Ukraine has handed over to Russia as part of an exchange a 21-year-old student who had plans to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), investigative media outlet Verstka reported on Friday, citing his friends and Ukrainian military sources.

According to Verstka, Alexey Gerasimov was a former student of journalism at the Chuvash State University, who, friends said, openly supported Chuvashia’s secession from Russia. Chuvashia is a republic in Russia’s Volga region where local Chuvash, a Turkic ethnic group, form a two-thirds majority of the population.

“He would debate teachers, saying it was time for Chuvashia to secede from Russia. The teachers reported him and he was mobilised into the army,” Mishshi Oreshnikov, a Chuvash activist who fights for the AFU, told Verstka, though Verstka was unable to confirm this.

Fucking hell. Both Russia and China’s erasure of indigenous Turkic peoples is really bleak.

(In the US)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a tent by the Mediterranean Sea, Hidaya Al-Motawaq cradles her crying baby boy and tries to offer what comfort she can.****“Khalas,” she murmurs repeatedly. “Khalas, khalas.” Enough, that’s enough.

Mohammad is a year and a half old and nearly all bone. His eyes protrude, as does his swollen stomach. His spine is so sharp and so defined, it seems it might poke through his thin skin.

Al-Motawaq, 30, says she no longer has breast milk to give him, because she herself is malnourished.

A widow, Al-Motawaq went from hospital to hospital, looking for food or milk to offer Mohammad and her other child, his five-year-old sister, but says she has been unable to find any. The one remaining pediatric ward treating malnutrition in Gaza closed down this month, citing a lack of food and medical supplies.

It’s a shame the mongabay website doesn’t let you properly see the high quality versions or zoom in.

I use bookwyrm. Out of principle I won’t use storygraph because it’s closed source.

I agree with you the duplication on BookWyrm is annoying.

I’ve been looking into !neodb@lemmy.zip it looks quite promising but I haven’t had the energy to really engage with it and test it.

Rentierism

In fact, it appears we live in a giant cosmic void with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter.

Okay that’s a little less dramatic than I envisioned given the use of the word “void”

I ran

Article comes from RFE

https://www.rferl.org/a/china-backing-russia-ukraine-war/33483703.html

This is a video not a news article.

China is hosting the World AI conference in Shanghai this weekend, an annual event aimed at showcasing Beijing’s leadership in the evolution of technology. At the opening event Saturday, the country’s premier said China would be setting up a new organisation for cooperation on AI governance - again warning the risks of the technology must be considered as much as its benefits

Summary provided

Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.

Do you have a link to any of these :)

Happy cake day

“on the brink of passing” (the article text) is a bit of an exaggeration. The latest swiss news I can find is that the government is currently doing a consultation.

https://www.news.admin.ch/fr/nsb?id=103968

Anycase, hope this doesn’t pass seems pretty awful. But even if it does I think we’re likely to see a referendum and all that, so could take a while.

than 25% of women, approximately 2 billion.

I think you mean 1 billion there aren’t 8 billion women on earth.

Are… Mosquitoes… edible?

Based. I actually shared that exact link on another post a couple days ago! How random 😂
https://quokk.au/post/131674

Well I think most of his life is a bit much. I think specifically it’s his experience when he fought in Catalonia for the anti-authoritarian Marxists (POUM) having the Stalin backed communists betray POUM and kill and imprison his comrades.

This is like Orwell who devoted his life as a (anarchist leaning) democratic socialist to fight authoritarianism.

And now authoritarian things are called “Orwellian”.

Sometimes, actions speak louder than words.

Or in the case of car bombs, blow louder than words.