The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, the fury over AI models in vogue, and more.Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, the fury over AI models in vogue, and more.Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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Starmer Is Edging Closer to Recognizing Palestinian Statehood, U.K. Officials Say
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North Korea Says Kim’s Relations With Trump ‘Not Bad,’ but Stands Firm on Nukes
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Ejabberd Great Invitations
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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.
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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:
"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."
- Suffocation and Isolation 17 Years of Israeli Blockade on Gaza
Almost unlivable after 17 years of blockade Israel has a long history of isolating the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to numerous closures during the past twoEuro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Europe Made Major Trade Concessions to Trump. How Did That Happen?
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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.
Gorilla habitats and forest at risk as Congo opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million peoplePhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
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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
China pushes back at US demands to stop buying Russian and Iranian oil
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one issue: the U.S.News Staff (CityNews Halifax)
Seriously, Why Do Some AI Chatbot Subscriptions Cost More Than $200?
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Shaolin ‘C.E.O. Monk’ Is Accused of Embezzlement and Affairs With Women
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Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank
Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank
Awdah Hathleen, a Palestinian activist who was part of the crew on the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot dead by an Israeli settler on Monday, the film's co-directors say.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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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…
Israeli fires in self-defense amid arab riot, faces arrest
Yinon Levi, previously sanctioned by the US, arrested after defending himself from Arab rioters—one of whom was a producer of the anti-Israel film No Other Land—during violent incident near Carmel.Israel National News
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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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.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canada starting Aug. 1, warns of higher levies if Ottawa retaliates
President Donald Trump announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, the latest letter to a trade partner that threatens high rates.Anniek Bao (CNBC)
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.
「目に余る」 ラオス児童買春、外務省の注意喚起を引き出した女性 - 毎日新聞
ラオスでの日本人男性による児童買春が疑われるような投稿が交流サイト(SNS)で相次いでいるとして、現地在住の日本人女性が6月初旬、撲滅を求める署名を提出した。女性は「あまりにも目に余る状況で、見て見ぬふりをできなかった」と語る。在ラオス日本大使館は女性の訴えを受けて、異例の早さで注意喚起文を出した毎日新聞
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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.
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Pakistan: Sanitation workers facing systemic discrimination and other rights violations need better legal protection – new report
Sanitation workers facing rights violations need better legal protection in Pakistan
Pakistani authorities must ensure robust protections for sanitation workers against institutionalized religious and caste-based discrimination.Amnesty International
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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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!
Brazil to double down on Brics in defiance of Donald Trump
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”.
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
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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.
OUR GENOCIDE
OUR GENOCIDE B’Tselem, July 2025 Since October 2023, Israel has fundamentally changed its policy toward the Palestinians. For more than 21 months,…Vimeo
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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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!
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?
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.
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.
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's Nuclear Weapons: How Israelis Deceived American Presidents From Eisenhower to JFK and Johnson
Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of U.S. inspectors.Avner Cohen (Foreign Policy)
Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR
Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR
National Public Radio becomes essential listening for some drivers - because they are unable to retune.BBC News
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.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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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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French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe
French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe
France called a framework trade deal between the United States and European Union a “dark day” for Europe, saying the bloc had caved in to U.S.Reuters Staff (CTVNews)
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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:
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.
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
PUTRAJAYA: 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.The Star Online (The Star)
Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause
Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause
The Israeli military has carried out several attacks across Gaza, killing over 53 people - including 32 aid seekers - despite announcing a "tactical suspension" of operations in three areas.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
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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:
- if you are hungry, i will feed you
- if you are thirsty, i will water you
- the only people who will be denied either of these gifts will be racists
- 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
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
Saudi forces arrest pilgrim for raising Palestinian flag in Mecca
Saudi security forces arrested an Egyptian pilgrim at the Grand Mosque in Mecca after he raised the Palestinian flag beside the Kaaba and called for an end to Gaza’s siege and starvation.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Inside the drugs factory: How captagon is fuelling the war in Sudan
Inside the drugs factory: How captagon is fuelling the war in Sudan
Deep in an industrial wasteland on the eastern bank of the Nile stand three unremarkable, half-finished buildings surrounded by a minefield.Daniel Hilton (Middle East Eye)
SYRIA: Authorities must investigate abductions of Alawite women and girls
Syria: Authorities must investigate abductions of Alawite women
The Syrian government must urgently step up efforts to prevent gender-based violence and promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigate cases of abducted and kidnapped Alawite women and girls, and hold perpetrators accountable, Amnesty Internationa…Amnesty International
Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder
Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder
In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments.Gayoung Lee (Gizmodo)
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.
