🔻Richard Estes, "From the River to the Sea" 🍉

A great, must watch video with a simple, essential message

@LuzMiz9 San Juan Hill on the Upper West Side where Fordham now has its Manhattan campus extension, is another one.

They did the same thing to Central Park in NYC.

@HillcrestCardCo @sheswrldd @denimneverdies Back when I did 5150 certification hearings for psychiatric holds, I had a suicidal 7 year old kid one time, really sad, and he knew how to present emotionally to please adults. Hope he is still with us.

@sheswrldd @denimneverdies The youngest patient I have ever had in an inpatient psych unit was 4. Very young children can be severely depressed and want to die. It is because adults have created a nightmare world to live in. We continue to fail the next generations.

everyone in the replies so shocked & appalled by the fact that a 10 year old can be depressed is the issue btw. why yall have adopted this mindset that children & teens can’t feel emotions so deeply to the point where they can consume you idk. no matter the age they’re humans

This is sad beyond words

@JDillaThaKilla @WireRacing 40% of homeless people have jobs. I slept in the back of Walmart parking lots traveling around the country and I've seen many people who live in their cars in the parking lot putting on their blue vest to go walk into work in the morning.

This assassination attempt was never solved.

On this blessed day, make dua for our political prisoners everywhere; those languishing in israeli prisons, Saudi prisons, egyptian prisons, British prisons, in ICE jails, in Rikers, in our backyards, and all over the world. The best of us are behind bars.May Allah SWT free them

NYTimes will dedicate ten dozen articles to the language of anti-apartheid college students and how it impacts Jewish feelings, but not one about what Israel's own ministers say.

Frey would later block police reform and collaborate with ICE

Liberals think you can peace process this away. They think you can just coexist this away. That you can protest this away. There are Palestinians who laid their lives on the line to stop this, they fought every single day to stop the theft of their land, the extermination of their people. Don’t let anyone ever convince you to condemn or forget those who used their last breaths to stop this.

Mearsheimer says there's no evidence in the public record that Iran had foreknowledge of Oct 7th. Nuland's response: Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. But it's true. Where is it? Where's the evidence?

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I feel like I'm eating crazy pills when I read the countless bad takes around how the Vatican would have virtually anointed Anthropic. When if you read the Pope's encyclical it's actually a COMPLETE repudiation of everything Anthropic - and U.S. AI generally - stands for. Read this part of the encyclical for instance (paragraph 110: #Artificial_intelligence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vatican.va/content/leo-xi…): "Finally, I would like to employ the expression 'to disarm,' which is close to my heart. Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of 'armed' competition, which today is not limited simply to the military context, but is also an economic and cognitive phenomenon. This entails a race for ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance. To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity. It means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate, therefore making it human-friendly and restoring it to the plurality of human cultures and ways of life." In a nutshell what the Pope is saying is: 1) The "AI race" mentality itself is the disease: there is no "winning it responsibly", we need to stop seeing AI as a way "to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance" 2) Technical dominance and being the most powerful does not give you the right to set the rules 3) AI must be "freed from monopolistic control", opened to scrutiny, and "restored to the plurality of human cultures" Now compared and contrast it with what Anthropic is officially saying - namely Dario Amodei in his famous essay "Machines of Loving Grace" (darioamodei.com/essay/machines…): 1) Where the Pope says stop the AI race. Dario says win it: "A coalition of democracies [should seek] to gain a clear advantage on powerful AI by securing its supply chain, scaling quickly, and blocking or delaying adversaries' access to key resources like chips and semiconductor equipment." 2) Where the Pope says technical power doesn't confer the right to govern. Dario says it does: "This coalition would on one hand use AI to achieve robust military superiority (the stick) while at the same time offering to distribute the benefits of powerful AI (the carrot) to a wider and wider group of countries in exchange for supporting the coalition's strategy." 3) Where the Pope says free AI from monopolistic control and restore it to the plurality of human cultures. Dario says concentrate it and use it to impose one model: "If we can do all this, we will have a world in which democracies lead on the world stage and have the economic and military strength to avoid being undermined, conquered, or sabotaged by autocracies, and may be able to parlay their AI superiority into a durable advantage. This could optimistically lead to an 'eternal 1991.'" These aren't cherry-picked gotchas. This is the central thesis of Dario's essay. And Anthropic keeps repeating this over and over. On May 14, just days ago, Anthropic published a 5,000-word policy essay titled "2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership" (anthropic.com/research/2028-…) urging the US to "lock in a 12-24 month lead" over China by blocking chips, cutting off model access, and ensuring that "democracies, not authoritarian regimes" control AI. They warn that "a lead in frontier AI will enable a widening lead across the full national security technology stack" and urge America not to "squander our advantage." This is, almost word for word, everything the Pope is condemning in his encyclical. I'll grant Anthropic one thing: they have an excellent PR team. Turning what's an obvious repudiation into a perceived endorsement is pretty masterful. But it doesn't mean you have to fall for it...

This three minutes of basketball is aesthetically ugly, less athletic, less strategically complex, less skilled, and all-around just objectively worse than the basketball played today in the NBA.

So while Israel is breaking their ceasefire in Lebanon, USA is breaking their ceasefire in Iran. Then they wonder why no one is interested in entering treaties or “accords” with either.

Lula, who in 2004 sent 1,200 Brazilian troops to assist George Bush in the invasion and U.S. military occupation of Haiti, once again betrays Latin America’s proletariat by sending aid to the right-wing Bolivian regime which murdered a member of the general strike on May 23rd.

If Trump continues the war he will have to deal with an escalating global economic crisis with no clear victory or exit strategy. If he ends it however he will have to deal with backlash from the ruthless Israel Lobby that will continue inflicting political harm on him for the rest of his term and generally make life hell for him and his family. All in all it looks like a very painful political decision that will probably dissuade future presidents from attempting something like this.

You mean like when the Democrats had principles when their mayors turned the police loose on George Floyd and anti-Zionist, anti-genocide protesters? NYU is currently investigating anti-Zionist students and Democrats are nowhere to be found.

@hyphy_republic There are people suggesting that Trump doesn’t govern at all, and I’m beginning to think about that.

Serves me right for taking Trump seriously literally ever.

Tonight, entire families were wiped out in Israel’s bombardment of Mashghara in the Bekaa. Among the dead: Samir Rizk. Hamza Rizk & his two children. Hassan Mansour, his wife, & their two daughters. Killed inside their homes, late at night, as Israeli warplanes unleashed wave after wave of heavy strikes on the town. The footage from the scene is hellish. Homes burning. Entire buildings torn open. Families buried beneath the rubble in their sleep.

This has already been done, “The World at War” in the 1970s. An excellent series that would be hard to surpass, especially by a US produced one.