Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Crunchyroll has made yet another controversial move in 2025, but this time, anime fans cannot forgive it and finally cancelled the streaming site.Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)
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The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, and has suspended an agent who refused to participate in the plan, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Ray refused to participate in this plan, believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey, according to the source. He was then suspended for insubordination.
The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversions and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody.
The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.Daniel Klaidman (CBS News)
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Briar - secure p2p group communications
Briar is a messaging app designed to be used by groups of people to allow for secure and censorship resistant communications.
This technically isn't self hosted in the strictest sense but I think it is still relevant.
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Crunchyroll has made yet another controversial move in 2025, but this time, anime fans cannot forgive it and finally cancelled the streaming site.Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)
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È morto Remo Girone: addio al “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra, aveva 76 anni
Il mondo dello spettacolo italiano piange Remo Girone, morto improvvisamente all’età di 76 anni nella sua casa di Montecarlo. L’attore, indissolubilmente legato al volto di Tano Cariddi nella serie La Piovra, lascia un’eredità artistica che ha attraversato cinema, televisione e teatro, oltre a un rapporto speciale con il pubblico.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO COMPLETO: È morto Remo Girone: addio al “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra, aveva 76 anni
È morto Remo Girone, addio al “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra
È morto a 76 anni Remo Girone, il “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra. Nato ad Asmara, ha lavorato tra cinema, TV e teatro.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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China launches a new visa to attract tech talent, but locals aren't happy
When China first announced a new visa targeting foreign professionals in science and technology in August it largely went unnoticed.
But the K visa, which went into effect on Wednesday, was thrust into the public spotlight last week, when an Indian outlet referred to it as "China's H-1B" - a reference to the US visa for skilled workers which was, last month, targeted by an executive order by Donald Trump. Indians dominate the H-1B programme, making up more than 70% of the recipients in recent years.
The Indian media report was picked up widely in China, stoking concern - and even fears - amongst the public over whether benefits extended to foreigners would increase competition in a sluggish job market - and in a country that has traditionally not been a major immigration destination for foreign professionals.
And although it is still unclear whether the visa will actually allow foreigners to work in China or whether it just allows them easier access into the country, it didn't stop tens of thousands of users on Chinese social media from criticising the programme.
"We have so many bachelor's degree holders, not to mention even more with master's and doctoral degrees. We already have a surplus of domestic talent - and now you're bringing in foreign college graduates?" read one comment.
“There have been so many new programmes pushing our university students to compete with each other, but in the end, nothing beats a foreign passport,” another Weibo user wrote.
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Others talked about whether authorities could bring in a high standard of talent, and questioned whether foreigners would be able to adapt to life on the mainland, citing language barriers and China's tightly controlled political system.
Also among the comments were a wave of xenophobic and racist remarks - many of them targeted specifically at Indian nationals.
[...]
China launches a new visa to attract tech talent, but locals aren't happy
China's aim to attract global talent comes as the US is making it harder to bring in foreign workers.Fan Wang (BBC News)
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What do you mean “negative spin”? Those are people unhappy with a decision their government made. And their concerns are valid, too. Stuff like this happens all the time around the world. It should be talked about.
I wouldn’t have read it that way at all if it weren’t for you immediately crying about it. Try not to be upset about things that aren’t 100% positive about your favourite club.
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"Chinese people not happy with windmills ruining their view!"
There you go. Everything has a downside. The BCC decided to make the downside the headline. Which means they agree with Trump who scared off foreign talent.
Try not to be 100% positive about empire news.
You might not have noticed it, but the BBC is intentionally taking a negative angle to something which has both upsides and downsides. So much for their neutral reporting.
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The BCC decided to make the downside the headline. Which means they agree with Trump who scared off foreign talent.
