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What about AI are journalists not covering? Circular financing? Workflows with it? Explorations of potential productivity gains? Science research? Cybersecurity? Kill chain automation? Commercial surveillance? Theory of mind debates? Impact on cultural production & education?

Is Sam okay?

Fantastic work here from my colleague @horton_official : important storytelling.

I understand it can be hard for readers halfway around the world to absorb headlines like this over & over. Fatigue for stories of faraway grief is natural. But every one of these families is shattered, possibly beyond repair. Please do read what my colleagues are documenting.

On Wednesday, Israel unleashed the gates of hell on Lebanon, killing 300 people in 10 minutes. I just learned that one of those strikes hit the street where I used to live, two buildings up from the balcony where we used to have breakfast overlooking the sea. The building they bombed was always full of families; the burger shop on the ground floor, Hani's, was a local favorite (and the coleslaw was delicious). 300 lives taken in 10 minutes, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, with no warning. Thousands of survivors left traumatized by the destruction of everything around them. I don't even know how to process that. I wonder how many families were eating burgers at Hani's when the bombs hit?

i cannot express enough how hard it is to find art for AI stories

Iranian Tar player Ali Ghamsari is currently camped at Damavand Power Plant, which provides a significant amount of electricity to Tehran. Ghamsari says he’ll remain there for a while in the hopes that his presence will protect it from bombing.

Tonight I spoke with loved ones in #Iran who still had internet. They weren’t asking about politics. They asked, “Will we still have electricity tomorrow?” I was too afraid to tell them this may be one of the easier days.

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter

New Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. amazing writing by @oliverburkeman, @SophieElmhirst, @samanth_s, @demarionunn, @samirashackle, @sirin_kale and many others! Check it out here guardianbookshop.com/the-guardian-l…

Breaking: Newly released documents reveal the US administration laid off the Delphic Oracle last year who had predicted that a mighty empire would fall if Persia was invaded.

هل يكفي أن يُقتل علي خامنئي على يد الولايات المتحدة أو إسرائيل كي يُمنح صفة "شهيد"؟ وهل كون قاتليه زعماء مهووسين بالسلطة والنفوذ مثل دونالد ترامب وبنيامين نتنياهو يبرّر تقديس موته؟ خامنئي نفسه مسؤول عن مقتل عشرات الآلاف من الإيرانيين، وقبل أسابيع قليلة فقط سقط آلاف المتظاهرين برصاص نظامه. سبعة وثلاثون عاماً من الحكم بالدم والنار والدموع لا تمحى بطلقة واحدة تطلقها قوة "معادية". الوعي بخطورة مشاريع واشنطن وتل أبيب، عسكريا واقتصاديا وأمنيا، لا يعني مصادرة حق ضحايا خامنئي في الشعور بالارتياح لغيابه. أما تحويله إلى "شهيد"، خصوصاً من قبل من صمتوا صمت القبور على جرائمه، ليس موقفا أخلاقيا بل تزوير للذاكرة. ليس المطلوب الاحتفاء بمجرمين من طراز نتنياهو أو ترامب، بل رفض منطق تمجيد أي طاغية فقط لأن خصومه طغاة أيضا. ما جرى ليس صراع حق وباطل، بل صدام مشاريع هيمنة: خامنئي لم يكن مشروع مقاومة، بل مشروع سيطرة في مواجهة مشروع سيطرة آخر. في صراع الهيمنات يربح الأقوى.. المشكلة أننا نواصل عدّ الخسائر

.@cogcelia's 2026 predictions are aging nicely

Another world exclusive happened today in our famous Four Seasons Total Landscaping lot!!! We gathered together all the people who have gone to see the Melania movie. Here’s a photo to prove it.

