Just stumpled upon that (video, 20 sec): https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/113131659214334040

Just buy from China. It’s cheap :-)

Addition:

Toxic substances found in Shein and Temu products – (August 2024)

Women’s accessories sold by some of the world’s most popular online shopping firms contained toxic substances sometimes hundreds of times above acceptable levels, authorities in Seoul said yesterday.

Chinese giants including Shein, Temu and AliExpress have skyrocketed in popularity around the world in the past few years, offering a vast selection of trendy clothes and accessories at low prices.

Shoes from Shein were found to contain significantly high levels of phthalates — chemicals used to make plastics more flexible — with one pair 229 times above the legal limit.

“Phthalate-based plasticisers affect reproductive functions such as sperm count reduction, and can cause infertility and even premature birth,” an official from Seoul’s environmental health team told reporters.

One such chemical “is classified as a human carcinogen by the International Cancer Institute, so special care should be taken to avoid long-term contact with the human body,” the official said.

The article is longer, very interesting.

Did someone say we need supply chain transparency?

This is why we need supply chain transparency and this game is over, buddy, and among the weakest points in this context is China.

Whatever we understand by a ‘free market’, China must really not complain about a ‘non-free’ market policy not in the U.S. nor in most othrr countries. That would really be hypocritical.

Just one example:

Report finds shein, temu fueled by slave labor in [China’s] Xinjiang – [archived]

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has released a report stating that leading fast fashion brands, Shein and Temu, are powered by “slave labor.” The author of the report, Adam Savit, who is also the director of AFPI’s China Policy Initiative, said that Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities are subjected to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, benefitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

This is just one of many similar reports. I think we should always asking ourselves when buying cheap whether there are others who who pay the price, especially in.countries like China where there is no supply chain transparency.

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Yeah, and the article the user @technocrit posted before that in this community is from 2021.

This is report is more than 3 years old.

This is a rhetorical question, right?

Predatory Sparrow is distinguished most of all by its apparent interest in sending a specific geopolitical message with its attacks, says Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, an analyst at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne who has tracked the group for years. Those messages are all variations on a theme: If you attack Israel or its allies, we have the ability to deeply disrupt your civilization.

I am not sure if this ‘specific geopitical message’ is so unique to Israel. This is what countries like China , Russia, and others are doing as well, aren’t they?

Seems Israel and China are competing to sell their spyware to world.

The content spread by the right-wing creators is misi.formation, not the linked article itself. I edited the title a bit to avoid a misunderstanding.

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@PatheticGroundThing It really helps if you read the entire article before posting.

@PatheticGroundThing

It’s in the article:

Why the company chose to hire human cosplayers for last week’s World Robot Conference remains unclear. Were they hired as “booth babes,” an outdated and sexist form of promotion? Or were they purposefully there to trick attendees into thinking they were robots?

Given the reception of the videos on social media, it’s possible it’s a mix of both.

Yeah, I too hope she is well but there’s been no news in a long time.

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (August 2023) — [Archived version]

When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.

[…]

Naomi Wu’s devastating July 7th [2023] tweet alluded to a pressure that had long been feared by many, yet optimistically hoped she could manage to avoid indefinitely.

Ok for those of you that haven’t figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren’t gentle about it- so there’s not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can’t so we’re just going to follow the new rules and…

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) July 8, 2023

Reid Hoffman & Co have been heavily lobbying against Linda Khan, recently also with donations to Kamala Harris’ campaign. I also hope Ms. Khan keeps her job after Ms. Harris became president …

A far right-wing agenda by Trump’s supporters to overthrow democracy in the U.S. See, for example, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240810100005/https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

Addition: This is also a good link to find yozr way through Project 2025: https://www.25and.me

There is a good series of research articles on mis/disinformation. It’s content isn’t completely new and focused on the U.S., but it applies to any regions imho.

Reckoning with Mis/Disinformation in 2024: A four-part series

[…] Political rhetoric is again ramping up and new technologies are casting a shadow over public deliberation […] In this four-part series, members of our research network reflect on their influential work on mis- and disinformation in the context of today’s challenges, laying out some essential questions and insights to bolster public discourse in fraught times.​

they both distrust each other’s currency

Yes, I fully agree especially with this, but also the other views.

good reason to get out and vote.

Well said. I wholeheartedly agree.