Serge Ahmed

If Trump get a Nobel Prize for Peace, then he should share it with Netanyahu and Putin.

If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E

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Hi from Greenland everyone ✌️!
I’m a bit busy guiding our red sails tours here these days so I don’t post much, but I thought I’d share a little glimpse from yesterday night sailing ⛵️🧊.
That’s shot around 12pm…

Breaking: Harvard Pays Trump $750 million

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

How Scientific Empires End And what it means for America

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

In the path toward a proof of any hard problem, there’s a lot of doubt.

www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

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Palestinians who are able to seek food aid are the least malnourished in their families. Killing them at food distribution spots automatically means killing their families from starvation.

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.

#MarchForHumanity

(🎥 Ema Franklin)

David Grossman, célèbre écrivain israélien, qualifie de « génocide » les actions d’Israël dans la bande de Gaza Le militant de la gauche pacifiste israélienne assure par ailleurs rester « désespérément fidèle » à l’idée d’une solution à deux Etats, la Palestine et Israël, dans une interview pour « La Repubblica...

Quand la dévastation physique des Palestiniens commence à se transformer en dévastation morale pour certains Israéliens qui, jusque-là, refusaient de voir la réalité : leur pays, Israël, commet un génocide.

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Accusing Israel of genocide and recognising a non-existent state are the luxury beliefs of western foreign policy, elicited in response to misleading photographs on front pages and fake fatality statistics, and utterly divorced from strategic reality.

Ferguson has genuinely persuaded himself that the Gaza genocide is a necessary evil to preserve (his version of) Western civilisation.

archive.ph/5b4GZ

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

I hope that faculty across the country read this report from the AAUP on AI & the Academic Professions, share it with their university administrators,& collectivize to create communities that use this document as a roadmap towards gaining agency over higher education. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Trump: “The USA is fully prepared for a nuclear war with Russia.”

UCLA is the next one to be targeted for the shakedown racket.

Trump orders firing of labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed US president claimed without evidence that Erika McEntarfer had ‘faked’ employment figures in the run-up to last year’s election

Truly bad stuff. US governance just getting hollowed out. Real Kim Jong Trump territory. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is this woke?

Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.

Breaking News: A federal jury held Tesla’s Autopilot system partly responsible for a fatal car accident in Florida in 2019.

While We Were on Summer Break, the ACLU Was Fighting to Keep Books in Military Schools 596 books removed. Military families and the ACLU are making sure you hear about it.

The Trump admin banned 596 books from military schools. The list included an AP Psych study guide, a book about puberty, and a literal ABC board book for toddlers.

The ACLU and DoDEA families are fighting back.

Here's what’s been going on:

open.substack.com/pub/mrsfrazz...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

“Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university… a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say.”

-Rashid Khalidi

Trump Says US Moved Nuclear Submarines in Response to Russia President Donald Trump said the US is moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called “highly provocative statements” from former President Dmitry Medvedev.

Breaking: President Donald Trump said the US is moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called “highly provocative statements” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 479 ReTruths 1.56k Lik... 8/1/25, 11:53 AM

⚠️ ☢️ Trump has deployed nuclear submarines in response to Russian rhetoric:

Trump spent every day for 4 years saying that Biden was about to start World War 3 and if he got elected he would end the war in Ukraine and we would have peace with Russia because he has a great relationship with Putin. Here is today’s update on all that.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Khalidi, the Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (which I highly recommend) spent decades at Columbia. He is withdrawing his fall course due to Columbia’s deal with Trump

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

I never want to go back to the system we had before, though I’ll happily cherrypick the still-useful parts. 🍒

Imagining the what-next is how we stay hopeful and inspired during these dark days.

But before we build the future, it’s high time we reckon with the past. For real this time.

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Inventing consciousness: Measurement and Scientific Progress

This very thoughtful Review article has the merit of showing that we are still in the early stages of “inventing consciousness” without any consensual and universal valid tests in sight

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Last night, I dreamed that the American people guillotined Trump and his band of oligarchs in front of the White House. I know the details are very French, but deep down, I have a feeling it's going to happen.

Behavior drives evolution

Pivotal changes in animal behavior can propel the evolution of new morphological traits

This study explores how dietary changes helped to propel human evolution

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...