had to make this thread bc too many are hating on my husbando

What would america be like if instead of a Cheeto being in the White House there was a dorito?

A top Amazon executive has said the US technology giant has blocked more than 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents.

North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities, Amazon's chief security officer Stephen Schmidt said in a LinkedIn post.

"Their objective is typically straightforward: get hired, get paid, and funnel wages back to fund the regime's weapons programs," he said, adding that this trend is likely to be happening at scale across the industry, especially in the US.

Authorities in the US and South Korea have warned about Pyongyang's operatives carrying out online scams.

A man identified as “A” who appears to be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed facilitating meetings with “inappropriate friends” with Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Among the latest tranche of Epstein files are email exchanges in 2001 and 2002 between Maxwell and a correspondent who appears as “The Invisible Man” in the email thread and says that he is writing from Balmoral.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has a well-established relationship with Maxwell. As well as the initial A and reference to Balmoral, the August 2001 emails in the latest tranche include a mention of a valet and having recently left the “RN”. Andrew left the Royal Navy in July 2001. A 2002 email includes a forwarded message referring to giving Andrew a phone number.

https://www.unionesarda.it/en/italy/attack-on-la-stampa-headquarters-in-turin-over-thirty-identified-judu8eju

Recently sites like archive.is and archive.ph are not resolving when using DNS providers from Mullvad and DNS4EU. Is it just me or does anyone else also experience this issue?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.ml/post/40686362

A police officer at a protest for the Palestine Action hunger strikers strangled a doctor until she passed out by dragging her by the back of her hoodie, the doctor has told Novara Media.

Dr Olivia Brandon was among several medical professionals who gathered with other supporters outside HMP Bronzefield on Wednesday 17 December to demand the prison allow in an ambulance to treat a hunger striker suffering from severe chest pains.

The alleged attack came after police arrested two protesters, including psychiatric doctor Dr Ayo Moiett, who protesters say was targeted both because he is black and because he played a pivotal role in forcing the prison to eventually let the ambulance come.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/47846828

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Japanese lawmakers are flocking to Taiwan, a trend that could hamper efforts to repair Tokyo-Beijing relations that have deteriorated after remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

A high-ranking member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party visited Taiwan from Sunday and met with President Lai Ching-te for about an hour on Monday.

"Taiwan is an important partner and friend for Japan with whom we share universal values and have close economic ties and people-to-people exchanges," said Koichi Hagiuda, who currently serves as the LDP's acting secretary-general.

Other Japanese lawmakers including former Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki and Akihisa Nagashima, a former adviser to the prime minister, met with Lai and former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday.

Japan lacks formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan at the government level, instead using the bipartisan Japan-ROC Diet Members' Consultative Council and LDP youth groups as channels for building relations. ROC refers to Republic of China, Taiwan's official name.

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Taiwan's Foreign Ministry said about 30 Japanese parliament members would visit Taiwan during the New Year's period. Takaichi's government is notable for its many pro-Taiwan members.

The Japan-ROC group's executives include Hagiuda, LDP Election Strategy Committee Chairman Keiji Furuya and Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara. Takaichi herself visited Taiwan in April before becoming prime minister, accompanied by other party officials.

Furuya also met with Lai in Taiwan in October, coinciding with Taiwan's National Day.

While Tokyo's relations with Taipei stand at a high point, Japan-China relations face an uncertain future.

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China and Russia have expressed support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, while Donald Trump continues to ramp up his pressure campaign on the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

TikTok not only tracks its users while they are using the TikTok app itself, but it is increasingly integrated with many other websites and apps. For example, TikTok was able to track a person’s Grindr usage on his smartphone. However, that’s not all: In addition to tracking users across the digital space, TikTok also refuses to provide an interested users with a copy of all of their personal data. Therefore, noyb has filed two complaints against TikTok and its data-sharing partners AppsFlyer and Grindr.

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The European Commission and Japan have successfully concluded negotiations on Japan's association to Horizon Europe, the EU's flagship €93.5 billion research and innovation funding programme. The agreement, expected to be signed in 2026, represents the closest form of collaboration offered by the EU to global partners in this field. It will enable Japanese researchers to lead and coordinate their own research and innovation projects under the programme, to apply and receive funding, and to seek closer collaboration with partners in the EU and other associated countries.

Seedit has vast moderation and antispam capabilities. It has a fully working mod queue. Every mod has complete control of his own sub and can ban or delete posts at will.

Due to Seedits unique design its impossible to know the ip of a specific seedit user. To combat this we had to create an intermediary platform - Mintpass. Mintpass forces users to verify their email or phone and more challengers are being added as we speak. This ensures they are not a bot and allow mods to track the users post and ban them if they break the rules.

Mods can choose whether to use mintpass or create their own way of dealing with antispam. The possibilities for dealing with antispam are endless. Seedit doesn't have instances but works on a per subreddit basis so one spammer blocked on one subreddit won't be blocked on another. However communties can stop this by sharing blocklists. Open source means everything is completely up to the communities and moderators.

In 2023, Chinese media systematically avoided directly recognizing Russia as a party to aggression. The war was presented as a “conflict” or “crisis” that allegedly arose due to NATO expansion, US actions, and internal processes in Ukraine. Official statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which were published without alternative assessments or verification, often served as sources of information.

Such narratives included allegations of US-funded biolaboratories in Ukraine, the presence of NATO military personnel on Ukrainian territory, and the treatment of the Azov unit as a “neo-Nazi group.” All of these messages coincided with key elements of Russian propaganda and were aimed at removing responsibility from Russia.

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In 2025, in statements that are actively quoted by the [Chinese propaganda outlets] Global Times and China Daily, Russia appears as a party ready to end the conflict provided its demands are taken into account, while the US and the West are presented as factors that either put pressure on Ukraine or are not interested in a real settlement ...

An important feature of the current rhetoric is the active promotion of the image of China as a responsible global actor and potential mediator. Calls for “creating a stable European security architecture” and emphasizing the need for negotiations allow Beijing to position itself as a neutral party interested in stability.

At the same time, the very logic of these calls remains close to the Russian interpretation of the war: the root causes of the conflict are sought not in an act of aggression, but in the security architecture, NATO actions, and US policy.

Chinese media less often resort to outright fakes like bio-laboratories or “Nazi Ukraine”, but they continue to avoid clearly naming the aggressor and continue to blur responsibility for the war.

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Web archive link

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40731680

https://archive.org/details/karlmarxlife0000whee

https://archive.org/details/karlmarxlife0000whee/page/152/mode/2up?q=Nick

Couple of drunk ass Christmas owls. Aunt Hooters over there can barely keep her inebriated eyes open and Uncle Ruffles behind her keeps whispering to her while staring at me. Owlmas is ruined.