Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Costco Wholesale sued the Trump administration in the Court of International Trade, seeking a refund of tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law.Steve Kopack (NBC News)
This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39748429
archive.ph/ErKmx[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Opinion - Guest Essay
Ben Rhodes
During the Biden presidency, it was short-handed the “hug Bibi” strategy — the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions. Over the final 15 months of the Biden presidency, this approach led the White House to provide a flood of weapons for Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians, veto United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire, attack the International Criminal Court for pursuing charges against Mr. Netanyahu, ignore its own policies about supporting military units credibly accused of war crimes and blame Hamas for not accepting cease-fire terms that the Israeli government was also rejecting.
This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Opinion - Guest Essay
Ben RhodesDuring the Biden presidency, it was short-handed the “hug Bibi” strategy — the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions. Over the final 15 months of the Biden presidency, this approach led the White House to provide a flood of weapons for Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians, veto United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire, attack the International Criminal Court for pursuing charges against Mr. Netanyahu, ignore its own policies about supporting military units credibly accused of war crimes and blame Hamas for not accepting cease-fire terms that the Israeli government was also rejecting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/opinion/democrats-israel.html
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This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39748429
archive.ph/ErKmx[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Opinion - Guest Essay
Ben Rhodes
During the Biden presidency, it was short-handed the “hug Bibi” strategy — the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions. Over the final 15 months of the Biden presidency, this approach led the White House to provide a flood of weapons for Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians, veto United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire, attack the International Criminal Court for pursuing charges against Mr. Netanyahu, ignore its own policies about supporting military units credibly accused of war crimes and blame Hamas for not accepting cease-fire terms that the Israeli government was also rejecting.
This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Opinion - Guest Essay
Ben RhodesDuring the Biden presidency, it was short-handed the “hug Bibi” strategy — the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions. Over the final 15 months of the Biden presidency, this approach led the White House to provide a flood of weapons for Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians, veto United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire, attack the International Criminal Court for pursuing charges against Mr. Netanyahu, ignore its own policies about supporting military units credibly accused of war crimes and blame Hamas for not accepting cease-fire terms that the Israeli government was also rejecting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/opinion/democrats-israel.html
China’s Grip on American Medicine Cabinets Grows More Entrenched
China’s Grip on American Medicine Cabinets Grows More Entrenched
A US congressional commission is ringing alarm bells about China’s growing dominance over America’s drug supply, saying it is putting the country’s health in the hands of an adversarial nation.Anna Edney (Bloomberg)
'Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39747783
archive.ph/jphZ9[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
By Roger Cohen
Nov. 26, 2025[on-site, in-depth report from Lebanon, with many photos]
Abbas Fakhr al-Din, the soft-spoken mayor of Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, sat beneath a portrait of Ahmad Kahil, a doctor and his predecessor. Dr. Kahil was killed in an Israeli strike on the municipal building on Oct. 16, 2024, that took the lives of 16 people in all. The rubble remains.I asked Mr. al-Din if he was afraid. “No,” he said. “I have to be with my people through good times and bad.”
Nabatieh and the surrounding area continue to be hit by intermittent Israeli strikes, killing people and heightening the sense that the cease-fire is even less stable than Lebanon’s battered buildings. To the mayor’s eyes, American strategy is devoted solely to support of Israel.
'Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
By Roger Cohen
Nov. 26, 2025[on-site, in-depth report from Lebanon, with many photos]
Abbas Fakhr al-Din, the soft-spoken mayor of Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, sat beneath a portrait of Ahmad Kahil, a doctor and his predecessor. Dr. Kahil was killed in an Israeli strike on the municipal building on Oct. 16, 2024, that took the lives of 16 people in all. The rubble remains.I asked Mr. al-Din if he was afraid. “No,” he said. “I have to be with my people through good times and bad.”
Nabatieh and the surrounding area continue to be hit by intermittent Israeli strikes, killing people and heightening the sense that the cease-fire is even less stable than Lebanon’s battered buildings. To the mayor’s eyes, American strategy is devoted solely to support of Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/middleeast/imperial-israel-in-the-new-middle-east.html
How did the Ad Networks find my search?
