Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
This is not about me or the others from the flotilla. There are thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of whom are children, who are being held without trial right now, and many of them are most likely being tortured, says Greta Thunberg.
What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.
When I’m about to get off the boat, there are a bunch of police officers waiting for me. They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me.
Greta Thunberg describes how she is dragged to a paved area fenced in with iron fences. This is a protracted scene that lasts for over six hours, according to Greta, and is confirmed by several participants in the flotilla that Aftonbladet talks to.
It was kind of dystopian. I saw maybe 50 people sitting in a row on their knees with handcuffs and their foreheads against the ground. They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little Wh0re) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Wh0re Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.
The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that.
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla arLisa Röstlund (Aftonbladet)
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Candace Owens: Australia’s high court backs minister’s decision to deny visa to US rightwinger
Home affairs minister’s 2024 decision to reject visa application for planned speaking tour on character grounds upheld
Australia’s high court has unanimously backed the government’s 2024 decision to refuse the rightwing provocateur Candace Owens a visa to enter the country.
The full bench of the court ruled on Wednesday that the minister’s denial did not infringe an implied constitutional freedom of political communication.
Last October the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, refused Owens’ visa application before a planned national speaking tour, arguing that she had the “capacity to incite discord”.
Burke said at the time the US conservative influencer and podcast host, who has advanced conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric – including allegedly minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration camps – did not pass the “character test” to receive a visa under the Migration Act.
Candace Owens: Australia’s high court backs government decision to deny visa to US rightwinger
Court supports home affairs minister’s 2024 decision to reject visa application for planned speaking tour on character groundsAmanda Meade (The Guardian)
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another social network?
Luxembourg-based social network Monnett launches to ‘reclaim online space’ from Big Tech
The platform aims to give people control over their feeds, without ads, tracking or algorithm-driven contentLucrezia REALE (Luxembourg Times)
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This looks more like another instagram clone rather than Facebook. Building a following of strangers rather than a network of people you actually know.
I've yet to see a proper alternative (fediverse or not) to the way Facebook originally helped to keep connected to friends and family. To plan events. To keep your posts only visible to your friends. That's the part that is hard to give up.
(Yes, I know friendica is supposed to be the fediverse answer to that. But it's really not accomplished that yet. It's just a skin over mastodon.)
Anticipazioni Uominiedonne 14/10/25. La tronista Sara Gaudenzi frega un corteggiatore a Cristiana Aniana
Approfondiamo le ultime anticipazioni delle nuove registrazioni di Uomini e Donne, che promettono un sorprendente colpo di scena nel trono classico.
#Anticipazioni Uomini e Donne: Sara Gaudenzi conquista un corteggiatore conteso
Martedì 14 ottobre 2025 si sono svolte le recenti registrazioni del popolare dating show di Maria De Filippi, in onda su Canale 5. Le novità riguardano sia il trono classico sia il trono over, portando con sé momenti di tensione e sviluppo nei sentimenti dei protagonisti.
Anticipazioni sulle registrazioni di Uomini e Donne
Durante le registrazioni, Jakub Bakkour è stato nuovamente invitato nello studio. Dopo la sua scelta di eliminarsi nella puntata precedente e la decisione di Cristiana Anania di non inseguirlo, la situazione ha avuto un inaspettato cambio di rotta. Sara Gaudenzi, la nuova tronista del trono classico, ha espresso il desiderio di conoscerlo meglio e lo ha fatto rientrare nel programma. Jakub ha accettato subito, provocando qualche polemica che potrebbe creare rivalità tra le due troniste. Di Flavio Ubirti e delle sue corteggiatrici non è stato fatto alcun accenno durante la registrazione, che si è poi concentrata sui partecipanti del trono over.
#Federico e Agnese: nuovi sviluppi nel trono over
Passando alle storie del trono over, si riapre il capitolo legato a Gemma Galgani. La dama torinese, decisa a farsi valere, è tornata a puntare il dito contro Mario Lenti. Dopo un aspro confronto al centro dello studio, Mario ha rivelato di non desiderare nemmeno un rapporto amichevole con Gemma, criticando la sua incoerenza nell’alternare complimenti e critiche.
Un’altra storia interessante riguarda Federico Mastrostefano, che ha scelto di riprendere il rapporto con Agnese De Pasquale, lasciando da parte la precedente decisione di chiudere ogni possibilità di conoscenza. Secondo le anticipazioni, Federico avrebbe dichiarato di sentirsi coinvolto per circa il 75% nella relazione. La registrazione si è poi conclusa con la prima sfilata femminile di questa edizione, che ha visto Agnese conquistare la vittoria.
