Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran
Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran
We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel’s attack on Iran is just the latest example.Ahmad Ibsais (Mondoweiss)
Bocchi the Rock Side Story Manga Is Great for Kikuri Hiroi Fans
Bocchi the Rock Side Story Manga Is Great for Kikuri Hiroi Fans - Siliconera
If you like Bocchi the Rock and Kikuri Hiroi, her manga can be a fun read, but it also brings up her alcoholism and Spirals of Happiness.Jenni Lada (Siliconera)
La Francia intensifica la guerra alla pirateria sportiva con il blocco degli IP in tempo reale
Il Senato francese ha approvato una nuova legge anti-pirateria che apre le porte al blocco automatico degli indirizzi IP. Questa spinta legislativa è sostenuta da un accordo parallelo e “segreto” tra i detentori di diritti sportivi e i principali ISP, che mira ad automatizzare gli sforzi antipirateria e a semplificare le richieste di blocco diretto. I titolari dei diritti sperano che questi nuovi poteri contribuiscano a contrastare l'economia “mafiosa” della pirateria.
Le misure tradizionali di blocco dei siti, che impongono agli ISP locali di bloccare l'accesso degli abbonati ai siti pirata più popolari, sono state utilizzate dai titolari dei diritti in Francia per anni. L'obiettivo è quello di scoraggiare la pirateria rendendo i siti più difficili da trovare, ma queste misure sono solo parzialmente efficaci.
Più recentemente, le richieste di blocco dei siti hanno preso di mira altri intermediari. Ai fornitori di DNS, tra cui Google e Cloudflare, e a diversi dei maggiori fornitori di VPN, è stato ordinato di rendere i siti pirata non disponibili attraverso i loro servizi.
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
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Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world.n+1
I also don’t live anywhere near the US. Do I feel like I can’t do anything? Not at all.
I deleted my PayPal account
I deleted my Amazon account
I deleted my Instagram account
I switched to a Linux distribution which is mainly developed in Europe
I deleted my Google account
I deleted my WhatsApp account
I try to boycott as many American products (physical or digital) as possible.
Israele ottiene il dominio aereo sull'Iran
Secondo i funzionari militari israeliani, l'aviazione israeliana ha acquisito un controllo duraturo sullo spazio aereo iraniano in seguito a una serie di attacchi coordinati contro i sistemi di difesa aerea, le basi militari e i siti di lancio di Teheran.
Dopo un'importante salva iniziale nelle prime ore del 13 giugno, gli aerei israeliani hanno continuato le operazioni in profondità nel territorio iraniano, eliminando sistematicamente i sistemi missilistici terra-aria (SAM) e neutralizzando le strutture militari ritenute in grado di minacciare le forze o il territorio israeliano.
In un filmato appena pubblicato, le Forze di Difesa Israeliane (IDF) hanno mostrato attacchi di precisione contro risorse chiave iraniane, tra cui la distruzione di un sistema di difesa aerea Tor-M1 di fabbricazione russa e di un lanciamissili balistici Fateh-110. Entrambi sarebbero stati colpiti da missili da crociera lanciati dall'aria israeliana durante le ondate successive dell'operazione.
La campagna in corso, lanciata nell'ambito della risposta israeliana all'escalation delle minacce iraniane, sembra focalizzata a degradare la rete di difesa aerea integrata della Repubblica Islamica, in gran parte sviluppata con la tecnologia e il supporto russo.
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Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in "targeted political violence"
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/66814240
How is this not bigger news?
'Targeted shootings' in eastern Minnesota, Gov. Walz says
There have been "targeted shootings" in eastern Minnesota, according to Gov.Mirna Alsharif (NBC News)
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then your landlord sells your cow, buys a bull.
Then your landlords shoots your other cow and tells you it was attacking him and acted only on self defense.
As punishment, he gets to eat your cow.
You protest and then he shoots you.
Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.Mike Ludwig (Truthout)
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Khawaja Asif calls for OIC session to devise joint strategy against Israel
Khawaja Asif calls for OIC session to devise joint strategy against Israel
ISLAMABAD, Jun 14 (APP):Federal Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Saturday called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to hold anKamran Muraad (Associated Press of Pakistan)
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Why Mario 64 is a Gameboy Advance game
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Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman, husband killed in apparent 'politically motivated' shooting; second lawmaker wounded
Minnesota House DFL leader Hortman, husband killed in apparent 'politically motivated' shooting; Sen. Hoffman, wife wounded
Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot Saturday morning in Brooklyn Park in what Gov. Tim Walz said “appears to be a politically motivated assassination.” Walz said another Democratic lawmaker, state Sen.MPR News Staff (MPR News)
That's not how any of this works.
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The budget of three years of embargo against Moscow: economy in recession and bills skyrocketing
Il bilancio di tre anni di embargo verso Mosca: economia in recessione e bollette alle stelle
L'Italia ha resistito meglio, ma il costo è stato di 171 miliardiRedazione (il Giornale)
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[Discussion] Does nostalgic editing rob us of the documentary aspect of street photography?
Original question and text by @MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com
Disclosure: I do street photography on Fuji Instax color and monochrome, B&W film, and color and B&W edited digital. My username is accurate, I have low vision.What we now call street photography - that many of us do as a hobby or with a focus on art - came from journalism and documentary photography, right? The Leica and black and white workflow was good for professionals documenting current events.
As photographic technology progressed, photojournalism moved to color film, then to digital as those became more appropriate for the workflow and for the reader.
