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anirvan, 6 days ago to random

Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender who helped launch the BDS movement:

"The current student-led uprising on campuses in the US, Europe and globally is a sign of Palestine’s South Africa moment, as the support for ending complicity in Israel’s genocide and underlying 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid is reaching a tipping point…the ‘B’ and ‘D’ in BDS have gone much more mainstream than before."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/bds-omar-barghouti-israel-campus-protests

mondoweiss, 8 days ago to Palestine

Bob Feldman, who protested at Columbia University in 1968, on the student uprising today, “I would tell these students: people will always remember what you did today . . . and I believe they have accomplished much more in 2024 than we did in 1968.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/theyve-sparked-resistance-around-the-world-a-columbia-68er-salutes-the-24-uprising/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

fergusryan, 10 days ago to random

'Among the people who shape the American debate on India — like academics and think-tank experts — India’s transnational repression has created a general and widespread climate of fear.'

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24160779/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans

davidonformosa, 11 days ago to hongkong

Human Rights Watch called on the Hong Kong government to immediately quash a court’s groundless national security law convictions of prominent pro-democracy activists

“Hong Kong’s mass show trial lays bare Beijing’s utter contempt for fundamental freedoms and democratic political processes,” said Maya Wang, acting China director at HRW

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/31/hong-kong-quash-baseless-convictions-activists

#HongKong #China #HumanRights #HRW

cdt, 11 days ago to random

Hong Kong 47 Verdict: All but Two Democracy Figures Tried for Subversion Found Guilty https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/05/hong-kong-47-verdict-all-but-two-democracy-figures-tried-for-subversion-found-guilty/

skinnylatte, 12 days ago to magASEAN

My friend Annie H has an excellent piece on the overlaps of Thai and Malaysian cuisine, that defy neat national borders and national myths

https://www.eater.com/24165529/thailand-malaysia-border-food-national-cuisine

#TootSea #Malaysia #Thailand #Food

mamutjan, 13 days ago to random

Thinking of & sending love to my son Hikmet, who turned 9 today.

Due to China's incommunicado persecution of #Uyghurs since 2017, he's grown up without being able to say a single word to his father his entire life!

#BringBackMyFamily

#UyghurGenocide

linktr.ee/free_muherrem

foreignpolicy, 16 days ago to random

Traditional food is painted as backward and dirty—except for tourists. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/26/china-xinjiang-uyghur-food/

carstenfranke, 16 days ago to random

Here in Minnesota we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020

kerim, 16 days ago to threads

Article by Rest of the World on how popular #Threads is for young protesters in #Taiwan

"freshly created political communities could be fragile as Meta promises to reduce the amount of political content users can see. Facebook began limiting political content in 2021, and Meta said this year that Instagram and Threads would also stop recommending political content, unless it came from accounts users were following."

https://restofworld.org/2024/instagram-threads-app-taiwan-protests/

glynmoody, 17 days ago to China

Last major Arabic-style mosque in #China loses its domes - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/shadian-last-major-islamic-style-mosque-in-china-loses-its-domes cultural genocide of #uyghurs made visible

ClimateNewsNow, 18 days ago to climate

AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for climate change.

How worried should we be about AI’s effects on the grid? #ClimateChange

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/23/1092777/ai-is-an-energy-hog-this-is-what-it-means-for-climate-change/

Snoro, 20 days ago to indonesia

The Last Glaciers of Indonesia

Tropical ice sheets are “canaries in the coal mine” when it comes to climate change

https://thediplomat.com/2024/05/the-last-glaciers-of-indonesia/

#Indonesia #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

archaeohistories, 21 days ago to history

This lovely dark blue Roman glass plate was found in a 5th Century AD, tomb at Niizawa Senzuka-kofun Tumulus Cluster, Nara, in Japan.

Dish was possibly produced in a workshop on western side of Euphrates and before the plate reached Japan, the inner surface became decorated, with a bird, horse, person, and plants. These figures were drawn in a Central Asian style and were likely the product of the Sasanian Empire. From there it was imported to Japan.

National Museum, Tokyo

#archaeohistories

nando161, 23 days ago to meta

According to #SadaSocial, there is an urgent need for an immediate investigation into #Meta's leak of #WhatsApp users' #data to the #Israeli #military.

The group diligently observes the collective dissent voiced by numerous Meta employees, encompassing #Facebook, #Instagram, WhatsApp, #Messenger, and #Threads, regarding the Meta #company's complicity in the #genocidal war against the #Gaza Strip, its endorsement of the Israeli occupation, and its fueling of the "Lavender" #artificialintelligence system used by the Israeli military to kill #Palestinian individuals within the Gaza enclave.

gerrymcgovern, 24 days ago to random

When Big Tech is challenged on its energy, material and water use, it's response is always that its working on being more efficient, finding ways to keep growing but in a "greener" way.

We must challenge the Growth Death Cult.

Our environment simply cannot cope with this incessant growth of data, data centers, servers, chips, smartphones, laptops, earbuds.

There is no infinite growth on a finite planet. Driven by Big Tech, we have already bust past multiple boundaries.

It's not sustainable.

beeoproblem, 25 days ago to random

Bye Google search. Nice knowing you

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

rotnroll666, 25 days ago to llm

Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦‍♂️

davidonformosa, 27 days ago to thailand

"Amnesty International expresses its deepest condolences following the death of Netiporn ‘Bung’ Sanesangkhom, who had gone on hunger strike in protest at her and others’ arbitrary detention, including for peacefully exercising their human rights.

"This is a shocking reminder that Thai authorities are harshly denying pro-democracy activists their freedom in an apparent bid to silence the peaceful expression of dissent"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/thailand-tragic-death-of-detained-activist-must-be-wake-up-call/

#Thailand #HumanRights #AmnestyInternational

divya, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

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cydonian, 27 days ago to random

2023: the warmest year in the last 2000 years. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/this-past-summers-heat-was-an-extreme-outlier-in-past-2000-years/

fergusryan, 28 days ago to random

Brilliant ABC Australia Four Corners report by Echo Hui in which a former Chinese spy risks his life to unveil covert operations, shedding light on China's global surveillance & Australia's national security vulnerabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STq7LNwa3Gs

cdt, 28 days ago to random

Amnesty Details Transnational Repression Against Overseas Chinese Students. "More than half the students interviewed suffered mental health issues linked to their fears, from stress and trauma to paranoia and depression, in one case leading to hospitalization." https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/05/amnesty-international-details-transnational-repression-against-overseas-chinese-students/

mamutjan, 1 month ago to random

“Australia should impose targeted sanctions against Chinese government officials who are implicated in crimes against humanity and other grave abuses against #Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang …"

https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/australias-challenge-in-addressing-its-trade-involving-forced-labor/?s=09

BenjaminHCCarr, 1 month ago to climate

#ClimateChange: World's #oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat
50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era. Planet-warming gases are mostly to blame, but the natural weather event #ElNinno has also helped warm the seas. Recent months have brought no respite, with the sea surface (#SST) reaching a new global average daily high of 21.09C in Feb and March this year, according to Copernicus data.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68921215 #climatecrisis