Houthis detain at least 11 UN workers in raids on two agencies in Sana’a
Houthis detain at least 11 UN workers in raids on two agencies in Sana’a
UN condemns ‘arbitrary detentions’ by Iran-backed group at World Food Programme and Unicef offices in YemenGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Family of French woman killed by ex-partner to go to court to find out why she was not protected
The family of a woman killed by an ex-partner who bombarded her with hundreds of messages and calls will ask a judge on Monday to force the French authorities to explain why they failed to protect her.Sandra Pla had complained to police three times about Mickaël Falou’s threatening behaviour over a period of six months, but her application for a protection order was rejected.
Between 3 January 2021 when Pla, 31, ended their relationship and 18 June 2021, Falou, 40, bombarded her with 317 text messages and telephoned her 67 times. His almost daily presence outside her home was recorded by the doorbell camera her parents installed, but police said Falou was on the public highway and could not be prosecuted. Finally, Pla’s mother, Annie, and stepfather, Gérard, moved from Spain into her small apartment in Bordeaux to protect their daughter, who was so scared her doctor signed her off work for 15 days.
Last year, 136 women were killed by partners or ex-partners in France, a rise of more than 44% on 2023. In the last five years, the French state has faced several cases brought by victims’ families who accuse it of failing to act to prevent the killings. In June, the state was ordered to pay €27,000 (£23,000) to the family of Nathalie Debaillie, killed by her former partner in Lille in 2019. It is facing at least two other cases, not including Pla’s: the murder of Chahinez Daoud, 31, who was burned alive by her husband in 2021 and the killing of Patricia Gomit, 51, by her ex-partner in 2022.
Family of French woman killed by ex-partner to go to court to find out why she was not protected
Family submitted a case last year accusing police, social services and courts of ‘serious failings’ but had no responseKim Willsher (The Guardian)
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London targets noisy commuters with headphone campaign
London targets noisy commuters with headphone campaign
London’s public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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Fabulous. I despise that guy that feels he needs to listen to his YouTube algorithm on full volume.
It's worse in south East Asia, but sure, let's make a start somewhere.
So many people I hate in public transit for this.
The young dude who HAS to play his shitty music on speaker (we all know you have headphones, you all do).
The parents who gave their 2 children an ipad to play games on at full volume.
The teenage to late 20s girl/woman who can't talk to her friends without having it on speaker, and thinks yelling about her one night stand in the train is appropriate.
Fuck all the people who do any of those.
Berlin has even started making announcements about it: "Please mind others and keep your music, tiktoks and phone calls in your ear instead of playing them through your loudspeaker".
The German version holds back a little less: "...music, tiktoks and calls belong in your ear and not played over your speaker".
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“The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” de Sousa said, according to the Portugal Pulse’s report. “He operates as an asset.”
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And also he defined that term very specifically. He said only that Trump is acting in the best interests of Russia. When someone normally uses that language, they mean they are in the employ of a country, like a spy.
So, it's meant to be inflammatory and spur action on the part of the US and Europe.
Not a single traditional party in Portugal has a name that matches the political ideology the practice:
- The "Socialist Party" (PS) one of the two dominant "center" parties is Neoliberal (as seen from their love for Privatisation and "Free Markets").
- The "Social Democrat Party" (PSD) the other dominant "center" party is slightly more Neoliberal (roughly similar to the US Democrat Party mainstream, so PSD is actually to the Right of the Progressives in the US)
- The "Communist Party" (PC) love Putin, a Fascist and even their "leftwing" thinking is little more than Soviet Union slogans.
- The "Social and Democratic Center" (CDS) are the conservatives which in Portugal means the yearn for the previous regime (which were the Fascists)
Like in pretty much all other countries in the West the Overtoon Window has shifted rightwards, though even at the very beginning right after the Revolution in 1974 that overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship, the Socialist Party were never Socialists (it was the Communist Party that wanted a Revolution Of The Proletariat, not the Socialist Party) and similarly the Social Democrat Party was never Social Democrat (for example, they voted against the creation of a National Health Service in Portugal, the exact opposite of the Social Democrat ideals).
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Fun fact: Xi today couldn't be assed to greet Pooty personally at an airport and sent deputy finance minister instead.
Compare that to how Taco Don received Pooty.
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No, still Portuguese. The show opens with a explainer saying the Spanish went west and Portuguese went east due to the church decreeing how the world would be split amongst the two countries.
Spaniards were half a world away.
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I’m not sure I could name a person or fictional character from Portugal.
You've never heard of Cristiano Ronaldo? I'm impressed, lucky you.
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Surely the most important part is that a world leader called another world leader a russian asset?
I would like to point out to everyone underestimating Portugal's influence in world politics that, while I agree it hasn't been a military or economic major power in centuries, it has great diplomatic outreach:
- Part of the EU and has been used as an example of how to handle drug abuse
- Part of CPLP which seeks to align the interests of all Portuguese speaking countries (in Europe, South America, West and East Africa and Oceania)
- Vast naval territory in the Atlantic and the Azores which have hosted a US military base for decades
- Good relations with China especially after the return of Macau
- The current secretary general of the UN is an old portuguese Prime Minister
So while no longer a major country, it still has sway on how relations between some countries develop
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The British citizens do have good relations with Portugal, just ask anyone in the Algarve.
To be honest I doubt Montenegro would care about the British either.
He was furious with Marcelo because he wanted to go unnoticed (he doesn't really have a defined international policy) and soon started receiving calls from the White House.
I've lived in Britain for a decade.
They couldn't care less about Portugal or the Portuguese and in general they see the Portuguese as just another bunch of Southern Europeans and their view of Southern Europeans is highly prejudiced in a negative way.
We're a puny little shitty shit country from their point of view, an impression reinforced by Portuguese Politicians bending over backwards and licking the arses of the British elites.
Like Britain is the "poodle" to America so is Portugal to Britain only even worse.
There's still a lot of dumb provincialism in Portugal when it comes to foreigners, especially amongst Portuguese Politicians and especially towards larger European nations such as Britain.
(Mind you, this outburst of Marcelo is pretty healthy in that sense and gives me hope that maybe that's changing, and I don't even like the guy).
