CBC is exposing the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline.

On Friday October 17, CBC's The Fifth Estate will release "Funding the Occupation." They are following “the trail of millions in Canadian tax-deductible charitable donations [that] are supporting Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law."

In 2024 alone, Canadian charities sent at least $222 million to Israel. This is only the amount they reported on their "Schedule 2" as money being sent out of country. This does not necessarily include all donations to qualified donnees or registered charities in Canada, who then send the money to Israeli institutions. So we expect the figure is closer to $400 million, based on an analysis which identified $100 million in donations to Israeli universities and their associated Canadian orgs in 2023.

Watch "Funding the Occupation" on or after October 17, 9pm on CBC-TV, YouTube (buff.ly/qSE8WdJ), or CBC Gem (buff.ly/WBJUJYQ).

To learn more about the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline, check out HERE.

Leggende Pokémon: Z-A, con la sua freschissima ambientazione urbana, che vede una Luminopoli ora esplorabile fino all'estremo, ha evidentemente presentato diverse nuove sfide ai game designer...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/10/il-m…

Artificial neurons that mimic the brain's efficiency are here, using 1/10th the voltage and 1/100th the power of others.

These neurons can, for the first time, process information from living cells without an intermediary device amplifying or modulating the signals, the researchers say.

While some artificial neurons already exist, they require electronic amplification to sense the signals our bodies produce, explains Jun Yao, who works on bioelectronics and nanoelectronics at UMass Amherst. The amplification inflates both power usage and circuit complexity, and so counters efficiencies found in the brain.

The neuron created by Yao’s team can understand the body’s signals at their natural amplitude of around 0.1 volts. This is “highly novel,” says Bozhi Tian, a biophysicist who studies living bioelectronics at the University of Chicago and was not involved in the work. This work “bridges the long-standing gap between electronic and biological signaling” and demonstrates interaction between artificial neurons and living cells that Tian calls “unprecedented.”

Artificial Neurons Bridge Bio-Electronic Gap

^{Perri Thaler (IEEE Spectrum)}

I've downloaded EtchDroid, but only a few minutes ago.
I see straight away that I can't download different distros from within the app like I could in DriveDroid.
I'm also not sure I can boot from my phone using EtchDroid, but I will look into that a bit more as it does often seem to be mentioned as a (good) alternative to DriveDroid.

Any others? Mainly that I can download distros inside app, boot from phone in live usb mode, and without root.

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44188451

I'd like to start a thread for people to share what they're using for search now that quality & relevance of results are in steep decline on all major search engines.

I'm doing this for selfish as well as altruistic reasons, mostly because my "stack" has gotten a lot less useful over the past year, because the search engines I use repackage Bing, whose ability to return relevant results at all seems to be cratering.

My (shitty and getting worse) solution:

• DuckDuckGo as default search engine mostly for bang commands, in my personal opinion DDG's relevance has been shit for its entire existence
• StartPage as where I direct most of my general searches (by appending !sp on DDG)
• currently attempting to tune the Ublacklist extension to remove most of the clickbait results; this works, but it's not easy to set up if you don't use Google which seems to be the main search engine the developer tests with

The problem with this approach is that increasingly, Bing simply doesn't return hits on topics I know should have plenty to choose from. Filters only solve the issue of too many hits, not too few.

BTW I tried Qwant, but their claim of having their own index seems to be bullshit, the results look like repackaged Bing to me. And, the UX is terrible in Firefox for Android.

I'd love to hear suggestions.

tl;dr pls share what you are doing for web search these days in order to work around the rapidly declining quality of major search engines

re-publicado de: lemmygrad.ml/post/9464517

• OS: Bazzite 42
• Global Theme: Vapor
• Colors: Catppuccin Macchiato Sky (modified to add transparency)
• Application Style: Darkly
• Plasma Style: Breeze
• Window Decorations: Darkly
• Icons: Fluent Dark
• Cursors: Breeze Dark
• Fonts: Inter and Iosevka

I'm also using Better Blur for the window blur, Panel Colorizer to change the opacity of the Plasma Panel and change some icons on the tray to be monochrome, and I'm using Lucidglyph for better font rendering.

Felt like showing off my new customization comrades!

https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1978860897201197412

Other mentions of prisoners from today on this community :
- lemmy.ml/post/37589373 ;
- lemmy.world/post/37423140

Others :
- lemmy.world/post/37491370

geneva_convenience

2025-10-15 19:50:56

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti suffers rib fractures after assault in Israeli prisons

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti sustained rib fractures after being beaten in Israeli prisons, the Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

The Hamas-run office said on Telegram that Barghouti was beaten by Israeli prison guards while being transferred from Ramon Prison in southern Israel to Megiddo Prison in the north in mid-September.

The imprisoned leader lost consciousness and suffered a fracture in four ribs, it added.

Barghouti, 66, a senior leader of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group, is one of the most prominent and popular figures in Palestinian politics.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251015-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-suffers-rib-fractures-after-assault-in-israeli-prisons/

No matter what, since these features are cloud-based, your data will need to be processed on a foreign server, not on your device. Microsoft promises it isn’t storing or abusing your prompts or whatever appears on your screen. After the Recall snafi, it’s increasingly difficult to trust the Windows maker. Now that Microsoft wants you to put privacy concerns aside for the sake of its ever-present AI, it’s going to have to offer a more compelling use case than an AI that hums on command.

yeah no thanks

Microsoft Desperately Wants Users To Talk to Their Windows PCs

Thought Copilot was invasive before? Watch it completely take over your PC.

