Trump threatens 'Apocalypse Now' style action against Chicago to boost deportations
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A goodbye to kbin ...
Like many others, when the reddit APIcalypse happened, I moved to the fediverse. Like many, I wasn't sure what it really consisted of, how it worked, or what instance to move to. Eventually I decided to sign up with kbin.social. Ernest was welcoming, the instance was friendly with a nice mix of topics, the community was great, having access to both threadiverse and microblogs was great, and I loved it.
And then Ernest started having health issues and the instance became unstable. Eventually I moved to fedia/mbin, which I enjoy a lot, but I just haven't quite felt that same sense of belonging - I don't know, maybe the new job just kept me away a bit too much, or I'm getting old, or just been through too many changes. But I've kept kbin on my launch page, and sometimes I find myself a bit wistful for it.
I poked at the internet, and the kbin.social domain expires in a few days, on 10 September, which I suppose will be a formal end to the project. In memory of kbin, I'd like thank Ernest: wherever you are, I hope you are well and enjoying your life. Thank you for the concepts behind and your work on kbin; I love the bridging of the microblogs and threadiverse. And thank you for making the transition to the fediverse less confusing to this old redditor. I wish you the best in life, and thank you again.
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Same, moved to kbin then hopped around some after it went into limbo. Ended up on .zip and appreciate its kind of hand-off, user-deals with it, federation/blocking.
RIP kbin you were a real one and I hope all your devs (Ernest) future projects go well.
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Yeah thats why I ended up on .zip
I was running squaredcircle on kbin, so I wanted to find an instance with the least federation issues (outside of the obvious like csam and such) so users wouldn't have problems accessing us, .zip was pretty much perfect across the board with the userbase, still there today!
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Same! I was one of the early migrants just before the mass migration, having seen the writing on the wall and having already joined Mastodon. It was a great time initially, a bit of "you're new? okay, I've figured a few things out, try this". We caught Ernest by surprise because he was only making a proof of concept to offer an alternative to Lemmy. And then we showed up in droves. But he did his best, and while it was bumpy, it was still an overall great experience, much like the early days of Reddit, pre-Digg.
I still like the kbin-style instances over Lemmy, but yeah, it's not quite the same any more. That said, still preferable to Reddit these days.
Thank you, Ernest. Hope you're recovering wherever you are.
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Another kbin.social refugee here. I only moved when it was obvious that Ernest wasn't coming back. So instead, I decided to lean on Melroy, who's been an awesome admin and dev.
So, Ernest, I wish you nothing but the best. Thanks for kicking off a small revolution. And Melroy - thank you for taking up the torch.
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Yeah I think I've seen some recent commits on his GitHub profile as well. He seems to be "back", just not on kbin.
I hosted my own kbin instance for a while as it seemed interesting, but admittedly I never really got into it. Still a cool approach, just not for me.
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It was a great website. You could feel the fun of exploring everything together with hundreds of new users, from Lemmy communities to Mastodon toots with great threading of discussions. From custom magazine CSS to Collections (remade by PieFed as Feeds). A new, emergent website culture and the promise of later progress (we were meant later to have e.g. flairs (as Badges), and federation with Mobilizon).
You are seeing /kbin software as a Reddit alternative, but it could be more than that. I am aware of attempts of making, based on /kbin, a newsletter/blog platform (instead of Substack?) or a local social media website, as an alternative to Facebook local groups.
Mbin should still be able to view any post from subscribed blogs (be it from WriteFreely, WordPress, openwrite or Ghost), as a full article and the view of it should be very clean.
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Nothing lasts forever, especially on the Internet, but I'm happy to say I enjoyed kbin.social for as long as I used it.
Thanks Ernest! Good luck on your recovery and next projects!
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I dunno, for me it's painfully obvious what the correct social media successors are.
Lemmy for reddit.
Friendica for facebook.
Pixelfed for instagram.
Mastodon for twitter.
Matrix for discord.
Peertube for youtube.
Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
This summer, a first-of-its-kind global research expedition followed up on that surprise. Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.
It's just one of many depositories of "secret fresh water" known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world that might some day be tapped to slake the planet's intensifying thirst, said Brandon Dugan, the expedition's co-chief scientist.
"We need to look for every possibility we have to find more water for society," Dugan, a geophysicist and hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines, told Associated Press journalists who recently spent 12 hours on the drilling platform. The research teams looked in "one of the last places you would probably look for fresh water on Earth."
Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S.CALVIN WOODWARD (Phys.org)
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Good News: You've got a new source of fresh water.
Bad News: Extraction will cause groundwater-related subsidence of the nearby shoreline, causing rapid erosion and lower elevations. Multiple shoreline properties may be lost.
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Multiple shoreline properties may be lost.
Depending on the area, I don't think I'm going to care much about some rich millionaires' second homes being destroyed. Sure, I don't want to see the erosion and decay of the landscape, but, you know...
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There are already lots of viable strategies for getting rid of brine, they are just more expensive than the naïve approach of having a big pipe on the shore spewing it into the ocean. Diluting it with seawater seems to be the most viable right now.
I wonder if something like a 10 km underwater pipe with small holes in it that only let out a little bit of brine at a time would work. Might be a hassle to lay, at least to start, but I think that once it is in place it could operate without maintenance for decades. And piping is not really that expensive. Perhaps there are already researchers studying it, or it has been proven to not work. It seems like such an obvious idea.
No. My memory is that the English language article was a bit unclear on the details and had several indications that the author didn't actually understand the technology, but someone said a Japanese language article did a better job of explaining it.
Brine and fresh water doesn't make any sense, because you're spending energy to create fresh water with the brine as the waste. Just turning around and recombining it to make evergy again is stupid. You can't even get back as much energy as you used to make the fresh water.
But, spending the energy to create the fresh water, letting people use that water as normal, collecting their waste water as normal, treating the waste water as normal, and then, instead of just dumping the treated waste water into the sea, recombining it with the brine to make energy makes a ton of sense.
For the same volume, almost certainly desalination.
But we use far more water than hydrocarbons.
Billions of dollars to get to it when they could install a desalination plant >.>
Why are we like this?
I’d also like to point out that when you say “the energy mix” you’re not meaning the energy mix used by this project.
If any of our energy is from fossil fuels then increasing the use of energy increases the use of fossil fuels. Even if a new project uses 100% renewable energy it will increase the amount of fossil fuels used until we’ve eliminated them completely.
Cool. Come talk to me when finding water is hard, as opposed to just shipping a sufficient quantity to wherever you need it.
