Seoul cafe ignites backlash over ‘No Chinese customers’ policy - The Korea Times
Seoul cafe ignites backlash over ‘No Chinese customers’ policy
A cafe near Seoul Forest has come under fire after posting a “No Chinese customers” notice on its Instagram page, sparking accusations of racial di...Hankookilbo (The Korea Times)
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Dutch government took control of Nexperia over fears it was being gutted - sources
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51884177
The company's Chinese arm has taken steps toward independence and has resumed selling products to domestic Chinese customers.The sources said the Dutch government believes it can negotiate a resolution with China that will restore the company to a unified Dutch-Chinese structure.
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So banning foreign companies entirely is more ethical than letting them compete and nationalising them when they fail or become too greater risk?
Makes perfect sense!
That's fair, but expect to see even more of this in the future.
China historically has done a lot to protect their domestic industries (blocking access to the country, currency manipulation to keep prices cheap, required state involvement, etc.). That's not to say other countries haven't (US with Bailouts and Itar, etc.).
However, I would expect to see more of this across the world as globalization takes a bit of a hit. Both from rising tensions, but also from some of the fragility in supply chains exposed due to the pandemic.
Trump, Hegseth step up military murders in Latin America
US military forces struck two small boats off the Pacific coast of Colombia Wednesday, killing at least five people. The strikes were the eighth and ninth since President Trump issued orders September 2 for a campaign of military violence against alleged drug traffickers that is both illegal and unconstitutional.While Trump claims that the strikes are justified because the United States is at war with drug cartels based in Latin America, the White House has not sought a declaration of war from Congress, or even a congressional resolution authorizing military operations, as in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The strikes are in flagrant violation of international law. The US government has offered no evidence against the people it is annihilating, and even their names are unknown. And the military assaults are taking place in international waters, where ships of any nationality supposedly have “freedom of navigation,” a right that Washington claims to be defending in the South China Sea...
Trump, Hegseth step up military murders in Latin America
As US missiles killed five more fishermen off the coast of Colombia, the gangster-president boasted, “We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be like dead, OK?”World Socialist Web Site
Trump this, Trump that.
Who executed these orders? Who in the chain of command was happy to bomb these people? What names and ranks are there in the report?
There shouldn't be people who, without a shadow of a doubt, would press the red button on an incorrect order. It seems, there are a lot of them there right now. All that stops us from having the US from starting a nuclear war is an assumption, that there would be someone knowing better in place, and this international bombing spree tells us it's not a safe bet at all.
Imagine Donald wanting to nuke South America or Canada - would there be anyone to refuse?
It's semi-accurate, it's based on a memoir but heavily modified. That said, boot camp is supposed to break someone down, get them to think like a soldier, Airman, sailor, or marine depending on branch. The Navy for example puts a lot more emphasis on critical decision making than the Marines, the Marines emphasize martial prowess, the Army is somewhere between, and the Air Force is kinda just a souped up summer camp.
No one becomes a drill instructor to bully people, they do it because it's all but required for advancement at a certain point in jobs that have a low promotion rate. There is some bullying in a sense but at least Navy side it's fairly minimal and the experience is mostly focused on learning things then making sure you can perform your now learned duties under duress.
The Marines boot camp (what's in the show) is focused on making sure that when a lot of people are screaming different things you can still execute the task at hand, effectively making sure you can be effective and task focused even in chaotic situations. At least that's what I hear from Marines, I also hear they do in fact do some shit like stealing toilet paper and stuff, the Marines don't care if your smart, or make good decisions, just that you can execute tasks in chaos.
You have a good point but may not have an appreciation for what that means for the individual soldiers. I recommend this legal eagle vid. Even if they were clearly in the right in refusing the order (which they obviously are in this case) - do you think there is any chance they would get a fair trial with this regime in power?
Imo the check on this is impeachment and prosecution of the president and officials.
Any reliable reporting coming out on all these boats and crews that are being blown up?
(The 'Drug War' has been blatantly evil for decades. We know there's a good chance the official narrative is bullshit, and there certainly is no nuance.)
Are they fishing, smuggling, or both?
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)
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Quebec to ban religious symbols in daycare centres
The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province's daycare centres.
Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says there is a "broad consensus" that Quebecers want secularism to be strengthened.
The announcement follows a recommendation made this summer by a committee tasked with advising the province on how to enhance secularism. The committee had called for the ban to be extended to daycares.
Quebec has already banned public sector workers in positions of authority, such as teachers and judges, from wearing religious symbols on the job.
Québécois here. I'm surprised by the positive reception here.
First because normally, anything about Québec policies on reddit (unless it's on a Quebec-related sub) is received very negatively, and harshly so, while I may support, be neutral, or against but with understanding where it's coming from. But that may be a Reddit-Lemmy difference. And that's welcome. I don't expect people to agree with everything Quebec does, but I do value reason.
