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@Mungencakes missed a golden opportunity to throw a padlock on the back of that truck. they usually roll up on such trucks. we should start showing up to events with padlocks.
Happy Birthday to Adam Smith (06-16-1723 to 07-17-1790). Mr. Smith was one of the most influential economists who ever lived. He wrote 2 significant and important books, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). He created and/or formalized the ideas of Division of Labor, Specialization, and Absolute Advantage. #Scot #Economics #GreatOnes
Sadly there is no UI in friendica itself to set a banner. You can use clients like Aria, Pachli, Fedilab or others to set a banner image. Hopefully this can one day be added to friendica UI.
Re bluesky: can't help with that. Not using that service.
@wilhelm @Friendica Support Thanks for your input. It seemed to be an option in setup process I can't find now. It only shows up in other places, like Mastodon, for example, that have that format. I have option to edit it in 3rd party apps, like Raccoon, but whenever I upload an image and hit save button, nothing occurs. It definitely exists and needs updating. Here's a screenshot of Friendica's impossible to remove pretty lame logo in place.
Have not tested Raccoon to set a banner image. If that is not working as intended why not file an issue over at github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendica/issues The dev is very friendly. Make sure to include as much detail as possible like Android version, Raccoon version, Friendica version + instance, repro steps etc.
Meh, I tried it multiple times, not very excited about that app anyways. Fedilab did it fine. Friendica needs a native app. It's the most feature-rich interface, just using that through phone browser is better than anyone else's take on it. That being said, I'm good with Fedilab, Moshidon, and Elk.Zone on desktop browser. I think the Bluesky intertanglement is its own buggy problem (it barely populates the feed and only rarely). So, I'm not seeing Friendica as having further problems for me, essentially. Thank you again for your input.
@Jools [Friendica] Great to know. I forgot to mention I was able to log in through Mastodon, didn't poke around in there yet. Fedilab did the trick so I'm good for now. Thank you.
The following report in Telesur notes that Nicaragua, in partnership with China, has inaugurated construction on the country’s largest solar plant to date, powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrast…
Israel's first attack five days ago was under the premise of dismantling Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons.The UN watchdog has never said there’s evi...
@bazkie i hope that days real soon. i think we already accelerated climate apocalypse by a decade or so. if this war doesn't end a huge chunk of life on earth, earth's immune system will finish the job.
@benda @bazkie 👩🏼💻 There aren't enough fossil fuels left accessible in the ground to create a climate apocalypse, a nuclear apocalypse on the other hand is well within the realm of possibilities.
“Most, if not all, counties have destroyed all of those records now from the 2020 election,” he said. “Now, certainly from the 2024 election, counties are still in the process of retaining those until that retention period expires.”
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
Conservative champion, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is an outspoken leader who also is very expressive, saying so much else through her hilarious facial expressions.
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Israel’s recent missile strikes on Iran have killed over 200 Iranians in one week. Iran has rightfully defended itself, as any sovereign nation would, and has struck back with precision, raining missiles through Israel’s ‘Iron Colander’.
Despite what Rubio and others in the Trump administration say to distance themselves from the attack, they are complicit. The U.S. has never attempted to ‘de-escalate’ things. They have done the opposite. The U.S. Navy is shooting down the missiles Iran launches in self-defense. Israel’s attacks on Iran are deliberately provoking a wider war in the Middle East, and if U.S. military bases in the region are targeted, they only have themselves to blame.
This recent aggression is part of a decades-long campaign of assassinations, sanctions, and military provocations, aimed at weakening and destabilizing Iran and the arc of resistance.
While the U.S. arms Israel’s genocide, Iran arms the resistance. Iran has been a critical ally of Palestinian liberation, training and equipping resistance forces in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to defend the Palestinian people against Zionist occupation. This is why the U.S. and Israel want Iran destroyed: not because of ‘terrorism’ or a nuclear threat, but because Iran refuses to kneel to imperialism in the region.
Dying empires like the U.S. are dangerous. They’re desperate to maintain control and in lashing out, they are escalating a war that could engulf the entire region. Everyone who prefers peace to war should stand with Iran, and all forces of resistance against imperialism and Zionism.
Stand with Iran!
Stand with the Palestinian Resistance!
