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Arizona congresswoman who waited 7 weeks for Mike Johnson to swear her in says she was pepper sprayed by ICE at a taco joint


Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was ‘sprayed in the face’ and ‘pushed around’ as agents descended on restaurant

Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva says federal agents fired pepper spray at her and others protesting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Arizona.

In a video posted on social media Friday, Grijalva said roughly 40 federal officers, most of them masked, pulled up in several vehicles for a raid at Taco Giro in Tucson, where a large group of demonstrators had gathered in the street.

There, she was “sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent” and “pushed around by others,” she said.

She also posted footage of a heavily armored officer firing pepper spray towards her and others in the crowd as she approaches agents and repeatedly tells them “you need to get out.” The footage also appears to show a pepper bullet hitting her feet.



Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier


How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That’s a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and ’90s – and it hasn’t gone away.

Decades before artificial intelligence, Telegram and white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ livestreams, far-right extremists embraced the early days of home computing and the internet. These new technologies offered them a bastion of free speech and a global platform. They could share propaganda, spew hatred, incite violence and gain international followers like never before.

in reply to Tony Bark

YES ! Drink the AI kool-aid, you fools ! Drown yourselves in it, if you please. Do what you do best and surrender your humanity to a new master ! Stupid fascists.


US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows


Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.

The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters.

The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.

#USA


US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows


Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.

The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters.

The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.




Announcing: Thaura - Your Ethical ChatGPT Alternative


You can use Thaura for everyday tasks like writing emails, doing homework, and researching online. It remembers your conversations, helps you create documents and code, and even searches the web for you. And it works seamlessly with your existing tools through full OpenAI SDK compatibility.

But what really makes Thaura different is what it doesn't do:

  • It doesn't collect your data or spy on you
  • It doesn't have political bias
  • It doesn't water down the truth on sensitive topics

reshared this

in reply to geneva_convenience

I asked it how many Israelis were killed by the IDF on october 7 and it actually responded so that's a first
in reply to geneva_convenience

Real-time web search via Brave - no tracking, no bubbles, just truth


I wonder if they realize that the owner of Brave is everything they supposedly stand against.

Military grade encryption (aes-256)


I smell bullshit.

...and absolutely no mention of how it was trained. Does it still crawl the entire internet to steal and plunder and train on material obtained without consent?



Announcing: Thaura - Your Ethical ChatGPT Alternative


You can use Thaura for everyday tasks like writing emails, doing homework, and researching online. It remembers your conversations, helps you create documents and code, and even searches the web for you. And it works seamlessly with your existing tools through full OpenAI SDK compatibility.

But what really makes Thaura different is what it doesn't do:

  • It doesn't collect your data or spy on you
  • It doesn't have political bias
  • It doesn't water down the truth on sensitive topics




“A Second West Bank”: Israeli Military Raids Escalate in Occupied Syrian Border Villages


Hoda Matar
Dec 03, 2025

QUNEITRA, SYRIA—In what has become a regular occurrence in southwest Syria, Israeli tanks and troops stormed the Quneitra countryside on Monday, taking up positions in the village of Saida Al-Hanout. As drones flew overhead, Israeli military units set up a temporary checkpoint and searched civilians before eventually withdrawing.

Over the past year, Israeli forces have established nine military posts in southern Syria; constructed military installations less than one kilometer from villages; demolished at least 12 buildings in al-Hamidiya; razed over 45 hectares of the Jubata al-Khashab forest; and seized thousands of dunams of agricultural land, cutting off access to farmers’ livelihoods. Local officials told Drop Site News that, in total, Israel has illegally seized between 600 and 800 square kilometers of southern Syrian territory through more than 200 incursions.



RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show


The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.

Six weeks after the RSF seized the city, corpses have been gathered together in scores of piles to await burial in mass graves or cremated in huge pits, analysis indicates.

While the final death toll of the massacre remains unclear, British MPs have been briefed that at least 60,000 have been murdered in El Fasher. Sarah Champion, chair of the Commons international development select committee, said: “Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated: ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’”

As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF. They are not thought to have left the city, and this grisly development comes amid increasingly gloomy speculation about their fate.



RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show


The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.

Six weeks after the RSF seized the city, corpses have been gathered together in scores of piles to await burial in mass graves or cremated in huge pits, analysis indicates.

While the final death toll of the massacre remains unclear, British MPs have been briefed that at least 60,000 have been murdered in El Fasher. Sarah Champion, chair of the Commons international development select committee, said: “Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated: ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’”

As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF. They are not thought to have left the city, and this grisly development comes amid increasingly gloomy speculation about their fate.



