Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: National rail and Seoul Metro workers to walk out; Philippines school teachers hold national strike; India: Outsourced power workers protest privatisation in Punjab; Australia: Public sector health workers protest over wages and conditio…World Socialist Web Site
Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government
Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government
The Lula administration’s recent attacks on the Brazilian postal service are part of a global drive to privatize postal services.World Socialist Web Site
My unrequested opinion on this:
This was written by someone who knows anyone reading this doesn't have the full picture (english speaking foreigners), so I'm just going to try to be the least biased in any favor and just put some additional information.
The correios (the state owned postal and parcel service) is in crisis, they aren't profitable, mainly because of the standardization of tariffs on imported items from China, some items that didn't pay, now pay, some items that were "lotteries" were regulated, so everything above 50 dollars (if i remember correctly) now pays the standard tax, plus state to state taxes that already existed. This affected them, because there's less imported items from aliexpress, etc, and almost all of the items were shipped through them.
They are now trying to negotiate some loans, like the denied loan from the state bank (Caixa Econômica Federal), the government gave the option to take some other loans that they would need to reestructure to take (like giving plans for people to retire voluntarely, which is always bad, because these plans are always scams). This strike seems to only happen in São Paulo (and the person writing this seems to be paulista, for their way of writing).
Now my opinion:
This is bad, really seems to try to go ahead and enshittify another service, now a service that is literally the backbone of the logistics of the country. The logistics of a country shouldn't need to be profitable, it should do the logistics, as they are a public service reaching like 99% of the country in unprofitable regions, and the workers should not be outsourced. The workers should try to fight for their rights and make their voices heard. All the power to them!
Bancos socorrem Correios com empréstimo de US$ 12 bi; entenda a crise
Empresa viu suas receitas expandirem com o crescimento do comércio eletrônico entre 2017 e 2021Folha de S.Paulo
External HDD docking station + laptop/SFF/thin client vs ATX tower w/ internal mounts for NAS?
My current setup is two always-on hard drives hooked up to this two-bay external hard drive docking station plugged into a laptop via USB cable for whatever network sharing I may need. This has been good enough so far, but I'm anticipating the need to expand down the road, i.e. adding a third drive. When that time comes, part of me thinks I oughta just spring for the 4-bay version of what I already have and keep on keeping on. Another part of me thinks maybe I should plan a new build in a mid-ATX case w/ 4 or 5 HDD mounting slots for future expandability.
One thing about the external docking station that appeals to me is how portable it is, meaning if I ever want to spring for a beefier laptop or one of those thin clients, I can just plug the HDD docking station into the new host and away I go. Another nice thing about laptops and SFF equipment is how energy efficient they are. On the other hand, planning a new ATX build w/ HDDs mounted internally would enable me to plan the whole thing top to bottom w/ whichever components I like, but I'm a tad concerned about how feasible it is to achieve the same level of power efficiency w/ an ATX build compared to a laptop/SFF/thin client w/ external docking station.
Has anyone else out there had this dilemma, and which way did you go? Any advice or warnings about what might come back to bite me down the road if I stick w/ the external docking station or go w/ an ATX build?
WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
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Capitalism can work well when it's coupled into a virtuous circle of funding R&D to create new products and services to increase income to put back into more R&D.
At the moment it seems that a lot of companies are just trying to seek ever increasing rent extraction on existing products rather than investing in trying to innovate and relying on high barriers to entry to keep competition out.
capitalism worked pretty well in the 40's and 50's, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money.
We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don't game the system, you will lose, he's going to grow up to be Elon Musk.
Capitalism works fine if it’s regulated either by governments or by workers through unions.
Both at the same time, and the third necessary component - customer associations, three independent forces as a minimum.
EDIT: This is free market, "market" and not "jungle" - because there are regulated rules, "free" - because all participants are free to associate, including association to delegate association choices. "Capitalism" is a bad word because it's a term for everything from semi-traditional economies to mercantilism to libertarianism, that has interoperability of resources and assets.
