AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine)
AI Won’t Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That’s Perfectly Fine)
Silicon Valley’s latest gospel sounds almost mystical. Artificial intelligence will rescue the West from demographic collapse, bloated welfare systems, and innovation-stifling regulations.Eli Grid (GazeOn)
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Chinese team captures rare quantum friction effect in folded ultra-thin sheets of graphene
Pseudo-Landau levels splitting triggers quantum friction at folded graphene edge - Nature Communications
Understanding and controlling the quantum friction remain challenging. Here, the authors reveal pseudo-Landau levels splitting induced quantum friction at solid-solid interfaces via engineering the nanocurvature geometry of folded graphene edges.Nature
New dinosaur species identified in Liaoning
New dinosaur species identified in Liaoning
Chinese scientists have identified two new dinosaur species in Northeast China, shedding light on the evolution of small, feathered theropods and the remarkable diversity of the 125-million-year-old Jehol Biota.epaper.chinadaily.com.cn
US used 14% of its THAAD stockpile against Iran, a report says. It could take years to replenish.
US used 14% of its THAAD stockpile against Iran, a report says. It could take years to replenish.
It could take three to eight years for the U.S. to replenish its stockpile of high-altitude missile interceptors after the military launched nearly 14% of its arsenal during last month’s conflict with Iran, according to a new report by the Jewish Ins…Stars and Stripes
Confirmed: ChatGPT uses Google Snippets for its Answers [A Test with Proof]
Confirmed: ChatGPT uses Google SERP Snippets for its Answers [A Test with Proof]
I've run a simple but straight-forward to follow test that confirms the reliance of ChatGPT on Google SERPs snippets for its answers.Aleyda Solis (Aleyda Solis - International SEO Consultant, Founder, Author & Speaker)
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Yes and no. Even with after information and statements from Hamas which Jeremy Scahill has early access to, mainstream media refuses to publish statements from both sides.
Unless the IDF commits another massive crime and needs to spread blood libel about Palestinians of course. Only then "both sides" need to tell their story.
Israel ‘racing to wipe out Gaza, eliminate its people’: Heritage minister
Israel’s far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said Thursday that his government is “racing against time to wipe out Gaza and its Palestinian population,” adding that the territory will become “entirely Jewish.”
“The government is racing to wipe out Gaza. We are eliminating this evil. We are eliminating its residents,” Eliyahu told Israel’s Kol Barama radio.
“Gaza will become completely Jewish.”
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We started a new privacy podcast.
Hey, everyone. If you're looking for a fresh privacy podcast, we recently started a new one called Signal Jam.
Here's a bit about why we made Signal Jam and what we're hoping to do differently.
We even have preliminary ways for you to participate in the project, which you can read about here.
Feel free to connect with us on Proton, Tuta, Signal, or here on Lemmy. Looking forward to your feedback and thoughts!
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Hey, there— we're still open to it, but when we launch it depends on how much demand there is from the community. Realistically, we'll probably wait a few more episodes down the line before we start one. Out of curiosity, do you use Signal, Matrix, or other platforms you think we should consider?
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Totally respect the compartmentalization strategy. I'll chat with Jay about this... maybe we'll bump up the SimpleX timeline a bit.
We're trying to prioritize which platforms to start with since the project is so new. As we publish more content and resources, we're hoping they bring real value to the community, and in turn widen our audience. Once that happens, it would make more sense to open up more channels to accommodate more folks. One thing at a time 🙂
I only read the signal link you posted, but the first link inside it complains that the signal server needs to know a users ip and that could be used to connect people and users. Ip addresses are required to send data. Ip obfuscation is insanely out of scope for a messenger.
The second link complains about sealed sender not failing closed which is true (or was true at the time) but also a reasonable compromise to prevent abuse and avoid it constantly failing and requiring new expirable tokens.
These are not reasons to not use or even not recommend signal. A person who is taking recommendations to increase their privacy should not be worried about those concerns.
Removing oneself from public records (or taking greater control over what surfaces in public records about oneself) is infinitely more important than expecting ip obfuscation or sealed sender from signal.
I am not making this reply to start an argument and will not engage in one. The point is to help readers understand that your concerns about signal are esoteric.
more important than expecting ip obfuscation or sealed sender from signal
People are only expecting metadata protection (which is what "sealed sender", a term Signal themselves created, purports to do) because Signal dishonestly says they are providing it. The fact that they implemented this feature in their protocol is one of the reasons they should be distrusted.
