidarity most of the time in the trans community when it comes to trans-men, who often get treated as though they should just vie for themselves. It's almost like some sort of reflexive trauma of not wanting to associate with anything remotely masculine post-op.

I've seen trans-men literally get berated and put down for being enthusiastic about anything remotely masculine, be it sports or clothing, 24/7 by other trans people. They fucking hate them.

in reply to Tony Bark

We should move onto a 'by function' system, where there's one section with urinals, another with toilet cubicles, another could rooms for the handicapped. If women can piss decently into the urinal, more power to them.

Now that I think of it, maybe we should have tissue paper dispensers and bins for people to dab dry their genitals at urinals. Just sticking it back in after flicking it thrice?

Anyone and everyone can use any facility. Although it would be an asshole move to take up the handicap cubicle if there's one waiting. But it would be idiotic to wait in a long line for regular cubicles if it's empty.

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in reply to icelimit

One of the libraries at my university has bathrooms for everyone which simply has solid floor-to-ceiling stalls (as opposed to the flimsy barely standing things that are common in the US).
in reply to icelimit

That's the way they divide it at the building I trained for my job in (which isn't a unique facility, it's just where the training room is located.) Adults there have two bathroom choices - stalls, or urinals and stalls. The stalls are real stalls that actually provide privacy. There's no gender requirement for either and it works fine for the dozens of people who work and train there. The kids still have gendered rooms, since they are at an abundantly curious age (and some parents have gender requirements for who diapers/potty trains their kids, especially the little girls.) We can honor parents' wishes for their kids, but as adults we can still choose which grown-up bathroom to use for ourselves.

As a bonus - there are white noise machines in each bathroom, which helps decrease awkwardness across the board.

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in reply to Whats_your_reasoning

White noise machines sounds cool. The sounds coming from the (ladies) stall next to the men's is nothing short of impressive.

Some women going #1 sound like power washers.

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Ce qu’on suit, ce qu’on lit – juillet 2025


Pendant le mois de juillet 2025, une nouvelle moisson de liens a circulé sur notre groupe Signal. Lectures critiques, enquêtes, positions politiques ou anecdotes percutantes, voici une sélection de ce qui a nourri nos discussions et nos réflexions ce mois

Pendant le mois de juillet 2025, une nouvelle moisson de liens a circulé sur notre groupe Signal. Lectures critiques, enquêtes, positions politiques ou anecdotes percutantes, voici une sélection de ce qui a nourri nos discussions et nos réflexions ce mois-ci.

📺 Médias, culture et liberté d’expression


  • Crise des médias romandsLe Temps
    « Aujourd’hui, c’est encore le papier qui nous fait vivre ». Mais jusqu’à quand ?
  • Crise dans la presse régionale vaudoiseRTS
    Un licenciement collectif qui en dit long sur la fragilité de l’information locale.
  • Annulations d’émissions satiriques aux USARolling Stone
    Plutôt que de devoir envoyer les animateurs dans des camps, on coupe leur micro : pression économique, menace politique et disparition programmée des voix critiques sur CBS. C’est inquiétant pour la dictature aux USA…
  • Hiatushiatus.ooo
    Certains trouvent que ça rate sa cible, d’autres que ça tape juste. À vous de voir.
  • Édito sur la liberté et le choixGrisebouille
    On a pas tous les mêmes problèmes en tête, l’essentiel c’est de la garder sur les épaules…


🧠 IA, automatisation et société


  • IA et santé mentaleStanford / The Independent
    Les IA-thérapeutes sont présentées comme une réponse bon marché à la pénurie, mais selon l’étude et les articles, c’est un danger sans appel : confusion, manipulation, manque de fiabilité. Une alerte claire sur la marchandisation de la santé mentale.
  • Vidéo : les IA thérapeutes, une illusion ?Mastodon / YouTube
    Dernière vidéo de Caelan Conrad sur les IA thérapeutes : dense, percutante et à voir absolument.
  • Deepfake, droit d’auteur et dérive juridique ?Le Grand Continent
    Une proposition danoise d’étendre le droit d’auteur aux voix et visages pour contrer les deepfakes IA… mais la faisabilité reste floue.
  • Remplacer les travailleurs du clic… par d’autres précaires ?Next / TheNextWeb
    L’économie de l’IA est une mise en abyme : les travailleurs du clic sont à leur tour remplacés, pendant que les biais sexistes des IA persistent. Pas sortis de l’auberge.
  • Automatisation et droit suisseDroit du travail en Suisse
    Le droit rattrape l’automatisation, mais à quel prix pour les travailleurs ?
  • Modèles de langage et inférenceDroit du travail
    Les risques liés à l’inférence par l’IA en matière de données personnelles.
  • L’EPFL et son futur LLM souverainLe Temps
    Un projet ambitieux : créer un modèle de langage suisse, éthique, souverain, et aligné sur le bien commun. L’EPFL veut se positionner à contre-courant des GAFAM.
  • Surveillance numérique suisseTuta
    Une lecture inquiétante sur leur vision des ambitions sécuritaires suisses…
  • Pétition et lettre ouverte : démocratie plutôt qu’un État de surveillanceCampax / Société Numérique
    Une pétition de Société Numérique. Une lettre ouverte à Beat Jans, pour demander un moratoire sur les ambitions sécuritaires suisses.
  • Fuite de données France TravailBluesky
    Les données de centaines de milliers de chômeurs français se retrouvent exposées. Ils auraient dû engager… Cybercriminel: métier d’avenir?
  • Le pape contre l’IA déshumanisanteRTS
    Quand même le pape s’inquiète de l’intelligence artificielle, c’est qu’on a franchi un cap. Dignité humaine, souveraineté morale et machines « sans âme » : tout un programme.


