The Bnei Brak branch of a major pharmacy chain has been concealing the faces of women on the store’s products to comply with extreme ultra-Orthodox modesty customs widely decried as discriminatory, marking the latest instance of women being erased from Haredi public life.A photo from the branch of Shufersal’s Be pharmacy showing a shelf of…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JMMXriVxY&ab_channel=Storied[/embed] Advances in technology are always met with some degree of technophobia—and villainization. And cyborgs represent a special kind of fear inherent in losing ourselves in the technologies we create.
Last year, we announced we’re dipping our toes into the world of Mastodon. Today, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. We’ve put a lot of work into getting to this stage, but there is a lot more to do before we open it up more broadly. We’re making a long-term investment because we think…
Surveillance footage from inside the immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the U.S. border where 38 migrants died in a dormitory fire appears to show guards walking away from the blaze and making no apparent attempt to release detainees. Source: Video shows guards walking away during fire that killed 38 migrants near US-Mexico border
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3wtvvtJYU&ab_channel=Reuters[/embed] Members of Israeli commando units staged an underwater protest against the government’s judicial overhaul and took the protest to the depths of the Red Sea.
Israel’s top trade union chief called a general strike Monday over the hard-right government’s controversial judicial reforms, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defence minister who had called for a stop to the overhaul.”I am calling a general strike,” Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David said in a televised address. “From the moment this…