'A distraction': Unrwa says Israeli and GHF claims over UN aid delivery are baseless
'A distraction': Unrwa says Israeli and GHF claims over UN aid delivery are baseless
The United Nations Reliefs and Work Agency (Unrwa) has hit back at a smear campaign launched by Israel and the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) accusing the UN of failing to deliver aid and being responsible for the mass famine underway in Gaza…Syma Mohammed (Middle East Eye)
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Russia moves to deepen military ties with Togo
Russia moves to increase influence in West Africa by deepening military ties with Togo
A draft agreement would see Moscow help train Togo’s troops.Eric Kliszcz/rl (Telewizja Polska S.A)
UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists
UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists
David Lammy and Yvette Cooper describe the bounties as "another example of transnational repression".Helen Sullivan (BBC News)
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Taiwan polls close in controversial vote targeting 'pro-China' lawmakers
Great Recall Taiwan: 'Pro-China' politicians survive Taiwan vote to kick them out
Early results of the hugely controversial vote indicate the opposition will keep its majority in Taiwan's parliament.Tessa Wong (BBC News)
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Article/ broadcast publications.
I would like to publish the articles given in newspapers(newspapers like New york times, Washington post, USA today) and so on.
Or it can be broadcasting in channels like CNN, NBC, CBS and so on.
I would like to add the following to each publication:
A link to assaf social networks:
linktr.ee/72assaf
A link for donations:
paypal.me/assaf148?country.x=I…
A link to “soul fighters” organization in ISRAEL:
lanefesh.org.il/
A link for the articles: list.ly/l/CdoM
my first language is Hebrew(עברית).
India wrestles with how census can count tribe that shuns contact with outside world
India wrestles with how census can count tribe that shuns contact with outside world
Experts say it would be hard to assess numbers of Sentinelese without causing them alarm and figures would be inaccurate anywayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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The government is incompetent. The best they can do practically is hire another company to do it (who will also ignore all ethics and sprinkle on some corruption for good measure)
(Source: am Indian)
This is a clear example of bureaucrats getting so focused on their task that they miss the forest for the trees. They need to have a little conversation with themselves.
We need to get an accurate count of the Sentinelese!Q: Why do we even do the census in the first place?
A:Well, as a society we've decided that, knowing how many people we have, and where they are, and some other important demographics about them makes it easier and more efficient for the government to effectively serve to the people.
Q: Are the Sentinelese going to benefit in any way from this?
A: Well, no, but...
THEN YOU DON'T NEED TO COUNT THEM!
how to count Indigenous people who strongly resist contact with the outside world
How about fucking not counting them? Is this kind of a joke?
Always make we wonder, how would I feel if one day I woke to the fact that aliens, orders of magnitude more advanced, were protecting Earth from their influence. I can't internalize the difference in a stone age tribe and my life now. Logically, yes. Emotionally, no even close.
For those saying we shouldn't bother, I'd counter that we want to know how they're doing. If the population drops steeply, that's a cause for concern. Maybe the modern world we're protecting them from slipped in.
Iran: At least 9 killed in attack on courthouse
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FAA sees no mechanical issue with 787 Boeing fuel control unit after Air India crash
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday the fatal crash last month of an Air India Boeing BA.N 787 jet does not appear to have been caused by a mechanical issue or inadvertent movement of the fuel control unit or switches.
Reuters reported last week, citing a source, that the cockpit recording on the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick suggested the captain cut fuel to the engines.
FAA sees no mechanical issue with 787 Boeing fuel control unit after Air India crash
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday the fatal crash last month of an Air India Boeing BAReuters (NBC News)
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The pilot did it on purpose to kill himself. Not the first time a pilot has taken a plane down with him.
No other explanation. I'm a pilot. Cutting fuel off 200ft above the ground is suicide.
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Great, now look at electrical issues.
Blaming the pilot benefits the airline, to avoid claims of poor maintenance, and the airplane maker, to avoid claims of a shitty aircraft.
If it was an electrical issue, they wouldn't have been able to just turn them back on, which one of the pilots did.
The two switches were moved to off sequentially with the right amount of gap for a human doing it quickly. One of the pilots then questioned why they were off, and they were then both turned back on individually a short time later.
The possibility the FAA was investigating was whether the latches on the switches may not work, allowing them to be moved unintentionally. This was unlikely due to the timing, but they still had to eliminate it.
I've read that the flight-deck voice-recorder captured something like "why did you shut-off the fuel-lines?"..
Those powerplants need fuel measured in litres-PER-SECOND, not per minute, the way piston-engines do.
( There's a channel on yt by a guy AgenJayZ, he has a turbojet-repair shop in the Praries, in Canada..
he showed, in 1 of his videos, how he tests a single fuel-nozzle, for 1 ( of 5 ) combustor-cans in a jet he was working-on..
28-imperial-gallons/minute, that nozzle sprayed-out..
Times 5, & you've got 140-imperial-gallons/minute pouring into that SINGLE jet-engine..
that's around 635-litres/min, aka 10.5-litres-per-second for that engine..
You CAN'T survive killing the fuel-lines on an airliner, while just after takeoff:
Flamout, & you can't restart before crashing.
Here's a yt-search, & the video I say may be in that list, but it's been a few years..
youtube.com/results?search_que… )
To me the only question left isn't "how", but why:
Did the person on the flight-deck who killed the airliner do it of their unconscious-mind's belligerance, XOR did they do it consciously-intentionally?
( the video, I hope you've seen it, of the gorilla-suit guy walking through some people tossing a ball around, & half the people in the game didn't notice the gorilla-suit guy..
Normal people can't imagine just how much of our lives our unconscious-mind blocks from our awareness, & be "well adjusted"..
I'm not accusing that person's conscious mind of doing it,
but their unconscious-mind's intent definitely was involved, either-way. )
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Having snubbed China as a partner, the EU finds itself at the mercy of the US
How an Indian temple town is at the centre of hundreds of alleged murders
How an Indian temple town is at the centre of hundreds of alleged murders
An ex-worker at Karnataka’s Dharmasthala temple says he was forced to bury hundreds of bodies, including children.Yashraj Sharma (Al Jazeera)
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- The main person who is caretaker of Temple(Jain) is in BJP (Party of Modi who is current prime Minister) and government in state where temple is situated is from Congress.
- Bengaluru court gave GAG order on this case more than 8800 links are removed. Source thenewsminute.com/karnataka/dh…
- Whoever raising voice getting crushed by most powerfull people in India.
I request everyone please amplify this news.
Dharmasthala temple Dharmadhikari’s brother gets gag order to delete over 8,800 links
Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Harshendra Kumar D, the brother of Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Veerendra Heggade, has obNandini Chandrashekar (The News Minute)
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When you point out the bad things that religions do, religious people from all religions join together to tell you how you're wrong.
Why? They'd rather support the idea that they can believe whatever nonsense instead of supporting actual factual information. That way they can continue living in the delusion that their religious leaders are keeping them in. It's religious lies, but that's all religions do, so they lie.
In this case, it's lying about how religions, as a whole, are better than not having religions. Which again, is a lie. Because you never go down to a shuffleboard club to hang out, and find dozens of dead bodies hidden away because they thought it would be holier to starve themselves to death than inflict pain on a carrot by eating it.
That shit only happens in religions to religious people, and whatever innocent bystanders happen to be too close to the hate religion.
Religon is a mass murderer. Doesn't matter what religion. It's people first or religion first, it can't be both. So, they choose religion - and many people die. Horribly.
This happens continually all over the world. Religions hurt people far, far, far more than their bullshit claims about how they help people. You can never help people by putting ficitonal people over real people.
Here you can see jainists, widely considered one of the most peaceful religions on the planet - that are mass murderers. But, how can that be if they're so peaceful? Well, it's lies and extremism. They lie about how peaceful they are, and people give them trust for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Take anything too far, and it's a bad thing. So they take it too far, it's bad, and people die.
Stay away from all religions and the asshole religious people that support them.
Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers
A study involving IMDEA Networks reveals how mobile apps track users through WiFi and Bluetooth - IMDEA Networks
Researchers from IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software Institute, and the University of Calgary, have conducted the first large-scale study — “Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of …Marta Dorado (IMDEA Networks)
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What would you use on Android for that?
I mean, there are two problems here.
The first problem is solving this for the kind of people who are going to set up the above on their networks.
The other is solving it for the general public, which I would suggest is harder.
1Blocker works as local VPN. It reroutes all iPhone traffic through a local firewall/App, that drops suspicious DNS queries.
sounds like you are looking for rethink
github.com/celzero/rethink-app
GitHub - celzero/rethink-app: DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android.
DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android. - celzero/rethink-appGitHub
I've never tried Pihole but maybe I'll try to set it up. What happens when ads try to play when it's enabled? Are they just blank? Or if someone is watching a streaming service and an ad tries to come up what happens?