For anyone reading along, that means people you send signal messages to can see your user account name maybe even if you click the button that’s supposed to make it not possible to do that.
Change your behavior accordingly.
No, it isn't about hiding your identity from the people you send messages to - it's about the server (and anyone with access to it) knowing who communicates with who, and when.
Michael Hayden (former director of both the NSA and CIA) famously acknowledged that they literally "kill people based on metadata"; from Snowden disclosures we know that they share this type of data with even 3rd-tier partner countries when it is politically beneficial.
Signal has long claimed that they don't record such metadata, but, since they outsource the keeping of their promises to Amazon, they decided they needed to make a stronger claim so they now claim that they can't record it because the sender is encrypted (so only the recipient knows who sent it). But, since they must know your IP anyway, from which you need to authenticate to receive messages, this is clearly security theater: Amazon (and any intelligence agency who can compel them, or compel an employee of theirs) can still trivially infer this metadata.
This would be less damaging if it was easy to have multiple Signal identities, but due to their insistence on requiring a phone number (which you no longer need to share with your contacts but must still share with the Amazon-hosted Signal server) most people have only one account which is strongly linked to many other facets of their online life.
Though few things make any attempt to protect metadata, anything without the phone number requirement is better than Signal. And Signal's dishonest incoherent-threat-model-having "sealed sender" is a gigantic red flag.
Video Clip of Former Director of NSA and CIA: “We Kill People Based on Metadata”
In a public debate with Just Security‘s David Cole at Johns Hopkins University, former Director of the NSA and CIA, General Michael Hayden made the provocative remark, “We Kill People Based on Metadata.” In a post on Saturday, David used Gen.Ryan Goodman (Just Security)
There’s a big difference between the metadata that the Snowden leaks are talking about and how they’re used and the metadata the signal server (or its subcontracted provider) has and how and under what conditions it’s able to be used.
The metadata that is the subject of the statement “we kill people based off metadata” is unencrypted cell phone signals and other broadly plaintext requests sent over a system that by design also includes location telemetry. That information could be easily obtained en masse through a man in the middle attack or through the lawful intercept backdoors built into the equipment that carries the information itself (which is less of a man in the middle attack and more of a man in the middle design).
This is different from the signal metadata both in form and content. The signal metadata is not vulnerable to a mitm attack and the agencies implicated in the Snowden leaks would have to actually go through the legal hoopla required in order to get just the metadata itself. Same as they would have to if they wanted the actual content.
Amazon does comply with law enforcement requests often without requiring a warrant, but the difference between requiring a request be made as opposed to simply being able to collect that metadata freely and package it as actionable intelligence is significant.
All messaging systems are vulnerable to this attack. If you send or receive a message then you, the other party and any intermediary like a server are subject to the laws of the places they’re physically located.
Again, I’m not arguing, I’m trying to make this very convoluted system clearer.
Hey, Arthur— thanks for dropping these links. Jay and I will look at these and consider your thought process, and might reach out to follow up, if that's okay! If I may ask, what do you prefer for email and RTC?
-M
For chat, something with e2ee and without phone numbers or centralized metadata. SimpleX, Matrix, XMPP, etc - each have their own problems, but at least they aren't centralizing everyone's metadata with a CIA contractor like Jeff Bezos like Signal is.
For email, I'd recommend finding small-to-medium-sized operators who seem both honest and competent. Anyone offering snakeoil privacy features such as browser-based e2ee is failing in at least one of those two categories.
We're considering moving up our timeline on a SimpleX and Matrix chat as we've received interest from others about that, too. Keep an eye on our website or show notes as we'll update those when new chat channels open up.
As for email, are there specific providers you recommend we look at?
-M
Matrix | Germany | Open source | Origins
Frustrated by a fragmented landscape of siloed communications tools, and an increasingly centralized web, Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape had a vision to create the missing communications layer of the open web.element.io
No Matrix was developed by Amdocs, an Israeli company. It has moved to Europe afterwards (I recall UK but might be wrong about that part)
Element is a Matrix client.
Humanity check causing app issues
I fired up Blorp this morning and not comments or new stories would load.
