GOP to Dems: "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

📷 Studio Portrait of an Ottoman Officer in #Military Uniform, 1898

New — Italy just reportedly informed Global Sumud Flotilla the Italian ship will offer flotilla members the "opportunity" to abandon ship. Organizers call this "sabotage." Says if Italy wants to save lives, it wouldn't act as "Israel's enabler," it would ensure the flotilla safely reaches Gaza.

Last night, Al-Helou hospital in #Gaza City, supported by MSF, sustained severe collateral damage from nearby attacks. This came despite multiple assurances from Israeli forces that the hospital was not in danger.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The whole outrageous story: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

What the Tech Industry calls "AI" includes history source programs that make sources up ("hallucinating"), "art" programs that simply plagiarize real human beings' creative work, and now an AI system that trashes claim management systems' reliability. As one colleague put it: "ChatGPT is bullshit."

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election. In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

1. Wait, “it has become harder for some data center builders to arrange the financing for large-scale projects,” that sounds pretty bad 2. How much financing for data center deals has NVIDIA agreed to backstop?

#Portland city office that oversees land use and zoning notified the owner of the building that ICE had violated a conditional-use permit

New report from me and @isaacarroyov.bsky.social taking a closer look at the circumstances behind Israel's killings of journalists in Gaza. Read here @TheNationalNews www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

His "The Gun and the Olive Branch" remains a classic.

Holy shit. Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

New campaign seems to have dropped. www.nickforisraelforcongress.us

Oh wait, so now it's admitted? Insane.

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

WJLA is about to lose a lot of viewers.

This sort of seems like 1787 France or something.

Holy shit

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

“Syracuse University paused admission to 20 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences without faculty input” dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

Zuck’s polluting waters and draining aquifers to run AI for this?!? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤪 #LiveAI #Meta

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

A map of the Israeli proposal to Syria was released by an American think tank, it has Israel -Staying in the Golan. -Staying in Mount Hermon. -Expanding the buffer zone in Quneitra. And would have Syria also concede to -Daraa demilitarized. -Suwayda no-fly zone for the Syrian Air Force.

Terrible miscarriage of justice.

If the major broadcast networks keep caving on such matters, they'll lose their entire audience. Over the last 20 years, they've already lost evening news, prime time shows, most live sports events, and now late night is on a knife's edge. I guess we'll all be on Netflix soon.

MSF / Doctors Without Borders has officially referred to Gaza as "genocide": www.msf.org/doctors-cann...

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.

Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."

Posted 4 days ago: "Watch how the girls of Gaza defy reality despite all circumstances, practicing skateboarding And as a team, we do our part in supporting children... Everything we do helps them release the psychological pressure they face..." www.threads.com/@gaza_skate_...

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

Not 66,000, but rather 200,000+ (and that's not including deaths by slow motion humanitarian execution): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Wild how we have structural collapse in multiple knowledge economy sectors at the same time. Journalists and academics are stuck in institutions that force them to compromise on ethics and there are no exit options, much less open jobs in lateral fields

"A new Banksy artwork has appeared on the Royal Courts of Justice, depicting a judge striking a protester with his gavel with the CCTV camera averting its gaze. It appeared just two days after almost 900 Palestine activists were arrested in London" via @dailypolitik.bsky.social

Is there a running total somewhere of people arrested for defying the PA proscription? It was something like 500 outside Parliament a few weeks ago. 890 more yesterday. And that's just 2 protests. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Middle East Studies Association (MESA)'s statement on the Harvard ruling this past week. Quick takeaway -- a partial victory for academic freedom, at best: mesana.org/news/2025/09...

In Muslim tradition, the call to prayer is recited in a newborn baby's ear to welcome them to the world. Mahmoud Khalil had to whisper it over the phone from immigration detention in Jena. This @theguardian.com piece will break, infuriate, and galvanize you: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The enshittification of life, via education: theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/ed-tech-ai...

A parent would have to be nuts to pay Columbia hard earned tuition dollars to abuse their offspring in this fashion. As a Columbia SIPA alumnus, appalled at the institution's treatment of Mahmoud Khalil, I can't recommend the university to anyone now: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Tomorrow's AI truth, perfected today.

Your dad was Mario Cuomo.

A favourite raga of mine from the vaults. Bhairavi is traditionally a morning raga, but in forms like Sindhi Bhairavi it often wanders into looser, more romantic, late-night moods. I often turn to it in moments of sadness or melancholy, and find it always carries me through.