There is a moment in every public conversation about children’s imprisonment when language becomes a weapon. Governments call uprisings “disturbances”, media outlets describe frightened children as “rioters”, and the public is invited to see young people in crisis as threats rather than as children who have been deeply harmed.

That framing tells us far more about the adults in power than it does about the children locked inside these prisons.

Let's try help kids rather than locking them away and forgetting about them while doing nothing to correct the failures that created them.

Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers' surveillance systems, allowing them to see hacking targets’ personal data.

"How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late", Alexander Stubb, December 2, 2025.

-About Geopolitical analysis, ethics, reforms of Institutions and relations for the Global West.

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Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia withdrew from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest on Thursday after organizers declined to hold a vote on Israel's participation, marking the largest boycott in the competition's 70-year history.

The European Broadcasting Union's General Assembly in Geneva voted 738 to 264, with 120 abstentions, to adopt new voting regulations without holding a separate ballot on whether Israel should be barred from next year's contest. The decision prompted immediate withdrawals from four countries that had threatened to boycott if Israel remained in the competition.

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OpenAI made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the 3 large providers of RAM) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. But it gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep RAM out of the hands of their competitors.

From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, RAM prices are going to the moon, and Micron (the third big provider) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.

In short, Fsck the AI industry in general and Fsck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this fsckery.

We’re cooked.

Microsoft has dropped its diversity and inclusion report

A Wild West for Crayola prices.

It appears Meta's Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

I get there are still users but it feel empty at times compared "other" platforms.

Why isint lemmy more popular?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/31404472

cuz I feel like its not political enough to be an actual political meme

The etiquette of atrocity: disciplining how we talk about the violence America is built upon

Crucial consumer-branded products at key retailers, e-tailers and distributors worldwide will seize sales on February 1, 2026 as it repositions to sell its products direct to manufacturing and commercial channels only.

Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.

In a study published in Nature on Thursday, scientists report that AI chatbots can meaningfully sway people toward a particular candidate—providing better results than video or television ads. Moreover, chatbots optimized for political persuasion “may increasingly deploy misleading or false information,” according to a separate study published on Thursday in Science.

Archive: http://archive.today/9Jq17

China's biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country's arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China's area in 1949 to more than 25%

Collectively, China's ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.

The European Commission said on Thursday it was reviewing tariffs on Volkswagen's electric vehicles built in China, which the automaker hopes could be replaced with an annual import quota and minimum price mechanism.

https://archive.is/Ck8OT

Inserted as Article 23a of the revised Return Regulation, the proposal allows law enforcement to “search homes or other relevant premises” and seize personal belongings as part of deportation operations.

As a bibliophile on the Fediverse, I'm flailing a little. I'm on Mastodon, Lemmy, and BookWyrm.social, but I don't know which is the best place to reach the largest and most active number of fellow readers.

Currently I'm guessing that this is the largest book group in the Fediverse, based entirely on MAU - but I'll be frank, I could easily be wrong.

I'm looking to discuss approaches to reviewing books. It occurred to me recently that the most meaningful and helpful reviews are the ones that tie in to emotion - that emotional impact is by far the most important aspect of art and writing, at least to me. I'm curious to hear what sort of approaches others have tried, and maybe sharing tips.

There's also another issue that's been bothering the hell out of me: BookSNS. It's a book recommendation site that's very active, with a lot of users. I've been following it for quite a while via Mastodon.

Posts from it are echoed or relayed to Mastodon, but replies don't go the other way. Users there seem to think that they are posting on Reddit, at least some of the time. But there is no way to contact anyone at the website itself; no admin address, and you have to have an account there in order to respond on the site. But there are no openings for new accounts.

It drives me completely crazy, because I have a huge amount of experience recommending books - particularly older books. I used to be one of the top book recommenders on Reddit, before I walked away after their IPO sleaze. Over and over I've seen requests for recommendations for which I have the perfect answers, only to find myself absolutely unable to respond.

It's torture. I really love recommending the books that I know, particularly since almost no one else seems to even be aware of their existence. But I just can't get through to those requesters.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

#Books #BookSNS #Mastodon