Also what happens if the device running Pihole goes down, as in if I have it running from an old device and it loses connection or restarts. Does everything just stop resolving names until it's back up? (I assume that's what happens like normal dns servers, but I'm trying to think of a device I have that won't be shut off, my media server has a lot going on with it at the moment, and is far from my router, I should move it)
Many add just don't show up. The reserved space stays white. Also, depending on the aggressiveness of your block list, some pages don't resolve (just like they never existed). E.g when you click on adds in a google search result, it leads to nowhere.
Short outtakes make no difference. It is your primary source for matching names to IPs. Depending on your configuration you can have alternative sources.
If the ad is under a filtered domain, it will simply not load.
If the ad is under the same domain as the site you are using (ex. Youtube) they will load just fine.
When the primary DNS is down, the secondary DNS will be used. This is the same regardless if PiHole is used or not, but is how DNS works.
Been running an AWS Lightsail instance for years, and before that on prem. Don't even notice it's running! But when I see other people's internet experience I'm left thinking, "What's all this crap?!"
Ex-wife was bitching about my "blueberry pie" or whatever fucking up FaceBook links. FINE. Turned it off. "The internet's slow!" Looked over her shoulder:
"See all that stuff loading? Ad, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad..."
"FINE! Turn it back on!"
Haven't logged into my instance for a year or more, no maintenance. Going to move it back to a Raspberry Pi or a VM when I get motivated. On Windows 11 now and M$ totally hosed Hyper-V for desktop operating systems and I don't want to spin another computer.
tl;dr: WELL worth spending an evening on the project. Hardest part is spinning up a Debian or Ubuntu server, VM or bare metal. The install is hilariously simple.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net/ | bash
Comically enough I didn't think about it long, I actually had it up and running on my jellyfin server by 11 this morning. Haven't played with it much yet just set my router DNS to it.
So now it's my jellyfin/Files/Caddy/DNS server. It's an old HP laptop my spouse has that I just hard wired and remote into using RustDesk. Works great even though the network cards arent great, and most of the storage is just an external USB drive.
AdGuard DNS — ad-blocking DNS server
Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.Connect to public AdGuard DNS server
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Wifi and Bluetooth must be kept off unless in use.
If you are home on wifi, put your cell into air plane mode.
Don't run shady apps.
TC app shows you what trackers each app has. Rmeove shit you don't need, use browser
This is probably why even though phones have gotten faster, they still seem slow.
It’s also hilarious to me how little battery voyager uses compared to most modern apps.
Yes wifi and Bluetooth are used to track your location. That's why Android requires you to grant location permissions to apps that want to access them.
In other words, if they have this information, it's because you explicitly gave them permission to collect it. Don't do that.
Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers
A study involving IMDEA Networks reveals how mobile apps track users through WiFi and Bluetooth - IMDEA Networks
Researchers from IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software Institute, and the University of Calgary, have conducted the first large-scale study — “Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of …Marta Dorado (IMDEA Networks)
Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo
Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo
The convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate met with the deputy AG for two days of questioning.Sarah Ewall-Wice (The Daily Beast)
“Donald J. Trump in no way knew about any of Jeffry’s illicit doings. In fact, he was a model, moral and honorable person - perhaps the most moral and honorable person in the history of the world, except for maybe Jesus. Jeffery used to come to me, tears in his eyes, and say I wish I could be as strong, powerful and moral as Donald. Any mention of him in any files were related to him going to church and praying.”
-Ghislaine Maxwell
Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago over ‘sanctuary city’ policies
A federal judge on Friday dismissed “in its entirety” the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago over “sanctuary city” policies that the Trump administration has said impede its efforts to crack down on undocumented immigrants.U.S. District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division said the Trump administration “lacks standing” to invalidate the state, city and county laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, adding in her ruling that “contrary to the United States’s arguments, the Sanctuary Policies here do not comparably regulate [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] operations or meddle with the contractual rights of private individuals working with ICE.”
"Illinois just beat the Trump Administration in federal court. Their case challenging the bipartisan TRUST Act was dismissed — unlike the President, we follow the law and listen to the courts,” Pritzker wrote in a post on X.
In February, the Trump administration sued Illinois and Chicago for interfering with the federal immigration crackdown, arguing that the city’s Welcoming City ordinance and the Illinois Trust Act reflects “an intentional effort to obstruct the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law and to impede consultation and communication between federal, state, and local law enforcement officials that is necessary for federal officials to carry out federal immigration law and keep Americans safe.”
The lawsuit also named Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D), the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling, and Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart.
Fuck yeah Illinois and fuck yeah Chicago for standing together and standing up to fascist takeover. And fuck yeah rule of law for reminding us this is still the United States of America (at least in some parts of the country)
"Donald J. Trump in no way knew about any of Jeffry's illicit doings. In fact, he was a model, moral and honorable person - perhaps the most moral and honorable person in the history of the world, except for maybe Jesus. Jeffery used to come to me, tears in his eyes, and say I wish I could be as strong, powerful and moral as Donald. Any mention of him in any files were related to him going to church and praying."
-Ghislaine Maxwell
Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?
Builder.ai promised AI-built apps. Who really did the work? - Rest of World
The $1.5B startup said it could automate app development, but former workers say humans did most of the work — and the company burned through $445M before collapsing.Kate Bubacz (Rest of World)
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anti-democratic far right Nationalists
So what are they planning to change?
anti-EU
Aha. Gotcha.
Musk outspokenly supported AfD (German's far-right populist party) before the last election, in 2024 already, and did much the same in the UK. Even though he's fallen out of grace now, the headline is a forgone conclusion.
I'd still like to know more about it, but the article is paywalled 🙁
And the El Pais link seems borked, here it is again:
english.elpais.com/internation…
The Great Reset: The far right’s detailed plan to dismantle the EU
An initiative by Hungarian and Polish think tanks has secured the support of Spain’s Vox and other populist forces for a detailed program to liquidate the European institutionsÁngel Munárriz (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
With Friedrich Merz, the US unfortunately already has the German chancellor more or less in its pocket: The man was Head of the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany until 2020, was chairman of the "Atlantik Brücke" from 2009 to 2016, a lobby organization for economic relations between Germany and the US, held various positions in other business-related lobby organizations, and stands for almost the same kind of mindless hate speech against foreigners as MAGA.
In short, it is fair to say that Merz is more of a US lobbyist than a politician.
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz, Bundesvorsitzender der CDU und Kanzlerkandidat der Union, ehem. Wirtschaftsanwalt und langjähriger Top-Lobbyist, war in einer Vielzahl von Unternehmen sowie wirtschaftsnahen Interessenverbänden und Netzwerken in leitenden Funktionen a…lobbypedia.de
As an American: we aren’t your allies anymore. Please, I beg you, treat this situation seriously, and act accordingly. You will be forced to make some harrowing decisions before this settles into a steady state. And please note that trying to preserve the status quo ante (that no longer exists) is a complete waste of resources at this point. Even in the best case, you will almost certainly have to significantly change how you frame your interactions with us.
I don’t say this gleefully. It breaks my heart in so many different ways to have to say this, much less so often, and to so many people. But it’s what’s happening, and ignoring the situation is actively harmful, and will likely (well, is, and will continue to) get lots of people killed, and make a shitload of peoples lives worse all around the world.
People in Latin America: "First time?"
Every time I see another fucking CPAC being held in my country I pray for america to just collapse already.
but if you're so much better than America why are:
- your citizens falling for the propaganda
- your politicians succumbing to corruption
your cognitive dissonance is showing. also, fascism isn't an American export. it's a Russian export.
show us Americans how to protest and stop a fascist takeover! don't be weak like us Americans.
Who are you arguing against? Who said "We're just so much better than America"? Seems like a straw man. People say what they don't want the USA to export fascism to their country and some Americans hear "We're better than America" because some Americans react weirdly to criticism of their country.
Fascism is a danger everywhere. The USA is spreading it everywhere. A lot of people understandably don't like this.
sounds like a red herring to me. I'm not arguing against a person, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of non-Americans on lemmy that say "Americans bad! Europe is better!" Americans aren't the problem, our government is. And even if it was Americans, wouldn't the rest of the world that claims to be better than America not have problems with fascism spreading if they were as good as they claim?
that said, the US is simply a tool being used by Putin through Trump to spread influence everywhere.
Lets dismantle this part by part:
1: The one who came up with these idea that America needs to model itself after other countries is you. I don't care about America. I want America to stop pressuring other governments to model themselves after them. I want American foreign policy to stop intervening with other countries and in particular the country where I live.
2: It is rich that you are saying with a straight face that our citizens are falling to propaganda when your citizens have voted for two terms for a huckster, sex offender mentally challenged, child molester.
3: There is a latent right wing coalition in my country that is home grown, yes we had years of political tumult. We have fascists down here and everyone does! We don't have a secret to subdue them we have a fragile emerging resistance that has won a couple of elections: We just had presidential elections a few years back; and the very unpopular right wing candidate suffered a devastating loss despite all the very suspicious financial and media support they had. Which means that the population hasn't entirely "succumbed to propaganda." For our next elections, the republicans are already grooming a couple of candidates for our country. One of them is a Catholic conservative that has been spotted with Elon Musk and the rest of ghouls more than a couple of times.
