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The black pirate flag was the first thing I noticed.

Although I had seen the Jolly Roger image of a skull and crossbones before, this one was distinct: a grinning cartoon skull wearing a straw hat — the flag of a fictional gang of pirates fighting oppression and corruption in the Japanese anime series “One Piece.”

When it first started appearing in early 2025 on the TikTok and Instagram feeds of young people taking to the streets during protests in Indonesia, I paid it little heed. That was until my 13-year-old daughter pointed out that the “Straw Hat Jolly Roger” had started circulating on social media in reference to my home country of Nepal.

The One Piece pirate flag — now heralded globally as a symbol of youth resistance — first started showing up in Nepal in early September 2025. Within days it had caught digital fire, culminating in a youth-led uprising that would topple Nepal’s government, leave the country’s political class reeling, and stun the nation’s mainstream media over its failure to understand power, shape narrative, and comprehend the ways in which a new generation was mobilizing.

As a journalist who has covered Nepal and the region for over two decades, I’m still processing those historic few days in September. What I find most unsettling is the fact that my teenage children — who insist they don’t follow any mainstream news — saw it coming long before I did.

The dramatic turn of events in Nepal, and the manner in which they unfolded, have since become a template of sorts for protests in many countries, led by a generation that insists on defining its own narratives, employing digital tools, and spreading its message through internet memes, Instagram Reels, and posts on video gaming platforms like Discord. Since the Nepal uprising there have been similar protests in Madagascar, Morocco, Peru, Bulgaria, and beyond, where governments have been swiftly overthrown or leaders have been put on notice by a groundswell that starts on social media. Many participants in these movements, especially in Nepal, identify as members of Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012 and currently between 13 and 28 years old.

These spontaneous, youth-led, social media-driven uprisings across several countries appear to be less anchored in a shared global ideology, according to experts, but instead in a common grievance: the sense of a broken social contract.

“The level of conflict in these societies comes from that big chasm between a rapidly changing society and political systems that don’t keep up,” said Aboubakr Jamaï, a Moroccan journalist (and 2007-08 Nieman Fellow) who has studied protests from the February 20 Movement in Morocco during the Arab Spring uprisings, to the more recent Gen Z-led protests around the world.

In many of these countries, corruption — often manifested in failing government services — emerges as a core grievance that’s central to young people’s sense of frustration. A report by Bloomberg Economics — which used a machine-learning model to analyze 22 million data points related to youth-led global protests — has come to a similar conclusion: Rising inequality, unemployment, and corruption are strong predictors of youth-led unrest. The same analysis highlights several global hot spots that are at heightened risk of upheaval in the near future, including Angola, Guatemala, the Republic of Congo, and Malaysia.

“This generation does not benefit from what their grandparents, and to some extent their parents, received,” Jamaï said. “They feel short-changed.”

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

When you play either of these videos it's just a AI voice talking over someone just clicking around. The scripts are also so similar.

The internet is dying.

It's not april fools yet

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• Tilde News.

In this workshop we collectively examine the infrastructure behind the Internet by building a our own (prototype) server on an old smartphone.

Since the democratisation of the Internet in the 90s, the operations and communications we perform on the Internet have kept rising massively. Nowadays, we often hear about the cloud, as a way to describe all the online services that we access daily, such as emails, social media, data storage, video-streaming, AI chat bots, etc. But what does the Internet look like behind this fog screen?

This has been hidden in developer options for a while now, but they're now releasing it officially. Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

Hacker News.

Today’s game is Pokemon Emerald. This might be the last entry for this game depending on how the rest of the Pokédex goes. I finished the Gyms at E4 today, and then went and hunted down all the Box Legendaries. It was all pretty easy except Groudon. For some reason the asshole just didn’t want to get in. After about 30 minutes though of just reloading my save I finally caught him and named him Greg. So now we have Juan the Kyogre and Greg the Groudon.

For my team I used, only about half of them were relevant to the victory. The other 3 were under leveled and just kind of served as fodder meat to use revives. The 3 relevant ones are Blaziken, Gardevoir, and Vaporeon. All at Level 80 and who all steamrolled the champion and E4.

Speaking of Gardevoir, I found my first ever one from my very first playthrough of Pokemon Emerald. It turns out when I emulated it I saved the save to Drop Box. I thought it was lost but dug it up and there it was! I backed that thing up ASAP and have it stored until I can get the Pokemon off it and moved over to Home and/or my own local bank.

So far the last few bits of my game have been filling out the Dex. For the starters I think I’ll just use a save editor to add them to my party as eggs, as no one I know plays Emerald and I don’t feel like figuring out online and multiplayer.

I’m a bit sad to be finishing this game again. It’s what I call my “Cold Water” game for Pokemon. It’s got solid fundamentals while still being good and not bland. It’s always my go to for friends wanting to get into the franchise with how accessible to get ahold of it is. My one complaint is sometimes I get lost. And even then it’s kind of like its own adventure

Breaking Free.

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other actors in Europe and the US, we are sending letter to policymakers in the EU/EEA, UK and the US.

It is not too late https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Screenshot is taken directly from the headset. The game is streamed to the headset wirelessly via Virtual Desktop app with the new foveated streaming feature (you can see the cutoff on the periphery where stuff starts to be more blurry / compressed). In the headset scenes like this (Low lighting with soft shadows) looks extremely atmospheric and really incredible because of the micro oled display and thanks to the new foveated streaming / encoding i finally can safely say compression artefact in wireless PCVR is a thing of the past.

Hello everyone!

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Journiv beta.21 is out with many new requested features:

• Daylio Import (#58). Watch demo
• Detailed mood, activity and goal tracking (#218, #57)
• Moment first architecture which allow users to do quick log and then add narrative later. Blogpost
• Automated goal tracking based on logged activities
• HEIC support (#215)
• OIDC Only support (#91)
• and much more...

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• Spin up Journiv
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Am 1. März hat sich Kroatien offiziell für frei von Landminen erklärt. Die im Boden vergrabenen Sprengfallen waren eine Altlast des Kroatienkrieges, ihre Räumung dauerte Jahrzehnte. Für die Menschen im Land ist dies ein wichtiger Schritt bei der Aufarbeitung des Krieges und für eine friedliche Zukunft. Doch ein Restrisiko bleibt.

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Bei den latent rechtsextremen Einstellungen waren zuletzt laut Studie vor allem in den jüngeren Altersgruppen starke Zuwächse zu beobachten, auch wenn sie noch immer die geringste Rate aufweist. 2025 fand sich demnach bei 27,3 Prozent der unter 40-Jährigen eine Offenheit für rechtsextremes Gedankengut. Zusammen mit 5,7 Prozent manifest rechtsextrem eingestellten Menschen sei damit rund ein Drittel der jüngeren Generation mindestens offen für autoritäres, rechtsextremes Gedankengut.

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