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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Josip Brodskij) - @[email protected]

[cormarch @cormarch]

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[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.

Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.

We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.

Read the report: https://t.co/MGRonqai7o

[Paolo Berizzi @PBerizzi]

Strage neofascista di Piazza della Loggia. Loro c'erano. Per non dimenticare.

#piazzaloggia

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

One step away from the brink: NATO’s march towards all-out war with Russia

The risk of an all-out conflict between NATO and Russia is higher than it’s ever been — even at the height of the Cold War — given how deeply the two sides are now entangled in what is, in every operational sense, an increasingly direct military confrontation, even if the fiction of non-belligerence is still formally maintained. Unlike during the Cold War, when the superpowers maintained elaborate protocols designed to prevent direct confrontation, the lines today are blurred to the point of near-invisibility. A war that was supposed to be contained within Ukraine’s borders has steadily metastasised into something far more dangerous: a proxy conflict in which NATO’s role has become so operationally central that the distinction between proxy and principal has largely collapsed, and in which each week brings fresh evidence that the escalatory logic is running well ahead of any political capacity to control it.

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The risk of war is not some distant abstraction — it is dangerously, imminently real. The mechanisms of escalation that have brought us to this point are well understood: each step up the ladder, taken with the confident assumption that the other side will back down, makes the next step more likely and the space for de-escalation narrower. Western leaders have convinced themselves, through a combination of wishful thinking and institutional inertia, that Russia will continue to absorb provocations without responding in kind. But every week that passes without a diplomatic off-ramp brings us closer to the moment when that assumption is tested to destruction.

What makes the current situation uniquely perilous is not just the military escalation but the complete collapse of the political imagination that might arrest it. There are no Cold War realists, no back-channel, no serious European leader with the standing and the will to propose a negotiated settlement. There is only the momentum of the war machine, now distributed across a dozen countries and thousands of companies, producing weapons in Finnish factories, German joint ventures and British workshops — all of them feeding a conflict that, in the absence of urgent political intervention, has no logical terminus short of catastrophe.

The responsibility lies, ultimately, with European citizens. Our governments are not acting in our name or in our interests. It falls to us — before the next incident, the next miscalculation, the next drone that crosses into the wrong airspace — to demand that they step back from the brink.

Read my latest article here: https://t.co/QEhwknVxzJ

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

A Lebanese family was killed after Israeli forces ordered them to evacuate their hometown for "safety." As they fled, an Israeli drone tracked their car and struck it, killing the mother, father, and all four children. Paramedics said the burned children were unrecognizable

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

UPDATE | The Israeli attack on Choueifat, in Beirut's southern suburb, killed a mother—identified as Fatima Ali Wehbe—and her child.

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

Fiscal consolidation increases political instability. Government approval ratings decline more sharply when tightening occurs during a downturn and relies solely on spending cuts. Consolidation measures with only minor contractionary effects contribute to political stability.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israel Burns More Palestinians Alive Under U.S.-Backed Ceasefire

Palestinians carried burned and wounded children through the streets after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential home in central Gaza City, killing at least 7 people, including two young girls, and wounding more than 20 others, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Videos filmed by journalists Omar Al-Gedi and Mahmoud Shaweesh capture residents pulling casualties from the rubble, children covered in blood being rushed into ambulances, and crowds screaming in panic as flames and smoke filled the area.

Israel continues to carry out daily strikes on homes and residential neighborhoods across Gaza and Lebanon despite ongoing U.S.-backed ceasefire agreements, while mediating parties in the Gaza talks — the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey — remain largely silent about blatant ceasefire violations. Over 920 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel agreed to a ceasefire last October.

[il manifesto @ilmanifesto]

L’avanzata di Israele nel sud del Libano si estende fino a Tiro, con i suoi 200 mila abitanti, tra ordini di evacuazione e bombe. Emergenza sfollati senza precedenti. Così Netanyahu prova a sabotare un’eventuale intesa Iran-Usa che includa anche il Paese dei Cedri

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@ChrisVanHollen @aaronjmate My last UN report, based on 300+ testimonies of detained Palestinians who survived torture and other forms of illtreatment - demonstrates that beyond the flattening of Gaza, the unberable suffering inflicted on innocent civilians behind bars will be the hallmark of this genocide.

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Scintille al Senato, dove l'élite moderata celebra Oriana Fallaci a 20 anni dalla morte. In un convegno quasi agiografico, dopo il ricordo commosso di Vittorio Feltri, al giornalista Enrico Mentana chiedono cosa avrebbe pensato oggi Fallaci della vicenda della Flotilla, con i manifestanti malmenati da Israele e dileggiati da Ben-Gvir.

Sapendo di trovarsi su un terreno minato - tra i convenuti ci sono Fiamma Nirenstein, Giuseppe Benedetto (Fondazione Einaudi) e Andrea Cangini («Accidenti, il genocidio è già finito») il direttorissimo tra mille cautele si limita a citare la condanna del capo dello Stato (ma «non divinizziamo nessuno» dice metttendo la mani avanti) e a sottolineare che parlare della Global Sumud Flotilla «come di qualsiasi manifestazione a difesa dei palestinesi di Gaza o di istanze che ci possono sembrare vicine o lontane, vuol dire parlare di un diritto che è delle democrazie». 