Biografia Sara Gaudenzi nuova tronista di Uominiedonne - Il Blog di Uomini e Donne
Conosciamo meglio adesso la nuova tronista di Uominiedonne che lo ricordiamo essere la ex corteggiatrice del tronista Flavio Ubirti, a cui Maria deIl Blog di Uomini e Donne
Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites
Major Security Flaws Found in Satellite Communications
Researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed that nearly half of geostationary satellite signals transmit unencrypted data, exposing sensitive communications from telecom networks, military operations, and critical infrastructure1.
Using just $800 in off-the-shelf equipment - a satellite dish, roof mount, motor and tuner card - the team intercepted vast amounts of unprotected data over three years from their San Diego location2. Their findings included:
- T-Mobile cellular network traffic, including over 2,700 phone numbers and one-sided call/text content captured in just 9 hours2
- U.S. military vessel communications and Mexican military/law enforcement data, including helicopter locations and narcotics intelligence2
- Critical infrastructure communications from power grids and offshore oil platforms3
- In-flight WiFi data from 10 different airlines2
"It just completely shocked us. There are some really critical pieces of our infrastructure relying on this satellite ecosystem, and our suspicion was that it would all be encrypted," said Aaron Schulman, UCSD professor who co-led the research2.
After being notified, some companies like T-Mobile quickly added encryption, while others, including certain U.S. critical infrastructure operators, have yet to secure their systems3.
The researchers estimate they accessed only 15% of global satellite transponders from their single location, suggesting the vulnerability's true scope is far larger2. Johns Hopkins professor Matt Green noted: "The fact that this much data is going over satellites that anyone can pick up with an antenna is just incredible"2.
- SATCOM Security ↩︎
- Wired - Satellites Are Leaking the World's Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Security Affairs - Unencrypted satellites expose global communications ↩︎ ↩︎
Unencrypted satellites expose global communications
Researchers found nearly half of geostationary satellites leak unencrypted data, exposing consumer, corporate, and military communications.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
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We were playing with basic TV sat dish and intercepting random files.
- YouTube
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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Funny how that title states the opposite of that of the original article:
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
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More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article content generated by AI.NAME (Graphite Growth Inc.)
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Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
For months now, Mamdani has been meeting privately with former leaders in city government, business executives, heads of New York arts and cultural institutions and skeptical local Democrats.
He has sought common ground. He has heard out his critics, including wealthy New Yorkers in business and finance and some pro-Israel activists who are turned off by his lifelong advocacy for Palestinians or offended by his reluctance to immediately condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” the use of which he later discouraged.
Robert Wolf, another Partnership for New York City member and a major fund-raiser for the Democratic Party, told me that he has begun texting with the candidate, becoming an informal pulse check for the city’s finance and business community.
“Zohran, to me, is more of a progressive capitalist,” Wolf told me, adding that he was convinced by their private interactions that Mamdani understood the importance of the private sector thriving in his New York.
The conversations have allowed Mamdani to reframe his previous positions, tweaking the us-versus-them language of his democratic-socialist values to be a tad less punitive. He has made it clear that he wants to support renters, not punish landlords. He wants to support public education, not take a hammer to specialized schools with elite admissions. He supports Palestinian rights; he’s not anti-Zionist. He made key concessions when it comes to policing. Importantly, he made clear that he was open to compromise when it came to his proposed millionaires’ tax. Call it Mamdani 2.0.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/magazine/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york.html
I know this is from the sooo unbiased nytimes but like, this literally seems like literally shifting into liberalism.
I guess punishing landlords, and anti-Zionism is controversial???
Whatever, I'm not a NYC citizen, I'll let them decide or comment on the other more specific deals.
Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
For months now, Mamdani has been meeting privately with former leaders in city government, business executives, heads of New York arts and cultural institutions and skeptical local Democrats.
He has sought common ground. He has heard out his critics, including wealthy New Yorkers in business and finance and some pro-Israel activists who are turned off by his lifelong advocacy for Palestinians or offended by his reluctance to immediately condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” the use of which he later discouraged.
Robert Wolf, another Partnership for New York City member and a major fund-raiser for the Democratic Party, told me that he has begun texting with the candidate, becoming an informal pulse check for the city’s finance and business community.
