"du ska inte tro det blir sommar ifall inte nån sätter fart" /swedish tune about nothing ever happening unless someone gets on it, cheerful & soothing melody. 'Idas sommarvisa.'

"war is too important to leave to generals"

my utopia is that a promille of humans are around at the end of this, the 6th extinction. nourishes me to archive culture and knowledge for the coming generations. to consider my material possessions- to go WWOOF:ing around as a farmhand and educate to preserve & prosper natural areas- fields, forests. to find it in me to dream for children again: because i don't want the 12-children-per-patriarch-oligarch-or-antiintellectual-family to be the poor bastards left. i want better: i want all the sensible people who consider the ethics of having children, ironically, to increase the odds that their family's culture of humanism is statistically likely to exist among that small amount of humans alive after the 6th extinction.

what's your utopia? we all find motivation in a utopia or demotivate- cowering infront of a dystopia that only feeds off of that fear & despair to manifest more and more. it's never over, not even in Nazi germany.

On Tuesday 28 October, Defend Our Juries and Prisoners For Palestine jointly announced plans to launch what they aim to be the:

most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history.

Defend our Juries and Prisoners for Palestine: plans for mass civil disobedience

Defend Our Juries has plans for actions in 18 towns and cities across every nation in the UK. The group will be challenging the ‘terror’ ban on Palestine Action ahead of and during the judicial review (25–27 November). Protesters will hold Lift The Ban demonstrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Aberystwyth, Nottingham, Northampton, Gloucester, and Truro on Tuesday 18 November. Following this, the group will host protests in London (Thursday 20, Saturday 22, Monday 24, Wednesday 26), Belfast (Saturday 22), Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Bristol, Sheffield, Exeter and Lancaster (Saturday 29 November).

So far, the state has arrested over 2,000 people under terrorism legislation for taking part in these actions in which people sit silently holding handwritten cardboard signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”. Around 170 of these, police have so far charged with section 13 offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. These offences carry a maximum six month prison sentence.

Time for a ‘significant escalation’

At the Court Of Appeal ruling on 15 October, Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori won two more grounds for her Judicial Review. This was at the same time as the government lost its attempt to block the legal challenge of the ban. Defend Our Juries said this made the Judicial Review “twice as likely to succeed” as she now has four grounds on which to appeal rather than two.

Last week the UN issued its draft report Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime. It detailed the complicity of states including the UK in the destruction of Gaza. Amongst other things, the UK continued to supply arms including components for F-35 stealth bombers, undertook daily surveillance flights over Gaza for Israel, maintained normal trade relations, and enabled Israel to undertake international crimes with impunity.

A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said:

Today, we’re announcing a significant escalation. This is set to be the most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history, stretching from city centres to small towns across the country, in open defiance of this authoritarian and unjust ban.

These historic mobilisations will honour those already imprisoned for risking everything to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel and stands in unwavering solidarity with them.

As the latest UN report makes devastatingly clear, both Conservative and Labour governments have been shamefully complicit in the horrors unfolding in Gaza. The use of counter-terror legislation to silence and criminalise people acting to save lives and expose the UK Government’s violations of international law must end now. The Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5 must be granted immediate bail and full access to the evidence they need to defend themselves.

Our movement to defy this draconian ban is growing by the thousands and we will not stop until it is overturned.

Different nations, wildly different responses

The action in Belfast Saturday on 22 November will be the first Lift The Ban action in the city. Local campaigners have held regular independently-organised sign-holding actions in Derry, but police have brought no arrests or charges to date in the North of Ireland. Legal experts say that Police Service Northern Ireland need the proscription “like a hole in the head”. They suspect that the home secretary did not consult PSNI on the proscription.

Police Scotland have similarly made no arrests at Lift The Ban actions in Edinburgh. However, they have subsequently arrested and charged a seemingly random ten people from the 85 who took action in September. The Scottish Counter-Terrorism Board CONTEST has concluded that Palestine Action:

has not been close to meeting the statutory definition of terrorism.

Earlier this month, former diplomat Craig Murray filed a legal challenge against the ban in Scotland. It means there is the potential for a constitutional crisis if Scottish and English courts reach different decisions.

In Cardiff, Welsh police took an alarmingly extreme approach back in July. Cops arrested sign-holding sitters originally under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (maximum penalty of 14 years in prison). They held the protesters in custody while raiding their houses. The same sitters were subsequently charged with lesser section 13 offences (maximum penalty of six months in prison).

Palestine Action prisoners prepare to hunger strike

In tandem, Prisoners for Palestine have announced that prisoners the state is holding in British jails without trial will go ahead with a rolling hunger strike on 2 November. The decision comes after the home secretary failed to respond to their demands. This included immediate bail, access to documents necessary for the right to a fair trial, and the de-proscription of Palestine Action.

The prisoners are part of the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5 who are alleged to have taken part in actions in the name of Palestine Action designed to save lives by degrading weapons and machinery facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The Crown Prosecution Service claims there is a “terrorism connection” to the alleged offences. This is despite the fact that the state has brought no charges under the Terrorism Act against them, and the activists carried out their actions before the government proscribed Palestine Action.

Francesca Nadin, spokesperson for Prisoners for Palestine said:

It’s no great surprise that the government has ignored the prisoners’ demands, this is simply a continuation of the corruption and violence enacted by the British state – not only upon the prisoners, but most importantly on the Palestinian people. It seems that they believe that they can act against the wishes of the people, but we are here to tell them otherwise. The prisoners lead the way with their resolve and moral clarity and we must heed their call. We are here today with Defend Our Juries to show the British state that we will not be intimidated into silence, on the contrary, we are fighting for the same cause and will continue to escalate. For justice, for freedom, to stop the genocide in Palestine.

T Hoxa, one of the Filton 24 who ended a 28-day hunger strike on 7 September after winning most of her demands, said:

For me, the hunger strike is about autonomy. Your body is one way you can fight against the system, because in every other way they’ve taken everything from you. They lock you up when they want, give you red warnings just because they’ve got that power. So, for me, hunger strike is a very important and necessary tool, and the notion that this is one area they can’t control gives me strength.

Hunger strike to bring violence of UK carceral system into ‘sharp focus’

Dr Asim Qureshi, research director at CAGE International, who are negotiating partners for the hunger strikers alongside Prisoners for Palestine, said:

This hunger strike will be the first of its kind in at least two decades. It brings into sharp focus the violence of the carceral system in the UK, a violence we often associate with places afar. From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws built to imprison, silence, and suppress action for Palestine and voices challenging wars and genocide must be dismantled. Prisoners are the beating heart of our movement for justice. We must honour their sacrifices and stand up to challenge the injustices they face.

The hunger-strikers are members of Prisoners for Palestine, which include the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5. Some of these prisoners have now spent over a year in custody without trial. With their treatment having deteriorated following the proscription of Palestine Action, they feel they have no option but to go on hunger-strike to fight for their rights.

The prisoners will start their hunger strike on 2 November, Balfour Day, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It will also mark just two weeks before the start of the first of the three Filton 24 trials. The hunger-strike aims to highlight the conditions of the prisoners’ incarceration, and set out a series of demands to the British government. These demands include the right to a fair trial, release on bail, and the dropping of all terror-related charges.

The Filton 24 are alleged to have been involved in an action on the Research, Development, and Manufacturing Hub of Israel’s biggest weapons maker Elbit Systems, located at Filton, Bristol. During the August 2024 action, a group of activists drove a modified prison van through the facility’s perimeter fence, and on through the shuttered entrance. Six activists then entered the building, and began dismantling production machinery, as well as Elbit-produced quadcopter drones, which Israel has used throughout the Gaza Genocide.

Police arrested the six activists at the site. However later, while in police custody, they re-arrested them under counter-terrorism legislation. This allowed the authorities to extend their detention period. Police later charged them with non-terror offences, and remanded them in custody.

Shocking abuse of terror laws and police powers

Over the following months, in a series of dawn raids, police arrested a further 18 activists, often along with family members, who they later released. The police again used counter-terror laws, and while they never charged them with terrorist offences, the prosecution have alleged a ‘terrorism connection’. All have been denied bail, and been subject to various abuses by the prison authorities. The treatment of the Filton 24 has been widely condemned, not least by the United Nations.

In June of this year, activists entered RAF Brize Norton, and sprayed blood-red paint on 2 Voyager aircraft leased by the RAF. Brize Norton has served as a transport and re-fuelling hub for flights to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, from where daily flights have been dispatched to spy over Gaza. The former home secretary Yvette Cooper cited the Brize Norton action in proscribing Palestine Action as a supposed terrorist group.

However, evidence shows the government had been planning the proscription for some time previously. Five people have been remanded in custody in relation to Brize Norton, with the police following a similar modus operandi to the Filton case.

The state is currently holding 33 prisoners on remand in British prisons for Palestine-related actions.

Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned

Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.

^{JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)}

https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-openai-reach-new-deal-allow-openai-restructure-2025-10-28/

NodeBB has a very simple allow/deny list capability at present. You paste in a bunch of newline-separated domains, and we block (or optionally, only allow) them all.

On the road to more fine-grained controls, I discovered that IFTAS publishes a Do Not Interact list in an importable CSV format.

As maintenance of these lists is important (adding new entries as well as handling removals), it looks to be increasingly important that I add into NodeBB the functionality to follow these lists automatically and update as necessary.