Poi si rivolge a Nirenstein, che è già sbigottita: «Adesso il parafulmine è diventato Ben-Gvir, ma Ben-Gvir che cosa ha fatto ieri? Ha filmato, con un video, quello che stava comunque succedendo, non sono le sue risate che fanno indignare in quel video, è il trattamento delle persone, che è nei protocolli di azione delle forze israeliane».

Parole che vedono sussultare la collega e il pubblico. L'ex ministro degli Esteri, Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, ex Radicale, sbotta: «Ora basta, me ne vado».

Pochi video sono capaci di documentare altrettanto bene l'irrigidimento ideologico, l'intolleranza e il distacco dalla realtà di una parte importante delle élite liberali italiane.

(video @adnkronos)

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

In 2010, Daphne Park, then Baroness Park, shortly before her death confessed MI6's role in the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
She had been MI6 station chief in the Congo at the time. It was a joint US/UK/Belgian operation to murder him.

[Global Sumud Italia @gmtgitalia]

La Nakba non è solo storia, è un triste presente per tutte le persone palestinesi.

Mostriamo la nostra solidarietà scendendo in piazza, facendoci sentire, portando la nostra voce fino alle coste di Gaza.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Chancellor Merz is a supporter of the genocide in Gaza and the attack on Iran, refuses diplomacy with Russia, and will mass-produce long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia. Yet he does not shy away from lecturing others.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ New from @DropSiteNews: With No Equipment Allowed Into Gaza, Palestinians Are Digging With Their Hands to Retrieve the Dead

Mahmoud Khilla managed to find the remains of two relatives but he is still digging through the rubble for his wife and children. “We will continue and we will find them,” he said.

Story by Mohammed Ahmed

https://t.co/Dn10Q4rk2P

[Giulio Cavalli @giuliocavalli]

Lafi al-Najjar, palestinese cieco di trentasei anni, vive in una tenda tra le macerie di Khan Younis. Suo figlio Adel, nove anni, è stato ucciso il ventotto aprile in un attacco israeliano. A Reuters, l'undici maggio, al-Najjar ha detto: «La guerra è ancora in corso. Si è fermata negli annunci, sul terreno non si è fermata».
Il dato lo conferma. Il rapporto mensile di ACLED, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, pubblicato ieri, registra ad aprile un aumento del trentacinque per cento degli attacchi israeliani sulla Striscia rispetto a marzo. Dal cessate il fuoco con l'Iran dell'otto aprile il Ministero della Salute di Gaza conta centoventi palestinesi uccisi, di cui otto donne e tredici bambini: il venti per cento in più delle cinque settimane precedenti, quando l'aviazione israeliana bombardava Teheran. Dal cessate il fuoco di ottobre, mediato da Stati Uniti e Qatar, i palestinesi uccisi sono ottocentocinquanta, contro quattro soldati israeliani.
Ieri, alla Sala del Mappamondo, il ministro degli Esteri Antonio Tajani ha riferito alle Commissioni Esteri e Difesa: «Il governo continua a prestare la massima attenzione operativa nella Striscia di Gaza e in Cisgiordania, con l'obiettivo di arrivare a due Stati». Sulle misure commerciali contro Israele frena: «Otto Paesi dell'Unione hanno espresso dubbi, perché il rischio è colpire la popolazione civile israeliana, non il governo Netanyahu». Resta aperta l'ipotesi di sanzioni sui prodotti dei coloni.
Stamane salpa da Marmaris la Global Sumud Flotilla: cinquantaquattro imbarcazioni e oltre cinquecento attivisti.
Khdour, ricercatore ACLED: «Bombardamenti, droni e fuoco di artiglieria continuano lungo la linea di armistizio, colpendo militanti e civili, donne e bambini». La guerra si è fermata solo negli annunci.

A Marmaris la Global Sumud Flotilla ha chiuso ieri l'assemblea internazionale; Saif Abukeshek e Thiago Ávila, espulsi domenica da Israele come «provocatori professionisti», sono il primo fronte.

#LaSveglia per La Notizia

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Israel is Raping Palestinians with Dogs:

"The soldiers brought in several dogs, one of them urinated on me, one of the dogs then raped me, penetrating my anus in a trained manner when I was being beaten"

[Nico Piro @_Nico_Piro_]

Nell’inchiesta del @nytimes le mani di Israele sull’Eurovision
Le ingerenze, l’intervento dei diplomatici sulle tv consorziate, i soldi spesi per orientare il televoto.

Ps nonostante il genocidio, la pulizia etnica, l’apartheid Israele non è stato escluso
https://t.co/7NwREhmJND

[Media Lens @medialens]

Superb journalism.

A powerful reminder of why nobody should rely on the ‘mainstream’ media to understand what’s going on in the world.

Please watch and share widely.

Well done, @DoubleDownNews and Richard Sanders @PulaRJS. 👏

https://t.co/it3KPCc4lK

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

NATO should have dissolved with the Warsaw Pact in 1991. The failure to end the bloc politics after the Cold War and instead expand NATO is the source of the war. Hopefully, NATO will now implode, and Europe can overcome bloc politics.