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Stopthatgirl7 Dec 21, 2024

'Rape chat' groups with 70,000 members discussing how they have raped their sisters and mothers, offering their wives to be sexually abused and sharing 'advice' is uncovered

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'Rape chat' groups with 70,000 members discussing how they have raped their sisters and mothers, offering their wives to be sexually abused and sharing 'advice' is uncovered - Lemmy.World

An investigation has uncovered multiple ‘rape chats’ where thousands of men discuss how to rape and sexually assault women including their own mothers and sisters. The groups, which have up to 70,000 members from a variety countries, meet on the encrypted messaging app Telegram to share pictures and even live videos of sexual abuse. Members have also claimed to have assaulted their wives and female family members with some even sharing advice and instructions on how to do it. In one shocking instance, a German man said he would sedate his wife and allow other men to sexually assault her. The existence of the so-called ‘rape chats’ were discovered over the course of a year-long investigation by German broadcaster ARD and its STRG_F investigative team.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 21, 2024

Dominique Pelicot faces further rape and murder investigation

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Dominique Pelicot faces further rape and murder investigation - Lemmy.World

Dominique Pelicot, who has been jailed for 20 years [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/gisele-pelicot-trial-husband-jailed-for-20-years-as-all-51-men-found-guilty] for drugging his then wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and inviting men to rape her, faces a further investigation for the rape and murder of an estate agent in Paris in 1991, and an attempted rape in 1999, amid questions [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/11/a-rapist-can-be-in-the-family-how-dominique-pelicot-became-one-of-the-worst-sexual-predators-in-history] over whether he could have been a serial offender for decades. Investigators in Nanterre outside Paris have reopened two cold cases and placed Pelicot under formal investigation, as police consider potential links to other cases involving young estate agents. Pelicot could face another trial at a later date.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 20, 2024

Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right – POLITICO

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Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right – POLITICO - Lemmy.World

Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote [https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869986946031988780] on the platform on Friday in the latest of a series of endorsements of European far-right parties. Musk has recently supported European populist-right politicians in increasingly clear terms, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni [https://www.politico.eu/article/precious-genius-elon-musk-love-bombs-beautiful-giorgia-meloni-global-citizens-award-un/]and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage [https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-nigel-farage-brexit-britain-reform-donald-trump/]. Earlier this week, Farage boasted that Musk is “right behind” him — and raised the prospect that the tech tycoon would financially back his Reform UK party.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 20, 2024

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots - Lemmy.World

A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop. NPR has confirmed the policy was discussed at this meeting, and at two other meetings held within the department’s Office of Public Health, on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, through interviews with four employees at the Department of Health, which employs more than 6,500 people and is the state’s largest agency [https://ldh.la.gov/subhome/office-of-the-secretary].

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 19, 2024

Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers

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Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers - Lemmy.World

By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved [https://asbcs.az.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/December%202024%20Meeting%20Minutes%20%28002%29_VB%20redlined.docx.pdf] an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight. Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas [https://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Files/Unbound_Academy_Arkansas_Application2024_OSCPE.pdf] and Utah [https://www.utah.gov/pmn/files/1152553.pdf]. Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uEzeZCe-GSjBGN1_xxpN-3zEq1TAkylY/view] in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.” Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 19, 2024

French Man Found Guilty Of Aggravated Rapes Of Ex-wife Gisele Pelicot

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French Man Found Guilty Of Aggravated Rapes Of Ex-wife Gisele Pelicot - Lemmy.World

A court on Thursday convicted of aggravated rape a French man for orchestrating the mass rapes of his now former wife Gisele Pelicot by dozens of strangers who he recruited online. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele Pelicot into a feminist hero. He faces the maximum term of 20 years in jail when the judge later announces sentencing.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 19, 2024

Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute

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Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute - Lemmy.World

The gig economy’s labor model and its algorithmic management technologies now have a foothold in one of the largest labor sectors in the country: health care. On-demand nursing companies such as CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed have promised hospitals more control and nurses more flexibility. Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, this brief finds that these apps encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to provide certainty about scheduling and the amount or nature of work, take little to no accountability for worker safety, and can threaten patient well-being by placing nurses in unfamiliar clinical environments with no onboarding or facility training. On-demand nursing platforms are also using the Uber playbook to lobby state legislatures in an attempt to exempt themselves from existing labor regulations. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have fled the profession as a result of poor working conditions, creating what some have incorrectly identified as a “nursing shortage.” As gig nursing platforms falsely promise to empower workers and meet their needs, it is up to legislators, policymakers, civic leaders, and community organizations to act to solve the real problems at the root of this crisis.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 19, 2024

GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch

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GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch - Lemmy.World

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version [https://github.com/features/copilot] of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting free access. GitHub also announced that it now has 150 million developers on its platform, up from 100 million in early 2023 [https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/100-million-developers-and-counting/]. “My first project [at GitHub] in 2018 was free private repositories, which we launched very early in 2019,” GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told me in an exclusive interview ahead of Wednesday’s announcement. “Then we had kind of a v2 with free private organizations in 2020. We have free [GitHub] Actions entitlements. I think at my first Universe [conference] as CEO, we announced free Codespaces. And so it felt natural, at some point, to get to the point where we also have a completely free Copilot, not just one that is for students and open source maintainers.”

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 15, 2024

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting supporters may target police, courts: Analysts

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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting supporters may target police, courts: Analysts - Lemmy.World

Less than two weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on the streets of midtown Manhattan, his alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has been greeted not by universal condemnation for the brazen violence – but rather, a surge of enthusiastic support online for his so-called vigilante justice. The Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit focused on cybersecurity that partners with government and law enforcement, released a new threat assessment bulletin warning that online support for the alleged shooter risks encouraging copycat attacks. “Overwhelming bipartisan support for the attack” across social media “has resulted in several narratives encouraging similar violent activities directed at other healthcare executive teams,” CIS analysts said. “The narratives supporting Mangione’s targeted attack likely serve to encourage like-minded individuals, particularly as Mangione continues to be viewed by the public as an ‘American hero’ and sympathetic figure,” CIS’ bulletin said.

Stopthatgirl7 Dec 15, 2024

A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game

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A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game - Lemmy.World

British mobile phone company O2 has unveiled a new creation, Daisy, a chit-chat and kitty-cat loving artificial intelligence “granny” who talks to scammers to keep them away from real people. “Hello, scammers. I’m your worst nightmare,” Daisy says by way of introduction to would-be ne’er-do-wells. In the video introduction [https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-granny-wasting-scammers-time/], featuring former Love Island contestant and scam victim Amy Hart, scammers are heard feeling much of the same frustrations they put their victims through as Daisy breezily yammers on about her kitten, Fluffy, and her inability to follow the scammers’ instructions.