As "TikTok refugees" flock to RedNote, a U.S. official says the Chinese app could be banned, too
As "TikTok refugees" flock to RedNote, a U.S. official says the Chinese app could be banned, too
With the U.S. ban on TikTok looming, many Americans are opting for another Chinese app known as RedNote. It could be short-lived.Emmet Lyons (CBS News)
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[GitHub] Create Voice Training Data For StyleTTS 2 Locally - Phonotate.App
Hello,
I wanted to finetune StyleTTS 2 with my own voice and it was very tedious to create the training data by hand. I could not find an application specifically to create this kind of voice training data, so I made my own. I have been working on this for about a week so it's still a work in progress. Please feel free to add ideas, suggestions, or requests.
Here is the description:
Phonotate.App is a local, open-source Electron app built with React designed to simplify creating training data for StyleTTS 2 and voice cloning models. Phonotate provides a seamless workflow for recording, analyzing, and managing voice samples. Whether you use open-source backend services or OpenAI APIs, this app ensures that all your data remains secure and within your control.
You can see screenshots of the application in action on the README.
github.com/LoganRickert/Phonot…
GitHub - LoganRickert/Phonotate.App: Phonotate.App is a local, open-source Electron app built with React designed to simplify creating training data for StyleTTS 2 and voice cloning models.
Phonotate.App is a local, open-source Electron app built with React designed to simplify creating training data for StyleTTS 2 and voice cloning models. - LoganRickert/Phonotate.AppGitHub
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I always hear people say this as a 'gotcha' but it doesn't make any sense.
I have travelled while homeless.
People will be renting an apartment in a developed city, owning a car, going out to pubs/nightclubs, and then telling dirty backpackers, "God must be nice to have the money to travel!"
travel vs sedentism, neither one is necessarily more cheap/expensive than the other
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That's fair, but there's a wide gulph between transient homeless and wealthy enough to pay all your bills and still travel the world. The overwhelming majority of people in the middle have to work full time to maintain their standard of living, and even the destitute will have responsibilities that prevent them from slinging a pack over their shoulder and riding the rails.
I agree that people should be encouraged to get out more and see more of the world, but that's like telling people to eat more fresh vegetables and home cooked meals because processed fast food is unhealthy. People who can and do reap the benefits, but not everyone who would, can.
You could chime in that you grew up poor on a farm where your grandma's garden was your only source of food, and that wouldn't counter the point that for most people, fresh produce is either unavailable, too expensive, or too time-consuming to be a regular part of their diet. Likewise, most people cannot drop everything and become nomads hitchiking across the lands like fucking David Banner or Jarod the Pretender.
To put it another way, Travel is a luxury enjoyed by the unencumbered, whether by wealth or absence. It is not an option available to everyone.
May not work in all cases, seems like everyone that goes to egypt to see the pyramids comes back hating egyptians.
I've seen discussions where the topic was something like "Where did you travel to that you would never go back to again", and the responses there heavily implied that travel can inspire racism.
One of the Egypt stories involved men following a woman back to her hotel room, and she had to lock herself inside. They continued to come to her hotel everyday, and bang on her door telling her to let them in. She ended up spending the whole trip stuck in that room, feeling unsafe to leave until she finally got an escort to make it to her flight home.
Unfortunately in cases like that, it really sounds like it goes beyond something you can be adult about and just ignore. I think her main mistake was not doing better research about where it was safe to travel as an unaccompanied woman, as much as I wish that wasn't a concern.
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Yeah I fully get the idea. A lot of racism is ignorance and fear. Humans are bad to take limited experiences of each other and assume that's the whole experience. When you don't have your own experiences with a different people, it's easy to latch onto stories of how bad they can be and form your whole opinion around that. The best counter to that is to have good experiences instead, preferably through friendship.
But some cultures/etc make for a bad travel experience, and that will create or reinforce negative opinions. Living there longer is probably better, but the fact that racism still exists in mixing pot countries like the US proves that living together isn't enough to make relationships good.
I've only been to another country once in my life. In 2018 I was invited to present at a scientific conference held in Sicily, and my workplace sponsored my travel and accommodation costs.
After 6 days there, my takeaway was an unfavorable view of the local Sicilian people. This is obviously not representative of every person in Sicily, or Italians in general (Italy is a big place with lots of different regions), but I'm not in a hurry to go back to Palermo.
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I hope they were enlightened at some point but I've also ran into well traveled people with the same mindset.
In essence, this quote is true.
Applied to reality though, in our day and age your results may vary. It is completely possible to travel and learn nothing that would open people's minds especially when the traveling keeps itself within tourist zones and resorts designed to just give you a change of landscape and an illusion of cultural flavor.
You need to purposefully step away from that sort of thing and actually engage with the culture to get the benefits of the quote.
Definitely, when the traveling time alone is anywhere from a week to a month or more, with lots of required stops, then it makes sense to spend a long time in a place.
Looks like it took Bertrand Russell 6 weeks to get from England to Shanghai in 1920.
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It was around this time that a white guy adopted the clothing of an Arab country and passed himself off as an Arab to learn more about a country (Syria, I think?). I learned about him in the intro to an episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Travel was definitely different then.
I think it was ep 15, about the Nabataeans.
Edit: the Nabataeans were in modern Jordan.
You need to purposefully step away from that sort of thing and actually engage with the culture to get the benefits of the quote.
I second this measure
- Tourists tend to seek out "authentic" parts of the country.
- Some places tend to German or French speaking tourists primarily.
