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Media professionals are increasingly targeted by transnational repression (TNR), which is when authoritarian states carry out attacks beyond their national borders. These attacks can be physical, digital and psychological, as demonstrated by the credible threats to Iran International journalists across seven countries including G7 members Germany, UK, USA and Canada. The ongoing threats against Egyptian investigative journalist Basma Mostafa, who lives in Germany, have been described as ‘extremely worrying’. Authoritarian states also resort to legal means: Russian authorities impose prison sentences in absentia or issue arrest warrants for media professionals in exile, which severely restricts their mobility. Such measures are intended to suppress critical voices, intimidate exiled journalists and silence opposition figures.

RSF has been documenting these attacks for many years. In addition to Russia and Egypt, journalists from China, Belarus, Iran, Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Vietnam, and many other countries are affected. However, there are many unreported cases and insufficient data, which makes an effective response difficult.

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Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential figure among the far right and longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the United States president, has said she is quitting her seat in Congress.

Previously an icon of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Greene had a very public falling out with Trump, with the president announcing earlier this month that he was withdrawing all support for the congresswoman he described as “‘Wacky’ Marjorie”.

Greene has cited as a cause for her rift with Trump her outspoken advocacy for releasing the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump had dismissed the Epstein issue as a “Democrat hoax” and has struggled with uproar in his MAGA base over his U-turn on a pre-election promise to release government files on the case.

I'm proud of it for coming out and all, I just didn't know Windows had a gender in the first place

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/42209343

When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.

Credit cards that won’t buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don’t connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don’t receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can’t monitor their kids’ blood glucose levels during outages.

Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British academics argue.

Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando, of Bradford University, are about to publish a book that they believe should be a wake-up call to the world.

They are this weekend travelling to The Hague for a key meeting of states, arguing that the human mind is a new frontier in warfare and there needs to be urgent global action to prevent the weaponisation of neuroscience.

“It does sound like science fiction,” said Crowley. “The danger is that it becomes science fact.”

The book, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, explores how advances in neuroscience, pharmacology and artificial intelligence are coming together to create a new threat.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53538485

Uploading on a repo was a pain lol, but I think I did it.

Provided as is, I don't know if I'm going to work more on this. However it's an MIT licence so you're free to do what you want with it and the code, so go wild!

Hope it helps either in your work or making agitprop memes 🫡 lmk if you have questions but that's about as good as it gets. The readme (completely crush-generated btw) should be good to go.

If in doubt, just run python Comicify.py --folder "Relative path" it'll do its job.

Old people bad. Young people bad. Humans are only valid at the age range the market decides that day. I am very smart and leftist.

Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the "right to repair" law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/37979843

The S Group has decided to temporarily stop purchasing products of Israeli origin, while respecting its legal commitments, the mega-retailer tells Yle.

In practice, the S Group product range has only included a small number of such items, as it has not sold fruit or vegetables of Israeli origin for some time.

Some individual products, such as home carbonation devices, will remain available until the current ranges sell out, S Group Chief Sustainability Officer Nina Elomaa told the public broadcaster by email on Wednesday.

The decision was made in September, she said, based on the European Commission proposal to suspend the trade-related parts of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

Hi guys, I've been working on a self-hostable web analytics platform since the start of this year after being frustrated with Google Analytics and Plausible.

I've packed a bunch of cool web analytics features into Rybbit, but I've tried very hard to keep the interface simple to use,

https://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbit

Check it out!

A team of biologists in Australia has developed a scanning device to accurately detect exactly how potent a cannabis plant is, well before it's harvested. And no, it's not for selecting the choicest buds to get blasted with.

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”

Based on my understanding (which isn't much, please mention any additional things I missed) Marx believed that the "proletariat" (the workers) were being abused by the "bourgeois" (the owners) in the capitalist system, and that the proletariat should seize control of the state and the means of production ("dictatorship of the proletariat"), and that the end goal was a stateless, classless society where everyone was equal, and that the state would "wither away".

As we all know, a perfect communist society was never achieved, and that the state never ended up withering away for any of them.

How would Marx react to the Soviet Union under Stalin and his purges, Khrushchev to his denouncing of Stalinism and brutal crushings of protests in the Warsaw Pact states, to Gorbachev and his "glasnost and perestroika" reforms?

How would Marx react to the communist states that took power in Latin America, Africa, and Asia? Would he be happy that a communist state was able to compete with the capitalist U.S. in terms of global dominance, twice (Soviet Union during the Cold War, PRC in the modern day)?

Note: I am neither procommunist or anticommunist. I think that some if Marx's ideas were quite good (everyone should be equal, classless society, etc.) but others not so much (history tells us what happens when there is a "dictatorship of the proletariat", the state never withers away like Marx imagines it would, as power corrupts all)

Is he under threat from Russia? Looking for an excuse to step out? IDK

Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?