The real specific qualities of Portugal have nothing to do with those delusions that past or present great powers are "friends" of Portugal.
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Ok, "major world leader" is clickbait, they could've just said Portuguese President.
While i wouldn't describe Portugal as major, it isn't irrelevant either: early member of the EU (was the ECC back then), treaties with a lot of countries (Brazil being one on account of being an ex-colony and sharing the language), founding member of NATO, emigrant communities all over the world (US included), a few high-ranking politicians are Portuguese (President of the European Council António Costa, secretary-general of the UN António Guterres, ex-president of the European Comission Durão Barroso who now works for Goldman Sachs...). There's also that Cristiano Ronaldo guy.
The US also has a military base in a Portuguese island in the Atlantic.
Why this fascist fuck who likes taking selfies with his voters decided to criticize another fascist fuck is a mystery to me though...
Here we see a homo sapiens partaking in Whataboutism. He thinks bad stuff cancel each other out.
He also thinks unless you are a "VERY NICE AS A PERSON" master chef, you cannot critize food since what would you know, with your personality?
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is center-right, so more alligned with the democrats in the US, not with the Neonazi party that calls themselves conservative.
I wouldn't vote him, but calling him a fascist is pretty far off reality.
Why do you mention so many people but not him? Wtf does Ronaldo have to do with anything?
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is center-right, so more alligned with the democrats in the US, not with the Neonazi party that calls themselves conservative.
That "center" is pulling some severe weight. PSD aligns with the EPP (along with CDS). If you call that center you must work for the mainstream media.
I wouldn’t vote him, but calling him a fascist is pretty far off reality.
The guy whose godfather was Marcelo Catano? Really?
Why do you mention so many people but not him? Wtf does Ronaldo have to do with anything?
Not him who? The current Portuguese President? First sentence.
Ronaldo is a well-known Portuguese person, hence the mention.
The guy who's godfather was Marcelo Catano? Really?
Who your godfather is determines if you're a fascist? lmao
Completely irrelevant, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic and Brazilian people, and I overheard this conversation in the grocery store between a mom and her elementary school age daughter, and the little girl said:
"Yeah, she has a crush on him, but he doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Pork-a-cheese."
It makes me laugh every time I think about it, and every Spanish person that I tell it to cracks up.
No shit, Sherlock.
They picked the ugliest, nastiest motherfucker to keep us distracted.
Agent Fuckfaced Krasnov.
Israel hatches plan to kidnap Greta Thunberg into “terrorist-level conditions”
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, is planning to present Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to detain the activists in harsh “terrorist-level” conditions in the Ktzi’ot and Damon detention centres for females, according to Israel Hayom, one of Israel’s biggest newspapers...Israel Hayom quoted individuals close to Mr Ben-Gvir saying: “Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”
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Great, because her commitment so far has been kinda "meh" 🫳
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Edit: I guess the "🙃" isn't clear enough so: /s
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You never know for sure ... unless they say it is.
I wish that if sarcasm is meant ppl would use the /s. It makes things so much easier.
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No, actually, she could become pro-Hamas.
There are levels of commitment beyond where she's at. This isn't even her final form.
My guess is that these extreme right-wing politicians have their fan base in Israel who will clap (and enjoy the righteous feeling of punishing a woman who deserves it stirring their loins). And that's who the speeches are for.
And maybe they haven't realized that the whole world is listening to their disgusting display of savagery now.
For the sake of Palestinians I hope they figure it out soon, although it would be nice to see them walk deeper into the trap they set for themselves.
[ I got distracted. This was supposed to be a direct reply to your statement - now it's indirect. ]
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And maybe they haven't realized that the whole world is listening to their disgusting display of savagery now.
They know, they just don't care anymore. Same as with Nazi Germany.
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There is something particularly disgusting about how right-wing talking heads have latched onto this fantasy of punishing Greta Thunberg, for many years now.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, is planning to present Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to detain the activists in harsh “terrorist-level” conditions in the Ktzi’ot and Damon detention centres for females, according to Israel Hayom, one of Israel’s biggest newspapers.“Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”
What is wrong with these people? You can literally hear the quickening of their breath when they voice their torture fantasies like that.
The activists were also offered the chance to watch footage of Hamas atrocities from Oct 7, which they refused, according to Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister.
I heard this one before. Like it was some sort of gotcha. Like anybody even claimed that Hamas killing people is OK.
Fucking perverts.
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Ben Garrison's comic of Greta Thunberg getting spanked (spoiler for your protection):
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Yeah I know it (I sure hope you didn't link it from his own site).
But I've seen worse.
::: spoiler Actual...
... rape fantasies drawn on stickers. Long before she even turned 18.
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I mean, there's always going to be a couple extreme assholes, but the general stance is surprisingly commonplace and they (men of course) don't seem to realize how transparent it is.
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So Israel is now announcing its intent to torture EU citizens?
What comes next, invading Cyprus?
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What comes next, invading Cyprus?
Hey man, next time you're gonna give away the plot or foreshadow, please use a spoiler tag for those who aren't up to date this season
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Next will be the "look what you've made me do" abusive partner approach. Classics!
It's almost as if the Israeli government and military are abusers...
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It’s almost as if violence is only stopped by violence
eh, yeah... that's been working out great since the uk sold all that land to two different people and walked away from the shitshow.
I think we're in a situation where we have to take the decision making power out of the hands of people guided by religious rhetoric and malignant monocultural motivation in order to see any real, lasting change.
they almost had this a few times on both sides but the religious nutbags kept assassinating them. the trick is to get secularist people who recognize a multicultural society is stronger than the alternatives, jihad and genocide.
We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt
instead of "it is advisable to discourage future attempts" that could be a more professional strategic tone... their language sound to me more like a mob boss in a mafia film, I am probably biased, yes, but that's the tone I would identify among fascists rather than among objective beings handling a problem, full of passionate words as if their strength would be based on that... anyway.
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I am not meaning that an eufemististic neolingua substitution would improve the morality of those actions or alike, it does not change the intended purpose behind that phrase, execrable in any case.
My point goes in a different direction, highlighting their viciousness, their emotional engagement, rage and hate, not cold state machinery.
Imagine the phrase I quoted in the following context: there is an organised uprising of progrom attempts carried out by a racist centralised collective against a minority and the state wants to take actions to stop the possibility of such progrom. I cannot imagine their version being used but my example.
