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#CILDC Dan Russell key note predictions. New disasters will happen due to #AI. Our search skills will change and the old ones will atrophy. Agents / AI bots will date - but will we update them. AI will continue working when we're bored and give up. Everything works faster.

#CILDC The impact of #AI is going to be pervasive. World famous mathematician/computer guru Don Knuth was shocked to find that #Claude Opus 4.6 solved a problem he'd been working on for ages. linkedin.com/pulse/donald-kn…

#CILDC How to use #AI - treat it like an intern and explain what you want. It's not the old Google where you put in search terms. From Dan Russell keynote.

🇺🇳What will NOT get you fired from a UN job: - Implying Israelis eat human flesh. - Saying Israelis have no humanity. - Speaking on Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera alongside Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - Calling Israel “the enemy of humanity”. - Being condemned for antisemitism by France, Canada, Germany, and the US. 🇺🇳What WILL get you fired from a UN job: - Saying the war in Gaza is not a genocide. - Saying Hamas attacked Israel and Jews on October 7 with genocidal intent. Never forget that UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese had her mandate renewed, while UN Genocide Expert Alice Nderitu had hers terminated.

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More innocent civilians were killed in the last two weeks in Iran than in the last two years in Gaza. At least all the human rights activists are marching in the streets of every major city in the west. Oh, wait. 🦗 There are reliable reports that the regime has used chemical weapons against its own people. At least US campuses are full of encampments. Oh, wait. 🦗 The Iranian regime is holding public mass executions. At least all the pundits who spoke non stop about Gaza these past two years have begun to speak up about Iran. I’m looking at you, Candace, Tucker, and Piers. Oh, wait. 🦗 The people of Iran are trying to free themselves from a genocidal extremist regime that has made their lives hell. At least all the ‘Free Palestine” folks have joined the cause. Oh, wait. 🦗 If you said a single word about Gaza and are remaining silent about Iran, you don’t care about human rights. You don’t care about oppressed people. You don’t care about genocide. You don’t care about civilian casualties. You simply want to vilify Jews. Don’t look now but there’s a Jew hater walking around in your shoes. The death toll in Iran is climbing and all those who obsessed over Gaza are watching this unfold in real time but are remaining silent. Maybe the people of Iran should identify as Palestinians being oppressed by Jews. Then, maybe the world will care.

“In the first nine months after October 7, the New York Times published 6,656 articles about the Gaza War. That compared to 80 articles about the American-led battle to free Mosul [Iraq] over nine months in 2016-2017, [some] 198 articles about the Tigray War in Ethiopia, which killed 600,000 in a year, and 5,434 articles during the first 13 years of Syria’s civil war. One Microsoft Copilot Artificial Intelligence analysis found [that] between 50,000 and 70,000 articles about Gaza were written worldwide in nine months – compared to 1,000 articles about Mosul in nine months. The imbalance becomes even more bizarre at AP when extended further. Israel is covered by more full-time staff than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined, which is made up of dozens of countries, encompassing hundreds of millions of people, multiple wars, famines, mass displacement, and – in some cases – genocidal violence. If news coverage were meant to be a rational analysis, this is not. Even if news were merely supposed to be the coverage of suffering, power, and danger on planet Earth, this would still be indefensible. You cannot plausibly cover Israel more than an entire continent without warping the reader’s sense of reality. This is not accidental. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict occupies a peculiar and disproportionate place in the West’s political imagination, unmatched by conflicts that are deadlier. And so it becomes over-seen, over-examined, intensely dissected, and uniquely moralized until the examination itself becomes both activism and a substitute for understanding.”

An Iranian tells you why the anti-brain Free Palestine mob is not calling to Free Iran: hey keep asking the same question: Why are lefties—why are the loudest pro-Gaza voices—completely silent when it comes to Iran? Well, the answer is simple: because the truth exposes the lie. Because acknowledging Iran would shatter the ideological fantasy that they've built. Let's be clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a victim of Western imperialism. It is a theocratic authoritarian regime that survives by exporting violence, funding Islamists, and crushing its own people. And yes, it funds Hamas, it funds Hezbollah, it funds all the little proxies around the region and around the world with Iranian people's money—not the government’s money, not the regime’s money—stolen money, stolen money taken from the worker who cannot afford bread in Iran right now. Families crushed by inflation, taken from women who are beaten, jailed, tortured, raped for refusing religious obedience. And this is why lefties are silent: because Hamas fits their narrative, but Iranian people don’t. Because Islamist violence against Israelis can be reframed as resistance, but Islamist violence against Iranians exposes the truth. Right now Iran, a country of more than 92 million people, is being erased in real time. Near total blackout, no internet, no call services, no connectivity whatsoever. And yet, silence. No emergency protests on Western campuses, no hashtags, no solidarity statements, no megaphones, no tears. Because Iranian suffering does not fit their agenda. Because leftist movements today are not driven by human rights, they are driven by selective outrage and ideological loyalty. They will scream about censorship unless it’s done by an Islamist regime. They will condemn state violence unless it’s wrapped in religious language. They will chant “Free Palestine” but they will never say “Free Iran” because that would require admitting something unforgivable: that political Islam is not liberation, it is domination. And that is exactly what’s been happening in the West by the way—that the Islamic Republic is not anti-imperialist, it is imperial toward its own people. That Hamas is not some isolated resistance group, it is part of a broader Islamist ecosystem that is funded, trained, and sustained by regimes like the Islamic Republic in Iran. And here’s the part that they do not want to hear: you cannot claim moral superiority while excusing a regime that kills and murders women for refusing hijab, executes protesters, cuts off a whole nation of 92 million people from the internet, and uses foreign proxies as a distraction from its internal collapse. You cannot pretend to care about Palestinians while ignoring Iranians being shot, tortured, and murdered by the Islamic Republic in Iran. That is not solidarity—that is ideological blindness. Iranian people are not silent, they are being silenced. And the silence from the Western left? Well, that’s a choice. A choice to protect an ideology, a choice to excuse Islamism, a choice to look away when millions of people are suffering because their suffering, Iranian people’s suffering, complicates a slogan. History will remember this moment. It will remember who spoke for universal freedom and who decided that some lives matter less than preserving a narrative. Long live Iran."

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Today, we Iranians are faced with something truly unbelievable: Western, liberal, “woke” feminists, clueless about the brutal reality in our country, consistently stand with our oppressors under the delusion of saviorism. They have no understanding of the decades of humiliation, violence, and systemic oppression we’ve endured under the Islamic Republic. Driven by their own need to feel morally superior, they claim to fight for justice while turning a blind eye to the suffering of millions. And let’s be honest, they are some of the most racist voices out there. They look at Iranians and other “brown people” as too backward, too uncivilized, too dumb to deserve real freedom or democracy. In their eyes, we’re wild animals, only manageable under tyranny. But here’s the truth: we are the ones fighting for real freedom, the same freedom they weaponize to silence us. And we want absolutely nothing to do with their hypocrisy.

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Real Information - Artificial Intelligence. What comes next in the #AI world? AI versus #AGI versus #ASI and potential threats to humanity from #ASI (or perhaps not depending on your viewpoint). buff.ly/EDPq0kY

Real Information - Artificial Intelligence. What comes next in the #AI world? AI versus #AGI versus #ASI and potential threats to humanity from #ASI (or perhaps not depending on your viewpoint). blog.aiip.org/real-informati…

The second blog post in the Real Information - Artificial Intelligence series (#AI) on the @AIIP blog. Look out for the 3rd coming soon - with many more to follow aimed at helping information professionals benefit from emerging AI tools: blog.aiip.org/real-informati…

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