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Trump vows peace in Middle East 'one way or the other'


They rape, they kill, they plunder, they burn

They make a desert and they call it peace

(Tacitus)
in reply to keyboardpithecus

You ain't getting your Nobel Peace Prize diaper boy.

Obama will always be better than you.




Chinese deal activity in US slumps to lowest level in 17 years


US merger and acquisition investment from China has totalled just $221mn so far this year, representing the slowest pace of investment since 2006, according to data from Dealogic. The total at this point last year was $3.4bn.

The figure contrasts with growing investment into mainland China and highlights the impact of geopolitics on a previously booming cross-border financial sector that for years provided a bridge for Chinese businesses into lucrative western markets.

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Chinese outbound M&A has shown signs of growth in other parts of the world, such as in Peru, where Italian utility company Enel this year sold assets to China’s Southern Power Grid International for $2.9bn in the biggest outbound deal of the year. The next three largest deals were in Singapore.

But the total of just under $12.2bn invested so far this year contrasts with the tens of billions of dollars invested annually for the decade prior to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2016, China’s full-year outbound M&A peaked at $212bn, while in 2019 it was $54bn.

https://archive.is/2WDWm



Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children killed by Israeli genocide


Omar Ahmed Abdel Naser Shamlakh 8 October 2023

Omar lived in an apartment in a big pink house in Sheikh Eljeen in south-west Gaza. Three families occupied the house, which consisted of two floors containing four apartments. He was the youngest of 10 victims across three generations of the same family that was killed in an Israeli airstrike. “The whole family was buried under the rubble,” Waf’a Shamlakh, Omar’s UK-based cousin, told the Independent. “They only found two whole bodies. The others were in parts or unrecognisable.” Of Omar and his two-year-old brother Abdel, who was also killed, Shamlakh said: “They were just starting their lives, they still had dreams.” Read more.

Nahedh Mohammed Adel Ramez Barbakh 25 January 2024

Nahedh was hit by sniper fire alongside his 20-year-old brother, Ramez, as they followed Israeli military orders to evacuate an area west of Khan Younis. According to a witness interviewed by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Nahedh was carrying a white flag to lead the way for his family, but after walking just a few steps from the house he was hit in the leg by a bullet. As the teenager attempted to turn back home he was shot in the back and head, the witness said. Ramez was shot through the heart when he tried to rescue his brother.

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[Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières] MSF denounces killing of 14th staff member in Gaza


The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying themselves as medical humanitarian workers.
in reply to RandAlThor

It is shameful that global news organizations are deliberately ignoring these war crimes by Israeli forces, treating them as not news worthy.


in reply to Severus_Snape

Reports circulating on social media – difficult to independently verify – claim that more than 11 Hamas members were killed, with some of their bodies dragged through the streets.


I hate this so much: why would Palestinian journalism be more "difficult to independently verify" than Israeli journalism?

Yeah, I need a better article about this incident.

in reply to A_norny_mousse

I hate this so much: why would Palestinian journalism be more “difficult to independently verify” than Israeli journalism?


BBC has experienced journalists inside Israel. They aren't allowed into Gaza.

The BBC has asked to be allowed inside Gaza, but Israel refused:

bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/sho…

reutersagency.com/media-centre…

They are forced to rely on social media and free lancers.

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in reply to A_norny_mousse

It's a war zone. Independent verification doesn't depend on the news outlet being verified. It's access by the outlet doing the verification.




Myanmar: At least 24 killed as paraglider bombs Buddhist festival


At least 24 people were killed and 47 others wounded while protesting against Myanmar's military government after a motorised paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd, a spokesperson for the government-in-exile told BBC Burmese. The military attacked on Monday evening as around 100 people gathered in Chaung U township in central Myanmar for a national holiday.

Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since 2021, when the army seized power, triggering a civil war with armed resistance groups and ethnic militias. After losing control of more than half the country, the army is making significant gains again, through an especially bloody campaign of airstrikes and heavy bombardment.

International sanctions over the past few years have made it harder for Myanmar's military rulers to procure military equipment. However, advanced drones and military technology supplied by China and Russia have given the junta a new edge on the battlefield, according to analysts.


in reply to RandAlThor

Meanwhile, Britain's government and the police on Friday urged organizers of a planned pro-Palestinian protest in London this weekend to cancel or postpone the event.


Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestine people is driving up antisemitism world wide.

There's more reason than ever to get on the streets and demand Netanyahu and his corrupt regimen to be brought to justice for their crimes against humanity.

in reply to RandAlThor

Good god. Are British police as bad as American cops now?
in reply to RandAlThor

Without more context it's hard to pass judgement. Were the victims hit by pass-through shots on the attacker or a wall? Did the firearms officer straight up miss? Were they using their handgun or their carbine?

