A friend in Iran today shared with me a rumour he'd heard, that the regime is prepared to bomb one or two schools in case the US attacks Iran, with the intention of blaming the bombings on the US. He is a teacher. He says that some of his students didn't come to school today because of this.

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

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I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

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I love it because it makes me think of Four Lions. I would stay in the shop, chuckling.

Tories trying to get back in by the back door then

The regime is burying injured protesters alive:

While identifying victims killed by the regime, some families in Tehran, Esfahan & Arak reported encountering bodies that were still alive in body bags. Reports of mass burials raise the possibility that some victims were buried alive.
– Ilia Hashemi

"To the library!"

The sheer opportunity cost of this Trump-shaped attention black hole.

The US pays for Europe's defence? No it doesn't!

Of a $968bn global defence budget, only $33bn is spent in Europe, mostly on US bases which are not NATO bases.

The actual US funding of NATO is approx $600m a year, the same as Germany.

The myth dies on contact with arithmetic.

That's fair.

I can't get my head around how 28% could say it's justified.

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...

"Can you imagine a Socratic dialogue with 50,000 likes?"

This is excellent. We've driven out epistemology and driven ourselves mad.

How Doubt Became a Weapon in Iran AI manipulation, and the very suspicion of it, serves those who have the most to hide.

If you want to know about the future of AI, take a look at the kaleidoscope of disinfo and psychological operations underway in Iran 🇮🇷

This excellent piece by @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com is a great start

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Or Trump wants to leave NATO and take Greenland with him?

please let it be so!

dizzy

This is a really good webinar from yesterday on the Iran protests. It was hosted by the Quincy Institute and features several well-respected Iran analysts and experts including Vali Nasr and Ellie Geranmayeh x.com/quincyinst/s...

I can't "like" this, but thank you for sharing it.

and mainstream BBC news.

Erfan Soltani is set to be executed this Wednesday by the Islamic Republic of #Iran after being arrested for protesting. Authorities say the sentence is final and have denied him access to a lawyer.
#Tehran #ErfanSoltani

I'm not sure about the mainstream UK outlets, but BBC Farsi is covering this.

God, that was hard to watch.

The only way I've found is to ride a bike until my lungs try to escape.

I wonder what it will cost the Iranian people if he makes good on this. He doesn't do anything for free.

PC LOAD LETTER

sounds accurate

except literally. never literally.

I felt so helpless, until I started doing exactly that. Can't fix everything, but doing something restores sanity and is empowering.