#excludedheadlines Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, Tamara Pearson.
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Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites * TorrentFreak
Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites * TorrentFreak
The world's leading VPN providers have been ordered to block around 200 pirate site domains following legal action in France by Canal+ Group.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
MAGA Accounts Aren't the Worst Idea
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Lavorgna on Moody's United States AA1 Credit Downgrade
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-05-16/lavorgna-on-moody-s-united-states-aa1-credit-downgrade-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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‘No soap, no morphine’: Gaza volunteer on life under intensified bombing
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/5/16/no-soap-no-morphine-gaza-aide-worker-describes-life-under-intensified-b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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‘No soap, no morphine’: Gaza volunteer on life under intensified bombing
Gaza volunteer calls Israel’s intensified bombardment “shocking” as Palestinians face severe food and medical shortages.Al Jazeera
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'Am I a good mom?' We put Chat GPT's parenting advice to the test
#parenting #artificialintelligence #technology #News
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🍕 Streamers Most Likely to Eat on Camera 🍕
1. @Unknown
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3. @Mrfunkedude
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4. @NorthWestWind
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Rulltrapping på T-centralen
[Escalating in central metro station]
#Stockholm #Cityphotography #Photography #APhotoADay pixels.egoville.eu #Idag
Gaza: Monsieur le président, votre honte
""«C’est une honte», s’est contenté de dire, le 13 mai sur TF1, Emmanuel Macron à propos de ce que fait #Israël à #Gaza et qu’il s’est refusé à qualifier. La véritable honte, c’est de s’en tenir à ces mots et de ne rien faire pour empêcher le #génocide en cours.
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Gaza : Monsieur le président, votre honte
« C’est une honte », s’est contenté de dire, le 13 mai sur TF1, Emmanuel Macron à propos de ce que fait Israël à Gaza et qu’il s’est refusé à qualifier.Edwy Plenel (Mediapart)
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South African President Ramaphosa Clarifies: White Citizens Relocating to the U.S. Are 'Not Seeking Asylum'
In a recent address at the African CEO Forum 2025 held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, President Cyril Ramaphosa sparked considerable discussion with his remarks regarding those who have fled South Africa. "Those people who have fled are not being persecuNewsroom (Axadle | Stay Informed with Horn of Africa Headlines)
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Apple perde disputa judicial sobre a marca “iphone” para empresa brasileira
https://canaltech.com.br/smartphone/apple-perde-disputa-judicial-sobre-a-marca-iphone-para-empresa-brasileira/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sehr gutes Gespräch mit Islamwissenschaftler zum Thema #gaza auf #twitch mit #naitan
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Talk mit dem Islamwissenschafler und Journalisten Fabian Goldmann und @dekarldent - !koro - Wahrnehmungsstoerer #638Twitch
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Zonder #socialmedia voelt het leven nuttiger volgens #Norris. "Ik heb het gevoel dat ik nu meer tijd heb om dingen te doen die ik echt wil doen", zei hij. "Ik wil gewoon tijd doorbrengen met mijn vrienden, golfen, trainen en andere dingen doen die productief zijn."www.nu.nl/formule-1/63...
Wrote about today's Supreme Court ruling. Don't sleep on Kavanaugh being all "fucking hell, guys, why are we sending this back to the 5th when you KNOW they're going to fuck it up and we'll have to rehear this case soon anyway"
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AMD Achieves Record Server Revenue Share, x86 Desktop CPU Market Share Grows To 28%
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/29768589
AMD has posted its record revenue share for the server segment while also recording big growth on the desktop side of things.
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verschleiert die Nacht
Kommt durch die Nacht und ins Wochenende 🌟🫶🏻
I have seen a few posts claiming that talk of mastodon being hard for new users is overblown. They also seem to have a subtext that if someone didn't enjoy their experience of the fediverse, it was their fault. The latter annoys me.
I have also been following Big Tech on Trial's coverage of the ongoing anti-trust case against Meta. This article summarising the FTC's expert witness made me realise something about what is hard about mastodon.
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What corporate social media does for you is find the connections that you want for you. With Facebook that is friends and family. With twitter that is the content that you want to see. The price you pay is the ad load, the data harvesting and the distortion in the presentation of the connections/content in favour of the company. The FTC's whole case is that Meta can put that 'price' up without losing users.
I love the fediverse because I don't pay that price. Instead though I have to find the content/connections that I want and, even more laborious, curate my feed. That is not easy. The main feed is a firehose of gubbins and porn. If I shift through it, I might find one or two accounts to follow. The server's feed is a bit more my thing, but it is not super brilliant (for me). By now my feed is pretty good, I got there by the simple of algorithm of following widely and pruning lightly. It took me a while to find that 'one simple trick'. I had to learn how to create filters so that I didn't just see the same content over and over (cat pictures, covid isn't over, Elon Musk is a racist. Your mileage will vary).
None of that was technically complicated. It could be learnt. Advice was passed on. In some sense it isn't hard, but it is a 'price'. I am very happy to pay that price. The benefit is enormous. It is radically different from the proposition that traditional social media has been making since the early days of Facebook. The price trad social media is one you pay passively, except the ads, you do have to learn to ignore ads. It makes sense that the fediverse feels hard to new users.
