cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37680503

Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 16, 2025

Since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, the Israeli military has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, at least five of them in one attack on Shujaiya on Tuesday. The Israeli military admitted to the killings, claiming a group of people approached its soldiers stationed there. That same day, the Israeli military spokesperson reiterated a warning to Palestinians not to approach certain areas in Gaza, including Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as locations in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.

Al-Sawwaf, 78, has lived in Shujaiya ever since her family fled there during the Nakba shortly after she was born. “I got married in Shujaiya and gave birth to all my children here—14 of them,” she told Drop Site. Two of Al-Sawwaf’s children, her husband, grandson, and another relative were all killed in the war. Amid a famine and no clean water, Al-Sawwaf’s health has deteriorated. “I used to weigh 86 kilos, now I’m 60. I can’t walk, and I’m ill. I’m sick all day,” she said, breaking down in tears.

Peter Link

2025-10-17 19:13:44

Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops

Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 16, 2025

Since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, the Israeli military has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, at least five of them in one attack on Shujaiya on Tuesday. The Israeli military admitted to the killings, claiming a group of people approached its soldiers stationed there. That same day, the Israeli military spokesperson reiterated a warning to Palestinians not to approach certain areas in Gaza, including Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as locations in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.

Al-Sawwaf, 78, has lived in Shujaiya ever since her family fled there during the Nakba shortly after she was born. “I got married in Shujaiya and gave birth to all my children here—14 of them,” she told Drop Site. Two of Al-Sawwaf’s children, her husband, grandson, and another relative were all killed in the war. Amid a famine and no clean water, Al-Sawwaf’s health has deteriorated. “I used to weigh 86 kilos, now I’m 60. I can’t walk, and I’m ill. I’m sick all day,” she said, breaking down in tears.

Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops

Parts of Shujaiya lie inside the “yellow line,” an invisible demarcation where the Israeli military withdrew as part of the initial phase of the ceasefire agreement.

^{Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)}

Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 16, 2025

Since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, the Israeli military has killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, at least five of them in one attack on Shujaiya on Tuesday. The Israeli military admitted to the killings, claiming a group of people approached its soldiers stationed there. That same day, the Israeli military spokesperson reiterated a warning to Palestinians not to approach certain areas in Gaza, including Shujaiya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as locations in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.

Al-Sawwaf, 78, has lived in Shujaiya ever since her family fled there during the Nakba shortly after she was born. “I got married in Shujaiya and gave birth to all my children here—14 of them,” she told Drop Site. Two of Al-Sawwaf’s children, her husband, grandson, and another relative were all killed in the war. Amid a famine and no clean water, Al-Sawwaf’s health has deteriorated. “I used to weigh 86 kilos, now I’m 60. I can’t walk, and I’m ill. I’m sick all day,” she said, breaking down in tears.

Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops

Parts of Shujaiya lie inside the “yellow line,” an invisible demarcation where the Israeli military withdrew as part of the initial phase of the ceasefire agreement.

^{Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)}

I always love Backblaze's analysis. It's how I learned I wasn't special for having those notorious 4TB Seagate drives (I want to say DM003) shit the bed in short order.

Increased longevity is undoubtedly a plus; however, whether doing a RAID rebuild or just being out a 24TB drive (hopefully, you've got a backup), that's a lot of time and effort to get back to square one.

If you’ve hung around Backblaze for a while (and especially if you’re a Drive Stats fan), you may have heard us talking about the bathtub curve. In Drive Failure Over Time: The Bathtub Curve Is Leaking, we challenged one of reliability engineering’s oldest ideas—the notion that drive failures trace a predictable U-shaped curve over time.

But, the data didn’t agree. Our fleet showed dips, spikes, and plateaus that refused to behave. Now, after 13 years of continuous data, the picture is clearer—and stranger.

The bathtub curve isn’t just leaking, and the shape of reliability might look more like an ankle-high wall at the entrance to a walk-in shower. The neat story of early failures, calm middle age, and gentle decline no longer fits the world our drives inhabit. Drives are getting better—or, more precisely, the Drive Stats dataset says that our drives are performing better in data center environments.

So, let’s talk about what our current “bathtub curve” looks like, and how it compares to earlier generations of the analysis.

The TL;DR: Hard drives are getting better, and lasting longer.

Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve

After 13 years, the data is clear—the bathtub curve does not apply to hard drives. And, more importantly, hard drives are failing less and lasting longer.

^{Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup}

TL;DR: piece-of-shit Evangelical anti-woke superintendent who was busted watching porn in his office on a conference call resigned last month.

