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@livus@kbin.social

If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? (www.theguardian.com)

Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

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@ininewcrow my feeling is that we in the international community are collecting evidence of war crimes against the possible day when the genocidaires can be brought to justice.

That day may not come for another 30, 40 or 50 years but I deeply hope that it will come eventually.

British Museum investigated over Ethiopian artefacts hidden from view for 150 years (www.theguardian.com)

Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to return The British Museum is being investigated by the information watchdog over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian altar tablets that...

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This is the crazy part:

Because the tabots will never be exhibited or studied – they are thought to be held in a sealed room that can only be entered by Ethiopian clergy – they fit this category, the organisation believes.

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There's no way they haven't already photographed them and studied them. They've had them since the 1860s, which was loooong before they had respect for other cultures.

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I've noticed a lot more dengue lately, I didn't put two and two together with climate change though.

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Looks like it's affecting at least a dozen people now.

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Normally if nobody from an instance has subscribed it doesn't show up in searches from that instance. You have to manually type the exact url and subscribe that way. Once one person has done it, it will show up.

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At first I thought the notorious kbin thumbnail mismatch bug struck again but no.

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On one hand I'd really like to receive something like this but the part where someone photographs you and uploads it for clout is really offputting.

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Thanks @RootBeerGuy but I'm all good.

I like this community a lot, and this is the first time I've ever been disconcerted after clicking.

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Fair enough. I think for me it just seems too intimate to be a "let's show other people" focused moment, but everyone's different.

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I thought everyone did this.

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Can we also control when to turn it off?

That's a good point! This could be some real monkey's paw stuff. Or if it has knock-on effects to global weather patterns.

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But maybe we can do it without anyone seeing? Like just turn up as a tourist (or NGO volunteer), wait a few weeks, then secretly make it rain.

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Do you mean so I could meet primates? Our zoos don't let you do that.

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Thanks for the suggestion.

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Cute!

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Of course it breaks international law. International law experts have been saying this for a long time.

The fact politicians admitting it is some kind of gotcha secret is ridiculous. We're really in the Emperor's New Clothes territory now.

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Exactly. If the Emperor admits the clothes don't exist they need to go get dressed.

But we can all see the truth.

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That's interesting how it's linked to social class so clearly in your family!

Come to think of it, the guessiest guesser in my life is from an industrial factory-labourer workingclass background, but different country. They experience direct requests as confrontations, so they are very easy to inadvertently hurt. It used to exasperate me, until I read the above concept.

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I think once you get a group of people all guessing it normalizes it within a family as well maybe?

It really is a perception thing I think, but yeah it can feel incredibly exhausting for us, instinctively oppo and I guess frustrating for them.

I had some insight once when a sibling was complaining about how they kept making excuses not to pick up a gift they'd accepted and they seemed genuinely angry the person was still offering and hadn't "taken the hint" they don't actually want it. It's flabbergasting to me but seems like that's really how they see things.

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@VirtualOdour the point of me sharing that article was just to try to put a human dimension on genocide for that callous person above.

Meta have been implicated in at least two genocides now and openly obstructed the International Criminal Court in their investigation of one of them. I think people are only pointing that out to show how evil Meta are.

But if you want to know what specifically they will do to ActivityPub, the other article I shared has more direct relevance: How to kill a decentralized network.

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Your topic's a false premise. First of all it's totally valid to criticize someone for something that couldn't apply in the current situation, because what's being criticized is the decisions and attitudes that their actions reveal.

Meta's refusal to moderate a website they control after multiple warnings that it was being used to incite genocide speaks to their institutional values, accountability, and culture.

By contrast, plenty of instance owners have shown responsibility, accountability, and good faith about admins moderating the instances they control.

try to be accurate and concise.

Lol that's condescending, and it's also a bit offputting. I come here to bloviate thank you very much. :)

The thing is though, I'm not part of the wider conversation about facebook above. You glommed onto a very simple, very specific point I made to someone else about the human impact of social media incitements to genocide.

What Meta did to the ICC isn't even related to my above link (which is about the Tigray genocide, not the Myanmar genocide). But it's well-documented, and I'm not interested in rehashing it here.

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I absolutely love that speech, but I don't find it depressing. More, sad but a powerful expression of what it is to be mortal.

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