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lemmy.blahaj.zone
I like using the terminal because of 3 main reasons: I like using my keyboard I like doing multiple things in one window Verbosity I’m pretty quick with typing, but sometimes I can’t see !y mouse at first, so it’s just faster for me to type out what I want to do as long as I know the right arguments for it. My average workflow at work as me doing frequent saml logins and going between multiple kinds of databases. It’s just easier for me to run the saml cli command and then run the SQL CLI command I need instead of messing with datagrip settings and stuff. Also I recreationally run some servers and it’s just easier to ssh into the server, make the changes I need in something like nano or the redis CLI tools and then log back out. This means I’m just plain more comfortable on the terminal in certain situations like config editing, writing posts for my gemini capsule, etc. Sometimes when I run a GUI program I’ll get big loud silence and don’t know what to do. In that case I genuinely enjoy using the terminal and running an equivalent command with verbosity settings so I can see what it’s doing or not and can track down any errors. On top of those reasons, I’ve been playing with RISC-V architecture lately and, while the xorg riscv64 port is admirable, I just get better performance rn by running my RISC stuff through tty. I recognize that not everybody is going to have the same use case and workflows as me, but I’m pretty comfortable with what I’ve got 😅
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lemmy.world
First, if you’re a spaceflight fan, there’s lots to see! There are a couple (still free?) bus tours. When you get there, go ahead and schedule. You don’t want to decide to do one halfway through the day only to find out all the slots taken. There’s usually one that goes to the modern pads (those still in use) and another that goes to the historic section where many of the Mercury and Gemini flights took place. Decide which is more your interest as I don’t think you’ll have enough time to do both bus tours (plus all of the other stuff there at KSC) in one day. Tips: when you go to the Atlantis building there are two directions to go when you enter. The one you want is the long and winding ramp up (which is the left hand path from memory). The other takes you into the main room of exhibits. I won’t tell you why (unless you really want me to), but take the ramp path first. It eventually goes to that same big room with the exhibits, but you really should see it in this order long ramp first, then room of exhibits. When you reach the main room of exhibits on the ground floor don’t miss the solemn display of the remains of Shuttle Challenger and Shuttle Columbia. there is another building far into KSC called “Apollo building” or “Apollo center” can’t remember exactly. This is also accessible by a free bus short bus ride, but I believe at least one of the longer bus tours ends there anyway. Ask the staff to be sure so you don’t end up their twice. Its an awesome building, but your time is limited and there is so much to see! When you’re in the Apollo building make sure to go to a section toward the from of the Apollo V rocket where there is a set of exhibits. Behind an unassuming wall are some pieces of Apollo 1. Lunch with an astronaut! Depending on the day you go, KSC may have an optional paid feature of “Lunch with an Astronaut” I’ve done this 3 times across 3 visits and have enjoyed them all. You’ll be in a hall with a hundred or so other folks dining. The food is pretty good too. If you choose to forgo the Lunch with Astronaut paid experience, you can usually get a short presentation from them on Stage when they KSC does a Spaceflight News update (I can’t remember their name for it). Its a small theater where they give updates on current crewed spaceflight missions and they’ll usually have the Astronaut there before of after that presentation. There is an IMAX theater, and the films are usually pretty good, but they are usually accessible from other science centers and most of the other contents of KSC is not, so unless you really need to sit down in air conditioning for an hour, I’d skip this for more KSC content instead. In the left hand side of the IMAX building there is a bunch of stuff for commercial spaceflight, including flown a Cargo Dragon, a Starliner mock up, as well as a Dreamchaser mock up. Rocket garden - They free do spoken tour guides spoken tours several times a day. I really enjoyed these. Things that are skippable if you’re short on time: the IMAX movie the “shuttle experience” ride Heroes and Legends Astronaut hall of fame exhibit (its not bad, but there are much better things to spend your valuable time on) Mission to Mars (from memory its more geared toward younger visitors, but they may have updated it since last I saw) Have a great time! If you have any follow questions, I’d be happy to share my experiences. If you’re going on a launch day, thats a whole other ball of wax.