No. The BBC decided to report that Chinese people are unsatisfied with their government's decision and the government doesn't care. Vews contrary to The Party are being censored as usual.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs condannato a quattro anni e due mesi: il giudice Subramanian parla di «offese gravi» e impone multa e libertà vigilata
Sean “Diddy” Combs è stato condannato a 50 mesi di prigione da un tribunale federale di New York per trasporto di persone a fini di prostituzione. Il giudice Arun Subramanian ha definito i fatti «gravi offese di carattere sessuale che hanno irreparabilmente danneggiato due donne», spiegando che una pena significativa è necessaria «per mandare un messaggio» tanto agli autori di abusi quanto alle vittime.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Sean “Diddy” Combs condannato a quattro anni e due mesi: il giudice Subramanian parla di «offese gravi» e impone multa e libertà vigilata
Sean Diddy Combs condannato a 50 mesi: multa e 5 anni di libertà vigilata
Sean “Diddy” Combs condannato a 50 mesi per trasporto a fini di prostituzione. Il giudice Subramanian impone anche 500mila $ di multa.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8 and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.James LaPorta (CBS News)
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Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8 and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.James LaPorta (CBS News)
Nothing Essential è il preludio all'estinzione degli smartphone come li conosciamo
Nothing Essential è il preludio all'estinzione degli smartphone come li conosciamo - macitynet.it
Nothing pensa a un sistema operativo basato sull’AI, ma al momento non rinuncia ad Android: si parte con Playground ed EssentialEmiliano Contarino (Casa Editrice Macity Publishing srl)
They fled to south Gaza as ordered. Then Israel killed them
After Israel intensified bombing and expulsion orders in Gaza City, Palestinian cameraman Sami Dawoud packed up his belongings and moved south in search of safety.
He took shelter with his family in a tent in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, an area considered among the least dangerous in the famine-stricken Palestinian enclave.
But within a week, an Israeli fighter jet struck the area. A bomb hit Dawoud’s tent, killing him, his daughter, and several other Palestinians.
ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-dragged-naked-children-out-homes-chicago-raid-10823150
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Chicagoans mobilize to oppose Trump’s threats of military occupation
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72258
Chicago, IL – On September 30, 1500 Chicagoans marched down Magnificent Mile to protest Trump’s threats of using the city as a military training ground. This past week has seen the effects of Operation Blitz in full force, with heavy presence of ICE and other federal agents conducting deportations. Trump’s speech to top U.S. generals the same day showed he intends to escalate the federal occupation with the military.
Ramped up repression means ramped up fight back!
“They are dehumanizing our communities. They are inflicting terror on our families. Separating families. Let’s not forget that when ICE murdered Silverio [Villegas-Gonzalez], the only thing they said was that he was an illegal. They did not say that he was a father, a worker, and a member of our community,” said Gabriela Hernandezm of Casa DuPage, speaking to the crowd in Spanish.
Hernandez also stated, “We are here today, protesting again, to tell this administration that the Mexicano/Latino community are not criminals. It is the time for us to speak firmly and clearly about these things, because if not, they will come to silence all of us.”
Reverend Jonathan Brooks of Live Free Illinois stated, “ICE has been accused of violating a consent decree meant to protect families from warrantless arrests. This disregard for legal protections tears at the very fabric of trust in our democracy.”
Brooks continued, “A federal judge has already ruled that targeting deportations based on political speech is unconstitutional – yet ICE continues to act as if it is above the law. Let’s be clear: this is not about safety. This is about authoritarianism, fear and control. Our communities do not need to be occupied – they need to be respected.”
“We saw over the weekend how ICE agents shamelessly occupied the streets of downtown and detained fellow residents. Over in Broadview, protesters and journalists are being shot at, teargassed, and brutalized. In a raid in South Shore just last night, ICE, FBI and other federal agents ransacked 70 apartments, knocked down doors, threw stuff all over the place, and detained 50 people – including Black U.S. citizens,” said Angel Naranjo of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO).
Naranjo continued, “Trump hates Chicago because he is a racist reactionary who represents the class enemy – the monopoly capitalist class – and this enemy can’t stand us. Trump and his lackeys are mad and ramping up their attacks – and so we’re ramping up our fight back! The masses of our city – and in particular the Black, Chicano/Latino, immigrant and working-class masses – are putting up a just fight against this rotten imperialist system that is tearing apart our families and occupying our neighborhoods! We are building a movement to stop the raids, and our demand is legalization for all undocumented people.”
“What we need right now is solidarity. The solidarity that Fred Hampton talked about. The solidarity that Assata Shakur deserved. We need solidarity with federal workers, with day laborers, teachers, nurses, warehouse workers. We need solidarity across unions. All public unions, trade unions, across communities. We need the solidarity of all working people,” said Jill Manrique of Chicago Jobs for Justice.
A member of Students for Justice in Palestine – Chicago (SJP Chicago) ended the program by reminding the crowd, ”The kidnapping of families and workers, and the occupations of our city’s streets is just an escalation of policy that has been standard in this nation since its inception.”
After the program, Chicagoans loudly marched down Magnificent Mile, one of the biggest commercial corridors in the city. Protests ended at the Water Tower, finishing with Assata’s “It is our duty to fight for our freedom” chant.
Enemies from within
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. Cuz we’re going into Chicago very soon,” said Trump in front of the U.S. top military leaders, stating that there were enemies from within that the military must apprehend.
