[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago

For those who don’t know, The Cradle is banned by Wikipedia as an unreliable source.

The Cradle is an online magazine focusing on West Asia/Middle East-related topics. It was deprecated in the 2024 RfC due to a history of publishing conspiracy theories and wide referencing of other deprecated sources while doing so. Editors consider The Cradle to have a poor reputation for fact-checking.

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 9 months ago

I would also like to point out while the overall death toll is supposedly unchanged, the reported number of women and children killed absolutely is changed.

The original numbers suggest that 11,244 additional women and children were killed on top of those identified. If 100% of the unidentified remains were women and children, that would still put the death toll at 35,890, or ~890 more than the current numbers.

I believe the discrepancy being corrected in the report goes back to when the ministry started relying on “reliable media sources.” Since that time, they have reported unbelievably high percentages of women and children being killed (~86%).

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 months ago

Can you articulate why you don’t trust Proton? From everything I know, they have a stellar reputation and have been around since 2013 with no end in sight.

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago

They do, but there is precisely zero enforcement.

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago

Got a source for that claim?

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago

From the notable sentences section on Wikipedia.

On March 8, 2022, the first criminal trial involving one of the rioters, Guy Reffitt, ended with a jury conviction.[113] Reffitt was subsequently sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison.[114]

On August 11, 2022, Thomas Robertson was also sentenced to seven years and three months in prison.[115]

On August 26, 2022, Howard Richardson was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He had struck a police officer three times with a flagpole, hard enough to break the flagpole. He had been arrested in November 2021 and had pleaded guilty in April 2022.[116]

On September 1, 2022, Thomas Webster was sentenced to 10 years in prison.[117]

On September 22, 2022, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli was sentenced to four years in prison.[118]

On October 27, 2022, Albuquerque Cosper Head was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison. He had dragged Metropolitan Police Department officer Mike Fanone into the mob.[119]

On December 5, 2022, Suzanne Ianni was sentenced to 15 days in prison for disorderly conduct. Ianni was formerly an elected member of the town meeting of Natick, Massachusetts, a member of Super Happy Fun America, and organizer of a Boston Straight Pride Parade.[120]

On December 9, 2022, Ronald Sandlin was sentenced to more than five years and three months in prison.[121] Sandlin followed the QAnon ideology. He and two other men had driven from Tennessee to Washington, DC in a rental car filled with weapons, and he had assaulted police officers. He had pled guilty.[122]

On January 6, 2023, Jerod Wade Hughes was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison. As the eighth rioter to enter the Capitol, he climbed into the building through a broken window and helped kick open the Senate wing door so others could enter. He had pled guilty.[123]

On January 27, 2023, Julian Khater was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison. He used pepper spray to assault Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the next day after suffering strokes.[124]

On February 9, 2023, Kevin Seefried was sentenced to three years in prison. He carried a Confederate flag through the Capitol and used the flagpole to fend off a police officer.[125]

On March 14, 2023, Tristan Chandler Stevens was sentenced to five years in prison. He assaulted police officers while attempting to break into the Capitol.[126]

On March 23, 2023, Riley June Williams was sentenced to three years in prison. She stole the laptop of Nancy Pelosi with the intent on selling it to Russian foreign intelligence services and attempted to wipe all evidence of her crimes, after bragging about her involvement, in the days following the assault.[127]

On April 11, 2023, Robert Sanford was sentenced to four years and four months in prison. He hit two police officers in the head with a fire extinguisher and threw a traffic cone at another officer.[128]

On April 14, 2023, Vincent J. Gillespie was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison. He grabbed a police shield from officers, rammed it into them and pulled another officer into the mob of protestors.[129]

On April 14, 2023, Patrick McCaughey III was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison. He crushed a police officer in a doorframe with a riot shield.[130]

On April 28, 2023, Jeffrey Scott Brown was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. He assaulted police with pepper spray.[131]

On May 5, 2023, Peter Schwartz was sentenced to 14 years and two months in prison. He sprayed a "super soaker" canister of pepper spray at retreating officers. He had 38 prior convictions over the previous 30 years.[132]

On May 24, 2023, Richard Barnett was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. He had carried a stun gun into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, propped his foot up on a desk, and bragged about stealing an envelope from the office.[133]

On May 25, 2023, Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison. He was charged with seditious conspiracy, receiving an increased sentence due to his actions being ruled as terrorism by U.S. District Judge, Amit Mehta. Rhodes was the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist militia, and was the first to be convicted of seditious conspiracy and terrorism in relation to the attack.[134]

On May 25, 2023, Kelly Meggs was sentenced to 12 years in prison. A leader of the Oath Keepers' Florida chapter, Meggs was charged with seditious conspiracy for his role during the attack.[134]

