Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war
Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war https://aje.news/7hx1jp
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
World Press Freedom Canada's keynote speaker for its awards ceremony this year is David Frum. Hacked emails show he wrote speeches for Israel's UN ambassador and then a profile of the same ambassador. newrepublic.com/post/201498/... 1
It’s wild watching non-academics who clearly, at the time, misinterpreted Carney’s Davos speech in the same way I did — as him professing he’d stand up to a bully, not simply focus purely on Canada’s pragmatic self-interest— who are now pretending they knew the true nature of the speech all along.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people
OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths
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Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change
"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"
- Mark Carney
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
2011:
Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.
One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.
view from the backseat of a cow driving a car past a sign reading "Welcome to Cow Tools". there is a pine tree shaped air freshener labeled "manure" hanging from the rearview mirror. the cow holds up a lump with handle and says, "Diane, 11:30am. February 24th. I'm entering the town of Cow Tools."
credit to Larz Anderson in the Cow Tools Sophisticationposting group
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 23rd 2026 (Easy), in 01:26
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Cartoon featuring a table of 3 crude tools, a lump, a hooked stick, and an irregularly shaped saw, all sitting before a sign that reads "midvale tools for the gifted" In the background, a child holds a fourth cow tool, the lump with handle, while pushing as hard as he can on a door marked "pull", attempting to enter the Midvale School for the Gifted
day 126 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 22nd 2026 (Hard), in 03:16
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
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Two things I’m not sure is widely understood:
1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces
2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them
A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
Soyjack cows pointing at Veronika the cow scratching herself with a broom. Bad line drawing of two anthropomorphic cows, as if hastily traced in a paint app. Both cows are close to the camera looking directly to the viewer and making excited "OOHH" face as one of them points backwards away from the camera towards two photographs of a brown cow using a broom held in her mouth to scratch her hip and undercarriage.
Grocery store sign of bagel that reads: pick your own. Part of the sign is obscured to look like it reads: fuck your own
Relax, bread department
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