I know it's the Torygraph, and the media always use the worst possible photo when it's people they don't like, but come on...
They've made the poor girl look like Dana Carvey taking a shit.
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Besides, kidnapping someone like Greta is bound to start massive movement and might actually force Europe to actually do something.
I doubt Israel want to stir that pot. They'll probably scare them off again and call it a win.
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Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive?
Reminds me of that time I tried to play a Monster Hunter game, specifically MH3 on the Wii.
I was like "what the fuck are those controls? How am I supposed to hit those remotely efficiently?"... To which people answered with the ridiculous crime against ergonomy called "the Claw Grip". That was the last straw and I decided the game wasn't for me.
It could be seen as "forward thinking" in the sense of being open to and accepting of technological progress.
Personally, I think it's just trend chasing. AI might become deeply useful for many applications someday, but it's only actually useful for a fraction of what people use it for at the moment.
Someone fucking paid the organisers to do this, didn't they.
If someone in that comp has the Fortification they'd prompt the AI to show why it sucks.
Family of Norwegian hiker who died in Manitoba 'meeting the people he loved' as they retrace his steps | CBC News
The family of a Norwegian hiker who died in northern Manitoba landed in Winnipeg on Friday to embark on a trip that retraces their late son's Canadian journey, and to meet the people who embraced him along the way.On Friday night, his family arrived in Winnipeg after a long and tiring journey from Oslo, spokesperson Christian Dyresen told CBC News.
The family will return on Monday to Winnipeg, where a memorial ceremony will be held for Skjottelvik, Dyresen said.
Later next week, they'll head back to Norway and lay his body to rest, he said.
India becomes largest supplier of diesel fuel to Ukraine. Slovakia in second place
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India has become the largest supplier of diesel fuel to Ukraine. In July, Indian companies supplied 15.5% of the monthly supply base.
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We Hacked Burger King: How Authentication Bypass Led to Drive-Thru Audio Surveillance
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We Hacked Burger King: How Authentication Bypass Led to Drive-Thru Audio Surveillance
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International's assistant platform allowed complete control over 30,000+ Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes locations worldwide - including access to customer drive-thru audio rec…web.archive.org
🍔 Just collabed with @BobTheShoplifter on a MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH: We exposed how Restaurant Brands International (Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes) left their drive-thru systems etc completely vulnerable.🎯 What we found:
• Unauthenticated API access to ALL drive-thru locations globally
• Drive-thru voice recordings of customers accessible
• Employee PII exposed.
• Bathroom feedback systems with zero auth
• Hardcoded passwords in client-side codeThe scope was insane - we could access any drive-thru system globally. Even listen to your actual drive-thru orders 👂
Credit to RBI for lightning-fast response once disclosed, but the privacy implications were staggering.
Full technical breakdown: bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacke…
#InfoSec #CyberSecurity #ResponsibleDisclosure #Privacy #GDPR #API #GraphQL #SecurityResearch #VulnDisclosure #RestaurantBrands #BurgerKing #TimHortons #Popeyes #vulnerability
We Hacked Burger King: How Authentication Bypass Led to Drive-Thru Audio Surveillance
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International's assistant platform allowed complete control over 30,000+ Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes locations worldwide - including access to customer drive-thru audio rec…bobdahacker.com
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Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules
More than two decades after victims of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the government of Saudi Arabia responsible for helping the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a federal judge has ruled that a civil lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Despite the efforts of a small group of FBI agents to pursue the case, it was eventually closed by the bureau. The civil lawsuit nearly died in 2016, when President Barack Obama vetoed legislation to carve out an exception to the sovereign immunity of foreign governments and permit the families to sue the Saudi kingdom. Congress overrode that veto, however, allowing the suit to go forward.
President Donald Trump later blocked the families from obtaining classified government documents on the 9/11 investigations, claiming they were state secrets. President Joe Biden later reversed that stance and declassified documents that included reporting confirming that Bayoumi was a part-time agent of the Saudi intelligence service.
9/11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Kingdom Can Go to Trial: Judge
Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.ProPublica
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I know about 9/11 and of Al Quaida ofc.. Anyone (an USA Lemmian) care to provide some context?
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It looks like his words on the topic were focused around the preservation of hardware and the "protection" of U.S. officials do to the known fact that U.S. troops do perform tasks that fall outside legal realms. (Whether under order or not). He focused on saying that it opens the door for private entities to investigate the U.S.'s actions abroad which could fracture the Governments ability to sweep shit under the rug. To me it seems to say, if someone does something horrific, whether they were ordered to or not, the governing bodies of the 2 countries can negotiate a resolution that they think is best for their countries regardless of whom was hurt and the direct effects of individuals who were effected.
Like if the U.S. does a missile strike on Iran supposively aiding Israel, and Iran strikes the U.S. military outposts in the area back, the governments can decide it was tit for tat or some shit, not caring about the individuals murdered in the process, as it helps them long term. Allowing this to go through would in theory allow countries like Iran to use apply similar exceptions so the families/friends/companies could go to their court without reguard of their government and if a bases is found they could launch an investigation. Which ultimately if it was in our government, a lower court would find it legally viable to investigate, and as it went up the appeals courts would get pressure until it was shut down, showing the corruption that justice doesn't occur for individuals, but rather just protects the whole or just the government officials involved.
The civil lawsuit nearly died in 2016, when President Barack Obama vetoed legislation to carve out an exception to the sovereign immunity of foreign governments and permit the families to sue the Saudi kingdom. Congress overrode that veto, however, allowing the suit to go forward.
Add this to the list of horrifically evil shit Obama did
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Milei government panics after fresh leak of Karina audio | Buenos Aires Times
An emergency meeting took place at the Casa Rosada on Saturday as President Javier Milei’s government reacted to the leak of another damaging audio recording.
Cabinet officials and top advisers were summoned to Government House for talks on how to address the controversy, which erupted after a domestic streaming outlet released audio recordings that allegedly capture private conversations inside the Casa Rosada.
One of the clips features a voice attributed to Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei. In it, the President’s sister – who is at the centre of a developing corruption scandal – appeals for unity from government officials and says she is working long hours.
