UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequateFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Javier Milei loses election
Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Milei loses election
US president says ‘we will not be generous’ if leader fails to win key midterms after promising $20bn to prop up struggling economyGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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‘Catholicism is reinventing itself’: Brazilians waking at 4am to stream prayers
‘Catholicism is reinventing itself’: Brazilians waking at 4am to stream prayers
Habit of rising early for livestreams growing rapidly, suggesting Brazil is testing ground for religious influencersTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
Televangelists and their victims, a never-ending story.
Don't fall for the scam of religion.
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UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News
UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News
UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.UBC News
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Looking for sites that show popular Linux packages by category and popularity
I often use pkgstats to check the popularity of Arch packages I use. Sometimes I notice a package is declining in popularity, and I’d like to find similar alternatives that are trending instead. Something like pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun
Are there any sites that categorize Linux software and show popularity within each category, so it’s easier to discover alternatives?
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Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly
Rylee Brooke Kamahele helped forge a landmark legal settlement requiring Hawai‘i to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years, including cars on all islands, ships and airplanes used for interisland flights.
Now, Kamahele and other plaintiffs in the historic Navahine settlement are pushing back against a major element of the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation’s plan for reaching the goal. The issue: the department’s proposal to use what’s known as sustainable aviation fuel or SAF— essentially the airplane equivalent of biodiesel — for interisland flights.
The department’s proposed plan to use the fuel aligns with the view of the aviation industry and fuel producers — as well as a local grower of oily plants that can be converted into sustainable aviation fuel — that SAF is the most practical choice to reduce emissions.
Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say State’s Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly
Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.Stewart Yerton (Honolulu Civil Beat)
Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism
“No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panic
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[Announcement] What Will Happen When The Mercenaries League Ends
The Mercenaries Challenge League will end soon and you may be wondering what will happen when it does.
We really love the Mercenaries mechanic overall and intend on adding it to the game in the future but they will not be added in 3.27. Much like a lot of leagues when they go core we need time to rebalance, adjust mechanics and review how they will fit into the game when not necessarily appearing in every area. They will be returning, just not yet!
So, here's what you can expect when the league ends on Oct 27, 2025 09:00 PM (UTC).
- Items you have given them to equip will go into remove only tabs.
- Mercenaries will be deleted.
- Trarthan Gems will be a new reward you can get from Gem Chests in Heist.
- Mercenary League specific uniques will move into the global drop pool.
Thanks to everyone for playing and to those of you still trying to complete your unfinished challenges, you still have two weeks to do so before the Mercenaries League ends. To those of you looking forward to something new, keep an eye on the news for the upcoming 3.27 reveal!
Announcements - What Will Happen When The Mercenaries League Ends - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Australian court upholds decision to block visa for Candace Owens
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Elizabeth Byrne (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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While good news that cow won’t be peddling her shit in Australia, at least physically, there is a concerning part of that decision.
"The implied freedom of political communication is not a personal right," the High Court said
Then what the hell isn’t it?
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The only rule is mob rule.
If enough people want you gone, it doesn't matter if you're breaking any of their rules.
We're a species of proud hypocrites.
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Conservative speaking tours are NAZI RALLIES! Not a joke or understatement, this is how they spread nazi propaganda in person.
Not a book tour. Not a speaking engagement. Fucking Nazi rallies.
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FSF announces Librephone project
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37569557
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.
FSF announces Librephone project
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.
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Awesome!
Having said that, please start with an existing open source project so you won't have to start from scratch and still be nowhere 10 years from now
It sounds like they are basically doing the same thing Replicant does (they even mentioned Replicant), but based on LineageOS right now, and with enough resources to hire someone to work on reverse engineering the proprietary bits.
Not the most glamorous endeavor, but a cool and necessary project. Pretty pragmatic too, focusing on Android instead of mobile Linux.
FSF announces Librephone project
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37569557
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.
FSF announces Librephone project
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.
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Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed - PieFed (2024)
Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed - PieFed
Us sitting here with our fiber internet and recent model phones have it pretty good. But the “i” in iPhone stands for “inequality”. Most people in the world still have pretty bad internet and old/slow phones.piefedadmin (PieFed)
How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven
How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven
This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient cooking appliance powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the cooker remains ready to use even after sunset.LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
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Pale eoliche per le Crete Senesi? Tra poco si arriva alle sportellate
Sono già iniziati i vari incontri per discutere della questione, è stato istituito un comitato, ed ora vedremo quale sarà l'evolversi della situazione.
