Notices by Yogthos (yogthos@social.marxist.network), page 2

#us #eu #gaza #genocide

@aanee people tend to keep the same phone for at least a year, that's a lot of time to see the patterns of movement for the person. Meanwhile, correlating the phone id to location is trivial when you have access to cell tower data which as we now know the US government absolutely has

a story of how Angry Birds facilitated world wide phone tracking by logging IMEI of the phones and sending them over to their home server in plain text

1. interview with the vampire
2. HR screening with the vampire
3. technical interview with the vampire
4. team interview with the vampire
5. Good evening vampire, unfortunately we're not able to extend you an offer at this time. We'd like to keep in contact and notify you of any available positions in the future

The Biden administration has received nearly 500 reports alleging Israel used U.S.-supplied weapons for attacks that caused unnecessary harm to civilians in the Gaza Strip, but it has failed to comply with its own policies requiring swift investigations of such claims, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/30/us-weapons-israel-gaza-civilian-deaths/

#us #gaza #genocide

The number of billionaires in China fell by 36%. In the past year alone, the number of dollar billionaires in China declined by 16%, and the collective wealth of the country’s richest people dropped 10%. 🎉

While FT cries crocodile tears, I fail to see the problem here.

https://www.ft.com/content/0895e824-baee-4bcc-bb68-28558050dd48 (https://archive.is/gNdbC)

#china #economy

Big Brother removes ITV episode to edit out housemate’s pro-Palestine T-shirt. The West has now become very the caricature they paint about so-called authoritarian regimes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/big-brother-palestine-tshirt-ali-bromley-b2634814.html

CNN’s sympathy piece on Israeli soldier backfires after war crime allegations surface.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/cnns-sympathy-piece-on-israeli-soldier-backfires-after-war-crime-allegations-surface/288498/

China just countered EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles with tariffs on combustion SUVs, a move that's WTO-compliant, environmentally aligned, and non-discriminatory.

While impacting all companies, it particularly affects German luxury brands due to their focus on large combustion SUVs. This contrasts with the EU's discriminatory and anti-WTO tariffs, which hinder decarbonization efforts. 👏

A large-area, deep-field survey of the Universe can help reveal both of their natures, with gravitational lensing allowing the construction of dark matter maps and galaxy clustering revealing our expansion history.

With only the first 1% of its data available for release, the ESA’s Euclid mission is the first new-generation mission attempting to measure these great cosmic unknowns. Here’s the impressive “page 1” of its results.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/euclid-page-1-of-cosmic-story/

#space

PragerU openly admits to being run by an Israeli intelligence officer.

https://www.prageru.com/presenters/marissa-streit

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Genocide explained with rice...

#gaza

The BRICS alliance settled 65% of trade among member nations in local currencies and not the US dollar. The usage of the US dollar and Euro has fallen below 35% among the existing members of the bloc. The development signals a strategic shift in ending reliance on the USD and other Western-dominated currencies. Read here to know how many sectors in the US will be affected if BRICS ditches the dollar for trade.

#geopolitics #economy

https://watcher.guru/news/brics-settle-65-trade-in-local-currencies-not-the-us-dollar

how Israel’s army uses Palestinians as human shields in #Gaza

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-military-human-shields.html

2017: China promised to help Laos build a hospital. President Xi laid the foundation stone for the hospital.

2024: The hospital is the largest, most advanced, and best-equipped medical facility and teaching base in Laos. 👏

“we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!”

#technology #MachineLearning

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

Adam Tooze: Bidenomics is Maga for thinking people. 😆

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/10/war-middle-east-ukraine-us-feeble-biden-trump

Despite Chrystia Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi genocide.

A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada.

#canada

https://breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freelands-denials-grandfather-complicit-nazi-genocide/

Doctor who worked in #Gaza calls out #CNN for its complicity in whitewashing the genocide taking place.