From trusted source in Tehran: Tell all of your friends [abroad], everyone you know: there is absolutely nothing else we can do here inside Iran. Nothing. They are killing people in such ways, they’ve descended upon people so brutally, they're attacking us in such ways... We’ve lost so many lives that no one dares go out anymore. They shoot directly with bullets. They kill outright. And even after killing, they come and behead you, and do countless other violent things to you. For God’s sake, whatever can be done, you are the ones who can do it. You must not abandon these gatherings. All of you must keep these protests going. We cannot do anything inside Iran. Going out into the streets is literally suicide. It’s not about bravery anymore. It’s madness. You go out and they shoot you point blank. They don’t even ask why you came. They just kill you. There is absolutely no way for us to gather unless we had weapons, unless we were armed like them. Otherwise they have weapons everywhere. There has been so much killing. So much. So whatever is to happen now is up to you. You are the ones who can somehow save us. [Breaks down into a sob. Crying, the caller continues...] When you see what’s happening, when you hear what’s happening… I’ve done so much yelling and choked on so much teargas, my voice is bad. We follow what you're doing. When we see you gather in protest in front of an embassy it brings us joy. It still gives us a lingering hope that we can do something. It's your responsibility now. We did absolutely everything we could. As our fellow Iranians it's your responsibility. You can influence foreign policy. You can tell the world what's happening. The placards you hold. The YouTube videos. Distributing images and video. Gathering in front of embassies. Even if you have just the weekends. Please do something for us on Saturdays and Sundays. Please don't let your gatherings get smaller as the weeks go on. No one will stop you there. No one will kill you. No one is singling you out. We don't even have the freedom to walk about in our own town. We no longer even know who is friend or foe. We don’t even know who we’re speaking to anymore. We no longer know if those recounting what's happening is an enemy. Because if one wrong word slips from our mouths, they turn us into a corpse even before we've had a chance to return home. For God’s sake, I beg of you, don’t abandon these gatherings. Our only hope now is you. What’s now obvious is that America won’t do anything. You’re our only hope. Please tell your friends. You’ve seen how many young people have been killed. So many, so many young people. For the sake of the youth. I know that based on the videos that have reached Iran International [satellite station] since yesterday, now that the internet has come back briefly, they will probably cut the internet again and people will go into silence, the country will go back into a blackout. For God’s sake, please help us. Help us save our country from these people. Stand together so we can live in a flourishing country. For God’s sake, help us. We are in Tehran. What I saw in Tehran, and what they’re saying about the provinces and small towns... They couldn’t fully control Tehran’s gatherings with the forces they had, but in the small towns it was killing after killing. Towns with populations of only 20 or 30 thousand people truly had many deaths. Thousands, hundreds… The things we’ve heard, the things we’ve seen go far beyond mass killing. It was horrific. Truly horrific. I beg you. I beg you. Don’t abandon these gatherings. Please. #Iran #IranMassacre

Hope is more than wishful thinking—it's the stubborn voice in your chest that refuses to go quiet. It doesn't promise smooth sailing; it simply insists the journey continues. When circumstances scream "stop," hope leans in close and whispers "not yet." It's the invisible hand that steadies you when your strength falters, the lantern you carry through tunnels where you can't yet see the exit. This isn't blind optimism—it's the radical act of staying open to possibility when logic says to close down, of keeping faith in unseen pathways when the map runs out of roads. ***** This winter, I brought to life something that has lived in my imagination for years—the first annual print edition of The Gurdeep Magazine. It features writing from other contributors alongside my own work. If you feel called to hold this warmth of printed words in your hands, visit Gurdeep.ca/magazine.

A Russian schoolteacher secretly filmed his own workplace as it was turned into a war propaganda machine. That footage is now part of a documentary shortlisted for an Oscar. Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇 [1/12]

A note on the Venezuela attack. When I began thinking about joining the military, in the lead up to Iraq in 2003, I thought that even in the worse case scenario, Iraq would be better off without a dictator.

LeCun stopped being right about AI a while ago but managed to trick a lot of people into thinking otherwise.

Interesting take!