Scotland streets fill with protestors as Trump arrives to play golf
Scotland streets fill with protestors as Trump arrives to play golf
U.S. President Donald Trump is in Scotland Saturday to play golf, and is expected to hold trade talks with the UK Prime Minister Starmer and EU Commission President von der Leyen.globalnewsdigital (Global News)
US won't fight for it self, let alone the politic spam about Trump.
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)
Thai military fires artillery toward Cambodia amid escalating tensions
Thailand fires artillery toward Cambodia amid escalating tensions
Thailand’s military fired artillery toward Cambodia as tensions further escalate between the two countries over a century-old border dispute.NBC News
This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service
This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service
Nope, it doesn't need satellite either.Jordan Gloor (How-To Geek)
Telegram banned in Nepal
cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/1059058
due to iligel uses telegram banned in Nepal government.
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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?
First they came for the nepalese and i didnt speak out because i wasnt a nepalese.
You know how that goes.
A large portion of all scams are conducted directly or indirectly via the internet, we should ban it
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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.
Trans toilet rules 'may force Scottish museums to close'
A PUBLICLY-FUNDED body representing museums in Scotland criticised Equality and Human Rights Commission proposals and warned “an environment of…Gregor Young (The National)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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-ci.
📺 Médias, culture et liberté d’expression
- Crise des médias romands – Le Temps
« Aujourd’hui, c’est encore le papier qui nous fait vivre ». Mais jusqu’à quand ? - Crise dans la presse régionale vaudoise – RTS
Un licenciement collectif qui en dit long sur la fragilité de l’information locale. - Annulations d’émissions satiriques aux USA – Rolling 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… - Hiatus – hiatus.ooo
Certains trouvent que ça rate sa cible, d’autres que ça tape juste. À vous de voir. - Édito sur la liberté et le choix – Grisebouille
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 mentale – Stanford / 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 suisse – Droit du travail en Suisse
Le droit rattrape l’automatisation, mais à quel prix pour les travailleurs ? - Modèles de langage et inférence – Droit du travail
Les risques liés à l’inférence par l’IA en matière de données personnelles. - L’EPFL et son futur LLM souverain – Le 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 suisse – Tuta
Une lecture inquiétante sur leur vision des ambitions sécuritaires suisses… - Pétition et lettre ouverte : démocratie plutôt qu’un État de surveillance – Campax / 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 Travail – Bluesky
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 déshumanisante – RTS
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 – RTS – RTS
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 dépolitisation – Monde 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 actes – Le Courrier
Un plaidoyer pour la cohérence entre discours et réalités politiques.
🌱 Santé, inclusion et environnement
- Parentalité numérique – CNIL
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 Inclusion – Pro 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 noire – The 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 franchi – Greenpeace
Un seuil historique est atteint pour le solaire suisse.
🏛️ Institutions, administration et régulation
- LPNum – Projet des Verts sur la modération des plateformes – Curia 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 privé – Solidarités
Un argumentaire pour un contrôle public fort de l’identité numérique. - Projets IT fédéraux défaillants – Le Temps
Quelqu’un a le rapport ? Je me sens concernée… C’est bizarre… 😇 - Swiyu : 62 300 francs pour un nom – 24heures
Et sinon, vous auriez trouvé un meilleur nom pour moins cher ? - Comment les États-Unis ont gagné la guerre d’Internet – Le Temps
Un retour sur les logiques de pouvoir dans l’histoire du réseau. - OpenData MétéoSuisse – MétéoSuisse
Des données météo publiques et locales en libre accès. - La Poste et la fin des lettres – 24heures
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.
La Poste: le géant jaune se prépare à un monde sans lettres
La numérisation bouleverse le modèle traditionnel de distribution du courrier. Avenir Suisse propose la fin du monopole et des subventions pour les journaux d’ici à 2035.Jon Mettler (Tamedia Publications romandes S.A.)
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
Ghost 6.0
Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishersJohn O'Nolan (Changelog)
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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 […]
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.
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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.
What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?
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.
- 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
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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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.
Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling: But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'
Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling
: But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'Richard Speed (The Register)
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.
Canadian Court Rejects Reverse Class Action Lawsuit Against BitTorrent Pirates * TorrentFreak
Voltage Pictures' ambitious plan to sue alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action in Canada has been permanently shut down.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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