Mikhail Jacob (he/him)

Israeli defence minister’s Gaza proposal marks escalation from incitement of war crimes to official planning for mass forced displacement Plans for an internment camp on ruins of Rafah are ‘unviable, impractical and morally depraved’ but should be taken seriously

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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

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Very interesting... We should try it sometime!

Sweet! That's only between players or for players and enemies? I was really impressed at the system watching the DnDShorts video on it last year. Looking forward to trying it some time.

Oh, damn! 🤯 Time to try Daggerheart.

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

⚠️Risk of clams!⚠️

An ad that seems to complain about an amazing thing that I would 1000% support. Ad says, "Stop the CRA Power Grab. Sign the petition. The federal government wants the CRA to calculate and file your taxes for you. Sponsored by Canadian Taxpayers"

Don't threaten me with a good time, ad that keeps popping up. 🤣

Seriously though, having lived in two (2) countries where the government calculated and filed my taxes perfectly well, I don't understand the outrage. Stupid lobbyists astroturfing non-issues.

Canadian actor detained at US border in ‘inhumane conditions’ for nearly two weeks Entrepreneur and actor Jasmine Mooney, who had a role in an American Pie sequel, says she was arrested at southern border and held in detention over an incomplete work visa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Aside from being furious about everything, *gestures wildly around* I love the framing here. You're white, you're Canadian, surely you don't belong in immigration detention. Everyone else obviously does, but you definitely shouldn't be. Cue sympathy and outrage.

Emo’d up JD Vance crying mascara in a car

when you tried so hard and got sofa
but in the end, it doesn't even matter

Great article. I also want to add that this sort of research is also super helpful in industry, where we attempt the same mistakes over and over because no one published about them. Looking forward to your article part 2.

Trump to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official said.

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Bottle of nail polish remover that reads, "ALL PURPOSE GENIUS REMOVER".

When you hate smart people...

What a badass trailer! Can't wait to hear more. I've definitely wondered how this project would shape up eventually. All the best!

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Simply beautiful. Thank you for your amazing work.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Perfection!

Can't wait! I just hope we can read it too. I must be one of the last people on earth who cannot sit through a podcast. What do you do with the rest of yourself while listening? How do you do other things while paying attention to the podcast? Mysteries of life I'll never understand...

However, you can find quantized versions of those models that can be run on good single retail GPUs. The Ollama tool (and many others) also lets you try out quantized versions of several great (more) open models without needing to run inference code.

Some positive counter examples working towards full transparency are AI2 (Allen Institute of AI), EleutherAI, etc.

For trying out powerful models HuggingFace is a good starting point. To find powerful open models check out a leaderboard like lmarena.ai. Most SOTA large models need GPUs to run. 2/?

There is a vibrant community of people working on such models. Challenge is hardware availability for training. So permissively licensed models are usually trained by corporations. They rarely share data sources/sets or training code+tricks. They often release model weights and inference code. 1/?

That was such a great talk (just watched it)! Was drawn to the mention of Viewpoints. Used it in grad school years ago to help analyze/structure motion improvisation in a human-AI "dance" installation piece. So cool to see that framework used in the games space. Learn something new every day! 😀

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

YouTube video by People Make Games 100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024

This story is truly horrifying. Serious abuse of outsourced game creators from Indonesia. youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?...

TW/CW: Descriptions and depictions of abuse of various kinds (physical, mental, financial)

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
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AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev The stealth adventure game is about people displaced by Zionist occupation

ِA Daring article on polygon

Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev.

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