Second, because this time, I'm very much against. I'm an atheist, antitheist even. But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve? Do you think children growing up will be convinced to become Muslim because their educators were veiled? And for the negative impacts:
- From what I see as a parent in Montreal, nearly half educators in anything daycare in the city are veiled. If they decide to stop working, it will have terrible economic effects.
- Veiled women being made to feel unwelcome, antognized and ostracized.
But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve
it allows people to escape oppression? Religion has no place in day care centres, period.
🧩 ChartDB v1.17 - Open-Source DB Diagram Tool | Arrays, Views, Canvas Editing, and More
Hi everyone! 👋
Back again with a fresh update on ChartDB - a self-hosted, open-source tool for visualizing and designing your database schemas.
Since our last post, we’ve shipped v1.16 and v1.17, focusing on better canvas interactions, smarter imports, and improved database coverage. Here’s what’s new 👇
Why ChartDB?
✅ Self-hosted - Full control, deploy via Docker
✅ Open-source - Community-driven and actively maintained
✅ No AI/API required - Deterministic SQL export, no external calls
✅ Modern & Fast - Built with React + Monaco Editor
✅ Multi-DB Support - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite, ClickHouse, Oracle, Cloudflare D1
🔥 New in v1.16 & v1.17
- Canvas Editing Upgrades - Create tables, open table editors, and define relationships directly on the canvas
- Array Support - Full support for array fields across import/export and DBML
- Views Support - Import and visualize database views
- Quick Edit Mode - One-click edit for tables without switching modes
- DBML Diff Preview - Preview changes to field types and relationships before applying
- Smarter Imports - Detect auto-increment fields, parse more SQL variants
- Improved PostgreSQL & SQL Server Support - Includes default values, new types, and
ALTER TABLEhandling - Canvas Filters 2.0 - Improved tree state, toggle logic, and filter behaviors
- UI Polish & Fixes - 50+ fixes including performance, layout, field handling, and DDL exports
🔮 What’s Next
- Version control - Git-backed diagram history
- Sticky notes - Annotate diagrams visually
- Docker improvements - Support for sub-route deployments
🔗 Live Demo / Cloud
🔗 GitHub
🔗 Docs
We're continuing to build based on community feedback, feel free to open issues, suggest features, or share how you’re using it!
Thanks again to everyone in selfhosted who’s supported ChartDB so far 🙌
GitHub - chartdb/chartdb: Database diagrams editor that allows you to visualize and design your DB with a single query.
Database diagrams editor that allows you to visualize and design your DB with a single query. - chartdb/chartdbGitHub
We don’t have a forum yet, but we do have a Discord where users share feedback and ask questionsl, you’re more than welcome to join: discord.com/invite/QeFwyWSKwC
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youtubica stronzata porta gli innocenti alla fucilazione (YouTube ha bannato senza motivo il canale di Enderman)
Alphabet Inc., o meglio Google, o meglio YouTube, proprio ieri sera ha combinato un’ennesima delle sue stronzate colossali, totalmente a sorpresa… e non mi riferisco ai soliti insensati cambi di policy (che, per giunta, a volte sono fatti esplicitamente, altre volte in completo silenzio; lasciamo stare questo, che è tutto un altro gran casino). Hanno […]
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Alphabet Inc., o meglio Google, o meglio YouTube, proprio ieri sera ha combinato un'ennesima delle sue stronzate colossali, totalmente a sorpresa... e non mi riminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
TSE julga recurso que pede cassação de Cláudio Castro no RJ
TSE julga recurso que pede cassação de Cláudio Castro no RJ
Claúdio Castro é acusado pelo Ministério Público Eleitoral de obter vantagem eleitoral na contratação de servidores temporários sem amparo legal.Larissa Pereira (ISTOÉ Independente)
Palantir Slides on AI Valuation Concerns, Burry Put Options
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XMPP service.. any details?
The main landing page mentions XMPP but gives no overview. Nor does the wiki. The sidebar for meta says:
Our XMPP support chat: Movim or XMPP client.
Is there a slrpnk.net xmpp server that our creds work on? Or is this just an XMPP channel for getting support?
At first I was imagining some slick gateway of sorts that would stream realtime Lemmy activity into an XMPP channel, but I think my instincts might be wrong on that.
House members release bipartisan 'principles' for extending Obamacare subsidies
It's the first public offering on health care policy since the government shutdown began.
A bipartisan quartet of House lawmakers released a “statement of principles” Monday for a potential compromise on an extension of Obamacare subsidies, which would include a two-year sunset and an income cap for eligibility.
The compromise framework from Republican Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Jeff Hurd of Colorado, and Democratic Reps. Tom Suozzi of New York and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, is the first public tangible offering on health care policy since the government shutdown began 33 days ago.