Here is one of the weasels Eduardo Verastegui doing the Nazi salute on the American Financed CPAC:
4: My country has very little contact with Russia. The ultra right wing coalition of my country does not meet with Putin, They meet with Conservatives from the USA. Maybe you are trying to impose your own biases on me. Personally I am frustrated that my government cannot do something about this bastards coming here. At least not for now, while they have all the might of American military power and economy backing them.
5: Lastly. I think America is hopeless. Your arguments are a good case study for why I feel you people are hopeless. Even in your failures and aggression there is a deep seated narcissism where It's our turn to "show you the way"; We don't have to show you shit. We don't owe you anything. You have allowed the plutocracy poisoning your country to fester and I believe it is a problem that runs deeper than just Trump. You will keep shifting the blame, acting all high and mighty and fail to address the fact that you don't even have a democracy anymore. And in the spirit of American exceptionalism even as those systemic issues are reaching critical mass you will continue to try and shift the blame. Nobody improves by neglecting self reflection. If Putin is pulling the strings of your right wing grifters, he has been enabled by the mounting of corruption that eliminated any legal checks and balances for your billionaire and political class. America has lost the ability to enforce it's laws on it's Oligarchy and you are surprised that an international web of criminals are eager to make connections with that dangerous emerging power?
In the end this feels like a conversation about wounded national Ego. "Hey man don't talk about my shortcomings, you all have it much worse."
I can't believe I fell for the worst honeypot, a .ml user.
my mistake, carry on with your propaganda shilling.
edit: btw isn't gringo a slur?
edit 2: aww, you removed it before the mods removed it! not fair!
I guess you can teach old lemm.ee new .ml tricks?
Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire
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Collective Shout Claims Responsibility For Steam Game Removals, Previously Targeted Grand Theft Auto 5
Steam will now remove games at the behest of others, and it could be thanks to a group that wanted Detroit: Become Human to be banned.Rhiannon Bevan (TheGamer)
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You're making it sound like this isn't straight up Christianity.
For this one Christianity is to blame, not Nazis.
My brother in Christ, it's all the same ideals.
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
All we gotta do is start a counter movement. Which I guarantee will be easier to grow than Collective Prudes.
My guess --- and I haven't seen anything where payment processors have released any details of what Collective Shout did -- is that Collective Shout didn't just call Visa and say "we don't like this". They probably found some sort of law, maybe in Australia, that processing payments for these violates, and had their lawyer send a nastygram to payment processors about it. The payment processors sent their own warning letters to the merchants.
Like, the reason payment processors are useful as leverage for countries is because countries can put pressure on them, because payment processors do business all over and are gonna be skittish about violating laws in a bunch of countries, can get cut off from doing business there. And any one retailer just isn't big enough for them to be worried about cutting off compared to getting cut off from a country.
If you want to put pressure on payment processors, I'd guess that you're probably going to have to have some kind of law to threaten payment processor with on the grounds that processing payments to Steam and itch.io and other retailers and so forth when they are deindexing games results in some kind of legal violation. I'm not saying that that's impossible, but it's probably harder to do than it is for Collective Shout is to pull their shennanigans.
I'd also note that it is not at all clear that the present situation is the final state of affairs. That is, what my guess is that Valve and itch.io and so forth did is that they got their nastygram from the payment processors, then went to talk to their own lawyers. It's entirely possible that after those lawyers have a look at it, they're going to say "you can't sell Game X in Country Z", and Valve will just restrict the regions where they sell those games. That is, I would not be surprised if the scope on this restriction narrows, and Valve and itch.io are just playing it safe until they're confident as of their legal position.
There are also quite likely legal workarounds of varying efficacy that publishers can do in various jurisdictions, and they're probably going to be looking for some kind of consensus on what can be done where. Some jurisdictions have restrictions on incest pornography, for example. There are games --- Sexbot on Steam comes to mind --- that were clearly written with the intent of being incest pornography, have invisible-to-the-user variables that reference interfamily relationships. However, what the user sees is that they simply permit the user to specify the relationship between game characters. If the user specifies an incestual one, then that'll be how the game plays --- but it's the user providing that input; there's no user-visible incest content provided by the publisher.
Other games on Steam require patches to add content that are provided by the publisher via a non-Steam route but not provided by Steam or similar --- just useless unless someone has a copy of the game from Steam or similar --- to add content that may be legally questionable; that cuts Steam out of the loop, so Steam won't care. My guess is that the situation is going to be somewhat in flux as various countries hammer out the fine points of what they restrict and publishers figure out how to adapt to the situation.
And then there are games, like Skyrim, which have third-party mods providing pornographic content to add to games that I am very sure is not legal in many jurisdictions, which are provided by non-Steam sites that don't do business in the jurisdiction in question and thus don't care about legal nastygrams from that jurisdiction. The US legal system will not enforce foreign rulings against an American website that doesn't meet a number of criteria for being considered to be doing business abroad, for example, because it doesn't consider that website to be doing business in that country and thus the foreign country to have jurisdiction. The foreign country can block its users from having access to that website in the hosting country if it wants, but thus far, Australia is not doing that...and if we go down the "blocking internationally" route, then the next step for people who want to distribute content is probably going to be things like VPNs, Tor, and Hyphanet.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition on Steam
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.store.steampowered.com
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Also, relevant:
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The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
--- John Gilmore, founding member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
In its original form, it meant that the Usenet software (which moves messages around in discussion newsgroups) was resistant to censorship because, if a node drops certain messages because it doesn’t like their subject, the messages find their way past that node anyway by some other route. This is also a reference to the packet-routing protocols that the Internet uses to direct packets around any broken wires or fiber connections or routers. (They don’t redirect around selective censorship, but they do recover if an entire node is shut down to censor it.)
--- also Gilmore
Gilmore also stated that the denotation of the saying has broadened over time:
The meaning of the phrase has grown through the years. Internet users have proven it time after time, by personally and publicly replicating information that is threatened with destruction or censorship. If you now consider the Net to be not only the wires and machines, but the people and their social structures who use the machines, it is more true than ever.
I am generally bearish on the future of Internet censorship. The Internet helps facilitate some things that one might not like, extensive profiling. But it also is very good at distributing information, and I think that in general, the availability of information in the future will be greater than in the past. I do not think it likely that our future will, on the balance, be more-censorious than our past.
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Lol what are you people ever going to do.
You can't just wait until you're mad to do something. It takes years building networks and getting everyone on board.
Totally doable if people had a bit of common sense but the reason why the right are kicking ass and doing this stuff is because people now are pretty brain washed and can't figure out how most of the stuff that they fight for are also the things they need to stop in order to prevent this stuff. But because they will never figure that out, you'll never get anywhere.
Just an example, we should have recognized the same tools that let content creators get paid was going to be the same tools that politicians would use to manipulate and lie to people popularising fascism again. Thanks PewDiePie
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Collective Shout is Australian.
And banks are bigger than nations at this point, what they say goes.
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Just pointing out the obvious here, but the problem isn't organizations like Collective Shout. And there has been a rather worrying development of this issue where people seem to focus on these organizations rather than the actual problem.
Payment processing is a utility.
Credit card companies should not be allowed to pick and choose who they allow and who they block. That's the job of the government. Anything illegal can be blocked, but blocking anything legal such as the delisted games, or the Japanese manga sites that visa and MasterCard killed, should count as discriminatory practice and antitrust violation.
Japan is on track to force credit card companies to allow all legal transactions indiscriminately, and we need the same thing to happen in the EU and US. Once we have this fixed, organizations will be forced to instead try to outlaw the games, which is a million times harder.
If we bully organizations like collective shout out of existence, new ones will pop up to take its place, and the cycle repeats, but if we regulate credit card companies, we essentially cure the disease.
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Actually insane to say that Collective Shout is blameless. Go look at the vile shit their members are spewing. Not only are they demonstrably culpable for this, they're also engaging in hate speech and disinformation and targeted harassment.
The payment situation is also to blame.
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to say that Collective Shout is blameless
Twitter is not, as it turns out, the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted.
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I love the mental gymnastics of saying that you’re a feminist and also anti-abortion. The only way a woman gets pregnant is from sperm. And in 99% of cases, that was through the interaction with a man. And it may have not been consensual.
But either way, now said woman is bound to modify her body and life because of her interaction with a man, rather than being able to make her own choice, because you said so and you know what’s best for her. She’s “empowered” to be a good little breeder and produce either men or other breeders because apparently that’s what women are good for when you take away their autonomy, which is really what these groups want. Which, is also a big reason why they hate trans women. Trans women cannot do the only job a woman should have, which is to produce offspring.
They would build such an amazing society! With so many empowered women! Freed from the shackles of being able to think or decide for themselves, ready to fulfill their ultimate dream of producing offspring, taking care of offspring, and then dying.
