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Governments spent years blocking newspapers, jailing reporters, and scrubbing websites. So, a group of journalists hid all the banned articles inside Minecraft, and now a 12-year-old in Riyadh can read them between building blocks. It's called The Uncensored Library. Here's the loophole nobody saw coming and I f*cking love it: Authoritarian governments block news sites, social media, blogs, anything that lets independent journalism through. But they never blocked Minecraft. It's a kids' game. It's harmless. It's the most played game on Earth and it works in almost every country, including Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam. Reporters Without Borders walked straight through that open door. They took articles that got journalists arrested, exiled, or killed in their home countries. They rebuilt those articles as books inside the game. Then they built a library to hold them. A real one. 12.5 million blocks. 24 builders from 16 countries. A dome nearly 300 meters wide, one of the biggest domed structures anywhere, real or virtual. A kid in a censored country opens a video game their government approved of. Walks into a marble library that doesn't exist in the physical world. Pulls a book off a shelf. And reads the exact reporting their government spent millions trying to erase. The censors are still watching the newspapers. Nobody told them the truth moved into a sandbox game.

@ihteshamali This is incredible- thank you for sharing!!!

BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet. It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world. Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds. You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded. Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together. And the archive gets insanely specific. You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands. There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk

An 11 year old girl committed suicide after being bullied by kids at her school who told her they were going to call ICE to take her parents away so she would be all alone. 11 years old. Those children saw a Hispanic girl at their school and bullied her with the racist remarks they learned from their parents. Now a child is dead and a family is forever traumatized. The school knew about the bullying but never informed her parents. They only found out about it after she had already passed and investigators informed them. I will never understand how anyone could be so cruel to support an organization that is tearing families apart. This poor girl lived in fear thinking she was going to lose her family. The sick thing is I doubt the parents of those bullies even cared because that is the behavior they taught their children. Fuck ICE and fuck everyone who supports this. Rest in peace Jocelynn Rojo Carranza.

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Republicans voted to strip the right of unaccompanied kids to have a lawyer represent them in immigration court. We're talking about kids who are as young as 18 months old who will now be left to fend for themselves in front of the government.

ICE aggressively detain woman at gas station—physically assaults U.S. citizen for filming. "Why did you hit me?" cries woman. "I didn’t do anything!" Agent then charges toward man filming—twice. Both times shoving man backwards hard—while trying to hit phone out of his hand. Incident occurred at a Sam’s Club Fuel Center located in Texas. Account posting did not get woman's name so if you recognize her—please pass this along to her family so they know why she disappeared. They don't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. notus.org/national/ameri…

NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.

How The West Conspired To Assasinate Patrice Lumumba. ↓Read↓ buymeacoffee.com/africanarchive…

ICE grabbed a 17yo Target worker at his job, despite him saying he’s a US citizen. After confirming he was, they dumped him in a Walmart lot 8 min away. Bystanders found him sobbing, bleeding: “They slammed me on the ground.”

this is huge: Trump sued the BBC for defamation, and now a federal judge has ruled he must hand over detailed financial records, opening the door for the network to examine more than 400 companies tied to his family trust. he wanted a headline and got discovery instead. major backfire. Do you agree with the federal judge decision?

The NSA kept 1 lecture in a vault for 40 years. In 2024 they released it. It's Grace Hopper explaining the future of computing in 1982. The channel that posted it: the National Security Agency's own YouTube. Hopper stands at a podium in Navy uniform, a captain, and talks to a room of NSA staff for 90 minutes across 2 reels. The title: "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People." She compares the computer industry to the early automotive one, all custom parts and no standards, and argues software will become the hard problem, not hardware. She was right by decades. She invented the first compiler and gave COBOL its shape. She kept a clock that ran backwards on her wall to prove rules can be questioned. The tapes were too degraded for normal release, so the agency restored them before posting. 40 years in an NSA archive. 90 minutes. Now free.

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Staci Turner, the Chief Medical Examiner in Mississippi, needs to be investigated & every case she has ruled accidental, undetermined, or suicide involving Black people needs to be reexamined immediately. Trey Reed was found hanging at the Delta State college campus. She ruled his death a suicide. But an independent investigation ruled it homicide after discovering blunt force trauma and bruising all over his body. She ruled Nolan Wells death a drowning almost immediately after receiving his body. The Wells Family has since requested an independent investigation. She ruled Damion Cameron’s death undetermined after a deadly confrontation with law enforcement left him with internal neck bleeding. Shannon Wilson was embalmed without his family’s permission. Destroying evidence that could have proven he was murdered. When I make posts about institutional racism. This is a shining reminder of what it looks like. They call us racist for exposing their racism. Think about that family.

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When Prince Harry ran to his helicopter during a television interview while serving in Afghanistan (2013)

@Kaos_Vs_Control F this guy and his shit food

Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora. He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks. Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s.