No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36189837
By MEE staff
Published date: 14 September 2025 16:18 BST
Adra said the raid followed an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in Masafer Yatta on Saturday, in which two of his brothers and one cousin were wounded. He accompanied them to hospital, while nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home in his absence.He said he had been unable to return home since, as soldiers had blockaded the village entrance.
Adra, who has long worked as a journalist and filmmaker documenting settler violence in Masafer Yatta, reported that he and his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, had faced intensified attacks and targeting since they won an Oscar for best documentary.
No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
By MEE staff
Published date: 14 September 2025 16:18 BSTAdra said the raid followed an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in Masafer Yatta on Saturday, in which two of his brothers and one cousin were wounded. He accompanied them to hospital, while nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home in his absence.He said he had been unable to return home since, as soldiers had blockaded the village entrance.
Adra, who has long worked as a journalist and filmmaker documenting settler violence in Masafer Yatta, reported that he and his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, had faced intensified attacks and targeting since they won an Oscar for best documentary.
No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
The Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has reported that Israeli soldiers raided his home in the occupied West Bank.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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New details about the development of the SLCM-N sea-based nuclear missile
The United States has decided to return nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to its arsenal of nuclear attack submarines. The new promising sea—based missile will be developed by six companies, of which five are responsible for the rocket itself, and the sixth for the engine. This is reported by Navy Recognition.
The objective of this project is to develop a missile that will be included in the arsenal of nuclear submarines of the Virginia type. According to the Pentagon's plans, the American fleet should receive the first missiles in 2034.
In order not to delay the development too much and not to spend fabulous sums on it, it was decided to create the SLCM-N based on existing missiles, i.e. the same Tomahawk. At least in terms of exterior design and dimensions. This is necessary in order for the new missile to fit the launchers of nuclear submarines.
At the same time, the commissioning of the new missile will be fraught with certain difficulties, since the Virginia-class submarines are not designed to accommodate nuclear weapons on them.
It is assumed that the SLCM-N will receive an adapted modification of the W80-4 nuclear warhead, which is still under development. This warhead is specially designed for long-range missiles.
Timor-Leste students protest government plan to buy new cars for parliamentarians
Timor-Leste police have fired tear gas at protesters who rallied against a plan to buy new official cars for MPs, which triggered anger in one of the poorest nations in South-East Asia.More than 1,000 people, mostly university students, rallied near the National Parliament in Dili to protest against the plan approved last year to procure cars for each of the 65 members of parliament.
The plan was the latest flashpoint in the resource-dependent country, where more than 40 per cent of its population lives below the poverty line, according to the World Bank.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Netanyahu and Rubio stick to established Israeli-US narrative on Gaza war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio recently held a joint press conference in Jerusalem, reiterating their aligned positions on the ongoing Gaza conflict. Netanyahu accepted "full responsibility" for the Israeli strike on Qatar, while Rubio supported Israel’s stance, emphasizing the need for Hamas to be neutralized as an armed entity.
This event highlights the continued strong coordination between Israel and the U.S., even as regional and international criticism grows. Meanwhile, the Arab-Islamic summit in Doha is meeting to discuss the escalating crisis and potential collective responses.
Netanyahu and Rubio stick to established Israeli-US narrative on Gaza war
Netanyahu reiterates Israel takes ‘full responsibility’ for Qatar attack; Rubio says Hamas must ‘cease to exist’.Maziar Motamedi (Al Jazeera)
Huge piles of rusty WWII ammunition are poisoning the Baltic Sea
Approximately 1.6 million tons of old ammunition are lying on the bottom of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, posing a considerable danger: their casings are slowly rusting and emitting toxic substances such as TNT compounds.Most of the ammunition was deliberately sunk in the ocean after the war because the Allies were concerned that Germans would resume hostilities against them again at some point, and ordered that Germany destroy all ordnance. At the time the easiest way to do so seemed to be to simply dump everything into the sea.
Huge piles of rusty WWII ammunition are poisoning the Baltic Sea
While tensions between Russia and NATO are building up in the Baltic Sea, Europeans are still busy cleaning up the mess World War II left behind in the oceanKIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press (ABC News)
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It’s hard to overstate just how systemic “we can fix it later” was in the mid 20th century. Progress had happened quickly since the turn of the century, many centuries old problems were solved overnight by new inventions (like penicillin) and it was assumed that that progress would continue.
