🚨BREAKING: The Israeli army wiped out the entire Abu Samra family in a single strike on their home in Al-Zaytoun, Gaza. 23 members of the family were killed, including: •Yousef Mohammad Abu Samra •Hanaa Sami Al-Madhoun (Abu Samra) Their children: •Sami Yousef Abu Samra •Mohammad Yousef Abu Samra •Lama Yousef Abu Samra •Nada Yousef Abu Samra •Rawan Jameel Sharaf (wife of Majd) •Fawzi Mohammad Abu Samra •Mervat Abu Samra Their children: •Ihab Abu Samra •Joud Ihab Abu Samra •Deema Ihab Abu Samra •Nesma Fawzi Abu Samra •Hanin Khalifa (Abu Samra) •Fayez Abu Samra (a child) •Mohammad Mohammad Abu Samra •Eman Abu Samra (his wife) Their children: •Mahmoud Mohammad Abu Samra •Batoul Mohammad Abu Samra •Doha Mohammad Abu Samra •Raghad Mohammad Abu Samra •Hala Mohammad Abu Samra •Doaa Ibrahim Abu Samra An entire family parents, children, and even babies completely erased. This is genocide.

As the son of a Holocaust survivor who has lectured on genocide prevention at Auschwitz where my mother lost dozens of her family; as an MP under Mandela who introduced the 1st motion on the Holocaust in the history of the SA Parliament I can state unequivocally that @FranceskAlbs is no more an antisemite than Mandela was a racist. This is a pathetic ploy by the US/Israel to deflect attention from their indefensible genocide. The report released by Albanese is a remarkable & crucial document revealing the depth of complicity by major companies in the genocide. To use bogus antisemitism claims to silence legitimate criticism of Israel undermines the real struggle against all racism; & destroys the crucial exhortation of ‘Never Again’ for all humanity

Silence is not an option.

Terence McKenna, good lord

Two doctors go to work to assist others.Nine of their kids are killed by an Israeli missile targeting their home. Only surviving child, in critical conditions. Targeting families in the still-standing buildings: distinguishable sadistic pattern of the new phase of the genocide.

Airbus A320’s primary fly-by-wire computers still use Motorola 68k CPUs. Fresh off the assembly line in 2025; it’s the same hardware as the original Macintosh. The *lack* of speculative execution, with a simple in-order core makes it than modern chips! Here's why.

My favorite pet example of this is the follow button architecture (you better read this because it’s an example of what we hide from you to save you time): Okay, it’s just a fucking button, you click on it and it inserts a row in the follows table and it changes color, right? Well: * What does the button do if the user isn’t logged in? Does it redirect to the login page or silently fail? Does the login page have a mechanism to take you back to the same page the user started from when they first clicked follow? Should they have to click follow again or should the app somehow remember and automatically follow them when they’re logged in? * What if the user is banned? Can they still follow people if their account is disabled? * Do we notify the other user they just got followed? How? Do we send an email? Do we have an SMTP server? Do we use a mail SaaS? Is our domain blacklisted on spam lists? Do we do push notifications? Are we collecting APNS tokens? Oh, for Android we need a Firebase project. Are we using Firebase? No? Fuck, we need procurement to approve it. I’ll put a ticket in * What if a user follows someone on one page but they have 7 different tabs of our app open? Should we do some kind of real time updating system to apply it across their tabs and devices? Do we use WebSockets? SSE? How do we scale that up to 100,000 DAU? * What if you follow a user and they block you? Do we delete their follow relationship (soft block), or do we show you a blocked page if you try to visit their profile? * What if YOU block them? Does it unfollow them? Or do you still get their content in their feed? * Do we show any special labels for mutuals? So on every page load we have to retrieve all your follows and then join that table with all of THEIR follows to find intersections. Hopefully that’s a fast query. Maybe we index this? Maybe we have a cron job run every hour to dump your mutuals into a separate table * Etc etc. I have to go to dinner so I’ll stop typing. But what I would say here is: “Oh yeah, follow button, should be easy, just a button and another table, should have it ready by tomorrow”

This painting is nearly 100 years old. It's by Grant Wood (most famous for American Gothic) and it's called The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. Why does it look like that? Because Grant Wood had one of the most unusual styles in art history...

I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he'd be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage. donate.wikimedia.org/

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So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere. And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time. When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime. What then? Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden? You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy. You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military. You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda. You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy. You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy. You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for. You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming. You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation. You just made women less safe and less free. You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now. You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket! You just ushered in Fascism. Because your cereal costs more. Congratulations.

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say that AI models are hitting a ceiling of capabilities: "we've really slowed down in terms of the amount of improvement... we're increasing GPUs, but we're not getting the intelligence improvements, at all"

Terribly sad news. Force Inc and later Mille Plateaux were both important listening/dancing and reading for all at Cyclic HQ in the 90s. So many worm holes were opened up by those liner notes. Rest in power Achim

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Please consider adding ‘Bundanon’ to your @Bandcamp #bandcampfriday shopping list. Ambient guitar loops infused with environmental recordings from Seaworthy & Matt Rösner; latest release via @longform_ed longformeditions.bandcamp.co… #ambient #fieldrecordings @bundanon

Another fucknuckle confusing "weather" with "climate". Eeejits. 🤪

This morning my artwork END was acquired by a collector and is on display today in NYC with SuperRare’s newest exhibition

- Queensland has today broken its longstanding winter heat record by around a degree - Ditto for the town of Alice Springs in the NT - See also my previous tweet about Sydney. This Australian winter heat is both widespread and unprecedented in our records weatherzone.com.au/news/unpr…