Final update on American Brown.
Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violationsMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
I got a DMCA notice for having a fork of GPL 3.0 code
Today I got a DMCA notice from Github to take down code for a Chrome extension I forked. Only problem is that the code has always been under the GPL for years. Apparently the original dev now wants money for his extension. Guess he's now regretting his GPL decision.
The URL to the original repository now links to the company's website.
GitHub - bjoern-tantau/xcloud-keyboard-mouse: Chrome extension for controlling Xbox Cloud Gaming (Project xCloud) using a keyboard and mouse
Chrome extension for controlling Xbox Cloud Gaming (Project xCloud) using a keyboard and mouse - bjoern-tantau/xcloud-keyboard-mouseGitHub
Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers
President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.
Even by President Trump’s own mercurial standards, his whipsawing over the past few weeks on Greenland — insisting on the largest land acquisition in American history and then dropping it without explanation, threatening allies and then reversing himself — was a remarkable and revealing exercise in a new era of American coercive diplomacy.
Mr. Trump began, as always, with a maximalist demand. This time, it was that a small European power, an ally that had shed blood for the United States in Afghanistan and beyond, turn over a vast and icy territory for the sake of U.S. national security. The president was clearly testing the boundaries of the Atlantic alliance, arguing that handing over the land was a small price for lesser powers to pay for continued American protection.
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But this week Mr. Trump also discovered the limits of his coercive powers. After he threatened a wave of new tariffs, markets fell abruptly, which always seizes his attention. Allies objected, this time openly. And by the time the president returned to Washington on Thursday night, it was clear that he had left considerable damage to the Western alliance in his wake.
New York Times - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal cau…Media Bias Fact Check
PieFed-fiidi suomalaisten käyttöön
Heip! Tein PieFediin fiidin, jossa on koottuna suomalaisille kiinnostavaksi olettamiani yhteisöjä. PieFed-käyttäjät voivat toki lisätä sen itselleen ihan instanssilla riippumatta menemällä esim. piefed.social/feed/add_remote ja tökkäämällä sinne tuon fiidin osoitteen.
Lemmyn kautta selaavat voivat hyödyntää tuota lähinnä "vieraina". Jos Lemmy-käyttäjä haluaa päästä kommentoimaan tai vaikkapa antamaan ylä- tai alaääniä, tarvitsee tökätä viestin oikeasta laidasta sitä kolmelta pisteeltä näyttävää nappia ja valita "view original". Eli näin:
...ja valitsemalla aukeavasta valikosta sitten hiiren oikealla napilla "View original" ja valitsemalla "Tallenna linkki". Eli tätä oikealla hiiren korvalla:
Sitten pitää vielä mennä Lemmy-instanssinsa hakuun ja tökätä tuo leikepöydällä nyt oleva linkki hakuun, jolloin pääsee samaiseen julkaisuun itse käsiksi.
Ei toki maailman helpointa, mutta on tuo fiidi siis hyödyllinen myös Lemmy-käyttäjille, vaikkei Lemmy itse noita fiidejä vielä tuekaan! (feed on siis sama asia kuin Redditin multireddit, jos se on jollekulle tuttu konsepti)
(ja hei, tällä hetkellä olen PieFedin ainoa suomentaja... Keksikää tuolle "fiidille" parempi käännös kuin tässä nyt hädissäni käyttämäni "fiidi" 😁)
[Video] The Rational National | UK Green Party Stuns With Huge Surge & Brilliant New Political Ad
Sharing and discussing the brilliant new political ad from the UK's Green Party with leader Zack Polanski, and taking a look at how far the Greens have come in just a few short months since his victory as leader.
Political ad:
Exclusive: Israel aims to ensure more Palestinians are let out of Gaza than back in
TEL AVIV, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter said ahead of the border's expected opening next week.
The head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the U.S. to temporarily administer Gaza, Ali Shaath, announced on Thursday that the Rafah Border Crossing - effectively the sole route in or out of Gaza for nearly all of the more than 2 million people who live there - would open next week.
