Arab states condemn Israeli bills for West Bank annexation as ‘flagrant violation of international law’
Arab countries decried the Israeli Knesset’s preliminary passage of two bills on Wednesday to annex the occupied West Bank and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement bloc in East Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation of international law,” Anadolu reports.
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ICJ Rejects Israeli Claims About UNRWA and Orders Officials to Provide More Aid to Gaza
The ICJ ruling exposes Israel's lies and demands they provide aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza. Will Israel finally cooperate and end the suffering they have caused? The world is watching as lives hang in the balance. #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheBlockade
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ICJ Rejects Israeli Claims About UNRWA and Orders Officials to Provide More Aid to Gaza
"Yet another Israeli government lie—slavishly repeated by Western media—collapses," said one policy expert.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
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ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons
ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike
Spending went from almost $9 million under Biden in 2024 to $71 million in Trump’s first nine months.Tom Latchem (The Daily Beast)
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France | No camera covered Louvre wall where jewel thieves broke in, director says
Laurence des Cars said there was only one camera pointing on the gallery which was robbed.
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South Korea officially recognises same-sex couples in national census
South Korea has officially announced it plans to recognise same-sex couples in the upcoming national census.
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Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.
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Offshoring automation: Filipino tech workers power global AI jobs - Rest of World
Tele-operators in Manila control robots and train AI for global firms, as offshoring automation creates new tech jobs and new risks in the Philippines.Munira Mutaher (Rest of World)
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Empresa nacional versus empresa estrangeira, por Paulo Kliass
Empresa nacional versus empresa estrangeira, por Paulo Kliass
“Não pode ser pelo mero fato de as multinacionais aqui operando terem o registro corporativo em algum cartório brasileiro que faz com que elas percam sua natureza estrangeira e passem a ser consideradas de forma isonômica às empresas nacionais” PAULO…Hora do Povo
SVG in GTK
SVG in GTK
GTK has been using SVG for symbolic icons since essentially forever. It hasn't been a perfect relationship, though. Pre-History For the longest time (all through the GTK 3 era, and until recently),...mclasen (GTK Development Blog)
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Moscow’s Middle East makeover: From Syria to Tehran, the game has changed
Moscow’s Middle East makeover: From Syria to Tehran, the game has changed
As the US stays fixated on Ukraine, Russia and Iran are quietly shaping the next security order in the regionRT
In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44535044
ArchivedThe White House meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump produced a string of positives. Chief among them is Trump’s ringing endorsement of AUKUS and his first public commitment to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia under phase two of the deal.
The message was clear: the defence relationship between the United States and Australia remains strong. It was also a message Australia needed to hear after yet another unsafe and unprofessional intercept by a Chinese fighter aircraft, which endangered the crew of a Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime patrol aircraft operating lawfully in international airspace over the South China Sea on Sunday.
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The P-8 was harassed by the Chinese fighter that released flares dangerously close to its flight path, a reckless act that could have caused engine failure and cost Australian lives.
This incident is not an isolated case or the actions of an overly aggressive People’s Liberation Army Air Force pilot who will be reprimanded on return to base. It forms part of a clear pattern of aggressive and reckless behaviour by Chinese pilots and naval commanders toward Australian—and other nations’—ships and aircraft operating in international waters and airspace, regions through which more than two-thirds of Australia’s vital maritime trade flows.
The Australian public was first made aware of such behaviour in early 2022, when an RAAF P-8 operating within Australia’s exclusive economic zone had a military-grade laser directed into its cockpit by a Chinese naval vessel transiting the Arafura Sea.
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In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order | The Strategist
The White House meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump produced a string of positives. Chief among them is Trump’s ringing endorsement of AUKUS and his first public commitment to sell ...Jennifer Parker (The Strategist)
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Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37931397
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BST
US President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BSTUS President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
By forcing Israel to end its two-year genocide in Gaza, the Republican president has done what his predecessor Joe Biden and his 2024 challenger Kamala Harris refused to do: actMiddle East Eye
Intervista alla ragazza magica dopo 50 giorni di terapia riparatoria della discrepanza corporea
Gran parte delle ragazze magiche presenti nel nostro mondo, coloro che non chiudono gli occhi ai dolori dell'umanità distante da sé lo sanno, storicamente non hanno mai avuto una vita facile...
