cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39104627

Nov. 16, 2025
updated: November 17 at 12:55 p.m. EST

A string of incidents over the last month has revealed the extent to which bigotry and Jew hatred have taken center stage in the Republican Party and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, which ushered Donald Trump to a second term in the White House.

These events show how deep anti-Black racism and antisemitism are within the ultra-right. This political current has the wind in its sails with Trump’s electoral victory last year and the actions of his administration since January — especially sweeping arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrant workers and attacks on democratic rights.

Former Amazon CEO to co-head Project Prometheus with tech executive Vik Bajaj, according to the New York Times

Law on allowing Sweden and Finland to join NATO

Modem (centrist) : Yes

Horizons (right-wing) : Yes

Les Républicains : Yes

LIOT (independents) : Yes

Green Party (left) : Yes

Renaissance (center) : Yes

Socialist Party (left) : Yes

Rassemblement National : Refuse to vote

La France Insoumise : No

https://datan.fr/votes/legislature-16/vote_184

Research Breakdown: Sudan’s Blood Visible from Space

Research Organization

Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale School of Public Health

• Led by Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director
• Uses satellite imagery analysis combined with open-source intelligence (OSINT)
• Primary satellite imagery providers: Airbus Defence and Space, Vantor

Report Links:

• Yale HRL Main Report (October 27, 2025)
• Follow-up Report (October 28, 2025)
• Yale HRL Reports Archive

What Happened: The Fall of El-Fasher

Location: El-Fasher, capital of North Darfur, western Sudan

Timeline:

• 18-month siege by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) beginning around April 2024
• October 26-27, 2025: RSF captured the city after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) withdrew
• First 72 hours: Mass killings documented through satellite imagery
• Population trapped: ~250,000-260,000 civilians besieged; only ~65,000 escaped

Key Findings from Satellite Analysis

Visual Evidence Detected from Space:

1. Reddish-brown ground discoloration consistent with blood-soaked soil

• Multiple patches large enough to be visible from satellite imagery
• Discoloration not present in previous satellite images taken before October 26

1. Clusters of white objects measuring 1.3-2.0 meters

• Consistent with human bodies lying horizontally
• Found across multiple locations throughout the city

1. Locations where bodies/blood were detected:

• Residential neighborhoods (especially Daraja Oula district)
• Saudi Hospital grounds (last functioning hospital)
• Former Children’s Hospital (RSF detention center)
• Red Crescent Society offices
• Military bases (6th Division HQ, 157th Artillery Brigade)
• Along the earthen wall (berm) surrounding the city
• University grounds and medical science laboratory

Tactical Patterns Observed:

RSF military vehicles (technicals - gun-mounted trucks) consistently positioned near body clusters, indicating:

• Systematic house-to-house clearance operations
• Controlled movement and execution sites
• Deliberate positioning for mass killings

Evidence of fleeing civilians being targeted:

• 28 destroyed vehicles along escape routes
• Body clusters along roads and near the defensive berm
• Objects resembling bodies near vehicles attempting to flee

Methodology

Data Fusion Approach:

1. High-resolution satellite imagery analysis
2. Open-source intelligence (social media, local reports)
3. Video verification from multiple sources
4. Witness testimony correlation
5. Temporal analysis (comparing imagery across days)

Limitations acknowledged by researchers:

• Limited data availability in Sudan conflict zones
• Reporting bias from those able to communicate
• Difficulty assessing detention, sexual violence without ground access
• Satellite imagery limited by available coverage and angles

Scale of Violence

Estimated casualties:

• Yale HRL: Described as comparable to 1994 Rwanda genocide in velocity
• Local defense groups: Over 2,000 civilians killed in first 48 hours
• Sudan War Monitor: Estimated 3,000+ deaths by October 30
• Researchers: Likely tens of thousands killed in the first week
• WHO: 460+ executions at Saudi Hospital alone

Nathaniel Raymond’s assessment:

“We have never seen a velocity of violence at this scale… The level of violence and number of incidents in Darfur exceed anything I have seen so far.”

Patterns of Atrocities Documented

1. Gender-based targeting:

• Men separated from women and children
• Reports of men being executed after separation
• Women and children raped while fleeing

1. Medical facility attacks:

• Saudi Hospital: Mass executions of wounded patients and staff
• Red Crescent offices stormed, medics forced into combat vehicles
• All hospitals rendered non-functional

1. Systematic ethnic cleansing:

• Targeting of Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti ethnic groups
• House-to-house clearances in specific neighborhoods
• Racial epithets used in RSF videos of killings

1. Prevented escape:

• 57-kilometer berm wall entrapping population
• Checkpoints where fleeing civilians were killed
• Communications blackout preventing information flow

Historical Context

RSF Origins:

• Descended from Janjaweed militias responsible for 2003-2005 Darfur genocide
• Previously called “devils on horseback” for rape and murder campaigns
• Now use trucks, drones, and modern weapons instead of horses

Current Conflict:

• Sudan civil war began April 2023
• Power struggle between SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (“Hemedti”)
• 12+ million displaced, considered world’s worst humanitarian crisis
• 30 million need emergency aid