Democrats are continuing to insist that any deal to end the shutdown involve an agreement around extending expanded tax credits for Affordable Care Act subsidies that are due to expire at the end of the year. But GOP leaders and Donald Trump have refused to negotiate on health care until after the government is reopened.
60 Minutes Obeys in Advance
When I read the full transcript of the interview, I realized there had been no pushback, no corrections, no challenging follow-ups. The entire interview had been an open-ended opportunity for Trump to tell rambling lies, only to have them cleaned up into a more polished product.
60 Minutes Obeys in Advance - Democracy Docket
I tuned in to watch Norah O’Donnell interview Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Over the span of 40 minutes, I sat in disbelief as Trump was asked a series of softball questions with little follow-up.Democracy Docket
60 Minutes Obeys in Advance
When I read the full transcript of the interview, I realized there had been no pushback, no corrections, no challenging follow-ups. The entire interview had been an open-ended opportunity for Trump to tell rambling lies, only to have them cleaned up into a more polished product.
60 Minutes Obeys in Advance - Democracy Docket
I tuned in to watch Norah O’Donnell interview Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Over the span of 40 minutes, I sat in disbelief as Trump was asked a series of softball questions with little follow-up.Democracy Docket
EU in last-minute talks to set new climate goal for COP30
EU climate ministers will make a last-ditch attempt to pass a new climate change target on Tuesday, in an effort to avoid going to the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil empty-handed.Countries including China, Britain and Australia have already submitted new climate targets ahead of COP30.
The draft compromise ministers will discuss, seen by Reuters, includes a clause demanded by France allowing a weakening of the 2040 goal in future, if it becomes clear EU forests are not absorbing enough CO2 to meet it.
Brussels has also vowed to change other measures to attempt to win buy-in for the climate goal. These include controlling prices in an upcoming carbon market and considering weakening its 2035 combustion engine ban as requested by Germany.
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IOF murder Palestinian adolescent in West Bank
[Neocolonial] forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian overnight into Friday during clashes in the village of Silwad, north east of Ramallah in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.Eyewitnesses told Palestinian news agency Wafa that the boy, Yamin Samed Hamed, was seriously wounded, but that soldiers prevented an ambulance from evacuating him for an extended period of time. He was left on the ground, and only later did the force allow him to receive treatment. He was declared dead at the hospital.
According to Palestinian sources, the clashes erupted when soldiers entered the village. They said the forces used tear gas, stun grenades and live fire.
The Israeli military has yet to issue a response.
Two weeks ago, IDF soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old Muhammad al-Hallaq in the village of al-Rihiya, south of Hebron. Eyewitnesses told Haaretz that he was shot while playing next to the village's school.
Last month, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that soldiers had killed 14-year-old Mohammed Alwana and Islam Majarmi in the Jenin refugee camp and wounded three others, aged 12, 17 and 22.
Eyewitnesses told Wafa that soldiers had infiltrated the camp, encountered a group of residents, shot live fire at them, arrested a handful of people and set fire to a home.
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Settlers filmed torturing lambs in a Palestinian-owned pen in the West Bank
[…] settlers were filmed this week torturing lambs in a Palestinian-owned pen in the southern West Bank.A video from a security camera filmed on Monday shows nine masked men with clubs entering the yard of the Dramin family, on the outskirts of the village of Samu in the South Hebron Hills.
The video shows the settlers shattering windshields and torching harvests, as three of the men enter the sheep pen and beat lambs in front of the ewes. The security camera filmed one of the settlers throwing lambs onto the floor, throwing concrete blocks at them and beating them, as another settler hit the others. Six lambs were killed, and four others were severely injured.
Human rights activists say that at the start of the war, an illegal outpost was built near Samu and that its settlers assaulted Palestinians living nearby. The activists say that this isn't the first time that the Dramin family's house has been attacked, but this is the most serious incident. In addition to injuring the sheep, the attackers broke the house's windows and pepper-sprayed the inside. They fled when a Palestinian car arrived.
Activists Ben Zion Eshel and Amir Pinsky, who help defend Palestinians in the Jordan Valley from settler attacks on behalf of the human rights group Looking the Occupation in the Eyes, said that they have seen worsening settler violence against animals.
They cited throwing stones at dogs and recently filmed Hilltop Youth activists beating dogs with clubs in the Jordan Valley. They said that there are testimonies of settlers running over sheep and other farm animals and using drones to chase flocks, resulting in cases of ewes miscarrying.
Eshel and Pinsky added that they have noticed over the past two years an increase in cases of settlers placing sheep and donkey carcasses at the entrances to Palestinian communities in Area C to drive the residents away.
