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NEW REPORT! “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” In Palestine, the destruction of the truth has become integral to the destruction of the Palestinian people. READ THE REPORT🔗 docs.un.org/A/81/249. Available in all official UN Languages.

"If mass indiscriminate bombing was what was wanted, why bother with an AI system? Part of the answer offered by NAZA is that advanced technological tools give murder an air of scientific legitimacy."

"The Israeli army began treating collateral damage as an accounting problem in necro-economics. This shift was accelerated by advances in computational technology." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I recommend reading this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

right on cue

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

UPDATED – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 ✍️ By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @claudioangelo.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy

Canadian-operated gold mines in the Dominican Republic and Haiti are facing growing opposition from local communities who say their water, health, and livelihoods have been harmed by years of extractive operations. This week, community leaders will bring their concerns directly to Ottawa.

And boom: there goes Politico’s right wing on the march narrative with big news coming from Serbia and Brazil this Sunday.

"Los candidatos deberán presentar un manuscrito, así como un dosier técnico que detalle cómo se ha usado la herramienta de inteligencia artificial. Se permiten todos los grandes modelos de lenguaje, incluidos ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini y LLaMA."🫠 elpais.com/cultura/2026...

"Jewish candidates who have endorsed dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, called for the 'total annihilation' of its cities, [...] and demanded that 'all of Lebanon must burn' remain free to run." #Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Lebanon #Voting #Courts #Nuclear #Military #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

Running pro-energy sector ads is not the mandate of Environment and Climate Change Canada. Carney is also gutting federal science agencies and trashing environmental protections. Carney is worse than Harper.

“The online campaign has been especially violent. AI, algorithms and data management are all utilised to cement what we call ‘affective polarisation’,” [...]a term used "to refer to the entrenchment of political blocs and an increased animosity towards the opposing side."

"Likud will use a new app named Victory 26, which "would allow Likud activists and officials to determine which areas have the lowest turnout, manually take the names of people who have cast their votes, and then target those who have not yet." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

"Psychological civil engineering" has been the goal for almost a hundred years

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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On Thursday @godin.bsky.social will be in the Bellingcat Discord server to discuss the techniques and insights emerging from his ongoing satellite imagery analysis of changes to Gaza’s landscape over the past three years of intensified conflict. Join our live Q&A: discord.gg/bellingcat?e...

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

Houstonians are putting their voting stickers on the memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by ICE in July

This is in part what I’ll be arguing in my SHOT conference paper later today, so if you’re attending the conference come on out. My paper is “Of Scrolls and Stars: IBM, Musk, and the Technology of History.” 11am ET

V good thread. Worth sharing this point bc it’s a spur to my fellow humanities scholars that if we were as feckless as we’re told, this wouldn’t matter. More importantly, given the inherent link btn AI & eugenicism, the more we cede ground to this industry, the more we entrench this mode of thought.

"A majority of the 9 legal experts consulted by the newspaper El País concurred that what the PP had done was not illegal, given that the video was labelled as AI-generated and that the overall tone was one of political satire.“Given the context, everyone knows those people didn’t say those things”

No organ or system this virus cannot access and destroy ☠️ Endocrine complications of COVID-19: diabetes, musculoskeletal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and gonadal disorders academic.oup.com/jes/article/...

“It’s very easy for anyone who isn’t used to AI to confuse that video with reality,” he said. “And call me crazy, but that seems extremely serious to me.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

'Launched this week across the social media channels of the conservative PP, the video used artificial intelligence to manipulate the likenesses of various people linked to Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party & appeared to show them admitting to acts such as soliciting prostitutes and taking kickbacks.'

"But are workers collecting data for machines that will one day do their jobs?" "At the moment it's too early to tell says Bino Paul, senior professor at the School of Management and Labour Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai." 😑

Google on Bill C-22's lawful access provisions: "This treats all users as potential criminals. Metadata is not merely ‘administrative’ data – in some cases metadata can contain core biographical data that is fundamental to a citizen’s private life." www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

It seems that the European Union's restriction on up-to-date Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery has expanded to include Gaza and the Red Sea. This may have happened a while ago — the EC's corrigendum on 2026/1716 removes transparency from Copernicus censorship. Does anyone have more info/observations?

Canadians can’t afford rent. Food bank use is at a record high. Wages are stagnant while the rich are getting richer than ever before. Of all the people who could use this kind of federal support right now, venture capitalists are at the bottom of that list. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

"In a joint email statement to CBC News, the head of the Acton Academy Network, Jake Thompson, and Infinity School principal Eric Brown said cameras are meant to be a tool within the schools." A "tool"= surveillance apparatus. AI is promoted as educational tool. AI is also a surveillance apparatus.

The olives of Rachaya al-Foukhar: At the mercy of Israel and the “Mechanism” youtu.be/nF0vbxJlYeU

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron

New nightmare paw patrol just dropped. @knibbs.bsky.social has everything you need to know about “Warhound” www.wired.com/story/cool-c...

"Dr Asow also describes how drones tracked the movement of patients. On 15 March 2025, people carrying the injured from the site of an attack to one of the temporary wards were followed by a hunting drone, he says. It struck as they reached the gate of the building, killing nine people."

"A BBC investigation has found evidence that Sudanese paramilitary fighters systematically destroyed el-Fasher's healthcare system during their long siege and subsequent takeover of the city in Darfur a year ago." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Carney's actual slogan: Elbit Up