Deciphered: whole-process people's democracy
Deciphered: whole-process people's democracy
To understand the Chinese system, it is necessary to move beyond the Western tendency to equate the CPC with political parties like the Democrats or Republicans in the United Stateswww.bjreview.com
Netanyahu avoids public rejection of ethnic cleansing goal in northern Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has reportedly rejected a request from US Secretary of State Blinken to publicly dismiss accusations that Israel is implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza.
According to media reports, Netanyahu and his aides have avoided Blinken's appeal to distance Israel from the so-called "General’s Plan."
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‘I Foresee a Very Long Insurgency by Hamas’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21698996
[an interview with former U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker]
Story by Michael Hirsh
October 19, 2024
Fresh tension grips Bangladesh as student protesters demand president's resignation
Fresh tension grips Bangladesh as student protesters demand president's resignation
Political tension in Bangladesh is growing after a leading student group called for the country’s figurehead president to resign over comments he made that appeared to call into question former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in AugustJULHAS ALAM Associated Press (ABC News)
Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
Mapzen
Mapzen, founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, was an open source mapping platform company focused on the core components of geo platforms, including search (geocoding), rendering (vector tiles), navigation/routing, and data. Mapzen’s components are used by OpenStreetMap, CartoDB, and Remix, amongst others. The components, hosted on GitHub, are written in JavaScript, Ruby, Java, and Python. Mapzen’s CEO, Randy Meech, was previously SVP of engineering for MapQuest. Mapzen was supported by Samsung Research America and was known to have hired mapping specialists from Apple.
Mapzen shut down operations in late January, 2018.
On the 28th of January 2019 The Linux Foundation announced Mapzen would become a Linux Foundation Project.
#geocoding #navigationRoutingAndData #OpenSourceCartography #renderingVectorTiles_
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China and the Vatican agree to extend an agreement on appointing bishops | AP News
China and the Vatican agree to extend an agreement on appointing bishops
China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years. The 2018 agreement had been extended twice previously.AP News
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The 2018 agreement sought to find a middle ground, although Rome has acknowledged it was a bad deal and the only one it could get. The Holy See’s outreach to China under Francis has drawn criticism, especially from American conservatives who have accused the Vatican of selling out the faithful who have been forced underground.
What is the compromise? Seems relevant to the article about a thing to explain what the thing is.
Iirc, before 2018 the Chinese goverment would refuse to recognize some priests or bishops as officials even if the Pope had selected them. The relation between the PRC and the Vatican was ok, better than the Soviets and the Vatican, but this was a huge problem for them.
In 2018 Francis made a deal with them, I think Xi wanted to approach the Catholic Church due to the slow but big growth of the Church in Asia, and because they probably wants to get closer with LatAm and Africa. Francis (The Pope) would choose the priests, but the Chinese goverment/CPC would have to approve them, some TradCath and Anti-China Catholics are angry bc they hate Francis (mostly bc he purged some tradcatholics and kicked some out of the church, and he is in friendly terms with some socdem and communist goverments in LatAm), and bc Francis have been mostly choosing normal Catholic priests and bishops, instead of anti-China ones.
Beijing picks who gets to be a bishop and Rome gives the okay to Catholics to worship in communist party organized parishes with a picture of Mao on the wall and a CCP-edited Bible to read. Also, the hope is China stops arresting Catholics and stops sending them to reeducation camps.
Members of the illegal underground Church have opposed this deal.
For more information, check out the Cardinal Kung Foundation.
China never keeps their word.
literally a summary from a presentation by the Cardinal Kung Foundation
so literally just worthless propaganda
I see. In this case I think Cardinal Kung Foundation simply doesn't know or are lying. They're based in Washington DC, which is the headquarters of the USA regime, and those are the people who recently spent 1.6 milliard USD on anti-China propaganda. They obviously have an agenda. msn.com/en-us/news/world/house…
I'll show you the podcast I was listening to when I saw your original comment. It was basically saying the exact opposite at the exact time I read your statement. youtu.be/H672okUKCeQ?t=4479 It's mostly just an ironic situation, rather than being some rigorous academic source. But still, it seemed more credible, since it was a person who lives there. Meanwhile your source names 'CCP', which is either a made up thing or a slur version of CPC. CPC is the political party leading China. They set the goals for the different Chinese governments to achieve.
Mentions United ... 3, 2, 1, Go
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/20878811
Since I wasn't satisfied with the way syndicated interactions were displayed on my blog, I built something myself with #javascript. What do you think of the idea and implementation?
Mentions United ... 3, 2, 1, Go - kiko.io
A JavaScript solution to unite blog posts with their interactionsKristof Zerbe (kiko.io)
Fediverse history piece from 2017: A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’
Fediverse history piece from 2017: A Brief History of the GNU Social Fediverse and ‘The Federation’
In late 2016, the fediverse was reeling under the onslaught of the first two major waves of people leaving Titter for our shores.SocialHub
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Only a Clinton shill who doesn't know those emails contain all the dirt the DNC had collected on the Trump campaign would say that.
A New York court ruled this publication, which btw showed the DNC had rigged the primaries / stolen the primaries from Bernie, and pushed media to always talk about Trump in the mistaken Clinton would easily win against him, was First Amendment protected by the highest order.
politifact.com/article/2019/ma…
Anhörig till gängkriminell mördad i Akalla. På kvällen den 22 oktober larmades polisen om ett grovt brott på Sibeliusgången i Akalla. I en lägenhet på den aktuella adressen hittades en död kvinna. Hon var anhörig till en känd gängkriminell som är skriven på adressen.
Mentions United ... 3, 2, 1, Go
Mentions United ... 3, 2, 1, Go - kiko.io
A JavaScript solution to unite blog posts with their interactionsKristof Zerbe (kiko.io)
Lägre sillkvot i Östersjön än vad forskarna föreslagit. Många vänstertdiningar, vänstermänniskor och miljövänner är just nu upprörda över att kvoten på sill/strömming i centrala Östersjön 2025 fördubblas jämfört med 2024
Phoronix: Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL
Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL
Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guaranteeswww.phoronix.com
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average Phoronix forum user unfortunately 💀
but Phoronix' journalism is good
(which is why I only read the articles through my RSS readers and never go on the site or associated forums)
Why bootc doesn’t require “/usr merge”
Why bootc doesn’t require “/usr merge”
The systemd docs talk about UsrMerge, and while bootc works nicely with this, it does not require it and never will. In this blog we’ll touch on the rationale for that a bit. The first stumbling bl…Colin Walters
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Blog makes valid point, but why on earth there would be any current Linux distribution without usr merge?
EDIT: Especially when every major Linux distributions have already implemented usr merge long time ago.
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Tor Browser 14.0 released
New Release: Tor Browser 14.0 | Tor Project
Tor Browser 14.0 is now available, featuring an update to Firefox ESR 128, extended support for legacy Windows and macOS platforms, and the ability to request a new circuit for Android.blog.torproject.org
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It is kind of interesting how open machine learning already is without much explicit advocacy for it.
It's the only field I can think of where the open version is just a few months behind SOTA in all of IT.
Open training pipelines and open data are the only aspects that could still use improvements in ML, but there are plenty of projects that are near-SOTA and fully open.
ML is extremely open compared to consumer mobile or desktop apps that are always ~10 years behind SOTA
Ironically thanks in no small part to Facebook releasing Llama and kind of salting the earth for similar companies trying to create proprietary equivalents.
Nowadays you either have gigantic LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters like Claude and ChatGPT or you have open Models that are sub-200B.
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