They said that a flock of sheep was stolen and slaughtered in Ein al-Hilweh in the Jordan Valley. "Flocks are poisoned. Poisoned chicken heads that kill dogs and wild animals, such as foxes, are scattered around," Eshel said.
Eshel and Pinsky added that settlers' use of their flocks to drive Palestinians from the land is animal abuse. "This is abuse in itself, and it is carried out to harass Palestinian communities," Pinsky said. "They travel great distances with their flocks just to reach Palestinian homes, and their flocks can't handle it. Lambs die in the pasture."
The Israel Police issued a statement on the filmed abuse, saying that forces from the IDF, Border Police and Shin Bet security service found one of the cars the suspects used in the act and handed it to the police investigators. "Extensive actions and investigations are underway to locate them, including exhausting all testimonies and evidence collected on the scene," the police said.
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There is a meme trend of finding inexistent references to people and characters in unrelated stuff, and then pointing it out as a clickbait YouTube thumbnail.
In this meme, I came across the verb "trumps" and interpreted it as the plural of the name "Trump", and complemented it with red arrows and fake PNGs of boomer emojis.
Example of this kind of meme from Reddit: reddit.com/r/tf2shitposterclub…
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Neil Young + Promise Of The Real - The Monsanto Years (2015)
Preceduto da feroci critiche ma anche da recensioni positive, il nuovo album di Neil Young non è certo un disco da buttare. L’inglese Mojo, che dà quattro stelle a cani e porci, gli affibbia uno striminzito due e mezzo, altri addirittura due stelle... Leggi e ascolta...
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real - The Monsanto Years (2015)
Preceduto da feroci critiche ma anche da recensioni positive, il nuovo album di Neil Young non è certo un disco da buttare. L’inglese Mojo, che dà quattro stelle a cani e porci, gli affibbia uno striminzito due e mezzo, altri addirittura due stelle. Onestamente, dopo averlo ascoltato abbastanza velocemente (ne siamo venuti in possesso quando il numero di Luglio era già chiuso), non possiamo definire questo disco brutto, assolutamente no. Ci sono almeno quattro canzoni sopra la media, quindi belle e, anche se qualcuna ha un titolo bizzarro (su tutte A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop) il mio giudizio è decisamente positivo... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/07…
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Neil Young + Promise Of The Real - The Monsanto Years (2015)
di Paolo Carù Preceduto da feroci critiche ma anche da recensioni positive, il nuovo album di Neil Young non è certo un disco da buttar...Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)
The Golden Age of Protest Is Now
Until recently, if you had asked us to guess whether a mass movement to protect democracy is growing in the United States, we would have expressed skepticism. We’ve watched law firms and universities capitulate, heard little from business leaders, bemoaned the Democrats’ geriatric leadership, and nodded along to many of our friends telling us they’ve needed to stop following the news to maintain their mental health. “News avoidance” has reached an all-time high, with some 42 percent of Americans reporting that they “sometimes or often avoid the news.”We study social change, and even we were surprised to learn that, by some estimates, six of the eight largest protests in U.S. history have taken place since 2017. While careful counts are not yet available, the No Kings marches this past Saturday will almost surely have earned a top spot on the list. In Philadelphia alone, early estimates were that more than 20,000 people would join the protest downtown, with dozens of parallel marches planned in surrounding counties.
The Golden Age of Protest Is Now
Collective action in the U.S. is surging. Recognizing our shared momentum may be key to saving democracy.The MIT Press Reader
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IOF continue to strike Gaza and block entry of tents despite truce
Compounding the targeted attacks and demolitions of Gaza's buildings are restrictions meted out by Israeli authorities on the entry of various essential aid, including materials for tents.Amjad al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, noted that most of the tents used by the displaced people are worn out and do not meet the minimum requirements for shelter.
There is an urgent need for about 300,000 new tents before the arrival of winter in order to avoid an imminent humanitarian and environmental disaster, he stressed.
According to Thawabta, the ceasefire deal stipulated the introduction of more than 300,000 tents and mobile homes to shelter the over 288,000 displaced Palestinian families.
But Thawabta added that Israel did not adhere to the stipulations regarding the shelters as well as other necessities that should have entered the blockaded strip, including essential food, medicine, heavy machinery and fuel.
Between the start of the ceasefire and the end of October, only 3,203 trucks entered out of the stipulated 13,200.
On a daily basis, an average of only 145 commercial and aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip, the media office noted, while the original plan required the entry of at least 600 trucks per day.
The upcoming winter is set to worsen the already dire situation in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians face starvation, displacement and disease.
The Gaza Media Office stated that Israel has dropped over 200,000 tonnes of bombs during the past two years, leaving more than 90 percent of the enclave destroyed.
Much of Gaza's infrastructure — including homes, schools, universities, mosques, churches, public spaces and health centres — has been reduced to rubble.