On May 26, 2023, Jessica Watkins was sentenced to eight years and six months and Kenneth Harrelson was sentenced to four years in prison. Both convicts were members of the Oath Keepers, with Watkins' crimes including merging her local Ohio armed group with the Oath Keepers in 2020, and Harrelson serving as the right-hand man to Kelly Meggs, leader of the Florida chapter.[135]

On June 21, 2023, Daniel Rodriguez was sentenced to 12 years and seven months.[136]

On July 7, 2023, Barry Bennet Ramey was sentenced to five years in prison. He was connected to the Proud Boys and pepper-sprayed police in the face.[137]

On July 13, 2023, Kyle Fitzsimons was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. He attacked Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell and D.C. Police Sgt. Phuson Nguyen. While in the mob, Fitzsimons was hit by another rioter and received a bloody head wound that later required staples.[138]

On July 14, 2023, Audrey Ann Southard-Rumsey was sentenced to six years in prison. Brandishing a flagpole, she knocked over a police officer.[139]

On July 24, 2023, Peter Stager was sentenced to four years and four months in prison. He beat a police officer, Blake Miller, with a flagpole.[140]

On July 28, 2023, Thomas Sibick was sentenced to four years and two months in prison. He stole Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone's badge and radio.[141]

On August 17, 2023, Michael Steven Perkins was sentenced to four years in prison. He attacked officers with a flagpole. His co-defendant, Joshua Christopher Doolin, was sentenced to one year and six months.[142]

On August 31, 2023, Joe Biggs was sentenced to seventeen years in prison and Zachary Rehl was sentenced to fifteen years for seditious conspiracy and other charges.[143]

On September 1, 2023, Dominic Pezzola was sentenced to ten years in prison for various charges relating to smashing a window in the U.S. Capitol.[144]

On September 5, 2023, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for his role in organizing the attack. This is the longest sentence associated with the attack delivered to date.[145]

On September 22, 2023, Jonathan Munafo was sentenced to 33 months followed by 36 months of supervised release. He punched a cop, stole the cop's riot shield, and struck a Capitol office window with two poles. He pleaded guilty.[146]

On October 17, 2023, Ryan Kelley, who in 2022 had been a leading Republican candidate for Michigan governor, was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He shouted "This is war, baby!" while encouraging rioters.[147]

On October 17, 2023, Rachel Powell, a mother of eight, was sentenced to 57 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release. She had carried an axe and a wooden pole. The Justice Department describes her as "one of the first rioters to break through onto Capitol grounds near the Peace Circle."[148]

On November 3, 2023, Federico Klein, a former State Department appointee of Trump, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. He assaulted police officers.[149]

On November 29, 2023, Nathan Pelham was sentenced to 24 months. Initially charged with four misdemeanor counts for entering the Capitol, he had agreed to surrender. On the scheduled day for his surrender, he called police to say that his son was suicidal, and when police arrived at his home for a welfare check, he shot at them.[150]

On December 7, 2023, Alan Hostetter was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months. Hostetter is a former California police chief who gave speeches calling for others' execution the day before the Capitol attack and then brought a hatchet and tactical gear to the Capitol.[151]

On December 15, 2023, Anthony Sargent, a Proud Boy from Florida, was sentenced to five years in prison. He threw a rock at the Capitol doors.[152]

On January 9, 2024, Ray Epps was sentenced to probation. He had been arrested the previous September and had been charged with disorderly and disruptive conduct.[153] He told the judge that he realizes that the election was not stolen, that he knows that Trump supporters carried out the attack, and that he feels remorse for his participation. After the riot, Epps became the center of conspiracy theories; he is suing Fox News and Tucker Carlson for defamation.[154]

On January 24, 2024, Marc Bru was sentenced to six years. He marched with the Proud Boys, shoved a barricade against a police officer, and spent about 13 minutes inside the Capitol, entering the Senate gallery. Just before being sentenced, he called the judge a "clown" and said: "I’d do it all over again."[155]

On February 29, 2024, Brandon Fellows was sentenced to 3½ years. He had smoked marijuana in a senator’s office.[156] Six months before his sentencing for his offenses on January 6, while his trial was ongoing, the judge had also sentenced him to five months for criminal contempt of court related to his misbehavior in the courtroom.[157]

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China could soon be sending giant pandas to the U.S. for the first time in years, reigniting “panda diplomacy” between the two countries.

The China Wildlife Conservation Assn. has secured agreements with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the Madrid Zoo Aquarium of Spain regarding the conservation of giant pandas, according to Xinhua, China’s news agency.

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Tensions are escalating between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the advance of M23 rebel forces in recent weeks towards the city of Goma in eastern DRC.

Dozens have reportedly been killed in the assault and the United Nations has accused M23 of ‘indiscriminate bombing’. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has accused the Paul Kagame-led Rwandan government of backing M23 to destabilize the country. Rwanda has described the situation in eastern DRC as a national security threat and vowed to defend itself.

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SHAMBHU, India, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of protesting Indian farmers facing off with security forces have come under the protection of the Nihang Sikhs, a warrior sect dating back to the 1600s distinguished by their ink-blue robes and ancient weapons such as swords and spears.