New Superintendent: Yeah nah we're not gonna do the bible thing.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/17/us/oklahoma-schools-bible-mandate-rescinded

When teachers rely on commonly used artificial intelligence chatbots to devise lesson plans, it does not result in more engaging, immersive, or effective learning experiences compared with existing techniques, we found in our recent study. The AI-generated civics lesson plans we analyzed also left out opportunities for students to explore the stories and experiences of traditionally marginalized people.

The allure of generative AI as a teaching aid has caught the attention of educators. A Gallup survey from September 2025 found that 60 percent of K-12 teachers are already using AI in their work, with the most common reported use being teaching preparation and lesson planning.

Without the assistance of AI, teachers might spend hours every week crafting lessons for their students. With AI, time-stretched teachers can generate detailed lesson plans featuring learning objectives, materials, activities, assessments, extension activities, and homework tasks in a matter of seconds.

Read full article

Comments

Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.

^{The Conversation (Ars Technica)}

Recently, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warned investors to avoid the "false prophets" of AI. Now, the Pope has brought real theological weight to the bot debate, hosting a Vatican seminar that called for global AI regulation and fair distribution of the technology's benefits.

The seminar [PDF] – dubbed Digital Rerum Novarum: Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Social Justice, and Integral Human Development – was organized by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences together with the University of Notre Dame.

The newly installed, American-born Pope Leo XIV, said, in a message to the attendees, that while it has great potential, AI poses deep questions, not least how to create a "more authentically just and human global society."

More bluntly, he quoted his predecessor to remind his flock, that "While undoubtedly an exceptional product of human genius, AI is 'above all else a tool.'"

Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules

: 'AI is a tool', Pope tells attendees

^{Joe Fay (The Register)}

https://www.wired.com/story/owning-a-cybertruck/

Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=VOORiyi…

YouTube: youtu.be/VOORiyip4_c

The video talks about a new paper in a techniqe to eliminate clipping of vectors. The only problem is, it is extremely computational expensive. I compare this to RayTracing, which will be viable in the future only if all the tools implement it. I assume the hardware chips that support RayTracing could be used for this new technology too, but that is just my personal assumption here.

I left the original title of the video, as it would be editorial otherwise.

Video description (only relevant parts):

📝Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1OrOKJH_im1L4j1cJB18sfvNHEbZVSqjL/view
Code and examples are available here: github.com/st-tech/ppf-contact-solver
Guide on how to try it: drive.google.com/file/d/1n068Ai_hlfgapf2xkAutOHo3PkLpJXA4/view

Sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=5GDIoshj9Rw
youtube.com/watch?v=X53VuYLP0VY
youtube.com/shorts/x0WjJgotCXU
youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4Of18Kf2M

📝 My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free here:
rdcu.be/cWPfD

Or this is the orig. Nature Physics link with clickable citations:
nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01788-5

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-federal-law-enforcement-receive-pay-during-government-shutdown-2025-10-16/

A hacking group called "The Com" released personal information of hundreds of federal agents, including 680 DHS employees, 190 Justice Department officials, and 170 FBI employees¹. The hack revealed names, office locations, and home addresses of agents.

The incident occurs amid heightened tensions, with ICE claiming a dramatic rise in assaults against officers, though these statistics are disputed. Colorado Public Radio found only a 25% increase in assaults rather than the administration's claimed "1000% increase"².

The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem promised prosecutions against those who dox ICE agents in July 2025, but three months later no charges have been filed². This contrasts with California, where prosecutors have charged three activists for allegedly following and broadcasting an ICE agent's home address².

The hack comes as the Trump administration has pushed tech companies to remove ICE-tracking apps, with both Meta and Apple recently complying with requests to take down such tools².

1. New Republic - Hackers Dox Hundreds of Trump's Masked ICE Agents ↩︎
2. OPB - ICE promised doxing cases against Portland 'anarchists.' Months later, no charges filed ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

ICE promised doxing cases against Portland ‘anarchists.’ Months later, no charges filed

The lack of follow-through could be a reflection of the First Amendment concerns most doxing laws and charges pose, legal experts say.

^{Shaanth Nanguneri (OPB)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37677612

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Peter Link

2025-10-17 17:50:43

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities. Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37677612

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Peter Link

2025-10-17 17:50:43

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities. Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37677612

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Peter Link

2025-10-17 17:50:43

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities. Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

17 October 2025 13:52 BST
Last update: 1040 EDT

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities.

Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

Shortly after the ban was announced on Thursday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned it as the "wrong decision", criticising West Midlands Police and saying: "We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets."

Ministers are now reportedly looking into reversing the ban.

The ban is far from unprecedented. In November 2023 Aston Villa banned fans of another club, Legia Warsaw, from attending the match on the advice of West Midlands Police after supporters of the Polish club engaged in violence.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a long track record of causing violence and disruption in European cities.

