Javed Farzan

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

This is cultural genocide.👇

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

Over 5,000 people showed up in Edinburgh today to show opposition to Islamophobia and the far right.

The protests follow the recent stabbing attack which targeted five Muslims last week.

[SNEAKO @sneako]

Look what football means to people

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “There’s always a healthy flow of migrant workers that will come to the US that will work for pennies on the fucking dollar to make ends meat to work in slave-like conditions because they’re desperate. Why are they desperate? Because we’ve destroyed their countries. We’ve manipulated their finances, destroyed their economy, extracted their natural resources. We’ve kept them down and underdeveloped by design to create this chaos and then they’re desperate enough to come here and we don’t allow them to get the proper paperwork so our capital owners can justify paying them nothing”

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Five people were attacked in an anti-Muslim terror attack in Edinburgh.

No riots.

No media frenzy.

No national panic.

No emergency meetings.

No outrage from the usual voices.

No wall to wall podcasts.

They expect us not to notice.

But we do notice.

And it's getting harder and harder not to wonder:

Do Muslim lives matter as much as everyone else's?

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

One of the most painful images to come out of Gaza.

A child struggles to process the unimaginable after seeing his parents killed before his eyes in Gaza.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇳🇴🇵🇸A Norwegian doctor who worked as a volunteer in Gaza speaks about the Palestinian people:

•"If you go to Gaza today, the families, even in the tents, will make you a meal."

•You know that the Palestinians, they have a name for it, it's called Sumud. This never-ending capacity to sustain hardship without giving up, the steadfastness of the Palestinian people."

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

She died buried under rubble, terrified.

Don’t let israel murder her in silence. Please.

[Javed Farzan @javedfarzan]

A child, buried in concrete, after taking his organs!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Eid Mubarak!

Today as we honor Prophet Ibrahim, Eid al-Adha reminds us that sacrifice is not a burden. It is an opportunity to see ourselves as part of something larger. To extend a hand to those who need it most.

I am honored to be New York City's first Muslim Mayor and I am determined to lead through solidarity. Together, we are working to ensure every New Yorker can afford the groceries, housing, and child care they need.

Our solidarity is our strength. Eid Saeed, New York.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

No child deserves to be murdered while holding a toy.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Watch the filthy Zionist regime target Lebanese medics. The medics had just arrived after a father and daughter had been murdered by the regime.

Western legacy media journalists and elites hide these crimes because they are sinister monsters too.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Don’t pin this on one far right Israeli politician. This is not the act of one person. The systemic & repeated violations of international law by Israel is not something to talk about with the Israeli ambassador. It requires meaningful economic and political pressure. Sanctions!

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

‼️ Tonight, Israel slaughtered an entire family. Ten members of the Deebo family were killed inside their home in Deir Qanoun al-Nahr in south Lebanon.

Women, children & grandparents. Not “Hezbollah targets.” Human beings.

Among them:
Maria Deebo.
Maleeka Deebo.
Little Mohammed Baqer Deebo.
Their mother Zahraa Najdi.
Their father Alaa Deebo.
Alongside their grandparents and uncle.

Entire generations wiped out in a single strike, killed late at night inside their own home.

Ten people were massacred in Deir Qanoun al-Nahr tonight, among them three women & three children.

This was never a ceasefire. It was permission for Israel to keep killing civilians, bombing homes at will, and acting with total impunity.

[DOAM @doamuslims]

This is Mohamed Nader, one of the victims of the San Diego mosque terrorist attack…

His wife, Mrs. Khairaat, has served as a kindergarten teacher for decades. Their family has long been known within the ICSD community as “the neighbors of the masjid,” since they lived directly across the street.

When Nader heard the gunshots, he immediately ran toward the danger. He grabbed whatever he could from Brother Amin Abdullah and went inside to confront the two terrorists. He was martyred in the process.

At the same time, his wife was barricaded inside the kindergarten classroom with her students. Despite the unimaginable fear and chaos, she remained composed so the children would not be afraid. Imagine her strength... Evacuating with her students and then witnessing the carnage brought upon our house of worship and school.

Brother Nader was always trying to do right by people, especially by his children. His children attended my Quran classes, and their parents would often ask me to check in on them and mentor them. They cared deeply about their children and the children of the community. They would always say, “Please talk to our children because they listen to you and need good mentorship.” SubhanAllah, this is the kind of family the Awads are.

When Brother Nader heard the gunshots, he ran into the gunfire from across the street not knowing what would happen, only knowing that his wife, the children, and the community were in danger and that he had to do something. By the will of Allah, he delayed the shooters and prevented them from reaching the classrooms.

He saved an untold number of children’s lives yesterday.

May Allah accept Nader as a Shaheed.

— Fayaz Nawabi

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

"Do something beneficial for the next person, let this be your legacy."

A resurfaced interview shows Amin Abdullah, the heroic Muslim security guard martyred while bravely defending the Islamic Center of San Diego during yesterday's terror attack, speaking about his journey to Islam and offering advice to young people.

[Princess♡ྀི🎀🌺 @imsoprettyylike]

The word “Islamophobia” feels too soft for the scale of violence, dehumanization, and institutional power directed at Muslim communities

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Brother Amin Abdullah was the guard at the mosque in San Diego for years. He was instrumental in stopping the shooters from reaching the children today. This was his final post on FB. On these holiest days, may Allah have mercy on him and accept him as a martyr. Ameen