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in reply to fne8w2ah

Oh man. I wish that'd work where I live (Canada). Europeans don't realize how lucky they have it! I can't fly to any worthwhile countries and back in a day (at least not long enough to enjoy the stay)
in reply to otp

Can hardly even fly to another Canadian city without it costing an arm and a leg.
in reply to Pyr

And an extra finger too, if you want to choose where you sit!
in reply to AA5B

I'd like to visit Mexico sometime, but it wouldn't really work for a day trip

in reply to sun_is_ra

I'm not aware of a modern browser that doesn't render it by default. I meant a real browser as in a browser not a lemmy client
in reply to TurboWafflz

you are right.

You could disable it though in firefox: "about:config" and find "network.IDN_show_punycode" and set to true.

forbes.com/sites/leemathews/20…



in reply to Preventer79

AI in fiction is a boring concept to me. It’s presented either as “What is a person?” or “What if we create an evil god?”. To me anything with feelings is a person and the other is just a chrome paint job on evil god characters in non sci-fi genres, so it’s just a speculative dead end.

AI in real life is much more interesting and its proliferation makes fictional AI seem even more bland. Real life AI is first and foremost not intelligent and probably not even close, that said we have no rubric to grade it by because we don’t even really know what intelligence is yet. That said, machine learning algorithms highlight patterns in the world and in our behaviors that are fascinating just because they show just how complicated the world and people are in ways our brains just passively process. Kind of like how QWOP highlights just how difficult and complicated walking is.

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Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike


cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/49026720

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday vowed to take revenge for the killing of their prime minister and other political leaders by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.

The Houthis confirmed Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in a strike on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, which also left others seriously wounded.

Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis’ Supreme Political Council, said in a video statement, “We promise to God, to the dear Yemeni people and the families of the martyrs and wounded that we will take revenge and we will turn the wounds into a victory.”

Al-Rahawi is the most senior figure in the Iran-backed Houthis to be killed in Israeli’s campaign against the group.


in reply to goferking (he/him)

Not to dismiss the horrifyingly gigantic pile of Israeli warcrimes, but this action specifically isn't one, as affiliation with (and straight up leadership of) a recognized terrorist organization that has technically targeted your nation (albeit not very effectively) generally designates someone a valid military target under international law.


Rwanda received migrants deported from the US earlier this month


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35133682

  • First group of seven migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August
  • Three have expressed desire to return to home countries
  • Trump has taken hardline approach toward immigration

WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Rwanda received seven migrants deported from the United States earlier this month, a government spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday, weeks after the two countries reached an agreement for the transfer of up to 250 people.

"The first group of seven vetted migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August," Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said in a statement

"Three of the individuals have expressed a desire to return to their home countries, while four wish to stay and build lives in Rwanda. Regardless of their specific needs, all of these individuals will receive appropriate support and protection from the Rwandan government."

U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hardline approach toward immigration, aiming to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and seeking to ramp up removals to third countries.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson on Thursday referred questions on the deportations earlier this month to the government of Rwanda and declined to comment on details of diplomatic communications with other governments.

"Implementing the Trump Administration’s immigration policies is a top priority for the Department of State. As Secretary Rubio has said, we remain unwavering in our commitment to end illegal and mass migration and bolster America’s border security," the spokesperson said.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rwanda-received-migrants-deported-us-earlier-this-month-2025-08-28/

in reply to Stamau123

If the Democrats had a spine, they'd be making it known to the leadership of every country that collaborates with Trump that payback is going to be a bitch.


Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds


Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis.

Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later.

in reply to MicroWave

50 to 100 years from now? .... phew..... i can rest easy now ..... at least all I have to worry about in my lifetime is extreme heat and hurricanes .... I'll let the next generation worry about the mid Atlantic Ocean current failing

Hey it might even start a mini ice age .... which would be a good thing because of the global warming right?

in reply to IninewCrow

This current brings warmer weather to Europe so it will get colder when it collapses. I think Europe should make collapsing this current their official climate change mitigation policy. No one else affected is really interested in doing anything to stop it anyway.


Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy murdered in Lviv


**In short: **

Ukraine's former house speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv.

Parubiy's colleagues in parliament and the government have shared tributes, praising him for his contributions to Ukraine's fight for sovereignty.
What's next?

A manhunt has been launched for the killer.

in reply to Midnight Wolf

Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій; 31 January 1971 – 30 August 2025) was a Ukrainian politician[7] who co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, and who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, from 14 April 2016, to 29 August 2019.


en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php…

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in reply to PedroG14

Despite his move away from the Social-National Party in 2004[30] Parubiy was frequently the target by pro-Russian media, who routinely refer to him as a Nazi, especially after the Revolution of Dignity.


I'm shocked that a .ml user would behave like pro-Russian media. Totally shocked.

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in reply to Noxy

???? DUDE, THIS GUY CO-FOUNDED A LITERAL NEO-NAZI PARTY, IN WHAT SENSE WOULD THIS INFORMATION BE pRo-RuSsIaN????????

EVERY FUCKIN NAZI SHOULD JUST DIE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT? I DON'T FUCKIN CARE IF IT IS UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN OR FUCKIN BRAZILLIAN, OKAY?

in reply to PedroG14

He hasn't been involved with the party for the last 20 years, has been vocally opposed to their values for most of those 20, and nonetheless is still presented as though he's an active member & nazi by pro-russian media. The information is true, the context in which that information is presented is manipulated to be pro-russian.
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in reply to Warl0k3

ou white g word 🙂 are really able to defend a nazi party cofounder, huh!?
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in reply to PedroG14

Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him - despite having been vocally pro-german before he saw the reality of what his country stood for. People change, shitty people included. Sometimes, they even change for the better.

Also I'm not white, nor a gringo. It's pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.

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in reply to Warl0k3

Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him


EWWWWWW. Fuck off, nazi scumbag.

It's pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.


What a shitty "racist" guy that I am for calling you a white gringo... Western people really suffered, and still suffer, by this... /s

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in reply to PedroG14

... Really selling the quality of your political insight here.
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in reply to PedroG14

Aight the sad trolling is whatever, but why the bracket smileys? That a cultural thing or just, idk, a personal preference?
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in reply to Noxy

You know, we can acknowledge the errors of Ukraine without removing their rights to live as a free country.

Ukraine had a big problem with far right, and it was full of corruption. I don't know to which extent it is still true, but that doesn't mean we should let Russia annex or ethnically cleanse them.

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in reply to lmagitem

By big problem we mean that nazi party that got less than 1% on elections?
in reply to Nalivai

Check out Dmytro Yarosh, Pravy Sektor or the Azov Brigade for example. They have far more reach than "1% on elections".

Historicaly the nazis were very popular in Ukraine because they fought against the soviets which, as you can guess, weren't much liked by most of the population. They were seen as heroes and liberators by a lot of people. That doesn't make it right, but it makes sense. History has a tendency to be grey like that.

Well, those groups were obviously among the first to fight against the Russians in eastern Ukraine after Maïdan. They were very active in the Maïdan revolution too.

It's a valid thing to point out that integrating neo-nazi or nazi-adjacent people like that in the government and war machine is problematic. That doesn't invalidate Ukraine's legitimacy or give credit to Russia's stupid claims. But denying those facts only fuels the russian propaganda machine.

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in reply to lmagitem

I wouldn't really call Azov brigade nazi any more, although they do have an origin as a nazi organization. They were cleaned of most of that crap around 2018 or so.

Also, in 2014 Ukraine de facto had no army, as they had found it impossible that Poland or Slovakia or Moldova would attack them and believed that even if that was to happen, the Russia would come help. And when Ukraine then needed some military might when this war began in 2014, the only ones who had learned to properly use a weapon were the Moscow-funded extreme right wing oranizations, who merrily bit the feeding hand when it tried to start punching them.