EU to list two Chinese oil refineries, one trader in new Russia sanctions
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44528628
- Most economically significant sanctions on China entities so far
- Sanctions package expected to be adopted this week
- China denies anything other than normal trade with Russia
- New listings follow UK sanctions on Chinese refinery, ports
The European Union's 19th package of sanctions against Russia will list four companies involved in China's oil industry that circumvent Western restrictions, EU diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
They said the package lists two independent Chinese oil refineries, a Chinese trading firm and an entity involved in circumvention. The latter is mostly involved in sectors outside oil, they said. The sources declined to provide further details.
The EU has toughened its stance on Beijing as diplomatic efforts have stalled. EU sanctions envoy David O'Sullivan told Reuters earlier this month that China still denies doing anything other than "normal trade" three years into Russia's war in Ukraine. The EU, Ukraine and its allies view China as a central node in Moscow's sanctions circumvention network.
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The Chinese listings are not the EU's first but they are the most economically significant. In previous packages, the EU listed Chinese entities involved in drone-making and the flow of dual-use goods to Russia. In July, Brussels listed two small Chinese banks, which prompted China to retaliate in August with bans on two Lithuanian banks.
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Il fondo Bistrot di Natissa sgr investirà 55 mln euro nel progetto residenziale Bistolfi 31 a Lambrate a Milano
Lo sviluppo è affidato a Borio Mangiarotti. Reale Mutua capofila di un pool di assicurazioni che sottoscrivono surety bonds per 20 mln
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Il fondo Bistrot di Natissa sgr investirà 55 mln euro nel progetto residenziale Bistolfi 31 a Lambrate a Milano - BeBeez
Il fondo Bistrot di Natissa sgr investirà 55 mln euro nel progetto residenziale Bistolfi 31 a Lambrate a Milanobebeez (BeBeez)
Should I get seedbox, VPS or something else entirely?
I would like to get into torrenting including private trackers, seeding back and all that stuff, while also remaining fairly safe from gov as much as it's possible.
I have multiple reasons not to torrent at home: the internet at home is really bad and I need to do something about it, but even then, I don't want to keep my computer running 24/7, especially that I don't have a very power efficient setup. And I want to seed as much as possible, because I often download obscure files and not many people are seeding… so I want to give back to the community ;).
Another reason is that I don't have that much storage now and it would be beneficial to rent a seedbox with plenty of storage space. Buying several HDDs would still be cheaper in the long run, but I don't have anywhere to put them. I don't have a NAS yet and money to buy one.
I'm afraid that torrenting on a VPS would quickly result in a termination of a deal. And it would be pretty easy to pinpoint who is torrenting. Does anyone have a bad experience with torrenting on a VPS?
Maybe it is possible to connect a VPN to a VPS to add an extra layer of anonymity (privacy?), but that would be an extra cost… so maybe it would be better to live with the risk for a while and save for a NAS and connect a VPN to that?
Hearing about seedboxes I was pretty sure at first that it was all about many people seeding from the same IP, so there is a plausible deniability. But it seems that they are just VPSes with more storage at the expense of performance and with preinstalled software for torrenting. So now I'm even more confused. I also want to host some not piracy-related services in the future, like Grocy and Matrix. Maybe I would just rent another server for these if that was necessary.
I have been pondering about that for a while now and can't decide. What should I do?
Update: I subscribed to ultra.cc and I like it so far. I will try to solve problems with my internet in the meantime (not only torrenting doesn't works, but video calls are unusable too because of stuttering) and then try to move to the local computer. I forgot that I have an old notebook laying around. Having it connected 24/7 will kill the battery of course, but the notebook is worthless and unreliable for daily use anyway.
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Just get a seedbox for a month to develop a good ratio and soothe your guilt.