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lazysoci.al
Summary from Gemini Summary from Gemini The video is about the new features of Android 15, also known as Android 15 Vanilla Ice-cream. Here is a summary of the video: Design and Customization: The Android logo is now a triangular shape with a small spaceship in the middle. You can save app pairs in split-screen mode. The volume panel has a new design with thicker pill-shaped sliders and lets you access extra features like audio picker and live caption. Pixel launcher got improvements in the widgets panel. You can now get more recommendations and the ability to add widgets with a single tap. Functionality: Private space: This feature allows you to download new apps and save files that are separate from your main storage. You can access it with a passcode or Biometrics. Archive apps: You can now archive apps to free up space while still keeping parts of the app so that you can reinstall it faster in the future. Satellite messaging: This feature is available for T-Mobile users for now. It allows you to text anyone including emergency services even in remote areas. Bluetooth will automatically turn on again the very next day if you turn it off. This is because of the new Find My Device Network that uses Bluetooth to help locate lost devices. You can now use your Android device as a webcam with high-quality mode. You can set a default wallet app other than Google Wallet. Improved lock screen options on Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet. You can now check the health of your storage chip on Pixel devices. More control over what happens when you fold or unfold the Pixel Fold device. Predictive back gestures: When you swipe to go back, you will see a sneak peek of the previous page. Other Features: Improved desktop mode with features like split-screen and freeform windows. New keyboard features including preview, sticky keys, slow keys, and bounce keys. New screen saver that lets you control all of your Smart Home Products. Color contrast option to adjust the contrast of the text, buttons, and icons. Audio sharing: This feature lets others listen to the same music that you’re listening to on their headphones. Adaptive timeout: This feature automatically turns off your screen a bit earlier than what you set it to if it finds out that you’re not using your device. App quarantine: This feature lets you quarantine apps so that they won’t be able to show notifications or run in the background. Option to disable limiting the default frame rate for games.
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lemmy.blahaj.zone
I don’t often use Gemini, but I was curious about this because I got a very different response. "According to the findings of the House Select Committee, numerous federal court rulings, and the Department of Justice, the events of January 6, 2021, were the culmination of a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The consensus from these official investigations characterizes the day not just as a riot, but as a deliberate attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Here is a breakdown of the evidence and conclusions: Official Findings and Goals The Primary Objective: The House Select Committee concluded that the central goal of the attack was to prevent a joint session of Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes, thereby keeping Donald Trump in power despite his electoral loss. Premeditation: Evidence showed that extremist groups, such as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, planned for violence weeks in advance. Several leaders of these groups were later convicted of seditious conspiracy—a charge specifically involving a plot to oppose the authority of the U.S. government by force. The “Big Lie”: Investigations found that the attack was fueled by sustained, false claims of widespread voter fraud. The committee argued these claims were used to pressure Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to unilaterally reject legitimate vote counts. Legal and Historical Classifications While the terms used to describe the day often vary by political perspective, several specific legal and academic labels have been applied based on the evidence: Insurrection: The House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” and multiple federal judges have referred to the events as such in sentencing rioters. Attempted Coup: Many historians and political scientists classify it as an “attempted self-coup” (or autogolpe), where a leader already in power attempts to stay in office through illegal means. Domestic Terrorism: The FBI has classified the breach of the Capitol as an act of domestic terrorism due to the use of violence to achieve political or social objectives. Alternative Viewpoints While the official investigative consensus is clear, a segment of the public and some political figures characterize the day differently. Some argue it was a “peaceful protest that got out of hand” or a “spontaneous riot” rather than an organized attempt to overthrow the government. However, these claims are generally contradicted by the sworn testimony of participants, internal communications recovered by the FBI, and the specific targeting of the certification process itself. Would you like me to look into the specific legal charges brought against the organizers, or perhaps the security failures that occurred that day?" I wonder if the differences in response are due to previous conversations we’ve had? Maybe Gemini is tailoring its responses to what it expects either of us want to hear?
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lemmy.world
I’m sorry this is too funny not to share 😂 this is an actual quote from the Gemini DJ “November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha.”
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lemmy.ml
The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle. Lol “yo AI, you write this?”
