'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime
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Archived[Op-ed by Benedict Rogers, Senior Director of Fortify Rights and a co-founder and trustee of Hong Kong Watch.]
Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture, designed to break the prisoner’s spirit. Under international law, “prolonged solitary confinement” is defined as exceeding 15 days.
British citizen and 77 year-old media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, in jail in Hong Kong, has now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime.
He has already served several prison sentences on multiple trumped-up charges, including 13 months for lighting a candle and saying a prayer at a vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all', Benedict Rogers
It is time to clearly say to Beijing: enough is enough Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture, designed to break the prisoner’s spirit. Under international law, “prolonged solitary confinement” is defined as exceeding 15 days.Eleanor Lee (Hong Kong Watch)
Bokförlaget Röda Rummet har gett ut en bok med texter av Göte Kildén. I en märklig text i tidningen Parabol skriver Kerstin Eldh framförallt om vilka texter som inte finns i boken. Och hon har ju rätt, Det finns inga sådana texter i boken.
Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy
Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy
Research firm blames outdated DRM tech, Facebook ads, Amazon hardware, and more.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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How Gardening Can Be a Gateway to Learning About Ecology and Sustainability
Gardening offers insight into biodiversity, soil health, and sustainability, fostering a deeper connection with nature.
NASA leveled by Trump
Not only is Trump leveling science funding at NASA, like he did with the National Science Foundation, but look closely at the budget. Beginning next year at 800 million and by 2030, 3.5 billion (nearly 20% of its budget), NASA is required to work towards “Commercial Moon and Mars Infrastructure and Transportation”. The ultimate subsidy for the commercial space sector.
They also eliminated STEM engagement program, which provided funding for the next generation of scientists to participate in NASA opportunities. I can’t wait for all this greatness Trump has been preaching to arrive.
You must be young. The Iranians and other parts of the middle east have referred to us since at least the 80s, and probably before.
When we brought a bunch of Nazis in after WWII and installed them in positions of importance (like heading NASA by Wernher von Braun) I think we gave them a pretty reasonable argument.
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Don't worry, you're not wrong about China — what's going on in the U.S. is just more televised.
You know, because of the 'freedoms' and whatnot.
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Honestly, operation paperclip doesn't even make it into the top 10.
Consider this, we could have put them on trial, but they were low down enough to get some jail time and then get sent back to Germany at worst. We could have let the Russian have them, or we could have just executed them. All in, bringing them here and using their expertise isn't the worst thing.
What you're doing is called a strawman.
Of course one should not ignore crimes against humanity. I'm saying we are reducing people, countries and systems based on what agenda we have today.
check out documentaties about china that dont start with genocide
here is the argument
you just willfully ignore the shit they do
this is a strawman. I never said I'd want to ignore anything. You brought that up and tried to fight me for it. That is literally the meaning of a strawman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_ma…
So no, you're trying to push red scare and that is at best naive or at worst deliberate antisocialist propaganda.
Why then even say something? The other person was dealing in bad faith themselves. I pointed out in good faith that it is okay to criticize china but its not okay to reduce someone solely on their former deeds. Its the same as calling germany a nazi shithole (but that is becoming increasingly true) today just because of the holocaust.
I blocked them because they were repeating themselves and being condescending, which i encourage everyone to do because debate isnt just being right but also being fair.
Where did I say they were THE big bad? I’m ok with hating all authoritarian regimes including the one I live under.
Why are you so big on defending their image?
You're in for a bad surprise. Especially living in so called democracies, we are not asked an neither are the people who are killed by them. We're being silenced just as much.
I'm not defending anyones image. I just dont like blanket statements. I'm currently fighting fascists in the country i live in and people are being executed. Its not cool.
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Thanks for the whataboutism. Israel can go fuck itself too, they are worse at the moment.
I don’t need everyone else to be perfect to level valid criticism.
Israel can go fuck itself too, they are worse at the moment.
The US is directly responsible for the innocent people that Israel kills. It's the 51st state. They are so fundamentally connected and Israel is so deeply reliant on the US for economic and military and legal connections that it is impossible to separate the two.
Israel would probably cease to exist if the US didn't give them unlimited backing and support.
You know what that means? That means it's not fucking """whataboutism""" to bring up Israel! Israel's crimes are US's crimes.
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Your only argument seems to be "well there's only 50 stars on the flag, so, checkmate 😏". Israel isn't a real nation, it's just an extension of the US empire. Israel literally can not exist without US support and the US will give Israel unlimited support no matter what. They're intertwined so deeply that they can't be separated. Israel would collapse the instant the US stopped propping it up.
I repeat, it's not a real country. It was created with the stroke of a pen and will end with one. Israel's crimes are US crimes.
