Microsoft fires 4 employees after protest over Israel ties, break-in at Washington office
Microsoft has fired four employees in response to a protest over the company’s alleged ties to Israel, with two more dismissed after a break-in at President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith’s office at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state, Anadolu reports.“Two additional employees were terminated due to serious violations of established company policies and our code of conduct,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The company had announced the initial two firings in relation to the event on Wednesday.
Now totaling four, the firings followed a demonstration on Tuesday by seven current and former employees at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state. The activists, affiliated with the group No Azure for Apartheid, entered Smith’s office to demand that Microsoft end what they described as direct and indirect support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The No Azure for Apartheid group identified the dismissed employees on Instagram as Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, following their arrest by police on Tuesday.
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Fed announces new capital levels for large banks
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Friday it had finalized new capital levels of the nation's largest banks following the June stress tests, although it added that Morgan Stanley is seeking reconsideration of its upcoming capital level.
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Microsoft fires 4 employees after protest over Israel ties, break-in at Washington office
Microsoft has fired four employees in response to a protest over the company’s alleged ties to Israel, with two more dismissed after a break-in at President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith’s office at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state, Anadolu reports.
“Two additional employees were terminated due to serious violations of established company policies and our code of conduct,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The company had announced the initial two firings in relation to the event on Wednesday.
Now totaling four, the firings followed a demonstration on Tuesday by seven current and former employees at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state. The activists, affiliated with the group No Azure for Apartheid, entered Smith’s office to demand that Microsoft end what they described as direct and indirect support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The No Azure for Apartheid group identified the dismissed employees on Instagram as Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, following their arrest by police on Tuesday.
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Telegram for Monkrus?
Came across 2 different telegrams for monkrus. His/her site here w16.monkrus.ws/ points to "real_monkrus" but the "m0nkrus" has an insane amount of people in it.
t.me/real_monkrus
t.me/m0nkrus
What is the "legit" way to find monkrus? Do they ever use PGP and how can I tell that a new site is also the same user? Both telegrams have different methods of donation, so it feels unlikely they're both real.
I won't blame these torrents, but I've recently gotten a state-actor-level type of malware and I'm double-checking everything that's been into my machine.
Варез от m0nkrus'a [Warez by m0nkrus]
В данном блоге представлен обновляемый список продуктов (сборок) от m0nkrus’a и даны ссылки на ресурсы, откуда их можно скачать.w16.monkrus.ws
I think it's safe to say the 50k person "t.me/m0nkrus" telegram is a very dedicated malware-for-hire type shit.
Torrents are very similar to M0nkrus' shit but they've implanted very sophisticated viruses in most of them.
Might want to include that in the megathread @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware
WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
If I recall correctly, at least for non-group chats they do use end-to-end encryption. That being said, obviously there are some practical limitations on the impact if you think that WhatsApp would actively try to be malicious, since they're also providing the client software and could hypothetically backdoor that.
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According to this, they do use end-to-end encryption for group chats too.
Maybe I'm recalling some other service or a default setting or something. Some service had non-e2e-encrypted-group messages for at least some period of time.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson claims Google is using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder
FTC claims Gmail filtering Republican emails threatens “American freedoms”
FTC chairman revives GOP claims previously rejected by judge and election agency.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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How a hacker helped win a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla
Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it
The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
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Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36493423
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
: Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailingConnor Jones (The Register)
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You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36492805
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Clickbait. Actual less sensational point is in the text:
Not every site needs JavaScript.
Exactly!
The one I build for work definitely does since we do things like manipulate 3D models. The majority of sites just present information and costs would go down significantly if they used a static site generator.
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The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved
So we can expect covert mecha-Hitler to run everything
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‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…Canary Media
“It’s like having the rug pulled out from under you. … Nobody understands why Trump did it. I don’t know what Trump’s agenda is,” said Morris.
Oh boy. It’s so funny.
