Research shows 4K or 8K screens offer no distinguishable benefit over similarly sized 2K screen in average living room

Ultra-HD televisions not noticeably better for typical viewer, scientists say

^{Nicola Davis (The Guardian)}

Frustrated Windows 10 users are jumping ship to macOS.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/microsofts-decision-to-axe-windows-10-is-driving-apple-pc-sales-growth-users-buy-macs-instead-of-ai-pcs-despite-microsofts-push-for-copilot-pcs

A female Israeli soldier guards two teenage Palestinian boys, who have been abducted and stripped to their underwear by the Israeli military in Gaza; she forces the two boys to dance around in their underwear, while she records a video of them and laughs.

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Ukrainian special operations successfully targeted a Russian fuel storage, disrupting logistical support for occupying forces in Luhansk.

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Ukraine Obliterates Russian Fuel Hub With Precision Drone Strike in Occupied Luhansk, Video

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The Gaza Tribunal's final statement calls for legal accountability, suspension of Israel from global groups, and activation of a veto-proof UN mechanism for international intervention to stop the genocide.

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'Jury of Conscience' Finds 'Israel Is Perpetrating Ongoing Genocide' in Gaza

The Gaza Tribunal's final statement calls for legal accountability, suspension of Israel from global groups, and activation of a veto-proof UN mechanism for international intervention to stop the genocide.

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

The Association of University Heads in Israel has recorded over 1,000 incidents of academic boycotts over the last two years, three times the total as of a year ago.

Israel's Haaretz daily reported on Monday that the incidents included Israeli researchers who encountered refusals to cooperate with them or invite them to conferences, refusals by overseas researchers to come to the occupied territories, the cessation of student exchange programs, refusals to conduct peer reviews, and delays in the publication of articles.

The report came at a time when a growing number of universities, academic institutions, and scholarly bodies across the world are cutting links with Israeli academia due to the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

It quoted senior Israeli academics as saying that their universities are looking into forging alternative ties with institutions in Eastern Europe and Asia if Israeli-led research is pushed out of Western Europe.

It also echoed fears that Israeli researchers may be forced to leave the occupied lands to avoid harm to their work.

"Research in Israel … is in danger of collapsing," one academic warned.

Professor Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University, said, "We're in the worst situation, from the standpoint of the academic boycott, that we have been in at any time over the last two years.”

Meanwhile, Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv University's deputy president for international affairs, said there was a rise in the number of academic boycotts against Israel even during Gaza ceasefire negotiations, and even after the genocide ended.

"In the United States, there are a lot of faculty members who still refuse to maintain working relations with Israeli researchers,” she added.

"And in Europe, the situation is even worse. There, the boycott is expanding fast. The main victims are younger researchers. This is long-term damage."

The report said that the hidden boycott of Israel is much broader than overt statements or actions against Israeli academics.

It further said Israeli academics criticize the Tel Aviv regime for doing nothing about the academic boycott.

"We've heard from cabinet representatives that they deliberately won't help us, because we're leftists,” an academic said.

Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Israel accepted a Gaza ceasefire deal after it failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all captives, despite killing 68,527 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 170,395 others, according to the health ministry of Gaza.

Over the past two years, nearly 40 overseas universities have announced that they are ending cooperation with Israeli institutions either completely or partially.

Stephanie Adam of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said Israeli academic institutions are complicit in the regime’s “decades-long regime of military occupation, settler colonial apartheid and now genocide,” adding there is “a moral and legal obligation for universities to end ties with complicit Israeli universities”.

Academic boycotts against Israel have tripled in one-year span: Report

The Association of University Heads in Israel has reportedly recorded over 1,000 incidents of academic boycotts over the last two years, three times the total as of a year ago.

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Venezuela accuses CIA of plotting “false flag” attack amid rising tensions

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Venezuela announces arrest of alleged CIA-linked 'mercenaries'

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PM blames Alexander Lukashenko for not stopping ‘hybrid attacks’, which closed Vilnius airport four times last week

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Lithuania says it will shoot down smuggling balloons from Russia’s ally Belarus

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Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes “institutional neutrality” and declines to act, she resigns, he stays because he made them billions on SpaceX. Brock correctly calls this out as a choice, not neutrality—a calculation about whose value to the firm matters more.

The thing that struck me about Brock’s piece is that it highlights how there’s a broader pattern here: institutional cowardice from organizations that spout high-minded ideals as a shield to explain their refusal to make a clear decision, while ignoring that doing so is a very real choice with very real consequences.