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lemmygrad.ml
Completely agree. AI should be just another tool to easy the life of the workers. I’m not so sure I even like the idea of AI like ChatGPT or Deepseek or the countless others, mostly because I avoided it till now and don’t really know much about it, so I need to further investigate to actually form an opinion, tho I would be lying if I said I’m not intrigued by it. The only times I used one of these AIs have been recently to translate a few sentences with Gemini since Google already forced it on my phone. And honestly, with search engines going down the sewer, maybe Deepseek with it’s search function could be useful. One thing I can’t really understand tho is generative AI. I don’t want to sound like a Luddite, but I really can’t see the use of it. Like, it’s one thing to have a very specialized AI tool for parts of the creative process, but generating whole images and voices? Just, why? It’s depressing. You’re removing the human part of these creative works and stealing in the process just to automate it for profit or for the sake of it. I already saw some AI generated ads here in Brasil from some big companies, including Coca-cola, and it just makes me mad knowing they did it just to cut costs by not paying actors, artists, designers, etc. It’s fucked up. And not only that, but artists literally have the ability to draw, paint, sculpt, voice act, etc, whatever they want in their own style and process. Why would they want to generate their whole work for them removing themselves from the process? It just sounds completely dystopic to me.
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awful.systems
ChatGPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it’s not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk’s AI-generated encyclopedia are starting to appear in answers from Google’s AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, too. […] When it launched, a bulk of Grokipedia’s articles were direct clones of Wikipedia, though many others reflected racist and transphobic views. For example, articles about Musk conveniently downplays his family wealth and unsavory elements of their past (like neo-Nazi and pro-Apartheid views) and the entry for “gay pornography” falsely linked the material to the worsening of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The article on US slavery still contains a lengthy section on “ideological justifications,” including the “Shift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good.” […] “Grokipedia feels like a cosplay of credibility,” said Leigh McKenzie, director of online visibility at Semrush. “It might work inside its own bubble, but the idea that Google or OpenAI would treat something like Grokipedia as a serious, default reference layer at scale is bleak.” https://www.theverge.com/report/870910/ai-chatbots-citing-grokipedia The entire AI industry is using the Nazi CSAM machine for training data.
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lemmy.ml
I’m glad to hear you’re getting help! Hope you pull through this. I think myself and others are really wishing the best for you, please don’t be offended. As for your physics theory & code though, I must repeat what others are saying. Stop using LLMs (be it copilot or gemini), they are clouding your thoughts and blurring any original ideas you may have into an incoherent sloppy mess. Scrap your repo, clear your mind, start over. Don’t have many expectations, most (I’d guess 99%) of amateur physics theories out there turn out to be wrong. Open a markdown document in a simple editor and write down your ideas, by yourself, with no stupid computer program telling you what to think. Then take a pen and paper and try to distill your ideas into mathematical formulae, with no stupid computer program (which doesn’t have any real mathematical knowledge or rigor) making up bogus equations. Then, using that same pen and paper, try to work through a few examples of applying those formulae to specific physical situations. Start simple, don’t try to reproduce the entire universe at all scales at once, maybe start with a finite universe containing a couple of electrons and see how their interactions play out. Don’t let a stupid computer program (which can’t even perform basic arithmetic by itself) make grave mistakes. If it seems like the model works for a couple very simple examples, try to put it into code. Don’t use Rust or GPUs or even scipy for your first prototype, just write it in pure python. And for the love of all that is good, don’t use LLMs for this either. Just take your formulae from your piece of paper and translate it into python by hand, with no stupid computer program (which can’t even count the number of R’s in a word strawberry) stealing code from others and writing boilerplate instead of describing your original ideas. Don’t worry about performance for a prototype, if the results it produces are at least interesting, you can worry about optimizations later.
