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Queer Afghans cry for help under Taliban rule, citing private prisons, torture & death www.lgbtqnation.com

The LGBTQ+ Afghan activists accuse the UN and the world of remaining silent as they face a "widespread and systematic crime against humanity...

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Mauritius Supreme Court legalises homosexuality in historic victory www.gaytimes.co.uk

The Supreme Court of Mauritius has declared the country’s criminalisation and ban of same-sex intimacy ‘discriminatory’ in a landmark ruling.

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At least 22 killed in massive Hamas surprise attack, emergency service says www.timesofisrael.com

The Magen David Adom emergency service says at least 22 people have been killed since the start of the massive attack by the Hamas terror group.

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A place for the LGBTQ+ community kjr 12 months ago 100%
Wrestlers Who Are Openly LGBTQ - Wrestling Inc. www.wrestlinginc.com

Many of today's most popular wrestlers, both in major feds and on the indies, are LGBTQ+. Here are some of the most prominent wrestlers who are out and proud.

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    @atlasraven31 Possibly drunk proud neo-nazi idiots.

    @stopthatgirl7

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    Germans caught celebrating Oktoberfest with Nazi salutes www.jpost.com

    Performing Nazi salutes has been illegal in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II and is punishable by law with prison time.

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    LGBT
    A place for the LGBTQ+ community kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Ex-gay activist faces homosexuality charges under Uganda law he advocated for www.lgbtqnation.com

    A local paper deemed it the first major case since the enactment of the "Kill the Gays" law.

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    We are poised to pass 1.5℃ of global warming – world leaders offer 4 ways to manage this dangerous time theconversation.com

    A new report explores options for managing the period after global warming exceeds 1.5℃. This is called ‘climate overshoot’, because we’re pushing past the safe zone into dangerous climate change.

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    History kjr 1 year ago 100%
    How dictator Franco built his regime vilifying the Jews, then tried to hide it www.timesofisrael.com

    In his new book 'Architects of Terror,' Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain's ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy to Jewish refugees

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    A place for the LGBTQ+ community kjr 1 year ago 100%
    The Hidden Costs of the Gay Community’s Love Affair With Steroids www.them.us

    Steroids have been popular among gay men for decades. For some, they're life changing — but for others, they can be debilitating.

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    A place for the LGBTQ+ community kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Grindr isn't just for sex – a quarter of users also there to network www.thepinknews.com

    Around a quarter of Grindr users say they're not just on the LGBTQ+ dating app for hookups – they're also using it to network.

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    News kjr 1 year ago 100%
    The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane www.wired.com

    Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.

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    The AI Community On Kbin kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Princeton University's 'AI Snake Oil' authors say generative AI hype has 'spiraled out of control' venturebeat.com

    In a VentureBeat Q&A, Princeton University's Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, authors of the upcoming "AI Snake Oil," discuss AI hype.

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    Climate change could bring year-round heat waves: UN researcher phys.org

    As Europe and other regions swelter, a UN researcher cautioned that climate change was enabling increasingly intense and long-lasting heat waves, which in some areas could soon begin to hit year-round.

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    AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause www.hollywoodreporter.com

    A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.

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    Former Trump adviser blames Jews for dying in Auschwitz www.jpost.com

    Michael Flynn, a Christian nationalist who previously served as US national security advisor under Donald Trump, said that Jews were willingly given to the Nazis and said there were no guards.

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    World News kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Yellowknife begins evacuation as wildfires approach https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-wildfire-emergency-update-august-16-1.6938756

    There is time to evacuate the city of Yellowknife safely, said the territory's minister of Environment and Climate Change and Municipal and Community Affairs Wednesday, and people should begin leaving tonight.

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    LGBT
    A place for the LGBTQ+ community kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Vandal defaces memorial to LGBT victims of Nazis in Berlin - I24NEWS www.i24news.tv

    The man was spotted by a security guard when he was throwing a burning object at the memorial

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    Second Temple era synagogue discovered in Russia www.jpost.com

    The finding marks the discovery of one of the world’s oldest synagogues.

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    Are corporations going to ban the use of ChatGPT? www.jpost.com

    As more workers around the world adopt the generative AI chatbot for menial tasks, some corporations have begun to push back in fear of data and IP security concerns.

