Our leaders hardly had to lift a finger to divide us: we’ve done it all on our own. Just another distraction that only serves the powers-that-be who profit off our ego and insecurities. It is a ‘me against the world’ mentality where identity supersedes all.

Russian and Chinese support for Venezuela has largely dried up, with no prospect of real military or financial aid.

One of the issues with "age verification" is that an effect of the suggested technologies is that they ultimatively take control of your computer. In the suggested form, they require elements that are not controlled by you, the user. It is like replacing the lock to your home's main door, for which YOU (and only you) have the keys, with an electronic, remotely controlled lock, controlled by goverments, which can lock out at any time.

Once a model for the world, the EU’s rulemaking machine has faltered under the weight of its own ambition.

Paywall? https://archive.is/CmWdg

International human rights groups have condemned the re-arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi in Iran, with the Nobel committee calling on Iranian authorities to immediately clarify her whereabouts.

Mohammadi's French lawyer, Chirine Ardakani, said on X that the human rights activist was arrested on Friday after denouncing the suspicious death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi at his memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

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Mashhad prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters she [Mohammadi] and Alikordi's brother had made provocative remarks at the event and encouraged those present "to chant 'norm‑breaking' slogans" and disturb the peace, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee called on Iranian authorities "to immediately clarify Mohammadi’s whereabouts, ensure her safety and integrity, and to release her without conditions."

The European Union also called for Mohammadi's release. "The EU urges Iranian authorities to release Ms Mohammadi, taking also into account her fragile health condition, as well as all those unjustly arrested in the exercise of their freedom of expression," an EU spokesperson said on Saturday.

A video purportedly showing Mohammadi, 53, without the mandatory veil, standing on a car with a microphone and chanting "Long Live Iran" in front of a crowd, has gone viral on social media. Ardakani said Mohammadi was beaten before her arrest.

Reporters Without Borders said four journalists and other participants were also arrested at the memorial for human rights lawyer Alikordi, who was found dead in his office on December 5.

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/32115404

Interview with Oglaf creator.couple, i didn't realise they were Australian!

https://archive.is/xgh0G

Hi all, I am behind CGNAT, but my ISP router is allocating real IPv6 addresses to my devices that can be exposed. I have a Proxmox and I have installed Wireguard on an LXC container and configured it to listen to the IPv6 address.

I was wondering if I need to do something else to protect my Wireguard installation? I have exposed only the default UDP port to the outside and port scanners are not working on UDP ports as far as I know. Shall I do something else to protect my installation or the attack vector is already minimal and doesn't require further hardening? What's your opinion?

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Hong Kong’s High Court ... pronounced publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai guilty on trumped-up national security and sedition charges for his work at the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper.

The verdict delivers yet another blow to Hong Kong’s press freedom and underscores the extent to which the Hong Kong authorities have eroded the city’s rule of law.

Lai was convicted by three handpicked judges, having been denied his constitutionally protected right to a jury trial, for “colluding with foreign forces” and for “conspiracy to publish seditious material.”

“Jimmy Lai is a British citizen. His release should be a condition of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s planned trip to Beijing in January,” the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation writes in a statement.

Prior the the verdict, Starmer has called the release of Lai, a British citizen, a priority. ...

Several rights groups have called the conviction "a cruel judicial farce" ...

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According to reports, Lai will learn his sentencing on a later date. A mitigation hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12.

Lai has yet to decide on whether to appeal the verdict, according to his lawyer Robert Pang.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40346171

Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025

“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”

Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40346058

Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025

“The images out of Bondi Beach in Australia this morning of a vile, antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah celebration are shocking, disgusting, and heartbreaking,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a US Senate candidate.

I wash my hands after going to the toilet. It's kinda gross. I'm sorry I'll do better

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40211941

Thank you, Ken Klippenstein.

Kippenstein’s recent discussions of Att. Gen. Pam Bondi’s Memo “Ending Political Violence Against ICE” and Pres. Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo/NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized” — as well as his presentation on Democracy Now! — makes it frightening clear that the “legal” framework of a Trump dictatorship is being put in place.

Just a year ago, Chinese manufacturers, fearing a new trade war, rushed to push out exports following the election victory of Donald Trump, who had pledged to slap punishing tariffs on imports from China over America’s widening trade deficit.

A year later, Trump has delivered on his promise. But China has pivoted – and exported more.

In a striking display of resilience, the world’s second-largest economy notched a record trade surplus of $1 trillion in just the first 11 months of the year – a milestone no other nation has achieved.

The stunning outcome – underscoring that the American market is not entirely irreplaceable – has bolstered Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s confidence in taking a hardball approach with Trump throughout this year’s protracted trade war. While the two countries have dialed back tensions and returned to a fragile trade truce after Trump and Xi’s meeting in October, a final agreement remains nowhere in sight.