Billionaire Illinois Gov. Pritzker wins blackjack pot of $1.4M in Las Vegas
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Pakistani Security Forces Hunted and Killed Anti-Israel Protestors While Prime Minister Nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37680687
Waqas Ahmed, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain
Oct 16, 2025
On Breaking Points yesterday, we covered the grisly massacre that unfolded this week in Pakistan, as state security services gunned down an unknown but considerable number of people marching to protest against looming normalization with Israel. The segment was controversial, with critics arguing that the group in question, the TLP, is not genuinely “pro-Palestine” but is a far-right, religious extremist organization that regularly incites and carries out violence. But we noted all that in the report.Pakistan does not actually have a history of this sort of mass state violence, and so the military-backed government needs to normalize it if it is to become part of their weaponry in building and defending what Field Marshall Asim Munir describes privately as his end goal, “a hard state.” Authoritarian governments often target groups with the least public support first, hoping to establish a principle for how other dissent will be dealt with. In this report we document how the Pakistani military appears to be using the same tactic with the justly unpopular TLP to set the tone for how other groups may expect to be treated if they do not toe the line on their emerging Israel-Gaza policy.
Pakistani Security Forces Hunted and Killed Anti-Israel Protestors While Prime Minister Nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Waqas Ahmed, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain
Oct 16, 2025On Breaking Points yesterday, we covered the grisly massacre that unfolded this week in Pakistan, as state security services gunned down an unknown but considerable number of people marching to protest against looming normalization with Israel. The segment was controversial, with critics arguing that the group in question, the TLP, is not genuinely “pro-Palestine” but is a far-right, religious extremist organization that regularly incites and carries out violence. But we noted all that in the report.Pakistan does not actually have a history of this sort of mass state violence, and so the military-backed government needs to normalize it if it is to become part of their weaponry in building and defending what Field Marshall Asim Munir describes privately as his end goal, “a hard state.” Authoritarian governments often target groups with the least public support first, hoping to establish a principle for how other dissent will be dealt with. In this report we document how the Pakistani military appears to be using the same tactic with the justly unpopular TLP to set the tone for how other groups may expect to be treated if they do not toe the line on their emerging Israel-Gaza policy.
Pakistani Security Forces Hunted and Killed Anti-Israel Protestors While Prime Minister Nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Protestors from the hardline military-linked religious party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan were killed by Pakistani security forces during a rare demonstration.Waqas Ahmed (Drop Site News)
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Pakistani Security Forces Hunted and Killed Anti-Israel Protestors While Prime Minister Nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Waqas Ahmed, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain
Oct 16, 2025
On Breaking Points yesterday, we covered the grisly massacre that unfolded this week in Pakistan, as state security services gunned down an unknown but considerable number of people marching to protest against looming normalization with Israel. The segment was controversial, with critics arguing that the group in question, the TLP, is not genuinely “pro-Palestine” but is a far-right, religious extremist organization that regularly incites and carries out violence. But we noted all that in the report.Pakistan does not actually have a history of this sort of mass state violence, and so the military-backed government needs to normalize it if it is to become part of their weaponry in building and defending what Field Marshall Asim Munir describes privately as his end goal, “a hard state.” Authoritarian governments often target groups with the least public support first, hoping to establish a principle for how other dissent will be dealt with. In this report we document how the Pakistani military appears to be using the same tactic with the justly unpopular TLP to set the tone for how other groups may expect to be treated if they do not toe the line on their emerging Israel-Gaza policy.
Pakistani Security Forces Hunted and Killed Anti-Israel Protestors While Prime Minister Nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Protestors from the hardline military-linked religious party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan were killed by Pakistani security forces during a rare demonstration.Waqas Ahmed (Drop Site News)
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So...hang on,
Pakistan, officially, supports israel...?
Really?
This timeline is so f_ing pretzeled
Despite its role in undermining the rule of law in Pakistan—or, perhaps, because of it—the TLP has maintained a close relationship with the Pakistani military and the government. It is widely understood in Pakistan to be a tool of Pakistani intelligence that has been used to incite protests that could serve various domestic political purposes. Only when the group turned critical of the state’s emerging policy towards Palestine did the security services lash out.The crackdown has elicited little sympathy from many in Pakistani civil society who had justifiably opposed the TLP for its attacks on minorities and enforcement of barbaric blasphemy punishments. But the military turning on one of its own closely-aligned organizations over the subject of normalization with Israel sends a strong message about what could happen to other sectors of society that publicly oppose the widely unpopular move.
