In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
the US struck a secret agreement with Ishii. In a memo to General Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964), commander of Allied forces in Japan, Washington recognized that although war crimes had been committed, the experiments led by Ishii and his colleagues were "almost incalculable and incredibly valuable to the United States."In exchange for the records of Unit 731's experiments, the US granted Ishii and his assistants immunity. Ishii died, and his collaborators went on to have careers in prestigious universities and private laboratories.
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
Newly uncovered documents confirm Japan's ambition to develop biological weapons during the Pacific War. The infamous Unit 731 of the Imperial Army in Harbin, China, was not the only group to use human test subjects.Philippe Pons (Le Monde)
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
The model works well for the Kremlin because it allows it to easily recruit freelancers, or “disposable agents” as they’re sometimes called.Elisabeth Braw (POLITICO)
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“We anticipate worsening conditions across all directions this summer,” said the senior lieutenant in the Kostyantynivka area. “Personnel are exhausted. There are not enough rotations. Everyone is operating at the edge of their limits.”
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Bitcoin e il rischio crollo del 75%: verità o esagerazione? Il mercato delle criptovalute è costantemente soggetto a cicli di espansion...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was extradited from Lebanon to the UAE in January, with no information disclosed to his family as to his charges and whereabouts.Qaradawi was arrested in Lebanon in January, and extradited to the UAE over a video he posted to social media while visiting Syria, in which he expressed critical views of the Egyptian, Emirati and Saudi authorities.
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In March, a group of United Nations human rights experts raised the alarm over Qaradawi’s continued forced disappearance, and called on the UAE to disclose his whereabouts.
They further expressed concern regarding the legal process of Qaradawi’s extradition, which was triggered by an arrest warrant issued by the little-known security body, the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC), saying that the move was politically motivated and not based on legal criteria.
The extradition process orchestrated by the AIMC, they said, “is being abused by some states to silence criticism, shut down dissent, and pursue activists beyond their borders”.
The Arab Interior Ministers Council: What is it and why are there human rights concerns?
Read More »Qaradawi is one of an increasing number of perceived political dissidents targeted for extradition by the AIMC on seemingly political charges.
The experts also warned that Qaradawi could face further extradition to Egypt, where he faces a three-year prison sentence for “spreading false news”.
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
The family of disappeared Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi have issued a plea to the Emirati government for his release, as he marks 145 days of solitary confinement at an unknown location in the country.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Russia is using its army to try and take more of Ukraine. It's using its passports to control the population
For more than three years, every time 67-year-old Iryna and her husband stepped beyond their front door, the Ukrainian couple feared for their lives.
They could be caught up in shelling or in a drone strike — or end up being interrogated by security agents at gunpoint as they tried to cross a checkpoint in the southern part of Kherson region, an area still under Russian control.
Iryna, who CBC News agreed to identify only by her first name due to her concerns about retribution from Russia, said she and her husband felt they had no choice but to get Russian passports last year. That was when the local stores closed and it became impossible to get groceries without going through a Russian checkpoint.
Like many other Ukrainians, she and her husband accepted Russian citizenship because they feared what would happen if they didn't.
there are people here who believe the english language doesn't only deserve zero respect, it deserves active disrespect. I personally use proper punctuation and grammar when trying to be authoritative, but i also think getting upset about people not following arbitrary formalities is pointless in this context. no capital is involved; no laws either. so long as i am understood, who fucking cares?
if that's not an energy you can get comfortable with, then i really doubt this'll be the only problem you have with lemmy's culture
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
About 320 tons of fin whale meat were unloaded at Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, with some 1.6 tons set to be transported to six markets across the country including Tokyo and Osaka as raw meat.
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of Okhotsk.Japan Today
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That's fair. But Japan is harvesting fin whales that are second in size to the blue whale. Those whales are facing a huge proplem with overhunting.
The Faroes hunt is for pilot whales and dolphins which are not facing as an extreme population degradation.