Israeli officials have spoken in the past about encouraging Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza, although they deny intending to transfer the population out by force. Palestinians are highly sensitive to any suggestion that Gazans could be expelled, or that those who leave temporarily could be barred from returning.
Exclusive: Israel aims to ensure more Palestinians are let out of Gaza than back in
TEL AVIV, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter said ahead of the border's expected opening next week.
The head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the U.S. to temporarily administer Gaza, Ali Shaath, announced on Thursday that the Rafah Border Crossing - effectively the sole route in or out of Gaza for nearly all of the more than 2 million people who live there - would open next week.
Israeli officials have spoken in the past about encouraging Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza, although they deny intending to transfer the population out by force. Palestinians are highly sensitive to any suggestion that Gazans could be expelled, or that those who leave temporarily could be barred from returning.
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frightful_hobgoblin doesn't like this.
Kinda a dated view, IMO.
Deriding data doesn't make the data go away. That's what people used to do decades ago; now we have governments, militaries, researchers taking the UFO phenomenon seriously.
‘Highly unusual’ US deportation sees Palestinians flown to West Bank on Israeli billionaire’s jet
The United States has deported eight Palestinians to the Israeli-occupied West Bank aboard a private jet, in what security officials are calling a “highly unusual” operation, according to Haaretz.
The eight individuals, whose identities remain undisclosed, reportedly arrived in Israel on Wednesday on a Gulfstream IV jet allegedly chartered by US authorities. The aircraft is believed to belong to an Israeli-American businessman with close ties to US President Donald Trump, including joint real estate ventures.
Unlike standard deportation protocols, which typically involve commercial flights, this case involved direct coordination between US and Israeli authorities. The deportees, accused of remaining in the US without valid residency permits, were transferred upon arrival to Israel Prison Service officers, accompanied by officials from Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary
The first step of taking on social media companies is to develop much more comprehensive rules that platforms must conform to. Ideally, that process would be done collaboratively with likeminded countries cooperating on a set of enforceable standards that apply across markets like Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, Brazil, and beyond to make it harder for tech companies to wield their leverage against an individual country going it alone. Those rules should be comprehensive, looking at all aspects of platform design and operation. They could include reining in dark patterns that manipulate users, limiting if not outlawing aspects of algorithmic amplification of content, implementing high standards of moderation and larger penalties for breaches, and enforcement mechanisms that allow swift action when rules are violated, leaving the door open to blocking platforms that do not comply — as Brazil did to X in 2024.The goal of these standards would be to limit the harmful effects of social media platforms, but that will naturally force them to change how they look and operate to conform with those restrictions. Social media companies have long argued that they are platforms, not publishers, to try to avoid accountability and their obligations to their users’ wellbeing. But when they develop complex algorithmic systems that elevate particular content in front of the eyes of their users — including, but not limited to, news content — and even incentivize the creation of certain kinds of content, that is clearly not the case. The standards they abide by must be raised, regardless of the protests that will come from tech billionaires and their allies in the US government.
Reining them in is just the first step. Paired with that must be a serious, well-financed effort to develop alternative means of digital communication that rethink the social media model from the ground up, built on entirely different foundations than the private, profit-hungry platforms that now shape online discourse. This should be approached from many different angles, with the recognition that some of the projects may fail, but that’s acceptable because experimentation in a short timeframe is necessary.
X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary
We need comprehensive rules on social media far more than age limitsParis Marx (Disconnect)
How the middle class was hollowed out from 1979 to 2022, according to new federal data
How the middle class was hollowed out from 1979 to 2022, according to new federal data
The top 1% saw its share of household income double from 1979 to 2022, going from 9% to 18%, the CBO said. The middle cohort saw the biggest decline.Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)
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in reply to Björn • • •So when they went closed source they removed the original repository to make it look like you stole their source code...
That's incredibly scummy
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