If there's a spot where a major center is next to one of these and nothing else, I suppose it could have a niche. I'm guessing the microbes and geological history are the main thing they're excited about, though.
If you heat it to many times it's boiling point, sure.
Has it occurred to you there may be a good reason this isn't done at scale already?
Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that global carbon storage capacity was 10 times less than previous estimates after ruling out geological formations where the gas could leak, trigger earthquakes or contaminate groundwater, or had other limitations. That means carbon capture and storage would only have the potential to reduce human-caused warming by 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.26 Fahrenheit)—far less than previous estimates of around 5-6 degrees Celsius (9-10.8 degrees Fahrenheit), researchers said.
"Carbon storage is often portrayed as a way out of the climate crisis. Our findings make clear that it is a limited tool" and reaffirms "the extreme importance of reducing emissions as fast and as soon as possible," said lead author Matthew Gidden, a research professor at the University Maryland's Center for Global Sustainability. The study was led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, where Gidden also is a senior researcher in the energy, climate and environment program.
Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practic…Tammy Webber (Phys.org)
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So all that billions of tons of carbon we dig up from the ground, sequestered for 300 million years, doesn't just make it's way back there?
Well fuck!
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Why would they need kerosene? Lol.
I'm picturing them hanging out with old lamps down there.
Ah, an aircraft carrier. That makes more sense.
For whatever reason I forgot about those momentarily. That was weird.
It would actually be simpler to go straight to soot and rebuild the coal beds. Electrolysis to CO followed by reverse Boudouard reaction. EZ.
E-fuel is an important technology of it's own, because planes basically don't work without the energy density burning oil has, but stopping the reduction at hydrocarbons has proven a lot trickier.
Now I'm imagining a world where we produce coal in a factory from the air using solar power at peak times in the desert, the send the coal where it's needed and burn it again later. Literally renewable coal nonsense.
(not a serious proposal btw it just seemed really funny to imagine we're so addicted to the stuff we start making more just to keep using it)
what about storing it in plants like forests and jungles and algae? honest question; im a noob
edit: and bogs
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Add bogs to that list. Worldwide, bogs store more CO2 than forests. Restoring them and making sure they don't dry up (which also would release a lot of gases harmful to the climate) would be a good way to capture CO2.
I don't have any numbers to compare it to other techniques though, sorry.
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We have to complete the gas/crue oil cycle: we must make a freaking pit and beging throwing trees in to free space for more trees
Oil is cursed
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Two factors, basically.
Vegetation rots back out to the atmosphere. Bogs are better in that way, because they trap and grow over their own detritus. Managed forests are also pretty carbon-negative, because the carbon is now trapped in whatever wood products for centuries. Ocean-based stuff has had mixed results, though. You could also char and dispose of your biomass before it rots, but now you're adding complexity.
Which brings us to the second: It might be expensive and slow, relative to just artificially capturing it and shoving it underground. Plants are not known for their speed, and reasonably moist land is expensive.
That being said, it's still a serious contender for how to take care of carbon we've already burned, alongside this and other options like grinding up and spreading certain kinds of stone.
It's all about quantity.
The fossil fuel industry is digging up the plants of forests and jungles and algae that have existed over millennia, then died and decomposed into oil, coal, gas. When you then burn it you release the carbon of hundreds of generations of plant life.
Fossil fuels are dead plant concentrate.
they'll do anything to save us from the climate - create new technology, reinvent the wheel, anything anything EXCEPT LIMITING THE FUCKING EMISSIONS THAT ARE GOING TO KILL US.
Can't do that, nah, bro... just a few more hundred billions gallons... bro come on, just a few more...
GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
One scientist says it’s like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)
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US special forces killed N Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US Navy SEALs killed several North Korean fishermen after encountering them by accident during a botched mission, US news outlet reports.
edit: Happened in 2019. Revealed recently.
US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.Al Jazeera
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Peru rejects creation of Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes, drawing Indigenous outcry
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border with Brazil.
Advocates for the reserve say the decision leaves the remote forest vulnerable to logging, mining and other incursions, and deals a setback to a plan that has languished for more than two decades despite legal obligations to establish it.
Francisco Hernández Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon, said the commission’s rejection “shows its anti-Indigenous face in the 21st century” and signals it does not care about “the environment, the water, the culture and everything as a whole.”
He told The Associated Press that without Indigenous peoples, the Amazon and its tributaries “would already have been wiped out” and called the decision “a very hard blow from our own state, which should instead protect us.” He said his group plans to conduct additional studies and take further action before resubmitting the proposal to the Ministry of Culture, adding that the years of delay have only served to “promote more bills against Indigenous peoples to strip them of their territory.”
The 1.17 million-hectare (2.9 million-acre) Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve — roughly the size of Jamaica — would have protected five uncontacted tribes from outside encroachment for the first time. The Matses, Matis, Korubo, Kulina-Pano and Flecheiro, also known as Tavakina, live in voluntary isolation with no sustained contact with the outside world, leaving them highly vulnerable to disease and exploitation.
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The proposal faced pushback from logging concession holders and regional business groups in Loreto, Peru’s largest region, located in the country’s far northeast where the reserve would be located. Some lawmakers also objected, arguing that creating the reserve would block economic development and restrict access to valuable natural resources. Supporters of these industries questioned whether there was sufficient evidence of uncontacted peoples in the area, saying the territory had been tied up for nearly two decades without final approval.
Literally only rejected because of “economic” reasons. Politicians showing their faces.
questioned whether there was sufficient evidence of uncontacted peoples in the area, saying the territory had been tied up for nearly two decades
"it's been 1/5 of a human lifespan, obviously nobody is still there since I haven't seen them."
As if they'd all have died off in 20 years or nobody contacting them somehow makes it fair game?
Indigenous Peruvians: "Hey! You can't do that!"
Peruvian Government: "Hey! How do you even know about this?!"
South Korean President Escalates After Trump Summit, Vows to Target 'Far-Right' Critics, Including Americans
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged this week to go after "far-right" critics both at home and abroad, following his recent White House summit with President Trump. The move has raised alarm among U.S. officials over potential infringement on free expression and transnational repression tactics.Lee met with Trump on Aug. 25 at the White House to discuss trade, defense, shipbuilding and other strategic issues. But tensions were visible — Lee stayed at a hotel instead of the traditional Blair House, was greeted by lower-level officials, and left without attending a formal state dinner.
