I don’t think the article even was so bold as to say his organization distributed pro Hamas flyer. They say someone at the protest did and leave it to your inference that it was the org he leads
Readit Newsspace_fountain commented on US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m
There is evidence that the group that Khalil headed did endorse Hamas and distributed pro-Hamas propaganda. Whether this news article is true or if it's propaganda remains to be seen.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/09/us-news/ice-arrests-palestinia...
https://nypost.com/2025/03/09/us-news/who-is-mahmoud-khalil-...
I have a pretty weak opinion of the nypost
Lines like this certainly don’t help:
> He’s been a regular fixture on news programs discussing the group’s disruptive efforts, including an interview on Quds News Network done completely in Arabic
Why is it relevant that he did an interview in Arabic? Like seriously?
As others have said the rest reads as just guilt by association.
To be maximally fair to the other position it has made me reluctant to protest against Israel despite being broadly against them. There are too many people in that movement who are clearly racist, but it’s also unfortunate that pro Israeli forces campaign hard to conflate opposition to Israel with opposition to Jewish people
The does not seem to be, or it has not been offered so far
Yeah. It says nothing about revoking his greencard or deporting him, just that he holds one.
> Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared a link on X to a news article about Mr. Khalil’s arrest and issued a broad promise: “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/nyregion/ice-arrests-pale...
It's questionable whether his green card has actually been revoked either. Supposedly that requires proceedings to go through an immigration court and be approved by a judge, and as far as anyone knows that hasn't happened yet.
Which would mean he's just being detained without cause in some unspecified location on no basis
News coverage seems to suggest immigrants can be detained while moved to revoke their green cards are made, but it’s incredibly troubling that no one seems to know what’s up, the government agents arresting him seemed to think he had a student visa and in general there is so little visibility
space_fountain commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
Third, if US owns the resources and Russia tries to seize it, US would have legit reason to send their troops to Ukraine.
The US has legal reasons now. Ukraine is a sovereign country and would be more than happy to accept US military bases. The US hasn't sent soldiers because they don't want to go to war with Russia
space_fountain commented on List of DRM-Free Bookshops libreture.com/bookshops/... · Posted by u/nafnlj
There's no key system like that that could possibly work.
But you already are required to deposit your books (or other copyrighted works) with the British Library upon publication and many other countries do the same thing.
https://bookisbn.org.uk/legal-deposit/
The US should probably do the same thing, but the amount of American works that aren't covered by the British Library are probably minimal.
The us does have the same thing https://www.copyright.gov/mandatory/
space_fountain commented on List of DRM-Free Bookshops libreture.com/bookshops/... · Posted by u/nafnlj
I've been saying for a while now that I'd love to see rules restricting the use of the term "Buy" such that it can only apply to digital products when they are DRM-free and fully downloadable. Anything where the seller retains the right to claw back their product post-sale is more of an indefinite lease or purchase of rights rather than "buying" the product itself.
I think a relatively small proportion of people buying media online fully comprehend that—based on a contract negotiation gone wrong or just the whim of a senior exec—the things they've "bought" can simply be taken away from them. Sellers should be required to make it fully clear (e.g. not just in their 73 page ToS) that they're selling something impermanent and entirely unlike owning physical media.
I agree though I have actually noticed that Amazon is more clear about this than they used to be. They now clearly say you’re buying a license not the book and it may have just been a Europe thing but I think it even made me confirm that I knew some of the implications of that distinction.
Unlike a lot of people on here I think I don’t have fundamental problems with DRM, but I think consumers absolutely should be guaranteed more rights over the things they buy. Maybe something like.
* access is non revokable and if any part of the drm scheme stops working the provider must provide a drm stripping tool
* access is transferable
space_fountain commented on How does DeepSeek work: An inside look codedoodles.substack.com/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Anthropic says
> To date we have not used any customer or user-submitted data to train our generative models.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet
There's an obvious problem with the concept of training on user prompts; how would training on a bunch of questions cause it to know the answers?
User queries were at least historically useful to train smaller models from larger models. You need to know the kind of questions real people ask to train a model that’s good at answering those questions
space_fountain commented on Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate xatakaon.com/magnet/japan... · Posted by u/nithinj
I'm sure financial engineering will find a way to make it work in the end
Retirement is about having other people take care of you. If there are less people overall there are less resources to care for the elderly who aren't working. With expanding populations this is easier to manage because the fraction of people who are elderly is smaller, but it can be a huge drain if that changes. This is about resources and no amount of financial engineering can solve it, though financial engineering will probably keep people off the streets