For instance, the century date problem, later known as the Y2K problem, was first realized in the 1950s. Then brought to light again in the 1970s. But nobody did anything about it until the mid 90s.
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The first person known to publicly address this issue was Bob Bemer, who had noticed it in 1958 as a result of work on genealogical software.
Old science fiction books are exactly like this. They just assumed we'd have technological solutions to everything.
Also, they weren't living in a largely collapsed ecosystem. Today we view this story in horror, but back then there were 1/4th the people, wildlife and nature was bountiful. It was probably hard to imagine that we humans could substantially alter the world. Hell, people today look into the sky and say global warming is bunk. Yeah, looks huge from down here! Take a look from space, paint on a marble.
Linux security
Hi there,
Win10 is soon not supported. Tbh Linux have been on my radar since I started to break from the US big tech.
But how is security handled in Linux? Linux is pretty open-source, or am I not understanding it correctly.
So how can I as a new user make sure to have the most secure machine as possible?
The US Air Force decommissioned the first Minuteman III mine — the transition to Sentinel began, but with reservations
The US Air Force has officially decommissioned the first Minuteman III — LF 5E10 mine at the F.E. Warren Base in Wyoming. This is the symbolic beginning of the replacement of the outdated missile system with the new LGM-35A Sentinel system. According to the command, the combat readiness of the nuclear forces remains: 400 missiles are still on duty.
However, this "historic step" hides serious challenges. The Sentinel program, which is being implemented by Northrop Grumman, is already facing large—scale delays and a sharp increase in cost - the project budget is approaching $100 billion. Experts note that ambitious deadlines may be disrupted again, especially against the background of the complexity of replacing infrastructure that was worked out during the Cold War era.
In addition, the question remains: will ultra-expensive modernization justify its costs in the face of a changing global threat? As the Air Force makes its first move, the future of Sentinel looks less like a triumph of technology than a test of budget and realism.
First F.E. Warren Minutemen III Silo Decommissioned For New Sentinel Missiles
The Air Force has confirmed decommissioning of the first F.E. Warren Air Force Base Minutemen III silo to make way for new Sentinel missiles. It’s a huge milestone for the $141 billion nuclear modernization project, which begins in Wyoming.Renée Jean (Cowboy State Daily)
How's your experience with samba shares on Linux?
I have a samba share running on my server (just an Intel N100 Mini PC). It's running Fedora Atomic and my desktop is also running Fedora Atomic.
While it's good enough to watch videos on, reliability when it comes to uploading files to it has been very poor. The connection ends up timing out after a few minutes of uploading.
I found that using rsync to upload files to it has been a lot more reliable.
You might want to check sshfs but overall yes rsync works well. I just uploaded 200Go yesterday, no failure.
On my LAN if I want to share without downloading them then I rely on MiniDLNA/ReadyMedia for DLNA/UPnP meaning it works with VLC on desktop, obviously, Android video projectors, mobiles, etc.
Guess it depends on your usage but I stopped using Samba when I didn't have Windows machines on my network. Never looked back.
Poland not ready for consultations with Russia on drone incident — diplomat
Poland not ready for consultations with Russia on drone incident — diplomat
"This looks like a provocation or a misunderstanding, which the Polish side is not willing to clarify," Mikhail Ulyanov saidTASS
Gaza Famine Death Toll Rises to 420, Including 145 Children - Health Ministry
Gaza Famine Death Toll Rises to 420, Including 145 Children - Health Ministry
The total number of deaths from malnutrition amid the blockade and food supply crisis in the Gaza Strip has risen to 420 people, including 145 children, the Gaza health ministry said on Saturday.Sputnik International
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Attempts to harm ties with India will ‘fail’ – Moscow
Attempts to harm ties with India will ‘fail’ – Moscow
The Russian Foreign Ministry has told RT that cooperation with New Delhi is deepening despite Western threatsRT International
Ukrainians add 3-year-old child to state-backed ‘kill list’
Ukraine adds three-year-old to state-backed ‘kill list’
A Russian child has been added to Ukraine’s Mirotvorets database, which publishes the personal details of people it labels as ‘enemies’RT
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Western MSM isn't all that exists. Your (conspiracy-grade) bias is showing and it's quite embarrassing.
myrotvorets.center/criminal/de…
This shit is just so fucked up I don't even know what to say.. Anyone who supports Ukraine is a fucking fascist who needs to be shot like a rabid dog.
