Kamala Harris should also mention she accepted more than $9 million from Israeli lobbies even while campaigning for Presidency, directly leading to the situation we are today

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

KHRN - „Footage from #Kermanshah shows homes near 22 Bahman Police Station on Gozarnameh Street severely damaged. The area was targeted in US and Israeli attacks on 4 March, and again today, 6 March.“ #IranWar

"Bir öğretmen defalarca risk bildirdiği halde korunmuyorsa, bir kadın çocuk istismarını bildirdiği halde yalnız bırakılıyorsa burada yalnızca fail yoktur. Kurumsal ihmal vardır. Politik tercihler vardır."

"The task of AI education, then, is not merely to teach technical competence, but to cultivate the political imagination and collective capacities necessary to contest and reshape technological power," write Jan‐Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, and Rainer Mühlhoff.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

If anyone has a platform, and wants to have a Lebanese speaker to talk about the current situation, reach out. Im availble, but also connected to a lot of different ppl on the ground. We need to get the word out. This is ethnic cleansing!

"Akdeniz Üniversitesi’ndeki bazı doktorlar, tıp etiğini hiçe sayarak, ‘Ergenlikte olur böyle şeyler’ gibi önyargılı ifadelerle süreci kasten sabote etmiştir... Zeynep’e yaşatılanlar, bir bürokratik hata değil, trans varoluşunu imkânsız kılmayı hedefleyen sistematik bir saldırıdır."

May everyone involved burn in hell

The strikes on Iran by two colonial entities means we're going to enmeshed in yet another awful period of death. A reminder that you also don't have defend the Iranian regime to be anti-war.

Yes to this thread. AI “creates a permission structure” designed to concentrate power at the top, dramatically enhance the power of disinformation by destabilizing images and information, and hollow out the power of labor through deskilling while providing cover and impunity.

"Kobanê has been under siege by the transitional government for 25 days [as of Feb 13]. Due to water cuts and the consumption of well water, 2,000 people have so far been admitted to the hospital with poisoning complaints. [Essential supplies and] medicines are not allowed into the city."

"Sağlam olan, ayrıcalığını “normallik” olarak deneyimler. Norm görünmez olduğu için sorgulanmaz. Sağlam olan, sözleşmeden fayda sağlar; bu fayda yalnızca ayrıcalık değil, aynı zamanda tahakküm uygulama hakkıdır."

"Sanki yukarıdan bir emir gelmiş gibi davrandılar. İnsanlar emri hemen yerine getirmek istediklerini söylediler. 2 saat içinde kızımı tutuklayıp yargılamaya karar verdiler. 16 yaşında bir çocuk nasıl bir video yüzünden tutuklanıp yargılanabilir? Sonra birdenbire kızım Şakran Cezaevi’ne götürüldü."

also the hand-sweeping work that "we" does even as it's appended by the same qualifying asterisk that appends the liberal human subject (#notallhumans)..it's almost like Jennifer Rhee, Atansoski and Vora, and many other feminist STS and Black feminist scholars have written entire books about this

"[Rojava's] political agency is rooted in communal self-organization, women’s liberation, social reproduction, and ecological limits, forms of life fundamentally incompatible with fossil-fuel-driven reconstruction."

"[Diyar] Koç, 1994’te ailesiyle birlikte Hakkâri’deki köylerinden sürgün edildi. Ailenin geçimini sağlamak için İstanbul’a inşaatlarda çalışmaya giden babası, Diyar ve kız kardeşi henüz küçük yaşlardayken bir iş cinayetinde hayatını kaybetti."

The defining feature of AI today is infrastructure: the rapacious buildout of data centres; the transnational configuration of labour exploitation; the grafting of AI onto processes of capitalist accumulation.

"Fourteen years ago, Syrians rose up with democratic demands. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the West sought to hijack these demands for capital accumulation and empire-making. But a major unexpected winner of this process might instead, or along with these actors, be a new kind of Islamism."

"Deprem sonrası bakanlık hızlı bir şekilde planlamaları bilimsel ve sosyal kriterlerden bağımsız bir şekilde yapıp yerel yönetimler, meslek odaları ve kent bileşenleri devre dışı bırakıldı. Depremzedeler nereye taşınacaklarına, nasıl bir konutta yaşayacaklarına dair hiçbir aşamada dahil edilmedi."

There's actually a rational history to people saying "we don't actually know how & why AI works". But it's been getting twisted into suggesting we don't know how neural networks work, which is nonsense. What we don't understand are things about *language*. 1/n

Despite unification agreement between Kurdish-led SDF &Syria's al-Sharaa's govt, Kobani remains under siege for two weeks. Now thousands of people stuck in Kobani -- northern Syrian town famous for Kurds' victory over Isis more than a decade ago. AFP reports Turkey has kept blocking aid into city.

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

Good piece here from @yasminjullah.bsky.social in @dvbenglish.bsky.social speaking on AI, misogyny & the war on Rohingya women’s visibility "Rohingya women are told, constantly, that we should advocate, but quietly. Lead, but from behind a curtain. Be visible, but not too much. Exist, but not fully"

”The posts were part of an online “hair-braiding” campaign that began after a video circulated earlier this month from the Syrian city of Raqqa showing a man holding up a woman’s cut braid and claiming it belonged to a fighter from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).”

"... approximately 350,000 people have been displaced to the areas of Hasakah, Qamishli, and Kobani as a result of recent attacks carried out by forces of the Syrian transitional government on Raqqa, Tabqa, and Deir ez-Zor."