- Tourist industries can have high worker turnover, so there's always someone learning the ropes.
- Even perfect English might be unintelligible to a gammon if the accent is thick.
Twain also wrote often about meeting annoying US tourists on his travels and going out of his way to avoid them. For example in "A Tramp Abroad", after describing a particular annoying interaction with one he writes:
And away he went. He went uninjured, too—I had the murderous impulse to harpoon him in the back with my alpenstock, but as I raised the weapon the disposition left me; I found I hadn’t the heart to kill him, he was such a joyous, innocent, good-natured numbskull.
Having read Mark Twain’s autobiographical travel log, I love that he himself is a bit of bigot - stereotyping quite a few of those peoples he meets on the way.
Albeit in a fairly human way and with a bit of irony about it. Great writer interesting human.
Def depends on where you go. As a german who has visited most European countries at least once, and a bunch of others as well, I found my preconceptions confirmed more often than not.
Or in a case where I went without any due to deliberately not looking up any information beforehand I was severely let down. Looking at you, Serbia.
Belgian King to Step In if Hungary Prevents EU Sanctions on Russia - Regtechtimes
Belgian King to Step In if Hungary Prevents EU Sanctions on Russia - Regtechtimes
The European Union (EU) faces a critical challenge as Hungary signals it may veto the extension of sanctions against Russia. These sanctions, introduced inTejaswini Deshmukh (Regtechtimes)
‘Dusk for Norway is dawn for Russia’: Alarm as gas fields supplying the UK begin to run out
‘Dusk for Norway is dawn for Russia’: The looming gas crisis facing the West
Dwindling supplies of fossil fuels threaten to play straight into the hands of Vladimir PutinJonathan Leake (The Telegraph)
EU devours Russian gas at record speed despite cutoff
EU devours Russian gas at record speed despite cutoff
Pressure to impose sanctions, a raging war and a looming Trump presidency still have not quenched the bloc’s thirst for Russian gas.Gabriel Gavin (POLITICO)
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Fire breaks out at large California battery plant
Fire breaks out at large California battery plant
Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate after the fire broke out at one of the world's largest battery storage plants.Sky News
‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up
Declassified UK's analysis reveals that the BBC has largely failed to report on the UK's support for Israel's military actions in Gaza. Key omissions include:
RAF Surveillance Flights: Despite conducting almost daily surveillance missions over Gaza to aid Israeli intelligence, the BBC mentioned these operations only four times in 15 months, with just one report since December 2023.
Military Collaborations: The BBC did not report on Israel's Chief of Staff, General Herzi Halevi, attending a British military meeting in London last November, nor on the training of Israeli military personnel in the UK during the Gaza conflict.
Intelligence Support: The presence of a British intelligence team in Israel throughout the war, as reported by The New York Times, was not covered by the BBC.
Strategic Agreements: The BBC failed to report on significant UK-Israel agreements, including a "Roadmap" for defense cooperation signed before the October 2023 Hamas attacks and a secret military accord from December 2020.
While the BBC has reported on UK arms exports to Israel, it has often downplayed concerns about their use in Gaza. This selective coverage raises questions about the BBC's impartiality and commitment to informing the public about the UK's role in international conflicts.
‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up
Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds.MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)
China overtakes US in number of top scientists, signalling global talent shift
China surpasses US in tally of top scientists for the first time: report
While the number of leading scientists in America is falling, the number in China is only going up, according to new data.Dannie Peng (South China Morning Post)
Fucking Quora? Lmao
And yes, white supremacism is when you don't want to live in an authoritarian hell hole, sure.
Again, everyone can just look at the documents themselves before going to Quora of all places
Quora is not a source, it's a platform with people, like this one. All the person there is doing is correcting all the NYT mistranslations.
Gaza.
Or if we are just counting domestic ethnic cleansings, I'd like you to open your mind to some perspectives here you may find hard to accept.
Incoming president is talking about deporting legal and illegal immigrants from central and south America. I'd call that ethnic cleansing
We target our black population with over policing and underfunding restricting them largely to dying neighborhoods where they are then made criminal, arrested And put to slave labor. I would say this is arguably ethnic cleansing.
Native American reservations are poorly taken care of, placed on land of no value, and left to wallow. They starve and live in poverty. They have two choices. Integrate into America or suffer. Kill the Indian save the man. I'd say this is also arguably ethnic cleansing.
Now, your gonna get reeeeeal mad when you read all that and your gonna say " you fucking idiot, that's not ethnic cleansing" and I'm gonna point out the word arguably.
The point here is that you give America a biiiiiiiig pass on its many crimes. But China, a place you know nothing about outside of American sources gets the opposite of a pass. Have you considered that maybe our government, who calls China our mortal enemy, embellished some things? For our entire lives? Just something to consider.
And before you go off on "YOUR JUST EXCUSING CHINA", I am not. I am pointing out a hypocrisy. China has and is doing a lot of fucked up things. But information that is good is hard to find in the sea of state sponsored lies
This is exactly what governments around the world are afraid of. Every government wants us to blindly accept that every citizen of the nation is profoundly evil and must be obedient to its government.
Russia wants its citizens to believe every single lie about itself and other nations. That everyone in Ukraine is a bloodthirsty Nazi, and Russia is liberating Crimea.
America wants its citizens to believe every single lie about itself and other nations. Every brown person is a terrorist waiting for its Manchurian candidate call sign to do a second 9/11, and that the economy is the greatest in the world.