Ukraine began with building an actual useful army in 2014, but for a long time the informal extreme right organizations were stronger than the Ukrainian military and police forces combined, which meant there was a real threat of a far-right coup in Ukraine. The way Ukraine was able to dismantle those dangerous organizations was by slowly allowing them to integrate into the Ukrainian army, while at the same time everything possible was done to water down the nazi symphaties from those units. Nowadays by far the biggest part of Azov soldiers are against nazism, but of course there are still ugly symphathies among the oldest members of the organization. For example, the Azov battallion changed its logo away from being the wolfsangel already a couple of years ago, but very often you still see the old logo in use. And that is a nazi symbol. But, because the majority of soldiers in Azov units are there to fight a war in a skilled unit where they are likely to stay alive, I still would not call it a nazi organization now in 2025.

Of course, when you're in the trenches, the philosophies of your fellow soldiers are less important than their ability to shoot the orcs between the eyes.

And to end this text: Most of the funding for the Ukrainian right wing extremists came from the Russia, until in 2014 it stopped. Since then, the amount of right-wing extremism in Ukraine has been in a steady decline, while at the same time it's been on a rise in the Russia and in territories occupied by the Russia. Just like in any other country that has been under Russian influence during this century, there is indeed still a big nazi problem in Ukraine. But it's important to understand that in any areas under Russian control the problem is and will be rising, whereas in other parts of Ukraine it's decreasing. A country having a nazi problem is not a reason to decline helping them reduce the amount of nazism. (And the problem is not bigger than that in present day Germany, BTW. But still, just like in Germany it is important to do something and that something is indeed being done, it's also important in Ukraine to do something. And that something is also being done. Stupid to claim the problem doesn't exist, stupid to claim that it's a defining feature of Ukraine.)

in reply to lmagitem

Historicaly the nazis were very popular in Ukraine [...] They were seen as heroes and liberators by a lot of people.


That is a blatant exaggeration bordering on revisionism. They were seen as liberators by a minority upon invasion in 1941, that quickly changed once the people realized the facts of the occupation, and millions fought against the nazis.

in reply to lmagitem

Oh, I'm fucking sorry, it's actually 1.80%
It's so fucking far more than one percent it's not even close. Oh such an enormous reach, if you "do your own research" instead of looking into facts.
My man, either stop eating russian lying narrative, or stop spreading it, preferably both.
in reply to lmagitem

Thank you. You articulated the same thoughts I have but much better than I did



How do you see the modlog for fedia.io


When I go to the fedia.io site, I only get a login site.

I am trying to understand why the mod of !bside@fedia.io got banned.

It's a super chill indie gaming community, no drama, I enjoyed the content that was posted there.

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in reply to Agent Karyo

i can't see it there since i don't have a fedia.io account. if the mod was falseprophet i see from other sites they were banned 10 days ago from a bunch of communities. the reason is just "automod," but i don't know what that means. I still see them posting on bside 8 hours ago on my own instance.
in reply to celeste

I see. Thank you for the heads up! I will use my piefed account to access the bsides community.
in reply to Agent Karyo

Just as a heads up: the Mbin devs are working on federating bans so you can view such info in the modlog of your instance and don't have to look on the home instance of a magazine 😀

in reply to technocrit

Reminder that the US also sanctioned and blocked UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from entering the country less than two months ago because they didn't like her reporting.

news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1…

The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.

in reply to skisnow

The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.


Never been



Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use


I wrote about my motivations and thoughts on switching away from centralized social media and to the Fediverse with some thoughts on self-hosting.
in reply to stormio

I nuked the internal network by mistake. Working on fixing it right now

edit It's back up now if you'd like to try again 😀

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in reply to incentive

using something like Mastodon is no harder than signing up for X or Facebook. The difference is you won’t be treated like a product, you’ll be treated like a person.


I like this. I might reuse it.



Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving


Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving #fediverse, #mirror, #archive, #wayback #machine, #crossplatform

Hello fellow Fediversians,

I have been mulling over an eminently feasible and inevitably controversial solution to a couple of challenges I see with the Fediverse gaining traction, and becoming the primary microblog/forum platform for many users. Also I believe this solution can fill a valuable function of accountability in the form of unbiased archiving.