Up until October 2025, the TLP had only called for a few small demonstrations in support of Gaza. In early October, it appeared that Pakistan was beginning to play a role in the Gaza ceasefire when the prime minister tweeted in support of Trump’s ceasefire plan as one of the “Muslim countries” supporting the deal. Rumors started circulating that Pakistan would be normalizing ties with Israel. On Friday, after the ceasefire was signed and Sharif traveled to Trump’s Egypt summit, Rizvi announced his plans to march towards the U.S. embassy in Islamabad during his prayer sermon.
Over the weekend, thousands of TLP members gathered from various areas of Punjab and started making their way up on the Grand Trunk Road towards Islamabad. On the outskirts of Lahore, thousands of protestors faced stiff resistance from the police, who fired at the protestors with tear gas.
But it was Pakistan’s support for Trump’s Gaza deal that threatened domestic stability most significantly.
RIght, so you can hang someone for blasphemy, but can't vouch for the Falastinis, in Pakistan?
Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37680503
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 16, 2025Since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, the Israeli military has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, at least five of them in one attack on Shujaiya on Tuesday. The Israeli military admitted to the killings, claiming a group of people approached its soldiers stationed there. That same day, the Israeli military spokesperson reiterated a warning to Palestinians not to approach certain areas in Gaza, including Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as locations in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.Al-Sawwaf, 78, has lived in Shujaiya ever since her family fled there during the Nakba shortly after she was born. “I got married in Shujaiya and gave birth to all my children here—14 of them,” she told Drop Site. Two of Al-Sawwaf’s children, her husband, grandson, and another relative were all killed in the war. Amid a famine and no clean water, Al-Sawwaf’s health has deteriorated. “I used to weigh 86 kilos, now I’m 60. I can’t walk, and I’m ill. I’m sick all day,” she said, breaking down in tears.
Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 16, 2025Since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, the Israeli military has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, at least five of them in one attack on Shujaiya on Tuesday. The Israeli military admitted to the killings, claiming a group of people approached its soldiers stationed there. That same day, the Israeli military spokesperson reiterated a warning to Palestinians not to approach certain areas in Gaza, including Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as locations in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.Al-Sawwaf, 78, has lived in Shujaiya ever since her family fled there during the Nakba shortly after she was born. “I got married in Shujaiya and gave birth to all my children here—14 of them,” she told Drop Site. Two of Al-Sawwaf’s children, her husband, grandson, and another relative were all killed in the war. Amid a famine and no clean water, Al-Sawwaf’s health has deteriorated. “I used to weigh 86 kilos, now I’m 60. I can’t walk, and I’m ill. I’m sick all day,” she said, breaking down in tears.
Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops
Parts of Shujaiya lie inside the “yellow line,” an invisible demarcation where the Israeli military withdrew as part of the initial phase of the ceasefire agreement.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 16, 2025
Since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, the Israeli military has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, at least five of them in one attack on Shujaiya on Tuesday. The Israeli military admitted to the killings, claiming a group of people approached its soldiers stationed there. That same day, the Israeli military spokesperson reiterated a warning to Palestinians not to approach certain areas in Gaza, including Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as locations in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.Al-Sawwaf, 78, has lived in Shujaiya ever since her family fled there during the Nakba shortly after she was born. “I got married in Shujaiya and gave birth to all my children here—14 of them,” she told Drop Site. Two of Al-Sawwaf’s children, her husband, grandson, and another relative were all killed in the war. Amid a famine and no clean water, Al-Sawwaf’s health has deteriorated. “I used to weigh 86 kilos, now I’m 60. I can’t walk, and I’m ill. I’m sick all day,” she said, breaking down in tears.
Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops
Parts of Shujaiya lie inside the “yellow line,” an invisible demarcation where the Israeli military withdrew as part of the initial phase of the ceasefire agreement.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
Body Cam Footage Shows Alleged ICE Officer Pulled Over for Drunk Driving Racially Profiling Arresting Officer | Common Dreams
Body Cam Footage Shows Alleged ICE Officer Pulled Over for Drunk Driving Racially Profiling Arresting Officer
The man has been charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence and two felony counts of reckless child endangerment.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.webassembly.org
Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve
I always love Backblaze's analysis. It's how I learned I wasn't special for having those notorious 4TB Seagate drives (I want to say DM003) shit the bed in short order.
Increased longevity is undoubtedly a plus; however, whether doing a RAID rebuild or just being out a 24TB drive (hopefully, you've got a backup), that's a lot of time and effort to get back to square one.
If you’ve hung around Backblaze for a while (and especially if you’re a Drive Stats fan), you may have heard us talking about the bathtub curve. In Drive Failure Over Time: The Bathtub Curve Is Leaking, we challenged one of reliability engineering’s oldest ideas—the notion that drive failures trace a predictable U-shaped curve over time.But, the data didn’t agree. Our fleet showed dips, spikes, and plateaus that refused to behave. Now, after 13 years of continuous data, the picture is clearer—and stranger.
The bathtub curve isn’t just leaking, and the shape of reliability might look more like an ankle-high wall at the entrance to a walk-in shower. The neat story of early failures, calm middle age, and gentle decline no longer fits the world our drives inhabit. Drives are getting better—or, more precisely, the Drive Stats dataset says that our drives are performing better in data center environments.
So, let’s talk about what our current “bathtub curve” looks like, and how it compares to earlier generations of the analysis.
The TL;DR: Hard drives are getting better, and lasting longer.
Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve
After 13 years, the data is clear—the bathtub curve does not apply to hard drives. And, more importantly, hard drives are failing less and lasting longer.Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools | CNN
TL;DR: piece-of-shit Evangelical anti-woke superintendent who was busted watching porn in his office on a conference call resigned last month.
New Superintendent: Yeah nah we're not gonna do the bible thing.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/17/us/oklahoma-schools-bible-mandate-rescinded
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Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans
When teachers rely on commonly used artificial intelligence chatbots to devise lesson plans, it does not result in more engaging, immersive, or effective learning experiences compared with existing techniques, we found in our recent study. The AI-generated civics lesson plans we analyzed also left out opportunities for students to explore the stories and experiences of traditionally marginalized people.
The allure of generative AI as a teaching aid has caught the attention of educators. A Gallup survey from September 2025 found that 60 percent of K-12 teachers are already using AI in their work, with the most common reported use being teaching preparation and lesson planning.
Without the assistance of AI, teachers might spend hours every week crafting lessons for their students. With AI, time-stretched teachers can generate detailed lesson plans featuring learning objectives, materials, activities, assessments, extension activities, and homework tasks in a matter of seconds.
Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.The Conversation (Ars Technica)
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God Mode: Vatican AI summit wants global AI rules
Recently, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warned investors to avoid the "false prophets" of AI. Now, the Pope has brought real theological weight to the bot debate, hosting a Vatican seminar that called for global AI regulation and fair distribution of the technology's benefits.The seminar [PDF] – dubbed Digital Rerum Novarum: Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Social Justice, and Integral Human Development – was organized by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences together with the University of Notre Dame.
The newly installed, American-born Pope Leo XIV, said, in a message to the attendees, that while it has great potential, AI poses deep questions, not least how to create a "more authentically just and human global society."
More bluntly, he quoted his predecessor to remind his flock, that "While undoubtedly an exceptional product of human genius, AI is 'above all else a tool.'"
Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules
: 'AI is a tool', Pope tells attendeesJoe Fay (The Register)
The Worst Bug In Games Is Now Gone Forever by Two Minute Papers [Video, 11:41 min]
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=VOORiyi…
YouTube: youtu.be/VOORiyip4_c
The video talks about a new paper in a techniqe to eliminate clipping of vectors. The only problem is, it is extremely computational expensive. I compare this to RayTracing, which will be viable in the future only if all the tools implement it. I assume the hardware chips that support RayTracing could be used for this new technology too, but that is just my personal assumption here.
