Only one thing on everyone’s mind? The genocide being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people? No? Oh, a song contest sponsored by Israel that Israel is using to whitewash its genocide. Ah, my bad, sorry.
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Here in Europe there's only one thing on everyone's mind this week: the annual Eurovision Song contest. Let's consider the bizarre geographic aspects of this cultural phenomenon
What about October the 7th? Yes, Netanyahu is a criminal and he uses his power and this war to avoid being put in prison, but why no one remembers about October the 7th absolutely horrific attack where this girl survived hiding under a pile of dead bodies of her neighbors?
@menelion That's not a justification for committing genocide and you know it. Two wrongs don't make a right. You should have learned that in kindergarten.
@BernieDoesIt I do know it, of course, and I started my reply with it. Everyone knows that he will be immediately in prison if he finishes this war. My point was just not to accuse this girl personally, that's it.
@menelion @BernieDoesIt Who’s accusing “this poor girl?” We’re accusing Eurovision for giving a country – Israel – a platform to whitewash itself as it commits genocide. Not surprising, of course, given that their main sponsor is an Israeli company.
So I got advertised to about #Eurovision again, and this time I thought to look at the advertiser. Who’s splashing the cash? The Israeli Government Advertising Agency. adstransparency.google.com/adv…
De European Broadcasting Union (EBU) heeft gedreigd de Spaanse omroep RTVE een boete op te leggen, omdat die tijdens de tweede halve finale van het Eurovisie Songfestival de situatie in Gaza besprak. Dat schrijft de Spaanse krant El País.
The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI
"Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker quietly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11th and that “any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup.”
... Wired reports that some big customers of Bing’s APIs will retain access to the service after the August 11th cutoff. DuckDuckGo uses Bing to power its search engine, and it has confirmed that it will still have access. Other smaller developers won’t be so lucky, though."
#Russia demanded #Ukraine pull its troops out of all the Ukrainian regions *claimed* by Moscow before they would agree to a ceasefire, a senior Ukrainian official familiar with the talks told Reuters.
Recientemente impartí una sesión en el curso coordinado por Manuel Romero para Nociones Comunes – UEX: Del Materialismo Histórico a la Filosofía de la Praxis. El retorno a Marx en los Cuadernos de la Cárcel (1929-1935). Por si os apetece escucharlo, lo dejo por aquí.
De Marx al marxismo. Historia, prensa y política revolucionaria
Recientemente impartí una sesión en el curso coordinado por Manuel Romero para Nociones Comunes – UEX: Del Materialismo Histórico a la Filosofía de la Praxis. El retorno a Marx en los Cuadern…
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Nach Angaben der Hamas gibt es in Doha in Katar eine neue Gesprächsrunde mit Israel über eine Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen. Beide Seiten stellten keine Vorbedingungen für eine Erörterung diesbezüglicher Fragen, erklärt der Hamas-Vertrerer Taher al-Nono.
Beim Gipfel der Arabischen Liga hat UN-Generalsekretär Guterres einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand im Gazastreifen gefordert. Die von der Hamas kontrollierten Behörden im Gazastreifen melden zahlreiche Tote nach israelischen Angriffen.
Beim Gipfel der Arabischen Liga hat UN-Generalsekretär Guterres einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand im Gazastreifen gefordert. Die von der Hamas kontrollierten Behörden im Gazastreifen melden zahlreiche Tote nach israelischen Angriffen.
Die von der Hamas kontrollierten Gesundheitsbehörden im Gazastreifen melden zahlreiche Tote nach israelischen Angriffen. Der Iran will die Atomverhandlungen mit den USA fortsetzen.
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At least in the US, I'm absolutely destroyed that people just don't care. They talk like they care, but they just fucking don't. I don't get it at all. They will gripe about how evil and bad something is, then just keep using it. "If everyone else is, so will I" maybe. Group Inertia.
I think it's more that most people just aren't aware of any equivalent alternatives, or in some cases like where there literally aren't any alternatives. Look at phones, both Apple and Google suck and their mobile OSes are terrible but what's the alternative? Sure there's a few Linux phones out there and that's almost an alternative but it's not there yet. You could go with a "dumb" phone, but for most people that's not going to work. So you pick your lesser evil and bitch about it whenever the latest round of enshitification hits.
If you asked most people what alternatives exist for Spotify they'd probably say Pandora, and maybe Apple Music or Youtube Music and then struggle to come up with anything else. The better alternatives are suffering from a massive discovery problem.
No algorithm but buying physical media again is one path.
A few months ago I got a couple CDs and I'm hoping to rebuild my collection and get off Spotify. It supports artists better, and YouTube is still there to help discover new music.
Buy a CD a month instead of your service. A roll back for technology of course, but worth trying imo
Our musicians are getting fucked with streaming services and I like directly supporting them.
Fine, yes. I was just throwing an idea out there. I don't know how to pirate shit anymore, and am to an age where I can afford to support artists directly, so if one can, one should.
Where did the music to pirate come from back in the day? Was it not uploaded from a CD and then file shared?
I did learn in this thread there are numerous other streaming services I was completely unaware of, so thats cool
It's because we've seen this so many times and are really tired of this: Everybody knows that you have to moderate user generated content. If you provide a upload function for user generated content and don't have a clear moderation policy in place and a moderation team, you will allow scammers, child porn, drug dealers and crypto scammers onto your platform. That has happened hundreds or thousands of times. And then some newspaper will do a report and they will remove some of the mentioned content without doing anything.