^{Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)}

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/not-aware-any-modi-trump-conversation-wednesday-indias-foreign-ministry-says-2025-10-16/

https://dailyboulder.com/sidewalk-chalk-messages-force-stephen-miller-to-flee-arlington-put-home-up-for-sale/

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629632

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

archive.ph/IQyCK

Peter Link

2025-10-16 17:59:52

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

archive.ph/IQyCK

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629632

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

archive.ph/IQyCK

Peter Link

2025-10-16 17:59:52

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

archive.ph/IQyCK

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

archive.ph/IQyCK

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/06/05/this-is-how-much-trump-has-made-from-crypto-so-far/

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629436

by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm

In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 17:48:36

Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination

by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm

In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251015-hamas-democracy-and-the-right-to-resist-a-case-for-palestinian-self-determination/

by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm

In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251015-hamas-democracy-and-the-right-to-resist-a-case-for-palestinian-self-determination/

Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a “permanent underclass” of everyone not already hitched to the AI train.

The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers … and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.

Nate Soares, winner of “most sunshine in book title” and co-author of AI critique If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies suggests “people should not be banking on work in the long term”. Math tutors, cinematographers, brand strategists and journalists are quoted by the New Yorker, freaking out.

The consolation here is that if you are among those panicking about being forced into the permanent underclass, you are already in it. Inherited wealth makes more billionaires than entrepreneurship, the opportunity gap is growing; if your family don’t have the readies to fund your tech startup, media empire or eventual presidential ambitions, it’s probably because they were in a tech-displaced underclass, too.

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

^{Van Badham (The Guardian)}

Fedia.io seems to have issues with federated content from kbin.earth. Most of my threads are missing their bodies (examples: fedia.io/m/thighdeology@ani.so…, fedia.io/m/helltaker@sopuli.xy…) but some have one (fedia.io/m/konosuba_megumin@an…).

They are all created the same way (which involves creating an image entry and immediately editing it via the API to add the body), so maybe this might be a cause? A similar issue was with Piefed, which also got hiccups with the fast edit activities.

@jerry@fedia.io

Also pinging @melroy@kbin.melroy.org as it might be a problem of Mbin and not only fedia.io.

However, when addressing the principles of the Republican Party, Johnson said, "We fought the Nazis. We've defended that evil ideology."

Johnson was addressing an incident where a staffer of Republican Representative Dave Taylor appeared to have a swastika in the background of a video call.

"He says that that's not his, and there's a proper investigation ongoing," Johnson told reporters. "And the congressman did exactly what he should have done and that is report it."

Johnson said he could not comment more until the investigation has been completed, but "obviously, that is not the principles of the Republican Party."

Mike Johnson’s Nazi Remark Gaffe Called Out by Critics—’Freudian Slip’

House Speaker Mike Johnson made the gaffe while trying to defend the Republican Party amid the government shutdown standoff.

^{Peter Aitken (Newsweek)}

A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers during a partial government shutdown while she considers claims by unions that the job cuts are illegal.

During a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a request by two unions to block layoffs at more than 30 federal agencies while the case proceeds.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-says-she-will-likely-block-trumps-mass-layoffs-during-government-2025-10-15/

For example, a $20 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to Kipnuk, which was inundated by floodwaters, was terminated by the Trump administration, a move challenged by environmental groups. The grant was intended to protect to protect the boardwalk residents use to get around the community as well as 1,400 feet (430 meters) of river from erosion, according to a federal website that tracks government spending.

The group said no single project was likely to prevent the recent flood. But work to remove abandoned fuel tanks and other material to prevent it from falling into the river might have been feasible during the 2025 construction season.

“What’s happening in Kipnuk shows the real cost of pulling back support that was already promised to front line communities,” said Jill Habig, CEO of Public Rights Project. “These grants were designed to help local governments prepare for and adapt to the growing effects of climate change. When that commitment is broken, it puts people’s safety, homes and futures at risk.”

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-typhoon-halong-flood-b95379dc3b4700d620abd92f70240c5e

District Judge Sara Ellis said Thursday she was “startled” by images of law enforcement actions after she issued her initial order last week. “I’m getting images and seeing images on the news, in the paper, reading reports, where at least from what I’m seeing, I’m having serious concerns that my order’s being followed,” she said.

She then ordered agents to wear body-worn cameras during the so-called Operation Midway Blitz, “and they are to be [turned] on,” she told the court.

A lawsuit from press associations, protesters and faith leaders accuses federal officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection of “a pattern of extreme brutality,” with agents “indiscriminately” firing on protesters, including an incident captured on video where officers defending an ICE facility struck the head of a Presbyterian minister with pepper bullets that knocked him to the ground.

Judge orders Chicago deportation agents to wear body cameras after seeing ‘startling’ images of arrests

ICE and Border Patrol must now wear body cameras during ‘Operation Midway Blitz’

^{Alex Woodward (The Independent)}

I'm talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something. A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes, or someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.

I'm working on a Windows - > Linux guide targeting people like this and I want to make sure it can be understood by just about anybody. A problem that I've noticed is that most guides trying to do something like this seem to operate under the assumption that the viewer already knows what Linux is and has already made up their mind about switching, or that they're already pretty computer savvy. This guide won't be that, I'm writing a guide and keeping my parents in mind the whole time.

Because of this there's some things I probably won't talk about. Do these people really need to know that it's actually GNU+Linux? No, I don't think so. Should I explain how to install, use and configure hyprland, or compile a custom gaming kernel? I dont think that's really necessary. You get what I'm saying? I don't want to over complicate this and scare people off.

That being said I also want to make sure that I'm not over simplifying by skipping on key things they should know. So what are some key concepts or things that you think even the most basic of Linux users should understand? Bonus points if you can provide a solid entry level explanation of it too.