“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”
The Iranian people, amidst US and Israeli bombardments and threats from the IRGC and the Islamic Republic, have had no internet access since the start of the war.
Being cut off from the world and each other deliberately puts their lives in grave danger.
Today, Tehran, one of the oils reserves
Bombing infrastructure used by civilians is not ethical, and should be stopped; there is immediate and devastating impact for Iranians but this goes beyond, imagine all the unnecessary pollution from bombing oil reserves across the country
My heart aches for the people of Iran; this war needs to stop, there should be a diplomatic way to change the regime without this increasing level of violence and destruction.
Disconnected and suppressed by their government, while being bombed;
“More than 30 people have died in ICE custody since January, 2025.”
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“Autopsy of Canadian in ICE custody indicates his death was preventable, experts say”
The Globe and Mail
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This is why we shouldn’t store sensitive data using US technology, and need Canadian solutions.
Update #IranProtests (144): Een zeer belangrijk artikel in The Guardian over #IranMassacre:
"Verdwenen lichamen, massabegrafenissen, 30.000 doden. Wat is de waarheid over de protesten in #Iran?"
Deel het alstublieft!
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Update #IranProtests (154): Belangrijk verslag v The Guardian over de arrestatie vd Iraanse chirurg Dr. Alireza Golchini:
"Hij werd op gewelddadige wijze gearresteerd in het bijzijn v zijn vrouw en zoontje v slechts 11 jaar. Ze hebben hem tijdens de arrestatie >
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Video is from telegram channel of @vahidonline who I’ve been following for years and is credible. I feel obligated to share this since they have closed all communication channels, and they are under 14 days blackout, for the world to not see these, there would be a flood of videos like this if not
This treatment is what million of protesters were subjected to this past days, systematic violence, ordered by the head of all armed forces, aka the supreme leader, and carried out in all the streets of Iran, 20k dead. Don’t let any other narrative dilute where the main responsibility lies.
They also made millions anti-Islam by forcing that on them so really serving no purpose other than clinging to power and enriching themselves at the cost of blood of 3 years olds
Iran regime claimed that they are providing security and keeping isis out, despite the economic and environmental mess they made, rationing basics like water and electricity; and exponential inflation. Now, they openly kill people. How do they justify their rule is beyond me.
Thank you
It is complex situation and I’m hoping to see people discuss exactly this.
Thank you both
But if anyone knows a cluster or feed of people here that are discussing this topic, please let me know.
There are now report of 12000 death by the Iranian regime and there is a looming US attack on another middle eastern country. It is frustrating to see this level of disengagement on the topic here. I refuse to go to X, even if missing on something as this important to me.
The main worry now is the loss of human life and suffering of people fighting for their basic rights and freedom. And the outcome is unpredictable, but I hope that the people of Iran succeed in building a better future, they sure deserve it.
Communication is shut down for days now, including landlines. They also jammed starlink communications.
Iranian people are being massacred by their own regime, in complete silence. Reports that do get out, say they are attacking civilians with military machine guns with an order to killing and scare, and more than 2000 dead in 24 hours.
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
We do have a tiny tack for short submission and proceedings for the workshop.
Last call for submission to information integrity workshop at ICDM, deadline extended to September 12th. We are very interested to hear about your works on future of the information space, misinformation, generative AI, toxic speech, polarization, etc. sites.google.com/view/fiirwor...
CFP for workshop on future of information integrity research (AI-driven fact checking, deepfakes, etc.). Deadline August 29th (tiny, regular and demo papers); please consider submitting your work: sites.google.com/view/fiirwor...
If you are interested in a unified collection of common misinformation detection benchmarks, check out our recent repo @hf.co
workshop's shared task on social-media based personas released on Kaggle: www.kaggle.com/competitions...
We’re also actively recruiting members for the Program Committee. If you’re interested in reviewing please fill out this short interest form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
workshop's shared task on social-media based personas released on Kaggle: www.kaggle.com/competitions...