No nation tells the entire truth, from lying from omission via national security, to straight up war time propaganda, to funding and owning news networks. From Radio Free Europe to Sputnik, a government will lie to your face and tell you its an unabridged raw truth.
The only way we could actually learn the "truth" (if there is such a one when anyone could be as brainwashed as their government wants them to be) is by directly talking to the citizens of each nation. The internet is a great equalizer, the only limit is language and translation. That's why governments censor the internet, or even shut it down when it gets too much for a government to manage.
We all have more in common with the random citizens of China, Russia, Germany, Japan, South Korea, America, Mexico, Canada, Uganda, South Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Brazil... We have more in common with being human and being subjugated and redistricted in doing what makes us happy and free.
And the government and rich of each of those nations and beyond have more in common each other than to the citizens they try to control like dogs. They all disagree on why they do it, but the end result is the same. Status quo, monopoly on violence kept in place with whoever is at the top. The set dressing and costumes change, but the stage play goes on.
You and I have more in common than with the president or prime minister or dictator we are under. The only thing we share with the top 1% and our governments is the lanauge we share and the citizenship. I have friends around the world, and I have more in common with random geeks in Japan and China, than the leadership of my nation.
The governments want you to think that you have nothing to share and love with another human being outside the lines drawn in the sand by people out of touch with the people inside those lines.
But nowhere else on the planet invests as much money and effort into it as the US. $325 million a year on anti China propaganda alone:
congress.gov/bill/118th-congre…
You never saw that mentioned in the media did you? There is a reason for that:
It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.
swprs.org/the-propaganda-multi…
The Propaganda Multiplier
It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global new…Swiss Policy Research
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All the person there is doing is correcting all the NYT mistranslations.
Ah, but you see, the ability to actually read Chinese makes a person inherently less trustworthy when talking about China than someone who can't
This is somehow not extremely racist
Zero possibility that this friend lied?
Some people love to lie especially if it gets a rise out of people. "Defectors" including the likes of Yeonmi Park from the DPRK also are financially incentivised to lie. I know people that lie about shit in the UK to make things sound worse than it is, and they will swear up and down it's true after being called out on it.
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When China is talking about taking over Taiwan for the 60th year in a row without doing anything, it's a serious threat to take preemptive action on.
When America is talking about taking over Panama, Greenland, Canada and Mexico, it's just talking and nothing serious.
- Native Americans
- Black Americans
- Queer Americans
- Illegal invasion of Iraq
- Mexican families in cages
- Gaza/Palestine
And for the record, I dislike China for what it has done to Tibet the Uyghur people.
Unsurprisingly, the site has Adrian Zenz’s mitts all over it: duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%…
A project of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Adrian Zenz - ProleWiki
Adrian Zenz (born 1974) is a German anthropologist. He claims to be an "independent researcher" with a particular interest in China and the Xinjiang province, whilst...ProleWiki
I also remember them invading [...] the Philippines.
That was Japan you absolute moron lmao
"Bourgeois Democracy": What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?
By Scott Cooper Republished from Left Voice . In 1947, Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Scott Cooper (Hampton Institute)
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There were several "social credit systems" that were set up in various provinces. These were mainly attempts to aggregate public records from different departments into one searchable database. It mostly affected business owners since they have the largest public record footprint. The idea was you could look up who owns what business and how many code violations those businesses had.
This triculates into the american rumor mill and comes out as the "social credit score" meme which is fantasitcal projection from our own opaque credit system.
To address inevitable whataboitism, it's not their exclusive deal, oligarchs and wannabe oligarchs also lie on the internet, but it's not the point
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Oh I got my comment removed by saying something pretty mundane in a chill manner.
I sense a ban is coming! If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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The pro-China propaganda is nuts.
“Hey look at this one thing we have better than the US: it proves that everything the US says about China is false”.
Smooth-brained logic right there.
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China’s a nation that seems to believe that they can use their government to make things better.
Isn't that what you pay taxes for?
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Despite the unhappy circumstances, it's kinda nice Chinese and Americans interacting on social media.
The fact this isn't typically possible because of bans in China is not so nice. Neither is the fact the US is going down the same road instead of proper privacy laws.
But still, kinda nice
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I mean the US is so scared shitless of socialist propaganda, or rather the political upheaval and loss of global dominance by capital that it would lead to, that it has literally bombed and invaded entire countries of civilians over it. Unless a country has any ability to fight back; in which case we do anything in our power to undermine that country's political process by devastating it economically, conducting covert CIA operations, and funding fundamentalist religious groups.
I think China learned a lesson at some point and, in all fairness, it probably wouldn't have been allowed to develop to this point if it was more welcoming of exchange with western media. (Well, that, and the fact they've funded their socialist project by providing cheap goods for western capitalists to increase their profit margins with)
If we don't even trust China to define China's truths, why should we trust America to do so? You've seen how much misinformation has damaged our political process. If the Chinese people are happy with their government, and data says over 90% of them are, who are we to say what is right for their country? If in fact they don't trust their government, it should be left up to them to decide what to do with it and when. Just as we wouldn't like it very much if China dictated to us what is right and wrong, even if it were to lift millions out of poverty like it did for the Chinese people.
America manipulates media too, arguably to a much greater extent. However, it's more of a firehose method. Western media is fully allowed to lie, sensationalize, and manipulate truths with no other recourse than an "invisible hand" of a "free market" that is fully willing to gobble up misinformation and spit it back out between each other. For every keyword that is censored on its way from America to China, there's a billion dollars waiting for any media outlet willing to propagate the capitalist narrative. Non- or anti-capitalist media does not have similar funding, for the very fact that those who are so invested in capitalism are not going to throw their money at outlets which undermine their profits. It's also not like America doesn't straight up censor things when it can do so covertly. At least China's censorship is out in the open.
