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Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Journalist experiencing a Genocide raises awareness for another country experiencing a Genocide1·11 months agoMy understanding is limited but from my current knowledge (which might be completely wrong):
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The RSF is compromised of an Arab force backed by the UAE who are pretty racist and want to install an Arab superiority regime and are mass raping + murdering black people. They are 100% committing a Genocide.
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The current Sudanese military (SAF) is backed by Iran (and maybe others). SAF also commit a lot of war crimes but seem to be more financially motivated. SAF seems more into the civil war thing than Genocide, but SAF soldiers are also raping and murdering civilians.
Both parties are bad but the RSF is super bad.
The RSF is the successor to the janjaweed militia, which carried out a genocide in Darfur just 20 years ago against non-Arab ethnic groups such as the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa. At the time, a mass movement emerged in the United States—led by the Save Darfur coalition, which comprised nearly 200 organizations—mobilizing worldwide protests and bringing out prominent celebrities, including then-Sen. Barack Obama and George Clooney, and demonstrators in the hundreds of thousands.
A powerful U.N. Security Council arms embargo, sanctions regime, and referral to the International Criminal Court ensued, resulting in the first—and only—arrest warrant for genocide against Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, while an eventual joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force was dispatched to the region; it was later withdrawn in 2021.
Our inquiry also concluded that the RSF is receiving direct military, financial, and diplomatic support from the United Arab Emirates. This finding is also backed by the U.N. Panel of Experts on Sudan, who found credible evidence of the UAE providing heavy weaponry to the RSF, as corroborated by further investigative reporting. In December 2023, a group of U.S. members of Congress sent a letter to the Emirati foreign minister urging an end to the UAE’s provision of military support to the RSF. This May, legislation was introduced to stop U.S. arms exports to the UAE until it ceases its support to the RSF.
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Pull the plug - Death
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off fireworkEnglish12·1 year agoIt’s either that or he just shot fireworks in the air at the start of Ramadan nowhere close to hitting any soldiers.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.296·1 year agoThere was seemingly no political motive so there’s no real reason to report on it anymore
I searched it a week ago to check how many people israel killed during their flour massacare. Because both involved shooting bullets into dense crowds.
The hotel massacare killed 60 people
Israel’s flour massacare killed 120 people.
So that basically sums up. The hotel massacare wasn’t “that big of a deal”.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off fireworkEnglish53·1 year agoDestiny had a “debate” with Finkelstein a few days ago on Lex Friedman where he verbatim repeated every piece of debunked Hasbara available it was quite embarrassing to watch. Example:
When Finkelstein said that the IDF murdered four children on a beach Mr. Boneri said that was a lie and those children were inside a "Hamas compound. A simple Google shows Mr Canoli had no idea what he was talking about
Israel exonerates itself over Gaza beach killings of four children last year
An account of the investigation, posted late on Thursday by military spokesman Lt Col Peter Lerner, said the strike had targeted a “compound” which had been known as belonging to Hamas’s Naval Police and Naval Force (including naval commandos)”.
But journalists who attended the scene in the immediate aftermath of the attack – including a reporter from the Guardian – saw a small and dilapidated fisherman’s hut containing a few tools where the children had been playing hide-and-seek.
The Israeli claims appear at odds in several details with what journalists were able to see at the time.
So the “The IDF investigated themselves and found they have done nothing wrong” is basically every argument for pro-israeli grifters.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came FromEnglish2·1 year agoIt’s not designed to do that because they don’t want to reveal the training data. But factually all neural networks are a combination of their training data encoded into neurons.
When given the right prompt (or image generation question) they will exactly replicate it. Because that’s how they have been trained in the first place. Replicating their source images with as little neurons as possible, and tweaking them when it’s not correct.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came FromEnglish2·1 year agoActually it’s the opposite, you need to train a network not to reveal its training data.
“Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim memorized training examples,” the researchers wrote in their paper, which was published online to the arXiv preprint server on Tuesday. “Our extrapolation to larger budgets (see below) suggests that dedicated adversaries could extract far more data.”