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Except
Radical feminism** is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts
But by making sure that women carry children to term whether or not they want to, it’s basically male run, they haven’t said anything about male/female equality.
It’s not the right terminology. Radical feminism has its own flaws, but this is Christian fundamentalism, nothing more, no matter how they label it.
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Actually insane to say that Collective Shout is blameless
Nobody said that. Except you, I guess.
I think Noxy's interpretation and response that there's multiple things to blame was pretty reasonable.
~~No one is saying they are blameless. We are saying they are not the issue that we need to focus on fixing here.~~
Edit: Fuck. Turns out I was wrong.
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Yeah, Mass Effect, Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 are just a few games among many that these groups would love to target and take down for giving lgbtq options. Could forsee a future where games have to start self censoring themselves to try to avoid demonetization. Best case scenario is they only censor in certain countries.
So those who think it is just attacking porn games and don't care because they play normal games will be in for a rude awakening if these groups get their way.
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It's not the first time this has happened. That first time set the precedent that the payment processors have a vast amount of power over the transactions that can occur on the internet. There wasn't a realistic way to push back on it and so they will continue to expand this for... whatever reason they are actually giving. IDK - I would have thought that legitimate adult content payments would be quite lucrative for these processors to handle, it's not like they're beholden to advertising like YouTube is and their insane content policies.
I mean, I cannot find a valid reasoning for it apart from the vague term "high risk" which explains nothing. This is the best I've found so far:
The adult industry is no stranger to regulation and stigma. But in recent years, payment processor censorship has emerged as a subtler, more insidious threat. Companies like Mastercard, Visa, and their underlying bank networks often issue sweeping mandates, particularly regarding “high-risk” content. These decisions typically happen behind closed doors, without public accountability or stakeholder input from the communities affected.
(bold emphasis mine)
To reduce perceived brand risk or avoid legal ambiguity, even when the content is legal.
TBH they are making themselves look pretty shitty as a brand by moving sex work and other adult content back to the darker deeper recesses where it becomes less accessible and harder to regulate properly in terms of safety and legality.
Deindexed/delisted, not removed.
Try putting the names into the search field on the site, or browsing for them in the categories they are in.
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Did that ever work anyway? For the last few years i only find porn games via duckduckgo and "You might also be interested in".
edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.
edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.
Which could cause them to no longer be indexed by search engines depending on other settings. So you'd need to find direct links from other websites.
Exactly. They "crawl" category/tag lists, etc. and follow links. And if there are no links to those pages, they wont be indexed.
(Depending on some settings. For all I know they've set up "hidden redirects" for popular crawlers to pages that show them)
Ahh, yes
A collective against the objectification of women, which somehow has no Problem with the current system in america, pornography itself, and dosent advocate for anything except banning Video games.
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or china lol.
but to be fair the us can't go one administration without couping and bullying everyone else.
The problem with leaving it in the hands of corporations...
Is that some are run by pieces of shit with very warped ideas
What they allow might be worse than what they ban
Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape
A New South Wales (NSW) politician has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men in Australia.
A jury found Gareth Ward - who is still a sitting member of state parliament - guilty of three counts of indecent assault and one count of rape.
Both of the victims, who were aged 18 and 24, said they were assaulted at Ward's home after meeting the 44-year-old through political circles between 2013 and 2015.
Ward resigned as a state government minister and from the Liberal Party when the accusations emerged in 2021, but refused to leave parliament and was re-elected as the member for Kiama in 2023.
The jury deliberated for three days after hearing nine weeks of evidence in the NSW District Court.
The trial heard Ward had invited a drunk 18-year-old man to his home in 2013 and indecently assaulted him three times, despite his attempts to resist.
Two years later, he raped a political staffer after an event at parliament.
Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape
Ward, a sitting member of New South Wales parliament, assaulted two young men, a jury found.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
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Right winged politicians trying not to give you uncanny valley vibes.
Level: Ḯ̵̢̛̞̳̟̩͇̳̜͔̲͇̬͗͐̒̓͐͊͜͝ͅm̸͕̹̖͛̅̆́p̵̭͈̖͍̖̤͚̻̳̫͔̞͙͂͜ȍ̵̲͉̻̰͈̘̹̫͚̰̲͋͗̎͒̔̓͝ś̶͚̮̥̍̈́̈̀͛̆̒͝͠ş̵̯̟̭̥͕̘̉̔̄̍̀̒͘̕i̶̡͍̝͍̟̼̯̰̺͙̙̟͐̐͜͜b̶̧̖͔̦̈͗͂l̶̨̪̘̗̮̲̯̞̺̲̹̣̫̟̐͌͋̀͜͝ẻ̶̟͖̘̮̤̮̳̓
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Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention
- Hernandez alleges torture, abuse in El Salvador's CECOT prison
- Trump used Alien Enemies Act for deportation, sparking legal battles
- Concerns for Hernandez's safety in Venezuela due to LGBTQ persecution
CAPACHO, Venezuela, July 23 (Reuters) - A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."
Andry Hernandez, 32, and the other detainees returned to Venezuela on Friday as part of a prisoner exchange, after spending four months in El Salvador's CECOT prison, where they and the Venezuelan government allege they were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food.
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Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.
At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle.
Both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict and on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Thailand accusing Cambodia of deliberately targeting civilians and Cambodia alleging Thailand was using cluster munitions, a controversial and widely condemned ordnance.
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Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle.
Both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict and on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Thailand accusing Cambodia of deliberately targeting civilians and Cambodia alleging Thailand was using cluster munitions, a controversial and widely condemned ordnance.
Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.
At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle.
Both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict and on Friday ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Thailand accusing Cambodia of deliberately targeting civilians and Cambodia alleging Thailand was using cluster munitions, a controversial and widely condemned ordnance.
As far as I understand, it's still a bit unclear.
Thailand claims Cambodian troops were approaching a Thai border guard station and started firing towards the Thai soldiers, leading to the Thai soldiers firing back.
Cambodia claims the patrol was walking the regular route, and Thai soldiers suddenly opened fire towards them.
Obviously one (or both) is lying, and the situation escalated quickly.
AP News includes this overview:
The contesting claims stem largely from a 1907 map drawn under French colonial rule that was used to separate Cambodia from Thailand. Cambodia has been using the map as a reference to claim territory, while Thailand has argued the map is inaccurate.
Contact Restored with Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Handala Amid Fears of Israeli Attack
Contact Restored with Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Handala Amid Fears of Israeli Attack - Palestine Chronicle
Communications were restored early on Friday with the Handala, an aid vessel heading for Gaza, after a two-hour interruption.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Philippines top court blocks impeachment bid against Sara Duterte
Philippine court strikes down landmark impeachment bid against Sara Duterte
Duterte faced impeachment over accusations of misusing public funds and threatening to kill the President.Joel Guinto and Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
“This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Oh. Well, I was worried for a bit but you've put my heart at ease.
Now that we've made our problems go away by redefining them, I'm ready to tackle ~~cancer~~, a natural body resource management issue.
[and assuming parent comment is also in spite of ~~Poe's Law~~ Nathan's astute online parody observations]
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1. Google's "anti bot" verification has long been considered woefully inadequate.
2. It works largely by tracking how long the user takes to click on it.
3. LLMs are inherently fuzzy and for a bot, incredibly slow.
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Ah yes, cloudflare's captcha that just tracks how many hits you've done in a timeframe on a site recently.
Same shit different pile.
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From the screenshot in the article, the bot is bypassing Cloudflare's Turnstile which is not just tracking hits.
I work in bot detection. You and anyone else reading this should understand that, behind the scenes, proof-of-work, proof-of-space, and other tests are being run to verify if the device is what it says it is. Typically, a bot is run with a tool like Playwright or Puppeteer. These frameworks are detectable with the right tests. Bots will also attempt to spoof another device's fingerprints to blend in. These changes are also detectable if you know what to test for.
We implement tools like Turnstile and other CAPTCHAless CAPTCHA because bots are pretty good at passing CAPTCHA while humans, rightfully, hate verifying they they're human. Humans also struggle at passing CAPTCHA.
The general population has zero idea the massive volume of bot traffic that is being generated right now. These tools are implemented for a reason. So the fact that a bot just breezes past this test is a problem for us all.
Definitely not "same shit different pile", friend.
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Thanks for the write up, but I was blocked from logging in on a cloudflare website because I opened too many windows once and their tracking cookie flagged that browser as a bot.
Meanwhile the bot I built to track mod updates to my modlist for Rimworld and Mw5 on nexus? Never ran into any issues.
So when I refer to Cloudflare's bot detection as shit, that is a highly personal and professional opinion.
No problem, thanks for reading. I don't work for Cloudflare, but I worry it's a little too easy to call something shit when you don't fully understand it.
There are numerous factors at play here even outside of frameworks and browsers. I haven't worked with Cloudflare's tools but where I work we allow each customer to fine tune detections. One site's detections might be too aggressive for another site. Believe it or not, some customers are ok with bot traffic so long as it's not overly aggressive. That said, detections can trigger based on behavior, such as high volumes of requests, as well as IP reputation.
