Ukraine jails priest for supporting Russia
Ukraine jails priest for supporting Russia
Kiev has jailed a priest over alleged pro-Russia remarks as part of a widening crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox ChurchRT
Bar owner offering free beers to people who help ICE says he’s getting death threats
Mark Fitzpatrick, proprietor of the Old Station Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, says ‘liberals’ have threatened to kill him and burn down his business over promotion to encourage support for migrant crackdown
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US | ICEBlock developer sues Trump administration over App Store removal
‘We promised you we would fight back.’
Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…
ICEBlock developer sues Trump administration over App Store removal
ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron is suing Pam Bondi, Kirsti Noem, and other federal officials over Apple’s removal of the app.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Sudanese Paramilitary Drone Strikes Kindergarten, Killing Dozens of Children
UN officials say that they believe at least 60,000 people have been killed in Sudan in just the past few weeks.
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Israeli police swap UN flag for Israeli flag during raid on UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem
Israeli police removed the United Nations flag from the compound of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem and raised the Israeli flag in its place, the agency’s commissioner-general said Monday, Anadolu reports.
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Donald Trump's Border Patrol weapons spending skyrockets
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-chemical-less-lethal-weapons-pepper-spray-dhs-ice-cbp-11150372
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rima lo scontro a colpi di bastoni, poi lo scontro verbale in ospedale tra i parenti dei giovani coinvolti. È successo a Merano, dove i carabinieri della stazione di Postal hanno denunciato 6 persone
I militari sono intervenuti nei pressi del poligono per la segnalazione di una lite; sul posto hanno trovato i due giovani che si stavano ancora colpendo con bastoni in plastica e ferro, entrambi con vistose ferite sanguinanti. Disarmati e bloccati, i due sono stati trasportati all'ospedale Tappeiner di Merano. Per entrambi è scattata la denuncia per lesioni personali aggravate e porto abusivo di armi
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Merano: loro si prendono a bastonate, la rissa la continuano i parenti in ospedale
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Loro si prendono a bastonate, la rissa la continuano i parenti in ospedale
Le indagini dei carabinieri hanno permesso di scoprire i motivi della faida sfociata in ferite sanguinanti. E che erano presenti altre quattro persone, fuggite...Redazione Cronaca (TrentoToday)
Tarquinia, tomba dei Pigmei: inaugurazione del nuovo sistema di accesso l’11 dicembre, ore 11
L’Associazione Amici delle Tombe di Tarquinia, in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per la provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria meridionale, in occasione delle iniziative per la valorizzazione della Necropoli etrusca di Tarquinia, ha organizzato per giovedì 11 dicembre prossimo, l’inaugurazione del nuovo sistema di accesso alla straordinaria Tomba dei Pigmei, realizzato grazie al generoso contributo della Socia Federica Wiel Marin e, fino ad oggi, difficilmente accessibile a causa del lungo e ripido dromos.
L’appuntamento è alle ore 11 al parcheggio della Tomba dei Tori.
L’ingresso sarà contingentato e gratuito, senza obbligo di prenotazione.
Alla fine è previsto anche un brindisi per festeggiare l’evento: un importante intervento volto a garantire una maggiore fruibilità e accessibilità di un sito così prestigioso.
Tarquinia, tomba dei Pigmei: inaugurazione del nuovo sistema di accesso l’11 dicembre, ore 11 - Occhioviterbese
L’Associazione Amici delle Tombe di Tarquinia, in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per la provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria meridionale, in occasione delle iniziative per la valorizzazione della Necropoli etrusca di Tarquinia, ha organizzato p…Occhioviterbese
Pietramelara (CE) – Stadio e misteri: al Leonardo i tifosi ospiti sistemati in “gabbia per polli”. E i lavori di adeguamento?
Pietramelara – Stadio e misteri: al Leonardo i tifosi ospiti sistemati in “gabbia per polli”. E i lavori di adeguamento?
Pietramelara – “… Il problema è che si annuncia in pompa magna l'apertura di uno "stadio" ristrutturato e invece ospitate i tifosi ospiti in un recinto per galline... Almeno fateci vedere la partita.La redazione (PaeseNews quotidiano di Terra di Lavoro online)
Gondolieri sub raccolgono 18 quintali di rifiuti a Venezia
Gondolieri sub raccolgono 18 quintali di rifiuti a Venezia - Notizie - Ansa.it
Record assoluto per i Gondolieri Sub, che questa mattina a Venezia hanno riportato alla luce 18 quintali di rifiuti, ripulendo i fondali del rio di Santa Marta-Santa Maria Maggiore.. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Il cantore del Polesine, omaggio a Gian Antonio Cibotto
Il cantore del Polesine, omaggio a Gian Antonio Cibotto - Libri - Ansa.it
Il devastante straripamento del Po che nel 1951 provocò nelle province di Rovigo e Vicenza un centinaio di morti e danni per 300 miliardi si rivelò un banco di prova decisivo per quel giovane volontario impegnato nei soccorsi: dal diario dell'esperie…Agenzia ANSA
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Mike Johnson strips military IVF coverage from defense bill – report
A massive defense policy bill, revealed by US lawmakers on Sunday, does not include a provision that would have provided broad healthcare coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF) for active-duty members of the military, despite Donald Trump’s pledge to strengthen access to the procedure.