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ibbit.at
Olivia Nuzzi attends Pivot MIA at 1 Hotel South Beach on Feb. 16, 2022, in Miami. Photo: Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Vox Media Olivia Nuzzi’s world is populated by beasts, and by monsters. “American Canto” opens with cockroaches, and a call from The Politician. “The Politician” is the tiring epithet Nuzzi uses throughout her memoir to reference Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man with whom the whole world now knows she had some degree of affair. It ends with a red-tailed hawk and a drone, a juxtaposition that underscores the degree to which the journalist’s life is now mediated by public interest in what was once private. In the 300-page course of “Canto,” birds of all feathers appear: the ravens Kennedy takes an interest in befriending (or subjugating), turkeys, swallows, cardinals, owls. President Donald Trump, the “character” Nuzzi has spent one-third of her time on Earth serving as “witness” to as a vocation, is “sophisticated” but still an “animal.” (He is also, I’m sorry to say, described in the phrase “a Gemini nation under a Gemini ruler.”) What feels undebatable, in what’s likely been a mad-dash Washington parlor game of decoding all the unnamed characters, is that Kennedy is one of the book’s monsters. He is also, variously, a bull and a lion. We learn Kennedy in his human form is often shirtless. He was the “hunter” (“Like all men but more so,” we read, mouths agape), and she was the prey. We know this because of an extended metaphor that begins with considering a baby bird pushed from a nest — Nuzzi recounts, briefly, her difficult relationship with an alcoholic and mentally ill mother — then “swallowed up by some kind of monster” where “in her first and final act, she had made the monster stronger.” Nuzzi means to tell us that she was the woman consumed, first by love, and then by a nation of gawkers who still can’t look away. “I’m annoyed that I had to learn about any of this crap,” comedian Adam Friedland tells Nuzzi in an interview for his eponymous show released to his subscribers on Tuesday night. Friedland, who often serves as a conduit for his audience’s own reactions, does seem actually annoyed, as I often felt while reading this book. “I’m sorry,” Nuzzi replies, looking genuinely apologetic and mildly uncomfortable. The revelations Nuzzi has been to hell and back to earn are gossamer-thin and so lightly worn, they float in on the Santa Ana winds and just as abruptly vanish. There’s real insight to be gleaned about how the former New York magazine journalist allowed herself to be used by a political project working to turn back the clock on scientific progress by decades and result in more dead children, but that’s not why Nuzzi is apologizing, or even writing this book. The greatest failing of “American Canto” is its inability to look too far outside itself. The revelations we’re meant to believe that Nuzzi has been to hell and back to earn are gossamer-thin and so lightly worn, they float in on the Santa Ana winds and just as abruptly vanish, uninterrogated. She often punctuates sentences, offset by commas, with the phrases “I think” or “I suppose,” lest we get the idea that she’s holding onto anything too tightly. Crucially, all this thinking about our messed-up country is only of interest because it has forcefully and publicly intersected with the author’s personal life. In this way, it is perhaps the purest version of a Washington memoir yet, one that pretends to be about America and about politics and our twisted state of play but is really an exercise in the writer gesturing at these things with no appreciation for the real stakes of every policy decision made by this administration for real people. It’s all just a “kaleidoscopic” — Nuzzi’s repeated word choice — backdrop for the media to use in a clever lede before getting back to who’s up and who’s down and who’s interesting. To emphasize this weightlessness, the author goes to great pains to remind us that, for all its flaws, such as electing an authoritarian with fascist ambitions not once but twice, she loves this country. (In the author’s note that opens the book, Nuzzi proclaims the book is “about love … and about love of country.”) There is plentiful red, white, and blue. Mentions of the flag are so numerous that I had to switch pens while underlining them. There are bullets and guns, including the loaded one that Nuzzi comes to keep on her nightstand. There is much discussion of God (Nuzzi, like Kennedy, was raised Catholic). Just a couple pages in, there is JonBenét Ramsey — another beautiful blonde, Nuzzi seems to be saying, who became, against her will, an avatar for a greater spiritual rot at the core of American culture. Like at least a few great writers before her, Nuzzi fled the East Coast for Los Angeles (specifically Malibu, where she is surrounded by both literal and metaphorical fires) after news of the affair broke. Once there, she compares herself to the Black Dahlia, drained of blood for an eager nation to see as she’s bafflingly, symbolically hoisted above the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. There is mercifully little Ryan Lizza, the journalist Nuzzi refers to as “the man I did not marry,” who has proven she dodged a bullet by recounting his side of the story on his Substack (where, cleverly