Amal Khalil smiling, standing with the backdrop of the hills of Lebanon. She is holding a microphone with a windscreen with a logo.
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March.
Photo via X @HindRFoundation.
louisiana can't help but stay losing betting on fossil fuels.
is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh
I don't like the AI memes regardless of who uses them and how because intentionally or unintentionally when you generate that stuff, due to the locations of data centers, what you are engaging in anti-Blackness and actively harming southern Black people who go through & have been through enough.
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The AI bubbles longest gift will be showing how easily some people gave up any morals AND technological sense
Just to be close to power and money
Fuck Troy Baker you colleague selling two faced Booker DeWitt reheating bitch.
What gets mandated in NY gets sold everywhere. A surveillance requirement for 3D printers, buried in NY's budget bill, wouldn't just affect NYers. It would become the de facto national standard. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
When the violent truck looting was confirmed to mostly be conducted by the Israeli-armed and funded drug smuggling mafia of former ISIS-linked crime boss Yasser Abu Shabab, we just stopped talking about truck looting as a high-level problem.
But the whole time we had to maintain a fiction that it was Egyptian organized crime and/or Hamas, neither of which made any sense, and that it was Hamas attacking the trucks when they entered Gaza and ripping them apart to get at the cigarette cases secreted within. Which also made no sense.
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.
I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"
This also reminds me to say that AI is opposed to all literacy it's anti intellectual and destroys all learning if we allow it to
Exhibit A
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Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.
Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
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NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.
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Wow those look dumb.
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
In a totally predictable turn of events, Elizabeth Warren swings from falsely claiming Indigenous ancestry to enthusiastically endorsing a weirdly obvious nazi. What a career...
Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.
democrats are okay with losing to republicans. what they're not okay with is losing to the body politic.
that is what cory booker is actually saying in that clip.
. @marisakabas.bsky.social @tarapalmeri.bsky.social, and I were invited by @juliaangwin.com to sit on the opening panel on the main stage for the @journalismfestival.com and when the question of objectivity came up, well, I didn’t hold back.
And also, it's more of this:
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this sows discord and blames the audience for not agreeing with his vision. it's a very authoritarian message: if you didn't vote for me, YOU'RE wrong. you don't get your voice, you have to accept ours.
how fucking dare you blame the voter in a democracy?
well, not that way. he wants to win by everyone being forced to vote for him and his candidates. he's just manifest of the worst parts of a 2-party system.
he's not interested in winning.
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.
Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.
The rent-seeking behavior being the first and primary mode of operation is how you can tell we're beyond cooked.