Eolico si, eolico no, per quanto mi riguarda non sono del tutto contrario all'eolico, ma se, come sembra essere dai rumors, queste pale NON porteranno nessun beneficio a noi residenti del posto (sembra che l'energia prodotta verrà venduta e non distribuita), allora sono decisamente contrario.
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another social network?
Luxembourg-based social network Monnett launches to ‘reclaim online space’ from Big Tech
The platform aims to give people control over their feeds, without ads, tracking or algorithm-driven contentLucrezia REALE (Luxembourg Times)
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This looks more like another instagram clone rather than Facebook. Building a following of strangers rather than a network of people you actually know.
I've yet to see a proper alternative (fediverse or not) to the way Facebook originally helped to keep connected to friends and family. To plan events. To keep your posts only visible to your friends. That's the part that is hard to give up.
(Yes, I know friendica is supposed to be the fediverse answer to that. But it's really not accomplished that yet. It's just a skin over mastodon.)
Anticipazioni Uominiedonne 14/10/25. La tronista Sara Gaudenzi frega un corteggiatore a Cristiana Aniana
Approfondiamo le ultime anticipazioni delle nuove registrazioni di Uomini e Donne, che promettono un sorprendente colpo di scena nel trono classico.
#Anticipazioni Uomini e Donne: Sara Gaudenzi conquista un corteggiatore conteso
Martedì 14 ottobre 2025 si sono svolte le recenti registrazioni del popolare dating show di Maria De Filippi, in onda su Canale 5. Le novità riguardano sia il trono classico sia il trono over, portando con sé momenti di tensione e sviluppo nei sentimenti dei protagonisti.
Anticipazioni sulle registrazioni di Uomini e Donne
Durante le registrazioni, Jakub Bakkour è stato nuovamente invitato nello studio. Dopo la sua scelta di eliminarsi nella puntata precedente e la decisione di Cristiana Anania di non inseguirlo, la situazione ha avuto un inaspettato cambio di rotta. Sara Gaudenzi, la nuova tronista del trono classico, ha espresso il desiderio di conoscerlo meglio e lo ha fatto rientrare nel programma. Jakub ha accettato subito, provocando qualche polemica che potrebbe creare rivalità tra le due troniste. Di Flavio Ubirti e delle sue corteggiatrici non è stato fatto alcun accenno durante la registrazione, che si è poi concentrata sui partecipanti del trono over.
#Federico e Agnese: nuovi sviluppi nel trono over
Passando alle storie del trono over, si riapre il capitolo legato a Gemma Galgani. La dama torinese, decisa a farsi valere, è tornata a puntare il dito contro Mario Lenti. Dopo un aspro confronto al centro dello studio, Mario ha rivelato di non desiderare nemmeno un rapporto amichevole con Gemma, criticando la sua incoerenza nell’alternare complimenti e critiche.
Un’altra storia interessante riguarda Federico Mastrostefano, che ha scelto di riprendere il rapporto con Agnese De Pasquale, lasciando da parte la precedente decisione di chiudere ogni possibilità di conoscenza. Secondo le anticipazioni, Federico avrebbe dichiarato di sentirsi coinvolto per circa il 75% nella relazione. La registrazione si è poi conclusa con la prima sfilata femminile di questa edizione, che ha visto Agnese conquistare la vittoria.
Biografia Sara Gaudenzi nuova tronista di Uominiedonne - Il Blog di Uomini e Donne
Conosciamo meglio adesso la nuova tronista di Uominiedonne che lo ricordiamo essere la ex corteggiatrice del tronista Flavio Ubirti, a cui Maria deIl Blog di Uomini e Donne
German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna's Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only * TorrentFreak
German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna's Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only * TorrentFreak
In recent weeks, German ISPs started blocking shadow library Anna's Archive plus gaming portals RPG Only and FitGirl Repacks.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Name: fitgirl-repacks.site
Address: 190.115.31.179Name: annas-archive.org
Address: 186.2.163.241
Not sure about this RPG domain name.
