Roblox, an online gaming platform that supposedly fosters creativity and connection among children and teens, harbors a darker underbelly that has harmed countless young users for years. Families nationwide are coming forward with stories of how predators, explicit content, and exploitation pervade this digital playground. The attorneys at Anapol Weiss have filed four lawsuits against Roblox on behalf of children from various parts of the U.S. (Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, Texas) who were sexually exploited on the Roblox platform. Anapol Weiss is investigating hundreds of similar cases and will be filing many more lawsuits in the upcoming months.

Shareholder Alexandra Walsh and nationally renowned abuse attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden are spearheading our efforts to hold Roblox and related companies accountable, bringing extensive experience to this high-stakes litigation. We are demanding justice for our clients and seeking to hold Roblox and other companies accountable.

Roblox Lawsuit Attorneys : Anapol Weiss Mass Torts / Class Action Lawyers

Roblox, a platform celebrated for fostering creativity and connection among children and teens, harbors a darker underbelly that has harmed countless young users. Learn more now.

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The operation reportedly began with the detonation of a concealed minefield, forcing Israeli forces to seek shelter in nearby civilian homes.

Israeli Soldiers Killed, Wounded in Complex Resistance Attacks in Gaza - Palestine Chronicle

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A powerful new report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, is drawing sharp condemnation — not only from Israel but also from the United States.

Titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’, the report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, accusing private and state-linked companies of enabling apartheid, war crimes, and genocide.

Economy of Genocide: UN Report Links Western Firms to Israeli War Crimes - Palestine Chronicle

The report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its genocide in Gaza.

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Homes raided, people approached on the street, called from unknown numbers, arrested without warning: how British police are cracking down on activists

'Like a kidnapping': How UK police are hunting pro-Palestine activists

At 7am on 6 March, three men turned up at Lujane's door.  They said they were from the British Transport Police (BTP) and asked her to come for an interview regarding a video in which, several months before, she had been seen chanting pro-Palestine …

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A powerful new report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, is drawing sharp condemnation — not only from Israel but also from the United States.

Titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’, the report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, accusing private and state-linked companies of enabling apartheid, war crimes, and genocide.

Economy of Genocide: UN Report Links Western Firms to Israeli War Crimes - Palestine Chronicle

The report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its genocide in Gaza.

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https://t.me/operativnoZSU/185304

Iran’s president has ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

This paper introduces DiffuCoder, a 7B-scale open-source masked diffusion large language model (dLLM) specifically designed for code generation.

The research provides insights into how dLLMs generate content, distinguishing their decoding behavior from that of autoregressive (AR) models. Unlike AR models, dLLMs can intrinsically adjust their generation causality and increasing sampling temperature diversifies not just token choices but also their generation order, creating a rich search space for reinforcement learning (RL).

This flexibility allows dLLMs to be more non-autoregressive and generate tokens in a less sequential, more "human-like" code writing manner.

To leverage this diversity and improve performance, the paper proposes coupled-GRPO RL algorithm. This method utilizes a coupled-sampling scheme that constructs complementary mask noise during training to reduce the variance of token log-likelihood estimates while maintaining training efficiency.

Experimentally, coupled-GRPO significantly boosts DiffuCoder's performance on code generation benchmarks, notably improving EvalPlus scores by 4.4% with training on only 21K samples. The research also shows that coupled-GRPO trained models experience a smaller performance drop when decoding steps are halved (resulting in a 2x speedup), indicating increased parallelism and reduced reliance on AR bias during decoding.

available at huggingface.co/apple/DiffuCode…

apple/DiffuCoder-7B-cpGRPO · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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On +972, we Palestinians speak for ourselves (Mahmoud Mushtaha, 2025-07-02)

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>> Other times, this hostility is the absence of space altogether...

>> This is why +972 Magazine matters. It’s one of the few platforms where Palestinians are not just written about or quoted. We are among its contributors, analysts, editors, and decisionmakers, and we shape the coverage.

>> +972 ... doesn’t have corporate backers. It doesn’t take funding from the U.S. or Israeli governments, ...