You don't get it yet, but I think you will. I don't even need to win this argument. History will do it for me.
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china that dont start with genocide
Yes is sucks for the Chinese that their government keeps committing genocide and they don't have any way to end that by choosing their own leaders. Except for our lucky friends in Taiwan.
keeps committing genocide
- Can you prove that?
- Have you bothered to check out anything else about china?
we’ll all be better off if the Great Satan isn’t the center of scientific progress.
No, I wouldn't be better off living in a country where women are arrested and killed for appearing in public without a silly garment covering their head.
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Hahaha y'all been saying that for a decade already don't you get bored?
China is dying too silly. Their housing bubble is a nightmare, their currency is not desirable and all their factory jobs are going overseas.
Their housing bubble is a nightmare
You're saying that as if the US economy hasn't been a fucking bubble bath ever since the stock market got created. Bubbles don't matter apparently, which is stupid but this is the world we live in.
their currency is not desirable
That's the point, they don't want to make their wages incompetitively high by inflating their cost of living and thus nominal wages to the moon like the US.
all their factory jobs are going overseas.
That... is the goal? Factory jobs are low-added-value, you need educated people doing high wage jobs to become a developed country.
I'm not stanning China, there are plenty of shit things aobut the country, but looking from here in Europe, it looks like they are a better partner than the US. Both of them do genocide, have a shitty human rights record, have neocolonial tendencies, shitty worker's rights, no proper democracy, etc.
But China is at least stable as a trading partner.
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Not that stable. Source: am Canadian. See Meng Wanzhou and the Michaels, and the police stations.
China: Don't meddle in our internal affairs.
Also China: We are going to meddle in your internal affairs.
The Chinese use trade as a weapon more than anyone but the US right now.
I think we agree on this.
Again, I'm not saying we should trust China, or that they are a positive force in the world, or even that we should indeed trade with them. We need to put our foot down about things like that.
All I'm saying is that the US somehow got worse than them. And by "stable", I don't mean "trustworthy" or anything, it's just that the US seems to be making a sport out of going back on deals, at least we can trust the CCP to look out for its own interests and not go back on the occasional win-win deal.
Again, I'm not saying that we should make more deals with China, but that the US is no better at this point, and we should figure out how to oust both their influences.
it's not stable though I dunno how people can't see this lol.
The US and China are in the same balance beam and at times or through different perspectives it might look like one is rising above the other but you ever seen what happens when one partner on seesaw jumps off? the other guy doesn't go up that's for sure
OK I guess'.
Lol no it isn't. Do you only remember the last six months? China has been unreliable for years. The quality of their products are always questionable, lead in cinnamon, plastic fake rice, sketchy backdoor access into anything that comes out of that country. Sure.
On top of that, China is speed running the US downfall. It took decades for factory jobs to leave US, it's taking a single decade for them to come and go out of China.
Both of them do genocide, have a shitty human rights record, have neocolonial tendencies, shitty worker’s rights, no proper democracy, etc.
"BOTH SIDES ARE THE SAME"
I wish I had a dime every time I see ridiculous false equivalent nonsense on the internet.
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Nobody will be humiliated. If China gets to the moon first, great. Science is science and the long term experiments that are really worth it take too long for the originators to learn what happened or the winners to outshine anyone. For fuch sakes we are that pale blue dot...even if China gets to one side of the dot, we're still a single tiny ass dot.
I propose that we feed the billionaires to the zoo animals so we can continue to live a decent life.
The Gaza concentration camp nation and the Battle field of Ukraine have to stop. First item is to put put-in a box 6 feet under and fill it with acid so it doesn't come back. Next take all the Israel commanders and give them jail time and executions as necessary. I can't speak for other players in the game but you who don't live here might wanna state it so I can up vote it.
The truth is though the CCP’s already sending tons of rovers to the moon
Wow just think how much more they could accomplish if they could chose their own leaders and say things they wanted to say without being thrown in jail and tortured or killed and their capital was in Taipei and they weren't held back by a ruthless dictator who was only supposed to be a dictator for 10 years but decided he wanted to remain dictator for life.
I disagree. Completely.
Large scale mining on another celestial body is similar to AI. It's not actually gonna happen in our lifetime we're not as close as we wanna believe.
We are those people in the 1800s who think everyone would have jet cars and shit by the year 2000. Nobody is that close. Likely they'll blow each other up and start fighting in space before anyone gets to mine.
We could do space mining today if their was any incentive to do it. There just isn't any reason to currently but if we start using fusion power (which China has made strides in recently) it would make a ton of sense to get He-3 on the moon.