“Zohran, to me, is more of a progressive capitalist,” Wolf told me, adding that he was convinced by their private interactions that Mamdani understood the importance of the private sector thriving in his New York.
The conversations have allowed Mamdani to reframe his previous positions, tweaking the us-versus-them language of his democratic-socialist values to be a tad less punitive. He has made it clear that he wants to support renters, not punish landlords. He wants to support public education, not take a hammer to specialized schools with elite admissions. He supports Palestinian rights; he’s not anti-Zionist. He made key concessions when it comes to policing. Importantly, he made clear that he was open to compromise when it came to his proposed millionaires’ tax. Call it Mamdani 2.0.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/magazine/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york.html
German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna's Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only * TorrentFreak
German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna's Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only * TorrentFreak
In recent weeks, German ISPs started blocking shadow library Anna's Archive plus gaming portals RPG Only and FitGirl Repacks.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Name: fitgirl-repacks.site
Address: 190.115.31.179Name: annas-archive.org
Address: 186.2.163.241
Not sure about this RPG domain name.
Also.. I just use Unbound DNS server at home 😁
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
: Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPRJoe Fay (The Register)
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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Vodafone keels over, leaving millions disconnected
Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers
: Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status pageRichard Speed (The Register)
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AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now
AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now
Paralympic swimmer Jess Smith, says representation means being seen as part of the AI world that's being built.Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)
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ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says
ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says
CEO Sam Altman says upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it".Lily Jamali (BBC News)
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Fotovoltaico, quale normativa ?
Da quanto ho letto, pare che l'installazione di un impianto fotovoltaico rientri nell'Edilizia libera, a meno che la sede dell'installazione non rientri in aree vincolate o soggette a norme particolari come potrebbero essere i centri storici o aree tutelate. In tal caso, pare occorra una autorizzazione o una dichiarazione certificata. Penso sia bene accertarsi della cosa consultando lo strumento urbanistico del proprio Comune.
Normativa per l'installazione di impianti fotovoltaici: guida completa - BibLus
Qual è la normativa di riferimento per l'installazione di impianti fotovoltaici? Norme, titoli abilitativi e sentenze per impianti in regolaRedazione Tecnica (BibLus)
Trump is going to be in charge of two of the longest US government shutdowns in history by a long shot. The fact that we can't just kick all the bums out and replace them when this kind of shit happens is a travesty.
I'm betting this will at least be a two month long shutdown if not indefinite shutdown because the Republicans want to break government so badly they're just willing to keep it shutdown at this point.
"We broke the government, which proves government doesn't work, which is why you need to trust us (the people who broke it) to save you from government" has been their whole shtick my entire fucking life.
Cheapest VPN in the long term for watching movies and tv shows?
My country never cared about this, but recently some people started getting fines. I generally pay for my games; I only use ReVanced and watch TV shows online.
What would be the cheapest VPN in the long run for this? As I said, I don't torrent, so port forwarding and stuff like that I don't care about.
There's also antimalware software bundled with the M365 subscription on Amazon; I've been using the VPN from that for a bit now.
Edit: Btw, do you think an antimalware VPN is safe? It's never been a problem (never like the USA, for example) over here in the EU, but recently they started slightly hunting pirates (never heard of anyone I know though). So yeah, maybe a simple VPN may suffice until they decide to go hardcore style?
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Loops is now part of the Fediverse!
Loops Joins the Fediverse
We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.Daniel Supernault (Loops Official Blog)
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it'd be cool if their android app could get updated. and they fix the feed from just showing you the same string of videos constantly.
other than those two things im sure it will be awesome.
I have been doing some uploading there for a few mths. My biggest gripe is that they support 60 second videos, but anything over 15 seconds (for me) never finishes uploading.
I have seen the repeats too though.
I see a lot of these threads praising loops and i have never been able to use it effectively despite my efforts. =( and I have really wanted it to.
I am curious about the length restriction as well. I wonder if these are all things they're going to address and fix. but you'd think they'd have done all that before making announcements and whatnot.
The next sumud flotilla is kicking off!
I am really impressed by how well organized they are and how much they have been able to accomplish so little funding. The Global March to Gaza, then the Sumud Floatila have been some great ideas for significant peaceful action.
During the last flotilla and just afterward we saw:
- A general strike in Italy.
- Spanish and Italian war ships deployed.
- Spain's complete arms embargo is enshrined into law
- Many nations recognized Palestine for the first time and reaffirmed their recognition.