I left the original title of the video, as it would be editorial otherwise.
Video description (only relevant parts):
📝Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1OrOKJH_im1L4j1cJB18sfvNHEbZVSqjL/view
Code and examples are available here: github.com/st-tech/ppf-contact-solver
Guide on how to try it: drive.google.com/file/d/1n068Ai_hlfgapf2xkAutOHo3PkLpJXA4/view
Sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=5GDIoshj9Rw
youtube.com/watch?v=X53VuYLP0VY
youtube.com/shorts/x0WjJgotCXU
youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4Of18Kf2M
📝 My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free here:
rdcu.be/cWPfD
Or this is the orig. Nature Physics link with clickable citations:
nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01788-5
Zohran Mamdani Has Pushed the Liberal Consensus on Palestine. The Left Isn’t Satisfied.
I'm not trying to start another Zohran struggle session, time will tell if he sells out. The article itself isn't even particularly bad, what I want to discuss is the liberal framing it uses.
Taking the democrats seriously. Taking Cuomo seriously. But the part that really bothers me is the idea that Zohran pushed the liberal consensus on Palestine. Little-known fact: the world outside of NYC actually does exist and the people in it have been hating "Israel" more and more as well. Zohran is popular partly because he reflected a changing opinion many had on "Israel", not the other way around. Journalists understand cause and effect challenge.
Zohran Mamdani Has Pushed the Liberal Consensus on Palestine. The Left Isn’t Satisfied.
The debate over Mamdani’s candidacy highlights the ongoing identity crisis within the Democratic Party as he seeks to toe the line on Israel.Akela Lacy (The Intercept)
Governor Newsom announces affordable CalRx® insulin, $11 a pen, will soon be available for purchase
As the first and only state contracting for its own affordable insulin, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that CalRx® biosimilar insulin glargine pens will be available to consumers in California beginning January 1, 2026. This launch marks a significant step in the state’s ongoing effort to lower prescription drug prices and improve medication access statewide.
Through an agreement secured by Civica Rx — a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer — with Biocon Biologics, Californians will have access to an interchangeable biosimilar insulin glargine pen offered under the CalRx brand and pricing.
Has anyone tried WinBoat with mod loaders, or system monitors like FPSVR?
I've been hearing some good things about WinBoat, so I am wondering if anyone has tried to use it with game mod loaders. Like the windows version of Satisfactory Mod Manager (I know there is a linux one that works perfectly and exactly like the windows version but as this is a very popular game maybe someone did it this route) or, the one I am really interested in right now, Raft Mod Loader. Raft Mod Loader page suggests 1. Bottles and less recommended 2. straight wine. I would like to use a single solution for most of my windows carry overs, ie; steam is one stop for ~90% of my games flat and VR, lutris is one stop for 2 non steam games atm, but I am uncovering more as I go.
I also have 2 windows only apps for VR - FPSVR and Desktop+(this is free), obviously they will not want to port their apps to linux for such a small user base. Has anyone tried these in WinBoat?
I am dual booting as I get VR to a better level, but I want that cancer off my system completely one day. Right now I have no monitors for vr performance in linux (any suggestions? FPSVR is my monitor for windows in VR) but it "feels" like often I am getting less than 20 fps (eye fatigue and strain that does not occur in the same games on windows) tho it looks like it is at least 35-60fps in the recorded playback, it just feels off.
I am hoping for some feed back on this from people that have used it. I could use bottles but doesn't that also require a windows "install" or container type thing like this? I am just exploring different avenues to get things working and this looks promising, tho a VM may make a bit of a dent in my old ryzen 7-3800 and I am fairly confidant if I had an amd card instead of the RTX 4070ti super my experience would be better but that is a cost I cannot swallow yet and I need a new cpu more. In the end I will prolly try to get wine and bottles working but a simple to get running app like this could be the short term answer
I want that cancer off my system completely one day
This does not get the cancer off your system, it just installs it inside of Linux. That's the point I'm trying to make.
Getting the cancer out involves what Steam does, running the API calls through a translation layer like WINE or Proton. Bottles is just a frontend for that.
I'm not sure what the state of VR is in Linux, other than "not good".