Hell I give it 20 years before a private company at the very least tries to move one of the really rare earth element rich asteoids into an orbit around earth. From the calculations I've seen we could technically do it with current rocket tech assuming proper planet alignment.
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No we cannot you vastly over estimate the cost of bringing things in and out of orbit. Especially at the load it would need to be a financial incentive to create the infrastructure to do so regularly.
I'd bet my balls we won't mine shit in space for the rest of the 21st century
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Their housing bubble is a nightmare, their currency is not desirable and all their factory jobs are going overseas.
Gee, that sounds familiar.
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China is dying
Hahaha y’all been saying that for a decade already don’t you get bored?
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What I've seen is an endless parade of liberals screaming China is "on the verge of collapse!!!1" for over a decade and I've seen the reality of China only becoming better over the same time period. There's no basis for your claim, it's just part of that same endless parade of anti-China propaganda we've all seen before.
And what I've seen is China become more powerful and life in China get better over that same time, while all those liberals kept screaming that China was going to collapse. I was a typical anti-China Western Marxist before COVID. The pandemic revealed that China is actually still a socialist project and that politics are in command when they shut down the economy instead of marching workers to the deaths, saving countless lives and advancing Chinese life expectancies above the US. That changed everything for me.
And over that same period I've seen the US get worse. In fact, it's basically gotten worse over the entire time liberals were screaming that China was on the verge of collapse. This is an empire in decline and everyone can see it, so even if you're anti-China I hope you can recognize the US is on its way out.
And soon enough, something else is going to happen that will give you the same experience. China isn't going to collapse, it's just going to continue peacefully developing and surpassing the US in more-and-more ways.
I don’t even need to win this argument, history will do it for me.
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You keep saying liberals but I don't think you know what that word means. Are you speaking of the neoliberal western government or the liberals of America or liberals in Europe? Because they're immensely different groups. I can only speak of "liberals" in America and I promise you, you're entirely wrong. Liberals for years shook their head at all the things China was doing to take US business, never once was the liberal apparatus or voting bloc in america really ever antagonistic to China. Neoliberals like Biden were, kinda. But in the US conservatives have always beefed with China because they use the "they're taking our jobs" stick every four years and I mean do you think Trump is a liberal? Cause he's been the most aggressive to China than any US president in recent times
So I don't know what the hell you're talking about there. It comes off clueless and ill informed kind of like the rest of what you say.
The pandemic revealed that China is actually still a socialist project and that politics are in command when they shut down the economy instead of marching workers to the deaths,
Literally not what happened. They lied, arrested scientists trying to talk about COVID and denied it came from China ever while also being difficult to work with in informing the rest of the world what was going down and that by definition is absolutely tyrannical which is the opposite of socialist. China also marches workers to death pandemic or not, go look at the work culture in China it is abysmal.
And over that same period I've seen the US get worse
US never changed their dirty laundry is just more visible. Maybe it seems like it got worse but queers hardly ever had rights, abortion was always a fight, worker rights are always under assault and America is funding terrorists all over, all of this since like the 50s. Where ya been?
Sounds to me like you're 12 maybe and you just dunno what the hell you're talking about, like at all. You need to get off tiktok or whatever the source for your perspective is because it's dog shit poopie diaper.
And I'm sure Hong Kong and Taiwan pulling away from China is a sign the country is doing well, sure. Let's go with that.
The truth is if you look at history empires fall together. This era of shit post WWII is just getting ready to shift. Countries like Honduras, Mexico, Indonesia, countries in Africa, the places US and China shit on, will see an increase in everything as these empires continue to bleed. That's how it goes. Rome dies gives us the Islamic golden age, Imperial British rule falls and the US grows up, US and China will continue to bleed out and fuel the countries that can fill the void.
China isn't going to collapse, it's just going to continue peacefully developing and surpassing the US in more-and-more ways.
That's funny good joke their. I'm sure the protestors in Hong Kong and Filipinos and Taiwanese folk think China is super cool. I'm sure the secret police stations they have to watch citizens overseas and their oppression of Muslims in the western parts of China aren't indictive of a country losing control and in response tightening its grip just like the US is doing and just like every other empire that bled out their power did too.
Nobody wins an argument online and with that knowledge I've obviously won here thanks 🫰
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. Europe and China will replace the US and the world will be better off.
Only if China finally gets to choose their own leaders. Until then it is fucked up even worse.
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So, we all know what's going on here, right? They're gutting any part of our society that relies on intellectual work and trying to compete with motherfucking robots to bring factories back. They want to cram everyone into sweatshops. The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.
E: well, at least the Roman space telescope lives on, I guess. I'm unreasonably excited for it; it's already built and just needs to be launched, basically.
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The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.
Bold of you to assume they'll spring for nets.