So a bit ago I got an add for "canned rambutan". I had looked up Rambutan a few days prior after hearing it mentioned 10 hours into the video game Baby Steps. I wasn't using a VPN at the time and I didn't have fingerprinting protections active but I only mentioned it to a few sources (according to my browser history) all of which generally are implied to be private.
Which of these do you think is the reason the ad networks know?
- Wikipedia
- Startpage Search
- Duckduckgo Search
- My ISP
- Firefox
- My Firefox Extensions
- Kubuntu
- CachyOS
- The omnipotent algorithm connecting my mentions of Baby Steps with my progress through the game.
- Does this only make sense if my browser history is incomplete?
- Maybe I was using DNS over HTTPS via Cloudflare at the time of my search.
Any guesses as to where the weak link is?
It's duckduckgo. Search duckduckgo.com with the term "restaurants near me." You'll often get responses that are close to your IP location.
That couldn't happen unless DDG passes your IP address on to Bing. It's possible they censor part of the IP and only pass part of it to Bing, but probably not.
(Go ahead! Try it!)
Since Bing sells to data brokers, data brokers know your IP is linked to a search for rambutan, even without fingerprinting your browser.
I'm not calling duckduckgo.com a honeypot... I'm also not calling it not a honeypot. But it knows too much for something supposedly private.
Any closed source firefox extension that has access to the browser display could be parsing the texts and selling it and your IP and other identifiers to data brokers. It's part of how these extensions are profitable.
Cloudflare also does highly advanced fingerprinting and has a script called cloudflare insights, so it seems likely that any cloudflare activity is generating marketing data.
'Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39747783
archive.ph/jphZ9[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
By Roger Cohen
Nov. 26, 2025[on-site, in-depth report from Lebanon, with many photos]
Abbas Fakhr al-Din, the soft-spoken mayor of Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, sat beneath a portrait of Ahmad Kahil, a doctor and his predecessor. Dr. Kahil was killed in an Israeli strike on the municipal building on Oct. 16, 2024, that took the lives of 16 people in all. The rubble remains.I asked Mr. al-Din if he was afraid. “No,” he said. “I have to be with my people through good times and bad.”
Nabatieh and the surrounding area continue to be hit by intermittent Israeli strikes, killing people and heightening the sense that the cease-fire is even less stable than Lebanon’s battered buildings. To the mayor’s eyes, American strategy is devoted solely to support of Israel.
'Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
By Roger Cohen
Nov. 26, 2025[on-site, in-depth report from Lebanon, with many photos]
Abbas Fakhr al-Din, the soft-spoken mayor of Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, sat beneath a portrait of Ahmad Kahil, a doctor and his predecessor. Dr. Kahil was killed in an Israeli strike on the municipal building on Oct. 16, 2024, that took the lives of 16 people in all. The rubble remains.I asked Mr. al-Din if he was afraid. “No,” he said. “I have to be with my people through good times and bad.”
Nabatieh and the surrounding area continue to be hit by intermittent Israeli strikes, killing people and heightening the sense that the cease-fire is even less stable than Lebanon’s battered buildings. To the mayor’s eyes, American strategy is devoted solely to support of Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/middleeast/imperial-israel-in-the-new-middle-east.html
'Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
By Roger Cohen
Nov. 26, 2025
[on-site, in-depth report from Lebanon, with many photos]
Abbas Fakhr al-Din, the soft-spoken mayor of Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, sat beneath a portrait of Ahmad Kahil, a doctor and his predecessor. Dr. Kahil was killed in an Israeli strike on the municipal building on Oct. 16, 2024, that took the lives of 16 people in all. The rubble remains.I asked Mr. al-Din if he was afraid. “No,” he said. “I have to be with my people through good times and bad.”