💼 Travail, société et politique


  • Fractures numériques et cohésion sociale – RTSRTS
    L’émission explore les inégalités numériques en Suisse : accès, usages, fractures sociales. Emmanuelle Germond, membre de HTTPS-VD, y intervient aux côtés de Daniel Balestrini de l’UniGE pour évoquer les causes profondes de ces fractures et leurs effets sociaux et politiques.
  • Amazon : plus de robots que d’humains ?Le Grand Continent
    Une réflexion sur l’automatisation dans les entrepôts, entre dystopie logistique et mutation du travail.
  • Union européenne, syndicalisme et dépolitisationMonde Diplo (blog)
    « Le politique », c’est les élections, les partis, la buvette de l’Assemblée. Mais les questions sociales ? Ce n’est pas politique, voyons. Un long texte qui revient sur cette dépolitisation du social, avec des passages percutants… et d’autres moins convaincants.
  • Promesses et actesLe Courrier
    Un plaidoyer pour la cohérence entre discours et réalités politiques.


🌱 Santé, inclusion et environnement


  • Parentalité numériqueCNIL
    Un kit très clair et bien fait pour sensibiliser aux usages numériques en famille : Un kit très clair, proche d’un projet qu’on aurait pu faire nous-mêmes : c’est la CNIL qui pirate les pirates !
  • Cures de repos pour les mères épuisées (ou pour tous ?)Le Temps
    Trois semaines de cure payées par l’assurance maladie pour les mères en Allemagne — une politique qui pourrait inspirer la Suisse, à élargir à toutes les personnes épuisées. Et si on en faisait un levier pour le tourisme 4 saisons ?
  • Forum InclusionPro Infirmis
    Un lieu d’échanges et de documentation sur les pratiques d’inclusion en Suisse. Les ressources partagées permettent de repenser concrètement l’accessibilité et la participation dans tous les domaines de la vie sociale.
  • Tesla, accidents et boîte noireThe Guardian
    Des crashs inexpliqués, des portes qui ne s’ouvrent pas, et une opacité totale sur les données : l’article dresse un tableau glaçant d’une technologie à huis clos. Plus de 5 millions de véhicules concernés, et toujours aucun contrôle démocratique sur leurs algorithmes embarqués.
  • +10 % d’électricité solaire : cap franchiGreenpeace
    Un seuil historique est atteint pour le solaire suisse.


🏛️ Institutions, administration et régulation


  • LPNum – Projet des Verts sur la modération des plateformesCuria Vista / GitHub (texte complet)
    Un modérateur fédéral, un droit de réponse, des amendes jusqu’à 500k CHF… et pas mal de flous à clarifier : définition du contenu problématique, application aux mineurs, identification des auteurs. Un projet ambitieux qui interroge autant qu’il intrigue.
  • E-ID : entre public et privéSolidarités
    Un argumentaire pour un contrôle public fort de l’identité numérique.
  • Projets IT fédéraux défaillantsLe Temps
    Quelqu’un a le rapport ? Je me sens concernée… C’est bizarre… 😇
  • Swiyu : 62 300 francs pour un nom24heures
    Et sinon, vous auriez trouvé un meilleur nom pour moins cher ?
  • Comment les États-Unis ont gagné la guerre d’InternetLe Temps
    Un retour sur les logiques de pouvoir dans l’histoire du réseau.
  • OpenData MétéoSuisseMétéoSuisse
    Des données météo publiques et locales en libre accès.
  • La Poste et la fin des lettres24heures
    Une page se tourne dans le service public.
  • Des mots, des mots… Démocratie ?YouTube
    Un Data Gueule stimulant qui interroge notre usage du mot « démocratie » et invite à en raviver le sens.

