Tapas Easwar

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@captain2phones pssst @instapaper 👀

With @mozilla shutting down Pocket later this year, now's a great time for @kobo to partner with @instapaper.

https://www.theverge.com/news/672924/mozilla-pocket-fakespot-shutting-down

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket

Mozilla is sunsetting Pocket, the bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later, on July 8th, 2025. Fakespot is going away, too.

The Verge

Israel needs to be made an international pariah in the same way Russia is today and South Africa was in the 80s/90s.

As @parismarx rightfully said on Bsky: "If other countries shot at a Canadian delegation, they wouldn’t get off with a finger wagging. Canada needs to sanction and boycott Israel."

From: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-eBHFn2SCQ7eU-f1OWKqn8w%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

Carney says IDF fired shots near Canadians in West Bank are 'totally unacceptable'

Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's "totally unacceptable" that members of the Israeli army fired shots near a diplomatic delegation, which included …

CBC News - Catharine Tunney, Darren Major
AI is an eldritch horror. it is an incomprehensibly vast being but without physical form, not truly alive or aware of anything, though it consumes human knowledge and spits out a perversion of it. those who get too close to it are driven mad, and worship it as a deity that will lead them to salvation, even though it is not even aware of them and will lead them to destruction instead

Imagine in 20 years having to explain we used to have chocolate and coffee but we let a couple of guys destroy the earth so they could have all the money.

Future generations will think we're insane. We look back at cave people and think 'yeah nice finger paintings and bone tools you absolute idiots - we did planes and twitter'.

We are the cave people now. We are the idiots.

Had some fiery words to share for Lord Zuckerberg after he broke friendship and is now trying to sell us fake friends as an AI substitute. Sad wannabe-mafioso behavior. See the full rant https://newsletter.lifewithmachines.media/p/this-isnt-the-future-we-asked-for
#AI
This Isn’t the Future We Asked For: Deepfakes and Digital Colonization

Plus: Stop Congress from giving away our future. For real.

Life With Machines
Whether you believe that LLMs are a boon or not, they can't be separated from the political affiliations and agendas of the people who control them.

"The UN’s humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, told the BBC this morning that 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in 48 hours if aid did not reach them in time. Five aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday but Fletcher described this as a 'drop in the ocean' and totally inadequate for the population’s needs."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #EthnicCleansing #Netanyahu
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/first-thing-un-says-14000-babies-could-die-in-gaza-in-next-48-hours-under-israeli-aid-blockade

First Thing: UN says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours under Israeli aid blockade

UK, France and Canada warn Israel of action if ‘egregious’ conduct in Gaza continues. Plus, Trump and Putin discuss Ukraine

The Guardian