Israel’s call-up of 130,000 reservists raises legal risks for dual citizens and their home countries
Israel’s call-up of 130,000 reservists raises legal risks for dual citizens and their home countries
The risks for individuals are profound. They could be involved in a protracted conflict and potentially exposed to future prosecution for crimes.The Conversation
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Journalist quits Reuters over 'role in Israel's assassination of Gaza journalists'
She made particular reference to Reuters' reporting on Israel's killing of prominent Al-Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif and six other media workers on August 10, saying the agency had "perpetuate[d] Israel's propaganda". She said it had been "wilfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism" by publishing the "baseless claim" from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) that Al-Sharif was an operative for Hamas.
An initial report published by Reuters received backlash after running with the headline: "Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader".
Zink said she could no longer wear her press pass without feeling "shame and grief", as she shared an image of her press card snapped in half alongside her statement.
Journalist quits Reuters over coverage of Gaza media killed by Israel
A REUTERS journalist has quit the news agency alleging it had a "role in justifying and enabling" Israel's "assassination" of…Lucy Jackson (The National)
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I just went and read the article, I see nothing wrong with the headline or their reporting. The article is full of refutations of Israel’s claim and is clear that none of Israel’s claims have been corroborated.
Reuters is a newswire. They’re always going to report what the parties involved are saying in a dry and dispassionate manner. Not everything needs to be an editorial. They do the same thing when it comes to Russian attacks in Ukraine. They’ll share what TASS is saying while noting that they cannot corroborate the narrative.
It's pretty much impossible to find an article where the journalist treats the Russian soldiers as unknown or neutral parties and almost just as hard to find articles that give the full statements from the Kremlin without the implication being that it's not a proper explanatory statement given the situation. The reason is the statements filling the majority of the body are from western sources, which were more reputable in that instance.
To your point on covering Israel, it would be in the interest of telling the story accurately to mention that journalists are vetted through the IDF and all footage is subject to that vetting as well as who is allowed in. The factual model you present breaks down when access is limited, both by the IDF killing journalists and by limiting the eyes on the ground journalists, their equipment, their film, and their employees at every level. If you control the opposition's ability to communicate reality, then you win under that model, but other news models like what Zeteo does mentions those things and the perspective is prioritized with the proper rarity and reputation that it actually has.
A claim not published needs no refutation.
Reporting what people say is the domain of gossip magazines. Report the facts of what people do.
Reporting what governments say is the job of the media as the fourth estate, imo.
Not exactly. To paraphrase the well known example, the job of the fourth estate is not to say "the government says it's raining". It is to look outside and tell us if the government is telling the truth.
So Reuters reported that Israel bombed the hospital on purpose because they saw a camera right?
This was what the Israeli military published in Hebrew.
But pray tell why Reuters would only publish Netanyahu's lies when Israel is literally contradicting it in their own newspapers.
Israel killed a Reuters journalist here by the way.
Why doesn't it include the Israeli military as a source which says that Israel did it on purpose?
It seems fairly important to cite the literal perpetrators instead of just the PR department.
Also as noted in the summary of the article, when Anas Al Sharif was killed by Israel, Reuters directly put the IDF lie in the headline without refuting it.
Ah, I get the connection now, thanks. I’d imagine Reuters didn’t receive the same statement from their IDF sources as the Israel Times did, idk. I’d certainly prefer them to add that to the article, or subsequent reporting.
Edit: as of an hour ago Reuters is reporting the camera narrative from the IDF. They put quotes around “Hamas camera” in their story to indicate it’s just Israel’s narrative.
I’ll add my own editorial to this, claiming a camera is Hamas… fucking ridiculous.
If you spread genocidal propaganda you might as well be pulling the trigger.
See lemmy world admins for example
and is clear that none of Israel’s claims have been corroborated.
So then why even include them, let alone make them the subject of the headline where most people stop reading?
How businesses deflect responsibilities for addressing modern slavery in their supply chains
Author: Kam Phung | Assistant Professor of Business & Society, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Despite growing awareness and legislation aimed at eradicating modern slavery — including forced labour, bonded labour and other extreme forms of human exploitation — efforts to combat the issue remain largely ineffective.The United Kingdom, the first to enact a modern slavery act in 2015, is a case in point. The latest government figures show 5,690 potential victims in the U.K. were referred to the Home Office between April and June. This is the highest quarterly figure since the national referral mechanism began in 2009.
