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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday welcomed a joint statement by Australia and New Zealand emphasizing the importance of peace in the Taiwan Strait.

The statement came at the close of Tuesday’s third ANZMIN 2+2 meeting in Canberra. Participants in the annual consultations were New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, Defense Minister Judith Collins, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Defense Minister Richard Marles.

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Australia and New Zealand said they wanted to continue deepening economic, trade, and cultural relations with Taiwan while enhancing the coordination of development efforts in the Pacific.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44453258

Today's game is Stardew Valley. Me and some friends got the idea to play a big lobby with around the 6 of us just to see how it went. So far it's gone well. I stole someone's furniture and moved their house to a random corner. Then i sold all my Parsnips just to grow potatoes. I wanted to see how far i could get just growing them.

I've been mostly making a living fishing all day. So far we're on the 13th and i've got enough for a Chicken Coop. Next time we play i plan to have it built. Maybe even pick up a few chickens if we go that long.

The game is interesting as in all my saves, i feel like it becomes a social game in multiplayer. Like, just run your chores and chat in voice call. It's really fun. Plus when you interact you can have some fun experiences. Like fishing next to each other or helping to meet the coop goal.

Single player it's fun too. I can't help but feel it doesn't have a lot of replay ability to me personally once i get out of the early game. By summer it just becomes the standard checklist for me.

We ended just on the egg hunt. It was tired and none of us wanted to tackle it. On retrospect i'm thinking i should have picked a different game though to write about today because this game is definitely proving a challenge to talk about.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44453258

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52545959

*This is an opinion piece by Benedict Rogers, a British human rights lawyer. *

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China’s new "ethnic unity" law, passed by the National People’s Congress last week, is the latest step in Xi Jinping’s campaign of forced Sinicization. It codifies in law what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been implementing for some years — a program of forced assimilation for China’s ethnic minorities aimed at wiping out ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity.

[...]

Sharing a common loyalty to one’s country, regardless of ethnicity, is a desirable objective.

However, there are three points about China’s plans that should be kept in mind.

First, this is less about social cohesion and more about political control and repression.

The “identity” the CCP wants its citizens, of all ethnicities, to adopt is loyalty to the Communist Party. Indeed, the CCP conflates Party and State, so that to be patriotic means to be devoted to the Party.

In any democracy, you can be loyal to your country without being aligned with the governing party. You can be a patriotic American and a critic of the incumbent president. You can be a British patriot and an opponent of the sitting prime minister.

The same is true in Asia’s democracies, such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Even in India under the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, or in Indonesia under former dictator Suharto’s son-in-law Prabowo Subianto, you can be a political opponent without your patriotism being in doubt.

But not in China. The Party, the State, and the nation are one in the mind of the CCP.

That is why the new law insists that citizens must have “correct views” on history, culture, and religion, and abandon “outdated customs.” It requires parents to “educate and guide children to love the Chinese Communist Party.”

[...]

Secondly, this will apply to people who were never part of historic China.

The history is disputed, but certainly for significant periods of history, Tibet and East Turkistan were their own nations, which were invaded by China.

Now the CCP wants us to call East Turkistan — the homeland of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples — by the name it has chosen, “Xinjiang,” which literally means “New Frontier.”

It is also mounting a campaign to persuade the world to call Tibet “Xizang,” a Chinese term meaning “Western Zang.”

China invaded Tibet in October 1950.

Last week, Tibetans and friends of Tibet around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10, 1959. That day, tens of thousands of Tibetans protested against Chinese military occupation and were massacred. The Dalai Lama escaped into exile, where he has been ever since.

A campaign of forced assimilation has already been underway for decades in both occupied Tibet and occupied East Turkistan.

Under Xi Jinping, it has intensified. More than one million Tibetan children have been forcibly separated from their parents and coerced into colonial boarding schools, where they are prohibited from learning their own Tibetan language, practising their own Tibetan Buddhist religion, or celebrating their Tibetan culture.

[...]