This is a whataboutism, to be sure, but look at the whole picture. It's all the more reason for China to weed out information from the West that is regularly and systemically manipulated, in the ways I've just described, to undermine them.
It's exactly the same situation as Israel carpet bombing all of Palestine and continuing to receive billions of dollars in support, only for the resistance fighters to be called terrorists, caged, and starved when they fire back a few rockets. It's simply not comparable and the hypocrisy is stark.
There's also the small matter of their language, the friction of which was highlighted when western journalists were quick to cry censorship because nothing came up when they searched "xi jinping" and "tianenmen" on red note. Of course, this was because it's spelled 習近平 and 天安门 in China. This language barrier makes Chinese media very inaccessible to westerners, and vice versa, which isn't really China's problem as the Chinese language already gives them access to all 1.4 billion people they are responsible for. Like red note has been accessible all this time, it's only now becoming popular in the West as a fuck you to the government for banning tik tok.
(Sorry this got to be so long, there's a lot of background to cover here that tends to be obscure to the average American. I'm only just able to articulate it myself as I don't tend to write things I can't back up with evidence or reasoning. Happy to expand on anything I've glossed over for the sake of brevity.)
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Pooh: mmh honey
Tigger: no thats not honey
Tigger: you're eating "cia declassified documents"
Pooh: "on average, people in the USSR had better nutrition than in the USA"
We need to figure out a way to change that.
Brother, Americans have been trying to change that since the beginning of America itself. At a point you have to accept that the system is not willing to change and needs to go altogether. It is explicitly designed to give all the power to the wealthy and to make the masses forget how much they achieve when they work outside of it.
It's really weird to act like Biden didn't want the ban and was some hapless third party to all this when before they even had the vote he was saying he'd sign it.
Bills don't get an automatic veto override if enough people vote yes, and an override doesn't make him sign it. He signed it because he wanted to, and in doing so he put the Democrat brand on it. He could have made them hold another vote to actually override his veto and make it clear that he didn't want this, he could have spoken out against it in any way before the bill was passed and on his desk, but he didn't, and now that it's wildly unpopular for some reason the entire DNC is just:
Eh, I'm happy with religion continuing to fade away like it is. Or at least organized religion.
Fundamentalists are all the same no matter the flavor they come in.
If you do not know the extent of pressure asserted on Chinese media that is willful ignorance.
Of course "our media" (whatever you mean by that) is the only media that can report on it as Chinese media is heavily censored.
If you want to know the extent the information easy to find.
Here's some of what Reporters Without Borders have to say
"The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world's largest prison for journalists, and its regime conducts a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information worldwide."
"The Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party sends a detailed notice to all media every day that includes editorial guidelines and censored topics."
"Independent journalists and bloggers who dare to report “sensitive” information are often placed under surveillance, harassed, detained, and, in some cases, tortured."
Source: rsf.org/en/country/china
This is from The Committee to Protect Journalists
"China has long ranked as one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists. Censorship makes the exact number of journalists jailed there notoriously difficult to determine, but Beijing’s media crackdown has widened in recent years"
Source: cpj.org/reports/2024/01/2023-p…
Here's Amnesty International
"Chinese authorities continued to severely curtail rights to freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including through the abusive application of laws often under the pretext of preserving national security."
Source: amnesty.org/en/location/asia-a…
2023 prison census: Jailed journalist numbers near record high; Israel imprisonments spike - Committee to Protect Journalists
By Arlene Getz/CPJ Editorial Director Worst Jailers | New Developments | Regional Repression | Census Methodology Israel emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists following the October 7 start of the Israel-Gaza war, the Committee …Committee to Protect Journalists
When did I say Biden didn't want the ban? I said the Democrats wanted it too and showed they voted for it? Do you only absorb information you want to absorb?
Congratulations, you fell for their 2 party stick
Hot take that so many post here. What are you doing to change it? Hitting a downvote button? Wow, that'll change the country.
This take has, is, and never will, change anything. Absolutely useless anchors. You're not starting a revolution. Either fucking do something or live with it.
I'm doing exactly what I told you to do.
I am getting organized with a revolutionary party, doing outreach and education in my community, forming coalitions, marching in protests and chanting at rallies. I'm doing what exactly was done to win civil rights reform, women's suffrage, the new deal, etc. etc. etc, and I'm doing so with a party that is prepared to lead the country should they ever get the chance to do so.
Lmao. "anchor" is a funny term to use when you're the one too busy wallowing in your own sorrow to get out on the streets and fight for a better tomorrow.
Either fucking do something or live with it.
Yes, yes, you've chosen the latter, I've chosen the former and I'm giving you a kick in the ass to do the same. That is the premise of this conversation.
I don't know what tomorrow will look like, but I do know one thing; a revolution sure as hell isn't going to happen with such a defeatist attitude. If I'm going down, I'm going down fighting to the bitter end. I am not content to sit around and watch the world burn as I twist myself in knots trying to absolve my own personal guilt for being part of the problem.
Edit: I thought this was a different thread but I'm leaving it as is cause it fucking goes for you too.
Also exactly what you told me to do... You told me to do nothing in your comment. So you just have been remembering another comment. All you did was complain that America has always been bad.