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules - DeSmog
“The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March.Sam Bright (DeSmog)
Coming soon:
Brawny Paper Towels made from Great Smoky Mountains National Park trees
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Hello there! I was using Wayland for quite a while and things are more or less smooth (NVIDIA proprietary driver). I think it’s time for Manjaro to move to Wayland by default for both Plasma session and SDDM.Manjaro Linux Forum
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Wayland had/has a couple of missing features. Personally, it's nothing I use so I've been on Wayland for years now, but if you care about those missing features, then they won't work.
Honestly I don't even remember what they were anymore. I think screen capture was a big one though.
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal - DeSmog
The Alberta premier suggested feds could “carve” the northern port out of the legislation, making way for a new oil corridor to the coast.Taylor Noakes (DeSmog)
Manjaro Linux tornará o Wayland ativado por padrão
O Ubuntu não é a única distribuição Linux planejando uma grande mudança, pois o Manjaro KDE Plasma também planeja migrar para o Wayland.
Em uma postagem no fórum do Manjaro, Artem Grinev, responsável pelo KDE, intitulada "Manjaro KDE Plasma planeja migrar para o Wayland", ele afirmou: "Tenho usado o Wayland há um bom tempo, e as coisas estão mais ou menos estáveis (com o driver proprietário da NVIDIA). Acho que é hora do Manjaro migrar para o Wayland por padrão, tanto para a sessão Plasma quanto para o SDDM."
A postagem é curta e direta, com um pequeno FAQ e algumas opções de votação para os membros do fórum do Manjaro relatarem sua experiência atual com o Wayland.
Na imagem: a versão mais recente do Manjaro KDE Plasma
Esperamos que, quando a mudança for realizada, tudo ocorra sem problemas.
Mais detalhes na postagem do fórum.
Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they're going all-in with GNOME on Wayland.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Sweden urged to end international adoptions
A Swedish inquiry exposed systemic abuse in international adoptions, including how children were trafficked and taken without consent.
A Swedish commission on Monday called for an end to international adoptions after uncovering widespread abuse and fraud spanning several decades.
"There have been confirmed cases of child trafficking in every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, primarily in the context of private adoptions," Anna Singer said as she handed her report to Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Gronvall, who said her department would review it.
The investigation found that some children brought to Sweden were adopted without parental consent, falsely declared dead, or handed over by individuals who were not their legal guardians.
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Presidential election outcome a blow to Poland's government
Right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential runoff by a whisker. The result is a bitter blow for Donald Tusk's pro-European government.
Poland's State Election Commission announced on Monday morning that the right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki had received 50.89% of the vote in Sunday's presidential runoff, putting him marginally ahead of his liberal-conservative, pro-European rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, on 49.11%.
Nawrocki will be inaugurated in August, succeeding President Andrzej Duda, who, after two terms in office, was no longer able to run for president.
Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian from Gdansk, was nominated by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. PiS presented Nawrocki as a non-partisan, independent "citizens' candidate" although his campaign was paid for and organized by the party and his program aligned with that of PiS.
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Nothing changed in Poland, the last president was a dirtbag too.
Slovakia is what it is, but Fico can usually be reasoned with.
Hungary is going to oust its government in less than a year.
I mean, compared to that new guy, Anjey Dupa is a saint.
I've happened earlier upon what Lech Walesa wrote in Facebook (?) about results of these elections, and it's just heartbreaking.
Even Fox News isn’t impressed with Musk dodging question over alleged drug use
Howard Kurtz accused Tesla and X CEO of ‘deflection’ in answers about New York Times reporting
A Fox News host called out Elon Musk’s response to the New York Times report alleging drug use while the billionaire was working as Trump’s senior adviser at DOGE.
The Times report alleged that Musk was frequently using magic mushrooms, ecstasy, Adderall, and ketamine in amounts that caused him bladder issues.
When asked about the report during an Oval Office press briefing on Friday, Musk questioned the newspaper’s credibility.
“Wait, wait, The New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on Russiagate? Is it the same organization?” Musk replied. “Let’s move on.”
On Sunday, Fox News anchor Howard Kurtz called out Musk for refusing to answer the question directly, saying he “decided to talk about something from five years ago involving the Pulitzers because he knew that he did not want to answer that question. That’s my take.”
