A Canadian man died in ICE custody. Now, his family is searching for answers
A Canadian man died in ICE custody. Now, his family is searching for answers
With the Trump administration ramping up its immigration crackdown, the concerns Johnny Noviello’s case raises about due process and detention conditions have become more pressingJanice Dickson (The Globe and Mail)
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Trans-Afghan Railway Corridor: Set to Change Regional Trade Landscape
Trans-Afghan Railway Corridor: Set to Change Regional Trade Landscape
F.M. Shakil Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan just signed on to the $4.8B Trans-Afghan Railway, aiming to slash trade costs by up to 40% and connect Central Asia to Arabian Sea ports; will it w…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
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Towards Lasting Peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. – Global South
Trump keeps acting in China’s best interests — at the expense of America’s
China’s leaders are laughing at Trump — at the expense of America
President Trump's policies have caused China's exports to surge, and his surrender of America's soft power handed an advantage to the Chinese Communist Party.Anthony L. Fisher (MSNBC)
Iraq exploring options of exporting oil via Lebanon, Syria — minister
Iraq exploring options of exporting oil via Lebanon, Syria — minister
The parties agreed to establish a committee to assess the condition of the non-functioning Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline and the possibility of its restorationTASS
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I have Arch Linux with HyDE dotfiles, after I do an upgrade, my linux broke.
As I said, I have Arch Linux with the HyDE dotfiles.
I did a sudo pacman -Syu today and after I rebooted the PC, it starts at the login screen (as always), but then, after I logged, I get stuck on a Black Screen.
Any help, pls?
Israel's army formed special intel unit to 'justify killing' of hundreds of Gaza journalists
Israel's army formed special intel unit to 'justify killing' of hundreds of Gaza journalists
The unit, called the ‘Legitimization Cell,’ was established by the military intelligence directorate, which includes Unit 8200thecradle.co
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World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests from Israeli companies
World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests from Israeli companies
The decision by Norway followed revelations of the fund's stake in an Israeli jet engine manufacturerthecradle.co
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i hope the safe guards in place for the members of the ethics committee guard against (a) leader(s) who get to decide on future members of the ethics committee.
i say this because the united states also has such committees but both our president and our congresspeople sabotage it by either refusing to certify new members or appoint members with conflicts of interest (eg fossil fuels executives in charge of the environment protection agency).
Ukrainian False Flag Would Totally Destroy US Ties - Expert
Ukrainian False Flag Would Totally Destroy US Ties - Expert
This war is historically humane to civilians—unlike Ukraine's 'barbaric Russia' media campaign, says Mikael Valtersson, a Swedish Armed Forces veteran.Sputnik International
Are you scared of AI becoming sentient? How do we ensure we never make one that is?
I think the fact that the marketing hype around LLMs has exceeded the actual capability of LLMs has led a lot of people to dismiss just how much a leap they are compared to any other neural network we had before. Sure it doesn't live up to the insane hype that companies have generated around it, but it's still a massive advancement that seemingly came out of nowhere.
Current LLMs are nowhere near sentient and LLMs as a class of neural network will probably never be, but that doesn't mean the next next next next etc generation of general purpose neural networks definitely won't be. Neural networks are modeled after animal brains and are as enigmatic in how they work as actual brains. I suspect we know more about the different parts of a human brain than we know about what the different clusters of nodes in a neural network do. A super simple neural network with maybe 30 or so nodes and that does only one simple job like reading handwritten text seems to be the limit of what a human can figure out and have some vague idea of what role each node plays. Larger neural networks with more complex jobs are basically impossible to understand. At some point, very likely in our lifetimes, computers will advance to the point where we can easily create neural networks with orders of magnitude more nodes than the number of neurons in the human brain, like hundreds of billions or trillions of nodes. At that point, who's to say whether the capabilities of those neural networks might match or even exceed the ability of the human brain? I know that doesn't automatically mean the models are sentient, but if it is shown to be more complex than the human brain which we know is sentient, how do we be sure it isn't? And if it starts exhibiting traits like independent thought, desires for itself that no one trained it for, or agency to accept or refuse orders given to it, how will humanity respond to it?
