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[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Another reminder that there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unaccounted for, presumed dead, under rubble in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is an open-air extermination camp and Israel is attempting to kill those remaining via starvation, disease, airstrikes, and/or lack of care.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

The only difference between your family sleeping in peace and my family waking up to bombs is your geographical luck

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

The Pope is making exactly our point. LLMs “may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand.”

This is the core epistemic fault line.

Most AI evaluation is still based on one assumption: if a system statistically approximates human behaviour, then it is close to human intelligence.

But approximation is not intelligence.
Simulation is not understanding.

LLMs can produce the right answer without knowing why it is right. They can simulate empathy without feeling. They can imitate judgment without responsibility. They can generate coherent explanations without having a world to which those explanations are accountable.

Stop confusing behavioural similarity with cognitive equivalence.

Human understanding is embodied, affective, relational, motivational, and normative. It is not just the production of plausible text.

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Full paper in the first reply

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

"It's not ethnic cleansing! Israel is generously asking civilians to leave their homes before Israel razes those homes to the ground so the civilians can never return and Israel can (according to its interior minister, less than 2 weeks ago) annex and settle their land"

[derek davison @dwdavison]

rogue state temper tantrum

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

I am guilty.

Guilty of loving the Cuban people.
Guilty of believing Cuban children deserve medicine instead of sanctions.
Guilty of believing that trying to save lives should not be treated like a crime.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Europe has nothing left but the pretense of relevance.

Europe could have been so much more than this.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the american govt would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we’ve starved, than punish the epstein class.

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

There's something fascinating about how (believing in) being the centre of the world ultimately leads you to becoming provincial, self-obsessed, lose touch and ultimately, becoming periphery.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Can you imagine the terror and horror Israel inflicts on Palestinian children, women, and men in detention centers when the cameras are away?

This is Israeli terrorism.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

The EU has no Middle East strategy because *checks notes* there's too much going on in the Middle East. You can't make this up. This is the EU foreign policy chief. In 2026.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel has committed every war crime there is to commit.

It has slaughtered, raped and tortured Palestinians.

But now because they subjected Westerners to a TINY fraction of that on camera:

Israeli politicians and cheerleaders are panicking.

Nauseating!

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Italian government is vetoing EU sanctions on Israel.

So this is completely meaningless from the Italian prime minister 👇

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Leipzig University, formerly a stronghold of the “antideutsch” votes to boycott cooperation with Israeli universities

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Narrator: He is, in fact, the face of Israel.

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

Israel, if everyone is lying, open Gaza.

If the ICC, the UN, international human rights organisations, Israeli rights groups, journalists, doctors, humanitarian workers, aid agencies, witnesses, and survivors are all lying, then open Gaza.

Let independent investigators, forensic experts, journalists, and UN monitors in.

A state confident in the truth does not fear investigation. A state afraid of the truth blocks access.

Open Gaza.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I actually really appreciate what a transparent hack Bari is.

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

Hey @jewishinsider — Jewish filmmaker behind @pistachiowars here — willing to do an extensive interview with you to explain how the @Wonderful company is 1000% benefiting from the brutal war on Iran. And why the Resnicks have been funneling money to extremist pro-war groups like @WashInstitute for years: it fits their personal politics *and* it's good for business.

https://t.co/MshO6FZAdT