if cravenly, the first installment was free to draw readers in and subsequent numbered chapters have been paywalled). In the Friedland interview, Nuzzi denies Lizza’s allegations that she covered up information about the Trump assassination attempt and that she caught and killed stories damaging to Kennedy. When the host presses her about why she won’t sue her ex for defamation, Nuzzi points out that he rarely appears in the book, saying, “Like, I forgot him,” which is actually a pretty good burn. Lizza, who was fired from The New Yorker for “improper sexual conduct” (which he denies), has been let off in this saga far too easily; for all his yammering now, he did precious little to intervene when it actually might have mattered — say, during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing. “The discourse, right and left, is filled with people remarking.” When Nuzzi dares to engage with substantive politics, it’s in careful, distant terms. By my count, there was one mention of Gaza, in a headline — “Mayhem in Gaza” — which she recounts only to give us a sense of time and of place. (It’s worth noting that in the selected headline, “mayhem” reduces the genocide in Gaza to something like a natural disaster.) She witnesses a pickup truck (Real America!) covered in Make America Great Again stickers; she sees protesters holding signs that read “STOP ARMING ISRAEL.” Nuzzi flattens it all. “The discourse, right and left, is filled with people remarking,” she writes, affecting a detached tone that sounds like a discount Joan Didion. In another section, Nuzzi pictures herself being (metaphorically) hit in a drone strike, which feels, to put it mildly, a bit lacking in self-awareness in the year 2025. It’s all sound and fury, and to the chronicler of it all, it signifies absolutely nothing. Tellingly, one of Nuzzi’s monsters doesn’t come off all that badly. She quotes her own phone and in-person conversations with Trump at great length (one unbroken monologue lasts an entire page). After all, the now-two-time president was her beat, and with their fates intertwined, she has reaped the professional rewards. She calls him “tyrannical” with “authoritarian fantasies,” and concedes that she was “sometimes fooled” by the “skilled practitioners” of MAGA. But Trump comes off in “American Canto” as slightly, if not dramatically, more interior than we’ve come to expect. I was darkly surprised by the billionaire musing that “illegal immigrants saved my life,” because without them, he wouldn’t have been able to ride their suffering all the way to the White House. Trump, like Nuzzi, was for a time kicked out of his position of power, and in those four years of Joe Biden was put through a criminal trial in New York. (There has been no indication that he spent his time in exile reading Dante or the King James Bible, as Nuzzi apparently did.) Outside the courthouse, early in the book, Nuzzi watches a man self-immolate and spends the rest of the day with the taste of his burning flesh in her mouth. She doesn’t name him until nearly 200 pages in, instead opting for terms like “the boy who missed his mother and could no longer bear to be here.” Nuzzi bemoans that the TV cameras, once they learn the self-immolation is unrelated to the president or his policies, turn away from the scene. The observation turns her into yet another bystander in her own story, rather than a powerful journalist who made coverage decisions and chose the words she used to describe our world every day. She could have helped shape a different history by reporting with moral conviction about the events happening before her eyes, but instead, she looked around for someone, anyone, and was left wanting. The post Olivia Nuzzi Is Completely Oblivious appeared first on The Intercept. From The Intercept via this RSS feed
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news.abolish.capital
Olivia Nuzzi attends Pivot MIA at 1 Hotel South Beach on Feb. 16, 2022, in Miami. Photo: Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Vox Media Olivia Nuzzi’s world is populated by beasts, and by monsters. “American Canto” opens with cockroaches, and a call from The Politician. “The Politician” is the tiring epithet Nuzzi uses throughout her memoir to reference Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man with whom the whole world now knows she had some degree of affair. It ends with a red-tailed hawk and a drone, a juxtaposition that underscores the degree to which the journalist’s life is now mediated by public interest in what was once private. In the 300-page course of “Canto,” birds of all feathers appear: the ravens Kennedy takes an interest in befriending (or subjugating), turkeys, swallows, cardinals, owls. President Donald Trump, the “character” Nuzzi has spent one-third of her time on Earth serving as “witness” to as a vocation, is “sophisticated” but still an “animal.” (He is also, I’m sorry to say, described in the phrase “a Gemini nation under a Gemini ruler.”) What feels undebatable, in what’s likely been a mad-dash Washington parlor game of decoding all the unnamed characters, is that Kennedy is one of the book’s monsters. He is also, variously, a bull and a lion. We learn Kennedy in his human form is often shirtless. He was the “hunter” (“Like all men but more so,” we read, mouths agape), and she was the prey. We know this because of an extended