My family and I are going through very difficult days and any support even small would ease a big part of our burden Thank you please don’t forget us.”

Hello, yesterday i saw somewhere i think it was on lemmy, a picture where are 3 pigs, first is walkin on 4 legs, 2nd try to walk on 2 legs, and 3rd walks on 2 legs. I think its related to animal farm by Eric Blair. Does anyone have it? I think it woild be nice for shirt

Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.

The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian.

One in four of the big agriculture lobbyists (77) are participating at Cop30 as part of an official country delegation, with a small subset (six) with privileged access to the UN negotiations where countries are meant to hash out ambitious policies to curtail global climate catastrophe.

Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing have increased since Japan suggested it could intervene in an attack on Taiwan. Both have issued warnings to their citizens over travel.

I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.

Made a snarky, obviously sarcastic comment basically word for word: "Yeah, women didn't even exist until the 1920s and Asians are a myth" In response to a racist jerk complaining that a depiction of 1880s Chicago was "too diverse".

So 4 days later Reddit slaps me with a permanent ban for violating rule 1 "hate".

The really effed up part is the offending comment was summarily removed and therefore not even quoted in the ban notice. Meaning that after 4 days I didnt immediately recall the now missing comment and could only appeal based the general fact that I mock racists.

This is some absolute bullshit. And now that I recall the basic wording I cant even add to the appeal.

Is Reddit trying extra hard to suck now or what.

Any alternatives to force a response and ecpme action of this nonsense?

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(in English - The original text is in Castilian)

In Barcelona, the protagonist (a successful Madrid architect living a secret double life) unexpectedly runs into his former lover Lisette and her colleague Kate at a charming neighborhood bakery. Forced into an awkward coffee meet-up, he struggles to maintain his old cover story—that he’s merely a soundproofing technician—while Lisette playfully corners him into a possible dinner invitation that threatens to expose or reignite his hidden past. Trapped between his two worlds, he leaves the café rattled, realizing his quick “confirmation” trip has just become dangerously complicated

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) signaled in an interview with Axios on Monday that she would not support New York City Council member Chi Ossé in a primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

Why it matters: Ocasio-Cortez is one of several high-profile progressives distancing from Ossé's potential run, arguing that it is a distraction from New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's victory.

Ocasio-Cortez told Axios during a brief interview at the U.S. Capitol that she was "not aware" that Ossé was challenging.

"But," she added, "I certainly don't think a primary challenge to the leader is a good idea right now."

Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

City Councilmember Chi Ossé of Brooklyn has taken the first official step toward a Democratic primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“The Democratic Party’s leadership is not only failing to effectively fight back against Donald Trump, they have also failed to deliver a vision that we can all believe in,” Ossé said in a statement.

Ossé, 27, was elected to his second full term on the City Council in November and recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America. He has used a growing social media presence to engage New Yorkers on how the government works and when it doesn’t.

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The UN Security Council on Monday voted to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza and authorizing an international stabilization force for the Palestinian enclave.

Hamas, in a statement, reiterated that it will not disarm and argued that its fight against Israel is legitimate resistance, potentially pitting the militant group against the international force authorized by the resolution.

Russia, which holds a veto on the Security Council, earlier signaled potential opposition to the resolution but abstained from the vote, allowing the resolution to pass. The UN ambassadors of Russia and China also abstained, complained that the resolution does not give the UN a clear role in the future of Gaza.

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Czech President Petr Pavel used Monday’s Velvet Revolution anniversary to deliver a sharp warning over the unresolved conflict of interest of Prime minister-hopeful Andrej Babiš, winner of who is trying to form a new government.

Pavel signalled he may refuse to appoint the populist ANO party leader, who won October’s Czech parliamentary election, as prime minister unless the matter is resolved.

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Czech law bars government members from benefiting from state subsidies through companies they control.

Pavel stressed that appointing Babiš while he still owns Agrofert would “create an unlawful situation”.

“I don’t think that’s what the public expects of me, nor does the constitution expect that of me,” he told Czech Radio on Monday. Transparency, he added, is a prerequisite – and if Babiš cannot offer a satisfactory solution, “the winning party should offer another candidate”.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38929150

Overview here

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

The new repo has two releases in it now. GitHub is silently redirecting to the new repo, even in Obtainium, meaning it's possible that if you had this previously installed via Obtainium and updated now, you may have apks installed that may or may not contain the changes in the repo.

This is a mess. I deleted the repo from Obtainium (luckily I don't auto install updates) and will wait to see what happens over the next few months. Might just save my notes in a network share instead of using syncthing from my phone. Idk, notes are all that I was using it for.

This is an op-ed by Sir Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and Moritz Schularick is president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

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Germany’s rearmament is not going nearly fast enough. While Germany and Europe urgently need more weapons, at the current pace it will take years for them to roll off the production line and to constitute an arsenal sufficient to deter Russia. In no other area will Germany invest as much money in the coming years. And in no area is the absence of economic rationality more pronounced. Without swift changes, Germany is on a path to waste billions in taxpayers’ money for the delayed delivery of partly outdated defence capabilities.

