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the statistics dont lie. five trans shooters, thousands of cis ones. radical cisgender violence is out of control. nobody who identifies with their assigned gender at birth can be trusted with a firearm.

In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost.

But the panel today also heard from outside sources who presented unvetted evidence and associations, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer and nefariously linger in the body. The members themselves brought their own conspiracy theories and bunkum to the table.

I used to pirate a lot back in the YIFY and original Pirate Bay era. Did IRC downloads, torrent and Pirate Bay and similar sites.

Used a good ISP that did not care. Fast forward to now. Our ISP is not pirate friendly.

Have used TorGuard VPN for 10-15yrs now and it seems to work fine for our minimal needs.

Would like to know what would be best for getting books for our son with autism and epilepsy. He devours books.

Our local library has cut a ton of books to his chagrin. An example the Series of Unfortunate Events books.

What are the best pirate book sites to hit and what to use?

The shooter was stationed inside the house and immediately began firing with an AR-15-style rifle, Barker said. 

Investigators also discovered a black lab shot dead in the basement of the house that belonged to the ex-girlfriend of the shooter.

[The ex girlfriend] also told investigators that she believed Ruth had set her pick-up truck on fire while it was sitting in the home's driveway in August, according to an affidavit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36484465

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025

Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.

And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.

Technically they did not get convicted of "murder" but this is just blatant murder, so I'll call it for what it really is, nonwithstanding the judicial system's decision.

Vincent Jen Chin (Chinese: 陳果仁; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was an American draftsman [A drafter is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics, infrastructure, sections, etc.] of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz.

Ebens and Nitz assailed Chin following a brawl that took place at a strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, where Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party with friends in advance of his upcoming wedding. Against the backdrop of high anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States at the time – known as "Japan bashing" – Ebens and Nitz assumed Chin was Japanese, and a witness described them using anti-Asian racial slurs as they attacked him, ultimately beating Chin to death.

Although accounts vary, the men were expelled from the club following a physical altercation. Ebens and Nitz eventually found Chin in front of a nearby McDonald's, where Nitz held Chin down while Ebens repeatedly bashed him with a baseball bat until Chin's head cracked open. Chin was taken to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he died of his injuries four days later. In their first trial, Ebens and Nitz accepted a plea bargain to reduce the charges from second-degree murder to manslaughter.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Charles Kaufman sentenced Ebens and Nitz to three years' probation and a $3,000 fine, but no jail time.

On June 19, 1982, Chin was having a bachelor party at the Fancy Pants Club in Highland Park to celebrate his upcoming wedding with three of his friends: Jimmy Choi, Gary Koivu, and Robert Siroskey. Seated across the stage from them were two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz. According to an interview by American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for the Detroit Free Press, after Chin gave a white stripper a generous gratuity, Ebens shouted, "Hey, you little motherfuckers!" and told an African-American dancer, "Don't pay any attention to those little fuckers, they wouldn't know a good dancer if they'd seen one." Racine Colwell, a dancer at the bar, later testified that Ebens said, "It's because of you little motherfuckers that we're out of work." This statement later provided the evidence for civil rights litigation against Ebens. He later claimed the argument was not about Chin's race but the Black dancer's gratuity. Another witness said he heard the anti-Chinese racial slur "Chink" being used towards Chin, while another man said Ebens told him "I'll give you $20 if you help us catch the Chinaman."

Ebens claimed that Chin walked over to him and Nitz and threw a punch at his jaw. The fight escalated as Nitz shoved Chin in defense of his stepfather, and Chin countered. One of the dancers reported that Ebens and Chin picked up chairs and started swinging them at each other. Nitz suffered a cut on his head from a chair that Ebens had intended to use to strike Chin. Chin and his friends left the room, while a bouncer led Ebens and Nitz to the restroom to clean up the wound. According to Ebens and Nitz, one of Chin's friends, Robert Siroskey, came back inside to use the restroom and apologized to the group, stating that Chin had a few drinks due to his bachelor's party. Ebens and Nitz had also been drinking that night, although not at the club, which did not serve alcohol.

