cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39088607

By Azad Essa
Published date: 16 November 2025 10:30 GMT
Last update: ~0830 ET

On Thursday, a plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza landed at South Africa's OR Tambo International Airport, but the plane was held on the tarmac for around 12 hours, with passengers not allowed to disembark - triggering confusion and anger against local authorities.

Within hours, however, activists and South African authorities discovered several irregularities in the way the Palestinians' travel had been organised by a body called Al-Majd Europe.

Activists found that not only had the South African government been unaware of their arrival, but the evacuees themselves were not in possession of any documentation or paperwork to assist with their processing in the country.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53213157

(original series by u/cerealkiller. yea fuck it i am back, wont post much due to work, also lemmygrad has some federation issues currently. don't worry, cerealkiller told me to post this!)

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: this is now a real installment for the beancomics series by cerealkiller

Yumyumyum gimmie all that juice babyyyyy

Strawberries? Amazing. Blueberries? Okay but a little sour maybe not perfect. Dingleberries? Eww not that one.

right-wing thought in a nutshell: an eternal adolescence

One Million People Weekly Use ChatGPT To Discuss Suicide

A startling new report from OpenAI has quantified the profound role its AI is playing in users’ personal lives, revealing that over one million people each week turn to ChatGPT with conversations that include explicit indicators of suicidal intent. This figure, representing 0.15 percent of its weekly active users, exposes a massive, unplanned social experiment unfolding in real-time. For the first time in history, immense numbers of people are regularly confiding their most acute psychological struggles not to a human, but to a machine intelligence system. The increased parameters around AI for crisis support creates a need for regulation and monumental responsibility that the company is still learning to navigate.

For the second day in a row, the rain hasn’t stopped in Gaza. Everything is soaked, and our tent has torn apart from the strong winds. We are in desperate need of your help to keep my children safe from the cold. They are shivering uncontrollably, and my heart breaks watching them suffer. 😭

Please, we need any support to find shelter — even a single small room — or to buy a new tent to replace the one that was destroyed. From the heart of a grieving mother, I appeal to your kindness and compassion. Any donation, no matter how small, would bring warmth and hope to me and my children during this harsh winter https://gofund.me/f6e9cc9d

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39087843

The headquarters of Doctors Without Borders on Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam was vandalized early Saturday morning, authorities reported.

According to Het Parool, the building’s facade, entrance door, and sidewalk were smeared with white and blue paint, and a banner displayed the message, “End the genocide now.”

According to Wilson, the Ockham awards committee alerted publishers to an amendment to the eligibility conditions in August, outlawing AI covers. He thought the books he entered for the Acorn Jann Medlicott fiction prize were on safe ground but was belatedly told by the designer that the covers were heavily reliant on AI.

I'd like to rely less on my phone so that I don't do the ritual where as soon as I wake up I'm doomscrooling on my phone, do you know of any cool, minimalist but with some features alarm clock out there?

As an inspiration this is a web site I like I'd love if it'd introduce an alarm clock because of its aesthetics and philosophy:

use.haus

And if they are digital, how has there not been any sort of hack? ‘Anonymous’ or foreign actors would surely love to have a chance to air the dirty laundry, no?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/704592/switzerland-plans-surveillance-worse-than-us-tuta

Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.