Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'
President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'
Trump made the admission during a speech to launch his new AI Action PlanStephen Warwick (Tom's Hardware)
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For 1st Time, Fires Are Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.
Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights.Charlie Sorrel (iFixit)
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BBC News and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
"We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there."
In a separate joint statement, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, said their colleagues and the people they serve were "wasting away".
But Israel, which controls the entry of supplies into Gaza, has accused the charities of "serving the propaganda of Hamas".
BBC News and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
News organisations say local journalists are increasingly unable to feed themselves in Gaza, facing the same "dire circumstances as those they are covering".Amy Walker (BBC News)
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But Israel, which controls the entry of supplies into Gaza, has accused the charities of “serving the propaganda of Hamas”.
when reality has an anti-IDF bias
Gaza: Negotiations between the US, Israel, and Qatar over a mega yacht on the Costa Smeralda
Gaza: US, Israeli, and Qatar negotiate megayacht deal on Costa Smeralda
In Sardinia, a truce meeting was held between US envoy Witkoff, Tel Aviv minister Dermer, and the Prime Minister of the Emirates, Al-Thani.Redazione (Unione Sarda English)
Germany Approves Deployment Of Two Taliban Diplomats To Berlin, Bonn as part of efforts to facilitate the deportation of Afghan nationals with criminal convictions
Germany Approves Deployment Of Two Taliban Diplomats To Berlin, Bonn
The German government has approved the deployment of two Taliban-appointed consular officers to Afghanistan’s diplomatic missions in Berlin and Bonn as part of efforts to facilitate the deportation of Afghan nationals with criminal convictions.Afghanistan International
India's illegal expulsions to Bangladesh target Muslims
India's illegal expulsions to Bangladesh target Muslims: HRW
A new Human Rights Watch report has found that hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims in India have been forced into neighboring Bangladesh. They told HRW that they feared for their lives if they did not comply.Mahima Kapoor (Deutsche Welle)
Governors Urge Japan Govt to Address Population Decline
Governors Urge Japan Govt to Address Population Decline
Aomori, July 23 (Jiji Press)--Japanese prefectural governors Wednesday urged the central government to give to…nippon.com
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Earth's population was meant to decline. Degrowth of a sort, because 8 billion is too many.
Why have children when their future is guarenteed to be fucked?
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8 billion people isnt too many people if resources were used appropriately and we had less severe inequality. The real issue is that of the 8 billion people on earth, way too many of them are on the older side and no society has a good plan to deal with it. South Korea has been doing some interesting things with turning children’s infrastructure, like elementary schools and daycares, into daycare for aging seniors. Theres a lot of overlap in the need for physically safe environments and their recreational activities, so it makes sense. But its not a holistic solution
The world population is virtually guaranteed to cap out at about 10B people in 2050 or so before entering decline, and at that point virtually every country in the world will be dealing with the same issue Japan, South Korea, Italy, etc are dealing with right now. There wont be enough young people to care for the old people because the majority of countries are already seeing below replacement level births right now.
As much as people think overpopulation is an issue, we will never have to deal with that problem. The problem we will actually have to deal with is steep population decline, caused by periods in the past where some or almost all countries had birth levels well over necessary replacement levels
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I don't want my children or anyone elses to take care of me, or other old folks. No one should place that burden on our youth. When it's time, its time. I'm reminded of a friend who had to take leave off work because his dad was in a home and couldn't feed himself and they had insufficient staff to care for the old folks feedings and washings. What a disgusting way to live. I'll never be that burden on anyone.
I'll take care of myself and when I can't do that anymore I'll take care of myself. ಠ_ಠ
With any luck, society will learn sensible limits to eldercare.
Agreed with all that except that I think 8 billion is way too damned high. 73% of the animals on this planet have disappeared since I was was born, and back then we had "only" 3.7 billion people. I've seen radical declines in my local ecosystem in just the last 5 years. That's in a hood on the very edge of town, surrounded by rivers, creeks, woods and swamps.
People blame global warming, but that's very recent and only the tip of the iceberg. Human activity is directly killing everything.
Thats something i think of daily, and i have 2 kids.
It was a mistake, i am sorry for them, for their future.
We don't have too many people!
We have too many greedy and sociopathic people. We currently have the tech and knowledge to provide (of course not over night) for every human... While also protecting and restoring the environment. We don't have a space or resource problem. We have a economic system(s) and morality problem.
Yes, we do have too many. While we could provide for 8 billion, that many humans is destroying our ecosystems.
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World population has more than doubled in my lifetime. Society might be able to support 8 billion, the planet cannot.