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mikulogicoso inufficiale programmato con l’asciaflissa (rilascio “MikuLogi: Octt Unofficial Edition”)
Ultimamente mi succede una cosa stramba, ossia che da un lato posto le cose e poi non le faccio… e dall’altro, faccio le cose ma poi non le posto!!! Ebbene, prima che anche quest’ultima cosa fatta cada nel nonpostatoio (o forse, prima che passi talmente tanto tempo che io nel frattempo faccia numerosi aggiornamenti), ecco […]
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Ultimamente mi succede una cosa stramba, ossia che da un lato posto le cose e poi non le faccio... e dall'altro, faccio le cose ma poi non le posto!!! Ebbene, pminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
Americans for Prosperity claims its mission is to make Vermont more affordable. But its founding and financing by some of the world’s richest oil men and a history of spreading climate disinformation has raised doubts.Austyn Gaffney (VTDigger)
Scena di un episodio di X-files che non ritrovo più
Non ho riguardato molto della serie e preferisco gli episodi "Mostro della Settimana", ma ricordo una scena di un episodio della "Mitologia" in cui Mulder fa una rivelazione piuttosto teatrale in cui un documento che qualcuno voleva distrutto e perso nella memoria viene passato attraverso la tradizione orale di una tribù di nativi americani in perpetuo.
Non riesco a trovare alcuna prova della sua esistenza, né possono farlo i miei amici, tanto che stiamo iniziando a temere l'effetto Mandela.
Potete aiutarmi almeno con il nome dell'episodio se non un link alla scena stessa?
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FTC chair claims Google shunting GOP emails into spam folder
The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson wrote [PDF] to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, citing a recent New York Post report that alleged Gmail was routinely flagging Republican fundraisers' emails as spam, while not doing the same to missives from their Democratic counterparts.
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam
: Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QEDDavid Meyer (The Register)
La mia giungla fediversica.
Oltre a Mastodon con snowfan.masto.host, mi sono divertito a mettere su anche qualche “condominio digitale”:
- Lemmy 👉 lemmy.casasnow.noho.st
- GoToSocial 👉 goto.casasnow.noho.st/@snow
- Pixelfed 👉 pxlfd.searxng.noho.st
…senza dimenticare il mio server Matrix, searXNG e Piped.
(Se serve una chiave di casa, suonate pure… ma vi avverto: ho un mazzo intero 😅).
Ora, ci sono ospiti che si fanno comodi su Snowfan, altri (pochi) che preferiscono Lemmy o Pixelfed, ma il mio cuore… beh, il mio cuore resta sempre al primo amore: Mastodon con Snowfan. ❤️
Non dico che sia perfetto (anche lui ha i suoi difettucci), non dico che gli altri non sembrino ancora in beta test eterni (ciao Lemmy, ciao GoToSocial 👋), ma una cosa la voglio ribadire: io non tradisco.
Gli altri li uso, li provo, li coccolo ogni tanto… ma Snowfan rimane la mia casa, e casa è anche di chi ci abita con me. 🏡
Mastodon
Istanza italiana aperta agli Amici che ne fanno richiesta. -ATTENZIONE- istanza NO-ThreadsMastodon ospitato su snowfan.masto.host
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Extreme rain in China caused $2.2 billion in road damage, further straining public purse
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/41276896
Extreme rainfall across swathes of China caused over 16 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) in road damage, the transport ministry said on Wednesday, highlighting how climate risks are placing additional pressure on the ailing economy's public purse.The preliminary estimate covers damage to roads since the start of flood season, Li Ying, a ministry spokesperson, told reporters, and includes 23 provinces, regions and municipalities - more than two-thirds of China's administrative divisions.
Flood season officially began on July 1, according to China's water resources ministry, and brought record rainfall to the country's north and south.
So far, some 540 million yuan in emergency road repair subsidies have been allocated to local authorities by the transport and finance ministries, Li said.
