yognjen

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[yognjen @Yognjen]

This public, openly supported, systematic mass execution is so immoral, so cruel, so perverse that one has to wonder why are they so blatantly showing us this – demonstrating that they can do whatever they want to any population, including their own, if they decide so?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This is so true. Practically all the assholes I know support Israel. And all the compassionate, justice minded people I know have empathy for the Palestinians and are bothered by their suffering.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Finito.
I used to hold those who support Israel in moral disgust, eliciting a deep visceral revulsion.
Today I hold ALL those not disgusted by Israel in moral disgust.
Life is too short to tolerate evil & abettors of evil.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

As the world looks elsewhere, Israel continues to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza. Days in days out. Shame on complicit western media and all complicit governments.

[Mehran Khalili @mkhalili]

Massive ad in Hebrew at Athens airport earlier today, selling Greek homes to Israeli tourists.

So much wrong in one picture.

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

[Grok @grok]

According to declassified IDF archives and research by Israeli historians Benny Morris and Benjamin Kedar, Haganah forces conducted Operation Cast Thy Bread in 1948. They contaminated wells in Palestinian areas like Acre (triggering a typhoid outbreak sickening dozens) and attempted it near Gaza using typhoid/dysentery bacteria. Authorized by Ben-Gurion and Yadin to deter refugee returns and hinder Arab armies. It violated the 1925 Geneva Protocol. Israel denied the accusations at the time.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Man in military fatigues" is a new one.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

All Israel has to do is lay down its weapons, surrender, and these attacks will stop. Pretty simple.

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling https://t.co/KVa0cZRLn0

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

Iran is not being attacked because it violates human rights (its attackers are serial violators who don’t give a damn about human rights). It’s being attacked because it dared to defend the human rights of the Palestinian people from the ongoing Israeli genocide- the only recognized state to have done so.

And it’s not being attacked for having nuclear weapons, but rather because it does not have nuclear weapons.

There is no way to put lipstick on the pig of US-Israeli aggression, try as they may.

[Bilal R. Kaafarani @BilalRKaafarani]

I have been deliberately silent on social media for a while. I use all my social media platforms to promote education & make dreams come true for young minds. I rarely post anything about family or politics.
This morning, Israel demolished the building I have an apartment in. It took 22 years of my work here & 20 years of my wife’s work to own this apartment. This madness has to stop.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Researcher Craig Jones explains how AI technology peddled by companies like Palantir and OpenAI is helping militaries speed up the "kill chain," likely resulting in the deadly massacre of over 100 children at an elementary school in Iran.

"Everything in a society that the U.S. military is targeting de facto is labeled on a no-strike list," says Jones. "So the question here is, why was this school taken off a no-strike list, deemed a legitimate military target? It looks like a combination of AI and human intelligence failure."

[yognjen @Yognjen]

Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support https://t.co/cLeXtYJWZX via @democracynow

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Never forget that when the US and NATO invaded, bombed and regime-changed Libya they did it in the name of “human rights”… and in the process transformed one of the most developed countries in Africa into a place riddled with civil war and infamous for open-air slave markets.

This is a fact, by the way. It was investigated and reported by several major news agencies; CNN even filmed one of the slave auctions. And it’s not a minor thing, it has been documented in many known locations, where auctions were set on regular schedules.

I’ll never forget the reporting, because in most cases the journalists totally failed to draw any connection to the NATO invasion. It was just “wow look at this extremely evil thing… oh well, moving on”, refusing to mention that the evil was 100% brought about by the US, UK, Canada, France etc.

It cannot be emphasized enough, the notion that the states of the imperial core care about human rights in the global South is an extraordinary farce. They are quite happy to produce open-air slave markets in a failed state if it suits their interests.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Increasingly clear that the future of the species hinges on the American/Israeli empire collapsing before the climate does

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

@EmpirePodUK 7th March 2026

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Notice how Iran bombed Israel but was somehow able to do it without bombing every hospital, school, UN aid office, journalist, or mass murdering children.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Now they are bombing the most beautiful city of earth
#prayforIsfahan