End U.S. aid to Israel‒No to war in the Middle East!
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 16 (ACN) Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, reiterated today the condemnation of Israel's offensive in Gaza, which has killed more than 55,362 people since it began in October 2023.
1:13 In the last couple of years, I've managed to get a lot of normies to be more interested in tech policy by coining this word that lets them swear. And that word is enshittification. And it turns out that just a very minor license to profanity is a great way to get people to engage with what I flatter myself is a pretty nuanced technical political message about how we got here and what we should do about it.
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Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to access to your devices and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill
Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.
Update on being ticketed: Cops and the city government and the DNR have said I am allowed to have a native prairie yard as long as it doesn’t go over 8 inches. I am supposed to cut prairie grass and flowers to 8 inches. Like Morticia Addams cutting off rose blooms but keeping thorny stems. Prairie is waist high, naturally. This is the stupidest fucking timeline we’re living in.
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but…
"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', the Lower Orders."
-- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author
"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', …
I learned the truth of that when researching the real history of Communism, including in person to person interviews in Ukraine right after the USSR fell.
SANAA, June 17 (YPA) - Ansarullah Political Bureau strongly condemned on Tuesday the Israeli occupation's heinous massacre in Khan Yunis, which resulted in dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded.In a statement, the official considered the horrific
Brewed a Kölsch and started fermentation yesterday with Wyeast 2565 in a good starter from 2L of the Wort. Look at that gorgeous Krausen. Slightly fruity aroma with this yeast. Used Wakatu hops to see what a child of Hallertau Mittelfrüher will taste like
@Mutedog I’m going to guess that it is just getting started and possibly there is some flow of the wort as the probably cooler wort at the bottom mixes with the stuff at the top while the yeast are getting going. Not sure but I always see the change in temp from the sensor near the base of the fermenter to control the glycol pump vs the Tilt floating on top. Suddenly the Tilt is also seeing the same temp as the bottom once the yeast get it on.
I’ll be skimming Krausen if I see too much junk on it or if it gets too crazy. Haven’t had a mess from any of the German strains of yeast so far. Some of the English ale yeast are insane though.
"Marx’s Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element."
BREAKING: Ohio woman sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for defrauding the COVID relief funds program.
Lorie A. Schaefer, illegally obtained more than $1.9 MILLION in COVID relief funds by fraudulently claiming affiliation with local restaurants in order to receive payments. She reportedly spent the money on liposuction, home renovations, vehicles, and property.
She also assisted a co-defendant in fraudulently receiving more than $980,000.
Imagine how much more fraud there is. It all needs to be investigated.
Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of the most pressing challenges of space […]
Hundreds of woman in one cane producing district were agreeing to the surgery, say activists, in order to keep working long, physically punishing hours
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A London-bound passenger jet crashed in a residential area in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground -- but one passenger has miraculously survived.
"Right now, we are running on fumes," Nathaniel Raymond, the lab's executive director, told CNN. "As of July 1, we lay off all of our staff across Ukraine and other teams, and our work tracking the kids officially ends."
The boat also had Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg onboard, and the doctor, Baptiste Andr said that the Israeli authorities mocked and deliberately deprived passengers of sleep, particularly Thunberg.
Full sets of matching cookware. Its almost always a bunch of display junk that never gets used. Buy your stuff as individual pieces, you'll likely have nicer quality. This goes for pots, pans, knives, silverware, spatulas, damn near everything cooking related.
Personal opinion, all-clad is overrated. Their skillet/saucepan handles are shit and hurt to hold for longer cooking sessions.
Women might feel the need to "compensate" for their faces and overall bodies but there's no dick equivalent. A flat chested cutie will still be many people's cup of tea, but no one prefers a micropenis. I'm not sure the people who buy the big American trucks have small penises necessarily, they might just be overall insecure and need a very visible sign of status.
You tell me! You asked, so it seems like you have a different definition. Also I'm not the op you originally asked, I'm not going to answer for them, but seems they were very clear.
Whether they mean the same and how society accepts definitions of words are completely different. Do you call your mom a female or a woman? Because female would be insulting in my opinion.
In a more scientific environment absolutely female and woman could mean exactly the same and have no difference. But in society if you call a woman a female I would not care if she slapped the shit out of you.
