The funny thing now is that the only thing keeping Khan in prison is the "un-Islamic marriage" case.

UT-Austin is public. University of Minnesota is public. Ohio State is public. All of these schools receive billions in government funding.

I agree on this. For better or for worse, the NYT is representative of US news media to the world.

Imagine fucking citing Wikipedia lmfao

Proper sourcing, friends, is important.

But but think of the poor Uhh Coal miners!

Isn't this the same shit everyone was flipping out about when China did it to Filipino fishermen who were "trespassing"? At least in that case nobody died. RIP.

Meanwhile, American arms shipments to Israel:

That's correct, but also even more absurd of a position.

Biden's a hypocrite, this is nothing new. He had both houses under control and still failed to legislate federal protections for trans people.

There's a real question about how much use general-purpose generative AI actually has. The jobs it's taking are mostly creative and busywork-type jobs, which benefit a service-based economy like the US. Automation and data processing instead benefit an industrial-based economy like China.

It's interesting how much news on this comm. comes from news agencies in the same few countries. Looking through the recent few posts, this is what I see:

Israel: Haaretz, Ynet, Times of Israel, JPost

United States: NYT, AP, CNN, VOA, RFA, Newsweek, NBC, WaPo, WSJ, Axios, Semafor

United Kingdom: The Guardian, BBC, Reuters

Ukraine: Pravda, Ukrinform, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post

Other Europe: france24, DW, notesfrompoland, El Pais

Other (often only one article from each): straitstimes, SCMP, Al Jazeera, JapanToday, Buenos Aires Herald

This reflects a heavily American-centric lean, an Anglo-centric lean, and a Euro-centric lean. These biases are inherent based on where news is being drawn from. It's showing only one side of the picture. People like to argue that this is because the US (and the West at large) protects media freedoms, but to that I point to:

1. The claims of Iraqi WMDs used to justify the invasion of Iraq

2. The claims of Ukrainian/NATO-backed technical superiority allowing Ukraine to push to the Sea of Azov

3. The "unlawful detention" of the two Canadian Michaels in China, when it was later revealed that they were participating in "security reporting operations in China" and the Canadian government is paying $3m each as compensation

Even if these media freedoms are so strong, they're still consistently failing to capture the truth... And the truth is what news should be about.

yeah that's a problem because it makes Israel look bad