📆 En conclusion


Cette revue de presse est le reflet de ce que nous partageons, commentons, découvrons et remettons en question collectivement. Elle témoigne des enjeux qui nous traversent, des luttes numériques qui nous animent et des paradoxes que nous observons avec une attention critique.

Chaque lien est une porte ouverte : à nous de les franchir, ensemble.



CMS/Newsletter plattform Ghost joins the fediverse


In Ghost 6.0 we're introducing another new distribution channel: The social web. Now, millions of people can discover, follow, like and reply to your posts from any supported social web client - including Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, Ghost, WordPress, Surf, WriteFreely, and many more
in reply to rglullis

not using it but i heard that compared to substack there's a fixed price (9€ x month) instead of a fixed % of the revenue . so if your revenue grows you don't own them more and more
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in reply to Picasso

Re: CMS/Newsletter plattform Ghost joins the fediverse


That is completely on brand with how the Ghost team operates. It's wonderful to see.


Yoinked.org support


Hello all, recently signed up for yoinked.org, but stupidly only saved my email in my password manager, instead of my username. The site allows you to to reset your password, but you're still on the hook to remember your username. From my searching, there is no support email for this site, and tickets must be made internally.



generanza spaccanza in JavaScript e mancocaspt


Nel mentre che, in questo nuovo round dell’estate attuale (“mese di agosto – inizio”), praticamente tutte le persone sulla faccia della Terra di stato socioeconomico comparabile al mio si divertono, io rimango inevitabilmente in questo mio stato di sofferenza semi-indefinito… ma non sono da sola. Infatti, a farmi compagnia, sulla base della mia sempreverde necessità […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…


generanza spaccanza in JavaScript e mancocaspt


Nel mentre che, in questo nuovo round dell’estate attuale (“mese di agosto – inizio”), praticamente tutte le persone sulla faccia della Terra di stato socioeconomico comparabile al mio si divertono, io rimango inevitabilmente in questo mio stato di sofferenza semi-indefinito… ma non sono da sola. Infatti, a farmi compagnia, sulla base della mia sempreverde necessità di sviluppare ancora nuovi progetti magici (top secret!!!) così come migliorare quelli esistenti, c’è da un lato il fottuto CSS… e dall’altro i generatori di siti per documentazione basati su JavaScript, che mi trovo a dover usare ma mi lasciano semplicemente esterrefatta. 😾

Il punto bello di questi affari è che sono molto più comodi dei generatori di siti statici più classici, per creare documentazione di roba frontend, incluso il testare tutto strada facendo… usando rendering sia client-side che server-side, la robetta che si scrive cambia in automatico nel browser, senza ricaricare la pagina, così come anche gli stili e la struttura effettiva della pagina: è goduria. Purtroppo, il brutto è che, chissà perché, sono (quasi) tutti fottutamente rotti!!! E non generatori mezzi sconosciuti e abbandonati (perché ovviamente quelli non escono proprio, cercando tra consigli o classifiche), o applicando temi di terze parti vecchi e marci (quelli danno problemi pure sui generatori della Madonna)… ma la roba più popolare. Ma non c’è nemmeno molto da dire a riguardo, perché il modo in cui è tutto fuori posto è semplicemente così anticlimatico… 💔

Per esempio, per una roba adesso (…cioè l’altra sera, abbiate pazienza) volevo tentare VuePress, perché sembrava abbastanza rapido modificare il layout a partire dal tema di base… e si, di per sé funziona, ma ho dovuto buttare via tutto appena ho visto che qualsiasi HTML indentato io inserissi in pagine di documentazione Markdown veniva renderizzato come blocchi di codice formattato. Lo specificare blocchi di codice con la sola indentazione, anziché con i caratteri di contenimento (```), è una funzione di Markdown, però non dovrebbe attivarsi per dell’HTML innestato prima in un contenitore HTML che non è indentato… e, dovrei poter disattivare la funzione completamente… Purtroppo, non solo nessuna IA ha saputo suggerirmi una via che funzionasse per farlo, ma la documentazione di VuePress passa dall’incompleto al rotto: le spiegazioni su queste cose più specifiche sono parziali e poco comprensibili, e la documentazione in sé è per qualche motivo copiata su più siti, alcuni più o meno aggiornati, da cui si hanno link a pagine interne non più esistenti… WTF??? ☠️

