Peter Howitt

Holocaust Survivor: “I don’t talk with anyone who denies [Gaza’s genocide.]”

Stephen Kapos, a pro-Palestine activist & Holocaust survivor, sits down w/ Mehdi for a wide-ranging interview on Gaza, Israel, the rise of fascism, & his own story of surviving the Holocaust.

🔗: zeteo.com/p/holocaust-...

The Antisemitism Post (tm) Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…

This is the state of maximum entropy (Boltzmann-Gibbs Distribution) i.e. the state, all else being equal, the system naturally relaxes towards if you remove all the rigged rules, coercion, and forced redistribution.

Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

Not good… @rutgerbregman.com’s lecture about the ‘paralysing cowardice’, by fx universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism is censored … out of fear for authoritarianism (and lawsuits)

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Honestly, I think some centre-left criticisms of Green policy are fair. But if Labour keeps alienating its natural supporters the Greens will become more viable, more progressive policy experts could start gravitating towards them, and their policy offer could gradually become more compelling.

I want to say that's very amusing - but will resist such a cheap pun!

Elsewhere Anchises

"...Let me take your hand, my father, O let me, and do not

Hold back from my embrace.” And as he spoke he wept.
Three times he tried to reach arms round that neck.
Three times the form, reached for in vain, escaped
Like a breeze between his hands, a dream on wings."

(Aeneid IV, Seamus Heaney)

‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’

The statistic is just for women killed in domestic violence.

Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim unveiled in Edinburgh A Stolperstein stone has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge in Edinburgh.

"In 1932, [Miss Haining] took on the role of matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, which had about 400 day and boarder pupils aged from six to 16 years old... a mixture of Jews and Christians.

She helped keep the children safe until she was betrayed and arrested by German officers."

Zelenskyy’s grim choice: Take Trump’s peace deal or rely on flaky European friends Despite celebrating “good progress” in talks in Geneva, European countries are still too weak or too timid to save Ukraine, even with a loan from frozen Russian assets.

"Either take the offer cooked up by Trump and Putin, or gamble his country’s future in the hope of one day getting enough help from his European friends. "

2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:

Wealth Share of the Richest 1% by country showing China is catching up with the USA and Russia

Good article on inequality in the USA and China. Sadly though China is currently rivalling the US in the unequal distribution of wealth.

Why “public AI”, built on open source software, is the way forward for the EU <p>A quarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interv...

US doesn't have strong tech because it has low standards, but because it has huge investment funds. EU will never match, it needs to do something different - walledculture.org/why-public-a...

Would a large open source model not be caught under the systemic risk category?

I like the open source approach, AI should be a public good

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shutters operations after six months marked by controversy Over 500 Palestinians Were Killed and Almost 4,000 Wounded in the Process of Accessing Aid at Distribution Sites of the U.S.-Israeli Gaza Aid Organization, According to Health Officials in the Strip. ...

"Over 500 Palestinians were killed and almost 4,000 wounded in the process of accessing aid at distribution sites of the U.S.-Israeli Gaza aid organization" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Perhaps it wants to get stronger in tech....

Israel: Angriffe im Libanon und in Gaza – Die Waffenruhe gibt es nur auf dem Papier – Kommentar Bomben fallen, Menschen sterben: Im Libanon und in Gaza setzt Israels Armee ihre Angriffe fort. Der Rest der Welt geht zur Tagesordnung über. Genau darin liegt die größte Gefahr.

Israel: Angriffe im Libanon und in Gaza – Die Waffenruhe gibt es nur auf dem Papier – Kommentar: Bomben fallen, Menschen sterben: Im Libanon und in Gaza setzt Israels Armee ihre Angriffe fort. Der Rest der Welt geht zur Tagesordnung über. Genau darin liegt die größte Gefahr.

“Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?”
-Dick Francis

📸 That Photo Guy @thatphotoguy.bsky.social

Researchers in Karlsruhe are looking to couple global and local climate models with the aid of AI. The WOW (World Model of Our World) will combine specialised sub-models through "latent spaces", which is a way of abstracting complex datasets across different space and time scales.

#climate #AI 🧪

This is how the far right should be covered and analysed

Not focusing only on the words or actions of one man but by looking at wider societal trends, the role of the mainstream and of course accounting for power

This is not (just) opinion, it's necessary analysis

"Mahmood is not a novelty, just an addition to the ranks of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel & Rishi Sunak, who...used their identities to dictate what the correct immigration & race politics should be... Mahmood is just the first Labour politician to do so."

| Nesrine Malik

Behind closed doors, the US, Ukraine, and Europe edge toward consensus on a new peace framework after days of divergence.

US Secretary of State Rubio declared the opening session “the most productive and meaningful” of the entire process “from the beginning.”

www.kyivpost.com/post/64821

Communism is hip again – but until it means liberty, count me out, comrade Activist Ash Sarkar is promoting a revitalised ‘fun communism’, without the inconvenient history. I want a revolution I can dance to, not a cult of obedience

"But the glossing-over of what communism is, of who it killed, and seeing that as a moral equivalence with the deaths caused by capitalism, is idiotic ahistoricism."

Another Day, Another Russian-US Attempt to Betray Ukraine and Destroy Europe The Putin-Trump surrender plan will lay the groundwork for Russia to expand its attacks on other parts of Europe

Spot on from @snellarthur.bsky.social on the continuing TRUMP/ 🇺🇸 effort to force Ukraine to reward Russia for its illegal war, murder of its citizens and destroying its infrastructure, whilst grabbing as much as possible to line Trump & CO’s pockets.

arthursnell.substack.com/p/another-da...

#WATCH | A new video shows the consequences of Israel's two-year "military operation" (Genocide) in the capital of the Gaza Strip.

The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers without charge. Their families are demanding their freedom.

Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers without charge.

Not quick enough again: European purchases of US military technology reached a record $76 billion in 2024.
This is four times the annual average of European spending on US arms since 2008. Israeli defense exports hit an all-time record of $14.8 billion in 2024....

And their weapons money to America and Israel