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"Oh, it's so crowded" - guy who went to Times Square on purpose

stevo6452 posted...

Does he? How?

Twitter has a very well publicized effort to pay bluecheck users based on the impressions their tweets receive, to say nothing of the other benefits a professional provocateur like this gets from any attention he receives.

When you share his posts he makes money. Don't do that.

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Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.
About 40 activists were attending the ciorcal comhr (conversation circle) event as Gaeilge when large numbers of police arrived and told them to stop and move on.

They also sang songs in English and Irish, including traditional favourite r S Do Bheatha Abhaile.

Police broke up the Irish language event attended by about 40 Irish people living in the German capital, under rules that only allow English and German, and in some cases Arabic, to be used during protests.

German authorities have been increasingly restricting pro-Palestine protests against the governments support for Israel amid its war in Gaza. The ban on languages other than English and German, in Berlin without a designated translator present to interpret for police is seen as mainly targeting Arabic speakers, and therefore Palestine supporters.

Irish is an official language of the EU, with equal status to the 23 other official languages of the EU since January 2022.

Irish woman Caoimhe McAllister, who was attending the protest, said the group of approximately 40 people gathered at 6pm at the protest camp in front of the German parliament, the Reichstag, on Friday evening, April 19.

At that camp, especially in the last days of Ramadan, there was a crackdown on any Arabic-speaking, including arresting someone, she said.

So we decided to highlight what we see as a really worrying human rights concern. We just had to highlight this by speaking in Irish.

Ms McAllister has been living in Berlin for 14 years and is originally from Belfast. She is a member of the Irish Bloc, a group based in Berlin supporting Palestine.

The police expressed concern that people might be discussing terrorist activity, or what they call incitement to violence, Ms McAllister said.

"They were worried that we, in Irish, would say something that glorified terrorism or incited violence and therefore we were required to have an interpreter to clarify that for the police officers there.

"And because we didn't have one, we were banned from speaking in Irish.

Ms McAllister told the Irish Independent there was already a very heavy police presence when the group arrived at the camp.

She said they were immediately stopped from carrying flags and a handmade banner that said Saoirse don Phalaistn Bheirln (Freedom for Palestine Berlin) and police wouldnt let them display it as it was too political in nature.

The meeting was structured by the group as a discussion or a conversation circle plus songs.

You're putting money in their megaphone when you use Twitter in 2024. These are the people the site's owner wants to have its loudest voices.

Not great!

Because it was fun

I am

They won though, so

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In a Facebook group called Facebook Complaints Center
https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqmpzh2hvc2l

https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqmqeednss2l

SauI_Goodman posted...

People still use that thing?

By the millions

I went grocery shopping in the morning, but aside from walking the dog it's been YV and video games since

Mark Zuckerberg's ideas started at "Hey you should be able to easily look at pics of your hot classmates" and got worse from there. He holds more influence over society than any of us ever will.

https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqlxs33ygs2d

The weather would be intolerable, but the politics would also be intolerable.

Golden Sun

Update:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/usc-cancels-all-commencement-speakers-amid-valedictorian-speech-controversy/

The Saudis and Russia will try, but I don't think it'll get that high

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3kql7occusn27

SpawnShadow posted...

Aren't the likes of Starbucks and Tesla currently trying to have Republican judges effectively destroy the NLRB? This victory may well be fleeting.

Getting rid of the NLRB wouldn't liquidate existing unions

Enclave posted...

This is good assuming VW doesn't close the plant in response.

VW being a German company, basically all their plants are unionized.

Bishop_Hastur posted...

I've been trying to read Hopscotch by Julio Cortzar for a while now but it's a real slog.

Are you reading it "linearly" or with the "supplemental" chapters?

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Aloc posted...

There are less people that play certain sports. Hence they make less money.

That is not how the economy works.

The disparity between rugby and football salaries probably speaks, as much as anything, to the difference between the Australian market and the US one. There are a lot more people here!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/19/vw-uaw-tennessee-vote/

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers, the union said Friday, becoming the first Southern auto factory to approve a union with an election since the 1940s.

