The agreement may reduce the intensity of Israel’s killing spree, but it is likely to usher in a grueling new phase of ethnic cleansing with Trump’s full support. The post A ceasefire won’t stop Israel’s genocidal agenda appeared first on +972 Magazine.
A ceasefire deal was announced on Wednesday, promising an end to more than a year of Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. The ceasefire is planned to take effect on January 19, pending a vote from the Israeli security cabinet.
Responding to the news that the prominent rights activist Hossam Bahgat has been summoned to appear before Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) on 19 January, for questioning over unknown allegations in relation to a new case against him, Amn…
On December 14, 2024, Cynthia Khoo, senior fellow at The Citizen Lab, participated in a CPAC Town Hall in Ottawa on Online Harms and Cyberbullying. Khoo emphasized that regulating online abuse is essential to protecting freedom of expression, particularly…
Here's a really interesting paper from the Baker lab at Washington and co-workers on a very real-world problem where machine learning looks to be able to help. Now, I realize that statement might make a few readers raise their eyebrows, because over t…
On 15 January, unidentified armed men fired at two of our boats sailing to Ulang, South Sudan, after a delivery of supplies.
41 civil society organisations and experts sound the alarm about negotiations on a working agreement between Europol and Egypt. If signed it would risk legitimising illegal practices used by Egyptian police and pave the way for an exchange for personal da…
TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN & Co surrender Europeans’ data to authoritarian China Given that China is an authoritarian surveillance state, companies can’t realistically shield EU users’ data from access by the Chinese government mickey 16…
Palestinians celebrate agreement paving way to end brutal war.
AI and big data are changing contemporary humanitarianism for better and worse. The post Artificial Humanitarianism—The Data-Driven Future of Refugee Responses appeared first on MERIP.
What follow is an excruciatingly long, overblown review/demolition of the first half of a supposedly popular book on the history of mathematics. As I began to approach 12,000 words, yes you read that correctly, I decided to break off and … Continue readin…
13 January 2025 – In August 2023, Bulgarian and European Commission (EC) officials met to discuss a “targeted assisted voluntary return project” as part of the Commission’s Pilot Project in the country. The “Pilot Project for fast asylum and returns proce…
Opaque surveillance tools being sold to governments with the promise they can ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships The post Computer says no fly appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
This article, published as part of the Bellingcat Technical Writing Fellowship, is adapted from a more technically-detailed guide on Agnes Cameron’s blog. Satellite imagery has been used extensively in open-source investigative research: from monitoring g…
This is the story of how a family outing turned into the discovery of over 30 artifacts–most of them made of lead–that some people think [...] The post The Tucson Artifacts Hoax appeared first on Archaeology Review.
On December 30th, 2024, Frederiksplein 52 was squatted. Since then, people have been living here and a social centre has been established. We envision a place for people to come together, learn from each other and create together. We are very open for ini…
I’ve tried AI for things like student feedback and been very surprised. We had a 10-mark Geography assignment on Google Docs. I thought the AI would be hopeless, but I put in a list of criteria that I wanted it to mark and the comments were spot on. In fa…
Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects. Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon). Rabbit Waves, …
Happy 2025 everyone! On this first day of the fresh new year we are happy to announce 50 project teams were selected to receive NGI Zero grants. We are welcoming projects from 18 countries involving people and organisations of various types:…
There is nothing counterintuitive about an infinite shape with finite volume, contrary to the common propaganda version of the calculus trope known as Torricelli’s trumpet. Nor was this result seen as counterintuitive at the time of its discovery in the 1…
Image: The electrically heated table that we build in this manual. Photo: Marina Kálcheva. Model: Anita Filippova. Why build an electrically heated table? The table Step 1: Get a table Heating the table Step 2: Choose a heat source Step 3: Choose a thermostat …
We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.14.
In this episode we take you behind the scenes of our latest U.S.-Mexico border investigation, Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande. The post Investigating border deaths in the shadow of US election appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
From Places Journal: “Building” is a powerful metaphor that has long structured how we think about progress and accomplishment. What might be the new metaphors, the new rubrics, for an epoch of repair? How might professions premised on growth and consumpt…
Cross-posted from C4C’s LinkedIn page – see the original article The Coalition for Creativity (C4C) recently submitted its comments to the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the evolving […]
1. – Introduction In its judgment of 4 June 2024 in the case of Sokolovskiy v. Russia the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) dealt with the issue of religious hate speech as a criminal offence interfering with the right to freedom of expression and in…
Today, a demonstration from the No Border Camp through the city of Utrecht squatted the infamous Galaxy Tower, an unfinished prestigious construction project on the Jaarbeursplein, and transformed it into a pop-up information point about the migration and…
Is running a slow-fashion business model possible in a tough economic climate?
Brussels, 1st April 2024 — Microsoft’s lead patent attorney William Gates has been elected as part-time judge at the Unified Patent Court. The Unified Patent Court is understaffed for the mathematics field of technology. Microsoft will provide an AI assis…
Following on from our investigative work in Kashmir, this Briefing Report draws special attention to India's strategy in silencing...
An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of August, 2021. One Bad Apple August 08, 2021 (comments) An Internet is mad about Apple (business model: "Uber for spyware") turning your phone…
Thirty-five years I've written code, a necromancer weaving spells to bring the dead to life. Hardware and electronics never held any charm for me. I've no love for chips and cables and solder. Give me a keyboard, a screen, and a language, and you …