Orouba Center for Research and Strategic Thinking released its weekly report on Israeli violations in Gaza. The report covers December 6–12, 2025, and highlights the continuation of large-scale, systematic attacks despite the ceasefire entering its ninth week.
During this period, the center documented 268 violations. The attacks killed 18 Palestinians, including women and children, and injured 56 others.
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Israel Carried Out 268 Violations in Gaza in Ninth Week of Ceasefire Killing 18 Civilians, Report
A new report documents 268 Israeli violations in Gaza in just one week, killing 18 Palestinians, including women and children, and showing that Trump’s ceasefire has failed to stop daily attacks on th...Quds News Network
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This weekend a "non-technical" friend and me installed #Debian 13 on their notebook computer, removing their previous OS. They is happy!
Historic moment, because I'm promoting #freeSoftware for three fckng decades to them. Now it's done.
Next step: Convince them of using the #Dino #Jabber client instead of unencrypted email with me. Maybe next decade?
Much of the developed world is watching how the Australian under-16 social media ban is working, with critics already claiming in the UK, that Keir Starmer has a 'blindspot' on the damage social media has wrought on the young....
The key argument in the UK against following the Australian example will, as usual, be that such a ban can be (relatively easily) circumvented - see VPN usage & pornography!
But on this we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
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While there is a real problem here, there are other good arguments against this solution - age verification systems are a personal data issues mess, a risk I especially wouldn't want to take with the personal data of minors.
I also suspect it will lead to a proliferation of equally damaging apps targeted so as to be excluded from the ban lists.
And there's also an extent to which it's a sticking plaster on a much wider societal problem of a lack of healthy digital systems.
Yes, which is why it remains difficult to decide how to move forward, but you're right it is also a sticking plaster on a larger issue.... but a sticking plaster can be a useful part of the healing process (to extend the metaphor)
@Dany Related to that, I was thinking about the story of some students creating their own social media in a shared side deck. And I think that's ok: the big difference being the shared deck is a closed group and not driven by algorithms designed to suck you in as long as possible to see as much paid content as possible.
(A problem for adults too, but we've decided some level of self-destructive behavior is fine once we think you're old enough)
And good luck to them!
a much better approach would be to co-design social media regulatory frameworks with youth representation- they have a much better idea of what’s needed, and the ban puts our most vulnerable (remote, immigrants, LGBTQIA, disabled) at even more risk.
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But I’m definitely not an expert (and you should definitely listen to them over me). Unfortunately, the Aus government has chosen to ignore the experts
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A social media ban on children is an awful idea that is impossible to implement without dramatically reducing online safety for those same children.
You will never stop people finding ways to communicate, just drive them to less visible, less secure, and less safe ways of doing so.
Regulate the companies, not the users. Castigate billionaires, not teenagers.
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@quixoticgeek the key argument is not that it’s unenforceable, or unworkable… it’s that *children (and adults) have a right to communicate*
Imagine it was the 80s and righteous campaigners said that children should be banned from using telephones because they might talk to *bad people*
This is not to let anyone off the hook in terms of safety - we have a duty to educate, to moderate, to regulate. Blanket bans and age gating is all about letting platforms avoid that.
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In the 80s many of us were banned from comic books and RPGs (Role Playing Games, not Rocket Propelled Grenades, nobody was banning Rocket Propelled Grenades)
@hypostase @quixoticgeek the difference being that those were individual parental decisions with varying degrees of informed choice.
This stuff is all top-down.
Which is fair enough, but how do you keep those spaces safe for them?
How do you keep any space safe?
Schools are not safe. Churches are not safe. Scouts is not safe. The little alley back of the pub is not safe. For ever-so-many, "home" us not safe.
These are not new problems. And they have the same solutions. But we're not always as effective as we would like to believe there, either, and we need to understand that.
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I agree these are certainly not new problems, but the Q. is whether the social media space presents a similar danger or a worse one? My feeling is, that it is worse in wellbeing terms (although clearer not worse than direct violence) and is often a space where previous social negatives (bullying, or grooming, for instance) have migrated to
Caveats: I'm in my late 50s, I've been terminally online, but not as much as some, the households I grew up in were not psychologically safe for me, I chose not to have children.
Social media spaces, like any other spaces, vary wildly. Yes some are more popular than others. Certainly some are more toxic. Just like some pubs. Or sports clubs.
You are mistaken to suggest that they have less direct violence, unless you conflate direct violence with physical violence, and even then it's complicated. Bullying exists everywhere, and needs to be managed through identifying the perpetrators and supporting the targets. That has to happen at the individual level because the bullies always know how to manipulate the rules.
There maybe a sense in which the social media landscape presents a worse danger than the 70s. But the second millennium generally presents a wider array of social dangers, and the online space doesn't exist in a vacuums.
The real problem is, as it has ever been, identifying and accepting the structures that harm.
