Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37598001
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDT
On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDTOn Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Israeli captives in Gaza: How many were there and what happened to them?
By Nadav Rapaport
Published date: 15 October 2025 17:40 BST
Last update: ~13:00 EDT
On Monday, the last 20 living Israeli captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.For Israel, it marked the end of a chapter of history where the fate of Israelis captured on 7 October 2023 had loomed over society.
For Palestine, meanwhile, more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners remain in Israeli jails – nearly double the number before Israel’s genocide in Gaza began.
Now, the bodies of the last dead captives are being recovered by Hamas and delivered to Israel.
Middle East Eye breaks down what we know about the Israeli captives, how they were freed and how some of them were killed.
Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest
Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest
The crowd joined street musicians to sing “Cooperative Swan Lake,” which was outlawed in May 2025 when a St. Petersburg court labeled it “extremist.”Alex Nichol (LBC)
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Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37597699
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37597699Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
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Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37597699
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDTBodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
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Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
Published date: 15 October 2025 15:49 BST
Last updated: ~11:00 EDT
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
US weight-loss biotech’s $600mn fund raise signals China’s role in drug trials
US weight-loss biotech Kailera Therapeutics has raised $600mn from investors buoyed by the company’s ability to accelerate drug development by relying on China for cheaper and faster clinical trials.Kailera acquired the global rights for its weight-loss drugs from Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals in Lianyungang, China.
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Peter de Kruijff (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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AFAIK (I'm not a botanist) it's true of many larger trees that they use more oxygen than they produce and emit more CO2 than they consume. It's the biosphere that the large trees support that does a lot of the carbon sinking - mosses, ferns, vines, etc.
As a rule of thumb, the greater the ratio of woody mass to leafy mass the more the ratio tilts away from being a carbon sink, as the whole lifeform has to undergo aerobic respiration but only the leaves participate in photosynthesis.
How First Wap's Surveillance Tool Called Altamides Tracks Phones Around the World
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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Most countries have a legal mandate to carry out domestic phone network surveillance. The First Wap archive demonstrates, however, how phone network connections can be leveraged to allow tracking all over the world, without authorisation from the targeted networks.In recent years, a number of investigations have explored the ways in which surveillance companies gain access to phone networks to enable this type of tracking. Lighthouse and its partners have previously written about how SS7 abuses were linked to the murder of a reporter in Mexico and a crackdown on an activist in Congo, and how they were enabled via leasing of Global Titles.
How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World - Lighthouse Reports
From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking companyLighthouse Reports
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Greer, Bessent blast China's rare earths curbs, urge Beijing not to implement them
Top U.S. officials on Wednesday blasted China's major expansion of rare earth export controls as a threat to global supply chains, but said Beijing could still change course and avoid steps by Washington to decouple from the world's second-largest economy.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a press conference that China's new export restrictions were a "global supply-chain power grab" and the U.S. and its allies would not accept the restrictions, but he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stressed that Washington did not want to escalate the conflict, which has roiled financial markets and sent U.S.-China relations into a tailspin.
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Indonesia to buy 42 fighter jets from China marking its first non-Western aircraft purchase deal
Indonesia’s top defense official said Wednesday that Jakarta will acquire at least 42 Chinese-made Chengdu J-10C fighter jets, marking the country’s first non-Western aircraft purchase deal.
Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told reporters in the capital, Jakarta, that Indonesia would soon buy fighter jets from China as part of a plan to modernize its military. Analysts said the deal could touch regional sensitivities and have geopolitical implications.
The plan to buy the J-10s was first disclosed last month by defense ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Frega Wenas. Local media had reported that the Indonesian Air Force was still reviewing the Chinese-made fighter jets to ensure their acquisition would effectively strengthen Indonesia’s air defense capabilities.
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Bank of America, Bank of New York sued for alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Bank of America, Bank of New York sued for alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein
A woman who claims she was abused by Epstein alleges the banks were used to send payments for sex-trafficking victims.Al Jazeera
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The Right Jumps to Defend Young Republicans' Racist Texts
J.D. Vance, Right-Wing Influencers Defend Young Republicans' Texts
J.D. Vance and other prominent conservative influencers downplayed racist messages sent by members of various Young Republicans chapters.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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Massive Piracy Empire Crumbles: 12 Stream-Ripping Sites Shut Down in Vietnam
Massive Piracy Empire Crumbles: 12 Stream-Ripping Sites Shut Down in Vietnam After 620M Annual Visits - Submersible Music
Vietnam's piracy empire collapses as authorities dismantle 12 stream-ripping sites with over 620 million annual visits. The digital underworld trembles as creators reclaim what's rightfully theirs.Editorial Team (Submersible Music)
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Thanks to all the fuckers paying their subscriptions so corporations have more resources to go after free media.
Morons.
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation’s leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by Hegseth for release.
Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Department to get out of the building. As the hour approached, boxes of documents lined a Pentagon corridor and reporters carried chairs, a copying machine, books and old photos to the parking lot from suddenly abandoned workspaces. Shortly after 4, about 40 to 50 journalists left together after handing in badges.
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Pentagon reporters have now turned in their badges – but plan to keep reporting
Pentagon reporters have now turned in their badges – but plan to keep reporting
Reporters who declined to sign new set of Pentagon rules had to clear out of world’s largest military headquartersJeremy Barr (The Guardian)
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Rain: Mexico’s National Emergency
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6420742
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/80984
This editorial by the La Jornada editorial board was published in the October 13, 2025 edition of La Jornada*, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.*The atypical rains recorded last week in several areas of the country have left nearly fifty people dead and a still-unquantified population in a situation of extreme vulnerability, with partial or total property losses, and without shelter or food. Initially, the situation was aggravated by more than a hundred road closures on the federal highway network due to landslides, mudslides, fallen trees, and flooded rivers. Although the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT) has already resolved the vast majority of them, it is inevitable to assume that the impacts of the rainfall were similar or worse on state roads, rural roads, and urban and rural roads in various localities.
