Eric

[Eric @taeonu]

It would help if people knew the differences between Zionism and Jeudiesm. Maybe you can use your platform to explain...

Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
https://t.co/l6zJllb0ne

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Here’s what the “peace” agreement signed today between Lebanese authorities and Israel means for the latter party:

The recipe for another bloody civil war, with a neocolonial Lebanese army pitted against Hezbollah, which holds the largest parliamentary bloc, and its constituents

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

Dario ruined it for everyone

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

This is a critical point worth reflecting on. Anthropic could have sued in court (as others have). But they want something far more valuable than simple restitution. They want the US government’s “protection against competition” for years and years. A court can’t provide that.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

If we strip away the headlines about Mythos 5, the story is brutally simple: someone, somewhere, is deciding what level of intelligence you and your company are allowed to access.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

We now have de facto AI regulation. It’s not obvious why from here on out models that have certain levels of capability or are trained on certain compute sizes won’t have to be reviewed by the government before release.

Realistically, as AI models became more and more powerful this was going to be inevitable (I think it’s too early, but here we are). So now it’s mostly just interesting to think about the implications and scenarios from here. A few would be:

* America gets to control who gets access to frontier intelligence and when. This generally works as long as we remain at the frontier at all times and don’t have a risk of being surpassed. At the moment we have a clear lead in frontier intelligence so this is a good bet, but lots of motivated parties would love to change that.

* This likely creates backlog of AI releases which means that we will see less rapid fire back and forth jumps in model progress. Bull/fine case is that we just get bigger step functions per release at a slower rate and we end up at the same point we would have. Bear case is those incremental smaller jumps were necessary for the continued flywheel of innovation.

* Other countries likely have even more incentive to at least hedge their bets with sovereign AI strategies so aren’t dependent on access to US AI all times. Previously this was relatively moot because the alternative wasn’t good enough, but that could change out of necessity and what we’re seeing in China.

* Open weights obviously a big winner here as it becomes what likely sovereign AI gets built out on, and what (for now) can still be released to the market without the same controls. One interesting question would be how regulation eventually extends to open models, which would have its own set of long term consequences.

Anyway some big updates to everyone’s mental models of AI regulation as a result of the capabilities we’re now seeing in AI. Wild times.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

"No, on Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."

More cold, hard evidence of the Israeli government's stated intention to commit genocide in Gaza while killing hundreds of its own citizens under the Hannibal Directive on Oct 7

[Eric @taeonu]

@Truth_InMedia Why is your website down? Can't get to full episodes if this...

https://t.co/NjdJQFbL4E

[Truth In Media @Truth_InMedia]

Ten days before Oct. 7th — and again three days before — Egypt's intelligence officials repeatedly warned the Israeli government of an impending attack from Hamas.

Egypt's premier intelligence minister even personally warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning "something unusual, a terrible operation."

Israeli civilians and military officials also brought these warnings to Netanyahu's government, but were ignored and, in some cases, threatened with legal action.

But why? We explore this question in never-before-seen detail in this week's episode of "Reckoning: Israel and Gaza".

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Video evidence further confirming early reporting by @intifada and @TheGrayzoneNews that Israel invoked the Hannibal Directive on October 7
https://t.co/lLO5xNRsVn

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Ask why there’s been so much violence in the middle east these last three years and you’ll be told it’s because of October 7.

Ask why October 7 happened and you’ll be called an antisemite.

Ask what specifically transpired on that day and you’ll be called a conspiracy theorist.

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

A Jewish lynch mob has raided the Palestinian village of Huwara this morning, assaulting two Palestinians.

This, despite appearances, is not a story of "extremism". To describe it as such is to obscure the legal reality.

Settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territory has long been directed by organs of the State. The perpetrators operate as auxiliary militias, at times in civilian clothes, at times in uniform, but increasingly with functions that blur any meaningful distinction.

From that reality flows a conclusion that is as simple as it is complex. Under international law, responsibility lies not only with the individuals who wield the firearms, but with the occupying Power that supports their actions.

The remedy is not another condemnation. It is compliance with the law. As the International Court of Justice has made clear, Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful. The obligation is to bring that presence to an end, completely, unconditionally, and without delay.

[Reuters @Reuters]

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a UN inquiry said https://t.co/mtUK0nycep

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Rep. Madeleine Dean held up blacked-out Epstein files at a House Appropriations hearing and said DOJ withheld 3 million more documents.

Todd Blanche called her reaction "manufactured outrage."

That was June 3. Blanche is the acting AG.

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

The Washington Post published an opinion piece defending Section 224 and US integration of Israeli military tech without disclosing that the author is the founder of 1948 Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli defense startups

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

“Steal their women & children” is the new Zionism. you can’t make shit up anymore

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇺🇸 The Pentagon raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest possible designation, over concerns Israel is aggressively spying on top U.S. officials, per NBC News

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Netanyahu saying it was “my plan to shift the framework for U.S.-Israel defense cooperation from aid to partnership.”

We had Josh Paul on BP this morning to break down what this means. It would give Israel extraordinary leverage over the U.S. by embedding their technology in our supply chains and weapons systems.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.

He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.

He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.

This is happening in a British prison right now.

I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

This account gets so much mileage out of simply watching Jewish Zionists talking to each other at public events and uploading the footage of the insane shit that comes out of their mouths.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Francesca Albanese: the israelis are killing doctors, nurses, parents, little children: we always knew it was a genocide @DoubleDownNews

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Western governments: It is antisemitic to conflate all Jews with Israel.
Also western governments: It is antisemitic to denounce someone’s pro-Israel political ideology because Israel is synonymous with Jewishness.