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A BILL To prohibit the delivery of opioids by means of the dark web, and for other purposes.
Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
Here is the text of a bill introduced to Congress (US), ostensibly to combat the trafficking of opioids over "The Dark Web". There's a nice definition of "The Dark Web" at section 4.
I like the part where it says people are using "The Dark Web" both within the United States and "at the international border".
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1975/text/is?overview=closed&format=xml
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Trump’s Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On
Trump’s Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On: CNN Data Guru
The president is not happy with his new Wall Street-inspired moniker.Will Neal (The Daily Beast)
Trump threatens new 'Dark Age' with policy of 'deliberate destruction'
President Donald Trump's administration is pushing a "deliberate destruction of education, science, and history," wrote Adam Serwer in a scathing analysis for The Atlantic published on Tuesday — and it recalls the "Dark Ages" that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
"Every week brings fresh examples," wrote Serwer. For instance, Trump "is threatening colleges and universities with the loss of federal funding if they do not submit to its demands, or even if they do. The engines of American scientific inquiry and ingenuity, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are under sustained attack. Historical institutions such as the Smithsonian and artistic ones like the Kennedy Center are being converted into homes for MAGA ideology rather than historical fact and free expression."
One of the most prominent of these attacks is on Harvard University, which the administration today announced will have all its remaining grants canceled, he said. That matter is currently the focus of legal action as Harvard fights back, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.
This purge is already snuffing out free thought across the country, wrote Serwer: "Libraries are losing funding, government-employed scientists are being dismissed from their jobs, educators are being cowed into silence, and researchers are being warned not to broach forbidden subjects. Entire databases of public-health information collected over decades are at risk of vanishing. Any facts that contradict the gospel of Trumpism are treated as heretical."
The result of all this will be to "undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us," he warned. "Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power."
And the harm done to America's ability to conduct basic research to improve our lives and advance technology is hard for lay people to comprehend, he continued.
While private companies do a lot of innovation themselves, he continued, "the research that leads to that invention tends to be a costly gamble — for this reason, the government often takes on the initial risk that private firms cannot." For instance, "commercial flight, radar, microchips, spaceflight, advanced prosthetics, lactose-free milk, MRI machines — the list of government-supported research triumphs is practically endless." And even when private companies do their own research, it takes a back seat to profit — after all, "Exxon Mobil knew climate change was real decades ago, and nevertheless used its influence to raise doubt about findings it knew were accurate."
As the Trump administration burns down America's capabilities in the pursuit of destroying "forbidden ideas," Serwer concluded, history could be on track for a grim repeat: it "will dramatically impair the ability to solve problems, prevent disease, design policy, inform the public, and make technological advancements. Like the catastrophic loss of knowledge in Western Europe that followed the fall of Rome, it is a self-inflicted calamity. All that matters to Trumpists is that they can reign unchallenged over the ruins."
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I don't think that will be the case. China has been filling the gaps pretty well in the absence of the US.
Instead of military imperialism, China's just going to conquer the world with its wallet.
26 dead after Israeli tanks open fire near Gaza aid centre, rescuers say
At least 26 people have been killed, and scores have been injured, near a US-backed aid distribution site near Gaza's southern city of Rafah, according to medics and residents.
A local Palestinian journalist told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near a humanitarian aid distribution centre when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd.
The incident reportedly took place to the west of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the injured are being treated at one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals in Khan Younis.
Israel denies firing at civilians after Hamas-run ministry says 31 killed in Gaza aid centre attack
The Hamas-run health ministry says more than a hundred people were injured in the attack. The aid distributor said the reports were "false".BBC News
Jees what were the odd of them dying right after that tank opened fire.
Damn terrorists, couldn't you die some other day?
"At least 26 killed amid Israeli tank fire near Gaza aid centre, rescuers say"
is the updated version, which I read as some may have died in the crush to escape or by falling or something during the slaughter and mayhem.
Which is typical media style to avoid expensive lawsuits.
Both the IDF and the "aid agency" claim NOTHING HAPPENED, while the doctors at the hospital say all fatal injuries are gunshots.