The dozen federal entities and nearly 150 municipalities that have suffered moderate to severe impacts present us with the evidence of a sudden and unforeseeable national emergency, which requires a response commensurate with the circumstances. The federal government has certainly responded promptly. President Claudia Sheinbaum has coordinated emergency assistance for those affected, both remotely and in person in the disaster areas.
It would be unfair to ignore the efforts made in this regard by the security cabinet, which includes the Ministries of the Interior, National Defense, the Mexican Navy, and the aforementioned SICT (National Commission of the Interior), in addition to the Federal Electricity Commission, the National Water Commission, Petróleos Mexicanos, and other agencies. These efforts include providing aid to the affected population, repairing the road network, restoring electricity and drinking water, and assisting in the search for and locating individuals. State and municipal authorities in the affected regions are also participating in this effort.
But the magnitude of the damage also demands the solidarity of the entire country’s society, regardless of political affiliations and hatreds and regionalisms. It is hoped that generosity will be manifested in volunteer brigades organized in the disaster zones themselves, and in assistance to any of the aid collection centers; the most urgent immediate priority is to deliver medical supplies, medicines, food, and cleaning and personal hygiene items to the affected population.
The spirit of solidarity that characterizes our country has come to light in every tragic circumstance, both abroad and at home, and today, in the face of the tragedy that has befallen hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens, it is time for it to be expressed once again.
Lluvias: emergencia nacional
Las lluvias atípicas registradas la semana pasada en varias zonas del territorio nacional han dejado un saldo de cerca de medio centenar de personas fallecidas y una población aún no cuantificada en situación de extrema vulnerabilidad, con pérdidas p…La Jornada
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Updates on development kit, large-format cell, roadmap – Flow Battery Research Collective
Updates on development kit, large-format cell, roadmap – Flow Battery Research Collective
Development kit stable with Zn-I chemistry and certified by OSHWA, presentations and articles on FBRC, large-format cell R&D, all-iron electrolyte explorationFlow Battery Research Collective
Ukraine: Top humanitarian strongly condemns Russian attack on UN aid convoy | UN News
Ukraine: Top humanitarian strongly condemns Russian attack on UN aid convoy
Russian drones hit a “clearly marked” UN convoy on Tuesday which was bringing desperately needed aid to a war-torn frontline town in southern Ukraine.UN News
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Cosa succede quando non riesco a scrivere?
Molte delle sere in cui non muoio, mi trovo in una condizione molto precisa, che però a pensarci non mi sono mai presa il tempo di raccontare per bene: ***devo scrivere***...
pokemonica godurianza ancora prima dell’uscita del domani! (impressioni a caldo Leggende Pokémon: Z-A al day -1)
Oggi pomeriggio, davvero a casissimo, perché l’idea mi è salita veramente in un lampo senza preciso motivo, ho deciso di sfruttare i miei privilegi da navigatrice consumata dei sette mari digitali, come in realtà non facevo da un po’… Quindi, sono uscita dalle mie pareti per installare e provare il nuovo giochino Leggende Pokémon: Z-A, […]
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pokemonica godurianza ancora prima dell’uscita del domani! (impressioni a caldo Leggende Pokémon: Z-A al day -1)
Oggi pomeriggio, davvero a casissimo, perché l’idea mi è salita veramente in un lampo senza preciso motivo, ho deciso di sfruttare i miei privilegi da navigatrice consumata dei sette mari digitali, come in realtà non facevo da un po’… Quindi, sono uscita dalle mie pareti per installare e provare il nuovo giochino Leggende Pokémon: Z-A, che ufficialmente esce domani, ma io appunto sono speciale e magica, e quindi ci gioco in anticipo… nonché una blogger, quindi una giornalista semplicemente non riconosciuta, e quindi ecco qui le mie impressioni a caldo! 👌Confesso che il gioco precedente, Leggende Arceus, non l’ho nemmeno mai provato… quindi non so precisamente, a livello di meccaniche, cosa è una novità del nuovo titolo, e cosa invece è una novità della saga, quindi già vista con il precedente, però… questo coso è fighissimo, veramente. Dato ciò, e il fatto che di questo gioco non mi sono spoilerata letteralmente niente — perché, a dire il vero, ho scoperto appena l’altro giorno che sta per uscire… e sul momento non mi sono nemmeno posta alcuna curiosità, perché è da un decennio che Pokémon mi delude, e quindi è da un lustro che lo snobbo — è stata tutta una grossa sospesa… e praticamente solo in positivo, per il momento. 🤯
La storia si svolge (o almeno inizia, poi chissà), a Luminopoli… che per me è una cosa assurda, perché la regione di Kalos fu la regione della fine della mia infanzia, ai tempi, e… non starò qui a spiegare tutto di ciò, per ora. È una Luminopoli che però non riconosco per niente, se non per sommi capi, perché è stata modificata un sacco per adattarla alla struttura di Leggende… però caspita se è goduriosa, perché ora sembra effettivamente una vera città, grande quanto una vera città del suo calibro, interamente navigabile in ogni sua parte… inclusi i fottuti tetti! E ci sono vari elementi con cui interagire, e oggetti da raccogliere… Per dirla in breve, me di 9 anni esploderebbe a vedere a confronto la Luminopoli di X/Y e questa nuova!!! 🔥
