Amyn Merchant

Superb. Thanks so much for sharing.

Another blinder of a post from Martin about AI, genius, and all that kind of thing.

Plato vs Grok The revenge of the nerds is upon us and it's incredibly naff.

My latest: On the AI aesthetic, techno-millenarianism, and why the new right doesn’t understand genius.

Anas Al-Sharif on the left pictured smiling with his young nephew who was training to be a journalist. Both were killed by the IDF in their tent in central Gaza tonight. Photo credit to Al Jazeera

Undated photos of Al Jazeera staffers Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi in their press vests, both killed by Israeli forces.

A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed, along with his family members, in an airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 3, 2023 (Photo: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A group of journalists from Al Jazeera carry the shrouded body of their dead colleague on a stretcher.

They couldn’t silence their stories.

So they just killed them.

Israel never comes back from this.

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee recently re-shared a video falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. They continue to murder journalists for telling the truth.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret

Gaza is starving. So are its journalists | Jodie Ginsberg A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story

I have been a reporter for 25 years. I know the risks reporting in war zones. This is not that situation. This is systematic silencing by Israel.

If we do not act now, there will be no one left in Gaza to tell anyone’s story.

Me today for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A twitter/X post from Keir Starmer's account, with screenshot of a video of people seeking asylum being detained, and the wording Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer I said that if you enter this country on a small boat, you will face detention and return. I meant it.

Would anyone care to remind the former Human Rights Barrister Keir Starmer that penalising people seeking asylum for their manner of entry is against international law? Not to mention how grotesque it is that the Prime Minister is sharing videos of people being detained.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

New Yorker cartoon, signed "Bloper." Two dudes sitting at a diner, eating. Caption reads, "I don't know why, but posting photos of everything to social media platforms that harvest my data for billionaire oligarchs just doesn't have the same thrill as it used to."

big same.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Assassination of the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza City, including its correspondents and cameramen:
**Correspondent:** Anas Al-Sharif
**Correspondent:** Mohammed Qareqea
**Cameraman:** Ibrahim Zaher
**Cameraman:** Moamen Aliwa
**Crew Driver:** Mohammed Nofal

I think I kind of understand what “reasonable centre right conservative” means in terms of fiscal policy, because the Overton Window doesn’t seem to be shifting dramatically in that regard, but what would now be regarded a reasonable centre right policy on immigration? Is it fixed, or has it moved?

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

Ella Baron on the Palestine Action arrests – cartoon More than 400 people were arrested at a protest in London in support of proscribed group Palestine Action

Ella Baron on the Palestine Action arrests – cartoon

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The contrast in reporting these stories is nuts, right? It's not just me?

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I am becoming increasingly anxious about:

1) The Government’s lack of meaningful response to this, and indeed the pandering to it.

2) The way it’s being covered by broadcasters.

Meet The Hot-Tempered Kentucky Abolitionist Muhammad Ali Was Originally Named After He freed his slaves and fought for emancipation. And when a gunman shot Cassius Marcellus Clay, the fiery abolitionist struck back.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Senator Cassius Clay was a prominent American politician and abolitionist. He served as a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was known for his strong opposition to slavery. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

allthatsinteresting.com/cassius-marc...

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

Headline in today's Mail on Sunday: After a spate of asylum-seeker sex crimes Jenrick blasts 'medieval' attitudes to women TOP TORY'S FEARS FOR DAUGHTERS OVER BOAT MIGRANTS

Jenrick in today's Mail expressing fear for women's safety bcs they're forced to "share a neighbourhood" w/ "men from backward countries" who have "medieval attitudes". Plain racism. Publishing this as hostile mobs protest outside refugee accommodations incites further violence. How is this allowed?

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant" Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

A gif of Met police arresting a blind man in a wheelchair in Parliament square

Shame on Starmer and Cooper for putting our police in this position

Royal Albert Hall apologises to man refused entry over Palestine flag pin Roger Cauthery, 81, and wife, Angele, were attending BBC Proms when initially barred from going into concert

Trickle-down authoritarianism: the UK government bans the Palestine Action group—but at the grassroots level, all manner of minor functionaries interpret this to mean that the Palestinian flag as such is a mark of criminality. Predictable.

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Loops of superheated plasma larger than the Earth dancing across the Sun, recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Credit: SDO/NASA Goddard