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i can't believe it, i did it

The entire Zionist camp from "left" to right opposes Palestinian self determination. This is actually existing Zionism. It is not overridden by the self identified liberal Zionism of American or British Jews.

U-turns are possible! (if we are willing to make major turns)

my new year's resolution next year is going to be to have hot pot whenever someone says it online and i see it on my feed, i feel like that's a good resolution

"there are, to be sure, the war criminals, all those torturers ... who today, before the end of the colonial reign whose approach they sense, are bent on shedding the greatest possible amount of blood. those men belong nowhere."

Israel killed three of these four children in a drone strike targeting their car and an accompanying scooter in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. The entire family of six was hit – only the mother and eldest daughter survived, one of them critically injured and hospitalized.

Israeli drone strikes kill five, including children, in southern Lebanon, ministry says reut.rs/48nX9uA

yeah, i've been thinking about this fixation on Authoritative People using Math to tell us something already collectively understood. it has a conspicuously similar structure as the weird investments, shared even by ostensibly "critical" people, in the idea of Artificial Intelligence

it's not a statistical or a computational limitation, because that implies that if you have better statistical methods or bigger compute or bigger data you can get around these things the problem is that you're modeling word tokens; you can't get out from under that this isn't revelatory though

this moment of western powers recognizing palestine is precisely the moment we must not let them normalize the hypocritical status quo where they speciously nod to palestine and simultaneously criminalize advocacy against the genocide of palestine. we must see this as an opportunity to keep pressing

hopefully this will mean that they'll finally stop providing arms to israel for its genocidal project against Palestine a break, finally, from categorically trusting and following the united states as it provides continuous diplomatic cover across multiple administrations would be a fucking relief

yep and also i can't imagine those numbers look flattering for the platform. scale at all costs is a bad way to live (or in this case, die lol)

i would be really interested to see how posting habits might have predicted outcomes to some extent. i think it's unlikely that NS had 3M followers who posted often (if at all) for whom breaking a habit of checking twitter over the last 5 years was not a huge (or even especially principled) decision

There are signs that while ICE is driving around, they may be scouting out homes where they see any signs laborers are present. If you have people working for you, whether it’s roofers, painters, landscapers, carpenters, whatever, you should have a plan to protect them if ICE shows up.

finally reading this and pleasantly surprised to see Sequeira is the guest editor

in case you missed it, one guy behind GirlsDoPorn got sentenced to 27 years in prison for manipulating and tricking a bunch of women to fly to him for "modeling" work and sometimes physically blocking their exit from a hotel room until they had sex on camera so he could distribute the footage online

Lammy is asked to provide one tangible difference that recognising the state of Palestine will make to the situation in Gaza. He can't To be clear, what the UK govt is doing is recognising a Palestinian state while it supports & helps Israel exterminate the Palestinian people.

here you all go

Tech Pervert: have we got a military and/or accessibility and/or porn device for you! Reporters: consensual? TP: huh? R: ... consensual...? TP: oh, yeah, of course, consentful military device 😌

i'm curious at what point bluesky becomes qualitatively different for the user. i know some people have complained that it seems like their huge follower count basically makes it a foregone conclusion that anything they post will end up on the discovery feed, snowballing reach (to mostly strangers)

ah here we go.

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I drew porn for fun now I'm drawing it for fun and spite

not sure what to say about the OpenAI study about LLMs producing output that has no bearing to reality. i feel like people have been saying this for ages. it's not a revelation; it's a natural consequence of the architecture of a word token model. it's not even a "gotcha".

i have way too many questions about this to even begin...

yes this is supposed to be shocking. you should not be inured to cruelty against vulnerable people because the perpetrator is on blue team.

theres something inescapably almost funny about this. like "yeah the boundaries are along corporate lines, of course they are, that's how bribes work, how else would it work?" like it's as if you're the stupid one for doing a double take

pictured is gavin newsom ransacking someone's shit. in the upper left corner, in a white shirt, is a former war correspondent who is now the governor's "director of photography", for which the state of california pays $200,000 per year.

now gavin,

As of now, only $12K of the necessary $250K in legal fees have been raised to free Leqaa. If prisoners are the compass of the Palestinian struggle, they should be the compass of the Palestinian solidarity struggle as well.

This has been moving at less than a trickle. Please donate and share so that Leqaa can be brought home.

In addition to recognition push: Saudi, France, Norway & Spain are rallying a set of allied countries around an emergency aid package to the Palestinian Authority to the tune of $200m per month to prevent the collapse of the PA amid Israel’s withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars it is owed

the h1b order news is surreal they're literally tweeting like "ok so all of you misunderstood us when we were very clear" and then go on to say completely different shit than the original order outlined

A message from my friend Tasneem in Gaza about the video below: “While searching for another place to be displaced. The war is long, my friend. My only hope is to get out of this hell to safety." Please give to Tasneem, so she can feed her family and escape, and to others. ❤️ 🙏 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

the bullshit about how palestinians begging for aid to buy food are supposedly actually scammers from SE asia is about to make a big comeback

They’re about to make posting about Palestine “supporting a terrorist group”

every time dems experiment with these ideas they don't just lose voters for a cycle; they burn bridges with people for an entire generation. dabbling in fascistic logics is a poison that will kill them slowly; they'll writhe in agony, wondering why their eventual deathbed conversions don't heal them

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

abortions are a goddamn miracle. bodily autonomy is sacred.

*David Attenborough voice* This once-thriving reply thread has been laid bare by an invasive species of libscold. But lurking in the shadows is a remarkable creature; a perfect predator that continuously adapts to stay one step ahead, ensuring that prey walk right into their trap; again, and again.

we've seen facebook pervert glasses on ICE and other law enforcement, by the way. might've been private purchases, but it might've been facebook offering pervert glasses for perverts to ICE for when they go to schools and follow people around.

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

incredible

This is an interesting thread. For someone dealing with acute security and privacy risk, it really matters who we’re most concerned about and their capabilities when deciding what mitigations make sense. It’s not only about mitigating risk; mitigations are in service of other things we care about.

The Left: No one should be homeless The Right: We should murder the homeless

Beyond this, there's a pretty good justification for academics NOT to roll out a resume of organizing/activism BEYOND opsec and just being smart about shit: the weaponization of university codes of conduct.

The right’s “cancel culture” panic was always a convenient grift. But let’s be real: plenty of elites on the left also acted like speech was more threatened by annoying undergrads than by powerful elites. And truth be told, Obama’s not off the hook here either.

Three dollars here would mean so much more.