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This is the same vibe as when the CEO gets a million dollar raise but we don't have money for cost of living increases this year.
Sorry USA kids. No astronaut program this summer. Dream smaller this year.
Traitorapist Trump just set back the likely date for getting people to mars by roughly a quarter century. And yes, because of what Trump did it is very possible it will be accomplished first by another country.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT NEVER
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No, Trump does not want NASA to get to the Moon or Mars.
Trump wants NASA to be a tool that funnel money from the government to billionaires, aka Musk and Bezos
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His goal is a destroy the United States of America.
Once everyone understands this, his actions make sense.
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De var åtalade för inblandning i mordet på en tidigare Hells Angels-medlem i Lidköping våren 2022. De som ska ha utfört mordet har dock inte åtalats då de inte kunna identifieras.
Det mest slående i Robert Wades bok Governing the market från 1989 är inledningskapitlet, och förordet från 2002. Boken handlar om hur Taiwan, och i någon liten mån Sydkorea, industrialiserades genom en statlig styrning väl så stark (om än inte så petigt detaljerad) som den sovjetiska.
blog.zaramis.se/2025/05/31/eft…
The backlog was bigger than I expected...
Speed run through the fediverse baby!
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You're not the first fedidev to experience this, Lemmy is just extra 💅:
mastodon.social/@dansup/112602…
dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
You may have noticed pixelfed.social is slower than usual, after some investigation, I have discovered that Lemmy is behind the sudden surge in traffic.Mastodon
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Re: The backlog was bigger than I expected...
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Depends on the project, and I imagine a lot of the smaller ones are your standard FOSS BDFL leadership.
In my case I'll likely make a rough milestone list based off our NLNet memorandum and go from there.
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This has got to be the most milk toast take ever. The government says they have concrete justification to interfere with a political party in a democracy by performing aggressive surveillance on them, but says their justification is a secret. Then somebody comes along and says "Huh, I don't blindly trust the government so I'm not going to support this decision unless I'm told why and can judge it for myself." In fact, if in a democracy a party tries to attack another party through non-electoral means without saying why, there are only two reasonable responses:
- This is bad, and calls into question the legitimacy of the government.
- They better have a damn good reason, and should be public about it so that the people can judge for themselves.
I've long been critical of this really aggressive defederation, it breaks the network and I believe is the capstone in the list of reasons why the fediverse sputtered out and lost a supermajority of it's users. I think it's still got a chance as the big three protocols grow more interconnected and as big platforms have started adopting said protocols, but if it's got a chance to do so I believe the community needs to get this sort of stuff sorted out beforehand.
/end rant
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right-wing party
Extremist right-wing party. With substantial parts legally being called Nazis.
Even though nowhere in their rules it says anything about this even being any offence.3: [...] Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.
Explains itself.
And which later turned out to be completely unsubstantial as many people suspected.
It's not. "Many people", aka. AfD supporters and the AfD themselves.
Oh, did he? He just stood there and claimed something. There was supposedly a great report with all the hard facts, but no one was allowed to see it. That's not much different from "Yes, I did my homework, but then she (sic) ate my dog."
(The original toot, translated from german)
Thing is, all contents were openly collected and sorted by 3rd parties already. The report is as relevant to anyone aware of any politics as the Principia Mathematica's Section 54.43 is for thinking humans in order to prove that 1+1=2. The only usefulness lies in AfD supporters being unable to deny the obvious.
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AfD-Politiker Höcke wegen NS-Parole zu Geldstrafe verurteilt
Das Landgericht Halle (Saale) hat den AfD-Politiker Höcke wegen des Verwendens von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen zu einer Geldstrafe in Höhe von insgesamt 13.000 Euro verurteilt.tagesschau.de
That slogan was originally coined in 1848 by King Ludwig I. But as with many things, the nazis severely tainted it. (Even though it was used by the socialist party after WWII, too.)
There’s a whole German Wikipedia article about this.
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These are quite some mental gymnastics going from my toot:
Oh, did he? He just stood there and claimed something. There was supposedly a great report with all the hard facts, but no one was allowed to see it. That’s not much different from “Yes, I did my homework, but then my dog ate it.”
(Correctly translated, btw.)
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3: […] Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.
Wow! Just wow! You should sign up as a moderator on mastodon.social. You'd fit right in.
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If you want a more complete list, check the mentioned "secret report" in readable form here, or in original form (hand scanned from paper as to be expected by an official german government body in 2025): part A and part B. The original leaker article is actually largely hidden behind a paywall (cicero.de/innenpolitik/cicero-…). And it's 02:00 CET so i'm not gonna search for the original direct links to the files.
