León Markovitz

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[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

“We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm" — Winston Churchill

[Kol Tregaskes @koltregaskes]

Ex-MIT researcher Isaak Freeman quits his PhD and drops the 50,000 H100 GPU roadmap to emulate a full human brain.

He mapped the entire path from 302-neuron worm to 86-billion-neuron human with connectomics costs now at 100 dollars per neuron and data acquisition via advanced microscopes as the only blocker left - digital humans just got a realistic timeline.
https://t.co/kGB5hOAQHC

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@brucefenton Some of my most Zionist friends are not Jewish

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@efenigson @ohemmjay_ @UmbralShadows Efrat, you’re the voice, be loud and proud of being Israeli and Jewish.

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@mattyryze https://t.co/u7rwbdRCWE

[Nagli @galnagli]

This exposure was responsibly disclosed and promptly fixed on February 6th.

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

marching backwards into the future

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Stairs in Motion by kalach_tax

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@efenigson @OzraeliAvi No one likes war, but if Israel didn’t defend itself you wouldn’t have been born. Virtue signaling now doesn’t make you smart it makes you a hypocrite

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@mariaelisasmith Vienen por ti los extraterrestres entonces, a ver si dejas de odiar antes…

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

או״ם שמום

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Mr. Secretary-General, when last month the Islamic Republic slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranians in two days, your response was to congratulate the murderers on the Islamic Revolution anniversary while your organization elevated them to multiple U.N. and human rights bodies.

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

“We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.” — @TonyRobbins

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The most entertaining outcome is the most likely

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@LayahHeilpern They will blame Jews for anything going wrong, like trains crashing in Spain. This post is not funny and does not help. Wake-up.

https://t.co/5QjNIEYeBD

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

🚨As antisemitism continues to rise around the world, a Jewish cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, was vandalized. Antisemitism must be universally condemned wherever it appears.

[VV @visualizevalue]

"Words should be weighed, not counted." – Yiddish Proverb

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

LatAm is becoming Galts Gulch. It started with El Salvador, spread to Argentina and it is now radiating across the region.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

There is just such an extreme feeling knowing that

Democrats imported Communists and Islamists into America

And let them seize control of our education system, indoctrinating our children

While at the same time the people of Venezuela and Iran are being liberated

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

@ErichGarciaCruz but worth it

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

Gd bless America! Viva la libertad carajo!

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

🙏🕊️

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

Next year in Jerusalem:
Argentinian Embassy.
Iranian Embassy.
Venezuelan Embassy.

Viva la libertad!

[Chabad.org @Chabad]

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was among the 11 murdered at the terror attack at the public menorah lighting and Chanukah event in Australia, had this post pinned to his account.
His call was that in the face of darkness, the way forward is to “be more Jewish, act more Jewish and appear more Jewish.”
הרב פייבל אליעזר בן בנימין הלוי הי"ד

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

Let us now,
weather,
health,
dangers,
public
orders and
other cir-
cumstances
permitting,
of perfectly
convenient,
if you
police, after
you,
policepolice
pardoning
mein, ich
beam so
fresch,
bey? …
FW 113.

[León Markovitz @leonmark0]

“The more machines there are to replace men, the more men there will be in society who are nothing but machines.” —Louis de Bonald

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

Jimmy Wales wades into the Israel-Palestine war on Wikipedia. Hope he's got his gaiters on, because it is swampy in there!

Here's what you need to know:

1. Yesterday, Jimmy Wales posted in the Talk pages on the "Gaza Genocide" article on Wikipedia a lengthy statement.

Wales says:

"I was asked point-blank in a high profile media interview about this article, and I answered with transparency and honesty: this article fails to meet our high standards and needs immediate attention."

2. Wales says the Gaza Genocide article is "particularly egregious. Part of what Wales means is that the article opens by stating there is a genocide in "WikiVoice" – Wikipedia's own factual point of view, and not by referring to the views of various bodies:

"The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war."

Lower down in the thread Wales writes:

"Indeed, outside pressure is irrelevant. NPOV [Neutral Point of View] is what matters. This article fails. There is, in the real world, significant dissent from the core idea in the article, including major governments, etc. We say, in WikiVoice, things that are very much hotly contested in many reliable sources and competent authorities."

3. The top editor on "Gaza Genocide" is Cdjp1, who has added a staggering 150,039 characters to the article, which accounts for 41% of its content. The next most active editor, by comparison, has added just 28,000 characters to the article (7.7%).

+ Cdjp1 is also one of the top editors on the "Charlie Kirk" article, which I reported recently for its evident skew.

4. This is not Cdjp1's first time at the "genocide" rodeo. The editor is also the #1 contributor to an entirely separate article titled, "Palestine genocide accusation," to which Cdjp1 has contributed 120,000+ characters - also about 40% of the entire article.

+ This is how adversarial or attacking editors work—by creating not just one article, but a network of articles pushing an ideological point.

+ For example, in the effort to seed the narrative that Trump is a "fascist," editors created a network of articles and article sections, including:

- "Donald Trump"
- "Trumpism"
- ""Donald Trump and fascism"
- "Racial view of Donald Trump"
- "Democratic backsliding in the US"
- "Fascism in North America"

This network of articles is a strong indicator that there is an ideologically- or politically-motivated campaign at work.

5. Back to "Jimbo" - editors pushed back quickly, with one suggesting it's "bad faith" for Wales to question the quality of an article produced by the Wikipedia community.

+ Another editor accuses Wales of using AI to generate part of his message, saying

6. The broader context for this debate is that a group of around 40 ideological editors has hijacked the Palestine Israel Articles (PIA) topic area, making around 1M edits to 10,000 articles.

+ I first reported on the "Gang of 40" in an October 2024 article for @PirateWires (link in thread)

+ Since then, 6 Gang of 40 leaders were topic-banned by ArbCom. But—as I reported for @tabletmag (link in thread)—before their bans went into effect, a number of them worked to lock the lead of the "Zionism" article with a "moratorium" that has never been used in this fashion.

+ Weeks after placing their moratorium, these editors were banned. But their edits, particularly to the "Zionism" article lead, are now encased in conceptual amber.

7. After my 2024 investigation, @GOPoversight launched an investigation into @Wikimedia for foreign influence on the platform. That investigation is ongoing.

For more @Wikipedia investigations, follow us at @npovmedia.