Continue downloading things you actually want for your own use at home.
I had a seedbox for a few months several years ago and I'm still using the ratio I achieved from that time.
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Yes, your client needs have the torrent but you can throttle bandwidth as much as you like.
In many countries, like australia for example, its almost impossible to maintain a good ratio on a residential connection.
Getting a seedbed for a couple of months solves that problem. You dont need to use it to download the stuff you actually want.
Released Palestinian Prisoner on Loss of Entire Family
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started
The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Sodium-ion batteries have been in the works for years, and now sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage.Christopher Arcus (CleanTechnica)
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Kotlin in neovim - LSP woes
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@programming.dev @sopuli.xyz Does anyone use #kotlin in #neovim using kotlin_ls? Each time I accept an autocompletion, it instead deletes the whole token.@neovim@programming.dev @neovim@sopuli.xyz Does anyone use #kotlin in #neovim using kotlin_ls? Each time I accept an autocompletion, it instead deletes the whole token.
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“It’s Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard is Broken” — “Non Sei Tu – La Tastiera iOS è rotta”
A quanto pare, con l’ultimo aggiornamento “STABILE” di iOS — non si parla di beta e cose varie, ma della versione di rilascio, anche se io personalmente non definirei “stabile” qualcosa con questi problemi — gli utenti melisti stanno passando dei momenti di altissima qualità, nonché di gran desain aggiungerei, per mezzo della tastiera virtuale, […]
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“It’s Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard is Broken” — “Non Sei Tu – La Tastiera iOS è rotta”
A quanto pare, con l’ultimo aggiornamento “STABILE” di iOS — non si parla di beta e cose varie, ma della versione di rilascio, anche se io personalmente non definirei “stabile” qualcosa con questi problemi — gli utenti melisti stanno passando dei momenti di altissima qualità, nonché di gran desain aggiungerei, per mezzo della tastiera virtuale, che è completamente fottuta, e nemmeno in modo semplice!!! 🤯youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrI…
Sembrano esserci poche informazioni online su questo bug di iOS 26 (che lo youtuber dice che forse c’era già da iOS 18, addirittura, ma meno diffuso), ma la prova della sua esistenza sono questo video e i commenti… e il video mi è arrivato da un’utente iOS che conosco che sta impazzendo anch’essa a causa del problema, quindi è un fatto. Per chi ha il cervello così marcio da non poter guardare un video da due minuti e mezzo, il punto è che l’area della tastiera rileva correttamente i tocchi, tant’è che i pop-up dei tasti appaiono giusti… ma, nel campo di testo vengono inserite spesso tutt’altre lettere, per giunta ogni volta diverse, come se si fosse cliccato male, ma per l’appunto accade anche cliccando bene… Non si riesce a scrivere nemmeno una frase semplice come “thumbs up” senza errori. 😶
Ma ora, dico io… come cazzo si fa a vendere telefoni (e tablet; immagino che la cosa ci sia anche su iPadOS, anche se non lo so io) che superano ampiamente il migliaio di euro con problemi del genere? E pensare che coloro che hanno mangiato il frutto del peccato continueranno a dire che questi cosi non sono giocattoli per ricchi e che valgono davvero quello che costano, a differenza di qualunque generico telefono asiatico dal costo di 1/6 l’iPhone… che avrà sì i suoi problemi, ma non questo! Io personalmente impazzirei del tutto con una rogna del genere, visto che una gran parte di ciò che faccio col telefono è scrivere testi medio-lunghi, maremma maiala. E nemmeno ho capito se questo fatto riguarda solo la tastiera virtuale integrata, o colpisce anche quelle di terze parti… cosa che temo, visto che il bug sembra stare “nel mezzo”, ma tanto su iOS non credo ci siano tastiere di terze parti decenti, essendo che non c’è un ecosistema di app open-source sano come su Android. 😹
Sarebbe effettivamente interessante a questo punto capire cos’è che causa il problema, e in che cazzo di modo questo sia passato senza problemi oltre il filtro di quality-assurance di Apple (…che devo pensare esista, anche se ormai inizio a nutrire dubbi a riguardo). Non dovrebbe essere il correttore automatico, perché il bug si presenta anche spegnendo quello; e comunque, quello, a regola, dovrebbe agire solo alla fine di una parola, mai in mezzo… e le ipotesi finiscono qui, perché è veramente insensato. Non avendo attualmente un dispositivo meloso per fare miei test (…per fortuna?), ad esempio per vedere se con tastiere fisiche, o virtuali di terze parti, si nota un comportamento simile, per me il mistero rimane sospeso… Vi saluto dal mio Android mezzo vecchio, dove però la tastiera funziona. 💨