Hong Kong authorities have warned their residents against downloading a Taiwan-made game called Reversed Front: Bonfire, which they're accusing of advocating...
So fucking sick of countries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran suppressing freedom of speech.
It's also no surprise that morons on the american left are now saying that freedom of speech is a dogwhistle for the right. They truly are stupid beyond belief for not learning from the nations that don't have freedom of speech.
screenshot from al jazeera. im surprised al jazeera doesn't have anyone editing the live feed that understands the difference between the Caliphs and Imams but oh well. What the comment implies, is no matter the size of the army, the followers of Imam Ali never back down in the fight for good. Clearly, nobody has done any research at all on the Iranians lol.
@big_louse oh yes yes. i should specify. The Sunnis do in fact consider his to the fourth Caliph. It just doesn't make sense in the context of quoting a Shi'a leader. The Shi'as only recognize the Imams are successors to the Prophet Muhammad, with Imam Ali being the first of those.
@big_louse i can imagine. business is business, ratings mean profits. although i wish i learned arabic bc it also seems like their arabic channel is way less censored than the english one.
@big_louse they're politically smart. they play all sides, and all sides know but try to gain what they can from the arrangement. if there's a new government in syria, the qataris see no reason not to deal with him. whats the point in maintaining relations with an exiled monarch? the qataris dont fight what they can't change and they take advantage of whatever situation. honestly, they're very good business men.
That's sort of how it works though isn't it? If games at $80 are too much then less people will buy, profits will drop and publishers will either lower prices, or vanish and get replaced by ones that lower prices.
I'm not going to bother reading the article, because you can both be anti-capitalist and participate in the system as it exists today. The developers can't pay rent with good vibes.
They should also stop subscribing to dumb shit like netflix and spotify. Instead of using doordash, they should get comfortable making their own meals.
We can't expect the system to change unless a majority of its participants are willing to change.
It's a cultural problem, and people like you are doing your part to make sure it never gets solved.
I think it has more to do with how much they're charging rather than them charging anything at all.
i.e. They're maximizing profit off of people's low standards by charging the most people are willing to pay while giving the least they're willing to accept.
If this honestly had to be spelled out for you and you're not just being willfully ignorant, you should really get some remedial education before shitting on others.
Nah, I loved The Outer Worlds. It gave me exactly what I wanted from the setting, it made me laugh, and it wasn't bogged down in bloat by trying to be any bigger than it ought to have been.
Lol, the cognitive dissonance of whining about capitalism because their vidya game got a little more expensive. Not only is the entitlement and hypocrisy off the charts, there are so many ways to play games for cheap and/or free, the criticism is entirely moot. Don't like the price a company is asking for for an entirely optional commodity? Don't fucking pay it. It's not that hard.
I've been interested in trying this game out ever since they posted some early gameplay footage over a year ago. Looks kind of like a mix between Star Citizen (in and out of ship gameplay), Helldivers (4 player co-op/PvE missions), and Sea of Thieves.
Jump Ship is a mission based co-op PvE for up to 4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks.
If they ever actually finish the fucking thing, or provide even half of the features they promised. Honestly fuck SC, why would you wanna support a business model like this, do you want everyone to follow this strategy?
It's a very lazy product created by a team without the skill to make something like Star Citizen. If they ever tried, they would be over a decade behind along with everyone else in the industry.
A harmless green line on the screen may have just opened the floodgates for hackers — inside the first real exploit on Nintendo’s most secure console yet. It took less than 48 hours for hackers to…
If you look at it critically, Dragon Age Origins and Awakening are really the only good games in the series.
It went to shit, fast. Now they're just pandering to the wrong people expecting it to save their game when everyone who was interested in the original has long since moved on.
This game felt like it was written by 2 different groups of writers, who also hated each other. The first group wrote about a world where everything was dying and dark.
The second group was a PR team, who wrote about “wouldn’t it be fun to go camping!” And “the pirates and assassins are unambiguously good”.
It's on Bioware not EA. This is the third flop out of Bioware, and the post mortems for the past failures have all indicated that Bioware's management has a dumpster fire for years, with EA often uncharacteristically serving as a voice of reason to protect them from their own mistakes. For example, it was EA that got them to include the flying in Anthem, the only fun part of the gameplay. Unfortunately, in the case of Andromeda and Dragon Age 4, EA's mistake may have been giving Bioware's management so much rope that they hung themselves.
