Basically, they're all horrible people, to no ones surprise. And these are the ones who have not been recently arrested for being Russian shills

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd878ejqko

Maybe this will be the thing that finally gets your weirdo uncle to reconsider voting reform.

Not sure if this qualifies for this community, but given Lemmy is the primary source of news for many I thought it was important enough news to share.

This is a developing story, and it's not even clear yet that Trump was the target.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45901044

Alt text: Picture of E.T. laying back on a Sinclair C5

To the surprise of no one at this point, Kier Starmer's Labour prepares to squeeze more money out of poor people. Anything to not tax billionaires.

The (Forced) Labour party seem to earnestly believe that disabled people are just too lazy to work, and cutting their benefits will incentivise them to do so. In reality, what will happen is that most will sink into deeper poverty and many will become homeless. Homeless people are a lot more expensive to the state than people on benefits, and their health will only deteriorate, causing them to be even less likely to work and costing more to the NHS.

EDIT: Changed the article from Guardian to Independent as it was a more complete, less odd article without a cookiewall.

The numbers are still unconfirmed, but having been there I can tell you it was massive and fantastic.

The police estimates of 50 000 are comically false. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle. Most likely in the multiple hundreds of thousands.

Either way, it dwarfs any of the half a dozen protests I've seen in London over the last year, and some of those were really big.

To be completely precise, some she reverse engineers herself, others she finds an implementation someone has already done and just creates a UI for them. Still very cool.

In the video, she then describes how she did it, tools and all.

It's a shame people in the US (and possibly UK?) would be putting themselves at legal risk if they did the same. See Louis Rossman's videos on the DMCA if you are curious.

The news first came in 2024, but it's been very quiet since.

I've been waiting this whole time to jettison WhatsApp from my phone.

Is it available only in some parts of the world? If so can I spoof it?

We know that adversarial interoperability works, so why have we not been able to make this work?

All else failing, are there any unofficial WhatsApp clients I can use to preserve my privacy?

Sorry for the YouTube link, I realise Lemmy doesn't like that format much.

This is a video trying to explain the bathshit crazy views of Pete Hegseth, the GOP and the rest of its Christian Nationalist followers.

Not to excuse them, but to help understand what they will do next and what their goals are. As to many of us, myself included, it sometimes seems like random chaos.

This is a follow-up to banning puberty blockers for children under 16 in 2023, pausing or cancelling all trials recently, and the banning of trans people from gendered bathrooms this year.

It's a progressive attack on trans rights, where evidence of the safety and benefits of trans healthcare is ignored and decisions is taken out of the hands of trans people, trans children and their parents. They're treated as people unable to make decisions for themselves. A tactic often used against women, disabled people and black people historically.

In this particular case, it's still breaking news but I've heard the way they fit the data to their desired result was to make the filters on what was to be accepted as evidence extremely narrow. Things like "all subjects in the study must have never taken puberty blockers, but must be on hormones and born male". When they find that no study exactly matches their criteria, they throw up their hands and say "we just don't know if it's safe" and ban all healthcare.

It doesn't matter how many experts criticise these choices and peer-review the reports. We've been shown by the Cass Review (still referenced in these decisions, despite its provably terrible quality) that all evidence outside the transphobic agenda will be ignored and every possible side-effect of treatment will be used as justification to eradicate trans people.