No more tech hiring in India, Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft and others to focus on Americans
No more tech hiring in India, Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft and others to focus on Americans
US President Donald Trump has sent a strong message to big tech companies like Google and Microsoft asking them to stop hiring overseas including in countries like IndiaAnkita Garg (India Today)
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North Korea's Kim Urges Troops To Prepare 'For Real War'
North Korea's Kim Urges Troops To Prepare 'For Real War'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged his military to be ready "for real war" as he observed a firing contest of artillery units, Pyongyang state media said Thursday.Barrons
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In other news water is wet.
Dont give fat kimmy more credit than he deserves.
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Trump’s hefty tariff on Brazil expected to push the country towards China
Trump’s hefty tariff on Brazil expected to push the country towards China
Chinese investments could play a crucial role in enabling Brazil to boost its industrial capacity and diversify economy.Eleonore Hughes (Al Jazeera)
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Understand, that Trump's NOT playing the Zero-Sum Game: he's playing the Negative-Sum Game, as mass-shooters are, too..
He isn't working towards future-generations' victory, rather, he's working to enforce that there IS NO US of A for anybody to be a citizen-of, after he's finished with it: he will go down in history as its last ruler..
Same as mass-shooters want glory/infamy, not long-life..
( & "journalism"'s stringing-along the false-framing that it's really otherwise, is just helping increase our body-count at the end of this decade, in treason against true Journalism's spirit )
The 5 culture-levels ( levels, not "stages", as stages are irreversable, like larval-caterpiller, but adult-giraffe, after their metamorphosis, you know? ), that are anchored on the 3 categories of Game, are:
5: Positive-Sum Game, aka Win-Win Alliance: "Living is self-inherently AWESOME!!"
4: mixed: "WE are great, THEY are not."
3: Zero-Sum Game, aka competitive-narcissism, which money-people presume that all players are playing: "I am great, others are not."
2: mixed, subject-to-narcissism's-rule: "MY life sucks."
1: Negative-Sum Game, mass-shooters, competitive-nihilism: "LIFE, ITSELF sucks, let's butcher it for importance/glory."
You can watch the simplified-condensed version here: ted.com/talks/david_logan_trib… & if you find that understanding the 5 cultures is important to you, because you want to decide which of the cultures you live-in, through the rest of your life, then I beg you to invest in understanding everything in their book, "Tribal Leadership" by Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright.
They didn't realize that the 5 culture-levels all hang on the 3 categories of game, I did, but with that key, it's even more important to be understanding this, as the US of A is now manufacturing a mass-enforced-conversion of people down to culture-level-2 & culture-level-1 ( homeless oft becomes culture-level-1 within 3 months, and I say that having experienced years of it: it DESTROYS you, inside ).
Immunize your life against that particular erosion-of-your-life, now, while you've still got good leverage, because they're working to enforce that we lose all our leverage, ASAP..
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EDIT: to make it explicit, what I'm saying..
IF you don't understand which of the 3 categories-of-Game a player is playing, THEN you aren't competent in understanding what their strategy is!!
ONCE you understand that the accelerationists, & the far-right, are not playing for long-rule, they are playing for power-while-destroying-everyone-else's-life, THEN you can understand what is, vs what isn't, Strategy, from their perspective, see?
Should have made that obvious, instead of only implying it, as it was sufficiently-obvious in my head, but .. you aren't me, & be happy about that, too.
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Tribal leadership
David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.www.ted.com
Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches
Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches
The women were strip-searched and invasively examined after a baby was found at Doha airport in 2020.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
Permit revoked for MAGA musician's concert at Parks Canada site, but show will go on
Parks Canada says a U.S. singer and rising star in the MAGA movement will not perform at a national historic site near Halifax after the federal agency revoked the organizer's permit, but the show is slated to go on at a new venue.
Christian rocker Sean Feucht was scheduled to play a concert on Wednesday night at the York Redoubt National Historic Site, a fortification constructed in 1793 to help protect the port city.
Feucht, who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Congress as a Republican in 2020, is also a missionary and an author who has spoken out against the 2SLGBTQ+ community, abortion rights and critical race theory on his website.
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Currently living in Canada. Can confirm Canadians absolutely hate MAGA/Trump and are energized against it.
(Except for Alberta, we don't talk about them)
World's smallest-known snake found under rocks in Barbados after nearly 20 years
World's smallest-known snake found under rocks in Barbados after nearly 20 years
Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct before it was rediscovered in March.CBS News
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15% tariffs
...is currently just a rumor. Everything is in a state of flux. And still, an agreement with Trump is just a piece of (toilet) paper, as he has proven repeatedly. So, let's see how and if that all plays out.
