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Since Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza in March it has starved 251 Palestinians to death. That includes 108 children.
August 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Since Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza in March it has starved 251 Palestinians to death. That includes 108 children.
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Antony Loewenstein: "Israel really has become a society that embraces a kind of genocide mania.. as we've seen other nations that massively embraced the most extreme policies.. without massive external pressure the situation will not change from within. It just won't"
August 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Antony Loewenstein: "Israel really has become a society that embraces a kind of genocide mania.. as we've seen other nations that massively embraced the most extreme policies.. without massive external pressure the situation will not change from within. It just won't"
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In Nov 2023 6 year old Mira & her family had crossed through an IDF checkpoint. About 1km down the road she was shot by a sniper & killed. A BBC cameraman who had crossed that same checkpoint 2 days before reported seeing IDF snipers & soldiers up to 2km after he had crossed it
August 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
In Nov 2023 6 year old Mira & her family had crossed through an IDF checkpoint. About 1km down the road she was shot by a sniper & killed. A BBC cameraman who had crossed that same checkpoint 2 days before reported seeing IDF snipers & soldiers up to 2km after he had crossed it
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15 year old Abdul went to a GHF site to try and get food for his family. He was shot in the head.
August 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
15 year old Abdul went to a GHF site to try and get food for his family. He was shot in the head.
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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
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Outre le fait que je trouve particulièrement débile que la mairie d'Issy Les Moulineaux propose de passer par Chat GPT pour trouver des infos administratives qui sont sur son site, je suis surtout admiratif que des gens (payés pour ça) aient validé l'appellation "Issy GPT" sans sourciller.
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Outre le fait que je trouve particulièrement débile que la mairie d'Issy Les Moulineaux propose de passer par Chat GPT pour trouver des infos administratives qui sont sur son site, je suis surtout admiratif que des gens (payés pour ça) aient validé l'appellation "Issy GPT" sans sourciller.
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There's worse: in the town "Issy Les Moulineaux", they made some kind of AI assistant called "issyGPT" which, in french sounds exactly like "here I farted".
June 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
There's worse: in the town "Issy Les Moulineaux", they made some kind of AI assistant called "issyGPT" which, in french sounds exactly like "here I farted".
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In French chat gpt sounds like "chatte j'ai pété" which means "pussy I farted". Every time a French person talks about chat gpt it sounds like they are saying "pussy I farted"
We don't talk about this enough
We don't talk about this enough
June 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
In French chat gpt sounds like "chatte j'ai pété" which means "pussy I farted". Every time a French person talks about chat gpt it sounds like they are saying "pussy I farted"
We don't talk about this enough
We don't talk about this enough
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We should not be shocked at the state of the world--from Gaza to the climate crisis--when governments, academic institutions, and the business elite have handed enormous amounts of power and wealth to delusional cult members.
June 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We should not be shocked at the state of the world--from Gaza to the climate crisis--when governments, academic institutions, and the business elite have handed enormous amounts of power and wealth to delusional cult members.
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Just batshit crazy ideas...a complete ignorance of histories, religions, politics on display
JD Vance is a creation of Peter Thiel.
Both men are inspired by the extremist ideas of Curtis Yarvin.
Vance's whole job is to be the bridge between MAGA and tech fascism.
Where JD Vance Gets his Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas via @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1839...
Both men are inspired by the extremist ideas of Curtis Yarvin.
Vance's whole job is to be the bridge between MAGA and tech fascism.
Where JD Vance Gets his Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas via @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1839...
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
newrepublic.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Just batshit crazy ideas...a complete ignorance of histories, religions, politics on display
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Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveillance industrial complex, and brilliant new research that shows just how deeply embedded the field of computer vision is in the surveillance pipeline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Computer-vision research is hiding its role in creating ‘Big Brother’ technologies
Technologies that can interpret imagery have many potential applications. An innovative study of papers and patents in the field suggests one use case that overrides the others: human surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveillance industrial complex, and brilliant new research that shows just how deeply embedded the field of computer vision is in the surveillance pipeline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hadn't seen this before, maybe others hadn't either. Worth your time. This is from right after last year's election. So many establishment Dems and mouthpieces trying to say to win is moving to the center, but only a few are listening to the actual people
June 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hadn't seen this before, maybe others hadn't either. Worth your time. This is from right after last year's election. So many establishment Dems and mouthpieces trying to say to win is moving to the center, but only a few are listening to the actual people
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Shaking my head while I read this in the department so people know I don’t agree with it
June 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Shaking my head while I read this in the department so people know I don’t agree with it
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Tech that offers you "individual freedom" and then enslaves you to corporations that own the global infrastructure, shuts down choice. The model is unsustainable. Like the oil industry that ripped up all the train tracks and designed cities around cars, leading to the climate crisis.
Nice NYT piece on who owns AI compute power
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Tech that offers you "individual freedom" and then enslaves you to corporations that own the global infrastructure, shuts down choice. The model is unsustainable. Like the oil industry that ripped up all the train tracks and designed cities around cars, leading to the climate crisis.