The situation has caused deep concern within the ruling party, which is seeking to contain the political fallout and prevent the leaks from escalating.
Rumours abide that further audio and video clips could be published in the following days. Casa Rosada sources privately acknowledge that the situation could worsen in the days ahead.
Government officials are angry at the leak and concerned that their conversations behind closed doors may no longer be private.
Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni branded the leak “an unprecedented scandal.”
Milei government panics after fresh leak of Karina audio
Emergency summit at Casa Rosada after fresh leak of audio recording; Top advisers and Cabinet officials discuss leak of Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei appealing for unity.James Grainger (BATimes Newspaper)
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The audio recordings, published on Friday by Carnaval Stream, feature Karina Milei urging unity within the government. “We are not going to get into a fight, we have to stand united, just imagine,” she is heard saying.
In another excerpt, the Presidency’s secretary general describes her working day of over fifteen hours. “Because I go in at 8am and leave at 11pm from the Casa Rosada,” she says in the eight-second clip.
Unlike the Spagnuolo audios, Karina’s recordings make no mention of bribes or alleged irregularities at ANDIS. The official only appeals for cohesion within the ruling team.
Presenter Mauro Federico, who made them public, said these clips were just “the tip of the iceberg” and that more recordings could be released in the coming days.
Planting seeds among rubble — how Palestinians are desperately trying to stave off famine and starvation
Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent
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President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is "objectively a Soviet or Russian agent," reports Euronews.Archived version: archive.is/newest/newsukraine.…
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.
Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is "objectively a Soviet or Russian agent," reports Euronews.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/newsukraine.…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.
Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is objectively a Soviet or Russian agent, reports Euronews.RBC-Ukraine
Color me mildly surprised, because I was under the impression that the recent Portuguese election put their hard right party into power.
Edit: color me the uninformed yank, as per stereotype 🙃
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Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]
An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.
This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.
Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)
Additional information:
The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know
Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade
The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know
More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
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Playing the blame game and shaming people isn't going to suddenly motivate or inspire anybody to do better.
Advancing discourse and raising the consciousness of others on a decentralized platform is doing something, especially in a landscape where public discourse is regularly stunted and manipulated on centralized platforms.
Shit-slinging only makes a mess, but so often that is where discourse goes on most platforms. And to what end? So people can get more hateful and angry? So we can cry ourselves to sleep more frequently because of the state of the world and our collective learned helplessness?
I see people forging more productive discussions and healthy communities on the fediverse and I'm certain there is immense value in that.
You don't recognize that as enough, which is fine, but instead of blaming and shaming others for what you perceive as inaction, I'd suggest including a direct call to action in your postings - if you feel it is relevant to the discussion you are participating in. Bonus points if it is actionable for a wide audience. Or don't, your choice - no judgement here.
Of course actions speak louder than words, but very few people know how to act in the interest of the common good effectively - I'd argue even fewer know how to share their methods and drive, while also being capable of reaching and inspiring others to find their own answers.
We need to have conversations about effective action organically, many times over, instead of being led like the donkey in the carrot and stick metaphor when it comes to facing and solving the problems we face as a society, species, and world.
I strongly disagree.
In a lot of ”very complex” issues, the answers are really simple, and we all know fully well how to solve them.
This is particularly true of the large existential problems we are facing. With climate change, for instance, we have known the solution for a long time: stop burning fossil fuels.
What to do about it has been clear, straightforward and simple all along, but not easy – it would have taken sacrifice to achieve it. We’d have to live more simply, do away with consumerism and have to put things on hold while we find sustainable ways to do them. And we probably would have had to take enormous risks to our own lives, to stop those that wouldn’t aggressively cut down on fossil fuels voluntarily. Without any guarantees of success.
Even transitioning to a solar punk utopia would have been hard, including for those on board from the start.
All while the alternative to the solution is to to have long warm showers at will, enough cheap food that we can get really fat and still throw half of it away, intercontinental air travel that costs less than a bus pass, and so on.
It’s not because we have talked too little or that the discourse hasn’t been good enough that we can’t seem to solve it – our most brilliant minds have talked endlessly for a generation about climate change and how to address it. It’s simply because quitting our fossil fuels addiction is a bitter fucking pill to swallow. And pointless if you do it alone.
The same goes for the ”slow” slide into fascism all over the West, a.k.a. the steady concentration of wealth in the hands of dumber and dumber financial elites. (Not that it’s a separate issue from climate change.)
If you want to beat it, whether peacefully or not, you eventually have to accept that your next meal won’t be guaranteed and that, you might get beaten, arrested or even killed – hungry, tired and cold.
As our American friends have showed us, on this matter, the stakes of disruptive protests are not very appealing – it’s better to continue going to the office, get that paycheck that keeps the lights on, holds off the bank from taking your home and lets the fridge stay full, even if that means paying taxes to and serving those you protest in the weekends and in social media posts.
Tackling these issues does not require exceptional individuals, but a lot of ordinary ones working together, accepting that it’s probably gonna suck really bad. Even so, there is already an abundance of extraordinary people out there, notably Greta Thunberg (of this thread fame).
And yes, it does also take talk to bring those people together, but that talk won’t get you around the hard parts.
First - I must thank you for responding, and I do think we agree a bit more than you think, and I respect your viewpoint.
Collective action is needed to face, address, and solve our problems - especially climate change. It needs to manifest imminently. The solutions to our problems are usually simple, as you suggest, but translating those solutions into physical reality requires collaboration and coherence. We simply aren't meaningfully collaborating in ways that change our collective trajectory, nor are we coherent.
Many believe voting is enough, many argue to me that organizing around established political parties will eventually change them for the better (translating to real change at some point), and many believe that change or progressive policy isn't popular enough to merit consideration. These viewpoints are common in political spaces, and they show me that people don't understand the dire urgency of our collective situation - even if they are politically active. This isn't just about the rise of fascism and individuals like Trump - it's about our fresh water, it's about our agriculture and ability to grow food and eat, it's about whether or not we are able to be comfortable broadly (or even live at all on an increasingly inhospitable planet).
I believe that simply demanding change or simply voting every few years, in the absence of a larger movement, isn't enough. Neither is online discourse enough, nor is local action and collaboration enough.