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Vlog 086 – I couldn't have said it better myself
Usually on social media the golden rule is "Never read the comments", but things are a little bit different in the Fediverse. I had a bunch of thoughtful and insightful responses to yesterday's video (Vlog 085) and so today I wanted to walk through some of the great ideas people shared with me. Welcome to Vlog No. 086.
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
privacy.thenexus.today/can-we-…
> "People who saw Bluesky as centralized nine months ago still see Bluesky as centralized. People who saw Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing) nine months ago still see Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing). Nobody's changing their minds in response to new information. It's basically the same discussions rehashed again and again.
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> One thing that's been really striking to me in this latest iteration of this interminable discourse is that so many people in the Fediverse present the fact that 99.99% of Bluesky users are still using infrastructrure run by Bluesky PBC as if it's a gotcha that people advocating for Bluesky and the ATmosphere aren't aware of.
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> No, actually, ATmosphere developers I talk to are very very aware of these limitations. They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation rather than arguing about the semantics of "decentralization."
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> That sure seems like a good approach to me.
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> So can we please stop arguing about this already?"
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
Nobody's changing their minds at this point, and the discourse is reallyJon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
[2023] Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
I checked the paper cited in that article, and it has an author correction published last week:
The Strang splitting maximum likelihood estimator had a minor error (thanks to Anders Gantzhorn Kristensen for identifying it). In the last step of the Strang splitting in the pseudo maximum likelihood estimation, the flow should have been evaluated in the observation at time t~i~, but was wrongly partially evaluated at time t~i–1~. When corrected, the tipping time estimate changes by 8 years.
(emphasis mine)
Author Correction: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - Author Correction: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulationNature
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Now we only need re-insurance companies to fund a tanker fleet of ~500 mega tons of salt to restart it.
Maybe even some kind of foundation could coordinate it, like it National Science one
RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers
RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers | Defector
True to the spirit of America, the most catastrophic thing to happen at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month was not the attempted mass shooting in Atlanta of the agency’s public health workers, but rather the sudden firing of it…defector.com
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Exclusive: San Francisco scores long-term conference commitment from Visa
San Francisco scores long-term conference commitment from Visa
San Francisco scores long-term conference commitment from Visa, which will brings its annual Visa Payments Forum to the city.Laura Waxmann (San Francisco Chronicle)
Should i pirate EVERYTHING or only things that i bought, but do not own?
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AI powering China's industrial evolution
AI powering China's industrial evolution
'Industry plus artificial intelligence' cresting across Chinese manufacturing landscape, driven by tech companies scrambling to develop AI agents to solve tasks.www.chinadaily.com.cn
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Iran ready for ‘serious' cooperation with China, Pezeshkian says ahead of visit
Iran ready for ‘serious' cooperation with China, Pezeshkian says ahead of visit
President Masoud Pezeshkian has voiced Iran’s readiness for “serious and constructive” cooperation with China, particularly within the framework of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ahead of his planned visit to China later this month.PressTV
Finland rejects chat control proposal: Finds it unconstitutional
Finland has now joined the ranks of Austria, Poland and the Netherlands in rejecting chat control, the proposed EU law that would threaten encrypted messaging and eliminate privacy in private communications.
The Ministerial Committee on EU Affairs elaborated on its previous positions and noted that Finland still considers it very important to establish an EU-level legal framework to improve the detection, reporting and elimination of sexual violence against children in the EU. However, Finland cannot support the most recent compromise proposal because it contains a detection order that has been found problematic from a constitutional standpoint.
We need more resistance against this incredibly dangerous law - we cannot allow totalitarianism to creep in through a phony "save the children" narrative. If they wanted to save the children they would start with what is happening in the open at Instagram and Tiktok, not by attacking secure channels of communication.
chatcontrol.eu contains some information about how you can pressure your representatives to oppose this law.
