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- USA | Campus Organizers Are Using Research to Expose and Oppose the Global War Machinetruthout.org Campus Organizers Are Using Research to Expose and Oppose the Global War Machine
Graduate workers and student groups across the US are mapping university ties to militarism and Israel’s war on Gaza.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23657300
> > Graduate workers and student groups across the US are mapping university ties to militarism and Israel’s war on Gaza. > > Archived version: https://archive.ph/CaYlO > > SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fcampus-organizers-are-using-research-to-expose-and-oppose-the-global-war-machine%2F
- If Eric Adams Steps Down, New York City’s Next Acting Mayor Will Be an Anti-Israel Criticwww.algemeiner.com If Eric Adams Steps Down, New York City’s Next Acting Mayor Will Be an Anti-Israel Critic
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Photo: Screenshot The next acting mayor of New York City might be a …
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20222393
> Williams has condemned Israel’s defensive military operations in Gaza as a “war crime” and criticized the US Congress for inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in July. > > Williams issued a statement on Oct. 11 of last year, four days after Oct. 7, lamenteing the attacks before calling not to retaliate and shifting attention to oppression of Palestinians. > > “We can, we have to be able to, at once grieve the hundreds of innocent lives taken in Israel, and oppose the escalating violence of retaliation, the endless war, the systemic violence and oppression of Palestinians too often ignored, excused, or condoned,” Williams wrote.
- Report: More Than 210 People Were Charged With “Pregnancy-Related Crimes” in First Year After Roe Endedtruthout.org Report: More Than 210 People Were Charged With “Pregnancy-Related Crimes” in First Year After Roe Ended
Most criminal charges against pregnant people are tied to the doctrine of fetal personhood, a new report says.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23427367
> > Most criminal charges against pregnant people are tied to the doctrine of fetal personhood, a new report says.
- Read the JD Vance Dossierwww.kenklippenstein.com Read the JD Vance Dossier
We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20222174
> > Behold the dossier. > > > It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against “foreign malign influence.” > > > I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself. > > Ken does go on to speak a fair bit more but also provides a link to a pdf if you'd like to skip ahead.
- Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that impacts price of 'nearly everything’www.cnbc.com Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’
Visa and Mastercard have surged over the past two decades, reaching a combined $1 trillion market cap. That has attracted unwanted attention from regulators.
- Ending Oil Subsidies, Taxing the Rich Could Help Free Up $5 Trillion a Year for Climate: Reportwww.commondreams.org Ending Oil Subsidies, Taxing the Rich Could Help Free Up $5 Trillion a Year for Climate: Report | Common Dreams
"The real question isn't whether we can afford to act, but whether we can afford not to."
- Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – reportwww.theguardian.com Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report
Corporations such as ExxonMobil and Blackstone also big funders of climate crisis, new trade union report finds
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20633280
> Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining democracy across the world by financially backing far-right political movements, funding and exacerbating the climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and human rights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). > > Amazon, Tesla, Meta, ExxonMobil, Blackstone, Vanguard and Glencore are the corporations included in the report. The companies’ lobbying arms are attempting to shape global policy at the United Nations Summit of the Future in New York City on 22 and 23 September.
- Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FXpivot-to-ai.com Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX
Hollywood studio Lionsgate has sold its entire back catalog of movies and TV shows to AI video startup Runway to train a new model on, which Lionsgate will then have access to. [WSJ, archive] Lions…
- Hospitality sector in South Africa: "I went home with a debt *to* the restaurant... after working from 1pm to 2am, I ended up owing *them*."www.ewn.co.za 'Problematic' hospitality sector under scrutiny for employee exploitation issues
A former waitress has exposed a Pretoria eatery claiming it has violated labour laws.
- The secret deals whitewashing the conduct of California police officers: Key takeaways from our investigation
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19957667
> For decades, California police chiefs and sheriffs have lamented how difficult it is to fire officers and deputies who act with dishonesty or brutality, blaming powerful labor unions and robust employment protections. > > What law enforcement leaders have not revealed, and what has remained a secret until now, is how they have repeatedly turned to an under-the-radar method of getting rid of problem officers — one that not only allows the officers to avoid accountability but, often, to quietly move on to other jobs where they are asked to protect the public. > > For years, dozens of California police agencies have executed “clean-record agreements,” clandestine legal settlements that promise to hide the wrongdoing of an officer in exchange for the officer’s guarantee to leave an agency without a fight, an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program found.
