Josie Glausiusz

Nearly 200 Killed in Strike on Iranian Girls’ School as UN Calls for Investigation into Attack On Feb. 28, a strike on a girls' school in Minab, Iran, left almost 200 people dead. This week, the United Nations called for an investigation into the attack.

The United Nations is calling for an investigation after a girls' school in Iran was hit on Feb. 28, resulting in almost 200 deaths.

The deadly strike occurred on the same day that the United States and Israel launched an assault on Iran.

Report in People Magazine

people.com/nearly-200-k...

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein.

One was warned off by his Mom.

“Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here," said Scott Aaronson's mother.

www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm quite confused as to how scientists managed to miss this, previously.

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think:

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

A piece of text from Haaretz, here is an extract: Hind Rajab was 5 years and 8 months old when she died. Her position in row 5,918 means that 5,917 children younger than her were killed in the war.

I have absolutely no idea, and I have absolutely no idea how most people in Israel look at a list like this and somehow are OK with it.

The answer is of course that they don't look.

www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-02...

Thanks for sharing, I will read.

Gaza as a testing ground: Israel’s AI warfare A new kind of war is taking place in Gaza, one led not just by missiles and drones, but by computer algorithms. The Foundation for Political, Economic and...

I'm beginning to wonder whether Gaza was a trial run for AI weaponry.

www.setav.org/en/gaza-as-a...

The downsides, said Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, are “AI gets it wrong. ... We need humans to check the output of generative AI when the stakes are life and death.”

Try explaining that to dead children.

“or, whatever”

“Whether his morals are right or wrong or whatever, we’re not going to let [Amodei’s] decision making cost a single American life,”

I have now discovered that the name Bejam was an acronym for Brian, Eric, John and Milly and Marion, the names of the family members of John Apthorp who founded the chain.

Bejam was bought by Iceland in a hostile takeover in 1989.

[Thank you @wikipedia.org ]

AI really likes using nuclear weapons in simulated war scenarios. Here's why The study comes as the U.S. military has been working through how to implement AI systems for potential use.

Some of the biggest AI models aren't shy about using nuclear weapons to settle disputes in simulated war scenarios, a new study finds.

Militaries are already using AI for decision support: those systems may lean into rapid escalation under pressure.

See @axios.com

www.axios.com/2026/02/26/a...

Attempt to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme could backfire and drive regime towards a bomb, experts warn US-Israeli onslaught may lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpile

In response to the June 2025 attacks, Iran excluded UN inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from sensitive sites, so the watchdog lost track of what became of Iran's 440kg highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland Company promises ‘rapprochement discount’ for shoppers from country after decade-long action in EU court

"There is also an Iceland supermarket in Reykjavik."

Love this headline: UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I also thought the wording was odd.

In striking Iran, Israel inches ever closer to 'might makes right' as a policy | Opinion In Plato's "Republic," Thrasymachus, One of Socrates' Interlocutors, Argues That Might Makes Right: Power Is the Sole Source of Law and Morality, Both of Which

Over the past 2 and a half years, Western countries, especially the US, "while condemning oppressive regimes in Russia, Iran, Syria & other countries and even acting against them, did nothing to stop the bloodshed in Gaza & even contributed to it," writes Ofer Cassif

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

Over fresh fish, rice, salad and soup, they talked about work and former colleagues. He was seated in front of her, with the view of the blue sea behind him.

“You don’t like to see it?” Ms. Kabaja recalled saying. “It’s so beautiful.”

Mr. Saadallah responded, “Not more beautiful than you.”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein.

One was warned off by his Mom.

“Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here," said Scott Aaronson's mother.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Donate now to provide urgent bomb shelters for Bedouin communities in the Negev/Naqab This is not a game of hide and seek — it’s Bedouin children hiding under a tractor plow from rocket fire, because they have no bomb shelter to run to. We’ve all seen in recent days

Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social relaunches their efforts to obtain and provide missile shelters to unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev desert, they launched a donation effort, I too donated a little.
my.israelgives.org/en/fundme/sh...

💜

I've donated. Thank you for taking this stand.

Lebanon 🇱🇧: Israeli strikes this evening on the city of Tyre.

Tyre is well within the southern portion of the country, from where Israeli is forcing everyone to evacuate.

That butterfly looks like it has leaves for wings! Why brimstone?

FYI @aloner.bsky.social

The UK scandal of women handcuffed while in labour: ‘I was so shocked when the restraints weren’t removed’ Pregnant women prisoners in England are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?

It's hard to fathom the cruelty of this.

Pregnant women prisoners in England are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sharing a Love Story That Stretched Across Gaza’s Closed Border

"What drew me to the young Palestinian couple was that their wedding would be a story of joy, and one that would humanize two people in love," writes Sadiba Hasan, who reports "on all things love and weddings at The New York Times."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/i...

Just Married, but Still Separated

Just Married, but Still Separated: Mayar Kabaja and Hatem Saadallah went on their first date in Gaza City shortly before Oct. 7, 2023. Unable to reunite since he evacuated with his family to Cairo over a year and a half ago, they wed remotely.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...

“If we end up in a scenario where we have regime implosion, where Iran becomes so internally destabilised that there is a real risk that material is diverted, is stolen … there’s going to be a lot of pressure on the US to put boots on the ground,” said Kelsey Davenport @armscontrolnow.bsky.social

Attempt to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme could backfire and drive regime towards a bomb, experts warn US-Israeli onslaught may lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpile

In response to the June 2025 attacks, Iran excluded UN inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from sensitive sites, so the watchdog lost track of what became of Iran's 440kg highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🌼 A quiet woodland milestone 🌼

Wood Anemones are starting to appear in Portland Park, taking advantage of early spring light before the canopy closes. Always feels like a turning point in the season when these show up.

Have you seen them yet?

#SpringSigns #NottsNature #Wildflowers

CAIR estimates that about 5 percent of detainees in Texas are Muslim. Ms. Zayan said she was not aware of any Muslim chaplains serving in the state’s more than 20 federal detention facilities.

The monthlong observance of Ramadan, which began in mid-February, requires special meal schedules.