Both the House and Senate previously approved the provision, which was added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as an amendment earlier this year. But Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House and a diehard anti-abortion Republican, worked behind the scenes to strip the provision from the new version of the NDAA, MS NOW reported last week.
Mike Johnson strips military IVF coverage from defense bill – report
House speaker worked behind the scenes to strip provision after it was added as an amendment earlier this yearCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
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Shock Poll: 82% Of Brits Want Israel Removed From Eurovision
A new poll suggests that 82% Of British people want Israel to be removed from the Eurovision Song Contest.
The country’s continued involvement with the Song Contest is the subject of controversy, with Russia having been removed following its invasion of Ukraine.
The poll was pieced together by Pablo O’Hana, and utilised a survey sample of 1093, done in a nationally representative manner.
A noted Eurovision fan himself, Pablo O’Hana adds: “Eurovision isn’t just about songs and staging – it’s about values. If Israel is permitted to compete, the people of Britain believe we should walk away. The BBC must find its backbone before walking into that meeting today.”
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Shock Poll: 82% Of Brits Want Israel Removed From Eurovision
A new poll suggests that 82% Of British people want Israel to be removed from the Eurovision Song Contest.
The country’s continued involvement with the Song Contest is the subject of controversy, with Russia having been removed following its invasion of Ukraine.
The poll was pieced together by Pablo O’Hana, and utilised a survey sample of 1093, done in a nationally representative manner.
A noted Eurovision fan himself, Pablo O’Hana adds: “Eurovision isn’t just about songs and staging – it’s about values. If Israel is permitted to compete, the people of Britain believe we should walk away. The BBC must find its backbone before walking into that meeting today.”
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/shock-poll-82-of-brits-was-israel-removed-from-eurovision/
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Australian here. IDK much about the feelings of Brits.
How could the populace feel so strongly about this divisive issue, while apparently such strong support for Farage exists, when I presume he would be pro-Israel?
... and seeing that I'm here, I have a bonus question: if Brits generally acknowledge that Brexit was a terrible idea, why isn't Farage tarnished by his ardent support for it?
Why were the people in Albany, Georgia, so sick, when the town’s most powerful institution was a hospital?
Sick in a Hospital Town
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?ProPublica
What is that? It looks interesting but it also might be an AI image of something that doesn't exists
Edit: what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet? I thought it was some kind of rugged electronic thing
If you're asking in earnest:
EDC - "Essential daily carry," just a loosely defined but also self-explanatory term. My keys are part of my EDC, so is my wallet and my pocket knife, because I use them every day so I carry them with me.
Over the past few years, the EDC community has formed a little cottage industry where things aren't EDC because they're carried every day, they're EDC because they say they are and they're designed to be that way. The term "EDC" evolved then into describing a specific type of object. Tactical here is just a marketing term here to appeal to some kind of utility beyond a normal wallet
Hope this helps. Can't believe I wrote all that on my lunch break about an obviously AI picture
PalestinaHackathon 10 januari Göteborg
10 januari 2026 kl 11-18, Norra Hamngatan 14 Göteborg
Välkommen på en heldag där vi avslöjar kopplingar mellan svenska aktörer och folkmordet i Palestina. Det finns uppgifter för dig som vill koda, skriva, gräva fram info eller designa. Vi kommer att analysera data, researcha, designa visualiseringar och andra uppgifter som du kan hitta på. Tillsammans tar vi fram underlag för artiklar, material till kampanjer eller publicerar saker direkt.
Det kommer finnas lite öl och pizza, ta gärna med din överblivna glögg eller nåt annat du vill bjuda på.
Vi som ordnar det här är journalist och IT-konsult. Senaste halvåret har vi samlat på oss dokument och data om svenska kopplingar till Israel som vi inte riktigt hinner gå igenom själva. Och vi tror att vi tillsammans kan få fram ännu mer genom att söka i datamängder, begära ut fler handlingar och visualisera data. Både du som har koll på det här och du som vill lära dig mer är välkommen.
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Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.
The intelligence gathering comes even as officials have released few details about the first arrests made last week as part of “Catahoula Crunch,” prompting calls for greater transparency from local officials who say they’ve been kept in the dark about virtually every aspect of the operation.
“Online opinions still remain mixed, with some supporting the operations while others are against them,” said a briefing circulated early Sunday to law enforcement. Earlier bulletins noted “a combination of groups urging the public to record ICE and Border Patrol” as well as “additional locations where agents can find immigrants.”
Russian troops liberate two communities in Ukraine operation over past day — top brass
Russian troops liberate two communities in Ukraine operation over past day — top brass
Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted more than 145 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reportedTASS
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Greek farmers rise up and the KKE stands by their side
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1232…
Photo: Eurokinissi The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has taken a clear, decisive position in support of the escalating struggle of poor farmers across the country.
With a series of on-site visits to the roadblocks in Larissa, Karditsa, Trikala, Tirnavos and other areas, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, conveyed the Party’s full solidarity and its commitment to stand at the side of those fighting for their survival.
During his meetings with farmers, Koutsoumbas underlined that the government bears full responsibility for the explosive situation in the countryside. It refuses to address the just demands of small farmers because it is structurally committed to the interests of big capital—large agricultural businesses, exporters, energy monopolies, shipowners, and all those who profit from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. As he stressed, the government subsidises industrial groups and big exporters, guarantees tax exemptions to shipowners, supports companies in renewable energy sources, and even allows them to charge exorbitant prices, while farmers are forced to pay out of pocket for their essentials.
In this framework, even the most elementary measures for farmers—such as reducing production costs, securing fair prices, or establishing real protective mechanisms—are dismissed as “fiscal impossibilities,” while billions are channelled to capitalist groups. The recent example of forcing livestock breeders to destroy their animals instead of ensuring vaccinations demonstrates, once more, that state policy sacrifices small producers for the benefit of monopoly interests.
The KKE places this entire confrontation within a broader class context. The struggle of the poor farmers concerns not only those who work the land in Thessaly or Macedonia; it affects workers, employees, and the popular strata across the country. High food prices—driven not by farmers but by wholesalers, middlemen, and state taxation—burden working-class households daily. The same political forces that crush farmers are those that attack labour rights, public services, wages, and social provisions.
For this reason, the KKE calls on the working class to actively support the farmers’ mobilisations. It denounces efforts by the government and the mass media to divide workers and farmers or to present the struggling rural poor as an obstacle to society. Such divisive tactics, alongside the deployment of riot police, chemicals, and arrests, aim to wear down the movement. The KKE demands the lifting of all repressive measures, the release of all detained demonstrators, and the immediate withdrawal of police forces from the roadblocks.
In his interventions, Koutsoumbas also linked the farmers’ struggle with Greece’s deeper political commitments to NATO and EU militarism. He pointed to the transformation of regions like Thessaly—especially Larissa—into strategic hubs for U.S. military drones and operations extending from the Balkans and Black Sea to the Middle East and the Red Sea. While the government spends more than €30 billion on armaments for NATO missions, it claims a lack of resources for essential support to farmers and workers. The KKE exposes this contradiction as proof that the state serves imperialist designs rather than the needs of the people.
Against this backdrop, the Party promotes a clear political perspective: no sustainable solution for poor farmers can be found within the current framework of capitalist development, EU policies, and market competition. Partial adjustments or temporary subsidies cannot reverse the relentless concentration of land and production in the hands of agribusiness. The KKE argues that the only real alternative is a radical shift—a people’s economy based on social ownership, central planning, and cooperatives of small producers integrated into a unified plan for food production, infrastructure, and supply. Such a system can guarantee low-cost inputs, stable and fair prices, rational use of resources, and the elimination of parasitic intermediaries.
The Party thus calls for escalation of the people’s struggle, not only to defend the urgent demands of the farmers but to build the political and social alliance capable of confronting monopoly power, breaking with the EU and NATO, and paving the way for workers’ and people’s power.
The KKE’s presence at the roadblocks, its intervention in Parliament, and its continuous activity across unions, associations, and popular organisations highlight a consistent line: the battle of the poor farmers is a battle of the entire working people. The Party urges both workers and farmers to strengthen their unity, reject any attempt at division, and continue the fight with confidence, determination, and a clear orientation toward the real solution—popular power and a socialist reconstruction of agriculture and the economy as a whole.
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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.youtube.com
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Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums | People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.
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asknostr.site - Questions show up across multiple nostr apps. Questions and answers can't be fully removed, people can't be permanently banned.
This is a frontend for the asknostr hashtag on nostr, a more decentralized fediverse alternative.
More questions are needed, if you can help. You can sign up instantly with no email address or anything, but it's hard for the user base to grow, because the questions are usually too focused on a small (honestly cultish) number of topics. I find that odd when anyone can ask anything.
The website has content filters to remove spam and stuff from its own display, but the nostr protocol is open source, and you can self host your own backups of removed posts and display them on your own website without losing any data. I also haven't heard of anyone getting a "ban" where all their past posts are filtered at once / they have to stop posting.
As someone who constantly gets banned from places like asklemmy for being a radical communist or whatever, it's especially important to me that there are no bans here, because it means I don't have to worry about admins repeatedly wiping out time I invest in helping people with answers to their questions.
Note: asknostr.site is still early in development and kinda buggy. Remember you can also post to it through the asknostr hashtag from other nostr apps if you want.