The farmers, who are also mainly Sikhs and who hail from the northern state of Punjab, are demanding higher prices for their crops, and began marching to the capital Delhi earlier this month to press their demands to the government.

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SYDNEY, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters.

Kiribati has not publicly announced the policing deal with China, which comes as Beijing renews a push to expand security ties in the Pacific Islands in an intensifying rivalry with the United States.

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Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That business then told police that it was repeatedly getting packages of pills in the mail as "return to sender."

The men face a maximum possible penalty of life imprisonment.

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Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early stages of monetizing our user base,” and proceeds to say that it will continue to sell users’ content to companies that want to train LLMs and that it will also begin “increased use of artificial intelligence in our advertising solutions.”

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Reddit has entered a contract with Google, which will license its content for $60 million a year in order to train Google’s AI models.

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A U.N. relief worker alleged by Israel to have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks was captured on video that day removing the limp body of an Israeli man who had been shot at Kibbutz Beeri and driving off with it, according to information released Friday by Israeli authorities.

Israel told the United Nations Relief and Works Agency last month that Faisal Ali Musalam Naami, 45, and 11 other UNRWA employees participated in or lent support to the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel that precipitated Israel’s war in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israeli authorities have said Hamas and allied gunmen killed 1,200 Israelis and took some 253 people hostage back in Gaza.

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Two people were killed and four were wounded in a shooting attack in southern Israel on Friday.

According to the police, the attacker emerged from a car carrying Israeli license plates at the Re'em-Masmyyia junction and fired a gun at a nearby bus station.

The police's Central District Commander Avi Bitton says the attacker was shot to death by a civilian armed with a gun who drove by the site of the attack.

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The agency has 72 hours to leave the country, marking a “drastic hardening” of conditions inside the South American nation.

A United Nations agency that monitors and defends human rights was ordered on Thursday to leave Venezuela by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, an extraordinary move that will further strip the country of foreign oversight at a time when its government stands accused of intensifying repression.

The announcement by Yván Gil, the foreign minister, comes just days after the detention and disappearance of Rocío San Miguel, a prominent security expert and human rights advocate.

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Summary:

  • Egypt setting up area as contingency measure sources

  • Cairo has repeatedly rejected any transfer of Palestinians

  • Egypt denies making any such contingency preparations

  • Israel plans to attack Rafah, where over 1 mln people shelter

  • Israel says it plans to evacuate people to other parts of Strip

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Gaza’s hospitals have emerged as a focal point in Israel’s war with Hamas, with each side citing how the other has pulled the facilities into the conflict as proof of the enemy’s disregard for the safety of civilians.

In four months of war, Israeli troops have entered several hospitals, including the Qatari Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and Al-Rantisi Specialized Hospital for Children, to search for weapons and fighters. But Al-Shifa Hospital has taken on particular significance because it is Gaza’s largest medical facility, and because of Israel’s high-profile claims that Hamas leaders operated a command-and-control center beneath it. Hamas and the hospital’s staff, meanwhile, insisted it was only a medical center.

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Source

Since 2023: the "pravda" ecosystem Websites targeting the main western countries supporting Ukraine

The first ecosystem of websites identified by VIGINUM targets several western countries that have publicly expressed their support for Ukraine following Russia's invasion:

• pravda-fr[.]com: France;

• pravda-de[.]com: Germany, Austria and Switzerland;

• pravda-pl[.]com: Poland;

• pravda-es[.]com: Spain;

• pravda-en[.]com: United Kingdom and the United States.

Note: These appear to mimic the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper and its sister sites.

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DOHA/JERUSALEM, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Israel launched a special forces operation that freed two Israeli hostages in Rafah amid air strikes early on Monday, which local health officials said killed 37 people and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city.

A joint operation by the Israel Defence Force (IDF), Israel's domestic Shin Bet security service and the Special Police Unit in Rafah freed Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Hare, 70, the Israeli military said.

The two men were kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on Oct. 7, the military said.

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

Reuters – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Least Biased


Factual Reporting: Very High


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MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Mostly Free


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[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bitwarden has a great free tier, it’s open source, and cross platform. I highly recommend it!

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[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Al Jazeera is blatantly anti-Israel, so I wouldn’t trust their analysis without other corroborating sources. Regardless, the evidence the IDF presented for that particular video was far from conclusive, so it’s certainly possible that particular entrance wasn’t to the Hamas tunnel network.

I also don’t doubt that nurse video is fake, but the source of the video is far from definitive. Many parties in this conflict benefit from muddling the waters with fake videos.

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

You really should have read the wiki before asking that question. /s

[-] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I for one find this to be a cool idea. Reducing the environmental impact of RFID tags seems small, but they are ubiquitous with billions of them produced annually. If this ends up being an economically viable and functional replacement I’m all for it. Less plastic waste and less e-waste is a good thing.

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