Gillian (she/her)

They wiped out medical workers in Gaza. Now they're wiping out medical workers in Lebanon. And much of the Western media doesn't appear to consider it worthy of headline news.

AGAIN and AGAIN Another massacre in South Lebanon. Another family erased beneath the rubble while the world debates terminology instead of confronting the crime itself. In the southern Lebanese town of Arab Salim, five civilians were martyred and seven others wounded after a terrorist Israeli airstrike tore through lives that only hours earlier were filled with ordinary moments, family conversations, and children's voices. Among the martyrs are a husband and wife, their child, and members of the same family line... entire branches of Lebanese families being wiped out in seconds. The final toll of the Arab Salim massacre: 5 martyrs and 7 wounded. The martyrs: Ihab Farhat His wife, Hanan Zaiour Hassan Ihab Zaiour Batoul Youssef Farhat Zeinab Youssef Farhat.

Martyr Ihab Farhat and his 4 kids murdered last night by terrorist Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Arab Salim.

I’m so done with the “it’s here” argument. “It’s here” is utterly meaningless. You don’t aid and abet widely destructive tech just by virtue of it BEING HERE

There are so many with blood on their hands. Peddlers of transphobia obviously, but also the landlord that couldn’t be fucked to fix locks and the university that sold their students’ safety to slumlord private investors

So grateful Lebanese paramedics are wearing body cams. They are documenting, in real time, the war crimes they endure. No more doubting them, no more “where is the proof?” Another double-tap attack today caught on camera: as rescuers of the Civil Defence of the Islamic Health Authority inspected the site of a previously targeted building, Israeli jets struck the location again directly, injuring two paramedics.

Since a lot of people dont understand the difference. Not all AI is bad, because not all AI is generative AI. A game (like alien isolation for example) having an AI based algorithm so a monster can track your movement isnt GENERATIVE AI WE ONLY DISLIKE GENERATIVE AI.

Today, we are trapped within an area of only 133 square kilometers out of #Gaza’s original 365. Yellow lines chase us, and new orange lines are drawn every day over what remains of our lives. We sleep beside new borders and wake up to even newer ones devouring our land and pushing us into the unknown. This war is no longer only about bombing and hunger our homeland has been reduced to shrinking squares closing in on us, until even survival itself needs a place.

They built a tool to manipulate and rob people and everybody is using it like sheep

REMINDER: If the SAVE Act passes, you will NEED a passport to vote or multiple other proof of citizenship documents. This is all by design.

The fact that almost EVERY former confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives almost immediately after the SCOTUS decision should be more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection and racism is far from gone in this country.

An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later. I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it. His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics." The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages. Here is the story almost nobody tells you. He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it. Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years. Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science. Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment." That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance. The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation. He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes. The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics. The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught. Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework. Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham. The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him. He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

it would be so cool to live in a civilization instead of a ponzi scheme

It's utterly ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.

Many of the “AI” interventions mentioned here are the equivalent of paying for a gym that has machines that lift weights for you. I don’t mean it’s sort of like that, I mean, in educational contexts, it’s the exact same logic. It’s absurd in its face. I feel like I’m going insane

This is not normal. Don’t normalize this. Palestinian lives matter just like yours.

“Missionary eaten by a tiger,” by artist Noé León

Just so we're clear: the pregnancy that ends up in the wrong spot, like the fallopian tube? The one that will NEVER turn into a baby and will rupture and kill your wife, daughter, or sister? Terminating that fetus is also an abortion, and they want to ban those, too.

Hind Rajab, who was killed by 355 Israeli bullets, would have celebrated her 8th birthday today.