That’s worth highlighting, because we keep seeing it play out in nearly identical ways. Whether it’s a venture capital firm or a social media platform, the playbook is the same: invoke “neutrality” or “free speech” as a shield, refuse to take a clear stance on bigoted behavior, and then act shocked when the people being targeted decide they don’t want to stick around.

This is the Nazi bar problem, and it keeps happening because people in positions of power either don’t understand it or don’t want to.

We head off into an excursion about paid blogging platforms ...

Sequoia took the cowardly way out. It made a choice, but it wouldn’t own it, just like Substack refuses to own its pro-Nazi position. It pretends it doesn’t by saying “we’re staying neutral.” But their version of “staying neutral” and “supporting free speech” is really “bigotry and hatred are welcome” and then, what follows naturally is “the targets of bigotry and hatred must leave.”

And it’s the exact same choice Substack made. When [CEO Chris] Best refused to answer Nilay’s questions, he was saying: we value the revenue from writers who publish bigoted content more than we value the writers and readers who don’t want to be associated with that content.

Just as Balbale felt the need to leave Sequoia, a ton of Substack’s top writers left that platform. Joe Posnanski, Casey Newton, Marisa Kabas, Ryan Broderick, Molly White, Ken White, Audrey Watters, Mark DeLong, and many others have left Substack, with many of them pointing out that Substack’s stance on Nazis makes them feel unwelcome (for what it’s worth, many are also noting they make more money on other platforms).

Hmm. More money, fewer Nazis seems a decent tradeoff.

How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value

Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes R…

^Techdirt

Rinse, repeat.

Tesla rehashing old threats to get shareholders to approve Musk’s $1 trillion pay day

Tesla’s board is urging shareholders to approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package or risk him leaving the company.

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

Several international airlines continue to suspend flights to Israel, even after the declaration of a ceasefire, according to reports from Israel’s Channel 12.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251027-foreign-airlines-continue-to-suspend-flights-to-israel-despite-ceasefire/

Staff shortages have increased four times over October 2024 as a federal government shutdown nears its one-month anniversary

FAA staffing shortages slam 50 airports over the weekend as air traffic controllers are set to miss first full paycheck

^{John Bowden (The Independent)}

UN peacekeeping force shoot down Israel drone in rare retaliation, as French foreign ministry slams Israeli operations in Lebanon

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UN peacekeepers shoot down Israeli drone on Lebanese border - Canary

^{Joe Glenton (The Canary)}

[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]

from World-Outlook
Oct. 20, 2025

More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.

The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.

Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.

Millions Turn Out for October 18 ‘No Kings’ Protests Across U.S. - World-Outlook

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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38146161

[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]

from World-Outlook
Oct. 20, 2025

More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.

The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.

Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.

Peter Link

2025-10-27 18:31:11

Millions Turn Out for October 18 ‘No Kings’ Protests Across U.S.

[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]

from World-Outlook
Oct. 20, 2025

More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.

The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.

Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.

Millions Turn Out for October 18 ‘No Kings’ Protests Across U.S. - World-Outlook

^{world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)}

The King of the United Kingdom Charles III and dignitaries gathered on Monday for the inauguration of a wavy and almost floating memorial monument filled with letters. The monument is the first in the United Kingdom to honor the LGBTQ people who serve the country's military.

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King Charles Unveils UK's First LGBTQ Military Monument

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A Turkish doctor speaks out at the Gaza Tribunal on making harrowing choices over which child lives and which dies, amid Israel's genocide

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Turkish doctor Gaza: harrowing choices on who lives and who dies

^{Alaa Shamali (The Canary)}

The Government and The Sweden Democrats are changing their minds about the redemption of the controversial rifle AR-15 and no longer want it to happen by force, they write in a debate article in Swedish Hunting.

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Sweden Reverses Decision on Mandatory AR-15 Rifle Buyback

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"Only a right-wing elitist would think that owning a bunch of farmland makes you a farmer," said one critic. "No, farming makes you a farmer, Scott. You’re an investor and landowner."

Treasury Chief Bessent Says He's a 'Soybean Farmer' Who Has 'Felt the Pain' of Trump Tariffs

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

https://thehill.com/homenews/5574835-federal-snap-benefits-wont-be-paid-in-november-what-happens-next/

Mendocino and Rembrandt-R rise once more.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-rebrands-ryzen-7035-7020-series-mobile-processors-zen-2-and-zen-3-chips-receive-new-identities

Late last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseen by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., drew a line in the sand over direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies: In a post on X, the agency declared that drug ads “can push people to take drugs they don’t actually need. Americans often end up harmed instead of helped.”