Ciò che sul momento mi ha completamente spiazzata — ma che, a pensarci bene, potrei di gran lunga preferire rispetto al classico RPG a turni, che fa fin troppo anni ’90 ma non in senso buono — è la meccanica delle lotte; che inizialmente è stata introdotta da Leggende Arceus ma, per l’appunto, non so se ci sia del nuovo in Leggende Z-A, e quanto. Sia gli scontri con gli allenatori, che gli incontri coi Pokémon selvatici (che, a quanto pare, qui attaccano anche gli umani, non solo i loro Pokémon… spaventoso), sono completamente dinamici, e avvengono lì, nell’ambiente, in tempo reale… e i magari hanno la classica cutscene di inizio e fine (ma dipende in realtà dal tipo di lotta), mentre con i secondi è tutto sempre così fluido che sembra davvero di stare lì in mezzo alle bestie. Servirà comunque tempo per abituarsi a questa roba, per me che ho problemi di skill, ma prende così tanto… 🥰
La città è tecnicamente tutta sbloccata quasi da subito, anche se nella pratica il gioco va avanti a missioni, e il sistema non permette di muoversi liberamente al 100%… non lascia andare troppo fuori dal tracciato stabilito in un dato momento per raggiungere l’obiettivo stabilito. Dà un po’ fastidio che, nonostante ci sia una buona mappa che già da sola dovrebbe permettere a chiunque di capire dove andare senza problemi, se si prova a muoversi troppo fuori dal tracciato non si incontrano solo muri invisibili, ma c’è pure il tizio che, da lontano o attraverso il telefono, richiama per ricordare dove si deve andare… uffa. E, nonostante la natura dinamica e diretta del cuore del gameplay, ci sono a mio parere troppe cutscene da o verso nero anche per semplici dialoghi, e questa cosa per me rompe l’immersione. Meno male che non è open-world, però. 👍
Nonostante i difettucci, il gioco non è “lento” e palloso come invece i classici Pokémon sono stati per me ultimamente, e anzi, ho veramente voglia di continuare a giocarci… caspita! Non mi aspettavo che sarebbe stato particolarmente divertente, e invece in circa 3 ore mi ha fatto addirittura letteralmente luccicare gli occhi. Tra l’altro, all’inizio era partito male anche dal lato software, perché mi sembrava tirasse laggate (giocando ovviamente su Switch 1, in dock), e invece devo dire che poi mi è parso stabile, tranquillo… ovviamente non gira a 60 FPS, ma ormai da Nintendo questo non si può mai più sperare. Non ho visto neanche bug, credo, c’è giusto qualche animazione che mi è sembrata legnosa, ma la goduria non viene intaccata. 🙌
Visto che non c’erano potenziali fonti di disturbo in casa, ho anche fatto una diretta streaming, per le prime 2 ore di gameplay, giusto per non marcire troppo nel giocare… su PeerTube, visto che ho paura che su YouTube Nintendo possa fare la sua classica mossa, dato che ho giocato con un giorno di anticipo; però tutto OK, trasmissione perfetta, grazie ai Devol. Per chi ha visto un pochino, grazie… mentre, per la maggior parte che non ha visto, pazienza! Però, il VOD (diviso in 2 video perché il coso ha deciso così) rimane disponibile, per chi vuole visionare le mie figuracce… peertube.uno/w/tXhxfxmFJ9mJfHB… e peertube.uno/w/sYXTLBSZnZKypcg…. (Forse li caricherò anche su YouTube, dopo l’uscita ufficiale del gioco, boh.) 🧨
Il gioco ha anche una funzione di fotocamera, simile ad Animal Crossing per Switch… ci si può mettere in posa e fare le foto stile turisti, che in effetti è il motivo per cui nella storia si finisce qui a Luminopoli, bello.
#impressioni #Pokémon #Pokemon
Testing two completely different ways of bike commuting - shifter
I would like to read what is the approach of people in this community
I take an hybrid approach: I bring a change, but I keep a pace that make me sweat lightly, so I don't need to take a shower at work. For the same reason I put my stuff in a pannier on the bike rack
Testing two completely different ways of bike commuting
Over the years, the way I've approached bike commuting has evolved so much that I now think there are two totally different approaches. This video offers advice on both of them so you can find the ...Canadian Civil
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Hamas says that IOF’s indiscriminate destruction of Gaza is behind delay in locating captives’ bodies
“As a result of the genocidal war committed by Israel, many hostages were killed with their Palestinian resistance guards, and communications were lost with some of the units responsible for the bodies,” the source told MEE.“The Israeli public should hold Netanyahu, his cabinet, and the Israeli army responsible for the killing of these hostages and the loss of their bodies under the rubble, as more than 10,000 civilian Palestinians [are believed to be under the rubble].”
The source added [that] Hamas’s Qassam Brigades “frequently warned” that the Israeli army’s actions would lead to the deaths of captives, but “Israel did not scale back its attacks”.
“The Qassam units in charge of guarding Israelis, alive and dead, were targeted. The main difficulty [in finding the bodies] is losing contact with the guards, because the Israelis killed them.”
The source said that Hamas was committed to fulfilling its obligation under the agreement to return the remains of all of the captives, and said it was working hard to do so.
He noted that the wording of the agreement required Hamas to return the bodies “as soon as possible” and said Hamas was willing to cooperate with international entities, as agreed in the deal.
“Nothing was hidden,” he said. “[Hamas has] fulfilled its commitment with handing over the living hostages, despite all the bad faith from Israel by changing the list of the Palestinian prisoners to be released, not allowing the top names in the list to be released, and changing the list at the last minute."
“Despite that it (Hamas) fulfilled its commitments and released all alive hostages on time, as well as four dead hostages.”
The source added that Israel’s destruction of Gaza has “really changed the geography of the area”, making it “extremely difficult” to identify locations.
He condemned Israel’s decision to keep the Rafah crossing closed as a “serious infringement of the agreement” that would further hinder rescue and aid efforts.