Every action and person plays a role, but I feel it is critical for more people to understand who currently wields the power to shape our societies, and the radical change that is needed to take back our collective power. One expert or leader isn't going to save us. Even a wave of new, progressive leaders or experts rising to prominence won't be able to save us. Most people think they can still ignore the elephant in the room - out of control capitalism and broken economies - that are 100% beyond reform. We need a clean slate. People are about a half of a century or so too late to seriously advocate for reform, and many don't realize this simple fact - myself included from time to time.
As you loosely suggest, collective action requires us to face uncomfortable truths, and I feel it is important for others to understand that our comfort has been weaponized against us, so the few can profit and lord over us.
Our societies have been shaped around unhealthy and unsustainable systems to enable our comfort; but where we mostly differ is my belief that there are already many solutions all around us, just waiting to be watered and allowed to grow to enable our comfort. The switch just needs flipped, but first people need to realize the switch is even there. And I believe it does take some level of discourse to come to those understandings, despite the many decades that we've already had to discuss these issues. I'm not saying we need to wait for anything, but more productive discourse and greater collaboration will help make these solutions more obvious and clear for the majority of people, myself included.
I don't think many billions need to die for change to manifest, I don't feel like change overshadowed by violence (organized or otherwise) is desirable to wish for or is necessary, and I don't think just talking about what options we have is enough.
There has to be a way forward that doesn't result in total chaos and destruction, and there has to be a way forward beyond accepting that only capitalism and fossil fuels can grant us comfort. It is important to realize that fossil fuel use is an addiction, but I don't believe the comfort we are used to is unsustainable if we put our heads and hands together.
Maybe people do need to become uncomfortable to also come to some of the realizations we generally have, but I don't want to believe that is necessary.
Thank you for this thought through response. I've been meaning to get back to it sooner, but I have been very tired after work and not feeling I have the bandwith the matter deserves. I'm afraid this might not be the evening either, but I found it rude to not respond at all.
One caveat I'd like to enter into the wider discussion is that the distinction between "acting" and "talking" is often more tenuous than either of us have acknowledged thus far.
Either way, to the point where you say we differ most, i.e. "but first people need to realize the switch is even there". From my perspective, what I fail to understand is when you would consider that condition met. Should action be deferred until there's a perfect consensus or at what point do you envision that enough people have come to that realization? Do you consider people embracing ideas like this to be likely to happen, considering real world conditions? Both genuine questions, not rhetorical.
I too am a believer that it is perfectly possible for humans to live good lives outside of the (selectively available) exesses of the fossil fuel paradigm. But I also think it's evident that paradigm will only come to an end through either a decisive and global shift of our collective lifestyles and economies or through the looming risk of societal collapse. At this rate, my frustration is that collapse will come knocking before we're done talking. I'm not as optimistic as you, that we can figure it out, let cooler heads prevail and do things perfectly and achieve a smooth transition. I think it's worth considering that we might stand to lose a lot, whether we commit to change or not; one thing that sometimes get glossed over about fossil fues is that they're damn near magical in terms of what they have enabled us to do.
Maybe we mostly differ in outlook, not predominantly in what we hope for. Because I sure do hope your more optimistic takes prove right.
My apologies for the jumbled and poorly proof-read stream of concioussness, I really need to go to sleep now.
Thanks for responding - I've likely been at a similar level of exhaustion recently. Please also forgive my sloppy response to you the other day and more so this one, where I am pretty ill currently. Take all the time you want to read/respond at your leisure if you desire/if we chat in the future. I'd be happy to see a response in my inbox even 6 months down the line, but honestly, I'm just tickled that anybody responds to me at all after the years of censoring and burying I have experienced over on reddit and other websites. It's been really cool here on the fediverse like that for me and I've grown a lot.
You're absolutely right that fossil fuels are magical. It seems impossible to imagine a world that is even a little bit as advanced as it is now without their heavy use, but we've absolutely grown too accustomed.
It's definitely not for a lack of reporting that the knowledge of the effects of climate change shouldn't be more widespread. I'd like to say that plenty of discourse has absolutely been had on this subject, but mostly in spaces where the conclusions people come to are downright grim and disabling, or firmly rooted in reforming the current system and telling individuals that they need to personally change, instead of shifting focus to the changes we can be making societally. On the flip side (where people are ignorant), average people are generally convinced that everything is fine. The right specifically think it's just the woke liberals trying to waste money on environmental programs led by fake science, likely to make themselves rich. With the making themselves rich part likely being a semi-valid point, and there broadly being a reproducibility crisis in some areas of science being fair to feel and point out as well.
Politically speaking, I predict a failure of the right - at least here in America. The Democrats are essentially in a state of failure already. I can't speak to Europe at all, but I would really hope that Europe gets its shit together with all that's going on. Predicting the fall of MAGA seems delusional even to me at times, but I have to imagine that the house of cards just needs a little wind. Every single thing that Trump/the administration does, it reveals a playbook for anyone curious enough to ask why. I think the reasons to ask that simple question will increase for most people as this continues. And I think ultimately, my optimism comes down to foreseeing the failure/rejection of the USD and a major failure of our tech/AI companies (the latter of which is also starting to become apparent for others).
Regardless of my predictions of the longevity of MAGA and a failure of the USD - are the big corporations, the rich, and those aware of the reality of our systems prepared to devolve into a reality even worse than Hunger Games? That question circles around in my head, and I think those with the most power to shape or influence society in the present order would be unable to manifest a world even that good for themselves. In their dreams, maybe. I think it would be a lot more boring and undesirable for them, best case scenario.
I'm not predicting a world where anything goes smoothly - where reform happens through the current systems or new systems that even remotely mirror the old. I think it's going to be very awkward and messy, at times, as the reality sinks in. I see and feel a whole lot of emotion building up in people, more than I ever have, and I believe the release of this emotion will be palpable.
Regardless of my predictions and hope for Europe to return to sanity, I guess I just want to believe in a world where people aren't so helpless and obedient to the current greedy and shortsighted world order.