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    technology News and discussions about technology The Next Generation of Solar Technology: An Introduction to Solar Paint and Solar Glass
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    @sparseMatrix
    It is happening relatively fast. Solar glass is already in production, at least as good as I know in Spain (the Spanish startup Onyx Solar is one of the pioneers in the area. They have already implemented solutions in buildings in Spain, Australia, Saudi Arabia and a prototype of a new version of the product in Israel.

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    Iran forces women defying hijab laws into psychiatric treatment www.france24.com

    Authorities in Iran are trying to enforce laws obligating women to cover their hair by sending them into psychological treatment. While healthcare organisations warn the country’s judiciary is hijacking…

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    The Next Generation of Solar Technology: An Introduction to Solar Paint and Solar Glass www.energyportal.eu

    Exploring the Future of Solar Energy: Solar Paint and Solar Glass Innovations

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    Everything, everywhere, all at once: The great floods of 2023 thebulletin.org

    Water expert Peter Gleick on the calamitous flooding and other extreme weather events occurring on a daily basis around the globe.

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    Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum www.theguardian.com

    Prager University Foundation’s animations cast doubt over renewable energy and liken climate activists to Nazis

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    Climate kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Climate change: Antarctica could become planet's 'radiator' due to 'extreme' weather, fear scientists carrying out government review news.sky.com

    There is a danger Antarctica "stops acting as a refrigerant for the planet, and it starts acting as a radiator", one of the scientists involved has warned.

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    A place for the LGBTQ+ community kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Lebanon moves to ban 'Barbie' film for 'promoting homosexuality' www.jpost.com

    The Hezbollah-backed minister said the film was found to "promote homosexuality and sexual transformation" and "contradicts values of faith and morality."

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    Israeli tourist, 19, attacked in Berlin in possible antisemitic incident www.timesofisrael.com

    Local media says man was speaking on phone in Hebrew when car stopped and 3 men brutally attacked him in front of his girlfriend, leading to his hospitalization

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    New COVID variant spreading in the UK as hospitalizations rise www.jpost.com

    Increases in coronavirus cases have been reported in other countries as well recently.

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    europe Europe German intel: AfD taken over by extremist factions
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    @BlackRose I am wondering whether the increase of the AfD together with the actual momentum of extreme right wing parties in other countries can jeopardize the estability of European institutions after the next European elections.

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    Ask the Experts – How Are Data Centers Impacted by Climate Change? https://www.bu.edu/hic/2022/10/12/ask-the-experts-how-are-data-centers-impacted-by-climate-change/

    Our digital lives are often removed from the physical world, but with the growing problem of climate change, the physical is beginning to adversely affect the digital. Data centers, the key facilities that house computer systems, are becoming less efficient with changes in global temperatures.

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    Vladimir Putin signs law banning gender changes in Russia www.jpost.com

    The law also bans post-surgery transgender people from adopting children and annuls the marriages of post-surgery transgender people.

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    Israeli experts warn that extreme climate events suggest dawn of ‘uncharted waters’ www.timesofisrael.com

    Former head of Tel Aviv University Environmental Studies School: 'Something strange has been happening over the past few months, and it's scary'

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    World News kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Iraqis protest over Quran desecration; Iran condemns Sweden www.jpost.com

    Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded Sweden hand over perpetrators to Islamic nations' judiciaries.

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    The AI Community On Kbin kjr 1 year ago 100%
    Meta Warns Its Latest Large Language Model ‘May Not Be Suitable’ for Non-English Use slator.com

    Meta’s latest large language model (LLM), Llama 2, “may not be suitable to use in other languages.”

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    Time is running out on the Climate Clock www.theverge.com

    What that giant clock in NYC’s Union Square is counting down to.

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    Trump to return ancient lamps to Israel after antiquities authority said to protest www.timesofisrael.com

    Former president's spokesperson says artifacts being expedited back to Israel, after report they were sent for a short display at White House and ended up at Mar-a-Lago

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    New finds show cave near Beit Shemesh may have been seen as a door to the underworld www.timesofisrael.com

    Oil lamps and fragments of human skull lead archaeologists to believe Teomim Cave was used for necromancy, or communication with dead, some 1,700 years ago

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    Spain fines Apple and Amazon €194M for colluding to restrict competition thenextweb.com

    Amazon and Apple were found guilt of colluding to limit the sale of Apple products by third-party sellers on the huge online retail platform.

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    worldnews World News AI cannot replace spies, UK intelligence chief to say
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    @stopthatgirl7 mmm... what do you mean?