Even with the bypasses that are available, or instances when you are able to use a bot and not be challenged, it doesn't diminish how well these tools work. There are reasons people are implementing these types of antibot solutions across the web.
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Could you please enlighten me on one small point:
When it asks you to click all the squares with a motorcycle, etc., does it expect you to include the squares with just a tiny part of the motorcycle or rider, or does it just want you to select the main squares?
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The CAPTCHA is question is Cloudflare Turnstile, which slowly ramps up a different assortment of invisible challenges while not tracking your mouse movement or cross-site activity.
If a bot can find all images with crosswalks in grainy photos faster than we can, surely it can check a box as well. Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement while doing so. For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser.
Probably because it accessed it through a user's browser/connection which until that point hadn't been flagged as a bot and had consistently shown signs of human use.
I'm sure if you set up a bot farm with this your connections would be flagged very quickly.
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Am I? Or does it think I'm a bot?
I guess it's on brand for Google to try and squeeze more value out of a product by making it worse for users. Just like Prabhakar Raghavan ruined Google search.
Wow, agents built to monitor and reflect human behaviour, accurately model and reproduce human behaviour.
This is what is what shits me off when people complain "Oh this AI isn't real AI" or "This isn't consciousness" The limiting factor is is the training data. Humans have just had a few more million years of training data passed on through genetics. It's replication and fakery all the way down. If this is you, if you fucking need the reassurance that you are better at being fucking conscious compare to a machine fuck the fuck right off and go do something amazing with it then. Compose something. Create something. Feel the wind in your hair and the sand at your feet. Fuck off, we're all dirt.
Canadian Separatist says he discussed Alberta becoming 51st state with Trump administration officials
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Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims - DeSmog
Private details from a Washington D.C., meeting about Alberta becoming the 51st state were revealed at a separatism event attended by DeSmog.David Falk (DeSmog)
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High treason46 (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,
(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
(b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or
(c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are.
Treason
(2) Every one commits treason who, in Canada,
(a) uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;
(b) without lawful authority, communicates or makes available to an agent of a state other than Canada, military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character that he knows or ought to know may be used by that state for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada;
(c) conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a);
(d) forms an intention to do anything that is high treason or that is mentioned in paragraph (a) and manifests that intention by an overt act; or
(e) conspires with any person to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) or forms an intention to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) and manifests that intention by an overt act.
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(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
So Charles is fair game?
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Does Any Province of Canada Have A Right To Separate? - William Gairdner
Here is a reply I wrote to a gentleman who informed me with a scary intensity that the Province of Alberta is once again thinking about separating from the Canadian Federation.William Gairdner
So... not treason?
Whatever the legal definition, this guy should go straight to Yale
How is this not treason? Are you American?
I ask because even the most left leaning of you all keep making light of this shit and it's actually driving me crazy. I have American coworkers making 51st state jokes and it's actually making me hate all of you
This is fucking terrifying.
We need to deal with these people yesterday.
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Has any of this been verified?
“We talked about a $500 million transition loan that we would only draw down on as necessary as we work with the U.S. to transition from a province to a country,” said Modry. He also claimed that they discussed a plan to prop up Alberta’s currency where “the U.S. agrees to take every Alberta citizen’s Canadian dollar and then exchange it for one U.S. dollar.”“Alberta, of course, can provide energy security,” he said. “It can also provide water security, agricultural security, forestry security, metal security, coal security, plus an industrious workforce. So there is tremendous benefit to the U.S., to work with us.”
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Wonder how much Danielle was getting paid? Time to drain the UCP swamp Alberta.
I say this as an Albertan.
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The Netherlands to impose travel ban on Israeli ministers over Gaza
The Netherlands to impose travel ban against Israeli ministers and summon ambassador over Gaza
The ban targets two far-right Israeli ministers in support of the Israeli settlers' movement, the continuation of the war, and the "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians.Euronews.com
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France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad
France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad
Judges rule document invalid as former Syrian leader had immunity as head of stateKim Willsher (The Guardian)
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Splurge for me, conserve for thee.
Same with water in CA. Industry uses >80% of water in the state and the focus is on 30 second showers and bullying citizens because their representatives have been captured along with their press in the profit machine.
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Residential homes use about 12% of the consumed fresh water in the United States.
Their whole industries that scrape a bit of profit off of a huge amount of America's water. Like exporting alfalfa grown in a desert.
I dunno, I'm from New Jersey. I can tell you about New Jersey though. Our two main providers of electric and gas utilities are PSEG and JCPL. Putting aside that they're both major corporations and those suck, JCPL also sucks at providing the service it basically forces you to get (because there's obviously no real alternatives), and PSEG is pretty good. I have not had a legitimate (>2 hours) power outage since I bought my home 11+ years ago. Regardless of my good fortune, we experience struggles in presumably the same fashion as much of the country: the hots are hotter and shit is expensive AF.
I'm sorry none of this is relevant.
Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.Elizabeth Napolitano (CBS News)
You're absolutely correct - just taking the opportunity to add some hard facts:
587,618
That is very little considering it's about the size of any other mid-Western state.
So: "This AI data center will use the energy of half a million households" - doesn't sound much better.
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“To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest data center — we think of it as a campus — in the world,” OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told The Associated Press last week. “It generates, roughly and depending how you count, about a gigawatt of energy.”
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite. I guess you don't need to actually know anything to get a leadership role at openai, as long as you can say lots of words.
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I read something about natural gas powered power plants; not sure if it's this one specifically.
Because unfortunately this is not the only gigantic climate destroyer AI thingy planned/built.
I don't know, I've been in some hot places but massive cooling towers tend to radiate a bit more (now I know what I'm reading about today) and a data center without the ability to pump heat outside isn't going to make it a whole day before it's toast.
Not necessarily disagreeing, just curious about how much heat is dispersed by the ones here.
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite.
Is that true, though?
But this proposed data center is so big, it would have its own dedicated energy from gas generation and renewable sources, according to Collins and company officials.
The "depending on how you count" probably refers to the renewables.
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy?
It's less absurd than it sounds and requires understanding how modern data center facilities that are being deployed by big tech actually work and run at a facility-wide and systemic level. They do generate this energy, they just proceed to use it. Notice he says roughly a gigawatt of energy, which is nowhere near the gross need for the facility as per the article.
Most modern data centers built in the past few years, especially those that are "campuses" as described, have on-site power generation solutions. Sometimes this means classic oil/coal/gas generators on the property, sometimes it means more involved and nuanced situations. What Lehane is telling the AP here is that, of the energy consumed by the new data center as a whole, "roughly and depending how you count," 1 gigawatt comes from such sources. The article clearly states the center is set to deploy at 1.8 gigawatts consumption scaling up to 10 gigawatts over the lifespan of the facility. Presumably these are on the same time scales and everything. Frankly, for an AP article this was written quite poorly and the exact meaning of most this information isn't very clear. I don't think that's Lehane's fault implicitly. Just seems like bad reporting.
People have this image in their heads of these big data centers opening up and just like, sucking up all the power from the local grid due to their demand and this is what causes things such as blackouts. This is mildly incorrect. The negative effects of these data centers' power demands is less to do with them "overloading" public grids and more to do with the market economy of energy. You get blackouts because all the energy they can't generate themselves on-site must be acquired somewhere else. They can walk up to the local power companies and buy energy just like any private citizen can. They often get discounted rates compared to the plebes, too. You end up with blackouts because the energy companies don't give a shit who they sell their product to, they just care that it sells. When companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, or OpenAI roll up with significantly more capital and resources than anyone else in the local economy, they're easily able to out-compete even the entirety of the local domestic power demand. That's what causes blackouts.
No one wants to talk about this because it's easier to just say braindead shit like "fuck datacenters/AI/big-tech/fuckingwhateveritis" so you can feel like you're "on the right side" than it is to acknowledge the long line of people in both the public and private sectors who had to rubber-stamp personally fucking the average person for us to even get to this point. Does big tech suck absolutely, fat, stinking donkey balls? For fucking sure. Are they anything more than a symptom of a much more entrenched societal rot? Nope.
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I'm starting to think this is how they ease us into accepting the argument they need to grind us up for biofuel.
"Sorry kids, it turns out deregulation of nuclear safety and all these small modular nuclear reactors we built still isn't enough to power the data centers."
"Good news, we have this new idea: You know how there's just way too many of you bc we've been banning birth control methods and spreading misinformation about declining birth rates? And there's also not enough food bc of tariffs and a lack of available labor to harvest all those crops we let rot?"
To be fair, in exchange we will still get to enjoy terrible AI generated art and music.
misinformation about declining birth rates
What misinformation? Every expert on the subject is agreeing that we're at or below replacement rate.
I mean my opinion is if your plan is to take away everybody's healthcare, collapse the economy, close public schools, and decrease quality of life in general, plus do all these other crazy things that put the mother's life at risk, why would it be a good idea to encourage as many new births as possible?