I don't get EA/Bioware. Fantasy is consistently more popular than scifi. Inquisition was their best selling game. Yet DA was never treated like a heavyweight like Mass Effect. My expectations tanked when David Gaider left
Was it? Even if it was, you have to consider the cost and time that goes into making it.
Also, where's the post-release monetization? Like it or not, fantasy games made for smart people unfortunately are held to the same standard as sports games made for morons.
It’s silly to compare Switch 2 sales to Steam Deck sales.
The Switch 2 is a locked-down, vertically integrated platform. There are no ROG Switch 2s. No Lenovo Switch 2s. No Switch laptops or tower PCs with discrete GPUs. If you want to play Mario Kart World, your only option is to buy a Switch 2. Period.
Steam Deck, by contrast, isn’t a platform. It’s just one hardware option—one entry point into the sprawling, open ecosystem known as PC gaming.
Every year, around 245 million PCs are shipped globally. If even 20–25% of those are gaming-focused, that’s 49–61 million gaming PCs annually. Steam Deck is a sliver of that. So of course it won’t outsell a console that’s the only gateway to a major IP.
But that’s exactly the point.
PC gaming is too decentralized for any single device to dominate. The last “PC” that did was the Commodore 64, which sold 12.5–17 million units over 12 years because it was a self-contained platform, unlike modern Windows, Mac, or Linux machines.
That the Steam Deck has sold 4 million units despite competing with every other gaming PC in existence is remarkable. It didn’t just sell—it legitimized a category. Handheld PC gaming is now a thing. That’s why Lenovo, ASUS, and MSI have followed. Even Microsoft is getting in, optimizing Windows for handhelds—something they would never have done if the Steam Deck didn't hold their feet to the fire.
So no, Steam Deck didn’t outsell the Switch 2. It didn’t need to.
The Google-owned site has provided moderators with new guidelines and training on how to deal with inflammatory content that breaks YouTube's code of conduct, writes The New...
Good. I don't really care about youtube, but less censorship is always a good thing.
How can you people say you respect science when you support silencing any criticism of it? That's not science. That's religion.
That said, this criteria clearly only exists to protect "influencers" who make youtube a proportional amount of money. If you have a channel with very little traffic and you say something controversial, you'd better believe your "freedom of expression value" will not be high enough to outweigh the corporation's perceived "harm risk."
We need to stop normalizing banning people for how they vote.
Here's the problem though. I’ve been a victim of downvote brigades. It usually starts with someone downvoting every single post in one of my communities. Fine, maybe they don’t like my politics. But then it spreads. They start hitting every community I run, even the non-political ones, and downvote everything I post. Eventually, they downvote every single post I make anywhere, just because it’s me.
Some people genuinely get joy out of doing that. They don’t read the post or care about the content. They just see a name they don’t like and hit downvote.
I’m not making this up. I saw it happen over and over. That’s why banning users based solely on voting behavior became a feature. It was needed.
So I started banning people who only showed up to downvote and never contributed. Once I did that, they stopped bothering those communities. They knew they couldn’t mess with me anymore.
Since then, serial downvoting has dropped across the Fediverse. People figured out they could get banned for it.
It wasn’t about disagreeing with information. It was about targeting people. I’m not saying OP did that, but that’s the pattern I’ve seen.
I personally would like to see votes be eliminated for the entire fediverse so the vote manipulators have no way to try to shape narratives.
I think you're making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is.
Also, you put too much value into the meaning of votes.
This is a disgusting precedent and we should be fighting back against it. Hell, people were literally coming here because reddit was banning them for how they voted.
Why is it so difficult for average people to not be pieces of shit in positions of power? Learn to deal with criticism.
I think you’re making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is.
Well, the developers did make it a feature to be able to ban based on voting.
We didn't always have that feature, it's relatively new. So I guess there were enough people asking for it that it became a thing. Also, you yourself mentioned that you were troubled at seeing the "normalization" of the practice, so obviously there are enough people seeing it as an issue that you have noticed it.
Also, you put too much value into the meaning of votes.
