chargrille

chargrille, 1 month ago to random

In 2018 #Netanyahu's govt "pushed through Parliament a new law calling Israel the 'nation-state of the Jewish people'…its primary function is to build a formal foundation for Israel’s annexation of the West Bank—& for a Jewish state eventually to stretch over the whole of Palestine"…In 1948, the Declaration of Independence…created a Jewish state that would ensure 'complete equality of social & political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/israel-law-jewish-democracy-apartheid-palestinian.html

chargrille, 6 months ago to random

March 12, 2019:
"#Netanyahu defended allowing Qatari funds to be transferred into Gaza as a crucial part of a broader strategy to keep Hamas & the [PA] apart, according to a source in Monday’s Likud faction meeting...said that whoever is against a Palestinian state should support transferring the funds to Gaza, “because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank & Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state"

https://forward.com/opinion/420744/you-know-who-wants-netanyahu-to-win-hamas/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

chargrille, 5 months ago to ai

'A mass assassination factory'

Yuval Abraham
November 30, 2023

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant: "We are fighting human animals & we act accordingly."

7 Israeli defense & intel members detailed to 972 how #IDF is killing vastly more civilians in #Gaza, via

1. expanded permission to bomb non-military targets,
2. tossed constraints regarding expected civilian casualties
3. began using an #AI system to generate more potential targets than human command could

https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

chargrille, 7 months ago to random

I feel very protected from such stupidity here on Mastodon, but my understanding is that Twitter is full of Very Angry White People who are high dudgeon & blaming Democrats for failing to save McCarthy from his own party.

While I definitely want to understand why Dems decided to vote with Gaetz (& don't yet) it is 100% not Dems' job to save the GOP from the consequences of their own actions.

Basic abusive family dynamics: enablers blame victims for not stopping the abuser from losing control

chargrille, 2 months ago to random

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/05/1042518732/-the-greatest-heist-in-history-how-haiti-was-forced-to-pay-reparations-for-freed

chargrille, 9 months ago to random

Are there people out there who are looking at AI/LLM-generated content as pollution?

Because that is the analogy that makes the most sense to me. It's creating huge externalities for the profit of a few - proliferating enormous amounts of digital pollution (as well as real-world greenhouse gas pollution).

The more AI/LLM churn out content for the internet, the dirtier the water, so to speak. Or the air. And the less it functions for users.

chargrille, 2 months ago to random

If anyone needs his mental health evaluated, it's a) the cop who did nothing but point a gun at Aaron's head while he was in flames & b) the people making excuses for bombing over 10,000 children to pieces in Gaza.

The people who want to see Aaron's protest buried, & the slaughter of children in Gaza continue, will talk about only one person's mental health today.

People who protest in this way are not presumptively mentally ill.

chargrille, 10 months ago to bluesky

You should stay away from #Bluesky, not actively help Jack Dorsey make his next billion & build his power as an owner of another social media empire.

Dorsey helped fund Musk's takeover to the tune of $1 billion, making him one of Musk's top backers (after Qatar).

He owns part of Twitter.

He & Musk planned Musk's takeover at Twitter. They are collaborators, not competitors.

https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110286207887749108

>Edit to add Dave Troy's piece https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

chargrille, 3 months ago to random

Yesterday the ICJ directed Israel not to commit genocide & collective punishment.

So, the new US scheme to collectively punish #Gazans is: withdraw all #UNWRA funds & starve Palestinian toddlers to death, while you launch a sham investigation on if <0.00001%* of humanitarian donations are used by baddies, while REFUSING to obey US laws requiring you to investigate whether the hundreds of millions of dollars in weaponry you are giving #Netanyahu are being used to commit his war crimes/genocide.

chargrille, 9 months ago to random

I notice that there are some key co-conspirators missing from these indictments: e.g., Hawley, Ted Cruz, Taylor Green, Gohmert, etc. This was a massive conspiracy orchestrated by the GOP, including Senators & Reps, some of whom are also officers of the court (lawyers). It was NOT just a White House project. Failing to grapple with the reality of the GOP as a massive criminal organization will allow fascism to keep growing. This must be done.

Here’s the indictments. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23909543-23sc188947-criminal-indictment

chargrille, 1 year ago to random

Why would anyone go help JACK DORSEY build a new social network?

chargrille, 6 months ago to random

Stern statement from Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Jordan yesterday, after his trip to Rafah. Anyone who respects human rights & wants to know what's happening in Israel-Palestine should read this in its entirety.

HCHR calls for Member States to press urgently for an immediate #CeaseFire

"the complete siege now lasting over one month has made it an agony for residents in Gaza...to survive. All forms of #CollectivePunishment must come to an end."