>> ... By supporting +972, you help ensure that Palestinians continue to have our voices heard — and without filtering the truth.

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hcommons.social is a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.

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Cross-posted from "TRUE communism!" by @Muaddib@sopuli.xyz in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in commercial investments in artificial intelligence (AI). The first wave came after the 2012 ImageNet challenge, which was a pivotal moment in the history of artificial intelligence, particularly computer vision and deep learning. Then, advances in computing power—GPU hardware—powered neural network models trained on large amounts of data. Across industries, from construction to pharmaceuticals to finance, companies rushed to implement AI in their operations. This trend has only accelerated with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022. Even larger models trained on even larger datasets are showing even greater power, and AI applications are becoming ubiquitous across U.S. businesses (Babina, et al. 2024).

The rapid rise of commercial AI has inevitably brought concerns regarding its potential to displace human workers. There is evidence that AI can automate some cognitive tasks or increase worker productivity in a way that could reduce the number of workers needed. For example, Brynjolfsson, et al. (2025) find that AI tools make customer service workers much more efficient. Fedyk, et al. (2022) find that audit firms that use AI reduce their audit workforce. But the good news is that the labor-displacing effects seem confined to select sectors and occupations. On aggregate, recent academic research finds evidence that companies’ use of AI has been accompanied by an increase in the workforce.

This article synthesizes recent research—including new findings from Babina, et al. (2024) and Babina, et al. (2023)—to assess the real-world impacts of AI on firms and workers. Contrary to common fears, we find that AI has so far not led to widespread job loss. Instead, AI adoption is associated with firm growth, increased employment, and heightened innovation, particularly in product development. However, the effects are not uniformly distributed: AI-investing firms increasingly seek more educated and technically skilled employees, alter their internal hierarchies, and contribute to rising industry concentration. These trends carry important implications for public policy, including workforce development, education and reskilling initiatives, and antitrust enforcement. This article reviews the evidence and highlights key takeaways for policymakers navigating the AI-driven economy.

The effects of AI on firms and workers

Synthesis of new research assessing the real-world impacts of artificial intelligence on firms and workers.

^Brookings

Sembra strano, e non pensavo si sarebbe mai potuto dire (e per giunta in questa economia…?), ma probabilmente a proposito dell’imparare le lingue c’è qualcosa di buono che si può prendere persino da quel fallito di JumboDrillo…! (Che chiamo così solo perché è la singola proprietà attorno alla quale tutto il suo canale è sviluppato, […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

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2025-07-02 14:26:58

“IMPARO il CINESE in 30 GIORNI” (JumboDrillo è meglio di noi…)

Sembra strano, e non pensavo si sarebbe mai potuto dire (e per giunta in questa economia…?), ma probabilmente a proposito dell’imparare le lingue c’è qualcosa di buono che si può prendere persino da quel fallito di JumboDrillo…! (Che chiamo così solo perché è la singola proprietà attorno alla quale tutto il suo canale è sviluppato, non perché penso sia un fallito… certamente io sono più fallita di lui, insomma, sia ben chiaro.)

youtube.com/watch?v=v-4ntXPLOF…

Lui da assoluto pazzo, ma indubbiamente più bravo di noi, ha deciso di imparare il cinese in 30 giorni… e per soli 30 giorni (e mi chiedo se poi abbia continuato… ma temo si sia fermato) non sembra essere andato per niente male. Il suo motivo certamente è poco condivisibile… voleva praticamente solo rimorchiare in discoteca… però bisogna apprezzare l’impegno. Purtroppo, per quanto il metodo poi sia stato relativamente efficace, c’è anche da piangere, perché non è per tutti: a parte Duolingo, qualche canale YouTube apposito, e il fatto che nel mentre di tutto ha preso tanti appunti vari (“tra l’altro con i colori come le ragazze“), una parte della storia si è sviluppata con lui che si è messo un po’ a frequentare Chinatown e aveva 2 coetanei cinesi con cui studiare… e sono questi ultimi dettagli il problema, insomma. Almeno nell’imparare qualcosa che non sia il cinese, perché il quartiere strambo non esiste per altre nazionalità, e quindi nemmeno le persone. Vabbè, pace, gli altri elementi sono comunque buoni per sfuggire ad una morsa troppo totalizzante del gufo.

