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[Will Christou @will_christou]

Israel carried out a “triple tap,” killing three medical workers and wounding six, outside of Nabatieh today.

Paramedics were trying to rescue wounded from an airstrike, when they were struck. Another ambulance came to rescue the medical workers and was struck. A third rescue attempt was made, and that ambulance was struck too. A paramedic remains missing.

Israel has killed over 90 healthcare workers in Lebanon in about six weeks.

Pictured: One of the slain medical workers, Fadel Sarhan.

[Disinformation Tracker @Disinfo_Tracker]

Like clockwork, Barak Ravid and Axios put out a story about fake negotiations, planted by the white house, to calm the markets for Monday and give Trump an excuse to back down from his latest threats against Iran.

How many times are they going to pull this exact same stunt?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter

[Iranian Zaitunay Bay @IRANinZB]

😉

[Muskaan Mujahid | 🆓🇵🇸 @MuskaanMujahid]

I love how Iranian embassies 🇮🇷 carefully curate their posts according to their countries' aura

You have hilarious sarcastic posts from South Africa Emb 🇿🇦 and culturally relevant from Indonesia 🇮🇩

Then there's Japan Emb 🇯🇵 even apologising for sharing his language 😭😭

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

Dr. Rahimi, the engineer responsible for building the Karaj Bridge (which would have been the largest bridge in the Middle East) that America bombed while it was in its final stages, tells the Iranians:

If God extends my life, I will certainly rebuild this bridge, and I promise you that you will cross it.

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Listen.
Iran made its own COVID vaccine. They did it while America and its allies choked them with sanctions. No begging. No waiting for Pfizer or Moderna. They built it themselves. COVIran Barekat. Their blood, their brains, their hands.
They had the old Pasteur Institute. They had scientists who knew how to fight disease. The virus came hard in 2020. Hospitals filled fast. The West blocked the money, the machines, the chemicals. Iran said no thanks to foreign shots and went to work. They tested it on animals, then on people. Twenty-four thousand volunteers. By summer 2021 the vaccine was ready. Their leader took the first dose on camera. This is ours, he said.
That is the story. They stood up when the boot was on their neck.
Now look what happens. Israel and America bomb the factories. They hit Tofigh Daru, the plant that made cancer drugs and anesthetics. They hit the Pasteur Institute, the old heart of Iranian medicine. Bombs on medicine. Bombs on research. Bombs on the places that keep sick people alive.
Why? They call it security. They say the factories hide weapons. But the real reason is simpler and uglier. Big money hates self-reliance. If Iran makes its own drugs, cheap and strong, then the big Western companies lose sales. Sanctions already tried to starve their pharma industry. When that failed, the bombs came. Destroy the labs. Destroy the production lines. Keep them weak. Keep them buying. Keep the profits flowing.
This is not defense. This is greed wearing a soldier’s uniform.
Iran refused to kneel during the pandemic. They created their own answer under blockade. That truth burns the eyes of the empire. So they send missiles to blind the world again.
Open your eyes. A country that makes its own vaccine under siege shows real strength. The ones bombing medicine factories show only fear and hunger for money. The blindfold is off now. See it plain.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

A Chinese video by “Laohu Talks World” is going viral online, breaking down how Iran could try to target the F-35 Lightning II using existing equipment by simplifying the problem step by step.

The speaker argues that air combat isn’t realistic given Iran’s aging fleet, including decades-old Grumman F-14 Tomcats, and instead focuses on ground-based air defense.

He contrasts large systems like the S-300 and Bavar-373 with smaller, mobile systems like the Majid air defense system, arguing that lighter, decentralized setups using infrared tracking could be harder to detect and survive longer.

The video is part of a wider phenomenon from China as the Middle East conflict unfolds: civilians are volunteering, without pay, their technical skills on social media to help Iran counter U.S. military power.

[Del @TheCartelDel]

We may never know who introduced Takuya Nakamura to UK Jungle music, after moving from Tokyo to Boston to study Jazz theory - but I, for one, am very grateful.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

This is probably the most defining meme of the last two and a half years

[Jamahiriya al-Juche🇬🇭🇨🇻 @ayo_platano]

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian after writing an eloquent four page letter to the American people, reading Pete Hegseth’s tweet written as an incomplete sentence and comfortably at 4th grade level

[Anas @Anus40802911]

@drpezeshkian These Iranian girls are trolling Israel at the next level
Israel is attacking Iran’s historical sites but Iran can’t respond the same way because Israel has no history.’ 😂

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Hind Rajabs words on a mobile phone as Israel was murdering her.

‘“I’m not talking because every time I talk blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
- - A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

Just like that

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

I remember in Gaza, Israel sent a Palestinian prisoner to ask people to leave a hospital before they flatten it. Told him to come back or they blow it up with everyone in it.

The guy went and found his mother also stuck in the hospital. Passed the message and started going back to the IDF soldiers.

Halfway on the way a sniper shot him in the head.
His mother witnessed it. The video is also available.

His work was done.

[Ross Hendricks @Ross__Hendricks]

Friendly reminder: Hormuz was open before we launched the war