According to this report, the parliament, now dominated by KMT & TPP, slashed the Ministry of Agriculture's animal and plant quarantine and epidemic prevention promotional funding by 60% during this year's budget review. Today, first african swine fever outbreak in 20 years was reported in Taichung.

Another Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter leader has been outed as a neo-nazi and member of violent white supremacist organizations Patriot Front and Active Club.

Good article from Perry Bacon on something I am also releasing an article about this week

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Saudi Arabia is abolishing its Kafala system.

There’s no scenario where ICE requires guided missiles to conduct immigration enforcement. They are the “Brown Shirts”

If you're looking for ways to help people in Gaza right now, Lexi has linked to multiple funds here in the replies.

creating obsequious plagiarism machines is tough i guess

I think people tend to discount the vulnerability aspect of centralization a lot, even though we talk about that vulnerability- data breaches, denial of service, etc- a lot, and I wonder what (if anything) could cause things to reach an inflection point that actually leads to systemic distribution.

the internet is more centralized than it ever has been, and the fact that it's mostly controlled by a handful of companies creates single points for failure decentralization is how we fix this problem, and it has to be the way forward for the internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a longstanding weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

Reliance on central cloud services has, in may ways, improved cybersecurity and stability around the world. But this standardisation comes with major tradeoffs—the platforms become a single point of failure for large swaths of critical services. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

The internet runs on a handful of cloud providers. When one of them hiccups, lots of things break. Here’s @lhn.bsky.social on the AWS outage

ugh Signal is down 😭 that's the issue with a centralized messaging app tho, if the main servers go down then everything goes down

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Well, at least you know where they stand.

FINALLY some pushback from big tech against age verification!!! obviously many in big tech stand to gain a lot from these stupid laws but i think the public backlash has made them realize this can't be the hill they die on arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Skipping Alt text and posting AI images are an both strong indicators you might be a bad person

I'm glad that trans people generally know about trans stuff these days, but I do miss the antediluvian ignorance of the eggy tg/tf yarn written by an author who's never heard of a sex change and thinks that he's invented a radical new fantasy idea by turning his MC into a girl and doing a Yuri.

"With at least 34 trenches measuring 2 kilometers long, the grave in the Dhumair desert is among the most extensive created during the Syrian civil war, Reuters has found. Witness accounts and the dimensions of the new site suggest that tens of thousands of people could be buried there."

34 trenches, 2 kilometres long filled with bodies. As these were dug up and potentially tens of thousands of corpses reburied, the Assad regime was being interviewed in Western media outlets, his English skills mattering more than anything he was doing.

transgender ideology is the radical notion that the government shouldn't sexually harass or torture people.

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens. OT1H, this is clearly really bad. OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

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Ew but also this will have immense implication of exponentially intensified sexualized violence against women girls femmes and non-men I can’t shake the feeling that the techbros are trying to address the male loneliness crisis by making AIs the emotional-social outlet of toxic men

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Today would have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. He should be here celebrating with his loved ones.

Machado is no ally to peace or democracy; she supported his murderous attacks on Venezuelan boats, deportations, and is "seemingly on board with Trump’s revival of the Monroe Doctrine." https:/www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-maria-corina-machado-says-that-donald-trump-deserves-her-peace-prize

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes. instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

this is the wildest story i've read in a while, and it's a reminder that you cannot trust any cellular network to keep your info safe. calls and texts should be treated as insecure. and even if your internet traffic is encrypted, metadata can still expose what sites you visit

Thinkin about how much pushback I got for reporting this last year ! www.wired.com/story/openai...

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The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs. Decolonize your language. Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.

"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥 Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)

ACAB has always and will always include the cop in your head until you kill it.

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

This will also affect foreign passport holders going to the US; since Australian passports can have an X gender marker, I’m amplifying this for those of my followers who are also Australian

It seems like the US just effectively cancelled everyone’s passports who has an X gender marker on them (unless I’m reading this wrong). www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

I kinda get what they think they're trying to say here, and I do want to see Hongkongers welcomed abroad, but this is also basically arguing that only immigrants with college degrees and money deserve have enough value as human beings to be allowed in to start a new life. I'm not down with that.

wish Bluesky supported UnifiedPush!!

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One the one hand - thanks? On the other hand, seeing Brits do mental arithmetic on 'desirables vs undesirables' doesn't feel right. It seems like we're in the 'desirables' bucket simply because they think HKers are productive and not because they are actually deserving of some dignity as *people*