- Even the US, the most significant sponsor of the genocide, proposed the best peace plan of this administration and took a small but material step in opposition to Israel.
I'm hopeful the momentum continues and I think these people have demonstrated their trustworthiness as much as any group.
Spain’s parliament formally approves Israel arms embargo
The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.Tim Hume (Al Jazeera)
Black Phone 2, la recensione: Ethan Hawke torna a terrorizzare il grande schermo
Il telefono è tornato a squillare. E con lui, Ethan Hawke.
In Black Phone 2, Scott Derrickson riporta in vita il suo villain più inquietante: il Rapace, tra incubi, nevi insanguinate e visioni dal passato.
Un horror visivamente straordinario, dove la pellicola analogica diventa linguaggio di paura — ma la sceneggiatura inciampa tra citazioni e spiegoni.
Un po’ Nightmare, un po’ Stranger Things, con un’anima che resta sospesa tra inferno e redenzione.
Leggi la recensione completa: Black Phone 2, la recensione: Ethan Hawke torna a terrorizzare il grande schermo
Black Phone 2: Ethan Hawke torna a terrorizzarci | Recensione
Ethan Hawke torna nel ruolo del Grabber in Black Phone 2, un horror elegante e inquietante firmato Scott Derrickson.Alessandro (Atom Heart Magazine)
LibreWolf support for appamor
apparmor comes with several profiles, and if in your distro it doesn't include one for librewolf, you can use the firefox one. And if there's no available one and you would be interested in combine it with firejail then most probably firejail will come with with a profile for firefox or librewolf and usually with support for apparmor. Regardless of the distros, the arch wiki can guide you with apparmor and firejail. I recommend becoming familiar with both. Another option if there's no profile on your distro is to look into another distro's profile. ubuntu used include some software with apparmor out of the box so perhaps it's a good source of profiles...
Also in this same community there's an old post precisely about what you're asking for, though it's a bit dated, you may want to scroll for some time until getting to it.
Edit:
Firejail is insecure, my bad. Better to use bubblewrap (I didn't know about bubblejail). The thing is that firejail offers profiles combined with apparmor which might have solved the lack of apparmor profiles. For my personal purposes I hope to take a look at bubblejail to have an easier way to do sandboxing. You can see the arch wiki bubblewrap examples to notice how bubblewrap doesn't help with apparmor profiles though. According to the arch wiki for bubblejail or the GH page for bubblejail profiles are used and can easily be created, however I have no idea of the interaction with apparmor, and if as with firejail such profiles include apparmor stuff, but intuitively I guess it doesn't.
Going back to apparmor, which is MAC enforcement, if no profiles available on your distro for librewolf neither firefox, then looking at other distros is OK, and also one can create profiles as well as one can also modify existent or available ones. See for example the arch wiki for apparmor.
GitHub - igo95862/bubblejail: Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications
Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications - igo95862/bubblejailGitHub
firejail
I would recommend not touching Firejail unless you are 100% sure you know what you are doing, as it can (and probably will) worsen security.
Flatpak's use of bubblewrap (it comes from flatpak but then it became its own project) is not a good example, see:
madaidans-insecurities.github.…
But in general this is true. I talked out of memory, but firejail given its suid way is considered insecure (possible privilege escalation), that's right
Seeking active federated communities for command line tips and tricks
I'm looking for active federated communities on the fediverse where users share tips, tricks, and best practices for using the command line. Something similar to the Arch Linux forums but accessible through the fediverse.
I've checked out a few communities like Command Line@lemmy.ml (1.47K subscribers) and Command Line@programming.dev (2.09K subscribers), but they seem to have many subscribers but no active users per month. It feels like Lemmy smothers these niche communities somehow.
Does anyone know of other active federated communities or instances where command line enthusiasts gather to share knowledge and help each other out?
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China as pro-deforestation mindset prevails
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44101271
Archived
- Brazil’s government has signed a 30-year contract to privatize a section of the BR-364 highway, a key part of its plan to create an overland corridor to Peru to streamline commodity exports to China.
- Critics warn that expanding the highway into well-preserved rainforest risks repeating its history by attracting illegal loggers and land grabbers, a pattern that previously cleared vast areas for agriculture.
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Fueled by soybean, corn and beef production, [the Brazilian state of] Rondônia is now one of Brazil’s leading agribusiness states, where a pro-deforestation mindset prevails, rooted in a population largely disconnected from the forest, rivers and traditional Amazonian culture. This view gained renewed momentum under Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president from 2019-2022, who won all 52 of Rondônia’s municipalities in both the 2018 and 2022 elections.