Essentially the concept is an instance entirely populated by bot accounts, accounts which individually scrape the publicly posted content of public figures from other platforms and reposts that content in quotation, with timestamp, link-back attribution, and cross-links to other posts referred to by the primary post if they exist within the archive. Also may include comments requoting the post if it is edited with new timestamp, etc.

Why do this? Well simply put it would create a consolidated archive of published cintent from public figures which cannot be tampered with for the purposes of accountability, similar to the Wayback Machine, but with the added function of direct interactivity via federated services.

In this way Fedenizens can follow their favorite public figures on-platform and interact with their content in a separate persistent environment, and journalists can have a fully up to date copy of what has been said without filter or revision.

This is all extremely feasible with the help of ML agent scripts, even if APIs are not cooperative.

What are your thoughts? If you were an instance admin would you block such an instance or allow it?

There is of course the issue of how to pick what public figures to add to the archive, but I suggest this can be done by nomination. Who nominates? Well the other function of such an instance would be for individuals to self-nominate in order to mirror their content from other platforms into the fediverse. I suggest that these members can also nominate other accounts, perhaps with a quorum voting system, say 5 nominations succeeds in adding a person to the archive.

Some people may in the end choose to use the instance as their primary, as they interact a lot with the archive streams. I think this would be a welcome outcome.

in reply to Coopr8

Sorry, I'm not sure:
You don't know about the mastodon unofficial bots reposting from X (without interaction of person postingon X) and Lemmy unofficial bots and sometimes whole instances following RSS feeds or those somehow don't fit what you aim for?
in reply to INeedMana

haven't come across them, it figures I wasn't the first to think of it. So far from the other comment I have found the .makeup instance, which seems to be doing what I've been thinking but is a bit odd in its interaction with my home instance
in reply to Coopr8

Kbin.Social (rip) and Lemm.ee (rip #2) posts still appear on Lemmy.World. Also pondercat (rip #3) was a bot-only instance (in its case, for tracking RSS feeds), but interacteable with. So all in all, I think it's fairly possible, with only minor (?) issues being in the way, like mirroring external content that would be loaded seemlessly (e.g. Imgur on Lemmy) and storage and processing power for tracking the instances.


Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!




Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!




Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine


Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.
in reply to hansolo

I like it a lot, because it's clean and lets me switch between the two indexes with one click, and it's pretty fast and responsive. It's been my main search while i was a mullvad client, and i dearly missed it after switching my VPN provider. I'm happy they decided to open it up for the public.
in reply to A Wild Mimic appears!

I've been trying it out, and it's solid. Startpage seems to get me where I need to go a bit quicker, but this is still a good backup and I'm thrilled to have another frontend for Brave search.

in reply to acargitz

It shouldn’t be this hard. History will not look kindly on us.
in reply to acargitz

Absolutely maddening that this is the standard they're begging people to meet. Michael Che had a stand-up special where he said something like, "Did you know that it's controversial now to say that black lives matter? What would be more acceptable? Black lives exist?"


US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025


in reply to Saleh

Just locking anyone with an opposing opinion out worked for the Democratic party convention in the US, lets see if it works at the UN too.


Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)


Parola filtrata: nsfw

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in reply to Blaze (he/him)

It's crazy how fast development moves when you don't spend all day celebrating censoring your instance.
in reply to Blaze (he/him)

If it works for users, too, I'm sure to always be in at least the top 10 if not number 1.
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in reply to technocrit

I like how the article doesn’t even attempt to communicate a potential benefit to doing this or any rationale for why this is useful or good at all. Of course, the real rationale is that it allows the administration to hand wave about being “innovative” without backing that assertion with any substance. It also allows the administration to apply some of the supposed legitimacy of the US government to this wholly pointless, fraud riddled joke of a technology. JFC, this is such a clown of a nation.
in reply to xenomor

If you didn't know anything else about bitcoin you'd know its a scam just from Trump getting involved.
in reply to superglue

Of course. He has no use for normal business practices. If it can't be gamed, it's no fun.
in reply to technocrit

Yay, decentralised and immutable!

