Good Night Blue Skiers...Montreal moon hides in trees...

'It is no coincidence that this more brutal and messianic version of the Israeli state should come at a critical point in the history of the conflict in Palestine: the realisation of demographic parity between Palestinians and the Israeli Jewish population." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Former head of my Alma Mater, Columbia, writes in the Columbia Magazine... magazine.columbia.edu/article/auth...

Trump's latest post puts targeting officers in a fierce dilemma...To destroy a civilization is a war crime, and U.S. Military code requires disobeying such an order....Headline from El Pais in Madrid... elpais.com/internaciona...

AI of Large Language Models already have some measure of agency -- they can lie and disobey. If Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is achieved then enormous care, discretion and judgement will be needed for the use of such thinking machines. The priority is already evident on battlefields now..

Serious Issue... www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Yes -- I made this video. But it follows one line of thinking -- Geoffrey Hinton's -- as a type of warning, because nobody knows. I am highly recommending my own work here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEF...

UK violates its libertarian traditions (including the Quakers!): www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-c...

Newspaper La Repubblica in Italy: "American F15E shot down [by Iran], mission to save two pilots: one recovered..." And Iranians claim to hold other... www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...

In 1964, I hitch-hiked through Iran. Yesterday I met a woman in a supermarket. “You are from Iran, aren't you’ aren’t you?” “Yes.” And then tears welled up... she talked of family near Tehran and in Shiraz. I told her I will be thinking about her. And I did not trouble her with my dark thoughts.

And now we have AI being used by people with extremely bad motives and poor judgement. The precision of weapons is deceptive (Robert Pape) and the very nature of new logical systems means they require ever greater judgment, not less.

The AI systems, producing uncertain outputs, we are already using on battlefields will produce results that cannot be anticipated. This uncertainty is an age-old feature of war, but now is heightened by the technology we are now using. Analogy between the atomic bomb and AI is utterly correct.

Must Read... escalationtrap.substack.com/p/from-kosov...

We are already, I believe, using machines with near agency. And they have a central feature, I think. It is impossible to fully axiomitize an axiomatic systemem (Whitehead, Russell, Godel and others). The new bots are fierrcely logical, but their users — us—cannot fully understand them.

Trump remark bottom of barrel... www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

"The school and sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, featured damage consistent with a short-range ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM... designed to detonate just above... target and blast small tungsten pellets outward, the NYT reported." www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-used...

"While the US president insists that his military campaign in the Middle East is a historic success, the world is bracing for a conflict that continues to metastasize and could wreak havoc on the global economy." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

French philosopher Cathrine Malabou graciously said of the video below..."This video is a little jewel, dear Patrick. I like your very measured, rational and poised approach, devoid of any technophobia. Thank you for mentioning my book." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEF...

Guardian: "Qatar and fellow Gulf countries have found themselves on the frontlines of the war, after their mediation efforts to try to prevent the conflict were ultimately spurned by the US." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

War in Iran, Trump: “15-point agreement”. “Negotiated with the Speaker of Parliament”. But he [the Speaker] denies it by Natasha Caragnano and Alberto Mattone-- La Repubblica in Italy... www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...

from the Guardian in the U.K. "The sense that the US is in the grip of a deranged figure is quite common among Iranians." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The corruption and foul politics of many, many techno emperors makes the possible imminence of AGI deeply troubling... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEF...

Very Bad News... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sonnet for March !!!! "Let me not to the marriage of true minds..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=coQ6...

"They make a desolation and call it peace" (ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant) is a famous critique of Roman imperialism written by the Roman historian Tacitus in his work Agricola (chapter 30).

AI and TARGETTING... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

View of Italian diplomat Marco Carnelos... www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/iran...

Le Monde in Paris... www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Meanwhile... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Si Sanchez ! Fuerte !!!! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sanchez of Spain said US attack on Iran against International Law, so, as El Pais reports -- "Trump announces he will cut trade with Spain over its stance on Iran and says it is a ‘terrible’ ally." elpais.com/internaciona...

La Repubblica newspaper in Italy: "Son of Khamenei chosen as new Supreme Leader."

Ashley Mears, a former model, is Prof. of Cultural Sociology at the University of. of Amsterdam and the author of VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE: STATUS AND BEAUTY IN THE GLOBAL PARTY CIRCUIT. She has an important piece in Le Monde about the commodification ion of beauty... www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

David Hearst of Middle East Eye...always worth reading... www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-i...

Trump claims he has been "exonerated" -- by whom? Unfortunately for Trump there are damning pieces of information redacted or simply taken down.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KKd...

In U.K. the Speaker of the House of Lords told London's Metropolitan Police that Peter Mandelson, of Epstein fame, might very well be absconding to the Virgin Islands -- that is why the Met arrested him. Then the police revealed their source, but you can bet the VI authorities are at the source.

Montreal February 2026...winter late afternoon light...