New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea, data protection agency says
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Stephen King supporting the movement
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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, and Washington Post boldly calls it an "unusual request"
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Buttons the hippo, merino wool and circular needle
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Didnt see a lot of knits on here but the rules didnt specify what qualified as “art”. Roughly 230 hours of work on this piece :3
Why are women still being sent to prison as ‘a place of safety’? | Eva Wiseman
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Typically, this is how it goes: a woman on the street behaves erratically and police pick her up, concerned she might harm herself or others. Perhaps she’ll be held in a police car or cell for a while, charged with disorderly conduct, or perhaps she’ll be taken to hospital. But increasingly a lack of mental health beds means she is then taken to prison “as a place of safety” and there she’ll stay, unsentenced and without specialist care, sometimes lingering in a cell for more than a year. These patients include (wrote Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, in a report last year) people whose psychosis can make them violent, meaning they’re held in isolation, and people so driven to harming themselves, “They have repeatedly blocked their own airways with bedding, removed teeth or maimed themselves to the point of exposing their own intestines.”
There were 11 suicides at HMP Styal between 2007 and 2024, more than any other women’s jail in England. One was 18-year-old Annelise Sanderson, who had been arrested in 2020 for stealing a pair of trainers and assaulting emergency workers who had intervened. When she was apprehended she poured petrol on herself and tried to drink it; instead of being offered psychiatric treatment, she was sentenced to 12 months at Styal. A woman detained there at the same time told the BBC that it was “no place for a vulnerable young woman” and that Anderson “needed help, yet found herself in the same pit of monsters as me”.
Other prisons house more tragedies. Last year a jury concluded that Eastwood Park prison in Gloucestershire failed to provide for 36-year-old Kay Melhuish’s “basic human needs” and that neglect (including a 10-day wait for clean underwear) contributed to her death by suicide. Melhuish was being held on remand during an acute mental health crisis – campaigning for access to her children, she was arrested holding a knife to her own throat. The prison was aware of her history of suicide attempts and self-harm, and had been warned that her autism and PTSD made prison (with its noise and regular use of force) particularly difficult for her to cope with. Less than three weeks after she arrived, she was dead. Her daughter told the Guardian, “Mum was ill, not bad.”
Federation using lemmy-federate
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I wanted to suggest adding ani.social to lemmy-federate.com. This would make it easier for other instances to discover and federate with communities on the instance.
Thousands rally in Serbia as anger over corruption swells
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Tens of thousands of students marched into the central Serbian city of Kragujevac on Saturday, demanding justice after a deadly railway disaster, in one of the biggest shows of anger against the government.
In the three months since 15 people were killed when a roof collapsed at a newly-renovated train station in Serbia’s second-biggest city of Novi Sad, mass demonstrations have grown into the biggest threat yet to President Aleksandar Vucic’s decade-long grip on power.
Joined by teachers, farmers and other workers, the students have drawn support from the wider public as many Serbians have blamed the tragedy on corruption within the government.
On Saturday, students braved near-freezing temperatures to travel to Kragujevac from across Serbia, by bus and even on foot from the capital Belgrade, some 140 kilometres (87 miles) away, beating drums, blowing whistles and waving the country’s flag. Locals greeted them with cheers.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-rally-serbia-over-deadly-railway-disaster-2025-02-15
Mars Guy - Episode 202 (YouTube 4:49)
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Perseverance drove back to the location of what could be one of the most significant discoveries of the mission. The plan this time was to collect a sample for return to Earth, but Mars was not ready to participate in that plan.
Trump and Musk claim the media is trying to drive them apart in Fox News interview
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Summary
Donald Trump and Elon Musk told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that they believe the media is attempting to create a rift between them.
In a preview of their upcoming interview, Trump revealed that Musk called him to discuss this alleged media strategy. Musk nodded in agreement as Trump dismissed the media’s efforts.
Some pundits speculate their relationship will eventually fracture due to their competing egos.
The interview follows Musk’s recent Oval Office appearance, where he stood prominently beside Trump during a controversial executive order signing.
Happy Aromantic Awareness Week!
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wishing a pleasant week to all aros everywhere
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Europe quietly developing plan to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, AP reports
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