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.Patrick Breyer
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Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test
Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test | TechCrunch
Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Two New feeds from CERT-FR integrated in Vulnerability-Lookup
Two New feeds from CERT-FR @cert_frcert_fr@social.numerique.gouv.fr integrated in Vulnerability-Lookup
Thanks to the great of @Rafiot ,we now have two new feeders in Vulnerability-Lookup:
➤ CERT-FR Alerte (vulnerability.circl.lu/recent#…), and
➤ CERT-FR Avis (vulnerability.circl.lu/recent#…)
We were impressed by the excellent quality of these feeds (and the descriptions), which allowed us to automatically extract impacted products (CPE vendors & names) and references to enrich our #Kvrocks indexes (see screenshots).
Correlations
As with all our sources, advisories from CERT-FR are now automatically correlated with the other 27 (!) sources available on the CIRCL instance:
Examples of correlations:
➤ Related CVEs for a product from Ivanti from the “Alerte” CERTFR-2024-ALE-013: vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/CE…
➤ CVE-2025-9478 - vulnerability in Chrome: vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/CE…
Sightings
You can already find sightings tied to CERT-FR advisories. For example, the sightings related to alerts published in 2025: vulnerability.circl.lu/sightin…
Contribute
Have a source you think should be integrated into Vulnerability-Lookup? Let us know!
It’s fairly easy to add new feeders, as you can see here: github.com/vulnerability-looku…
Don’t hesitate to create an account on our instance: vulnerability.circl.lu/user/si…
References
➤ The list of default feeders, active and ready to use in any Vulnerability-Lookup installation: github.com/vulnerability-looku…
➤ Source code of Vulnerability-Lookup: github.com/vulnerability-looku…
➤ News about the project: vulnerability-lookup.org/news/
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Vulnerability-Lookup facilitates quick correlation of vulnerabilities from various sources, independent of vulnerability IDs, and streamlines the management of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD).GitHub
Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev Joins Istanbul Rally Supporting Imprisoned Opposition Mayors
Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev attended an opposition rally in Istanbul, showing support for the detained mayors of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP). Terziev was present in his capacity as chairman of the B40 Balkan Cities Network, alongside Jaume Collboni, vice-chairman of the Eurocities Network and mayor of Barcelona. Both joined the guests on the rostrum at the event, held in the center of Istanbul to back imprisoned Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and other arrested CHP officials.The rally, titled “The People Stand Up for Their Will,” was broadcast live on opposition channels HalkTV, Sozcu, and Cumhuriyet TV. CHP leader Özgür Özel introduced the European guests from the stage, noting that a delegation of ten European mayors and representatives from various cities would engage in discussions throughout the day. The delegation plans to present the “Special Democracy Award” to İmamoğlu, currently held in Silivri prison, and will make statements following meetings with him, including a visit to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
The delegation, which included four Balkan mayors from Sofia, Bucharest, Athens and Zagreb, intended to meet Imamoglu on Thursday to show their support and present him with a “special democracy award” in prison. But Turkish authorities vetoed the visit, and no official explanation was given for the decision.After being prevented from visiting Imamoglu, the delegation held a press conference in front of the prison, handing the democracy award instead to Imamoglu’s wife, Dilek.
“European mayors are speaking with one voice. We are a force for democratic resistance. We will continue to stand together with our colleague Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. His courage in defence of democratic principles inspires us all,” said Barcelona mayor Jaume Collboni, who is also vice-president of Eurocities, an alliance of larger European cities.
Sofia’s mayor, Vasil Terziev, also spoke, expressing the Balkan Cities Network’s support for Imamoglu.
“I stand here as president of the B40 Balkan Cities Network, a network established by Ekrem Imamoglu. The gates and walls of this prison are not only a barrier for one man but also for the will of millions of citizens of Istanbul who elected their mayor,” Terziev said.
He said that Balkan mayors also face judicial pressures and political imprisonment in their own countries. “An attack on a democratically elected mayor is an attack on all democratic institutions regardless of the country. That is why our solidarity with Imamoglu…is a democratic and moral responsibility,” Terziev added.