Nabatieh and the surrounding area continue to be hit by intermittent Israeli strikes, killing people and heightening the sense that the cease-fire is even less stable than Lebanon’s battered buildings. To the mayor’s eyes, American strategy is devoted solely to support of Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/middleeast/imperial-israel-in-the-new-middle-east.html
Corrupt Ukrainian officials could have bagged over $100 billion in Western aid – former PM
Corrupt Ukrainian officials could have bagged over $100 billion in Western aid – former PM
Ukrainian officials could have stolen up to 30% of the $360 billion provided by the West, former Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov has claimedRT
Well, but that's kind of how it works.
If you say something positive about yourself, it's not worth anything. But if an adversary says something positive about you, it has meaning because they are not incentivized to say the thing.
Canada’s “Diversification” Trade Deal Is a Gift to Autocrats
The UAE is facing increasing scrutiny for its increasingly imperial foreign policy. It participated in the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen and backs a separatist movement in the former South Yemen.More controversial is its alleged support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that are battling the Sudanese military. The RSF's campaign for control of Sudan has reached genocidal proportions, with nearly 30,000 killed in the city of El Fasher in only a few days, according to Minni Minnawi, the governor of Darfur region, where El Fasher is located.
For Canada to announce that it is seeking closer ties to the UAE at this moment looks ignorant at best and callous at worst. There are also serious questions as to what benefits this will bring Canada. While the UAE does invest in green energy projects around the world, the Canadian government is signaling that liquefied natural gas (LNG) is to be part of this new relationship. Ottawa is signaling that LNG will feature in this new relationship, a strange move if Canada is serious about its decarbonization commitments.
The idea of natural gas as a "bridging fuel" between dirtier fossil fuels like coal and renewables is largely a mirage. Recent research on China --- the world's biggest coal consumer and LNG importer --- finds that rising LNG imports have not reduced or slowed the country's coal usage and still plays only a marginal role in its power mix. Instead, it is wind and solar that are squeezing coal out, and these renewables are now cheaper than gas-fired power.
Darfur Governor Minni Minnawi says RSF killed 27,000 Sudanese in el-Fasher
The governor of Darfur, Minni Arko Minnawi, has told Middle East Eye that 27,000 Sudanese were killed in just three days as paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) went on a killing spree after seizing el-Fasher late last month.Peter Oborne (Middle East Eye)
Venezuela calls on OPEC to counter US threats
Venezuela calls on OPEC to counter US threats
Maduro asks oil-producing bloc to help protect Venezuela’s oil reserves from US ‘aggression’.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/54163653
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
India's telecom authority DoT mandates permanent SIM binding for messenger services. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal must comply within 90 days.Malte Kirchner (heise online)
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The Session Protocol: A new standard for decentralised private messaging
It’s time for a new encryption protocol built from the ground up for decentralised secure messaging. Introducing the Session Protocol.Session
‘Don’t want a slave’s peace’: Maduro hits back after Trump ultimatum; tensions surge
Sources told the Miami Hearld that during the call Trump had pressed Maduro to leave “right away”, offering guarantees for his family only if he resigned on the spot. Maduro reportedly refused and instead put forward counter-demands, including global amnesty and the ability to retain control of the armed forces even if he ceded political power.
According to the Miami Herald, there has been no further communication since, despite Maduro’s attempt to secure a second call after Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety”.
‘Don’t want a slave’s peace’: Maduro hits back after Trump ultimatum; tensions surge
US News: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected a \"slave's peace\" amid escalating US pressure, accusing Washington of testing the nation with a prolongedTOI World Desk (The Times Of India)
China’s currency push gains ground as Russia nears issuance of yuan bond
China’s currency push gains ground as Russia nears issuance of yuan bond
Foreign governments have raised a record 13 billion yuan (US$1.8 billion) via yuan bonds this year, Bloomberg-compiled data shows.Bloomberg (South China Morning Post)
China pares down US Treasury holdings
China pares down US Treasury holdings
China cut its US Treasury holdings by $25.7 billion in July to $730.7 billion, marking the steepest reduction in nearly two years and pushing its holdings to the lowest since 2009, as the country's foreign exchange reserve diversification continued, …global.chinadaily.com.cn
China-Russia cooperation expanding in traditional areas, emerging sectors
Bilateral trade poised for steady growth
China-Russia trade is expected to maintain growth momentum in the coming years, as both countries are actively strengthening business ties in manufacturing, green industries, cross-border e-commerce and other emerging sectors, said market watchers an…global.chinadaily.com.cn
Amusingly, I predicted this exact scenario right at the start of the war, looks like mainstream western press finally figure it out.
