Khaytarak Vijak @alphasixtyone

@policytensor Not to be callous, but I don't think that really counters the risk of regional proliferation. But who knows, too many unknowns. But I can imagine an Iranian strategy that doesn't pursue nukes, maybe only enough to tease them as they have done.

@policytensor What I'm trying to say is "haven't they just demonstrated that they don't even need nuclear weapons?" Why even pursue it at this point if it will only lead to regional proliferation? That's a net loss for them, re the nuclear status quo.

@policytensor If Iran is able to hold onto it's sovereignty using only conventional means when attacked by the largest and most powerful military, then hadn't it actually proved it doesn't need nukes? What would nuclear weapons get them that they haven't already demonstrated they have?

@policytensor There's not enough room on the hill.

My great-grandfather was 42 years old when he was drafted into WWII. He crossed the Dnieper. He came home. My other great-grandfather never did. Still listed as missing to this day. I'm Georgian. 700,000 Georgians were mobilized. 300,000 never returned. Farmers, teachers, shepherds. Men who had never left their villages before the war came for them. They fought alongside Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Belarusians. Different languages. Different cultures. One enemy. May 9 belongs to all of them. Never forget.

Allegations of rape and sexual violence against white women were one of the most commonly cited justifications for lynching Black men in America, though the historical record shows these charges were routinely fabricated or grossly distorted. Statistics show that about one-fourth of all lynchings from 1880 to 1930 were actually prompted by an accusation of rape. In fact, most victims were political activists, labor organizers, or Black men and women who simply violated white expectations of deference. White mobs used these allegations to enforce segregation and advance stereotypes of Black men as violent, hypersexual aggressors. The brute caricature of the hypersexual Black male was a myth used to justify the violence, which in turn functioned as a social control mechanism to instill fear in Black communities — sending messages not to register to vote, not to apply for white men’s jobs, not to organize, not to complain publicly. This caricature gained in popularity whenever Black people pushed for social equality. Journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was among the first to systematically document and expose this pattern. In 1892, she published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, which connected names, dates, and identities to individual cases of lynchings and rape accusations to show that that the rape narrative used to justify lynching was a deliberate fabrication, writing, “nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women.” She documented that the true motivation for lynching was the enforcement of racial hierarchy. No independent international human rights organization has confirmed a single case of rape by Palestinian fighters on October 7.

Van Jones @VanJones68

2 months ago

Hasan Piker says the designated terrorist organization Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel. His statement outraged many — who now just want to write him off. That's a mistake. He has a massive audience and is emerging as one of the major voices of his generation. Those of us

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@freedisch @MushtaqBilalPhD Bottleneck is probably search and retrieval of the docs, not the generation. You'd need to host all of the papers.

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career. The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams. My "bad days" are his wildest dreams. My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive. It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

໊smolaraa @kesikesiluv

3 months ago

Hit me with the harshest reality truth.

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@SwichLabs @ryangrim None of those in that list were a part of the Soviet Union, genius. Not applicable to Ryan's post. Who's the retard?

@willmenaker Mean Streets erasure

The collapse of the Soviet Union saw the greatest peace time reduction in life expectancy and standard of living of any major human population ever. Just an fyi.

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Just had this conversation with colleagues at Taras Shevchenko National University: Americans largely do not understand from whence their prosperity comes, and the MAGA gang is actively, and blindly, demolishing the foundations of that prosperity. But there’s no going back…

Бианка @BiankaB12

2 months ago

MAGA doesn’t seem to grasp what’s happening to them - or what they’re doing to America. Their movement is systematically dismantling the foundations of American power: its alliance system, its supply chains, the dollar’s reserve currency status, and the global trust in its

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@ripplebrain There must have been a "bigger" announcement that they had planned, but had to bail on. This might have been a scrapped together last minute thing to save themselves the embarrassment of canceling the speech.

@policytensor That account never attributes anything. Most of the time it seems to scrape from other sources without attribution. No way to tell how reliable it is.

What if it's not "one dumb administration" but the main function of your entire professional career was contributing to a sophisticated ideological cover-up of those basic facts about capitalism, and precisely for that you were paid so generously at prestigious Western universities?

Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano

3 months ago

Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left's cartoon version of America ( it's all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.

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@ryangrim Looks like it's just client side code from what I gathered quickly. Not a big deal.

This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics. The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge. The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it. US science is being killed

The amazing thing about Trump is he’s both the emperor with no clothes and the little kid who blurts that the emperor has no clothes at the same time.

Acyn @Acyn

3 months ago

Trump: I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.

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They’re just such pieces of shit man. They want the war and the mass death but they want Trump to take the blame. Reprehensible, evil people

Axios @axios

3 months ago

Why House Democrats are waiting until mid-April to force an Iran war powers vote trib.al/lfS7p7W

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