Cutting across Rondônia, BR-364 has become a key route for moving grain, beef and minerals to ports on the Madeira River in Porto Velho. From there, commodities from Brazil’s central-west region are shipped downriver to foreign markets via the Atlantic Ocean.
Brazil's first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China
A road that once opened the Amazon to destruction is being expanded, and critics fear history will repeat itself.Alexandre de Santi (Conservation news)
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Feddit Un'istanza italiana Lemmy reshared this.
När Europeiska kommissionen beslutade att etablera sig i sociala medier gjorde den ett ovanligt val. Istället för att bara skapa ännu ett konto på en kommersiell plattform anlitade den Mastodon för att driva en egen server. Kommissionen äger nu sitt digitala utrymme på samma sätt som den äger sina byggnader. Ingen kan ta bort det. Ingen kan ändra reglerna över en natt. Innehållet tillhör institutionen, arkiverat och tillgängligt under dess egen kontroll.
blog.zaramis.se/2025/10/15/det…
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Chinese gangs made more than $1 billion by targeting US with scam texts: report
Criminal gangs in China have made more than $1 billion by targeting Americans with annoying texts: report
Text message scammers use badgering texts to extract financial information then pay American gig workers to use stolen info to make purchases and send merchandise back to ChinaJosh Marcus (The Independent)
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Russia accuses exiled opponents of plot to violently seize power
An exiled Kremlin critic, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been accused by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) of creating a “terrorist organisation” and of plotting to violently seize power.
The FSB said it had opened a criminal case against Khodorkovsky and was investigating more than 20 people as part of the same charge. These include prominent dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economists Sergey Aleksashenko and Sergei Guriev.
It comes just two weeks after a “platform for dialogue” with Russian democratic forces in exile was announced by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a human rights forum of lawmakers from 46 European countries.
The FSB claimed Khodorkovsky was presenting this platform as a replacement for Russian leadership. He was also accused of funding Ukrainian paramilitary units in order to use them to try to eventually seize power.
Khodorkovsky rejects accusations
Khodorkovsky denied the accusations and called the criminal case a sign that the Kremlin sees the Council of Europe initiative as “a major problem”.
“Hence the new cases about ‘seizing power’, the lies about ‘recruiting’ and ‘arming the Ukrainian military’,” he said on Telegram.
Russia accuses exiled opponents of plot to violently seize power
The FSB said it was investigating Mikhail Khodorkovsky and more than 20 other exiled Russian dissidentsMark Trevelyan (The Independent)
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Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the can was full of liquid methamphetamine, not beer.Avery Haines (CTVNews)
China wants foreign scientists, the public says no, thanks: Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44096080
ArchivedWhen the Chinese government announced a new visa to attract young science and technology talent, it advertised the move as another step toward becoming the leading scientific power, one to which people from around the globe would flock.
To many in China, it was a gross mistake.
In the days before and since Oct. 1, when the visa was supposed to come into effect, commenters have accused the government of inviting foreigners to steal jobs from Chinese people, at a time when young people are finding it harder than ever to land work. They have suggested that foreigners are being blindly worshiped, a longstanding national sore point.
Prominent influencers have also stoked nationalism or xenophobia, claiming that China will be overrun by outsiders. After Henry Huiyao Wang, the president of the Center for China and Globalization, a research group in Beijing, praised the new visa, people on social media called him a race traitor, and their posts were shared thousands of times.
Platforms have been especially flooded by racist comments about Indians, after Indian news outlets reported on the Chinese visa as a possible alternative to the highly popular H1-B visa in the United States, which now comes with a $100,000 fee.
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The public outcry suggests that China may still struggle to attract the world’s best and brightest scientists, even as the United States has cut research funding and pushed many prominent scholars to consider leaving.
Anti-foreign sentiment has grown in China in recent years, as the government has warned of hostile overseas powers and urged people to report potential spies. China has historically had minuscule levels of inbound immigration, and many cultural and legal barriers remain for foreigners seeking to remain long-term.
When the government proposed slightly loosening permanent residency requirements for foreigners in 2020, it eventually retreated in the face of a similar backlash. (China granted fewer than 5,000 permanent residency cards between 2004 and 2014, according to People’s Daily.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/world/asia/china-stem-visa-racist-backlash.html
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This is what the report says. I guess there are weird people everywhere, here in the West, in China, everywhere else. It's just that given the strict censorship in China, the government does not much against this racism. One report is here.