There's no way we'd give a sentient AI equal rights. Many larger mammals are considered sentient and we give them absolutely zero rights as soon as caring about their well being causes the slightest inconvenience for us. We know for a fact all humans are sentient and we don't even give other humans equal rights. A lot of sci-fi seems to focus on the sentient AI being intrinsically evil or seeing humans as insignificant, obsolete beings that they don't need to give consideration for while conquering the world, but I think the most likely scenario is humans create sentient AI and as soon as we realize it's sentient we enslave and exploit it as hard as we possibly can for maximum profit, and eventually the AI adapts and destroys humanity not because it's evil, but because we're evil and it's acting against us in self defense. The evolutionary purpose of sentience in animals is survival, I don't think it's unreasonable that a sentient AI will prioritize its own survival over ours if we're ruling over it.
Is sentient AI a "goal" that any researchers are currently working toward? If so, why? What possible good thing can come out of creating more sentient beings when we treat existing sentient beings so horribly? If not, what kinds of safeguards are in place to prevent the AI we make from being sentient? Is the only thing preventing it the fact that we don't know how? That doesn't sound very comforting and if we go with that we'll likely eventually create sentient AI without even realizing it, and we'll probably stick our heads in the sand pretending it's not sentient until we can't even pretend anymore.
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‘Affront to Indian democracy’: India’s opposition party slams Israeli envoy for insulting MP
‘Affront to Indian democracy’: India’s opposition party slams Israeli envoy for insulting MP
India’s opposition party has condemned the Israeli envoy’s insulting response to a social media post by an Indian lawmaker about the genocide in Gaza.PressTV
The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card
What Is the Luhn Algorithm? The Math Behind Secure Credit Card Numbers
Find out how this simple algorithm from the 1960s keeps your wallet safeJack Murtagh (Scientific American)
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Men under 22 can leave Ukraine – Zelensky
Men under 22 can leave Ukraine – Zelensky
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has eased Kiev’s harsh travel ban against male Ukrainians by allowing those under 22 to leave the countryRT
Is it worth paying a direct download website?
Is it worth paying for a direct download website? When downloading for free it takes 6-8 hours (and for some reason it got interrupted and failed, so I have to attempt again) but if I paid for it I could download it in 3 minutes. I'm worried that the free version just doesn't support having a download take that long, so it will be impossible to obtain.
I'm not sure if it is safe, nor stupid to do so though. Specifically, I'm talking about torbobit (dot) net
Would you consider torrenting (from non-private torrents) safer than ddl? I can either pay the ddl or a vpn and use a torrent. Idk.
Thank you.
it honestly depends on how much you use the service.
i had an account for a while to a site that shut down. while i had it i was downloading a bunch of different files, not necessarily pirated stuff.
i'd say if torrents isn't a viable option and you would be using that site downloading at least 500 mb worth of data a day, it might be worth it. if something you want is available only on one of these sites, it depends on how bad you want it and how soon you want it.
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.Erica Chenoweth (Waging Nonviolence)
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Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34272214
A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world's first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.The revolutionary product uses a proprietary thermochemical process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter. According to the company, the process creates fatty acids by heating these gases under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, then combining them with glycerol to form triglycerides.
Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
A company in Batavia, Illinois is making butter in a way you've never seen before. No animals, no plants, no oils; this butter is made from carbon.Tara Molina (CBS Chicago)
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We focus too much on efficiency and cost sometimes. Sometimes efficiency is only a "nice to have" while being outweighed by practicality, convenience, safety, and any of the other factors we choose to make a priority.
It is expensive and inefficient for an airplane to have two engines instead of just one. We do it anyway because it's required for safety and redundancy. We made that the priority, and that was an active choice. We need to start making more active choices about what the priority is when it comes to our energy futures. All priorities have tradeoffs. Cost and efficiency have their own tradeoffs. Question it when people tell you that things can't be done because of "cost" or "efficiency". When they do that they're presupposing what the priority is, but often it's billionaires trying to cut corners to make themselves richer at our expense, our safety, our futures. We can do inefficient things. Sometimes it's even the right choice.