    @BrikoX

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    Hungarian bookstore fined thousands for not concealing Heartstopper graphic novel in foil www.thepinknews.com

    A Hungarian bookstore chain has been fined for not concealing Heartstopper, breaching a law prohibiting sharing LGBTQ+ content with minors.

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    Trump holding Israel antiquities missing for more than three years among items at Mar-a-Lago www.jpost.com

    The Israel Antiquities Authority believes that a set of ancient ceramic oil lamps missing for more than three years are at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, according to Haaretz.

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    News kjr 1 year ago 100%
    “Millions” of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo www.theverge.com

    Emails have been mistakenly routed to Mali for over a decade.

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    politics
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    Germany’s AfD uses Nazi symbol to campaign against gender-inclusive language www.telegraph.co.uk

    Alternative for Germany party condemned as 'disgusting and homophobic' for photo showing a downwards-facing rainbow triangle in a campaign

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    news News RFK Jr. suggests COVID-19 could have been 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews
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    @PabloDiscobar I don't understand this agresivity.

    @stopthatgirl7 @Arotrios

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  • LGBT A place for the LGBTQ+ community Supreme Court of Nepal orders registration of marriages for same-sex couples
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    @munkinasack what? Can you explain it a little more?

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  • internet Internet Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App
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    @HotDogFingies That is what I thought... just like twitter without journalists and politicians. No idea why Threads doesn't want inside.

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  • ArtemisApp Artemis App About to start rolling out wave 2 of Artemis beta 👀
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    @hariette Is it possible as a user to change the background of this thread? It cannot be read with the kbin mobile webapp. It happens only with this specific thread and previous posts about Artemis.

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    @OldFartPhil Anyway... maybe with "intellectual property" they mean another thing? I mean... if Meta is a Twitter clone, Twitter was a identi.ca clone too.

    @Pips @Very_Bad_Janet

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    @bathrobe I don't know about tiktok, but I think that it is the same data that Facebook collects. And the worst is what we have at the end, "Other Data". That means, each moment Meta can decide to collect yet more things without to inform the user.

    @m0bi13 @edu4rdshl @Arotrios

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  • news News Incoming reports of Wagner Group soldiers leaving their missions in Africa and Syria to join the military coup in Russia against Putin.
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    @shishmish And how they leave their place and arrive to Russia? Russian airports and sky are at the moment under governmental control. And I don't think that Syria will take part on the conflict organizing flights to Wager.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Meta invited the admin of Fosstodon for a roundtable to discuss their upcoming fediverse platform
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    @CorInABox
    No perhaps. That was all the problem. It was a break of trust by the admins who attended this meeting, and then cannot do a lot to regain the trust since they cannot speak about the subject. Eben is unknown who attended meeting.
    @LollerCorleone @kaladininskyrim

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    That would be ideal, it would be possible to consume meat keeping cruelty free standards. Hopefully it will happen soon.

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    @GordomeansPhat Difficult to say... hopefully it will be possible to trace the animal donors.

    @creedda

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  • fediverse Fediverse A growing number of instances are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
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    @Mr_Jabroni they can get data without a context, what is a big problem for the integration. For instance, to coreference accounts in different platforms, they cannot do it based on the name, but they can do it building a graph of interactions and learning from it... just as an example. Of course everyone can do the same, the problem is that Meta has not only the skills and resources, but that it is a substantial part of their business model.
    I don't claim that the Anti-Meta pact is a solution, I am far to know how is possible to go ahead with the situation. A first step is that the user should be allow to decide which instances cannot access her/his data, something that in Mastodon is already possible.
    An additional problem is that after some representatives of big Mastodon servers took part in a meeting with Meta under NDA, I have a big problem of trust.
    @LollerCorleone @Silejonu

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    @ofcourse there are instances which defederated an instance because they implented free-text search. There is not agreement on that.
    Steps 1 and 2 are problematic, since the Fediverse is hetetogeneous and not every instance federates which every instance, and not all the content is shared between diffrerent software (i.e. only a part of the content in kbin can be accessed by madtodon).
    Anyway the approach is sound, maybe not for the fediverse, but for groups of instances which agree on a shared search engine.
    I'm not sure about the GPU requirements, but on CPU the updates could be very slow for the actual trafic.