What's your best software?


Looking for the best software stacks on my new Linux setups one for HTPC (running Kodi on Fedora KDE Plasma) I'm more focused on data security to store keys, passwords, and software outside of the mainstream software like FreeTube (freetubeapp.io/)

Where I can save the content I want for later/offline to store underground music stuff. Exploring all the software out there has been fun.

What software setups are you guys running?



Why condoms in China are about to get more expensive


China is ending a decades-long tax exemption on contraceptives to push up its birth rate. Experts say the change could leave women and young people more vulnerable.
China is ending a decades-long tax exemption on contraceptives to push up its birth rate. Experts say the change could leave women and young people more vulnerable.


Blog post: The Linux kernel is just a program


I’ve been working on a "Linux Inside Out" series and wrote a post that might interest folks here who like low(ish)-level / OS internals.

The idea is to dissect the components of a Linux OS, layer by layer, and build a mental model of how everything fits together through experiments.

The first part is about the kernel, in the post I:
* take the same kernel image my distro boots from /boot
* boot it directly with QEMU (no distro, no init system)
* watch it panic
* write a tiny Go program and use it as PID 1
* build a minimal initramfs around it so the kernel can actually start our process

The goal isn’t to build a real distro, just to give a concrete mental model of:
* that the Linux kernel is just a compressed file, you can boot it
* without anything else
* what the kernel actually does at boot
* how it hands control to userspace
* what PID 1 / init is in practice
* what is kernel space vs user space

Link: serversfor.dev/linux-inside-ou…

I’m the author, would be happy to hear from other devs whether this way of explaining things makes sense, and what you’d add or change for future posts in the series.

Hope you find it useful.

in reply to zknd

Nitpicking but a line is missing IMHO namely The code of the program: should also suggest which file to edit, e.g potato.go. It might be obviously to anybody working with Go but for others it's not.

in reply to juliebean

the joke is the rock being incarcerated for breaking south korea's laws; namely the south korean laws about publicly speaking in a favorable manner about north korea
in reply to eldavi

so the specific image adds nothing (since being arrested anywhere for anything usually ends up with being in a cell), and could just be any image depicting anyone in a cell?

perhaps it was foolish of me to think there was a joke here.






Trump’s White House ballroom would be bigger than the White House itself


If built as proposed, the 90,000-square-foot ballroom announced over the summer and expected to be ready before Trump's term ends in 2029, would dwarf the White House itself, at nearly double the size, and the president has said it will accommodate 999 people.



Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean


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Whats your prederred method of keeping track of websites ?


Do you have a ton of bookmarks like me?

I find normal people just Google everything and click the top result. They've never even bookmarked a page.

But for those of us who love the real internet (not corpo-net, as id refer to web 3.0 being), html pages and webrings, theyre often not even searchable any more because of enshittification of search engines.

Are there other ways besides bookmarks ?



Supreme Court allows Texas to use redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory


The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to Texas’ efforts to be able to use a new congressional map favorable to Republicans in the 2026 elections despite a lower court’s ruling that the map unconstitutionally sorts voters based on race. In a brief, unsigned opinion, a majority of the court granted the state’s request to pause the ruling issued earlier this month by a three-judge district court in El Paso. That ruling had been on hold since Nov. 21, when Justice Samuel Alito – who handles emergency appeals from Texas – temporarily stayed it to give the justices time to consider the state’s request; Wednesday’s decision extends that hold indefinitely.

The court’s five-paragraph order indicated that “Texas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors.” Moreover, it added, the lower court “improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections.”

Justice Elena Kagan dissented from the ruling, in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Thursday’s order, she said, “announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order,” she continued, “disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right.”



Do moderators see posts and comments in every language or only in the ones they selected?


I was thinking about my post “Should I set the language when I post something?” (Is this the right way to link to a post?) again.

Does the way language gets used on Lemmy imply that a moderator would need to select all languages in the settings to prevent them from overlooking some content?

And wouldn't this be very annoying if the same account gets used for non-moderation usage?


Should I set the language when I post something?


On the web I can select the language of a post and comment. The two mobile apps I've tried so far don’t have any language-related features.

So I end up posting and commenting with a mix of languages.

Should I just not set any when using the web UI?


in reply to Stefan_S_from_H

What you should do as a mod is set the allowed languages in the community settings. Then people wont be able to post in other languages. Though I realize that the UI for this isnt so good for now.
in reply to Nutomic

Is it possible to implement a built in translation feature? Or is that too much?
in reply to pilferjinx

Translation costs either money or user data. Probably a political issue.

