BREAKING — US intelligence warned Israel of a potential conflict in Gaza days before the attack, CNN reports
• One update from September 28 warned, based on multiple streams of intelligence, that Hamas was poised to escalate rocket-attacks across the border.
• An October 5 wire from the CIA warned generally of the increasing possibility of violence by Hamas.
• Then, on October 6, the day before the attack, US officials circulated reporting from Israel indicating unusual activity by Hamas — indications that are now clear: an attack was imminent.
Thinking out loud… would a second Trump presidency have a de facto WW3 type conflict in Ukraine?
It’s all navelgazing cos no counterfactual… but. Give Biden 2016 and Trump 2020, how’s the world different?
Picking the least damaging poison is harder than most ppl pretend.
Honestly wonder whether Biden or Trump was more likely to get us into an overseas war.
Genuinely unsure. Each would do it in a very different way, I imagine.
Biden would do it in darkness, right out of the Obama imperialist playbook. Trump out of petulance or accident.
Hm.
This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. https://t.co/hGdwXMzQpX
@jayapapaya Yes! Crypto world really pushes Harari’s Sapiens as their history text but the Davids’ book has felt profoundly more hopeful (so far).
Probably some phenomenal grist for web 3.0 takeaways
What is f** fantastic and refreshing abt @davidwengrow /Graeber's Dawn of Everything: that it refuses any original innocent state of being. People have and make choices about how we live together on this planet. THAT is how free, creative and fucked up we are and always have been