Edit: first link being an old version, other two links being the recent version. Both reports being relevant though.
Cicero veröffentlicht das gesamte Geheimgutachten des Verfassungsschutzes zur AfD | Cicero Online
Cicero liegt das AfD-Geheimgutachten des Verfassungsschutzes vollständig vor. Weil wir daran glauben, dass Demokratie nicht ohne Transparenz und kritische Öffentlichkeit funktionieren kann, veröffentlichen wir es in Gänze.Mathias Brodkorb (Cicero Online)
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So you're one of those bad faith actors who conveniently overhear all the good points and focus on something you might be able to at least call into question.
You definitely get a ban from my instance for this. What a disgusting stance.
I should've included more context:
"Someone on mastodon.social reported me for supposedly supporting the German right-wing party." [...] Even though nowhere in their rules it says anything about this even being any offence."3: [...] Support for violent groups
They, openly for years, and now officially, are extrimists and their members systematically violent.
And I just noticed that, as so often with deepl, it first detected the german text as english, therefore translated (english)german to german, and malformed it, so in my working copy it read "meinen" instead of "mein". Should have double checked that, but >01:30 CET demands its tribute.
Keyword: supposedly
Because that's what it said in the report my instance has received. Somebody on the moderation team made the same mental gymnastics you did. Just because I've questioned the stated conclusion of a report that was kept secret from the public. Nothing else. Nowhere did I say that I support that party. I just don't like blindly trusting what politicians (and their government institutions) announce without giving any challengeable proof.
Their status as extremist as per that report mentioned in my toot has been revoked/put on hold until a proper court case: German news article
If it was as crystal clear as you make it out, why revoke it?
(These days, the constitutional courts of all the states try to get that status reinstated in their respective states. But that wasn't a thing back when I did this toot.)
Verfassungsschutz setzt AfD-Einstufung vorerst aus
Der Verfassungsschutz setzt die Einstufung der AfD als "gesichert rechtsextremistisch" vorerst aus. Hintergrund: Die Partei klagt gegen die Einstufung.Christoph Ullrich (wdr.de)
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They say/write "they banned for X, but I didn't do X", instead of "they banned me for X, but X isn't even forbidden", even though it clearly is.
As I said, the report itself is just a compilation of publicly known and collected information. You'd be essentially distrusting that 1 + 1 = 2, because the 5 page mathematical proof is no open to the public. Of course, the actual proof that 1+1=2 is open, but you hopefully get the point.
The VS is completely independent. There are no politicians behind it. Otherwise, the whole thing wouldn't make sense. Even your source says so.
The status hasn't been revoked at all. That's a common misconception. It's not being taken back, obviously. They are just not calling them extremist openly, until there is a first decision in the lawsuit. Just as any other lawsuit for eg. defamation, no matter which side is on the right - you'll first be ordered to stop openly calling the other party a liar or similar, or stop doing that by yourself. Again, your source literally states this.
The VS is completely independent.
§7 BVerfSchG:
Die Bundesregierung kann, wenn ein Angriff auf die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung des Bundes erfolgt, den obersten Landesbehörden die für die Zusammenarbeit der Länder mit dem Bund auf dem Gebiete des Verfassungsschutzes erforderlichen Weisungen erteilen.
or in English:
The federal government can, if there is an attack on the constitutional order of the Federation, give necessary orders to the highest Federal State authorities for working together with the Federation in terms of protection of the constitution.
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Maybe send the follow-up mail to the moderation team anyway, including full username. And maybe a explanation that you were just questioning the unavailabily of the report, not intending to endorse the wannabe nazi party. So they get what this is about.
How many days did you wait for an answer? Sometimes people are just very impatient and this week thursday to sunday might have been days off for some German people.
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Being limited isn't that big a deal. My instance has them limited because of their lax moderation and an excess of reply guys. All it means is that I get a notification saying "Someone you might know sent you a notification" and I get to review and accept or deny the notification depending. Plus they have to request permission to follow me so I get to check them out before accepting.
I still have tons of mutuals on .social and I get new ones all the time. While each person making the choice about whether to accept notifications or follows from a particular user is going to make their own choices, I don't think it's particularly inconvenient.
::: spoiler AfD sidebar
For their lack of adequate moderation capacity / interest, .social has one topic they tend to over-react to. AfD sympathizing isn't that one thing. Not to suggest they're right here. I'd need the thread context and a better understanding of German to weigh in on that. Moderators are human and they're going to make a bad call eventually. I'm not in a position to guess whether they made a bad call here. AfD aren't just some normal political party, though.
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Sucks for you but, such is the fediverse working as intended. Moderators can't be expected to have a deep conversation with every moderation decision.
