The smarter women are, the more hostility they face. In the U.S. & China, the higher women’s IQs, the less they're liked—and the more they’re undermined by coworkers. Men pay no price for being bright. It's long past time to recognize female intellect as an asset, not a threat.

Watch this @OpenAI post about KBW Ventures portco @TryMinervaAI⤵️ linkedin.com/posts/openai-fo…?

Members of the KBW Ventures senior leadership team, headed by founder & CEO HRH Prince @KhaledAlwaleed bin Talal, attended @GoogleAI Live & Labs Roadshow in Riyadh, the opening leg of a two-city program dedicated to the rise of agentic AI. kbw-ventures.com/khaled-bin-…

A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank. trib.al/QDiFA7I

RT @faridtalih: Mir Amin Palace, Beit el Dine, Chouf, Lebanon

With whole towns leveled by Israel, a quarter million Lebanese people may have lost the proof of who they are and what they own. interc.pt/4osRkSt

YouTube just deleted PNN channel … we had over 40,000 new subscribers since March

RT @faridtalih: Upper Chouf mountains Lebanon 🇱🇧

Excerpt: At first I was not sure I had heard the doctor properly. “C4, like the explosive?” “Yes, they thought it was cheese. They found it along with some bottles of water and Pepsi.” It’s towards the end of Nov 2024 and I’m in Gaza City. The IDF had recently withdrawn from the area this family lived in. The family had briefly returned. Read here (it’s free): open.substack.com/pub/arwada…

A cat took to the stage during the final scene of a Romeo and Juliet ballet performance by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in İzmir

Mabruk to my brother @ziadaburish who offers a political economic history of Lebanon illuminating the material interests that continue to shape the present. #Lebanon #Books #PoliticalEconomy #History

BREAKING: Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now. Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut. A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.

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I did not realize how deranged and dystopian the Israeli surveillance regime in southern Lebanon was before the current war. Sending drones *inside* people's houses with loudspeakers...

In Khan Younis, Gaza, displaced Palestinians came together to watch the opening match of the World Cup at a cafe. The Palestinian national team came close to qualifying for the tournament but fell just short. “Despite the suffering we endure, we came with joy to watch the World Cup,” said Osama Hamdan, who was displaced from Rafah. “We had hoped that one day our Palestinian national team would be present.”

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Scientists have discovered that people walking in crowds tend to spontaneously turn counterclockwise, a surprise finding that “may represent a manifestation of a deeper biological principle of symmetry breaking” 404media.co/scientists-just-…

Reporting from the historic city of Tyre for @TheNationalNews. We saw clear damage at one of the archaeological sites, where wreckage was scattered among ancient Roman ruins and a column had been broken by an Israeli strike on Sunday. The attack targeted, and completely obliterated, a heritage house just a few metres away. The area is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which legally protects landmarks or areas legally because of their “outstanding value to humanity.”

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A new checkpoint in Beirut.