Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: https://t.co/TVEoFX8gzj
Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. That’s in the charter. Do you support that?
Mamdani: I’ve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.
Karl: As jewish state?
Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.
No, Donald, this was not a case "against the United States of America and all it stands for." It was a case against you. And a jury of your peers found you liable for rape and defamation. You lost. Again.
.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
We are devastated to learn that overnight the state painted over the Pulse Memorial crosswalk on Orange Avenue. But we know that while this crosswalk has been removed, Orlando's commitment to honoring the 49 can never be erased.
Despicable. Republican Congressman Keith Self quoted Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, during a congressional hearing.
WTF is wrong with these people???
As @VitalikButerin points out, there are three Egyptian god cards that are about to be played in cryptography over the next several years:
1) ZK: prove computation without revealing data
2) FHE: compute on encrypted data
3) Indistinguishability obfuscation: obfuscate the internal workings of any program
General purpose zkVMs have already rapidly accelerated ZK by allowing anyone to develop any application.
The degree to which these protocols will transform the world is not appreciated.
We can have completely secure voting, credit scoring, juries, and more with very little overhead.
For me, this is a super exciting future.
https://t.co/T9JCYs8jV0
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Lindsey Graham just blamed Donald Trump for the border security legislation not passing. Retweet so all Americans see this and know Donald Trump is to blame for any border security related problems
It’s “show us your squid art Sunday”!
I’ve been looking forward to these Sundays since the folks at OceanX proposed art prompts.
Let’s see your squid art!
Let's not forget Mayor Parker's Return To Office "allows for more personal and productive interactions, facilitates communication, and promotes social connections..."
This is how the Mayor’s office chose to treat the voices of 6,000 constituents.
Despite having an appointment, we had to beg our way upstairs in City Hall and were met with silent, expressionless staffers in the hallway. We left the petitions on a table.
https://t.co/WikPj2FwET