Data integrity at source: If the BEA’s initial data is wrong (as sometimes happens with revisions), blockchain only makes the error permanent until corrected with new updates


Oh, so... Like previously just publishing a pdf on a website, then.
I guess it means they can't hide revisions. Which is what archive.org (and the us government equivalent that archives government sites) provided when the government just published the pdf.

At least it's decentralised!

Over-reliance on oracles: Chainlink and Pyth are powerful, but their centrality creates new concentration risks. If they malfunction or face attacks, critical data feeds could be disrupted.


Gotcha, still has centralised services.

Quotes taken from ccn.com/education/crypto/gdp-o… which seems to have the best technical info I could find

Still not much information. I'm presuming an "oracle" is something that gives you a hash of the "immutable" data, so you only have to pay to get that hash recorded on a blockchain instead of however many kB of PDF.

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in reply to towerful

But wouldn't the PDF still need to be available in order for this to be useful?
in reply to SpaceNoodle

Yes. I was laying on the sarcasm heavily.
I presume that's what these oracle services provide.
Essentially hosts the us governments GDP NFT, so you can right click and download it just like every NFT crypto bro hates you doing.
Whether its actually the US Government hosting the file, or these oracle services hosting it... It doesn't matter.

Why not just host the files on a government website with appropriate file hashes (so users can verify the file is still the same), let the internet archive and the national archives take a snapshots of the files and pages and hashes etc... ? That's a well regarded site archival system, and the governmental archival system. Has redundancy, pedigree and public acceptance.
Fuck it, publish just the hash on some block chains so the "fingerprint" of the report is immutable. But call it what it is.

The report isn't "published on the Blockchain".
It is linked from some blockchains.
There is still a file hosted by some servers.
You can't download your favourite blockchain, take it to the top of Mount Rushmore with no internet and inspect the US GDP figures without first downloading the file linked in the block chain.

Blockchain oracles are entities that connect blockchains to external systems, allowing smart contracts to execute depending on real-world inputs and outputs. Oracles give the Web 3.0 ecosystem a method to connect to existing legacy systems, data sources and advanced calculations.


cointelegraph.com/learn/articl…

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in reply to towerful

Don’t forget the ability of major actors to rewrite history, making these blockchains incredibly centralized and absolutely mutable. If someone with enough clout decides to roll something back, it happens.


US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report


US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/aljazeera.co…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Has Netanyahu made slip-up in case against Karim Khan? - Israeli PM's allegations against ICC chief have never been mentioned before


...

The Israeli leader made the comments during an interview with Breitbart News, a video of which was published on Wednesday.

Netanyahu said that Khan faced sexual assault allegations by a “female staff member”, before adding: “And since then, there have been four other women who came to the fore and accused him.”


...

"In the circumstances, it is therefore both extraordinary and deeply troubling to Mr Khan that a serving head of government, and one who has been openly hostile to both the ICC and the UN, and who is indeed the subject of an arrest warrant, should purport to have knowledge about other such allegations or individuals, or about an ongoing confidential investigation of which Mr Khan is the subject."


...

in reply to Saleh

We are already at two baseless rape accusations. How nice of Netayahu admitting he still has two more sleeper agents within the ICC.

in reply to Yawweee877h444

Well they have to pay 200+ million. So im not sure if "get away" is the right word. But I get the sentiment. Its a tragedy.

"It took the jury less than a day of deliberation to find Tesla 33 percent liable for the crash and responsible for $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages."

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in reply to mesa

Almost 100 billion revenue last year.

250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?

