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ICYMI: RAG Poisoning? How Google's Gemini AI is Learning Pro-Israel Disinformation From Social Media marcowenjones.substack.com/p/how-google...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

The top benefit claimants in the UK. 1. The Royal Family £500m a year. 2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH. 3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits. Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires

To those sharing the Shamkhani wedding video: 1. This is clearly a women-only wedding, that's why the bride is wearing a revealing dress. It is customary for the groom and father of the bride to show up at the end, that's also why other women are covered up in the background ..

The UAE purchases land in Israel to build a permanent embassy www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

"Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal." wapo.st/471KaMZ

“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan for running the Gaza Strip after the war proposes a multilayered, hierarchical structure in which senior international diplomats and businesspeople are on top and the Palestinians running things on the ground are at the bottom.”

"Hezbollah's effort to blunt international pressure on Lebanon to disarm the group by appealing to Saudi Arabia last week was the result of back-channel diplomacy by Iran, sources said" www.reuters.com/world/middle...

There are caveats, as always. But indeed surprisingly many people in the Finnish upper middle class and even in the 1 % support the Nordic model of organizing societies.

Iran’s Messaging After Israel’s Qatar Strike @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social agsi.org/analysis/ira...

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

JUST IN: Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech

The Hind Rajab Foundation is "gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family" www.hindrajabfoundation.org/news/officia...

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The US will have to consider itself on notice that the Gulf states are now formally moving on and that, while none of them are interested in breaking ties with Washington, the idea that they can rely on the US for defense is, for the time being, practically discarded www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Good short article about derailment risk that @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and I have been working on. www.garp.org/risk-intelli...

Every word of this extraordinary trainwreck of an interview is worth reading. The self-serving, moral bankruptcy of a celebrated liberal (and legal) scholar, in his own words www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Both these men belong in the Hague

علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

Consistent with what I heard from others in the Biden White House. He couldn’t recognize Palestinians as human beings on par with Israelis.

Just In | War-crimes fugitive Netanyahu threatens retaliation after UK, Australia, and Canada recognize Palestine: “There will be no Palestinian state west of the Jordan,” Israeli PM Netanyahu declared, accusing the three governments of “granting a huge reward to terrorism” by recognizing...

🔴 Breaking: Israel has struck a car carrying a family of six and an accompanying motorcycle in Bint Jbeil, south Lebanon, murdering four — including three children. Two survivors - the mother and eldest daughter - were both wounded.

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Israel bombed a Houthi-aligned newspaper office in Yemen, killing at least 31 journalists in the second largest targeted killing of media workers CPJ has ever recorded. One more expansion of Israel’s claimed right to bomb anyone, anywhere, any time with impunity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Disappointing to see the leaders of Britain's new left-wing party fall out before their movement could even be properly launched www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great news!

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump administration is seeking congressional approval for nearly $6B in US-funded arms sales to Israel, including 30 Apache helicopters ($3.8B) and 3,250 infantry vehicles ($1.9B), - WSJ ❗️The weapons would be delivered in 2–3 years and paid for with US military aid.

Excellent @aljazeera.com documentary on the use of energy transition technology to put a green marketing spin on forced occupation and settler violence. We shouldn't accept the urgency of climate action being co-opted by the murderous, the racist and the genocidal, for their goals

The Israeli attacks on Doha, and America’s support of them, has caused Gulf leaders to majorly rethink their security, writes @cinziabianco.bsky.social @ecfrmena.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4puZHx8

When Israel in June started a war with Iran that it could neither win nor finish, the US spent billions to defend Israel from Iran's retaliatory missiles Just the use of the THAAD interceptors cost the American taxpayers $500 million, documents reveal!

Wow- "Saudi Arabia has signed a 'strategic mutual defence' pact with Pakistan, signalling to the US and Israel that the kingdom is willing to diversify its security alliances as it looks to bolster its deterrence" www.ft.com/content/50a4...

Today at 10am ET: Recognition, Annexation, and the Future of the Abraham Accords with Kristin Smith Diwan, Elham Fakhro, and @ibishblog.bsky.social, moderated by Amb. William Roebuck. Join us. agsi.org/events/recog...

These transcripts clearly show that Israel did not think Iran posed an imminent threat or that it was close to a nuclear weapon. Instead, Israeli officials were looking to destabilise Iran and drag the US into war with it www.timesofisrael.com/a-historic-m...

NEW: The Limits of Protections and Profit, Five Years Into the Abraham Accords Arang Keshavarzian reviews Elham Fakhro's new book on the Abraham Accords.

Thank you @keshavarziana.bsky.social for taking the time to write this thoughtful and comprehensive review of my book with @merip.bsky.social - it was a nice surprise to see it in my inbox this morning!

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Did you reserve a book at #APSA2025? Make sure to stop by booth 220 between 3 and 4 today to pick up your copy. Did get a chance to stop by our booth? Check our website for our full list of books in political science. buff.ly/4smNxGi

"A shift in Saudi priorities away from normalizing ties with Israel toward building int'l recognition for a Palestinian state has succeeded, as Western states pledge support among mounting outrage over famine in Gaza" good read from Kristin Diwan @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social agsi.org/analysis/sau...

"We thought we were dealing with civilised people" youtu.be/K1xEi2nBrHw?...

Nice gulfnews.com/world/asia/p...

The international rule of law is dead, and life is about to get very nasty indeed www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/i...

“I was meeting one of the hostage’s families the morning of the attack,” Qatar's Prime Minister told CNN. “They are counting on this (ceasefire) mediation, they have no other hope for that. I think that Netanyahu has just killed any hope for those hostages.” www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...