If alternative energy sources became more widespread and cheap for regular people to purchase and install, whether through a breakthrough or other miracle that defies policy, it's very likely indicative at that point that our trajectory would be greatly improved. Here in the US, there is a lot of pressure put on our current grid, and I could see this all happening in reaction to high energy costs, stagnating wages, mass layoffs, etc. Obviously household energy use being switched over to partially decentralized green energy e.g. cheap, more efficient solar panels (with sodium-ion batteries possibly) is only one piece of the puzzle to solve.
I tried to speak to your questions in long-form, but here are quick, direct responses:
Should action be deferred until there’s a perfect consensus
Nope, but it would help to see our options laid out for more people to judge what have the most merit. More eyes are needed, but really people need to be more involved in shaping their lives and communities – instead of relying on external authorities.
or at what point do you envision that enough people have come to that realization?
I feel the future will always be more chaotic in practice than anybody can predict. I think focus will be very narrow until the reality widely sinks in for average people living their lives - until people are forced to adapt, likely in reaction to imminent shortages or projected shortages.
Do you consider people embracing ideas like this to be likely to happen, considering real world conditions?
If the status quo broadly continues, even on life support, it seems very unlikely.
This is how you justify inaction. Pretending shitposting is a revolutionary act, what a joke. And almost 40 basement dwellers agree.
We're fucking cooked and some of you think you're actually fighting.
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I thought leena was flirting with prole as well.
If people can have insane relationships with LLMs, why can't we have our psychopathic relationships in our comment section /s
By the way, I like how you put spaces after and not before commas. Very hot.
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Zero coverage on Chris Smalls from the corporate media. Dude was literally tortured by the IOF.
I respect Greta. Don't get me wrong. It's actually amazing that someone that came from a wealthy family did not just end up being another shitlib telling us to stop using plastic straws to save the planet.
It's a testament to her moral compass that it lead her to be radicalized.
If the liberals avoid talking about you and the conservatives hate you then you're doing something right.
But Smalls has always been ignored by the Liberals (unless they could use him as a winning point after the fact). Greta was meant to be a symbol of the liberals form of climate change inaction (but she didn't play ball and was largely dropped). They can't avoid talking about her as easily because the conservatives hate her.
Conservatives hate Smalls but they largely just don't know who he is. So the liberals can ignore him more easily.
Absolutely. The media bias is terrible.
I believe the Freedom Flotilla site posted an interview he did with ABC News where he was able to briefly recounts the horrific racism and assault he endured at the hands of the Israelis. Thanks for raising his name again. More people need to hear what he experienced.
Anyone who hasn’t seen it should go give it a watch and a listen.
Edit: to add to your expanded post. I agree Smalls is largely ignored by liberal media but I think his action and involvement reaches to others that Greta can’t. Greta is also selectively called upon when it suits their bias. We need everyone. He took on extra inherit risks and he deserves every bit of credit and validation for that fact. And I think he’s exposed more Israeli lies about how “tolerant” and “progressive” they are socially. Completely ignoring they have massive problems with racism and homophobia in their ranks and society.
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"escalation" of unarmed people bringing food to people being starved on purpose, knowing they will probably be assaulted and abducted by armed military gangs on the way.
The escalation is coming from the armed thugs assaulting the ships, not the other way round.
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I’ll save you the trouble. The majority of the arguements fall into the usual categories it’s “performative”, “it won’t matter any way”, “it’s a ‘war’ zone”, they’re all just “taking pleasure cruises on yachts” that “they aren’t even carrying aid”, that “Greta’s just a rich spoiled brat and it’s European rich kids having fun” etc. And of course the full fledged backing of Israel(which is basically confessing Israel has an obligation to provide for “their” territory and are failing to do so).
Basically “DiRtY HipPiESssssssss” is their “strongest” counter-arguement. The rest are just proving the point how ridiculous Israel is and how world governments are complicit.
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Definitely the case, sorry for not being more clear
I'm hoping they can avoid the terror and death that Israel is wreaking on so many civilians and journalists
No lol once they are inside Israel borders that's going to be an airstrike from the IDF for sure.
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It won't. But they know that; and they know the risks. On the contrary, they know it will likely be worse than last time.
Short of Yemen (Barak Allah) these are the only direct actions to stop the blockaid on Gaza. An entire world watching as a live streamed genocide occurs.
Yemen and these flotillas will be written about in history as historians analyze why so little was done to stop a genocide.
Yemen and these flotillas will be written about in history as historians analyze why so little was done to stop a genocide.
History is written by the victors, but i hope you're right.
The western Imperialist empire will fall. We won't live to see what is built from the ashes of it though. But I have faith long term that the third world will be liberated and the history of class struggle will be written.
Palestine may not be free today. But it's people and their struggle have given strength to all oppressed people of the world. They and all people that support their struggle are an example of the good of humanity that will always exist to struggle for all people's liberation.
Lotta fuckin nerve, that one has, to willingly subject herself to being attacked by the Israeli military AGAIN…People should remember this shit when they hear people in the Rogan-sphere calling her a “crisis actor” or “new world order shill”, or whatever dumb shit they’ll inevitably say.
She’s got more morals and conviction than any of those little bitches.
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Rogan said they were going to turn Greta into "hamburger".
Because he's so charming.
To stay informed you douche.
What’s the point in hanging around in echo chambers?
It’s important to see what the other side is saying, if only so that you can refute their bullshit lies.
I'm not the guy replying and I agree with you "to a degree". Although I got burned out listening to the "other side" for years. I don't even really listen to "my side" ... or at least I don't think. The right-wing manosphere loves culture wars and complain about people starting culture wars so much to me it's tiring to listen.
I do admire your ability to go through it. I think I probably would have kept listening if the "other side" wasn't in charge of so much and reeking havoc.
I remember someone asking about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show during the Bill Clinton administration if he could keep doing his comedy if times were bad. He said something to the affect of, it works better when times are good. Which always struck me as funny because he flourished even moreso afterwards and was then accused on loving the bad times so much because he profits from it by lazy journalists. Anyways, I ramble a lot >_>.
... if not more so.
Greta brings awareness but I'm not sure what capabilities she brings to the flotilla.
She's also less likely to be disappeared than others.
She's also less likely to be disappeared than others.
Honestly I feel this is her playing to her advantages - Israel can (and does) sink ships carrying aid - and while I have utmost respect for the crews and aid volunteers on those ships - Israel doesn't - and having a high profile person on board that Israel knows is bad PR if they kill provides some safety for the whole crew.
