
I’m so pleased you’re not dead!
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I’m so pleased you’re not dead!
@OlJack15
goodest of boys. I just heard the awful news





Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system, per Reuters.





Just so everyone is clear: Obama already had an Iran Nuclear Deal. Trump ripped it up when he came into office, choosing a policy of "maximum pressure" instead. So now he's saying we might go to war in order to get an Iran Nuclear Deal. You cannot make this stuff up.


Fresh off a hasbara tour in Israel, @ProfDBernstein wrote a blogpost for @reason claiming the IAF has an extremely strict vetting process for airstrikes, with lawyers carefully ensuring each airstrike conforms to international law. Meanwhile, on planet earth, the pic-related NYT investigation, based on over 100 IDF sources, found (among other things) that the IAF regularly selected targets to bomb too quickly to vet with any type of seriousness, much less vet in the scrupulous, legally rigorous, and IHL-focused fashion about which Bernstein fantasizes. More generally, the NYT investigation found utterly criminal targeting standards by the IAF. For example, the article corroborated the "Where's daddy?" program of bombing homes full of civilians to kill a single junior militant. And it assessed that the IAF's method for identifying combatants was a crude and scattershot AI program. What Bernstein is doing is assuming (based on nothing but government propaganda) that a nice-sounding de jure policy of a military is followed in practice. Actually, a lot of genocidal and criminal militaries have had good-sounding de jure policies, and this is often a sick irony of the history of war crimes. Bernstein might know this if he were interested in military history beyond the realm of hasbara apologetics. Also, complete disgrace for @reason, a supposedly "libertarian" website, to publish war-crimes denialism based on nothing more than government propaganda.






Apollo co-founder Marc Rowan called Mamdani an "enemy" of the Jews at a fundraiser last night bloomberg.com/news/articles/…













Perhaps he should be freed, but why do you omit the details of who he is? He is a high-ranking Hamas officer who ran Kamal Adwan Hospital under Hamas's Military Medical Services Directorate, distinct from the Hamas-run Health Ministry. This classification was confirmed in a December 2023 CNN report. This makes him a legally designated military prisoner, not a civilian hostage.






I think people underestimate the impact that Bluesky has had on the liberal vibe shift on here. The craziest on the left are no longer here competing in the marketplace of ideas. They’ve siloed themselves away and we’re all better off for it. Now we can rebuild liberalism.