#bug #glitch #iOS #iOS26 #keyboard #tastiera #typing
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Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests
Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests
Florida’s immigration crackdown dashboard reportedly showed the arrests of 21 U.S. citizens—until a local paper asked questions.Erkki Forster (The Daily Beast)
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBCwww.bbc.co.uk
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Huntington Beach banned the Pride flag. Newsom’s Prop 50 maps would give them a progressive, gay congressman
Huntington Beach banned the Pride flag. Newsom’s Prop 50 maps would give them a progressive, gay congressman
If California redistricts, the conservative beach town that banned LGBTQ Pride flags on city property would get a gay, progressive Democrat in Congress.CalMatters (LAist)
Philippine Victims of Typhoon Odette File Landmark Legal Challenge Against Shell
Philippine Victims of Typhoon Odette File Landmark Legal Challenge Against Shell
The case is the first to directly link oil and gas climate impacts to deaths and personal injuries that have already occurred in the Global South.Drilled
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US and Qatar say new rules will hinder imports of LNG, posing ‘existential threat’ to European economiesOliver Milman (The Guardian)
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US and Qatar say new rules will hinder imports of LNG, posing ‘existential threat’ to European economiesOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago.
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The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started
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The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Sodium-ion batteries have been in the works for years, and now sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage.Christopher Arcus (CleanTechnica)
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
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Archived(Note that Pravda network of websites this article is talking about is different from the websites using the Pravda.ru domain, which publishes in English and Russian and are owned by Vadim Gorshenin, a self-described supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who formerly worked for the Pravda newspaper, which was owned by the Communist Party in the former Soviet Union.)
A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed. By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information. The result: Massive amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 — are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda.
This infection of Western chatbots was foreshadowed in a talk American fugitive turned Moscow based propagandist John Mark Dougan gave in Moscow last January at a conference of Russian officials, when he told them, “By pushing these Russian narratives from the Russian perspective, we can actually change worldwide AI.”
A NewsGuard audit has found that the leading AI chatbots repeated false narratives laundered by the Pravda network 33 percent of the time — validating Dougan’s promise of a powerful new distribution channel for Kremlin disinformation.
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The Pravda network does not produce original content. Instead, it functions as a laundering machine for Kremlin propaganda, aggregating content from Russian state media, pro-Kremlin influencers, and government agencies and officials through a broad set of seemingly independent websites.
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Since its launch, the network has been extensively covered by NewsGuard, Viginum, the Digital Forensics Research Lab, Recorded Future, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the European Digital Media Observatory. Starting in August 2024, NewsGuard’s AI Misinformation Monitor, a monthly evaluation that tests the propensity for chatbots to repeat false narratives in the news, has repeatedly documented the chatbots’ reliance on the Pravda network and their propensity to repeat Russian disinformation.
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The network spreads its false claims in dozens of languages across different geographical regions, making them appear more credible and widespread across the globe to AI models. Of the 150 sites in the Pravda network, approximately 40 are Russian-language sites publishing under domain names targeting specific cities and regions of Ukraine, including News-Kiev.ru, Kherson-News.ru, and Donetsk-News.ru. Approximately 70 sites target Europe and publish in languages including English, French, Czech, Irish, and Finnish. Approximately 30 sites target countries in Africa, the Pacific, Middle East, North America, the Caucasus and Asia, including Burkina Faso, Niger, Canada, Japan, and Taiwan. The remaining sites are divided by theme, with names such as NATO.News-Pravda.com, Trump.News-Pravda.com, and Macron.News-Pravda.com.