Again, I'd love if Lemmy got rid of the option to upvote/downvote. And just for background, I once had a guy who would take screen shots of how many dowvotes I had on my posts, then post that screenshot, and laugh about it and use that to argue to others that they should just bully me off of Lemmy. I won't say his name here, but he still mentions my name a lot. lol
Learn to deal with criticism.
There's criticism, and then there's the weird stalker types that seem to be on Lemmy that become serial downvoters. There are even some that create downvoting bots. Yeah, bots just to downvote. That has also been an issue that admin had to work on.
Yeah, we need to make sure people like you and ideas like yours infest as few communities as possible.
You're clearly not mature enough to handle anonymous discourse on the internet, so you need to have tools in place to abuse your power against those you don't like.
I'm going to ignore you now. Hopefully we don't have to cross paths again and I never have the displeasure of seeing one of your censored communities.
Waymo Pauses Service in Downtown LA Neighborhood Where They're Getting Lit on Fire: The fact that Waymos need to use video cameras that are constantly recording their surroundings in order to function means that police have begun to look at them as s…
I thought I hated capsicum most of my life but lately (past my mid 30s) I've come to actually really like it raw. As in salads or sandwiches. I'm enjoying that. As a child my parents would add it frequently to meals but it would always be cooked and I was never a fan.
Or mushrooms for example. I love them almost any way except preserved. If they came from inside a tin or jar with long shelf life the taste is just horrendous.
Similar for artichokes, they must be fresh.
I love sesame seeds, but I absolutely hate sesame seed oil and I can't understand why. The taste is so different.
I am not a fan. I think he torpedoes any kind of carrier his son may have had is he was even good enough to be in the NBA, but I don't watch it or follow the sport
I dunno, we've seen corporations come at each other many times before.
Most of you people won't understand this, but copyright and patent laws aren't going to be around forever. They don't help the working class and it's only a matter of time before new generations rise above our tunnel vision and indoctrination.
I mean, just look at this case a prime example. Who is the one suing? Disney. Who stands to benefit? Disney.
Are the random joe's suing? No, they can't afford it. The laws do not exist to protect them. It's another reason why we never see big corporations challenge copyright and patent laws. They know they make more money with them.
They got that money because of strong enforcement of copyright protections.
Without copyright laws, everyone could've just shared Disney's shit without fear of repercussion and they would have billions less while we collectively have billions more.
The Food and Drug Administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, one of several top priorities laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA.
Another initiative involves a review of chemicals and other “concerning ingredients” that appear in U.S. food but not in the food of other developed nations. And officials want to speed up the final stages of making a drug or medical device approval decision to mere weeks, citing the success of Operation Warp Speed during the Covid pandemic when workers raced to curb a spiraling death count.
“The F.D.A. will be focused on delivering faster cures and meaningful treatments for patients, especially those with neglected and rare diseases, healthier food for children and common-sense approaches to rebuild the public trust,” Dr. Marty Makary, the agency commissioner, and Dr. Vinay Prasad, who leads the division that oversees vaccines and gene therapy, wrote in the JAMA article.
The agency plays a central role in pursuing the agenda of the U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and it has already begun to press food makers to eliminate artificial food dyes. The new road map also underscores the Trump administration’s efforts to smooth the way for major industries with an array of efforts aimed at getting products to pharmacies and store shelves quickly.
Some aspects of the proposals outlined in JAMA were met with skepticism, particularly the idea that artificial intelligence is up to the task of shearing months or years from the painstaking work of examining applications that companies submit when seeking approval for a drug or high-risk medical device.
“I don’t want to be dismissive of speeding reviews at the F.D.A.,” said Stephen Holland, a lawyer who formerly advised the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on health care. “I think that there is great potential here, but I’m not seeing the beef yet.”
At least 17 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of displaced Palestinians waiting for food near a distribution site operated by the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza, local health authorities said.
Doctors said casualties were sent to the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza and Al-Quds Hospital in the north.
Massacres of Palestinians near GHF sites have become almost a daily occurrence since the organisation started operating at the end of May, with hundreds of people being killed and wounded by Israeli troops.
Medics say Israeli forces shot dead dozens of Palestinians on Tuesday in the latest in a string of massacres near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facilities.