I'm confused cause that article says they already departed Barcelona after they had to turn around due to weather. Looks like the link was changed as well.
Wow that is curious. The article itself changed. Don’t they usually include “update” or “changed to include” and a time stamp when that happens? Or am I just not seeing it? When I read it the first time it definitely didn’t talk about leaving port again. If memory serves it said they had to turn around due to weather and it was unclear if or when they’d leave again. Now it says,
“A flotilla of dozens of boats loaded with aid for Gaza departed Barcelona port on Monday evening after stormy weather forced them to return to port earlier, Reuters footage showed.”
Strange. But glad to know they’re underway.
Sumud Flotilla for Gaza departs Barcelona again after delay due to storm
Flotilla carrying aid for Israeli-blockaded Gaza sets sail again after strong winds forced a return to port.Al Jazeera
Don’t they usually include “update” or “changed to include” and a time stamp when that happens?
No. These days news articles are updated all the time with new information and nothing to tell you. More often than not, people don't notice.
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Lenny Scott: Prison service rocked by colleague's revenge murder
Lenny Scott: Prison service rocked by colleague's revenge murder
A union chief told the BBC the carefully planned killing had hit prison service morale.Jonny Humphries (BBC News)
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Shows that a private prison is a absolutely fucking bad idea.
Oh,how should we have known that.
He resigned because he was threatened while still on the job.
Generally speaking the police (and in some countries the prison system is a de facto separate police) deals far better with it's members being threatened,especially as their self perception is different and their managements goal is not to make a fucking profit first.
Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report
Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report
Regulator Easa concludes there is not enough evidence it is as safe as flying with two pilots as currently requiredGwyn Topham (The Guardian)
There's a reason redundancy is huge in aviation. All of those redundancies are written in the blood of prior accidents. Same thing with signage in the military.
And year, redundancy for the person flying the plane, or at least monitoring the autopilot is probably a good idea, tough shit for the airlines that want to cut costs.
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Yeah, if they'd decrease prices then I honestly wouldn't be that opposed. Flying is very safe, and autopilot is really good. It can even land, though I think this is normally not used if you have a human pilot, but it can do it if it needs to.
We all know that they'd just be cutting employees and probably increase prices though.
The MBAs have taken over the world and are enshitifying entire safety critical industries. They’ve been testing how high they can get the stock price/deaths ratio before someone makes them stop. This is why some industries just shouldn’t be driven by profit, and very near the top of that list is aviation safety.
With the FAA overrun with industry goons and Trump appointees, and aircraft design flaws now acceptable as a cost of doing business, we can expect more regulatory cuts and bits of passenger strewn about the landscape.
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with the landing gear there's mechanical backups. the pilot can (destructively) manually drop the gear if there's a failure. same with other backups: on a non-fly by wire aircraft, the pilot can physically move the control surfaces with enough force. even Airbus has a limited mechanical backup (which has been used a couple times! like when all three avionics controllers disagreed and tripped offline.) likewise, even when there's a total loss of power, the pilot can windmill the engines to start. and since any loss of communication dooms the aircraft, it needs to be extraordinarily reliable - and I'm not sure that level of reliability is physically possible, because the underlying communications links (even ACARS) aren't rated for it, nor are the backbone routers of the internet.
finally, I think it is human nature that remote pilots will become complacent if their own lives are not at stake, like their passengers'.
I'm sure it's fascinating research, and may have a place for cargo/repositioning flights, but I can't see that such a scheme could be made reliable enough to risk human lives.
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Remember not too long ago when the pilot or copilot went to the bathroom and came back to find the other guy unconscious?
Now think about what happens if there's only one guy.
My mom just told me about British airways flight 5390.
While the aircraft was flying over Didcot, England, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the captain to be partially ejected from the aircraft. He was held in place through the window frame for 20 minutes until the first officer landed at Southampton Airport.
Whoever tried to pass this one pilot thing should be fired.
Airplanes CAN also fly on a single engine (that is, if it's a 2 engine one) but that doesn't mean that it should
Ideas like these always come from people who forgot what were actually doing and what the actual priorities are
The priority is to move people safely from point a to point b. The priority is NOT to make a tiny select few rich people even richer
The priority is to move people safely from point a to point b. The priority is NOT to make a tiny select few rich people even richer
Clearly you haven't been paying attention for the last 40 years. The priorities for all services and industries have changed.
People flying planes?
First put Copilot as the copilot. Then yeet the pilot as well.
3 LLMs duking it out with people in the cargo hold of a winged tin cylinder seems like a genius idea.
Remember that plane where the 1st officer locked the captain out of the cockpit and flew the plane into a mountain?
I believe the rule now is that for a pilot to exit the cockpit, a cabin crew member has to be in the cockpit, to prevent this sort of thing.
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Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety
in a real browser
Which is a major security risk and you should avoid those "real browsers".
by displaying Unicode characters an attacker can send you a link that clearly shows its yahoo.com and you see in the browser url that its yahoo.com but in reality its unicode letters that look similar to latin one.
that's really bad
you are right.
You could disable it though in firefox: "about:config" and find "network.IDN_show_punycode" and set to true.
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.
Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
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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.
Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say the prime minister and a number of other ministers in their government were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.Eyad Kourdi (CNN)
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US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York
US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York
The decision comes as France leads international efforts to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN meeting next month.Paulin Kola (BBC News)
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US breaks one of the most important the pillars of the United Nations.
THE RIGHT OF ALL LEADERS TO ATTEND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, this is written in the UN charter and the US agreed to let everyone travel to UN meetings in New York when the UN was founded.
This is an attempt to start the destruction of the UN.
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No its not, it is doing what America has wanted to do and now what its owners have wanted to do for ever.
Its failing at being decent, it is succeeding at its task to ruin it all.
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Eh, good. 2 years and going of active genocide and the UN is completely useless. May something better come from its ashes.
If you still have faith in international bodies like the UN and don't realize they're simply pacifying tools to cover for and allow the west to do whatever they want, you're not paying attention.
May something better come from its ashes.
Don't hold your breath, such a better version would still require major powers to concede and no major power would join without veto capabilities.
We need alien ovelords.
