Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
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Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza (nitter.unixfox.eu)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/7496184...
Manosphere-inspired YouTubers are encouraging men to start OnlyFans management agencies (prismreports.org)
Hamza, son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh, killed in Israeli attack in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after section blows out mid-air (www.bbc.com)
‘I’m afraid every day for my children’: As antisemitism soars, French Jews flee to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
With over 1,500 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and mid-November – three times the reported number in the entire 2022 – more French Jews seek to escape the climate of fear
Satellite images show China made an apparent USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier target out in the desert (www.businessinsider.com)
Navalny Found in Arctic Prison After 3-Week Disappearance (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Prices soar in Argentina after Milei’s currency devaluation (english.elpais.com)
On TikTok, the war in Gaza is a game (english.elpais.com)
One of the TikTok trends is to show the process of loading a projectile into a tank and firing it. Another is to put trance music to a video, along with the words “2-3, sha-ger.” This is the order that a military drone operator is given to drop a bomb, with the syllables separated so that the message is clear. The trend...
Video of Palestinians stripped, forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire (abcnews.go.com)
The “Hunt for Hamas” Narrative Is Obscuring Israel’s Real Plans for Gaza (www.thenation.com)
America’s media and political class is analyzing, debating, and shaping a narrative in Gaza that’s entirely different from the one being discussed in Israeli media and among Israeli political leaders. This gap, born from casual racism, deliberate credulity, and reflexive alignment with the US government’s party line, is...
Ohio State University health sciences course requires students to engage with ‘White Privilege Knapsack’ (nypost.com)
Students were required to address ‘whiteness’ and describe what the term ‘white’ means, as well as explain how they ‘navigate race’ in their daily lives.
China's Xi warns top EU officials not to engage in 'confrontation' (www.reuters.com)
UN chief uses rare power to warn Security Council of impending ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza (apnews.com)
Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana (www.cbsnews.com)
Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate (www.theguardian.com)
China ‘world’s biggest debt collector’ as poorer nations struggle with its loans (www.theguardian.com)
Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion] (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5185724...
Israel-Palestine megathread for the remainder of the weekend
the front page is now like half articles on this currently, so it’s probably time for a megathread because none of us want to keep track of 12 threads on this subject and all the resulting comments. only major subsequent developments (for example, boots on the ground; pronunciations by governments; that sort of stuff) will get...
U.S. is sending a carrier strike group closer to Israel and will begin supplying munitions starting today (www.nbcnews.com)