Where can I find information on PSL by the way?
Edit: found it here
pslweb.org/
And here is a media network that has deep ties with the party and frequently features party activists.
Liberation News
The Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and LiberationPSL Webmaster (Liberation News)
Thanks, I found the first site and was looking through it. Some of it looks interesting, other parts are clear propoganda though.
Things like this sow doubt in everything else:
Turning deaths from a virus into a game like comparison, and only cherry picking the information that makes one country look good. When in the end death rates were high.
Example:
Atlanta Falcons 28
New England Patriots 3
Looks great... But the Patriots won the "game."
Honestly it feels gross to even compare deaths to games... But that's what they are implying.
I like a lot of the other things they have to say though.
The blueprint of regime change operations
How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consentCriticalResist (Crit) (Critical Stack)
Fine, from Red Notes very own eula, your can't:
distorts national history and historical figures, harms national feelings, and undermines national unity;
You cannot disagree with the states narrative
the stories that come out first tend to be most biased
I honestly think the concept of news is actually harmful, because it's about reporting what happened, not about making the audience understand the subject. It puts a premium on getting the report out as quickly as possible, and favours the most shocking events and interpretations that draw people's attention.
Ultimately most news are "empty calories" of information that mostly give an illusion of knowledge. "Explosion in Herptown, dozens wounded" does not meaningfully increase your understanding of the world, it mostly just makes you scared. It will take weeks until the cause and consequences of the explosion can be fully understood, and a lot of research to put that into perspective.
What do those NGOs have to say about Julian Assange or Steven Donziger
"RSF defends Assange because of his contributions to journalism"
rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-…
"CPJ welcomes reports that Assange will be released in plea deal"
cpj.org/2024/06/cpj-welcomes-r…
"USA must drop charges against Julian Assange"
amnesty.org/en/petition/julian…
"Biden Should Pardon Steven Donziger"
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202…
I'm getting the distinct impression you have no idea wtf you are talking about
CPJ welcomes reports that Assange will be released in plea deal - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 24, 2024— The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States Justice Department.Arlene Getz/CPJ Editorial Director (Committee to Protect Journalists)
IDK, I have personal reasons to hate both the Russian and Chinese government.
I still like to meet Chinese and Russian people, and usually find that we have more in common than not.
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One of our most exciting projects is in Malmö, Sweden, where ETC Bygg is building the world’s tallest structure using straw walls. This 12-story hybrid of wood and straw at Hyllie is a global milestone, showing that industrialized natural materials can meet the demands of modern construction while remaining sustainable and climate-smart.
The response has been nothing short of remarkable. Just five years ago, the idea of using straw in construction was met with scepticism. Today, even the largest companies recognize that change is inevitable.
With the growing demand for bio-based solutions, EcoCocon is on track to scale up production, with plans to expand from two factories to thirty across Europe in the coming years. We firmly believe this growth is just the beginning.
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Halmproducenten: ”De brukade skratta åt oss – nu skrattar ingen längre” - ETC Bygg
Att ETC Bygg uppför världens högsta byggnad med väggar av trä och halm väcker stor uppmärksamhet. Företaget EcoCocon som tillverkar den industripressade halmen…rebeckabohlin (ETC Bygg)
Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2unlock
cross-posted from: feditown.com/post/981497
Note this post evaluates Linux systems. Microsoft presumably has a different, hopefully better, implementation.
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Crimes against humanity aren't war crimes. You're reading comprehension is lacking my friend. The war in war crimes means warfare.
Speaking of genocides. You have mentioned two. Most genocides on the planet are actively done by America and it's allies or it supplies the weapons and silences the media.
Considering China having 5 times the population of america. Id say china has been very good comparatively on the world. Also nothing to say how 4 of 5 of your war crimes weren't at all war crimes??
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I'm explaining to you why this comparison is a poor argument, not volunteering to dance around various different arguments all day.
Uyghers are in one
There is no post-2021 evidence whatsoever of human right abuses of any sort in the Xinjiang province against Uyghur people. You can try to find stuff but you won't find anything, I dare you to send me a single article that has an actual reference to actual evidence of post-2021 human right abuses. Send me an article and point to the actual reference within the article. I dare you.
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the treatment of ethnic minorities
You mean the US having the highest prison population in the world, to the point of 1 in 5 black men over 30 having been to jail at some point of their lives?
My views are that both these governments are terrible, though I admittedly am not very informed about China
Rofl. Lmao even
C’mon bro we can’t seriously be debating if the Uyghur genocide is real. Obviously China isn’t all evil but this is a well documented genocide.
And bro why you pulling the “I’m not racist, I have a black friend” card. Shut yo bitch ass up
Can you find me a person in China who will tell you that's true or did you pick that up from memes of people posting Winnie the Pooh xi?
You learned in highschool what a reliable source is and "cultural osmosis" is not a valid source.
Oh noes, the ebil gommunist seeseepee tankies!!!1!
How dare they stand for the truth that even the Arab League didn't find China commiting genocide or oppressing the people of Xinjiang and disproving the now abandoned false narrative about Tiananmen Square.
No no no, your views should thoroughly align with the US state department. CHINA IS EBIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arab League’s visit to Xinjiang rejects Western accusations of ethnic genocide, religious persecution
The delegation from the Arab League, after wrapping up a visit to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said that allegations ofwww.globaltimes.cn
you and this other guy are tankie trash, full stop.
So does then make you fascist trash? This isn't the cold war and I was born in Scotland not Yugoslavia
No buddy were just a bit brighter then you. There's 3 tiers of thinking. 'one side is wholly bad"
Tier 2 "both sides are bad"
Tier 3" both sides are bad but I want to look deeper into the complexites and nuances which made me realise, one side is infinitely worse"
You're stuck on tier 2.
i’m an american, i’m a little dull to the ol “it isn’t technically a war bc we didn’t declare war >:2” shit
You said it yourself you are pretty dull as you don't know what a freaking war crime Vs a crime against humanity is. A crime against humanity would be like slaving your citizens... Like how it's codified in American prison laws
enact genocidal policies like the US still does on the indigenous peoples of the mainland and occupied Hawai'i which has been gentrified and settled to the point of being unlivable for most of the locals.
And the same has been said about tibet, inner Mongolia, and xinjiang. I mean you can look at Chinas own census data and see that han Chinese are migrating to cities in xinjiang, displacing ethnic minorities to move away from their cultural cities.
The claims of China's abuse of ethnic minorities are a scam espoused by the same people profitting off the genocide in Palestine. Anybody who takes the evidence seriously instead of treating accusations as trustworthy because of the volume of them doesn't understand (or chooses to ignore) how the US propaganda machine has always worked.
You are conflating the accusations of genocide in one region with the accusations of ethnic discrimination. Even in that grey zone article it is conflating the study from some weird neocon group with all investigations into ethnic discrimination in China.
Han chauvinism is an established concept that even Mao took aims to curtail. Something they are still combating considering there has only been one ethnic minority to serve in the central committee in the last 35 years.
An actual criticism that I have about Xi is that he is a bit culturally conservative. The belt and road initiative utilized a lot of han centric language and the current central committee is notably the first committee that has no women serving on it in the last +25 years.
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They are both wrong.
The correct way is to argue passionately that your country has committed the MOST war crimes/genocides/human rights violations. Ya know, bragging rights.
As soon as ~~the government~~ oligarchs who own the media think~~s~~ it might matter, they have a million tools to silence you.
But it's also worth noting that the Chinese don't even have that. At least in America, you can get your message out by getting a billionaire to agree with you.
Uyghur Genocide and Concentrated Reeducation Camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China search.app/fyMhR137LTgqVkEJ8
Here is a report from the office of national intelligence last November listing all the data for the genocide.
Uyghur Genocide and Concentrated Reeducation Camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China
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Here is the definition. A crime against humanity is a war crime.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) | International peace and security | Government.nl search.app/iKiJrEFeMYP2nzF76
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
The International Criminal Court in The Hague prosecutes those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.search.app
The International Criminal Court (ICC) | International peace and security | Government.nl search.app/iKiJrEFeMYP2nzF76
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
The International Criminal Court in The Hague prosecutes those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.search.app
This is horse shit. There are examples of protests being countered (e.g. When Trump gassed protesters and clergy members to hold a Bible up upside down at their church), but these examples are rare and those people weren't actually "silenced". They told everyone about what happened.
Americans have freedom of speech protected by our constitution. China, on the other hand, has actual laws dictating against many forms of speech.
For example...
"The PRC bans certain content regarding independence movements in Tibet and Taiwan, the religious movement Falun Gong, democracy, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Maoism, corruption, police brutality, anarchism, gossip, disparity of wealth, and food safety scandals."
Outside of "Chinese man gets removed from his league of legends match cause a player talked about tiananmen square" memes, what do you know about Chinese censorship?
Talking out your ass
I think you're making the same error you're trying to call out. Sorting through the flurry of insults, your core complaint is that Marxist-Leninists don't see nuance. I think this is disingenuous, Marxism-Leninism has strong theoretical foundations that are logically consistent. Similarly, you flip from the strawman that "everyone that isn't an ML is a fascist" to your own assertion that everyone is fascist, or at least it appears that's your claim. I don't really think you have a clear conception of what constitutes fascism, or if you do it isn't readily apparent, same with Imperialism.
I think if you want to understand MLs more you could probably be served better by trying to work from an initial place of trying to understand why MLs think the way they do, rather than trying to come up with post-hoc justifications.
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yes we are now doing exactly what the meme at the top of the page is doing.
fyi: two spaces at the end of a line will format that correctly as a newline
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So I checked it out... never directly states where the data is from ("PRC state media and data", "party documents and data reportedly obtained from local public security bureaus in Xinjiang", it continues to be this vague never specific throughout), most of the dates end in 2021/2022 (for the latter e.g. "the last date for which authorities have issued such reports", so that doesn't show it hasn't ended in 2021)
The closest thing you have in there is
the continued elevated number of
indictments in 2022 suggests that the campaign continues
Are there other, better, sources?
If a serial murderer told you that their victims were actually much worse than they are, would you believe them?
Yet the source of pretty much all anti-china atrocity propaganda is the US and its orgs like the victims of communism foundation. They want you to believe every single country they hate, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc... are guilty of the same crimes they are. Why do you believe them?
How well did the protests about gaza go over then? You are hand waving away something we all lived through and saw. From unions to college campuses, protesting has never been a protected right. You can only protest as much as those in power allow you to in your area.
Even those not in power shit on protestors when it affects their lives. People start saying things like "thats not the way to protest" or "this isn't the time or place, have some respect".
Its bullshit, and we do not have the freedom to speak our minds, unless we already agree with what we are expected to.
Well considering a majority of americans think the tank guy got ran over and murdered on camera for everyone to see, maybe not so crazy they quash that one.