Trump's deployment of federal forces is an escalation of the ongoing occupation of Black, Chicano/Latino, and working-class communities by the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Trump aims to ramp up this oppression and squash the working and oppressed people who are getting organized to fight back against this. From the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, to the 2025 LA uprising against ICE, working and oppressed are wanting and mobilizing for an end to this terror. The ruling class of this country knows this, and is ramping to continue its grip of oppressed people in this country.
Join the resistance!
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Join the resistance! Trump has a long oppressive agenda, and we’re here to defeat all of it.
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Trinidad Gov’t Gets US Support for Venezuela Joint Natural Gas Project
Trinidad Gov’t Gets US Support for Venezuela Joint Natural Gas Project - Venezuelanalysis
PM Persad-Bissessar expressed confidence in reaching a deal with Caracas despite backing a recent US military deployment in the region.ricardo (Venezuelanalysis)
Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
New, disturbing details have emerged about an incident that got a Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with second-degree murder for the death of a Black man in custody, reported The Guardian on Friday — with the death bearing a striking resemblance to th…Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
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A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot.
A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The c...
A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The company says the machine is less painful and the tattoos look like theykottke.org
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A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The company says the machine is less painful and the tattoos look like theykottke.org
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Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal on tech ethics, the rise of surveillance, the power of AI, and what we can do to fight back.
cross-posted from: piefed.zip/post/539098
Filmed on 5/20/2025 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.About the speakers:
Meredith Whittaker is Signal’s President and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors. She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. She recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.
Stéphan-Eloïse Gras is a researcher and entrepreneur specializing in the geoeconomics of AI. An assistant professor at CNAM-Paris, she explores AI technologies through the lens of software & critical data studies. She also serves on the board of Probabl, an AI company built around the popular open-source library scikit-learn. With 15+ years in the digital sector, she has led initiatives at the intersection of innovation, research, education, and emerging markets. As CEO of Digital Africa, she oversaw a €130M initiative supporting African startups. She also co-founded Africa 4 Tech and led OpenClassrooms’ strategic expansion in Africa. Her doctoral research traced the rise of AI through a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify. She teaches at CNAM, Sciences Po, NYU, and Sorbonne and is currently writing a book on the geoeconomics of AI, describing LLMs as “belief-making machines.”
Rachel Donadio, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs, is a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
This event was part of Ways of Seeing, a special series exploring the connections between storytelling, creativity, and the visual world.
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Can anyone ELI5 the severity of this? Emerging Unity game vulnerability
Unity Security Vulnerability: Developer Remediation Guide
A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Download the patching tool here and read on for further instructions.Unity
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Madagascar president refuses to step down as antigov’t protests continue
Madagascar president refuses to step down as antigov’t protests continue
Protesters issue president 24-hour ultimatum to ‘respond favourably’ to demands, threatening ‘all necessary measures’.Al Jazeera
On trillion-dollar tech firms, gold and the evaporating dollar
I wasn't exactly sure where to put this, as after a few hours of sourcing data, applying formulas and being anal about how the charts look, I can't for the life of me figure out what I was attempting to respond to by doing this compilation.
But look! Charts! And tech valuations are involved!
The title art is spot gold Oct. 1 of each year sourced here. All other data come from here. Inflation figures to determine relative values are bog-standard BLS CPI.
My starting point was, "OK, I know these companies are valued so high because each dollar keeps getting worth less," but I wanted some actual numbers, and with gold being on a tear of late, that seemed like a good point of comparison.
1984 was chosen as the baseline because that was the year Apple started trading publicly, with most of the other companies IPOing thereafter. I only went back and added Intel (hence it being missing from the chart titles) because it happened to start trading the same year, and I already had the formulas. What a shitshow that's been.
Anyway, y'all know how to read line graphs, so I'm not going to go into detail. If you have any questions on methodology, please feel free to ask.
Absent inflation, only Apple. Microsoft and Nvidia would ever have been trillion-dollar companies.
And in terms of value against gold, Tech Stocks At All-Time Highs looks pretty damn anemic.
Gold Prices - 100 Year Historical Chart & Data
Gold Prices - Historical chart and current data through 2025.MACROTRENDS
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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it's the devs/publishers yes
some time ago Palworld devs lowered the regional price for Poland as they noticed it was relatively more expensive for Poles to buy the game, they got a lot of praise for that
I think Poland is just in the crappy position of not being on developers/publishers radars and being lumped in with other nearby countries when it comes to pricing.
I've heard similar complaints of polish people for all sorts of platforms, not only steam.