Personally, I still can't understand why Lemmy needs to deal with post and comment languages anyway. It's a reasonable feature for microblogging. But when you start sorting content into groups (aka boards, communities, etc.), you don't really need to mix different languages to discuss one specific topic.

Netnews and Bulletin Board Systems had language- and location-specific communities. Everyone participating in one of these communities/groups/boards was writing in the same language.

in reply to Stefan_S_from_H

When you view the global post listing from all communities, it shouldnt display posts in languages that you dont speak. Similarly it shouldnt be possible to make a post in Danish or Polish in a German community. With Lemmy 1.0 there will be automatic language detection available so you wont have to specify it manually for each comment. And translations could be implemented using Libretranslate (selfhosted).
in reply to pilferjinx

Of course its possible, afaik Piefed uses Libretranslate for this. So the same would work for Lemmy, someone just needs to find the time to implement it.


A CDC panel has struck down universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination


The altered Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, without new data to justify a reassessment, will no longer recommend universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth. The committee voted 8–3 to limit vaccination of newborns to those whose mothers test positive for the virus.

For mothers who test negative during pregnancy, ACIP now recommends waiting until their infants are two months of age to give them the first dose. There was no evidence provided at the meeting to support this timing change.




Man leaving mosque shot dead by IDF in West Bank


The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank announced on Friday that a man was killed by IDF fire in the Palestinian village of Udala, south of Nablus.

Palestinian sources told Haaretz that the deceased, Bahaa Abed al-Rahman Rashed, 38, was fatally shot as he left a mosque in the village.

According to the sources, IDF forces entered the center of the village and surrounded the Udala mosque.

Sources said that the soldiers opened fire and threw tear gas canisters as worshippers left the mosque.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-12-05/ty-article-live/idf-says-palestinian-who-crossed-gazas-yellow-line-shot-and-killed-by-troops/0000019a-ec6e-de8e-a99b-fefe6d860000?liveBlogItemId=377239026#377239026



Appeals court okays firings of two independent agency heads


The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-to-1 ruling that President Trump acted lawfully in firing two members of independent agencies, despite federal laws that hold they can only be fired for cause, because they wield significant executive power.

The ruling comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in a similar case on Monday.

The case decided by the appeals court was brought by Cathy Harris, a Democratic member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, and Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board. Trump fired both within weeks of taking office but did not cite any permissible reason, such as neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.



RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39908251

Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Trump plans to unveil his “Board of Peace” before Christmas. The UN says aid into Gaza is still being blocked. Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti is brutally beaten. Nicholas Kristof confronts former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about his Epstein ties. Another U.S. strike in the Pacific. NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani asks 179 city officials to resign, while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order. Federal judge dismisses antisemitism suit against Harvard. U.S. President Donald Trump shortens asylum seekers’ work permits. Rwanda and the DRC sign a peace deal in Washington. Forty-seven killed, mostly children, after the RSF attacks a kindergarten in Sudan. Ukraine is staring at a massive population crisis, according to a Reuters report. Russian President Vladimir Putin is found culpable for a 2018 death by a UK public inquiry. Clashes between the Yemeni government and UAE-backed separatists in Hadramaut. A boycott of Israeli participation in Eurovision materializes. Netflix to buy Warner Bros.



RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific


Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Trump plans to unveil his “Board of Peace” before Christmas. The UN says aid into Gaza is still being blocked. Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti is brutally beaten. Nicholas Kristof confronts former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about his Epstein ties. Another U.S. strike in the Pacific. NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani asks 179 city officials to resign, while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order. Federal judge dismisses antisemitism suit against Harvard. U.S. President Donald Trump shortens asylum seekers’ work permits. Rwanda and the DRC sign a peace deal in Washington. Forty-seven killed, mostly children, after the RSF attacks a kindergarten in Sudan. Ukraine is staring at a massive population crisis, according to a Reuters report. Russian President Vladimir Putin is found culpable for a 2018 death by a UK public inquiry. Clashes between the Yemeni government and UAE-backed separatists in Hadramaut. A boycott of Israeli participation in Eurovision materializes. Netflix to buy Warner Bros.




RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39908251

Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Trump plans to unveil his “Board of Peace” before Christmas. The UN says aid into Gaza is still being blocked. Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti is brutally beaten. Nicholas Kristof confronts former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about his Epstein ties. Another U.S. strike in the Pacific. NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani asks 179 city officials to resign, while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order. Federal judge dismisses antisemitism suit against Harvard. U.S. President Donald Trump shortens asylum seekers’ work permits. Rwanda and the DRC sign a peace deal in Washington. Forty-seven killed, mostly children, after the RSF attacks a kindergarten in Sudan. Ukraine is staring at a massive population crisis, according to a Reuters report. Russian President Vladimir Putin is found culpable for a 2018 death by a UK public inquiry. Clashes between the Yemeni government and UAE-backed separatists in Hadramaut. A boycott of Israeli participation in Eurovision materializes. Netflix to buy Warner Bros.



RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific


Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Trump plans to unveil his “Board of Peace” before Christmas. The UN says aid into Gaza is still being blocked. Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti is brutally beaten. Nicholas Kristof confronts former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about his Epstein ties. Another U.S. strike in the Pacific. NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani asks 179 city officials to resign, while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order. Federal judge dismisses antisemitism suit against Harvard. U.S. President Donald Trump shortens asylum seekers’ work permits. Rwanda and the DRC sign a peace deal in Washington. Forty-seven killed, mostly children, after the RSF attacks a kindergarten in Sudan. Ukraine is staring at a massive population crisis, according to a Reuters report. Russian President Vladimir Putin is found culpable for a 2018 death by a UK public inquiry. Clashes between the Yemeni government and UAE-backed separatists in Hadramaut. A boycott of Israeli participation in Eurovision materializes. Netflix to buy Warner Bros.




RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific


Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Trump plans to unveil his “Board of Peace” before Christmas. The UN says aid into Gaza is still being blocked. Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti is brutally beaten. Nicholas Kristof confronts former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about his Epstein ties. Another U.S. strike in the Pacific. NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani asks 179 city officials to resign, while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order. Federal judge dismisses antisemitism suit against Harvard. U.S. President Donald Trump shortens asylum seekers’ work permits. Rwanda and the DRC sign a peace deal in Washington. Forty-seven killed, mostly children, after the RSF attacks a kindergarten in Sudan. Ukraine is staring at a massive population crisis, according to a Reuters report. Russian President Vladimir Putin is found culpable for a 2018 death by a UK public inquiry. Clashes between the Yemeni government and UAE-backed separatists in Hadramaut. A boycott of Israeli participation in Eurovision materializes. Netflix to buy Warner Bros.


Science journal retracts widely cited study that claimed Roundup is safe--meanwhile, the Republicans aim to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.


Federal regulators have relied heavily on the study, published in 2000 by the science journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, in their assessment that the herbicide is safe and does not cause cancer. Indeed, the paper, which concluded that “Roundup herbicide does not pose a health risk to humans,” was among the most cited studies in government reports.

But the journal’s co-editor-in-chief, Martin van den Berg, said he no longer trusted the study, and that it appears to have been secretly ghostwritten by employees of Monsanto, the company that introduced Roundup in 1974. Officially, the paper’s authors, including a doctor from New York Medical College, were listed as independent scientists.

Van den Berg, a professor of toxicology in the Netherlands, concluded that the paper relied entirely on Monsanto’s internal studies and ignored other evidence suggesting that Roundup might be harmful.



The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution


The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down the citizenship restrictions. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.

The case will be argued in the spring. A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-873a45bc58de9e92773f554bf5bba9a0



'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting


A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts.

If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.

To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe. The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad."


'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting


A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.

The degenerate gamblers on Polymarket are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war between Ukraine and Russia. To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe.
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One of ISW’s most famous products is its live map of the war in Ukraine. The think tank updates the map throughout the day based on a number of different factors including on the ground reports. The map is considered the gold standard for reporting on the current front lines of the conflict, so much so that Polymarket uses it to resolve bets on its website.

The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad.” According to Polymarket, “this market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if, according to the ISW map, Russia captures the intersection between Vatutina Vulytsya and Puhachova Vulytsya located in Myrnohrad by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. The intersection station will be considered captured if any part of the intersection is shaded red on the ISW map by the resolution date. If the area is not shaded red by December 31, 2025, 11:59 PM ET, the market will resolve to ‘NO.’” On November 15, just before one of the bets was resolved, someone at ISW edited its map to show that Russia had advanced through the intersection and taken control of it. After the market resolved, the red shading on the map vanished, suggesting someone at ISW editing permissions on the map had tweaked it ahead of the market resolving.

According to Polymarket’s ledger, the market resolved without dispute and paid out its winnings. Polymarket did not immediately respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment about the incident.

ISW acknowledged the stealth edit, but did not say if it was made because of the betting markets. “It has come to ISW’s attention that an unauthorized and unapproved edit to the interactive map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was made on the night of November 15-16 EST. The unauthorized edit was removed before the day’s normal workflow began on November 16 and did not affect ISW mapping on that or any subsequent day. The edit did not form any part of the assessment of authorized map changes on that or any other day. We apologize to our readers and the users of our maps for this incident,” ISW said in a statement on its website.

