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anarchist, coder, human, privacy advocate
I do not find this on home pages of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ; only a small headline on The Guardian. A journalist has been murdered. Where is the outrage--about anything?
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza https://aje.io/0pa37x
Anas al-Sharif among four Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Al Jazeera
I'm morbidly curious what the thought process was for Dems to go along with the TikTok ban. Because it looks a lot like they just believed op-ed writers and out of sheer obliviousness, handed the asshole who first thought of the idea a huge win.
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza

Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.

ProPublica

revised postmortem:

3. low info normies, especially youth, are plugged into cacophonous, grift-driven, decentralized epistemic ecosystems that tell them the economy is bad when its actually good and the candidates are the opposite of who they really are

posting this so i wont lose it again

-carrie
Hello
The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops | TechCrunch

Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called

TechCrunch
The scope of application of some of the most privacy invasive provisions of the draft UN Cybercrime treaty is expanded well beyond cyber-dependent crimes, making it one of the most far-reaching treaties in criminal matters and international cooperation on criminal investigations.

PRO WRITER TIP: If your book wins an award in translation, be sure to publicly and enthusiastically thank your translator. Why? The folks giving the award did not read your words directly, they read the words of the translator. That translation must have been pretty good for the award to have been given.

Which is why now I am thanking Masayuki Uchida, the translator for the Japanese version of The Kaiju Preservation Society, which won a Seiun Award (Japanese SF award) today. Thank you, sir!

President Biden: "Crime is near a 50-year record low."

FBI: Our data reflects a near 50-year record low.

Criminologists: Yeah, our analysis shows that, too.

Political press: Biden claims crime is near a 50-year low, but who can say for sure?