John O'Farrell

Wondering how the eager tech enablers of this regime, including some of my former VC friends and partners, are rationalizing this atrocity. Just the latest in a year of horrors. Is all the crypto and AI money in the world really worth this?

@hayfarani So sorry for the outrages suffered by you and so many other innocent people.

I dedicated my life to serving others, saving lives, & improving patient care & science, not politics. For the empathetic people who shared, reached out, commented, texted, emailed or called: You restored my faith in humanity. I will take the time to process & hug my kids.

Appalling. We’re punishing ordinary Cubans for a regime over which they have no influence.

Israeli settlers escalate their incursions into Taybeh, the West Bank’s last fully Christian town, raising concerns over further land appropriation. The parish priest, Father Bashar Fawadleh, appeals for international intervention, as residents face mounting restrictions and call for peace, justice, and protection. vaticannews.va/en/church/news…

The environmental toll on innocent civilians, which will likely persist for years, is one of the underreported brutal costs of this unnecessary war.

Time for another season. So much material!

And you don’t have to drive a Tesla…

Consider yourself a leader in tech and still driving a gas-powered antique based on 100-year old technology? “Fossil” fuel is an appropriate name. EVs are massively superior in every way, from driving experience to features and performance. wsj.com/business/autos…

This is not a war on Hezbollah any more than the Gaza war was a war on Hamas. It’s a war on innocent civilians and medical personnel.

This story is HORRIFIC. This DACA recipient was brought here by his parents in 1999 when he was 8 years old. He is a laboratory scientist who's had DACA since 2012. Now he's languishing in an ICE detention center because the Trump admin failed to process his renewal in time!

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation. My latest in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wow, good thing Trump and Republicans spent another $4 trillion on tax cuts skewed to the rich.

This is turning into a very mixed night for the super PACs --> Ford win is an L for both Crypto + AIPAC Stratton win would be an L for crypto Donna Miller win is a W for AIPAC, L for AI Biss or Abughazaleh win is a L for AIPAC Bean is a win for crypto, AI and AIPAC

Meta's $45 million super PAC lost 3/4 of the Illinois state legislature races it spent in last night. Meta spent $750,000 across four state races in Illinois and their only chosen candidate who won was Paul Kendrick in IL-HD-12.

Big defeat for Fairshake PAC. Despite their spending millions on deceptive, negative ads boosting her opponents, the candidate rated “F” by the crypto lobby came out on top. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/17/cry…

Happy St. Patrick's Day! youtu.be/xL4j_8OkyIs?si…

This is a photo of Mustafa Ali Bani Odeh, an 8 year old Palestinian child, after he witnessed Israeli soldiers kill his mother, his father, and two of his brothers, aged 7 and 5. This took place in the occupied West Bank, land Israel has no right to patrol. The NYT account of the shooting is worth sharing: "Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late on Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family. On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming, so there were new clothes to buy. The day’s fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too. They picked up fried doughnut holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun: Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammad, 5. Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking or feeding himself, was in his mother’s lap in front. As they rounded a corner slowly, a few minutes from home, young Khaled and Mustafa recounted on Sunday, their mother, Waad, 35, asked her husband to pull over and take Othman from her so she could get something from her bag on the floor. Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say “God is great” — and then heard a deafening fusillade of gunfire." Why did the soldiers kill this family? They say they "sensed danger". Imagine the strength it will take for Mustafa to resist turning to violence against the country that killed his parents and his brothers. By killing so many innocent men, women, and children, Israel is ensuring the cycle of violence continues and making everyone, everywhere less safe. The grief of Mustafa is unimaginable. But his story is not unique. Tends of thousands of children killed. Many more have had their parents, brothers, sisters, family, friends killed by Israeli snipers or Israeli bombs. We cannot let this continue.

"We were doing just fine without immigrants" is a commonly repeated trope. Just to to take the examples listed and the immigrants who made essential contributions... Landing on the moon: Wernher von Braun (Germany) → Chief architect of the Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle that made Apollo lunar missions possible. Kurt H. Debus (Germany) → Led development of the Apollo/Saturn launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center. George M. Low (Austria) → Managed the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office and helped make the spacecraft flightworthy after Apollo 1. Integrated circuits: Jean Hoerni (Switzerland) → Invented the planar process, a core manufacturing breakthrough that enabled practical silicon integrated circuits. Mohamed Atalla (Egypt) → Developed silicon surface passivation, a key step that made reliable silicon ICs possible. Federico Faggin (Italy) → Developed silicon-gate MOS technology, foundational to modern chips and microprocessors. Dawon Kahng (South Korea) → Co-invented the MOSFET, the transistor technology underlying most modern integrated circuits. Andy Grove (Hungary) → Legendary CEO who grew Intel into the behemoth it became. Early computers: John von Neumann (Hungary) → Helped define stored-program computer architecture through the IAS machine design. An Wang (China) → Pioneered magnetic core memory technology, crucial for early computers. Jan Rajchman (Poland) → Advanced early computer memory systems, including foundational RAM/ROM and core-memory work.

As usual, the IDF says they’re “investigating”. There will almost certainly be no consequences for the perpetrators. Where is the accountability for these endless war crimes against innocent children? nytimes.com/2026/03/15/wor…

As Israel and the United States continue their war on Iran, Israeli settlers are pushing deeper into Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. At least five Palestinians have been killed in a series of recent attacks by settlers. trib.al/OGMRsLS