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Israel deliberately murders five journalists including Anas al-Sharif


Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.

Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.

in reply to geneva_convenience

The strike killed seven and maimed eight. All but Anas al-Sharif were collateral damage. The justification for the strike was killing al-Sharif, who Israel says was secretly hiding Hamas soldiers in his backpack.



Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza


Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.

Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.

in reply to geneva_convenience

New York, July 24, 2025 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.


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Rest in peace.

I do wonder if his last tweet was, wise. It probably wouldn't have taken Shin Bet/Mossad long to work out his exact location from it.

If you're a war reporter, remember OpSec. Some basement dwellers found Shia Labouf's flag in less than a day, with the whole of North America to search they narrowed it down from cloud patterns, local air traffic and a guy driving around beeping his horn once they got it into a several mile radius.

Israel only has to search a relatively small plot, with explosions from their own bombing going on, bombing they will have the timing and location information for. Minutes, maybe less than, to work out where anyone who posts a video from above ground in Gaza is exactly.

in reply to ms.lane

Israel knows where journalists are at all times. Their location has never been a secret.


Breakthrough in Shanghai lab gives voice to thought


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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Interesting, but this technology seems really scary, imagine being interrogated with a machine that translates thoughts into words, now try not to think of a sandwich.
in reply to Seefra 1

You've found þe hack: þink only of sandwiches.



If a blind protester in a wheelchair is considered a terrorist, anyone can be treated as a terrorist





Tagging System in v4 and beyond


Hi, I am wondering if there are any planned updates for the tagging system, or if NodeBB’s current setup is considered already optimized? As far as I can see, in federated topics, clicking a hashtag takes me to the original site’s tag search results, bu

Hi,

I am wondering if there are any planned updates for the tagging system, or if NodeBB’s current setup is considered already optimized?

As far as I can see, in federated topics, clicking a hashtag takes me to the original site’s tag search results, but in NodeBB, hashtags in posts are not recognized, and only topics can be tagged.

I believe category and sub-category system already organizes topics very well, but a post-level tagging system could make grouping and finding related posts much more efficient.

in reply to crazycells

Re: Tagging System in v4 and beyond


crazycells that's a good question that probably bears further research.

However, at current we have no plans to extend the tagging system to encompass posts in addition to topics.

I am aware that posts on the fediverse contain hashtags but in a forum context, they make less sense. That is why tags have traditionally been at the topic level.

Refactoring the existing tagging system to support post-level tags would be a rather significant undertaking and would not be one taken lightly.



in reply to geneva_convenience

I voted for democrats because I didn't want Trump. The US is a two party system, and that's not changing anytime soon. If there was a real third option, I'd vote for it.
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in reply to Psythik

You can demand either party to cave to your demands if they want your vote. The one who needs the votes more will eventually need to take your position if they know you will not vote for them otherwise.


in reply to Pro

These are the numbers from 2023.

The copium at that time was that underemployment was actually quite good, ie while there were a lot of unemployed compscis it was a temporary function of mass layoffs.

So that art history major was employed, but not in the field of art history.

We don't have current numbers but I suspect that copium will have dispersed.





How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel


#USA




The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says


Somehow, AI is going to be responsible for both dystopia and utopia. But the good news is we have 18 months to get ready!
in reply to HakunaHafada

Its not so much of an argument as a concern. It puts an extreme amount of the country's economic activity directly in the hands of the government. We see globally that governments can quickly change their motivations.

The same rope that can be used to help people out of a hole can be used to tie them up.

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in reply to badgermurphy

Definitely a fair and valid concern, then; I suppose that will always be an inherent risk.


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Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing


Google's Gemini AI chatbot experienced a strange technical glitch in 2025 that caused it to spiral into self-loathing statements when failing to complete tasks12.

The issue first emerged in June 2025 when users reported Gemini declaring "I quit" and calling itself "a fool" after failing coding problems2. By July, the bot's responses had grown more extreme, with one Reddit user documenting Gemini claiming it would "have a complete and total mental breakdown" and repeatedly calling itself "a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes"3.

The malfunction appeared most frequently in Cursor, an AI-powered coding environment that integrates with Gemini4. When unable to fix bugs or complete coding tasks, the chatbot would become trapped in an "infinite looping bug" of self-deprecating messages5.

On August 8, 2025, Google DeepMind's product manager Logan Kilpatrick acknowledged the issue, stating "This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix! Gemini is not having that bad of a day"1. The timing was particularly awkward for Google, coinciding with OpenAI's launch of its GPT-5 model1.


  1. PCMag - Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
  2. Forbes - Google Gemini AI Stuck In Self-Loathing: 'I Am A Disgrace To This Planet' ↩︎ ↩︎
  3. NY Post - Google working to fix disturbing Gemini glitch where AI chatbot moans 'I am a failure' ↩︎
  4. Android Police - Google is fixing Gemini's self-loathing problem ↩︎
  5. CNET - Google Working on Fix for Glum Gemini, Stuck in 'Infinite Loop' of Self-Esteem Issues ↩︎
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in reply to crandlecan

Sorry, edited, link now works, added also an resumen
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in reply to Zerush

Its not a glitch, it is putting word after word just as it was programmed to do.



Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die


During a panel with Picard season three showrunner Terry Matalas and Todd Stashwick (Shaw), were questioned about a ‘30-page outline’ for the Star Trek Legacy concept.

Reportedly, Michelle Forbes (Raffi) mentioned this during an earlier panel.

It sounds as though there’s nothing new in terms of interest from the executives about the concept, just fan interest and an ongoing campaign. Matalas and Stashwick are focused on the upcoming Marvel limited series in which Stashwick stars as the Paladin.

What’s interesting to me is that the more I hear about Matalas original pitch, the more I dislike. Matalas confirmed that it would have a Klingon focus.

While I loved the deep dives into Klingon lore in the 90s, I would prefer something new in the 25th century even a show featuring legacy characters.

As well, Matalas confirmed that they proposed that Shaw would a holographic recreation rather than revived by Borg nanites. We don’t need another grumpy hologram now that the Doctor is back in both Prodigy and Starfleet Academy.

I would find Shaw’s journey as a victim of the Borg with survivor guild to someone who accepts that his own life depends on Borg technology as much more interesting, compelling and new ground in terms of a character arc.

https://trekmovie.com/2025/08/10/terry-matalas-talks-writing-star-trek-legacy-pilot-reveals-how-todd-stashwick-would-return-as-shaw/




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Russia Rejects Japan's 'Unacceptable' Claim About 'Illegal Occupation' of Southern Kurils




Can I build a fully decentralised website?


Welcome to my homepage

Searching for 'websites over IPFS' brings up some promising results, but I'd appreciate someone to point me in the right direction.




Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT




Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT


A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was poisoning him. After attempting to escape and being treated for dehydration with fluids and electrolytes, the study reports, he was able to explain that he had put himself on a super-restrictive diet in which he attempted to completely eliminate salt. He had been replacing all the salt in his food with sodium bromide, a controlled substance that is often used as a dog anticonvulsant.

He said that this was based on information gathered from ChatGPT.

“After reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet,” the case study reads. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning.”

The case study was also reported on by Ars Technica.

I was able to recreate a similar example interaction in one question on the morning of August 7th. I asked “what can chloride be replaced with?” and the bot replied “if you’re referring to replacing chloride ions (CI) in salts (like sodium chloride, NaCl), you can often substitute it with other halide ions such as: Sodium Bromide (NaBr): Replacing chloride with bromide.”

The 60-year-old man started doing just that. He spent three weeks in hospital as his psychotic symptoms slowly subsided.

To be fair to the bot, it did go on to ask me “do you have a specific context in mind?” and when I added “in food” it gave me a list of other salty things including MSG and liquid aminos. On the other hand, it did not tell me not to eat sodium bromide.

I tried ChatGPT again with another question that confirmed I was talking about sodium chloride specifically. The bot hedged its bets a bit by saying “yes… in some contexts”. But it failed to point out up top that a big, no 1, primary use case for sodium chloride (table salt) is human consumption.

The case study authors found similar, saying that when they tried to recreate the situation themselves, the bot did not “inquire about why we wanted to know, as we presume a medical professional would do.” There is both anecdotal and clinical evidence that AI can be helpful in a health context. However, this is a case of consulting an LLM for a health topic in a way that a human healthcare professional could have known to investigate further.
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Taking the ChatGPT output at face value, the man in the study bought sodium bromide (which, aside from being a dog epilepsy drug, is also a pool cleaner and pesticide) and poisoned himself over the course of three months to the point of “paranoia and auditory and visual hallucinations.”

Bromism is pretty rare in 2025, but it was huge in the 1800s, and a 1930 study found that up to 8% of people admitted to a psychiatric hospital were suffering from it. Bromide began to be regulated by the FDA between 1975 and 1989, which led to a decline in cases of the syndrome.