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New Multipolarity: The Russia–China–Iran Axis Forges an Alternative World Order
New Multipolarity: The Russia–China–Iran Axis Forges an Alternative World Order
The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, followed by the country’s grand military parade in Beijing, has paved the wayАббас Хашемит (New Eastern Outlook)
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The corporate media immediately ran with a narrative that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was ‘right-wing’
Let’s check in on that:
- Kirk’s killer lived with his transgender boyfriend
- He carved Antifa and LGBTQ slogans into his bullets
- His family calls him a ‘radical leftist’
- Top law enforcement officials call him a ‘Left-Wing Activist’
- His transgender boyfriend ‘hated Christians and conservatives’
- Co-workers confirm he was consumed with hatred for President Trump and Charlie Kirk
- He cut down the most powerful conservative voice of a generation
Now the media and leftists claim no one can ever know the motive!
No. The Left radicalized him. They weaponized him. And now they’re desperately trying to wash the blood off their hands.
When all of the evidence is published after court on Tuesday, the truth shall come to light.
More came out yesterday from family of the boyfriend: A family member of Lance Twiggs, who was the transgender “boyfriend” of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson says family cut ties with Twiggs due to his “hostility toward anyone supporting conservative or Christian values” and confirm Robinson lived with him.
I love how it's impossible to tell if you're a republican trying to smear the left or a centrist democrat trying to smear the left.
The anti-trans hate in the last paragraph doesn't remove any ambiguity.
Encryption at rest w.r.t. email
I use mailbox.org. Mailbox.org provides an "encrypted mailbox" feature, which PGP encrypts incoming unencrypted emails. The server can of course intercept incoming messages, but it can't look at the entire backlog unless it was compromised the entire time.
Alternatively, using POP3 instead of IMAP (at least with the default settings) deletes emails from the server after downloading, whenever my laptop is connected. Thus, the server can intercept incoming messages, but not the entire backlog.
Of course, both of these have downsides. The encrypted mailbox is PGP, so it misses important details like the subject lines and source addresses. Meanwhile, POP3 can leave my mail entirely unprotected for as long as I'm offline, and it also means that I can't access it from anything other than my laptop, and means that I have to do manual backups.
Which is more important in terms of security, or should I use both? I'm looking for the legal perspective of law enforcement (In Canada and Germany, home to myself and my email provider respectively), but also that of some hacker who's trying to get into my (and everyone else's) accounts.
Would there be a server software that I could use to download emails from mailbox.org over POP3 and then provide them to all my own devices over IMAP? That might, in some sense be the best of both worlds. Right now, I am using both POP3 and the encrypted mailbox, but convenience is definitely not optimal, so I'd like to change if it can be done safely.
If that's your concern, I would move to a zero-knowledge provider.
Edit: although you should remember that the email in transit is not encrypted, so am attacker could sit in front of your provider and read every message in plain text.
Do you know of any zero-knowledge providers that are both (a) trustworthy for my own purposes, and (b) unlikely to go to spam?
Like you said, the incoming messages aren't encrypted, so "zero-knowledge" is always sort of false advertising. Also, if I have to use some weird client, that isn't good. I do value convenience, especially for email; chasing diminishing returns just isn't worthwhile, and if possible I'd like to not use both, as I am now.
Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]
And all service providers/hosts around the world are expected to comply.
Here's one summary of the looming access control measures.
Reading and understanding all this (and the linked sources) feels so.. difficult, obtuse, complex.
https://www.dundaslawyers.com.au/australians-soon-facing-age-checks-when-viewing-adult-websites/
Bitlocker Encryption
Something I hardly see mentioned here is encryption for data such as on your PC. My modus operandi is to encrypt all the things. This is a little .bat script I came up with to lock all drives, except the C: drive, all in one click.
It resides on my desktop as an icon, and i can lock all drives in a couple seconds vs doing it drive by drive.
Not sure if anyone here could use it, but I thought I'd share. I am sure that some of you real coders here could fine tune it a bit, and I'd be open to suggestions.
@echo off
REM Script to lock multiple BitLocker drives with admin privileges
REM Check for administrative privileges
net session >nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
echo This script requires administrative privileges.
echo Requesting elevation...
REM Create a VBS script to trigger UAC prompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
cscript //nologo "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
del "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
exit /b
)
REM List of drives to lock
set drives=D: G: I: H: E: F: P: J:
REM Loop through each drive and lock it
for %%d in (%drives%) do (
echo Locking drive %%d...
manage-bde -lock %%d -ForceDismount
)
echo All specified drives have been locked.
pause
I would like to tell my story which led to me encrypting my PC hard drive, even if it' not a laptop.
