Lawrence Adler

Story seeking in the South Caucasus & beyond 🌐 | Doc filmmaker & writer | Retweet ≠ endorsement

[Lilit Shahverdyan @lilithiumm_]

@EUSR_SCCiG Could you please specify what groups of displaces Karabakh Armenians you interacted with? As a journalist born and raised in Stepanakert, I would also be happy to exchange some thoughts with you. And I have lots of concerns to share.

[Nagorno Karabakh Observer @NKobserver]

Today marks three years since #Azerbaijan's full scale offensive against de facto #NagornoKarabakh, preceded by a 10 month humanitarian blockade of the civilian population, eventually leading to the entire exodus of the native Armenian population, and subsequent settling of ethnic Azeris in the territories, in what has come to be a clear case of ethnic cleansing.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Israel sold $400 million worth of military drones to Russia, kickstarting Moscow’s drone industry. And North Korea is Russia’s treaty ally now, participating in the war against Ukraine. https://t.co/gUFxABQWlT

[Lawrence Adler @lawrence__adler]

And among those who know it happened, few correctly call it what it was without hesitation: an ethnic cleansing.

Never forget. Never again.

[Rasmus Canbäck @CanbackRasmus]

Three years ago, the ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh began.

Never again.

[Stefan Brakus 🇷🇸 @StefanBrakus93]

🇦🇲🇦🇿 A reminder that Azerbaijan literally expelled the entire native Armenian population of Artsakh only a few years ago...and the international community did absolutely NOTHING except continue to appease Azerbaijan...

Also, #freearmenianhostages

#Armenia #Azerbaijan #Artsakh

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I am talking to my anti-Zionist friends back in Israel and they are all terrified after the announcement of the new laws by Netanyahu and the death threats against Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

There are some in the pro-Palestine movement who look down on Israeli activists, but they have always put themselves in great danger and now the danger has increased greatly.

There is a reason they are being attacked. They are the ones who can challenge the system most severely. They need our full support for they are putting everything on the line for the cause.

[Hov Nazaretyan @HovhanNaz]

Four years ago today, Azerbaijan launched a major two-day invasion of Armenia, seizing strategic border heights. This gave Baku significant coercive leverage, placing them in a position to easily sever Armenia's south (Syunik). The blockade of Karabakh followed 3 months later.

[Celeste Marcus @Celestemarcus3]

Yuval Abraham says here that the most important thing to him is what the soldiers say in the movie, and they speak in Hebrew because they want the Israeli public to listen to them. He invites every Israeli who is suspicious of the film to come and see it.

Genuinely brave.

[Benjamin Dictor @BenjaminDictor]

“Cognitive surrender” is such a perfect way to describe what is happening to a lot of people with AI. Not just students.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Lindsey Snell @LindseySnell]

You can't bothsides this. Azerbaijan's Albanization of Armenian sites has been widely debunked. It's cultural erasure. EU officials should be condemning these attempts, not appearing in videos from Armenian monasteries, giggling next to Hikmet Hajiyev.

[Fiona @FionaSmall]

Breakup of the UK under the first Catholic Prime Minister

[Kevork Oskanian @DrKevorkO]

Indeed, utterly grotesque.

There is a difference between diplomacy, and playing along with this kind of revisionist nonsense on territories ethnically cleansed just a few years ago.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar said Sunday he will work to revoke the citizenship of Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

The film examines what it describes as Israel’s “calculated mass killing” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and features testimony from IDF intelligence officers and soldiers.

Zohar called the film “vile” and said it “constitutes treason.”

🔗https://t.co/ADhLVrWinO

[Ahmed Moor @AhmedMoor]

Yuval and Rachel are doing the best work they can be doing. We need more, and they should be supported.

The fact that Palestinian voices are ignored or suppressed - more than 200 journalists murdered in Gaza - is painful but it has nothing to do with Yuval or Rachel.

[Eldar Mamedov @EldarMamedov4]

The tragedy is not that @EUSR_SCCiG is uniquely evil. Far from it. She knows the region too well to believe such nonsense. The tragedy is the system itself - the one that decided the EU must become a "geopolitical player," and that pursues this goal so clumsily and so stupidly.

[Rasmus Canbäck @CanbackRasmus]

Origin of churches in Nagorno-Karabakh is not a political issue between Armenia and Azerbaijan to agree on. The EU relativisation of Armenian historical sites has gone way too far.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

If you falsely claim US led forces killed 4+ million people after 9/11, by citing an absurd study that blames all the mass murder committed by the Assad regime & Iran during the Arab Spring on the US, you are engaged in atrocity revisionism.
Owen Jones is an atrocity revisionist.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Wow!

9/11 Families not only called out Saudi Arabia for its role in the terror attacks, but also the US officials who for years have protected the Saudis - some of them were apparently in the audience!

Terry Strada: "My husband, Tom Strada. You are missed more with each year that passes. But how can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder? Yes, we finally made it into a court and have proved that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American terrorism around the globe and then sent its agents to support the radical Islamist hijackers so they could attack you and all of our loved ones. But, for 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families. They withheld evidence...they broke promises, both public and private; it's been one betrayal after another."

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In this clip, Hillary Clinton floats the possibility that Netanyahu deliberately allowed the 10/7 attack to go forward so that he could capitalize on it and strengthen his political position.

Given all the evidence we have, it is very difficult to escape that conclusion. That even Hillary Clinton is willing to voice it is rather extraordinary.