#cinese #imparare #JumboDrillo #lingue

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In my community !action_movies@piefed.social , I've made two posts sticky (the "Welcome" post and the "Free, legal movies" post) using my Piefed mod account, but:

• viewing in PieFed, neither post is at the top. (They do have inverted angle brackets around the title.)
• viewing in Lemmy, The "Free, legal movies" post is sticky (at top, with pushpin icon) but the "Welcome" post isn't.

How do I get them both displayed at the top in both PieFed and Lemmy? Or is this a bug?

https://neuters.de/legal/government/chinas-huawei-must-face-us-criminal-charges-judge-rules-2025-07-01/

This paper introduces DiffuCoder, a 7B-scale open-source masked diffusion large language model (dLLM) specifically designed for code generation.

The research provides insights into how dLLMs generate content, distinguishing their decoding behavior from that of autoregressive (AR) models. Unlike AR models, dLLMs can intrinsically adjust their generation causality and increasing sampling temperature diversifies not just token choices but also their generation order, creating a rich search space for reinforcement learning (RL).

This flexibility allows dLLMs to be more non-autoregressive and generate tokens in a less sequential, more "human-like" code writing manner.

To leverage this diversity and improve performance, the paper proposes coupled-GRPO RL algorithm. This method utilizes a coupled-sampling scheme that constructs complementary mask noise during training to reduce the variance of token log-likelihood estimates while maintaining training efficiency.

Experimentally, coupled-GRPO significantly boosts DiffuCoder's performance on code generation benchmarks, notably improving EvalPlus scores by 4.4% with training on only 21K samples. The research also shows that coupled-GRPO trained models experience a smaller performance drop when decoding steps are halved (resulting in a 2x speedup), indicating increased parallelism and reduced reliance on AR bias during decoding.

available at huggingface.co/apple/DiffuCode…

apple/DiffuCoder-7B-cpGRPO · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/business/energy-environment/trump-bill-solar-panels-china.html

> “Leninists have rarely grappled with these facts, let alone provided a compelling explanation for them. In other words, they have assumed, but not actually demonstrated, that the dual-power / insurrection model of Russia 1917 — a revolution that toppled an autocratic, noncapitalist state, not a parliamentary regime — is relevant for capitalist democracies. Similarly, Post at no point provides any evidence for his assertion that only workers’ councils, not a socialist-led government elected by universal suffrage, are capable of leading a break with capitalism.”

The October Revolution overthrew the provisional government which was a parliament, although there was already a deep crisis caused by WWI at that point

Also, Leninists have talked about these facts

The rise of opportunism in imperialist countries due to the labour aristocracy and the super exploitation of the Third World, the cooption of communist parties in imperialist countries

On another point:

The Bolsheviks didn’t make the dual power situation happen

What happened was the masses spontaneously set up the Soviets in a time of deep political and economic crisis

The point that Leninists make is that in a time of crisis, the masses spontaneously take action (and this has happened in capitalist democracies too), the role of communists is to lead these movements to overthrow the state. The reason why this hasn’t happened is because of the rise of opportunism and the split in the working class

Ironically, the very ‘socialist’ parties that work through Parliament that this articles advocate for actually block this process from happening by diverting the energy into voting

Another point:

> "At the same time, the vast majority of elected left governments have never even tried to move down Kautsky’s suggested path due to the moderating pressure of labor bureaucratization and the immense economic power of the capitalist class."

This also reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the split in the working class and the social basis of these left government

He’s implying that these left parties are radical but they are held back by ‘moderate Labour movements’

But the left parties spring up from the same class basis of these moderate labour movements they represent the interests of the section of the working class that make up these moderate labor movements

Also, if such a radical working class movement exists outside Parliament that is going to push this theoretical socialist party left…. Why doesn’t it just overthrow the state altogether and take power for itself?

> "Avoiding the dead-end of social democratization will above all require a very intense and sustained degree of mass action and independent working-class organization outside of parliament. Without this, even the most well-intentioned government will flounder."