And I think them not having the euro probably adds to the situation since the value of the polish zloty has been going up compared to the euro.
So if publishers set the price to the euro equivalent in 2022, and the Zloty rose by 20% compared to the Euro in the mean time, you end up with the prices that are there now.
The difference to the USD over the same time is even more stark at 36%.
Useful idiots deserve to be charged as much as they're willing to pay.
Anything less, and they will legitimately get upset at the business not ripping them off.
Having a nightmare time with Jellyfin.
- Edit: I am running CachyOS, and how I downloaded was mixed through AUR and Octopi for dependencies
Anyway, for 1, make sure jellyfin has the rights to see your video and music folders.
For 2, are you trying to do it from the same network or from outside?
FBI cuts ties with civil rights watchdog SPLC after conservative pressure
FBI cuts ties with civil rights watchdog SPLC after conservative pressure
Conservatives like billionaire Elon Musk had criticised the group for its criticism of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.Farah Najjar (Al Jazeera)
Chicagoans mobilize to oppose Trump’s threats of military occupation
Chicago, IL – On September 30, 1500 Chicagoans marched down Magnificent Mile to protest Trump’s threats of using the city as a military training ground. This past week has seen the effects of Operation Blitz in full force, with heavy presence of ICE and other federal agents conducting deportations. Trump’s speech to top U.S. generals the same day showed he intends to escalate the federal occupation with the military.
Ramped up repression means ramped up fight back!
“They are dehumanizing our communities. They are inflicting terror on our families. Separating families. Let’s not forget that when ICE murdered Silverio [Villegas-Gonzalez], the only thing they said was that he was an illegal. They did not say that he was a father, a worker, and a member of our community,” said Gabriela Hernandezm of Casa DuPage, speaking to the crowd in Spanish.
Hernandez also stated, “We are here today, protesting again, to tell this administration that the Mexicano/Latino community are not criminals. It is the time for us to speak firmly and clearly about these things, because if not, they will come to silence all of us.”
Reverend Jonathan Brooks of Live Free Illinois stated, “ICE has been accused of violating a consent decree meant to protect families from warrantless arrests. This disregard for legal protections tears at the very fabric of trust in our democracy.”
Brooks continued, “A federal judge has already ruled that targeting deportations based on political speech is unconstitutional – yet ICE continues to act as if it is above the law. Let’s be clear: this is not about safety. This is about authoritarianism, fear and control. Our communities do not need to be occupied – they need to be respected.”
“We saw over the weekend how ICE agents shamelessly occupied the streets of downtown and detained fellow residents. Over in Broadview, protesters and journalists are being shot at, teargassed, and brutalized. In a raid in South Shore just last night, ICE, FBI and other federal agents ransacked 70 apartments, knocked down doors, threw stuff all over the place, and detained 50 people – including Black U.S. citizens,” said Angel Naranjo of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO).
Naranjo continued, “Trump hates Chicago because he is a racist reactionary who represents the class enemy – the monopoly capitalist class – and this enemy can’t stand us. Trump and his lackeys are mad and ramping up their attacks – and so we’re ramping up our fight back! The masses of our city – and in particular the Black, Chicano/Latino, immigrant and working-class masses – are putting up a just fight against this rotten imperialist system that is tearing apart our families and occupying our neighborhoods! We are building a movement to stop the raids, and our demand is legalization for all undocumented people.”
“What we need right now is solidarity. The solidarity that Fred Hampton talked about. The solidarity that Assata Shakur deserved. We need solidarity with federal workers, with day laborers, teachers, nurses, warehouse workers. We need solidarity across unions. All public unions, trade unions, across communities. We need the solidarity of all working people,” said Jill Manrique of Chicago Jobs for Justice.
A member of Students for Justice in Palestine – Chicago (SJP Chicago) ended the program by reminding the crowd, ”The kidnapping of families and workers, and the occupations of our city’s streets is just an escalation of policy that has been standard in this nation since its inception.”
After the program, Chicagoans loudly marched down Magnificent Mile, one of the biggest commercial corridors in the city. Protests ended at the Water Tower, finishing with Assata’s “It is our duty to fight for our freedom” chant.
Enemies from within
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. Cuz we’re going into Chicago very soon,” said Trump in front of the U.S. top military leaders, stating that there were enemies from within that the military must apprehend.
Trump's deployment of federal forces is an escalation of the ongoing occupation of Black, Chicano/Latino, and working-class communities by the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Trump aims to ramp up this oppression and squash the working and oppressed people who are getting organized to fight back against this. From the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, to the 2025 LA uprising against ICE, working and oppressed are wanting and mobilizing for an end to this terror. The ruling class of this country knows this, and is ramping to continue its grip of oppressed people in this country.
