Tyre, Lebanon
An Israeli airstrike hits a residential building. Israel’s army has told the *entire population of the city to evacuate*
Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyre,_Lebanon
Photograph: Kawant Haju/AFP/Getty Images
The "eyes" pointing forward in this image are a mix of its actual eyes and the glowing tubercles on its crown. As a member of the Thomisidae (crab spider) family, it still possesses eight eyes, but unlike jumping spiders, crab spiders have much smaller eyes primarily designed to detect motion rather than see high-resolution color. They rely almost entirely on sitting completely still and using their powerful, crab-like front legs to ambush prey that get too close.
These spiders are famous for "masquerade evolution." In normal daylight, they typically mimic the bumpy, irregular texture and coloration of bird droppings to hide from predators. However, what makes this specific image spectacular is that a brand-new species of crowned crab spider was discovered by scientists during an expedition. When they hit this particular spider with an ultraviolet (UV) blacklight, it fluoresces into this jaw-dropping, vibrant electric neon blue!
Blue eyes
A crowned crab spider that fluoresces under UV light, discovered during a scientific expedition to Angola's remote Lisima plateau, is pictured in this handout image obtained by Reuters on June 3, 2026. Nicky Bay/The Wilderness Project/Handout via REUTERS
A resident stands at a site of a Russian drone and missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2. REUTERS/Stringer
Patterns in the Garden
A trip to the local greenhouse turned into a math discovery as my five year old excitedly ran over to the flower baskets and exclaimed, “Look, Mommy! Patterns!”
Zaya has been learning about patterns in math, so she was amazed to find beautiful patterns on all of the flower petals.
For our homeschool math, we use Math with Confidence and living math books we check out from the public library.
Zaya’s discovery got the attention of her big brother, and soon they were both checking each flower basket to see how many more patterns they could find.
It brought me so much joy to see the kids make a connection between math and nature. 😊🌻
💜 XO
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The US Apache helicopter was in Iranian airspace when it was hit.
Has this simple fact been mentioned in any of the mainstream western media reporting on this latest round of escalation? Perhaps, but I haven't seen it.
A few days ago, Israel did not respond to Iranian aggression with a counter strike (as most mainstream media sources framed it). Iran was responding to Israel's ongoing aggression in southern Lebanon over the last few months, where the Israeli military has been bulldozing dozens of villages, killing well over 3,000 people (predominantly civilians), wounding more than ten thousand people, targeting (once more) medical facilities and first responders, displacing over 20% of the population, while announcing plans to make their occupation permanent. And Iran was responding specifically to Israel once more bombing a densely-populated part of Beirut.
For decades, western media have consistently misrepresented the aggressors (US-Israel) as the victims. Whenever one of the targets of their illegal expansionist/imperialist violence retaliates, this response/defence is treated as the originating act of aggression and (retrospective) _casus belli_.
History didn't start yesterday.
#MediaBias #USImperialism #Iran #IranWar #Israel #InternationalLaw #framing #Disinformation
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As AI tools become the public's default source for information, corporate development pipelines have become high-stakes targets for global lobbying.
When groups openly call AI a "major opportunity for advocacy," it guarantees that tech companies will face endless, competing pressures from every side of global conflicts to program their specific version of reality.
What do you think? Are we entering an era where bias is pre-programmed at the baseline?
2/3 The Myth of Neutral Tech 🤖
AI models aren't objective arbiters of truth; they reflect the data they are fed and the guardrails built by engineers. By lobbying tech companies at the data-pipeline level, advocacy groups can bake specific political narratives and terminology directly into the code before the AI ever generates an answer.
The battle lines in tech and geopolitics are shifting. It's no longer just about content moderation or reporting individual posts—it’s about algorithmic training.
Dr. Maya Ackerman recently suggested that advocacy groups bypass public-facing social media and go "directly to the companies" to embed "technical and advocacy solutions" into AI models.
🧵 A quick thread on why this matters...
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