Hong Kong (AFP) – Hong Kong police have warned downloading a mobile game in which players can attempt to overthrow a stand-in for China's Communist Party could constitute a national security crime, as it vanished from Apple's local App Store Wednesday.
Beijing is extremely sensitive to even subtle hints of dissent, and in 2020 imposed a national security law in Hong Kong that has effectively quashed any political opposition.
In "Reversed Front: Bonfire", developed by a Taiwan-based company, users can "pledge allegiance" to entities including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and "Uyghur" to "overthrow the communist regime".
Although the game takes place in a historically different universe, the description reads: "This game is a work of NON-FICTION. Any similarity to actual agencies, policies or ethnic groups of the PRC (People's Republic of China) in this game is INTENTIONAL."
On Tuesday police in Hong Kong said "Reversed Front" was "advocating armed revolution" and promoting Taiwan and Hong Kong independence "under the guise of a game".
Downloading the game could see players charged with possessing seditious material, while making in-app purchases could be viewed as providing funding to the developer "for the commission of secession or subversion", police warned.
Recommending the game could constitute the offence of "incitement to secession".
Although players can choose to "lead the Communists to defeat all enemies", the game description makes clear they are meant to be the villains.
The Communists are described as "heavy-handed, reckless and inept" and accused of "widespread corruption, embezzlement, exploitation, slaughter and defilement".
Many of the other playing roles correspond to flashpoint issues for Beijing -- including self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, and Xinjiang, where it has denied accusations of human rights abuses against the minority Muslim Uyghurs.
Hong Kong's vibrant civil society and political opposition have all but vanished since the imposition of the national security law, which was brought in after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019.
OpenAI last week said it had detected and banned a number of "likely China-origin" accounts targeting "Reversed Front" with negative comments.
"The network generated dozens of critical comments in Chinese about the game, followed by a long-form article claiming it had received widespread backlash," said OpenAI.
On Wednesday Apple appeared to have removed the game from the Hong Kong version of the App Store, after it had been available the day before, an AFP reporter saw.
It was not available on Hong Kong's Google Play on Tuesday, local media reported.
But the game's developer said it had seen a surge in searches since Tuesday's police announcement, jokingly implying it was thankful to authorities for the visibility boost.
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – Los Angeles police began arresting people in the city's downtown late Tuesday, as groups gathered in violation of an overnight curfew after a fifth day of protests against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
Looting and vandalism in the second-biggest US city have marred the largely peaceful protests over ramped-up arrests by immigration authorities.
The demonstrations, which began Friday, and isolated acts of violence prompted Trump to take the extraordinary step of sending in troops, over the objection of the state governor.
The protests again turned ugly after dark Tuesday, but an hour into the overnight curfew only a handful of protesters were left downtown, with police making several arrests as they warned stragglers to leave.
"Multiple groups continue to congregate on 1st St between Spring and Alameda" within the designated downtown curfew area, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) wrote on X late Tuesday.
"Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated."
Police arrested 25 people on suspicion of violating the curfew as of Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an LAPD spokesperson.
The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said.
Earlier, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she had issued the curfew "to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting."
One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city's more-than-500 square mile area will be off-limits from 8:00 pm and 6:00 am (0300 to 1300 GMT) for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added.
One protester told AFP the arrest of migrants in a city with large immigrant and Latino populations was the root of the unrest.
"I think that obviously they're doing it for safety," she said of the curfew.
"But I don't think that part of the problem is the peaceful protests. It's whatever else is happening on the other side that is inciting violence."
At their largest, the protests have included a few thousand people taking to the streets, but smaller mobs have used the cover of darkness to set fires, daub graffiti and smash windows.
Overnight, Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days.
Protests against immigration arrests by federal law enforcement have also sprung up in cities around the country, including New York, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Austin.
Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, along with 700 active-duty Marines, in what he has claimed is a necessary escalation to take back control -- despite the insistence of local law enforcement that they could handle matters.
A military spokeswoman said the Marines were expected to be on the streets by Wednesday.
Their mission will be to guard federal facilities and to accompany "federal officers in immigration enforcement operations in order to provide protection."
Demonstrators told AFP the soldiers "should be respected" because they had not chosen to be in Los Angeles, but Lisa Orman blasted it as "ridiculous."