In late October, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (Unrwa) urged that "humanitarian access must be restored" as colder temperatures are expected.
"As winter approaches in Gaza, people are increasingly in need of shelter and warmth," Unrwa posted on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Israel continues to strike Gaza and block entry of tents despite truce deal
The Israeli army has continued to attack various areas across the Gaza Strip, as troops carry out demolitions of buildings despite the lack of shelters amid dropping temperatures.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400 even more obscure ones are being developed and tested. Many of these smaller editions have been swamped with automatically translated content as AI has become increasingly accessible. Volunteers working on four African languages, for instance, estimated to MIT Technology Review that between 40% and 60% of articles in their Wikipedia editions were uncorrected machine translations. And after auditing the Wikipedia edition in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language close to Greenlandic that’s spoken in Canada, MIT Technology Review estimates that more than two-thirds of pages containing more than several sentences feature portions created this way.This is beginning to cause a wicked problem. AI systems, from Google Translate to ChatGPT, learn to “speak” new languages by scraping huge quantities of text from the internet. Wikipedia is sometimes the largest source of online linguistic data for languages with few speakers—so any errors on those pages, grammatical or otherwise, can poison the wells that AI is expected to draw from. That can make the models’ translation of these languages particularly error-prone, which creates a sort of linguistic doom loop as people continue to add more and more poorly translated Wikipedia pages using those tools, and AI models continue to train from poorly translated pages. It’s a complicated problem, but it boils down to a simple concept: Garbage in, garbage out.
“These models are built on raw data,” says Kevin Scannell, a former professor of computer science at Saint Louis University who now builds computer software tailored for endangered languages. “They will try and learn everything about a language from scratch. There is no other input. There are no grammar books. There are no dictionaries. There is nothing other than the text that is inputted.”
There isn’t perfect data on the scale of this problem, particularly because a lot of AI training data is kept confidential and the field continues to evolve rapidly. But back in 2020, Wikipedia was estimated to make up more than half the training data that was fed into AI models translating some languages spoken by millions across Africa, including Malagasy, Yoruba, and Shona. In 2022, a research team from Germany that looked into what data could be obtained by online scraping even found that Wikipedia was the sole easily accessible source of online linguistic data for 27 under-resourced languages.
This could have significant repercussions in cases where Wikipedia is poorly written—potentially pushing the most vulnerable languages on Earth toward the precipice as future generations begin to turn away from them.
“Wikipedia will be reflected in the AI models for these languages,” says Trond Trosterud, a computational linguist at the University of Tromsø in Norway, who has been raising the alarm about the potentially harmful outcomes of badly run Wikipedia editions for years. “I find it hard to imagine it will not have consequences. And, of course, the more dominant position that Wikipedia has, the worse it will be.”
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?Jacob Judah (MIT Technology Review)
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As long as none of the victims is a White cishet capitalist man, who cares?
An army massacring hundreds of thousands of non-Whites = yawn.
Somebody murdering one White cishet capitalist man (e.g. Charlie Kirk) = most important event in all of history.
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:
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Casio nano-sizes the rugged G-Shock into full-functioning finger watch
Following up on the 50th anniversary ring watch Casio introduced last year, the new G-Shock Nano adds a beefier build with 200-m water resistance, shock resistance and a working mini-strap. This one is truly a G-Shock shrunken down to finger size.C.C. Weiss (New Atlas)
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The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
Do you and your human family have interest in sharing an exciting IRL experience supporting your [team of choice] with other human fans at The Big Game? In that case, don the chosen color of your [team of choice] and head to the local [iconic stadium]; Ticketmaster has exciting ticket deals, and soon you and your human family can look as happy and excited as these virtual avatars:
Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads are a glimpse at the future of social media advertising, a harbinger of system that Mark Zuckerberg described last week in a Meta earnings call. This future is one where AI is used both for ad targeting and for ad generation; eventually ads are going to be hyperpersonalized to individual users, further siloing the social media experience: "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else that’s necessary, including generating video or different types of creative that might resonate with different people that are personalized in different ways, finding who the right customers are,” Zuckerberg said.
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
Do you and your human family have interest in sharing an exciting IRL experience supporting your [team of choice] with other human fans at The Big Game? In that case, don the chosen color of your [team of choice] and head to the local [iconic stadium]; Ticketmaster has exciting ticket deals, and soon you and your human family can look as happy and excited as these virtual avatars:
Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads are a glimpse at the future of social media advertising, a harbinger of system that Mark Zuckerberg described last week in a Meta earnings call. This future is one where AI is used both for ad targeting and for ad generation; eventually ads are going to be hyperpersonalized to individual users, further siloing the social media experience: "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else that’s necessary, including generating video or different types of creative that might resonate with different people that are personalized in different ways, finding who the right customers are,” Zuckerberg said.