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans are notorious for stoking violence and disruption in European cities. Now they have been banned from attending the club's Europa League match at Aston Villa in England's Birmingham.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

I'm not trying to start another Zohran struggle session, time will tell if he sells out. The article itself isn't even particularly bad, what I want to discuss is the liberal framing it uses.

Taking the democrats seriously. Taking Cuomo seriously. But the part that really bothers me is the idea that Zohran pushed the liberal consensus on Palestine. Little-known fact: the world outside of NYC actually does exist and the people in it have been hating "Israel" more and more as well. Zohran is popular partly because he reflected a changing opinion many had on "Israel", not the other way around. Journalists understand cause and effect challenge.

Zohran Mamdani Has Pushed the Liberal Consensus on Palestine. The Left Isn’t Satisfied.

The debate over Mamdani’s candidacy highlights the ongoing identity crisis within the Democratic Party as he seeks to toe the line on Israel.

^{Akela Lacy (The Intercept)}

The concerns from the left are symptomatic of a movement that has grown understandably disillusioned with electoral politics. Some of the critics are likely worried that New Yorkers who turned out in droves to support Mamdani this summer have been hoodwinked by another Democrat voicing sympathy for the Palestinian cause when it’s politically convenient while trying at the same time to please his pro-Israel detractors.

Mamdani’s responses, though, have reinforced the frustrations of many pro-Palestine advocates on the left — that ceding ground on what constitutes acceptable speech on Palestine puts the entire campaign to end both Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and its genocide in Gaza at risk.

The question of whether a rising star like Mamdani can effectively stake out a pro-Palestine stance while succeeding in mainstream electoral politics is high on many Democrats’ minds. A growing part of the party’s base is refusing to support candidates who cave to pro-Israel pressure campaigns. And a growing number of Democrats, including recipients of money from the country’s leading pro-Israel lobby, are calling on the U.S. to stop sending offensive weapons to Israel.

Zohran Mamdani Has Pushed the Liberal Consensus on Palestine. The Left Isn’t Satisfied.

The debate over Mamdani’s candidacy highlights the ongoing identity crisis within the Democratic Party as he seeks to toe the line on Israel.

^{Akela Lacy (The Intercept)}

The concerns from the left are symptomatic of a movement that has grown understandably disillusioned with electoral politics. Some of the critics are likely worried that New Yorkers who turned out in droves to support Mamdani this summer have been hoodwinked by another Democrat voicing sympathy for the Palestinian cause when it’s politically convenient while trying at the same time to please his pro-Israel detractors.

Mamdani’s responses, though, have reinforced the frustrations of many pro-Palestine advocates on the left — that ceding ground on what constitutes acceptable speech on Palestine puts the entire campaign to end both Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and its genocide in Gaza at risk.

The question of whether a rising star like Mamdani can effectively stake out a pro-Palestine stance while succeeding in mainstream electoral politics is high on many Democrats’ minds. A growing part of the party’s base is refusing to support candidates who cave to pro-Israel pressure campaigns. And a growing number of Democrats, including recipients of money from the country’s leading pro-Israel lobby, are calling on the U.S. to stop sending offensive weapons to Israel.

Zohran Mamdani Has Pushed the Liberal Consensus on Palestine. The Left Isn’t Satisfied.

The debate over Mamdani’s candidacy highlights the ongoing identity crisis within the Democratic Party as he seeks to toe the line on Israel.

^{Akela Lacy (The Intercept)}

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-says-100-tariffs-china-not-sustainable-2025-10-17/

As the first and only state contracting for its own affordable insulin, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that CalRx® biosimilar insulin glargine pens will be available to consumers in California beginning January 1, 2026. This launch marks a significant step in the state’s ongoing effort to lower prescription drug prices and improve medication access statewide.

Through an agreement secured by Civica Rx — a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer — with Biocon Biologics, Californians will have access to an interchangeable biosimilar insulin glargine pen offered under the CalRx brand and pricing.

Governor Newsom announces affordable CalRx® insulin, $11 a pen, will soon be available for purchase | Governor of California

State of California

^{marissasaldivar (Governor of California)}

I've been hearing some good things about WinBoat, so I am wondering if anyone has tried to use it with game mod loaders. Like the windows version of Satisfactory Mod Manager (I know there is a linux one that works perfectly and exactly like the windows version but as this is a very popular game maybe someone did it this route) or, the one I am really interested in right now, Raft Mod Loader. Raft Mod Loader page suggests 1. Bottles and less recommended 2. straight wine. I would like to use a single solution for most of my windows carry overs, ie; steam is one stop for ~90% of my games flat and VR, lutris is one stop for 2 non steam games atm, but I am uncovering more as I go.