Also, if things get worse with the current pollling in mind, he'll probably lose the Congress. Either in Nov 2026, or maybe even before if he also loses some of his Rep. backing during the next months.
This is not about the number, it's about slowing tu ngs down to stabilize other options.
Ten workers killed battling wildfires in Turkey
Ten workers killed battling wildfires in Turkey
Forestry workers and rescuers were trapped by fire following a change in the wind direction.Seher Asaf (BBC News)
Twelve killed in Thailand-Cambodia military clashes on disputed border
Twelve killed in Thailand-Cambodia border clashes
The fighting marks an escalation of a century-old conflict between the two South East Asian neighbours.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
India court pauses acquittal of 12 men in Mumbai train bombings case
Mumbai train bombings: India court pauses acquittal of 12 men convicted in the case
The Bombay High Court had freed the men on Monday, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.BBC News
Saudi Arabia accused of banning women’s rights activists from leaving the country
Saudi Arabia accused of banning women’s rights activists from leaving the country
Former political prisoners face lengthy travel restrictions to stop them speaking out, says human rights organisationTom Levitt (The Guardian)
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Passenger plane with 49 people onboard crashes in Russia’s far east
48 dead after Soviet-era passenger plane crashes in Russia’s far east
Wreckage of Angara Airlines flight found on mountainside not far from its destination of TyndaPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
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Yeah and every time, nationalist turbo-libs like you will be there to voice your utter apathy for the deaths of innocent civilians because they are flying over land controlled by monsters with a different flag than the monsters who control your country, a flag whose subjects your country has told you to hate.
Nationalism is a fucking mind virus.
Something in the ballpark of 90 % of those civilians support the war of genocide in some form. Some 30 % are against the war, but most of those are angry about how Ukraine was invaded: They would have wanted it done in a much less bloody fashion.
You talk with Russians, and they keep telling you how "you must look at both sides of the situation", in other words trying to defend the genocide their country is doing its best to commit. So, of course at least 5 %, possibly almost 10 % of Russian civilians are innocent, but out of the 44 adults that died, that is statistically about 2 to 4 people in the whole plane, plus the five children. Are we supposed to be very very horrified that 9 innocent people died in a plane crash?
In the other hand, the Russia is doing its Human Safari attacks against civilians, hunting them down with drones for fun. And they are targeting mainly civilian homes in their terror attacks with drones and missiles. If the death of those 7 innocent civilians and 40 guilty civilians (because of course, every death is always a sad thing – always to at least some extent!) helps end the war earlier and that saves the lives of 200 innocent civilians in Ukraine (being attacked by the army most of the plane's passengers were happily supporting), then as a net result that crash has then saved lives of a bit over 150 people. And yes, I prefer 49 dying over 200 dying, absolutely! Especially if those 200 are innocent and about 42 out of those 49 are not. Even if we were to assume somehow all of the 49 were innocent (HOW?! What are the chances for that?!), the balance would still make sense.
And then: They chose to enter a plane, fully aware of the existence of very severe safety problems in Russian aviation. A Ukrainian living in their own home and getting killed there hasn't really chosen their death as a victim of a terror attack. But someone willingly choosing to use the airplane under the current circumstances has made a completely free decision. They could have taken a train or a bus, but they preferred the risk in order to save time. First they decided not to do anything against Putin, in order to have a comfortable and safe life, then they decided to enter a deathtrap.
Nope. Not terribly sad. Not even for any of the approximately four innocent adults on the flight, because they chose the flight. I am sad for the 5 children, though. But even their deaths easily hasten the end of the war enough to save lives of 20 other children, which does diminish (but doesn't remove!) my sadness. It's 5 absolutely innocent people who didn't know of the risks and even if they did, could not do anything to mitigate them, and that's always sad. But 5 innocent children dying unfairly is something that happens more often than once per decade.
This war must end. It will only end when Russians get fed up with it. Everything that pushes them that way is more good than bad.
Please elaborate what in my text gave you such an impression.
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Are we supposed to be very very horrified that 9 innocent people died in a plane crash?
Yes oh my God some of them were children
So, of course at least 5 %, possibly almost 10 % of Russian civilians are innocent, but out of the 44 adults that died, that is statistically about 2 to 4 people in the whole plane, plus the five children.
Of course the statistically average Russian isn't completely blameless for supporting the Russia-Ukraine war, but that doesn't mean they deserve to die in a plane crash!
Like the entire argument you're making and the fact that you're making it to argue against what I previously is what gave me the impression that your empathy is conditioned on where someone comes from.