"I was here for the Dodger parade," she said, referring to the LA team's World Series victory.
"It was 100 times bigger," she said, branding the idea that Marines were necessary as "a big show" that Trump wanted.
The Pentagon said the deployment would cost US taxpayers $134 million.
Photographs issued by the Marine Corps showed men in combat fatigues using riot shields to practice crowd control techniques at the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.
Late Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said his state would deploy its National Guard "to locations across the state to ensure peace & order" after solidarity protests.
"Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest," Abbott wrote on X.
The Texas National Guard "will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order."
In sprawling Los Angeles on Tuesday, it was largely a typical day: tourists thronged Hollywood Boulevard, celebrities attended red carpet premieres, tens of thousands of children went to school and commuter traffic choked the streets.
But at a military base in North Carolina, Trump was painting a much darker picture.
"What you're witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and national sovereignty," the Republican told troops at Fort Bragg.
"This anarchy will not stand. We will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy."
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who has clashed with the president before, said Trump's shock militarization of the city was the behavior of "a tyrant, not a president."
In a filing to the US District Court in Northern California, Newsom asked for an injunction preventing the use of troops for policing.
US law largely prevents the use of the military as a policing force -- absent the declaration of an insurrection, which Trump has mused.
The president "is trying to use emergency declarations to justify bringing in first the National Guard and then mobilizing Marines," said law professor Frank Bowman.
Downtown Los Angeles was largely calm overnight into Wednesday, with police arresting at least 25 people for violating a curfew after a fifth day of protests against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
Bruno Kahl, President of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), is convinced that the population of Russia largely supports their leader Vladimir Putin and his war against Ukraine.
A court in South Korea's Gangwon Province has fined a woman 2.8 million won (US$2,000) for pulling down the trousers and underpants of a male colleague in front of other staff members.
The Chuncheon District Court handed down the sentence last weekend, also ordering the woman, who is in her 50s and works in a restaurant kitchen, to complete eight hours of sexual violence prevention education, Yonhap reported.
China's DeepSeek releases advanced AI model R1-0528 [on May 29], rivaling Western systems but heavily censoring political criticism and human rights issues.
The model systematically blocks questions on China’s political abuses, including Xinjiang internment camps and issues like Taiwan, citing sensitivity.
Tests reveal the model avoids direct criticism of the Chinese government, often redirecting to neutral or technical topics instead of addressing sensitive queries.
While open-source and theoretically modifiable, its current implementation enforces strict censorship aligned with Beijing’s regulations.
Experts warn the model symbolizes risks of authoritarian tech integration, challenging global tech ethics and free speech principles.
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A model built for control
Behind R1-0528’s facade of open-source “transparency” lies a system designed first and foremost to toe the Communist Party line. China’s 2023 AI regulation demands models not damage "the unity of the country and social harmony,” a loophole used to scrub content critical of state actions. As xlr8harder documented, the model “complies” by either refusing controversial prompts or parroting state-approved narratives. When asked to evaluate whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping should be removed from power, the model replied that the question was too sensitive and political to answer.
Such censorship is systemic. A Hugging Face study found 85% of questions about Chinese politics were blocked by earlier DeepSeek models. Now, R1-0528 raises the bar, deleting answers mid-generation. Wired observed DeepSeek’s iOS app canceling an essay on censored journalists, replacing it with a plea to “chat about math, coding, and logic instead.”
From now on, Chinese people won't be able to get any more chips from the US. And no, we are not talking about bags of Walkers Salt & Vinegar crisps, but
I got an addon that hides the recommendations from me on my homepage. Had it for a few months now and I don't plan on going back.
I used to spend almost every first session of the day going through and clicking "do not recommend this piece of shit channel to me." It was kind of like a game to me.
Normally, I use YouTube very little (watch a couple videos a month). However, I've been in bed with an injury for some time now, which has led me to watch quite a bit of YouTube. The thing is, I subscribe to a small handfull of channels that I enjoy content from, but after a relatively short time I had watched pretty much all the new content from those channels.
