cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53497484

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/50177031

The latest US/Israeli plan for Gaza has just been approved by the UN Security Council. Russia and China could have blocked it but chose to abstain. The former senior UN official, Craig Mokhiber, has accurately described it as a ‘colonial outrage.’

It reads like a cut-and-paste job taken from how the British ran East Africa in the 19 century and the French in Algeria, with some input from the extermination of Indian tribes by white settlers in what became the USA.

The ‘stabilization’ of Gaza will rest in the hands of a ‘Board of Peace’ chaired by Donald Trump; other members yet to be named but thought likely to include another genocidalist, Lord Blair of Iraq.

An ‘International Stabilization Force’ will be mobilized to enforce the peace. In truth, this ‘stabilization’ force will be an occupying force and its soldiers legitimate targets for the resistance.

The US had supplied the weapons and political cover for Israel and paid the price when, in April 1983, a suicide bomber sheared the wing off the US embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. In October, suicide bombers blew up the US and French marine barracks, killing 299 men.

These precedents should make any government think twice about putting the lives of its soldiers at risk to protect the continued occupation and corporatized takeover of Gaza, arranged by the US and Israel.

For context: I'm not from a western background. I'm Asian.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37234687

“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day,” he said. Although he didn’t talk specifically about CEO functions that an AI could do better, Pichai noted the tech will eliminate some jobs but also “evolve and transition” others—ramifications that mean “people will need to adapt.”

Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”

Cloudflare provided a server for “two massive manga piracy sites that distribute over 4,000 manga titles without permission and rack up 300 million views a month,” the publishers said.

At issue in the lawsuit was whether Cloudflare was the main entity in charge of pirated manga distribution.

Another Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251119_16/

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5716657

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The European Union and representatives of countries in the Indo-Pacific region are meeting in Brussels for the fourth ministerial forum, which brings together around 70 participants from EU institutions and member states, countries in the Indo-Pacific, and regional organisations from the east coast of Africa to the Pacific island states.

This year's meeting focuses on the themes of resilience, prosperity and security. Each participant arrives with their own agenda and priorities.

For Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro the meeting is an opportunity to strengthen maritime cooperation in the face of Beijing's claims in the South China Sea.

Lazaro welcomes European support through its statements, but also through "a lot of support through the visits of EU member countries, frigates passing through the South China Sea and this gives a lot of impetus to relations."

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Manila and Beijing have accused each other of being responsible for collisions and incidents in the contested waters in recent months. The Chinese authorities claim most of the South China Sea, which is contested by several other countries in the region.

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The Philippines said it welcomes the participation of EU member states as observers in maritime exercises.

But Manila, which will hold the presidency of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2026, wants to go further at this forum in Brussels.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39099089

The news comes in the wake of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s, formerly known as Prince Andrew, summons deadline today, and pressure is mounting on him to respond.

The survivor accused Trump: “He had to have known something. He had to have had an idea. 

“You know, he always boasted about their friendship, but I never knew how close or how involved they were.”

The anonymous victim was speaking exclusively to Channel 5 in the United Kingdom (Channel 5)

She said, “he had pictures of them at his house together,” which she says she has seen. 

“They were friends… I don't know how he couldn't have [not known].”

Per the title. If an animal dies out in nature without any human involvement, shouldn't it be considered vegan to harvest any of the useful parts from it (not nessicarily meat, think hide), since there was no human-caused suffering involved?

Similarly, is driving a car not vegan because of the roadkill issue?

Especially curious to hear a perspective from any practicing moral vegans.

Also: I am not vegan. That's why I'm asking. I'm not planning on eating roadkill thank you. Just suggesting the existence of animal-based vegan leather.

In short:

An Australian bank has frozen the accounts of a prominent Neo-Nazi leader, while a US-based technology firm has blocked the group's attempts to solicit donations online.

The nation's corporate watchdog has also revoked the group's proposed company name, "White Australia".

Despite these actions, the Neo-Nazi organisation claims it has collected 1,495 of the 1,500 signatures required to register as a federal political party.

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. Outputs are evaluated using an ensemble of open-weight judge models and a human-validated stratified subset (with double-annotations to measure agreement). Disagreements were manually resolved. Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43% for meta-prompt conversions (compared to non-poetic baselines), substantially outperforming non-poetic baselines and revealing a systematic vulnerability across model families and safety training approaches. These findings demonstrate that stylistic variation alone can circumvent contemporary safety mechanisms, suggesting fundamental limitations in current alignment methods and evaluation protocols.