Yeah. That’s nothing to them.

in reply to Whitebrow

You'd need to do the math on net profit. Gross revenue is a pretty meaningless figure on its own.
in reply to JohnEdwa

That's why they said revenue, not profit. You never go for the net. Always go for the gross.
in reply to Whitebrow

it never is. fines should be a percentage of the value of the company, not just some sum.
in reply to int32

Value can easily be manipulated, it really should be based on 15% ish of their gross income
in reply to 123

In theory I agree, in practice I despise laws that are needlessly wordy, and including a whichever is larger clause will add on an unnecessary element since gross income can only be abused with tax credit shenanigans which aren't very over the top, and if I had my way wouldn't exist at all(fairy tale I know)


Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy


Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy.


Richard Wolff: US Empire in Collapse, China Builds Rival System




Newsom’s support surges among Democrats ahead of 2028: Poll


Friday showed 25 percent of Democratic primary voters saying they would support Newsom as the nominee, a jump from the 12 percent he received in a similar poll conducted in June.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg received support from 16 percent of respondents, consistent with what he received in June, while former Vice President Harris’s support slid from 13 percent in the June poll to 11 percent in Friday’s poll.


🤢

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5475487-newsom-support-democratic-primary-surge/

in reply to mysticpickle

Ewwwwww this is lame, speaking as a Californian. Just more neoliberal swine bastardry suckling at the teat of private interest, only wearing the skin of someone who gives a shit

in reply to Amoxtli

Nationalizing any big company is kinda funny from the administration pushing to privatize everything else for their rich buddies to run
in reply to Shortstack

That's because this is just a way to get something for their rich buddies to run but with the government paying for it.
in reply to Typhoon

The problem with conservatism is you eventually run out of others peoples stuff to sell.
in reply to Amoxtli

MAGA is going Socialist! Maybe there is a silver lining here.

They should go after Starlink and Space X next. After all, we paid for ALL of it, it really belongs to us.

He can keep Tesla. It will be bankrupt in 2 years anyway.



Proving the German Media Bias Against Palestinians


German reporting on the Middle East has long been criticized as one-sided. Our exclusive analysis of 5,000 headlines from leading German media outlets since October 7 shows the bias is even worse than suspected.
in reply to technocrit

That's because Germany is expected to still feel guilty about the holocaust even after almost all the perpetrators have died in prison, well the scapegoats did, Operation Paperclip ensured that most of the high ranking ones enjoyed a cushy life in USA so they are constantly made to feel obligated to support Israel, while other countries that have done similar atrocities are so easily forgotten, not a German fyi if you want to nitpick.
in reply to Eternal192

They don't feel guilty, they're afraid of ever having to actually be held fully responsible. The colonization of Palestine was done with public collaboration with the Nazis, and Palestinians have no obligation to pay for Germany's crimes by surrendering their homeland.

Germany got a very sweet deal, the Jewish question answered itself and they washed their hands if it.

in reply to Eternal192

So the former Nazis feel (rightfully) guilty about their Genocide of Jews and the current Nazis say committing Genocide is part of the Jewish identity, so the former Nazis have to feel guilty for and thus support the current Nazis? /j

(Joke as in not a serious question but a cynical attempt at simplifying in a humorous way)

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in reply to алсааас [she/they]

Again the former Nazis are dead, Germans today shouldn't be held accountable for their ancestors wrongdoing unless you'd like to accuse American's for their murder and theft of native American people and land, Turkey for their genocides, China for Tiananmen square while not that massive it was still in fucking 1989, i have more if you want, start looking at the real enemies and stop being distracted by the defeated ones.
in reply to Eternal192

I don't hold any individuals accountable for their countries past. I'm German Russian (as in my parents are both ex-soviets from Moscow, but I was born and grew up in Germany and still live here).
Why would I hold any Germans accountable for what their (great)grandparents did during their attempted Genocide against most peoples of eastern Europe and destruction of the USSR, as long as they don't expect me to feel sorry for the (Wehrmacht) oppressors, rapists, pillagers and thugs my great-grandparents rightfully shot and took as POWs to build Siberian land bridges and what not LOL.

Holding current generations accountable doesn't make much sense, but it is their legacy and how they deal with it is not crucial, but essential.

