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“Antes de dar las gracias a Dios, voy a decir: ¡ICE fuera!” proclamó el artista de música trap y reggaetón Bad Bunny el 1 de febrero, mientras aceptaba el premio Grammy por mejor álbum de música urbana.

El público en la ceremonia de premios, que tuvo lugar en Los Ángeles, respondió abrumadoramente con vítores.

“No somos salvajes, no somos animales, no somos extraterrestres”, añadió Bad Bunny. “Somos humanos y somos americanos”.

Con estas acciones, Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio), uno de los artistas más escuchados del mundo, se unió a una lista creciente de músicos, poetas y otros artistas que se han convertido en parte de la resistencia al intento de la administración Trump de dividir a la clase trabajadora entre nativos y extranjeros, y de obstaculizar su capacidad para resistir la catastrófica trayectoria de Trump hacia el gobierno de un solo hombre.

Canadian passport holders can travel to China visa-free starting Tuesday until the end of 2026, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Sunday — marking another step in Canada's thawing relationship with the Chinese government.

In a statement posted to the Chinese ministry's website, the spokesperson said Canadian passport holders will be "exempted from visa to enter China and stay for up to 30 days for business, tourism, family/friends visit, exchange and transit purposes."

"The policy will be effective until December 31, 2026," the spokesperson said. The policy also applies to U.K. passport holders.

They host a bunch of services including a lemmy instance.

The admin is @povoq@slrpnk.net

All their services seem to be down?

Key developments on Feb. 14-15:

• Ukraine destroys half of Russia's 'key' Pantsir air defense systems, security service says
• Ukraine hits Russia's BK-16 landing craft in Crimea and other targets in Russian-occupied territories, military says
• Zelensky, Rubio discuss air defense for Ukraine, possibility of leader-level peace talks
• Territorial concessions by Ukraine won't bring peace, Zelensky says in Munich
• Ukraine сonfirms strike on oil terminal in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, hits air

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Defence leaders write joint appeal urging public on need to be prepared for war with Russia and resulting costs

Britain and Germany’s highest ranking military leaders have made an unprecedented joint appeal to the public to accept the “moral” case for rearmament and prepare for the threat of war with Russia.

The pair said they were making the plea not just as the military leaders of two of Europe’s largest military spenders, but “as voices for a Europe that must now confront uncomfortable truths about its security”.

Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton, the UK’s chief of the defence staff, and Gen Carsten Breuer, Germany’s chief of defence, said Russia’s military stance had “shifted decisively westward” and a “step change” was needed in Europe’s defence and security.

In a joint article published in the Guardian and the German newspaper Die Welt, in the wake of the Munich Security Conference, the soldiers said they had a duty “to explain what is at stake so that the public could understand why the UK and Germany have committed to the biggest sustained increases in defence spending since the end of the cold war”.

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Does anyone have a compose.yaml for an Nvidia GPU that works that they would like to share? Here's my current file, it gives a white screen with "server error" on it: https://pastebin.com/AaV17cTz

I went through Jellyfin's instructions on setting a GPU up, but the instructions weren't clear (in my opinion) so who knows if it's correct. I installed some Nvidia tools as a prerequisite and 'nvidia-smi' shows the card. I attached my Jellyfin settings from before it self-destructed according to Nvidia's transcoding matrix (which also wasn't descriptive enough in my opinion), do they look right for a 2080?

Update: after making this post, and changing nothing, it suddenly works

Canada plans to unveil a new strategy that will shift its current reliance on American companies to Canadian military suppliers.

The Canadian government, faced with increasing hostility from the Trump administration, plans to divert billions of dollars in military spending it long gave to U.S. defense companies and direct it instead to domestic manufacturers.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s wholesale expansion of Canadian military spending was prompted by pressure from President Trump, but with relations between the longstanding allies deteriorating, American companies will no longer reap the benefit.

The new defense industry strategy, which is to be announced this week, is the latest step by Mr. Carney to distance his country from the United States following Mr. Trump’s decision to impose tariffs against several key Canadian industries. The president has also made repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st American state.

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The Israeli government has approved a proposal to register large areas of the West Bank as “state property” for the first time since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory began in 1967.

The Israeli public broadcaster Kan said on Sunday that the proposal was submitted by far-right Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Justice Yariv Levin and Minister of Defence Israel Katz.

“We are continuing the settlement revolution to control all our lands,” Smotrich said.

Registration of land establishes permanent ownership, but most Palestinian land is not formally registered, as it is a long, complicated process, which Israel had stopped in 1967. International law states that an occupying power cannot confiscate or settle land in occupied territories.

I've been to therapists on and off all my adult life. I've never felt tired afterwards, or at least never noticed. This time, though? Noticeably tired.

A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260215215759/https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way.