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2023/11/statement-un-high-commissioner-human-rights-volker-turk-israel-and

chargrille, 4 months ago to random

This wave is already 25% above last winter's (which was the 2nd highest of the ongoing pandemic), & infection rate is still rising.

lagging indicators are also spiking acc to CDC:

#COVID hospitalizations: "up more than 20% week over week"

COVID-related deaths & ER visits: both up "roughly 13%"

#JN1 "skyrocketed" in Dec

“This is what happens [when] a new, hyper-mutated strain…picks up a critical added mutation, giving it huge growth advantage”- Dr. @erictopol
https://fortune.com/well/2024/01/05/us-reachest-second-highest-covid-peak-pirola-jn1-omicron-pi-rho/?s=09

chargrille, 6 months ago to IsraelPalestine

When you hear #Netanyahu & his RW extremist governing coalition members in #IsraelPalestine, talk about "the Palestinian question" - please do remind yourself that "the Jewish question" was the term used by the Nazis when they spoke about the Jewish people within Germany & under their control in the German-occupied territories, during the 1930s - World War II.

chargrille, 6 months ago to random

Israel has used Palestinian children as human shields for years.

IDF soldiers "used Palestinian children to enter potentially dangerous buildings before them & to stand in front of military vehicles to deter stone-throwing." “Almost all those" soldiers weren't punished.

2013 UN report decried Israel's “continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields[, noting 14] cases... between January 2010 & March 2013 alone." Israeli Foreign Ministry called this "old stuff."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinian-israel-children/palestinian-children-tortured-used-as-shields-by-israel-u-n-idUSBRE95J0FR20130620

chargrille, 3 months ago to random

"Rowledge, a hunter & businessman, has been talking about & tracking the spread of the brain-eating disease for nearly 30 years & advocating for government action with limited success."

“The border won’t stop this disease...

This is a highly fatal & contagious disease that humans created. Absent a miracle, it’s an extinction event for deer...devastating threats for trade & our economy, & the possible implications for human health are all but unthinkable.”

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/06/Zombie-Deer-Disease-Bad-As-Sounds/

chargrille, 9 months ago to pnw

Dana Parish states in the comments that this major hospital is in the Pacific Northwest.

#PNW #PacNW #PNWcovid

chargrille, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Israel

#Israel has now dropped the equivalent of 150% as many tons of explosives on #Gaza as the US dropped in atomic bombs on #Hiroshima. I am sure you have seen the photos of what that did to Hiroshima.

25,000 tons of explosives on Gaza means 70 TONS of explosives dropped for EACH & EVERY square km of Gaza. Or 180 tons/sq mi.

It would be like dropping 8500 TONS of explosives across every inch of #SanFrancisco.

Go to ceasefiretoday.com

Please demand a #CeaseFireToday #CeaseFire

chargrille, 6 months ago to random

OCHA Flash Update #40

"On 15 Nov[], Israeli troops, including tanks, entered Shifa hospital compound in Gaza city & reportedly took control of several sections, searched them & interrogated people. Due [lack of comms] the impact of the military operation remains unclear.

Out of 24 hospitals...in the north, only one, Al Ahli in Gaza city, is presently operational & admitting patients. 18 hospitals have shut down & evacuated...including 3 – An Nasr, Ar Rantisi & Al Quds – over the past 3 days."

chargrille, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

The Dead Doctors of #Gaza.

'After 7 straight days..the Palestinian plastic surgeon & burn specialist...went home, to see his family. When Dr. Medhat Sedim returned..he was wrapped in a white shroud — the victim of an airstrike that also killed 35 members of his family. Now there are only 3 specialized surgeons to treat victims with burn & blast injuries."

"As Israeli airstrikes rain down...the death toll of Gaza’s health-care workers, as of Oct. 19, had climbed to 55."

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/the-dead-doctors-of-gaza-at-a-time-when-they-re-most-needed-many-perish/article_341fc98f-11e4-54a6-8630-af104556753c.html

chargrille, 5 months ago to random

Politely (or impolitely) calling my senators and representatives & supposedly anti-fascist president to tell them, repeatedly, to stop backing a corrupt autocrat while he murders hundreds of children every week & conducts a genocide out in the open, & stop giving him tens of billions of $ in weapons to keep at it, makes me fucking miserable and depressed, how about you.

https://progressives.social/@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green/111554226704377285

chargrille, 3 months ago to random

#Genocide is carried out by #OrdinaryMen, under the undisturbed gazes of ordinary people.

NB "the lurking fear of self-recognition"

chargrille, 10 months ago to bluesky

If Jack Dorsey & Elon Musk (who are friends) just wanted to run a MAGA site full of fascists, they could have just bought Parler & saved themselves approx 43.999 billion dollars.

What they wanted was to cripple the sad remnants of investigative journalism, and the political left, which successfully used Twitter for political organizing, activism & messaging throughout the Trump regime.

Why would anyone who cares about either of these things go to Jack's #Bluesky project.

chargrille, 1 year ago to internet

It is extremely odd that tech journalists do not seem to have any idea of who exactly owns #bluesky

Even odder that they don’t care to find out and inform their readers.

chargrille, 2 months ago to random