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At least 72 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in past 24 hours as Unwra chief brands Gaza ‘hell on earth’ - as it happened | Israel | The Guardian
Head of UN Palestinian Refugee Agency says aid distribution points are a ‘sadistic death trap’
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"The technical blueprint obtained by ProPublica shows that engineers at the agency are preparing to give DHS what it wants: a system that enables massive automated data sharing."
ProPublica
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to...
A @npub14787...y4ag post is always going to be lovely and intricately thought-through, and this is no exception.
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A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it's trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narratives. That's wildly dangerous. #AI
Ben Werdmuller
‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’
As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it's trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narrati...
Here too, please.
The Straits Times
Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan
Telling children they will go to hell for not joining religious activities will be regarded as abuse. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at s...
"Some schools have asked staff to use secure messaging systems like Signal instead of text and email to keep sensitive conversations from public reach." They, like many others, need more private, self-hosted software. #Democracy
Ben Werdmuller
Schools serving undocumented kids go underground
"Some schools have asked staff to use secure messaging systems like Signal instead of text and email to keep sensitive conversations from public re...
I’m beginning to feel like the people who love vibe coding resent software engineers, the people who love making music with AI resent musicians, the people who love AI art resent artists. It’s more than not understanding what good is. It’s active pushback.
Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE. #Democracy
Ben Werdmuller
Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE.
The fragmentation and purity tests on the fediverse are beginning to grate. Vulnerable communities need to ensure their own safety, but some of the politics feel like they're very far away from those needs and closer to high school infighting. Globally, nationalism is rising with corporate social media as one of its weapons, leading to real deaths and true fascism with all its harms. We're going to need to collaborate despite our differences. Let's pull it together.