Apart from Collboni and Terziev, the delegation included Zagreb mayor Tomislav Tomasevic, Athens mayor Haris Doukas, Timisoara Mayor Dominic Fritz, Utrecht mayor Sharon Dijksma, Budapest mayor Gergely Szilveszter Karacsony, Paris deputy mayor Arnaud Ngatcha, Madrid international relations general director Jose Francisco Herrera Antonaya and Eurocities secretary-general Andre Sobczak.
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Turkey Bars Balkan, European Mayors From Visiting Jailed Opposition Leader | Balkan Insight
A delegation of mayors from Europe and the Balkans has been blocked from making a solidarity visit to the jailed opposition mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu.Hamdi Firat Buyuk (BIRN)
After 2 Million AI Orders, Taco Bell Admits Humans Still Belong in the Drive-Thru
Fast food companies have been experimenting with integrating artificial intelligence into their restaurants, from Flippy the burger-flipping robot at White Castle to dynamic pricing at Wendy's. One arena where AI seems to really be struggling, though, is at the drive-thru -- and Taco Bell is the latest to experience AI mishaps at the order box. After taking 2 million orders with AI, Taco Bell has reached one conclusion: we still need humans.
After 2 Million AI Orders, Taco Bell Admits Humans Still Belong in the Drive-Thru
Many wrong orders and 18,000 cups of water later, and Taco Bell is rethinking using AI to take orders.Joe Hindy (CNET)
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South Africa commissions an inequality report for G20 summit
South Africa is commissioning a report on global wealth inequality in time to present at the Group of 20 summit it hosts in November.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…
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Tesla sales plunge again in Europe as anger at Musk keeps buyers away for 7th month in a row
Europeans upset with Elon Musk still aren’t buying his electric cars, adding to a long losing streak for his company.
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-europe-car-ev-sales-bda33724e56d1b2bc72b9cac0f75fe09
Japan | An AI simulation of a Mount Fuji eruption is being used to prepare Tokyo for the worst
Japanese officials have released AI-generated videos simulating a potential eruption of Mount Fuji. The videos, unveiled this week for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day, show smoke and ash affecting Tokyo, about 60 miles away.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…
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The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 ships will set sail for Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocidal war waged on Palestinians.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to jordanlund • • •They thought they were going to risk their carreer to protest against a company committing genocide and cause it massive amounts of negative media attention in the process.
Which is exactly what they did.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •AI augmented entertainment media can and does guide public sentiment in a closed feedback loop and it's only going to get better and better at it.
Now matter how much we rock the boat, it will efficiently dampen the waves, it will be like trying to rock a boat sunken into molasses
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •False. Companies and fairs absolutely despite protesters ruining their mood. It makes them very uncomfortable to hold speeches without being interrupted. Nadella avoided speeches for a long time because of fears people would interrupt him.
A large arms fair in The Netherlands recently banned Israeli stands from attending because they didn't want to deal with the massive amount of protesters ruining their convention again.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I mean, sure you can make a scene and ruin an event, maybe even turn the whole crowd to your side but what I'm a talking about in at the large social scale, we're all mostly ballasted between the endless distraction and the demands of work and life on our attention. Now add into this mix something analyzing sentiment , tweaking relatively small things in the media landscape and dissipating anything that might become a coherent, organized, aligned movement.
I feel like we're in some kind of quicksand or molasses, oh no, it might be "nothingeverhappenism"
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •Things have been happening. The media has faced so much pushback that they have been forced to partially repeat on Israeli crimes to save face. Which in turn turned all the MSM boomers against Israel too.
But most damning of all is the West choosing to lose its entire moral credibility for Israel. Doing nothing actually comes with a very heavy price which Israel is not paying. Europe and the US are.
Samsuma
in reply to jordanlund • • •Effective protesting is when internet users set their profile picture to Clippy en masse, that ought to scare Microsoft and their contemporaries!
Get a grip, lib.
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in reply to jordanlund • • •Actually reminds me of some lines from a closing of a comedy act on this very topic:
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