US Determination:

• January 2025: US State Department determined RSF committed genocide in Darfur

International Response

Geopolitical Backing:

• United Arab Emirates (UAE) supplies RSF with weapons, drones, funds, and mercenaries
• British-manufactured arms components recovered from RSF combat zones
• IL-76 cargo aircraft (linked to UAE resupply) documented near El-Fasher

International Statements:

• Tom Fletcher (UN Under-Secretary-General): “Blood on the sand… Blood on [our] hands”
• German Foreign Minister: Called it “absolutely an apocalyptic situation, the greatest humanitarian crisis of the world”
• Peace talks sponsored by US stalled when UAE refused to address El-Fasher situation

Legal Framework: Yale HRL assessment: Actions may constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide

Current Situation (as of early November 2025)

• RSF controls all five Darfur state capitals
• Sudan effectively split east-west
• Most El-Fasher civilians remain “dead, captured, or in hiding”
• No large-scale movement of survivors detected
• Mass killings continuing through early November
• Communications blackout prevents accurate casualty counts

Comparative Historical Analysis

Raymond compared the velocity and systematic nature to:

• Rwanda 1994: ~800,000 killed by ethnic militias
• Current situation: Potentially exceeding Rwanda’s pace in affected areas

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Sources & Further Reading

1. ABC News Report on Blood Visible from Space
2. NBC News: Visible from Space Analysis
3. Yale HRL Official Reports
4. Middle East Eye: Blood Splatter Visible from Space
5. Al Jazeera: Yale Report Findings
6. Globe and Mail: Signs of Massacres in Satellite Imagery
7. CBS News: Mass Killing Continuing
8. Kurdistan 24: Pools of Blood from Space

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Note: This research represents one of the first documented instances where pools of human blood from mass killings were extensive enough to be detected and analyzed via commercial satellite imagery, marking a disturbing milestone in both conflict documentation and the scale of atrocities.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Shame on every other country still choosing to give a literal terrorist organization intelligence they can use to murder more people with. Including and especially Canada.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39102631

By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 16 November 2025 14:24 GMT

Thousands marched in support of Palestine in the Spanish city of Bilbao as Palestinian footballers played their first European match against the Basque Country team.

The Basque Country team beat the Palestine team 3-0 in the friendly match, which was marked by shows of solidarity between both teams.

Palestinians and the Basque have long shared political sympathies, with both involved in nationalist struggles for independence.

The two teams celebrated side by side, arms around each other, on the San Mames pitch in front of more than 50,000 spectators.

"It's difficult to coach when your mother lives in a makeshift tent. I come from Gaza," Palestinian coach Ehab Abu Jazar told AFP.

At work I have been given a task to organize some documents. Please help me, I'm overwhelmed.

TLDR: Manually separate PDFs into individual documents (variable page length), assign each document to a category, and identify the date of the document. Need a fast way to do it. On Windows.

Here is a longer description of my task.

Goals:

• Chop up the bulk PDFs to create 1 PDF per document
• Sort each of them into one of 10 categories
• Identify the date in each document. Include it in the filename. Optimally, insert it into the document itself (e.g. top right hand corner of first page, in the margin so it doesn't cover anything)
• Would be nice:
  • Rerun the OCR; I think it could be better. At home I would use ocrmypdf
  • Clean up the scans: fix alignment, remove artifacts etc (only if effort is trivial and 0% risk of data loss)

Inputs:

• Printed out, it's a stack of papers about 6-8cm tall
• Has been provided in bulk PDFs about 40-60 pages each
• Most individual documents are 2-5 pages in length, with some being 10-20

Document characteristics:

• Scanned on an actual scanner; some carefully, others not
  • Have been optimized for small smile size
  • Mostly black & white, some grey scale
• Business documents, records, official correspondence etc. Typed, not handwriting. English.
• They are all in some sort of standardized format, but from many different sources, each with their own format
• Have had some sort of OCR applied to them; it isn't very good especially when the scans aren't perfect.

Work environment and constraints

• Because I am at work, I am using a standard Windows workstation that is set up for office (not developer) use.
• I have asked for the full version of Adobe Acrobat to be installed, because they have a license for that. I've never used it. Maybe it will do all of this but based on how profoundly annoying Reader is, I am skeptical.
• I can install things that don't require administrator privileges. I can ask for administrator to install something if I am reasonably confident it'll be useful and safe but I can't be annoying asking for things all the time. I strongly prefer open source tools.
• Cannot under any circumstances use anything online, cloud, external AI. All data must stay local.
• I might be able to justify using linux in the future if this is an ongoing task (it might be) so linux-only suggestions are welcome but won't be implemented first-line. Desktop applications > self hosted servers or command line.

It comes after the US president confirmed on Saturday he would be taking legal action against the broadcaster over the editing of his speech on Panorama - despite an apology from the BBC.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/30666278

Headscale - The main objective of Headscale is to provide a non-proprietary implementation of the Tailscale protocol & control server for hobbyists and self-hosters. Acts as a replacement for the listening servers while allowing you to continue using your existing clients applications. Funnel functionality is currently considered in beta status. Does not include a web ui by default.