South Korean President Escalates After Trump Summit, Vows to Target 'Far-Right' Critics, Including Americans
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vowed to target "far-right" critics at home and abroad after his White House summit with Donald Trump, raising concerns over transnational repression and U.S.–ROK...Eric Hamilton (HNGN - Headlines & Global News)
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Imagine a world, where AI scans your social media. If you're a facist pig that supports MAGA pedophiles, you can't buy anything or get services.
This is a world I would live in and rejoice. Fuck facists, Nazis and POS pedophiles, plus the fucks that defend them.
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No crimes should be thought crimes. All crimes should be action crimes. There can be no middle ground as long as freedom of expression exists.
Doing Nazi shit should get you locked up (or beaten up, or whatever). Talking about it should just get you ridiculed by everybody.
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Are you fucking stupid? That's a terrible system. All it takes is one inevitable bad apple controlling this omniscient omnipotent system for lots of things to go to shit real fast.
The lack of critical thought here is astounding, you're definitely what the US education system wants out of their subjects wtf
You don't deprive racist and Nazis the ability to live in society. At least not permanently and for all equally. The goal should be to educate them and reintegrate them back into society. By force if necessary. And if that's not possible for all then they must remain apart from society by force.
All you would accomplish by your method is creating a right wing terrorist group.
People give Stalin shit for "re-education" camps. And the methods and failures in their implementation can be criticized.
But, the real question really is difficult. What do you actually do with people that want other people killed because of their race/identity or are plotting to overthrow a democratic government that defeated those Nazis? Those people have proven they are not able to live in society. But means need to be available to educate them and reintegrate them if they are capable of change.
So, I don't really agree with the other comments. I don't think what you're saying is "fascism".
There are reasons to protect a society and a revolution from Nazis and those that wish to overthrow it. Hell, one the big reasons we are here today is because liberals love to "both sides" anyone that says "punching a Nazi is good".
They clutch their pearls and pretend that "punching a Nazi makes you just as bad as them".
Those types of "don't resist. No violence" soft liberal takes are what got us here. Its what allows fascism to take control as it has. Normalizing every small escalating act of state violence and condemning anyone that would use violence to resist it.
although critics say these characterizations echo authoritarian sentiments not suited to a U.S. ally.
I dont think the US is a valid authority for figuring out what is and isnt authoritarian.
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Yeah, the US has ALWAYS been super authoritarian in its international dealings and has gone full fascist at home and abroad.
It's not the pot calling the kettle black. It's the leaking barrel of nuclear waste in the municipal water supply calling candy unhealthy.
Sleep with the dogs. Wake up with the fleas.
Donald Trump is the only republican president to win popular in more than 3 decades. Whatever is happening, and whatever is to come, we deserve it.
With that being said, Donald Trump was easy to beat in both elections. He won because democratic party is not a political party, but a private entity. Yes, democratic party itself has argued at the court that it was a private entity.
The first time Trump won, he won because democrats cheated to run Hillary Clinton, a politician that is seen as corrupt.
The second time he won, the democrats did not even have a proper primary.
Long story short, democrats fought harder against Bernie Sanders, than Donald Trump. I am done with voting democrat. I don't care what happens.
P.S. AI bots and paid online trolls, you can reply below telling me how democrats are more innocent than Jesus himself and how they have never done any wrong.
“they” is Russia
Legions of shitty racist American policymakers screening " Russia made us do it"
Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left
You say losing, I say actively driving them away.
I'm...not sure you're reading that headline right, Bub.
Wait, no I'm sorry, it's me who misread it.
All we can say of NK is we know fuckall in the west, and the brief conversations I personally have had with people who've been there weren't particularly illuminating.
If you have a strong opinion on a subject you have weak data on, maybe do some introspection.
North Korea's rewriting of the war where they kicked the imperialist USA's ass and continue to be victorious is not worse than American/South Korean revisionism where a people separated by the US and USSR and the attempt of one side to reunify the people and end US control was met by sheer brutality and cruelty is reduced to "north Korea invaded with Korea".
Go back just a little and ask yourself why America had to fuck with Koreans and draw these borders in the first place, why protecting capitalism is such an "good" thing.
This is after SK was previously signalling they'd cozy up to the Americans lmao.
Love this for everyone involved.
This whole thread is just an example of how successful US propaganda has been at relieving people of the burden of critical thinking.
NK bad, SK good, that's the depth they're willing to go to.
Note that I never defended the ruling party in North Korea, and that I'm simply rejecting your implication that South Korea is somehow involved in dismantling capitalism.
South Korea was created and is supported by the US explicitly to protect capitalism, and the irony of you reacting to my mere mention of NK in the manner I described is completely lost on you.
I never said NK good, I said people reduce conversations about Korea into "NK bad, SK good". And your response is to tell me to go to North Korea.
I invite you to reflect, sincerely. No mocking laughing emoji, no name-calling, go back and read what I said and how you reacted, and seriously read some non colonial history books (I didn't say NK history books...) on what happened in Korea and what South Korea stands for, without the need to defend the Kim dictatorial regime.
That was your point? You made that point by literally saying nothing about SK but responding to my comment by implying I defended NK and then telling me to go there?
Just amazing writing skills you have.
Experts warn the rhetoric echoes tactics used by authoritarian regimes seeking to suppress dissent abroad. The FBI defines such measures as transnational repression, a worrying trend for democracies.
This is this the same FBI who is redacting Trump's name from the Epstein files. South Korea must be doing something right! 😂
Edit: fixing autocorrect gone wild!
New conspiracy:
They have made autocorrect so bad to force us to use AI to write for us so we dont have spelling errors.
Im on aide disaboe it completely
Y’all read the thing?
Subsequently, Lee issued an arrest warrant for a pastor linked to the People Power Party, dismissed all seven four-star generals, and went on the offensive against critics, including Americans. His administration referred six U.S. nationals to prosecutors for sending rice and Bibles to North Korea in June. Their actions were described as aligning with "far-right" ideologies, although critics say these characterizations echo authoritarian sentiments not suited to a U.S. ally.At the national security level, director Wi Sung-lac pledged to identify networks—both domestic and international—that he alleged misinformed President Trump, contributing to his comments about political "purges." Gordon Chang, a prominent China critic and American, was labeled a conspiracist.
I mean, that’s a lot. I know they just had an almost-coup, but still.
It’s clear that “free speech” as it exists is busted and just lets cults snowball on social media. At the same time, these same government levers are dangerous, as is clearly seen in history and other current places in the world.
…I don’t know a solution, really. Well, other than freaking reigning in Big Tech so conspiracy breeding grounds wouldn’t be so ridiculously fertile, but apparently that’s impossible.