Bottles and lutris mostly serve the same purpose. heroic might be easier so you can use umu for having a more unified experience with wine and proton but I haven't gotten around to playing with that yet.
I've never used winboat but it seams like a lot of... winbloat...
I would personally just use protontricks to install any needed sotware to the games own prefix but I'm pretty sure lutris, bottles, and heroic can all do this while making a clickable launch button for it, while starting the mod loaders my way requires manual intervention every time.
If you haven't already, check out linux vr adventures: lvra.gitlab.io/
I don't know anything about psvr but it might work with monado. i have the facebook shit mask so I use wivrn.
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🌐 Free website with printable & interactive Math and Logic worksheets — perfect for teachers, students & families ✍️📐
Hey everyone 👋
I’d love to share a project I’ve been building to make Math and Logic practice easy, free, and accessible in Spanish (with English and Portuguese options too).
📌 It includes:
• Printable worksheets ready for classroom or home use
• Interactive online exercises with instant feedback
• Resources in 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇬🇧 English, and 🇧🇷 Portuguese
• Special sections for teachers 👩🏫👨🏫
It’s a 100% independent project (no paywalls, no sign-ups), and I’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions 🙌
If you find it useful, sharing it also helps a lot ❤️
It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security
It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewedMozilla Foundation
How the government shutdown is thwarting efforts to shed light on Epstein’s case
Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, has kept the House of Representatives out of session for two weeks and counting as part of his party’s strategy to pressure Senate Democrats into voting for their resolution to fund the government.
That has slowed down the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the late pedophile and held a petition demanding the release of the files at bay.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were expected to testify before the panel over the past few weeks but have yet to appear.
And Johnson has declined to swear into office Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona who would be the crucial 218th vote on a discharge petition from Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie that would demand a vote on the release of the government’s Epstein files.
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California to begin selling affordable state-branded insulin beginning next year
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices.
But California won’t be the only state making lower-cost insulin available. The nonprofit Civica said it will also distribute its economical diabetes medication to pharmacies nationwide. California began partnering with Civica in 2023 for its “CalRx” brand of insulin and put $50 million toward its development, the company said.
Starting in the new year, insulin pens will be available at a recommended price of $11 per pen, or a maximum of $55 for a five-pack, Civica said.
https://apnews.com/article/california-affordable-insulin-415edd0b915677d2051d22b4b8f8121c
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Wikimedia says AI bots and summaries are hurting Wikipedia's traffic
Wikimedia says AI bots and summaries are hurting Wikipedia's traffic
The Wikimedia foundation says an AI-fueled drop in traffic could threaten the internets largest repository of trusted information.Andre Revilla (Engadget)
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Breakthrough in Huntington’s disease treatment shows unprecedented results for patients
A new treatment that proves to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease marks a breakthrough for a condition that has long been considered untreatable. Huntington’s is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorder that gradually deteriorates a person’s physical and mental abilities, often leading to death within 10 to 30 years of onset. Until now, treatments have only managed symptoms, rather than altering the disease’s course.
The research team, including Sung, tested a new treatment called AMT-130 on people who were in the early stages of HD. The treatment works by halting the part of the body’s gene production responsible for producing the toxic huntingtin protein. By targeting the messenger RNA that carries instructions from DNA to produce this protein, AMT-130 prevents its formation without altering the DNA itself — a key safety advantage over other genetic therapies.
After three years, those who received the higher dose showed a 75 percent slower disease progression compared to those who did not receive the treatment. The treatment helped trial participants maintain more of their movement, thinking and daily functioning abilities without causing significant side effects.
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…Dropsafe
From Sabra and Shatila to Gaza: The Vicious Cycle of US-Israeli 'Peace' Ploys
The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of a significant portion of Gaza’s population.
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It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different.
The Capitalist Vision of Artificial Intelligence: Profit, Power, and Control
ِAI does not develop in a neutral manner, it reflects the class structure of the system that produced it. Artificial intelligence, as developed today, is not an independent or neutral entity, it is directly subject to the dominance of capitalist powers, which steer it in ways that serve their economic, political, social, and ideological interests.
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Is it possible to just run a pirate video streaming site from Kodi?