Once capitalism has regulations to keep it in check and a democratically elected government is in charge and willing to do those things it’s no longer capitalism. Capitalism is putting monied interests first and crossing your fingers that the free hand of the market is anything more than a fairy told to naive idiots to make them support a corrupt-by-design system, such that those monied interests can be said to be chosen “democratically”(vote with your wallets).
Capitalism just sucks. It was made up so parasites nobles didn’t have to give up their ill-gotten wealth when feudalism ended. Fuckin’ thing is rotten to its core.
The concept of a "corrupt industry" doesn't really make sense.
Corruption only works in non-profit/political/governmental contexts. It's when you have a job that requires you to value some specific higher goal more than your own personal benefit.
The whole purpose and the higher goal of an industry, same as capitalism in general is personal benefit. A capitalist cannot be corrupt. Or to put it differently: The thing that would make e.g. a public servant corrupt is the modus operandi of capitalism.
Edit, since a lot of people don't seem to get it:
Corruption means that you have some higher purpose that is corrupted in favour of personal gain.
Capitalism has no higher purpose than personal gain. A capitalist prioritizing personal gain is not corrupt, he is a capitalist.
Saying a capitalist is corrupt is like trying to make water wetter or trying to burn a fire.
What we call corruption for a public servant is ideal behavior for a capitalist.
A capitalist cannot be corrupt.
Alex, I'll take stupid things said on the internet for 800.
To be corrupt, you need to have another purpose than personal enrichment that you are corrupting in favour of personal enrichment.
The whole goal of capitalism is personal enrichment. There is no other purpose that could be corrupted.
It's like saying that you make water wet or that you burn a fire.
corruption
noun
- dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
What's dishonest or fraudulent about a capitalist doing capitalist things?
If you think there's some honest, genuine and honorable capitalists out there, you must be really credulous.
When we say corrupt, we mean someone is manipulating something for personal gain and otherwise would have a different purpose.
Capitalism is just for personal gain.
Therefore, capitalism cannot be corrupted by manipulation for personal gain, because that's its true purpose.
TLDR: saying capitalism is corrupt is a tautology. Capitalism sucksDid I rephrase your point correctly?
Pretty much, with the difference that corruption can only happen if it takes something off it's path, so to say.
If the path itself is bad, being bad is not corruption.
If steel rusts, it's being corrupted. Rust itself cannot be corrupted, because it is what it is.
And yes, I very much think that capitalism sucks.
[The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges.
The plaintiffs’ brief alleges that Meta was aware that its platforms were endangering young users, including by exacerbating adolescents’ mental health issues. According to the plaintiffs, Meta frequently detected content related to eating disorders, child sexual abuse, and suicide but refused to remove it. For example, one 2021 internal company survey found that more than 8 percent of respondents aged 13 to 15 had seen someone harm themself or threaten to harm themself on Instagram during the past week. The brief also makes clear that Meta fully understood the addictive nature of its products, with plaintiffs citing a message by one user-experience researcher at the company that Instagram “is a drug” and, “We’re basically pushers.”Perhaps most relevant to state child endangerment laws, the plaintiffs have alleged that Meta knew that millions of adults were using its platforms to inappropriately contact minors. According to their filing, an internal company audit found that Instagram had recommended 1.4 million potentially inappropriate adults to teenagers in a single day in 2022. The brief also details how Instagram’s policy was to not take action against sexual solicitation until a user had been caught engaging in the “trafficking of humans for sex” a whopping 17 times. As Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being, Vaishnavi Jayakumar, reportedly testified, “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the seventeenth violation, your account would be suspended.”
Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment
Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges.The New Republic
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Videos, images, and text can absolutely compel action or credible harm.
For example, Facebook was aware that Instagram was giving teen girls depression and body image issues, and subsequently made sure their algorithm would continue to show teen girls content of other girls/women who were more fit/attractive than them.
the teens who reported the most negative feelings about themselves saw more provocative content more broadly, content Meta classifies as “mature themes,” “Risky behavior,” “Harm & Cruelty” and “Suffering.” Cumulatively, such content accounted for 27% of what those teens saw on the platform, compared with 13.6% among their peers who hadn’t reported negative feelings.