I had a iMac, first it was from work but when I left the company I bought it ao I could keep it. When asked if I want to encrypt the drive while setting it up I denied because it's not a laptop so I didn't take it with me so it couldn't get stolen.
Until I woke up one day and this big iMac which was the center of my desk was suddenly gone, together with my Nikon camera, my external sound card and other electronics the thieves could grab quickly while I was snoring in the bedroom.
I didn't mind the hardware so much and I had backups of most of the things already anyway, but the feeling that they could mount the HDD and get all the data especially I was logged in to all websites and change my passwords, etc.
Since then I'm encrypting everything.
snoring in the bedroom.
I swear I read 'snoring in the bathroom', Picturing someone passed out in the tub snoring.
Fading Labubu frenzy wipes $16.7 billion from Pop Mart shares
Fading Labubu frenzy wipes $16.7 billion from Pop Mart shares
Pop Mart shares have lost almost US$13 billion – or a quarter of its value – since reaching a record on Aug 26. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Pro-Palestine actors use Emmy Awards platform to slam Gaza genocide
"it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state""I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide. I can't. It's as simple as that, and we shouldn't be able to do that. In this industry, and in any other industry,"
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I hate awards shows because of all the preaching these rich assholes do.
Still, I appreciate that they did this. (And still glad I didn't sit through it.)
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Bardem doesn't come across that way to me
Einbinder later told Variety that "it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state".
Einbinder seems pretty legit too
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Australia: Climate report reveals rising oceans threat
Millions of Australians are facing dire consequences caused by climate change, a landmark report has revealed.
Rising oceans and flooding caused by climate change will threaten the homes and livelihoods of over a million Australians by 2050, a report warned on Monday.
The National Climate Risk Assessment also warned that fatalities from heat-related illness will soar.
Australia will endure more frequent and extreme climate events, often happening simultaneously, which will put pressure on industry, services and infrastructure, the report found.
In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now. <-- you are here
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Francis Keany (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Korea’s major US investment projects halted as detained LG Energy workers set for release - KED Global
Samsung’s $17 billion new chip plant in Taylor aims to rein in TSMC
ELLABELL, Georgia – The South Korean government has secured the release of about 300 nationals detained following a raid by US authorities on an eleSang-eun Lucia Lee and In-Yeop Kim (KED Global)
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Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption
https://www.reuters.com/technology/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-tackle-corruption-2025-09-11/
'My wife died giving birth after Trump cut funding to our clinic'
For decades, America has been the largest donor to Afghanistan, and in 2024, US funds made up a staggering 43% of all aid coming into the country.The Trump administration has justified withdrawing it, saying there were "credible and longstanding concerns that funding was benefiting terrorist groups, including... the Taliban", who govern the country. The US government further added that they had reports stating that at least $11m were "being siphoned or enriching the Taliban".
The report that the US State Department referenced was made by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). It said that $10.9m of US taxpayer money had been paid to the Taliban-controlled government by partners of USAID in "taxes, fees, duties, or utilities".
The Taliban government denies that aid money was going into their hands.
BBC investigates Afghan maternal deaths after US aid cuts
The BBC hears devastating accounts of Afghan mothers and babies dying after US-backed clinics shut.Yogita Limaye (BBC News)
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Japan again makes no mention of Koreans' forced labor at Sado memorial event - The Korea Times
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/48702462
The Sado Mines, once famous as a gold mine in the 17th and 19th centuries, was mainly used to produce war supplies for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. More than 1,500 Koreans are reported to have been forced into labor at the mines from 1940-45.
Japan again makes no mention of Koreans' forced labor at Sado memorial event
Japan again made no mention of Koreans' forced labor during a ceremony Saturday commemorating victims of a World War II mine complex in the country...Yonhap (The Korea Times)
Farewell to the fediverse
Farewell to the fediverse
In December 2023, this blog joined the fediverse (pt_BR). Thanks to a WordPress plugin — the publishing platform used by Manual do Usuário — it became possible to follow updates here without leaving…Manual do Usuário
This does remind me that I wish that Fediverse clients would have RSS reader functionality built in by default. I have a sneaking suspicion some do and I just don't know how to use the feature. Effectively allowing people to "boost" aka repost with backlink RSS updates on a Fediverse client would enable most of what a blogger would want from the Fediverse, with the exception of receiving all the comments on the posts they share.
