Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek

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#Arvados founder; Harvard Personal Genome Project (PGP) and #Curii co-founder.

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Photo: closeup of me wearing p100 mask which covers most of my face; wearing scarf, glasses are dark, messy red hair and earrings.

Banner: Blue Sea Lake, Quebec, Canada.

#AI #BigData #Genomics #FreeKnowledge #FreedomToTinker #RightToRepair #FOSS #OpenScience #QuantumInformation #Aphantasia #Vegan #Fedi22

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1 January 1926 | A Polish Jew, Leon Weintraub, was born in Łódź.

In Auschwitz from August 1944.
He was transferred to Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg & Natzweiler-Struthof.
He was liberated on 23 April 1945 near Donaueschingen.

He become a doctor.
Today he turns 98.
Happy birthday!

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #survivor #birthday

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@kingbeauregard @bdsint @[email protected] truly painful, frankly. 💔♥️ And also hard to talk about conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in fediverse. My "personal" account at scholar.social does not even allow me to follow you at all.

So, I guess, I will be moving "personal" instances again. Giving mozilla.social a try.

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It's a hard week. I am having trouble doing anything. I am supposed to prepare for a colloquium in the mathematics department, and I'd really rather bail on it because the war is consuming all of my attention and energy, but I also feel very bad bailing just two weeks out. I don't know what to do.

Babies murdered.
Children taken from homes, beheaded.
Women and girls raped, tortured, murdered.
Boys and men, seniors, murdered.
Families burned to death.
Entire kibbutz populations slaughtered.

They are not the government. They are innocent Jewish civilians.

That is barbaric #terrorism.

Unfollow me if “but what about…” is your response.

Most of my family is OK, though terrified.

My aunt's in-laws are missing close family. They are 26 and 28. They were at the music festival. Nobody has heard from them since. Please help find them if you know anything.

One of my cousins has been called up to serve since he is in the reserves. My other family and friends have not been called to serve yet.

Some of my family is in Ashkelon, but most left years ago and are in safer places within Israel.

The internet is very terrible. I am finding out that many people are OK with the sheer horror of thousands of Israeli civilians being shot, murdered, and kidnapped. Someone has called me the anti-Jewish k-word slur for expressing concern about my family. All are ignoring the years of leftist takes on Israel/Palestine I've publicly expressed; it does not matter what my views are, because so many people do not view Jews of any kind and especially Israeli Jews as human, and that is clearer now than it has ever been.

I'm tired.

Statement from President Joe Biden on American Citizens Impacted in Israel | The White House

As we continue to account for the horrors of the appalling terrorist assault against Israel this weekend and the hundreds of innocent civilians who were murdered, we are seeing the immense scale and reach of this tragedy. Sadly, we now know that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed—many of whom made a…

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