I'm not sure if they have any of their own people onsite, given that Israel isn't allowing it and has killed many journalists.
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.The Conversation
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
China is now the biggest debt collector in the developing world, report says
China has dramatically curtailed its lending in recent years. Now, it's emerging as the largest debt collector for many of the world's poorest nations — a shift that threatens to undermine poverty reduction efforts and fuel instability, according to a new report.
Lending for China's Belt and Road Initiative — which includes funding for a massive series of new railways, ports and roads in the developing world — began winding down before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Peak repayment: China's global lending, released this month by Australia's Lowy Institute, a foreign policy think tank. The report points to diplomatic pressure within China to restructure unsustainable debt and to recover outstanding debts from abroad for the change.
Peak repayment: China’s global lending - Lowy Institute
Soaring debt repayments and collapsed lending have flipped China role in development countries from capital provider to debt collector.interactives.lowyinstitute.org
Says who?
It's pretty clear you have no clue what you are talking about or you're playing dumb (in an effort to work as a free PR shill for China).
I am done here!
Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Felt that. Lemmy perfectly replicates (and improves) on the things I liked about Reddit. I don't need or want an algorithm for this, because you can just subscribe to all the communities you love anyway.
Meanwhile, Mastodon and Pixelfed are a struggle. Tagging is key since there's no algorithm, but even after following like 50+ tags, I still don't see exactly what I want in my feeds. I love fanart of games and anime, so I tried to pick pixelfed.art, but even then I don't see much, and also realized a large amount of artists are on mastodon.art instead, and the federation struggles to show me people not on Pixelfed. Hell, both official and 3rd party clients sometimes break when viewing a non-pixelfed account page. You seriously have to work to curate a feed on these places that make you want to come back.
I was never really a Twitter person, but I absolutely used Instagram and Pinterest a lot to look at art before I dropped them, so now I use Tumblr to not shut myself off entirely from fan content. So it's not a matter of me not liking Fediverse services like Pixelfed and Mastodon, but them lacking the methods necessary to make viewing content easier.
Don't get me started on Misskey, the language barrier isn't a problem for me as I am learning Japanese. But I feel a little lost with the UI, and once again, trying to find artists on other instances.
Right-wing opposition candidate Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election
Right-wing opposition presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s presidential election, official results show. With 100% of districts having reported results, Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote against 49.11% for his centrist, government-aligned rival, Rafał Trzaskowski.
Turnout stood at 71.63%, which is a record for a Polish presidential election, beating the 68.23% seen in 1995. It is also the second-highest turnout among all post-1989 Polish elections, behind only the 74.38% at the 2023 parliamentary election.
The outcome represents a remarkable victory for Nawrocki, a political novice who had never previously stood for elected office and trailed Trzaskowski in the polls for virtually the entire campaign. It will also have a huge influence on how Poland is governed during his five-year term.
Trzaskowski, who is deputy leader of Poland’s main ruling party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), would have worked closely with the ruling coalition of PO Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
However, Nawrocki, technically an independent but whose candidacy was supported by the national-conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, is likely to wield his veto and other presidential powers to stymie the government’s agenda, just as the current PiS-aligned incumbent Andrzej Duda has done.
Trzaskowski, a multilingual former minister for European affairs and member of the European Parliament, would also have favoured closer relations with Brussels while Nawrocki – who was endorsed by the Trump administration during the campaign – is a eurosceptic who favours strong ties with Washington.
Sunday’s run-off vote came two weeks after Trzaskowski and Nawrocki had emerged as the top two candidates among 13 who stood in the first round two weeks earlier.
The initial exit poll, published immediately as voting ended at 9 p.m., placed Trzaskowski narrowly ahead, on 50.3%. However, with a margin of error of around 2 percentage points, that poll made the result too close to call.
Updated versions of the exit poll published later on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday – which also included the first official results as they began to filter through – showed a reversal of the situation, with Nawrocki now leading on 50.7%. That led many analysts to call the win for Nawrocki.
Among the first to congratulate Nawrocki on Monday morning was Duda, whose second and final term in office ends in August this year.
