The revelation last week by Israel’s top military lawyer, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, that she leaked the footage of a gang rape of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military detention centre in 2024 has shaken the country’s political and media establishment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the leak “perhaps the most severe public relations attack that the State of Israel has experienced”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/5/israels-focus-on-political-drama-rather-than-palestinian-rape-victim

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

This is why I never ever ever recommend Facebook to senior citizens, let alone the general populace. Great topic @pluralistic.

#fraud #enshittification #greed #predation

@curtmack @pluralistic @Wyatt_H_Knott @laprice @paninid Cynicism was cool 15 years ago, but by now it's a way to avoid taking action to make things better.

Good morning! Today’s a great day to help the people of Gaza.

Even $5 can make a difference, especially if you choose “weekly.”

211/1000 for today: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

@mutualaid @palestine #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza #palestine

@stfn It’s s3 compatible, so it’s a breeze to set up.

I used my current against with my old Masto instance and it’s been super cheap. I’ve had it up for a couple of years and it’s cost me about 5US a month.

I am begging people on fedi to stop censoring potentially triggering words. Please. Word filters stop working when you put a random asterisk in a word, and it tanks readability for people that dont filter the words but do have a reading-related disability.

@pluralistic Reading your book, I thought that: #KKR has acquired Telecom Italia's (TIM) Italian landline network for $22 billion. The newly established company, #FiberCop, is in the process of constructing a fiber optic network, supported by $1.85 billion in funding from the Italian government and the European Union's National Recovery and Resilience Plan ( #RRF). The Italian government, led by "sovereigntists" politicians, has essentially handed over this crucial infrastructure to a foreign company.

@raymaccarthy Not called "direct messages" on the web interface, though I'm not sure how that makes any difference.

This is about the semantics of who the recipients are, not about whether servers can read messages.

I'm not sure what "browser DNS" is or what it has to do with this,

how it started / how it’s going

“someone called security” edition

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Y’all!!! This is not a drill! @raventhesciencemaven has made it over here to fedi!

If you love good #SciCom, please give her a follow and make her welcome here! https://thesciencemaven.com/about
https://mastodon.social/@raventhesciencemaven/115511172586941905

Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.

Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So if you send someone a DM that says "That @mattblaze guy is an ignorant moron", I get a copy.

I was reminded of this behavior just now.

Dear Wally,

I hope this email finds you.

🔥 Day 1 was incredible! Thank you to everyone who backed the campaign.
We’re just €10K from our maintenance goal: the foundation that keeps everything running.
Once we achieve it, we’ll shift into stretch goals co-designed with communities and teams: moderation tools, encryption, mutual aid networks, cooperative hosting, native apps, and more…
Help us get there: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

I just recompressed a bunch of old .tar.bz2 archives as .tar.xz in case it compressed a bit better.

Before: 630 MB. After: 13 MB.

That's not a typo. The new files are smaller than the old ones by a factor of 50. There must be something _extremely_ compressible in there which only xz is able to take advantage of!

I’m a big fan of Mona for iOS, so I might sign up for the 7.0 beta they have running.

When I moved over from Mastodon to GotoSocial, it just worked.

Ha, it was so seamless, I thought I broke something.