The Ticketmaster example you see above is rudimentary and crude, but everything we've seen over the last few months suggests that the real way Meta is bringing in revenue with AI is not through its consumer-facing products but with AI ad creation and targeting products for advertisers that allows them to create many different versions of any given ad and then to show that ad only to people it is likely to be effective on.
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Do you work in the advertising industry and have any insight into how generative AI is changing ad creative and targeting? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at jason.404. Otherwise, send me an email at jason@404media.co.Ticketmaster, in this case, has has invented several virtual families whose football team allegiances change presumably based on a series of demographic, geographic, and behavioral factors that would cause you to be targeted by one of its ads. I found these ads after I was targeted by one suggesting I join this ethnically ambiguous, dead-eyed family of generic blue hat wearers at the World Series to root on, I guess, the Dodgers. I looked Ticketmaster up in Facebook’s ad library and found that it is running a series of clearly AI-generated ads, many of which use the same templates and taglines.
“There’s nothing like a sea of gold. See Vanderbilt football live and in color.” “There’s nothing like a sea of red. See USC football live and in color.” “There’s nothing like a sea of maize. See Michigan football live and in color,” and so on and so forth. There are a couple dozen of these ads for college football, and a few others that use different AI-generated people. My favorite is this one, which features the back of AI people’s heads standing and cheering at other fans and not facing where the game or field would be.
As AI slop goes, this is relatively tame fare, but it is notable that a company as big as Ticketmaster is using generative AI for its Facebook ads. It is also an instructive example that shows a big reason why Facebook and Google are bringing in so much revenue right now, and highlights the fact that social media is not so slowly being completely drowned in low-effort AI content and ads.Here's why you're seeing more AI ads on social media, and why Meta and its advertising clients seem intent on making this the future of advertising.
- Generative AI creative material is cheap: The effort and cost required to make this series of ads is incredibly low. Generating something like this is easy and, at most, requires just a small amount of human prompting and touchup after it is generated. But most importantly, Ticketmaster doesn’t have to worry about paying human models or photographers, does not have to worry about licensing stock photos, and, notably, there are no logos or actual places highlighted in any of these ads. There are no players, no teams, just the evocation of such. There is no need to get permission from or pay for logo licensing (this reminds me of a Wheaties box of Cal Ripken that I got as a kid in the immediate aftermath of him breaking the 2131 consecutive games record. In the boxes released immediately, he was wearing only a black t-shirt and a black helmet. A few days later, after General Mills presumably secured the rights to use Orioles logos, they started selling the same box with his Orioles jersey and helmet on them).
- Less money on creative means more budget for spend, and more varieties of ads: I’ve written about this before, but a big trend in advertising right now is AI-powered ad creative trial and error. Using AI, it is now possible to make an essentially endless number of different variations of a single ad that uses slightly different language, slightly different images, slightly different calls to actions, and different links. AI targeting also means that “successful” variations of ads will essentially automatically find the audience that they’re supposed to. This means that companies can just flood social media with zillions of variations of low-effort AI ads, put their “spend” (their ad budget) into the versions that perform best, and let the targeting algorithms do the rest. AI in this case is a scaling tactic. There is no need to spend tons of time, money, and human resources refining ad copy and designing thoughtful, clever, funny, charming, or eye-catching ads. You can simply publish tons of different versions of low-effort bullshit, and largely people will only see the ones that perform well.
- This is Meta’s business model now: Meta’s user-facing commercial generative AI tools are pretty embarrassing and in my limited experience its chatbot and image and video generation tools are more rudimentary than OpenAI’s, Google’s, and other popular AI companies’ tools. There is nothing to suggest that Meta is making any real progress on Mark Zuckerberg’s apparent goal of “superintelligence.” But its AI and machine learning-powered ad targeting and ad variation tools seem to be very successful and are resulting in companies spending way more money on ads, many of which look terrible to me but which are apparently quite successful. Meta announced its third quarter earnings on Wednesday, and in its earnings call, it highlighted both Advantage+ and Andromeda, two AI advertising products that do what I described in the bullet above.
Advantage+ is its advertiser-facing AI ad optimization platform which lets advertisers optimize targeting, but also lets them use generative AI to create a bunch of variations of ads: “Advantage+ creative generates ad variations so they are personalized to each individual viewer in your audience, based on what each person might respond to,” the company advertises.
“Within our Advantage+ creative suite, the number of advertisers using at least one of our video generation features was up 20% versus the prior quarter as adoption of image animation and video expansion continues to scale. We’ve also added more generative AI features to make it easier for advertisers to optimize their ad creatives and drive increased performance. In Q3, we introduced AI-generated music so advertisers can have music generated for their ad that aligns with the tone and message of the creative,” Meta said in its third quarter earnings report.