Spotify has smart employees. Some of them even worked at other companies who ran into the same issues. But they still decided to launch the feature like that, mostly because upper management really doesn't want to pay the costs of functional moderation. That is how Facebook went on to be used in the genocide in Myanmar. That is how thousands of minors got abused. Moderate your shit. There is no way around and AI won't help you
I dislike that you can't block NSFW stuff. My son found NSFW stuff on Spotify.. and I had to take it off our Living Room Tv and ban him from using it for now. I think you can block accounts, but there were so many.. Go ahead, search tits on Spotify.. fucking wild to me it's not moderated.
The only problem with sharing a shot from my last trip? It just stokes the fire and desire for me to go on my next #photography one. But of course, vacation time, and money, are limiting reagents.
Commodore OS Vision 3.0 Linux-based OS arrives to spruce up Retro Builds.
Fans of retro computing rejoice! Commodore OS Vision 3.0 has officially been released and is ready to install on your Commodore 64x today. This fan-made Linux-based operating system is designed specifically for Commodore branded devices.
Occhi: la salute della vista a rischio dal clima @scienza focustech.it/news/occhi-salute… L’uomo ha davanti a sé una nuova era che porterà a sfide nuove sotto ogni punto di vista, anche di salute. Il cambiamento climatico può sembrare qualcosa di astratto, ma va a impattare significativamente sulla nostra vita. Se viene più facile pensare a possibili danni ai polmoni, a causa dell’inquinamento, o
High above, where light trickles through leaves, echoes of soft calls bounce between branches — a forest conversation. 📷 Frank.Cruz #Nikon #Photography #Nature #Birds
Nuove perforazioni oceaniche rivelano un misterioso cambiamento climatico nel Pliocene notiziescientifiche.it/nuove-p… Dal sito #notiziescientifiche @scienza Una ricerca internazionale pubblicata su Nature Communications[1] ha rivelato che un’intensificazione delle correnti oceaniche profonde nell’Atlantico settentrionale, 3,6 milioni di anni fa, coincise con un brusco raffreddamento
Una ricerca internazionale pubblicata su Nature Communications[1] ha rivelato che un’intensificazione delle correnti oceaniche profonde nell’Atlantico settentrionale, 3,6 milioni di anni fa, coincise con un brusco raffreddamento dell’emisfero nord.
"Erklärtes Ziel der Regierung von Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu ist es, die im Gazastreifen herrschende Terrororganisation Hamas zu besiegen und die Freilassung der von islamistischen Extremisten noch immer festgehaltenen Geiseln zu erreichen."
Das kann glauben wer will - die Taten sprechen dagegen. Wer Zivilisten schikaniert, aushungert, tötet, ganze Städte zerbombt, der nährt Terror - er bekämpft ihn nicht! #gaza #israel
Israel hat im Gazastreifen eine neue Offensive gestartet und fliegt verstärkt Luftangriffe. Was bezweckt die Regierung damit? Und welche Folgen hat das für die Bevölkerung des Gazastreifens? Ein Überblick.
El presidente de la Región de Murcia, Fernando López Miras; la presidenta de la Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola; la alcaldesa de Santander, Gema Igual, y el portavoz del...
"A senior Hamas official told Drop Site that the group received a direct commitment from Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, that two days after the release of U.S. citizen and Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, the Trump administration would compel Israel to lift the Gaza blockade and allow humanitarian aid to enter the territory. Witkoff, according to the official, also promised that Trump would make a public call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for negotiations aimed at achieving a “permanent ceasefire.”
“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.” In an interview with Drop Site, Naim said the agreement was: “If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”
“He did nothing of this,” Naim added. “They didn't violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”"
The U.S. immediately broke the deal, senior Hamas official Basem Naim tells Drop Site. “They threw it in the trash” and there has been “zero” progress on a Gaza ceasefire.
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⏺️ Les Crises ⏺️ « La catastrophe humaine à Gaza met la conscience de l'Europe à l'épreuve » – Josep Borell: Alors que Gaza subit une horreur sans précédent, l'Europe ne peut plus rester inactive. Source : Social Europe, Josep BorellTraduit par les… #Gaza #Europe #Humanitaire #Solidarité #Conflit
Alors que Gaza subit une horreur sans précédent, l'Europe ne peut plus rester inactive. Source : Social Europe, Josep BorellTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Le 18 mars, Benjamin Netanyah…
Julia Varela y Tony Aguilar aludieron a las víctimas civiles de la guerra durante la semifinal y recordaron la petición de la cadena pública de debatir sobre la participación de Israel
Japan’s Move of Turning Archipelago into Huge Powder Magazine is Suicidal Act of Dashing toward Second Defeat Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) — Kim Ryo Won, an international security analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article “Japan’s move of turning…
⏺️ Les Crises ⏺️ « La catastrophe humaine à Gaza met la conscience de l'Europe à l'épreuve » – Josep Borell: Alors que Gaza subit une horreur sans précédent, l'Europe ne peut plus rester inactive. Source : Social Europe, Josep BorellTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Le 18 mars, Benjamin Netanyahou a rompu la trêve établie à Gaza quelques jours avant l'investiture de Donald Trump. En quelques (…) --… les-crises.fr/la-catastrophe-h… #Gaza #Europe #Humanitaire #Solidarité #Conflit
Alors que Gaza subit une horreur sans précédent, l'Europe ne peut plus rester inactive. Source : Social Europe, Josep BorellTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Le 18 mars, Benjamin Netanyah…
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