Israel were estimating 12,000 in February 2024 so I don’t think it’s their one. I can’t find where I read the pentagon estimate now though. The recruitment estimate was here: https://archive.is/ogkJW

I don’t see a reason for the US to be lying about the recruitment Hamas has done and it doesn’t seem unrealistic under the circumstances. I doubt Hamas’ total manpower has changed much at all, but they’ve lost a lot of skilled people.

it just showed up as like the third result when I was pulling up links to the bailey study

Mumsnet is probably the largest base of terfs on the internet. It’s foundational to the terf movement.

It’s not untouched though because I believe the Resistance has suffered tremendously

Pentagon estimate is 10k-20k eliminated. But they also estimate that they have gained 15k recruits in the same time period.

These will be untrained, but the overall force count of the organisation sounds unchanged to me. Assuming you take these numbers at face value. If the number eliminated is wrong then Hamas could be larger than it was before.

A moms discussion forum, thread on the topic, first few replies:

Just to be clear, mumsnet is widely regarded as 4chan with a glass of prosecco. I would not just say “moms discussion forum” when priming people for what it is or just how reactionary the people there are.

Musk’s auto-resign-by-email app

Someone could do something really fucking funny if they can trick it into accepting incorrect emails.

I said so many fucking times that if Elon comes in and does DOGE and fires 30% of the US states’ workforce in “cost savings” like he did at X the entire machine will come to a grinding halt.

I can’t fucking believe they’re actually doing it.

US military does not want its soldiers using an AI where the US military intelligence can’t see and track what their soldiers are looking up.

Whereas the extremist organization Antifa is motivated by communism, anarchism, socialism, and violence, and has continuously demonstrated their commitment to lawlessness and criminal behavior;

[…]

Resolved, That—

(1) this conduct of Antifa members, or any unlawful conduct performed at an Antifa-affiliated demonstration, is deemed to be domestic terrorism (as such term is defined in section 2331 of title 18, United States Code);

I am not a lawyer but this resolution reads like it makes communism, anarchism and socialism into domestic terrorism and then goes on to say they must then all be prosecuted under anti terror law.

I’ve never like gimp, I would use it but have always found its differences to photoshop to be an unintuitive pain in the ass.

I’ve been using Photopea.com lately though, which obviously isn’t open but it fills most of my quick free editing needs.

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Yeah brits tend to only think about the holocaust as the bad thing the nazis did. Nationalism and anti-immigration are rising because they’re not well connected with the hate of nazis that people have in their minds. It’s a weird mismatch.

Yep definitely true. There’s some negatives to this but I feel like the negatives are greater for fascists than they are for leftists so I’m disinclined to try correcting it.

Fortunately in the UK almost none. Clean Wehrmacht myth comes out of some of the people that like to collect models from time to time but even then that’s pretty rare. You do hear the idea that Hitler fixed Germany even if his methods were horrible and the sort of “made the trains run on time” thing (but not in those words).

None of it is really defence of the nazis though, and I have genuinely never met or seen a single person who would claim communists are more evil than nazis. The UK is fortunate to have had many figures on the left who have openly supported and defended the USSR over the decades which has really prevented the nonsense from setting in here.

He wants to force the production to move to America in order to bypass tariffs.

It can’t without the skilled workforce though. Nothing magically speeds up building a skilled workforce in the US either.

HK in 2019 was a turning point in media and widespread villification of China

I think meta and google are up on media pundits arguing that western companies should be allowed into China if Chinese companies are allowed in the west. Whether that pans out and does actually happen I don’t know but it seems to be where the media spin is going now that the tiktok ban has failed. It could be spin to try and convince trump to re-ban it too though.

Is it open source? Will we see it replace stable diffusion, how is it compared to Flux?

Treatment of cattle is not that different to how fascists view and treat humans.

I’ve also seen this vehicle with a wood burner in the back before which is why I was guessing. I don’t know if it’s actually running off it though, just a guess.