Thirdly, Xi Jinping has also been mounting a campaign of Sinicization against Christians across China, which again proves that this is not about culture or language, but politics.

The Sinicization of religion is not about making religion culturally sensitive or integrated — it is about making religion politically co-opted. It is about forcing state-controlled churches to display portraits of Xi and CCP propaganda banners alongside, or sometimes instead of, religious imagery.

A crackdown against Christians who refuse to comply — or who run churches outside the state-approved institutions — is intensifying, resulting in the detention last October of Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of the Zion Church network, and 17 of his pastors and elders.

[...]

“Ethnic unity” is very different from “inter-ethnic harmony.”

A 22-year-old Chinese student, Zhang Yadi, has been detained since last summer because, while studying in Paris, she had become involved with a group working to promote understanding and awareness among Chinese students about Tibetan culture.

This was promoting inter-ethnic harmony, an idea it turns out the CCP dislikes, and so she was arrested when she returned home to visit her family.

[...]

Diversity, of ethnicity, religion, culture, or thought, and inter-ethnic harmony or pluralism of religious, philosophical, spiritual, political, or cultural ideas, are concepts that terrify the CCP.

That is why it has introduced this new law — because it wants to make every Chinese citizen, regardless of their ethnicity, a cookie-cutter mold in the Party’s image. It is a campaign of forced assimilation that is genocidal in its intentions.

der spitzgurkige essigkopf

A new footpath stretching around the entire coast of England is being officially inaugurated later.

At 2,689 miles long, it is the longest managed coastal walking route in the world, according to Natural England, the government body which created it.

Its name is quite a trek too - King Charles III England Coast Path - but for the first time it creates a continuous trail, allowing walkers to explore England's shoreline step by step.

Ich vermisse ein wenig eine Kultur-Community auf Feddit.org. Mag sich mal jemand erbarmen und eine eröffnen und moderieren?

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I post it here?

It's a list of lists of Fediverse instances. Also, it contains some other lists of lists like this one. And a couple of miscellaneous resources. Tor tips can be ignored, they are region-specific.

• https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/instance-monitoring-sites - big list of lists.
• https://fediverse.observer/list - Table + Map + Stats, good list with language/software filter, 44784.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ymwyrl/fedilistcom_excellent_list_of_all_fediverse/ - list of lists.
• https://joinfediverse.wiki/Instances - list of lists.
• https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/ - list of lists, also curated mini-directory.
• https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ - small list of lists.
• https://fedidb.com/servers - Table, 42840.
• https://fedilist.com/instance - all 30511 instances at once, plus csv.
• https://gui.fediseer.com/ - anti spam instance directory? REST API.
• https://the-federation.info/#projects - table per each project (mastodon, lemmy etc). GraphQL API.
• https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers/ - small curated list.
• https://joinmastodon.org/servers - only Mastodon, no table, without Tor, 7900.
• https://instances.social/list/advanced - Only Mastodon, table, only Tor, slow, 16522.
• https://mastodon.help/instances/en - Only Mastodon, 9845/857.
• https://mastodonservers.net/ - Only Mastodon, categorized, no table.
• https://join-lemmy.org/instances - Only Lemmy, 521.
• https://lemmyverse.net/ - Only Lemmy, table, 533, with "blocked" counts.
• https://joinpeertube.org/instances - Only Peertube, small version of another list.
• https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances - Only Peertube, table, censored, 1686.
• https://pixelfed.org/servers - Only Pixelfed, 97.
• https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances - Lemmy instances with blocking/blocked by counts. 465
• https://mastodonserver.ca/ - blocked in Tor, doesn't open without it.
• https://fediverse.space/instances https://github.com/fediversespace/fediverse.space - does open, but doesn't load data. Should've been a map.
• https://www.fediverse.to/ - dead.
• https://joinfediverse.com/ - dead.
• http://lemmymap.feddit.de/ - dead.

