This is hands down the most insane thing I’ve ever read in my life.

In order to see if desperately needed doctors can be transported in Gaza, UN staff have to do a “test run” along the route first to see if they are killed by the IDF.

some seriously sleazy shit even by normal NYTimes standards. The UN is not “lowering the count of women and children”, it is waiting for further verification for 10,000 names and is thus not indexing women and children—or men—until they have new data.

We're starting up in a bit, join us!

incredibly disturbing read newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Look at you patting yourself on the back, sitting there like you’re a fucking general

John Hopkins is running a long covid study and I've heard are having trouble finding control participants (no-one could have foreseen this).

If you haven't yet had covid, you could help them out (can do the survey from anywhere in the world)
covid-long.com

Some really eye opening stuff on how IBM, Meta, Nvidia and HuggingFace are lobbying against AI regulation.

They’re spending millions and have dozens of full-time lobbyists desperately trying to avoid government oversight of their work.

This is a Caribbean love story fi true wow.

Thank heavens for OTM

I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I didn't know how to express it.

So, I picked up the camera and started creating.

This one's for anyone who's ever lost their path in a world full of alternate paths.

‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’: artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life theguardian.com/film/article/2…

A GOP dark money group accidentally left the names of its donors on its tax form. And honestly, this is refreshing! It’s good to know where concentrated political efforts are coming from for once!

Max: we do not understand what a show is

Mom just reminded me that when the CAA protests happened in India 5 years ago, American journalists were so quick to hop on their high horse and accuse India of being an uncivilized authoritarian regime. They were like “WHO WOULD CALL THE MILITARY ON COLLEGE PROTESTORS😭”

well.

Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks headed for Gaza, throwing the packages of food on the ground and destroying them. Palestinian civilians “are being starved and killed, and we are prevented from helping them,” a U.N. official said.

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