The real difference will be if they hold the firearms officer accountable, for negligence if nothing else.



Drone sightings prompt call for German police to gain shoot-down powers


Drone sightings overnight at Germany's Munich airport led to the cancellation and diversion of dozens of flights on the eve of a national holiday, leaving nearly 3,000 passengers stranded and leading politicians to call for a tougher response to drone threats, potentially including shooting them down.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/drone-sightings-disrupt-munich-airport-halt-flights-impact-thousands-2025-10-03/

in reply to Sahwa

We have lots of rules about drone flight now (at least here in the US) - but also no consensus method of enforcement.

It's bizarre, and must be temporary. It's like having speed limits but no method in place for pulling people over.



Police Accidentally Shot and Killed a Victim During Manchester Terrorist Attack


Officials said that one of the men killed at the Heaton Park Congregation synagogue in northwestern England had been hit by police gunfire.


So apparently 50% of the deadly wounded were killed by police, not the terrorist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/uk-manchester-synagogue-attack.html

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in reply to theolodis

Better headline: Police shoot indiscriminately and kill one person while injuring two others.
in reply to theolodis

The Good guy with a gun caused more damage than the actual attacker.

My prediction is people will be blind to the irony and no lessons will be learned.




Discussion: Your recent privacy wins?


Have you had any privacy wins recently? Anything you've tried or tweaked to improve your privacy? Anyone who's listened to something you've said? Do you have any privacy enhancing projects or changes you're working on implementing

I managed to convert someone to Signal this week. Was having reception difficulties with a phone call (both of us in spotty areas) and after a drop out, managed to get them on board with Signal. A very notable quality improvement in the call which helped reinforce to them it was a good idea.

I'm going to work on setting up Pihole over the weekend.

Note: I did steal this topic idea from Techlore.

in reply to cdzero

My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I'm going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s... with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.

No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.

I'll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I'm not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.

Fuck big Tech, I'll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.

in reply to cdzero

I stopped using Spotify last year, and recently dug my old ipod out of the drawer. Listening to music without an Internet connection and all the spyware is so liberating. If you have an ipod or other old mp3 player, try it out again!



First female Archbishop appointed to lead Church of England


Sarah Mullally will become the first female leader when she officially takes charge of the church in March 2026. A group of conservative Anglican churches across Africa and Asia criticized the appointment.

in reply to return2ozma

This one probably will happen.

The reason is that there are certain fields where you have to sift through massive amounts of data to find the thing you're looking for. This is an ideal task for machine learning. It's not going to replace real scientists, and it sure as hell shouldn't replace peer review. It's a tool with a use.

As one example, the longest known black hole jet was recently discovered using ML techniques: caltech.edu/about/news/gargant…

in reply to return2ozma

Fyi, "AI" has been used in medicine research for decades. GenAI is the one that's wonky. I'd be surprised and sceptical of any researcher that would suggest genAI as the star tool when there are so many predictive ML models that already work so well...


Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet



in reply to MicroWave

They seem to know whose drones they are but they keep refusing to say who it is. Governments just deciding to withold information thats in the public interest is pretty abysmal, but its the norm now.
in reply to kreskin

It's Russia. They have been disrupting airports and intruding in several countries' airspaces.


The Guardian, largest non-profit newspaper in the world, publishes it's 2024/2025 annual report


  • Total revenue is £275.9m, up from £257.8m in 2023
  • The newspaper has improved its financial performances but is still losing money. Cash outflow was £24.3 million this year, down from £36.5m
  • The number of Guardian supporters increased by 150,000 people in a single year. It has now reached 1.3 million people, with growth in every region of the world.

Guardian editor Katharine Viner said:

“At a time when media freedom is under threat, we’re growing our global operation with rigorous, independent journalism that is freely available to all. The Guardian is now supported by more than 1.3 million readers around the world. It’s a remarkable number and testament to our powerful relationship with our audience, our strategy of continuous innovation and how much our readers care about Guardian journalism.”

Full report: uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/09/11/…

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FIFA Council takes no action against Israel


in reply to Samskara

Russia is currently suspended from official FIFA and UEFA matches.

bbc.com/sport/football/article…

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk

It's been 3 and a half years.

If you don't give bad organisations credit when they do something right, why would they ever do it again?

in reply to Samskara

They ban federations on political interference regularly.

Killing your other opponents' team is optional apparently...


in reply to Severus_Snape

Seriously India, how many times do you have to let this happen before creating some laws? It's not like you need to invent stuff, we've got this problem mostly solved..
in reply to Tar_Alcaran

Even SK had a crush event not too long ago. India probably has laws, but they get flaunted very easily by corruption of police, inspectors etc


in reply to Severus_Snape

This is actually bad news.

