Live updates: 126 killed, 188 injured after M6.8 quake hits Xizang
www.cgtn.com

Summary

At least 126 people have been confirmed dead and 188 others injured as of Tuesday night after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake jolted Dingri County in the city of Xigaze in China’s Xizang Autonomous Region at 9:05 a.m. on Tuesday.

The earthquake emergency response in Xizang has been raised to level I, the highest level, the region’s emergency command center announced Tuesday.

To date, around 30,400 people have been relocated to temporary settlements, and all the injured people have been treated.

on a related note, duckduckgo clearly on that #censorship because :

screenshot of query on duckduckgo for "tibet earthquake CGTN" showing no results from CGTN

I even put CGTN in the query and nope. Only western media outlets. So laughable since I started using duckduckgo to avoid google’s tracking, but even google will relent and provide me a link to CGTN

screenshot of query on Google for "tibet earthquake CGTN" showing a result from CGTN, but not at the top

  • 矛⋅盾@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    1 day ago

    Unfortunately I don’t think I can completely forgo google for its ability to give decent results to “info + reddit” queries and its indexing of xtwitter (which I don’t use but sometimes need/want to find something). I’m a Chinese heritage speaker and have been working on improving my reading skills for the last 5+ years so I will probably (try to) transition to using sogou, baidu, toutiao etc… baidu isn’t free of the AI scourge but at least you have to opt-in rather than being forced to see it top and center. However, searching for info in English or about anyone from the anglophone sphere of the internet (contemporary western ML writers for example) is difficult or even outright impossible. Also, the business model of most/all search engines is adverts or otherwise eyeballs (for news, etc) so that’s just unavoidable these days at some level.

    Yandex is ru-based and seems to have decent English-language results, from my ~5 minutes of usage. We’ll see…

    Welcome to hear any one else having other search engine alternatives also.

      • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 day ago

        You should. Not even just for using better search engines/internet resources (though that is a good reason too). It’s an incredibly useful language to learn.
        It also isn’t as difficult as people make it out to be. The grammar is very easy and logical.