China's government suppresses its minorities. If you are not Han Chinese and not a member of the CCP, you may not climb to high up the career ladder to say the least.
China: Combat Anti-Black Racism on Social Media
The Chinese government should acknowledge and condemn anti-Black racism prevalent on the Chinese internet and adopt measures to promote tolerance and fight prejudice.Human Rights Watch
At the United Nations, China touts its progress on gender equality, but its approach to feminist activism tells a different story
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44096052
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For China, the U.N. summit on October 13-14 is the final, triumphant act of a yearlong show of force from its diplomatic and media mouthpieces seeking to center its “historic achievements in women’s development” and position China as a global model for women’s rights protection.
Yet as officials trumpet their “30 years of progress” to assembled dignitaries, the voices of the country’s own feminists will be conspicuously absent.
That’s because many are in prison, while others face threats and harassment intended to keep them silent – whether they still live in China, or have had to flee abroad.
China’s self-congratulatory narrative on women’s rights has been pushed not just at home, but also abroad: from the halls of the United Nations to the pages of local embassies and media markets in, for example, South Africa, Tanzania, Liberia, Ghana and Grenada. Last month, state-run press even published two compilations of Xi Jinping’s speeches in English for the explicit purpose of “help[ing] international readers gain a deeper understanding of Xi’s views” on women’s rights and much more ahead of the U.N. meeting in Beijing.
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Xi’s views are clear on one point: that shutting down space for critical voices and public discussion on human rights, including topics of women and gender, are essential matters of national security.
Over the last decade, the Chinese state has continued to implement laws and policies that suppress feminist activism – and in doing so has convicted women human rights defenders one by one.
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The five women made famous by their 2015 criminal detentions for advocacy on International Women’s Day continue to work in civil society and to push for policy change – but they are careful to do so in ways that keep them and their families safe. Following their detentions, the costs of speaking out publicly have only risen. For four years, #MeToo activist and journalist Huang Xueqin has been locked up for “inciting subversion of state power” for her social media posts and her efforts to learn about and discuss non-violent movements.
Many other women activists – such as Li Qiaochu, Chen Jianfang, Xu Yan and Zhang Zhan – have languished in prison based on similarly spurious convictions. Vaccine safety advocate He Fangmei was convicted of “picking quarrels” and (absurdly) bigamy in 2024; when she’s released in 2027 she will have spent seven of the last eight years in detention. Her family doesn’t know where her daughters – the youngest one born while she was in detention – are located.
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When Chinese officials wax poetic about the country’s progress on women’s rights, it is essential to remember that this is not the whole story. The government postures on anti-discrimination, locks up women defenders, and criminalizes feminist activism – all out of fear that the system the CCP has built might come crashing down on their heads.
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A UN Conference Can’t Hide China’s Discomfort With Women’s Rights
China touts its progress on gender equality, but its approach to feminist activism tells a different story.Sarah Brooks (The Diplomat)
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Lmfao. China isn’t progressive on anything. Every LGBT person could, at any time, be dragged away.
Can’t even get married.
China is a fucking social joke.
They're progressive in the sense that they don't care over much about specific cultural values, as long as you don't criticize, threaten power or break cultural homogeneity.
Authoritarian progressivism
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breadsmasher
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Why are certain countries so obsessed with flags?
pathetic.
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in reply to OwlPaste • • •Right, but then rich people can no longer exploit other regions if everyone is considered equal! Think about the shareholders for a bit :/ (I'm sarcastic, in case it is not clear 😁)
The main problem here is that people flocking to positions of power are often the ones that do it for the wrong reasons. Until that part is sorted out, we will keep having leaders that will enforce things that are best for them and their closest ones. Some form of anarcho-communism would probably help this, but the current globalisation effort will make it very hard to implement. The best thing we can do as individuals is to just improve our social circle, and try to rely on as many local things as possible.
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in reply to OwlPaste • • •I’m sure that the concept of “us” and “them” outdates the concept of countries.
If we got rid of countries then the people over that hill or across that river would become “them”.
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prole
in reply to OwlPaste • • •But... Open borders?!?
*Clutches pearls *
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in reply to OwlPaste • • •Unfortunately the "us and them thing" is an evolved aspect of human society. It's not possible for humans to get past it because it's literally in our DNA.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt discusses this in detail.