This could be attributed to a multitude of reasons, including an actual rise in exploitation, growing awareness of the issue and more training being provided for frontline services. But the effectiveness of transparency and disclosure laws in achieving substantive change in businesses’ behaviours has long been questioned.
The article then dives into the details of how this happens and potential ways to address it
How businesses deflect responsibilities for addressing modern slavery in their supply chains
When confronted with modern slavery risks, some companies justify their inaction or adopt ineffective measures that do little to address the problem.The Conversation
It's a cultural problem.
"It makes us more money" will always be a viable excuse, because the useful idiots listening to it would do the same thing in their position.
Until our culture changes where we can put people before profits, then we shouldn't expect these problems to be fixed.
Most people literally don't want to fix them because most people don't see it as a problem.
Will Smith accused of using AI for ‘embarrassing’ tour video
Will Smith accused of using AI for ‘embarrassing’ tour video
Footage from the clip appears to show audience members with distorted faces, blurred limbs and extra digitsRoisin O'Connor (The Independent)
Are we sure this isn't a video google "enhanced with ai".
It's not likely, considering he's got enough money to be a problem for them, but it would tie into thier plan to make everything look like slop so you can no longer tell what is slop.
India Post suspends US-bound parcels from August 25 after new American duty rules
The Department of Posts has announced that it will temporarily stop accepting most postal consignments to the United States from August 25, following changes to US duty rules that come into effect later this month.
The US issued an order on July 30, withdrawing the duty-free exemption for goods valued up to USD 800. From August 29, all postal items sent to the US, regardless of their value, will attract customs duties under the International Emergency Economic Power Act (IEEPA) tariff framework. Only gift items up to USD 100 will remain duty-free.
According to the order, only international carriers and other “qualified parties” approved by US Customs can collect and pay duties on postal shipments. But since the process for approving these parties and setting up duty collection isn’t clear yet, airlines have said they won’t be able to carry US-bound postal parcels after August 25.
India Post suspends US-bound parcels from August 25 after new American duty rules
India Post will suspend the booking of all types of articles for the US from August 25 except for letters documents and gift items valued up to USD 100India Today News Desk (India Today)
‘We get nothing’: residents fight back as Mexico builds big for 2026 World Cup
‘We get nothing’: residents fight back as Mexico builds big for 2026 World Cup
People living in the shadow of the country’s national Azteca Stadium in Mexico City say development plans will add to pressure on water sources and put green spaces at riskGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Seems like this is a pattern for all fifa shit.
Soccer fans are some of the worst.
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At this point FIFA is just a criminal enterprise. We just have to think of it as such.
"Mafiosathon is coming to your city! Tickets on sale now!"
Every Year, Sanctions Kill More People Than Wars
Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused ~564,258 deaths each year – more than five times the number of people killed annually in direct armed combat. This warning comes from a new report published in The Lancet, which contextualizes decades of data on how sanctions affect mortality.
“From a rights-based perspective, evidence that sanctions lead to losses in lives should be sufficient reason to advocate for the suspension of their use,” the study’s authors argue. But that is far from reality. Over the same decade, nearly a quarter of all of the world’s countries were affected by sanctions, driven primarily by a sharp increase in unilateral economic measures imposed by the United States and its European allies.
While Western sanctions “have the claimed aim to end wars, protect human rights, or promote democracy,” the report shows they do the very opposite. By restricting a country’s ability to import essential goods like food, medicine, and medical supplies, and by slashing public budgets, sanctions systematically undermine healthcare systems and other vital services.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/02/every-year-sanctions-kill-more-people-than-wars/
India’s supreme court orders inquiry into giant zoo run by son of Asia’s richest person
Activists claim Anant Ambani’s Vantara facility has no plan to return its endangered species to the wild
India’s supreme court has ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest person.
Vantara, which describes itself as the “world’s biggest wild animal rescue centre”, is run by Anant Ambani, a son of Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire head of the conglomerate Reliance Industries.
The site in the western state of Gujarat is home to more than 200 elephants, as well as 50 bears, 160 tigers, 200 lions, 250 leopards and 900 crocodiles, among other animals, according to India’s Central Zoo Authority.
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Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC
Interview with Muhammad Shehada
Palestinian writer and analyst
August 25, 2025
[contains chilling details of the methodical Israeli attack]
Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters
Israeli airstrikes on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza killed at least 20 people Monday, including five Palestinian journalists. Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the hospital.Democracy Now!
Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35201919
Interview with Muhammad Shehada
Palestinian writer and analyst
August 25, 2025[contains chilling details of the methodical Israeli attack]
Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC
Interview with Muhammad Shehada
Palestinian writer and analyst
August 25, 2025[contains chilling details of the methodical Israeli attack]
Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters
Israeli airstrikes on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza killed at least 20 people Monday, including five Palestinian journalists. Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the hospital.Democracy Now!
Australia expels Iranian diplomats over antisemitic attacks
Australia has taken the unprecedented step of expelling several Iranian diplomats.
According to Canberra, the diplomats coordinated violent, antisemitic attacks and now have seven days to leave the country.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Despite Government claims, Australia still exporting lethal arms to Israel - Australian Centre for International Justice
The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) responds to the ABC’s exclusive report revealing the export of a remote weapon system developed by a Canberra-based defence company to Israel despite the Australian government’s continued insiste…Sofia Yiannikas (Australian Centre for International Justice)
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Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day - Kyodo News
Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day
A central Japan city said Thursday it will seek to pass an ordinance recommending all residents limit smartphone use to two hours a day outside of work and school amid concerns over the impact of excessive technology exposure, though there will be no…KYODO NEWS (Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS)
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India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid Energy Labs has developed proprietary zinc battery tech as a safer, more cost-effective alternative to lithium for energy storage.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on building a new party to transform British politics
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025 17:47 BST
Now, he is organising a Gaza Tribunal of his own.
"We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry," Corbyn says."It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the West Bank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts."
[Note to our Fedi friends in the UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via Peertube in some fashion.]
The new party was announced on 3 July, when MP Zarah Sultana left the Labour Party and said she would co-lead a different outfit with Corbyn.That party doesn't exist yet. It doesn't even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.
Polling this week found that a third of 2024 Labour voters would consider voting for a Corbyn-Sultana-led party, as well as over a quarter of Labour members.
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on building a new party to transform British politics
In just over five years, Jeremy Corbyn has gone from being Labour leader to a key figure in the formation of a new left-wing party that could cause untold damage to the one he previously hoped to bring to power.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on building a new party to transform British politics
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35167663
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025 17:47 BST
Now, he is organising a Gaza Tribunal of his own.
"We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry," Corbyn says."It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the West Bank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts."
[Note to our Fedi friends in the UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via Peertube in some fashion.]
The new party was announced on 3 July, when MP Zarah Sultana left the Labour Party and said she would co-lead a different outfit with Corbyn.That party doesn't exist yet. It doesn't even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.
Polling this week found that a third of 2024 Labour voters would consider voting for a Corbyn-Sultana-led party, as well as over a quarter of Labour members.
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on building a new party to transform British politics
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025 17:47 BSTNow, he is organising a Gaza Tribunal of his own.
"We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry," Corbyn says."It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the West Bank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts."
[Note to our Fedi friends in the UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via Peertube in some fashion.]The new party was announced on 3 July, when MP Zarah Sultana left the Labour Party and said she would co-lead a different outfit with Corbyn.That party doesn't exist yet. It doesn't even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.
Polling this week found that a third of 2024 Labour voters would consider voting for a Corbyn-Sultana-led party, as well as over a quarter of Labour members.
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on building a new party to transform British politics
In just over five years, Jeremy Corbyn has gone from being Labour leader to a key figure in the formation of a new left-wing party that could cause untold damage to the one he previously hoped to bring to power.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
I don't know a great deal, but his stance on the Russia/Ukraine war concerns me.
theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Jeremy Corbyn urges west to stop arming Ukraine
Ex-Labour leader also tells Beirut-based TV channel he was criticised over antisemitism because of stance on PalestineHeather Stewart (The Guardian)
Nah, he openly supports the annexation of Crimea (which means he supports the prosecution of Ukrainian speakers and Crimean Tartars).
The stuff about western leaders wanting the war to drag on as long as possible is a tankie conspiracy theory.
I was wondering if what you were saying about Corbyn was true, so I looked up most of your claims (all true for those I checked), and I thought I'd share what I found for others.
Corbyn used Russian talking points as justification for not wanting to do anything about Russia's conquest of Crimea: hscentre.org/russia-and-eurasi…
Corbyn has indeed worked with RT. This article called him a frequent guest: thearticle.com/rt-is-putins-pr…
Corbyn is indeed against NATO: channel4.com/news/factcheck/fa…
And Corbyn does indeed oppose weapon deliveries to Ukraine because "it would prolong the war": theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
Labour left breaks with Jeremy Corbyn over sending weapons to Ukraine
John McDonnell among former shadow cabinet members contradicting pacifist messageToby Helm (The Guardian)
As I mentioned in this thread, only an idiot would think such matters wouldn't be reported in Ukrainian media (that has no stake in internal UK politics).
[1] actually referenced a different specific example, but the point remains.
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The image in that reddit thread is from "Stop the War" fake-peace, pro russian genocidal imperialism organization. And that tankie Corbyn roach has a senior position in that shit org.
Keep playing dumb. You don't even speak Ukrainian (or russian) and you're acting like some sort authority with you "opportunity to fact check yourself".
You don't know jack shit (and we both know this). Keep pretending otherwise. 😄
Here’s a hint: You will never come up with a source for your beliefs because you’d have to admit you’ve been played first.
It’s human to fall for it now and then. You’re amongst the majority.
I hope you get help
Nah, you talk big but you can't even state Corbyn's idiotic position on the full scale invasion of Ukraine without looking it up first (if you actually knew, you would have brought it up because it makes a very specific reference for someone in the UK, it's been parroted by other fake leftists too).
I don't need to do a web search, because I know Corbyn's position:
- He has worked with RT, a Russian propaganda service aimed at the west managed by russian intel services.
- He routinely promotes russian propaganda narratives about NATO
- His fake peacenik organization (he is the executive director who is responsible for such press releases) recognized russia as part of Ukraine.
- He openly opposed weapons deliveries to Ukraine after the full scale in order to give russia an edge in the invasion.
I don't even need to do a web search for this, because this relatively common knowledge in Ukraine (among people who know who Corbyn is).
But sure, Mr. Arcane2077, who doesn't even speak Ukrainian or russian claims to be more knowledgeable than someone who lives in Ukraine and where collaboration with russians by scum such a Corbyn is widely reported.
Own your ignorance my man, don't keep digging into the hole of stupidity that characterizes your knowledge of the relevant issues.
Says more about you than me lmao
I skimmed them as I knew most of it already. I've seen him say stuff about Russia that disgusts me before.
Good follow up post : feddit.uk/post/35181984/196520…
If Corybn wants support from people like me, he needs to come out loudly condemning Putin's actions and support Ukraine. Being anti-war is a massively stupid position against someone like Putin.
Calling for peace talks in this situation is like calling for marriage in couples counseling of a failing relationship, because married couples stay together longer.
Peace talks don't create peace, they happen when peace becomes desirable because of battlefield and political realities. Arming Ukraine more can shorten the war. Calling for premature talks can only prolong it.
He is anti war. He has been anti war for decades and decades. He is authentic and consistent on this issue. I don't agree how he is applying that principle on Russia Ukraine, but I respect his opinion.
And that's democracy, which is what his new party is making promises of - it will be a bottom up, grass-root and democratic party. So I am not too concerned with Corbyn's personal opinion.
(And like, the detractors are so fixated on this issue. They literally have nothing else to say, no other critics to offer. You mention Corbyn and immediately they are like "oH wHat aBoUt Russia-Ukraine" (a few years ago it was "oH bUt He iS an aNtiSemIte???"), as if that is the single most significant problem Britain is facing right now?? not housing, not NHS, not education, not the gutting of the wealth of the working class??? Talking about single issue voters. (sorry about the rant))
He is not anti-war, he is pro-russian genocidal imperialism.
He is a tankie, and when has the working class done well under regimes that tankies support?
Because we have FPTP and this will further split the left vote and let Reform / Tories in.
Our number one priority should be to kill FPTP and make it so we don't have governments only a minority of the voters wanted.
We know a Corbyn Labour party scares people to vote against Labour. He has a ceiling. There is a lot of country that subscribes to his views, but not enough to do more than strip those votes from Lab/Lib/SNP/Green/Plaid.
Reform are worse than Tories and I fear if they ever get power, they do a Trump. Damage the country and be hard to remove.
I'm just assuming this guy made his own party because the other options don't actually fight for the working class.
If the party you support's main goal is to "kill their enemies" or whatever, perhaps the best way to go about doing that would be to align itself with the working class.
This would intrinsically mean supporting policies that reduce the disparity in wealth.
India will buy oil from where it gets 'the best deal' - envoy to Russia
India will continue to buy oil from wherever it "gets the best deal" in order to protect the interests of its 1.4 billion people, the country's ambassador to Russia has said.
Vinay Kumar's statement comes days before Donald Trump's 50% tariffs on India, including a 25% penalty for buying Russian oil and weapons, are set to kick in.
Russian crude made up 35-40% of India's oil imports in 2024, up from 3% in 2021.
India-US-Russia: Will buy oil from where we 'get the best deal' - envoy
India's purchase of Russian oil has become a sore spot in its previously friendly relations with the US.Cherylann Mollan (BBC News)
The EU has reduced their fossil fuel imports from Russia by almost 90% since 2022. India has increased theirs by more than 10 times in the same timeframe.
You think the EU should keep mouth shut when someone is making a giant mess and helping their friend break into your house because there is some dust in the corner?
Taiwan deports Japanese man for declaring island belongs to China
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/47178221
Taiwan on Monday deported a Japanese man and barred his re-entry after he and another compatriot filmed a video waving mainland China's national flag and declaring "Taiwan belongs to China," the island's immigration agency said.
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Evergrande: Chinese property giant delisted after spectacular fall
Chinese property giant Evergrande's shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday after more than a decade and a half of trading.
It marks a grim milestone for what was once China's biggest real estate firm, with a stock market valuation of more than $50bn (£37.1bn). That was before its spectacular collapse under the weight of the huge debts that had powered its meteoric rise.
Experts say the delisting was both inevitable and final.
"Once delisted, there is no coming back," says Dan Wang, China director at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.
Evergrande is now best-known for its part in a crisis that has for years dragged on the world's second-largest economy.
Evergrande: Chinese property giant delisted after spectacular fall
The embattled property giant's shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday.Peter Hoskins (BBC News)
... meteoritic rise...
No, they don't. Meteorites fall to the ground while vaporizing themselves. Like Evergrande it seems.
Edit: @Hugin@lemmy.world made a good point. It actually does make sense of you say meteoric rise, which they did.
meteoric rise means to rise high in the sky. Meteorologist to study things high in the sky.
Meteor thing in the sky.
Meteoric rise doesn't reference the rock falling from the sky. They have the same root word meaning high in the sky.
meteoric rise.
Ooooh! They didn't write meteoritic but meteoric.
You are right. Thanks for the explanation.
US Vice President J.D. Vance: Russia is not working against a possible peace with Ukraine
US Vice President J.D. Vance does not believe Moscow is obstructing a potential peace agreement in Ukraine, as Russia has made "significant concessions" to President Donald Trump. He also says there will be no US troops in Ukraine if peace is reached.
In an interview with NBC News, Vance said the Russians have "made significant concessions for the first time in three and a half years." This reportedly occurred when Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met earlier this month in Alaska. "They are willing to be flexible on some of their key demands," Vance said.
He said, among other things, that Moscow has recognized "that Ukraine will have territorial integrity after the war" and that it "cannot install a puppet government in Kyiv." "Have they made all the concessions? Of course not. But we are making progress," he added.
Claiming regions
Reuters reported Thursday, citing three Russian sources close to the Kremlin, that Moscow is prepared to freeze the front line in Zaporizhia and Kherson. These are regions the country claimed in June 2024. The Russians are also reportedly willing to withdraw from the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnepropetrovsk.
But Moscow is reportedly sticking to its demands that Ukraine relinquish the eastern Donbas region, abandon its ambition to join NATO, and keep Western troops out of the country. Russia is also reportedly unwilling to return the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014.
Vance said today that Washington wants to offer Ukraine security guarantees, but he emphasized: "There will be no American troops in Ukraine."
'Troops important'
That is precisely what is important for Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that he hopes the country will receive security guarantees from the United States and other Western allies if a deal is reached with Russia. Having troops present in the country, "or as they say, 'boots on the ground,' is important to us," Zelensky said.
US envoy Keith Kellogg is currently in Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said during a meeting with him today in Kyiv that she had discussed security guarantees. "This is not just about military guarantees, but also about political stability and economic strength," she wrote on social media.
Vance expresses optimism that 'energetic diplomacy' will end the war in Ukraine
Vice President JD Vance remains confident the U.S. can broker an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine despite potential hang-ups that have emerged.Henry J. Gomez (NBC News)
Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/47176268
President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that China has to give the United States magnets or "we have to charge them 200% tariff or something" amid a trade dispute between the two nations.Archived version: archive.is/20250825175243/reut…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff
President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that China has to give the United States magnets or "we have to charge them 200% tariff or something" amid a trade dispute between the two nations.
Archived version: archive.is/20250825175243/reut…Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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Israel strikes a Gaza hospital twice, killing at least 20, including journalists and rescuers
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I remember the first time they hit a hospital and they spent so much time lying about how it was all Hamas. Once they realized no one gave a shit they started hitting all the hospitals.
Israel is a criminal enterprise that always pushes to see what it can get away with.
Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon
Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch
Bounce publicly debuts a tool that will let you move your account between open social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
So how many people are doing that? I doubt more then 5% of their users are actually using a pds or ever will.
How many times do we have to watch venture capitalists enshittify services before people learn. Do you really think bluesky doesnt have plans to extract every drop of ad revenue and data harvesting at some point, decentralization doesnt work with that business model, sure its fine now in the honeymoon phase but wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out.
wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out
I mean, you don't like BlueSky, fair. But Jack Dorsey left like...over a year ago.
Sure, and the 14b he gave was with no strings attached.
Its not like Jay Garber is any better
I see why you think that, and I agree threads sucks. But bsky is actually fully open source and they are actively working to make federation better. I do think the current leadership genuinely cares about making a federated platform.
Will they enshittify? Yes, probably when the current ceo leaves. But by then other services will have popped up, and ATproto is built in such a way that you can move services without your current service's consent.
‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border
North Karelia force says fence dividing Finland and Russia is no Berlin Wall – but it is now a key geopolitical faultline... In an attempt to strike a note of optimism, he added: “We found a solution in 1944 and I’m sure that we will be able to find a solution in 2025.”
Matti Pitkäniitty, the commander of the North Karelia border guard district, believes illegal border crossings involving Russian defectors are likely to become a growing problem. Pointing to a gap in the vegetation where an old Finnish country lane passed through before the border was redrawn in 1940 after the Russo-Finnish war, resulting in Helsinki ceding part of Karelia, Pitkäniitty said most civilians trying to cross illegally preferred to stick to roads, limiting the number of potential routes.
“People are afraid of those thick forests here,” he said. But this would not be an issue for a Russian military professional trying to flee the war in Ukraine. “Now, one of the risks we are facing are the military-trained personnel fleeing the war. They of course know how to navigate through the woods and how to survive there if they need to stay out of sight for a couple of days.”
Yeah, so Musk's argument is that even though OpenAI's product ChatGPT has more downloads, Apple should consider letting X's Grok take the top spot because... reasons, I guess? Grok is still listed despite its antisemitic and other disgusting actions. It might be #2 (yeah it's definitely shit, right?), it might be #5, but it's still on the list, and it's still available. Musk is just mad that Apple is not featuring it.
Meanwhile, Fortnite is the top downloaded free iOS game. It sits on top of the charts. Thusly, Apple has buried the chart and they refuse to feature Fortnite, instead choosing to feature Roblox and PUBG instead. It's petty and silly, but the rankings do show which one has more downloads. That's it. It's not even about quality or anything.
I tend to agree with Epic (Fortnite) over Apple, but in regards to X, I'm with Apple. I may be slightly biased in that I don't like Musk/X, but I'm with Apple strictly on the merits here. I don't need biases to influence my reasoning here.
AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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I was on board with this article until they described all the power fantasies that techbros were having as facts. AI isn't going to kill us because it grows sentient and "gets ahold of nuclear codes"; AI will kill us through sheer, painful, ecological collapse as Techbros seek to scale their models ever larger with more datacenters. Either that, or the economy collapses first, killing the tech (and likely the Techbros), and leaving us to ecological collapse anyways because of 200 years of industrial ratfuckery on a planetary scale.
AI won't kill us because it's smart, it'll kill us because it's so, SO dumb.
fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative
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Honestly, it would be kind of cool if you just had a simple app to log in with your Fediverse identity, and it rendered your existing profile on the page and allowed you to put additional links.
I don't think it necessarily needs to federate.
YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators
YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators
Google says this isn’t technically “GenAI,” but it is altering videos without warning.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed
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80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed
The latest bleak new AI slop niche are “nostalgia” videos about how good the 1980s and 1990s were. There are many accounts spamming these out, but the general format is all basically the same. A procession of young people with feathered hair wonder at how terrible 2025 is and tell the viewer they should come back to the 1980s, where things are better. This video is emblematic of the form:@nostalgia_vsh
let's go back 🥺 #lestgoback #nostalgia #nostalgic #childhood #80sbaby #2000s
♬ snowfall - Øneheart & reidenshiIn a typical ‘80s slop video, a teenager from the era tells the viewer that there’s no Instagram 40 years ago and everyone played outside until the street lights came on. “It’s all real here, no filters, no screens.” In another, two women eat pizza in a mall and talk about how terrible the future will be. “I bet your malls don’t feel alive in 2025,” one says.
These videos, like a lot of AI slop, do not try to hide that they are AI generated, and show that there is unfortunately a market for people endlessly scrolling social media looking to astral project themselves into a hallucinatory past that never existed. This is Mark Zuckerberg’s fucked up metaverse, living here and now on Mark Zuckerberg’s AI slop app.
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The most popular current ones focus on 1980s nostalgia, but there are accounts that focus on the 70s, 90s, and early 2000s. These differ from standard internet nostalgia, which has been popular for many years—from BuzzFeed’s “Only 90s kids will remember this” listicles to “look at this old tech” Instagram accounts, the popularity of emo nights, “When We Were Young” music festivals—because they are primarily about aggrandizing a past that never existed or that was only good for specific segments of society.These videos are awful AI-generated slop, yes, but it’s more than that. Reactionary nostalgia, a desire to return to a fake past or a time when you were young and things were better, is part of why the world is so fucked right now. It is, literally, the basis of MAGA. Worse, these videos about the “past” tell us a lot about our present and future: one where AI encourages our worst impulses and allows users to escape from reality into a slopified world that narrowly targets whatever reality we’d like to burrow into without dealing with the problems of the present.
1980s slop nostalgia is particularly popular at the moment, with these fake videos boomerfying Gen Xers and elder millennials in real time, though such nostalgia is coming for us all, and nostalgia for earlier releases of Roblox and Call of Duty—the ancient days of, like, 2021—are already going viral. It’s normal to look back at the time when you were young and your knees didn’t hurt with rose tinted glasses. It’s as if a generation read Ready Player One as an instruction manual instead of a warning (or instead of vapid surface-level nonsense that was one long reference rather than a coherent narrative).
These AI-generated slop videos are the latest expression of a common political theme: nostalgia for an imagined past. Dissatisfaction with the current moment is a normal reaction to the horrifying conditions under which we all live. The National Guard is occupying Washington DC, technology is dividing and surveling us in ways we never imagined, and our political leaders are feckless and corrupt. If you aren’t disturbed by where we are right now, you’re not paying attention.
A rejection of modernity and a call to return to the past has long been a feature of authoritarian and fascist political movements. So when we see an AI generated woman in stonewashed denim with hair by Aqua Net White tell us how good things were 40 years ago, we remember the political figures from the Reagan-era calling for a return to the 1950s.
Nostalgia is a poisonous political force. Things were not better “back then,” they were just different. Often they were worse. These 1980s AI slop videos have the same energy as online right weirdos with Roman bust avatars calling for us to “retvrn” and “embrace tradition.” Their political project uses the aesthetic of the past to sell a future where minorities are marginalized, women have no political power, and white guys are in charge. That’s how they think it all worked in the past and they’d love for it to happen again.
The ‘80s AI slop videos have a sinister air beyond their invocation of reactionary politics. “Dude, it’s 1985 and the release of the film The Goonies. Forget 2025 and come here. We want you here,” a strong-jawed white guy asks from his front lawn while a slowed down and distorted version of Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country plays. “Come to 1985, I miss ya,” a young man with feathered hair says in the back of a pickup truck as the sun sets. The surreal nature of these videos, this bizarre ask to time travel to the past, has cultish just-drink-the-Kool-Aid vibes.
What is the ask here, exactly? What does it mean for someone with dreams of an imagined past to go back to the 1980s where these ghoulish AI-crafted simulacrums dwell? In the Black Mirror episode San Junipero, Mackenzie Davis finds comfort in a simulation of a stereotypical 1980s southern California town. She loses herself in the fantasy. She’s also dying. For her, heaven was a place on earth, a data center where she could live until someone turned the lights off.
Those viewing these endless AI-generated TikToks and Reels are, however, very much alive. They can go outside. They can put the phone down and get to know their neighbors. They don’t have to doom scroll. They can log off and work for a better world in their community. They can reach out to an old friend or make new ones.Or they can load up another short form video and fill themselves with fuzzy feelings about how much better things were 40 years ago, back before all this technology, back when they were young, and where they think the world seemed to make more sense. AI allows us to sink into that nostalgic feeling. We have the technology, right now, to form digital wombs from a comforting and misremembered past.
It is worth mentioning that the people making these videos are also human beings with agency and goals, too. And their goals, universally, are to spam the internet for the purposes of making money. Over in the Discord communities where people talk about what types of AI slop works on social media, “nostalgia” is treated as a popular, moneymaking niche like any other. “Any EDITOR that can make Nostalgia videos?” one message we saw reads. “Need video editor to for nostalgia welcome back to 20xx videos.”
“Some ideas i got right now are nostalgia, money motivation, self improvement and maybe streamer clips,” another says.
A top purveyor of this nostalgia slop is the Instagram account “purestnostalgia,” which is full of these videos. That account is run by a guy named Josh Crowe who looks to be in his 20s and claims to live in Bali: “In the process of becoming a billionaire,” his profile reads.
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Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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The actual title of the video is:
Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg
Way less Click Bait sounding. And while a shitty thing for Bloomberg to do it is not any different than what tons of channels have been dealing with for years. So the Youtube sky is not falling any faster now than it was last week.
A copyright strike is a little bit more serious than a content id match, fwiw.
Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store
Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.
Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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I sent Apple to hell because of dumb "you can't change UI to your liking", guess Google is next
*yes, this was seen miles away. I work with a laptop most of the time, so phone doesn't matter much for me, apart of a box that rings a few times a year
**Yes, both companies are run by greedy dumbfucks. I am getting tired and angry that finding companies that are different takes actual dedication. It should not be this way
Trump taps DOGE-aligned tech leader to overhaul federal websites
Trump taps DOGE-aligned tech leader to overhaul federal websites
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, new chief design officer of the United States, is the latest Silicon Valley technology leader to join the Trump administration.Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)
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NZ’s shift to more private healthcare will likely raise costs and reduce quality: what the evidence tells us
NZ’s shift to more private healthcare will likely raise costs and reduce quality: what the evidence tells us
Analysis: Studies show public healthcare is more likely to lead to better health outcomes, and diverting public funds to private healthcare erodes the quality of public care.Kaaren Mathias* (RNZ)
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Il viaggio speculativo della Wüstenschiff, ipernave veicolare trans-sahariana - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il viaggio speculativo della Wüstenschiff, ipernave veicolare trans-sahariana - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
In una rassegna d’invenzioni pubblicata nell’ottobre del 1931 dalla rivista statunitense Modern Mechanics, figura in un angolo l’accattivante dicitura: “Prova che la Terra è tonda per vincere 5.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Opinion: Tech giant Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts in a long time to spin good news out of a fiasco, writes Jonathan MilneJonathan Milne (Newsroom)
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Health minister leaves message for nurses striking outside his office
Health minister leaves message for nurses striking outside his office
More than 36,000 nurses are walking off the job in a pay dispute, and Simeon Brown had a message for them.Felix Walton (RNZ)
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid Energy Labs has developed proprietary zinc battery tech as a safer, more cost-effective alternative to lithium for energy storage.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
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KEA: ”En Gazao la afero estas tre klara kaj akuta”
Kataluna Esperanto-Asocio en aŭgusto faris oficialan komunikon pri la situacio en Gazao, kun la titolo ”Ĉesigu la genocidon”. Libera Folio petis la prezidanton de KEA klarigi, kial la asocio decidis fari deklaron ĝuste pri Gazao, sed ne ekzemple pri la milito en Ukrainio, kiu rekte tuŝas multajn esperantistojn.
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What is the URL for AudioBookBay?
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Seems to be. I like using fmhy.pages.dev to check things like what domain is correct:
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in reply to mrdown • • •That's why i have been all saying palestinian state recognition in those circonstances are meanless and just a smoke screen
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in reply to mrdown • • •These "permissive interpretations" also mean that if someone is fighting for example for Russia or some mercenary organization, they could justify it based on the right to equal treatment in the face of the law. These are the kind of laws that must have no exemption.
They should arrest those dual citizens upon arrival in the country and charge them accordingly.