A general strike in Minneapolis. Student walkouts across the country. Demonstrations break out everywhere, organized by prisoners, workers, and youth - are all picking up speed. Masses of people are working together to organize mutual aid + community solidarity on a growing scale. A thread.

"We have been under siege and under attack from all sides for nine days. We are trying to assist our people within the limits of our current resources. However, due to the extremely heavy siege, supplies of bread flour and fuel have currently decreased. Kobanê [is about to] face a serious crisis."

"Kobanê is currently besieged from all three sides. Neither medicines nor basic necessities are allowed into the city." "Dr. Ehmed Mehmûd Kinco, who works at Kobanê Hospital [says]: "There is a possibility that all of our medicines will run out within the next week. Only IV fluids will remain.""

"Trump’ın DSG karşısında Erdoğan’ı tutmasının nedeni sadece Ankara-Şam hükümetlerinin oynadığı yeni jeopolitik roller değil aynı zamanda Çin ile ABD arasında büyük rekabet konusu olan nadir elementlerin Türkiye’deki varlığıdır."

"[D]espite the passage of 11 years since that historic victory, Kobanê once again faces siege, bombardment, and attacks. Attempts to break the will of the people and block their democratic path continue... [But W]e will continue the legitimate defense of our people, our land, and our rights."

"medical workers [of kobane] told that hospitals and clinics in the city are struggling to cope with the increasing number of cold-related illnesses among children and elderly residents, amid limited electricity supplies and reduced access to fuel needed for heating."

kobane has been under siege, with water, electricity, and internet services cut off since jan 20

"the prevailing narrative in Turkey has been that these kinds of groups primarily used the country as a transit point for operations in central Asia or the Middle East. But in Yalova it turned out that the head of the cell and all the members were Turkish, with a large arsenal of weapons."

"Rojava’nın sekülerliği, kadın özgürlüğü ya da çoğulcu yapısı tali unsurlar olarak görülür; [kendini "laik", "cumhuriyetçi" ya da "anti-emperyalist" olarak tanımlayan ulusalcı akıl için] asıl kabul edilemez olan, bütün bunların Kürtlerin kendi siyasal inisiyatifleriyle inşa edilmiş olmasıdır."

Emergency aid for Rojava! - Humanitarian aid for the victims of the war of aggression waged by jihadist militias against Rojava. Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê is launching an urgent humanitarian campaign in response to the escalating attacks on Rojava. 👉 linktr.ee/heyvasor

Islamist Forces Enforce Veil Mandates and Carry Out Kidnappings in Tabqa Following the entry of the Islamist-led new Syrian Army, including forces affiliated with ISIS and al-Qaeda, into Tabqa, a woman who spoke to The Amargi reported the systematic enforcement of black veils.

"[D]evletin sertliği, cezalandırması, sınır ötesindeki "temizlik" harekatları ve çıplak şiddeti hem siyasal İslamcı hem de ulusalcı tabanında ["saf ve bütünlüklü ulus" hayalini besleyen] ortak bir aidiyet hazzına evriliyor."

Bachtyar Ali, a prominent Kurdish intellectual and The Amargi columnist, explains why Rojava is being targeted from all sides and why it matters as an anti-fascist political project.

SDF commander Berxwedan: The “Second Kobanê Resistance” has begun in Northern and Eastern Syria

Le gvt syrien d'Al Shara voudrait que l'Administration autonome du Nord et de l'Est de la Syrie face une redition totale. Ce qui est évidemment impossible pour elle, qui depuis 2011 met en place un système politique démocratique, multi ethnique.

The leading member of the International Coalition Against ISIS is idly watching and twiddling their thumbs as the newest member of the International Coalition Against ISIS releases all of the ISIS fighters from the prisons they recently gained control of by attacking another member of the Coalition.

"Hrant, Türkiye’nin kurucu hukukunun şiddet ile olan yapısal ilişkisini de güncel bir mesele olarak önümüze koyuvermişti. Hem de tam içeriden. Hem de bir yerli olarak. Hem de hepimizi yaratan, bugünü inşa eden güncel bir yapının ta kendisi olarak."

Pulling down the statue of a #YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) fighter in #Tabqa is not just the destruction of a monument; it is a symbolic attack by misogynistic jihadists on the history of #women’s struggle and liberation. JIN, JIYAN, AZADÎ | ROJAVA

It’s already the most documented genocide in history, and it’s been live streamed by the people committing it.

"What are the red flags of enemy feminism? For starters, fear: an emphasis on danger over pleasure; a preoccupation with purity; technophobia; congealed opinion; resistance to surprise or novelty; and the desire for strong borders.... But by far the most common feature of enemy feminism is racism."

A central insight in Marxist economics: when capital moves towards crisis, key factions of capital dill integrate with the state to survive. The state’s legal powers of coercion and its steady income from taxpayers keeps capital going when it fails to grow by itself.

"Mesela Cemil Çiçek adalet bakanıydı... Abdülkadir Aksu içişleri bakanıydı ... “yakalanmasaydık Ermenileri öldürecektik” manşetini atan Yeni Şafak gazetesinin Yayın yönetmeni Mustafa Karaalioğlu... Zira bu şahıslardan en az biri sorumluluğunun gereğini yapmış olsaydı Hrant bugün aramızda olacaktı."

This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”

Just released this conversation I had with the queer Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi. We talk about his new book 'Fire in Every Direction', and share experiences as two queer arabs who grew up in two different cities: he in Amman, me in Beirut. I loved this conversation. youtu.be/4baenHObnIw