Negin Owliaei
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editor-in-chief @truthout. past lives @ajepodcasts @ajenglish. any pronouns. also on that other site.
Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the ‘genocide’ narrative trib.al/leyHeUG
An Israeli drone targeted a 12 year old girl THREE times today in Nabatieh. She and her father were on a motorcycle when they were first struck. They both survived, but the drone hit again, killing her father. As the wounded child fled, the drone struck a third time. The girl survived, but is seriously injured and is being treated in hospital.
🔴President Trump threatens Iran with a nuclear holocaust: “If there’s no ceasefire… you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran. They better sign the agreement fast… If they don’t sign, they’re going to have a lot of pain.”
a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525
NEW: US military just carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas: Senior US official tells me, but this is NOT a restarting of the war. MORE
Fox News is now reporting that this is not in fact the UAE, but in fact the US bombing Qeshm and Bandar Abbas, in a military attack on Iranian soil that is explicitly not meant to restart the war.
Exclusive: Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites since the war began, according to a Post analysis. The amount of destruction is far larger than what was previously reported. wapo.st/3OXKBTv
White House Insists Iran War Is Over, Even While Missiles Fly nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/… via @NYTimes
The smears have started against @UMich Prof Derek Peterson for thanking pro-Palestine students 4 standing against genocide in his commencement speech Email Michigan’s Pres & Provost now to express ur support for Peterson. Time is critical: presoff@umich.edu provost@umich.edu