“We call on the mediators to intervene immediately to resolve this matter,” he said.
Exclusive: Hamas says Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ destruction of Gaza behind delay in locating captives' bodies
A senior Hamas source has told Middle East Eye that Israel bears responsibility for delays in locating and returning the bodies of captives still missing in Gaza.David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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The telegram link is censored in France because our universal value is freedom of expression, but Hamas is saying that it gave every body at its disposition, so it respected the initial agreement :
As well as the final one :
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1978210555061301697
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/mid…
https://x.com/AJABreaking/status/1978678807445078181
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Server migration has been completed
Hi all,
First off, I want to apologize for all the server instability. We long ago outgrew our instance size, but I was unable to afford a larger node on our provider, Vultr. We were maxing out every part of the server whenever any even slightly significant number of users were on the fediverse.
I've finally found the time to migrate us to a new provider, which allows us to step up to a much more powerful configuration. That migration has now been completed. I actually intended to post about the downtime on this community this morning before beginning, but when I went to do so, the server was already down and struggling to come back up. So I went ahead with the migration.
Server before 4cpu/16GB/400GB NVMe
Server after 8cpu/64GB/1Tb NVMe
Please update this thread if you are seeing any issues around any part of the site. This means duplicate threads, things that aren't federating, inability to load profiles, etc.
There is still database tuning that needs to occur, so you should expect some downtime here and there, but otherwise the instance should be much more stable from now on.
During this process I also improved several other aspects of operating the server, so any 'actual' downtime should be accompanied by proper maintenance pages (that hopefully don't get wiped by ansible anymore), so that will also be a good indicator of legitimate maintenance.
Once again, I really apologize for all of the downtime. It's very frustrating to use a server that operates like this, I understand.
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programming.dev (@programming_dev@mastodon.social)
The server is back up and seems to be functioning properly. We have migrated to a new VPS provider and are running on a much larger VDS now. The site should be more stable, run faster, and be more responsive.programming.dev (Mastodon)
After Hyundai ICE Raid, Even South Korea’s Capitalists Question US Relations
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6403457
Zip ties. Helicopters. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by negligent guards. A pregnant woman in handcuffs. A detainee being called “Rocket Man” (Donald Trump’s nickname for Kim Jong Un) by sneering federal agents. A menstruating woman forced to attend to her period with only toilet paper.These are the details of 316 South Korean nationals’ experiences in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention that have flooded the country’s media in the weeks after the September 4 raid on a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia. A wave of fury is now pouring forth from across South Korean society — and the political consequences are only just beginning.
There is far more at stake than a single factory in Georgia, which by itself represented 8,500 jobs and $4.3 billion in investment, and is just one of 23 plants being built across the U.S. by Korean conglomerates. Since the raid, the U.S. and South Korea have announced that Korean workers will be able to use B-1 visas and ESTA visa waivers to continue working in the U.S. A new bill in Congress, the Partner with Korea Act, also seeks to extend 15,000 professional E-4 visas to South Koreans for the first time.
But U.S. flexibility on immigration is not all that matters. Seoul and Washington have yet to finalize their trade deal instigated by Trump’s threat to impose a 25 percent blanket tariff on South Korean goods. At the current stage of negotiations, South Korea has agreed to accept a 15 percent tariff on its exports and provide tremendous investments and other financial agreements: $350 billion in state-backed short-term investment, $150 billion in private sector contracts with U.S. corporations, and a guarantee to purchase $100 billion in U.S. liquid natural gas. Despite so much on the table, a written agreement has yet to be produced, and negotiations are proving tense as the Trump administration presses for Seoul to provide the lion’s share of its $350 billion commitment in cash. While some of the shock over the ICE raid has died down, Washington’s conduct over the course of months of negotiations has also raised deeper questions in South Korea about the real nature of the alliance — and whether this is a relationship that can last.
The Art of the Steal
The anger unleashed by ICE’s abuse of Korean workers has been building for some time. Trump’s tariff threats, announced in March, hit South Korea at a difficult time, when the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol was unresolved, and the country was reeling from years of flagging economic performance.
The issue was not only a matter of timing. The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act also used similar (though less onerous) tariff threats to force South Korean conglomerates to transfer production and make large investments in the U.S. — which is how the Hyundai-LG plant made its way to Georgia in the first place. Having already complied with the previous administration, South Korea nevertheless now finds itself facing an even graver economic threat that could lead to recession: not just a 25 percent tariff on all exports (since reduced to 15 percent), but sector-based tariffs impacting most of South Korea’s key industries as well.
While much of the anger on either side of the Pacific has focused on the current administration in Washington, Trump’s tariffs are just the latest in a string of U.S. policies that have sought to deny South Korea its economic sovereignty, open its markets to foreign takeover, and degrade the rights and dignity of its working people.
After Hyundai ICE Raid, Even South Korea’s Capitalists Question US Relations
Zip ties. Helicopters. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by negligent guards. A pregnant woman in handcuffs. A detainee being called “Rocket Man” (Donald Trump’s nickname for Kim Jong Un) by sneering federal agents. A menstruating woman forced to attend to her period with only toilet paper.These are the details of 316 South Korean nationals’ experiences in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention that have flooded the country’s media in the weeks after the September 4 raid on a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia. A wave of fury is now pouring forth from across South Korean society — and the political consequences are only just beginning.
There is far more at stake than a single factory in Georgia, which by itself represented 8,500 jobs and $4.3 billion in investment, and is just one of 23 plants being built across the U.S. by Korean conglomerates. Since the raid, the U.S. and South Korea have announced that Korean workers will be able to use B-1 visas and ESTA visa waivers to continue working in the U.S. A new bill in Congress, the Partner with Korea Act, also seeks to extend 15,000 professional E-4 visas to South Koreans for the first time.