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in reply to rah • • •Maybe? I feel like there's at least been pockets of history where we successfully resist it, so I have hope. Like, where I live right now, seriously hating any reasonably self-contained group is taboo and the exception.
If we really can't overcome it somehow, the rest of history is going to be at least as hellish as the past, and there's nothing we can do about it.
rah
in reply to CanadaPlus • • •You understand then.
kibiz0r
in reply to OwlPaste • • •YANSS 298 – How the tribal instincts that divide us could be harnessed to help bring us together
You Are Not So Smartrumba
in reply to OwlPaste • • •To this day, individuals are making their own fake borders when they can't seem to get their own borders created
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Inside the whites-only settlement in Arkansas: The group building a 'fortress for the white race'
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in reply to breadsmasher • • •Not sure if you're serious, but flags (aka standards) were THE most important part of the crusades 1.0 (my mom's surname comes from a standard-bearer's heroics not letting their flag touch the ground in a battle)
Not saying it means fuck all, but you're witnessing a watered down version of the same in this fisher price version of the crusades.
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in reply to Shotgun_Alice • • •Regardless of what you think about Palestinians, it's trivial to see that the Israelis are bad guys in this conflict.
Usually, the world is shades of gray, like with Palestinians, so it's sort of a relief when you can just point to somebody and say, "Well, those guys are clearly the bad guys, and anybody who supports their actions is also bad."
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in reply to LOGIC💣 • • •HellsBelle
in reply to CanadaPlus • • •Israel adopted the victim mentality a long time ago. Yes, they were victims of the Holocaust and yes, the world had treated them like shit for thousands of years.
The thing is that they adopted their victimhood unequivocally and then became like the spoiled child who knows how to manipulate their 'parents' to get what they want. And it's worked.
There was a time when Israel at least tried to act like a nation of people who wanted to grow, but since Netanyahu and his right-wing alliances took power Israel has become no better than Hamas -- using genocidal violence to lead.
Barbarian
in reply to HellsBelle • • •There's plenty of Jews out there who saw what Israel would have to do in order to reach their goal of being a Jewish state from the beginning and wanted nothing to do with it.
Plenty of Holocaust survivors at the time were very explicitly against the taking of land from a pre-existing population, and understood that to make it a Jewish state you'd need to remove the people there... somehow.
Some Rabbis have even made the argument that even attempting to form Israel in the first place is heretical.
Anti-zionist Jews have been a thing for as long as Zionism has existed.
CanadaPlus
in reply to Barbarian • • •Do you have an example in mind? Enough people survived that I had assumed this, but then again plenty ended up in Israel as well.
The religious arguments against were definitely a thing, and it took quite a bit of propaganda to get the Sephardis to care either way, since most of the drama was in Europe.
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in reply to Barbarian • • •CanadaPlus
in reply to HellsBelle • • •More like just Europe. Pre-Roman Jewish history reads pretty similarly to the history of their neighbors. In the Muslim world some stuff happened, but the religions actually agree on a lot, and I'd guess the other various minorities got it worse. In Christendom they were kind of the only group to punch down at, so it got really bad. The Roman period is complicated, and I'm not sure how much is even recorded about the more far flung diasporas.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Say what you will of Greta, but her ability to remain humble is truly admirable.
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in reply to NatakuNox • • •She'll get there. There's still tempering to be done that comes with more experience and age which benefits and strengthens a political position.
I look forward to it.
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in reply to NatakuNox • • •What exactly does that mean?
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I know she wants to stay humble and keep the focus on Palestinian suffering, but it’s important everyone on the flotilla share their experience at the hands of the Israelis.
Every person needs to return to their home country to speak on the depravity of the Israelis and their treatment of foreign nationals to highlight their cruelty and the horrors they inflict upon the population that’s 100% under their control and every whim, who the world has ignored for decades. Of the children held in those same cells deprived of food, water, bedding and often subjected to sexual abuse by both male and female guards.
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in reply to unconsequential • • •I believe so too. Greta probably also extra fears being seen as an attention grabber because so many Israeli bot accounts are accusing her of doing it for personal fame and calling it a selfie cruise.
This article is a perfect way of her starting off by making everyone aware that this is happening far worse to Palestinians while also spreading the awareness and I'm glad they finally published it.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Crazy world.
Jews are behaving like Nazis, yet Republicans are being chastised for their support of Hitler.
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in reply to frog_meister • • •The state of Israel is behaving like Nazis, not "Jews".