I also have Interstellar installed, so I tried that and I only got this message:
So I tried in my browser. I saw the humanity check ever so briefly, but then was moved along to the site. After that, I was able to refresh Interstellar and it worked. Blorp needed a restart, but looks okay now too.
Less a question than a report...
This bill would fine social media companies $5 million every day for not fighting 'terrorism'
New bill would fine social media companies $5 million every day for not fighting 'terrorism'
The STOP HATE Act wants social media platforms to report their moderation policies and outcomes to the government.Matthew Petti (Reason.com)
Chinese scientists break design ‘curse’ that killed US Navy’s drone programme
Chinese scientists break design ‘curse’ that killed US Navy’s X-47B drone programme
Research team says a revolutionary software design could provide ‘critical technical support’ for next-generation warplanes.Stephen Chen (South China Morning Post)
Open source (GPL 3) to alternative Adobe After Effects
Friction
Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video.friction.graphics
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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.Jake Buehler (Quanta Magazine)
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.Project Syndicate
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Lots of fluff in this article and the site itself sucks. Here's the key paragraph:
One way to achieve this would be to impose a levy on the gross revenues of the largest AI providers, collected by a national or multilateral agency. As the technology becomes increasingly embedded in daily life and production processes, the revenue flowing to AI firms is bound to grow – and so, too, will contributions to the fund. These resources could then be distributed by independent grant councils on multiyear cycles, ensuring that support reaches a wide range of disciplines and regions.
My biggest issue with this approach is that it fails to acknowledge that AI is a bubble currently propped up by venture capital. In 1-4 years all those investors are going to want their ROI, and AI companies are going to start turning the money crank hard.
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There's also no way to really tell what the "cost" of generative AI is on creative fields, or any way to determine who gets what money. There aren't going to be enough grants to cover every small, independent artist whose work is buried beneath mountains of AI slop
And like, the obvious issue is who is going to enforce this? Pretty much every government has been cozying up with the billionaire tech bros that run AI companies and will fight tooth and nail against any legislation like this proposal
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Arrestate Mussolini. Oggi, 25 luglio, nel 1943, i carabinieri - dopo il suo colloquio con il Re - detengono l'ormai ex Capo del Governo e Duce del fascismo
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
This photograph, taken on July 24, 2025, shows a damaged residential building following a drone attack in Odesa, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Oleksandr Gimanov / AFP via Getty Images)
War with Russia could last until 2034, Ukraine’s ex-top general Zaluzhnyi warns. “If we try to establish a ceasefire without building up our future defenses, the war will drag on for many more years,” former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said.
Global Starlink outage disrupts Ukrainian front lines. Starlink experienced a global outage on July 24, with the cause still unknown. Ukraine’s military confirmed the disruption affected connectivity along the front lines.
Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast, official says. Ukrainian and Western military experts assess that Russia may escalate its offensive operations during the 50-day period U.S. President Donald Trump allocated for Moscow to reach a ceasefire settlement.
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Over 1,300 residents remain in embattled Pokrovsk, governor says. Vadym Filashkin said the situation in the region is growing more difficult by the day as Russian forces intensify their offensive.
Russia plans sweeping gasoline export ban to stabilize domestic market, sources tell Reuters. The Russian government has resorted to temporary gasoline export bans multiple times over the past two years, typically to address domestic fuel shortages and alleviate high prices.
Anti-corruption
‘We all hear what society is saying’ — Zelensky vows anti-corruption plan within 2 weeks amid backlash over controversial bill. “We see what people expect from state institutions — ensured justice and the effective functioning of each institution,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Zelensky submits new bill restoring anti-graft agencies’ independence after protests. The bill follows Zelensky’s decision on July 22 to sign a bill that effectively destroyed the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
US Senator Lindsey Graham criticises Zelensky’s signing of controversial anti-corruption law. Lindsey urged Kyiv to reconsider the law as “one of the most widely used talking points for ending support for Ukraine is that it was awash with corruption.”
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Ukraine war latest: China covertly supplying drone engines to Russia despite sanctions, Reuters reports
Beijing is reportedly circumventing Western sanctions by discreetly shipping Chinese-made drone engines to a state-owned Russian manufacturer, labeling them as “industrial refrigeration units” to avoid detection.
Photo: Zvezda / Rutube
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Invisible prisoners — the struggle to free thousands of Ukrainians in Russian captivity
Since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainians in the occupied territories have been subject to illegal detentions, brutal interrogations, convictions in an unrecognized legal system, and torture.
Photo: Dominique Faget / AFP via Getty Images
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is spreading lies about Ukraine’s protests. Russia is taking note
Thousands of citizens rallied in cities across the country on the first night with a clear goal: to urge Volodymyr Zelensky to veto a bill passed in parliament that guts anti-corruption reforms, and to express anger with recent government attacks on anti-corruption figures.
Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / The Kyiv Independent
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Georgian-Ukrainian music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv amid shared resistance to Russian imperialism
Founded in 2021 by a local Ukrainian team and the Georgian club Bassiani, ICKPA (pronounced “Iskra” which means “Spark” in Ukrainian) was envisioned as an annual event, aimed at amplifying the voices of creative communities from Eastern European countries.
Photo: ICKPA
Human cost of Russia’s war
Russian glide bombs strike Kharkiv residential high-rise building, injuring at least 41. Some people were trapped beneath the rubble of the multi-story building, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Russian attacks kill 4, injure 33 over past day, damaging UNESCO-protected landmarks in Odesa. Kharkiv Oblast saw the highest number of civilians affected by Russian attacks, which killed three people and injured five others.
International response
Von der Leyen urges China to press Putin to engage seriously in Ukraine-Russia peace talks. “China has an influence on Russia, like the European Union has an influence on Ukraine,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
US approves $330 million in military sales to Ukraine for artillery, air defense support. The U.S. State Department has approved two proposed military sales to Ukraine, valued at a combined $330 million, to bolster the country’s artillery and air defense systems, the agency announced on July 24.
Netherlands, OSCE seek investigation into Russian torture of Ukrainian POWs. The Netherlands and 40 other OSCE member states have formally called for an independent investigation into the torture and mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp announced July 24.
Indian company sent explosives to Russia despite US warnings, Reuters reports. Among the Russian companies listed as recipients of the explosive substance octogen, also known as HMX, is Promsintez, an explosives producer that has ties to the Russian military, a Ukrainian Security Service official told Reuters.
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I was 18 when I protested at EuroMaidan. I’m proud of new generation protesting now
“Seeing this evolution of Ukrainian society made me emotional and very proud. All these years of standing up on squares and then on the battlefield weren’t for nothing if this is what Ukraine is now,” writes Toma Istomina,
deputy chief editor at The Kyiv Independent.
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Ukrainian MP, businessman Yaroslav Rushchyshyn dies in motorcycle accident. Yaroslav Rushchyshyn, a Ukrainian member of parliament, entrepreneur, and cultural figure, died following a motorcycle accident, his family confirmed to local media outlet Tvoye Misto on July 25.
Kolomoisky embezzlement case to be sent to court. Kolomoisky, the former owner of Ukraine’s largest bank PrivatBank, and five of his associates were charged in 2023 with money laundering and fraud. They are accused of embezzling Hr 9.2 billion ($250 million) from PrivatBank.
Russia deploys additional electronic warfare systems near Estonian border. The systems, deployed near the Russian town of Kingisepp — roughly 20 kilometers (around 12 miles) from Estonia’s eastern border — are designed to jam communications, disrupt radar systems, and assert control over the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Russia deploys additional electronic warfare systems near Estonian border
The systems, deployed near the Russian town of Kingisepp — roughly 20 kilometers (around 12 miles) from Estonia's eastern border — are designed to jam communications, disrupt radar systems, and assert control over the electromagnetic spectrum.Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)
Obama Russiagate scandal exposed: new declassified US intelligence documents reveal fabrication of Russia interference narrative
Obama Russiagate scandal exposed: new declassified US intelligence documents reveal fabrication of Russia interference narrative - teleSUR English
Newly declassified US intelligence documents reveal how former President Barack Obama orchestrated the Russiagate conspiracy, fabricating false evidence ofteleSURenglish
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Right, because this narrative had any impact on the MAGAt bullshit at all. I only ever say liberals and leftists slinging the"russian troll" accusations at eachother. Meanwhile, Obama isn't running again, so there's no point in this post save for that rarest-of-all beasts; virtue signalling from the right.
I'm sorry you have nothing better to do OP, but you couldn't pay me to regurgitate this garbag propoganda. Do you just have no dignity or self-respect, or are they threatening your family?