• https://fediverse.info/ - not servers, but people. Vibe-coded benchmark website for rtx5070 enjoyers.
• https://kumu.io/wakest/fediverse - force-directed javascript map 3 fps, Tor only.
• https://100kstars.contained.love/ https://github.com/r0k1s-i/fediverse-with-100k-stars - 3D galaxy with stars and music, nodes are not connected. Takes some time to load.

• https://nodes.fediverse.party/, https://nodes.fediverse.party/nodes.json - only crawler and domains list, 36511. Doesn't open in Tor.
• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/marcdamie/fediverse-graph-dataset - federation datasets, Fedivertex.
• https://data.lemmyverse.net/ https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer - Lemmy dataset.

Originally, I was trying to find a dataset, where for each instance there's a list of other instances it blocked/federated/defederated. In the process of trying to find this data I've compiled this list. Do you happen to know where I can find such data?

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/29040897

Oil skyphos (500-450 BCE)

@historyartifacts

Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany

#ArtHistory #AnimalsInArt #AncientArt #MuseumArchive #GreekRomanArt

"Our mistake was to bank on something that was not yet proven," says Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen.

I am leaving the world of leftist activism forever because liberalism is holding me (and you) back from accomplishing meaningful change. And things/relations are only going to get worse as times get tougher. Please allow me to explain.

As context, deep and dark internet research is an everyday thing for me. What I am seeking confidently emerge is "powered by hate". Fascism is assuredly here, and you are not ready for it. Regardless of the facts, most of you ignored the sirens.

People like myself spent decades trying to wake up the masses. But it seems (despite reaching a quais-critical mass of human consciousness) the entropy of ignorance, vanity and forgetfulness are superior forces this cycle.

I choose to survive the coming changes and will not be pointlessly throwing away my life for ideals which need protecting in ways other than domestic terrorism. IOW "direct action" or protesting or monitoring with my resources is out of the question.

I encourage other leftist activists to reflect deeply on whether trying to shuttle the living generations of humanity anywhere is worth it. Especially somewhere said species lagely doesn't want to go, or isn't ready to approach.

The Trump administration is scrambling to cover its tracks amid legislative pressure and a First Amendment lawsuit over its alleged “domestic terrorist” database, new legal filings and emails reviewed by Mother Jones reveal.

A federal class action lawsuit filed last month against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents unlawfully targeted and intimidated Maine residents who were observing immigration operations. The complaint details incidents in which federal agents collected biometric data and license plate information from two legal observers—Colleen Fagan and Elinor Hilton—and warned the women that they were being added to a domestic terrorist database.

“Why are you taking my information down?” Fagan asks an ICE agent in one viral video. The 31-year-old social worker had been observing and documenting ICE agents as they descended on her hometown of Portland—part of a statewide immigration enforcement surge dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day” by the Trump administration.

“’Cause we have a nice little database,” the ICE agent replies, “and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

That exchange, captured on video by Fagan and posted to X on January 23, has since been viewed more than 7 million times. The ICE agent’s remark has sparked concerns among activists that the government is building a watchlist of its critics—especially as DHS expands its use of mass surveillance technology and Trump administration officials publicly condemn peaceful protesters and legal observers as “terrorists.”

Quote from Proton VPN:

Google has known about a bug that breaks VPN apps for 7 months, leaving users exposed with no warning or error, just a VPN app that stopped working in the background.

If you're using ANY VPN on Android, you can help us by getting Google's attention to fix it.

We first reported this bug to Google in September 2025.

Others like Mullvad and Wireguard reported it even earlier, in August.

Google's response? "I don't see anything unusual."

The bug corrupts Android's network stack at the system level after a VPN update, causing users to blame their VPN provider.

Restarting the app doesn't help, with the only fix being a full device reboot or VPN app reinstall, something which most users never figure out.

This affects several VPN providers on Android 16, and only Google has the access to diagnose it properly.

After 7 months of waiting, we're now asking publicly: Google, when are you fixing this?

Issue Tracker Links:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/441315112

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/4474331

Artist's Twitter

First Nations leaders in Manitoba are seeking accountability after they say a 75-year-old elder was harassed and accused of stealing by two men at a Winnipeg Walmart store.