#asknostr - Q&A site powered by Nostr
This website is a Q&A community on top of Nostr. The purpose of the site is showcase the power of a decentralized social network protocol and allow easy content discovery.Asknostr.site
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- I'm not fiatjaf, my nostr will be better than fiatjaf's
- Idk where fiatjaf said that. Where?
- Not being banned is the foundational aspect for me
Netflix CEO made a visit to the White House before buying Warner Bros.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos met with Donald Trump to try and win him over ahead of the bidding war for Warner Bros.
- ‘Rush Hour 4’ revived after Trump urged Paramount Skydance to resurrect franchise: Reports
- “Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert’s Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger
“Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert’s Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger
The top-ranked show on late-night television, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has been canceled, just days after Colbert skewered Paramount, the parent company of CBS, for settling a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump.Democracy Now!
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in $82.7 Billion Deal
The streaming giant's proposal includes a $5.8 billion breakup fee and promises to maintain Warner Bros. current operations, "including theatrical releases." Theater owners are already speaking out.Georg Szalai (The Hollywood Reporter)
Democratic governors say the party's midterm strategy must focus on voters' pocketbook concerns
From the playbook of no shit sherlock.
Of course that's not what ineffective democratic leadership will do.
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Fish hook theory
Left–right political spectrum - ProleWiki
The left–right political spectrum is a diagram intended to categorize political ideologies in 3 distinct categories: left wing, right wing and centrist. The model...ProleWiki
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“Trump’s not their Daddy any more.” Russian paper on Europe, over new US national security strategy
Bag of words, have mercy on us
Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History)
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The thing I see LLMs more useful for is searching.
Imagine asking a robot where a book with certain contents is. I wish for that instead of a robot that does my homework, because I suck a little with searching.
I also saw them useful for science: putting all selected, finetuned scientific articles and papers into an LLM to see what it can do on a specific scientific field. So imagine my surprise seeing this is only doable for private associations, since there is nothing "good" on the public web.
The Supreme Court weighs Trump's bid to fire independent agency board members
The Trump administration’s push to expand control over independent federal agencies comes before a sympathetic Supreme Court that could overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members.
Lawyers for the administration are defending President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter without cause and calling on the court to jettison the unanimous 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor.
Arguments are taking place Monday.
The court’s six conservative justices already have signaled strong support for the administration’s position, over the objection of their three liberal colleagues, by allowing Slaughter and the board members of other agencies to be removed from their jobs even as their legal challenges continue.
Monday, December 8, 2025
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
Aftermath of the destruction of a residential building following a Russian attack with FAB-250 and drones in the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on Dec. 7, 2025. One person was killed and a 15-year-old boy was injured in the attacks. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Locals report explosions near Engels airfield, oil depot in Russia’s Saratov Oblast amid overnight drone attacks. Locals reported explosions near the Engels airfield and an oil depot amid overnight drone attacks in Russia’s Saratov and Rostov oblasts.
Kellogg claims Ukraine peace deal close, with Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant key sticking points. Trump envoy Keith Kellogg says a Ukraine peace deal is in its “final stretch” as talks focus on territorial concessions and security guarantees.
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Ukraine reports frontline gain in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as Russia advances in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Amid an ongoing Russian offensive, Ukraine has liberated a village in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState and Ukraine’s military reported.
Ukraine braces for ‘critical damage’ after Russian strike on Kharkiv Oblast dam threatens water supply. Russia attacked the Pechenihy dam on Dec. 7, threatening the reservoir that supplies water to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
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Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian drones score ‘successful hit’ on Russia’s Ryazan Oil Refinery, General Staff says
Ukrainian forces conducted another strike on Russia’s Ryazan Oil Refinery — one of the country’s largest — during the night of Dec. 5-6, the General Staff reported, marking the ninth attack on the facility this year.
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The Kyiv Independent has selected 10 of the best Ukraine-related books published in 2025. Curious readers should use this list as a guide on the path to discovering even more books from this and previous years, with the anticipation of what is to come in 2026 as well.
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Human costs of war
At least 2 killed, 19 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day. Russia launched five ballistic missiles and 241 drones at Ukraine overnight, the Air Force reported.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,180,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,080 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
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International response
Czech president says Europe may need to shoot down Russian aircraft, drones violating NATO airspace. Czech President Petr Pavel warned that repeated Russian airspace violations may eventually force Europe to shoot down Russian aircraft and drones, and said European countries must be ready to fight and win a war on their own if the U.S. is tied up elsewhere.
Russia, China hold joint anti-missile drills on Russian territory. China says recent joint anti-missile drills with Russia on Russian territory were routine and not aimed at any third party.
Son of president who shut down US corruption watchdogs slams Ukraine for corruption. Donald Trump Jr. warned on Dec. 7 that his father may walk away from Ukraine, parroting Kremlin propaganda about corruption in Kyiv driving Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
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Russia’s Africa Corps committing war crimes in Mali, AP reports. The AP spoke to 34 refugees who reported kidnappings, sexual assault, and civilian killings at the hands of the Africa Corps, a paramilitary group controlled by the Russian Defense Ministry.
