Since Zionists struggle to make a persuasive argument against freedom, justice, and equality for all people throughout the land, they seek instead to attack the message and messenger. When Palestinians proclaim “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” many Zionists argue that this is a Palestinian call for genocide. But as historian Maha Nassar has noted, there has never been an “official Palestinian position calling for the forced removal of Jews from Palestine.” The links between this phrase and eliminationism might be the product of “an Israeli media campaign following the 1967 war that claimed Palestinians wished to ‘throw Jews into the sea.’ ” Jewish groups such as the American Jewish Committee also claim that the slogan is antisemitic because it has been taken up by militant groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Hamas. But as Nassar writes, the phrase predates these uses, and has its origins as “part of a larger call to see a secular democratic state established in all of historic Palestine.”

What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean? --jewishcurrents.org

Tom Nicholas is really great in this piece. SLRPNK link

People who get angry at Just Stop Oil tactics are just showing their ignorance of civil rights and protest history.

Yes, unsubstantiated means "no evidence."

As the saying goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It's being posted to Reddit, without a date, as chum for bootlickers. !california hasn't discussed this one yet, consider it a vaccination shot for this Reddit mind virus.

Unsubstantiated by Snopes is not the same as false.

Alex de Vries predicted that current AI technology could be on track to annually consume as much electricity as the entire country of Ireland (29.3 terawatt-hours per year). For comparison, the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index suggests Bitcoin uses 141-160 terawatt-hours (TWhs) of electricity annually. That’s ~0.7% of the world's consumed electricity in 2022. The process of minting cryptocurrency is a very public activity, so the numbers are difficult to fudge. The cost of bringing extremely expensive nuclear reactors back online and driving demand for environmentally destructive Uranium mining and processing suggests de Vries' guess was conservative.

I'm reminded of Jevon's Paradox as applied to energy generation. I hope the AI bubble pops before much more investment goes into nuclear energy.

'AI' in the sense of machine learning algorithms is very old technology, and has seen revolutionary applications at every step of its development. Eliza was created in the 1960s and demonstrated that if the test of a computer's artificial intelligence was whether it could fool a human that it was sentient, the value of that test depended very heavily on how willing the human correspondent was to 'fill in the blanks.' The results of those experiments show that the average person is extremely willing to fill in the blanks even when the technology is full of gaping holes.

In the podcast, they're talking specifically about ChatGPT-style technology, its flaws, and the willingness of people to 'fill in the blanks' in a new dimension -- to assume LLM technology is a truckload more graphics cards or a nuclear reactor away from what sci-fi writers mean when they say 'Artificial Intelligence' -- and that is evidently false.

The petro-billionaire people who brought you "The Line" are joining up with the badly conceived Octopus Crane Tower idea people to bring you something that definitely will never be built and probably has deep conceptual flaws.

The important take away from this performance art is that the people causing global warming and who stand to benefit from pumping even more carbon into the air to are working on clever solutions to reverse it, and you can continue living your life as if things will eventually return to the pre-climate crisis status quo.

• Horrific scenes .. an Israeli drone targeted 5 unarmed Palestinian civilians in Al Sikka area in Khan Younis city in the beginning of February 2024. (NSFL)
• Israel-Hamas war updates: Israeli strike hits Gaza medical convoy
• Israeli warplanes hit UNRWA schools in Gaza with white phosphorus
• The Protest Dispersed. Then an Israeli Sniper Shot a 9-year-old Palestinian Boy in the Head
• Israel attacked a UN-run school housing refugees in Gaza despite warnings that civilians were there, the UN has said.
• Initial IDF probe: Hostages were shirtless, waving white flag when soldiers opened fire
• Israel deliberately killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, Palestinian report says - BBC News
• Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car'

YouTube comment says "The truck driver was rescued but 13 people remain missing. The phong châu bridge in phu tho province was built in 1995 and had no signs of danger before storm yagi"

The article says "Đây là người lái chiếc xe đầu kéo mang BKS 19H - 024.19" but I can't read the license plate in the video to confirm. My heart goes out to all of the dead and missing.

I'm really happy the truck driver survived.

Thank you!

Also covered by The Guardian.

Great find!

That looks great! Where is this?

Fuck yeah!

Yeah, not a lot of discussion in the community :/

I can't find !abc -- I guess it overlaps with another community like !abolition so you can't mouse-over it.