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    @Mr_Jabroni
    Considering the well-known privacy violations and surveillance practices of Meta/Facebook, it's not hard to imagine that one of their future actions, possibly sooner rather than later, would involve cross-referencing accounts in the fediverse with their own platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, and others. In Mastodon, users have the option to block instances, ensuring that those instances cannot access their data. However, we don't even have that level of protection here.
    @LollerCorleone

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration At Reddit I can save a thread, at Mastodon I can bookmark a post or comment. How do I save a Kbin (or other) 'article', comment, etc?
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    @runningfromreddit I know that it is not intended for it... but I boost it. Usually they deserve the boost then it is not a big issue.

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    @goji thanks a lot!!
    About the bi-directionality I will ask in codeberg when it is operative agsin.

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    @admin thanks a lot !!

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  • worldnews World News Russian media releases declassified documents on the Holocaust – report
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    @Speckle
    Hey, unfortunately to send messages between different servers is not yet possible, but OK, here a few links

    • Documentation blog of the EHRI Project (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure). Here you can find lots of articles. Focus of the blog is publication of research and work in different areas: historiography, archival science, digital humanities and holocaust, etc.
      https://blog.ehri-project.eu/

    • The Righteous Among the Nations - Featured Stories: the opposite to the main article of the thread, here are stories of non-Jewish people and families who saved Jews during the Holocaust. It is one of the public presences of one of the main projects at the Yad Vashem.
      https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories.html

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    @tchambers We need something similar for kbin.
    There are already a lot of instances, but allmost all users are concentrated in just two instances.

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    @Speckle I will check what I can find in English. All what I have is in Hebrew, but I will try to come back to you as soon as possible.

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    @Speckle on the other side, what they report is quite consistent with the archival materials in Yad Vashem and USHMM.

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  • lgbtq_plus LGBTQ+ Conservatives are now boycotting Kellogg’s over a picture at the Tony’s
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    @cowvin I think real conservatives disappeared. Now self called conservatives in America are mostly neofascists and alt-rightists with the behavior of football holligans.

    @UngodlyAudrey

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  • linux Linux Which office suite are you using and why
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    @heimchen I keep easy. Just Libreoffice for everything.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta /kbin contribution and information for instance owners
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    @ernest Great update! Thanks a lot and take care of your self!

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Quick, make as many Magazines as possible!
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    @Warped I think we have here a big potential issue. Magazines have been created and the moderator hasn't post yet anything. After some days it is difficult to believe that she/he is taking responsibility of them.
    The result is that everyone can post there without any moderation, and become a quite unsafe area. I think if a magazine has been opened and in a few days there is not post of the moderator, it should be deleted.

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    @shepherd thanks a lot!!!
    today I have opened kbin in the bus, and the main thread was full of cats and asses... I will prevent that it happens a next time.

    @iNeedScissors67

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    @iNeedScissors67 out of topic... how do you block a magazin?

    @shepherd

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  • random Random Uber to cease its taxi services in Israel
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    @juusukun that says everything about Uber

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/uber-lobbied-netanyahu-envoys-drafted-bills-in-bid-to-operate-in-israel/

    Huge document leak details how ride-hailing giant used 'stealth' tech to block scrutiny, flouted laws in many countries where it sought expansion

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  • worldnews World News Is Biden administration preparing the ground to abandon Ukraine?
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    @redditors_re_racist again? I think almost every month I read the same "news".

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances
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    @LollerCorleone What I understood was that the moderation was difficult now, due not only to the size of the instances but also with the fact that almost all the people were new and the communities are not stable yet.
    Since they have a quite high moderation standard, I guess that now, with few resources and a fast grow, it is difficult to keep it. And this standard is a commitment to the own community, people joint the instance because of it.
    Another issue to take in account is that the moderation tools are not enough to handle with the problems of big and heterogeneous social networks. If I understood, in Lemmy and Kbin the only possibilities are to be federated or not, but not something in between like in Mastodon (the silence option).

    @Shortcake

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    @jake_eric I see the opposite. Making votes and especially downvotes private facilitates a kind of micro-harassement by individuals or organized groups.

    @aroom

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    @little_hoarse I agree totally. Eating disorders need usually counseling to help to find the causes of the problem and find ways of fixing them.
    Computers can do lots of things, but not substitute humans in this kinds of tasks.

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  • entertainment Entertainment Gal Gadot: 'I wanted to create a really strong, female-driven action movie'
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    @pumpsnabben Yes, and not only in Wonder Woman. I was quite impress by her role in Death on the Nile.

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  • technology Technology Is there a mobile app for Lemmy/Beehaw?
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    @ernest Really great changes. Well done!

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