Ryder Dain

There we were, all in one place: a generation, lost in space, with no time left to start again. —Don McLean

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — May 31, 1834

114 years before the modern State of Israel, 1000s of Arab fellahin (peasants) & Bedouins — enraged by Egyptian ruler Ibrahim Pasha’s conscription law — stormed Jerusalem & unleashed hell on its ancient, defenseless Jewish community.

No “occupation.” No “settlements.” No Israel. No modern political Zionism. Just Jews living as subjugated dhimmis under Muslim/Egyptian rule.

On the night of May 31, ~40 men from the Bethlehem Fawaghirah tribe crawled through the sewage canals of Silwan, overpowered guards, and opened the gates from inside. Thousands of armed Arabs poured in.

The small Egyptian garrison fled to the Tower of David. The mob then turned on the Jews.

Eyewitness Rabbi Jehoseph Schwarz:

“The savage victors, men, women and children surrounded the markets and the streets and cheered with their strange catcall ‘loo, loo, loo’… At dawn, we looked through our windows and saw that the city was full of wild and cruel Bedouins… several homes had been devastated.”

Jews hid in caves and crevices. Homes and shops were plundered. Many were murdered in the streets. Women and daughters were raped.

A contemporary Western report (Plymouth Herald - below) described Jews left with “not a bed to lie on ... many were murdered, their wives and daughters violated.”

The mob was preparing to storm the Tower of David when rumor of Ibrahim Pasha’s approach sent them fleeing.

But Jerusalem was only the beginning.

Two weeks later in Safed (then the largest Jewish community in the Land, ~2,000 households), the pogrom lasted 33 days. Armed Arab villagers and locals:

- Murdered ~500 Jews

- Raped women in front of husbands and children, sometimes on Torah scrolls

- Burned more than 500 Torah scrolls — using them for horse reins, blacksmith aprons, and shoes

- Tore tefillin and tallitot for sashes and sacks

- Beat rabbis mercilessly, gouged eyes, and drove survivors naked into fields “like wild animals,” left starving for weeks

- Destroyed the only Hebrew printing press in the Land

No army. No state. Just defenseless dhimmi Jews — convenient, powerless scapegoats for an Arab revolt against the Egyptians (in which the Jews had zero involvement).

Pattern recognition matters. Long before modern politics, when Arabs held power over Jews in the Land of Israel, the impulse to humiliate, plunder, rape, and massacre Jews was already deeply entrenched.

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

https://t.co/taUZLqZ9Xb

[FactsForPeace @Facts_For_Peace]

Hear from Tamer Masudin about his experience as an Arab Muslim living in Israel.
@TMasudin @JustLuai @zachsagefox

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Just a word on Coates's book. It is entirely permissible to hate Israel and the book is pervaded with that hatred which is now very fashionable and Coates is nothing if not a dedicated follower of fashion. Equally the preposterous Pooterish pomposity and self-importance are entirely permissible. But every page I ve read is littered with ahistorical afactual nonsense. And that is before we even get to the imbecilic arrogance of trying to impose Confederate/JimCrow history onto the complex Middle East. The ignorance of history is astonishing. This writer needs to read a few books.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

“Israel’s great mistake was in assuming that the horrors of 7th October would buy them some credit. They wildly overestimated their bank balances of sympathy, and as victims of disinformation fraud they rapidly became overdrawn…

…And so, almost every weekend since, we have seen a turd-berg of antisemitism, shat out by extremists and supported on the backs of useful idiots, floating disgustingly down London’s streets on a sewage river of disinformation.”

Nearly 10,000 have read this article and I’m delighted, as it’s the real message I want to share above all else. All decent people have a duty to fight antisemitism wherever we see it. The Jewish community can’t do it alone. Speak up.

No paywall, link to full article in first reply.

[Darya Safai MP @SafaiDarya]

Today, I watched a horror movie.
With this difference that it was not a staged play or acted... what we were shown really happened.
It was uncensored footage of the 7 October massacre by Hamas.

The movie that was actually planned to be shown in parliament, but was eventually refused by the left-wing Chamber president. While it is precisely often the left-wing politicians who apparently need to be reminded of this massacre.
Today, we got to see the movie in the Senate.

It was tough to see this footage, but I think it is a moral duty for politicians to face these atrocities before declaring some measure.

Of course we don't share these images, out of respect, but I'm going to try to describe it a bit so that people would realise that one really cannot refer to Hamas and their atrocities as freedom fighters.
People should realize that it is unacceptable to condone this under the guise of a pro-Palestinian movement, knowing that Palestinians are also victims of these monsters.
Unfortunately, until the day Hamas exists, no lasting solution, something the world is waiting for, will be possible.

In the movie, we saw bloodthirsty young Islamists behaving sadistically at the behest of their Islamic ideology.

"Father... I killed 10 Jews today with my own hands" was a conversation between a young jihadist, excited by his own 'heroic act'. His father proudly and approvingly replied "Allah u Akbar" and called out to his wife "come and see, your son is a hero".

The victims' crime? Simply being Jews, or, as we often heard on that movie from the terrorists' mouths, "dirty dogs".
Dogs, according to Islam, are impure and something you will never get clean (no matter how many times you would wash it or whatever).
They should best all be killed, exterminated.

At every murder, every beheading, every hostage-taking, they triumphantly roared "Allah u akbar!"
And it’s not our imagination, under this motto they commit their crime.

When one wants to judge Israel's defence, one simply has to think what you yourself would do.
My answer is clear: I would defend my family and my people to the last drop of blood.

The footage was often taken by body-cams of the Hamas terrorists or cameras of victims. They were filming in homes and even kindergartens.

The atrocities they were so proud to share with the world.

You can even see them simply torturing and maiming someone, whom they shot but was still alive, with an axe until that person dies. We saw them shouting "Allah u Akbar" and triumphing with a dead soldier's head that they first cut off his body very slowly.

A father was killed in front of his two boys and the mother was taken as a hostage, and this while the eldest brother tries to push on the wounds of his younger brother to stop the bleeding.

Death by bullet was a dream for many victims that day.

We must never forget this massacre.
In the name of life and freedom.

As the movie played, many tears flowed among those present and there was a deafening silence.
Let us hope this brings more awareness in the political world about what took place that day.

Condemning what happened on the 7th of October is not enough. We must ensure that something like this cannot happen again.

#IsraelUnderAttack
#Antisemitism

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

The image that has been appearing on posters at “anti-Israel” demonstrations around the world - of someone binning a Star of David - looked familiar to me.

And I was right - this is from a 2013 @CST_UK document.

It only took a decade for the far-left to copy the far-right.

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

I have never once enjoyed Twitter.

This is an abyss of rage and impotent bitchery.

Not even sure why I have this account other than to follow up on the occasional post from elsewhere; but I certainly don't need the app for that. Threads can go too.

Goodbye, thanks for nothing.

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@perrymetzger But can you hurt it? Will the model feel pain?

And if a "general intelligence" was capable of improving itself, expanding its own capacities and understanding – why don't we?

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@KimDotcom @elonmusk @AP This so-called “antidote” to journalism is called gossip, Kim. It’s not new.

And about as trustworthy.

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@keithfrankish I've always felt this whole exchange was rather vital (but I'm biased) https://t.co/06Zg2dkVRE

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@elonmusk Now bring back Vine kthx

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@YouSeeGundam @CrossiestTrash So they’re back together again?
https://t.co/0wfJdHBSjM

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@keithfrankish “Mental states”.
Bakes in the notion that there is a static, isolated arrangement-of-something which characterizes internal mental phenomena like afterimages. It’s not a given that we can be so reductive in the first place, very much like how “qualia” is overloaded as a concept.

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@keithfrankish Volunteering, are you? I guess that means I should write it up properly

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

I was pondering this after a distressed man flagged me down on the street; he'd called an ambulance but was struggling to communicate even his location to the dispatcher. It seems crazy that the Uber app can tell the system where you are, but if you’re having a stroke, bad luck.

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@kesslerj @BFriedmanDC @violetblue "We're not there yet" is the least reassuring thing I've heard all year

[Ryder Dain @ryderdain]

@keith_wilson I had a bizarre idea, thought you might enjoy.

Has anyone tried applying Agile or DevOps software development productivity principles to formulating philosophical models of mind, reasoning, or knowledge acquisition? Or is every philosopher a silo unto themselves?