Samuel Forey

Journaliste. Au Moyen-Orient depuis 2011, à Jérusalem de 2020 à 2025, et à présent au Caire. Signe pour @lemondefr. Auteur du livre Les Aurores incertaines.

[Neri Zilber @NeriZilber]

Exclusive: Bibi Netanyahu nearly initiated a major new offensive against Iran earlier this month, wide-scale airstrikes including on civilian infrastructure. It was only stopped after Trump failed to give a green light. But chances are high still for a joint US-Israel attack in the coming weeks. My story @FT https://t.co/GBgcDBXjfH

[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

La journaliste Lina Attalah, figure du média indépendant Mada Masr, a reçu une convocation des autorités égyptiennes pour mercredi.
Le mois dernier, six journalistes d'un autre média égyptien indépendant, Matsda2sh, ont été arrêtés. Leur détention vient d'être prolongée.

[Mada Masr مدى مصر @MadaMasr]

Lina Attalah, Mada Masr’s editor-in-chief, received a summons today from the Supreme State Security Prosecution to attend a questioning session on Wednesday, October 21. The summons did not say why she is being questioned.

The new investigation, Case 9072/2026, is the sixth case brought against Mada Masr, its journalists and its editor-in-chief in the past six years. The most recent was in August 2025, when the security prosecution released Attalah on LE30,000 bail. She was questioned at the time on charges of “broadcasting false news” and “using a website without a license,” based on a National Security Agency investigation report, in relation to a Mada Masr story on prisoners’ complaints of abuse in detention facilities. When asked why she trusted the sources cited in the story, Attalah said she had abided by professional journalistic standards and had acted in the public interest. She also pointed to the legally protected right to inform authorities of events through publication, noting that the outlet presents a full range of viewpoints.
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[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

Je ne me lasse jamais de le revoir.

[Guri Gashi @E_GuriGashi]

Never mind, I found it

[Michael Jordan @JordanMich45361]

(1/7) I'd like to provide some additional context for the remarks that can be found in this interview.

(2/7) My discomfort with the attention being paid to existential risk---and with the ongoing dominance of the public discussion of such risks by a few so-called thought leaders---is that there's an elephant in the room that is being missed. That elephant is the effect of all of this discussion on young people, and indeed the effect---beginning with social media a decade ago---of information technology on young lives broadly speaking.

(3/7) I recently read an interview by Jill Lepore in which she reports on discussions that she had recently with a group of college students: "They had just three things to say. One, social media completely destroyed their childhoods. Two, AI is destroying their college education and their likely prospects for employment. And three, what the hell are we all doing?" To add a fourth bullet that I've heard in similar discussions: "I'm not going to have children, because the existential risk is just too high."

(4/7) Please contemplate such a statement, those of you who think that it's OK that the public, widely diffused, discussion coming from seemingly authoritative figures is so adamant about existential risk.

(5/7) Let me add that I have little interest in a debate about what "superintelligence" might mean, or whether we're currently seeing the emergence of superintelligence. For what it's worth, I would certainly agree that the solution of extremely challenging math problems (for example) exhibits a very impressive form of intelligence, although I would want to argue that such intelligence is impossible to dissociate from the collective of humans that provided data to the machine learning system (which itself has become a kind of collective).

(6/7) Such philosophical debates are entertaining and even important, but when they then head in the direction of "when such superintelligence emerges, there's a good chance that it will want to kill all humans", I say "science fiction". Again, I don't think that it's bad to consider such thoughts, but I strongly believe that it's bad for society, and especially young people, for such thoughts, unaccompanied by any serious real-world analysis, to become a dominant form of discourse of the era.
(7/7) We are damaging human lives, and the consequences of that damage will no doubt be a major theme of the next several decades.

[Olivier Schmitt @Olivier1Schmitt]

The nuclear paradox: Why the world wants both deterrence and disarmament

https://t.co/CZjtd6LJFw

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Yemen’s governorates, translated literally

[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

Reposting. Fei-Fei Li does not come up every other morning saying ‘I'm building something that may pose existential risks to humanity’. But rather 'I feel a deep sense of humility, gratitude and hopefulness that we will build a future we believe in, (...) in service of humanity.

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

https://t.co/l3mSj9Ur24

[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

"The world is not just made up of words" - by @drfeifei

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

https://t.co/l3mSj9Ur24

[Mark Urban @MarkUrban01]

This is a brilliant piece of journalism - literally deconstructing the latest Russian strike drone, explaining how it works and where the components needed to make it work are being sourced by Russia, even after 4+ years of war

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

From a concept perspective, the KF-21 is South Korea's 4.5 gen stepping stone to stealth. AESA radar, modern EW and serious air-to-air punch in a low-observable design, with Block 2 expected to add internal weapons carriage to further reduce its radar signature. In short, Korea isn't just fielding a new fighter. It's laying the foundation for its own 5 gen fighter industry. 2/2

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

The goal of building any technology, AI included, should be bettering human lives and society.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

The story of this election is that while Netanyahu and the Likud have significantly weakened- the Israeli right on a whole, and the far right in particular- has significantly grown among Jewish Israelis

[Ahmed Nagi @AhmedNagiYE]

A very good piece on the battle of Mokha by @mohammedalqadhi, highlighting how the Houthis prepared for the offensive while divisions and weak coordination undermined government forces, leading to the rapid collapse of the western coast https://t.co/n2DNjxhhlu

[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

Link here
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[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

The most interesting thing you will read this week
"The Credibility Gap in the Arab World's Democratic Opposition: A Conversation with Activist Hussein Baoumi"

[Yasmine Farouk ياسمين فاروق @YasFarouk]

#Yemen is quickly sliding back into war as Houthi rebels charged down the western coast &escalated against #SaudiArabia, turning the country into an active front in the MiddleEast confrontation pitting the U.S. &Israel against #Iran. A thread w/ some of our analysis since March:

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I suspect we're approaching a time where if you want to protect creative work, it has to be something that can't be digitized. AI has made is so that creative works speed run through the lifecycle from cool to cliche in a matter of months. This contributes to our cultural stagnation, making it hard for real creators to produce something with meaningful, lasting effects on other real creators. Everything becomes a meme, which is to say meaningless and trite.

[Samuel Forey @SamForey]

Comment une mauvaise analyse effectuée par IA a failli déclencher un affrontement entre les US et la Chine

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

💔 A Syrian man returned to his home in Damascus and found the private library he had sealed inside a wall 15 years ago

The man hid books banned by the Assad regime before fleeing to Kuwait.

When he returned home, he found his library exactly as he had left it — completely intact, which brought him immense joy.

Source: Yeni Şafak

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

"if you’re not worried about police brutality, or floods, or warfare—things that can actually kill you—then you can obsess over the machine-god."

I said what I said.

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