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alanferrier, 2 days ago to random

Fixed that for you, New Statesman.

Fun fact: England is the only country in the world to have fully privatised its water and sewerage systems.

Via the Financial Times: "Scotland—which has its own state-owned water company—massively outperformed its neighbours with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."

tixie, 2 days ago to random

iTerm, can you NOT PUT FUCKING AI in my terminal. I don't need AI in my fucking terminal ffs.

Damn, tech bubble is fucking rotting everything

natematias, 2 days ago to random

What does it mean for a company to "know" that their products are harming people, how do corporate scientists convince themselves not to look at the truth, and how does that change?

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary story right now by Sharon Lerner for ProPublica and the New Yorker.

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

bkastl, 2 days ago to random German

"At first glance, the Recall feature seems like it may set the stage for potential gross violations of user privacy. Despite reassurances from Microsoft, that impression persists for second and third glances as well."

Ah ja. Microsoft Recall. Super Idee. Bestimmt.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

QasimRashid, 3 days ago to random

If the US saw lack of ICC jurisdiction as a valid defense that exempts Israel from ICC prosecution, then US would not have welcomed ICC arrest warrants for Putin—who also rejects ICC jurisdiction. But instead the US happily welcomed ICC warrants against Putin, and stands by those warrants to this day.

International rules based order mandates consistency in law and the application of law—for opponents & allies alike. That's how justice is supposed to work.

DrALJONES, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

1

Opinion

On apartheid Israel

When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.

It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.

The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.

"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority

#ApartheidIsrael #UN #UNGA ....2..

godofbiscuits, 2 days ago to random

A comedy sketch show from the UK called The Mash Report from at least 6 years ago, but a perfect response to Butker’s bullshit.

https://youtu.be/8JfJhJWxB9Q?si=shR9aulcaYdCZ30H

erictopol, 3 days ago to random

The highly pro-inflammatory and pervasive microplastics and nanoplastics: previously found in arteries and associated with increased in heart attacks and strokes, now in all human testes that were assessed.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/theres-plastic-in-my-plaque

https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/toxsci/kfae060/7673133?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false#no-access-

therightarticle, 2 days ago to random

Tories quietly change the law to give arms factories PROTECTION from protesters under ‘National Security’ guff

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/05/21/arms-factories-protest/

ericdere, 2 days ago to random

Gaza detainees shackled, blindfolded and in nappies at Israel hospital https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgygdr7vezo

Miro_Collas, 2 days ago to Palestine

Israel’s war on Gaza live: 40% of Gaza population displaced in two weeks | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/21/israels-war-on-gaza-live-40-of-gaza-population-displaced-in-two-weeks

• Israeli forces kill three, 8 wounded in occupied West Bank’s Jenin
• WATCH: Members of UNSC call on Israel to stop Rafah offensive
• Australia’s Albanese refuses to comment on ICC arrest requests
• Trump’s foreign policy advisers meet Netanyahu: Report

#Palestine #Gaza #Rafah #WestBank #Israel
@palestine

ashleygjovik, 2 days ago to random

Today the Judge ok'd the following claims to go forward: Nuisance, Ultrahazardous activities, Breach of Good Faith & Fair Dealing, Tamney, §§ 98.6, 6310, 17200, & IIED (8 claims)

He also granted me leave to amend: RICOc,d, Bane, Ralph, NIED, § 1102.5, breach of contract (7 more claims)

The Judge dismissed some parts of some of my claims without leave to amend, but the only two claims he dismissed in their entirety without leave to amend were SOX &Dodd Frank

I did good

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.417952/gov.uscourts.cand.417952.73.0.pdf

krusynth, 2 days ago to random

It remains fucking absurd that the U.S. sold off most of its rail lines, so Amtrak has to pull over and let freight trains pass, as those are the companies who bought them. I’m sitting here stuck outside of town for the last 30 minutes because of this fuckery.