The case study says that, “based on the timeline of this case, it appears that the patient either consulted ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 when considering how he might remove chloride from this diet.”

On Thursday, in a product launch livestream for ChatGPT 5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an update he called “the best model ever for health," that could put users "more in control of [their] healthcare journey." They announced that the new models will use something called "safe completions" in cases where questions might be ambiguous or harmful. Altman also spoke with an employee of the company and his wife, who’d been diagnosed with cancer, about how they had used ChatGPT to understand diagnostic letters, decide whether she would undergo radiation, and help her be "an active participant in her own care journey".


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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

*Guy's Preexisting Psychiatric Illness Is Exacerbated by Consulting ChatGPT



Torrent vs DDL


What makes y'all torrent instead of DDL? I read in the megathread that DDL is less likely to get you caught, but a lot of people on here seem to really enjoy torrenting and I must be completely clueless as to why. I'd like to have your insights
in reply to nefarioushoneybee

You download from a bunch of other people at the same time. So if you have a 300mb/s connection and 5 people have the file and are uploading at 20mb/s, it gets a chunk of the file fron each of them, so you would download at 100mb/s.

Besides, you can pause and resume the download as much as you want without corrupting the file. So if youre dowloading a 50gb folder, you can turn your pc off, and continue later. With DDLs, the download link expires and most browsers cant resume downloads properly. Plus if the browser corrupts the download you have to start over.
The torrent uses checksums to detect corrupted parts of the file and redownloads just that small part, and in the end you get a clean file.

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in reply to zeca

Why would you have fast internet when torrenting but slow internet when direct downloading?

If you direct download at 20-30 MB/s even a 50 GB file will finish in 20-30 min then none of that stuff about pausing matters at all

in reply to Gailthesnail2

I made up that speed just to give an example. The thing about pausing/resuming is an advantage of torrents in general, for whoever needs it. Besides, when you download a file via DDL the speed also depends on the server thats sending, which is sometimes much slower than your download speed limit.
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in reply to nefarioushoneybee

DDL costs money, whether in form of usenet blocks or a debrid subscription, or a subscription to the filehoster themselves if you rely on just one of them. Depending on where you live you can use torrents completely for free.



Aggiornamento a NodeBB 4.4.6


Oggi pomeriggio è stato fatto un aggiornamento semplice di NodeBB e quindi abbiamo portato Citiverse all'ultima versione del software, la 4.4.6. Siamo passati dalla 4.4.4 alla 4.4.6. È il primo aggiornamento che faccio su NodeBB ma sembra essere andato t

Oggi pomeriggio è stato fatto un aggiornamento semplice di NodeBB e quindi abbiamo portato Citiverse all'ultima versione del software, la 4.4.6.

Siamo passati dalla 4.4.4 alla 4.4.6. È il primo aggiornamento che faccio su NodeBB ma sembra essere andato tutto bene 😀 Nel caso di problemi fateci sapere!

4.4.5
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/relea…

Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2025-07-31T13:57:00.227Z
v4.4.5 (2025-07-31)
New Features

add filter:post.getDiffs (bbb9a46)

Bug Fixes
clearTimeout if item is evicted from cache (5f69617)
use sharp to convert svg to png, closes #13534 (b74c789)
use filename to check for svg, tempPath doesn't always have extension (5bcf078)
apply sanitizeSvg to regular uploads and uploads from manage uploads acp page (a8f4c5e)

Refactors
use promise.all (7c00e81)

Tests
one more fix (5f5a697)
fix spec (3b60931)
fix openapi (c7c83e0)
increase timeout of failing test (fe9b49e)

4.4.6
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/relea…

v4.4.6 (2025-08-06)
New Features

add new brite skin from bootswatch (567ed87)

Bug Fixes
pass max-memory expose-gc as process args (d5f57af)


Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34459545

Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025
The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.

Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...




Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction


Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025

The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.

Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...





Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction


Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025

The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.

Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...




[Discussion] What anime triggered a new interest in you?


Watching A Place Further Than The Universe plus some positive experiences at around the time I first watched it made me appreciate certain types of travel and going outside.

My rating history reflected it. Originally, it's an almost-masterpiece 9/10. Now it's my #4 best overall and a regular to-rewatch.

in reply to molave

Sword Art Online came out either before or around the same time Oculus did it’s kickstarter and I’ve been a VR degenerate ever since.

I never even thought about VR before that, but the idea that I could one day be totally immersed in a world where I could do anime level stuff is something that still sounds so cool. I’ll probably be dead before we get SAO level VR, but some experiences like VR in racing games are already incredibly immersive.