I will agree that Mastodon is not as decentralized as it should be but I'm also not sure how it could be improved. Ideologically there would be a round robin style sign up for approved instances but I'm not sure if that's technologically feasible.
Why EA Canceled a New ‘Black Panther’ Video Game
The news came as a shock to many Cliffhanger employees, according to people familiar with this week’s events. Cliffhanger was actively hiring staff, and Black Panther had recently passed what EA calls a “gate” — a development milestone where executives review a game’s progress and decide whether to continue production. The team had momentum, and the project was coalescing, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information.Others familiar with the project told me that EA executives were frustrated that the game had not yet left the pre-production phase after nearly four years in development.
As EA assessed its portfolio earlier this year, it eliminated some of the projects that had been in development for a long time but had made the least amount of progress, including incubation projects at Respawn and this Black Panther game. A representative for EA declined to comment on the cancellation.
One reason for the slow progress on Black Panther was that the studio had only just begun scaling up. Many of the workers laid off this week were hired less than a year ago, including some who only joined in the last few weeks and months, said the people familiar.
Why EA Canceled a New ‘Black Panther’ Video Game and Closed Cliffhanger Studios
The project from Cliffhanger Studios would have starred a group of heroes from the comic-book franchiseJason Schreier (Bloomberg)
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The thing that always happens: It gets attacked by the US
When that fails the US lies for decades about X country, that it's chauvinist citizenry happily believe.
"And after the system (#capitalism) has been destroyed, how do you prevent what always happens in those cases from happening?"
By creating an actual democratic state to manage affairs that's led by the working class, not a totalitarian state with little to no democracy led by a vanguard party.
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Release v0.56.0 · navidrome/navidrome
Release v0.56.0 · navidrome/navidrome
We're excited to announce Navidrome v0.56.0, a major release packed with new features, important bug fixes, and significant improvements to the user experience. This release includes 81 commits wit...GitHub
Åklagare har väckt åtal mot en 15-årig pojke för mordet på en man i 30-årsåldern. 15-åringen är en högerextremist som helt oprovocerat mördade mannen med kniv. Ett av många högerextrema mord i Sverige.
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Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them? | naked capitalism
Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them? | naked capitalism
Further discussion of the reductivist "Your with us or your against us" world view, which Newspeak-wise, is being reduced to hatred of Them.Yves Smith (naked capitalism)
fckreddit
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in reply to fckreddit • • •jol
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •The mitochondria enables most, if not all, piracy.
One could say it powers most, if not all, piracy.
mustbe3to20signs
in reply to jol • • •lai, a supersonic warrior
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in reply to lai, a supersonic warrior • • •mustbe3to20signs
in reply to monstoor • • •mustbe3to20signs
in reply to lai, a supersonic warrior • • •In our case it's not so special because my mother tongue is German...
mustbe3to20signs
in reply to fckreddit • • •dutchkimble
in reply to fckreddit • • •Chakravanti
in reply to dutchkimble • • •Mostly because they don't make much currency from their shit and they don't respect or care for the cloak that takes all it can and then some.* They may STFU about it for the little pennies they're pissed on with but cite just one such loudly whining about any of the subject in hand. If you manage to dig something up then be sure I can easily can that to a circumstance that was obvious but flew over your imgination of a brain.
*Like subject in hand.
JamonBear
in reply to fckreddit • • •albert180
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •albert180
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •It's funny that even the techbros don't like them
lai, a supersonic warrior
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wizardbeard
in reply to lai, a supersonic warrior • • •jabjoe
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •Just leaving this here : boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lock…
This is battle they can't win and it just makes everything stupid trying.
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow (Happy Mutants, LLC.)r00ty
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bitwolf
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •To be frank it's not Amazon's problem.
Its the content publishers problem.
And Amazon isn't enabling this, they're just making an Android device.
The users are putting software onto the device.
This article sets a dangerous precedent. That if Amazon doesn't lock the firestick down like Apple that they're enabling piracy.
Its not Googles nor Microsoft's responsibilities either. They helped, probably solely for money, but they're not obligated to continue to update their DRM.
This article should have framed how DRM repeatedly hasn't worked.
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gabelstapler
in reply to bitwolf • • •youmaynotknow
in reply to bitwolf • • •I do the exact same thing in my Chromecast w/GTV (yes, and also a firestick 4K).
These are android devices, and that's how android works and competes with Crapple (full disclosure, I also hate Google).
cmnybo
in reply to bitwolf • • •TJA!
Unknown parent • • •curbstickle
Unknown parent • • •I'm sure they do what all huge corporations do.
Make shit up and then say "oops, sorry, here's a tiny fraction of the profits we made keeping that money for so long as a fine teehee".
wizardbeard
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.