• Full listing of various webui implementations for Headscale

Netbird - Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. You can try their hosted service or selfhost it, or whatever.

Pangolin - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and context aware access control, designed to easily expose and protect applications running anywhere. Pangolin acts as a central hub and connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports or requiring a VPN. Combines traefik reverse proxy with Single Sign On and Wireguard. Meant to be selfhosted, but they do offer a hosted instance.

Pin codes, temporary links, password links for exposing services as a “funnel”. Similar to cloudflare tunnels, where users cannot be bothered to sort things out and just want a service exposed.

Headscale - The main objective of Headscale is to provide a non-proprietary implementation of the Tailscale protocol & control server for hobbyists and self-hosters. Acts as a replacement for the listening servers while allowing you to continue using your existing clients applications. Funnel functionality is currently considered in beta status. Does not include a web ui by default.

• Full listing of various webui implementations for Headscale

Netbird - Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. You can try their hosted service or selfhost it, or whatever.

Pangolin - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and context aware access control, designed to easily expose and protect applications running anywhere. Pangolin acts as a central hub and connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports or requiring a VPN. Combines traefik reverse proxy with Single Sign On and Wireguard. Meant to be selfhosted, but they do offer a hosted instance.

Pin codes, temporary links, password links for exposing services as a “funnel”. Similar to cloudflare tunnels, where users cannot be bothered to sort things out and just want a service exposed.

I'm punishing a Yankee pig by stubbing their little toe on a doorframe!

No, i'm not just recontextualizing hurting myself by accident, stop saying that

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.

Meanwhile, Poland's defence chief Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the army would examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubieszów line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.

A railway line linking Warsaw to southeastern Poland was damaged by a weekend explosion that Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an "unprecedented act of sabotage".

Tusk, who visited the site on Monday, said the line is "crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine."

"Unfortunately, the worst fears have been confirmed," the Polish leader said in a statement Monday.

"An act of sabotage has occurred on the Warsaw-Lublin route. An explosion has destroyed the railway track."

One of the inventors of Siri, the original AI agent, wants you to "handle with care" when it comes to artificial intelligence. But are we becoming too cautious around AI in Europe and risking our future?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39101717

By Sid Lowe at San Mamés
Mon 17 Nov 2025 03.00 EST

“We are more than a national team, we represent a story of pain but also hope,” Ihab Abu Jazar said, “and we are not alone.” At 8.26pm on Saturday the Palestine coach, whose father was killed in the Israel-Gaza war and whose siblings now live in tents in Khan Younis, emerged from the tunnel and took his place by the bench at San Mamés, Bilbao. Dressed in black, a keffiyeh over his shoulders, he watched 11 men in red, “a team of refugees playing for Palestinians all over the world”, and listened to 51,396 people applaud them, chanting for their freedom.

Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul will face each other in a heavyweight fight in Miami on 19 December, it has been confirmed.

Rumours of the fight between Paul, a YouTuber-turned-boxer, and Joshua, the British former heavyweight champion of the world, had been trailed earlier this month and Paul’s company, Most Valuable Promotions, confirmed the news on Monday. The fight will be shown live on Netflix.

“This isn’t an AI simulation. This is Judgment Day,” said Paul. “A professional heavyweight fight against an elite world champion in his prime. When I beat Anthony Joshua, every doubt disappears, and no one can deny me the opportunity to fight for a world title. To all my haters, this is what you wanted. To the people of the United Kingdom, I am sorry. On Friday 19 December, under the lights in Miami, live globally only on Netflix, the torch gets passed and Britain’s Goliath gets put to sleep.”

From a skyscraper in downtown Manila, a sea of white spreads out below, covering the vast green lawns of Rizal Park and expanding down arterial roads and sidestreets. It is formed of more than half a million people, clad in matching white T-shirts, the slogan “transparency for a better democracy” emblazoned on their chests.

The focus of the fury is on company owners, government officials and parliament members accused of pocketing billions in funds for substandard or nonexistent flood protection projects. Since the scandal began, the country’s economic planning minister has said up to 70% of public funds allotted for flood control may have been lost to corruption; some senators have estimated 50%. Government investigators have discovered more than 400 “ghost” flood protection projects that were reported to have been completed but turned out to be nonexistent.

The absence of those protections is felt keenly in the Philippines, where hundreds of people have died in typhoon-related flooding over the past month. More than 20 typhoons have hit the country’s territory this year, and extreme weather increasingly derails daily life. As the rally formed on Sunday, authorities and families were still searching for those missing from Typhoon Kalmaegi, which ripped through the country in early November, killing at least 269. The 100 or so still missing are likely to also have been killed. Days after Kalgaemi blew through, Typhoon Fung-wong arrived, causing more devastating floods, displacing 1.4 million people and killing another 28.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39100024

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/8007

More geriatric than Gen-Z, the violence at yesterday's astro-turfed right wing march by a shock group marked another sad degeneration for Mexico's feckless right wing opposition.

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