Edit: I encourage those who aren't aware to go watch the full footage, its not shocking in the least, many will find it anticlimactic even.
Edit 2: took forever to find the full video, its not in full on youtube or anything like that I could find: odysee.com/@swprs:3/tiananmen-…
The document is from a US intelligence agency from what it seems, it's poorly referenced, and even then there's nothing post-2021, is there?
I explicitly asked to please point at the reference within the article, because I'm exhausted of people just finding articles on google on this topic on western media and sending them to me without reading them. Please tell me what post-2021 huma right abuses are referenced and well-sourced in the report
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Thanks for giving me the direct source to prove you wrong. Are you not a native English speaker I'm so confused how you are still struggling with this"
Never said china good
I said name 5 Chinese war crimes
I just posted this elsewhere, and I'm sure you've already seen it but here's the full video of the tank man:
odysee.com/@swprs:3/tiananmen-…
Does not get run over, no violence.
That is true lmao, though I do believe in nuance, it's definitely not s black and white or a both sides equally bad sort of mindset
Also thank you, I was having issues with the text on the phone, question, how do I just take a break without a whole space between? If that makes sense
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The US cracked down on Gaza protests quite harshly. Many states enact book bans these days and some ban topics like slavery from schools. Also historically protests against Vietnam were partly gunned down. The black panthers were often murdered and in fighting them the US even bombed one of its own towns. Red Scare was huge and Ernest Hemmingway was probably driven to his suicide by FBI surveillance, for which he was called paranoid but later proofed real by declassified files.
Censorship in China goes farther, but the US is far from being a free speech haven or ever having been that.
Two years after Xinjiang findings, UN reports ‘limited access to information’, ‘reprisals’ against activists | ISHR search.app/rTPVgDbwvYQ9ozAEA
China is refusing to allow an investigation. That's a presumption of guilt.
Two years after Xinjiang findings, UN reports ‘limited access to information’, ‘reprisals’ against activists
In a public statement on 27 August, the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) stressed its engagement and recommendations in areas where it has been pushing for responses and results from the…ISHR
well documented genocide.
source?
the UN, it addition to numerous countries including those with a Muslim majority population have investigated and concluded that the claims of genocide are a fabrication
The claims of genocide that appear in western media can be traced back to single source; Adrian Zenz a german christian fundamentalist who is on a self described 'holy war to destroy China' and writes books such has 'Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation,'
Do you really believe this nutjob is a more reliable source on events in Xinjiang than the UN's Office of Human Rights?
Here you have comment, from this thread, of someone saying there's basically no problems:
lemmy.ml/comment/16144139
Denial of racism and abuse by the Chinese state is rampant here on Lemmy, don't pretend otherwise.
Oh and please don't assume my narrative. I hate the US more.
That would not be an honest light. China actually takes their affirmative action seriously and not just pays lip service to it while continuing to enact genocidal policies like the US still does on the indigenous peoples of the mainland and occupied Hawai'i which has been gentrified and settled to the point of being unlivable for most of the locals.The claims of China's abuse of ethnic minorities are a scam espoused by the same people profitting off the genocide in Palestine. Anybody who takes the evidence seriously instead of treating accusations as trustworthy because of the volume of them doesn't understand (or chooses to ignore) how the US propaganda machine has always worked.
People still on that "China genocide" bs are about as ridiculous as people claiming Iraq had WMDs into the Obama years. It's a level of gullibility so big that it has to be voluntary.
You believe that china is engaging in a genocide first hand?(as opposed to simply supplying the perpetrators like the US )
And still hate the US more? do you live near a strong magnetic source? cause your moral compass is out of whack
Seriously though if you don't have a inherent bias against China, then why do you think their engaging in a genocide of Uyghurs with no evidence?
I never heard of the ISHR. They seem to be cagey about their funding sources 🤔
The actual UN OHCHR report is a one-pager that provides no detail or evidence to back up its mention of “limited access” and “fear of reprisals”: ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-no…
Weak tea.
ETA: Looking deeper, the funding seems to mostly come from NATO & NATO “partner” governments and the Ford Foundation.
Again: point out the exact reference in the "report", because I simply can't find it, I already asked you twice to do that.
Anyway, amazing that your argument is "look, Uyghur genocide is real. And here's the evidence: US intelligence state propaganda"
I mean how about this, you CAN use those sources, however I will not treat them as a sacred cow and given there track record when dealing with places the US does not like it will take me almost no time to debunk the claim, or point out how the source is not credible on this topic, then you will wace your hands and scream about some liberal media reliability rateing that cannot even get left right and center correct, even in the US overton window, an then I will have to debunk the new media reliability AND remind you of the previous debunk.
OR we can skip some of the easier ones to debunk and try to have an easier time in trying to understand reality, rather than just screaming and letting rich ghools make it up for us. The choice is yours
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The US is currently in a trade war with China, and Britain is still salty about their loss of their hong kong in 1997. So it's best to get a source from a neutral country, rather than one of their current enemies.
For example, let's look at what the middle east (a region the US and Britain have also looted, colonized, and bombed for decades) has to say:
- A majority of Muslim countries support China's policies in XinJiang, and don't believe the western lies told about it.. 54 Countries in total. 2, 3, 4 Supporters: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
- Egyptian media delegates provide a detailed insight of the situation in Xinjiang
- A Pakistani Diplomat given full access to “re-education camps” and this is what she found.
- Despite claims of "erasing Uyghur culture", they stated: "I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. [...]The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age."