Join the resistance!
This mobilization was called by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA), a coalition of over 80 organizations building a united front against the reactionary Trump administration. Sign up to get notified when the next mobilization happens at coalitionagainsttrumpagenda.org
Join the resistance! Trump has a long oppressive agenda, and we’re here to defeat all of it.
Polarization rocks U.S. military
New Orleans, LA – On September 30, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth blew his bugle for the military’s next crusade. The world’s biggest and baddest armed forces folded in Afghanistan and burned in Vietnam. Hegseth and Trump looked at these defeats, and many more, then scratched their chins. At last, they ferreted out Benedict Arnold: DEI.
Top brass from across the globe scrambled to Quantico to hear about it. Hegseth attacked “fat generals,” women, “men in dresses,” “weak men,” and supposed diversity hires. He announced he’d whip troops into shape by prohibiting beards, narrowing hazing protections, and replacing gender-neutral expectations with “male-standard” physical training. Trump followed by parading a $1 trillion 2026 military budget.
Military meeting or MAGA sales pitch?
“All-hands” high-level gatherings are routine, but this one stood out. It was a full court press to build consensus against “wokeness.”
“What made this meeting so notable is that today’s military is buffeted by an atmosphere of extreme partisan polarization,” wrote former National Security Council staffer Peter Feaver.
Commentators saluted the officers for listening with their poker faces on. It’s supposed to be a win for keeping politics out of the military. But many haven’t kept their cards close to their chests.
“Could have been an email,” one officer told Politico. Another described the conference as an “inexcusable strategic risk.”
“I suspect it’s not being taken well,” retired Lt. General Mark Hertling told MSNBC.
These comments expose that polarization hasn’t been staved off; it’s already running deep. It’s come up before, everywhere from shaving rules to the trans ban. The latter was opposed by 56 retired generals and admirals.
Take it to the streets, see who comes out on top
The sharpest flashpoint has been the National Guard’s occupation of major cities. Trump called them “training grounds” for troops. He states plainly that these takeovers, in Black and Chicano urban areas, go fist-in-glove with imperialism abroad.
Trump’s takeovers have escalated deportations and racist arrests. Although the National Guardsmen do not have powers of arrest themselves, they give backup to federal agents to go after people on petty or trumped-up charges. On Fight Back! Radio, a DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression activist described how agents have detained people for legally smoking weed.
But these occupations have prompted a wave of mass resistance. Protests have sprung up in every city that Trump has targeted, and even local politicians are speaking up. “Training grounds” indeed – for the united front against Trump.
The court system is taking notice. The Guardian reported that DC has seen unprecedented lows in indictments by grand juries on charges related to the Trump takeover, even if a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.
Pushed on by the fightback from civilians, soldiers up and down the chain aren’t buying that there’s an “enemy within.” One officer told Politico that these deployments “distract warfighters.” At least eleven former generals criticized the Los Angeles takeover. The Guardian reported that dozens of troops deployed to LA voiced anger about being political pawns. One said the assignment was “shitty.”
“Disoriented, demoralized, and ineffective”
This isn’t to say there’s a revolt within the armed forces. But they face a different kind of problem – disorganization.
In Foreign Affairs, Peter Fever writes: “Over the course of their professional lives, these military officers are likely to serve a large chunk of their time under both parties. If they become identified as partisans of one, they may be viewed as enemies of the other—starting a cycle of partisan purges that leaves the military disoriented, demoralized, and ineffective, as has happened in other purge-prone militaries.”
To complicate things further, this divided force is running up against a fragmented legal system. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the federal military from participating in general law enforcement without a state’s consent. It’s the basis for the California ruling against the occupation of Los Angeles. Effectively, cities in blue states have this legal avenue against the deployments. States like Louisiana, where Trump crony Governor Jeff Landry requested federal assistance, are a different terrain.