They were selling palestinian land in a synaguoge in montreal
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Montreal real estate event sells property in illegal settlements in the West Bank in Palestinian Territory
Protest results in injunction banning pro-Palestine activists from protesting outside of Jewish institutions in MontrealCommunity Media Portal
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There is already a UN building in Geneva. Make that the primary one .
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Trump blocks. Trump.
Fuck this inbred oompa loompa, and every person that helps him. He spreads his disease while a third of America claps and ignores the clear signs of child rape and genocide.
This is a creature, a monster. He is a thing, not a being. A creation of wealth, power, and privilege. He should never have reached such a ripe, demented age.
Our societies have failed us. The United States of America has been compromised.
Your comment seems to imply that the placement of the UN HQ and GA is somehow ...a reward for a country's virtue? What kind of silliness is that?
The choice of placement of the UN HQ&GA should be guided by a simple principle: what place in the world is stable enough, neutral enough and independent from external pressure enough to be the place where representatives of all the countries in the globe, regardless of whether they are good or bad or «good» or «bad» can reliably meet without hindrance under a flag of truce.
It's a fucking practical question not a moral one.
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.
UN calls for reversal of US sanctions on Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United States targeting Francesca Albanese, a UN-appointed independent expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.UN News
The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.
Never been
Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use
Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use
I’ve come to realize that being endlessly absorbed by AI slop and brainrot, especially Instagram reels constantly shared between friends,...Circle With A Dot
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Not everybody is a tanky here.
I joined waay before the reddit API change and .ml was like one of three available instances.
Yeah same, we’re just early adopters.
I don’t think there even were other instances back then.
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 😀
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
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.
Twitter mirrors
Instagram mirrors
Reddit mirrors for posts
Corporate social networks generally don't like being mirrored by a competition and actively fight with these.
Bluesky was being mirrored like this by Bridgy, but as it is a two-way bridge and Mastodon users did not expect their data leak to another network they bullyed Bridgy dev into making it opt-in.
There are more issues to mass-mirroring content from outside and I hope others will tell about them.
Your instance is not blocking that much.
Apparently the Facebook company fights with account mirroring even more than ex-Twitter. Performance of Instagram mirroring will be smaller...
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Maybe you need to wait a bit for federation to kick in?
I don't have links at hand, but from some other questions I know that federation is not "download everything the moment someone looks at another instance". Basically follow something and wait until some new content appears on origin instance. If after that you don't see the content federated, then it's time to start asking around
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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?
Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!
- 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
Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!
- 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
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.
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.マリウス
Tech people have zero idea what privacy is or should be, and desperately look for anything to make then feel elites. Paying for Kagi is a flex.
Kagi is fine, but it certainly not magic.
Qwant, Startpage, and SearXNG work well.
Ecosia is DDG (which is Bing results) as a non-profit.
Mojeek...ugh, you stupid but nice guy. You'll get there one day.
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
The US could be complicating the planned recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September by denying and revoking existing visas to members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinia…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Rubio's announcement said the PA must halt efforts “to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns”, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state”. The Trump administration cites these two actions as having "materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks."
Wow.
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“Part of the agreement with the UN is that the host country for its headquarters allows all heads of state to address the annual gathering.
The Palestinian Authority "stressed that this decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement”
THIS HERE ^^
The Trump Admin is using this to destroy the fundamentals of the UN. The UN will have to move out of the US which is exactly what they want to achieve without saying it out loud.
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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
To see it in action:
- piefed.zip/communities?topic_i…
Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)
- crust.piefed.social/communitie…
Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch
Example of search for 'movies'
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Is this different to Lemmy's communities tab sorted by 'Top Week', which sorts by weekly active users?
IMO, the main advantage of Lemmyverse is the better text search and presentation.
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You still don't see the number of weekly active users.
On Piefed, it's the 'Active people' column, where you can see the numbers without having to go to each community. Lemmy (and Photon in this case) only show subscribers, which isn't an accurate metric as most of them are ghost accounts.
That could indeed be the case, but that's probably a low priority item for most of the client devs.
I had been asking Rimu to add this feature for a while as Lemmyverse doesn't show Piefed communities on the community search, and as a lot of people use Lemmyverse to search for communities, Piefed communities are basically invisible.
This solves it, if other clients want to implement it too, that would be nice of course
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Project background: https://join.piefed.social Demo site / Flagship instance: https://piefed.socialCodeberg.org
As in old.reddit or the old “new” reddit they apparently changed a week ago.
I’ve been messing around with customising themes all week on quokka.au, and I would be happy to give it a shot.
Where I'm at so far with a theme. Gotta finish up the top bar with community subscriptions and tidy up the user part on the left before moving onto the feed.
Oh great, now I can check if my Taylor Swifties Markov Chains are more popular in Meta’s piefeed instance over Microsoft’s 🙄 /s
Folks, please don't not fall for Popularity Biases. Just because one instance has more robots talking to each other, doesn't mean you should join the community.
So don't fall for it.
The Unfairness of Popularity Bias in Recommendation
Recommender systems are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (i.e. frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented in the recommendations.arXiv.org
!movies@lemmy.world is almost only composed of a single poster sharing articles from the Guardian.
!movies@piefed.social has a diverse mod team, with dedicated threads for movies, weekly discussion threads, and people sharing their own reviews.
Now, what you have just exemplified is the way:
community based introductions.
So thank you for curating👍, and sharing your thoughts on them. 🫶
U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'
The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways.
archive: archive.ph/RDgRJ
How about we only use blockchain for the use cases where it's an optimal solution.
If and when there are such use cases.
No. Keep tech away from voting. Software cannot be trusted.
You can't tell if the button you push is the thing being counted. You don't know if the version of the code on the machine is the one that was audited.
Paper. Ballots. Only
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.
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.
What is a Hard Fork? A History of Bitcoin Hard Forks
What is a hard fork, and how have hard forks impacted Bitcoin?trustmachines.co
Has Netanyahu made slip-up in case against Karim Khan? - Israeli PM's allegations against ICC chief have never been mentioned before
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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.”
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"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."
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Has Netanyahu sabotaged his own campaign against Karim Khan?
Karim Khan has questioned whether Israel is "interfering in and attempting to manipulate" a UN investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, following comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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