- Elon Musk destroys astronomywww.astron.nl Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations | ASTRON
Observations with the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year showed that first generation Starlink satellites emit unintended radio waves that can hinder astronomical observations.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22235454
> > Observations with the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year showed that first generation Starlink satellites emit unintended radio waves that can hinder astronomical observations. New observations with the LOFAR radio telescope, the biggest radio telescope on Earth observing at low frequencies, have shown that the second generation ’V2-mini’ Starlink satellites emit up to 32 times brighter unintended radio waves than satellites from the previous generation, potentially blinding radio telescopes and crippling vital research of the Universe.
- Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strikewww.nbcnews.com Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strike
Workers in the Seattle area and Oregon voted 94.6% against a tentative agreement Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unveiled Sunday.
- Press happily parrots Verizon's claim that its $20-billion purchase of Frontier will be a huge boon to consumerswww.techdirt.com Press Happily Parrots Verizon’s Claim That Its $20 Billion Purchase Of Frontier Will Be A Huge Boon To Consumers
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a major U.S. regional telecom monopoly is looking to buy another major U.S. regional telecom monopoly in a massive transaction that both companies ins…
- Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats toldottawacitizen.com Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told
Library and Archives Canada consulted a “discrete group of individuals or organizations” about whether the list should be made public.
- In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mentionfuturism.com In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2504023
> Archived link > > The original article is behind a paywall at 404media. > > In a pitch deck to prospective customers, one of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly. > > As 404 Media reports based on documents leaked to its reporters, the TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its so-called "Active Listening" software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." > > "Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers," the deck continues. > > In the same slideshow, CMG counted Facebook, Google, and Amazon as clients of its "Active Listening" service. After 404 reached out to Google about its partnership, the tech giant removed the media group from the site for its "Partners Program," which prompted Meta, the owner of Facebook, to admit that it is reviewing CMG to see if it violates any of its terms of service. > > An Amazon spokesperson, meanwhile, told 404 that its Ads arm "has never worked with CMG on this program and has no plans to do so. The spox added, confusingly, that if one of its marketing partners violates its rules, the company will take action.
- Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion Airport Closed Due To National Strikesimpleflying.com Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion Airport Closed Due To National Strike
The nationwide protests demand that the Israeli government agree to a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22013901
> > The nationwide protests demand that the Israeli government agree to a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
- CrowdStrike faces onslaught of legal action from faulty software updatetechcrunch.com CrowdStrike faces onslaught of legal action from faulty software update | TechCrunch
CrowdStrike faces widespread lawsuits from a faulty software update that brought down Windows machines across the world in July.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22014244
> > CrowdStrike faces widespread lawsuits from a faulty software update that brought down Windows machines across the world in July.
- Free breakfast, lunch for all students at Portland Public Schoolswww.kgw.com Portland Public Schools to provide free breakfast and lunch for all students
Every PPS student is enrolled automatically in the program, the district said. Families won't need to submit an application for free or reduced-price meals.
- Government Can be More Efficient and Effective Than Private Enterprisewww.currentaffairs.org Government Can be More Efficient and Effective Than Private Enterprise
Contrasting my Florida DMV with Starbucks.
- Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19218127
> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12778902
- What is it like to play Dungeons and Dragons in Prison?
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> A conversation with Keith Davis, who got his start playing RPGs while incarcerated and continues to play on the outside. We talk about logistical challenges, how RPGs can be an escape in hopeless circumstances, and how they bring people together.
- Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’grist.org Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’
The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.
- With the next generation of AI photo editing tools built into the Google’s flagship Pixel 9 family, our basic assumptions about photographs capturing a reality we can believe in are about to be
cross-posted from: https://flipboard.social/users/TechDesk/statuses/113013778572529137
> With the next generation of AI photo editing tools built into the Google’s flagship Pixel 9 family, our basic assumptions about photographs capturing a reality we can believe in are about to be seriously tested — and @theverge shows us why. > > “An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full color. They are high-fidelity. There is no suspicious background blur, no tell-tale sixth finger. These photographs are extraordinarily convincing, and they are all extremely f---ing fake.” Take a look at the pictures for yourself as The Verge ponders the implications of these new capabilities. > > https://flip.it/AO_SK3 > > #AI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #Pixel #Pixel9 #Smartphones #Photography #Tech
- 'Groundbreaking' Win as NLRB Rules Amazon Must Bargain With Delivery Driverswww.commondreams.org 'Groundbreaking' Win as NLRB Rules Amazon Must Bargain With Delivery Drivers | Common Dreams
"Despite wielding absolute control over the drivers' terms and conditions of employment," said the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, "Amazon maintained that it did not employ the workers."
- Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Yearboltsmag.org Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year
Chicago police are required to document every time they pull someone over. But a new investigation reveals the department is releasing vastly incomplete data to oversight agencies, even as the superintendent pledges reforms.
- 84% Of Americans Want Tougher Online Privacy Laws, But Congress Is Too Corrupt To Follow Throughwww.techdirt.com 84% Of Americans Want Tougher Online Privacy Laws, But Congress Is Too Corrupt To Follow Through
Americans are, apparently, tired of having every last shred of personal data over-collected, hyper monetized, then improperly secured by a rotating crop of ethics-optional corporations and lazy exe…
- 2nd Circuit to cop: someone observing all the laws is not "probable cause" for a searchwww.techdirt.com 2nd Circuit To Cop: Someone Observing All The Laws Is Not ‘Probable Cause’ For A Search
It’s about the stupidest thing anyone could claim in defense of an unlawful detention and search, but Waterbury, CT police office Nicholas Andrzejewski did it anyway. He actually told a court…
- Ticketmaster’s nontransferable ‘SafeTix’ are anticompetitive, DOJ suit claimswww.theverge.com Ticketmaster’s nontransferable ‘SafeTix’ are anticompetitive, DOJ suit claims
Company documents called SafeTix a ‘game-changer.’
cross-posted from: https://dubvee.org/post/1735883
> The Department of Justice has amended its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, alleging that Ticketmaster's introduction of nontransferable tickets and the SafeTix system was primarily intended to stifle competition from rival platforms like StubHub and SeatGeek, rather than merely to reduce ticket fraud. "The complaint, which was amended on Monday after 10 states joined the DOJ's lawsuit, cites internal Ticketmaster documents obtained during the legal process," notes The Verge. From the report: > > > In 2019, Ticketmaster rolled out SafeTix, which replaced static barcodes on electronic tickets with encrypted barcodes that refresh every 15 seconds. Ticketmaster marketed SafeTix as a way of reducing ticket fraud, but the complaint claims reducing competition was âoea primary motivationâ for the new ticketing system. [...] The amended complaint includes new information about Ticketmaster's dominance of the events market. One internal Live Nation document cited in the complaint notes that Ticketmaster is the primary ticketer for approximately 80 percent of arenas across the country that host NBA or NHL teams. As of 2022, Live Nation-promoted events accounted for 70 percent of all amphitheater shows across the country, according to internal Live Nation events mentioned in the complaint. > > > The DOJ alleges that because of Ticketmaster's conduct, consumers have âoepaid more and continue to pay more for fees relating to tickets to live events than they would have paid in a free and open competitive market.â The exact amount of monetary harm is still unknown, the complaint claims, and will require discovery from Ticketmaster and Live Nation's books, as well as from its third-party competitors.
- FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in Octoberwww.cnbc.com FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October
Amazon sued more than 10,000 Facebook group administrators in July 2022 for allegedly brokering fake reviews.
- ISPs worry that killing FCC net neutrality rules will come back to haunt themarstechnica.com ISPs worry that killing FCC net neutrality rules will come back to haunt them
Telcos want it both ways, urging SCOTUS to block federal rules and state laws.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20929404
> > Telcos want it both ways, urging SCOTUS to block federal rules and state laws.
- Disney fighting restaurant death suit with Disney+ terms “absurd,” lawyer saysarstechnica.com Disney fighting restaurant death suit with Disney+ terms “absurd,” lawyer says
Disney wants to force suit over restaurant allergy death into arbitration.
- US Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive ‘Squad,’ wins Democratic primary in Minnesotaapnews.com US Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive ‘Squad,’ wins Democratic primary in Minnesota
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has won her primary race in Minnesota. Omar is one of the progressive House members known as the “Squad.”