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EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation

To the people saying things like "what took you so long", I think you're missing the point. They even address this in the post:

EFF exists to protect people’s digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms and subjected to their corporate surveillance.

When the ship is sinking, there's some value in someone staying behind to help people get off. That's not the same as generating value for Shitter.

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UK police probe Bob Vylan's festival chants against Israeli military, as US revokes band's visas

I hope the entire world's eyes are by this point open to the hypocrisy of the West. Kneecap and Bob Vylan being labeled outrageous or on trial for terrorism for... words, while weapons shipments continue to flow to the IDF, Netanyahu (with an arrest warrant for war crimes) flies through EU airspace unhindered, and the bombing of civilians in Gaza generates less news than a chant at a concert. Absolutely disgusting.

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JD Vance says it's a “statistical fact” that the left commits more political violence.

It's a statistical fact that JD Vance is a lying piece of shit.

Deaths from far right terrorism outnumbers far left 6:1, from the government's own reports over the last 30 years. But that was before the Ministry of Propaganda decided to take it down right after the death of Mr. Acceptable Losses.

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism

Poof, gone today: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism

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Israeli soldiers torture one-year-old Gaza child to force confessions from his father

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The image is from an older attack (Oct 2025, after the "ceasefire") and is likely not AI:

The images of this story are these ones. There was also a video interview of the mother somewhere.

But yes, the article from www.aa.com.tr is shit

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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself.

-- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism