Article confirming what has been well known in the humanitarian aid sector for a while, namely that Israel military personnel, organized crime, and intelligence actors were responsible for a massive and highly lucrative smuggling ring into Gaza.
For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.
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These two widely shared images claiming to show the IDF restoring a statue of Jesus that was previously damaged by an Israeli soldier near Debl, Lebanon, are AI-generated and fake.
A Google SynthID check finds watermarks that suggest both images were made with Google AI.
How much "loss" do fire departments report annually? Police? The armed forces? Roads? Schools? Solid waste collection? Wastewater treatment? Public health agencies?
Good morning. I wrote about the rather troubling trends of using stan language to call shit "spiritually Israeli" and link several great resources and charities to help Palestine the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/palestine-ca...
While we're doing maps, look at how much of Lebanon's farmland sits in the "Forward Defense Zone" which was also subject to this white phosphorus use.
Looking for a J-E interpreter for some paid comics industry work in NYC at the end of May/early June! DM me with a link to CV/video clips/etc. if you are such a person available at such a time!
Korean Metal Workers' Union are in effect demanding that Hyundai Motor's ✨workers✨ receive more bonus pay than its shareholders.
This comes a week after KMWU + 4 other unions demand direct bargaining with parent co. or face a general strike in July. #ShareGoodNewsToo
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As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
It turn out she has a name, which is weird.
Thank you, Connie Ballmer.
Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown.
I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up
Volume 3 of Syl's Indie Game Recs, my zine where I recommend a bunch of small games I loved, is up!
(If you're having trouble seeing it, you can use your mouse's scroll wheel to zoom in.)
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I'm still sad that Spirited Thief hasn't sold better. A one-of-a-kind turn-based stealth heist tactics game, inspired by Thief but doing its own thing.
Each mission is a two-phase operation. Casing the joint as an incorporeal (but visible) ghost, then racing your team to the loot against the clock.
If you're early-career /a student /new grad wanting to pursue tech policy, @christopher-parsons.com has given you an incalculably valuable gift: a comprehensive guide, w/ his trademark thoroughness, on how. Also contains good advice for aspiring tech lawyers, & I'll add a few notes on that front 🧵:
Breaking from @policornerca.bsky.social: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-... #topoli #onpoli
A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.
First Nations leaders are demanding transparency regarding they RCMP’s spy program throughout the late 60s to early 80s.
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A friendly reminder that having house prices drop in one segment of one market doesn’t equate to affordability improving across the board.
Few are building homes that target the needs of half of the population, or those whose income sits below the median.
social housing units built by year in Canada, 1972-2010
- by number of units
- as % of all housing built
Members of the Palestine FA have been denied visas to enter Canada for the pre-World Cup FIFA Congress on April 30 in Vancouver. These meetings of FIFA's member associations are the main platform the Palestinian FA use to officially raise the issue of illegal Israeli settlement clubs.
FINALLY, an episode about alleged sex cults and weighing your own poop!!
Fingers crossed that folks can actually see this post 😭 here's the link for the stickers!! ko-fi.com/s/09fc566a84
Sudanese analyst Kholood Khair says both the RSF and the SAF are attacking civilians to undermine calls for democracy.
film still from LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, dir., 2003). An exhausted man and a woman, played by Tadanobu Asano and Sinitta Boonyasak, sprawled out on a leather couch
CFP: Special Issue on Asian Crime Cinema GLOBAL STORYTELLING Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow are taking over from founding editor Ying Zhu, as editors of the journal GLOBAL STORYTELLING, and we are currently recruiting proposals for the Spring 2027 special issue on Asian crime cinema. Topics may include-but are not limited to-issues of justice and transgression, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, violence and redemption, gender and desire, vengeance and ressentiment, institutions and heterotopias, genre and industry. We are particularly interested in projects that combine detailed analysis of specific works with broader reflections on the theoretical, methodological, and ideological implications of the analysis. We welcome projects analyzing works set in and/or originating from Asia, particularly East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as submissions examining a broader range of works that take inspiration from them (such as Scorsese's The Departed, as a remake of Lau and Mak's Infernal Affairs). Also, we welcome projects that examine feature films, but also ones that focus on other cinematic media forms, including serialized television or video episodes, narrative games, and so forth. Please submit a 300-word abstract and short bio by May 15, 2026. For selected proposals, full submissions will be due October 1, 2026. Global Storytelling is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital-born journal. Conventional articles are certainly welcome, but video essays and other types of multimedia contributions are also possible. **Please submit your proposals to GSTjournal@duke.edu. Please contact c.roja@duke.edu or eileen.chow@duke.edu if you have any questions.
CFP: Special Issue on Asian Crime Cinema
Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow are taking over as editors of the journal GLOBAL STORYTELLING, and we are currently recruiting proposals for the Spring 2027 special issue on Asian crime cinema.
[LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, dir., 2003)]
Do I think that Graham Platner will pull a Fetterman if elected? I don't know.
Do I find it annoying that people portray white men who went to elite schools and grew up in affluent families as "working class" just because they hate wearing suits? Yes, definitely.
Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”
Sal Khan and his people are really just blaming both students and teachers for "not prompting correctly".
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