Polarization in the military, like in the rest of the U.S., is a sign of imperialism’s decline. Hegseth admitted to this decline when he compared the aftermath of Vietnam to the U.S.’s position today. In Vietnam, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. tried to rally other imperialists under the banner of “spreading democracy.” But out with these ambitious, ideological wars. In with the wars of naked and narrow self-interest. It’s the desperate gambit of an empire losing its grip. Mounting abuses of military power come with the territory. But, after all, Americans have resisted the likes of this since 1776.
https://fightbacknews.org/commentary-polarization-rocks-u-s-military?pk_campaign=rss-feed
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.James LaPorta (CBS News)
First lawsuit filed challenging Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee
First lawsuit filed challenging Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee
The lawsuit claims Trump does not have the authority to override the law that created the H-1B visa programme.Al Jazeera
Hegseth Says Four ‘Narco-Terrorists’ Killed in Latest US Attack on Venezuela Boat
The US has attacked multiple Venezuelan boats in recent weeks, with US officials saying the goal of the strikes is regime change in Venezuela as opposed to the war on drugs. Along with the airstrikes of boats, a US destroyer boarded and seized a Venezuelan boat in mid-September, which the Venezuelan government insists was a tuna fishing vessel.
Hegseth Says Four ‘Narco-Terrorists’ Killed in Latest US Attack on Venezuela Boat - News From Antiwar.com
A day after President Trump informed Congress that the US is in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, the US carried out yet another strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, alleging it was loaded with drugs.News From Antiwar.com
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I hope not. I also see that one of the few smart things Maduro has done recently is to not give the USA an excuse to attack Venezuela.
It feels similar to what happened in the first Trump administration against Iran.
Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report? mistaking detection for emergence
Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?
mistaking detection for emergenceAndrew Dessler (The Climate Brink)
This seems to be as close as they get:
This serves as a litmus test for the report’s scientific credibility. A commitment to scientific integrity requires the authors to produce a point-by-point response to the expert comments, overseen by an independent review editor.A refusal to do so would suggest that the report should be viewed as an advocacy piece rather than a scientific document, and its conclusions should be treated with caution.
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Apparently he's a gaming YouTuber now
I can't believe that after nearly two decades of absolute anti-vax hysteria her son appears to be fine.
I'm not challenging his diagnosis, but... his condition doesn't really match her rhetoric.
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And if you want one with Mrs. McCarthy:
I feel bad for him, it's hard not for the comments to be political - he didn't choose this life for himself.
Gaming USA
Hello! I’m Evan Asher, and welcome to my official YouTube channel! Step into the thrilling world of Gaming USA, where you’ll join me and my friends in creating original live-action adventures and movies.YouTube
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My parents suck! I can't wait for them to die! I pray for it.
I can't imagine what having Mrs. McCarthy as a Mom is like. It has to be a nightmare.
I'm happy he's gaming and is YouTubing. His YTs need to join the Fediverse!
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Are EBIL CHINESE Solar panels to blame for Pakistan's water crisis? The answer will shock you! (tl;dr: NO)
- 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
Breaking down the justification behind Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s ‘pipeline to nowhere’
Breaking down the justification behind Danielle Smith’s ‘pipeline to nowhere’
Oil production in Canada hit record highs last year, the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline is in operation, and more fossil fuel infrastructure keeps getting built, yet in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's new pipeline pitch, the oil industry is nothi…Canada's National Observer
T00l_shed
in reply to themachinestops • • •themachinestops
in reply to T00l_shed • • •xcancel.com/sugoilite/status/1…
Many people noticed that the changes in the subs, they used to translate text in the background for example.
T00l_shed
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themachinestops
in reply to Lumidaub • • •Agreed, It very noticeable how bad the subs are. I remember watching an the terminator anime and the subs were atrocious.
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Jo Miran
in reply to themachinestops • • •Verdant Banana
in reply to themachinestops • • •If you do not want to support then stop consuming which can not do because everything needed or wanted is all controlled/produced by the same owner class and switching companies means switching between different companies all owned by the same owner class just like news and newspapers
Same scam that is done on elections to give the illusion of choice but the puppet master never changes face just the puppets
No other companies to switch to for baby formula, diapers, bottled or otherwise water, foods by any brand all same owner at the beginning of the chains, all media is all owned at the very top by the same owner class, movies including super hero ones all owned by that same entity, vehicles that move us and products around all owned by the same people even if the countries are different and the names changed at the very very top are the same owner class
Got us plain and simple
Eeyore_Syndrome
in reply to themachinestops • • •Sub ran out midway last month.
Kodi + Premiumize.me + Otaku for the win. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Nomorereddit
in reply to themachinestops • • •markovs_gun
in reply to Nomorereddit • • •That is the purpose of a boycott yes. Here are some other examples
Abolitionist boycotts of Southern goods over slavery - thenation.com/article/archive/…
Boycotts of German goods over Nazi policies- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_ant…
Boycotts of South Africa over Apartheid - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Apa…
Ongoing boycott of US goods by Canada over a threatening stance taken by US government- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Can…
2025 Canadian boycott of the United States - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)deathbird
in reply to Nomorereddit • • •Soup
in reply to Nomorereddit • • •Nomorereddit
in reply to Soup • • •I'm so super mega serious. Seriously. I'll try it more basic, but deadly serious:
"What going on?