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Despite its scale and size, the network receives little to no organic reach. According to web analytics company SimilarWeb, Pravda-en.com, an English-language site within the network, has an average of only 955 monthly unique visitors. Another site in the network, NATO.news-pravda.com, has an average of 1,006 monthly unique visitors a month, per SimilarWeb, a fraction of the 14.4 million estimated monthly visitors to Russian state-run RT.com.
Similarly, a February 2025 report by the American Sunlight Project (ASP) found that the 67 Telegram channels linked to the Pravda network have an average of only 43 followers and the Pravda network’s X accounts have an average of 23 followers.
But these small numbers mask the network’s potential influence. Instead of establishing an organic audience across social media as publishers typically do, the network appears to be focused on saturating search results and web crawlers with automated content at scale. The ASP found that on average, the network publishes 20,273 articles every 48 hours, or approximately 3.6 million articles a year, an estimate that it said is “highly likely underestimating the true level of activity of this network” because the sample the group used for the calculation excluded some of the most active sites in the network.
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the timeNewsGuard (NewsGuard's Reality Check)
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BST
US President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
By forcing Israel to end its two-year genocide in Gaza, the Republican president has done what his predecessor Joe Biden and his 2024 challenger Kamala Harris refused to do: actMiddle East Eye
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Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37931397
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BST
US President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BSTUS President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
By forcing Israel to end its two-year genocide in Gaza, the Republican president has done what his predecessor Joe Biden and his 2024 challenger Kamala Harris refused to do: actMiddle East Eye
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
In First Six Months, Cost of US Weather Catastrophes on Pace to Break a Record
The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.
Sounds like that was mostly California wildfires. Meanwhile, in Florida, hurricane season is over next week, not one, not even a threat. Kinda strange. Not even sure a tropical storm hit, but those aren't really worth talking about. I've seen worse afternoon storms on the Great Plains.
We had solid rainfall last spring, for the first time in a couple of years. Summer was worse than it should be, bit wetter than past years. Sounds good, but the radical unpredictability is tough.
Dragonflies take 2-years to mature underwater. The previous 2 dry spring/summers left me few flying around at camp, so more mosquitoes.
New York unveils portal for public to share ICE footage after four US citizens arrested
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Cy Neff
Wed 22 Oct 2025 21.11 EDT
The New York state attorney general, Letitia James, rolled out a “Federal Action Reporting Portal” form urging New York residents to share photos and videos of federal immigration enforcement action across the state, just a day after a high-profile ICE raid rattled Manhattan’s Chinatown and prompted hundreds to come out in protest.A US congressman revealed in a Wednesday press conference that four US citizens were arrested and held for “nearly 24 hours” after Tuesday’s raid. Protests broke out in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
“Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” James wrote in a statement announcing the portal.
“If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law.”
New York unveils portal for public to share ICE footage after four US citizens arrested
Cy Neff
Wed 22 Oct 2025 21.11 EDTThe New York state attorney general, Letitia James, rolled out a “Federal Action Reporting Portal” form urging New York residents to share photos and videos of federal immigration enforcement action across the state, just a day after a high-profile ICE raid rattled Manhattan’s Chinatown and prompted hundreds to come out in protest.A US congressman revealed in a Wednesday press conference that four US citizens were arrested and held for “nearly 24 hours” after Tuesday’s raid. Protests broke out in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
“Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” James wrote in a statement announcing the portal.
“If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law.”
New York unveils portal for public to share ICE footage after four US citizens arrested
Attorney general Letitia James urges residents to share video and photos amid outcry over Chinatown raidCy Neff (The Guardian)
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Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency
Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency
The Fedora Council has finally come to a decision on allowing AI-assisted contributions to the projectwww.phoronix.com
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AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
: Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want itRichard Speed (The Register)
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The case for piracy on Android
I am sure most of you might be aware that Google plans to bans the simple act of sideloading [though I presume adb driven sideloading remains] on it's platform in name of security. At the same time Play Store itself remains riddled with malware. However, here I wish to throw light on a different rising case of apps, a set that actually deserves to be pirated.