MusiqueNow, 2 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLI9qrBZnag

17 May 2024

#OwenJones speaks with #HudaAmmori of #PalestineAction

#JohnWoodcock, unelected twatlord of #Walney and appointed by #Toryscum, is trying to ban #SolidarityWithPalestineProtests 🇵🇸

This lobbyist for #ApartheidIsrael who also gets paid by Leonardo, which supplies arms to Apartheid Israel, is also trying to ban #PalestineAction

#FreePalestineNow 🇵🇸
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael #UKShitShow

BenjaminHCCarr, 3 days ago to google

#Google's call-scanning #AI could dial up #censorship by default, #privacy experts warn
This is essentially #clientsidescanning
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/

Right now #DoNoEvil (kidding) Google is going after #scam calls, but what about in repressive countries or our own?

What happens when they come to find the #dissidents, #BLM, #abortion rights leaders?

#SlipperySlope #surveillance

CandaceRobbAuthor, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to climate

I am going to be pondering this quote for a long while:
"She fears that present-day deforestation might result in the loss of that traditional knowledge.
"'The forests have always been our pharmacy, but they’re killing them as if they were people,” Pachaka said of the nearby settlers."
#ClimateChange

from: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/19/nothing-left-how-climate-change-pushes-indigenous-people-from-their-land

aral, 3 days ago to SmallWeb

:kitten: 🎉

Kitten now has a lovely new multi-page Settings screen and… drumroll… a new 🐢 interactive shell (REPL) for you to play with the running state of your Small Web site/app/place and debug your app, inspect/manipulate its database, etc.

I plan on recording demos of each of them tomorrow but you can play with them now.

And here’s a little tutorial to get you started with the shell:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#kitten-s-interactive-shell

💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #NodeJS #REPL #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #web #dev

Screenshot of Kitten running in terminal: 🌍 Domain https://localhost 📂 Source /var/home/aral/Projects/kitten/app/examples/file-uploads 💾 Databases /var/home/aral/.local/share/small-tech.org/kitten/databases 🐢 To launch an interactive shell, press the [s] key. Server is running and listening for connections… s 🐢 Launching interactive shell ctrl-d to exit; .help for assistance A good place to start is to run the .ls command to see the keys of the global kitten object: » 💡.ls is an alias for Object.keys(kitten) [ 'version', 'domain', 'port', 'app', 'databaseDirectory', 'projectIdentifier', 'deploy', 'WebSocket', 'html', 'libraries', 'page', 'events', 'css', 'js', 'markdown', 'md', 'safelyAddHtml', 'sanitise', 'uploadsDirectory', '_db', 'uploads', 'package', 'db' ] 🐱 💬 kitten.db.images[0] Proxy [ { path: '/uploads/1a6c2612-057d-435b-83c7-7157b4add982/', altText: 'Screenshot of Draw Together sketch that reads Free Gaza!' }, { get: [Function: bound getHandler], set: [Function: bound setHandler], defineProperty: [Function: bound definePropertyHandler], deleteProperty: [Function: bound deletePropertyHandler] } ] 🐱 💬

aral, 3 days ago to ireland

Capitalism: a social system where the rich live and the poor die.

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Ireland’s two-tier cancer drug system: ‘I can give one drug to one lot of patients, not to another’

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/05/20/irelands-two-tier-cancer-drug-system-i-can-give-one-drug-to-one-lot-of-patients-not-to-another/

#capitalism #ireland #cancer #healthcare

Indyposterboy, 3 days ago to Scotland

Independent Portugal generated the equivalent of 91% of its electricity needs through renewables by March 2024.
It has Europe's lowest power prices.
Non independent Scotland generated the equivalent of 113% of its overall electricity needs through renewables in 2022.
It has the UK's highest power prices.
#IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland

Captain_Jack_Sparrow, 3 days ago to Palestine

Benjamin Netanyahu arrest warrant sought for Gaza ‘war crimes’

Hey #JoeBiden
Supplying Weapons of Mass Murder to a known War Criminal is NOT a good look

#NetanyahuWarCriminal #GenocideJoe

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/20/benjamin-netanyahu-war-crimes-arrest-warrant-sought/

#FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza

#israel #Netanyahu #Gazagenocide #ICC

jtmuehlberg, 3 days ago to random

"The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday."
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html