metaphor that begins with considering a baby bird pushed from a nest — Nuzzi recounts, briefly, her difficult relationship with an alcoholic and mentally ill mother — then “swallowed up by some kind of monster” where “in her first and final act, she had made the monster stronger.” Nuzzi means to tell us that she was the woman consumed, first by love, and then by a nation of gawkers who still can’t look away. “I’m annoyed that I had to learn about any of this crap,” comedian Adam Friedland tells Nuzzi in an interview for his eponymous show released to his subscribers on Tuesday night. Friedland, who often serves as a conduit for his audience’s own reactions, does seem actually annoyed, as I often felt while reading this book. “I’m sorry,” Nuzzi replies, looking genuinely apologetic and mildly uncomfortable. The revelations Nuzzi has been to hell and back to earn are gossamer-thin and so lightly worn, they float in on the Santa Ana winds and just as abruptly vanish. There’s real insight to be gleaned about how the former New York magazine journalist allowed herself to be used by a political project working to turn back the clock on scientific progress by decades and result in more dead children, but that’s not why Nuzzi is apologizing, or even writing this book. The greatest failing of “American Canto” is its inability to look too far outside itself. The revelations we’re meant to believe that Nuzzi has been to hell and back to earn are gossamer-thin and so lightly worn, they float in on the Santa Ana winds and just as abruptly vanish, uninterrogated. She often punctuates sentences, offset by commas, with the phrases “I think” or “I suppose,” lest we get the idea that she’s holding onto anything too tightly. Crucially, all this thinking about our messed-up country is only of interest because it has forcefully and publicly intersected with the author’s personal life. In this way, it is perhaps the purest version of a Washington memoir yet, one that pretends to be about America and about politics and our twisted state of play but is really an exercise in the writer gesturing at these things with no appreciation for the real stakes of every policy decision made by this administration for real people. It’s all just a “kaleidoscopic” — Nuzzi’s repeated word choice — backdrop for the media to use in a clever lede before getting back to who’s up and who’s down and who’s interesting. To emphasize this weightlessness, the author goes to great pains to remind us that, for all its flaws, such as electing an authoritarian with fascist ambitions not once but twice, she loves this country. (In the author’s note that opens the book, Nuzzi proclaims the book is “about love … and about love of country.”) There is plentiful red, white, and blue. Mentions of the flag are so numerous that I had to switch pens while underlining them. There are bullets and guns, including the loaded one that Nuzzi comes to keep on her nightstand. There is much discussion of God (Nuzzi, like Kennedy, was raised Catholic). Just a couple pages in, there is JonBenét Ramsey — another beautiful blonde, Nuzzi seems to be saying, who became, against her will, an avatar for a greater spiritual rot at the core of American culture. Like at least a few great writers before her, Nuzzi fled the East Coast for Los Angeles (specifically Malibu, where she is surrounded by both literal and metaphorical fires) after news of the affair broke. Once there, she compares herself to the Black Dahlia, drained of blood for an eager nation to see as she’s bafflingly, symbolically hoisted above the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. There is mercifully little Ryan Lizza, the journalist Nuzzi refers to as “the man I did not marry,” who has proven she dodged a bullet by recounting his side of the story on his Substack (where, cleverly if cravenly, the first installment was free to draw readers in and subsequent numbered chapters have been paywalled). In the Friedland interview, Nuzzi denies Lizza’s allegations that she covered up information about the Trump assassination attempt and that she caught and killed stories damaging to Kennedy. When the host presses her about why she won’t sue her ex for defamation, Nuzzi points out that he rarely appears in the book, saying, “Like, I forgot him,” which is actually a pretty good burn. Lizza, who was fired from The New Yorker for “improper sexual conduct” (which he denies), has been let off in this saga far too easily; for all his yammering now, he did precious little to intervene when it actually might have mattered — say, during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing. “The discourse, right and left, is filled with people remarking.” When Nuzzi dares to engage with substantive politics, it’s in careful, distant terms. By my count, there was one mention of Gaza, in a headline — “Mayhem in Gaza” — which she recounts only to give us a sense of time and of place. (It’s worth noting that in the selected headline, “mayhem” reduces the genocide in Gaza to something like a natural disaster.) She witnesses a pickup truck (Real America!) covered in Make America Great Again stickers; she sees protesters holding signs that read “STOP ARMING ISRAEL.” Nuzzi flattens it all. “The discourse, right and left, is filled with people remarking,” she writes, affecting a detached tone that sounds like a discount Joan Didion. In another