www.forever-wars.com/first-in-gaz... "In southern Lebanon, I'm assuming [Israel] want[s] to, at least on some level, preserve the environment because it's very rich in soil[.] [...] But the one thing they have kept the same as Gaza is the targeting of medics and journalists in southern Lebanon."

First in Gaza, Now in Lebanon, This Is The Destruction She Saw

An aid worker with recent experience in both places talks to FOREVER WARS about the similarities and differences in both Israeli assaults

forever-wars.com

"Au terme de trois ans et demi de thèse, trois CSI contresignés par tout le monde et deux rapports de thèse autorisant la soutenance, l’Université Grenoble Alpes a interdit la soutenance[.]" rioultf.substack.com/p/candidats-...

Candidats et lampadaires autoproclamés

Soutenance de thèse interdite à Grenoble

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No matter how many powerful, right-wing bastards die (finally), it never gets old. That this one was an Ayn-Rand-disciple only makes things sweeter. But man, did he cause suffering to people!

www.miningmx.com/top-story/65... And this shit's nuts as well: the Chinese government realized early on that transitioning away from fossil fuels would require certain materials, and started locking up supplies. European leaders preferred building LNG terminals (looking at you, German "Greens").

G7 resolves to fight China metals dominance - Miningmx

GROUP of Seven leaders have agreed to deepen co-ordination to reduce their dependence on China for critical minerals, with plans to align stockpiling strategies and launch a new monitoring platform ba...

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www.europesays.com/europe/73123/ This shit's stunning: there are European countries that still haven't recovered from the last round of too-big-too-fail banks (looking at you, Greece) and the COMPETITION commissar comes out in favor of creating huge banks that will be even harder to regulate!

EU competition chief backs cross-border bank mergers – report - Europe

Europe’s competition chief Teresa Ribera. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com

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9/ J'ajoute 3 observations un peu amères pour conclure: - l'impact environnemental n'a été cité par personne; - les invité·es côté STEM semblaient parfaitement incapables d'engager un dialogue avec les autres professionnel·les présent·es; - les enseignant·es du secondaire présent·es étaient...

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away

Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.

axios.com

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · last yr.

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

First Luigi Mangione, now this - it's becoming harder and harder for me to not think that shooting (at) rich people does lead to good outcomes. people.com/hilton-donat...

Hilton Donates Unserved White House Correspondents' Dinner Lobsters and Steaks to Local Shelters

A spokesperson for the Washington Hilton confirmed to PEOPLE that the hotel donated the meals at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to the local community, after suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen...

people.com

Even if in the end it didn't work, one cannot but applaud this kind of direct action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘She’s opening the bees!’ US beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction

Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer

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A very well-argued "preventing data centers from being built is left-wing, actually".

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D.@drharmony.net · 3mo ago

The data center rebellion is only the beginning open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

by @himself.bsky.social "Europe and China entered the 2010s chasing the same horizon, an economy rewired around electricity, but by the mid-2020s the landscape already looks uneven, tilted by scale and speed: in China, electricity now makes up roughly 30–32% of final energy use and is rising fast,

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater.bsky.social · 3mo ago

US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification open.substack.com/pub/geoecono...

I find this absolutely fascinating: an ex-Fidesz man wins a two-thirds parliamentary majority (meaning, he can pass whatever, including constitutional changes) and 2/3 of the European political scene proclaims that Democracy Has Been Saved! Would love to fast-forward two years...

So Auriemma is a sore loser...who would have thought?! 🤔

Tommy Lloyd: "Arizona basketball needs to become a locomotive, where everything surrounding it is pushing it forward."

a man says " you keep using that word . i do not think it means what you think it means "

ALT: a man says " you keep using that word . i do not think it means what you think it means "

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Our Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA) will happen again as part of @ecmlpkdd.org! 📅 7 or 11 Sept 2026 📍 Naples, Italy 📝 Submissions due 5 June 2026 \w @hugoriosneto.bsky.social @azimmermdm.bsky.social & Maaike Van Roy dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/events/MLSA26/

MLSA 2026

13th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics at ECML/PKDD 2026

dtai.cs.kuleuven.be

Auf englisch nennt man das "bait and switch": "Antisemitismus" - also die pauschale Feindseligkeit gegenüber Juden - schreiben, wenn man "Antizionismus" - also die Ablehnung des israelischen kolonialen Projekts - meint.

Sexabled@sexabled.de · 5mo ago

[...]ist kein ernstzunehmender politischer Verbündeter und kein potenzieller Koalitionspartner.[...] Witzig, denn das ist auch kein ernstzunehmender Journalismus.🤷‍♀️ Link: taz.de/Wachsender-A...

A bad AIxcuse is better than none? “59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs bc it ‘is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.’ Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing

Whatever you think about whether artificial intelligence is coming for your job, it has already mastered one corporate skill: hogging the credit.

bloomberg.com

10/10, no notes!

Defector@defector.com · 5mo ago

I will never forgive Trae Young for surpassing Kobe Bryant’s career high for assists in a game eight times: defector.com/i-will-never...

I will never forgive Trae Young for surpassing Kobe Bryant’s career high for assists in a game eight times: defector.com/i-will-never...

I Will Never Forgive Trae Young For Surpassing Kobe Bryant's Career High For Assists In A Game Eight Times | Defector

Kobe Bryant was not just some normal NBA player. No indeed: He was the second-best shooting guard in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers franchise, and something like the 11th-best Laker overall,…

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The horror Israel/US has unleashed on Iran is going to unfold over time, over generations x.com/arianajasmin...

This feels like something The Righteous Gemstones would have sold.

Why have an Apple Watch when you can have smart rosary beads?

Faith meets firmware.

tech.yahoo.com

One of the things the Iran War is clarifying is that AI integration into the military will mean that your children will be sent to war in the Middle East to protect the data centers of the Gulf and Israel. Also, here’s a podcast episode where I talk AI, Anthropic & Iran with @devindra.bsky.social:

When The War Goes AI, The Data Centers Will Be Targets (f/Engadget's Devindra Hardawar)

We talk Anthropic, OpenAI, Iran and the mil-tech oligarchy. Children will be sent to protect data centers the way their fathers were sent to protect oil fields

forever-wars.com

people opposing this are cowards

Dass die Linke bei meinen Wahl-o-mat-ergebnissen immer an erster Stelle ist - normal. Dass Die Partei inzwischen ziemlich verlässlich Nr. 2 ist, sagt viel über die anderen aus. Das Volt !!! für BW vor den Grünen liegt, sollte alles bzgl. dieser "grünen" Landespartei sagen.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

So the German chancellor (incidentally not on Bluesky but still on X) engages in geopolitical victim blaming, condemning the Iranian military for shooting back. Not the first time, I haven't voted for the ghoul, and I don't even live in Germany anymore but still fucking depressing!

"Die Befragung von mehr als 2.000 repräsentativ ausgewählten Ber­li­ne­r:in­nen hat gezeigt: Nur 46 Prozent können als solide De­mo­kra­t:in­nen bezeichnet werden. Sie lehnen Vorstellungen von einer Einparteienherrschaft, einer Diktatur oder einem Führer strikt ab."

Norbert Maria Schüssler@nmschuessler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ergebnisse des „Berlin Monitor“: Nur die Linken können die Demokratie retten taz.de/Ergebnisse-d...