I've always felt like the whole docker/jellyfin/plex/loads-of-other-apps stuff is way too overboard just to do a bit of pirating, so I usually just hop on one of the movie/show or anime streaming sites with uBlock Origin installed and watch that way.
Currently I'm looking at what I can setup in the living room, and was thinking of just using an old PC with a wireless keyboard. I would like to use a media center type interface, but I've never actually used Kodi before. Would I be able to just use Kodi to stream from those kinds of services?
Searches so far show that everyone apparently uses Kodi with something called Real Debrid, which I have zero interest in.
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It is, i used to do it for my household, but the problem is that those websites that host pirated content tend to do everything they can to prevent direct streaming outside of their own ad filled websites and the adons for kodi that interface with them tend to get abandoned or shut down after a few months, also Without real debrid they are practically useless.
Its actually way easier and less maintenance to just setup the arrs + jellyfin. There is good reason its become so much more common among pirates these days, it might seem overboard but i once you get past the intial setup its super convient.
Do protests like No Kings still matter? Here’s what experts say
- They help individuals channel their frustration, isolation and desperation
- They are a show of strength
- They typically lead to more political involvement
- They have already produced wins
- They must remain nonviolent to be effective
- They must be in small towns in the heartland, not just big coastal cities
Find one near you at nokings.org
Do protests like No Kings still matter? Here’s what experts say
Despite No Kings protests, some Bay Area residents have expressed frustration that virtually nothing can slow President Donald Trump’s autocratic actions.Joe Garofoli (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years, have posted the names and personal information of hundreds of government officials, including people working for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).“I want my MONEY MEXICO,” a user of the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters Telegram channel, which is a combination of a series of other hacking group names associated with the Com, posted on Thursday. The message was referencing a claim from the DHS that Mexican cartels have begun offering thousands of dollars for doxing agents. The U.S. government has not provided any evidence for this claim.
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Subscribe nowHackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
NodeBB <> Lemmy federation issue (re: nullable image/icon)
nutomic@lemmy.ml reported a federation issue with a NodeBB instance and we debugged it. It turns out Lemmy is unable to handle actors who have image or icon set to null.
Lemmy is taking steps to handle this (source, source), and NodeBB will update its actor logic to omit properties without an avatar or cover photo set.
Fix for NodeBB compat and updated test assets by Nutomic · Pull Request #6090 · LemmyNet/lemmy
Values "icon": null, "image": null were not handled correctly by deserialize_last. LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust#151GitHub
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Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck
Aside from a MAGA hat, there is likely no object that feels more emblematic of US president Donald Trump’s return to the White House than the Tesla Cybertruck. The blunt angles and steel doors look futuristic, for sure, but only if the future looks a lot like RoboCop. To some, it’s a metallic status symbol. To others, it’s fascism on wheels. Either way, heads turn.Cybertruck owners see things differently. “To me, it's just a vehicle that I love,” says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. “It has no political affiliations at all to me.”
We’re standing in the parking lot of McCormick's Palm Springs Classic Car Auctions. All around us, a dozen Cybertruck owners—and their cars—bake in the 100 degree heat. They’ve arrived for a meetup organized by Michael Goldman, who runs the 53,000-person Facebook group Cybertruck Owners Only. Though suspicious of the media, they’re eager to set the record straight about the car that they love. WIRED is here to learn how it feels to be out in public in such a politically charged vehicle. Has the past year or so changed anyone’s minds about owning the truck? Do owners like the attention—or are they adding bumper stickers decrying Elon Musk?
As we’re talking, a woman drives by in a small sedan. “Your cars are fucking ugly!” she screams before peeling off. Castillo smiles. “Some people just aren’t playing with a full deck of cards,” he says serenely.
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This is what happens with fewer competition and the iPhone stagnating. Windows Mobile had it succeeded even marginally, Google wouldn't be doing this.
Replace Windows Mobile with Blackberry, Meego, etc... The competition doesn't need to be open, they just need to motivate Google to be open.
The competition doesn’t need to be open, they just need to motivate Google to be open.