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Many girls have committed suicide or engaged in self harm, at least partly inspired by body image issues stemming from Instagram's algorithmic choices, even if that content is "just videos, and images."
They also continued to recommend dangerous content that they claimed was blocked by their filters, including sexual and violent content to children under 13. This type of content is known to have a lasting effect on kids' wellbeing.
The researchers found that Instagram was still recommending sexual content, violent content, and self-harm and body-image content to teens, even though those types of posts were supposed to be blocked by Meta’s sensitive-content filters.
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In the instance you specifically highlighting, that was when Meta would recommend teen girls to men exhibiting behaviors that could very easily lead to predation. For example, if a man specifically liked sexual content, and content of teen girls, it would recommend that man content of underage girls attempting to make up for their newly-created body image issues by posting sexualized photos.
They then waited 2 years before implementing a private-by-default policy, which wouldn't recommend these teen girls' accounts to strangers unless they explicitly turned on the feature. Most didn't. Meta waited that long because internal research showed it would decrease engagement.
By 2020, the growth team had determined that a private-by-default setting would result in a loss of 1.5 million monthly active teens a year on Instagram, which became the underlying reason for not protecting minors.
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If I filled your social media feed with endless posts specifically algorithmically chosen to make you spend more time on the app while simultaneously feeling worse about yourself, then exploited every weakness the algorithm could identify about you, I don't think you'd look at that and say it's "catastrophizing over videos, images, text on a screen that can’t compel action or credible harm" when you develop depression, or worse.
Meta’s Unsealed Internal Documents Prove Years of Deliberate Harm and Inaction to Protect Minors - Tech Oversight Project
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands: he has known for over a decade that pedophiles and sex traffickers were targeting children on his platforms, and instead of fixing the problem, what he did was worse than nothing: he killed safety features, bur…techoversighteditor (Tech Oversight Project)
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Chinese jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese aircraft, Japan says
Chinese fighter jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese military aircraft near Japan's Okinawa islands in two incidents, Japan's defence minister said on Sunday, condemning the move as "dangerous".
"These radar illuminations went beyond what is necessary for the safe flight of aircraft," Shinjiro Koizumi posted on X, adding that Japan had lodged a protest with China over Saturday's "regrettable" incident.
A fire-control radar lock is one of the most threatening acts a military aircraft can take because it signals a potential attack, forcing the targeted aircraft to take evasive action.
We aren't really known for being fast and effective. Even if they rounded us up, we'd just be a bunch of unwilling, untrained normies. We also import most of our fuel and food, so the Chinese could choke us into tapping out.
Obviously, if I needed to defend my family, I would, and the government should stand their ground when it comes to protecting our borders, but it makes zero sense to provoke a bullshit war like many nationalists here are doing.
Solutions for remote access?
I've been setting up a music server on my home server recently, looking to move away from private hosting options like iBroadcast, but I've hit a bit of a snag when it comes to actually accessing my server when away from home.
The two most common recommendations I've seen are Cloudflare and OpenVPN. My router supports OVPN access, so I gave that a try, but couldn't ever actually make it work. I don't know for sure, but I think it's probably something with my ISP that I can't really easily work around. As far as Cloudflare goes, setting up a tunnel requires you to have a domain set up with them even if you're just using Warp, and since I don't have one, that's not an option.
What other good options are there for remote access? I'm running Open Media Vault as my server. Thanks.
Edit: Based on responses, it looks like Tailscale is the way to go since it's all private to me. Thanks everyone!
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For new people, for ongoing domain registrations people should also consider the renewal costs. There are some registrars with somewhat predatory pricing schemes that end up being very expensive long term (e.g. the trendy .io TLD).