It's not that we need to make sure 15 year olds are not abused, it's that we need to hold all abusers to account, whether they target children or not, whether their actions are considered just the price of society, or the unfortunate cost of doing business.
Sometimes that means we need to look at ourselves, and our friends, our spouses, our bosses, and recognise that toxic behaviour.
It may be convenient to blame Social Media, but that just hides the underlying issues.
I don't disagree with much of that.... but while it may be convenient to blame social media it is neither a neutral vector in the issues you stresses.... but I would agree there is much bigger social structural set of issue here
No, it's not neutral.
But this place, this form of social media, has very much demonstrated that it is possible to have safe, even loving, places to play and explore online. Regulation would be a heavy burden that could criminalise and destroy many of them.
So, we have the issue of the balance between regulation and freedom... and of course, that is a political Q. over which we have been ranging today...
Social media is not un-regulated now, so the issue is what regulatory weight is most appropriate to gain the ends we want.... The Austrian Govt. has taken one view, and as I say, it will be interested (and informative) to see how this plays out
I don't think so. It's more about balance between choice and responsiblity, which can't always be regulated. The Aussie thing is such a blunt force tool that all the sides will argue about it, claiming different causal relationships and outcomes, that it will be unlikely to usefully contribute to objective analysis.
well, of course, the debate about the effects will itself be illustrative of the optical fissures involved
Its more I think something needs to be done, and a good response is better than holding out for a perfect one - I'll reserve judgement on the Australian attempt until we see how its played out...
Just to say, the harm is caused by the ‘media’ bit, not the ‘social’. Profit incentives and addictive algorithmic feeds prioritise retention of eyeballs over anything else.
Talking to others isn’t the principle issue, it’s the things around the conversation in the feed that are substantially the concern.
If children have to take the ‘social’ bit elsewhere they will. It then becomes much harder to know who they are talking to.
To my mind, the problem *is* the use of social media as if it was a neutral public space - it isn't nor will be in the current climate - sayer alternate 'spaces' are what is required.... and part of that, the Australian Govt. clearly thinks, is by encouraging young people back into the physical social networks around them....
For many (but I accept not all) children local social networks of pupils, local friends (parents friends' children) can all be accessed & enjoyed outside the realm of social media.... I see little evidence that such networks have ceased to exist completely?
That's a fair comment; I have only seen such discrimination among young people when I was work at university, and there, alternate grouping developed themselves among the groups being discriminated against, both institutionally & via peer discrimination.... but I have little recent experience of school age children apart form those of my friends - so accept that criticism
Here, as noted in repose to @etchedpixels that had passed me by... but then the Q. is how to help those specific groups, surely?
@burnoutqueen you can't separate them out magically because their friends are not disabled or necessarily rural, so are you going to create a disabled ghetto ?
You have to fix it for all teens to have a safe space to interact online.
Fair enough & that would be what I would want... if it is possible; but the political will to go up against the social media giants to do that doesn't seem likely, so we're left with much less happy (but potentially OK) solutions - at least, we may; that's why I'm interested to see how the Australian ban plays out. But there are no perfect (or even near perfect) answers.... or so it seems
You help those groups by promoting better platforms of online communication that bolster privacy and have guardrails against abuse and bullying
banning vpns is like banning maths. It's an implicit feature of all networking so the only way you can ban it is to turn all computers into a government controlled unmodifiable device managed by a mostly US megacorp.
If you want to crack down on social media and kids then ban processing of kids data like the EU. Ban advertising to children except human pre approved adverts, ban algorithmic feeds
And remember social media is crucial to disabled and to kids in isolated places
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My fist suggestion is to treat all algorithm-promoted social media posts as “publishing”, subject to the same regulation as any other media.
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> If you want to crack down on social media and kids then ban processing of kids data like the EU. Ban advertising to children except human pre approved adverts, ban algorithmic feeds
And crucially: Make the (social media) corporations responsible that this works. No "this was inadvertently. We've a gazillion measure in place, unfortunately they don't always work", but simply, if any of these happen, the penalties apply, full stop.
Criminal police in Germany is actually advising parents not to use certain kid's offerings, because that is where the criminals are looking for kids. So we have a kid offering, that is actually not protected .... this wouldn't happen, if the provider would be made responsible actually policing this. Worst case: They would actually have to terminate this offering, because it doesn't work and is actually risky. Nothing lost then.
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The message that needs to be sent is: If you want to make revenue with kids (actually: Their parents) you need to create (really) safe space.
And if you give kids access to unsafe space, you'll pay.
Capitalists understand this language.
Well, we might want to distinguish between adults & children when you say 'people' as this is what the Australian Govt. is doing - I think we should wait to see how it plays out
well, again, as I keep saying we'll see how the Australian ban plays out & I'll reserve judgment as to its efficacy until then...
evidence of the effects of an outright ban on under 16s?
Please share.... was not aware had been attempted elsewhere
ISTM that the VPN argument is just "it doesn't help" whereas this one is "it actively harms".