...but could that actually happen? I'm not sure what WOULD motivate Google to be open. Even if there were three or four more major mobile players (all with equal market share), and Google had the only platform that allowed unblessed software to be installed, I'm not sure that would pressure Google to continue to be "the open choice", but more likely to take this same action as "the odd man out".
At a fundamental level, there is an illusion/concept planted in the human mind that "force answers everything", and when they run out of ideas (or all the ideas that they have would require too much [re]work to their liking) the tendency is to fall back onto "just use force" as an easy "solution".
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Peasley
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I was curious so i looked it up. Doesn't exactly say that
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Peasley • • •Pretty deliberately is meant to punish anyone caught hiring DPRK nationals, and repatriate any working overseas.
Takapapatapaka
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in reply to Takapapatapaka • • •No? How do you have airline workers integrated with airports in hostile countries, that are supposed to repatriate anyone earning money there?
There probably could be workarounds, but it's incredibly complicated, and there are tons of sanctions on the DPRK. They do travel to friendly countries, but there's a ton of hostility towards them.
Takapapatapaka
in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Let be clear : economic isolation of NK is a ofc product of both NK politics and UN embargos. But freedom of travel is not directly affected by UN. The first thing that stops NK people to travel is a border with armed guards, including with friendly states.
Cowbee [he/they]
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •From what i know
, it is not easy at all to neither go to China, neither "defect" there, neither defect from authoritarian communist countries nearby. What you 'showed' me is people working in China, so controlled travel.
Based on what i know, i take your affirmation that it is easy to defect frop China either as ignorance, either as propaganda. If you have good info on the traveling part, please share so i and others can learn. On the original matter, i think it's not worth debating further if we do not share a same-ish perception of facts.
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ARTECowbee [he/they]
in reply to Takapapatapaka • • •Even Wikipedia shows that defectors usually go through China, and Wikipedia is very biased against the DPRK. I don't know what you mean by "authoritarian communist" countries, all states are "authoritarian" in that they uphold one class over others, China is socialist and the Russian Federation is capitalist. It really isn't hard to find any of this information, but if you want more:
A bit on information from the DPRK I wrote earlier:
The problem with reporting on the DPRK is that information is extremely limited on what is actually going on there. Most reports come from defectors, and said defectors are notoriously dubious in their accounts, something the WikiPedia page on Media Coverage of North Korea spells out quite clearly. These defectors are also held in confined cells for around 6 months before being released to the public in the ROK, in... unkind conditions, and pressured into divulging information. Additionally, defectors are paid for giving testemonials, and these testimonials are paid more the more severe they are. From the Wiki page:
Side note: there is a great documentary on the treatment of DPRK defectors titled Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul, which interviews DPRK defectors and laywers legally defending them, if you're curious.
Because of these issues, there is a long history of what we consider legitimate news sources of reporting and then walking back stories. Even the famous "120 dogs" execution ended up to have been a fabrication originating in a Chinese satirical column, reported entirely seriously and later walked back by some news outlets. The famous "unicorn lair" story ended up being a misunderstanding:
These aren't tabloids, these are mainstream news sources. NBC News reported the 120 dogs story. Same with USA Today. The frequently reported concept of "state-mandated haircut styles", as an example, also ended up being bogus sensationalism. People have made entire videos going over this long-running sensationalist misinformation, why it exists, and debunking some of the more absurd articles. As for Radio Free Asia, it is US-government founded and funded. There is good reason to be skeptical of reports sourced entirely from RFA about geopolitical enemies of the US Empire.
Sadly, some people end up using outlandish media stories as an "acceptable outlet" for racism. By accepting uncritically narratives about "barbaric Koreans" pushing trains, eating rats, etc, it serves as a "get out of jail free" card for racists to freely agree with narratives devoid of real evidence.
It's important to recognize that a large part of why the DPRK appears to be insular is because of UN-imposed sanctions, helmed by the US Empire. It is difficult to get accurate information on the DPRK, but not impossible; Russia, China, and Cuba all have frequent interactions and student exchanges, trade such as in the Rason special economic zone, etc, and there are videos released onto the broader internet from this.