Don't get me wrong. Joseph Kabila was a vicious kleptocrat who ruled Congo for too long.

But what makes him a truly extraordinary figure is that after mass protests and international pressure, he said he was ready to voluntarily resign. Most African leaders would rather burn their country to the ground rather than resign.

The international community and his successor promised Joseph Kabila that would not be prosecuted. So Kabila decided to leave office. There was an incredibly peaceful transition of power. No one imagined it would be possible in Africa.

There is one law that all political scientists agree about : Monarchies are the political systems the most likely to transition to democracies.

Why ? Because a powerful monarch like King Abdullah of Jordan can give up political power. He will keep his bodyguards, his big salary, his cars, his palaces. He will see no changes to his lifestyle.

Presidents like Vladimir Putin or Abdelfattah Sisi can't do that. If they give up power, it's over 💀

If dictators know that leaving power means their death, they will fight to death rather than resign.

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in reply to Severus_Snape

So... Because we have a massive wanker at the top, we must not disturb him and his disgusting lifestyle, otherwise it could turn him into a killer. And that's why he can keep the big salary and palaces.

That's not a good advertisement for monarchy. I wish I had free money and a big house while sitting on my ass. I promise I won't kill anyone.

in reply to 6nk06

If violent dictators can't trust that you're making a deal for peaceful resolution in good faith, then a lot of people are going to die to achieve that transition. If the only way out is death, they're going to take as many people with them as possible. Is that worth it, just to kill one rich guy?

Peaceful transitions of power always involve compromises. Here, they agreed to spare his life in exchange for the future lives of countless citizens. If they didn't want to agree to those conditions, they shouldn't have made the deal. It just makes it harder for this situation to play out peacefully in the future.

in reply to Severus_Snape

Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko overthrown by Laurent Kabila.

Laurent Kabila assassinated.

Laurent's son Joseph becomes corrupt leader.





What Happened with Proton Mail and Journalist Accounts


in reply to Meldrik

i've been trying to de-google myself for years and i regret trying to port everything to proton.



in reply to chobeat

New study sheds light on what kinds of workers are losing jobs to AI

AI Kills Jobs, Stanford Study Finds, Especially For Young People

digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp…

(update: same list with better specs)

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in reply to ekZepp

What explains the depressing job market — most starkly illustrated in a viral chart on X, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing the number of position openings cratering since ChatGPT was released? And what about early career jobs, which seem scarce these days, to the chagrin of recent graduates?

Some think that the softening in the job market should instead be attributed to the US Federal Reserve putting a kibosh to the era of zero interest-rate policy in 2022. Before it ended, companies borrowed massive amounts of capital at cheap rates and plowed them into high-risk startups — thereby inflating assets, making lots of millionaires, and fueling a gold rush of well-paying tech positions. (Squint at that chart in the previous paragraph and it does seem to support this thesis, with the decline in openings coinciding more cleanly with the interest rate hike than the release of ChatGPT.)

As for early career positions decreasing, some experts think the phenomenon predates ChatGPT and could be a sign that there are simply more college graduates than there are early career jobs where a higher degree is a must, along with other structural changes.

And there are the headlines, which are littered with stories of people getting laid off due to AI — but maybe that’s a function of some CEOs jumping the gun and buying into the hype even though AI still leaves much to be desired in practice. That’s reflected in the uneven adoption of AI across industrial sectors.

While generative AI looks likely to join the ranks of transformative, general purpose technologies,” the Yale study reads, “It is too soon to tell how disruptive the technology will be to jobs.

in reply to chobeat

anyone with 1/4 of a brain knows this.

but the vast majority of the population, including our leadership, are mostly brainless hype drunk monkeys.

AI really isn't that useful.

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in reply to TubularTittyFrog

I think it can be valuable. But not how it exists now, and definitely not with how much energy it requires. If we do get it to the level where we all have our own Jarvis that would be sick. Can't be in the corpos hands tho...
in reply to TubularTittyFrog

I use it at work when im having a hard time getting started on a project, because I'll want to yell at it and tell it how its wrong, and how i can do it better.


in reply to chobeat

Surprisingly, they found that the rate of change in the labor market’s makeup in the wake of AI closely matches the pace when computers and the internet were first taking off. In other words, AI doesn’t appear to be more disruptive than those two technologies


Possibly two of the most disruptive technologies in the last 100 years. Who writes this shit?



in reply to bungle_in_the_jungle

Signal isn’t part of the fediverse.