Susan Li, Meta's CFO, said "now advertisers running sales, app or lead campaigns have end-to-end automation turned on from the beginning, allowing our systems to look across our platform to optimize performance by automatically choosing criteria like who to show the ads to and where to show them."
Andromeda, meanwhile, is designed to “supercharge Advantage+ automation with the next-gen personalized ads retrieval engine.” It is basically a machine learning-powered ad targeting tool, which helps the platform determine which ad, and which variation of an ad, to show a specific user: “Andromeda significantly enhances Meta’s ads system by enabling the integration of AI that optimizes and improves personalization capabilities at the retrieval stage and improves return on ad spend,” the company explains.
This is all going toward a place where Meta itself is delivering hyper personalized, generative AI slop ads for each individual user. In the Meta earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg described exactly this future: “Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else that’s necessary, including generating video or different types of creative that might resonate with different people that are personalized in different ways, finding who the right customers are.”
I don’t know if Ticketmaster used Advantage+ for this ad campaign, or if this ad campaign is successful (Ticketmaster did not respond to a request for comment). But the tactics being deployed here are an early version of what Zuckerberg is describing, and what is obviously happening to social media right now.
Meta Andromeda: Supercharging Advantage+ automation with the next-gen personalized ads retrieval engine - Engineering at Meta
Andromeda is Meta’s proprietary machine learning (ML) system design for retrieval in ad recommendation focused on delivering a step-function improvement in value to our advertisers and people. Thi…Neeraj Bhatia (Meta)
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MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS
Netflix, Disney & Crunchyroll Named Following Mass Anime Streaming Crackdown [Edit: better source]
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Global Piracy Injunction Targets VidSrc Domains, Hydra Regenerates in Russia * TorrentFreak
An attempt to quickly suspend a dozen or so VidSrc domains aimed to do significant damage, but the site lives on thanks to a backup plan.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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It's ironic that crunchyroll is here.
They should understand more than anyone that they need to offer a good service, and piracy would be less of an issue.
[CW: meat] Chinese astronauts are now grilling in space
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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
Cresce la resistenza ai deep fake italiani
‘I felt violated’: the Italian women taking on porn sites over doctored images
Giorgia Meloni, Sophia Loren and writer Francesca Barra among prominent figures to have ‘nudified’ photos circulated onlineAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
Quanto corre uno pneumatico alle prese con la duna più elevata dell'America Meridionale - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Quanto corre uno pneumatico alle prese con la duna più elevata dell'America Meridionale - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Quando minacciato da un predatore, il ragno delle dune Carparachne aureoflava raccoglie le sue zampe attorno al corpo ed effettua un tuffo carpiato in avanti, dando inizio a una valanga che vede soltanto se stesso come protagonista.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Theater Review | In ‘Kyoto,’ Seeking Consensus to Save the Earth but Veering Off Course
At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.
Plusoj kaj minusoj en la nova strategia plano
La nova strategia plano de UEA estas facile superrigardebla kaj listigas kvin klarajn celojn por la proksima jaro. Tamen entute dek kvin “strategiaj” celoj por la sekvaj jaroj estas tro multe, des pli ke ne klaras, kio estas prioritata kaj kiu respondecas pri plenumo, opinias Tim Owen. Francisco Javier Moleón volus ke UEA konsideru, kial esperantistoj ne vidas kialon aliĝi al la asocio, dum Osmo Buller miras ke la prezidanto de UEA indikis sin mem kiel la aŭtoron de la plano.
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Two courts urge ICE to halt deportation of man wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years
Legal resident ‘Subu’ Vedam being held in short-term center after getting murder conviction overturned earlier this year
Two different courts have called on immigration officials to halt deportation of a Pennsylvania man who spent more than 40 years in prison for a murder conviction that was recently overturned.
Subramanyam Vedam, 64, was brought to the United States by his parents when he was nine months old. Vedam is a legal permanent resident, and according to his lawyer, had his citizenship application accepted prior to his arrest in 1982. He is known by his relatives as “Subu”, per the Associated Press.
He is currently being held in a short-term center in Alexandria, Louisiana, which is equipped with an airstrip for deportations.
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What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation?
I found this article from earlier this year: blog.discourse.org/2025/04/dis…
However, I haven't come across that much content from Discourse platforms over here on Lemmy/Piefed. Is there more work to do with the plugins, or should we work with organizations running Discourse to help them connect with us?
For example, the threadiverse communities for OpenStreetMaps is relatively small, and being able to see / contribute to community.openstreetmap.org would be amazing.
Discourse and the Fediverse!
Two years ago, we started working on a plugin that brings Discourse and the Fediverse closer together. Discourse communities are online spaces that facilitate open collaboration and communication.Penar Musaraj (Discourse)
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Re: What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation?