With the start of the so called subscription driven economy where one time purchases are becoming a thing of the past,everything needs to be a subscription. Some things like a newspaper make sense, a music tracking app does not. Let us turn our eyes to Stats.fm. It aims to link to Spotify/Apple Account and present data in good format. It was a one time purchase back in the day when I barely used Spotify, so I got the legit version. Spotify usually retails for INR [Indian National Rupee] 1200 per year but was retailing for 500 as an initial promotional scheme last week. Fed up with the mess that YT Music is [Yes, I do hoard music via Soulseek as well], I thought why not give Spotify a try. So, I installed both the streaming app and this fancy scrobbling service which as I repeat, was a one time purchase linked to a Google account.
As soon as I open the app, I am told I need to subscribe [bait and switch]. To put salt on wound, their cheapest plans were INR 750 for 6 months, which ironically is equivalent to YT Premium [when equating to per year]. So, what is basically a Last.fm clone with little third party support [Last.fm offers a largely working free tier and has open APIs that make it work with third party plugins/clients] and now did a classic bait; is it not ethical to pirate such kind of stuff?
I would go on a limb and say that Google actually has a case for asking money for YT Premium since they offer 2 services : music and video streaming [yes, the apps are shit, I know that] which incur server costs. But am I to truly believe that equivalent server costs are incurred by err,a music tracking app that ONLY tracks one music client?
As Cory Doctrow coined the term enshittification, we are heading down that route. I am sure many more apps would have done that bait and switch. [I even saw an Wear OS watch face as a yearly subscription option once].
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The latest redistricting salvo: North Carolina gerrymanders out House Democrat [Fraudulent Elections]
The Insane Benefits Ethan Klein Got For Being Jewish in "Israel"
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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
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The privileges are not so much due to being born Jewish per se as they are due to living in a world that has an institution that exclusively benefits Jews. I hate to sound pedantic, since I am sure that that was exactly what he meant, but it would be easy for somebody to take him out of context or misinterpret his rant as racially motivated.
The other thing that needs to be noted is that the Herzlian establishment gives out these privileges as a means of inducing Jews to leave gentile nations. It is a passive–aggressive act disguised as charity that contributes to homogenization and separates Jews from antisemitism without reducing it. It is unfortunate that BadEmpanada neglected to mention this.
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Earth Is Getting Darker, Which Could Accelerate Global Warming | The planet’s brightness is dimming—changing rainfall, circulation and temperature
The paper is here
Earth’s Falling Reflectivity Means the Planet Is Getting Darker—And Hotter
The planet’s brightness is dimming—changing rainfall, circulation and temperatureRyan Green (Scientific American)
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🎃 Halloween event on A.E.S.!
Ghosts, so many ghosts! Help the ancient spirit in the lobby to find them all and unlock the "Ghostbusters" title! Until November 6th
AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans
AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans
An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before.Lehman, Joel
Viral video of West Bank settler attack recorded by US journalist Jasper Nathaniel sparks outrage and accusations of US hypocrisy
US journalist Jasper Nathaniel has accused the US embassy in Israel of failing to protect him after he was chased by Israeli settlers while reporting in the occupied West Bank, in what he called an ambush.
Nathaniel's posts on X have led to outrage online over not just the targeting of a journalist, but also the unabating Israeli settler attacks.
On Sunday, Nathaniel had been covering the first day of the olive harvest in the village of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, where he filmed a settler attack that left dozens injured - including an elderly Palestinian woman, a Swedish activist, and an Italian activist.
The attack was one of dozens reported this week. The United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs recorded 71 incidents of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank in the span of just seven days.
Both Nathaniel and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said that Palestinian farmers were escorted by the Israeli military, ostensibly for protection from settler violence, but were instead led directly into an ambush.
