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Everything is a blood libel. The ICJ ruling, a libel. The ICC warrants, a libel. The UN reports, libel. Amnesty, HRW, B'Tselem, libel. Survivors' testimony, libel. Your own soldiers charged at Sde Teiman, a libel. Chants at protests, libel. The only entity on Earth that never lies, apparently, is the one currently on trial for genocide.

My Rutgers convocation address was canceled for opposing this.

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

This was Hind Rajab on her 5th birthday. Today would have been her 8th birthday. 📷 Wesam Hamada

This morning, Israeli occupation forces uprooted around 500 olive trees at the entrance to the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, according to local sources.

Wow: "Welcome to gerontocracy in the academy. Graying profs are an extreme instance of a national syndrome...Between 2000 and 2010, the # of faculty over the age of 65 doubled...The arts-and-sciences faculty at Harvard had more tenured faculty over 60 than under 50.": chronicle.com/article/profes…

In addition to the film Friday, join us and Pal at MIT for a timely conversation with Palestinian American journalist and director of the Electronic Intifada @AliAbunimah! 📅 Wednesday, April 22nd 6-7:30 PM 📍MIT Building 45, Room 45-230

Los sistemas de #InteligenciaArtificial organizan de manera cada vez más invasiva nuestros entornos mentales y sociales. Como toda gran transformación histórica, también esta reclama no solo competencias técnicas, sino una formación humanística capaz de revelar las lógicas económicas, los prejuicios incorporados y las formas de poder que moldean la percepción de la realidad.

🚨action needed 🚨 Join us in contacting MIT officials this week to reaffirm our shared commitment to see MIT divestment from Israeli occupation. This mailto link will populate a letter on most email applications. Personalize the template as you need: tinyurl.com/IMOD-OUT

MIT *is* a proud 'pipeline for missile, cyber, and dual-use military programs'. But if you disrupt or target MIT, then ooh noo you've desecrated a sanctuary of 'fundamental' research! Meanwhile Iran's universities are open-season to the F-35s. The double standards of empire.

This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood” (Is 1:15).

The difference is by design.

Crown Heights outdid itself

The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks. My Super Bowl MVP.

Milan mayor calls ICE "a militia that kills" and says agents not welcome as part of U.S. Olympic security. cbsn.ws/3Z2eZxl

I know we are all going gaga over Carney, but Gaza, not Greenland, broke what was left of the liberal international order.

about time for an anticapitalist tech-critical magazine disjunctionsmag.com

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me (università italiana)

Pope Leo on cinema, today at the Vatican, could not be more right (and, dare I say, holy): deadline.com/2025/11/pope-l…

It’s crazy that the new NYC subway cars only have 30 seats and the old ones have 80 and we are in any way supposed to consider this an improvement. Me must return…