Elder Mary Laquette, who is from Lake St. Martin First Nation, said the men swore at her, took items from her, accused her of stealing and ordered her to leave the store.

"It's not right for somebody to treat me like that, when I wasn't even thinking of stealing," said Laquette, who has mobility challenges and uses a walker.

She uses the walker to store the items she intends on buying while grocery shopping.

*This is an opinion piece by Benedict Rogers, a British human rights lawyer. *

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China’s new "ethnic unity" law, passed by the National People’s Congress last week, is the latest step in Xi Jinping’s campaign of forced Sinicization. It codifies in law what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been implementing for some years — a program of forced assimilation for China’s ethnic minorities aimed at wiping out ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity.

[...]

Sharing a common loyalty to one’s country, regardless of ethnicity, is a desirable objective.

However, there are three points about China’s plans that should be kept in mind.

First, this is less about social cohesion and more about political control and repression.

The “identity” the CCP wants its citizens, of all ethnicities, to adopt is loyalty to the Communist Party. Indeed, the CCP conflates Party and State, so that to be patriotic means to be devoted to the Party.

In any democracy, you can be loyal to your country without being aligned with the governing party. You can be a patriotic American and a critic of the incumbent president. You can be a British patriot and an opponent of the sitting prime minister.

The same is true in Asia’s democracies, such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Even in India under the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, or in Indonesia under former dictator Suharto’s son-in-law Prabowo Subianto, you can be a political opponent without your patriotism being in doubt.

But not in China. The Party, the State, and the nation are one in the mind of the CCP.

That is why the new law insists that citizens must have “correct views” on history, culture, and religion, and abandon “outdated customs.” It requires parents to “educate and guide children to love the Chinese Communist Party.”

[...]

Secondly, this will apply to people who were never part of historic China.

The history is disputed, but certainly for significant periods of history, Tibet and East Turkistan were their own nations, which were invaded by China.

Now the CCP wants us to call East Turkistan — the homeland of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples — by the name it has chosen, “Xinjiang,” which literally means “New Frontier.”

It is also mounting a campaign to persuade the world to call Tibet “Xizang,” a Chinese term meaning “Western Zang.”

China invaded Tibet in October 1950.

Last week, Tibetans and friends of Tibet around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10, 1959. That day, tens of thousands of Tibetans protested against Chinese military occupation and were massacred. The Dalai Lama escaped into exile, where he has been ever since.

A campaign of forced assimilation has already been underway for decades in both occupied Tibet and occupied East Turkistan.

Under Xi Jinping, it has intensified. More than one million Tibetan children have been forcibly separated from their parents and coerced into colonial boarding schools, where they are prohibited from learning their own Tibetan language, practising their own Tibetan Buddhist religion, or celebrating their Tibetan culture.

[...]

Thirdly, Xi Jinping has also been mounting a campaign of Sinicization against Christians across China, which again proves that this is not about culture or language, but politics.

The Sinicization of religion is not about making religion culturally sensitive or integrated — it is about making religion politically co-opted. It is about forcing state-controlled churches to display portraits of Xi and CCP propaganda banners alongside, or sometimes instead of, religious imagery.

A crackdown against Christians who refuse to comply — or who run churches outside the state-approved institutions — is intensifying, resulting in the detention last October of Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of the Zion Church network, and 17 of his pastors and elders.

[...]

“Ethnic unity” is very different from “inter-ethnic harmony.”

A 22-year-old Chinese student, Zhang Yadi, has been detained since last summer because, while studying in Paris, she had become involved with a group working to promote understanding and awareness among Chinese students about Tibetan culture.

This was promoting inter-ethnic harmony, an idea it turns out the CCP dislikes, and so she was arrested when she returned home to visit her family.

[...]

Diversity, of ethnicity, religion, culture, or thought, and inter-ethnic harmony or pluralism of religious, philosophical, spiritual, political, or cultural ideas, are concepts that terrify the CCP.