The unions unofficial vote count, which still must be confirmed by federal labor officials conducting the ballot, showed 73 percent of workers had voted yes by 10 pm E.T. on Friday night. It will take a simple majority for the vote to pass.

The vote marks a victory for the UAW and for organized labor, which has faced years of difficulty organizing factories in Southern states. The UAW has twice previously failed to unionize the VW plant, in 2014 and 2019. The plant will join a handful of other unionized auto factories in the South, where local laws and customs have made it hard for unions to make inroads.

The victory came after a concerted campaign by local VW workers, assisted by UAW staff, who rallied workers to their cause by pledging that the union would help them fight for better health care and retirement benefits and more paid time off.

The union campaign also delivers a political victory for President Biden, who won the UAWs endorsement earlier this year and has supported union expansion efforts.

The National Labor Relations Board is s expected to issue the formal results later Friday.

Oh yeah, I have to use Edge at work and that homepage is wild. Every day there's some article about "Electric Vehicles Can't Be Trusted" on there. Ditto the default news tab thing Windows has.

Is it good that Microsoft is megaphoning this stuff onto unsuspecting customers?

Transistor does something similar, iirc

Psych_RN posted...

IDK why I wouldnt want to stay, being a Republican voter, seeing as youre all so welcoming and all.

You aren't welcome. Hope this helps

The economy is doing good actually.

Sometimes conspiracy brain just doesn't have a clear partisan valence.

Tensions are high at Columbia University over the Israel-Hamas war and the school's response to ongoing protests on campus.

School administrators have restricted campus access to students and staff with university IDs.

Shouting and chanting resumed early Friday morning from the direction of the school's main lawn, where it appears pro-Palestinian demonstrators have reoccupied the area for a third straight day. Video from overhead showed protesters sprawling on sleeping bags and mats, with banners and Palestinian flags laid out around them. They are demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and for the university to divest from Israel.

The NYPD arrested more than 100 people Thursday at the encampment they set up on the main lawn, as demonstrations continued on and off the school's campus in Upper Manhattan.

"I didn't think there was a safety concern at all, because they were actually passing out food to everybody coming by, they were really interacting. It was really nice to see, actually, the community coming together on both sides," one student told CBS New York.

Police monitored activities near campus for most of the day Thursday and made some arrests before confronting students at the makeshift tent city. Officers in riot gear shut down the street at 114th Street and Broadway with seven correctional buses, and then removed students from the encampment.

"We were walking around different parts of campus to occupy that space and demand that our voices be heard," one Columbia student said. "And when I showed up, everybody had already been arrested."

"One by one, these cops got each of the encampment protesters sitting down and standing up and put them in zip ties and walked them," another student said. "It's a very difficult time for a lot of people. I think it's unfortunate that it's come down to this."

"Clearly, as you see, the school does not have any effort to help protect the students who are peacefully protesting," pro-Palestinian protester and student Jin Hookky said.

In a letter, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik asked the NYPD to move in, writing "I have determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University."

"With great regret, we request the NYPD's help to remove these individuals," she wrote.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/supporters-of-palestinians-israel-clash-outside-columbia-universitys-campus-gate/

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https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3kqgncud2lq22
What does this look like in practice? Like a chatbot showing up in your replies claiming to be a parent
https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqgnnr45y622

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WingsOfGood posted...

unemployment must be through the roof all these big companies have been laying off like every month since end of last year

Unemployment remains under 4 percent because tech is a small portion of the economy.

Also consider that athletes are privy to information the public is not, and using that info, even to bet on your own team's success, really calls into question the legitimacy and fairness the whole gambling pyramid is built on. It's like insider trading.

https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses.

But Blinken has failed to act on the proposal in the face of growing international criticism of the Israeli militarys conduct in Gaza, according to current and former State Department officials.

