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Sonotsugipaa
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Let’s have a secret Satan!
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Aral Balkan
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"Continuous food deprivation and weight loss, repeated beatings and injuries, with inadequate medical care, can definitely cost Dr Abu Safiya his life,” Tirosh said.
“According to PHRI records, more than 100 prisoners died in Israeli facilities between 2023 and 2025 … a threat to his life unfortunately cannot be ruled out.”
Fresh concerns raised over Gaza doctor held by Israel for 23 months without charge | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/11/fresh-concerns-over-gaza-doctor-held-by-israel
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In fact I hear that lately PieFed.social even applies a user-level instance block against Lemmy.ml by default for all new joiners
I don’t think this is true. I looked through the code and the only specific mentions of lemmy.ml are in the instance chooser, where it won’t show you the full defed list of an instance, but (I’m guessing) only the most commonly defederated.
The default interests list even includes some lemmy.ml communities.
I could be wrong though. @rimu@piefed.social probably knows for sure ;)
piefed.social (the instance, not PieFed the software) applies a block and sends a custom private message to new users by using a plugin: https://codeberg.org/wjs018/piefed_onboarding
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I_like_to_smell_it@sh.itjust.works
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Banned from lemmy.ml for suggesting spam was Russia
Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.
I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.
Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.
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Former Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly hired an American lobbying firm to lobby federal authorities to seek a review of the sanctions imposed on him by Washington in August 2024.
Since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021, successive Haitian governments have spent more than US$2.7 million on lobbying activities in the US - according to figures compiled by Jake Johnston, an analyst familiar with these expenditures who was contacted by AyiboPost.
https://ayibopost.com/michel-martelly-engage-des-lobbyistes-aux-etats-unis/
#Haiti #Martelly #USA
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Sonotsugipaa
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oh boy consumerist holiday bullshit. just what i wanted to keep when i left reddit.
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I_like_to_smell_it@sh.itjust.works
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
Aral Balkan
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gaza_verified_campaigns/117591873155074613
246 families received less than 200$ during the last week, 94 didn't receive anything. For all of them donations are crucial. Don't forget it! If you can, help them with a donation, if you can't share at least theirs appeals!
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So, we were on a trip to the spectacular mountain areas around Røldal, more or less halfway between Stavanger and Bergen.
We passed the zink-mine museum outside Suldal.
Thought of @dgar for whatever reason.
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Random link from the archives: "Metropolis-Hastings and Bayesian Inference | Toptal" https://web.archive.org/web/20200115142428/https://www.toptal.com/algorithms/metropolis-hastings-bayesian-inference originally retrieved Wed Jan 15 14:24:28 EST 2020
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🛟 Wie können wir Forschungsdaten und Kulturgüter langfristig sichern – auch wenn Institutionen unter Druck geraten, Projekte enden oder Dateninfrastrukturen gefährdet sind?
Darum geht es bei
🤝🏽 Knowledge is a Commons vom @tibhannover am
📅 23.11. ab 14 Uhr
📍 Wikimedia Deutschland, Berlin
Workshop: Wie mit der Software SciOp Forschungsdaten gesichert werden können
Die Podiumsdiskussion: Schutz von Forschungs- und Kulturdaten in Krisenzeiten
So, we were on a trip to the spectacular mountain areas around Røldal, more or less halfway between Stavanger and Bergen.
We passed the zink-mine museum outside Suldal.
Thought of @dgar for whatever reason.
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@lettosprey
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They tried to unionize to get paid nap time.
@lowqualityfacts in as much as they have a way of pulling on heartstrings?
Sadly, the 17% includes lots of ordinary ignoramuses.
The powers that be are a miniscule minority.
@DrALJONES @RocknRoll_Papy You’re both correct.
Aral Balkan
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Report: "Nearly 80% of Britons see Israel as a threat to world peace"
Only 17% believes Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.
"British views of the US have also soured. Some 74% now regard the US as a serious threat to world peace."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nearly-80-percent-britons-see-israel-threat-world-peace-gaza-iran
#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #IsraeliCrimes #Gaza #Palestine #news #USImperialism .
Melancholic Mediocrity :v_bi:
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WHERE'S THE WET FOOD! #CatsOfMastodon
GNOME
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¡Falta solo 1 día para dar inicio a GNOME Latam 2026! Te dejamos el enlace directo para conectarte el dia 12 al evento. 🚀
https://meet.gnome.org/rooms/xwu-fnt-bdo-igg/
El software libre no es solo código, es libertad, conocimiento y comunidad sin fronteras, Te esperamos.
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Report: Francesca Albanese has described the conditions facing Palestinian children sheltering in rain-flooded tents in the Gaza Strip as "the disgrace of our era".
Albanese criticized the failure of European political & diplomatic leaders to uphold humanitarian principles.
Every European learns Primo Levi's words in school & forgets them "the moment they enter the world of politics or diplomacy."
#EUPol #USPol #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestine #news #EUComplicity .
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(b) this is totally anecdotal, but as someone who has been teaching computer programming to adults for ~20yrs or so, the biggest obstacle that students face is not that the material is difficult (even when it *is* difficult), but that students are *culturally predisposed to a belief that they're not smart enough to program*, which acts as a permission structure for giving up. (this is peculiar, because no one having trouble in a knitting class thinks "i guess i'm not smart enough to knit")