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A diplomatic incident has stirred up controversy in Poland. It began when Thomas Rose, the US ambassador in Warsaw, announced on February 5 that he would sever all contact with the president of the lower house, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, who leads the left-wing party Nowa Lewica (New Left). The role of marshal of the Sejm – the Polish title for president of the lower house – is regarded as the second most important position in the country, after the president.

What prompted this undiplomatic outburst on the social network X? Three days earlier, at a press conference, Czarzasty had refused to back Donald Trump's candidature for the Nobel Peace Prize. "He does not deserve it," the MP concluded, lamenting that the US president relied on the "use of force" that often "broke international law." The US ambassador, who has held the post since November 2025, described these remarks on X as "outrageous insults" that "seriously" harmed the "excellent relations with Prime Minister [Donald] Tusk and his government."

Tusk reacted quickly, reminding the diplomat that "allies should respect each other, not lecture each other." Rose countered, calling Czarzasty's comments "despicable, disrespectful and insulting."

The Israeli military has published official data for the first time detailing how many of its soldiers hold foreign citizenship alongside Israeli nationality, revealing a large presence of dual-national personnel within its ranks.

Figures obtained by Declassified through a freedom of information request made in March 2025 and filed by the NGO Hatzlacha show that 50,632 serving soldiers hold at least one additional citizenship.

Personnel carrying passports from the United States, France, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ukraine form the largest groups, accounting for most of the total.

The data indicate that 12,135 soldiers hold US citizenship, making Americans the largest single category.

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Her voice trembled. Tears traced the wrinkles on her cheeks and her hands twisted together. Eun-young (who, like all the victims Le Monde spoke with, used a pseudonym) refused to forgive, 50 years later, the American soldiers stationed in South Korea who abused her for years, when the gray-haired septuagenarian in a pale pink blouse served as a "comfort woman." "I want them to apologize. I want them to compensate me for my destroyed life," she insisted from the offices of Saewoomtuh, the advocacy group for these women, based in Pyeongtaek, not far from Seoul.

The euphemism is well known. The term "comfort women" refers mainly to Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. It also applies to those exploited by American troops starting in the 1950s. Unlike the first group, who have been met with sympathy as victims of Japanese oppression, the latter have been consigned to shame and silence. In South Korea, it has not been acceptable to criticize the American ally, seen as the guarantor of the country's security, especially since the system in place long benefited from the complicity of the state.

On September 8, 2025, 117 former South Korean "comfort women" nonetheless filed a lawsuit against the US military, a first for a country that still hosts American bases – there are currently 73. The date was not chosen at random. On the same day, 80 years earlier, the first GIs landed on a peninsula freed from Japanese rule (1910-1945).

The plaintiffs are seeking 10 million won (€5,800) each. That is a small sum for lives shattered by the daily violence inflicted in the kijichon. These so-called "garrison villages" were established near military bases for the pleasure of American soldiers, blending clubs and brothels with gray facades, brightened at nightfall by the glow of enticing neon signs.

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"The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn't any use. Nobody came." This is how Francis Scott Fitzgerald, in 1925, described the pathetic funeral of Gatsby the Magnificent (The Great Gatsby), a mysterious man known for his extravagant parties and illegal fortune in the America of the Roaring Twenties. A century later, there was something of Gatsby in Jeffrey Epstein, the sexual predator who died alone in prison in the summer of 2019, after hosting some of the world's financial, political and cultural elite in a debauchery of sex and money. The recent release of thousands of new documents from the Epstein case revealed a worldwide grip, with unimaginable ramifications: threatening the British government and royalty, shaking Norway, implicating the International Olympic Committee and bringing down former French culture minister Jack Lang, with further ramifications in Russia and the Gulf states.

The comparison with Gatsby is not meant to excuse the financier's sexual crimes and child abuse, but rather to try to understand how one man – born in 1953 to a modest Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of a municipal gardener and a childcare worker – managed to weave such a web of influence, from New York's wealthy elite to the scientific community of New England, passing through the global jet set, all with a sense of impunity. Without these connections, the predator probably could not have operated for so long.

Epstein was a predator, first convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor, but also a gangster who built his fortune on the back of Leslie Wexner, 88 years old, the driving force behind the global success of the Abercrombie & Fitch and Victoria's Secret brands. He was also a seducer, offering his guests access to his business networks, political discussions and lavish parties, and also girls – "very young," according to numerous witnesses – to those who wanted them.

His crimes centered on four locations: a lavish mansion in New York's Upper East Side, just steps from Central Park; a residence in Palm Beach, Florida, a billionaire's haven next to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf club; a ranch on the plateaus of New Mexico, in Santa Fe; and his private island in the Bahamas, a party destination where guests arrived by helicopter and, in Epstein's secluded apartments, sex orgies took place. There was also his Boeing 727, nicknamed the "Lolita Express," which was made available to the powerful – including Bill Clinton – and served as the scene of sexual encounters, as well as his apartment on Paris's Avenue Foch.

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He literally founded ICE Watch