Muslim • geographer • em dash advocate • Fellow @lsegeography • Anti-AI Aktion ⚒️
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New article from one of my PhD chapters is now out in @antipodeonline. Here I propose the notion of the ‘spectacular fix’ to describe how Indonesia’s new capital city is mobilised by the state. @kclgeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released. Director Iñárritu’s “DIGGER” is a film that all of us living in today’s world should see. It is a work that remains with the audience, provoking reflection and sounding alarms. As you absorb this film and carry it with you, a “tool (a digger)” for delving deeper into the future will surely begin to take shape within you. This is a film that will stay by your side for years to come.
賛否両論？ 小島秀夫監督は『DIGGER／ディガー』のどこに震えたのか。イニャリトゥ監督と語る”新たな現実”
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Saying “No Jewish person is responsible for the actions of the state of Israel” as some Jewish citizens in New York City host illegal land auctions inside of their synagogues seems a bit weird.
Zohran Mamdani:
One of the things that I'm proud of is that we live in the most Jewish city in the United States of America.
No Jewish person in New York City is responsible for the actions of the state of Israel.
If you want to hold anybody accountable, it's the people who are making those decisions — the prime minister, the state of Israel, also our complicity as American taxpayers, given that we know how many billions of dollars we have sent in bombs and continue to send.
South Asian founder creates AI agent and it's a white woman. Books can be written on that alone
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
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I don't believe people fully understand just how bad it is for Mamdani's to fund organizations like JCRC. We sued a school district last month after the local JCRC effectively compelled the district to punish students for wearing Palestine related clothing. The JCRC's position
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Israeli occupation forces have been using this “foul odorant,” known as skunk liquid, since 2008 against Palestinian crowds, homes, shops, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, neighbourhoods, and even funeral processions.
🚨BREAKING: A highly foul smell spread across Gaza City overnight, leaving residents searching their homes and tents for its source.
Social media platforms were flooded with complaints from Palestinians reporting the same unbearable odor across large areas, from Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj in the east to Beit Lahia in the west.
According to journalist Yousef Fares in Gaza, Israeli military aircraft dropped hundreds of bubbles carrying the foul-smelling substance across these areas, deliberately contaminating the air and spreading the odor among residential areas.
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As an academic I feel like that I'm living in that scene in The Big Short where they see all the empty houses and know it's a bubble, but for me it's hearing about all the innovation and growth in higher education, then teaching a class where only 8/250 students show up weekly
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Double-tap strike on a child trying to rescue a rescue worker. During a “cease fire.”
This comes as Israeli media and politicians are calling a documentary about this sort of attack a “blood libel.”
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!
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Police would have arrested everyone involved if this happened outside a synagogue.
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There’s something uniquely damning about these confessions. They make the allegations irrefutable. But it’s difficult to describe how infuriating it is to spend years documenting the slaughter of your people and still not be believed until their murderers confirm that, yes, it happened exactly as we’ve been saying all along.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s ‘Naza’ is one of the most important films of our time. 24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic Israeli war crimes in Gaza. vulture.com/article/review-n…
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"Their appearance and voices were digitally altered to disguise their identities."
Israeli "leftists" can't help but protect their terrorist countrymen even in a documentary exposing their crimes
Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor — who are two of the four co-directors of Oscar winner “No Other Land” — return with "NAZA."
The new documentary was shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” per an official synopsis. Abraham and Szor interviewed 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers — all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — who were involved in the surveillance or remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Their appearance and voices were digitally altered to disguise their identities.
"I think that this piece is likely to make the denial of what took place in Gaza — not only its genocidal nature, but really the specifics of what it looked like from inside the Israeli system — harder. We know there is a lot of denial happening. And to me, that denial is one factor that contributes to the crimes persisting," Abraham tells Variety.
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NEW: King's College London used a private security firm run by former military intelligence officials to monitor the campaign in support of a student suspended in relation to pro-Palestine activism.
Usama Ghanem has now been reinstated as a student.
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Germans will look you in the face and tell you there's no genocide in Gaza because Israel hasn't made industrialised concentration camps.
Then Israeli ministers advertise this:
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First genuine change from Burnham on Gaza.
This is what he meant by “We got it wrong on Gaza.”
.@AndyBurnham sends his first UK military plane to Israel since becoming PM
This A400M flew from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. It stopped in Israel for an hour before returning to base
The A400M can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs or 116 fully equipped soldiers
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1/ Yesterday Cofnas was supposedly an independent academic exposing corruption. Today the U.S. government is publicly threatening to review its relationship with Ghent on his behalf.
The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.
The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University.
Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired.
The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.