Being conservative and/or wanting to have a national identity is fine but don't take it to the extremes, excluding or oppressing others based on origin, religion, sexual orientation, etc. That comes at the expense of fundamental rights and becomes dangerous. Education can fix that.
Good.
Honestly, I have a ton of respect for South Korea, especially after seeing how swiftly and decisively they handled their treasonous president.
(please take me, S. K.)
Prison time, fines and ostracisation: anti-gay law shocks community in African country seen as relatively safe
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Jail terms of up to five years for ‘promoting homosexuality’ in Burkina Faso latest in push for ‘family values’ sweeping the continentArchived version: archive.is/newest/theguardian.…
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Prison time, fines and ostracisation: anti-gay law shocks community in African country seen as relatively safe
Jail terms of up to five years for ‘promoting homosexuality’ in Burkina Faso latest in push for ‘family values’ sweeping the continent
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This is only because the local religion decided that it's going to push it's LGBTQ hate agenda, as it exists in their religious hate book.
Religions are the cause of almost all LGBTQ hate. When they say they're about peace, love, and friendship - that's a LIE!
The US just sanctioned three leading Palestinian human rights NGOs over ICC support
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/48040102
The US is further complicit in Israel's war crimes by providing political and legal cover for them, & we spoke to Amnesty about the sanctions.Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…
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The US just sanctioned three leading Palestinian human rights NGOs over ICC support
The US is further complicit in Israel's war crimes by providing political and legal cover for them, & we spoke to Amnesty about the sanctions.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…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.
US sanctions three Palestinian human rights NGO for ICC support
The US is further complicit in Israel's war crimes by providing political and legal cover for them, & we spoke to Amnesty about the sanctions.Charlie Jaay (The Canary)
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Jamaica's Labour Party wins third term promising tax cuts
KINGSTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Jamaica's ruling Labour Party declared victory in general elections, ushering in a third consecutive term for Prime Minister Andrew Holness who ran on promises of tax cuts.
Preliminary figures gave 34 seats to his Jamaica Labour Party and 29 to the rival People's National Party, with a voter turnout of 39.5%, the Electoral Commission of Jamaica said on X.
"This was not an easy victory. Make no mistake about it, this was a fight," Holness said in a televised speech late on Wednesday after People's National Party leader Mark Golding conceded defeat.
Holness campaigned on his government's economic record, saying it had brought prosperity to the Caribbean country with a low unemployment rate of 3.3% and reductions in poverty and crime.
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Reform's Farage vows to start preparing for government to make UK 'great again'
- Populist leader offers clearer view of a possible Reform UK government
- Says it would end arrivals of illegal migrants by boat in two weeks
- Farage, a Brexit veteran and Trump ally, says main parties are in meltdown
- Reform UK riding high in opinion polls, though still behind major parties in donations
- Farage suggests next election might come earlier than 2029
BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept 5 (Reuters) - British populist leader Nigel Farage vowed on Friday to start preparing for government, saying the nation's two main parties were in meltdown and only his Reform UK could ease the anger and despair plaguing the country to "make Britain great again".
To a prolonged standing ovation by a crowd at the annual party conference, Farage for the first time offered a vision of how Britain would be under a Reform government: He pledged to end the arrival of illegal migrants in boats in two weeks, bring back "stop-and-search" policing and scrap net zero policies.
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the wealth disparity is too vast to fi
Oh, it can be fixed. It's just that the major parties aren't yet willing to do what's necessary.
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For some perspective from the UK, only about 30-35% of the UK electorate actually support ReformUK, the party this fascist scumbag currently owns.
And a considerable portion of that % are only supporting because they're being lied to consistently by him, his cronies and a sizeable portion of our news organisations.
35% support would likely be enough to deliver that ass clown into power though as our archaic voting system is shit.
Our other big right-wing party basically committed suicide, and most of their non pensioner voters have since fled to ReformUK, as well as a fairly consistent trickle of politicians defecting from the Conservatives to ReformUK.
If the Conservatives hadn't gone completely insane they may well have split the vote between them, but it all seems to be coalescing around ReformUK at the moment.
most of their non pensioner voters have since fled to ReformUK
It's worth keeping in mind that a large proportion of Conservative voters are pensioners.
You may not be familiar with UK politics so I'll be fair here when I say that there has -always- been a section of the general electorate that have supported this kind of complete bullshit being peddled by Nigel.
Previously it was peddled by UKIP, or the Conservatives, or the Brexit Party, and even in some cases certain fringes of the Labour Party.
Says it would end arrivals of illegal migrants by boat in two weeks
That's the same "in two weeks" that Trump uses for "never."
Reuters withdraws Xi, Putin longevity video after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Reuters News on Friday withdrew a four-minute video containing an exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussing the possibility that humans can live to 150 years old, after China state TV demanded its removal and withdrew the legal permission to use it.
The footage, which included the open mic exchange from the military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, was licensed by the China state television network, China Central Television (CCTV).
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I also like the touch that they reported this themselves.
"We stand by the accuracy of what we published," Reuters said in its statement.
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Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG
Over the past few months in particular, the Social Web Community Group has seen an increase in heated discussions online that have been arguing protocol superiority and creating conflict between ActivityPub and AT Protocol, or trying to promote one over the other. These discussions have generally not been productive, created contention within the community that stands in the way of collaboration, and been a hotbed for conflict, disagreements, and misinformation. There has often been significant biases exhibited within these conversations.ActivtyPub in its current usage does make different design decisions to AT Protocol, but ActivityPub is not necessarily that different from AT Protocol: both are open social web protocols.
There is an entire section of the ActivityPub specification that isn't as well known or widely adopted but which, at a high level, provides fairly similar ideas to those emphasized within the AT Protocol community for separation between data, identity and applications. Recently, a taskforce within the Social Web Community Group has been established to advance what is now known as the ActivityPub API.
Whilst we may have our differences at present, over time those gaps will narrow, as we share a lot more in common than we have differences.
There does not have to be a “winning” protocol. We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority. That is not how we achieve a better open social web. Instead, we must work together, cross-pollinate and share ideas, and participate within each other's communities with respect and mutual understanding. Arguing between us only emboldens those that seek to derail and destroy efforts to build an open social web.
The practice of collaboration outside of our own groups has a long history within the standards community, whether that is with competing companies working together on standards or protocols, or collaboration between different standards bodies like the W3C and IETF.
There has already been cross-pollination of ideas between the people working on ActivityPub and AT Protocol. For example, AT Protocol adopted an internet draft that was originally written to support the ActivityPub ecosystem, and projects within ActivityPub have adopted some ideas on content labeling and starter packs from the AT Protocol ecosystem.
Both ActivityPub and AT Protocol can and do co-exist. This co-existence is perhaps best emphasized by the outstanding work of Bridgy Fed project, which connects ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and other protocols together allowing for interoperability and community that crosses between protocols. If you wanted to summarise this letter on a t-shirt, it would be “People > Protocols > Platforms”.
This statement is a call for cooling the temperature of discussions and a reminder to be respectful of each other and the huge amount of work everyone is putting in to build a better open social web. We do not win by tearing each other down, which only emboldens and empowers those who do not want either protocol to succeed.
This statement was written following an initial discussion at this month's Social Web Community Group meeting, and has been reviewed by several members of the CG.
general/statements/2025-09-05-activitypub-and-atproto-discourse.md at master · swicg/general
General issue tracker for the group. Contribute to swicg/general development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I think a lot of the hate is because of the realities of the real world implementation of the protocols. The fact that AT Proto is mostly run through the main instance with only nominal federation through other relays. And the fact that AT Proto requires the full firehouse replicated to all relays.
I probably prefer most of AT Proto other than these two issues. Regardless I am on mastodon with it bridged over to bluesky
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And the fact that AT Proto requires the full firehouse replicated to all relays.
It doesn't, not even Bluesky runs a full network archive relay anymore because it proved to be too complicated and expensive.
Introduction to AT Protocol
Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits togethermackuba.eu
Evan Prodromou commented to say he "disagrees with the purpose of this statement".
I don't understand what he gets out of being so antagonizing. Lovely statement though, nice to see so many signatures.
Create statement on ActivityPub vs AT Protocol discussions (2025-09-05) by ThisIsMissEm · Pull Request #45 · swicg/general
This is the first draft of a statement on the recent conflicts that have been happening between communities on both sides of ActivityPub and AT Protocol, as discussed within this month's Social...GitHub
People are arguing because ATProto is not open. And that couldn't be more clear in the simple fact that BSky hosts tens of millions of users, 99.95% of "the ATmosphere". While AP has <1% of the number of users and yet they're strewn across tens of thousands of servers.
We've already seen the implications of such closure in the silencing of users by foreign govts, silencing of users in an entire state, and enforcement of draconian ID laws on millions of users in the EU. Meanwhile AP is largely unaffected.
And BSky is still taking the Silicon Valley approach of "we'll figure out how to make money later", to which the answers are the same as every other social platform. They're not funded by donations, they're funded by investments from investors who expect to see a profit eventually.
ATProto is open. Bluesky is not.
What we currently see is similar to how ActivityPub looked when it was first drawn up as a protocol: when 99% of users were on Mastodon GmbH's server.
The ten thousands of servers came later. And in theory ATProto is defined open enough that it is possible to implement it independently from Bluesky.
ATProto is open. Bluesky is not.
Not a distinction worth making when 99+% are all on the same server.
when 99% of users were on Mastodon GmbH's server
99% of the 12 users? Again, BSky is tens of millions of users. Why is it you think they're all on the same server?
And in theory ATProto is defined open enough that it is possible to implement it independently from Bluesky.
Then why is no one doing it?
The statement has been... uh... updated. The URL now reads:
A statement was originally published here, however, we have since received an objections to its publication citing that proper processes were not followed, and therefore it has been taken down and republished on Emelia's website instead, whilst we seek community group consensus. When Emelia merged the pull request, she had been granted permission to do so by the co-chair of the Social Web CG, and given the number of signatories with various significant contributions to ActivityPub and ActivityStreams, Emelia believed that there was enough agreement to publish.
It was pretty bizarre how it was published in such a way that it seemed to come from w3c socialcg when really it was just Emelia.
Despite being an activitypub dev I have not seen any of the supposed "heated discussions" probably because I don't spend time on Mastodon trying to boost ATProto. It doesn't seem like a widespread problem to me.
It was signed by a number of people, including OG ActivityPub contributors. I guess you'd have to know what goes on in the mailing list.
Looking around here, there's a lot of ignorant hostility. I am always surprised by how tech-illiterate fediverse fans are. People who feel that that's their peer group probably have a hard time ignoring that background toxicity.
YouTuber 'Great Library' found dead at 47
YouTuber 'Great Library' found dead at 47
Na Dong-hyeon, a pioneering first-generation internet broadcaster better known by his online moniker “Great Library,” or Daedoseogwan, was found dead at his home in Seoul on Saturday.Korea JoongAng Daily
Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
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"I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head," Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. "She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy's door or his head. She chose the head."
Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"
Some 280 girls aged between 15 and 17 were charged with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes last year in Sweden.CBS News
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That's riot response, not really a good representation.
Also none of those guys are obese.
They were just karma farming by posting whatever would get the drive by up-buttons.
That said: I don't know if these are special Swedish cops or normal Swedish cops, but the gear is more or less the same as our "normal" patrol cops. Bullet/stab resistant vest, pistol, and quasi-military uniform. Ours tend to only wear the high visibility vests when they are newbies disrupting all traffic because they want to play traffic cop rather than just control the lights at an intersection.
Again, I don't know what the baseline in Sweden is, but most civilized countries tend to have a distinction between patrol cops and the ones that have special training to handle armed suspects and the like. Ours... we theoretically have that but also basically every patrol car has an AR-15 and a shotgun in it and our cops love to grab those any time they can even half attempt to justify it.
That said, I assume your special response cops more or less look the same (full tactical gear). You just tend to not see those unless there is an actual meaningful threat.
Some context not in the article
Some 280 girls aged between 15 and 17 were charged with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes last year
That "other violent crimes" appears to do some very heavy lifting. There are about 40 deaths a year in total in the criminal mileu. Unless I'm interpreting the data wrong
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[Gangs] are even reported to have infiltrated Sweden's welfare sector, local politics, legal and education systems, and juvenile detention care.
Yes, because liberals and conservatives sold everything. They sold it to friends, family, donors, who in turn sell it to gangs.
The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would allow police to wiretap children under the age of 15 in an attempt to curb the violence
Not only that, children will also now be going to prison in Sweden.
[...] on encrypted messaging sites.
Ah, yes. The head of the Swedish police said in an interview the other day that Signal have no other use than recruiting for assassinations. If you see someone using it, you should call the police.
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That's because it's just more right wing propaganda to keep turning Sweden increasingly fascist.
And they've been working hard to import that shit to Finland. Fuck Sweden.
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She was arrested with a 17-year-old male accomplice, who pulled the trigger
The big example they have and the girl wasn't even the one who did it.
If you see someone using it, you should call the police.
Please do. And stress that you are concerned because politicians told you so
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When we talk about Armenians being mass-murdered, we call it Armenian genocide
When we talk about Palestinians being mass-murdered, let's please not erase the Palestinians - it's the Palestinian genocide
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‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades
‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades
Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of cropsHannah Ellis-Petersen (The Guardian)
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Trump to host G20 summit at his Miami golf resort: 'Each country will have its own building'
Trump to host G20 at his 'beautiful' Miami golf resort: 'Each country will have its own building'
Billionaire Trump said his Trump National Doral resort and spa was the ideal choice for the gathering in December next year because it is 'beautiful' and the Florida weather is nice.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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So the government has to pay him to rent out the place? American taxpayer dollars going straight into his pocket.
The French republic was inspired by the American one so I think it's time for the Americans to do it the other way around and take a page from the French. If enough of you go out in the streets and stop work you can get anything. And if that doesn't work then the French had other methods you could borrow too.
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Pope prepares to canonise London-born teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’
Pope prepares to canonise London-born teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’
Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 and built websites to spread Catholic message, to become first millennial saintAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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His mother claims it was around the time of his funeral that he started to work miracles, and last year the late Pope Francis credited Acutis with two. The first, the Vatican said, involved the recovery of a boy in Brazil from a rare congenital disease affecting his pancreas; the second was the healing of a student in Florence with bleeding on the brain after suffering a head trauma, and whose mother had prayed at Acutis’s tomb in Assisi.
This is honestly a pretty strange situation. I dont practice the faith anymore, and havent for a long time, but IIRC I thought for someone to become a saint that they have to have had miracles occur during their lifetime. I dont understand how things occurring after his death are used as a justification, especially when they arent really directly related to him. Nor are they exemplary situations that are completely inexplicable, and could just seem miraculous due to our imperfect understanding of medical science…
The speed at which Acutis has been canonised, especially when compared with Frassati, is part of the church’s quest to attract more young people to the faith. “That’s exactly the point,” said Andrea Vreede, Vatican correspondent for NOS, the Dutch public radio and TV network. “The church wants to have a young saint who is a millennial, somebody who belongs to the modern age.”
When you pair it with the fact that they are quite literally rushing this through, when its normally a decades long investigative process, makes it seem like quite a crock. I mean it is religion after all, but even still I feel like devout Catholics would be highly skeptical of this even. People who had crazy stuff happen during their lifetime, like allegedly developing the stigmata, arent even canonized at this pace. Seems like its all just a ruse to try and draw impressionable youth into the faith
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The criteria for sainthood is three-fold:
1) The person must be dead.
2) The person must have lived a life of heroic virtue for the Christian life.
3) There must be more than 1 confirmed miracle attributed to the potential saint AFTER they have died. (Though I think martyrs only need 1 miracle.)
The idea in the Catholic faith is that the dead watch the living and plead with God on the living’s behalf. Therefore, if a miracle happens after a person has prayed to a potential Saint, that Saint may be attributed with that miracle (for the proposes of sainthood).
I like to think of it like the commission that clothing store clerks get. When you go to make your purchase at the Bloomingdale’s, the cashier would say “Did anyone help you with your purchase today?” And if you say “yes, Mandy recommended I get the red windbreaker instead of the grey overcoat”, then Mandy the store clerk gets the credit for the sale.
The potential saint gets credit for the miracle. There’s usually a long investigation by the church to prove that 1) a miracle actually happened, and 2) that the saint was “involved” somehow. In this case it seems like the investigation was abbreviated.
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The idea in the Catholic faith is that the dead watch the living and plead with God on the living’s behalf.
Ah right... Straight from the Bible.
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The idea in the Catholic faith is that the dead watch the living and plead with God on the living’s behalf. Therefore, if a miracle happens after a person has prayed to a potential Saint, that Saint may be attributed with that miracle (for the proposes of sainthood).
Wow that is pagan as hell. I never quite realized it but when you put it that way it's really interesting how similar Catholicism is to East Asian religions (my point of comparison is Shinto, but if I'm not mistaken these aspects aren't unique to it). The dead looking over and protecting the living, being able to deify and worship dead people of note and of course rigid priest hierarchies. I wonder if there's an anthropological or otherwise scientific reason for this.
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I think your statements about paganism is what the Protestant branch of Christianity would say as well.
Another slightly unrelated anecdote: I once heard from a former priest that Catholics pray to the saints because they can’t believe that a father (male-like God figure) could be compassionate and would care about their troubles. I don’t know if that’s true, but I think it’s an indictment of men as fathers in general :/
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Shein UK accused of moving ‘vast bulk of income’ to Singapore to cut British tax
Shein UK accused of moving ‘vast bulk of income’ to Singapore to cut British tax
Fast-fashion retailer rejects accusations as Fair Tax Foundation questions its tax arrangementsSarah Butler (The Guardian)
Millions of UK mobile phones to receive test emergency alert on Sunday
Millions of UK mobile phones to receive test emergency alert on Sunday
Devices will vibrate and make a siren sound for 10 seconds at 3pm, with message confirming alert is a testDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza
Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza
The video claims to show the two men in Gaza City, where Israel has begun a planned military takeover.Maia Davies (BBC News)
New Bollywood romcom sparks debate over stereotyping south India
Param Sundari: New Bollywood romcom sparks debate over stereotyping south India
Param Sundari has reignited conversation on how India's most influential film industry represents non-Hindi speaking states.Meryl Sebastian (BBC News)
Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow
Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow
Millions of Russians have faced restrictions on popular apps while a new app called Max is aggressively promoted.Sergey Goryashko (BBC News)
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Why and how do people USE technologies? This question should be at the center of any thinking about human life with technology. The ways in which people use technologies, after all, determines the social, economic, etc. effects they have.lee vinsel (Peoples & Things)
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Analysis: Putin doubles down on Ukraine war stance after Beijing meeting
Analysis: Putin doubles down on Ukraine war stance after Beijing meeting
Moscow's diplomatic success in China, and Trump's lack of action, have emboldened Putin, reports Steve Rosenberg.Steve Rosenberg (BBC News)
Trump has Putin's blessing.
Russia has USA support through Trump and Vance.
Putin has no intention of ending the Russian assault on Ukraine.
Putin and Trump/Vance will blame Europe and NATO.
Putin will spread the assault beyond Ukraine and deeper into Europe WITH Trump's support.
All this before Taiwan, Greenland and Alaska enter the situation.
The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia - the world's skin cancer capital
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/601040
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The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia - the world's skin cancer capital
It has shaken consumer trust and raised questions about global sunscreen regulation.Tabby Wilson and Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
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Independent analysis by a trusted consumer advocacy group has found that several of Australia's most popular, and expensive, sunscreens are not providing the protection they claim to, kicking off a national scandal.
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several of Australia's most popular, and expensive, sunscreens are not providing the protection they claim to
That should be the title. Probably a bit shorter but way better than the clickbait original.
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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.www.youtube.com
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Super common... rnz.co.nz/news/national/403766…
We see the same things happen year after year.
Nine sunscreen brands fail protection tests - Consumer NZ
The Cancer Society is being asked to recall all batches of one of its sunblocks because it doesn't give people the protection claimed on the label.RNZ News (RNZ)
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Like, I get that you're pointing out that both places are sunny and people who evolved light skin for vitamin D production tend to have lived for a long time in places closer to the poles.
But it's still racist or eugenicist to think light skinned people are being punished with skin cancer For going where they don't "belong."
Maybe. To reword the original comment:
"Ha! That race of people has a genetic predisposition to skin cancer. They deserve it because they (or their ancestors, or at least the ancestors of other people of that race) did something bad. Even the ones who emigrated lawfully and assimilated to the local culture. Guess they should have been genetically adapted to their new location to move there."
"Ha! Sickle cell anemia sucks, huh? Guess you should have stayed in a malarial zone where it would protect you. Your kind is not welcome elsewhere."
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Sure, but you just said the same thing as I did. Do you think you can trust brands? Or that any company actually cares for their customers, as long as they can get away with it? Or at all, if the fines are smaller than the profits they gain from exploitation?
The solution is what you mentioned: independent testing (and systematic changes, but that is a whole other topic)
Ah, from this comment:
Sunscreen works, just not if you buy it from shady manufacturers that try to maximize their profits and care about nothing else.
I thought you were saying "don't buy knock off brands and you're safe. When actually you're saying everyone is cutting corners.
Unfortunately the independent testing here happens infrequently (no more than once a year), and it's different brands failing each time.
In general, the failing brands are testing as much lower than their stated SPF ratings. As a consumer, the best chance is probably to buy the highest rating you can find so even if it's lower than stated it's still pretty good.
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don't by knock off brands and you're safe
That is exactly how I interpreted their comment. If they meant something else, some major clarification needs to happen that specifically enriches what their actual point is. Otherwise, how I interpreted it is likely how most everyone is comprehending their argument when reading it at face value.
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Consumer Reports is not a bad place to start.
There are toxin concerns in sunscreen too, some use endocrine disruptors like oxybenzone. Bad for you and where you swim.
"We are deeply sorry that one of our products has fallen short of the standards we pride ourselves on and that you have come to expect of us,"
Yeah nah bro. These companies need to be sued into bankruptcy and the leadership imprisoned.
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I fucking despise corporate speak.
Do they think they are convincing anyone with that shit?
Do they only speak that way in case of it appearing in court documents?
Is that why it’s so nauseatingly neutral?
Do they only speak that way in case of it appearing in court documents?
Oh, absolutely. This has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to minimize any admission of liability.
In a way I’m glad.
Reminds me these “people” are just automatons, money robots.
Slip slap slop seek slide.
Just an umbrella won't protect you from UV rays, let alone if you spend a lot of time outdoors and the umbrella doesn't have a UPF. Even then, you'll have rays reflecting from surfaces. Do you wear long clothes? Do they have a UPF? And where do you live? (Rhetorical question, I don't need to know that of course)
If you are worried about chemicals, try mineral sunscreens. Non nano. They look and perform like shit but this is literally just zinc oxide sitting on top of your skin, reflecting the rays back like a mirror. Nothing is penetrating your skin, nothing is turning photons into heat. Zinc oxide is a compound you can get in a baby cream and a lot of pharmaceutical creams and it is reducing inflammation.
I like the umbrella, don't get me wrong, but depending on what exactly you do it might just be not enough. I'm worried it provides you with a false sense of security. Trust me, Japanese people don't rely on their umbrellas only.
Not mentioned is the active ingredients in your sunscreen, many being endocrine disruptors like oxybenzone.
The ones that physically block with like titanium and aluminum compounds are best for not flooding your body and waters you swim in with hormone disrupting chemicals, especially damaging in coral reefs.
Idk about that companies that use toxic stuff always deny its toxic, then if forced to admit it's toxic say it is in amounts too small to affect you.
I certainly would not take their word for it or people they pay to say so.
It has real effects on coral reefs and other areas where people swim and have it wash off in. And there are a range of endocrine disruptors in lots of goods that do have real effects on people even if not quite noticeable. Amphibians are particularly sensitive to them and can wipe out populations in the low parts per billions.
Idk about that companies that use toxic stuff always deny its toxic
And people claim stuff is toxic when it isn't. This is how you end up with an anti-vaxer in charge of health policies.
If only there were some process we had that could help determine the truth without trusting individual sources.
You must really not know what the fuck is going on.
The solution to pollution is dilution!
humans: there's over 8 billion of us now.
I just read the article from the German consumer organisation "Stiftung Warentest" about that, they write (translated with deepl):
Some products say “without octocrylene”. What do we make of this?Octocrylene is an approved UV filter that became the subject of debate some time ago: initially, critics feared that it could interfere with the hormone system. The EU's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) has reviewed the scientific studies. According to this, the maximum permitted concentration of octocrylene in cosmetics is still considered safe - it is 10 percent of the total product. It has not been exceeded by any sunscreen product in our tests since 2018.
Scientists have shown that sunscreens with octocrylene can also contain benzophenone - as an impurity or, over time, as a cleavage product of octocrylene. Benzophenone is considered a probable carcinogen. The SCCS demands that suppliers should strictly control their sunscreens and keep the benzophenone content at trace levels.
We test all products containing octocrylene for benzophenone and only found elevated levels once in 2025, in an already defective product. In our test tables, we indicate which products contain which UV filters. This allows consumers to decide for themselves whether they want to use a sunscreen containing octocrylene.
Important: Always dispose of products containing octocrylene after the season. The benzophenone content can increase during storage.
Yeah I read the article, I was just adding the part about the endocrine disruptors cuz that's what I care about. It said an American company actually had guy go to jail for faking results at some point.