Me not understand.
Why hate thing? Is cause ai, or cause Israeli, both? Something else?
Why do I care who is hitting the keyboard characters to sub a story i already know/love?
Soup
in reply to Nomorereddit • • •Israel, the country committing a genocide? The country actively and openly exterminating an entire ethnic group? And the product isn’t even good anyway?
Yea, it’s actually so easy to tell them to fuck off. If you can’t figure that out your moral compass is broken and you should send it in for a warantee repair.
Alteon
in reply to Nomorereddit • • •I don't want to support any company that is either directly or indirectly funding genocide and fascism. It's not complicated.
If you found out that Netflix powered their servers using an orphan grinding machine, would you still subscribe to them?
Electricd
in reply to Alteon • • •Zombie-Mantis
in reply to Nomorereddit • • •Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🌈
in reply to themachinestops • • •The whole “calling out Israel for genocide means you’re antisemitic” line is so worn out and honestly just exhausting. Israel has spent like 4+ decades trying desperately to associate criticism of israel with antisemitism.
I’ve been boycotting Crunchyroll for years, and I’m not stopping anytime soon.
"Piracy is a human right, collective ownership of the seas, comrades!"
— Erik L. Midtsveen
Mr_Dr_Oink
in reply to Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🌈 • • •Maybe instead of everyone calling it isreal and palestine, they should say the isreali government and innocent people.
They should say Netanyahu is committing genocide.
Saying israel instead of directly naming the culprits is sort of like when people say antifa. In the case of antifa it makes bad actors able to demonise the word and make it seem like a bad thing, so it can be used to twist peoples minds and make them think its a bad thing.
In the case of this genocide, it dehumanises the people committing the atrocities and diverts blame to the word instead of the people. Which has the effect of people like Netanyahu being able to reassociate the word with the israeli people and the jews.
So it absolutely isnt antisemitic to say israel is committing genocide, but it is unhelpful to divert the blame from the real asshats in charge.
Aljernon
in reply to Mr_Dr_Oink • • •Genocide is wildly popular in Israel right now
"Dubbed the “Sderot cinema” by Israelis online, watching Israel’s bombardment has become a popular pastime; people take turns looking through tower viewers. Some bring popcorn and snacks, and some snap selfies as the thud of airstrikes echo in the distance.
“When I look at Gaza from here and see buildings still standing, it makes me upset. … I want Israel to continue until it’s all flattened,” Rafael Hemo, an onlooker told CNN."
Edit fixed link: msn.com/en-us/news/world/globa…
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www.msn.comMr_Dr_Oink
in reply to Aljernon • • •Ok, but fascism is wildly popular in the USA right now. Would you make the same argument there?
Or, like me, are you more inclined towards believing that more likely a few terrible people in power have sway with a vast number of easily led racists and that mischaracterises the whole country?
AWistfulNihilist
in reply to Mr_Dr_Oink • • •deathbird
in reply to AWistfulNihilist • • •Aljernon
in reply to Mr_Dr_Oink • • •Yes, we're a fascist country now.
But more to the point, brining up a country that was founded on Genocide of Native Americans to argue that we shouldn't speak ill of a country founded on Genocide of Palestinians is wild.
This describes both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Again, weird take unless you're pushing for us to drop the Nazi label from 1933-1945 Germany.
Mr_Dr_Oink
in reply to Aljernon • • •Aljernon
in reply to Mr_Dr_Oink • • •Mr_Dr_Oink
in reply to Aljernon • • •Ok, so, you are not a fascist country, you are a country run by fascists with fascists in it. But this doesn't represent the values of the entire population. Especially when trump rigged the election (by his own admission) that means that not even the majority are fascists. And then you have to exclude all those who voted for trump because they were duped by his campaign who aren't fascist and are just more republican and 4ight leaning than left.
I feel the same way about israel and palestine. We are quick to speak to the separation of hamas and palestine as a whole, but when it comes to israel, the same voices are shouting its the whole country and not just a genocidal organisation and their followers.
I think its an important distinction.
Aljernon
in reply to Mr_Dr_Oink • • •Mr_Dr_Oink
in reply to Aljernon • • •I hope you are doing your bit to stop it. You are clearly passionate about it. I just worry that too many people feel hopeless because it looks worse than it really is, which is the very tool the fascists need to win. Much like you say, apathy and inaction is what will destroy the world.