That is why it has introduced this new law — because it wants to make every Chinese citizen, regardless of their ethnicity, a cookie-cutter mold in the Party’s image. It is a campaign of forced assimilation that is genocidal in its intentions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52545959

*This is an opinion piece by Benedict Rogers, a British human rights lawyer. *

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[...]

China’s new "ethnic unity" law, passed by the National People’s Congress last week, is the latest step in Xi Jinping’s campaign of forced Sinicization. It codifies in law what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been implementing for some years — a program of forced assimilation for China’s ethnic minorities aimed at wiping out ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity.

[...]

Sharing a common loyalty to one’s country, regardless of ethnicity, is a desirable objective.

However, there are three points about China’s plans that should be kept in mind.

First, this is less about social cohesion and more about political control and repression.

The “identity” the CCP wants its citizens, of all ethnicities, to adopt is loyalty to the Communist Party. Indeed, the CCP conflates Party and State, so that to be patriotic means to be devoted to the Party.

In any democracy, you can be loyal to your country without being aligned with the governing party. You can be a patriotic American and a critic of the incumbent president. You can be a British patriot and an opponent of the sitting prime minister.

The same is true in Asia’s democracies, such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Even in India under the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, or in Indonesia under former dictator Suharto’s son-in-law Prabowo Subianto, you can be a political opponent without your patriotism being in doubt.

But not in China. The Party, the State, and the nation are one in the mind of the CCP.

That is why the new law insists that citizens must have “correct views” on history, culture, and religion, and abandon “outdated customs.” It requires parents to “educate and guide children to love the Chinese Communist Party.”

[...]

Secondly, this will apply to people who were never part of historic China.

The history is disputed, but certainly for significant periods of history, Tibet and East Turkistan were their own nations, which were invaded by China.

Now the CCP wants us to call East Turkistan — the homeland of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples — by the name it has chosen, “Xinjiang,” which literally means “New Frontier.”

It is also mounting a campaign to persuade the world to call Tibet “Xizang,” a Chinese term meaning “Western Zang.”

China invaded Tibet in October 1950.

Last week, Tibetans and friends of Tibet around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10, 1959. That day, tens of thousands of Tibetans protested against Chinese military occupation and were massacred. The Dalai Lama escaped into exile, where he has been ever since.

A campaign of forced assimilation has already been underway for decades in both occupied Tibet and occupied East Turkistan.

Under Xi Jinping, it has intensified. More than one million Tibetan children have been forcibly separated from their parents and coerced into colonial boarding schools, where they are prohibited from learning their own Tibetan language, practising their own Tibetan Buddhist religion, or celebrating their Tibetan culture.

[...]

Thirdly, Xi Jinping has also been mounting a campaign of Sinicization against Christians across China, which again proves that this is not about culture or language, but politics.

The Sinicization of religion is not about making religion culturally sensitive or integrated — it is about making religion politically co-opted. It is about forcing state-controlled churches to display portraits of Xi and CCP propaganda banners alongside, or sometimes instead of, religious imagery.

A crackdown against Christians who refuse to comply — or who run churches outside the state-approved institutions — is intensifying, resulting in the detention last October of Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of the Zion Church network, and 17 of his pastors and elders.

[...]

“Ethnic unity” is very different from “inter-ethnic harmony.”

A 22-year-old Chinese student, Zhang Yadi, has been detained since last summer because, while studying in Paris, she had become involved with a group working to promote understanding and awareness among Chinese students about Tibetan culture.

This was promoting inter-ethnic harmony, an idea it turns out the CCP dislikes, and so she was arrested when she returned home to visit her family.

[...]

Diversity, of ethnicity, religion, culture, or thought, and inter-ethnic harmony or pluralism of religious, philosophical, spiritual, political, or cultural ideas, are concepts that terrify the CCP.

That is why it has introduced this new law — because it wants to make every Chinese citizen, regardless of their ethnicity, a cookie-cutter mold in the Party’s image. It is a campaign of forced assimilation that is genocidal in its intentions.