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[dies das 🦂 content (tired arc) @zeb600]

@nick_kapur Thank you, well worth the time to read

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be.

I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[𝒯𝓇𝓊𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓇 🚛🌴🥥 @Klaus_hat_frei]

Die Kinder werden seit einer Gesetzesänderung 2020 nur zur Kasse gebeten, wenn ihr Jahresbruttoeinkommen über 100.000 Euro liegt. Diese Grenze soll nach dem Willen der Koalition abgesenkt oder sogar ganz abgeschafft werden.
Was das heißt kann sich jeder selbst ausmahlen.

[Sahak Ibrahimkhil @S_Ibrahimkhil]

PS: Wenn CDU & CSU von einer „besonderen Verantwortung“ für Israel sprechen, bedeutet das Palästina & Libanon für Großisrael zu opfern, um für die eigene genozidale Geschichte Buße zu tun. Das Ganze politisch verpackt, indem man ständig von „Zwei-Staatenlösung“ spricht.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[Zimbo Balboa @Zimbobalboa]

Mittlerweile muss man schon ganz schön tief in die Trickkiste greifen, um in der Sauerteig Bubble aufzufallen.

[Bafta Rhymes @BafiKush]

Sie ist so pressed haha

[Jules El-Khatib @ju_khatib]

Breaking: Bundesregierung verhindert Sanktionen israelischen Minister Smotrich

Bei einem Treffen aller EU Staaten forderten gestern Frankreich und Italien Sanktionen gegen Itamar Ben Gvir und Bezalel Smotrich. Zwei Regierungen verhinderten sie: Tschechien lehnt jede Sanktion ab. Und Deutschland will allein gegen Ben Gvir mitziehen, gegen Smotrich aber nicht.
Deutschland schützt also einen Mann, der sich selbst einen „stolzen Homophoben" und einen „Faschisten" nennt. Der nicht nur ganz Palästina annektieren will, sondern ein Israel bis Damaskus, das Jordanien, den Libanon und große Teile Syriens annektiert und der als Finanzminister die rechtsradikale Siedlerbewegung mit Geld unterstützt.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

How do you say Schadenfreude in German? 😜

[dies das 🦂 content (tired arc) @zeb600]

@kiiishmiish Ajoo

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Adam Hamawy describes what he wishes people could understand from his time treating patients in Gaza:

"Much worse" than what we see online.

"The smells, the full senses…crying children, the families…to see this every single day…you just can't even describe it well enough."

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “People still get mad at me when I say these motherfuckers are Nazis. They are. Just because they’re Jewish doesn’t change that dynamic. Israel’s a Nazi country. It’s just objectively true. People cannot fight back against this assertion that is born out of truthful analysis of the facts represented by Israel’s actions so they just go you’re an antisemite, shut the fuck up”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel planted explosives in a school for disabled children at dawn today in South Lebanon and blew it up.

Not a military target.

A school for disabled children — perhaps the only one in the country.

In what universe is this considered “self-defense”?

[Michael Mayr @Nightmare_Snake]

Die Grünen im Hessischen Landtag unterstützen den "Gesetzesvorschlag" von der CDU, wonach die Kritik am Terrorstaat Israel mit bis zu 5 Jahren Gefängnis bestraft werden soll für alle.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A former senior colleague of Raffi Berg, now the BBC's Middle East online editor, forensically analyses his output as a BBC writer.

It shows a consistent pattern of humanising Israeli soldiers and settlers while dehumanising Palestinians, and burying information that might place Israel in a bad light – talents that seem to have led to his promotion to BBC editor.

Martin Asser concludes: "The world Berg presents in his early BBC features is a rich source of misinformation and / or disinformation."

This article should prove useful to Owen Jones' legal team as they fight Berg's defamation case. Jones cited 13 BBC journalists who accused Berg of skewing the corporation's coverage to make Israel look good.

More here: https://t.co/IcsHVGiCNw

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This story gets so much worse. Apparently this all started because police were called out for a disturbance after her husband broke their tv out of anger after finding out his brother was killed by Israel in Gaza. The husband is Palestinian. When the police were taking him into custody his wife stopped them because she wanted to accompany him and that is when the officer threw her on the ground for “interference.” The couple was cooperative with the police the entire time and yet this is how they were treated.

She delivered the baby prematurely because of the physical trauma on her body but thankfully both she and the baby survived and are in good health. She easily could have miscarried.

This entire police department should be investigated and that officer should be arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You don’t kill 133 healthcare workers by accident.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Tired: Humans are killing the planet

Wired: literally like 90 specific billionaires and CEOs are killing the planet and we literally know their names