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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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aral, to random
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“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/blinken-suggests-the-world-food-program

aral,
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@rimu Update: primary source (see link in article):

https://x.com/halalflow/status/1792944530389393422

Person making the claim (Bilal Hammoud) was at said meeting with Blinken:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/18/politics/antony-blinken-arab-palestinian-americans-gaza/index.html

Gilad Erdan had also mentioned the idea:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-envoy-says-us-must-cut-united-nations-funding-if-palestinian-statehood-endorsed/

aral,
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@sharan I’m sorry, please correct me if I’m missing something, but the article cites a primary source who was at the meeting. This is the source: https://x.com/halalflow/status/1792944530389393422

Is the problem that the person is Arab-American and therefore somehow inherently untrustworthy?

aral,
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@Miro_Collas @adachika192 @palestine Confirmation from a white person? Is Bilal inherently untrustworthy because he is an Arab-American? I’m having real trouble understanding this.

adachika192, to london
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https://x.com/BlackJewishA/status/1792955370433917162

From X post of Black-Jewish Alliance, call for rally in on June 7th, in front of German Embassy.

Theme: Why does love Genocide?


@palestine

aral,
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@adachika192 @happymilk @palestine Alt text: Flyer:

JOIN OUR SHABBAT RALLY AND ACTION FOR PALESTINE
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE
FROM NAMIBIA, TO THE HOLOCAUST, TO GAZA, WHY DOES
GERMANY
GENOCIDE?
PROTEST, PRAYERS, POLITICAL EDUCATION
BLACK
Embassy of Germany,
JEWISH
6pm
23 Belgrave Square,
ALLIANCE
SW1X 8PZ

aral, to random
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No good ever comes out of VC.

aral,
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@fasterandworse Yep.

aral, to SmallWeb
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Code drunk, debug sober. Bah! Just fixed three bugs after a pint of Tundra.

(This is in no way meant to be role model behaviour. There just happens to be a lovely pub by the seashore in Bray where you can sit outside and it’s a nice distraction in the evenings when the weather is good and I don’t feel I’ve done enough in the day* and need a change of scene.)

  • It doesn’t help that I never think I’ve done enough in the day. 🤷‍♂️

aral,
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@MichaelTBacon Oh, I miss those days :)

aral,
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@JohannaMakesGames Haha, indeed. (Or is it worse if you’re ok the day after?) :)

Yeah, I know. And I think I’m way better than I was. I’ve convinced myself that some day you do a little, some days more, and the most important thing is to keep making progress. Harder when sometimes it feels like absolutely no one on the planet gives a single damn what you’re making but, hey, it’s the road I’ve chosen apparently. Better than being applauded from all sides for mediocrity, that’s for sure :)

aral,
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@JohannaMakesGames * some days, even (yeah, I know) :)

aral, to Israel
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I’m sorry, did you say “Does Isreal have the right to commit genocide?”

Not what you said?

Funny, that’s exactly what I heard.

And no, the answer is no.

#Israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

aral, to random
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If you don’t understand:

  • The profit motive.

  • Slowly boiling frogs.

  • Institutional corruption (the influence of corporate finance in political decision-making – i.e., lobbying and revolving doors).

You will keep getting surprised over and over gain by what corporations and the politicians bought by the corporations do.

aral, to Israel
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Oh no, my dearest Andreas, fuck you and fuck the Zionist, genocidal horse you rode in on.

And now, as is custom, also fuck right off.

#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #apologists https://mastodon.social/@AndyGER/112480403901391241

mhoye, to random
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I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

aral,
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@mhoye Very cool; and a very simple algorithm to implement.

aral,
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@mhoye Or greed, hype, and quarter-by-quarter thinking.

molly0xfff, to ai
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back in my day we called this spyware

aral,
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@molly0xfff Yep. (https://ar.al/notes/spyware-2.0/)

godofbiscuits, to random
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A comedy sketch show from the UK called The Mash Report from at least 6 years ago, but a perfect response to Butker’s bullshit.

https://youtu.be/8JfJhJWxB9Q?si=shR9aulcaYdCZ30H

aral,
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@godofbiscuits Yep, loved it. Of course the BBC canned it.

aral, (edited ) to random
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It’s not enshittification, it’s crapitalism.

(Updated by popular request) :)

aral,
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@fabienmarry Oh it was out there before either of us ;)

aral,
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@greenWhale @haploc Enshittocene 👌

aral,
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@hider 💕

aral,
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@listless Indeed. Already updated :)

timnitGebru, to random
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Friends, I haven't read the Chuck Schumer "report" on AI. Why should I? I knew where it was headed by seeing who they invited (and when they tried to invite me as a back fill/window dressing) & the fact that he asked people what their "p(doom)" was shudder. My whole life is not centered around commenting on what all these ridiculous people are doing. For that, I've written a very detailed paper with Emile P. Torres that you can refer to. Find it and other resources at https://dair-institute.org/tescreal/.

aral,
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@timnitGebru Something tells me I don’t want to know what a TESCREAList is.

aral, to ireland
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So tonight might have ended in karaoke 🙊

The amazing singer I’m with is Holly and any screw ups are courtesy of me – have loved the song forever, but my first time singing it :)

(Video by Sandy, the lovely bartender who introduced us; apologies for the quality.)

A slightly blurry video of two people singing Suddenly Seymour at karaoke in a pub.

aral,
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@awoodsnet Haha, thanks. I had a lot of help (Holly is amazing.)

aral,
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@awoodsnet My background, not unsurprisingly, is in musical theatre :)

But I might have had a band once when I was very young where we did Deep Purple, The Doors, etc.

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