‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI:
“A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”
@sayhibels@nypost The silent influencers. Algorithms and other oddities such as V2K. Who knows what other things were going on in his mind. Very tragic. Terribly sad and alarmingly too common these days.
I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank.
The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.
Claude Code found spyware on my sister’s phone. It had been tracking her for 11 weeks…
She asked me to check her phone. Someone always seemed to know where she was and she couldn’t figure out how
I plugged it into Claude Code and asked what’s running that she never installed. It walked every app, including the hidden ones, and flagged one disguised as “System Service”, no icon, not on any store
It had been there 11 weeks, logging her location every 2 minutes. Claude pulled the details on whoever was running it:
reports to → +1 (415) *** **72
carrier → T-Mobile US
device id → IMEI 35 ********** 47
last ping it sent → 40.7**, -73.9** · 2 min ago
We saved everything the app had recorded and passed it to the people who do this professionally. Then Claude shut it down and wiped it off her phone
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Jason Alexander says he feared visiting Palestine as a Jew until 10 Palestinians protected him during an Israeli army raid in Ramallah
“How much of a risk would I be taking as an American Jew walking into Palestinian cities? And Mohammed said, ‘The greatest dishonor that could happen to a religious Muslim is to allow harm to come to an invited guest’”
“And he said, ‘Jason, if they had to, they’ll take a bullet for you.’ And what was so interesting about that trip is, we were having lunch in Ramallah with a bunch of actors and artists at a sort of outdoor restaurant”
“And the Israeli army was conducting a raid on a bank that they thought had terrorist ties a couple blocks away. And they must have, to announce themselves, just shot into the air. And I remember 10 of those guys at the table surrounding me. And I went, ‘Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt’”