saw ted chiang give a talk yesterday where he basically told a bunch of ai bros, "we are nowhere near having real ai, and what we call ai today is just a tool of capitalism. i don't fear ai, i fear capitalism" and the ai bros got their feelings hurt. it was great.
darryl li
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- biden is the fourth consecutive us president to bomb yemen.
- for a lot of people in gaza this was literally true, thanks to israel's refusal to allow anesthesia drugs inthis year felt like being awake during surgery
- sadly, even “someday everyone will have been against this” still feels overly optimistic
- thinking about this one every dayFor generations to come, comparing 'Israel' to Nazis will be unnecessary. Future atrocities will be compared to 'Israelis'
- this questioning of death stats from gaza is not only disgustingly racist, it also obscures the basic logic on the ground: like so many other things, the registration of deaths is ultimately controlled by israel.
- standing with colonizers is a reflex so deep it’s the muscle memory of the west
- a few notes on al-mawasi and what makes it special beyond the massacres in the headlines, because i so very much hate the way these place names become decontextualized signifiers of horror and atrocity.
- in 2006 the israelis announced that they would bomb a house in jabalia. a mosque rallied people and they gathered on the roof of the targeted house in defiance. the strike was called off. human rights watch accused the palestinians of the war crime of human shielding.
- Here is a list of schools that agreed to hand over names of people accused of antisemitism to the government. aaup.org/news/new-repor…New report from @AAUP & @MESA_1966 on the weaponization of antisemitism claims shows how Biden used civil rights law as a cudgel against student anti-genocide protesters, and Trump used it as a battering ram for his war against higher ed theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…
- among many other things, this building contains the offices of the palestinian centre for human rights, one of three palestinian human rights organizations put under sanctions last weekBreaking: Israel has just flattened Al-Roya Tower 2 in Gaza City with multiple rockets. Israel over the last week has levelled up at least 5 towers. These are the last dwellings people can shelter in.
- message from friend in rafah: "the whole family is with me, kids and grandkids. whether we live or die, we'll be together." رسالة من صديق في رفح: "العائلة معي الاولاد والاحفاد ان عشنا او منتا نكن سويا"