What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?
The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don't know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.
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PattyP
in reply to Onomatopoeia • • •wolframhydroxide
in reply to PattyP • • •1) That's a completely false equivalency, since the entire point of movie production is NOT a competition. Sports, however, is literally all about competition through feats of athletics and strategy.
2) The discussion about the ~~egregious~~ insultingly high salaries both of the highest-paid actors and sportballers is one that we can have, but I do not think that one will go well for your cause.
3) I'm gonna need some sources cited that the main reason the majority of people watch sports is for "the drama".
PattyP
in reply to wolframhydroxide • • •What is the point of this comment? What “cause” do you think I have? My point is simply that sports are a form of entertainment like any other. There is expression, there is drama, there is tension, etc. Those who look down on people who enjoy watching sports are at best immature, and likely to be hypocrites as well.
Edit: To address #3, I have been watching sports for 25 years and the growing focus on drama is actually part of why I watch sports much less now than I used to. You can see it when discussion about a game starts on the topic of x participant wanting to get revenge on y participant rather than anything involving strategy. You can see it when every Chiefs broadcast mentions Taylor Swift multiple times. You can see it when guys like Pat McAfee and Stephen A Smith get paid the big bucks to talk about sports rather than people with a deeper understanding of the game. As this shift has happened, sports have only gotten more popular and more profitable. I don’t think less of anyone who enjoys the abov
... show moreWhat is the point of this comment? What “cause” do you think I have? My point is simply that sports are a form of entertainment like any other. There is expression, there is drama, there is tension, etc. Those who look down on people who enjoy watching sports are at best immature, and likely to be hypocrites as well.
Edit: To address #3, I have been watching sports for 25 years and the growing focus on drama is actually part of why I watch sports much less now than I used to. You can see it when discussion about a game starts on the topic of x participant wanting to get revenge on y participant rather than anything involving strategy. You can see it when every Chiefs broadcast mentions Taylor Swift multiple times. You can see it when guys like Pat McAfee and Stephen A Smith get paid the big bucks to talk about sports rather than people with a deeper understanding of the game. As this shift has happened, sports have only gotten more popular and more profitable. I don’t think less of anyone who enjoys the above things, it is just not for me.
Forgive me for not having a source for my comment on an internet forum, the growing focus on drama is a common gripe of sports fans on reddit so from my perspective it is more of a fact of life than a contested claim.
wolframhydroxide
in reply to PattyP • • •The "cause" appeared to be appealing to the idea that piracy from sports companies hurts the poor players, who are just there to get paid, because whatever would the world do if Josh Allen made a few dollars less off of his $55 million per year deal?
However, given your clarification, I take less issue with your premise. I maintain that it was a bad comparison to actors, and that the companies within the oligopoly over sports broadcasting are all, universally and without equivocation, awful, the players are insultingly overpaid, the entire system needs to be dismantled, and that any action taken to undercut them is an axiomatic good.
PattyP
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in reply to artocode404 • • •Because that's the biggest broadcast rights moneymaker. Cable would be full and truly dead without sports.
katy ✨
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in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •Well my Fire TV has a Jellyfin app that's letting me watch shows not in streaming services or is impossible to get in my home country due to copyright.
Anyone else know the other apps that help make Amazon the ire of copyright?
SpookyBogMonster
in reply to Eugene V. Debs' Ghost • • •Wolf Launcher, if you don't want to deal with the shitty stock launcher.
CloudStream is good if you watch anime.
The folks on r/piracy seem to like an app called Stremio, but I haven't got that one set up yet.
I have a Jellyfin client.
SmartTube Next is an ad free Youtube client for the firestick.
And then I also have Kanopy and Hoopla which let me access media via my public library card.
SpookyBogMonster
in reply to Eugene V. Debs' Ghost • • •Wolf Launcher, if you don't want to deal with the shitty stock launcher.
CloudStream is good if you watch anime.
The folks on r/piracy seem to like an app called Stremio, but I haven't got that one set up yet.
I have a Jellyfin client.
SmartTube Next is an ad free Youtube client for the firestick.
And then I also have Kanopy and Hoopla which let me access media via my public library card.
SpookyBogMonster
in reply to Eugene V. Debs' Ghost • • •Wolf Launcher, if you don't want to deal with the shitty stock launcher.
CloudStream is good if you watch anime.
The folks on r/piracy seem to like an app called Stremio, but I haven't got that one set up yet.
I have a Jellyfin client.
SmartTube Next is an ad free Youtube client for the firestick.
And then I also have Kanopy and Hoopla which let me access media via my public library card.
KairuByte
in reply to SpookyBogMonster • • •Stremio is almost like “piracy, the streaming service.”
