If you don't know about Posy, this is a perfect time to make your introduction. He doesn't post all that often, but it's always delightful, usually insightful, and calming in a world of videos where people are mostly shouting.

He calls it the channel about anything, and this video is about housemaid objects (but extremely close).

Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first hurdle in parliament.

Several rallies against the Treaty Principles Bill are being staged in towns across the country as a nine-day march, or hikoi, moves to Wellington. It is expected to reach the national capital on Tuesday.

An estimated 10,000 people marched through Rotorua, about 450 km (280 miles) north of Wellington, New Zealand police said in a statement. Protesters, some wearing traditional clothing, were greeted by hundreds waving the Maori flag and chanting.

Typhoon Usagi made landfall in the Philippines on Thursday as the authorities warned that the storm could cause widespread flooding and landslides in the north of the country.

Usagi, called Ofel in the Philippines, is the fifth major storm to hit the country in the past three weeks. The other four — Toraji, Trami, Yinxing and Kong-rey — killed more than 100 people and caused destruction. This week, four tropical storms churned at once in and around the South China Sea and the North Pacific, the first time that had happened in the region in November since records began.

Gaetz, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2016, is a Trump loyalist who supported Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Gaetz resigned from Congress abruptly Wednesday hours after Trump's announcement, effectively ending a wide-ranging probe by the House Ethics Committee over alleged sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. The Ethics Committee had been set to vote this week on the release of a "highly damaging" report on its investigation into Gaetz, Punchbowl News reported. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has called on the committee to release the report regardless. If appointed, Gaetz will head the Justice Department, which last year decided not bring to charges against him over sex trafficking allegations, including that he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.

The lawmakers said Ben Gvir and Smotrich are responsible for undermining security in the West Bank and are encouraging violent attacks against Palestinians through their actions and statements.

They also called on Biden to impose sanctions on the Amana organization, which is engaged in settlement expansion and is involved in establishing illegal outposts in the West Bank. The lawmakers also called for sanctions on the Regavim NGO, which Smotrich founded several years ago. They claimed the organization was involved in actions that resulted in the forcible displacement of Palestinians from their land in the West Bank. "Settler violence in the West Bank, incentivized by external organizations and even by extremist officials in the Netanyahu government, threatens the longterm strategic security of Israel and the region," they wrote.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21955872

Amazon is poised to roll out its newest artificial intelligence chips as the Big Tech group seeks returns on its multibillion-dollar semiconductor investments and to reduce its reliance on market leader Nvidia.

Executives at Amazon’s cloud computing division are spending big on custom chips in the hopes of boosting the efficiency inside its dozens of data centers, ultimately bringing down its own costs as well as those of Amazon Web Services’ customers.

Authorities across China are cracking down on thousands of college students who took part in mass night-cycling events that commentators said could be seen as a new form of protest against the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

The police department in Henan’s Zhengzhou city issued a warning to students on Nov. 9, following a mass “night ride to Kaifeng” by thousands of young people a day earlier, as a social media video about riding to the city in search of dumplings spawned dozens of copycat outings, eventually expanding to a mass cycle ride that some observers said left the authorities rattled, concerned that it could turn into a political protest like the “white paper” movement two years ago, or Halloween in Shanghai.

Edit: these events are widely reported by diverse news sources:

BBC | CNN | ABC (Australia) | Sky News

A Hong Kong journalist fired by the Wall Street Journal after she was elected leader of a local journalists' union lodged a legal challenge with the city’s labor tribunal on Tuesday.

Selina Cheng, who says she was let go as part of “restructuring” in July after being warned against seeking election as chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, is filing a case with the tribunal after her request for reinstatement was unsuccessful.

The Biden administration says Israel has made good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved.

“We are not giving Israel a pass,” Patel said, adding that “we want to see the totality of the humanitarian situation improve, and we think some of these steps will allow the conditions for that to continue to progress.”