(Like Japan und Turkey also come to mind as strong negative examples; Japan much more so though)

I was more talking about societies from a macro POV. And there is a distinction IMO between a society rising from the rubble of a destroyed past (like in Germany, tho arguably the FRG never properly denazified) and still upholding that legacy and keeping it alive and well like in the USA.
The USA served as one of the primary inspirations of German fascism BTW, "Manifest Destiny" became Lebensraum, their concept of racial segregation was to be admired (and brought to its logical conclusion) and their exploitative industry to be emulated (said industry also funded the hitlerite fascists; e.g. Henry Ford was awarded the highest prize available to foreigners by Hitler himself)

The USA is built on the corpses of genocided peoples and as long as this grotesque concept exists in that form, justice will be waiting. The least they have to do is to give the land and equal rights back and establish commissions to remedy the societal legacy brought by centuries of racial oppression, reparations are not enough. (a lot of it applies to former empires and existing colonies as well)

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in reply to алсааас [she/they]

Thank you, i've been in Germany for almost 8 years now, i'm from the Balkans and everyone here has been unbelievably friendly to me, so when i hear constantly Nazi Germany this, Nazi Germany that it annoys the crap out of me when most of those saying shit like that are from countries that have done similar shit.
in reply to Eternal192

The thing about Germany is, that it's past is unique in the specificity of an industrialized genocide; the Schoa...
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in reply to Eternal192

Mentioning Tiananmen Square, an example of internal repression with a couple of hundreds to a couple of thousands estimated fatalities, in the same sentence as two cases of near complete genocides of other ethnicities is wild. Do you not see how distorted that is as a comparison? In that comparison, you're either trying to minimize the genocides of the Nazis, the Americans and the Turks, or raise the level of a case of internal repression with limited casualties to be comparable to massive historical crimes against humanity. Neither makes you look great.
in reply to AreaSIX

I don't think it was meant as such rather as just another example of saying "look at the countries past, today's people are still responsible".
in reply to AreaSIX

Why should any loss of life be less tragic? you then have an even bigger issue than me, because to you it seems it's ok to exclude a smaller genocide just because the Chinese stopped killing their citizens when it reached a few thousand, no loss of life should be disregarded just because the numbers didn't get higher, so their sacrifice is worth less because fewer died!??
in reply to Eternal192

I don't think you properly understand the word genocide and especially the weight of the Schoa; you can't compare industrial genocide and extermination with some political crackdown...
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The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software


in reply to bluecat_OwO

Yep. There's no such thing as competition any more.

Tech companies are just gas stations across the street from each other.

in reply to humanoidchaos

and you don't have a choice atp its just forced enshittifcation down your throat!!

in reply to AlwaysNurture

It would seem like that when reading news, but it's really not that bad. Enshittification is an issue though, but mostly being driven by the us oligarchs worldwide. A lot of the outrage/opinion manufacturing "media-news" never becomes reality on the ground.

The issue with nonsensical invasive surveillance tech is, logic and facts usually and eventually prevail, for instance backdooring systems for one group is backdooring for everyone, it just puts a huge target on your system and is ultimately ineffectual in its purpose, because the people of interest will adapt almost instantly (see examples "war on drugs", "ending piracy"). In the end it is a losing battle, akin to trying to legislate wind to blow only in one direction.



AI Safety Camp Outputs


LessWrong.
#AII
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[JS] Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python


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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features


Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.

The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews.

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Something to Think About this month

As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …

Actors pretend to work.

#blog #logic #thoughts #zenmischief



8 septembre 2025, 20:00:00 CEST - GMT+2 - La BASE, 34000, Montpellier, France
Set 8
Formation express anti-répression
Lun 20:00 - 21:00
XR Montpellier

Formation en 2 temps :

- un sur la conduite à tenir en cas d'arrestation et Garde À Vue

- un plus ciblé sur les soins face à gaz ou blessures (ce n'est pas une formation médics mais quelques bases nécessaires)


in reply to ardi60

Damn.I need to find an alternative. I also like the Microsoft Launcher, but it's Microsoft...