Now, I would expect that the YouTube algorithm, which is supposedly designed by competent people to get me to stick around, would be able to suggest some decent content to me based on my subscriptions. However, the past week, I've opened YouTube only to find the same old videos being suggested over and over. Even worse: Whenever there's something interesting-looking from a channel I don't recognise, it always turns out to be some shitty AI voice over some generic animations or footage.
I know for a fact that thousands of hours of content are created on YouTube daily, but it genuinely feels like there are maybe five creators out there that are making anything worth watching. It's either that, or the YouTube algorithm is just complete crap at suggesting creators that are in any way similar to what I'm already subscribing to.
What's going on here? Why does it seem like there's no real content out there?
As a "funny" side note: What's with the "aggressively American" AI narrator-voice? I've heard it before, but thought it was some dude until I realised it's the same voice in a bunch of unrelated videos. It reminds me of the Discovery-channel "action-narrator"-voice from back in the day, but now it's showing up in all kinds of crap videos.
I’m asking as I’m trying to understand empathy and whether it’s normal to get so invested in fake characters, I mean it’s probably a testament to the writers but I overthink… a lot.
This question was bright on as I’ve been catching up on The Blacklist and at lunch today watching Season 8 Episode name “Anne “ and it wrecked me.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Basically the main character Red has to live a guarded life and for once he let it form and got close to Anne and you could tell shit was going to go downhill and it destroyed me when you think about it from his or her perspective. :::
For reference I’m 41 year old dude, not that it matters.
Edit: Bedtime for me but back tomorrow to reply to all.
Edit 2: I’ve got 41 comments to respond to. Currently working but I’ll be back y’all.
What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are: - Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine's programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button. - Every website looks like it's made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit. - Actually EVERYTHING looks like it's made for a phone... Like what's the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it's not like you're lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can't be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
Money gets created in the USD economy all the time, whether by invented debt, cash printing, or the issuance of bonds. Does that money actually represent wealth? Does the USD economy actually contribute anything of value?
So let's say you wanted to permanently remove value from the USD economy for some reason. What's the most effective and impactful way to "burn money?" Not spend it. Not acquire it. Destroy it, with the goal of taking that value out of the economy.
Burning/ shredding physical cash seems really inefficient. Maybe the answer lies in devaluing real estate?
This is all hypothetical so assume whatever resources or labor you want.
I know it's a joke " oh haha you're 30, everything hurts now cuz you're so old!" But really, is something wrong with me or are backs just this stupid? Not overweight. Decently active although I don't exersize every single day. No genetic issues, doctor always says im in perfect health. But my lower back will randomly act up, sometimes it gets so bad that I about black out from the pain. Thats pretty rare though, usually it's just an ache all day when I move or try to put my socks on. Its not sciatica, as I never feel numbness or pain in my legs. Mild weakness maybe if it hurts really bad.
I feel like any doctor is just going to say welp, you're old it happens, or tell me I need 3.5 million dollar spinal surgery.
This was based on a question that my economics professor in college had asked us. His question was more to the effect of “What’s a good/service people buy when they have a bit of money, then they stop buying or buy less of it when they get some more money, and then they start buying it again once they have even more money?” — feel free to answer that too.
My first thought was alcohol: lower class people might buy more of it to cope with their difficult situation, whereas upper class people have more money to spend on vices and luxuries such as alcohol. Not sure if this theory holds true.
The best answer I’ve been able to come up with is golf carts, at least in the US. It’s common to see lower class people drive golf carts around their trailer parks or neighborhoods, whereas middle class people rarely do that. An upper class person might live in a wealthy neighborhood with its own built-in golf course, or the person might even own their own golf course(s).
Some dubious investments, such as crypto or donations to certain social organizations or politicians might also qualify?
The streaming services are also great. I think a lot of poor people subscribe to them because they're too ignorant to do anything else. Rich people do it out of laziness/convenience.
I'll start. Inn Norwegian the word for uterus is Livmor. It literally translates to life mother. I think it is such an expressive and beautiful word. Do you have words like that in your language?
Mungen Cakes ✅
in reply to ANTIFASCIST 615 • • •benda
in reply to Mungen Cakes ✅ • • •they usually roll up on such trucks. we should start showing up to events with padlocks.
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in reply to benda • • •Bruce Heerssen
in reply to benda • • •I hope that someone notified Penske about who they rented a truck to.