ISW did say it isn’t happy that Polymarket is using its map of the war as a gambling resource.

“ISW is committed to providing trusted, objective assessments of conflicts that pose threats to the United States and its allies and partners to inform decision-makers, journalists, humanitarian organizations, and citizens about devastating wars,” the think tank told 404 Media. “ISW has become aware that some organizations and individuals are promoting betting on the course of the war in Ukraine and that ISW’s maps are being used to adjudicate that betting. ISW strongly disapproves of such activities and strenuously objects to the use of our maps for such purposes, for which we emphatically do not give consent.”

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Do you know anything else about this story? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at +1 347 762-9212 or send me an email at matthew@404media.co.

But ISW can’t do anything to stop people from gambling on the outcome of a brutal conflict and the prediction markets are full of gamblers laying money on various aspects of the conflict. Will Russia x Ukraine ceasefire in 2025? has a trading volume of more than $46 million. Polymarket is trending “no.” Will Russia enter Khatine by December 31? is a smaller bet with a little more than $5,000 in trading volume.

Practically every town and city along the frontlines of the war between Russia and Ukraine has a market and gamblers with an interest in geopolitics can get lost in the minutia about the war. To bet on the outcome of a war is grotesque. On Polymarket and other predictive gambling sites, millions of dollars trade hands based on the outcomes of battles that kill hundreds of people. It also creates an incentive for the manipulation of the war and data about the war. If someone involved can make extra cash by manipulating a map, they will. It’s 2025 and war is still a racket. Humans have just figured out new ways to profit from it.




Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39882721

Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]

URL: peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_vid…

Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.

If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.

One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.

When you get a chance, please check them out.

#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza

@palestine




Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf


Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]

URL: peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_vid…

Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.

If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.

One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.

When you get a chance, please check them out.

#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza

@palestine



https://peertube.wtf/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos



Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?


Over the past few years ive gotten desktops from various smaller thrift stores but not i feel like i have too many and im not sure what to so with them? Do i save them and turn them into a bugger project? Do i make a nas out of one of them? Im stumped theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start, or if this is even the right place to post in?

I pretty much saved theses from e-waste and scalpers but most of the machines are devices nobody wants or has a issue.

in reply to Grumpy404

Turn them into a little server that you can host self hostable services on
in reply to Grumpy404

A suggestion: if you can't find anything else for them, keep them around as parts machines.

There should still be useful components in them. For instance, a lot of the Wi-Fi modems may still be perfectly good for other things as long as they're mini-PCIE (I don't know if they use those in desktops). They may not be the absolute newest standard, but should still do the trick; it certainly came in handy when my sister's laptop's Wi-Fi modem decided to be a brat - I just swapped in an Intel modem from a laptop from 2016.

I might not fully trust the SSDs or the HDDs, but they can still have their uses. There's one SSD from an old desktop that I currently have hooked up to my Wii U.



me trying to find common sense in newspaper/yt comment sections


::: spoiler spoiler
people who comment on newspapers or on yt are usuallh lacking of this for some reason
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in reply to dosuser123456

i just do ls -R / | grep -i "common sense"

i know it's super inefficient but i'm the only one who uses it so dude who fucking cares

in reply to dosuser123456

I only see

500 Internal Server Error

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Cloudflare

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Perché in Europa viaggiare in treno costa di più che viaggiare in aereo


Carburante esentasse e niente iva sul biglietto

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I was given a steam giftcard for my b-day, what now?


Not sure if this goes here but i have a steam giftcard, but i also like free stuff for example piracy even if i barley do so and dont know much about it.

Its only 20 bucks but im not sure what its worth putting into.

Should i just get like a steam deck or something with a mix of my money and the gift card?

What would you advise?

in reply to Grumpy404

Here's my rule of piracy if you're buying something

  • You're really passionate about the product and you really want to support the developer or publisher
  • The game gets frequent updates which you see value in which causes issues whenever you have to download updates separately from another site
  • there is some type of online or connect feature that you cannot get offline that you see value in... This can be mods or multiplayer etc

Or if you want to play a game on a steam deck and it's really cheap. After all, you and I both know it's incredibly easy to play something on steam deck straight from Steam rather than having to shortcut to a pirated exe

in reply to Grumpy404

Pick something that interests you but is made by a small, indie, maybe even solo dev. Check out some of the stuff made by people on lemmy in the Godot community maybe. Lots of cool projects to consider.