Also.. I just use Unbound DNS server at home 😁
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
: Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPRJoe Fay (The Register)
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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Vodafone keels over, leaving millions disconnected
Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers
: Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status pageRichard Speed (The Register)
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AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now
AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now
Paralympic swimmer Jess Smith, says representation means being seen as part of the AI world that's being built.Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)
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Fotovoltaico, quale normativa ?
Da quanto ho letto, pare che l'installazione di un impianto fotovoltaico rientri nell'Edilizia libera, a meno che la sede dell'installazione non rientri in aree vincolate o soggette a norme particolari come potrebbero essere i centri storici o aree tutelate. In tal caso, pare occorra una autorizzazione o una dichiarazione certificata. Penso sia bene accertarsi della cosa consultando lo strumento urbanistico del proprio Comune.
Normativa per l'installazione di impianti fotovoltaici: guida completa - BibLus
Qual è la normativa di riferimento per l'installazione di impianti fotovoltaici? Norme, titoli abilitativi e sentenze per impianti in regolaRedazione Tecnica (BibLus)
Cheapest VPN in the long term for watching movies and tv shows?
My country never cared about this, but recently some people started getting fines. I generally pay for my games; I only use ReVanced and watch TV shows online.
What would be the cheapest VPN in the long run for this? As I said, I don't torrent, so port forwarding and stuff like that I don't care about.
There's also antimalware software bundled with the M365 subscription on Amazon; I've been using the VPN from that for a bit now.
Edit: Btw, do you think an antimalware VPN is safe? It's never been a problem (never like the USA, for example) over here in the EU, but recently they started slightly hunting pirates (never heard of anyone I know though). So yeah, maybe a simple VPN may suffice until they decide to go hardcore style?
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Black Phone 2, la recensione: Ethan Hawke torna a terrorizzare il grande schermo
Il telefono è tornato a squillare. E con lui, Ethan Hawke.
In Black Phone 2, Scott Derrickson riporta in vita il suo villain più inquietante: il Rapace, tra incubi, nevi insanguinate e visioni dal passato.
Un horror visivamente straordinario, dove la pellicola analogica diventa linguaggio di paura — ma la sceneggiatura inciampa tra citazioni e spiegoni.
Un po’ Nightmare, un po’ Stranger Things, con un’anima che resta sospesa tra inferno e redenzione.
Leggi la recensione completa: Black Phone 2, la recensione: Ethan Hawke torna a terrorizzare il grande schermo
Black Phone 2: Ethan Hawke torna a terrorizzarci | Recensione
Ethan Hawke torna nel ruolo del Grabber in Black Phone 2, un horror elegante e inquietante firmato Scott Derrickson.Alessandro (Atom Heart Magazine)
Seeking active federated communities for command line tips and tricks
I'm looking for active federated communities on the fediverse where users share tips, tricks, and best practices for using the command line. Something similar to the Arch Linux forums but accessible through the fediverse.
I've checked out a few communities like Command Line@lemmy.ml (1.47K subscribers) and Command Line@programming.dev (2.09K subscribers), but they seem to have many subscribers but no active users per month. It feels like Lemmy smothers these niche communities somehow.
Does anyone know of other active federated communities or instances where command line enthusiasts gather to share knowledge and help each other out?
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China as pro-deforestation mindset prevails
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44101271
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- Brazil’s government has signed a 30-year contract to privatize a section of the BR-364 highway, a key part of its plan to create an overland corridor to Peru to streamline commodity exports to China.
- Critics warn that expanding the highway into well-preserved rainforest risks repeating its history by attracting illegal loggers and land grabbers, a pattern that previously cleared vast areas for agriculture.
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Fueled by soybean, corn and beef production, [the Brazilian state of] Rondônia is now one of Brazil’s leading agribusiness states, where a pro-deforestation mindset prevails, rooted in a population largely disconnected from the forest, rivers and traditional Amazonian culture. This view gained renewed momentum under Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president from 2019-2022, who won all 52 of Rondônia’s municipalities in both the 2018 and 2022 elections.
