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Heavy Israeli bombing rocked the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 15 Palestinians, in a major violation of the ceasefire.

More than 100 air strikes were reported in Rafah and Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north, and parts of central Gaza.

Among the sites hit were a cafe, a mobile phone charging station, a group of journalists and a house sheltering displaced people.

The Israeli military said the strikes were in response to an alleged "attack" by Palestinians on its troops in southern Rafah involving a rocket-propelled grenade and sniper fire.

Israeli air strikes hit Rafah amid repored clashes with Abu Shabab gang

Israeli fighter jets carried out air strikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday, in the latest reported violation of the ceasefire.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

the search communities page, with local/other as 1 filter, & subscribed/not-subscribed as the other filter ( other options, don't remember 'em )..

IF one searches for other/remote sites, & not-subscribed, e.g. & goes through that page..

then at the bottom of the page is a Next Page button, .. which gives one a page of bullshit, because it discarded the filtering.

( it certainly discards the subscribed/unsubscribed filtering, it may have kept the local-vs-remote sites status ).

Also, if one searches for local + unsubscribed, the 2nd page isn't filtered.

This renders the 2nd-page & all other pages .. garbage.

I'm only identifying this, not complaining: the fact that PieFed exists is awesome, & work is work, so I'm grateful for what there is, that works properly, so this is only a heads-up.

Perhaps a special-page checklist for the programmers would prevent oversights ( Atul Gawande's book "The Checklist Manifesto" identified that there are 2 categories of checklists: these-people-need-to-connect, & this-task-need-get-done.

Perhaps checklists should be considered as foundational in programming as code-review, pair-programming ( near-view/in-the-trench & far-view/how-does-this-fit-in-with-everything-else ), continuous-integration-testing, etc..

Salut, Namaste, Kaizen, & Gratitude for the wonderful contribution to our world..

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While Israel continues to break the ceasefire, many Palestinians' loved ones are still buried under the rubble, as the UN points out

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UN says entire families are buried beneath the rubble in Gaza

^{Alaa Shamali (The Canary)}

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X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles

^{Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)}

A Palestinian government office says Israeli forces have carried out 80 ceasefire violations since October 10, killing 97 people and wounding 230 more.

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Israel accused of 80 Gaza ceasefire violations killing 97 people

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Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT deal

Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says

^{Alex Woodward (The Independent)}

It has emerged that Vladimir Putin personally warned Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev of a coup being planned against him by his chief of staff earlier this month, Azerbaijani news agency APA reported on Thursday.

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Moscow warns Azerbaijan of planned coup by head of Presidential Administration

It has emerged that Vladimir Putin personally warned Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev of a coup being planned against him by his chief of staff earlier this month, Azerbaijani news agency APA reported on Thursday.

^{Novaya Gazeta Europe}

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A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the rivals' heavily fortified border on Sunday, South Korea's military said.

The military took custody of the soldier who crossed the central portion of the land border, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It said the soldier expressed a desire to resettle in South Korea.

It was the first reported defection by a North Korean soldier since a North Korean staff sergeant fled to South Korea via the border's eastern section in August 2024.

North Korean soldier defects to South Korea across the rivals' heavily fortified border

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone​ on Sunday, South Korea's military said.

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Parliament is under mounting pressure to examine what the royal family knew about Prince Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein and introduce a mechanism to strip him of his titles.

There were calls on Sunday night for Andrew to face a police investigation and for ancient rules barring parliament from freely scrutinising royals and formally removing their titles to be revisited.

The Metropolitan police confirmed they were looking into claims that Andrew asked his Met bodyguard to dig up information on Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of sexual assault, hours before the bombshell picture of them was published in 2011.

Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said leaked emails suggesting Andrew passed his close protection officer Giuffre’s date of birth and US social security number were “deeply concerning”.

MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links

Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals

^{Eleni Courea (The Guardian)}

Parliament is under mounting pressure to examine what the royal family knew about Prince Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein and introduce a mechanism to strip him of his titles.

There were calls on Sunday night for Andrew to face a police investigation and for ancient rules barring parliament from freely scrutinising royals and formally removing their titles to be revisited.

The Metropolitan police confirmed they were looking into claims that Andrew asked his Met bodyguard to dig up information on Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of sexual assault, hours before the bombshell picture of them was published in 2011.

Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said leaked emails suggesting Andrew passed his close protection officer Giuffre’s date of birth and US social security number were “deeply concerning”.

MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links

Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals

^{Eleni Courea (The Guardian)}

Earlier in his speech, Hasan extended an olive branch to members of the Republican Party who may feel disillusioned with the current administration. “And you know, they say we don’t reach out to the other side, we don’t reach out to conservatives or Republicans, that we’re in an echo chamber,” he said. “Well, let me say to every Republican and conservative watching, aren’t you the ones who said no more big government, no tyranny in America? So if you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars, bundling people off of the streets, including American citizens, and disappearing them? How are you okay with that? And if you’re not okay with it, then come over to our side.”

Hasan clarified that “our side” is “the small-d Democrats, not the big D Democrats, not the Democratic Party, those of us who are from all parties and none, but those of us who care about saving America so that we can get to our 250th birthday and still be free when we reach 250 years.”

. . . In a rousing speech, Nye evoked the very history that birthed the United States. “Our government is based on ideas embodied in a constitution among other remarkable features that guarantees our freedom to speak as we’re doing here today,” Nye said. “Rather than doing one monarch’s bidding, we have agreed to form a democracy, to work together, and to follow the laws that derive from it. No thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

Nye returned to that history later in his deliverance. “In 1776, our ancestors had had enough. They declared independence from a king by means of a document stored safely right over there on Constitution Avenue in the National Archives. Although it was conceived 249 years ago, the Declaration of Independence describes a train of abuses connected with an absolute authority, a king with absolute power. No thrones. No crowns. No kings,” he said.

“Their king had refused to honor the law. Their king had refused to let lawmakers be elected. The king had made court judges dependent on his will. They cited the king sending quote swarms of officers to harass our people. Their language referred to quote cruelty and faithlessness scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous of ages. Their king was trying to quote render the military independent and superior to civil power. Our founders even censured King George for cutting off trade with all parts of the world. Did these actions sound familiar?”

. . . Sanders later lashed out against Trump allies Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg “and the other multi-billionaires who were sitting right behind Trump when he was inaugurated.”

“Yes, I am talking about the insanity of one person, Mr. Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households. I am talking about the incredible injustice of the top 1% in America, now owning more wealth than the bottom 93%,” Sanders said. “I am talking about the richest people in America becoming much, much richer, while 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to pay their rented mortgages, pay for childcare and education, pay for their healthcare, and pay for their health care.”

Bernie Sanders, Mehdi Hasan, Bill Nye and More Speak at 'No Kings' Rallies

More than 2,500 No Kings protests against the Trump administration kicked off across the United States (and in several European capitals) on Saturday, with millions of people expected to march at rallies attended by politicians, celebrities, media fi…

^{Stephanie Kaloi (TheWrap)}

Unfortunately, the technology of the future demands a high price. On top of the exorbitant energy cost fueling a return to industrial-era levels of pollution, AI is also propped up by a massive global sweatshop operation, where low-wage workers in underdeveloped countries are tasked with doing the hidden intellectual labor that makes the tech useful.

As reported by Agence France-Presse, workers in long-exploited countries like Kenya, Colombia, and India are becoming increasingly outraged over the miserable labor of AI training. For example, as the wire service notes, for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as “data labeling.”

Though the work is often done remotely — thus saving on the overhead costs of leasing an office — data labeling isn’t exactly a cushy laptop job. Workers involved in this industrial operation describe grueling hours, few if any workplace protections, and frequent tasks involving violent or grisly content. In theory, it’s not unlike social media content moderation, another digital practice built on exploitative labor in the developing world.

“You have to spend your whole day looking at dead bodies and crime scenes,” Ephantus Kanyugi, a Kenyan data label, told AFP. “Mental health support was not provided.”

I could swear I've seen this movie before.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

^{Joe Wilkins (Futurism)}

DOWNTOWN — With their city caught in the country’s largest immigration enforcement operation, as many as 250,000 Chicagoans flooded Downtown on Saturday to condemn Donald Trump’s administration as part of the second nationwide No Kings protest.

“We will never surrender!” Illinois governor JB Pritzker said. “Throughout history we have learned that tyranny doesn’t arrive with dramatic proclamations. We learned that it comes wrapped in ‘law and order’ … The reality here in Chicago is this: Black and Brown people are being targeted for the color of their skin. Children are being zip-tied and separated from their families … These people are not abstractions. They pay taxes on their businesses. They work hard — these people are the fabric of our society.”

“They want a rematch of the Civil War,” Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson said to the crowd. “But we are here to stand firm, to stand committed — that we will not bend. We will not cower. The attempt to divide and conquer this nation will not prevail, because when the people are united, justice always prevails.”

Johnson closed out his remarks by calling for a general strike.

Chicago’s Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop

The No Kings rally in Downtown Chicago was just one of many planned for around the Chicago area and the country.

^{Charles Thrush (Block Club Chicago)}