I see you simply skimmed through my comment and commented without actually reading it.
Yes oh my god some of them were children
As I said in my comment, that is a horrible thing. Please read the comment and then reply again. It is ridiculed that you just randomly accuse people of being heartless without bothering to read what they actually think about the matter.
Also, you can be sad without being very very horrified. Those children were brought to death by their own parents. Why would that not feel bad?
that doesn't mean they deserve to die in a plane crash!
True. I completely agree with you regarding this. As I wrote in that comment. Please, just read it. If somebody is robbing a bank and gets shot in the process, that is a bad thing, because it's a dead human. A bank robber does not deserve death, because nobody deserves death. But, I won't expressly explain that I'm very sad about a robber dying, because the robbery does decrease my sadness. And even if the robber also kills their own child during the robbery, it of course makes me angry at that horrible parent, and sad about a child dying, but it doesn't make me actively write that I'm angry and sad. Because there are other thingsore relevant about the event.
Arguing against a really bad argument does not make the arguer's "empathy is conditioned on where somebody comes from."
If you now read my comment, you will notice that I'm saying my empathy is conditioned on what somebody has done. (And, to clarify: absolutely regardless of where they are from! It tells a lot about you that you even end up assuming it might be because of where that someone is from! That looks a lot like projecting.)
Furthermore: how have you successfully managed to completely skip the connection to the extreme suffering in Ukrainian homes? Based on you apparently projecting there, it's hard to not notice how you're voicing your compete apathy to the death and suffering of innocent civilians in the terror attacks the Russia is now committing on an almost hourly basis.
This is sad, but this is also an direct consequence from Putins attack war.
Sanctions to Russia hurts lot of their ability to get spareparts they need for repairing planes.
Blood from these deaths are on Putins hands.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away (2013)
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Big Pharma is increasingly reliant on Chinese biotech advances
AstraZeneca, Pfizer and other multinational drug companies have spent a record amount on medicines developed by Chinese biotechs this yearAstraZeneca has signed the most licensing deals with Chinese biotechs, at least $13.6bn of licensing deals with five companies so far this year
US pharmaceutical companies AbbVie, Merck, Pfizer and Regeneron also signed multibillion-dollar licensing deals in the first half of 2025.
Pfizer signed the biggest Chinese licensing deal this year, a $6bn agreement with 3Sbio to develop a cancer drug
All this [pharmaceutical] money has gone into China because China has invested in their industry while the US government has not,” Axelsen said.
PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy
PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy
Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist rhetoric. Those contributions to democracy may be diminished by Congress’ cuts.The Conversation
US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery
US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery
A US mercenary unloaded an entire can of pepper spray into the face of a Palestinian man picking noodles off the ground, and other contractors shot into crowds of starving people trying to collect food in Gaza, a US security contractor told Israeli m…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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WordPress-ActivityPub v 7.1.0 Introduces Following Capabilities
The latest release of the ActivityPub WordPress plugin introduces new functionality for performing remote follows directly from WordPress. Here's why that's important for the future of WordPress on the Fediverse.
WordPress-ActivityPub v 7.1.0 Introduces Following Capabilities
The ActivityPub plugin team at Automattic has been doing some amazing work. Over the past few years, this single-person project has shifted from a single-person effort to a team of full-time developers. With the release of the 7.x branch of the ActvityPub integration plugin, project devs announced that they would be working on bringing remote following capabilities to the plugin itself.Today, version 7.1.0 was released with a very early sneak peak at this new feature. While it’s currently hidden behind an “Advanced Options” toggle, it’s now possible to use the ActivityPub plugin to directly follow other Actors on the network.
Screenshot courtesy of ActivityPub for WordPress
This is still a relatively new feature, and the plumbing hasn’t been completely fleshed out yet. Team member Konstantin Obenland explains further in the announcement:
There’s really no functionality around it yet, beyond following accounts from other instances, as we have yet to start processing incoming posts and adding the ability to interact with them. But if you just can’t wait to show your appreciation for other accounts by following them, go wild!
Why is this Important?
The connection from WordPress to the rest of the Fediverse has always kind of been in a weird place. While the main ActivityPub integration for WordPress generally works great for sending articles to subscribers, following people directly from the WordPress dashboard has been messy. Right now, if you wanted to use your WordPress blog as an actual Fediverse account, you would need the following things:
- Friends – a social dashboard for WordPress, still in the early stages. This piece is primarily used for following other people in the Fediverse.
- Enable Mastodon Apps – This implements a substantial amount of the Mastodon API, so that you can post microblog updates directly to your WordPress site.