The incidents under review mostly took place in the West Bank and occurred before Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel. They include reports of extrajudicial killings by the Israeli Border Police; an incident in which a battalion gagged, handcuffed and left an elderly Palestinian American man for dead; and an allegation that interrogators tortured and raped a teenager who had been accused of throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.

Recommendations for action against Israeli units were sent to Blinken in December, according to one person familiar with the memo. Theyve been sitting in his briefcase since then, another official said.

A State Department spokesperson told ProPublica the agency takes its commitment to uphold U.S. human rights laws seriously. This process is one that demands a careful and full review, the spokesperson said, and the department undergoes a fact-specific investigation applying the same standards and procedures regardless of the country in question.

The revelations about Blinkens failure to act on the recommendations come at a delicate moment in U.S.-Israel relations. Six months into its war against Hamas, whose militants massacred 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 240 more on Oct. 7, the Israeli military has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to local authorities. Recently, President Joe Biden has signaled increased frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the widespread civilian casualties.

Multiple State Department officials who have worked on Israeli relations said that Blinkens inaction has undermined Bidens public criticism, sending a message to the Israelis that the administration was not willing to take serious steps.

The recommendations came from a special committee of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum. The panel, made up of Middle East and human rights experts, is named for former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chief author of 1997 laws that requires the U.S. to cut off assistance to any foreign military or law enforcement units from battalions of soldiers to police stations that are credibly accused of flagrant human rights violations.

The Guardian reported this year that the State Department was reviewing several of the incidents but had not imposed sanctions because the U.S. government treats Israel with unusual deference. Officials told ProPublica that the panel ultimately recommended that the secretary of state take action.

This story is drawn from interviews with present and former State Department officials as well as government documents and emails obtained by ProPublica. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal deliberations.

Enclave posted...

Can you find any exploit in being allowed to bet that your team is going to win?

Are they going to bet the same amount every game?

Is that good

Those are allergies

Update:
https://bsky.app/profile/brainnotonyet.bsky.social/post/3kqchn6kkha2k

Kradek posted...

That's odd because I recall Zuck recently saying they wouldn't be monitoring misinformation as they did in 2020.

That may well be true, but de-amplifying politics content could still have the effect of keeping the spread of that stuff contained.

I visited for a long weekend with friends a couple years ago. Really nice time, we went to a bunch of sporting events and the weather (early September) was great.

The Museum of Pop Culture was fun, and I liked the aquarium as well.

https://bsky.app/profile/malraux.bsky.social/post/3kqbjexdcaf2z

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b081f0d1.jpg
Lol

What would you know about post quality?

Kradek posted...

FB's political discussion, in contrast, is known for being right-wing boomers shitting it up and Zuckerberg saying he no longer cares about curtailing it or promoting the truth.

So actually this is shifting, mostly because FB is downplaying political content
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

For years, Facebooks mysterious algorithms served up links to news and commentary articles, sending droves of traffic to their publishers. But those days are gone. Amid criticism from elected officials and academics who said the social-media giant was spreading hate speech and harmful misinformation, including Russian propaganda, before the 2016 election, Facebook apparently came to question the value of featuring news on its platform. In early 2018, it began deemphasizing news content, giving greater priority to content posted by friends and family members. In 2021, it tightened the tap a little further. This past February, it announced that it would do the same on Instagram and Threads. All of this monkeying with the internets plumbing drastically reduced the referral traffic flowing to news and commentary sites. The changes have affected everyone involved in digital media, including some liberal-leaning sitessuch as Slate (which saw a 42 percent traffic drop), the Daily Beast (41 percent), and Vox (62 percent, after losing its two most prominent writers)but the impact appears to have been the worst, on average, for conservative media. (Referral traffic from Google has also declined over the past few years, but far less sharply.)

I would take this site's reporting with a big grain of salt given that I best know them for making shit up about the murder of George Floyd
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3kpzkst2ufi2i
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retconning-of-george-floyd