Cutting across Rondônia, BR-364 has become a key route for moving grain, beef and minerals to ports on the Madeira River in Porto Velho. From there, commodities from Brazil’s central-west region are shipped downriver to foreign markets via the Atlantic Ocean.
Brazil's first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China
A road that once opened the Amazon to destruction is being expanded, and critics fear history will repeat itself.Alexandre de Santi (Conservation news)
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När Europeiska kommissionen beslutade att etablera sig i sociala medier gjorde den ett ovanligt val. Istället för att bara skapa ännu ett konto på en kommersiell plattform anlitade den Mastodon för att driva en egen server. Kommissionen äger nu sitt digitala utrymme på samma sätt som den äger sina byggnader. Ingen kan ta bort det. Ingen kan ändra reglerna över en natt. Innehållet tillhör institutionen, arkiverat och tillgängligt under dess egen kontroll.
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DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Chinese gangs made more than $1 billion by targeting US with scam texts: report
Criminal gangs in China have made more than $1 billion by targeting Americans with annoying texts: report
Text message scammers use badgering texts to extract financial information then pay American gig workers to use stolen info to make purchases and send merchandise back to ChinaJosh Marcus (The Independent)
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Russia accuses exiled opponents of plot to violently seize power
An exiled Kremlin critic, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been accused by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) of creating a “terrorist organisation” and of plotting to violently seize power.
The FSB said it had opened a criminal case against Khodorkovsky and was investigating more than 20 people as part of the same charge. These include prominent dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economists Sergey Aleksashenko and Sergei Guriev.
It comes just two weeks after a “platform for dialogue” with Russian democratic forces in exile was announced by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a human rights forum of lawmakers from 46 European countries.
The FSB claimed Khodorkovsky was presenting this platform as a replacement for Russian leadership. He was also accused of funding Ukrainian paramilitary units in order to use them to try to eventually seize power.
Khodorkovsky rejects accusations
Khodorkovsky denied the accusations and called the criminal case a sign that the Kremlin sees the Council of Europe initiative as “a major problem”.
“Hence the new cases about ‘seizing power’, the lies about ‘recruiting’ and ‘arming the Ukrainian military’,” he said on Telegram.
Russia accuses exiled opponents of plot to violently seize power
The FSB said it was investigating Mikhail Khodorkovsky and more than 20 other exiled Russian dissidentsMark Trevelyan (The Independent)
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Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the can was full of liquid methamphetamine, not beer.Avery Haines (CTVNews)
China wants foreign scientists, the public says no, thanks: Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44096080
ArchivedWhen the Chinese government announced a new visa to attract young science and technology talent, it advertised the move as another step toward becoming the leading scientific power, one to which people from around the globe would flock.
To many in China, it was a gross mistake.
In the days before and since Oct. 1, when the visa was supposed to come into effect, commenters have accused the government of inviting foreigners to steal jobs from Chinese people, at a time when young people are finding it harder than ever to land work. They have suggested that foreigners are being blindly worshiped, a longstanding national sore point.
Prominent influencers have also stoked nationalism or xenophobia, claiming that China will be overrun by outsiders. After Henry Huiyao Wang, the president of the Center for China and Globalization, a research group in Beijing, praised the new visa, people on social media called him a race traitor, and their posts were shared thousands of times.
Platforms have been especially flooded by racist comments about Indians, after Indian news outlets reported on the Chinese visa as a possible alternative to the highly popular H1-B visa in the United States, which now comes with a $100,000 fee.
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The public outcry suggests that China may still struggle to attract the world’s best and brightest scientists, even as the United States has cut research funding and pushed many prominent scholars to consider leaving.
Anti-foreign sentiment has grown in China in recent years, as the government has warned of hostile overseas powers and urged people to report potential spies. China has historically had minuscule levels of inbound immigration, and many cultural and legal barriers remain for foreigners seeking to remain long-term.
When the government proposed slightly loosening permanent residency requirements for foreigners in 2020, it eventually retreated in the face of a similar backlash. (China granted fewer than 5,000 permanent residency cards between 2004 and 2014, according to People’s Daily.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/world/asia/china-stem-visa-racist-backlash.html
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This is what the report says. I guess there are weird people everywhere, here in the West, in China, everywhere else. It's just that given the strict censorship in China, the government does not much against this racism. One report is here.
China's government suppresses its minorities. If you are not Han Chinese and not a member of the CCP, you may not climb to high up the career ladder to say the least.
China: Combat Anti-Black Racism on Social Media
The Chinese government should acknowledge and condemn anti-Black racism prevalent on the Chinese internet and adopt measures to promote tolerance and fight prejudice.Human Rights Watch
At the United Nations, China touts its progress on gender equality, but its approach to feminist activism tells a different story
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For China, the U.N. summit on October 13-14 is the final, triumphant act of a yearlong show of force from its diplomatic and media mouthpieces seeking to center its “historic achievements in women’s development” and position China as a global model for women’s rights protection.
Yet as officials trumpet their “30 years of progress” to assembled dignitaries, the voices of the country’s own feminists will be conspicuously absent.
That’s because many are in prison, while others face threats and harassment intended to keep them silent – whether they still live in China, or have had to flee abroad.
China’s self-congratulatory narrative on women’s rights has been pushed not just at home, but also abroad: from the halls of the United Nations to the pages of local embassies and media markets in, for example, South Africa, Tanzania, Liberia, Ghana and Grenada. Last month, state-run press even published two compilations of Xi Jinping’s speeches in English for the explicit purpose of “help[ing] international readers gain a deeper understanding of Xi’s views” on women’s rights and much more ahead of the U.N. meeting in Beijing.
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Xi’s views are clear on one point: that shutting down space for critical voices and public discussion on human rights, including topics of women and gender, are essential matters of national security.
Over the last decade, the Chinese state has continued to implement laws and policies that suppress feminist activism – and in doing so has convicted women human rights defenders one by one.
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The five women made famous by their 2015 criminal detentions for advocacy on International Women’s Day continue to work in civil society and to push for policy change – but they are careful to do so in ways that keep them and their families safe. Following their detentions, the costs of speaking out publicly have only risen. For four years, #MeToo activist and journalist Huang Xueqin has been locked up for “inciting subversion of state power” for her social media posts and her efforts to learn about and discuss non-violent movements.
Many other women activists – such as Li Qiaochu, Chen Jianfang, Xu Yan and Zhang Zhan – have languished in prison based on similarly spurious convictions. Vaccine safety advocate He Fangmei was convicted of “picking quarrels” and (absurdly) bigamy in 2024; when she’s released in 2027 she will have spent seven of the last eight years in detention. Her family doesn’t know where her daughters – the youngest one born while she was in detention – are located.
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When Chinese officials wax poetic about the country’s progress on women’s rights, it is essential to remember that this is not the whole story. The government postures on anti-discrimination, locks up women defenders, and criminalizes feminist activism – all out of fear that the system the CCP has built might come crashing down on their heads.
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A UN Conference Can’t Hide China’s Discomfort With Women’s Rights
China touts its progress on gender equality, but its approach to feminist activism tells a different story.Sarah Brooks (The Diplomat)
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Lmfao. China isn’t progressive on anything. Every LGBT person could, at any time, be dragged away.
Can’t even get married.
China is a fucking social joke.
They're progressive in the sense that they don't care over much about specific cultural values, as long as you don't criticize, threaten power or break cultural homogeneity.
Authoritarian progressivism
L'eredità sasanide del più spettacolare arco di mattoni costruito nel Mondo Antico - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'eredità sasanide del più spettacolare arco di mattoni costruito nel Mondo Antico - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Essere un cittadino dell’Impero Romano d’Oriente costituiva un vantaggio sia dal punto di vista amministrativo che culturale, capace di rendere i prestigiosi membri di quell’universo i promotori di precisi standard di organizzazione che ispiravano ed…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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I read the article. It sounds like the auto makers concern is that they don't think they have been given enough time to solve the problem (the problem being one which may kill people while we wait for a solution).
I think we should give them all the time they want, as long as they stop selling cars without safe door handles RIGHT NOW.
Your comment is giga based because it doesn't let the overton window get shifted by being too suggestible.
Your brain still went where logic goes, not where was suggested. So important at times like this.
Changing Screen Position on raspberry pi
Hello there, I am working on a little project as a way to improve my cad abilities. I am hoping to build a custom fantasy computer to go along with the pico8 fantasy system. I am basing it off of the Mac se/30 but am obviously hoping to get that nice 1:1 aspect ratio.