Bridgy does that, but then it is essentially just a mirror so it does have the server inefficiency of redundant hosting built in.
That you might say is the fundamental design decision of Activity pub, shifting the hosting burden from a single host to a distributed network of server instances. This enables a more robust network, with instances holding content the users have interacted with regardless of if the original host instance goes down. It also reduces time to load for content after it has beed federated to a user's local instance, assuming it is closer in proximity and capable enough. At the same time, this makes content ownership and control a challenge.
Functionally the Fediverse is a public commons with content ownership practically distributed across the network of instances, whether copyright says so or not. Attempts to impose universal author controls on this framework face a lot of dissonance because it is fundamentally at odds with the underlying concept of federation as distributed hosting. The minute a host begins hosting content over which they have no control (such as encrypted posts) the potential for abuse skyrockets.
Since the popularization of the Distributed Social Network concept I have wondered whether pre-existing content distribution infrastructure like RSS might not be more advantageous as a backbone for social networking, with the development load entirely shifted to the client side and away from protocols. The IndieWeb project is playing with some of these ideas, and I have seen some prototypes online of RSS based social networks, so my question is, what is the fundamental advantage of ActivityPub over the combination of these other existing protocols with longer histories and broader existing implementation? RSS, email, XMPP, etc. Is lower latency really a good enough justification for widely redundant data distribution?
This question becomes increasingly relevant when it comes to multimedia, and the minute that you offload multimedia to central servers by link embedding instead of hosting within the instance, boom you are back to the old centralized architecture and why are you federating?
So I am going to pose this question to the Fediverse myself, what is the reason that federated content distribution should be adopted for general use rather than distributed aggregation? That is to say of a client performed with the same features as a Fediverse front end, but all of the content was self-hosted and listed via RSS or Atom with comments handled via Webmention, direct messages via email or XMPP, and moderation handled at the level of aggregation via instances (meaning a user "joins" or "subscribes" to an instance, and that instance provides a ban list, list of feeds subscribed to by its users for discovery, provides a user directory) what would be the features that this type of system would lack that ActivityPub based systems have in place?
There are three advantages I see, and I'm not completely sure they justify mass adoption vs. the cost of broad redundancy of content and authorship issues.:
- Choosing local instance for faster loading, but this only is an advantage after content is brought in for the first time, in which case it actually is slower as first the instance has to pull the cintent and then serve it to the user.
- "all" content in the protocol is of the same type, allowing for easier interoperability between clients and services. I'm thinking this is the root of what most people will say is the big advantage of ActivityPub vs. older protocols, but I'd like to hear more about why this is enough of a reason to overcome the inertia of existing mass adoption and support of the alternatives.
- It isn't based in XML, and modern devs don't want to use XML. As I'm not a coder, I cant say how big an influence this has, but from what I have seen it seems to be a substantial factor. Can anyone explain why?
Some interesting thoughts - and questions - here. Seems you posted them in the wrong place, given the paltry response. Or possibly at the wrong time (i.e. 6 hours after the herd had moved on, a perennial problem with social media).
It isn’t based in XML, and modern devs don’t want to use XML. As I’m not a coder, I cant say how big an influence this has, but from what I have seen it seems to be a substantial factor. Can anyone explain why?
XML is space-inefficient with lots of redundancy, and therefore considered to be ugly. Coders tend to have tidy minds so these things take on an importance that they don't really merit. It's also just fashion: markup, like XML and HTML, is a thing of the 90s, so using them is the coder equivalent of wearing MC Hammer pants.
Thanks for clarifying, I figured fashion had at least something to do with it given the number of actively used protocols and services that still use it, XMPP being the one I use the most myself.
Even on XMPP I have seen several projects to "translate" the protocol into other languages (specifically Rust in one).
Efficiency makes sense, but then also the number of devs proficient in a language due to shifts in the emphasis of training and education is just as strong a force.
Blogs are already “social” by nature (comments)
Most Blogs require you to create an account and login to your specific blog. I ain't doin that. But if it appears in my feed on my account that I control, I might throw in my $0.02, which will improve engagement on your blog.
In practice, ActivityPub’s distributive nature replicates content across a multitude of servers (every server where someone follows the blog), which, while not catastrophic here, is at least inefficient.
I mean, that's kinda the point though, also. Any federated product will do the same.
Given that — and the fact that few people follow and almost nobody interacts via ActivityPub — I’ve been considering removing Manual from the fediverse for several months.
I mean, that's fair, but also, what is it costing you to keep it? You're greatly improving visibility of your blog.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says his home in West Bank raided by Israeli soldiers
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra said Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, searching for him and going through his wife’s phone.
Israeli settlers attacked his village, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Adra told The Associated Press. He accompanied them to the hospital. While there, he said that he heard from family in the village that nine Israeli soldiers had stormed his home.
The soldiers asked his wife, Suha, for his whereabouts and went through her phone while his 9-month-old daughter was home. They also briefly detained one of his uncles, he said.
Adra spent the night outside the village, unable to get home and check on his family because soldiers were blocking the village entrance and he was scared of being detained, he said.
Israel’s military said soldiers were in the village after Palestinians had thrown rocks, injuring two Israeli civilians. It said its forces were still in the village, searching the area and questioning people.
Adra said settlers attacked the Palestinians on their land and denied throwing rocks or seeing anyone from the village do so.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-basel-adra-home-raided-4241522d2aed9fd95b28eba361e45c38
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I think everyone should watch No Other Land.
It gets a little tough in spots (nothing NSFW) but it's important.
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Been avoiding it because I don't want to just cry. I literally cried during Superman when the little kid was raising the flag. Trying to stay quiet in the theater. It just reminded me of so much.
I know everything that's in it. I've started 5/7 days of every week, for the last two years, listening to Amy Goodman (Democracy now) tell me what awful things happened the nights before.
I just avoid visuals now. After the call of the 9 year old in the car I don't think anything beyond that is anything useful to "make me understand". I don't think it does anything but disable me for some time. The story of the pregnant women dead from an attack as the doctors tried to save her child. My wife was 7 months pregnant then.
I'm a stay at home parent with a kid right now. Lost my job at Microsoft because I spoke up about it's support of genocide. I can get to a protest or picket line every couple weeks when my wife can watch our kid.
I just think for some of us that more witness of suffering is just disabling and no longer effective. Maybe I'll watch it with my daughter someday. Gaza has defined a lot of my love and appreciation for her.
Rupert Murdoch's real-life 'Succession' battle just ended in a multibillion-dollar deal that keeps Fox News, Wall Street Journal conservative | Fortune
Rupert Murdoch’s real-life ‘Succession’ battle just ended in a multibillion-dollar deal that keeps Fox News, Wall Street Journal conservative
The future of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal were at stake.Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)
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Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When residents of Equatorial Guinea’s Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company, they didn’t expect the swift end to their internet access.
Dozens of the signatories and residents were imprisoned for nearly a year, while internet access to the small island has been cut off since then, according to several residents and rights groups.
Local residents interviewed by The Associated Press left the island in the past months, citing fear for their lives and the difficulty of life without internet.
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Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 315 miles (507 kilometers) from Equatorial Guinea’s coast, Annobón is one of the country’s poorest islands and one often at conflict with the central government. With a population of around 5,000 people, the island has been seeking independence from the country for years as it accuses the government of disregarding its residents.
Wow that island is beautiful. I say we get a gofundme going to help them achieve independence. And if they want to also let me immigrate there from the U.S. afterwards, I’m not going to say no.
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I think I went on a rabbit hole reading about this island online awhile back. IIRC they speak creole Portuguese, while EG speaks Spanish, and have been punished by the government for wanting independence for years. This Internet shutdown is just a drastic and recent punishment.
It does seem like a nice life there. But very different than what we in the west are accustomed to. They lack many basic necessities, there's shortages of everything that's imported.
It would be important to not be a burden to the community. Starlink isn't available there, so I'm not sure of another way to work remotely from there. And unless you have a skill they would benefit from, you might be a strain on a community already stretching it's resources. But I do see the appeal of an island like annobón.
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UK PM Starmer says people have a right to 'peaceful protest' after anti-migrant march
LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people have a right to peaceful protest after more than 100,000 demonstrators joined an anti-immigration march through London on Saturday, but he condemned assaults on police and said Britain was built on tolerance and diversity.
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson organised a march attended by around 110,000 people on Saturday. Police said 26 officers were injured, while it made an initial 25 arrests with more expected to follow.
"People have a right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country's values," Starmer said on X on Sunday.