#Mastodon, #Meta, #BigTechOnTrial, #Fediverse
From "Roadshow" to Expert Witness: Courtroom Drama As FTC's Economist Finally Takes Stand
The Meta antitrust trial entered Week 5 with Meta marketing head Alex Schultz on the stand again, before the FTC finally called its economist. Sparks flew.Brendan Benedict (Big Tech on Trial)
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ICC prosecutor, under investigation, steps aside temporarily
The Hague (AFP) – International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan will step aside pending the conclusion of an internal probe into a misconduct allegation against him, his office said Friday.The UN Office of Internal Oversight Services started started its investigation in November, with reports saying Khan was accused of sexual misconduct towards a member of his office.
Khan, 55, denies the allegations.
Khan "communicated his decision to take leave until the end" of the UN internal investigation, and his deputy prosecutors will run the office in his absence, it said in a statement.
The British lawyer took up his position with The Hague-based court in June 2021.
Throughout his career -- from courtrooms in England and Wales, to leading cases before international tribunals -- he has faced down controversy for his legal work.
Stints included defending Liberia's former president Charles Taylor against allegations of war crimes in Sierra Leone, Kenya's President William Ruto in a crimes-against-humanity case at the ICC that was eventually dropped, and the son of late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, Seif al-Islam.
Khan also secured ICC warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Hamas figures, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The ICC investigates and prosecutes genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. While its rulings are binding on member countries, it lacks the ability to enforce them.
Khan was born in Scotland and studied undergraduate law at King's College, London.
His father was Pakistani, his mother British and he is a member of the minority Ahmadiyya Muslim sect.
He became a practising lawyer in 1992, and went on to cut his teeth in international law at the former Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes courts from 1997 to 2000.
He later represented survivors and relatives of victims of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia at its UN-backed court in the late 2000s.
His other roles have included a stint at The Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set up to bring to justice the killers of Lebanese ex-PM Rafic Hariri in 2005.
I don't buy it.
The alleged misconduct happened in 2023 December. Internal investigation was conducted and closed. Then the allegation was made publically just as arrest warrant was issued for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and US promised to retaliate. Patented US handiwork to me.
Even if it were true, that doesn't make the arrest warrant less relevant, but this way all the genocide supporters can pretend they are not the bad guys...
Prima voorbeeld #LandoNorris heeft besloten om sociale media te vermijden en is dolblij met die keuze. De McLaren-coureur ziet het als tijdsverspilling. "Het is gewoon niet iets wat ik leuk vind. Ik hoef het niet." #SocialMediawww.nu.nl/formule-1/63...
Grey Squirrel mid meal..
#nature #squirrel #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #SquirrelPhotography #SquirrelOfMastodon #UK
Ci vorrebbe un patentino anche per genitorialità {provocazione, forse...}.
#educazione #istruzione #famiglia #femminicidi
Znajomi się zachwycają tym chatem GPT ciągle, postanowiłem mu dać drugą szansę...
Irytujące to jest strasznie, ale już wiem, co mi to przypomina, ta rozmowa z tym botem: komiks o NIEZROZUMIAŁYM CZŁOWIEKU!
The image is a comic strip titled "NIEZROZUMIALY CZŁOWIEK OPC.1" (The Incomprehensible Man, Option 1). It consists of nine panels, each depicting a scene with a stick figure character interacting with a ticket vending machine.
In the first panel, the character stands in front of the machine, asking for "DWA BILETY ZA TRZY ZŁOTE" (two tickets for three zloty). The second panel shows the character receiving one ticket, with the text "TZN. JEDEN BILET W CENIE TRZECI ZŁOTECH" (meaning one ticket for three zloty). In the third panel, the character, holding the ticket, says "ALE DWA TAKIE BILETY" (but two such tickets).
The fourth panel shows the character holding a 3.00 zloty note, with the text "TAKIE DWA ZA TRZY ZŁOTE? BĘDE STRATNA..." (such two for three zloty? I will be at a loss...). In the fifth panel, the character offers "ALE JA PANI DAM SZĘĆ ZŁOTYCH" (but I will give you six zloty). The sixth panel shows the character saying "A TO NAWET LEPIEJ, BO PRZY ZAKUPIE POWYŻEJ PIĘĆ ZŁOTYCH JEST BILET GRATIS" (this is even better, because with a purchase above five zloty, there is a free ticket).
In the seventh panel, the character requests "W TAKIM RAZIE PROSZĘ TRZY BILETY ZA SZĘĆ ZŁOTYCH" (in that case, please give me three tickets for six zloty). The eighth panel shows the character lying on the ground, with the text "I JEDEN GRATIS..." (and one free...). The final panel shows a hand holding three 6.00 zloty tickets.
The comic humorously illustrates a misunderstanding about ticket pricing, leading to an unexpected outcome.
