colonies

If you think China colonized Xinjiang, well… yeah, they did. But that was 22 centuries ago, a millennium before the [people now known as] Uyghurs had even arrived there. The demographics and ruling empires unsurprisingly changed a few times in the ensuing millennia, but since the Qing dynasty committed the Dzungar genocide there (from 1755–1758, with help of several peoples including Han and Uyghur) it has mostly remained a part of China.

The ancient history is interesting, but more recent events (eg Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups the US has been funding there) are more relevant to the present situation.

I did watch the first three minutes. Everything he shows is true, everything he explains as interpretation is just full of shit.

What specifically is he full of shit about? I recommend watching more than three minutes of it.

Here and here are two texts on the subject which cover some of the same things as that video (albeit not from a first-hand person-from-the-US-traveling-in-Xinjiang perspective like the video does).

i recommend this recent video by Eric Hovagim to learn more about the Uyghur topic (but i guess you’ll probably skip it based on its title?)

The head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, has said the group will no longer work with hundreds of cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the growing influence of the rightwing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré.

[…]

Speaking in Cannes on Sunday, the Canal+ chief executive, Maxime Saada, called the petition “an injustice toward the Canal+ teams, who are committed to defending the independence of Canal+ and the full diversity of its choices”.

He added: “I will no longer work with and I no longer want Canal to work with the people who signed that petition.”

funny way to demonstrate his organization’s independence from its owner

see also the hexbear thread about this

about their MDASH copilot model

that’s satire, right?

Ubique Media Daemon

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i generally agree, although for some reCaptcha-using websites there actually aren’t alternatives. eg many governments, healthcare providers, public utilities, etc are using it :(

A Motorola phone soon shipping with GrapheneOS isn’t just a rumor but it doesn’t help with the problem of Google making their very popular robot detection service classify deGoogled Android users as non-human.

more info here: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

that kernel release (which most distros have still not shipped yet) fixes only one of the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284); afaik even upstream still doesn’t have a patch for the second one (CVE-2026-43500) at this time.

(for people relying on Linux privilege separation, here are mitigation instructions.)

As someone helpfully explained to you in that thread:

You’re trying to explain how Israelis’ indifference to Palestinian suffering is valid

also btw my participation in this sub-thread began by replying to your challenging someone to find examples of you “defending the right” and… yeah, the above-linked thread is obvs one of them

for anyone else reading this who might be curious, this is the deleted comment in question and this is the context in which it was posted 🙄

please cite from the article and don’t post just a link.

sorry i missed that that is the rule here. i’ve now edited the post.

amazing! it’s great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.

I’m willing to bet genocide apologia was

again, you don’t need to speculate: the modlog is public

the most recent comment you had deleted was for violating rule 1 of !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

before that it was for racism, genocide apologia, etc etc.

i recommend reading your own modlog and reflecting on it.