The German state is taking extraordinary measures to clamp down on pro-Palestinian activism, including arresting activists in their homes in the middle of the night.
Copyright is a deeply flawed weapon to use against the generative "AI" companies. But the tech industry's arrogant vacuuming up of everything in sight -- ingesting what others created so it can re-sell it to us -- is moving us quickly toward the worst possible Internet, a pay-per-view system that ruins what we've collectively built.
What is clear, meanwhile, it that Big Tech -- including Big AI -- should be broken up, period.
Literally took one 20 min phone call in which Biden demanded immediate ceasefire & threatened to cut off aid, & magically a border opens providing critical humanitarian aid to Gaza.
USA always had this leverage. Meanwhile 32K Palestinians killed. smh
@QasimRashid it is a war crime with zero accountability. If any other nation on Earth didnthis, swift sanctions and bombs would follow. What actually happens in this case is hand-wringing, diplomatic cover provided, denials from Washington that it was intentional, more arms for the genocide. Rinse and repeat.
@kcarruthers When they mean international pressure it is a few slightly different tones of we are not happy and then it is back to business as usual, or they are unhappy that all of this was on the front page
Rep. Connolly issues a scathing response to the House GOP proposal to rename Dulles Airport after #Trump: "Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a federal prison."
@DigitalTaoist@DrALJONES The people of that country support this, they just don't support the PM. Elections provide an opportunity for new group of murderers
@DrALJONES@DigitalTaoist I can check. However the Guardian did a great reporting on this. According to the Guardian the population are aggrieved by Netanyahu's handling of the negotiations with hamas and the relationships with the US but not the conduct of the war.
@DrALJONES remember when Chinese and Russian protestors were arrested for holding up blank pieces of paper? The west was outraged by this abuse of state power and here we are...irony is dead in Germany
Today, I take up office as Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights with a pledge to inject a #HumanRights perspective into the greatest challenges facing our societies and at the heart of @coe states’ agendas.
@DrALJONES Netanyahu is working for his own interests, to ensure that he can keep this forever war going so that he can 1) stay in power, 2) keep the criminal charges at bay, 3) extract as much financial gain from this as is possible, and 3) annex as much land from Palestine as he can. He knows that the West is spineless
@DrALJONES as long as the West tolerates and excuses Isreal's war crimes, then this will be the future. If Apartheid can be toppled so can this extremism in Isreal
Today in Labor History March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The Rosenberg’s sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol (adopted by Abel Meeropol, the composer of “Strange Fruit,”), maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated, but that their mother was innocent. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it. The Rosenberg’s sons were among the last students to attend the anarchist Modern School, in Lakewood, New Jersey, before it finally shut its doors in 1958.
@MikeDunnAuthor Despite their soviet files, I believe that the US made up its mind to make an example of the Rosenbergs and never afforded them a fair trial.
