Magda Pischetola

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

How to burst the Israeli bubble | Noam Sheizaf Recognizing a Palestinian state is a limited but welcome step that addresses an enduring blind spot: Palestinian rights cannot be conditioned on Israeli interests

"As limited as the recognition of Palestine – a state with no territory or sovereignty – is, it is a step in the right direction, because it re-establishes the existence and the rights of Palestinians as individuals and as a collective"

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“The positions are available from 1 May 2026, but an earlier or later starting date is also possible.”

Application deadline is 15 Nov!
#sociology #jobs

‘I watched the bombs fall. I watched the mothers’: how do we grieve the children of Gaza? Palestine is not a metaphor. And yet – I’ve superimposed every experience of my own mothering these last months on to Palestine

I couldn't have said it with better words

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ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Philosophy

Applications are invited for the post of temporary 48-month Postdoctoral Research Associate within #UCD School of #Philosophy. Further details, along with a link to apply, may be found at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilJobs #PhilSky #MoralPhilosophy #HistoryOfPhilosophy #BMoral #IrishResearch

Asking Students to Use AI Responsibly When The Adults Aren't Kids can't be expected to learn what adults haven't — or can't — learn

I wrote about the fantasy that we can teach children how to use AI responsibly in schools when the adults outside them are not.

PANEL 1: MATTIE is talking to a MAN as they walk on the street. The MAN is typing on his phone. MATTIE: What do you wanna do tonight? MAN: Hmm…! MAN: What…do…I…want…to…do…tonight? PANEL 2: MATTIE rolls her eyes. The phone pipes up as well. MATTIE: Are you asking a chatbot? Come on. PHONE: SEEING FRIENDS IS ALWAYS A GREAT WAY TO SEE YOUR FRIENDS. MAN: Oh, are you A.I. SHAMING ME? Wow. I didn't think you were a bigot. PANEL 3: MATTIE, arms spread wide. The MAN strokes his chin. MATTIE: What? Nobody was doing this a year ago. It's completely unnecessary! MAN: Huh, that's true. I wonder why that happened. PANEL 4: The MAN types on his phone, brow furrowed. MAN: Why…am…I…doing…this

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As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys | Arwa Mahdawi The Israeli PM went on Full Send Podcast ‘to reach young people’. After his appearance, its YouTube channel lost more than 100,000 subscribers in less than a day

The question is: will he ever pay for his crimes?

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‘I’ve £90k in student debt – for what?’ Graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout AI isn’t just taking away entry-levels jobs, it’s helping thousands apply for the same job with almost the same CV

Hadn't thought about this! Jobseeking process turning into another nightmare thanks to AI

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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

I wonder if we shouldn't consider science at the edge of a new paradigm shift, now that it is no longer confined to human thought and rationality

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As a journal editor, I agree 💯 with @catherinedevries.bsky.social. To me, the lit review is the single most important part of any paper.

There are many ways to do one, and it is often hard to do well, but this essay gives some excellent advice:

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Alistair Bunkall "For the third day in a row dozens of Palestinians were shot dead as they went to get food"

Israels aid distribution isn't about helping Palestinians survive. Its about keeping them in a permanent state of starvation, controlling them, moving them & killing them

A screenshot of the statement, which can be read at: https://lphr.org.uk/latest-news/lphr-statement-on-repeated-mass-unlawful-killing-and-maiming-of-starving-palestinians-that-requires-thorough-and-independent-international-investigation-and-accountability/

For the third time in three days, scores of starving Palestinians have been unlawfully killed or maimed in southern Gaza en route to food distribution sites established by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Statement on the need for thorough and independent international investigation and accountability

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg In banning a schools debate on Palestinian sovereignty, our leaders have revealed the nation we’re becoming, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Information

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg

Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism Cyril Ramaphosa responds to hectoring stunt in Oval Office and egregious claim of white genocide by suggesting calm

There isn't one single day that this guy doesn't leave us speechless

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#genAI #GAI #digitalfutures #edtech

I had the great pleasure of talking with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about some of my research on AI and the future of higher education. Podcast at this link 👇

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

I want to give credit to Metz/Weise here for stating plainly that LLMs cannot decide that something is or isn't true or false. Stating the actual, real limitations of these models is necessary, and it's good to finally see this happening in the mainstream media without any throat clearing

#Blackmirror is happening

Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza

By Sean Carrol, the president of ANERA:

"Israel is now openly exploiting aid as a tool of war; senior Israeli officials have declared what effectively is the intent to use starvation as a tactic to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages — a clear violation of international law."

6:38 ₫ 4 Bluesky = RollingStone Subscribe "We know from work on journaling that narrative expressive writing can have profound effects on people's well-being and health, that making sense of the world is a fundamental human drive, and that creating stories about our lives that help our lives make sense is really key to living happy healthy lives," Westgate says. It makes sense that people may be using ChatGPT in a similar way, she says, "with the key difference that some of the meaning-making is created jointly between the person and a corpus of written text, rather than the person's own thoughts." In that sense, Westgate explains, the bot dialogues are not unlike talk Agentforce. It's What Al Was Meant to Be. DX • rollingstone.com X

This is so, so bleak, but I thought this part was actually kind of poignant: people are searching for meaning in a world that has sought to eliminate all the spaces where they can learn and discuss big questions. This is what you end up with. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

Report:Nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force reservists sign letter opposing Gaza War <article data-history-node-id="421048" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/reportnearly-1000-israeli-air-force-reservists-sign-letter-opposing-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/reportnearly-1000-israeli-air-force-reservists-sign-letter-opposing-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Report:Nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force reservists sign letter opposing Gaza War</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Nearly 1,000 Israel Air Force personnel published a letter on Thursday morning calling for the return of all captives and for an end to the fighting in Gaza, Haaretz reported.</p> <p>Reserve and retired aircrew fighters said in the letter that Israel's war currently&nbsp;serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests.</p> <p>"The continuation of the war does not contribute to any of its declared goal and will lead to the deaths of the hostages, Israeli soldiers and innocent civilians, and to the attrition of the IDF reserve forces."</p> <p>The signatories to the letter added that "as has been proven in the past, only a deal can bring back the hostages safely, while military pressure mainly leads to the killing of the hostages and the endangerment of our soldiers."</p> <p>The letter also called on all Israeli citizens to mobilise&nbsp;and demand the end of the war. "Every day that passes puts their lives at risk," they said.</p> <p>Twenty-five people retracted their signatures after Israeli Air Force commander Tomer Bar threatened them with dismissal from the service, the report said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Banning us from social media is ‘neither practical nor effective’, UK teenagers say UK youth parliament concludes tech firms should do more to protect users from violent and inappropriate content

Teens are shouting out loud that they need the government to take action towards social media regulation. There's no other way out.

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Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Some may choose to ignore the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, but they won't be able to normalise them

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"systems designed in the name of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control are, and will always be, anti-democratic and inhumane"

Campaigner for migrants in Libya says his phone was targeted in spyware attack Italy-based David Yambio, a critic of Meloni government, helps ICC find evidence of abuse of detainees in Libya

The scary targeting of activists and migrant rights defenders continues. Also David Yambio, co-founder of @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social and close friend and ally, was targeted in a spyware attack. All solidarity with you @davidyambio.bsky.social!!

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We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government

Well, now at least we can compare the answers different AI apps give to the same question. It could be a way to spot the biases generated by 'sensitive content'

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