Nearly four years after Russia’s assault on Ukraine, large German defence producers still work in single shifts, five days a week, instead of three shifts, seven days a week. The current production rate for the Taurus long-range guided missile system is only a few a month. The production of the Iris-T air defence system — which could provide crucial support to defend Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this winter and which is also essential for closing gaps in Europe’s air defence — is positively artisanal.

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At its heart, this is a task of industrial scaling, something German industry is well placed to deliver. As economic historians, we know that without the coordinating hand of the government and economic expertise, this kind of crash rearmament programme will not happen fast enough. ... the obvious path would be to create a national defence industrial board to assess resources, set quantitative production goals, negotiate capacity with industry and fast-track dual-use innovation. ... "German rearmament" are two ominous words for historians, just as "state co-ordination" is a phrase we tend to eschew as believers in freemarket economics. However, in the face of an increasingly dangerous and heavily armed Russia, co-ordinated rearmament is imperative. Above all, it needs to happen at warp speed. ...

Berlin has woken up to the Russian threat, but its thinking is stuck in the past ... British readers of a certain age may find it hard to be enthusiastic about German rearmament. As historians, we understand their unease. However, this is not the 1910s or the 1930s. The 2020s are a time when the UK has been in a mutual defence alliance with Germany for close to 80 years; ... The arguments for a more rapid and technologically advanced German rearmament are more than just narrowly military. They are also economic and strategic. We have four recommendations that add up to an "Operation Warp Speed" for German rearmament. ...

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5662897

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Experts from Ukraine’s defense, anti-corruption, and civil society sectors joined Taiwanese researchers in Taipei on Tuesday to discuss how Russia and China deploy cognitive warfare to weaken democracies, highlighting parallels between the two authoritarian states’ influence operations.

The forum, organized by Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab, brought a Ukrainian delegation to Taipei as part of a wider East Asia trip to share lessons learned from nearly a decade of Russian aggression and four years of full-scale war.

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[Ukrainian researcher Viktoriia] Vyshnivska said Russian and Chinese cognitive warfare share core themes: warning that “the West will abandon you,” amplifying fears about mobilization, and portraying governments as corrupt or incompetent.

She said she rarely encounters people abroad who question Taiwan’s existence, unlike Ukraine, which for years was unfamiliar to many and often perceived as part of Russia. “Unfortunately, that made Russia’s narrative that ‘Ukraine is an artificial state’ more successful,” she said.

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One participant asked when democracies should consider imposing limits on speech or influence channels to protect national security.

Vyshnivska said no universal formula exists, and each democracy must balance freedoms with real threats. “The red line should be whether a restriction protects citizens more than it harms them,” she said, citing Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church institutions with proven ties to Russian intelligence. “Citizens themselves must decide, not the government alone.”

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“The most challenging part is countering a narrative when people feel it’s partly true,” she said. “Convincing Ukrainians that things are not as bad as Russian propaganda claims is difficult when sabotage has created real damage.”

Despite this, she emphasized that Ukraine’s resilience demonstrates that authoritarian predictions of collapse have repeatedly failed. “Russia wants you to believe everything is lost,” she said. “We are proof that it is not.”

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5662897

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Experts from Ukraine’s defense, anti-corruption, and civil society sectors joined Taiwanese researchers in Taipei on Tuesday to discuss how Russia and China deploy cognitive warfare to weaken democracies, highlighting parallels between the two authoritarian states’ influence operations.

The forum, organized by Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab, brought a Ukrainian delegation to Taipei as part of a wider East Asia trip to share lessons learned from nearly a decade of Russian aggression and four years of full-scale war.

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[Ukrainian researcher Viktoriia] Vyshnivska said Russian and Chinese cognitive warfare share core themes: warning that “the West will abandon you,” amplifying fears about mobilization, and portraying governments as corrupt or incompetent.

She said she rarely encounters people abroad who question Taiwan’s existence, unlike Ukraine, which for years was unfamiliar to many and often perceived as part of Russia. “Unfortunately, that made Russia’s narrative that ‘Ukraine is an artificial state’ more successful,” she said.

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One participant asked when democracies should consider imposing limits on speech or influence channels to protect national security.

Vyshnivska said no universal formula exists, and each democracy must balance freedoms with real threats. “The red line should be whether a restriction protects citizens more than it harms them,” she said, citing Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church institutions with proven ties to Russian intelligence. “Citizens themselves must decide, not the government alone.”

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“The most challenging part is countering a narrative when people feel it’s partly true,” she said. “Convincing Ukrainians that things are not as bad as Russian propaganda claims is difficult when sabotage has created real damage.”

Despite this, she emphasized that Ukraine’s resilience demonstrates that authoritarian predictions of collapse have repeatedly failed. “Russia wants you to believe everything is lost,” she said. “We are proof that it is not.”

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