Also, I know n=1 but I really wanted to have another kid last year, but put it off specifically bc of the crazy laws Republicans started passing that put maternal health at risk. Honestly, I'm relieved I didn't bc the economy has also gotten so bad since then and everything is so uncertain. Now when I read stories about brain dead women being forced to be kept alive to carry a fetus and give birth it makes me wonder if I'll ever want to risk having another baby.
I think it's dishonest to pretend that current birthrates in the U.S. at least aren't in part a reflection of many women's fears about giving birth during such a chaotic time.
I wasn't referring to the US in particular, but global birth rates.
science.org/content/article/po…
Edit to add: I'm in no way commenting on the situation in the States, just clearing up a potential misconception I see very frequently, which is that the global population is still booming, when we should already be worrying about the opposite.
But this proposed data center is so big, it would have its own dedicated energy from gas generation and renewable sources
Very unfortunate, as this could have been an opportunity to advance the green power agenda. Solar, wind, and nuclear are all more efficient than fossil fuels -- so why build new fossil fuel plants?
And a nuclear plant is probably way longer to build than the datacenter itself, if you ever get the green light to build it.
I have seen impulsive gaslighting and malicious classified spill out of every one of these ai. Straight up doing verbal abuse.
Edit: I'm gonna go on. I forget what I was talking about, but I was connecting various facts and asking about Epstein stuff. It immediately and repeatedly classified it as non serious conspiracy, and after pressing, presented facts backing 4 out of 5 of the things it said was crazy, and there have been books written saying the exact same thing.
Open Telegram Group with 100,000+ Members (Now Private): Cross-Border Voyeurism Ring Sharing Covert Footage and Contact Details of Chinese Women and Children
They never knew they were being filmed — on subway trains, in mall fitting rooms, on university campuses, at home.Since late June, a Chinese-language Telegram group chat named “MaskPark Treehole Forum,” reportedly with over 103,000 members, has sparked outrage on Chinese social media for circulating obscene covert footage.
Secret intimate recordings of women and individuals having sex were captured using hidden cameras disguised as screws, power sockets, and even bottles of toilet cleaner — and those sharing them could be a colleague, a classmate, or even a family member.
The revelations triggered widespread outrage on Chinese social media, drawing broad coverage from domestic news outlets.
State-backed outlet Guangming Daily called the case “exceptionally egregious” and urged swift regulatory action in a commentary, saying: “Regulators must move faster to fill the gaps, and law enforcement mechanisms need to be strengthened. Only by doing so can we enhance the overall sense of security, free women from the fear of being watched, and make the boundaries of privacy truly inviolable.”
Chinese Women, Children Targeted in Cross-Border Voyeurism Ring
The open Telegram group, which had over 100,000 members and has since gone private, was used to exchange covert footage of women and children as well as their contact details.#SixthTone
US Drops Sanctions on Myanmar Junta Allies After Trump Praise
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Bob and Doug, from Second City television.
Didn't want anyone to think it was cultural misappropriation or rocking and our neighbors to north. If there ever was a truer hoser than musk I'm not sure who it is
But it's such a good word lol.
I legitimately grew up watching SCTV and it's one movie spinoff. Saturday night live was good back then too. But damn that SCTV cast was epic. Moranis, Thomas, Radner, Flaherty, Leve, Short, Candy and of course O'hara
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Ohh, just wait till they privatize weather, mail, prison. hospitals...
It's gonna be too expensive to live on this planet for YOU.
one more took some significant steps in that direction earlier this year.
One? Last I checked, both weather and mail are both on their way to privatization.
As rural hospitals shut down (due to lack of federal funding) they are being BOUGHT up by private corporations and LEASED back to the federal government (federal funding).
It's a LOT more money and it's NOT going to the hospital.
Brain dead take honestly. Nationalization doesn’t work out 11 times out of 10. Look at NASA, SpaceX ran circles around them with a tini tiny fraction of the funding.
Nationalization does not mean it belongs to “us” it belongs to the government, an entity with motivations, incentives and desires different from “us” the people.
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Yeah. These dumbasses forget that government funding is what originally set the stage and enabled any progress at all for private company-entrepreneurs who benefitted from all that publicly available knowledge, paid for by our tax dollars.
Innovation will slow to a trickle with all these government cuts because these companies literally can't pay for anything not directly related to their bottom dollar, and none of them can see far enough past next quarter's profits to invest in the future.
Human knowledge is always cumulative ya dunce. If we were to apply your logic we should instead give all of our science and research to Greece, China and the Middle East since they pioneered the innovations upon which civilization is built.
I’m not defending any government cuts or anything fyi. Im just saying the fact that nationalization doesn’t work, and it has never worked. Theres people who still think critically instead of relying on trying to score points for a team.
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20…
I’m just gonna reply to everyone with this, since it drives my point home and comes from NASA themselves. You can read it or not if you want, but my point is that SpaceX reduced costs in a way NASA by itself was not capable of doing. The main reason as you might imagine is the proper incentives were not there in the same way that they exist for private industry. Look at Section 3 point B. Institutional causes and cures of very high space launch cost.
Reading directly from your source: one of NASA's key drivers have been RELIABILITY, and a "non-industrial" culture. Of course both of these things drive cost up. "Industrial" cultures have eliminated creativity since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line at his plant--everyone has a single efficient responsibility and it makes everyone miserable as a result, leading to nobody giving a single damn at the end of the day.
In the same paragraph you linked:
"The low Shuttle flight rate not only
makes for inefficient use of personnel and facilities, it distorts the cost per flight calculations because of high fixed
costs.” (Rutledge, 93-4063)"
Meaning that if they had modified their program and product to launch more frequently like SpaceX does, then the costs would be much more favorable.
And also:
"Another key factor in SpaceX’s low costs is its young, highly motivated workforce of top
graduates willing to work significant unpaid overtime. "
This is NOT a good thing--people shouldn't have to slave away for their career. It's also not sustainable, and it means that the work is being done by inexperienced individuals which leads to disasters like:
texastribune.org/2024/12/18/te… and
theguardian.com/world/2025/jun… and
businessinsider.com/spacex-sta…
SpaceX's 1st Starship launch destroyed pad with volcano-sized explosion
SpaceX's Starship rocket atop its Super Heavy booster is the most powerful rocket in history, capable of generating the same force as a volcanic eruption.Morgan McFall-Johnsen (Business Insider)
But they had no incentives to send the shuttle more often because they do not have a commercial interest in being able to do so. It’s very easy to say, they could have done X or Y thing, but here’s the thing: they didn’t, not for decades and they are still not doing it now. Theoretically given the resources they have they should have never been able to hav been shown by Space X how to save costs, but that’s the paradox of having a lot of theoretically infinite funding (in relative terms) you dont have an incentive to squeeze every little drop of efficiency that you can.
Sure you raise some good points, but you also seem to have glossed over how absolutely bloated the agency is by their own admission in this paper. Why did NASA need all that personnel when SpaceX did better with a fraction? And if what you say is true about hyper specialization is true, which org do you think was more hyper specialized the one that had magnitudes more employees or the one that had to do with a fraction of the money and the personnel.
Again, the fact of the matter is SpaceX is more efficient at this than NASA. It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact confirmed by NASA themselves. That’s the bottom line for me here.
If we are gonna fret over collateral damage of every little thing we do, we might as well go back to the caves. Steps are taken to reduce it but it can never be fully avoided. Has a NASA rocket never exploded? Would you rather freeze human technology and science in its current state? Because if you look at history we break shit in order to learn how to not break shit and how to fix shit and how to improve it. I’m frankly sick of this performative ludditism.
Edit: that being said I am not advocating for dismantling NASA or anything. The way I see it NASA should focus on research, while SpaceX can focus on making commercially viable rockets. Like we don’t have USPS making their trucks.
I get it, you're just trolling. There is no valid argument here; NASA is a government institution who's intention is to serve the people through scientific advancement, not scrounge up a fucking profit. I literally just showed you that SpaceX is only more "efficient" by taking advantage of people, which is the complete opposite end of the spectrum from what government is supposed to do. They are not even competitors. They're not even competing; SpaceX will never develop the technology that NASA did, that SpaceX relied on to be in business in the first place.
The original conversation wasn't even about money, efficiency, or profit; it was about the ability to create and benefit society. Because SpaceX has a profit motive, it will never be able to create and innovate the same way NASA did; it'll only ever be able to fulfill narrowly defined contacts. Because guess what? If it goes beyond that, it'll basically be where NASA is and then you'll be in here bitching about them too because they're not "as efficient" as the people they're paying to do a simple, narrowly defined task with overworked, inexperienced employees as they generate rampant environmental harm.
I really wasn’t going to dignify this with an answer. But fuck it, I have nothing better to do it seems.
