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My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood Between 2010 and 2013, I was on the ground capturing Israel’s attacks on Palestine. Few wanted to see it

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Dozens killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run ministry says The UN human rights chief said Israel's

Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us.

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We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid | Sandra L Babock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term

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The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening now in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing

The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall

Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went The remote ​west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...

‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’

Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How Gaza Shattered the West’s Mythology The war has exposed post-World War II illusions of a common humanity.

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Writing is thinking.

It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

“It’s easy to buy into the idea that A.I. will take away jobs.”

Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!

Nothing new, but: writing something of my own, I’m struck anew by how coming up with the words teaches me what I want to say, and what a loss that so many schools are abetting their students’ outsourcing of this work to an AI by never having taken writing instruction seriously in the first place.

This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏

This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏

The Enclosure of the Human Psyche The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13

Another important reflection on our techno-human becoming from @lmsacasas.bsky.social

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Neil Postman — 5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
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1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Can computers think? No. They can’t actually do anything | Aeon Essays For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does

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Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored

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BlueSky growing in popularity with people who now hate Twitter but still hate productivity