The mineral sunscreens also do not rub in at least the ones I have gotten. So a lot of people won't want to use them.
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Was the primary source linked? I couldn't find it in the article.
Here's why US sunscreen sucks. Find some grey market bemotrizinol if you can.
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We tested the SPF claims of 20 sunscreens. 16 failed | CHOICE
One SPF 50+ sunscreen came in with a result of 4.Mark Serrels (CHOICE Australia)
Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar phonemes in words or syllables that occur close together, either in terms of their vowel phonemes (e.g., lean green meat) or their consonant phonemes (e.g., Kip keeps capes ). However, in American usage, assonance exclusively refers to this phenomenon when affecting vowels, whereas, when affecting consonants, it is generally called consonance.
Huh, TIL that the US uses a different definition than the rest of the world. I'd been wondering if you and I just had vastly different vowel pronunciations.
Whoa. I'm American and I just discovered that I had been using that word...uh...wrong for my region but right for the rest of the world? I thought it was phonemes in general, and that the vowel thing was an archaic usage. Interesting.
I knew it wasn't alliteration, since it isn't all the first syllable sound. But it's always fun to learn new stuff about the language I've been speaking for nearly forty years.
Ultra Violette's Lean Screen SPF 50+ Mattifying Zinc Skinscreen, a facial product that Rach says she used exclusively, was the "most significant failure" identified. It returned a result of SPF 4, something that shocked Choice so much it commissioned a second test that produced a similar reading.Other products that did not meet their SPF claims included those from Neutrogena, Banana Boat, Bondi Sands and the Cancer Council - but they all rejected Choice's findings and said their own independent testing showed their sunscreens worked as advertised.
An investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation found that a single US-based laboratory had certified at least half of the products that had failed Choice's testing, and that this facility routinely recorded high test results.
Everyone's skin responds differently to the product, she adds, and it's one that is almost always being stress-tested - by sweat, water, or makeup.
It is very difficult to rate effectively for the same reasons. Historically, it has been done by spreading the sunscreen on 10 people at the same thickness, then timing how long it takes for their skin to start burning both with and without the product applied.
While there are clear guidelines as to what you are looking for, Dr Wong says there is still a lot of variability. That is down to skin texture or tone, or even the colour of the walls, and "different labs get different results".
But she says results are also quite easy to fake, pointing to a 2019 probe by US authorities into a sunscreen testing laboratory which resulted in the owner being jailed for fraud.
Many sunscreen brands from all over the world use the same manufacturers and testing labs - and so this issue is unlikely to be isolated to Australia, she adds.
Tycoon who led push to decriminalise cannabis becomes Thai PM
Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets out
Anutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist, has been appointed by lawmakers as Thailand’s next prime minister after days of heated negotiations and political drama.
The 58-year-old tycoon turned politician is considered a conservative, though he made a name for himself for leading a campaign to decriminalise cannabis. He was voted in after a chaotic scramble by parties to gain enough support to replace the ousted PM, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was removed from office by a court ruling.
Friday’s vote is a major setback for Paetongtarn’s family, one of the country’s most influential and polarising political dynasties. Thaksin Shinawatra, Paetongtarn’s billionaire father and a former leader himself, suddenly left the country by private jet the night before the vote, prompting a frenzy of speculation. He is due to appear in court on Tuesday, when judges will rule on whether he has adequately served his sentence for previous convictions.
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Anutin, an experienced politician, comes from a family that owns one of Thailand’s biggest construction companies, which built Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, as well as parliament itself.
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To the extent that they're measuring anything, it's bilateral balance of trade, though they're fudging those numbers too based on Trump's prejudices and grudges.
David Ricardo figured out that balancing bilateral trade flows was a stupid idea over 200 years ago. As a modern economist put it, I have a bilateral trade impalance with my barber too. So what?
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S’pore, India exchange five MOUs, agree on ‘ambitious’ road map to chart next phase of ties
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Five agreements were signed, covering digital assets innovation, green shipping, aviation training, skills development, and space industries cooperation.
S’pore, India exchange five MOUs, agree on ‘ambitious’ road map to chart next phase of ties
Both prime ministers expressed commitment to taking bilateral ties to a new level. Read more at straitstimes.com.Goh Yan Han (ST)
Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner
Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner
CEOs from Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI praised President Donald Trump for his AI policies at a White House dinner.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
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Apple Thanks President Trump for Being the Most Pro-Technology President Ever; Introduces the Trump Channel on Apple TV
Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a bold new partnership with the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, thanking him for his unwavering support of technology, innovation, and large gold letters on buildings. In recognition of his tireless contributions—like personally inventing the iPhone before Steve Jobs “borrowed” the idea—Apple is proud to launch The Trump Channel on Apple TV.
“President Trump is, without question, the most pro-technology president the world has ever seen,” said Tim Cook, staring blankly into the middle distance. “His visionary policies—such as renaming Wi-Fi to ‘Trump-Fi’ and personally boosting 5G by standing next to a cell tower—have created the greatest jobs numbers in the history of silicon. Truly, nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”
The Trump Channel will feature:
Exclusive Original Programming, including The Apprentice: Cabinet Edition and Shark Tank but Everyone’s a Trump.
24/7 Coverage of the Jobs Report, with real-time updates on how many people are thanking him with tears in their eyes.
Epstein Documentary Section, labeled “FAKE HOAX,” automatically skipping to golf highlights at Mar-a-Lago.
A dedicated Covfefe Mode, where subtitles don’t make sense but still claim to be “the best words.”
Apple TV+ subscribers will get access to the Trump Channel at no extra charge—because as Trump has pointed out, “Tim Apple owes me big league.”
Availability
The Trump Channel on Apple TV will roll out starting today in the U.S., with international launches pending approval from leaders who appreciate “big beautiful deals.”
How Trump's tariffs are pushing food and drink exporters closer to China
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Agricultural brokers have told the BBC that they have seen a surge in interest in trade with China from exporters around the world.
How Trump's tariffs are pushing food and drink exporters closer to China
Agricultural brokers tell the BBC there has been a surge of interest from exporters in trade with China.Osmond Chia (BBC News)
‘I Know Nothing About It’: Trump Pleads Ignorance on Deadly Navy SEAL Raid
‘I Know Nothing About It’: Trump Pleads Ignorance on Deadly Navy SEAL Raid
President Donald Trump denied any knowledge of a 2019 Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the deaths of unarmed North Korean fishermen, saying, "I know nothing about it.Kathryn Wilkens (Mediaite)
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