“ En fin de compte, la leçon la plus importante à tirer des campements est que, contrairement à ce qu’affirme Mme Plante, aucun d’entre nous n’est impuissant … La répression des campements ne peut pas nous faire oublier cette leçon. » Mon texte dans LP.
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President Biden's unconditional support of Netanyahu's policies - despite whatever frustration or handwringing might accompany it - is a horrible normal. It has served neither Palestinians nor Jews, caused massive suffering, all while leaving Americans bitterly frustrated and powerless to stop it. (As President, I will.)
This report is from former government officials whose conscience led them to resign from the administration rather than remain in jobs where they felt complicit in a terrible injustice. We need a path to a sustainable peace, and we need it now. As long as we continue to fund Netanyahu's worst instincts we will not have it. https://t.co/EVTJtoid9m
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New paper: How can you tell if a transformer has the right world model?
We trained a transformer to predict directions for NYC taxi rides. The model was good. It could find shortest paths between new points
But had it built a map of NYC? We reconstructed its map and found this:
🧵We followed the dump trucks unloading soil on Mohawk territory. We found was construction sites across Laval using Indigenous land to dump their refuse. Experts say this persists because Quebec refuses to enforce its own environmental laws. https://t.co/LZqWwHdM6x
It would be one thing if gentrification was just a media phenomenon & obsession but it’s not — its outsize narrative presence drives policy and investment decisions.
Where I definitely do see gentrification in Detroit is in Detroit’s story, especially as told to the rest of the country. Not really sure that’s a typical meaning of “gentrification” but whatever, it’s a malleable term.
Today, 48 planes are scheduled to fly between Montreal and New York City. With proper high-speed rail and pre-clearance protocols, this journey could take less than 3 hours by train. Currently, it takes 11 hours by train. We deserve better.
Kuei. Il y a 11 langues autochtones au Québec. On les parle ici depuis des milliers d'années. Elles ne menacent pas le français et je rêve du jour où le Québec les reconnaitra elles aussi comme des langues officielles. Bonne journée nationale des langues autochtones.
Violence in the West Bank is often described in media as occurring between equal parties, endemic, and permanent. But what does the data say?
Introducing a new analysis of over 7000 events from stone throwing to drone strikes across 2023: https://t.co/Zef4yXteaD
If you have not seen this by Naomi Klein, it is well worth the ten-minute read: an exceptionally insightful analysis of the broad complicity in genocide: https://t.co/SMsiFDUgd3