But U.S. flexibility on immigration is not all that matters. Seoul and Washington have yet to finalize their trade deal instigated by Trump’s threat to impose a 25 percent blanket tariff on South Korean goods. At the current stage of negotiations, South Korea has agreed to accept a 15 percent tariff on its exports and provide tremendous investments and other financial agreements: $350 billion in state-backed short-term investment, $150 billion in private sector contracts with U.S. corporations, and a guarantee to purchase $100 billion in U.S. liquid natural gas. Despite so much on the table, a written agreement has yet to be produced, and negotiations are proving tense as the Trump administration presses for Seoul to provide the lion’s share of its $350 billion commitment in cash. While some of the shock over the ICE raid has died down, Washington’s conduct over the course of months of negotiations has also raised deeper questions in South Korea about the real nature of the alliance — and whether this is a relationship that can last.
The Art of the Steal
The anger unleashed by ICE’s abuse of Korean workers has been building for some time. Trump’s tariff threats, announced in March, hit South Korea at a difficult time, when the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol was unresolved, and the country was reeling from years of flagging economic performance.
The issue was not only a matter of timing. The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act also used similar (though less onerous) tariff threats to force South Korean conglomerates to transfer production and make large investments in the U.S. — which is how the Hyundai-LG plant made its way to Georgia in the first place. Having already complied with the previous administration, South Korea nevertheless now finds itself facing an even graver economic threat that could lead to recession: not just a 25 percent tariff on all exports (since reduced to 15 percent), but sector-based tariffs impacting most of South Korea’s key industries as well.
While much of the anger on either side of the Pacific has focused on the current administration in Washington, Trump’s tariffs are just the latest in a string of U.S. policies that have sought to deny South Korea its economic sovereignty, open its markets to foreign takeover, and degrade the rights and dignity of its working people.
After Hyundai ICE Raid, Even South Korea’s Capitalists Question US Relations | Truthout
Can the US and South Korea’s tenuous alliance survive Trump’s tariffs and ICE’s raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia?britney (Truthout)
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Will American Carnage Spread to Venezuela?
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6420802
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/80541
Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair
Every autocrat needs an enemy who threatens the country—preferably from both sides of the border. Such an enemy can serve as the reason to suspend the rule of law and boost executive power.
For Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it’s been the Kurds. For India’s Narendra Modi, it’s been the Muslims. For Russia’s Vladimir Putin, it was first the Chechens, then Alexei Navalny and his followers, and now the Ukrainians.
Donald Trump has built his political career—and, frankly, his entire personality—on the identification of enemies. His presidential run back in 2016 required belittling his rivals in those early Republican primaries (quite literally in the case of Marco Rubio). Later, he widened his scope to include everyone who attempted to thwart his ambitions, like the FBI’s James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. These days, everything that goes wrong in the United States he blames on former president Joe Biden (who had the temerity to beat him in the 2020 presidential election) and the “radical left” (which is basically anyone more liberal than Stephen Miller).
But such “enemies” are small fry, given Trump’s desire for ever greater power. To justify his attacks on Democratic-controlled cities, which is really an effort to suppress all resistance to his policies and his consolidation of presidential authority, he needs a more fearsome monster. To find such a bogeyman, he has dug deep into the American psyche and the playbooks of the autocratic leaders he admires.
On the road to finding the right monster and making America “great again”—a hero’s quest if there ever was one—Trump must first depict the United States as a fallen giant. During his first inaugural address, he declared that “this American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” According to Trump’s self-centered timeline, the carnage stopped during the four years of his first presidency and resumed once again when Biden took over. Carnage, for Trump, is really just a codeword for race—the fall in status of white people who have lost jobs, skin privilege, and pride of place in the history books. “Carnage” is what Black and Brown people have perpetrated by asserting themselves and taking political power, most often in cities.
It’s no surprise, then, that Trump has characterized American cities as “dangerous” and, in the case of Chicago, a “war zone.” In his recent address to a stony-faced group of U.S. military leaders, he said that cities are “very unsafe places and we’re going to straighten them out one by one.” He proposed that the military use American cities as a “training ground” to root out the “enemy within.”
Trump often refers to this “enemy within” as “violent radical left terrorism,” as in the White House’s recent statement on the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. But that doesn’t quite cover, for Trump, the clear and present dangers of drugs and gangs, which are central to justifying his tariff and immigration policies. For that, the president needs to pump up the carnage.
And that’s where Venezuela comes in.
A State of War
The United States is an economically powerful country with relatively low levels of crime. It does not resemble a tropical kleptocracy (not yet). Yet, Trump has gone to great lengths to make it seem that Americans face the same kind of violence that plagued the Philippines during the tenure of Rodrigo Duterte and El Salvador under the current reign of Nayib Bukele. Both autocrats undermined the rule of law to fight drug lords and organized crime. Duterte engaged in myriad extrajudicial killings that have now landed him in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity. Bukele has imprisoned more than one percent of the population, many of them innocent of any crimes, and has effectively declared himself president for life.
For Trump, who thinks of himself as a white savior (el salvador blanco), the key to Salvadorizing America is to depict a country rapidly going to the dogs, which necessitates sending U.S. troops into American cities and ICE agents into every corner of society. Despite Trump’s claims, the U.S. crime rate was close to a 50-year low in 2022, halfway through the Biden administration. In 2024, the rates for murder,removed, aggravated assault, and robbery all fell, according to the FBI.
Then Trump discovered Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that he could use to demonize immigrants, blame for U.S. drug abuse, and tie to criminal activity in cities. The gang has served as the perfect pretext to remove the Temporary Protected Status of Venezuelans as well as round them up and deport them.
