retired healthcare IT programmer/analyst, supporter of Palestine, Cuban Revolution, women’s rights, FOSS, Linux, Black Lives Matter. Live in Michigan, USA


That depends. In this case, just fine.


This post was done in Mastodon, where hashtags are pretty useful.


Thirty-seven children have been killed in Gaza this year, while the school system is nearly erased. Israel approves measures expanding settlements in the West Bank, while Palestine requests an urgent Arab League meeting in response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Iran with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week. Minnesota man severely injured in controversial ICE arrest. DHS used Google data to track a man who emailed a prosecutor about an asylum case. Members of Congress to begin reviewing the unredacted Epstein files. Epstein emails point to a meeting with Mohammed bin Salman days before Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. Cuba warns airlines of imminent jet fuel depletion as U.S. energy pressure tightens. Turkey arrests alleged Israeli spy cell targeting Palestinians and supply chains. Ethiopia demands Eritrean troop withdrawal, warning of dangerous escalation. Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon kill four people, including a three-year-old child. Russian drone and missile barrage kills civilians and knocks out power across Ukraine. Dozens missing and presumed dead after migrant boat capsizes off Libya’s coast. Iran adds more than seven years to the prison term of Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi. Mass graves discovered on Sudan university campus used by RSF during fighting. Support fractures inside Venezuela’s ruling party after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, new report claims.


If France actually follows through with Zoom and Teams, it will be a significant step toward digital sovereignty.


Good catch, thanks. I added the original posting date, which was not in the newsletter itself.


Today I will create a crude little video using my phone with the announcement along with a screenshot. That should do it. Thanks for the ideas. :-)


I post videos that are already created elsewhere, so I haven’t created one except for ones I’ve taken with a phone camera.


Thanks, sounds like a good idea. I created a single PNG with the announcement and then tried to convert that to a webm using 3 various suggestions I found online, all involving ffmpeg. All failed. Any suggestions?


thanks


Thanks for responding. Could you send a screenshot of how and where you get to that? I have explored quite a bit and haven’t found that. Thanks.


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I’ve been reading a lot of articles from 972, and I don’t see evidence of that. Do they explicitly call for the destruction of the Zionist state? No, but that doesn’t make 972 a liberal Zionist rag. (In fact, their latest issue explicitly takes on liberal Israelis on the Gaza genocide.)
If you have some examples where they took bad positions on something concrete, please send them to me. I could be wrong.


I don’t understand your logic here. Clearly, the kid had problems that were not caused by ChatGPT. And his suicidal thoughts were not started by ChatGPT. But OpenAI acknowledged that the longer the engagement continues the more likely that ChatGPT will go off the rails. Which is what happened here. At first, ChatGPT was giving the standard correct advice about suicide lines, etc. Then it started getting darker, where it was telling the kid to not let his mother know how he was feeling. Then it progressed to actual suicide coaching. So I don’t think the analogy to videogames is correct here.


I should have mentioned the most important factor was the heroic struggle and sacrifice of the Vietnamese people, which did inflict many casualties on the US.
But the massive demonstrations in the US and around the world helped change the consciousness of millions, which ultimately even affected the thinking of the troops fighting in Vietnam. Many times the representatives of the NLF and DRV recognized the vital role of the US antiwar movement.
Unfortunately, both the USSR and China did not do much to help Vietnam, and Nixon was able to play them off pretty well.


Massive and sustained peaceful protests often do work, as they did against the US war in Vietnam. I can’t imagine how confronting local Zionists would do anything to help Palestine be free.


Totally wasted sarcasm.
Sorry, GC, but you are mistaken here. The introduction from World-Outlook gave some very clear evidence that there is genuine anti-Semitism on the rise world-wide, including the US. I don’t know the details on Amsterdam, but I do know that the attack in Michigan was genuine. (I sympathize with the attacker, who lost family to Israeli bombing. But blowing up children is a bad way to fight Zionism.)
There is both a rise in real anti-Semitism, along with the Zionist (ADL, AIPAC, etc.) slander campaigns against supporters of Palestine, falsely accusing them of anti-Semitism. Both need to be combatted.