[orange character is smiling smugly, doing a finger gun, in front of the "1860 WEEKLY SLAVE MARKET" in which a crowd of people are browsing slaves, while some slaves ask "please help…"]

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism bro, everything is equally bad

I won't stop buying slaves until the state compels me not to, until then to each their own and let's agree to disagree and I'll have you know my family needs their labor

It's great that you can live without slaves though, keep being an anti-slavery activist it's awesome!

You're the best!

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An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introduced legislation that would have ended the court proceeding.

The province's Bill 14, which was introduced Thursday, would end court action on the issue once it came into effect. The proposed bill would allow citizen initiatives to go ahead even if they might violate the Constitution.

Court of King's Bench Justice Colin Feasby, who has listened to several days of arguments about the independence proposal, had sharp words for the government move to change the law.

"Legislating to pre-emptively end this court proceeding disrespects the administration of justice," he said in the Calgary Court of King's Bench on Friday.

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I have recently enforced a better privacy practice for my smart home devices, that includes creating a new access point for those devices and blocking them of internet access with VLAN.

Since then, my yeelight minas celiing lights goes unavailable whenever I physically switch them off and turn them on afterwards.

One really stupid thing is it needs internet access for using LAN control feature. it's really really dumb.

but at the same time, in this kind of age where everything wants to phone their home, i need to somehow mitigate this in every possible way such as by fooling the devices as if they have access to the internet.

Is this kind of things possible?

thanks!

Gaza mediators Egypt and Qatar, and six other Muslim-majority countries have raised the alarm over Israel’s stated plan for a one-way opening of the Rafah border crossing, which would allow Palestinians to leave their territory, but not to return, and block the entry of humanitarian aid.

It comes as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues unabated, with some 600 violations of the ceasefire in the last seven weeks.

The announcement, which breaches Israeli obligations under the first phase of a United States-led peace plan, was made on Wednesday by an Israeli military unit called the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), stating that one-way crossing would be allowed with Israeli “security approval” in coordination with Egypt.

Arab, Muslim nations reject Israeli exit-only plan for Gaza Rafah crossing

Ministers slam Israeli breach of truce plan, which ultimately aims to ‘displace Palestinian people from their land’.

^{Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)}

Afghanistan authorities say four civilians have been killed after an exchange of heavy fire with Pakistan’s forces along their shared border, as tensions between the South Asian neighbours escalate after peace talks in Saudi Arabia failed to produce a breakthrough.

The governor of Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district in the Kandahar province confirmed the deaths on Saturday. Officials from both sides said the clashes broke out late on Friday night, with the two countries accusing one another of opening fire first.

In a post on X, the spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Pakistani forces had “launched attacks towards” the Spin Boldak district, prompting Afghan forces to respond.

Afghanistan says 4 killed in heavy fire exchanges with Pakistani forces

Relations have soured between former allies Afghanistan and Pakistan since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

^{Al Jazeera}