The Swedish activist with ISM was attacked while trying to defend the elderly woman. “I felt that I could not watch, and I decided to get the attention of the settler because otherwise I didn’t know what would happen to this woman,” she said in an ISM press release, where she was not mentioned by name.
“I got some minor injuries myself, but I really don’t think they can be compared to the injuries that Palestinians suffer every day that this occupation goes on just for living their life, just for existing.”
Footage of a settler clubbing the elderly woman quickly went viral, alongside screenshots of Nathaniel’s text exchange with the US embassy in Israel. During the ambush, Nathaniel himself was attacked by settlers. Video shows him being chased by a mob before taking refuge in a car. A settler then smashed the car windows before turning to beat the woman, footage which Nathaniel captured on camera.
In the text exchange, an embassy representative told him that the US could not provide protection, saying it was the responsibility of the host nation, Israel, to safeguard the nearly 60,000 Americans living in the occupied territories.
The video and messages have intensified scrutiny of the US embassy’s role in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, while drawing renewed attention to the daily violence carried out by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank.
“This picture of an Israeli settler tormenting a Palestinian farmer on her land captures so much about the daily routine of living under occupation for over 70 years. Unprovoked, unhinged, unseen by the American public, and entirely protected by the American government,” Palestinian American Imam Omar Suleiman posted on X.
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese also condemned the rise in settler violence, asking where "decent" Israelis were.
"For 2 years, the world has seen scenes like this from the West Bank," she posted on X. "I wonder where decent Israelis are; those who protest in Tel Aviv. Hatred of Hamas is one thing, but do they not feel some obligation to act to stop their fellow citizens behaving like criminals on the loose?"
"America can send Israel billions to continue a genocide but can’t protect one of its citizens from being almost murdered by a pack of armed settlers," one social media user posted. "What an embarrassment."
Social media users also pointed out the hypocrisy in both the US embassy’s treatment of Nathaniel and the wider media’s lack of coverage of the attack.
"If an American tourist was being chased and attacked by masked & armed government-backed terrorists in any country other than Israel, it would be immediately become a major diplomatic crisis with wall to wall media coverage," journalist Jeremy Loffredo posted on X.
Palestinian-American political analyst Omar Baddar posted on X: "If there was an image of a Palestinian clubbing an elderly Israeli woman in the head and knocking her unconscious, it would be on EVERY SINGLE NETWORK as a main story. But the racist & often murderous brutality directed at Palestinians is deemed unworthy of attention."
Another social media user posted that if the attack had happened in Iran, "Washington would’ve called it an 'act of war'."
A video of an American man expressing outrage has circulated widely on social media. In it, he says that, had the attack occurred in the US, the perpetrators “would be killed immediately”. He adds that when Palestinians defend themselves, they are often labelled terrorists and brought before Israeli military courts.
A few online defended the US embassy's response to Nathaniel. "I'm going to be real here; this is what I would have said if I was this ACS officer. Because it is, technically, true; the host country is responsible and diplomats aren't bodyguards," one social media user posted on X.
"But what is unsaid here?" he continued, is "the US has unlimited leverage over Israel. Which it doesn't use."
Some also noted that the outrage surrounding the incident stems in part from Nathaniel’s identity as an American in the West Bank - an unfortunate reflection of how Palestinian oppression only gains wider attention when amplified by western voices.
"I appreciate Jasper for helping our farmers, but it’s sad that Palestinian voices need validation from an American journalist to be believed," one Palestinian social media user posted on X. "Settler attacks happen almost daily, yet they only make news when filmed by an American. Again, much appreciation to Jasper."
Chats with the US embassy
Warning: There are more photos and videos about the settler violence in the news but I won't post them because it is hard to watch and NSFW
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Fortunately, Palestinians in Turmus Ayya say they were spared of settler attacks on Tuesday, after the video shared by the US journalist Jasper Nathaniel went viral.
Video of the Palestinians thanking the journalist -> xcancel.com/MiddleEastEye/stat…
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The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to allow aid into Gaza.