Like… why do all this dancing around? Such a militant movement should and could overthrow the state if parliament becomes so hostile to it

The entire premise of this imaginary scenario is that a militant working class movement exists but only does stuff to keep its elected officials in check

Or when the state and capitalists block its agenda

I also just think the fact that it uses AOC and Sanders as examples kinda ruins the legitimacy of the article because these politicians are imperialists

A few more points:

> "Second, reclaiming Kautsky’s strategy should prompt socialists to focus more on fighting to democratize the political regime, a tradition that has gotten lost since the era of the Second International. Whereas liberals and social democrats generally accept existing governmental rules and structures, Leninists have often been reluctant to proactively fight for major democratic reforms because they seek to completely illegitimate the current state."

Leninism actively promotes the fight for democracy and democratic rights. Pro-migrant rights, solidarity with prisoners, being against anti-protest laws, police brutality etc. Lenin was very clear that these political battles have to be engaged with so we don’t fall into economism. I say again, just look at the BPP (Black Panther Party)

> "Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other newly elected radicals have raised working people’s expectations and changed national politics. Socialists should participate in this electoral upsurge to promote mass movements and to organize hundreds of thousands of people into independent working-class organizations"

These politicians were always imperialist btw, it’s just become very obvious post October 7. Also, very crucially, these politicians were encouraging support for the Democrats, a racist pro-imperialist party but one that was willing to give concessions to some workers. This is opportunistic. This doesn’t mean that socialists shouldn’t engage with such movements (I think US communists know better than I do) but that engagement always has to keep in mind that those politicians don’t represent the interests of all workers and they certainly don’t represent the interests of workers in oppressed countries, if anything I imagine communists would be trying to expose this.

This article is based in Euro Communism, essentially this kind of thinking means that they see the ‘global north’ (once again a term I really hate) is so stable, will never go into an intense crisis, etc that revolution is impossible. So your only hope is to basically form mass socialist parties and hope you get voted in. But at that point you’re not socialist parties, you’re just giving workers a bigger share of the imperialist pie.

Let's contrast these article with the praxis that Che and Fidel reached in Latin America.

These quotes represent Che's ideas on the following:

> "Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted."

He further clarifies that a revolutionary situation arises when:

> "People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken."https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1963/09/guerrilla-warfare.htm

> "It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. ... [But] where constitutional legitimacy exists, however flawed, guerrilla warfare is premature."

He stresses that mass disillusionment with the state is a prerequisite:

> "The confidence of the electorate in any of the old forms must be completely shattered, confidence in the ability of the old system to honestly organize any aspect of public life shaken to the core."

faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/…

Guevara's broader writings reinforce this principle:

In a 1959 interview, he condemned electoral systems as tools of oppression:"Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians."

bigother.com/2020/06/14/che-gu…

He linked revolutionary violence to the failure of institutional justice:"Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers."

marxists.org/archive/guevara/1…

Theoretical Consistency in Anti-Imperialism

Guevara framed armed struggle as a response to exhausted alternatives in global contexts:

> "The feeling of revolt will grow stronger every day among peoples subjected to exploitation, and they will take up arms to gain by force the rights which reason alone has not won them."

bigother.com/2020/06/14/che-gu…

Why Kautsky Was Right (and Why You Should Care)

Karl Kautsky’s vision for winning democratic socialism is more radical, and more relevant, than most leftists care to admit.

^jacobin.com

More than half of Americans believe that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone “too far” in its pursuit of arresting migrants, according to a new poll.

While 54 percent said ICE has used its power too aggressively, the sentiment was even greater among Democrats at 83%, according to a poll by PBS News, NP and Marist.

Nearly half of Republicans, by contrast, said ICE’s actions are appropriate and an additional 31% said the agency had not gone far enough in enforcing Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

The vast majority of Americans (80%) support the U.S. government's deportation of migrants without permanent legal status who have been convicted of a violent crime.

More than half of Americans - and 83% of Democrats - say ICE has gone ‘too far’ in arresting migrants: poll

The poll follows a month of heightened tension over immigration as protests against ICE broke out

^{Rhian Lubin (The Independent)}