"But we will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin."
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Oh yeah a 'peaceful protest' where dozens of police are injured including broken bones and missing teeth.
But somone sprsying paint on a plane is terrorism.
Pot breaks as Nigerian chef attempts to cook largest jollof rice dish
The giant pot in which Nigerian chef and former Guinness World Record holder Hilda Baci attempted to make the world's largest dish of jollof rice has broken as it was being hoisted on a crane to be weighed.
Thousands of people gathered in Lagos to watch the latest world record bid from the well-known food influencer, who in 2023 held the title for the longest cooking marathon.
Her recipe for jollof, a popular West African dish, included 4,000kg (8,800lb) of rice, 500 cartons of tomato paste and 600kg of onions - all poured into a custom-made pot that can hold 23,000 litres.
Hilda Baci: Pot breaks as Nigerian chef attempts to cook largest jollof rice dish
Hilda Baci and a team of assistants took nine hours to complete the popular West African dish.Yang Tian (BBC News)
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“A piece of cloth in the bathroom, I can’t complain... what did we do wrong?” Detained workers say 'human rights violation'
“화장실엔 천 조각 하나, 항의도 못 해…우리가 뭘 잘못했나”
허리와 손이 한데 묶여 물을 마시려면 고개를 숙여 핥아야 했다. 가림막 없는 화장실에는 하체를 가릴 천 하나가 놓여 있을 뿐이었다. 주먹만 한 구멍 틈새로 햇볕은 거의 들지 않았고, 단 두시간 조그만 마당에 나가는 것만 허용됐다. 여드레를 미국 이민 당국에 구금당한 노한겨레
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"Only a Piece of Cloth in the Bathroom, Couldn't Even Protest...What Did We Do Wrong?"
'Human Rights Violations' as Told by Detained Workers
By Cho Hae-young, Jang Jong-woo, Seo Young-ji, Lee Seung-wook
Modified 2025-09-14 22:16, Published 2025-09-14 18:39
With their waists and hands bound together, they had to bow their heads and lap up water to drink. In the bathroom without partitions, there was only a single piece of cloth to cover their lower body. Barely any sunlight came through the fist-sized holes, and they were only allowed to go out to a small yard for just two hours. The workers and their families, who were detained by U.S. immigration authorities for eight days, expressed shock as they recounted unimaginable human rights violations and absurdities they never could have imagined experiencing as ordinary Korean citizens in 2025.
As 330 workers who had been detained during an illegal immigration crackdown at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solution joint battery factory in Georgia returned on the 12th, accounts of human rights violations experienced during detention have been emerging one after another. According to their testimonies on the 14th, the detention facilities completely failed to meet the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) in areas including hygiene, external communication, the right to appeal, and situation explanations.
The arrest process itself was absurd. Without even basic explanations such as reading Miranda rights, no one could properly understand the situation. Mr. Seo, a 40-something employee of an LG Energy Solution partner company, said, "I didn't even know I was being arrested. I thought it was just an identity verification procedure, but then they told me to sign some documents." The family of another partner company employee, Mr. G (48), said, "They noticed the word 'arrest' on the documents and whispered that they probably shouldn't sign it, but since the agents were carrying guns, they ended up signing anyway." Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents collected personal items like cell phones in "onion net" bags, then bound the workers' arms and legs with chains, and when those ran out, they used cable ties to restrain the workers.
Workers were initially packed into temporary facilities housing 72 people per room. According to a worker's detention diary reported by Yonhap News that day, bunk beds were lined up, and the mattresses were moldy. Basic items like toothpaste, toothbrushes, and blankets were only provided on the second day of detention. Workers wrapped themselves in towels to ward off the cold. The water had an odor, so many workers only moistened their lips with it, and throughout the detention period, they were only provided with canned beans and toast as food.
On the 3rd to 4th day of detention, workers were gradually assigned to two-person cells. These were about 4.96 square meters (1.5 pyeong) in size with bunk beds and a metal desk. The biggest problem was the bathroom. In the shared space, the toilet was "open" with only a single piece of cloth to cover the lower body. Partner company worker Cho Young-hee (44) said, "Human rights were particularly not guaranteed when it came to bodily functions. It was impossible to use the open bathroom." For the workers, going out to the "yard" for two hours a day was the only time they could see sunlight. The yard was a narrow courtyard about half the size of a basketball court.