A seguire, come seconda idea, avrei provato VitePress — che è praticamente un mezzo clone di VuePress, usa le stesse tecnologie — ma quello invece attualmente è proprio rotto e basta: qualunque configurazione io scegliessi, con lo script di creazione rapida, il sito risultante dava errore 404 ad ogni cazzo di pagina, sia con la home che i miei file Markdown… vai a capire che minchia hanno rotto in upstream! E poi ne ho trovato un altro apparentemente simpatico, RsPress — che, come suggerisce il nome, è basato in parte su Rust, anche se non ho ben capito in che misura — che però da errore ad installarsi su Termux, perché vuole usare npm per tirarsi appresso dipendenze native (EW!), ma per la stringa della piattaforma (android-qualcosa-aarch64) non trova niente… (E menomale che per questo caso ero fuori casa, quindi da telefono e non da PC come per i due prima; sarebbe stato un problema se avessi scoperto che su Android non gira solo dopo averlo visto funzionare su desktop!) 🦧

Quindi, alla fine dei conti, tra tutti questi generatorini, quello su cui finisco sempre per ripiegare è Docusaurus che, grazie al cielo, funziona e basta. Non perché è scritto in React, ma perché è mantenuto da Meta, anziché da dei completi scappati di casa (e menomale che i prodotti open-source li fanno curati, a differenza di quelle lote fumanti di Facebook, Instagram e WhatsApp!). Tenderei a pensare sia meno personalizzabile, perché sembrano esserci pochi temi di terze parti in giro… eppure, pur col solo meccanismo interno dello swizzle, senza duplicare l’intero tema (che è sempre una cosa grossa in più da mantenere personalmente), ho fatto in un attimo quello che mi serviva — e poi ancora altre cose uscite strada facendo. Quindi boh, dai, bene così, che almeno una (1) cosa che funziona c’è a questo mondo… (oltre ad alcune librerie JavaScript per creare questi siti, che però di per sé non sono programmi già pronti, e io tempo da perdere non ne ho.) 🦖🦕🐊🐉!!!

#documentation #documentazione #issues #rogne #SSG




Obscure torrent: What seems like only seeder only connects for about a second, updating my "last seen complete" every 5 minutes or so, without transferring any substantial data. Thoughts?


Sorry if this is a rookie question, but most of what I've downloaded over the last decade was nowhere near this obscure. I'd like to think this community could benefit from a corpus of Q and A, if this breaks rule 4, I'll gracefully accept if this post is removed.

I am downloading through Mullvad, which I know doesn't let you forward your ports. So I can appreciate that that seeder's settings and mine might not be super compatible.

Is there any flag or anything I can do to let the seeder connect at all, besides finding some other way to exit with port forwarding. Seedbox is on my horizon, but it is far out there.

in reply to ggtdbz

Don't know what country you are in, but it might be worth considering try to get the torrent without a VPN.

Chances are if it's extremely rare/obscure stuff, it's not going to be tracked by a copyright enforcement agency.

in reply to J-Bone

If you don't want to download without vpn, try a short subscription of debrid or a seedbox

in reply to BurntWits

I'm surprised no one said Touhou yet.

Also, I see a lot of love for Celeste and Jet Set Radio in the comments. Y'all have good taste.




Elon Musk awarded $29 billion pay package from Tesla


Tesla’s board is giving CEO Elon Musk another huge pay day.

The company’s latest CEO pay package, worth about $29 billion, comes several months after a Delaware court rejected for a second time Musk’s 2018 performance award following a shareholder lawsuit. Musk is currently appealing the order.



How did you learn languages to navigate this world, pirates ?


My friend is looking for a resource to become fluent in French, he is forced to work with it. Asked to find a certain book, but it is not yet pirated on the resources of the wiki. My guess is that pirates have better alternatives for such a thing, so I'm launching a discussion.

I only ever heard about the book "Minna no Nihongo" in the context of learning Japanese.

EDIT: Thanks everybody.

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in reply to zaknenou

I learnt French through textbooks and then once I had a good grasp of grammar, reading French children's literature with a dictionary. I don't know if that's the "best" way, but it worked.

Fwiw I mostly learnt English by just reading English books and not having a clue what was going on for a couple years but eventually got it. However I was a young child when I did that, so my ability to learn new languages was much better. I could probably do the same as an adult, but it would take me a lot longer. Don't underestimate the brain's ability to learn even without direct "teaching" like a textbook gives you.

in reply to zaknenou

Pirate Rosetta Stone software. Then fund cideos of people speaking the language slowly so that you can learn the sound of it. They say learn the most common 1000 words.



Canadian Court Rejects Reverse Class Action Lawsuit Against BitTorrent Pirates


After years of legal skirmishes, an ambitious strategy by film studio Voltage Pictures, to sue alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action in Canada, has been permanently shut down. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that these cases, where IP addresses are the main initial evidence, are unsuited to this legal approach. Furthermore, the proposed methods for mass notification are deemed unlawful.