I am sorry to see so many downvoting me during this exchange. I don't feel like i oppose your views, i just have a different perspective. I think its healthy to allow others views to help to shape your own. Even if all it does it reaffirms your already held beliefs. If i was to think of an example of this, i would compare it to the characters in always sunny in philadelphia. They are not the heroes of the story, they are assholes, they are a charicature example of what not to be. They reaffirm my position against that type of person and those types of views.
I hope you are safe over there. Its a scary place to live right now, or at least it seems it from the outside looking in.
pulsewidth
in reply to Aljernon • • •Appalling.
P. S. When I tried to open your link, it failed and sent me to the MSN front page, i removed some variables/identifiers at the end of URL and that seems to work:
msn.com/en-us/news/world/globa…
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in reply to Mr_Dr_Oink • • •What makes you think that relabelling Palestinians as 'innocent people' to prevent Netanyahu and his fascists from their Doublethink redirection of genocide to only be relevant to Jews but not Palestinians would work? They would immediately reframe 'innocent people' as Hamas-embedded terrorist supporters - they already do it. The better action is to call out the truth (Israel is committing genocide) and say it loudly as much as possible, one of many benefits is that businesses and artists and people don't actually want to be associated with a genocide and we're seeing that impact daily.
When people say "Israel is committing genocide" they mean the government of Israel, it is implied. It is silly to extrapolate it to blame for every man woman and child in Israel. Just as it would be silly to pin it down to only Netanyahu when he is the PM of far-right government with thousands of people directly supporting and enabling his actions, and is Israel's longest serving prime minister - voted in multiple times by clear majority in elections, so while only he and his government are accountable to their actions, a large swathe of Israel is responsible for him being there.
Just as when people say "the USA has just bombed Iran unprovoked" they clearly mean the current government of the USA has taken this action - not just Trump, and also not some kid playing basketball in Philadelphia.
Mr_Dr_Oink
in reply to pulsewidth • • •gandalf_der_12te
in reply to themachinestops • • •I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.
Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.
But right now i'm worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as "profit" while the studio gets almost nothing.
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chokepointcapitalism.comTWeaK
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in reply to themachinestops • • •Ahh good ol' Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.
I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn't a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called 'verm' in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day
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in reply to buddascrayon • • •web.archive.org/web/2025100418…
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)BlameTheAntifa
in reply to themachinestops • • •All the streaming services are unethical now, both in pricing and operation. Netflix is maybe the least bad, but I can’t justify the cost for that, either.
Stremio + Torrentio is the way to go.
What happens next is like what happened in the 2000s. People will turn to piracy as legitimate content is no longer feasible, affordable, or ethical. Then the corporate oligarchs will crack down violently to make examples of the people they’ve given no other choice or recourse.
It’s time to eat the rich.
Foreigner
in reply to BlameTheAntifa • • •demonsword
in reply to themachinestops • • •And there goes the last streaming service I still paid to access. It was convenient exactly because of the subtitles...
Everything now must flow through my -arr stack.
The zionism thing was the icing on the shit cake. Fuck that genocidal ethnostate, and fuck all genocide enablers.
xenomor
in reply to themachinestops • • •Prove_your_argument
in reply to xenomor • • •I'm doing my part!
My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i've got left at this point is netflix and spotify.
Netflix pricing almost has me there.
theredknight
in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music
August Brown (Los Angeles Times)Prove_your_argument
in reply to theredknight • • •utopiah
in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?
Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but... there is a TON of stuff out there already.
From the "rough"
- minidlna (with optionally tailscale to listen outside the LAN)
- 1min setup github.com/9001/copyparty
- NextCloud
to having mobile apps
- navidrome (with updates via lidarr)
to minimalist
- github.com/agersant/polaris
to federated
- funkwhale.audio/
to handling discovery
- github.com/epoupon/lms
... there is just so much out there!
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
GitHubutopiah
in reply to utopiah • • •Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via
ngrokand my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.So... yeah it's that quick and convenient.
Is it perfect, definitely not, but it's also very quick to get started and to reconsider.
utopiah
in reply to utopiah • • •scpthe container and~/Musicon my RPi5, which I keep on 24/7, has a 512Go microSD and tailscale... and I guess that's it, I have my own music server. I don't have discovery on though but still, already useful!utopiah
in reply to utopiah • • •Another update on that front, I added on my RPi5 :
yt-dlpwhich I use with its-xaudio only option on RSS feeds from DJscrontabto get updatesLMSfor hourly database scantonein order to updatetagson files and try to organize my~/MusicdirectorySo it's still nowhere near as good as the music streaming service I used so far BUT it's getting there!