Mr. G conveyed his feelings at the time to Hankyoreh through his family, expressing that the sense of helplessness was overwhelming - being unable to even protest against incomprehensible treatment. Mr. G's family said, "He said that in a situation where he couldn't understand what he had done so wrong to deserve such inhumane imprisonment, the reality that no one apologized deeply affected him." Even when South Korean consular officials visited the detainees, workers' complaints continued: "What did we do wrong? Shouldn't this be thoroughly investigated to the end?" The unexpected situation they encountered at a construction site they had gone to build at the request of U.S. investment only heightened their fear.
Lee Seong-hoon, Vice President of the Korean Human Rights Association (adjunct professor at Sungkonghoe University's Graduate School of Civic Peace), said, "Looking at the testimonies so far regarding the arrest process, forcibly confining dozens of people in one room, and providing poor bathroom facilities and food, there appear to be several aspects that don't meet international standards for the treatment of detainees. While the U.S. tends not to pay much attention to such matters, from our perspective, it's possible to raise issues from a human rights dimension."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, "From the early stages of the incident, the government has continuously expressed regret to the U.S. side and raised the point that our citizens' rights and interests should not be unfairly violated during the law enforcement process. While some of our requests were accepted and improved, such as limited external phone calls and health checks by medical staff stationed at detention facilities, we will closely examine together with the relevant companies whether there were any inadequate aspects, and whether there were any unfair violations of our citizens' human rights or other interests, and take necessary measures."
Cho Hae-young Reporter hycho@hani.co.kr, Jang Jong-woo Reporter whddn3871@hani.co.kr, Lee Seung-wook Reporter eugwookl@hani.co.kr, Seo Young-ji Reporter yj@hani.co.kr
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The Netherlands will withdraw from 2026 Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete
Netherlands will boycott 2026 Eurovision if Israel participates, says broadcaster
Dutch broadcast company AVROTROS has announced that the Netherlands will boycott the 2026 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is allowed to compete.NL Times
You mean the same Jerry Seinfeld who was "dating" a 17-year-old high school student when he was 39? The one who was on TV a quarter of a century ago?
Because that dude can fuck himself.
This is what solidarity looks like
This is what solidarity looks like
Part 2 of "Decentralization" and Erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphereJon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
I do think some kind of separation of user data from servers, like what AT Proto does, is actually quite desirable.
Curious as well to see how Blacksky develops, having that split would be useful.
I just don’t like that PDSes can have their data harvested by whoever, I think data sharing with a server should be opt-in.
Same
Also agreed that sharing should be opt-in (and here on fedi as well).
In terms of Blacksky's approach to private data, Rudy shared this earlier today blog.smokesignal.events/posts/… ... the working group on private data is having its first meeting this week, and there are a couple of other proposals as well, so it'll be interesting to see how things converge. Bluesky has said they're going to add it to the protocol but the timeframe isn't clear. My guess is people will go ahead with off-protocil implementations initally and plan to adapt once it's standardized (famous last words).
ATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views
ATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views posted by @smokesignal.events on 2025-08-01 18:00 UTCNick Gerakines (Smoke Signal)
U.S. Deputy State Secretary Landau expresses regrets over detention of S. Koreans | Yonhap News Agency
According to Seoul’s foreign ministry, Landau conveyed his deep regrets over the detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in an immigration crackdown earlier this month at an electric vehicle battery plant construction site for a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution in Bryan County, Georgia.
A total of 316 South Korean workers returned home Friday, after being held in a detention center for a week.
U.S. Deputy State Secretary Landau expresses regrets over detention of S. Koreans
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. state department official on Sunday ex...Yoo Jee-ho (Yonhap News Agency)
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You will never see them come back again. This is gonna cost billions for the us.
I will have popcorn and laugh.
silly liberal, those aren't people /s
But seriously no, and no one of relevance ever will. We live in the bad place.
There absolutely is justification for violence, political or otherwise.
Blessed are they who praise peace, for they shall bury the peacemakers.
the post I had commented this on was deleted so I'm going to put it here for no reason.
I hold the following opinions:
- political violence is probably a bad idea. this is for multiple reasons, one of which being that it usually doesn't create the intended effects.
- charlie kirk might have been the worst piece of shit commentator of that era. i'm glad he shut the fuck up.
- there are a lot of political commentators like him. the benefit of having one less of them is overshadowed by the detriment of the reaction to a political assassination.
- his family is the absolute least of my concerns. i don't think about them at all.
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