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Tricked, abducted and abused: Inside China's schools for 'rebellious' teens (www.bbc.com)
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No more 'made-in-China' in the U.S.? It's headed that way, Chinese exporters say (www.npr.org)
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[–] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

And the people that dont know this will never trust you nor hear your voice.

[citation needed]

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As markets melt down, Trump touts $5m gold card for wealthy immigrants (featuring his face) (www.independent.co.uk)
Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The iPhone was the first smartphone that hot insanely popular. It launched the app store model that's now used on every mobile platform including Android. Those apps have gotten hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in India and China who are doing e-commerce and opening small businesses from their phones. That's food on the table for the working class. They can earn money while looking after their children because they're not chained to a desktop computer for internet access. People in remote areas can know instantly about natural disasters and the news, educating them and making them active citizens in a democracy.

People across the world can chat with each other for nearly free using messaging and social media apps, and won't have to send letters or pay extra fees for long-distance calls. The iPhone got more people onto what formerly only Blackberry-owning business executive had.

It's such a first world thing to belittle the impact of smartphone (an industry which the iPhone shaped tremendously), when it has so much tangible impact, especially to working people.

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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)
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Israel confirms four dead hostages who will be returned from Gaza include young family (apnews.com)
 

The remains of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip are expected to be returned on Thursday, an Israeli official said Wednesday.

The handover, part of the ceasefire agreement that has paused the fighting in Gaza, will include the bodies of a mother and her two young children whose fate was uncertain and a retired journalist in his 80s, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

It was the first Israeli confirmation that the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were 4 years old and 9 months old when they were taken captive on Oct. 7, 2023, were being returned along with their mother Shiri. A grassroots forum representing hostage families also confirmed the names.

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EU far-right parties rally in Madrid behind slogan 'Make Europe Great Again' (www.france24.com)
 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and France's Marine Le Pen headlined a rally in Madrid on Saturday by Europe's biggest far-right bloc, buoyed by Donald Trump's return to power and calling for "a 180-degree pivot".

Patriots for Europe has realigned extreme-right forces in the European Union. It became the European Parliament's third-largest force after Orban helped launch it last year to pull the bloc towards the far right.

"Yesterday we were the heretics. Today we are the mainstream... We are the future," proclaimed Orban, sharing the stage with other leading extreme-right nationalists including Dutch anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and former Czech premier Andrej Babis.

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Make your products in America or pay tariffs, Trump tells World Economic Forum (www.dawn.com)
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US President Donald Trump told world business leaders on Thursday to manufacture in the United States or face tariffs, in his first major speech to global leaders since returning to the White House this week. ... “Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth,” Trump said today, speaking remotely to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

“But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply you will have to pay a tariff,” he added.

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What happened to LineageOS? Has it been replaced by GrapheneOS? (sh.itjust.works)