Mohamed Barakat

Professor of mathematics, (all views personal, retweets and likes do not imply endorsement)

[Mohamed Barakat @math_barakat]

The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023 https://t.co/efq2uT86Zm via @YouTube

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨Israel’s PM Netanyahu says he has ordered the IDF to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip

Netanyahu: “At this point, we are fully in control of 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip… and my directive is to get to… 70%”

Audience member: “100! 100!”

Netanyahu: “Wait, let’s go in order. First 70%. Let’s start with that.”

Israel had withdrawn to 53% of Gaza after the ceasefire brokered by the US last October, but has steadily expanded control to over 60%, maps show.

(Footage from Channel 12)

[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

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Who said Germans weren’t funny?

[Mohamed Barakat @math_barakat]

re:publica 26: Immer mehr neue Palantir-Gesetze https://t.co/2aWxaGtph0

[🟣Uri Weltmann אורי וולטמן أوري فلطمان @uriweltmann]

הנוער הוא שלהבת המהפכה! 🟣
הנוער הסגול בוועידת השלום העממית של קואליציית "הגיע הזמן"

[Mohamed Barakat @math_barakat]

Elon Musk, The 22-Point Manifesto, "Muskism" & Tech's Antihumanism Phil... https://t.co/RYFilIXXcb

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible.

https://t.co/0YCVZJk7ib

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

WE WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING AGAINST THIS WAR.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian farmer on his own land, in front of his father. Yes, again
https://t.co/HBDfXrC6TI

[Prof. Hanna Kienzler 🧡 🇵🇸 @HannaKienzler]

I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed in Israel's genocide. Behind each name is a life violently cut short.
By Badr AlKhamissi
https://t.co/5maToQxudX

[Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🕊️🟣 פניה עוז-זלצברגר @faniaoz]

Please share. Let it be known that many Israelis are enraged by the Ben-Gvirite settler terror and the death penalty law, and that some of them are brave enough to demonstrate and face unprecedented police brutality in the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

[Mohamed Barakat @math_barakat]

Tristan Harris (from The Social Dilemma)

https://t.co/zWVdLAvwTl

[Itamar Greenberg | איתמר גרינברג @itamar_green]

השתחררתי עכשיו מתחנת משטרת צפון תל אביב אחרי שעצרו אותי ועוד 12 מפגינות נגד המלחמה באלימות מטורפת(מכות וחניקה גם בתוך הניידת).
עוד נשארות פה לחכות לשאר העצורים.

אכתוב עוד מחר על החוויה, לא נכנע לדיכוי הפוליטי, נמשיך להתנגד לרצחנות הישראלית בכל מקום.
כבוד למפגינים, בואו לרחוב!

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

Today in Tel Aviv: we gathered hundreds of Israelis to declare - we will not serve the war of Netanyahu and Trump

[🟣Uri Weltmann אורי וולטמן أوري فلطمان @uriweltmann]

We must put an end to Netanyahu's policy of a forever war - in Iran, in Lebanon, in Gaza, in the West Bank - which undermines the safety and security of ourselves, the people in Israel, as well as all the peoples of the Middle East.

[ARD-Hauptstadtstudio @ARD_BaB]

Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier hat den Krieg der USA und Israels gegen den Iran als „völkerrechtswidrig“ kritisiert: „Unsere Außenpolitik wird nicht überzeugender dadurch, dass wir Völkerrechtsbruch nicht Völkerrechtsbruch nennen.“

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🛻 Gaza | Humanitarian Aid Collapse

Israel is exploiting the global focus on the war with Iran to deepen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as aid deliveries fall to just 30% of required levels and the transfer of critically ill patients out of the enclave has completely halted, according to a report by Ultra Palestine.

🔸The report cites Amjad al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, who said Israel has kept the Rafah crossing completely closed since the war with Iran began, while the Kerem Shalom crossing is operating only partially.

🔸Around 200 trucks—carrying both commercial goods and humanitarian aid—enter Gaza daily through Kerem Shalom, he said, a third of the 600 trucks per day envisioned under the ceasefire agreement.

🔸Al-Shawa said aid had already been falling in recent months, with February shipments lower than January and December. The reduction has deepened shortages of food and medicine, including protein-rich foods and vegetables. Cooking gas imports were also halted after the Iran war began and only recently resumed in limited quantities of 4-5 trucks per day, about half previous levels.

🔸The report also cites Raed al-Nems, spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent in Gaza, who said Rafah’s closure has halted all medical evacuations. A mechanism discussed before the escalation envisioned 50 patients per day leaving Gaza for treatment abroad, but in practice Israel had allowed only 5–10 patients daily, occasionally up to 20. Now no sick or wounded Palestinians are being allowed to leave.

🔸Gaza’s Health Ministry said around 350,000 people in the enclave suffer from chronic illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. At least 18,000 patients urgently need treatment outside Gaza, and the number of wounded during the genocidal assault has surpassed 170,000.

🔸The UN’s humanitarian office also warned that continued closure of crossings is severely undermining aid operations in the territory. About 400,000 people received food rations this month, but distributions were cut in half after aid trucks were turned back at the Kerem Shalom crossing, the only operational entry point for humanitarian cargo.

🔸OCHA also warned of a growing number of hospital generator failures due to shortages of spare parts and lubricating oil. Health officials have reported nearly 23,000 suspected infection cases last month, linked to insect infestations in displacement sites, while supplies of hygiene kits, insecticides, and scabies treatment remain critically low.

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Alles das, was @SchmittJunior hier sagt!

[Mohamed Barakat @math_barakat]

Wolfgang M. Schmitt https://t.co/FPifUh9P05

[Maik Pittel @maikpi70]

Ein bisschen Wahrheit ist immer dabei 😜😜😜