- Event Bridge for ActivityPub – This technically adds support for federated Events, by converting your site’s events calendar into something people on the network can subscribe to and indicate their attendance.
With these three pieces, it’s possible to cobble together something that comes close to being a complete Fediverse user experience. Still, this process takes time to set up, can be prone to configuration issues, and sometimes has missing features. Having different plugins that all touch the ActivityPub integration can also be harder to test code and report issues.
We use Tusky with our site for social purposes. It’s pretty good, but definitely could be better.
By introducing remote following functionality directly into the ActivityPub plugin, the project team will effectively provide standard mechanisms for other plugins to directly rely on. In the near future, this might mean that you won’t have to rely on Friends to be the broker of your social connections. Instead, Friends can just use what’s already put in place by the core plugin, and focus on ways to just work as a social dashboard.Also, Starter Packs!
One other thing worth mentioning involves preliminary support for the Fediverse Starter Kits, a proposed recreation of Bluesky’s Starter Pack functionality. While there have been a number of attempts to make something similar for the Fediverse in the past, there has yet to be a Fediverse standard for lists filled with recommended users to follow. However, the WordPress team has put in the effort to support Pixelfed‘s Starter Kit Data Schema as a point of reference.
A screenshot of the importer in action. Credit: Matthias Pfefferle
In all, this release iterates on the current ActivityPub stack for WordPress, and could provide a stable foundation for a lot of future functionality that we’ve all come to expect from platforms such as Mastodon, Misskey, or even Bonfire.
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StarterKit Extension Documentation Specification Base Structure { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Collection", "id": "https://example.org/recommendations/category-name...dansup (GitHub)
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Brazil to join Gaza genocide case against Israel, led by South Africa, at ICJ
Brazil to join Gaza genocide case against Israel, led by South Africa, at ICJ
Countries including Spain, Turkey and Colombia have also sought to join the caseLisandra Paraguassu (The Globe and Mail)
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Hell yeah, buddy! Jolie is THE Queen for signing that sternly worded letter with twenty five other people! So massively proud of her, I could just Kiss her all over. I don't even care that her and Gibeault (my Rep) were completely silent on the issue for the past two years.
Edit: shit, forgot it's Anand now.
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China is the king of those.
We don't like this. But we like trade so we literally won't change anything.
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mass popular resistance did.
Neat, where is it? I am not trying to be an asshole here, but many of my fellow lefties here keep acting as if the elections didn't have a consequence. There aren't mass protests, certainly not at the scale we need them. Insofar as what the relief Palestine needs; nothing is in place and it will take months we no longer have.
I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though. The government has been detaining regular protestors alongside movement leaders/organisers to scare people into thinking that nobody is safe. The Trump administration has even been targeting people for deportation based on the fucking Canary Mission.
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though.
The 60s and 70s were the height of COINTERPRO and CIA shenanigans so if anything protesters today have it good, but that aside:
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
True, but we're really not looking at just the genocide here. There's a whole full-speed march to fascism that already is and will continue affecting the majority of Americans, so really what we should be seeing is mass anti-fascist resistance that would naturally have strong anti-Zionist presence. The fact that there's no mass anti-fascist resistance is the big problem here, but that's not due to lack of impact on the average American. Also given that the IDF trains American cops using lessons learned from their subjugation of Palestinians, I'd say there's a fair bit of impact on minority communities.
What I meant was the difference in who was targeted. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that specific groups (and more specifically, their leaders) were primarily targeted by the operations carried out back then, whereas today they are also detaining/deporting etc people who genuinely have no offenses or ties to such groups. Even Trump supporters and their family members are being persecuted. I think it's these seemingly indiscriminate actions that make the average person less willing to take a stand, especially if they don't feel as though they've been affected badly enough yet to risk sticking their neck out.
In any case it's a terrifying and truly fucked situation.
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I've been wondering a lot, for over a year. The solution is to donate money. Right now that's the most important thing you can do, because people are dying of starvation, and this is their only chance to buy something to eat.
And yes, it's really hard to find a legit way to donate. It's not like Ukraine, where there's an easy central donation platform like united24 plus various other foreign platforms. Since the world fails to even acknowledge the genocide, individual people must take the matter into their hands. Everyone. Every single person who considers themselves a human.
Here's an example:
chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…
I briefly talked to one of the kind family members on Mastodon in an attempt to verify whether it's a scam, and it seems very legit. And they really appreciate all donations.
I guess, there are plenty of other similar fundraisers as well. Do some background check, and donate, and share the link!