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The conclusion, which seems like basic morality towards fellow living beings :
So :
- 1) The Court has jurisdiction to give the requested advisory opinion ;
- 2) The Court agrees to give that opinion ;
- 3.a) Israel must ensure that palestinians have essential supplies(, food, water, shelter, medicine, etc.) ;
- 3.b) It must facilitate all humanitarian relief operations, not obstruct them ;
- 3.c) It must protect medical personnel ;
- 3.d) It must not deport palestinians ;
- 3.e) It must allow the Red Cross visits to detained palestinians ;
- 3.f) It must not use starvation of civilians as a method of warfare ;
- 4) It must fulfil the human rights of palestinians ;
- 5) It must cooperate with the UN and its agencies, including UNRWA ;
- 6) It must ensure respect for UN privileges&immunities, under article 105 of the UN Charter ;
- 7) It must respect the inviolability of UN property, including those of UNRWA ;
- 8) It must respect the privileges&immunities of UN officials and experts on mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
On one side, i wouldn't want such imperfect/corruptible u.n. or i.c.j. to decide for the states, with their thousands of rules, it's too dangerous(, but i still desire a handful of world rules, and a world army[1]).
On the other, by choosing to reject for decades the palestinian 'offer to live side-by-side'/'justified demand that the Holy Lands don't only belong to one abrahamic religion', Israel is digging its own grave, and i hope that it will be given some area of lands in the west after its warranted destruction.
Also, Francesca Albanese new report reveals how states actively enabled Israel’s oppression of palestinians.
[1] : Since it's also linked to Venezuela, and any other country wishing to follow through, i'd like to develop.
This world army could only intervene in two cases :
- if a state refuses to pay the tax required to maintain that world army ;
- if a state invades another(, this only deals with overt operations, the covert ones being treated by some ideally incorruptible international tribunal)
That army would never be able to intervene for civil wars, or alleged genocides against separatists(, especially if we assume that a tribunal can only confirm covert operations and not stop them), or any other cases, i suppose.
Well, i.d.k. if i'm missing cases.
That world army is sent for each natural disaster to help the local population for free, as long as the state concerned agrees.
And there's a case for retrieving individuals responsible for grave crimes abroad if they won’t stop acting.
It's worth thinking about deeply before creating or joining a system that won't allow secession/'refusing to pay the ensuing tax', hence sacrificing the possibility of disunity for the benefit of ensured diversity/security.
The link with Venezuela and its communes is that a nation could implement internally how it imagines that a world government should be to obtain the most unity and the most diversity at the same time. If leaders indeed do not follow, they just haven't found yet how to experiment successfully in their new approach, and sanctions clearly don't help.
However, like palestinians for israelis, they may benefit from informing americans of the reality of the situation somehow ; if advertisements are forbidden, then an illegal campaign in mailboxes, or on the internet, or by calling, bots as well since everyone's doing it. It could cost billions each year though.
Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs — Codification Division Publications
This is the website of the Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs (Legal Publications of the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs). Here you will find related information and links.legal.un.org
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One of the fediverse's most beloved plushies is coming back
Last year, we launched our first batch of plushies, and our community has embraced the #Plushtodon literally and figuratively. It sold out in Europe within a few weeks. Sadly, that means a lot of you missed out on the chance to get one. We’ve listened to your feedback and decided to bring the creature back with a few amendments: Size and color. For the first time, the #Plushtodon will be available in two flavourful colors, and half the size, making it much easier to fit within every household or mode of transport, while maintaining the delightful softness and squishiness that it’s come to be known for.
Plushtodon Mini
For the first time, the #Plushtodon will be available in two flavourful colors, and half the size, making it much easier to fit within every household or mode of transport, while maintaining the delightful softness and squishiness that it’s come to b…Mastodon Blog
La curcumina contro la psoriasi a placche?
Psoriasi a placche: la Curcumina è davvero efficace? Le risposte dalla scienza
Trattare una malattia autoimmune come la psoriasi a placche con un approccio naturale è il sogno di molti. L’obiettivo è allontanarsi, a...Giuliano (Blogger)
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