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Apple quickly shipped 600 tons of iPhones to ‘beat’ the new tariffs That’s about 1.5 million iPhones.

Apple quickly shipped 600 tons of iPhones to ‘beat’ the new tariffs

10.04.2025 17:30 — 👍 77    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 4

i have fangirled over tan man neel o neel on two other platforms and it hasn't been enough so now i have come here

17.02.2025 10:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Red Note is genuinely a blast, the cross-cultural exchange going on is one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen in years

14.01.2025 20:05 — 👍 4750    🔁 358    💬 157    📌 56

amazing stuff is happening on rednote

14.01.2025 22:05 — 👍 4838    🔁 508    💬 29    📌 14

ok what are your fav overnight oats recipes

15.01.2025 07:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is a very big announcement. #FreeOurFeeds promises to be the future of social media, and it will be, when more folks stop focusing on Twitter as the model, or fretting over VCs who knew projects like this were inevitable.
www.threads.net

13.01.2025 14:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Biden Administration’s False History of Ceasefire Negotiations - CIP Muhammad Shehada is a Gazan writer and analyst Over the past months, outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken has given several interviews in which he repeatedly claims that Hamas, rather than Israe...

While President Biden has consistently blamed Hamas for the failure of ceasefire talks, his failure to hold Netanyahu accountable has let the conflict drag on. Now he's trying to hide this failure by absolving Netanyahu of any blame, argues Muhammed Shehad

internationalpolicy.org/publications...

08.01.2025 21:13 — 👍 86    🔁 40    💬 2    📌 1

Why is it that Brazil is one of the few countries around that remembers it is, in fact, a state with state capacity

12.01.2025 14:07 — 👍 4663    🔁 1005    💬 73    📌 69
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Gaza war toll likely significantly undercounts deaths, says study An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41% through the middle of 2024 as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to the study.

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

10.01.2025 03:50 — 👍 456    🔁 289    💬 17    📌 13
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“This is about being accountable to the law.”

The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage in Gaza as evidence for war crimes investigations aje.io/cihcb4

10.01.2025 19:27 — 👍 645    🔁 248    💬 21    📌 12
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters MENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
11.01.2025 18:05 — 👍 57801    🔁 11309    💬 2217    📌 1093

the thing is like…did meta employees think they were doing something good before this week?

11.01.2025 19:00 — 👍 662    🔁 57    💬 24    📌 9
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Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is sending senior negotiators to Qatar for a ceasefire and captive exchange talks.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/z6usl1

12.01.2025 04:55 — 👍 178    🔁 72    💬 7    📌 6
The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!

The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!

The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!

The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!

Meta is now completely censoring searches for the terms "trans" and "transgender" etc. on Threads.

So much for free speech and free expression.

09.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 4367    🔁 1207    💬 117    📌 111

gosh I just don't know where the youth might get the idea that vigilante justice is the only thing left

10.01.2025 01:43 — 👍 443    🔁 125    💬 5    📌 1

This is so goddamn dark that I had to stop and question what reality I was in.

WHAT?!?!?

You think this person would stand being abused by bigots so other bigots learn compassion? Proximity to power corrupts like a motherfucker.

10.01.2025 03:52 — 👍 174    🔁 38    💬 9    📌 0

what daawat was mira sethi at yesterday omg i want IN

09.01.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a top tier insurance client perk www.google.com/amp/s/www.ar...

08.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HMPV infections are spreading in China, while cases of flu-like disease have also been found in India and the UK.

Here's what you need to know about the virus aje.io/zkrv4d

08.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 124    🔁 73    💬 2    📌 10
“I killed Jeffery Epstein but still miss him everyday.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2023.

“I killed Jeffery Epstein but still miss him everyday.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2023.

Meta CEO and dog fucker Mark Zuckerberg has said that his platforms don’t need fact-checkers. So to celebrate this win for free speech, here are some of his best quotes:
chaser.com.au/general-news...

08.01.2025 08:16 — 👍 5517    🔁 1735    💬 92    📌 75
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

08.01.2025 01:52 — 👍 24748    🔁 6384    💬 857    📌 340
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White "Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."

NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new commitment to "Free Expression," internal employee dissent and criticism is being censored

www.404media.co/facebook-del...

07.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 4544    🔁 1294    💬 269    📌 140
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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

08.01.2025 00:07 — 👍 25380    🔁 5482    💬 727    📌 334
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

08.01.2025 01:51 — 👍 15312    🔁 6300    💬 640    📌 1584

Black Mirror is starting to look a bit over optimistic

08.01.2025 08:27 — 👍 3945    🔁 645    💬 56    📌 28

The tech industry needs to be smashed into dust.

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