Another important act was this:
apnews.com/article/greece-isra…
Protest! Show some solidarity towards Palestine.
And last but not least, do vote on elections. Preferably for those who are not completely incompetent for leading your country, and their foreign policy is in its place as well.
Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.Chuffed
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They really don't care. They are indoctrinated into thinking they are the victims and the world hates them for being chosen by God.
As long as they exterminate all the Palestinians it's mission accomplished. They have enough puppets in the West to make sure the blowback isn't too severe.
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Only if the world makes them regret it. I wish I could say that with the mountain of documented evidence (mostly by IDF soldiers themselves) that the history will bring justice for Palestine.
But, I didn't think we could be 655 days into a genocide and still have the New York fucking Times running articles saying "it's totally not. Because not enough babies have died yet. Israel could kill so many more babies if they wanted to".
The one thing that will be true with time though is that Israel will collapse. Fascist Ethnostates are by their very nature self destructive and cannot maintain themselves.
I just want to live long enough to see it fall and the children of Palestinian today be able to serve out the justice to the western world that they deserve.
I want everyone from Israeli officials all the way to New York Times writers to be brought to justice and answer for their crimes.
One day; everyone will 'have always been against' this.
And those people that today still spread genocide propaganda will pretend they were always against. It is important we don't let those demons get away with it.
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…Hackaday
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Picked a great time to follow my dream as an industrial designer, only to graduate during COVID and realize that not a single company actually cares to improve the user experience of their products or systems.
Feels like I got a more exclusive and more expensive art degree.
Japan trade deal info on Trump's desk was altered by hand with a marker
Japan trade deal info on Trump's desk was altered by hand with a marker
Details of the Japan deal seen in a photo posted by Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff, show discrepancies and last-minute edits.Alex Harring (CNBC)
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Pressure builds on Zelenskyy over corruption agency changes as protests continue
Zelenskyy pledges new bill on anti-corruption agencies’ independence as protests continue
Ukraine’s president says outcry is ‘not falling on deaf ears’ as European leaders voice concern at recent legislation weakening anti-graft watchdogsLuke Harding (The Guardian)
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French president Macron and his wife sue rightwing influencer Candace Owens for defamation
French president and wife sue rightwing US commentator Candace Owens for defamation
Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIARachel Leingang (The Guardian)
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Global study links early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults
Global study links early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults
Owning a smartphone before age 13 is associated with poorer mental health and well-being in early adulthood, according to a global study of more than 100,000 young people.Taylor & Francis (Medical Xpress)
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Not even the first story to pop up in the search.
Did Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Other Tech Billionaire Parents Advocate Limiting Children's Technology Use?
Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs advocated limiting children's use of technology.Dan Evon (Snopes.com)
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Its not the smartphone. Its corporations and social media. The tech has the ability to make people insanely smart. Capitalism and the far right wont allow that.
When I was a kid I loved tech, had a bunch of computers, read tech books, tried to take apart and break or fix stuff. Install tons of ridiculous software to see what it did. Now I don't think kids have true tech interest. They are handed a phone and they let the zucc tell them what to do/buy/date/say. Gross. Poor young people today.
Im not even old. But I guess get off my lawn or whatever, Kewl.
The International Court of Justice issued a strongly worded opinion
Gotta love the meaningless symbology of the UN. Sometimes I think it exists just to keep good politicians occupied while the shitty ones really lead.
Tell that to Israel, who is opening up a new hole with all their missile launches
You must have me confused with someone who has contact with, and political sway over, Israel.
Can you explain to me how you came to the conclusion that I have the ability to tell Israel anything?
Announcing the Lancet Global Health Commission on anti-corruption in health: a call for a novel approach
Some excerpts:
Corruption—commonly defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain—is a pervasive threat to health, health systems, and societies worldwide.1 Corruption compounds inequities, disproportionately harms marginalised populations, and undermines the right to health and the health system by diverting resources from their intended purpose and limiting access to essential services.Corruption can affect countries at every income level. High-income countries have experienced major corruption scandals, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.10 These same countries are often complicit in enabling global corruption by hosting financial institutions and tax havens that allow illicit profits to be hidden.
Despite decades of reform, anti-corruption efforts have had limited success.11 Most initiatives emphasise transparency and legal enforcement, yet overlook deeper institutional and political drivers. Focusing solely on sanctioning individuals fails to address underlying systemic incentives and structural weaknesses,1 many of which originate from outside of the health sector. Tackling corruption effectively, therefore, requires engaging with the broader political economy.
