Barackface: 28: Israel

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

28: Israel

The Flashing Signals That I Just Saw in Israel .... the grinding Gaza war continues to grind ...... more Israelis, from the left to the center and to even parts of the right, are concluding that continuing this war is a disaster for Israel: morally, diplomatically or strategically. ......... “The government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning and with no chances of success,” Olmert argued. “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians.” His conclusion: “Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.” ......... “This war is a deception. They lied to us about its achievements.” Israel has “been fighting a war for 20 months with failed plans” and it “is not succeeding in destroying Hamas.” .......... “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country. A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the aim of expelling populations.” ............ he was not blaming the military, but rather the politicians who were extending the war for reasons that no longer have anything to do with Israel’s national security needs. ......... Virtually no independent foreign journalists have been allowed to report firsthand from Gaza — unescorted by the Israeli army. When this war is over and Gaza is saturated with international reporters and photographers free to roam, the level of death and destruction is going to be fully reported and pictured — and that is going to be a very bad time for Israel and world Jewry. ............... stop now, forge a cease-fire, get the hostages back, get an international and Arab force into Gaza and deal with the remnants of Hamas later. ........... he can bomb Hamas into giving up its remaining 20 or so living Israeli hostages — and because the religious-nationalist members of his coalition have essentially told him if he stops the war, they will topple him. So, the Israeli military is going after more and more secondary targets, and the result is Gazan civilians being killed every day. ......... “Many bombing runs are actually assassination attempts against Hamas leaders, often when they’re with their families. And these officials no longer live in private houses or apartment buildings — they’re usually in the crowded tent camps with thousands of civilians. Even when the army declares multiple steps of caution, these attacks result in massive killing.” ..........
the war has worn down the whole society
............. “an increasing number of suicides (which the army doesn’t report) to families that are breaking up and businesses that are collapsing. ......... If many Israelis feel trapped by their own leaders, many Gazans clearly feel the same. Polling in Gaza is obviously difficult, but the antiwar movement there seems to be stirring as well — although
there you can get killed by Hamas for protesting.
........... 48 percent supported the anti-Hamas demonstrations that erupted in several places in recent weeks. .......... They attacked Israeli border communities on Oct. 7, 2023, and, when Israel predictably retaliated, they essentially offered up Gaza’s civilians as a collective human sacrifice to win global sympathy for their cause — while Hamas’s leaders hid in tunnels and abroad. ........... Hamas is still operating, but now Gaza is unlivable. And yet, Hamas’s leadership is still stubbornly saying it will not turn over all its remaining live hostages unless Israel agrees to leave Gaza and return to an open-ended cease-fire. ........... — losing tens of thousands of fighters and civilians and having few buildings in Gaza left intact — ........... in order to get back to exactly what Hamas had on Oct. 6, 2023: a cease-fire and Israel out of Gaza. ............. a rout of the Iran-led “resistance network.” .............. As a result of Netanyahu’s military operations, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah — not to mention Saudi Arabia — are all now much freer to join the Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel to a degree they never were when Iran’s regional mercenary network was so powerful. ............. a two-state solution with a reformed Palestinian Authority. ......... No wonder Donald Trump doesn’t want to waste time with Netanyahu — he can’t make any money from him and Netanyahu won’t allow Trump to make any history with him. ........... — the more they would ask me: “Do you think Trump can save us?” That question is the ultimate sign that your democracy is in trouble. .............. Trump goes to countries that give him things — cash, 747s, $Trump meme coin and Official Melania Meme sales, arms purchases, hotel deals, golf courses, A.I. data centers — and not countries that ask him for things, like Israel. ............... Even many American Jews don’t understand how big and powerful the ultra-Orthodox and religious-settler-nationalist community in Israel has grown and how much it sees Gaza as a religious war. ............... “You tell them Israel could have peace with Saudi Arabia and they will shrug and tell you that they are waiting for the Messiah. You tell them they could have peace with Syria, and they will tell you the Jewish people already own Syria — it’s part of Greater Israel. You tell them about international law, they will tell you biblical law. You will tell them Hamas, they will tell you Amalek” (a biblical enemy of the Israelites). ............ “It’s between the Jewish tribe and the democratic tribe. And the Jewish tribe is now winning. If Zionism was originally the triumph of secular nationalism over religious Judaism, what is happening to today is the resurgence of religious-nationalist Judaism over democracy.” ......... It is eerie to watch how Trump and Netanyahu are using a similar playbook to undermine their respective democracies. My only question is whose authoritarian impulses will trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis first. ................... Each leader stands accused of trying to undermine his country’s courts and the “deep state’’ — i.e., all the institutions that uphold the rule of law. In Trump’s case, it’s effectively to enrich himself personally and shift wealth in the country from the least privileged to the most privileged. In Netanyahu’s case, it’s effectively to escape the many corruption charges against him and shift power and money away from the democratic, moderate Israeli center to the settlers and the ultra-Orthodox. That group will keep Netanyahu’s coalition in office as long as he excuses the ultra-Orthodox from fighting in Gaza and allows the settlers to continue their march to annex the West Bank today and Gaza tomorrow. .............. Those committed to democracy and decency in both countries have one job between now and then: organize, organize, organize to win power.

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There is no one in charge.

There is no one responsible.

There is no one to blame or hold accountable.

When I say that AI will replace all jobs in the next few years and that everyone will receive an equal share of economic output through government benefit payments, I get…
— David Scott Patterson (@davidpattersonx) May 28, 2025

We get a new economic paradigm.
AI And Robotics Break Capitalism https://t.co/T9UW1sbM0r
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Why not turn data labeling into a global, AI-enhanced system?

In 2016, at age 19, Wang co-founded Scale AI.

Their secret weapon:
• A distributed workforce to label data
• AI to boost accuracy and speed

The result? Silicon Valley went nuts: pic.twitter.com/N9ZscOjbYb
— Dhakshana Moorthy (@the_dhakshu_) May 28, 2025

The BlackRock supercomputer vacuumed up the houses.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

I found the best workout ever
every day I do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10km run
I've never been more in shape
— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) May 27, 2025

Training data is running out.

The internet's been scraped clean, public datasets exhausted, and most remaining content is SEO-optimized fluff designed for algorithms rather than humans.

This is where Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, outplayed everyone: pic.twitter.com/VMnV2LkAyt
— Tim Carden (@timjcarden) May 28, 2025

Elon. You need to match the prices. So I can buy my first Tesla. Or bring down the tariff, so I can buy a BYD.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Elon's DOGE was like FSD (Full Self Driving), always just round the corner, but never arriving. @elonmusk But a 2T cut is feasible, and Dems might be better positioned to deliver. A 2T Cut https://t.co/0dstvf42WG
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Let Tim Cook worry about Apple https://t.co/Fd6aa8dgTK , let Trump and Elon worry about Tesla. https://t.co/Tl7Cgs4imM
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Literal Insanity

We can barely keep up with or utilize all the new LLMs and updates that have been released in the last few weeks....

Yet everyone wants Grok 3.5 and Kling 2.1 overnight!
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy) May 27, 2025

Meet Alexandr Wang.

By 19, his resume looked like this:
• Started coding at 15
• Built ML tools at Quora
• Solved complex AI issues PhDs struggled with

But Wang didn’t just want a good job—he saw a billion-dollar blind spot no one else noticed: pic.twitter.com/mbxPz3yJfo
— Dhakshana Moorthy (@the_dhakshu_) May 28, 2025

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

The AI gold rush was just beginning.

• Alexa was becoming a household name
• Autonomous vehicles were gaining traction
• The groundwork for ChatGPT was being laid

But beneath the hype, a critical problem was holding everything back… pic.twitter.com/zWeZ1IluEH
— Dhakshana Moorthy (@the_dhakshu_) May 28, 2025

Hammer Time pic.twitter.com/6a4YGzKEmO
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) May 28, 2025

Why Thinking Big Is the Safest Bet in the Age of AI and Exponential Technologies https://t.co/wiT3XYL0J1
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

One of the biggest self-owns by any country in recent times. pic.twitter.com/UXM87PhEkh
— Hemant Mohapatra (@MohapatraHemant) May 28, 2025

Google just made every AI company panic.

The $2T titan just joined a $60M partnership no one saw coming.

And now they have the one thing ChatGPT, Claude, & Meta desperately need.

Here's how Google is outplaying the entire AI industry: pic.twitter.com/7ae2aawMZs
— Tim Carden (@timjcarden) May 28, 2025

For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.

Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 28, 2025

Republicans love pretending they're worried about the deficit.

But if that were true, they wouldn't be giving billionaires trillions in tax cuts.

This is about power, not prudence.
— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) May 28, 2025

Dario Amodei spoke to Axios. He said AI could potentially wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs, and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years. pic.twitter.com/W57XRFsUPi
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) May 28, 2025

Yes!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Invest!
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

I was flabbergasted Elon was completely bypassing the political process. POTUS is also busy issuing illegal executive orders. 101? But I am for a 2T cut.
A 2T Cut https://t.co/0dstvf42WG
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Congrats.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 28, 2025

Rick Rubin says vibe coding is the punk rock of coding:

“If you had something to say, you could say it. You didn't need the expertise.. just your idea and your ability to convey it.”

But most people still use AI to imitate. He's waiting for the moment it actually goes punk. pic.twitter.com/9Z2u5dxopE
— vitrupo (@vitrupo) May 28, 2025

Make no mistake. This is an extinction level event for American scientific dominance. pic.twitter.com/kiEA41NJBZ
— Kareem Carr, Statistics Person (@kareem_carr) May 27, 2025

Today, we adopt a new Strategy for the Black Sea – a region of great importance to the EU.

We’re stepping up work on security with:
🔹A new Maritime Security Hub
🔹Improved military mobility
🔹Stronger cooperation against hybrid threats

My press conference ↓ pic.twitter.com/IrJ5ifeaAL
— Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) May 28, 2025

The new 10x engineer is an excellent vibe coder combined with a decent programmer and designer
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy) May 27, 2025

The most inspired series of acquisitions in history: Android, YouTube, Google Maps, DeepMind.
— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) May 27, 2025

Tesla has been generating a lot of negative headlines recently.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

A 2T Cut https://t.co/0dstvf42WG
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

India is going to surpass Germany in no time.

And be the third largest economy on earth very soon.

Bullish on India. pic.twitter.com/cm0QcuofDq
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 26, 2025

Two years. https://t.co/5F3shL2Zh6
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

Somebody just called you Yahoo. Not a compliment.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

4. 10-Minute+ Daily Workout

You don't need a gym membership if you have a pull-up bar + your body.

Remove the excuse of "I don't have time to workout."

Do these in a continuous cycle:

- Push-ups
- Pull-ups
- Squats

End with a 1-2-min dead hang.

Simple.

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— Shawn Chauhan (@shawnchauhan1) May 27, 2025

6. Affirm 3 People Daily

New rule: Affirm people you appreciate:

- Praise their efforts
- Tell them you love them
- Let them know why they're important to you

Relationships are the #1 most crucial aspect of longevity.

A cold plunge can't save you from loneliness.
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— Shawn Chauhan (@shawnchauhan1) May 27, 2025

9. Water Only

If it's not a protein shake or an in-moderation libation, your drinks should have 0 calories.

Your body is 60% water! Stick to H20.

Drink still or sparkling water from cans or glass bottles. Avoid plastic bottles if you don't love microplastics.

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— Shawn Chauhan (@shawnchauhan1) May 27, 2025

Do you angel invest? You should.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

That is like saying, "Read my bio! .... I only do old economy."
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 27, 2025

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

28: Israel

the war has worn down the whole society

there you can get killed by Hamas for protesting.

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