In fact, many citizens who flee the DPRK actually seek to return, and are denied by the ROK. Even BBC is reporting on a high-profile case where a 95 year old veteran wishes to be buried in his homeland, sparking protests by pro-reunification activists in the ROK to help him go home in his final years.
Finally, it's more unlikely than ever that the DPRK will collapse. The economy was estimated by the Bank of Korea (an ROK bank) to have grown by 3.7% in 2024, thanks to increased trade with Russia. The harshest period for the DPRK, the Arduous March, was in the 90s, and the government did not collapse then. That was the era of mass statvation thanks to the dissolution of the USSR and horrible weather disaster that made the already difficult agricultural climate of northern Korea even worse. Nowadays food is far more stable and the economy is growing, collapse is highly unlikely.
What I think is more likely is that these trends will continue. As the US Empire's influence wanes, the DPRK will increase trade and interaction with the world, increasing accurate information and helping grow their economy, perhaps even enabling some form of reunification with the ROK. The US Empire leaving the peninsula is the number 1 most important task for reunification, so this is increasingly likely as the US Empire becomes untenable.
Nodutdol, an anti-imperialist group of Korean expats, released a toolkit on better understanding the situation in Korea. This is more like homework, though.
Korean war POW, 95, fails at attempt to return to North
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in reply to sadschmuck [none/use name] • • •You might be interested in the comments on .ml: lemmy.ml/post/37681719
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Cowbee [he/they]
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in reply to Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them] • • •I'm willing to accept that there's been some exaggerations made about how bad the DPRK is.
That doesn't mean I think it's good.
And obviously false memes like the OP don't convince me that there is any sincerity in its defenders.
Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
in reply to deathbird • • •It's a state formed as a result of an anti-colonial movement fighting for liberation against your empire. Your empire killed millions of its people, destroyed what they had, and currently maintains a genocidal blockade against it.
Despite all that, it manages to hang on, and, considering the harrassment and assault from your empire, it also manages to provide its people with much better living standards than what one would expect from many states that you do not complain about (and which are not targets of the same sort of blockades). Also, you just plain haven't even brought up any wrongdoings that the DPRK has supposedly done.
Overall, I would say that that does make the DPRK fairly good as far as states go.
Either you are unfamiliar with the resolution in question and are assuming that the OP lied (without you double-checking), or you know that the OP didn't lie and are trying to engage in spreading your genocidal empire's false propaganda.
Bldck
in reply to jankforlife • • •UN Security Council Resolution 2397… signed 2017 summarizes the travel section as:
So… specifically about repatriation after 24 months if they’re earning income out of DPRK. Nothing about free travel.
Let’s look at the actual resolution text. I’ll add some emphasis
So the text, and the resolution itself, is about limiting nuclear and ballistic programs. This resolution does not prohibit free movement or refugee status… only limits DPRK nationals who are generating foreign funds to send back to DPRK because the Council believes those funds were going to nuclear weapons.
Cowbee [he/they]
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •All permanent members of the council have a veto, including PRC and Russia.
Are either of those countries supporters or enablers of the US Empire?
Cowbee [he/they]
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in reply to considine • • •Israel is not sanctioned by the UN. They don’t need to send nationals to work abroad to patriate funds… they can just sell goods and services on the free market. Same as the US and Pakistan.
I’m confused what you’re arguing for. More nuclear weapons?
considine
in reply to Bldck • • •What I'm arguing for? Logical consistency. Moral consistency.
If the reason to sanction DPRK is that they acquired nuclear weapons without the consent of the current nuclear powers, then all states which do the same should be sanctioned.
If the reason to sanction DPRK is because they might wreak havoc with massive weapons, then countries that are already wreaking havoc with massive weapons should be sanctioned.
Your argument is that Israel and the US should not suffer the consequences of sanctions because they aren't sanctioned.
My argument is that there is not logical or moral consistency in sanctions.
And no, I don't accept that this is an argument for nuclear weapon proliferation. Those countries that developed nuclear weapons pulled the gate shut behind them, forbidding any other countries from getting them. We can see the hypocrisy in that. But then when a US ally like Israel, or a strategic partner like Pakistan acquires nuclear weapons it is ignored. Only DPRK or Iran could possibly be dangerous because... well because they aren't cooperating with the US.
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