“It was a difficult, sometimes painful, but incredibly courageous fight for Poland, for how the affairs of our homeland are to be conducted,” wrote Duda, who endorsed Nawrocki during the campaign. “Thank you for this heroic fight until the last minute…Thank you…for the victory! Bravo!”
Duda, who himself defeated Trzaskowski at the 2020 presidential election, also thanked the losing candidate for his “determination in the fight for the presidency…[and] willingness to take responsibility for Poland”.
Neither Nawrocki nor Trzaskowski have yet commented on the result, but the first foreign leader to issue congratulations to Nawrocki was Petr Pavel, president of the neighbouring Czech Republic.
“I believe that, under his leadership, Poland will continue to develop its democratic and pro-Western direction and that our countries will continue their mutually beneficial cooperation,” wrote Pavel.
The final election results must also be confirmed by the Supreme Court’s chamber of extraordinary review and public affairs.
However, that process is shrouded in controversy because the chamber – which was created as part of the PiS party’s judicial reforms when it was in power – is regarded as illegitimate by Tusk’s government.
An attempt by the ruling coalition to change the way that the presidential election results are validated by the Supreme Court was vetoed in March this year by Duda
Sunday’s run-off vote comes at the end of a months-long campaign that has seen the interrelated issues of security and migration at the forefront.
The war in neighbouring Ukraine has seen both candidates pledge to continue efforts to bolster Poland’s defence capabilities through expansion and modernisation of the armed forces.
Nawrocki, however, has taken a much tougher line regarding Ukraine itself, including signing a pledge not to ratify its accession to NATO if he becomes president. Tusk, as well as Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, criticised that decision, saying that it echoed Russian demands.
Both candidates have also pledged to clamp down on immigration and on the support given to immigrants already in Poland, though again Nawrocki has taken tougher positions.
Trzaskowski, meanwhile, has pledged that, if he were to become president, he would seek to sign bills liberalising the abortion law, introducing same-sex civil partnerships and undoing PiS’s judicial reforms.
Nawrocki, by contrast, holds deeply conservative views on social issues and has pledged not to sign any bills ending the current near-total ban on abortion.
During the final stages of the campaign, Nawrocki was hit by a series of scandals. It came to light that he had lied about only having one apartment. Not only did he own a second, but various questions came to light over how he had come to possess it and how he treated the elderly, disabled man living there.
Subsequently, a leading news website, Onet, reported that Nawrocki had helped procure prostitutes for guests at a luxury hotel where he worked as a security guard. Nawrocki denied the claims – based on testimony by anonymous former colleagues – and pledged to sue Onet.
Meanwhile, Trzaskowski faced questions after it emerged that hundreds of thousands of zloty had been spent on Facebook adverts supporting him and attacking Nawrocki.
The provenance of that money remains unclear, but there is a chance it came from abroad, which would be illegal under Polish election law. Trzaskowski has insisted that he and his staff had no involvement in or knowledge of the campaign.
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Pols:
Stop calling us stupid! We are anything but that! We are a proud and noble people!
votes back in power right-wing nut jobs who fucked them over the last time
Specific to elections: provide a principled left wing candidate with a platform that people can hear
For real substantial change: by taking away power from the powerful and giving it to the people
Most people agree with most leftist ideas (at least in theory), they've just been misinformed about what those ideas are and their true practicality
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
TL;DR
- Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.
- The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
- While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROMs
Google has confirmed it isn't discontinuing AOSP, but it's making a change that makes it harder for devs to build Android for Pixel phones.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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Idk man.
I love my OP12. But we're switching carriers to a Verizon MVNO which "won't work" with my OP12, so I bought a Pixel 8 Pro on sale last week and need to switch over.
I'm starting to wonder if that "it won't work" is bullshit tho...I've got a Verizon SIM in slot 2 and it works fine. Maybe I'd be missing out on 5G speeds? I got 5 bars on my tmo sim and my vz sim...but my Tmo got 1.1Gbps down, and my Vz sim only got 70Mbps.