It sequentially downloads torrents, on demand, in such a way that you can stream the content without ever having downloaded it.
It’s available on most app stores (though the iOS offering doesn’t have streaming, because Apple.)
Edit: I mean the file doesn’t get saved, it just pulls down the data it needs, uses it, then deletes it. When you’re done, the torrent data isn’t actually on disk.
lai, a supersonic warrior
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in reply to floquant • • •Vanilla_PuddinFudge
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •There is a difference.
Say you buy a used PC or android stick and want to use it for piracy, ok, doable, but you'll be doing most of the work. Kodi builds can get you there easily.
but compared to firesticks?
Firesticks have a piracy singularity going on. The entire secondary phase of cracking the OS and installing is intended for piracy. It's an open and shut, easy, one-two punch to get into the ecosystem. All of the hardware is easy to track and maintain. My cousin has a hacked firestick and he can't even open Microsoft Word. You can buy them pre-hacked with no real input or work needed on your part.
interdimensionalmeme
in reply to Vanilla_PuddinFudge • • •Is it more than a link to a pirate streaming site ?
Destide
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in reply to ABetterTomorrow • • •Psythik
in reply to fluxx1 • • •Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a TV or stick running stock Android? (Or GoogleTV, which is literally just stock Android with a launcher designed for TVs.)
That's what I did, and I have no issues side-loading any app I want. If it's got an APK, it can be installed.
Corkyskog
in reply to Psythik • • •Psythik
in reply to Corkyskog • • •Stremio is basically Netflix for torrents. Its interface is similar to the popular steaming apps.
Upon initial install it just looks like another paid steaming app with prices on all the content; the secret is to install plug-ins that allow you to steam torrents (Torrentio). Pair it with a Debrid service (like Real-Debrid) and you don't even have to wait for seeds. The show/movie starts playing instantly, just like the paid streaming apps. Like a Library of Babel for media, except it's real.
And the nice part about having a Debrid service is that it works any torrent, not just TV/movies. I have gigabit internet, so I can download literally any game I want in under an hour, even 100+ GB AAA titles.
Corkyskog
in reply to Psythik • • •Is it like Jellyfin? Or Plex?
I admit I don't really understand what a debrid service does or how it works, or how it's helpful for privacy... But it sounds interesting
Psythik
in reply to Corkyskog • • •Yes except simpler because you don't have to build a library of content. The plug-ins do it for you.
A Debrid service downloads torrents and uploads them to various file hosting websites, allowing you to directly download any active torrent at speeds up to 1Gbps. If the torrent you want isn't in their database (because it's less popular), then it behaves like a torrent client, except since it's running on a server you can shut down your PC and go about your day as it downloads in the background. Most torrents with at least a half dozen seeds are usually immediately available for direct download.
It doesn't really protect your privacy, per se, but it gets your ISP off your back because in most jurisdictions they don't care how much you download illegally, so long as you're not distributing the files, like you would with a torrent client. (Sharing pirated files is how they get you.)
The bad news is that these services also hit and run, so by using one you're not helping the health of the torrent. I wish they didn't do that, but I'm so used to having any fi
... show moreYes except simpler because you don't have to build a library of content. The plug-ins do it for you.
A Debrid service downloads torrents and uploads them to various file hosting websites, allowing you to directly download any active torrent at speeds up to 1Gbps. If the torrent you want isn't in their database (because it's less popular), then it behaves like a torrent client, except since it's running on a server you can shut down your PC and go about your day as it downloads in the background. Most torrents with at least a half dozen seeds are usually immediately available for direct download.
It doesn't really protect your privacy, per se, but it gets your ISP off your back because in most jurisdictions they don't care how much you download illegally, so long as you're not distributing the files, like you would with a torrent client. (Sharing pirated files is how they get you.)
The bad news is that these services also hit and run, so by using one you're not helping the health of the torrent. I wish they didn't do that, but I'm so used to having any file I want delivered quickly that I'm willing to sell part of my soul to have the convenience.
ipkpjersi
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •Psythik
in reply to ipkpjersi • • •Fuck yeah, Stremio is the best. Everything is there. No smart TV owner should go without.
Protip: Install the Trakt.tv plugin to get viewing recommendations based on your viewing habits, and then you can cancel Prime Video. (And all other streaming platforms too.)
ipkpjersi
in reply to Psythik • • •Sixty
in reply to sabreW4K3 • • •Please don't give Amazon money for a shitty android stick. It's rather locked down too and the GUI is ad riddled. A lot of playback bugs that I don't have on a competitor product. There's many better alternatives with less god awful remote controls as well.
Just make sure you're not buying some generic Chinese thing with a compromised linux kernel.