IFTAS

2025-10-23 18:52:23

IFTAS Do Not Interact (DNI) List

The Do Not Interact List is an IFTAS-curated list of domains that are highly recommended for defederation. Each domain is labelled using an IFTAS label. Each domain is investigated by human review for governance, common content, network and service activities, hosting location and more.

Inclusion on this list means we believe:

1. Federating with this domain poses significant risk to your service, and
2. We are extremely unlikely to ever retract an entry.

In all cases we strongly recommend you use a Federation Policy to aid you in your decision making.

iftas-dni-latest.csv (Mastodon import format)

The permanent file location is:
about.iftas.org/wp-content/upl…
(The file date will not change, but the latest version will overwrite any previous version at this URL)

Related Resources

• IFTAS Abandoned Unmanaged Denylist
• CARIAD Domain Observatory
• Denylist Resources
• Denylist Management Tools

Shared Vocabulary: Labels

The community shared vocabulary is a collaboratively maintained set of terms and definitions used by moderators and administrators to ensure clarity, fairness, and consistency in community governan…

^IFTAS

Platforms expect to monitor a range of signals, but age detection will be spotty.

Australia’s social media ban is “problematic,” but platforms will comply anyway

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

A terrible time all round

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/fake-nvidia-gtc-stream-hosting-jensen-huang-deepfake-crypto-scam-garners-100-000-youtube-viewers-video-was-even-promoted-above-nvidias-real-event

Not implementing climate friendly policies could cost European countries around six times as much as the price of decarbonisation, a new study finds.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/euobserver.c…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Climate inaction could cost Europe €5.6 trillion by 2050, study finds

^EUobserver

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered air strikes on Gaza as he accused Hamas of only pretending to actively search for captive remains.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastey…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Netanyahu orders air strikes on Gaza

^{Middle East Eye}

Dictator wannabe Donald Trump appears to be trying to change the constitution so he can serve a third term

Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Trumps tries to change the constitution so he can serve a third term - Canary

^{HG (The Canary)}

The next season sets sail on March 10th.

Season 2 of Netflix’s live-action One Piece premieres in March

Netflix’s One Piece series returns for its second season on March 10th.

^{Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge)}

Brigitte Macron's daughter Tiphaine Auziére told a French court on Tuesday that cyberbullying had led to a "deterioration" in the French first lady's health. Auziére spoke on the second day of the trial in Paris where 10 people are accused of amplifying rumours that her mother was assigned male at birth.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/france24.com…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Cyberbullying led to a 'deterioration' in Brigitte Macron's health, her daughter says

Brigitte Macron's daughter Tiphaine Auziére told a French court on Tuesday that cyberbullying had led to a "deterioration" in the French first lady's health.

^{FRANCE 24}

Although the European Court of Human Rights sided with the Norwegian government over six young adults and a pair of climate groups, the plaintiffs still welcomed the tribunal's ruling as "a major step forward," in the words of Frode Pleym, head of Greenpeace Norway.

Press release: echr.coe.int/w/judgment-concer…

European Court of Human Rights Delivers 'Quantum Leap for Climate Accountability'

"Requiring governments to assess the global climate consequences of oil and gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense, and long overdue," said one campaigner.

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

Vera Rubin forges into supercomputers.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/nvidia-unveils-vera-rubin-supercomputers-for-los-alamos-national-laboratory-announcement-comes-on-heels-of-amds-recent-supercomputer-wins

Hades 2's first post-launch patch is out now in Steam preview form, and has seen Supergiant add to the game's true ending.

Hades 2 post-launch patch 1 revamps Melinoë's "true ending", and is out now in Steam preview form

^{Mark Warren (Rock Paper Shotgun)}

“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”

Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’

Legal experts explain the laws and ethics of recording other people with Meta’s new smart glasses and other wearables.

^{Janus Rose (The Verge)}

The next space race?

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-calls-on-u-s-to-build-100-gigawatts-of-additional-power-generating-capacity-per-year-says-electricity-is-a-strategic-asset-in-ai-race-against-china

Ubuntu Unity, the community-driven flavor reviving the classic Unity desktop, is struggling, and a moderator is calling for help to keep it alive.

https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-unity-faces-possible-shutdown-as-team-member-cries-for-help/

Of course, israeli prisoners/hostages are well treated, in the futile hope that israelis will have some empathy, and treat palestinians as they'd want to be treated.
I hold for a fact that Israel wouldn't be able to do the horrors it does if the world was better informed(, the most important is to inform the israelis themselves, and i know that people here will claim that they all perfectly know, but i disagree). Mistakes are the root of evil.
From vm.tiktok.com/ZNdcE3Fgc

It's obviously far from the only testimony of tortures, even teenagers aren't spared.