Nobody knows whether Russia plans to take over all of Ukraine or merely keep the areas friendly to Russia and make the rest of Ukraine west’s problem. The latter seems a more plausible scenario to me. Russia will likely take areas like Kharkov and Odessa because there is a strong pro Russian sentiment there. Then western Ukraine where the nationalists are will become a rump state without any industry or agriculture. This will become an ongoing burden for the west because the state won’t be able to function on its own, and will require constant flow of money to prevent it from collapsing.
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*Per reddit u/pathtracing - Thu Jun 19 08:27:23 2025 UTC - old.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments…
I think the problem is you (and others) using the term “vpn” to cover various different needs.
There’s:
- actual privacy from network observers, which is about only Mullvad
- exploiting non-technical podcast listeners, which is just about every other product labelled “vpn”
- providing better connectivity, which is Tunnelbroker or a GRE/vxlan provider
- joining the DFZ via a crap isp, which is bgptunnel and various more expensive ones
You want 3 or 4, which is fine. Making item 1 provide a subnet doesn’t help 1 do its job any better and definitely will harm unskilled users.
[Patch Notes] Content Update 0.4.0 — Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids
Early Access Patch Notes - Content Update 0.4.0 — Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida
In the aftermath of much well-heeled panic about a potential mass exodus of New York millionaires and billionaires following the election of Zohran Mamdani, the contrary is already happening, and Manhattan luxury apartment buyers are voting with their wallets.
Signed contracts for Manhattan homes costing $4 million or more rose to 176 in November, a 25% increase from October’s 141 deals, according to fresh data from brokerage Douglas Elliman and appraiser Miller Samuel. New signed contracts of more than $4 million increased at more than twice the rate of the overall market, the report noted.
‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida
Signed contracts for Manhattan homes over $4 million grew by 25%; “the idea that people would flee New York was overblown,” said realtor Donna Olshan.Sasha Rogelberg (Fortune)
Water is Doug Ford’s latest target for privatization
Authoritarian Doug Ford is privatizing our water - rabble.ca
Water is Doug Ford's latest target for privatization.Paul Kahnert (rabble)
Water is Doug Ford’s latest target for privatization
Authoritarian Doug Ford is privatizing our water - rabble.ca
Water is Doug Ford's latest target for privatization.Paul Kahnert (rabble)
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
Russian Forces Liberate Klinovoye Settlement in Donetsk People's Republic
Russian Forces Liberate Klinovoye Settlement in Donetsk People's Republic
Russia's Yug battlegroup took control of the settlement of Klinovoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.Sputnik International
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
The Justice Department on Thursday failed to secure an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, a person familiar with the matter told NBC NewsRyan J. Reilly (NBC News)
Maduro may have to bring out their gundams
Look at this imperial hubris:
Maduro has said there are 8 million civilians training in militias, but one source estimated that only thousands of intelligence personnel, armed ruling-party supporters and militia members would really participate in defensive actions.
sources and planning documents seen, but not shared, by Reuterssix unnamed sources familiar with Venezuelan military capabilities said
reuters
the U.S. is seeking regime change to take control of Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
That is the polite way of saying the US wants to destroy Venezuela and steal in natural resources.
Linus vs Linus
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Injured teenager: consequences of drone attack on Russian regions
Injured teenager: consequences of drone attack on Russian regions
Between 11:30 p.m. Moscow time on November 30 and 7:00 a.m. on December 1, on-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian UAVsTASS
Yeah yeah, antifascists are the real fascists, we've all been through 2015
Office for Budget Responsibility(OBR) chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budget
Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early
OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of budget document
Richard Hughes takes ‘full responsibility’ for watchdog error as Starmer attempts to secure chancellor’s positionPippa Crerar (The Guardian)
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