2024-04-04

Next time someone around you is singing the praises of AI ...

... show them this ... https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-ai-targets

... and remind them that any technology is only as useful or effective as how it was built, and how it's used.

RIP Amr Abdallah

A victim of settler-colonialism's crimes - > https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/03/chris-hedges-the-death-of-amr/

This is the 1%.

This is the system they use - the final collapsing era of late-stage capitalism.

Empire. Hegemony. The rich and powerful. Whatever terms you would like to use to describe those who are responsible for slowing destroying the planet and everyone and everything on it.

Like a cancer, it just continues to feed and consume its host, until it itself dies with it.

 

2024-04-02

Hooray Israel for linking genocide to ecoside!

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/01/ecocide-a-critical-dimension-of-israels-genocidal-campaign-in-gaza-probe/

Released Friday ahead of Palestine’s Land Day, the analysis by the London-based research group Forensic Architecture (FA) shows that Israel’s ground forces—including tanks and other military vehicles—have advanced over half of Gaza’s farms and orchards, critical food sources that the besieged enclave’s population has worked tirelessly to cultivate in the face of decades of occupation.

“Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed, and have themselves faced sniper fire by the Israeli occupation forces,” FA said. “Along that engineered ‘border,’ sophisticated systems of fences and surveillance reinforce a military buffer zone.”

Comparing satellite imagery from prior to Israel’s invasion and the present, FA found that roughly 40% of Gaza land that was previously used for food production has been destroyed by Israeli forces. Nearly a third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been demolished, according to the investigation.

 

2024-04-01

Not everything in life is an April Fools.

https://thehockeywriters.com/hockey-history-april-1-bossy-gretzky-howe-hall-hossa-stevens/

On April 1, 1919, the sixth and final game of the Stanley Cup Final was canceled because of an influenza epidemic. The series was a rematch of the 1917 Stanley Cup Final between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey League.

The Metropolitans won Games 1 and 3 before Game 4 was considered a tie after no goals were scored through two overtime periods. The Canadiens won Game 5 in overtime to even up the series at 2-2-1. Game 6 was canceled less than six hours before it was scheduled to begin as multiple players on both teams became ill. Canadiens player Joe Hall died of pneumonia brought on by the flu, four days later.

Originally the Canadiens wanted to forfeit the Cup to Seattle because they couldn’t dress a full lineup, but the manager-coach of the Metropolitans, Pete Muldoon, refused to accept it because the illness caused the shortage of players. No winner was ever declared, marking this as the only time the Stanley Cup was not awarded after the playoffs had begun.

 

From the 'I can't believe people are doing this shit' list.

https://www.nongmoproject.org/blog/new-gmo-alert-biotech-joins-the-battle-against-mosquitoes/ New GMO Alert: Biotech Joins the Battle Agains...