And nothing - especially not other people acting like fascists - legitimates supporting a man who systematically executed millions on the basis of religion and ethnicity.
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in reply to CanadaPlus • • •I shouldn't lol but lol I can't imagine how that poll would look, no way to come up with a non-bias creating question I'd guess.
But hateful people of all types are always way louder than the rest of us. And yes, lots of propaganda and legitimate fears will push some into the wrong. But I'm betting, just like the general population, the Jewish population is mostly good. All the ones I know and associate with certainly are.
CanadaPlus
in reply to xor • • •Yep. That Israelis happen to be Jewish should be a lesson in how no ethnicity is safe from falling into this.
Going by the username and followup, OP is just an open neonazi, though.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Does Lemmy.world remove curse words, now, or was that just you? The fuck 😂
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in reply to Lyra_Lycan • • •At the same time the Swedish equivalent was not censored.
Lilla hora = little whore
If that was not obvious
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •pticrix
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Readind that article makes me... I don't know. I'm not 'mad', I'm fucking restless. First, the torture, sure. We knew the current* Israeli government is monstrous. (*I don't know about all the previous ones, I'm not versed in Israeli history.) But the response from the Swedish embassy?
And, after all that, what's the response of the world? Similar to the Swedish government response as shown here. Evasive, absolutely unwilling to stand up to the monsters. Being monsters themselves by proxy.
I feel like I must act, but know not what to do. I'm restless. I feel like our world is stuck in some kind of non-Newtonian liquid made of Capital, Hunger for Power and Gutlessness. I feel like I want to round up all those monsters, ship them on an island and make sure there's no way out - have fun amongst yourselves, monsters. I know this isn't realist. I know not what to do. Calling my minister here in Canada doesn't do shit - our government is as gutless as all others. Standing in the street hasn't done much either, nor participating in event in support of Gaza and the wish to put an end to the massacre and torture of a whole people.
'I have no mouth, and I must scream'
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in reply to pticrix • • •Spreading awareness, or donating to content creators and journalists who do so is a great way to help. Politicians only respond to public opinion so public opinion must be changed first.
And know that Greta only underwent a fraction of what Palestinians do in these torture camps.
EndlessNightmare
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •And the response from politicians is slooow a fuck. We can't even get Kamala Harris to admit that Israel was committing genocide. And when Gavin Newsome was asked about AIPAC, he started glitching. I mention these 2 because they are prominent figures in the Democratic party.
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in reply to pticrix • • •They've been like that from the start pretty much. They assasinated Folke Bernadotte 1948. Why? Because he was a skilled diplomat who made real progress in the Israel - arab conflict.
Folke Bernadotte, who helped saved thousands of jews from concentration camps.
Taldan
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Really says a lot about the IDF and Israel that they're always so excited to document the horrible things they do. They're taking pictures so they can show other people. They think other Israelis - their friends and family - will be excited to see pictures of someone being treated horribly. Reminds me of Rachel Corrie and how they found her murder so funny they'd make pancakes with her face on it. What kind of person celebrates murder like that, and what kind of society allows such public celebration of it?
She's a non-violent protestor. Why do they take so much joy in being violent to her?
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in reply to dubyakay • • •EndlessNightmare
in reply to dubyakay • • •And given that the Middle East is in big fucking trouble with regards to climate change, their genocidal "military campaign" was a bit of a self-own.
I keep seeing things about resorts and shit being built in Gaza. What the fuck are they even thinking here? The area probably won't even be inhabitable (with respect to climate) in 30 years.
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in reply to Sam_Bass • • •Oh please. You're gonna blame their actions on "the war"?
War doesn't make animals of men. It gives the animals an opportunity to do what they always wanted to do.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I'm sure our european, government-funded and therfore independend public broadcasting services will be outraged after they hear that our cute little Greta was tortured in a prison that looks Guantanamo-like, with blood and bullet holes in the cells!
The most just army of the world torturing a young, peaceful lady. An army we support!
This will result in weeks of coverage: Politicians being interviewed, human rights experts, Greta herself, debates on what sanctions should be put on Israel....
Just kidding. They'll hide it between news about a massacre in Africa and the weather report. And in two days, it will all be forgotten.
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in reply to sadTruth • • •Not anymore, it isn't
I mean, yeah unfortunately it probably will, but not because of the above
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in reply to sadTruth • • •They called her Hamas, so now anything goes.
Remember this the next time you hear about Hamas terrorism.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Unless they're dumb enough to post on social media... then it would be interesting.
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