Changes to Bitnami Catalog on August 28th
Hey there selfhosters,
I imagine some of you are selfhosting Kubernetes and that you might have used some Bitnami images/helmchars.
Bitnami communicated recently about some changes in their catalog [here] (github.com/bitnami/charts/issu…), and will be effective at the end of August.
For the simple version, they are migrating images from docker.io/bitnami to docker.io/bitnamilegacy, implying some changes there.
But to be expected is that at some point even docker.io/bitnamilegacy will be removed (or of course pay a license to them to access their “secure” images)
I was wondering if someone was affected by this ?
Cheers !
Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025)
📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing on...wjimenez5271 (GitHub)
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Many helm charts, like authentik or forgejo integrate bitnami helmcharts for their databases. So that's why this is concerning to me,
But, I was planning to switch to operators like cloudnativepostgres for my databases instead and disable the builtin bitnami images. When using the builtin bitnami images, automatic migration between major releases is not supported, you have to do it yourself manually and that dissapointed me.
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I want to use it for note taking and reading pdf..
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Hey. Thank you all for the answers. It made me see that there are more devices to get to know. Like one of you has written, some devices may be so niche, that support isnt going too stay long. And, what to do then? Is it another device that will be in the schelff? Im going to look more into Kobo, and Boox, at first. But yir its just easyer to have a device in the hand, and then make a choice 😀
AI-backed medical debt company claims payment plans can help US healthcare costs
AI-backed medical debt company claims payment plans can help US healthcare costs
PayZen’s model relies on buying hospital debt at discount as Republican cuts set to leave millions without insuranceJessica Glenza (The Guardian)
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Chengdu Launches First Real-World Intelligent Robot Pilot Program, Bringing AI to Streets and Schools
Chengdu Launches First Real-World Intelligent Robot Pilot Program, Bringing AI to Streets and Schools
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Chengdu Launches First Real-World Intelligent Robot Pilot Program, Bringing AI to Streets and Schools
Chengdu Launches First Real-World Intelligent Robot Pilot Program, Bringing AI to Streets and Schools
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McDonald's Combines the Worst of AI & Job Hunting
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/8611451
Well-said about how the courts treat data privacy and doxxing.Your thoughts?
It's a nice commentary / news video.
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yeah, and not just leftist. you can have the most liberal and bourgeois-backed nationalist project just to secure some kind of national sovereignty and there will still be a coup. Case point: Iran and Mosaddegh.
Imperialism will sap the wealth of countries and peoples for short term gains, regardless of the economic system.
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Can The Kremlin Finally Get Russians To Stop Using YouTube? Not Yet.
Can The Kremlin Finally Get Russians To Stop Using YouTube? Not Yet.
Russian officials have spent years laying the groundwork for a “managed” Internet that authorities could control and surveil. Pushing Russians away from hugely popular YouTube is key.Mike Eckel (RFE/RL)
Porn websites now require age verification in the UK – the privacy and security risks are numerous
Porn websites now require age verification in the UK – the privacy and security risks are numerous
Online age verification technology is not as mature and safe as government and regulators would like it to be.The Conversation
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USAID report finds no evidence of Hamas stealing US-funded aid
A recent US government internal review rebuffs claims that Palestinian group Hamas systematically diverted US-funded humanitarian aid, challenging previous assertions by Israel and the US.
An unreported US Agency for International Development (USAID) study examined 156 cases of lost or stolen aid between October 2023 and May 2025, and found no evidence of Hamas benefiting from US-supplied aid.
The report contradicts claims by Israel and the US, which have been used to justify a controversial new armed private aid operation, which has resulted over 1,000 deaths among starving aid-seekers.
USAID report finds no evidence of Hamas stealing US-funded aid
Internal review disputes Israel, US allegations of Hamas aid diversion amid Gaza blockade and humanitarian crisisNews Room (Yeni Şafak)
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Keir Starmer under pressure to recognise Palestinian statehood
Keir Starmer under pressure to recognise Palestinian statehood
It comes as French President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognise statehood in September.Paul Seddon (BBC News)
New Android POS at work has 4 notifications but I can't clear them because their MDM locks the notification bar.
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Rise of the Idiot Interviewer
Podcast bros are interviewing presidents and power players without doing basic research beforehand. The result is a propagandistic catastrophe.