And now the administration is playing up the threat of groups like Tren de Aragua to attack boats near Venezuela’s coast and declare a war against drug cartels. Some voices within the administration are even pushing for a U.S. operation to dislodge Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Has the United States replaced democracy promotion with a new, Trumpian form of carnage that it is exporting to the rest of the world, beginning with Venezuela?
The Purported Threat
Tren de Aragua began in a Venezuela prison about a decade ago. It quickly spread to other parts of Venezuela before branching out to the rest of Latin American and eventually to the United States. It has allegedly carried out hits, kidnapped people, and engaged in extensive drug trafficking. It has been linked to an assault on two New York policemen.
It sounds like a formidable organization, and Trump has done much to build up its reputation by branding it “terrorist” and putting it at the same level as the Islamic State.
In fact, Tren de Aragua is a decentralized organization that doesn’t pose a national security threat to any country much less the United States. Its links to the Venezuelan government are tenuous. Few if any of the roughly 250 Venezuelans deported earlier this year to a prison in El Salvador had any connections to the gang. Most were arrested on the basis of “gang” tattoos when Tren de Aragua doesn’t use tattoos as identifying markers.
The Trump administration’s order terminating Temporary Protected Status for approximately 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States makes multiple mentions of Tren de Aragua. This week the Supreme Court upheld Trump’s move. The vast majority of Venezuelans left the country to escape gangs, economic chaos and corruption, or the government’s campaign to destroy the political opposition (which has included 19 cases of incommunicado detention). And now Trump is sending them back to lives of great uncertainty.
According to one poll, nearly half of Venezuelan supporters of Donald Trump, who were key in delivering Miami-Dade county to him in the last election, are having buyer’s remorse.
It’s one thing to break U.S. laws in going after immigrants. Now the Trump administration is breaking international laws and engaging in extrajudicial murder in its imagined pursuit of Tren de Aragua overseas.
On September 2, U.S. Special Operations forces attacked a boat near the Venezuelan coast that the administration alleges was a drug-running operation. It claimed to have killed 11 Tren de Aragua gang members. But it hasn’t provided any proof…of anything. The administration has released videos of the attacks without identifying the people it killed, offering any evidence that there were any drugs on board, or demonstrating that the boats had any links to Tren de Aragua.
Meanwhile, despite a war of words with Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over the latter’s pushback against Trump’s aggressive moves in the region, the United States recently teamed up with Colombia (and the UK) to arrest the alleged head of Tren de Aragua’s armed wing in the Colombian city of Valledupar. This police work received considerably less attention in the press—and from the U.S. government itself—than Trump’s clearly illegal attacks on Venezuelan boats.
Regime Change?
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an autocrat in his own right, has predictably denounced U.S. actions and called up reserves to prepare to defend the country against a potential attack. Less predictably, after the sinking of that first boat, he sent a letter to the Trump administration arguing that he wasn’t involved in narco-trafficking and offering to meet with the administration’s envoy Richard Grenell. The administration ignored the letter and continued its attacks, though Grenell maintained contacts with Venezuela in order to swing a deal to avoid war and facilitate U.S. access to Venezuelan oil. This week, Trump instructed Grenellto stop this diplomatic outreach.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been building up the U.S. military presence in the region. It sent advanced F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico. It beefed up its naval flotilla with eight warships, some Navy P-8 surveillance planes, and an attack submarine. There are nearly 7,000 U.S. troops now deployed to the region.
This is considerably more firepower than a drug interdiction operation requires. But it’s not enough for a full-scale invasion of Venezuela.
This in-between approach may well reflect the conflict within the Trump administration between gung-ho regime-changers like Rubio and anti-interventionists like Grenell. The regime-changers, which include Stephen Miller and the head of the CIA John Ratcliffe, count on the support of Venezuelan opposition leaders like María Corina Machado, who had failed to pry Maduro from office in what was clearly a rigged presidential election last year. With many opposition figures now in jail or in exile, she views the U.S. military as a Hail Mary pass.
Other Venezuelans are much more cautious. “You kill Maduro,” one businessman there confided, “you turn Venezuela into Haiti.” After all, the weak opposition would have a hard time holding the country together amid a scramble for power and oil.
Longtime international affairs expert Leon Hadar points out that such carnage would not just be a problem for Venezuela. “Venezuela has already produced over seven million refugees and migrants,” he writes. “A state collapse scenario could easily double that number. Colombia, Brazil and other neighbors are already overwhelmed. Where do Trump and his advisors think these people will go?”
Given that Trump doesn’t make plans and instead improvises like a bombastic actor, his administration has probably not yet decided how to pursue regime change in Venezuela. The president likes to pit rival factions within his administration to see what the internal carnage will produce. As The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall concludes, “Today, full-scale military intervention in Venezuela remains unlikely. More probable is an intensified pressure campaign of destabilisation, sanctions, maritime strikes, and air and commando raids.”
The reality of Venezuela—the government, the gangs, the immigrants—poses no threat to the United States. The country sends a small percent of drugs here—most fentanyl comes from Mexico, most cocaine from Colombia—while the vast majority of Venezuelans in the United States are law-abiding citizens. Maduro’s military couldn’t do much against U.S. forces, and so far Venezuela has not struck back against what has been a clear violation of its sovereignty.
Trump’s war on drugs and full-court press on deportations, on the other hand, depend on this idea of Venezuela as a full-blown threat. Venezuela presents Trump with carte blanche to deploy the U.S. military in America’s backyard and in America’s own cities.
Really, it’s no surprise that Trump wants such a white card. He’s been playing such trump cards all his life.
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Trump’s bullying of Latin America isn’t part of any plan – he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing
The president’s threats to attack Venezuela are regressive, dangerous and almost certain to backfire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (The Guardian)
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It looks like Venezuela is copying Iran's playbook from the first Trump administration; don't give Trump a casus belli and rely on the US military forcing Trump to give the documented order to attack.