That’s why, the post continued, President Donald Trump and Kennedy “are taking action.”
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The most immediate evidence of those efforts came the previous week, in the form of a presidential memorandum on what the administration views as “misleading” direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug ads. The same day, HHS and the Food and Drug Administration released a joint press release outlining that drug makers would now be required to substitute the abbreviated disclosures they’ve used since 1997 with full safety warnings, including conditions or situations that make taking the drug unsafe.

Despite the change in stance, however, it’s unclear if or when Americans will see fewer ads — or even ones that reflect the memo’s objectives. Legal challenges will almost certainly stymie the Trump administration’s most aggressive actions, and the history of pharmaceutical advertising in the United States is one of uneasy tension between consumer interest and corporate free speech.

The U.S. is one of just two wealthy countries where DTC ads for prescription drugs are legal. Estimates vary on how much money major drug companies spend on advertising. An upper bound estimate by The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing, a coalition that promotes lower drug prices in the U.S., put the figure at nearly $14 billion, which includes the cost of promoting drugs to physicians.

Free speech. Unless, like, you're against genocide or something.

Lawyers are going to make bank off the years of protracted challenges, and nothing will change for consumers subsidizing heavy advertising spends.

What Will the Trump-Era Crackdown on Drug Ads Accomplish?

The federal government announced a new approach to regulating pharmaceutical ads. Consumers may not see a difference.

^{Joshua Cohen (Undark Magazine)}

As COP30 nears, the US’s pressure to keep fossil fuels relevant may empower petrostates, potentially giving them more leverage at the UN talks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-27/trump-bullies-countries-to-keep-burning-oil-gas-as-cop30-nears?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTU3MjI0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzYyMTc3MDQ4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNFNCU0VHUFdDS1EwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.BV69Jp2jie0N4RLkgwg-xpmcz5gGZbT0FTc8nnr8U20

Signatories demand that the paper examine its bias, update its style guide on Israel-Palestine, and call for a US arms embargo

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Over 150 New York Times contributors to boycott paper over Gaza coverage

More than 150 New York Times contributors have signed a pledge not to write for the US newspaper's opinion section, citing its “biased coverage” of the Israel-Palestine conflict and war on Gaza.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

Signal head Meredith Whittaker has responded to concerns about the encrypted messaging app’s use of Amazon Web Services, saying “there isn’t really another choice.”

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

But will they beat AMD's and Nvidia's offerings?

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/qualcomm-unveils-ai200-and-ai250-ai-inference-accelerators-hexagon-takes-on-amd-and-nvidia-in-the-booming-data-center-realm

Google AI Studio product lead teased that everyone will be able to vibe code video games by the end of the year.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-says-everyone-will-be-able-to-vibe-code-video-games/

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/you-can-now-develop-native-android-applications-with-apple-s-swift-programming-language/

Something remarkable is unfolding in developing countries. From Nepal to Costa Rica, more people are buying electric cars than fossil-fuel vehicles, as battery prices plummet and cheap home-grown EVs come to market. And in China, more electric cars will be sold in the last quarter of this year than the total number of all cars sold in the US. Colin McKerracher, head of transport at BNEF, joins Akshat Rathi on Zero to unpack these trends, and what they mean for global oil demand.

U.S. immigration authorities detained British commentator Sami Hamdi, revoked his visa and said he would be deported rather than allowed to complete his speaking tour in the United States, a Homeland Security official said on Sunday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has Hamdi in custody, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin posted on social media site X. "Under President Trump, those who support terrorism and undermine American national security will not be allowed to work or visit this country," she wrote.

Hamdi spoke at a gala for the Council on American Islamic Relations in Sacramento, California on Saturday and was scheduled to speak on Sunday at one of the group's events in Florida, the organization said in a statement.

CAIR said he was detained at San Francisco International Airport.

Conservative figures had been urging the Trump administration to expel Hamdi from the United States.
Hamdi has appeared as an analyst and commentator on British TV networks.

CAIR on Sunday called for his release and accused the Trump administration of detaining him over his criticism of the Israeli government.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-detains-british-commentator-hamdi-middle-national-speaking-tour-2025-10-27/

Air traffic controllers will miss their biweekly paycheck, which would have gone out on Oct. 28, as the government shutdown continues.

It marks the first time during the shutdown — now in its 27th day — that controllers will go without a full paycheck.

Air traffic controllers are classified as essential employees, meaning they are required to report to work during a shutdown. However, officials say sick calls have noticeably increased in recent days.

Air traffic controllers to miss paycheck as shortages trigger flight delays, cancellations

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