‘Absolutely Brilliant Result’ – Zelensky Says All Operatives in ‘Spiderweb’ Drone Op in Russia Safe
Late on Sunday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on social media that all of the operatives of the nation’s security services, SBU, who had participated in a a raid earlier in the day that knocked out about $7 billion in Russian military aircraft within the invading country’s airfields, were safe in Ukraine and accounted for.
The operation was dubbed “Spiderweb.”
“An absolutely brilliant result,” the president wrote.
“A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time,” Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
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"You sure you just don't want to work or something"
Alt Text:
Disabled fantasy: Being able to sit in the room with all the doctors who ever asked if you were maybe just making your symptoms up...while they experience your symptoms. And ask them if they're making them up
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Poland presidential election 2025: rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins, official results show – live
The populist-right opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice party (PiS), has won Poland’s presidential election, defeating his pro-European rival Rafał Trzaskowski, in a nail-bitingly close contest.
Official results showed Nawrocki took 50.89% of votes in the runoff, with Trzaskowski on 49.11%.
Nawrocki’s victory is a major blow for the coalition government led by Donald Tusk and is expected to prolong the current political deadlock in the country as well as complicate the country’s position in Europe.
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Everything I've read is they can veto legislation, act on international affairs, etc. Absolutely not largely symbolic unless a Polish person would like to correct me.
Especially a big deal considering the current coalition is very weak and can barely agree on legislation anyhow.
Yeah he can veto and has to appoint ambassadors. The previous president didn't do that out of spite, so we were unable to recall people who should've been fired. They sent out people who aren't ambassadors technically, but fulfill that role.
So yeah, salty rightwingers doing everything to fuck Poland over out of spite. What's new.
Insanity. The people of Poland will be deeply regretful in time.
Well at least the next Behemoth album's lyrics are sure to be deep, angry and amazing. Nergal is going to be PISSED about this stupidity.
Israel fears the threat of trade sanctions — but is the EU ready to follow through? | Martin Konečný
After many months of inaction and complicity in the face of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, Europe is finally beginning to stir. Tens of thousands of people killed and attacks on schools and hospitals had apparently not been enough. But, along with the blocking of humanitarian aid and open calls for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s actions finally became too severe to ignore, deny or justify. In recent weeks, a cascade of unusually strong statements, diplomatic rebukes and threats of sanctions has emerged from European capitals – each move amplifying the next, as if a long-dormant herd has suddenly jolted into motion.
Among these developments, the most significant may be the possible suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, which grants Israel preferential access to the world’s largest single market. Last month, the Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp, broke the EU’s silence with a letter demanding a formal review of Israel’s compliance with article 2 of the agreement, which requires it to “respect human rights”.
That move triggered a wave of other EU states lining up behind the idea. At the 20 May meeting of EU foreign ministers, a clear majority – 17 member states – backed the Dutch proposal. EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, who had appeared sceptical ahead of the meeting, seemed to shift during the discussion and at the end clearly announced the launch of the review.
Is this a real turning point or just more empty words? That remains to be seen.
The EU faces a moment of truth. Will it follow through on trade sanctions on Israel – or slide into irrelevance?
A human rights review of EU-Israel ties is under way. The results will be significant for both the war and Europe’s reputation, says Martin Konečný, head of the European Middle East ProjectMartin Konečný (The Guardian)
UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5093117
The UK's neo-liberal New Labour regime happily lies in bed together with fascist Tel Aviv.Snip:
UK prosecutors are colluding with Israeli embassy officials to classify protesters resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as terrorists and to imprison them on heavily politicized grounds, an investigation by The Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg showed.
“Documents released by the British government reveal that London has been coordinating with Israeli officials to prosecute protestors associated with activist group Palestine Action for disrupting the operations of Elbit Systems, which manufactures deadly weapons being used in the genocide in Gaza,” Klarenberg wrote.
The documents suggest that Israel has successfully lobbied the UK to abandon well-established legal standards in order to charge activists resisting Israel’s genocide under harsh counter-terror laws.
UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
Activists disrupting the production of Elbit drones used by Israel to kill civilians in Gaza are being prosecuted under UK counterterror lawsthecradle.co
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That's well beyond merelly "neo-liberal" and already into Fascist.
Mind you, Israel bought the current British Government by having Israeli-linked Jewish Organisations support the campaign that smeared Corbyn as an anti-semite in order to topple him from the leadership of the Labour party and bring these guys in which, in due course given that the UK has a First Past The Post electoral system, rotated positions with the Tories and became the governing party, so zero surprise that the British Government is just a puppet of the Israeli regime.
I'm just glad the UK has left the EU so that their rot doesn't interfere with how things work in the EU (it's bad enough that we have Racist and increasingly Authoritarian Germany and Austria, not to mention the outright Fascist Hungary, we don't need the country were de facto the two main parties are Fascist).
Nah, this isn't uncharacteristic for neoliberalism. Siding with fascists for imperialist reasons is the neolib way, and the Brits traditionally use a less restrained hand when censoring speech.
Even in the US, with our near free speech absolution, neolibs were supportive as cops cracked down hard on peaceful civil disobedience. If that's what American liberals were willing to do when bought by Israeli lobbyists, this makes perfect sense for the British version of the Democratic party. They'll be replaced by the proper fascists come next election anyhow.
I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant for a decade up to Brexit, and my feelingby the time I left was that they by then were pretty close to just being a posher version of Fascism.
Maybe Fascism is really just the natural end state of Neoliberal Capitalism: you can only go so far in helping the few pillage the wealth of the many before you have to start throwing the empoverished masses some outsiders (immigrants, other nations) and powerless insiders (like the poor and minorities) as scapegoats to distract them away from the (very much local) powerfull that are making them poorer, and as people grow increasingly skeptical of the traditional propaganda machine (for example, all the celebrating of a "growing GDP" doesn't work quite as well when people feel their pockets getting ever lighter) start forcefully cracking down on any dissent that's gaining traction and endangers the interests of the powerful.
Certainly I can't seen any end state of Neoliberalism that's not either Revolution or Authoritarism: all those politicians who got used to an environment were it's entirelly legal and totally normalized for them to get non-executive board memberships, gold-plated consulting gigs and millionaire speech-circuit fees from people they were "friendly" towards whilst in power, aren't going to turn to the people whose "friendship" yields such payouts and tell them they're going to start having to take a smaller cut of the country's wealth and pay more taxes, hence the only ultimate outcomes left are either some kind of Revolution of the masses that forces a cleanup of the political system, or increasing authoritarian measures to stop the masses from rebelling and given that if they're already rebelling it's usually too late (certainly it's far harder to stop it, impossibly so with no damage), what's normally done is to control information and to keep the masses divided and fighting amongst themselves - hence things like Identity Politics, which you can see in the US being fully weaponized - so that they don't rebel again the powerful.
Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?
I'm just curious if anyone knows of an effort to build a federated version of something like Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, etc. I'm not really a fan of the centralized control, commercial tie-ins and profit motivations of those and similar sites, but the community of collaboration and remixing designs means they are basically indispensable for time efficient 3d printing, they're basically like the Github of 3d printing.
For me the ideal would be to have a federated alternative where users can host and share their own creations and collections, as well as rate and comment each other's designs to help improve discoverability of the best models in the community. This seems like something that would be a good fit for the ActivityPub protocol but I'm not sure if there is something like this already out there. All I could find is this old reddit post that seems to have gotten a lot of support (and good suggestions for features) in the comments but has gone nowhere as far as I can tell.
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There are always needs for self-hosting for everything.
I can see some education institution set up their 3D model instance, and make it federated with other entities.
The problem is content discovery, right? As I said before, people are working to fix that right now.
Social web is basically similar to early internet, where discovering new things is hard.
Analysis by CSIS makes it clear that restricting ethane exports is a desperate measure that "inflict more damage on U.S. companies than Chinese competitors"
U.S.-China Trade Talks in London: Ethane Export Controls and the Need for Better Economic Statecraft
A new commentary from the CSIS Economics program analyzes the myriad issues with the recent U.S. ethane export controls.www.csis.org
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