Yes corporations are more efficient by exploiting resources to the last drop, including people (to the extent that the law and the individual allow), no shit Sherlock, that’s kind of the point. But the people are there willingly, many of them could have worked at NASA or any other STEM job but they took the job Musk offered them because he was offering a different experience than what they could have received anywhere else, and of course the promise of future riches. I understand your point of view better than you think, I just reject it because it does not apply universally. Not everyone is coerced into accepting lower pay or working more hours, some people choose that because their job is more important to them than most other things. So yes exploitation of labor happens, but at what can only be described elite level jobs, the employees that choose to be paid below market rate do so out of their choice. These are not people struggling to pay rent, they are making 3 figures most of them if not all of them. A far cry from the cashiers at Walmart.
The thing is that if you look at the way science and technology progresses it ca be boiled down to optimization in the use of energy and resources. Government agencies will never do that because of the way they are incentivized to operate which by the way is not to benefit the people, that’s a naive and utopian view of government, rather they are optimized to never spend less this quarter than last quarter because they get their budget cut if they do. You are deluded if you think a single government official in any country in any government is concerned with “the people” more than they are in their career and the budget they manage. I’ll repeat this, the government is a distinct entity from the people with different incentives and motivations, same as a corporation or an NGO or any other organization. They are all different groups with different goals and motivations and the people are yet another. Each serves themselves and that ‘s how we achieve balance. But I digress, the way incentives are set up for the government is to spend more and more even when there is no logical reason to spend more. Which is why they could not achieve what SpaceX did.
But here’s what crazy about you telling me I’m trolling, or maybe you didn’t read my edit, but I agree with you! NASA has a distinct role in the future which is to dedicate itself to research that might not have obvious commercial application but could benefit humanity in other ways, I used the USPS example: it would be kinda stupid to have USPS make it’s own trucks when it is better at doing logistics which is a task that doesn’t have a commercial upside without becoming so expensive that it hurts most of the population.
I do not know about what original conversation you refer to as my first comment was always about efficiency and cost cutting which is the only thing that will enable mass space exploration, mining and commerce and maybe colonization one day (opening the door for all kinds of human organization schemes and experiments that are no longer possible on earth due to social ossification). For me that was always the goal of NASA, and yes without NASA there would be no SpaceX, just like there would be no NASA without Newton and no Newton without Descartes and so on. No human endeavor is built from the clouds, there’s always a precursor, we can trace anything and everything to our first ancestors if you like and then to the first bacteria life forms.
And yes SpaceX itself will become a bloated, inefficient monster one day, that is the lifecycle of these entities. The argument for free markets (actual free markets not the corporatocratic protectionist nightmare that is the US system) is that a competitor will come about and do the same thing better and take their market from them if they fail to improve themselves. But maybe that doesn’t happen, at that point you will have me right by your side calling for the nationalization of SpaceX, but we are not there yet.
Human knowledge is always cumulative ya dunce.
Human knowledge can be (and historically, often has been) destroyed as well as accumulated. It's a myth originating with the Whigs that history always moved in the direction of progress. As recent political events in the US have shown, that's not true.
nationalization doesn’t work, and it has never worked
Except, for example, in every developed-world health care delivery system, all of which massively outperform the private-sector US system both on cost and on outcomes. Likewise, fire departments, interstate highway systems, public water supplies, armies, etc, etc.
So before calling someone a dunce, you might do well to learn more about the many things you don't know.
Well I never said anything about progress, I said it’s cumulative. We never destroy more than we have accumulated. None of the knowledge we have today would exist without the knowledge of our earliest of ancestors when Homo sapiens was still thousands of years away. That being said, looking at the sheer amount of time we’ve been accumulating knowledge even if we had a thousand years of absolute barbarity and massive ignorance, the statement that knowledge tends towards progress would still be true. The present is a blip in the scale of human history.
To address your other point. Yes I’ll admit that I was too universalistic in my argument in the heat of the moment so to speak. But the big caveat is that it does not necessarily lead to, and most always doesn’t lead to better service for end user. It’s a trade off in most cases. But I’ll never argue in favor of privatized healthcare or education for example. The loss in efficiency is simply not enough to justify the real human cost of the alternative. But cutting edge technology that is not essential, such as space travel, computers etc, belong in the private market where the right incentives to make improvements exist.
NASA basically pioneered every single piece of modern space technology
Hate to say it, but it was actually the Nazis who pioneered a lot of modern space technology. The US massively refined and improved it - often with the help of "rescued" Nazi scientists.
Le Epic spaceship explosions.
SpaceX: 5
NASA: 1
Dumbass liberals BTFO!!
I actually am skeptical of nationalization. I think the free market is more efficient in most situations.
But if you think SpaceX is running circles around NASA, well that's so ridiculous that I'm starting to doubt myself.
They did though, they massively cut costs of launching a rocket, which is again the real barrier for space exploration, especially commercially viable space exploration. It’s not clear that NASA could have done that seeing how their costs remained roughly the same for decades, but don’t take it from me, take it from NASA themselves:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20…
What’s your counter argument for saying they didn’t run circles around NASA?
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He touched Amber Heard..
Too bad she didn't shit in his bed... 💩
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I was going to say there's no rules against saying "Elon Musk should be killed" here on Lemmy, but then I saw we're on Lemmy.world, and I think they're trying to be the new Reddit.
(For any mods, this is not a call for violence, simply stating a thing that isn't allowed. Please read it again if you think I made a call to violence.)
This was already known back then, but it is good to bring it to the front again.
I do kind of wonder if this is a "revenge" article against Musk for him firing up the epstein "debate" on his twitter posting spree.
The Kherson episode is distinct from an earlier report of an incident that purportedly occurred that same September, involving Crimea just to the south, and raised concerns about Musk’s ability to influence the conflict in Ukraine.
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Oh, I remember hearing about this in 2022. There was a ton of speculation about this. I'm glad it's been confirmed.
Hoping one day the MuskRat finds himself behind bars.
When I pointed out the first time this happened, I was pummeled in the comments by people saying that he just doesn't want to be complicit in anything. Okay, but then why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers to begin with? And now this is the second or third time he's fucked the Ukrainians by turning off the service as they're taking back their land.
He a fucking clown. He wants his service used, but he doesn't want any consequences. He just wants to drag the war out and add "Powered by Starlink". He's given himself some control over the conflict, while enriching himself for as long as it continues.
Yeah, I wasn't really sure of his reasoning here, but I don't think it was very good to begin with.
Unfortunately, we already know that he has way too much power for a private citizen.
I think in 2022, he still had some fans, he hadn't quite ruined his image all the way yet, even though most of us could see the writing on the wall. It sucks you got jumped for that, though.
I'm in the "We should Nationalize Starlink without giving him a dime" camp as recompense for this crime.
why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers
Because those receivers were "free" for the Ukrainians but someone else paid millions for that
Imagine paying $500/month for each "free" receiver because "military applications needs maximum quality" but when the vatnik CEO gets a call from its owner "oh no today it glitched!”
This is a perfect example of why we have to confiscate the bulk of the fortunes of Sociopathic Oligarchs.
We have this guy operating his own foreign policy in a very sensitive war with nuclear weapons in the mix. The rest of the world shouldn't have to be at the mercy of his arrogance and hubris, waiting for him to get bored with this game, and move onto the next one, hopefully before he blows up the planet.
He has been proven to be massive national and global security threat, who will only become more dangerous as he hoards more money. Just strip his citizenship, confiscate his money and his companies, and deport him to South Africa. Then use his example as a threat to other Sociopathic Oligarchs.
It depends, maybe they like the contents of some instances like this one
Although on some blocks I can't disagree:
The .world domain appears to be unblocked, at least on some of the test sites.
chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl…
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China Firewall Test: See if a Site is Blocked [WORKING 2025 ]
China’s Great Firewall blocks many websites from other countries. Our China firewall test checks if a website is blocked in China.Samuel Chapman (Cloudwards)
I think they should be taken down or taken over by another entity. They were launched under the premise they were a utility and it turns out they're being used military.
I dont mean the internet access itself but the giving and striping of access to suit a military agenda goes beyond the pervue of an organization claiming to be an ISP or commercial utility.
Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children
Gaza is on the brink of running out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children, United Nations and humanitarian agencies say.”We are now facing a dire situation, that we are running out of therapeutic supplies,” Salim Oweis, a spokesperson for Unicef in Amman, Jordan, told Reuters on Thursday, saying supplies of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a crucial treatment, would be depleted by mid-August if nothing changed.
”That’s really dangerous for children as they face hunger and malnutrition at the moment,” he added.
Oweis said Unicef had only enough RUTF left to treat 3,000 children. In the first two weeks of July alone, Unicef treated 5,000 children facing acute malnutrition in Gaza.
Nutrient-dense, high-calorie RUTF supplies, such as high-energy biscuits and peanut paste enriched with milk powder, are critical for treating severe malnutrition.
”Most malnutrition treatment supplies have been consumed and what is left at facilities will run out very soon if not replenished,” a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Thursday.