The Discourse ActivityPub plugin is developed by a sole developer but I believe it is ready for use. I also believe he is still working on the plugin so that's positive news.
Federation with Discourse forums is tricky, it's been difficult getting NodeBB to work reliably with Discourse.
Are you able to load Discourse categories in Lemmy?
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Trial starts for DC man charged with throwing sandwich at federal agent
Trial starts for DC man charged with throwing sandwich at federal agent
A video that went viral captured Sean Charles Dunn hurling his sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclubGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Wrist-Cut Transformation Subculture ✡ Menhera-chan - Capitolo 9
A parte scoprire che i suoi voti in educazione fisica sono scarsi, Momoka a scuola scopre di avere un ammiratore segreto...
'Not a Freudian slip': Analyst astonished by Trump's 'confession'
'Not a Freudian slip': Analyst astonished by Trump's 'confession'
President Donald Trump just made an astonishing "confession" about pardons, an analyst flagged Monday.Nicole Charky-Chami (Raw Story)
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how to check if One-Click-Hoster download links are online/offline without jdownloader?
Hi, how to check if One-Click-Hoster download links are online/offline without jdownloader? Any tool or website?
Thanks for any help 😀
China freezes chip chemistry to slash defects by 99 per cent
I wish they linked a source on this, but overall seems like a breakthrough.
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way to stop chips from going pear-shaped during manufacture by literally freezing the process mid-flow.According to researchers at Peking University, Tsinghua, and HKU, the new method can slash lithography defects by a 99 per cent.
One of the trickiest bits of making semiconductors is photolithography, where light is used to “print” circuits onto silicon wafers. It’s rather like developing a microscopic photograph, except it costs billions and breaks more often.
The process involves spreading a photoresist, a light-sensitive goo, over the wafer. Ultraviolet light then shines through a mask that carries the circuit pattern, and the exposed material is chemically developed so some bits dissolve while others stay put. What remains forms the stencil for the later steps, like etching the metal or silicon layers.
That’s all well and good until the photoresist starts misbehaving. During development, dissolved material sometimes clumps together into microscopic particles that can stick back onto the wafer. At five-nanometre or smaller nodes, even a 30-nanometre blob can ruin a circuit.
China freezes chip chemistry to slash defects by 99 per cent
Cryogenic trick gives Beijing’s fabs a leg-up Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way to stop chips from going pear-shaped during manufacture by literally freezing the process mid-flow.Nick Farrell (Fudzilla)
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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
This month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors
Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors - Inside Climate News
New cases seeking compensation for loss and damage have been launched against fossil fuel and cement companies in the U.K. and Germany on behalf of people in the Philippines and Pakistan who suffered through devastating typhoons and floods.Inside Climate News
NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space
They Face $1 Million in Fines—for Someone Else's Code Violations
California couple faces $1 million in fines for someone else's code violations
Humboldt County, California's sketchy code enforcement scheme piles ruinous fines on innocent people and sets them up to lose.Billy Binion (Reason Magazine)
Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint
"I went looking for manufactured outrage and found it!"
You may be disappointed if you go looking for Google’s open Gemma AI model in AI Studio today. Google announced late on Friday that it was pulling Gemma from the platform, but it was vague about the reasoning. The abrupt change appears to be tied to a letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who claims the Gemma model generated false accusations of sexual misconduct against her.Blackburn published her letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday, just hours before the company announced the change to Gemma availability. She demanded Google explain how the model could fail in this way, tying the situation to ongoing hearings that accuse Google and others of creating bots that defame conservatives.
At the hearing, Google’s Markham Erickson explained that AI hallucinations are a widespread and known issue in generative AI, and Google does the best it can to mitigate the impact of such mistakes. Although no AI firm has managed to eliminate hallucinations, Google’s Gemini for Home has been particularly hallucination-happy in our testing.
Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint
Sen. Marsha Blackburn says Gemma concocted sexual misconduct allegations against her.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
lunedì lunatico ma per motivi più soliti che mai (questi lunedì stanno diventando sempre più preoccupanti per me)
Oggi è stato lunedì, e purtroppo, a quanto pare, è ormai pure novembre (…aiuto). Insomma, non solo octtobre è finito, ma oggi è proprio quel classico lunedì stereotipicamente palloso, per me… E in realtà anche lo scorso, e forse vagamente quello ancora prima (o forse quello no, non ricordo bene, eccetto il dettaglio che stavo […]
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lunedì lunatico ma per motivi più soliti che mai (questi lunedì stanno diventando sempre più preoccupanti per me) - fritto misto di octospacc
Oggi è stato lunedì, e purtroppo, a quanto pare, è ormai pure novembre (...aiuto). Insomma, non solo octtobre è finito, ma oggi è proprio quel classico lunminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
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