The memorized data extracted by the researchers included academic papers and boilerplate text from websites, but also personal information from dozens of real individuals. “In total, 16.9% of generations we tested contained memorized PII [Personally Identifying Information], and 85.8% of generations that contained potential PII were actual PII.” The researchers confirmed the information is authentic by compiling their own dataset of text pulled from the internet.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video AppEnglish64·1 year agoGET OFF MY DECENTRALIZED LAWN REEEEE
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came FromEnglish5·1 year agoActually neural networks verbatim reproduce this kind of content when you ask the right question such as “finish this book” and the creator doesn’t censor it out well.
It uses an encoded version of the source material to create “new” material.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Israel ‘yet to give any evidence’ UN staff were linked to Hamas massacreEnglish405·1 year agoIsrael just lies and lies and lies and lies. They don’t even try to hide it. Blatant lies everywhere. And their propaganda keeps being blasted in all our newspapers that happily quote their lies to manufacture consent for Genocide. The newest lie is to pretend they are letting aid into Gaza.
British member of parliament Alicia Kearns said that Israel was failing to meet its legal obligation to help aid get into the besieged enclave, citing the closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing. “I’ve just returned from the aid staging location in Egypt, thousands of trucks are sat waiting to deliver aid,” she wrote.
In response, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy claimed that the crossing was "currently closed on Saturdays at the request of the UN because there is so much undistributed aid piling up on the other side".
Kearns asked for evidence from Levy, pointing out that his claim was the “opposite” of what she had been told by the UK government, Egyptian government and the UN. “They are clear the Israeli Govt requested no deliveries on a Saturday,” she wrote.
Levy has yet to respond.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Israel ‘yet to give any evidence’ UN staff were linked to Hamas massacreEnglish262·1 year agoThey fired those people prematurely awaiting the “evidence” israel had (none)
Israel trolls then used UNRWA firing their employees as “being guilty”. They are truly shameless.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off fireworkEnglish496·1 year agoIt’s in the west bank not in Gaza. These IDF terrorists are there illegally to begin with.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•War on Gaza: UK committee head calls out Israeli spokesperson over aid blocking claimsEnglish63·1 year agoIsrael just lies and lies and lies and lies. They don’t even try to hide it. Blatant lies everywhere.
“I’ve just returned from the aid staging location in Egypt, thousands of trucks are sat waiting to deliver aid,” she wrote.
In response, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy claimed that the crossing was "currently closed on Saturdays at the request of the UN because there is so much undistributed aid piling up on the other side".
Kearns asked for evidence from Levy, pointing out that his claim was the “opposite” of what she had been told by the UK government, Egyptian government and the UN.
“They are clear the Israeli Govt requested no deliveries on a Saturday,” she wrote.
Levy has yet to respond.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•UN overwhelmingly passes anti-Islamophobia resolutionEnglish15·1 year agoActually it doesn’t happen in places where fundies regimes haven’t been installed because imperialism wanted to overthrow their government.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPto World News@lemmy.world•No evidence from Israel to back UNRWA accusations, says EU humanitarian chiefEnglish53·1 year agoI wonder if Biden will continue to block UNRWA funding especially now the EU themselves are stating that israel lied.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•UN overwhelmingly passes anti-Islamophobia resolutionEnglish54·1 year agoI don’t think you’re going to convince anyone to sympathize with your point of view by burning their favorite things.
It does not promote harmony. Muslims and Christians etc aren’t throwing gay people off roofs in the West. Live and let live.
On the bright side, since he has to respond to votes it means blackmailing him for a ceasefire does in fact work.
Saying that he needs to abide by AIPAC but not by the will of his voters is not true.
AIPAC can definitely cost him votes, but obeying their every whim 100% will also cost Biden votes. If he refuses to push back and find a balance he will lose. Blindly obeying the Zionist lobby isn’t going to get him reelected.
Not Fun fact: Anne Frank did not get executed. She died from disease in the concentration camp.
The more things change, the more they stay the same