Hopefully it works out for Venezuela.
Which Linux distro would you say that fits me best? Do you think the LLM got it right?
distrochooser.de/en/d5ed36c131…
- You want something that just works out of the box.
- Your focus is everyday tasks with some programming.
- You prefer cutting-edge software, but the system itself can be stable.
- You want a graphical installer and easy GUI management.
- You like Cinnamon for a Windows-like UI.
- You’re okay with either pre-installed software or minimal install.
- You don’t mind if the distro itself has a smaller community as long as the parent distro is well-supported.
Distrochooser
The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!distrochooser.de
Where is the "LLM"? Are you talking about the linked questionnaire? Zero mention of LLM.
github.com/distrochooser/distr…
SMH these grifters will call any super basic program "AI".
GitHub - distrochooser/distrochooser: An orientation guide for Linux newbies
An orientation guide for Linux newbies. Contribute to distrochooser/distrochooser development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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TIL about this Fediverse software database
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Kbin the software has died - technically there is still one small instance in Poland that uses it, but all others have ceased, and the software is no longer being maintained under that name - yet the project lives on in its fork Mbin.
Instances that include the kbin word - e.g. kbin.earth - only retain that now as a legacy.
Sadly I don't think anyone has heard from Ernst, the original developer and admin of kbin.social.
App support finally came to Mbin though, see "Interstellar".
A spiritual successor to Kbin's design philosophy that is very much worth checking out is "PieFed", which I am writing to you now using it 😀. Most apps that work with Lemmy also now work with it (except Thunder support still coming "soon~(TM)~" but available only in the beta version for now, not the Play Store one). PieFed is written in Python rather than the obscure Rust language so its pace of development has been extremely rapid in comparison to Lemmy and it now has a feature set well beyond that of either Lemmy or Mbin. If you want to access both the Threadiverse/Lemmy/Mbin communities/magazines as well as Fediverse/Mastodon-style content, Mbin is still your best bet as it was designed for exactly that, but for Threadiverse stuff it offers numerous advantages. Anyway it is so nice to have choices to pick from!😀
Features - PieFed
Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons.PieFed
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I'm a bit worried about Ernest though. Didn't he have a bunch of health issues?
What's a good Google Drive replacement for syncing my Keepass database?
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Others have said it, but SyncThing all the way. Open source, been around for a decade, battle tested, no cloud, full control over everything.
I didn't see this mentioned, but you can also tell KeePass to auto reload the database if the file gets updated elsewhere. Makes it so you can run the same KeePass database on multiple devices with live/realtime updates. I've used this setup instead of vaultwarden/passbolt on several IT teams to keep the important stuff separate from the normal systems. It's not on by default usually, but right in the Basic Settings page under File Management.
I have KeePass+SyncThing on 3 laptops, 2 androids, and a home server. If I add a password to one of my androids while I'm out and about (and I have cell data), next time I sit down at my desk it's already available. Vice versa works, too. If my home server dies, the other devices don't care and keep syncing amongst themselves. I think I've had some version of this setup going since SyncThing released, I can't imagine using anything else.
Do note that since there is no cloud or infrastructure behind it, sync conflicts do happen when a device in the network goes offline for a while. It'll never get rid of files if there's an error syncing, but instead create a second copy with a timestamped filename. If this happens to your password db file, KeePass can then merge the two copies together and sort things out mostly automatically. Over the many years I've been using this, it doesn't happen as often when you're the only person using any of the devices that sync. It can happen a lot when you share the setup with someone else, though.
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left | Scott Bessent suggests that Treasury is 'compiling lists' of nonprofit advocacy groups
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in the process of launching a War on Terror-style campaign against progressive…Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
MIT researchers developed a way to make cells detach from surfaces on demand, using electrochemically generated bubbles.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free
Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free
Thanks to Extended Security Updates, you don't have to make the switch to Windows 11 just yet.Katie Teague (Engadget)
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Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.massgrave.dev
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.
youtube.com/@TheEnemiesProject
They're running a Kickstarter Campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/larry…
Episodes Released So Far:
- Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mom move from outright hostility to deep tenderness
- Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human.
- A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
- Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
- Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
- Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
- Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right
Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:
- Guns — Two Traumatized Women Divided by Ideology
- Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
- Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
- Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
- Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
- Race in the U.S. [participants being interviewed now]
Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.
The Enemies Project
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other. In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes.YouTube
🇰🇵 DPRK animated series, produced by SEK Studio
Squirrel and Hedgehog is one of the DPRK’s longest-running animated shows. Airing from 1977 all the way until 2012, it’s extremely well known within the country
For anyone who wants to watch Squirrel and Hedgehog, I’ve found a link, and it even has English subtitles!
- 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
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
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Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats
Full List of Young Republicans Involved in Offensive Chats
The messages showed some young Republicans calling black people monkeys, joking about Hitler's gas chambers and calling rape "epic."Jordan King (Newsweek)
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The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other - Support their Kickstarter
The Enemies Project helps "enemies" discover the human being in each other.In each episode, the Enemies Project documentary pairs two people with fiercely opposing worldviews. Intense conflict, yes. But the Enemies Project is neither gotcha TV nor political debate. The purpose is for "enemies" to find the humanity in the other — because in a warring world, understanding is rebellion.
Episodes are hosted by renowned Peacemaker Larry Rosen.
They're running a Kickstarter Campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/larry…
Episodes Released So Far:
- Transgender — A transgender woman and a MAGA mommove from outright hostility to deep tenderness
Abortion — A pro-choice woman and a pro-life man confront the fact that their enemy is deeply, beautifully human. - A Palestinian and a Jew — A Palestinian American and a Hasidic Jew sit together in the aftermath of October 7, confronting grief, pain, and shared suffering
- Two Jews — A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew wrestle with betrayal, loyalty, and the pull of reconciliation within their own community
- Do Kids Need a Dad? A Lesbian and a Fatherhood Purist — A lesbian mom and a man who believes gay people should not have children find respect and warmth
- Dictatorship Under Trump: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — Each fears dictatorship in America, but from opposite sides of the political spectrum
- Dictatorship Under Biden: A Proud Boy and a Progressive — The mirror-image conversation, revealing how fear of tyranny shapes both left and right
Coming Episodes — What You're Enabling:
- Guns — Two Traumitized Women Divided by Ideology
- Immigration — A White MAGA Teen and a Mexican American Dad
- Police Use of Force — A Cop and an Abolitionist
- Falling from Christianity — A Gay Man and a Preacher
- Falling from Islam — A Tech CEO and a Muslim Mama
- Race in the U.S. [particapants being interviewed now]
Other Episodes in the works: Russia/Ukraine, India/Pakistan, Falling from Mormonism.
- 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
Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN
The debate is set to take place on the “Ceasefire” program hosted by POLITICO White House Bureau Chief and Chief Playbook Correspondent Dasha Burns.
The move comes as the two House leaders trade daily barbs over the government shutdown, with little direct communication between the two. It’s unclear if the debate will happen during the government shutdown; C-SPAN said the date is to be announced.
Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World
Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World - IGN
The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.Verity Townsend (IGN)
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Japan's copyright law is very similar to the US, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Meta removes ICE-tracking Facebook page at the request of the Justice Department
Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X that “following outreach” from the DOJ, Facebook removed a “large group page” that was being used to target ICE officials.
Meta said in a statement that the group "was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm.”
Pentagon sidelines military JAG lawyers ahead of deployments to US cities
According to CNN, Hegseth has now sacked multiple top officers across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Space Force who previously led those services’ legal branches — often after they gave legal advice that included concerns about Trump administration policies.
One such officer was Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, formerly the Army’s top uniformed attorney.
Berger reportedly raised questions about a series of early decisions Hegseth made after being sworn in this past January, including the legality of using Texas National Guard personnel for civilian immigration enforcement and the mass firings carried out early in the Trump administration by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
Hegseth gets the JAGs off his back ahead of push into cities as Pentagon hobbles lawyers who raise concerns
Hegseth has long expressed disdain for military lawyers and support for soldiers accused of war crimesAndrew Feinberg (The Independent)
Are there any good places to torrent music with consistent quality and tagging?
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I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?
I strongly suggest to always tag your own music. I think expecting to always finding every album tagged to your own (or you media center's) specifications and preferences in one place is a fantasy. At least it's one that I've given up on more than a decade ago. Your music will always come from multiple different sources and I don't think there is (or ever can be) one golden goose.
So yeah, +1 for Musicbrainz Picard. I'll throw in Puddletag for small manual corrections.
GialappaShow torna il 20 ottobre su TV8 e Sky Uno: nuove imitazioni, Suor Piena di Michela Giraud e Miriam Leone con il Mago Forest
GialappaShow riparte lunedì 20 ottobre in prima serata su TV8 e Sky Uno, inaugurando la sesta edizione in tre anni. Ideato da Giorgio Gherarducci e Marco Santin della Gialappa’s Band e condotto dal Mago Forest, lo show rilancia il meccanismo che ha reso il format un cult: ritmo alto, clip commentate e un parterre di comici con personaggi e parodie inedite.
LE ANTICIPAZIONI: GialappaShow torna il 20 ottobre su TV8 e Sky Uno: nuove imitazioni, Suor Piena di Michela Giraud e Miriam Leone con il Mago Forest
GialappaShow, anticipazioni 20 ottobre 2025: Miriam Leone, Suor Piena di Michela Giraud e ospite Neffa
GialappaShow torna il 20 ottobre 2025 su TV8 e Sky Uno, le anticipazioni. Prima puntata con Miriam Leone e ospite Neffa. Michela Giraud debutta come Suor Piena.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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Seeking a Comprehensive List of ActivityPub Platforms Sorted by Total Monthly Active Users
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
Fediverse Sites Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!fediverse.observer
"By platform" is a fuzzy request given the interoperable nature of the fediverse. This list is broken up by software, so Lemmy/PieFed/mbin are listed separately even though their users share and interact as if they were all on one platform.
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The not-so secret language of fascist fashion
Take, for example, a black polo shirt with white stripes at the hems of the sleeves and collar from the activewear brand Will2Rise. It is sold under the name “3.0 Perry Polo”, a reference to the famous British brand Fred Perry, whose black and yellow design was “hijacked” by the far-right group Proud Boys since its founding in 2016. (In 2020, Fred Perry discontinued the model as a result). In the Will2Rise version, Fred Perry’s logo of golden laurels is replaced with a modern design of the white supremacist Patriot Front logo, which depicts an upright fasces surrounded by a circle.
While valorization of masculine power and fitness is an important part of this new aesthetics, women – who are traditionally associated with fashion and adornment – also have a role in shaping the look. Adhering to traditional ideas of gender, the new Republican look of extreme plastic surgery and heavy makeup combines with tradwives’ 1950s dress silhouettes of cinched waists and flowery patterns to celebrate hyperfemininity.
These styles not only allow their wearers to blend in, but they also play a role in normalizing an aesthetics of radicalism and violence. Sociologist and American University professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who studies extremism and polarization, has written that “it is simply much harder to recognize ideas as hateful when they come in an aesthetic package that doesn’t fit the image people hold in their heads about what white supremacists look like”. When the radical right looks like the mythical boy and girl next door, it’s hard to know who can be a threat.
The not-so secret language of fascist fashion
Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near youGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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