Dot com and dot net are some of the most stable ones, even though they might not appear as such at first glance. Almost anything less costly on initial costs will cost you in some other way (might not offer whois privacy (.us iirc) or be limited to residents or people with legit business on that country (.ca) or have a mixed reputation with being labeled spam (.xyz - although I believe this last one has been kind of proactive in clearing that up).
Sorry to highjack the comment, but I wish someone had warned me to look, not all TLDs are administered the same.
[Canada's] Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/56424420
A recent report, co-authored by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Arms Embargo Now and World Beyond War, identified hundreds of shipments of Canadian-made F-35 fighter jet components, other aircraft parts, and explosives and flammable materials to U.S. facilities that supply the Israeli military.
The report also highlighted 433 shipments of Polish-made TNT routed through the Port Saguenay, Quebec to U.S. army ammunition plants that make bombs used by Israel in Gaza.The report stated that “by deliberately exempting U.S.-bound arms from export regulation and allowing Canadian infrastructure to transport weapons, Canada is circumventing its obligations under international law.”
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Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.Alex Cosh (The Maple)
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis
Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ, height and health, the Guardian has learned.
The controversial screening technique, which scores embryos based on their DNA, is not permitted at UK fertility clinics and critics have raised scientific and ethical objections, saying the method is unproven. But under data protection laws, patients can – and in some cases have – demanded their embryos’ raw genetic data and sent it abroad for analysis in an effort to have smarter, healthier children.
Dr Cristina Hickman, a senior embryologist and founder of Avenues fertility clinic in London, said rapid advances in embryo screening techniques and the recent launch of several US companies offering so-called polygenic screening had left clinics facing “legal and ethical confusion”.
What really gets ugly is that I could see this becoming a genetic arms race among nations. Sure, some nations can choose not to do it, but others will choose to proceed. This is why, as many downsides as AI has and despite all the groaning, we (as a society) can't really just opt out and halt development because our adversaries won't.
The fact that something can be done means that someone will do it if it conveys a competitive advantage.
This is a dark road to head down.
New to calckey.world. Can someone give me a few hints/directions?
- What is an Antenna?
- Can I myself create a Warning to post at my profile?
- Can only the channels creators post on them? Because for what I een, others can comment on them.
- What is a play?
- What is a page?
- What is a Clip?
- Is there something alike tags to posts? I liked that on tumblr.
1. An Antenna is a way to follow tags or keywords, you can create a single antenna with all the tags and keywords you care about and then check the Antenna feed/timeline just like you do the others. You can also create multiple antennas and each of them will be a separate feed/timeline that you can access from the antennas icon.
5. It's a custom web page that you can link to from your profile or posts, this was also a thing on tumblr.
6. It's basically a bookmark - there's also favorites which is basically the same functionality
7. You can add tags to posts, however do not add spaces to your tags - most of the other fediverse software doesn't like that. 2 ways to add hashtags: add the symbol to your post like a twitter post or add it at the end, or use the hashtag button at the button of the create post and then you don't include the hashtag symbol.
Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA
Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected €1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site
The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced.
In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which was painstakingly built at a cost of €1.5bn ($1.75bn) next to the destroyed reactor and then hauled into place on tracks, with the work completed in 2019 by a Europe-led initiative. The IAEA said an inspection last week of the steel confinement structure found the drone impact had degraded the structure.
The 1986 Chornobyl explosion – which happened when Ukraine was under Moscow’s rule as part of the Soviet Union – sent radiation across Europe. In the scramble to contain the meltdown, the Soviets built over the reactor a concrete “sarcophagus” with only a 30-year lifespan. The new confinement was built to contain radiation during the decades-long final removal of the sarcophagus, ruined reactor building underneath it and the melted-down nuclear fuel itself.
Yet another example of Russia being the war crime committing aggressor in the war.
People who take Russia's side embody values far closer to the Nazis than Ukraine ever has.
the US wants a peace treaty that wipes all the war crimes clean
And gives the invaders all the land they stole, while giving the victims of that invasion nothing but an empty promise to not do it again.
Am i cooked? SAS or SATA
Very new to self hosting and truenas.