Trouble is that decent size 1:1 screens don't seem to exist as far as I have researched, I instead found a small 4:3 lcd panel I can use, and was originally planning to simply rotate the screen and let it render 1:1 while physically covering the top and bottom, but it seems to add significantly more vertical height than I anticipated.
so now I am hoping that I can shift the screen down and somehow get the PI to render only in the topmost visible section.
Included are a couple pictures of what I mean.
I am just wondering if there is a way, in software, to rotate and move up the screen, or at least the pico 8 window
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Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch
Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch
The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select markets. Perplexity will expand to mobile soon.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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I find that chatgpt and claude try to give you one answer and sounds mildly to very certain about themselves without giving references.
Perplexity actually gives reference links for each claim it makes, which I find better because I can check it's work and fork off and explore further myself at any point along it's reasoning.
As a definite AI Hater, I find it to be a good middle ground LLM / search engine
This is just a search engine option not some built in AI tool.
No issue here other than fuck AI in general. Just don't use it.
‘Pete Hegseth Has United the Media!’ Only One Outlet Has Agreed to Pentagon’s New Press Rules as Fox News, CNN and More Refuse to Comply
Pete Hegseth‘s Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules — and says it may bar journalists who don’t agree to abide by the rules from physical access to the Pentagon’s grounds. But more than three dozen news orgs have said they are refusing to sign on to the requirements.On Tuesday, in a joint statement five major TV news outlets — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — said they were not agreeing to the new rules. The Pentagon has told reporters they must sign an agreement for the new rules by Tuesday or turn in their press passes by Wednesday.
According to the Defense Department’s press office, which outlined the new rules last month, reporters covering the Pentagon must sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material (even if the information is unclassified). If they do not, they will potentially be barred from the Pentagon.
“Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said in the statement. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
The five networks join a number of other news orgs that have already said they won’t agree to the new rules being imposed by Hegseth, a former Fox News host. Those include the New York Times, AP, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, NewsNation and the Hill, along with conservative-leaning outlets like Newsmax and the Washington Examiner.
At press time, only one outlet has said it plans to sign on to the new rules announced by the Pentagon, which the Trump administration now calls the “U.S. Department of War”: pro-Trump network One America News Network (OANN).
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Here’s the current full list of news outlets that have refused to sign the Pentagon’s new rules, as compiled by the Washington Post:
ABC News AL-Monitor Associated Press The Atlantic Aviation Week Axios Bloomberg News Breaking Defense C4ISRNET CBS News CNN Defense Daily Defense News Defense One The Economist Federal Times The Financial Times Fox News The Guardian The Hill HuffPost Military Times MSNBC NBC News The New York Times Newsmax NewsNation NPR PBS NewsHour Politico RealClearPolitics Reuters Task & Purpose The Wall Street Journal The Washington Examiner The Washington Post The Washington Times WTOP
Fox News, CNN and More Refuse to Comply With Defense Department Media Rules
Pete Hegseth's Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules -- and bar them from physical access to the Pentagon's grounds.Todd Spangler (Variety)
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OANN.
... Last paragraph before I cut off the article for the summary in the post, and then jump to the big list.
So yeah, literally only the cultiest MAGA network is onboard, as far as I can tell, literally all other US journalism outlets possibly relevant to military reporting have refused it, there's a slew of defense oriented publications on there, a good deal of other pretty conservative outlets on the noncompliance list too.
... They did.
On Tuesday, in a joint statement five major TV news outlets — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — said they were not agreeing to the new rules.
They signed this statement:
"Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said in the statement. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
... this is all in the parts I excerpted, in the post.
You've misunderstood the thread.
They refused to sign on to the new requirements along with everyone else.
... I posted the thread.
The person I am responding to used the verb 'sign', alone, which could refer to signing the joint refusal statement, or, it could be referring to signing on to the new requirements from the DoW.
Regardless, it seems you have the correct factual understanding, regardless of phrasing, so, all good, I was just trying to make sure nobody had a factual misunderstanding.
EDIT: ok, I'm dumb.
I've posted this in like 5 different news comms and am losing track of which replies are in which thread and have what context.
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