When Ebens and Nitz left the club, they encountered Chin and his friends who were waiting outside for Siroskey. Chin called Ebens a "chicken shit", at which point Nitz retrieved a baseball bat from his car and Chin and his friends ran down the street. Ebens and Nitz searched the neighborhood for 20 to 30 minutes and paid another man 20 dollars to help look for Chin, before finding him at a nearby McDonald's restaurant. Chin attempted to escape, but was held by Nitz while Ebens repeatedly bludgeoned Chin with a baseball bat until Chin's head cracked open. Ebens was arrested and taken into custody at the scene of the crime by two off-duty police officers who had witnessed the beating. One of the officers said that Ebens wielded the bat like he was swinging "for a home run". Michael Gardenhire, one of the police officers, called for an ambulance. Chin was rushed to Henry Ford Hospital and was comatose on arrival. He never regained consciousness and died four days later on June 23, 1982; Chin was only 27 years old.

Ebens and Nitz were charged with second-degree murder, but accepted a plea bargain to reduce the charges to manslaughter. They were sentenced by Wayne County Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman to three years' probation and were each ordered to pay a $3,000 fine plus $780 in court costs, but received no jail time.

The lenient sentencing of Ebens and Nitz enraged the Asian-American communities in the Detroit area and across the United States, who saw it as a sign of public indifference toward racism directed at Asian-Americans. The president of the Detroit Chinese Welfare Council said the verdict amounted to a "$3,000 license to kill" Chinese Americans.

Whenever people say "good ol' days", this is the shit they're talking about. So fucked up.

Vincent Jen Chin was born on May 18, 1955, in Guangdong province, Mainland China.

Holy shit that's where I was born, this hits so close to home, as I'm am also Chinese American, I felt this as if I were in his shoes. I have faced similar (albeit its less intense nowadays) racism throughout my childhood/teenhood in the US. With the political atmosphere we have in 2025, I fear this is gonna become commonplace again.

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I’ve been thinking about transparency and security in the public sector. Do you think all government software and platforms should be open source?

Some countries have already made progress in this area:

• Estonia: digital government services with open and auditable APIs.
• United Kingdom: several open source government projects and systems published on GitHub.
• France and Canada: policies encouraging the use of free and open source software in public agencies.

Possible benefits:

• Full transparency: anyone can audit the code, ensuring there is no corruption, hidden flaws, or unauthorized data collection.
• Enhanced security: public reviews help identify vulnerabilities quickly.
• Cost reduction: less dependency on private vendors and lower spending on proprietary licenses.
• Flexibility and innovation: public agencies can adapt systems to their needs without relying on external solutions.

Possible challenges:

• Maintenance and updating of complex systems.
• Protecting sensitive data without compromising citizen privacy.
• Political or bureaucratic resistance to opening the code.

Do you think this could be viable in the governments of your countries? How could we start making this a reality globally?

I've messed something up with the bootloader on my Orange Pi 5 Plus and I'm looking for help in digging out of this mess.

While playing with Pxvirt (Proxmox port for ARM SBCs), I had the genius idea to swap out u-boot for this EDK2 UEFI firmware: https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

Now, when I attempt to boot from USB or SD, it just pops back to the UEFI screen.

I've manually removed every boot option except the USB or SD, but no luck. I've also completely formatted my eMMC and NVME to FAT32, since that seems to be the only filesystem UEFI will recognize.

I've connected to the OPi via Maskrom and flashed the SPI NOR with U-Boot and SPL Loader from Radxa, but still boots to UEFI.

Using Maskrom, I also tried to completely erase the contents on SPI NOR and physically removed my eMMC and NVME drives, but it still booted to UEFI.

I've also completely formated my eMMC and NVME to FAT32, since that seems to be the only filesystem UEFI will recognize.

