With all the horrible news coming from Palestine, Iran, and Israel, it is easy to forget the context.

And the context is that Netanyahu is on trial for bribery in Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

But I'm sure this in no way influences his decisions that accidentally create a gigantic distraction and provide massive political cover for him.

Words matter. The Israeli military did not “intercept a ship and escort it to safety.” The Israeli military did commit a violent act of piracy against a UK flagged vessel in international waters as it fulfilled a legal right to reach Gaza and alleviate suffering, then abducted its crew and transported them by force to Israel under threat of execution.

Not a single corporate media outlet has had the courage or integrity to correctly label this horrific injustice. Legacy media has failed us all.

If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better.

🧵 below and also https://www.hauntologies.net/p/germany-wants-to-rewrite-its-holocaust

"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking."

"Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-impact-of-generative-ai-on-critical-thinking-self-reported-reductions-in-cognitive-effort-and-confidence-effects-from-a-survey-of-knowledge-workers/

#AI #GenAI #CognitiveFunction #mind #intellectual #CriticalThinking #CriticalThinkingSkills

So much is being normalised by Israel's impunity. I don't know of any other context where one side of negotiations is publicly asking for the destruction of the other side as a precondition for the negotiation. It's Orwellian in its twistedness.

You don't have to like a single thing about Hamas - fck Hamas - but it is an insult to our basic capacity to understand anything to continue believing that this genocide is ongoing because Hamas still exists. It's just not. That is simply wrong.

Happy pride month!  

We've just been looking at all the cool pride flags on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_pride_flags

A map of Northern Ireland, as horked up by ChatGPT. (See alt text for the true horror.)

Do not trust ChatGPT to do your geography homework!

That is all.

2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones
2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated

*Concentrated*
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They are ANNOUNCING concentration camps

archive.is/Q7klW

This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose the war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-former-prime-minister-ehud-olmert-war-crimes-gaza_n_68333494e4b0b20a268ade65