In general broad strokes, photojournalists have been capturing current events with the technology of their time, therefore they’ve been representing their times with the look that technology brings. If the early 1900s happened in black and white, and so much of the rest of the century happened in Kodachrome, the 21st century is happening in whatever “color science” means. Sharp lens - lacking in character? - and balanced - realistic? - colors.
With all that context, when we use film simulations, edit in black and white or - gasp! - shoot on film, are we documenting our own time or are we bound to nostalgia? Magnum Photos was all about the most effective technology to capture the moment, not charcoal sketches. Are we effectively capturing the spirit and visual aesthetics of the 2020s or are confusing future historians? Or… are we just really enjoying ourselves and creating art, while we leave the documentation to people using their smartphones and PJs?
What are your thoughts? I’d love to hear from hobbyists and pros alike. Are you editing for a nostalgic feel or focusing on focusing on sharp realism? Both? Why and when?
And how do you feel about others’ work? Do you miss a more current look in street and documentary photography?
Official Livestream for "No Kings" protest
Millions rise up to say: In America, we don't do Kings
Millions are rising up in more than 2,000 cities and towns across the country to defend democracy, reject authoritarian overreach, and stand up for our commu...YouTube
A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
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A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
In collaboration with the artist, the installation examines the ideas of creativity and the moral quandary of extending someone’s life beyond their biological death.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
Fan translators asking for payment for latest chapters for comics, webtoons, manhwa, manga...
There is a trend currently were fan translaters are paywalling the latest chapters, with poor translations. What are your thoughts on this? I don't mind asking for donations, but asking for money with mediocre translation is scammy.
Examples:
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madarascans.com/
nightsup.net/
casacomic.com/
Casa Comic
Immerse yourself in a world of passion, heartache, and unforgettable love stories with the best shoujo, romance, and drama manhwa on Casa Comic — where every page is filled with emotions, stunning art, and characters that will steal your heart! - Cas…Casa Comic
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Science and Technology News and Commentary: Aardvark Daily
Science and Technology News and Commentary: Aardvark Daily
Aardvark is New Zealand's leading Internet Industry online news publication, reaching thousands of professionals and enthusiasts every daywww.aardvark.co.nz
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incidents, in grave condition; manhunt underway
Two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in apparent "targeted" incidents on Saturday that left them in grave condition, officials said, and a manhunt is now underway for the gunman.A source familiar with the matter tells ABC News that the victims are state Sen. John Hoffman and state Rep. Melissa Hortman.
Both were shot at their homes and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source said.
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials
They took place in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, officials said.Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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China’s photonic chip debut to power AI, 6G and quantum computing push: expert
China’s photonic chip debut to power AI, 6G and quantum computing advances, expert says
TFLN wafer line is well-positioned for aggressive push into cloud and supercomputing, AI model training and inference, expert says.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
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Eaton falls Trail and Sulphur Gates
This 6 mile out and back trail will take you past the Sulphur Gates into the , a cool looking geological feature shaped by water, to a waterfall that has carved the rock into an intriguing spiral pattern.
A photo showing the lower and middle sections of Eaton falls as you approach from a distance.
The way the small canyon warps up around the waterfall is hard to convey. Me for scale.
The Sulphur gates, formed as water cut through the ridgeline to merge the rivers below.
Kind of out of the way to get to, I mostly went here as I was stalling for time for snowmelt. The waterfall itself was very cool though.
May miss tomorrow, not sure if I’ll get back to service or not (Kootenai NP).
A US-China trade deal de-escalates tensions but largely mirrors a prior agreement, with the US conceding more
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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/20524171
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”Some very out of touch people in the Wikimedia Foundation.
Fortunately the editors (people who actually write the articles) have the sense to oppose this move in mass.
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label.
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials
They took place in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, officials said.Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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Affordable Drugs Are Within Reach
Affordable GLP-1 Drugs For Weight Loss Are Within Reach
Although GLP-1 drugs offer many health benefits, their high cost has created an affordability crisis for patients. With a dose of common sense, we can solve this problem.Forbes
Impatto economico globale del conflitto Israele-Iran: rischi e scenari
Impatto economico globale del conflitto Israele-Iran: rischi e scenari
Le conseguenze economiche globali del conflitto tra Israele e Iran Il conflitto tra Israele e Iran sta destabilizzando i mercati internazi...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
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Sources say two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot
Sources say two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot.Ryan Pattee (KSTP-TV LLC)
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It's a meme here is the explanation
Every time Israel starts bombing a country, the Western media goes into overdrive to pretend that the local population is very happy that Israel is bombing them and "freeing them from their oppressive leiders"A good recent example would be with the Druze population in Syria where instead of invading Syria, Israel was "protecting the Druze". The media also did it for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Mouin is flipping that on it's head by pretending that all Israelis are very happy that they are getting bombed by Iran to showcase how ridiculous the Israeli narratives were
Meta could track your browser sessions even in incognito and link them with your real identity
Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.
This is the process through which Meta (Facebook/Instagram) managed to link what you do in your browser (for example, visiting a news site or an online store) with your real identity (your Facebook or Instagram account), even if you never logged into your account through the browser or anything like that.
Meta accomplishes this through two invisible channels that exchange information:
(i) The Facebook or Instagram app running in the background on your phone, even when you’re not using it.
(ii) Meta’s tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser.
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
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I have my own company that helps companies websites. There is a company called 6sense that scares the crap out of me. They are able to use Facebook, insta, and reddit. They are able to assign an id to you, even in incog.
They have some crazy algorithm that can eventually match you to the real you. Then stick you in a cohort to sell to you.
Even if you use brave or Firefox. Doesn't matter.
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