An Israeli drone strike hit a vehicle near the Nabulsi junction in the west of Gaza City on 13 December, with local sources reporting at least four people killed, in what Israel claimed was a targeted assassination of a “key” Hamas official.
Israeli army officials claimed the intended target was senior Qassam Brigades commander Raed Saad.
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Deadly Israeli drone strike hits Gaza City in latest ceasefire violation
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Just had a full-blown meltdown in a dream.
Normally, I am not a person to have nightmares: my dreams are full of absurd elements, but they are usually not scary and don’t even read as absurd while dreaming, it’s only after when I see the absurdity/surrealism of what’s happened. But this one probably is an exception.
Had a dream that I accidentally enter a building. It is some kind of an attraction/art center, where people pay big money to enter, but I somehow enter accidentally, by mistake. It provides immersive experience for the funs of horror. Personally I am a big coward, I hate horrors, terrors and any kind of disturbing scenes, so I don’t watch movies of this genre at all, and IRL would never go to such a place if it existed.
Nevertheless, in this dream I end up in this multy-story building, on the top floor. It has endless corridors with lots of doors. Behind every door there is an immersive experience that is absurd and may have elements of horror. If you go through that experience and do the right thing, in one of the rooms on the floor you may find a way to get down to the next(lower) floor. The exit from the building is supposed to be on the ground floor. There are people around, some of them are the actors which are the parts of the performance, and some are visitors. You start moving through the rooms with the crowd(which is both scary as you don’t trust crowds and less scary because it’s easier to hide behind the crowd letting the attention to the performers/effects to focus on those who enjoy the experience), but eventually it’s way less crowdy, at some moments there is no one around or just a few people.
At some point I become so overwhelmed/disgusted by the absurd and horror of the experiences that I decide to not engage with the rooms and just walk down the corridor to find a normal service door and go down by the service stairs. I see some doors in the middle of the floor marked by a little mark that may mean exit, as well as some room that looks like a toilet, but I am not sure if they are real or a part of the experience, and by that point I am so fed up/overwhelmed with those that I don’t want to even try - so I decide to check if there isn’t something that is more obviously out of the game at the floor - and I go till the end of corridor, and clearly there’s no service exit there, and there is something going on behind each door, so I decide to go back and give that door with a little mark a try - but when I am returning, it’s not there, the geometry of the floor somehow changes, and there are numerous turns now, and it seems like there are less doors now, and that one is gone. I feel on the verge of a breakdown, and I see some people and start talking to them asking about the service exit, and some tell they have no idea while some other start telling me that there’s no other way down, and I must live through the experience, and isn’t it why everybody comes and pays money for, and I am trying to explain that I am here by an accident, and I am not enjoying, and I am overwhelmed and the only thing I want is to quit right now as I can’t bear it anymore. But the person is smiling and telling me to not be dramatic, calm down and enjoy it. And I snap at them, telling them don’t you understand that someone may be so done with that that would be ready to do anything to stop this experience, including suicide - but the person laughs at me, and I have a full meltdown. I feel intense despair and the desire to stop it all, and I cry with all the tears of Universe for it to stop. And I wake up.
It actually is something that happens to me: to wake up because of negative emotions being so overwhelming in a dream I can’t bear them anymore.
Is it something that happens to other autists as well?
Is it because we are so used to overwhelm and meltdowns that they are inevitably showing up in the dreams like any other part of our life experience, or is it because I don’t let myself have full-blown meltdowns, and the brain/body just needs to release all that?
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Sorry, not a diagnosed autistic here, prob low on most scales except maybe ADD, but I still do wake up from dreams when a negative (fear/shame) feeling gets too intense. If I obviously die in a dream it may take a while with attempts to reboot to a different take on the dream but waking is also then a likely eventual outcome.
Meltdown & other approaches in dream is great practise in my experience. Thanks also for sharing the absolute horrorest escape room depiction ever.
This dream, right after awaking, seamed like a perfect metaphor both for the dreams themselves and for the life as whole to me. A bunch of experiences thrown on you where you have only an illusion of choice and are required to go through them no matter how much you don’t want to, while the society is gaslighting you about it being fun
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Bei einem Schusswaffenangriff auf dem Campus der Brown University im US-Bundesstaat Rhode Island sind zwei Menschen getötet und neun weitere verletzt worden. Der Täter ist weiterhin auf der Flucht.Christopher Mang (Apollo News)
The Counter-Narrative: The Arab Revolt Onscreen
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"Cinema has spawned great feature films dramatizing the Arab Revolt, including David Lean’s 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, which won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 The Battle of Algiers, which received three Oscar nominations. Now we can add to this prestigious list Palestine 36, Palestine’s official selection
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Many people across the United Kingdom know the story of the WW1 Christmas Truce and Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy provides a deeper meaning to the now famous story.
Starting off at the Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, in 1917, the Regeneration trilogy is the classic exploration of how the trauma of war brutalised a generation of young men.
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