Pakistani diplomat narrates visit to China's Xinjiang
BEIJING: Deputy Head of Mission, Pakistan Embassy in China, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch Thursday said the development of infrastructure, airports, railways and the road network has enhanced connectivity of...APP (The News International)
Bro did you even read the wiki article you linked, idiot. It talks about how numerous agencies/new outlets confirmed his research that there exists an ongoing genocide, detention, and sterilization programs of Uyghurs. The article goes into detail on how Zenz is the target of multiple misinformation campaigns to cover up his research. However, it also notes that you are in part right because he is exaggerating the numbers. (At least your dense, mush brained ass got one part slightly right)
From the UN’s Report on Xinjiang, 2022
Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR… the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities
The report goes onto state how Uyghur’s are placed in detention camps with terrible conditions where forced surgeries, sexual violence, and torture have been reported. (VIII, 145)
Multiple times the report states Uyghur’s are being stripped of their liberties in the region.
Why are you citing a source that doesn’t even reflect your claim 🤡 Learn to read, better luck next time
Read the UN Report your fellow shill tried to cite.
You’re never gonna get the communist utopia you want, China is not your friend, stop acting like such a clown, get off the internet, loser, and touch grass
Please read the entire article and don't just cheery pick the things that fit your pre-conceived notions
Stop moving the goalposts, my claim is that their is no genocide, the only source you quote alleges serious human rights violations, that while obviously terrible(and I condemn them, just as I condemn the US's similar but greater and larger in scale abuses committed at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, CIA blacksites etc), are not synonymous with genocide
Which sources on that page present evidence of genocide? if any such source exists why didn't you quote them?
Did you at all read your own link? This is literally from the webpage
Everything you said could be a war crime if one specific and incredibly obvious thing happens. It's during a war. Else it's a crime against humanity, which isn't a war crime. You literally linked the article and your still struggling with this??
Read the UN’s definition of genocide and tell me this doesn’t fit the bill.
Why are you trying to argue the semantics of what’s happening to the Uyghurs? It’s a brain dead thing to argue and is also as you say “moving the goalposts” from your original claim which was “there is no genocide taking place.” + you’re wrong
Get a grip man
I agree with the UN when they concluded that there is no genocide in Xinjiang
From the UN definition you supplied, one of condition that needs to be met;
A mental element: the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
So lets compare the fabrication with a real genocide such as the ongoing one in Gaza, they're are numerous statements from the Israeli government that declare such a genocidal intent, such as "Gazan civilians participated in the horrific events of October 7" "there are no innocent civilians there"
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."
- Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant
And here's a database of 500 statements of genocidal intent from Israeli government leaders
I'll repeat I don't deny that China has committed human rights abuses, but I concur with the UN OHCR that they fall far, far short of the definition legal and otherwise, of genocide
For this one condition to meet the definition, could you provide sources that show such a callous and widespread intent to wipe the Uyghurs off the face off the earth from the Chinese government similar to those from Israeli state for it's current genocide of Palestinians in Gaza?
Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide – Continuously Updated - Law for Palestine
Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide – Continuously Updated IMPORTANT: These aren’t the whole 500 statements in our collection.admin (Law for Palestine)
Good intel on Israel, thanks?
Let me make sure I’m reading this right, but the only way for you to accept a modern day genocide if the perpetrator of the genocide comes out with the same statements as Israeli leaders? That’s awfully narrow and rather off topic tbh.
The UN is reporting that the “anti-terrorist” laws in China are being abused in order to target a specific group of people and make their lives horrible. But I guess since their genocide is under the guise of “anti-terrorism” and China’s Minister of Defense didn’t call Uyghurs animals it doesn’t count.
And what “fabrication” are you talking about. Are you trying to deny that the Uyghurs aren’t being targeted?
For one condition could you provide a source that shows how Uyghurs are living perfectly peaceful lives without any genocidal intentions against them.
Also bro you sound like an 8th grader who thinks they’re the shit cause they watched a YouTube video about Mao. You talk all pseudo intellectual and try to use modifiers like “I concur” as if that strengthens your argument somehow. It doesn’t and it makes you sound dumb and like you have no ground to stand on.
Go touch some grass you loser
You're clearly intentionally misinterpreting me in bad faith
To the same point I've held throughout this entire conversation i.e that the actions of the Chinese government in the Xinjiang province do not constitute a genocide, I have literally used the definition you provided to illustrate how by that standard and using the evidence from the goverments accused themselves you can see how a real an active ongoing genocide such as the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza meets this definition, and that although the Chinese government has committed human right abuses in Xinjiang by the definition you provided they do not constitute a genocide
" Also bro you sound like an 8th grader who thinks they’re the shit cause they watched a YouTube video about Mao. You talk all pseudo intellectual and try to use modifiers like “I concur” as if that strengthens your argument somehow. It doesn’t and it makes you sound dumb and like you have no ground to stand on.
Go touch some grass you loser "
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Smtn smtn reading comprehension skills or sum shit
Someone who’s committing a genocide isn’t boutta say “we’re committing a genocide” unless they believe they’re the master race like Israelis or Nazis. I don’t see how the Chinese gov targeting a specific demographic doesn’t fall into the definition 😭
Also I’m not “clearly intentionally misinterpreting [you] in bad faith” We’re on a social media platform retard this isn’t a court case where your character is on trial. I’m gonna say shit to make you mad.
Genocide is bad- why are you trying to devalue the struggle of the Uyghur people?
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