I also have 2 windows only apps for VR - FPSVR and Desktop+(this is free), obviously they will not want to port their apps to linux for such a small user base. Has anyone tried these in WinBoat?

Hey everyone 👋

I’d love to share a project I’ve been building to make Math and Logic practice easy, free, and accessible in Spanish (with English and Portuguese options too).

👉 multiideasweb.com/

📌 It includes:
• Printable worksheets ready for classroom or home use
• Interactive online exercises with instant feedback
• Resources in 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇬🇧 English, and 🇧🇷 Portuguese
• Special sections for teachers 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫

It’s a 100% independent project (no paywalls, no sign-ups), and I’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions 🙌

If you find it useful, sharing it also helps a lot ❤️

Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, has kept the House of Representatives out of session for two weeks and counting as part of his party’s strategy to pressure Senate Democrats into voting for their resolution to fund the government.

That has slowed down the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the late pedophile and held a petition demanding the release of the files at bay.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were expected to testify before the panel over the past few weeks but have yet to appear.

And Johnson has declined to swear into office Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona who would be the crucial 218th vote on a discharge petition from Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie that would demand a vote on the release of the government’s Epstein files.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices.

But California won’t be the only state making lower-cost insulin available. The nonprofit Civica said it will also distribute its economical diabetes medication to pharmacies nationwide. California began partnering with Civica in 2023 for its “CalRx” brand of insulin and put $50 million toward its development, the company said.

Starting in the new year, insulin pens will be available at a recommended price of $11 per pen, or a maximum of $55 for a five-pack, Civica said.

https://apnews.com/article/california-affordable-insulin-415edd0b915677d2051d22b4b8f8121c

A new treatment that proves to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease marks a breakthrough for a condition that has long been considered untreatable. Huntington’s is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorder that gradually deteriorates a person’s physical and mental abilities, often leading to death within 10 to 30 years of onset. Until now, treatments have only managed symptoms, rather than altering the disease’s course.

The research team, including Sung, tested a new treatment called AMT-130 on people who were in the early stages of HD. The treatment works by halting the part of the body’s gene production responsible for producing the toxic huntingtin protein. By targeting the messenger RNA that carries instructions from DNA to produce this protein, AMT-130 prevents its formation without altering the DNA itself — a key safety advantage over other genetic therapies.

After three years, those who received the higher dose showed a 75 percent slower disease progression compared to those who did not receive the treatment. The treatment helped trial participants maintain more of their movement, thinking and daily functioning abilities without causing significant side effects.

A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the extremist neo-Nazi “active club” movement and the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front, the Guardian can reveal.

The group, known as Streets Fight Club (SFC), also promoted violent, for-profit combat events featuring white nationalist extremists held in the US south to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube.

SFC stages bareknuckle brawls throughout the year, typically in Europe. Events are often held at abandoned sites, where improvised fight cages are set up using barricade fencing.

Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis

Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Satellites associated with the Starshield satellite network appear to be transmitting to the Earth's surface on frequencies normally used for doing the exact opposite: sending commands from Earth to satellites in space. The use of those frequencies to "downlink" data runs counter to standards set by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency that seeks to coordinate the use of radio spectrum globally.

Starshield's unusual transmissions have the potential to interfere with other scientific and commercial satellites, warns Scott Tilley, an amateur satellite tracker in Canada who first spotted the signals.

"Nearby satellites could receive radio-frequency interference and could perhaps not respond properly to commands — or ignore commands — from Earth," he told NPR.

The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of a significant portion of Gaza’s population.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-sabra-and-shatila-to-gaza-the-vicious-cycle-of-us-israeli-peace-ploys/

Hello all

I was hoping to get some advice on editing these two photos I took with my OM-1 in hi-res mode. I have pretty limited experience editing in darktable (or editing digital files, at all. in fact, I pretty much suck lol) , and find myself getting burnt out during editing sessions where ill think my image looks good, ill step away, come back and think its not great.

In this case, I'm having trouble getting my edited raw images to look as good (here, in this case, I'm mostly talking sharpness) as the OOC jpeg. I guess Olympus does quite a bit of sharpening? I'm a bit more confident in my colorgrading/saturation/exposure adjustments but for these particular images I feel like I could work on them forever and never be satisfied.

Was wondering if I could get some advice on these images. I've included the raw files, the OOC jpegs, and my lightly edited images in this album. I was hoping to see if anyone would be willing to do a quick edit themselves to see if they are able to make a good image out of these rawfiles, but that's quite a bit of work, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

darktable community edit

6 shared photos & videos

^{immich.blomsquids.com}