Element X (Matrix) is.

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in reply to UniversalApproximation

It’s my understanding that something is only part of the Fediverse if it can communicate with the ActivityPub protocol. Something that the Matrix protocol cannot.

Matrix is federated though, but with another protocol. Element X uses Matrix.



Hacker group Black Mirror releases first batch of Rostec files detailing Russia’s international military deals and sanctions evasion schemes


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The hacker collective Black Mirror has released the first portion of an archive of documents from the Russian state defense corporation Rostec. The tranche contains more than 300 items. The materials detail Russia’s military and technical cooperation with foreign clients, pricing for military items, and logistics schemes aimed at evading sanctions. The published documents also include internal correspondence, presentations on overseas helicopter service centers, and agreements with international partners.

The files show that Russian companies have faced difficulties receiving payments for contracts with Algeria, Egypt, China, and India. Russian banks have been unable to issue guarantees or conduct transactions through the SWIFT system, forcing them to search for alternative settlement schemes in yuan, rubles, and euros.

The archive also contains information about an international network of service centers for Russian helicopter equipment. The documents describe existing and planned maintenance facilities in the UAE, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and other countries. Particular attention is paid to the creation of an international regional logistics hub in Dubai, near Al Maktoum Airport, designed as a central node for supplying spare parts and components.

Among the materials is a letter from the Rostec holding company Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (CRET) on pricing for military products in export contracts. The document proposes a simplified formula for setting wholesale prices, profit margins, transport expenses, and currency risks. It also discusses possible legal changes to allow more flexible use of revenues from military-technical cooperation.

The hackers said this is only the first portion of the Rostec archive, which they are releasing in what they called “fuck off exposure” mode. Black Mirror claims the documents include a list of “reliable trading partners” in several countries.

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Spanish prosecutor closes investigation into major manufacturer Maxam, whose Russian plants continue producing explosives despite EU ban


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43400129

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Spain’s public prosecutor has closed a pretrial investigation into MaxamCorp International S.L. that was opened after a report by The Insider exposed the company’s Russian factories, which continue to produce explosives despite Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian antiwar activists living in Spain filed a complaint that prompted the probe in June. Three months later, the prosecutor at Spain’s National Court dropped the investigation, despite the factories not halting their operations.

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In the decision declining to press charges [...] the prosecutor, without citing specific sources, said Maxam did not export explosive substances to Russia in 2024-2025 and that in 2024 the company lost control of its Russian subsidiaries.

The Insider asked an independent sanctions-compliance lawyer to comment on the prosecutor’s ruling.

Alex Prezanti, [an independent sanctions-compliance lawyer and] co-executive director of the nonprofit State Capture Accountability Project (SCAP), said the prosecutor examined the evidence selectively:

“In his decision to close the investigation against Maxam International, the Spanish prosecutor appears to have only examined events in 2024-2025 — once Maxam had lost control of its Russian subsidiaries. However, the complaint and the Insider's reporting also allege that Maxam International provided its Russian subsidiaries with materials and intellectual property for the production of explosives between 2022 and 2023.

The reporting also alleges that in 2023, Maxam appears to have accepted dividends on profits accrued by its subsidiaries in Russia from a direct supplier to the Russian military industrial complex. It is therefore unfortunate, in my opinion, that the Spanish prosecutor omitted the events of 2022-2023 from his examination. Whilst I have not seen enough evidence to conclude whether there was criminal conduct, on the face of it these allegations would justify a full investigation to determine whether Maxam International broke the law during the first two years of Russia's full scale invasion.”

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Maxam has operated in Russia since 1999 through four subsidiaries: the management company Maxam Rusia LLC ((ООО «Максам Русия»), along with three explosives plants — “High-Tech Initiation Systems” JSC (AO “VSI”) in the Samara Region, “Eastern Mining Services” LLC (ООО «ИМС») in the northern Murmansk Region, and YUII-Sibir LLC (ООО «ЮИИ-Сибирь») in Krasnoyarsk Krai in central Siberia. The ultimate owner of those firms was Spain’s MaxamCorp International S.L.

All three production sites continued operating after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Ukraine criticises proposed law banning promotion of Ukrainian nationalist ideology in Poland


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50147549

The episode marks the latest flashpoint in long-standing tensions between Poland and Ukraine – two otherwise close allies – over wartime history, and in particular the massacre of around 100,000 ethnic Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.

In Poland, those events, known as the Volhynia massacres, have been officially recognised as an act of genocide. However, Ukraine rejects the use of that term. It also still venerates many UPA and OUN figures as national heroes, prompting criticism from Poland and Israel.




How Gen Z is taking the fight for their rights from TikTok to the streets


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50147181