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  • kjr kjr 1y ago 80%

    @atlasraven31 Possibly drunk proud neo-nazi idiots.

    @stopthatgirl7

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  • https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-760952

    Performing Nazi salutes has been illegal in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II and is punishable by law with prison time.

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    Musk has come under fire as antisemitism has spiked on X (formerly Twitter) since he acquired the company.

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    A new report explores options for managing the period after global warming exceeds 1.5℃. This is called ‘climate overshoot’, because we’re pushing past the safe zone into dangerous climate change.

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    In his new book 'Architects of Terror,' Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain's ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy to Jewish refugees

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    https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-757445

    Musk, who claims to be a “free speech absolutist” has banned and made legal threats against journalists and others whose questions, tweets and statements upset him, like the ADL who track hate on X.

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    The Next Generation of Solar Technology: An Introduction to Solar Paint and Solar Glass
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @sparseMatrix
    It is happening relatively fast. Solar glass is already in production, at least as good as I know in Spain (the Spanish startup Onyx Solar is one of the pioneers in the area. They have already implemented solutions in buildings in Spain, Australia, Saudi Arabia and a prototype of a new version of the product in Israel.

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  • German intel: AfD taken over by extremist factions
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @BlackRose I am wondering whether the increase of the AfD together with the actual momentum of extreme right wing parties in other countries can jeopardize the estability of European institutions after the next European elections.

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  • Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @HotDogFingies That is what I thought... just like twitter without journalists and politicians. No idea why Threads doesn't want inside.

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  • About to start rolling out wave 2 of Artemis beta 👀
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @hariette Is it possible as a user to change the background of this thread? It cannot be read with the kbin mobile webapp. It happens only with this specific thread and previous posts about Artemis.

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  • Poll: Almost 70% of Russians want Putin re-elected in 2024
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @lusterko Taking into consideration how many million of Russians have already leave the country, I think it is almost normal.

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  • Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @OldFartPhil Anyway... maybe with "intellectual property" they mean another thing? I mean... if Meta is a Twitter clone, Twitter was a identi.ca clone too.

    @Pips @Very_Bad_Janet

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  • Are you going to try Meta's Threads?
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @bathrobe I don't know about tiktok, but I think that it is the same data that Facebook collects. And the worst is what we have at the end, "Other Data". That means, each moment Meta can decide to collect yet more things without to inform the user.

    @m0bi13 @edu4rdshl @Arotrios

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearKB
    /kbin meta 1y ago
    Jump
    YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances.
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    But it doesn't work for every instance.. don't ask why.
    The two instances of Mastodon in which I have my accounts are not reachable through this way

    https://kbin.social/d/babka.social
    https://kbin.social/d/hed.im

    But people from those instances follow my kbin account (and opposite) ... thus they are federated with kbin and the federation does work.

    Other domains like facebook or twitter should not be accessible, but they are and the results are not really good...

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  • Encryption With A Back Door Is NOT Encryption
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @clb92 that sounds like less privacy for citizens, and more easy ways to work for organized mafias.

    @Ronno @lemonflavoured

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  • Encryption With A Back Door Is NOT Encryption
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @Ronno No really, if I understood well the proposal is not that every channel will have a backdoor. Probably that is a request only for citizens, and maybe most companies, but I don't think that it will apply to banks, finance institutions or to the state.
    Or maybe I misunderstood something... I'm not sure.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearKB
    /kbin meta 1y ago
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    Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here?
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @luna I was wondering why the name is weird. Maybe because I am not an English native speaker, but I don't find it not or less weird than lemmy or twitter...

    @ernest @PabloDiscobar @lavender

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearKB
    /kbin meta 1y ago
    Jump
    Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here?
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @PabloDiscobar hi, just a problem of understanding. What do you mean with "american soft power leaking in every sub"?

    @ernest @lavender

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  • Kremlin spokesman: Prigozhin case will be dropped, he will move to Belarus
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @DarkGamer what it will be difficult will be to absorb into Russian forces the teams of Wagner deployed in other countries, especially African countries. They have been deployed as private contractors working for the local government or for local rebel groups. But... as part of the Russian Army that is diplomatically unsustainable (only exception Syria, since Russia is present there).

    @LollerCorleone

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  • Kremlin spokesman: Prigozhin case will be dropped, he will move to Belarus
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @chaogomu Right:

    • Putin's regime looks weak... to negotiate with a private company to avoid that their attack the capital of the country (a private company, not the NATO, not a bit terror organization) looks not really good.
    • The Russian army doesn't seem to be able to defend the Russian territory from the incursion of an organized armed force (able to occupy in hours a town with more than one million inhabitants)
    • Wagner doesn't look now as a company in which future stakeholders can trust, and trust is the base of the work of contractors.

    I think it is embarrassing for everyone involved.

    @LollerCorleone @entropicshart @endlessvoid

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  • Kremlin spokesman: Prigozhin case will be dropped, he will move to Belarus
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @endlessvoid And what is the goal? Now the results after the performance looks like;

    • Putin and the actual regime are weak: armed contractors leave their positions, enter in national territory and occupied a bit town without that the army is able to stop them. At the end and for the first time Putin's regime negotiates publicly with an oppositional illegal armed force inside its territory. Result: the regime show weakness.
    • Wagner as a contractor leaves the places in the line of combat and revolts against their actual employer: Result: Wagner cannot be trusted by future employers.
    • Since Prigozhin is not more in Russia/Ukraine, and it has been exiled, the command chain and control on Wagner is not more stable. At the same time the Russian Army doesn't seem able to take control of it, at least outside of Russia/Ukraine. Which control does now Russia have about the contracts in Syria, Africa, etc?

    To be a theater... it doesn't seem to have a goal. Everyone seems here to be a loser: Wagner not more a successful company, Putin not more the head of a strong regime, the Russian army not more able to defend their territory against a armed force (worse, against a private company, not even a country or a terror organization).

    For me more than a theater it looks like symptoms of decadence.

    @LollerCorleone @entropicshart

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  • Incoming reports of Wagner Group soldiers leaving their missions in Africa and Syria to join the military coup in Russia against Putin.
  • kjr kjr 1y ago 100%

    @shishmish And how they leave their place and arrive to Russia? Russian airports and sky are at the moment under governmental control. And I don't think that Syria will take part on the conflict organizing flights to Wager.

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