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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

@evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

Throughout history, each iteration of fascism came with its own particularities. Political theorist R. Griffin posits that the one thing they have in common is palingenetic ultranationalism. (Picture : Mussolini giving a speech) Palingenetic ("born again in ancient greek) ultranationalism is a far right narrative that frames the nation as decadent, as having lost its way, as being betrayed by dark elites. To save it, it needs to be destroyed, then reborn. (Picture: Trump giving a speech in front of a MAGA flag) with that goal in mind, an authoritarian power with divisive rhetoric channelsbthe population's anger towards a scapegoat demonized outgroup: migrants, religion, sexual and gender minorities... (picture : three masked ICE agents are handling someone.) Fascism is like a chameleon : it constantly adapts to eras and cultures. It is vital to learn to identify it and call it out. (Picture: a chameleon)

"What is fascism?"

A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."

*taps sign*

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Cis friends and allies: Do you see how "biological" is simply a slur when used by transphobes to demean trans people?

"Birth name" is a term we already have (not that that would be any more defensible, just less insane-sounding). "Biological" here is solely a dog-whistling cudgel against trans ppl

Then die already
You fuckers don't deserve art

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Da er det bekrefta, min snille onkel Hannibal har også blitt kidnappet av israelske styrker. De kom med militærfly midt på natta og ulovlig kapret et skip fullt av hjelpearbeidere, i internasjonalt farvann. Ring UD på 23 95 00 00 or krev at norske myndigheter får de fem kidnappede nordmennene hjem.

Der har jeg ikke så god oversikt. Det er stadig arbeid med å få helsemyndighetene og politikere på vår side, men NBTK har enorm legitimitet i folks og medias øyne fordi de er en del av Rikshospitalet.
@aninehartmann.bsky.social kan kanskje svare mer utfyllende?

💯 there has never been a healthcare system (in Britain at least) that started from the premise that we should control our own bodies. Every change to the system over the last century has preserved doctors’ presumed right interfere in our decisions

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Lang historie kort, NBTK behandler i praksis fortsatt kjønnsinkongruens som en psykisk sykdom med strenge kriterier og utredningskrav som i realiteten er skadelig for pasientene, en svært utdatert praksis. Forsøk på å modernisere/forbedre praksisen har ikke lykkes, og tilbudet innskrenkes stadig

Stusser også over påstanden om at denne saken er "i grenseområde mellom kvalitetssikring og forskning"
Correct me if I'm wrong, men jeg tror ikke kvalitetssikring pleier å publiseres i forskningstidsskrifter?

Det var vel bare et tidsspørsmål før NBTKs praksis ble så uetisk at det manifesterte seg som noe åpenbart ulovlig
Dette er bare det siste i en lang rekke med krenkelser og tillitsbrudd, og det kommer til å bli fler, for de vet at det de driver med ikke er innafor.
Gleder meg til eventuell rettssak

:3

Yeah?

Det reflekterer absolutt et mer åpent og aksepterende samfunn.
Men NBTK pusher stadig skremselspropaganda om at økningen skyldes sårbar ungdom ,særlig "unge jenter", som blir påvirket til å *tro* at de er trans. Det er en konspirasjonsteori som har blitt tilbakevist gang på gang

HEY IT'S ME

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Suddenly craving a closet full of steampunk/dieselpunk fashion

Nvm, went back to Steamworld Dig

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Give me a game to play on my Switch while listening to podcasts

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

Sjølvsagt er det ogso mogleg å berre gje gratis bustad til alle so snart dei fyller 18, i tillegg til å innføra borgarløn, men eg reknar med det er hakket for radikalt for "pragmatiske" politikarar.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop