The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/
The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
NEW | Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to Kyodo:
“We do not accept a ceasefire. We do not want the scenario of last year to be repeated. We want a complete, comprehensive, and sustainable end to the war.
The only acceptable solution… is a complete end to the war. There must be guarantees that this situation will not be repeated. The damages… must be compensated.”
“Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023. Almost a quarter of the victims were children.
Rising violence by Israeli settlers and armed forces is accompanied and fueled by impunity.
Meanwhile, de facto annexation continues to accelerate as settlements expand.
The International Court of Justice has ruled that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal and must cease.
International law applies to everyone, everywhere. There can be no exceptions.”
— @UNLazzarini
The new Israeli attacks that targeted Iran’s South Pars gas facilities were directly coordinated with US President Donald Trump, sources told Axios on 18 March.
“The Israeli Air Force struck a natural gas processing facility in southwestern Iran. The strike was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration,” Israeli officials told the outlet.
The information was also confirmed by a US defense official.
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Iran said Wednesday that at least 206 people under the age of 18 have been killed and 1,401 others injured in US-Israeli attacks since late last month, Anadolu reports.
In a statement, Iran’s Health Ministry said that 227 women are among those killed and 3,329 others were injured in the attacks since Feb. 28.
It added that 1,111 injured people are currently hospitalized, while 19,506 others have been treated and discharged.
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Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies https://www.theolympus.net/13531/
Washington House Bill 2515, which aimed to make data centers pay for their own grid infrastructure and use clean energy, failed in March 2026. Despite passing the House, the bill was defeated in the Senate following heavy lobbying from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. They will keep using clean water and electricity but bill needs to be paid by locals.
Washington state is home to about 126 artificial intelligence data centers. These data centers evaporate millions of gallons of freshwater each day to provide cooling, but at the cost of draining local resources. The rapid expansion of these data centers strains regional drinking water supplies, as well as increasing blackout risk due to the high...
An Israeli strike on a police vehicle in central Gaza has killed at least nine people, according to witnesses and civil defence forces. The attack targeted a police station Jeep on Salahuddin Road, which is used to transport humanitarian assistance to northern Gaza and Gaza City.
Locals reported the vehicle was struck twice by Israeli drones. Palestinians have documented nearly 1,500 breaches of the ceasefire agreement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw1vSD0ibU4
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Algorithmic Dehumanization: Lessons from the Use of AI in the Gaza War · Execution of necropolitical power over life and death. @berlinergazette
👉🏻 https://berlinergazette.de/algorithmic-dehumanization-lessons-from-the-use-of-ai-in-the-gaza-war/
Interview: "Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until US Pulls Support".
Inside Israel, “there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war."
"War fever has taken over the country, with polls showing [Jewish Israeli] 93% support for the war in Iran, Lebanon & beyond."
"As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on.”
~Gideon Levy
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/13/gideon_levy_israel
#USPol #EUPol #IsraeliWarmongering #USImperialism #News #Racism .
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