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Meta planning massive cuts to Reality Labs metaverse division
Report: Meta planning massive cuts to Reality Labs metaverse division
The money it is saving is to be shifted over to its AI wearables businessAlex Forbes-Calvin (GamesIndustry.biz)
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The Moment Carter Opens The Shrine, 1924, Egypt
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Lazarus Group’s IT Workers Scheme Hacker Group Caught Live On Camera
Lazarus Group’s IT Workers Scheme Hacker Group Caught Live On Camera
Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima unit has been caught “live on camera” running its remote IT worker scheme, after researchers funneled its operatives into fake laptops that were actually long‑running sandbox environments under full surveillance.Guru Baran (CybersecurityNews)
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Advent Calendar 8
Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs
This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
© Keith C Marshall, 2018
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How I block all online ads
How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.troubled.engineer
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Below you'll find some other useful things, although they aren't exactly related to ad-blocking:
- Browser extensions against annoyances:
- Cookie popups: Consent-O-Matic
- Captchas: Buster
- I'd also suggest SponsorBlock — it has saved me so much time. There's also an option for TVs and streaming devices.
- If you're on iOS, consider turning off Background App Refresh. Only a few apps use Background App Refresh as Apple designed it, the majority are simply abusing it to get more data about you. If you don't have always-on VPN, you risk exposing your real IP.
- Patched apps are also a thing, and it's also possible to patch mobile apps yourself via ReVanced. While it's a decent option, it's also a security risk — I'm careful with it and don't use it with sensitive accounts.
TIL
GitHub - cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic: Browser extension that automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences
Browser extension that automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences - cavi-au/Consent-O-MaticGitHub
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
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This is a good read and makes a lot of great points. I think everyone in tech needs to understand the arguments here. The biggest thing for me is that LLMs are incredibly useful tools, but not in the way they are advertised. They are great for learning how existing code works, but shit at writing anything novel or innovative. From the article:
The past is a prison when you’re inventing the future.
In my opinion, if you're using LLMs to do anything but help you learn from the past, you're doing it wrong. LLMs cannot move you forward, and I think that may be the point.
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I've always said LLMs are fantastic rubber ducks. But taking said rubber duck and telling it to build something end to end or hitting tab without verifying anything is going to lead you to a world of hurt. the person doing it won't know the world of hurt is coming because they simply don't know any better. the company won't know the world of hurt is being built around them because like the vibe coder they dont' know any better.
then suddenly it's finished, pushed to production, and there's your world of hurt.
but hey I get paid to fix said world for them so keep on trucking I guess. at this rate I'll be retiring by the end of the next year.
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La riposte pathétique d’Elon Musk face à l’Europe
C’est un spectacle fascinant, presque shakespearien s’il n’était pas joué par des clowns numériques, qui se déroule actuellement entre la commission européenne et ce qu’il reste de Twitter. Vendredi dernier, l’Union Européenne a frappé fort avec une amende de 120 millions d’euros pour violation du Digital Services Act. La raison ? Des pratiques trompeuses, un manque de transparence crasse et, surtout, ce fameux système de certification payant qui permet à n’importe quel escroc d’acheter une crédibilité autrefois réservée aux comptes vérifiés.
Mais au lieu de faire profil bas, d’analyser ses erreurs ou même de prétendre s’améliorer, X a décidé de réagir avec la maturité d’un adolescent privé de sa console de jeu. La plateforme a contre-attaqué en bannissant le compte publicitaire de la commission européenne. Le motif invoqué ? Une supposée tromperie. L’ironie est telle qu’elle en deviendrait presque étouffante.
Une vengeance aussi mesquine qu’inutile
Commençons par le cœur de cette blague cosmique. Samedi, Nikita Bier, le responsable produit chez X (un poste qui doit nécessiter une consommation industrielle d’aspirine), a annoncé triomphalement avoir banni le compte publicitaire de la commission. Selon lui, l’institution aurait violé les règles de la plateforme.
Le problème ? Cette dernière ne dépense plus un centime en publicité sur X depuis 2023. C’est là toute la beauté de la stratégie d’Elon Musk. Pour punir une entité qui vient de vous coller une amende de 120 millions d’euros, vous décidez de lui interdire d’acheter des publicités… qu’elle n’achetait déjà plus.
Un porte-parole de la commission a d’ailleurs confirmé l’absurdité de la situation, rappelant que leur politique de non-publicité sur la plateforme est en place depuis plus d’un an, en raison précisément des inquiétudes liées à la désinformation. La suspension imposée par X est donc aussi effrayante qu’un pistolet à eau face à un incendie de forêt.
L’accusation de la faille imaginaire
Pour justifier cette décision grotesque, X a dû inventer une narration où la victime devient le bourreau. Nikita Bier accuse la commission d’avoir utilisé un « exploit » (une faille) dans l’outil de composition publicitaire de X. Selon lui, l’UE s’est connectée à un compte publicitaire dormant pour poster un lien déguisé en vidéo afin d’augmenter artificiellement sa portée.
En d’autres termes, X reproche à ses utilisateurs d’utiliser son interface telle qu’elle a été codée par ses ingénieurs. Si le compositeur de posts permet de créer des liens qui ressemblent à des vidéos, ce n’est pas un piratage de haut vol. C’est simplement la preuve que l’interface utilisateur du réseau social est une usine à gaz mal conçue.
L’hôpital qui se moque de la charité numérique
L’hypocrisie atteint ici des sommets stratosphériques. Rappelons le contexte, X vient d’être condamné pour tromperie. Pourquoi ? Parce que son système de coches bleues, autrefois gage d’authenticité, est devenu un simple reçu de paiement. L’UE a jugé que cela trompait les utilisateurs en leur faisant croire à la légitimité de comptes qui ne sont pas vérifiés. Et quelle est la défense de la plateforme ? Accuser l’UE à son tour de tromperie parce qu’un bouton de lecture vidéo fonctionne bizarrement sur mobile.
C’est exact, sur la version bureau, le bouton « play » du post de la commission lance la vidéo. Sur mobile, il semble rediriger vers le communiqué de presse annonçant l’amende. X appelle cela une manipulation malveillante. Le reste du monde appelle cela un bug d’interface sur une plateforme en déclin technique. Ce comportement erratique des vidéos est d’ailleurs monnaie courante sur X. Mais quand il s’agit de l’UE, soudainement, c’est un complot machiavélique.
Musk – La diplomatie du « Bullshit »
Pendant que ses lieutenants s’activaient à inventer des excuses techniques, le grand patron, Elon Musk, a brillé par son éloquence habituelle. Sa réponse à l’amende historique et aux critiques détaillées de l’Union Européenne ? Un tweet lapidaire: « Bullshit ». Suivi d’une question rhétorique tout aussi nuancée: « Combien de temps avant que l’UE ne disparaisse ? #AbolishTheEU ». C’est la réaction d’un homme qui n’a plus d’arguments. Face à un cadre législatif rigoureux comme le DSA, les mèmes et les insultes ne suffisent pas. L’UE demande des comptes sur la transparence, la protection des données et la véracité de l’information. Le milliardaire répond par des slogans populistes et des représailles techniques inefficaces.
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La réalité va frapper fort
Cette petite guéguerre sur l’interdiction du compte publicitaire ne changera strictement rien à la réalité financière et juridique qui attend X. L’entreprise a 60 jours pour répondre aux préoccupations concernant les coches bleues et 90 jours pour régler ses problèmes de transparence publicitaire. Si elle échoue, les pénalités pourraient s’aggraver. La plateforme peut bien bannir tous les comptes administratifs qu’elle souhaite, cela n’effacera pas l’ardoise. Prétendre que la commission a piraté l’algorithme en utilisant les outils officiels est une défense qui fera rire n’importe quel tribunal.
En fin de compte, cet épisode illustre parfaitement l’état actuel de X, une plateforme techniquement défaillante, dirigée par l’impulsivité, qui préfère accuser ses régulateurs de tricherie plutôt que de réparer son propre code ou de respecter la loi. L’UE a demandé de la clarté et de l’honnêteté. En réponse, elle a eu droit à une crise de colère. Si c’était ça leur stratégie de défense pour prouver qu’ils sont une entreprise sérieuse et non trompeuse, c’est un échec spectaculaire. Mais au moins, c’est divertissant.
Bruxelles frappe fort - X écope d'une amende historique de 120 millions d'euros pour ses pratiques trompeuses
L'UE inflige une amende de 120 millions d'euros à X d'Elon Musk, saluant une victoire pour la régulation numérique et la transparence.GIGAWATTS
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
The Globe and Mail's Tom Cardoso, Carrie Tait, Mark Mackinnon, and Stephanie Chambers have the deep dive on Sam Mraiche. I'll include some highlights, but this deserves a good read because it provides an overview with additional information about some of the relationships between Sam Mraiche, Danielle Smith, Jitendra Prasad, and Mickey Amery.
Her former chief of staff, Marshall Smith, hired multiple relatives of Mr. Mraiche at the same time as he was living in a home owned by one of Mr. Mraiche’s sisters.
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“All of my family is in Canada now,” said Jamil Omairi, a pharmacist in the nearby town of Lala, another springboard for people destined for Alberta. Mr. Omairi is related to Mickey Amery, Alberta’s justice minister, himself a long-time friend and relative of Mr. Mraiche.“All the young people here, people between 16 and 20, they have two ways to go,” he said. “If they find work, they stay. If there’s no work, they travel, and Brazil and Canada are the first destinations.”
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Mraiche may be a capable import/exporter, but his world view could be mercenary. An exchange between Mraiche and BTNX, a supplier of COVID rapid tests, highlights this view.