UK, France and Germany call for immediate end to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza and say Israel must lift aid restrictions – as it happened
Joint statement says: ‘Withholding essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable’Caolán Magee (The Guardian)
What can I do to help? It's absolutely fucked that world governments are just allowing this to happen. The US or France or Germany could literally just roll in with an armed fleet and say that they are there to prevent civilian deaths, any attempts to fire upon, accidentally or on purpose, will be met with such swift and stark retribution that the Devil itself will be jealous of the hellfire achieved that day. Do not fuck with us or you will regret it.
I can only dream. The freedom flotilla tried to sail there to bring food and find a path.
So what can I do?
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Are you American or European? Mailbomb your representative to tell them to stop this Holocaust.
Download Boycat or No Thanks app. Use your consumer power to boycott products that are supporting the genocide and apartheid of Palestinians.
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Hunter Biden: The worst thing that has happened to Jewish people globally is the Israeli government.
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A tiny bit.
If you care about american politics and future, another "dynasty hire" is the second to last thing the country needs.
What dumb fuck world do you live in where AOC is simping for zionists while the entire world characterizes her as a pro Palestinian socialist?
Like how “I can’t tell up from down” level of stupidity can you be to then make that statement?
I’m sorry but holy shit dude take a breath, and really think about the sheer stupidity of that post…
All while her actions prove OPPOSITE TO EVERYTHING YOU SAY?
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"taught" as in text books?
or "taught" as in forcibly evicted from your childhood home and put in a concentration camp?
I am guessing they are referring to the education programs under UNRWA that allegedly were unaltered and issued by the Palestinian Authority which promoted and instilled hate of Israelis.
If anyone is interested in the details surrounding that entire situation.
I've copied the relevant parts from that link below since I did not read anything validating those allegations.
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The Claim: Textbooks used in UNRWA schools glorify terrorists and promote hatred of Israel.The Facts: UNRWA uses host government textbooks, in line with UN best practice for providing quality education in refugee settings. UNRWA reviews all textbooks used in its schools to identify sections that may not be in line with UN values and UNESCO standards for teaching. UNRWA has no tolerance for hate speech and inciting discrimination, or violence. Independent analysts and international education experts have vouched for the quality and content of the education that UNRWA provides in its schools.
Using host country curriculums in refugee situations is standard for the UN around the world. It is a best practice that helps students pursue their education in host country education systems. The vast majority of UNRWA’s school system ends after grade 9, and most students transition to local schools for upper secondary, then university.
UNRWA is one of the very few entities in the region that runs a programme on human rights, conflict resolution and tolerance.
UNRWA teachers are trained to address any controversial content in the classroom, using guidance documents developed by UNRWA. The teachers are required to follow this approach and held accountable. When it comes to the Palestinian Authority textbooks, UNRWA refers systematically to UN positions on issues such as the occupation, borders, the separation barrier, and Jerusalem. UNRWA is not in a position to – nor is it mandated to – reconcile the Israeli and Palestinian narratives.
In addition, an Education Expert Advisory Group, composed of globally recognised experts representing renowned institutions like UNESCO and the World Bank, advises UNRWA on a regular basis on its education programme. Regarding the textbooks produced by the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA’s own stance on these materials closely aligns with the findings from the Georg Eckert Institute’s study commissioned by the European Commission. .
Other internationally recognised outside evaluations – including a 2021 World Bank-UNHCR study – demonstrated that UNRWA’s educational outcomes are among the best in the region and at the lowest cost per student.
The Claim: A 2019 U.S. Government Accountability Office report allegedly said that UNRWA has not always implemented measures to address problematic content in school textbooks.
The Facts: The 2019 report reaffirmed UNRWA’s unwavering commitment to UN values, and, where there was a need for better implementation, this was done – you can find our statement about this here.
UNRWA undertakes regular reviews of all textbooks and learning material used in its schools for compatibility with UN values and UNESCO standards and reinforcing tolerance and human rights.
The Claim: Rather than being part of the solution, UNRWA perpetuates the refugee problem, including by reminding Palestine Refugees of their history and telling them their home is in Israel.
The Facts: When the UN General Assembly created UNRWA by passing resolution 302 in 1949, it did not mandate the Agency to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict nor the Palestine Refugee issue or find durable solutions for refugees.
Rather, UNRWA was set up as temporary organisation to carry out “direct relief and works programmes” for Palestine Refugees.
UNRWA has a humanitarian and development mandate, renewed every three years by the UN General Assembly, to provide assistance and protection to Palestine Refugees pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. UNRWA delivers public services, especially basic education and healthcare.
UNRWA is still in place 75 years later due to the failure by the international community to resolve a political problem.
Palestine Refugees are like all other refugees. Under international law, refugees and their descendants may retain their status until a durable solution is found to the situation that made them refugees in the first place. As stated by the United Nations, this principle applies to all refugees and both UNRWA and UNHCR have recognised descendants as refugees on this basis.
UN General Assembly resolution 194 precedes and differs from resolution 302, which established UNRWA. The Agency does not have the mandate for durable solutions, including to return or resettle Palestine Refugees.
It's just generational trauma. Both have grown up with parents or grandparents that have suffered to the other and think they are inherently evil. It's not like it's the first time Israel has done evil things to them and it's not like it's the first time Israel has wanted revenge for the evil things that have been done to them.
The reason why people always emphasize that revenge is never good and that "violence isn't the answer" is because this is literally the worst case scenario outcome of said violence. An endless cycle of hate and violence that can lead to so much dehumanization that they barely even consider them people. And if you don't even consider them people anymore you might as well get rid of them so you can use the land and resources. If you look at any genocide a very common theme is that it's always about superiority and how the people being killed are subhuman.
100%. But I honestly think the victims of the Holocaust would agree here.
1) Imagine seeing your grandchildren commit the same atrocities inflicted upon you, their own family? I think they would have rather died than begat such individuals. I certainly would.
2) Israel has monopolized Judaism/Hebrew-ethnicity and essentially stolen the Jewish identity to further their Zionist genocidal cause.
At least the victims of the holocaust maintained their humanity. Zionist brutes on the other hand have forsaken it.
Its fucked up. Cuz like when I meet a ruso-canadian I don't immediately question if they support Putin. But I have caught myself multiple times questioning if an ethnically hebrew person supports Israel.
The fact that we barely differentiate between Israel and Netanyahu's fascist government is proof enough of the harm it causes. Because I know that not every Israeli citizen supports the genocide in Gaza, but they're for the most part just as powerless as we are.
Which is making the word meaningless. I keep hearing about "rampant antisemitism," at universities and such, but I've seen nothing to suggest it's any different than it usually is.
Unless you consider being pro-Palestine and/or anti-genocide as antisemitic. Which it isn't.
This can only harm Jewish people around the world.
I have caught myself multiple times questioning if an ethnically hebrew person supports Israel.
Ugh that is so fucked up but I commiserate because I've found myself doing the same and I hate it so much. I hate that I've started having that awful knee-jerk reaction.
Like I grew up in a city with a large Jewish community so I have very warm feelings about the whole Jewish aesthetic and philosophical outlook on life.
But now it's like there's this little dangling asterisk next to those warm feelings. Like I'm always wondering if they support genocide.
Is it better to be genocided or be a genocider?
I guess it's a matter of perspective.
That headline is fishy. Reads like a direct quote but I don't think he said those words in that order, seems rather suggestive of downplaying the holocaust.
Ah, the source is Jerusalem Post. That explains it.
It has made me really sad tbh.
I used to think that certain experiences or history made you think differently. I honestly thought Jews in general would be a little less inclined to go full genocidal.
Nope, people just suck regardless of ethnicity AND history
It’s a lot more about their current situation I guess
"Not all Jews support what Netanyahu is doing, but they’re still being targeted because of it,",
but that's a sacrifice that Netanyahu is willing to make.
UK, Australia to deepen AUKUS treaty and economic ties
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No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
An analysis conducted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found no evidence that Hamas systematically stole US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza, Reuters reported Friday.FRANCE 24
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Meanwhile there has been videos of Israeli soldiers eating food they stole from UN shipments.
Every accusation is a confession.
I mean....who cares if Hamas steals some of the food? Are we thinking that the few remaining Hamas members are capable of eating it all, or that the war has been so ineffective that they have a huge military force able to eat enough food to feed hundreds of thousands of people's worth of aid?
It's such an obvious excuse to just starve an entire population that it's a huge shame that every journalist and politician doesn't call them out on it. Israel has become a nation that exists in a constant state of cognitive disorder.
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in reply to Saleh • • •Right, cause as we all know, it was the UN that illegally boarded a ship in international waters and pretty much kidnapped it's crew just cause their efforts to get supplies into Gaza was topping the news cycle. Wait, no, that of course was Israel's doing.
Fuckin fascist assholes. I'm referring of course to that mission that Greta joined. But can't let compassion for the indigenous people of the land they are stealing overtake the news cycle cuz that makes it hard to convince people that Israel are the victims.
I cannot comprehend reacting with anger and hatred cause somebody is trying to get food to starving children, let alone the disgusting level of bigotry it takes to intentionally starve an entire population to death.
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