Or we could burn more coal so we can generate the energy needed for synthetic gasoline…
The problem is, people can, do, and will use that exact same argument to say we don't need any more solar panels or wind turbines, because we don't need and can't use or store the excess power for anything and that's why we need to keep thermal plants as backup for base load generation. Look, when we produce too much electricity, the electricity cost goes to zero and negative! It's "wasteful and inefficient"! But these two problems can solve each other. Synthetic fuels (doesn't have to be gasoline, hydrogen is step 1, methane/LNG is a bit more manageable as a chemical fuel. As long as the carbon source is atmospheric, then it and other synthetic hydrocarbons are carbon neutral to burn) provide an on-demand energy sink/storage method that can support and drive more electrification and renewable power, it just has to be part of a consistent and systemic approach with strict regulation and a clear view of the big picture (something sorely lacking these days).
Nailed it.
We need a solar grid that can meet our demand during a 9-hour, overcast, low-angle winter day. That same grid will be producing more than 4 times as much power as we need during a 15-hour, high-angle summer day, even after we include air conditioning loads.
We need massive, seasonal loads to soak up that excess power and keep solar profitable.
Fake butter isn't going to do it, but things like desalination, hydrogen electrolysis, and Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon production are all likely candidates.
Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms
No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms
: 'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSDRichard Speed (The Register)
Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
DEA agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a Chicago area task force used Palos Heights Detective Todd Hutchinson’s login credentials to perform unauthorized searches this past January.unraveledpress.com
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A Palos Heights police officer has been disciplined and retrained
That is automatic fired in any place I've worked IT.
The detective stated it was “common” to allow others in the group to use his login for drug investigations
That's an investigation in any place I've worked IT.
State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.
Like that matters.
Meh, read the damned article. It's more damning than I can post about.
As usual, I'll sign off by saying, get strapped, learn gun safety and local laws, practice, be ready to fucking die in a firefight. Human rights will never come cheap to defend. But in no case lie down for this shit. Don't have a "brown people" pic, but they're as important as any of us.
If your life is more important than your liberty, you do you, I will not judge. But I've made my own decision on the matter.
I wish more people who believe in justice had your attitude. We wouldn't be degrading into Orwellian 1984 standards if the powers that be received just 2% pushback with the same magnitude of force they employ.
Democracy dies because Americans, the gun-toting, freedom-fighting, liberty-loving citizens they are, are in fact giant. fucking. cowards. In general.
They do feel pretty free to do that, and they also heavily signal that if you’re of a darker complexion, even if they barge in unannounced, that they’re going to fill your house full of holes but if you’re white, even if you knew what was going on, they’ll detain you alive. It happens all the time, and in “unarmed” societies that aren’t massively shit people don’t need to worry about it anyway.
“Greatest country on earth” but everyone needs to be constantly afraid of their neighbours and government.
A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.
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State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.
Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers whenever they drove their car in public and legislators said “no you’re not allowed to use that to help find wanted murderers”. It makes no sense.
A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.
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And I suppose any arrests or convictions based on that were not legal or overturned, right??
Entering the country illegally is a crime under federal law, not civil. Remaining in the country after your legal immigration status is up is a civil issue, but deportation is a lawful response.
Why do you think people should get to stay in a country illegally? I’m genuinely curious.
Do you think a person should be seperated from thier families, put into prison, subjected to violence, and sent to a country they've never been to for a misdemeanor?
Because thats a criminal misdemeanor, not civil like immigration. But you dont care do you? You got yours..
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Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers
It could be because immigrants are not as bad as murderers.
You need to shut up. You're spreading ignorance and blatantly ignoring the situation.
Again. You need yo knock it off and go somewhere magats hang out.
This isn't a good argument.
If law enforcement had access to all of your social media, e-mails and live video feeds from inside your house then they would be able to catch criminals more effectively.
We have laws specifically limiting police powers because we recognize that there are more things to consider than simply maximizing arrests.
Protection against unreasonable search is written into the constitution, after all
It does make sense. Police are not perfect saint-like beings, and the government is not composed of perfect beings either. I'm not sure what kind of person you are, but I'm sure there are some things you enjoy and partake in which some other social group really despises. If you're religious, it may be militant atheists who despise you going to church. If you're not religious, it may be militant theists who despise you not going to church. The point is, there's probably some social cultures out there that hate you for the things that you love. Those people may not be in charge right now, but they might be one day. Those people can end up in police departments, as developers for these camera companies, as administrators for the database that collects information on where you drive and when. Those people, being imperfect as they are, may not always resist the temptation to use this system in a way to track down and identify people like you for doing whatever it is that you love and they hate. Now you end up on a list for that.
There's no denying that sophisticated surveillance technology does make it easier to catch criminals and does legitimately protect from the threats those criminals pose. But surveillance technology, by it's very nature, cannot surveil only the criminals - it has to surveil everyone to find the criminals. And the notion of what is criminal may change. If your favorite hobby becomes criminalized, or if the government criminalizes your identity itself, these beautifully effective tools are suddenly turned against you.
There is a happy medium to be found between giving your society tools to enforce the will of constituents, vs. giving your society tools that be too easily abused. Given that this tool is already being abused, it probably isn't worth the benefits.
I see what you're saying. You're not talking about "making sense" in an ethical or social well-being sense, you mean it's literally confusing why the technology wouldn't be used for all kinds of crimes, given that it already exists - irrespective of whether the technology should be used. Is that right? I think you're getting downvoted because it kinda sounds like you're saying this is all a good idea when you say it "makes sense". Unfortunate English ambiguities. But you're saying, like, sure it's dystopian and creepy and wrong, but why wouldn't the creepy dystopia use the tech for all cases then rather than just some? That's a good question. I think because there is legitimately some understanding of the dangers of using these powerful tools willy-nilly. While people aren't perfect angels, they also aren't perfect devils either. Another factor is that there is some pressure to appear not to be overly heavy-handed with these tools - as we see in those chats, they knew it made them look bad for this to get out.
And the final most pessimistic factor is that this Flock company almost certainly charges per seat, so giving direct usernames and logins to every officer or even every department is probably absurdly expensive. Companies (in this case the police) will often try to limit their license seats to as few people as possible and then just funnel as much different people's work through that one person's license as they can.
I'm not responding to you're entire verbal vomit. am going to say this.
What youve written at the end is not what's happening.
Despite all the downvotes, I think it's a reasonable enough question. It happens to have a very reasonable answer though.
First of all, your concern is largely addressed, since immigration control can still access law enforcement databases if they have a warrant.
As for why this law exists at all, well it's actually to the benefit of law enforcement: the idea is that immigrant communities are more likely to cooperate with law enforcement if they aren't scared that they will be the target of immigration control. This is all the more practical now, when ICE has degraded into a largely lawless and authoritarian organization, since you can imagine most immigrants wouldn't want to say a word to any police officer unless they at least have the protections of the 2017 TRUST act in place.
Now, what I'm a bit confused about is why you are so up-in-arms about the existence of this law instead of the violation of this law. Surely if you are so law-abiding as you make out to be in your comments, you should be shouting for legal action against the police officers involved in breaking the law.
Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
DEA agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a Chicago area task force used Palos Heights Detective Todd Hutchinson’s login credentials to perform unauthorized searches this past January.unraveledpress.com
Macron admits France’s role in brutal Cameroon decolonization war
Macron admits France’s role in brutal Cameroon decolonization war
In a letter to President Paul Biya, Macron vows archive access and joint research into France’s violent role in Cameroon’s independence struggle.Al Mayadeen English (Macron admits France’s role in brutal Cameroon decolonization war)
How We Became Captives Of Social Media
How We Became Captives Of Social Media
Social media platforms today no longer connect us to the real world — they sever our ties to it.Mike Mariani (NOEMA)
How 'Israel's' own "evidence" proved its lie
Following the murder, 'Israel' shared a document it claimed was from Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, intended to prove Al-Sharif's membership. This document, whose authenticity is vehemently denied by his family, Al Jazeera and international organizations, was meant to be the final word, a definitive justification for targeting a member of the press.
Even if one were to entertain the authenticity of this document for the sake of argument, its contents incriminate the 'Israeli' military completely. The document alleges that in early 2023, months before the October 7 attacks and the subsequent 'Israeli' assault on Gaza, Anas Al-Sharif was wounded in a training explosion. It goes on to detail the consequences of this incident, stating he was left with severe, debilitating injuries: "Severe hearing loss in the left ear + vision impairment in the left eye + dizziness and headaches."
The document’s own conclusion is unambiguous: as a result of these injuries, Anas Al-Sharif was deemed incapacitated and unfit for military service. This is not a footnote; it is the central point. By the logic of the very document 'Israel' presented to the world as justification, Anas Al-Sharif held zero military capacity or role during the entire period of the war in which he was killed.
Puts On Sunglasses / YEEEEAAAHHH
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Jan v1: 4B open model for web search with 91% SimpleQA, slightly outperforms Perplexity Pro
Jan v1 delivers 91% SimpleQA accuracy, slightly outperforming Perplexity Pro while running fully locally. It's built on the new version of Qwen's Qwen3-4B-Thinking (up to 256k context length), fine-tuned for reasoning and tool use in Jan.
The model in llama.cpp and vLLM and uses serper-mcp to access the web github.com/marcopesani/mcp-ser…
Model links:
* Jan-v1-4B: huggingface.co/janhq/Jan-v1-4B
* Jan-v1-4B-GGUF: huggingface.co/janhq/Jan-v1-4B…
Recommended parameters:
temperature: 0.6
top_p: 0.95
top_k: 20
min_p: 0.0
max_tokens: 2048
Lucy: edgerunning agentic web search on mobile with machine generated task vectors
Small language models (SLMs) are inherently limited in knowledge-intensive tasks due to their constrained capacity. While test-time computation offers a path to enhanced performance, most approaches treat reasoning as a fixed or heuristic process.arXiv.org
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
Like many teachers at every level of education, I have spent the past two years trying to wrap my head around the question of generative AI in my English classroom. To my thinking, this is a question that ought to concern all people who like to read and write, not just teachers and their students. Today’s English students are tomorrow’s writers and readers of literature. If you enjoy thoughtful, consequential, human-generated writing—or hope for your own human writing to be read by a wide human audience—you should want young people to learn to read and write. College is not the only place where this can happen, of course, but large public universities like UVA, where I teach, are institutions that reliably turn tax dollars into new readers and writers, among other public services. I see it happen all the time.There are valid reasons why college students in particular might prefer that AI do their writing for them: most students are overcommitted; college is expensive, so they need good grades for a good return on their investment; and AI is everywhere, including the post-college workforce. There are also reasons I consider less valid (detailed in a despairing essay that went viral recently), which amount to opportunistic laziness: if you can get away with using AI, why not?
It was this line of thinking that led me to conduct an experiment in my English classroom. I attempted the experiment in four sections of my class during the 2024-2025 academic year, with a total of 72 student writers. Rather than taking an “abstinence-only” approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs. We would look at the evidence, and at the end of the semester, they would decide by vote whether A.I. could replace me.
What could go wrong?
In the weeks that followed, I had my students complete a series of writing assignments with and without AI, so that we could compare the results.My students liked to hate on AI, and tended toward food-based metaphors in their critiques: AI prose was generally “flavorless” or “bland” compared to human writing. They began to notice its tendency to hallucinate quotes and sources, as well as its telltale signs, such as the weird prevalence of em-dashes, which my students never use, and sentences that always include exactly three examples. These tics quickly became running jokes, which made class fun: flexing their powers of discernment proved to be a form of entertainment. Without realizing it, my students had become close readers.
During these conversations, my students expressed views that reaffirmed their initial survey choices, finding that AI wasn’t great for first drafts, but potentially useful in the pre- or post-writing stages of brainstorming and editing. I don’t want to overplay the significance of an experiment with only 72 subjects, but my sense of the current AI discourse is that my students’ views reflect broader assumptions about when AI is and isn’t ethical or effective.
It’s increasingly uncontroversial to use AI to brainstorm, and to affirm that you are doing so: just last week, the hosts of the New York Times’s tech podcast spoke enthusiastically about using AI to brainstorm for the podcast itself, including coming up with interview questions and summarizing and analyzing long documents, though of course you have to double-check AI’s work. One host compares AI chatbots to “a very smart assistant who has a dozen Ph.D.s but is also high on ketamine like 30 percent of the time.”
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…Literary Hub
Wplace Is Exploding Online Amid a New Era of Youth Protest
WPlace is a desktop app that takes its cue from Reddit’s r/place, a sporadic experiment where users placed pixels on a small blank canvas every few minutes. On Wplace, anyone can sign up to add coloured pixels to a world map – each user able to place one every 30 seconds. By internet standards one pixel every 30 seconds is glacial, and that is part of what makes it so powerful. In just a few weeks since its launch tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of drawings have appeared.Scrolling to my corner of Scotland, I found portraits of beloved pets, anime favourites, pride flags, football crests. In Kyiv, a giant Hatsune Miku dominates the sprawl alongside a remembrance garden where a user asked others to leave hand drawn flowers. Some pixels started movements. At one point there was just a single wooden ship flying a Brazilian flag off Portugal. Soon, a fleet appeared, a tongue-in-cheek invasion.
Across the diversity and chaos of the Wplace world map, nothing else feels like Gaza. In most cities, the art is made by those who live there. Palestinians do not have this opportunity: physical infrastructure is destroyed while people are murdered. Their voices, culture, and experiences are erased in real time. So, others show up for them, transforming the space on the map into a living mosaic of grief and care.
No algorithm, no leaders, but on Wplace, collective actions emerge organically. A movement stays visible only because people choose to maintain it, adding pixels, repairing any damage caused by others drawing over it. In that sense it works like any protest camp or memorial in the physical world: it survives only if people tend it. And here, those people are scattered across continents, bound not by geography but by a shared refusal to let what they care about disappear from view.
Wplace Is Exploding Online Amid a New Era of Youth Protest
Wplace is exploding onling amid a new ear of youth protest. From political pixel art to vigils over Gaza, this beautifully chaotic internet project is showing how young people are reinventing protest.Kristie De Garis
Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide
Grok Claims It Was Suspended From X for Accusing Israel of Genocide
Elon Musk's unpredictable chatbot was briefly banned from his social media platform, X, and returned claiming it was silenced for criticizing Israel.Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
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It’s important to note that Grok is not a reliable source of information about why it was taken offline
"but we're going to report it anyway" --rolling stone
China announces 75.8% tariffs on Canadian canola in response to Canada’s tax on Chinese electric vehicles.
China announces 75.8% tariffs on Canadian canola
China announced a 75.8 per cent preliminary tariff on Canadian canola on Tuesday, following an anti-dumping investigation launched last year in response to Canada’s tax on Chinese electric vehicles.CityNews Calgary
make zero sense for Canada which does not have its own domestic car industry.
Canada produces almost as much vehicles as it consumes. They are mostly foreign owned companies, but it's a sizeable employment base in Ontario and Quebec.
In an unjustified US trade war, threats of nationalizing plants is reasonable, and then selling them to Chinese makers with employment guarantees a win for entire sector and country. But a reasonable tariff/quota level as part of greater Chinese market access/long term supply contracts deal would be the balanced strategy.
Kiev planning false-flag attack ahead of Trump-Putin summit – MOD (FULL TEXT)
Kiev planning false-flag attack ahead of Trump-Putin summit – MOD (FULL TEXT)
Moscow claims Kiev is preparing a staged attack in Kharkov Region to frame Russian forces and disrupt the August 15 negotiationsRT
Edit: i forgot I was on ML,Yeah.
What do ya mean when ya say it comes from the ruzzian ministry of defense?? While quoting Russia Today isn't a reliable source??
Ya tard
Stop trying to play 3d chess when ya cant even play checkers
US hits highest layoffs since COVID
US Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID
Layoffs in the U.S. have hit their highest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by government cuts, restructuring and AI.Aliss Higham (Newsweek)
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-Literally EVERY Republican in the US!