The following week, Mr. Mraiche proposed a solution: He did “a lot of business” in Turkey, he explained, and suggested the BTNX executive use those contacts to obtain additional tests.Mr. Mraiche also returned to the idea of diverting tests, this time from the federal government. “They’re really going to notice that a million is missing?” he asked.
“They will, yes,” responded Mr. Sunderani.
As deliveries fell further and further behind, Mr. Mraiche, who told Mr. Sunderani he was under intense pressure from Mr. Prasad, became increasingly frustrated.
“Do you know what you’re doing to me, Iqbal?” Mr. Mraiche said in an early February call. “I don’t only sell rapid test kits. I’m one of the biggest constructors here, too. Do you know what you’ve done to me? I’ve had so much mud thrown on my face, it’s not even funny.”
“You better hope there’s another wave that needs rapid tests,” he continued later in the call.
“Sam, that’s – that’s a bad thing to hope for,” Mr. Sunderani said.
“Is it? Me and you are in the business.”
“Sam, you know what? At the end of the day I don’t know about you, but I’ve made enough money. I don’t want to wish –”
“Has Jeff Bezos made enough money yet?”
“I don’t care who Jeff Bezos is,” Mr. Sunderani replied. “He has – I mean, I don’t want to wish –”
“No one’s wishing anything. It’s just going with the flow,” Mr. Mraiche said.
A month after that call, BTNX sued MHCare for $7.5-million, alleging Mr. Mraiche’s business failed to pay for more than 200,000 test kits and refused to pay for a truckload it received in error. MHCare countersued for $62.5-million, alleging BTNX overcharged, caused the company to lose money and tarnished its reputation. The two companies remain locked in litigation, and neither party’s allegations have been proven in court.
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By the spring of 2022, the government’s response to the pandemic left Premier Jason Kenney battered. A scant majority of United Conservative Party members supported him in a leadership review in May, 2022, and he agreed to step down after the party selected a replacement.Danielle Smith, then a party leadership hopeful, campaigned on COVID-19 grievances, railing against mask mandates and vaccine passports. Within a few months, she’d established herself as a front-runner.
A copy of Ms. Smith’s private calendar obtained by The Globe shows she took meetings during the campaign with everyone from physicians to executives – including Sam Mraiche.
In August, 2022, she was scheduled to dine at his north Edmonton home, the calendar shows.
Five days later, she was booked for a 30-minute Zoom call with Mr. Mraiche and Mr. Prasad, who retired from Alberta Health Services in the spring but stayed on as a consultant.
Ms. Smith, Mr. Prasad and Mr. Mraiche did not respond to questions about the meetings.
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutinyTom Cardoso (The Globe and Mail)
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in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •haha, oh not to mention lemmy communists: love to defend imperalism, supports capitalistic explitation of foreign labour (as long as its not US explotation), oh and opposes anyone arming themselves in opposition to said imperialism 🤷
eh, internet will always be internet; it sucks but I know I'll get along far better with a commie than a facist afterall. Faces help so much
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in reply to Samsuma • • •uh, does the original "meme" provide that context? 😅 the point is to point out the diviseness - not to prove that communists are just as bad
tldr. leftist infighting bad.
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in reply to Cassa • • •No?
No? What do you mean by this?
No? Again, what do you mean?
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in reply to Venat0r • • •Oh hey, you're the guy in the meme
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Why We Don’t Vote
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in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •Nowhere in that does it really explain why voting is counter productive. Voting is a tool, and a very cheap one. It only costs at most an hour once every 3 years and requiring knowledge of current events and politics, which is stuff you will know about anyway if you're involved in any kind of direct action.
The only potential argument there is the psychological one, where people are lead to think voting is enough to do their part, but I don't think that's a strong enough argument to pass up choosing your opposition. As shit as Labour is, National and Act are worse, and by any logic other than accellerationism (which is a terrible idea of you care about the human cost), Labour will make fighting capitalism that little bit easier.
I understand not running for office. That article gives good reasons that actually joining politics is a wasted effort. It takes a lot of time and money, and almost always ends up making people slide towards the "reasonable politician", not the radical that they promised to be.
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in reply to Mr Fish • • •You clearly didn't read past the first paragraph then
Mr Fish
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •Mate, I read the whole thing. The only claim I saw as to why voting is counter productive is that "voting convinces people that they've done all they need to" idea, which I think is flawed. All the other arguments are talking about voting having low impact and it can't fundamentally change things.
Please, if there is another part that I missed, tell me what it is, whether that's something backing up the complacency claim or another claim entirely. I'd love to be proven wrong here.
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in reply to Mr Fish • • •It is literally in paragraph 2
We argue that electoralism ensures that a statist perspective becomes dominant. Everything is seen in terms of state intervention and following the decisions of the leaders, which has always proved deadly to encouraging a spirit of revolt, self-management and self-help – the very keys to creating change in a society.