A pair of pro-Trump Canadian prankster YouTubers called the “Nelk Boys” recently interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is responsible for the starvation of Gaza and a war on the population that kills hundreds of people per day. It is an unconscionable crime against humanity, which is why he is wanted by the International Criminal Court.
The Nelk Boys, by their own admission, did not do a good job interviewing Netanyahu, asking questions like: “You [and Trump] are very tight, right? Would you call it a ‘bromance’?” They asked Netanyahu what his go-to McDonald’s order is. They raved about the nightlife in Tel Aviv. (“Tel Aviv is lit!”) The closest they came to asking a critical question was when Nelk Boy Kyle Forgeard said that “I’ll see or read stuff on X and people will say, like Israel is killing babies or they’re starving people,” to which Netanyahu just replied “That’s completely false.” (It is true.) Forgeard admitted during the episode that “I see so much stuff about what’s going on in Israel and Iran and Palestine, and to be honest, I just really don’t know what is going on there.” That certainly showed.
Unfortunately, the Nelk Boys are not unique in being completely unprepared to interview political leaders. A number of independent podcasters who have interviewed Donald Trump and JD Vance have been similarly unwilling to do the basic research necessary to carry out an interviewer’s job. These podcasters do not consider themselves right-wing, and in fact hold many left-leaning viewpoints, but because they have totally failed in the task of studying the issues they’re having conversations about, they end up spreading unchecked propaganda.
Look at the kinds of questions that Lex Fridman asked Donald Trump, for instance:
- What drives you more, the love of winning or the hate of losing?
- You’ve said that politics is a dirty game… So if it is a game, how do you win at that?
- You’ve been successful in business, you’ve been successful in politics. What do you think is the difference between gaining success between the two different disparate worlds?
- How do you think you’ll do in the debate coming up, that’s in a few days?
You will not be surprised to learn that Trump thinks he will do well in the debate! From these ludicrous softballs, we learn nothing whatsoever of value about how Trump will govern the country. But even when Fridman approaches the realm of a substantive question, he allows Trump to get away with unbelievable bullshit. For instance, when Fridman says “Let me ask you about Project 2025. So you’ve publicly said that you don’t have any direct connection to—” Trump cuts him off, says he has nothing to do with Project 2025, and Fridman moves on.(After being elected, Trump appointed several of the project’s architects to key positions, and it is now estimated that nearly half of Project 2025 has already been implemented.)
A good interviewer would have gone through Project 2025 item by item, demanding more clarity on whether Trump actually disagreed with the goals of Project 2025, and asking which parts of it Trump would specifically pledge not to implement.
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Nessun uomo sano di mente pensa con la testa.
In cui solo persone folli corrono per più di 100Miglia (163km). Se dovessi pensare con la testa credo che correrei 5km ogni, me in certi casi è meglio che la testa non pensi altrimenti non si farebbe nulla di nulla. Lasciamoci andare, anche nella corsa. La testa è un limitatore a volte...Buone corse
Police, LaLiga & Alianza Target MagisTV With ISP Office Raids & Arrests
Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga and Latin American anti-piracy group Alianza have joined forces to maintain the pressure on illegal IPTV service Magis TV. In conjunction with law enforcement partners in Argentina, multiple arrest warrants were executed in five regions against local sellers of premium Magis TV packages. Two of the locations targeted are operated by a local internet service provider; reports indicate that the owner of the ISP is now considered a fugitive.
Police, LaLiga & Alianza Target MagisTV With ISP Office Raids & Arrests * TorrentFreak
Spanish football league LaLiga and LATAM anti-piracy group Alianza have joined forces to maintain pressure on illegal IPTV service Magis TV.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Cyber leaks and scandals rock Morocco’s political establishment: ‘Jabaroot’ hacks and high-level corruption allegations shake Moroccan government.
Cyber leaks and scandals rock Morocco’s political establishment
A hacker group’s leaks have exposed top Moroccan officials, sparking outrage, legal battles, and deepening public mistrust in state institutions.Global Voices
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •If y'all don't think this guys wasn't under surveillance the entire time....
At very min, counter intelligence monitors all of these regime whores. They just got extra hands on deck with a few political komissars helping the national security spooks
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James Comey was a huge fan of surveillance laws, and tried to get backdoors into encryption. Maybe now he appreciates the value of privacy more than he used to.
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