Some of the boot disks I've tried are: PXVirt installer Orange Pi's custom Debian Bullseye build Debian Trixie for Arm64 SystemRescue

Any recommendations on what I can do to get UEFI completely off this OPi and back to U-Boot? I don't really care whether U-Boot is on SPI or eMMC, just need something working.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37834970

• Structural polarization: The study reveals significant structural polarization on Twitter/X, with users dividing into two distinct clusters across various political issues
• The hidden force: Multipliers play a central role in in shaping political divides. They curate ideologically coherent narratives and boost visibility through algorithmic engagement.
• Issue-specific deviations: While most topics follow clear partisan lines, some show nuanced overlaps or unexpected cross-cluster endorsements, offering insight into the complexity of political alignment.
• Relevance beyond social media: The findings have implications for our understanding of social media's impact on public discourse and highlight the need for further research into the mechanisms driving polarization, as well as the potential for similar patterns on other social media platforms.

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Three Ofcom regulators with clipboards spent the weekend making their way around the exhibition floor of an international adult industry conference in Prague, trying to encourage the 1,700 delegates to comply with the UK’s new Online Safety Act.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49220518

They may be fictional characters, but they are voiced by real people, the court says.

Russia launched its international song contest at President Vladimir Putin’s behest, with a Soviet-era name and acts intended to promote “traditional family values,” after being banished from Eurovision – and as a spectacle, it didn’t disappoint.

. . . Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who was present at the event, was quoted as insisting: “We are not striving for any political effect. We want the original purpose of a person and his or her identity to be respected and realized in free interaction with others, enriching one another through the exchange of spiritual values.”

. . . “I am confident that the competition will become one of the most recognizable and beloved worldwide, because through dialogue, mutual respect, and the strengthening of trust between cultures, we become spiritually richer,” Putin said in a video statement that was played in the venue at the beginning of the concert.

While a lot of the music had Euro-pop vibes similar to Eurovision, there was a major difference between the competitions: while Eurovision often celebrates LGBTQ+ diversity, there were no rainbow flags or other pride symbols at Intervision as displays of such symbols are forbidden in Russia.

Instead, the event had a clear “anti-woke” agenda. Moscow has insisted that the competition is about showcasing the “traditional values” of the home countries of the contestants.

“Heterosexualism is very important to us,” one fan of the Russian participant “Shaman,” bluntly told CNN outside the concert venue.

. . . As the massive show drew to a close and the jury voted Duc Phuc of Vietnam the winner, there was time for one last announcement: Intervision will return again next year, when it will be hosted by Saudi Arabia.

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet on Saturday said Charlie Kirk's surgeon called it an "absolute miracle" that the bullet that killed him didn’t exit his body because dozens of people were standing behind him when he was shot.

"I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie. I’m usually not interested in delving into most of this kind of online chatter, and I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know," Kolvet, the executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," wrote in a lengthy post on X.

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Generation Z is mobilizing in Peru on September 20 and 21, demanding changes to the Dina Boluarte regime and denouncing the pension reform. Starting at 5 p.m., youth groups, unions, and social organizations rallied in San Martín Square, La República reported this Saturday.

Police repression was swift on the first day of protests against the Peruvian government. A group of protesters was heading toward Avenida Nicolás de Piérola and Carabaya when they were surprised by tear gas bombs.

The protest responds to discontent over the reform of the AFP (Association of Pension Funds), the rise of crime, and the overcrowding of justice institutions, and seeks to channel this outrage into a massive and peaceful day.

So far, excessive police presence has been observed, sparking comments on social media. Police officers were reported to have fired tear gas canisters on Jirón de la Unión in an attempt to disperse the protesters.

Hours before the march against Dina Boluarte and Congress began, representatives of civil society organizations denounced the blocking of their phone lines on social media.

"I can't answer calls because my phone was blocked yesterday. The government may be trying to instill fear in people due to today's march," said Coraly Escobar, a leader of the PUCP Student Federation (FePuc).

Wildalr Lozano, spokesperson for the youth group "Generación Z," spoke out against the labels attributed to the protesters, stating that they are not "a group of vandals" and emphasizing that the march's sole objective is to make the government listen to the population's demands.

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