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Incontriamo Fabio Caccioppoli, studioso di Comunicazione Nonviolenta e candidato alla certificazione presso il Center for Nonviolent Communication di Albuquerque (USA), poco prima del suo seminario al festival dell’associazione Spazio 2030 al campus universitario di
La scuola romana delle risate - RaiPlay
Un viaggio nella satira visionaria, popolare e dissacrante che ha segnato la cultura di RomaRaiPlay
#waterfall
#australia
#landscape
#waterfallphotography
#landscapephotography
#landscape
#waterfallwednesday
#waterfallsaustralia
#chasingwaterfalls
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#VictorianWaterfalls
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Parlement : le groupe d’amitié #FrancePalestine de l’Assemblée privé de voyage sur place. Arguant de la situation instable à #Gaza, le groupe #MoDem a préféré donner la priorité à un déplacement du groupe d’amitié #FranceVatican.
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À l’Assemblée, le groupe d’amitié France-Palestine privé de voyage sur place
Arguant de la situation instable à Gaza, le groupe MoDem a préféré donner la priorité à un déplacement du groupe d’amitié avec le Vatican. Une décision incompréhensible au regard du drame en cours, s’alarment les membres de l’instance.Pauline Graulle (Mediapart)
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering. Even today one of their structures, the Pantheon, is still intact nearly 2,000 years after it was built, a long time for concrete to last. Researchers from MIT may now know why. @ScienceAlert has the story:
#Science #Physics #Engineering #Concrete #Construction
We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Lasts Thousands of Years : ScienceAlert
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)
Defensa cultural
Anoche le conté a Pato del sueño que tuve donde conocíamos al Che. Y cantamos juntos la canción de la Adarga al brazo de Frank Delgado, que se la canto desde que era un bebé.
Me preguntó quién era Camilo y quién era Changó.
Y hablamos de cómo murió el Che, cuándo se fue de Cuba, de cuando Fidel visitó Chile en el 72 y de otras cosas de esa América Latina.
Al final, le dije que muchos de los compañeros de él no sabían quién era el Che, o Fidel, Pepe Mujica, Lula o Allende, ni sabían del golpe en Chile o las dictaduras. Nunca habían oído las canciones que nosotros cantamos. Y que era posible que nunca se le hablara de eso en el colegio o en estudios sociales y era importante saber la historia de los pueblos.
Se sorprendió mucho
– ¿Cómo hacen para vivir sin saber eso, mama?
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A thing I really didn't expect in this parliament was that the UK's immigration debate would get more *weird and stupid*. More anti-immigration, yeah, I expected that, that always happens when we have a Labour government. But more detached from 'actual countries', I did not expect that.
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Il 17 maggio si celebra in tutto il mondo la Giornata Internazionale contro l’Omofobia, la Lesbofobia, la Bifobia e la Transfobia (IDAHOBIT – acronimo di International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia), istituita per ricordare la data in cui, nel 1990,…
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Il 17 maggio si celebra in tutto il mondo la Giornata Internazionale contro l’Omofobia, la Lesbofobia, la Bifobia e la Transfobia (IDAHOBIT - acronimo diRedazione Napoli (Pressenza)
#Bloomscrolling on #FlowerFriday
📍 purple passion flower, Sunbeam neighborhood, Jacksonville, Florida
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The word of The Boss is like the word of God here in the Scandis!
(well... to tell the truth... we often agree with him in the first place... maybe that's one of the reasons we like him so much...?)
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in reply to kbal • • •They stand to lose a good portion of their business if they can't service France. They'll comply.
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in reply to NuraShiny [any] • • •Population of France is 66.6 (lol) million people. If even 1% use VPNs that's a potential market of 666,000 users. At ~$5/mo per user that's a prospectus of $40 million annually. If I were a VPN provider I would absolutely want a piece of that pie rather than not, and all's they have to do is follow the law--exactly as they have been this entire time...
So yeah, I absolutely think they're going to comply.
NuraShiny [any]
in reply to Xanza • • •The population of just Europe, Canada and the USA is a combined is over 1 billion. I would say those are the most common countries where people pay for VPNs.
Let's say one billion flat minus France. If just 1% of those people subscribe to a VPN at 5$/month, that's 1.2 billion dollars annually.
Who would you rather alienate, assuming they would have to alienate one or the other?
The could also just see where you are connecting from and disable this feature for just french connections. Steam can do it for NSFW games in Germany.
Xanza
in reply to NuraShiny [any] • • •Congratulations? This has absolutely nothing at all to do with what I've said. Not even tangentially. I'm expressly and singularly speaking of France here. EU, Canada and the US combined populations change nothing about what I've said at all...
You look to be fighting a wet paper bag here... Sad to see honestly.
NuraShiny [any]
in reply to Xanza • • •I am comparing customer bases. It really shouldn't be that difficult to understand that.
Also...fighting a wet paper bag? That's the best you got?
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in reply to Xanza • • •Speak for yourself.
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onlinepersona
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •Don't want this to happen? Vote for a left wing party in your area or nationally. Change won't be immediate, but every vote counts. The right wingers are friends of business and unfettered capitalism. They will let this happen time and time again.
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in reply to Night Monkey • • •Sure, the anticapitalists won't be anticapitalistic. That's just an excuse not to vote "they're both the same", then wonder why right wingers keep driving countries closer to the cliff edge.
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