The Lancet Global Health Commission on anti-corruption in health will respond to this challenge with a novel approach. Corruption is not merely a moral failure but a deeply embedded structural issue that requires evidence-based, context-specific solutions. We recognise that health systems are shaped by both formal rules and by informal networks, kinship ties, and political allegiances. Tackling corruption could involve high political and practical costs and might even worsen conditions in the short term. The Commission will move beyond punitive approaches to champion pragmatic, politically realistic solutions that build trust, strengthen institutions, and drive progress towards universal health coverage.
The Commission will highlight the mechanisms linking corruption to health outcomes, making it harder for policy makers to ignore root causes. We will examine how governance structures, labour rights, and economic conditions interact with health policy. Our recommendations will address the incentives facing actors at every level—from rural clinics to global financial hubs—and promote the role of civil society in holding power to account. We will identify the opportunities that prompt actors to engage in corruption and will propose ways to strengthen appropriate checks and balances in health systems and beyond. Health institutions need to embed safeguards and early warning mechanisms to foster integrity and resilience. Addressing low pay and poor working conditions is crucial to curbing misconduct driven by desperation. Above all, proposed measures should consider unintended consequences, including the misuse of anti-corruption policies to target political opponents.
Our commissioners, drawn from diverse backgrounds, will rely on evidence synthesis, exemplar case studies (especially those that have had demonstrable results), and extensive stakeholder consultations. By engaging policy makers, health workers, civil society, and researchers, we aim to ensure that our recommendations are practical and adaptable across all contexts. This approach will support stakeholders in navigating political realities and implementing effective, evidence-informed responses to corruption.
We will measure our success not by the publication of a report, but by the movement we want to spark—a movement that catalyses sustained action, fosters accountability and resilience, and ensures that health resources reach those who need them most.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00215-3/fulltext?rss=yes
Applying For UK ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization): My Experience
The UK has a £16 Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) requirement for visitors, including Americans. Here's my experience applying.
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in reply to mesa • • •As intended.
First they're going to collapse the ad model by eliminating most clicks.
Then they're going to put all of the information they've been scraping from the now-bankrupt websites behind paywalls.
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cecilkorik
in reply to WatDabney • • •Joke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
We are the wealth of information in the internet. Corporations don't own it. We are it.
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in reply to cecilkorik • • •givesomefucks
in reply to bridgeenjoyer • • •What kind of revisionist bullshit is this?
Like, it's almost always safe to write off anyone using "normies" but do you think 2002 was like in movies/TV?
"The net" wasn't some secret thing, kids had been using it in school for over a decade.
I can't tell if you weren't born then or already 50 years old...
But wherever you're getting your opinions on 2002 internet, it wasn't first hand
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in reply to AbouBenAdhem • • •But it was the beginning of what would come. After 2009 it went downhill fast.
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in reply to givesomefucks • • •Punch the Monkey, Shake the Tree, Bonzi Buddy, flash animation, sites that only worked in IE, etc, etc.
You're right, anyone who thinks 2002 was some golden age of the internet clearly wasn't there.
chonglibloodsport
in reply to givesomefucks • • •It’s just nostalgia applied to the internet. Some people call it Eternal September. Everyone prefers what the internet was when they first discovered it and hate what it’s become since then. I remember the internet from 1996 most fondly. Many prefer it from the 80s or earlier 90s. This is no different from other media: music, TV, movies.
Of course this is separate from the real issue which is the consolidation and silo-ification of the modern web.
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in reply to cecilkorik • • •Very much yes.
I have this great visual image of the corporate web, marked by neon signs and billboards and holographic ads, populated entirely by bots talking to each other while the humans sneak away, giggling and shushing each other.
handsoffmydata
in reply to cecilkorik • • •I see your ublock and raise you Pihole.
The internet has always had ads, some of the most obnoxious were those mid to late 90s banner ads with sound. I’ll never forget loading a random page and my speakers screaming: Helllllloooooooooo.
Anti_Iridium
in reply to handsoffmydata • • •I genuinely forgot about the ads with sound.
I don't miss them.
chellomere
in reply to handsoffmydata • • •logicbomb
in reply to WatDabney • • •Yes. The secret to telling what a search engine wants you to do is whatever is on top of the search results.
You and I might scour the results to find the exact best results, but most people simply look at the very first thing they're presented with and call it a day.
When I saw all of the search engines putting AI answers first, I knew they were intentionally trying to stop people from clicking through.
lagoon8622
in reply to logicbomb • • •I'm not sure I fully understand the play here. Like, what's the grand vision? Fewer click-throughs == less ad impressions, no? They just want you to see the AdWords ads only? I'm not sure it's a fully-baked idea. I'm not convinced they can really create a moat around all information on the web
Would welcome any additional insights
jjjalljs
in reply to lagoon8622 • • •Google probably wants to keep you on google.com, where they have ads. By doing the AI stuff, you never click through to someone else's page. They get 100% of the interactions and can sell all the clicks.