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See last time they at least pretended to have intel that supported the war
WELKER: Do you and President Trump trust the US intelligence community and its assessments?
JD VANCE: Of course we trust our intelligence community, but we also trust our instincts
JD VANCE: Of course we trust our intelligence community, but we also trust our instincts
June 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
See last time they at least pretended to have intel that supported the war
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this computer is a perfect information machine because it impartially processes all of human knowledge and it's almost perfect. the last step is have my interns rewrite all of human knowledge so it gives the answers my gut tells me are correct.
June 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
this computer is a perfect information machine because it impartially processes all of human knowledge and it's almost perfect. the last step is have my interns rewrite all of human knowledge so it gives the answers my gut tells me are correct.
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Some people are losing their grip on reality while interacting with LLMs like #ChatGPT; it's no wonder, with these systems being deceptive by design. “We deserve safer, better, more honest tech.” #AIEthics
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Some people are losing their grip on reality while interacting with LLMs like #ChatGPT; it's no wonder, with these systems being deceptive by design. “We deserve safer, better, more honest tech.” #AIEthics
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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When i took archeology they made us read the Conquest of new Spain by Bernal Diaz basically a narrative of his time as a conquistador, and even accepting he's an unreliable narrator his marvel at the Americas turns to racist hate the second they find gold
June 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
When i took archeology they made us read the Conquest of new Spain by Bernal Diaz basically a narrative of his time as a conquistador, and even accepting he's an unreliable narrator his marvel at the Americas turns to racist hate the second they find gold
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Lafayette was not just asking this question because he could see slaves in front of him but also because he was part of a global intellectual and political movement in opposition to slavery. Washington was not unaware of this, he was simply on the opposing side of that particular struggle
June 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Lafayette was not just asking this question because he could see slaves in front of him but also because he was part of a global intellectual and political movement in opposition to slavery. Washington was not unaware of this, he was simply on the opposing side of that particular struggle
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one other side of this is something that I try to emphasize to my students: "what does freedom actually mean" is not a 21stC issue anachronistically read backwards into the 18thC. The US, French, and Haitian Revolutions happened at more or less the same time, with an overlapping cast of characters
one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!
June 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
one other side of this is something that I try to emphasize to my students: "what does freedom actually mean" is not a 21stC issue anachronistically read backwards into the 18thC. The US, French, and Haitian Revolutions happened at more or less the same time, with an overlapping cast of characters
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The delusion of those in the imperial core. The most dangerous country on the global stage is the United States, which feels it and the countries under its umbrella can act with impunity, bombing and killing their way through the world.
The days of the US acting however it wants must end.
The days of the US acting however it wants must end.
CNN’s Van Jones urges “progressives” to “get on board” with bombing Iran:
“I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is. Iran is not a normal country,” he said on air.
Jones did not share whether he considers Israel—an apartheid state currently committing genocide—a “normal country.”
“I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is. Iran is not a normal country,” he said on air.
Jones did not share whether he considers Israel—an apartheid state currently committing genocide—a “normal country.”
June 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The delusion of those in the imperial core. The most dangerous country on the global stage is the United States, which feels it and the countries under its umbrella can act with impunity, bombing and killing their way through the world.
The days of the US acting however it wants must end.
The days of the US acting however it wants must end.
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"Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests."
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apnews.com/article/mahm...
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Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday after 104 days ...
apnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests."
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apnews.com/article/mahm...
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apnews.com/article/mahm...
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In 2003, Chrétien didn’t buy the bullshit intelligence justifying the Iraq War and Canada didn’t not join that terrible shitshow.
In 2025, Carney seems fully ready to accept Israeli and Trump lies justifying attacks against Iran that are in violation of international law.
In 2025, Carney seems fully ready to accept Israeli and Trump lies justifying attacks against Iran that are in violation of international law.
What the absolute fuck is this? Carney:
1. If Iran has a nuclear weapon that would be destabilizing to the ME. Because it’s a bedrock of stability now?
2. We support Israel’s right to defend itself. From Iran? Hasn’t Israel been striking them first for over a year?
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1. If Iran has a nuclear weapon that would be destabilizing to the ME. Because it’s a bedrock of stability now?
2. We support Israel’s right to defend itself. From Iran? Hasn’t Israel been striking them first for over a year?
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June 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In 2003, Chrétien didn’t buy the bullshit intelligence justifying the Iraq War and Canada didn’t not join that terrible shitshow.
In 2025, Carney seems fully ready to accept Israeli and Trump lies justifying attacks against Iran that are in violation of international law.
In 2025, Carney seems fully ready to accept Israeli and Trump lies justifying attacks against Iran that are in violation of international law.
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Hind Koudary reporting a few minutes ago that Israel has shot & killed Palestinians who were queueing in line to get food.
June 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hind Koudary reporting a few minutes ago that Israel has shot & killed Palestinians who were queueing in line to get food.
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