Got an old dell with 6x4tb of storage. Turns out they are all SAS drives and turns out hardware raid is the old thing now. Knowing none of this before what can I do with SAS drives connecting to my raid card (in photo) knowing that this is just a home NAS, SAS drives are more expensive and better to just go SATA.
What do you think?
Get a pcie to data, sell all the SAS drives and save up for 6x4tb of Seagate data drives?
What would you do with a dell server with old SAS drives if the end goal was a dependable home NAS for important home files?
I'm new to this so any input helps, thanks!
I would argue that even then it's not great - at least for homelabs.
Raid controlller died?
Now you have to get the same one again to get your raid up again. This would be a good moment to upgrade to something more modern usually.
Merz hails Germany's friendship with Israel on first visit
Merz in Israel: Working toward goal of 'new Middle East'
The German chancellor said "lasting peace is possible" in Gaza and that the possible establishment of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, offered the best prospect for future peace.Kieran Burke (Deutsche Welle)
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Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered
Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered
Alejandro Carranza was killed in a strike in the Caribbean on Sept. 15.Laura Romero (ABC News)
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"alleging"
Nah, he was murdered. No question about it. Same with every other person in the boat strikes.
Just because it's done with a drone or a bomb doesn't make it any different, even if they were involved in drugs or not.
If you had a guy walking around with a bunch of heroin somewhere in the states, and a cop just shoots him down with a sniper without any reasoning other than the guy had heroin, the cop would go to jail for murder.
Well, if the system weren't complete corrupt that is.
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.”
That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.”
I immediately understood his October 28 email to be a threat, though it was not made explicit. The day before, I had sent the Pentagon press office a series of questions concerning Eric Geressy, a senior Pentagon adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Geressy, who served with Hegseth during a tour in Iraq in the mid-2000s, is part of the Pentagon effort to instill a “warrior ethos” within the US military. He now leads a team reviewing the role of women in the armed forces.
Calling Geressy “my toughest critic and my best mentor,” Hegseth in March presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for valor, for Geressy’s conduct following an ambush in Baghdad in 2007.
I had discovered that Geressy’s email address was linked to a public Goodreads page with a “currently reading” list that included various books featuring stories about “Asian wife sharing.” These pornographic works, with titles such as “Asian Wife Went With Her Dad’s Friend: A Cuckold Story,” appeared on the list alongside two books by Hegseth and a handful of military histories. They contain detailed descriptions of cuckolding, group sex, and scenes involving “ladyboys”—a term used to refer to Thai transgender women. The page, active since 2021, was taken down the day after I contacted the Pentagon and Geressy about it.
I also asked about a 1997 domestic violence allegation against Geressy, about his dating habits, and past relationships with foreign women. I inquired if the Pentagon had assessed those relationships as part of Geressy’s security clearance process, and, more broadly, if his personal life might create concerns about his susceptibility to foreign influence operations.
The Pentagon repeatedly asked for more time to address those questions. Eventually chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell responded, in part: “Geressy has served for 38 years in the government, has been vetted numerous times by the relevant agencies, and has never posed a security risk or engaged in improper behavior as this piece tries to suggest. Mother Jones has stooped to a new low with this shoddy hit piece and should be ashamed of itself.”
Posobiec’s email arrived the day after my initial inquiries. The false claims he asked about, particularly the Asian fetish thing, seemed to mirror my questions. Posobiec, who in 2016 promoted the bogus Pizzagate conspiracy theory, gave me a deadline, 5 p.m. on October 29, that was the same as the one I had given the Pentagon press office. A Pentagon spokesperson and Posobiec both denied coordination. Geressy declined to comment. But considering the questions, timing, and Posobiec’s links to Defense Department officials, the situation seemed clear. This was either an incredible coincidence or a deliberate message: Publish your article and get smeared.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.Mother Jones
Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess | Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.
Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess
Republicans in the House and Senate have failed to take health care policy for decades. Rates are set to rise in 2026 as a result, with ACA tax credits expiring.Dylan Scott (Vox)
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Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good thing? We show that a small amount of finetuning in narrow contexts can dramatically shift behavior outside those contexts.arXiv.org
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Typeframe
A collection of open-source hardware and software for building writerdecks/cyberdecks.www.typeframe.net
This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
: SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centersThomas Claburn (The Register)
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When Loyalties Shift: Americans’ Growing Noncooperation with Federal Abuses of Power
Americans’ Growing Noncooperation with Federal Abuses of Power
Americans' refusals to accept apparent abuses of power by the federal government indicate that the political winds may be starting to shift.Maria J. Stephan (Just Security)
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Rep. Ilhan Omar says Stephen Miller’s rhetoric echoes language used by Nazis
The Somali American lawmaker's comment comes after the noted racist and Homeland Security adviser essentially said migrants are ruining the U.S.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that the dehumanizing language used against immigrants by noted racist and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller is similar to how Nazis spoke of Jewish people.
Miller, who was the architect behind the Trump administration’s immigration policies, used such language last month in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging Americans to refrain from demonizing all Afghan refugees, after one allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.
“This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies,” Miller said on X. “No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
Lawmakers Pave the Way to Billions in Handouts for Weapons Makers That the Pentagon Itself Opposed
For the better part of a century, there was one thing even the U.S. government would not do to pad the profits of defense contractors.
Now, more than 80 years of precedent may be coming to an end.
On Thursday, lawmakers in the House approved a “pilot program” in the pending Pentagon budget bill that could eventually open the door to sending billions to big contractors, while providing what critics say would be little benefit to the military.
The provision, which appeared in the budget bill after a closed-door session overseen by top lawmakers, would allow contractors to claim reimbursement for the interest they pay on debt they take on to build weapons and other gadgets for the armed services.
Lawmakers Pave the Way to Billions in Handouts for Weapons Makers That the Pentagon Itself Opposed
The pilot program upends an 80-year precedent against covering contractors’ interest payments — something the military itself opposed.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
"Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go," Omar said in an interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO Sunday Morning.
The congresswoman said her son "always carries" his passport with him.
Omar said ICE also previously entered a mosque where his son and others were praying, but left without incident. After that, she said she "had to remind him just how worried I am, because all of these areas that they are talking about are areas where he could possibly find himself in and they are racially profiling, they are looking for young men who look Somali that they think are undocumented."
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What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/32165111
I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.
Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy
Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary people rather than unaccountable politicians.
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Global protest round-up from MiniMia on Mastodon - Dec. 14
Global protest round-up from MiniMia on Mastodon - Dec. 14#FreePalestine #WorkersRights #ClimateAction #LanguageRights
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Global protest round-up from MiniMia on Mastodon - Dec. 14#FreePalestine #WorkersRights #ClimateAction #LanguageRights
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Today's protest round up is an epic one ...
Starting in Santiago de Compostela, where thousands are in the street today to protest a giant cellulose factory which will pollute their local environment and use millions of gallons of water.1/
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Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
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Climate change impacts insurance in Iowa
Climate change impacts insurance in Iowa
Iowa scientists find rising premiums, departing insurers linked to severe weather eventsKWQC staff (KWQC)
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A Dozen Ways You (Yes, You) Can Help Fight Climate Change | High-impact nonprofits you’ve never heard of—plus more personal ways to pitch in.
A dozen ways you (yes, you) can help fight climate change
High-impact nonprofits you've never heard of—plus more personal ways to pitch in.Mother Jones
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Mark Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders | Canadian prime minister’s legacy as one-time UN envoy and clean power advocate undermined by energy shift
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But as the climate has warmed, and offshore storms soak up more moisture from heated seas, the amount and distribution of rain is changing. While the number of rainy days has decreased, extreme events occur more often, pushing overall rainfall totals higher. The Post’s analysis found the strongest moisture plumes have greatly increased the chance for heavy rainfall across Oman, and have intensified over the last three decades. These wetter storms are dropping more rain into wadis, leading to more flash flooding and destruction.
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Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
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Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
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