It's monopoly stuff. They should be stopped, with whatever box of liberty is needed.
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MacStainless
in reply to lagoon8622 • • •It's to keep you on Google as long as possible. Google doesn't care about ad impressions off-site. Look at it this way:
You search for something and AI surfaces full answers to you at the top. Now, Google can "alter the deal" in the near-future where "sponsored AI results" come into play and are incorporated into The Answer. THAT is the gold mine. Right now (and forever) it's been about being on the first page of results and now it's about being the first result "above the fold" so people don't even need to scroll. This is going to change to be the "AI answer" so your website / product / service is mixed into the answer. Pay-for-play just like everything else.
This method will rapidly train users to just search, view AI results, then click through those paid results or move onto something else. Those AI incporated impressions will make Google money and the possible click-through from the AI answer will yield more money.
Companies are already working to optimize so AIs will recommend their products and services when people ask things like "I'm going on vacation to the mountains for a week. What gear would you recommend?"
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in reply to mesa • • •Search results are shit now.
Our only hope is this opens the door to some competitor, who'll provide actually useful search results. I know that would be very expensive to start.
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shalafi
in reply to TrackinDaKraken • • •For the longest time I didn't understand why people were saying Google search had gone to shit. Worked for me! Now it cancerous.
I can search for a YouTube video I know well, nada unless I go directly to YT. Google can't even find shit in their own space!
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in reply to SGforce • • •European Search Perspective
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in reply to bridgeenjoyer • • •osaerisxero
in reply to bridgeenjoyer • • •If you aren't paying, you're the product.
What sucks is that I can't unbundle their AI shit from my subscription
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in reply to bridgeenjoyer • • •Crazy how good it is, right?
Google enshittified so gradually, we never even noticed.
Not_mikey
in reply to ordinarylove • • •This study isn't about total clicks, or a drop in traffic to Google caused by people not liking the ai overview. It's about for each Google search that was executed, how often did someone click on a link. Without ai it was 15% and with ai it is 8%. So if anything its proving the customers like the ai overviews and believe they are getting enough from them to answer their query.
Sure there are probably a couple people who see the overview at the top and hate ai so much they leave Google without clicking anything, but those people will probably only do that once or twice before they stop using Google entirely or disable the feature, and thus wouldn't count much in the data about ai overview searches.
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in reply to mesa • • •Some websites now are really shit. Won't load unless you allow JavaScript from 15 different domains, cookie consent, terrible privacy etc.
If I want to know things like what 10 kmpl in mpg, I often use DDG snippets.
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vermaterc
in reply to mesa • • •I'm reading comments on arstechnica and seeing people mad at... what exactly?
The reason I go to web search is to answer my questions. Now it's given to me at once, without need to go anywhere.
Is it sometimes hallucinating? Of course it is, but have you really 100% trusted information on the Internet before anyways? I haven't.
You say that ads driven websites are going to stop receiving money. But have you really liked ads driven websites? The same ones whose main incentive is to keep you on the website as long as possible or, in fact, wasting as much your time as possible to sell it to ad companies? The ones that were really worth visiting already changed their business model.
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in reply to vermaterc • • •pineapple_pizza
in reply to vermaterc • • •If I want an answer to a question(say what internal temp do I need to cook chicken too), then I can easily get it without scrolling through a bunch of ads and articles about cooking chicken.
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in reply to krashmo • • •In a sense it very much was. Al Gore as a young congressperson was shown the military version (Arpanet) and then pushed a series of bills that expanded this to the civilian world and created what became knows as the Internet. His explicit goal was to create an "Information Superhighway" that would allow for the free exchange of - wait for it - information. This phrase (popularized by Gore but probably not originated by him) was so well-known in the '90s that it became a standard joke format: "{fill in the blank} Superhighway" was sure to get a laugh.
Incidentally, during the 2000 presidential election cycle, Gore gave an interview where he said he "took the initiative in creating the Internet", which was a perfectly true and reasonable statement for him to make. In fact, all he was doing was emphasizing an achievement that he was already well-known for. Months later, Bush advisor Karl Rove found this quote and mangled it into the "Al Gore claims he invented the Internet!" bullshit that so many people still think was real.
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in reply to Grizzlyboy • • •I see that google increase number of search ads, likely because people just stop scrolling and clicking entirely
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