Mr Fish
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •OK maybe I read that wrong. The way I interpreted it, I read "electoralism" as using voting as a primary tool. Using that definition, I agree with that paragraph. Voting alone is nowhere near enough to produce real change.
But if the definition of "electoralism" is using voting in addition to direct action, I don't think that paragraph gives much reasoning behind itself. It's a good statement, but it needs more backing it up
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in reply to Mr Fish • • •Basically 1 billion dollars for 2022-2023 alone in Australia
aec.gov.au/Elections/Federal_E…
Cost of elections and referendums
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in reply to Mr Fish • • •Once you're at the point of advocating for voting in genocidal right wingers, you've lost the ability to just dismiss things out of hand by invoking the "human cost".
Citation needed mate. I'm pretty sure you just mean you'll be more materially comfortable under Labour.
Mr Fish
in reply to BrainInABox • • •I am advocating for using your vote to reduce human cost as much as possible. What that means depends on the context.
If you're in America, the decision right now is between one genocide, two genocides, or refusing to have an impact on that decision with how impossible the system is for third parties. One less genocide is the least bad option, unless you have a better one.
If you're in New Zealand (where I live, so I'm more familiar with the politics here than anywhere else), there are multiple options because of MMP voting. That means I won't be advocating for voting in genocidal right wingers.
Labour coalitions have historically been the governments that have had the best impact on workers rights. At least far more than national coalitions.
Also, don't think I'm saying you should vote for labour next year. Labour is shit, vote for someone better
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in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •I think voting is useful tho
If there are decent options, votes can show support for it, regardless of a win or loss. The results would signal that there is decent support on it or became a part of awareness on issues or points.
Not dismissing other parts on direct action and the fact that there is no right to recall in elections(Not USAmerican or EU-ian. Do you have right to recall?)
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in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •Was responding to the article that you shared
PearOfJudes
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •I don't understand anarchism at least in the context of reading about half of this web page, which basically just repeats the notion that a true radical can not vote because that reinforces capitalism, "well both sides are bad" and the individual can not rule over the many. Truly, in principal I agree with what this is saying. But to spark a revolution, the government needs to become so much worse than it currently is. I don't think anarchism has actually happened and been sustained, tell me if I'm wrong. If Anarchism was on the cusp of succeeding and it was all those democrat voters which caused it to fail I would completely understand not voting.
Rather Anarchism gives permission to the right to continue there slaughter. While in the same way voting in an election gives the magical president that capitalism works, (But still holding a net vote towards a better outcome) not voting in an election has the same president that capitalism doesn't work.
Because a non voter is the same as a centrist when the choice to vote or not to vote is actually the "vote" someone should make.
Nobody hears you.
Truly, as an anarchist are you homeschooling your children? Would you go to a public hospital? Sorry to do the "Communism =/ Iphone" but the government has good things, and increasing those good things are, good. Is this kind of Anarchism a kind of Accelerationism where you let the state continue to make living conditions worse on principal that this is the system capitalism created?
I believe in using every resource available to make everything better, and I won't hold those further left than me from succeeding because the enemy is the right, but I also want leftists to come together and agree.
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in reply to PearOfJudes • • •You don't understand anything about what anarchists believe and are going by vibes.
This is honestly the most ridiculous take I've ever read in my entire life.
Look, this is lemmy memes and I'm not the Cowbee for anarchism. You should try reading more in your life instead of politics by vibes. Check out Kropotkin.
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I don't really go to doctors, I take care of my own health. I have basic medical training. In a communal setting I would help others take care of their health. In an anarchist world we'd have hospitals under the Young Lords models. I would prefer a community hospital that wasn't run under capitalism. Under the system we live in and in the country I live in I would go to, but that doesn't mean I support the Mexican government.
There is no alternative than destroying the system and rebuilding it
PearOfJudes
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • • •You are right, my politics are basically just vibes. I think my politics are mostly just common sense which is this current system isn't working how do we fix it. I acknowledge that the system isn't broken, it's working as intended.
You live in Mexico, don't you have a progressive leader right now? This at least improves living conditions temporarily. I heard one of her policies was enforcing the minimum wage increase to be above the increase of inflation. This is a policy that I personally wish would be implemented in my own country.
I would vote for someone like this.
I think fighting for a political system which will likely never come in your lifetime is admirable, but unrealistic. I personally fight for a system wherr the government gives every person the minimum requirements to live. Free food, housing, healthcare, water, electricity, transport, and education. This will make people not need to work under corporations, which will then make corporations meet the need of the worker or fall. I also fight for no government donations, this will make politicians have less alterior motives, making policy better.
That's all I need within my lifetime is a government which makes the health and wellbeing of an Individual as best as it could be.
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in reply to TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾ • • •There is a large amount of Anarchist larpers on Lemmy I can't name them all.
edit: Guess not, I have them blocked so I have no idea what they're posting or if they're an Anarchist. I think they crashed out on my instances music comm