I posted that two years ago, but didn't know how widespread it was.
With only a few minutes of researchs you can find dozens of testimonies : youtu.be/eIXCI3NuKQ8, youtu.be/-On--4b6qf8, youtu.be/7BJtpL1aGFs, youtu.be/AJi52pMblgQ, youtube.com/shorts/IcrF9d8rnJA… youtu.be/1JDEXsSuffo, ...
I'm so sorry for that useless suffering(, useless because it was supposed to have been over in the 90s).

sousmerde_rtrdataire

2025-10-16 19:47:36

Mahmoud Abu Foul, freed after the ceasefire, lost a leg in 2015, was kidnapped in Kamal Adwan hospital last december, and is now blind after the beatings and lack of medical treatment in israeli jails

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

Restructuring paves way for ChatGPT maker to more easily raise capital and profit off its AI technology

OpenAI completes conversion to for-profit business after lengthy legal saga

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

PayPal is the first digital wallet to land on ChatGPT.

You’ll be able to pay with PayPal in ChatGPT next year

Starting in 2026, ChatGPT users will be able to use PayPal to make purchases from within the AI platform, as it adopts OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP).

^{Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)}

Developers can use multiple coding agents at the same time.

GitHub is launching a hub for multiple AI coding agents

GitHub is launching a new “Agent HQ” that will house its Copilot coding agent alongside third-party options, including OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Jules, and more.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

EA has officially unveiled and launched its new battle royale experience, Battlefield REDSEC. There are a couple of surprises included in the free game in addition to the 100-player mode too.

https://www.neowin.net/news/battlefields-new-battle-royale-is-free-to-play-and-out-now-with-100-player-matches/

Following the Keepers of the Flame Content Reveal last week, we've seen a lot of questions about this update to Path of Exile. Check out the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions below.

The most recently answered questions are at the top.

What will it cost to respec points in the Genesis Tree passive tree?

Nothing, doing so is free.

Will I be able to hide my grafts if they conflict with the MTX I want to wear?

We are adding a "Hide Grafts" option in the MTX menu. This should be in place on release, but if it isn't it will be available shortly after.

What is happening with classic Breach Uniques like Xoph's Blood?

These will still exist, you'll be able to grow them on the Genesis tree or in some cases they'll come from Breach related Bosses.

Many of these will now have Foulborn variants to check out as well!

For the purpose of Schizophrenic Dissociation do Jewels socketed into a cluster jewel count as being socketed in your passive tree?

Yes

What is happening with content that is tied to Breach?

Breachstones will still work in standard, but are unobtainable in Keepers Leagues.

Breach Scarabs will be unavailable in the Keepers league.

Chayula on Maven's Invitation: The Feared has been replaced with the Incarnation of Dread.

Maven's Invitation: The Hidden is now replaced with The Remembered, requiring Witness of Courtyard of Wasting, Chambers of Impurity and Theatre of Lies.

It That Fled does not appear in Betrayal encounters in Keepers Leagues.

Will the identification of items use the Ctrl+Click shortcut from Path of Exile 2?

The quick shortcut for item identification is Ctrl+Alt+Click on Mouse and Keyboard.

Can all uniques be Foulborn?

Not all uniques can be Foulborn, the list of uniques that can be is still ongoing however there will be more than one hundred. Uniques that come from specific sources, such as boss uniques cannot be Foulborn.

Have there been any changes made to the frequency of finding Aul in Delve?

The frequency of Aul appearing in Delve is unchanged.

Will Faustus in the Rogue harbour also be able to manage asynchronous trade?

Faustus asynchronous trade will only be available in hideouts.

Will we be able to change our Bloodline Ascendancy and how?

Yes, you can respec your current Bloodline Ascendancy with another for free (after defeating a relevant boss). Otherwise, you can use Orbs of Regret or gold to respec those points like normal Ascendancy points (5 refund points each).

Can multiple party members all get the same Bloodline Ascendancy from the same boss?

Yes, assuming they are in the fight when the boss is killed.

Will Windburst Support work with movement from things like Flame Dash or Flicker Strike?

Yes. It counts movement from travel skills as well as regular movement.

Will graft skills scale off my damage and am I able to die from my graft skills reflected damage?

Graft skills do not scale off of player stats, but do have affixes which will affect their skills in many ways. Since graft damage is not dealt by the player, reflected damage will not be dealt back to the player from graft skill use.

How many Spectral Tigers can you have and how much Critical Chance, Attack and Cast Speed do they give?

You can have up to 5 of them and each of them grants 25% Increased Critical Chance, 7% Increased Attack Speed and 7% Increased Cast Speed.

We'll continue to monitor for questions and will continue to update this post when we do. Thank you so much for your continued support, we'll see you at launch!

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now has licenses to use Zignal Labs, a platform used by the Pentagon and Israeli military to scan social media with AI.

https://www.neowin.net/news/ice-now-using-ai-software-that-can-search-eight-billion-social-media-posts-per-day/

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/turbine-shortage-threatens-ai-datacenters-as-wait-times-stretch-into-2030