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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says - BBC News The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

UN not UK. UK has been arresting people for speaking out for Palestinians

www.bbc.com/news/article...

please listen to and believe israeli ministers when they say they want all palestinians gone from gaza. when they say all palestinians are complicit for oct 7. when they call palestinians human animals. when netanyahu tells the k’nesset they’ve funded hamas because it’s easier to attack than the PA.

The UN has ruled it a genocide. Hamas has agreed to and abided by two separate ceasefires since January and has been willing to negotiate since 2023, Israel has avoided negotiating as much as possible and has violated all three ceasefires they’ve been a part of.

well we do have the standard of being against genocide

that sent shivers down my spine, and i’m in electrical

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

ICE arrest caught on surveillance video in Everett Luis Oswaldo, a 27-year-old painter from Ecuador, was arrested by ICE agents in Everett on Wednesday morning, leaving his family in fear and uncertainty.

It's getting drowned out by everything else, but a reminder to Boston-area folks that ICE has been incredibly active this week. There have been multiple sightings up here on the North Shore where I am, in addition to kidnappings.

As always, call LUCE if you suspect ICE is in your area: 617-370-5023

yeah… that wouldn’t do anything.

source: they’d been trying that www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

thanks to my roommate for that one

the reason pride happens in june is so that it cometh before the fall

the internet is telling me walmart has 2.1 million employees which gets me to 2,802/yr each

Is 2.2M a rounded figure and he/his team used something with more sig figs in the calculation?

that’s the only thing i can think of…

god knows with with the current state of the government that will be difficult. but until that happens ai companies can let their models learn from books so long as the model doesn’t directly repeat the contents - and so long as they got the one copy they need to use legitimately

i honestly just don’t think existing copyright laws are strong enough to protect against ai training. we need new, stronger laws if we don’t want companies to be able to do this by purchasing books, movies, art, etc. through otherwise legal channels

It’s saying that training an AI model is fair use, but that you still need to acquire the materials legally

i understand the legal argument even though i hate it - if you can ask the ai to spit out a book in the style of an author that doesn’t feel transformative, but that’s hard to argue legally

I love that DC is listed like a state abbreviation, like the city of Washington in the state of District of Columbia

so thanks for supporting DC statehood I guess?

also - and this is probably the crux of it - conservatives hate anything they see as environmentalist. and that’s doubtless the real motivator here

i get that being stuck merging into a one lane section of mass ave kinda sucks, but i do think to some extent cars are just jealous of bikes that are passing them. for me though it’s easy to get stuck behind a cyclist going 15-20 where you can’t get into the left lane to pass them

As someone who both often bikes and regularly (albeit infrequently) drives the stretch of Mass Ave between Boston and Cambridge, my hot take is that i’d rather drive a one-lane road with a bike lane in traffic than share a 2-lane road with bikes when traffic is light

it’s the perfect ploy - lots of attention and they barely need to do anything

all i’m saying is when in three to six months when they go back on this i called it

i think cracker barrel is posting about changing their logo explicitly to drum up media attention - and the moment it dies down they’re going to change it back to get in the news again. conservatives will see this as a win against an imagined enemy and cracker barrel won’t have to make new signs

sesevenen layers

Yesterday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the Israeli government’s plan to “annihilate everything” in Gaza.

In 1939, Hitler began threatening the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” We all know what that led to.

a worthwhile quoteskeet chain if there ever was one

use them, love them, and chair-ish them

don’t you worry by the time i’m 30 i’ll be 42

years ago i had a navy one with a pink g-shock decal.

i loved that thing right up until it died its tragic death about three years after i got it

he got a couple high scores in golf

it got deleted i think it said red hot silly peppers

wish i could accidentally find myself at a boba festival