section, Nuzzi pictures herself being (metaphorically) hit in a drone strike, which feels, to put it mildly, a bit lacking in self-awareness in the year 2025. It’s all sound and fury, and to the chronicler of it all, it signifies absolutely nothing. Tellingly, one of Nuzzi’s monsters doesn’t come off all that badly. She quotes her own phone and in-person conversations with Trump at great length (one unbroken monologue lasts an entire page). After all, the now-two-time president was her beat, and with their fates intertwined, she has reaped the professional rewards. She calls him “tyrannical” with “authoritarian fantasies,” and concedes that she was “sometimes fooled” by the “skilled practitioners” of MAGA. But Trump comes off in “American Canto” as slightly, if not dramatically, more interior than we’ve come to expect. I was darkly surprised by the billionaire musing that “illegal immigrants saved my life,” because without them, he wouldn’t have been able to ride their suffering all the way to the White House. Trump, like Nuzzi, was for a time kicked out of his position of power, and in those four years of Joe Biden was put through a criminal trial in New York. (There has been no indication that he spent his time in exile reading Dante or the King James Bible, as Nuzzi apparently did.) Outside the courthouse, early in the book, Nuzzi watches a man self-immolate and spends the rest of the day with the taste of his burning flesh in her mouth. She doesn’t name him until nearly 200 pages in, instead opting for terms like “the boy who missed his mother and could no longer bear to be here.” Nuzzi bemoans that the TV cameras, once they learn the self-immolation is unrelated to the president or his policies, turn away from the scene. The observation turns her into yet another bystander in her own story, rather than a powerful journalist who made coverage decisions and chose the words she used to describe our world every day. She could have helped shape a different history by reporting with moral conviction about the events happening before her eyes, but instead, she looked around for someone, anyone, and was left wanting. The post Olivia Nuzzi Is Completely Oblivious appeared first on The Intercept. From The Intercept via This RSS Feed.
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lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40361231 ::: spoiler sources for screenshots used in this meme: first screenshot second and third screenshots :::
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lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40361231 ::: spoiler sources for screenshots used in this meme: first screenshot second and third screenshots :::
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lemmy.ml
::: spoiler sources for screenshots used in this meme: first screenshot second and third screenshots :::
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Winter storms are expected to hit Gaza today. Child malnutrition in Gaza remains at crisis levels. Only a third of Gaza’s children are enrolled in school. Israel remains the foremost state perpetrator of journalist killings in 2025 for the third consecutive year. More than 100 Palestinians are detained Wednesday in a sweeping raid on the West Bank. Bolivia restores full diplomatic ties with Israel. President Donald Trump says Russia is “obviously” winning in a wide-ranging interview with Politico. The U.S. military installs Google’s AI technology. A Senate report finds that immigration officials have detained and brutalized at least 22 American citizens. The U.S. sanctions a “transactional network” funding the RSF in Sudan, but fails to mention the UAE. UNICEF estimates 10 million have been displaced in Sudan. Nigerian soldiers are detained in Burkina Faso. The M23 pushes toward the city of Uvira in eastern Congo. Dozens are killed after intra-gang fighting in Haiti, six are killed in an attack on a security installation in northwest Pakistan, and the death toll rises in border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. A new Drop Site report uncovers that Jeffrey Epstein, contrary to previous claims, was de facto chief financial officer of Leslie Wexner’s pro-Israel philanthropic foundation. This is Drop Site Daily, our new, free daily news recap. We send it Monday through Friday. Subscribe now Displaced Palestinians try to drain water that has flooded their tents due to heavy rain and prevent damage to their belongings in Austrian Quarter of Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 16, 2025. A major winter storm is forecasted to hit Gaza Wednesday, placing 850,000 people at imminent flood risk (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images). The Genocide in Gaza Casualty counts in the last 24 hours: Over the past 24 hours, the bodies of three Palestinians, including one recovered from the rubble, arrived at hospitals, while five Palestinians have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 70,369 killed, with 171,069 injured. Total casualty counts since ceasefire: Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 379 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 992, while 627 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health. Child malnutrition remains at crisis levels, UNICEF says: Despite a ceasefire announced two months ago, child malnutrition in Gaza remains at crisis levels. UNICEF reported that 9,300 children were hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition in October, alongside 8,300 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women. UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram warns that the effects will last for years, and a surge in low-birth-weight babies is expected in the coming months. Winter storms to hit Gaza as early as today: Three days of winter storms are expected to hit Gaza today with flash floods, high winds, and hail, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department. The mayor of Gaza City told Al Jazeera that several roads have already been cut off and tent shelters flooded, with some completely submerged. Wind speeds of 31 miles per hour accompanied by a drop in temperature and intense rain is expected. According to the UN, more than 760 displacement sites, housing 850,000 people, face imminent flood risk. The group Save the Children has called on Israel to allow tents, winter clothes, and blankets to enter Gaza to help protect families from the storm. Meanwhile, Israeli Channel 14 host Shimon Riklin sparked outrage after celebrating the storm on air: The weather forecaster said the storm would “drown Gaza,” and Riklin replied that he was “happy” to hear it. Only a third of Gaza’s children are enrolled in school: UN agencies say 390 temporary classrooms are serving nearly 221,000 students in Gaza this year—about 567 children per learning space. Only a little over one-third of Gaza’s school-aged population is enrolled for the 2025–2026 school year, highlighting the severe loss of educational access in the enclave after two years of U.S.–Israeli destruction. West Bank and Israel Over 100 Palestinians detained in the West Bank: More than 100 Palestinians were detained on Wednesday in a wave of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office. The hardest-hit areas included Nablus, where some 30 Palestinians were detained and questioned before some were released. Many of those detained had been formerly incarcerated. A young Palestinian man dies in Israeli custody: Twenty-one-year-old Abdul Rahman al-Sabateen was arrested by Israeli soldiers in late June, and he has been confirmed to have died in Israeli custody last night, according to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The young man from the town of Husan, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, the PA said in a statement, adding that the prisoner had shown no signs of physical or health problems when his family saw him during a court session on November 25. Israel kills more journalists than any state in the world, for the third consecutive year: Reporters Without Borders says Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country for the third consecutive year, with Israeli forces responsible for the deaths of 29 Palestinian reporters—accounting for more than 40 percent of 67 journalists killed worldwide. The report also highlighted Ukraine, Sudan, and Mexico as states that have posed considerable dangers to journalists. A new B’Tselem report refutes the IDF’s account of June killings: A new investigation by B’Tselem and Index Investigations refutes the Israeli army’s claim that two brothers killed in Nablus in June were “terrorists,” finding instead that soldiers shot them “without justification and without them posing a threat.” The full investigation is available here. Bolivia has formally restored full diplomatic ties with Israel: The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar posted photos on social media on Tuesday of a signing ceremony alongside his Bolivian counterpart. Bolivia had severed formal ties with Israel in October 2023, soon after Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza. Bolivia is one of the principal countries involved with the Hague Group, an alliance of nations formed in early 2025 to coordinate legal and diplomatic actions against alleged grave violations of international law by Israel in Palestine. U.S. News Trump says Russia is “obviously” winning in Ukraine and offers other foreign and domestic policy comments: President Donald Trump offered no reassurance to European leaders worried he may abandon Ukraine at a pivotal moment in peace negotiations, instead saying Russia is “obviously” in a stronger position, while criticizing Europe’s role in the war, promoting his own unreviewed draft peace plan, and urging Ukraine to hold new elections. In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Trump attacked European migration policies and vowed to keep endorsing leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in their elections. He, meanwhile, threatened broader military action in Latin America, and insisted the U.S. economy is “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.” U.S. military to begin using Google’s AI tech: The U.S. War Department announced today that it is deploying Google Cloud’s “Gemini for Government” as the first AI system on its new “GenAI(dot)mil” platform, making the tool available across Pentagon desktops and military installations worldwide as part of the government’s “AI-first” push. The rollout follows President Donald Trump’s July directive to secure U.S. AI dominance, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring the military “all in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force.” More on this from Drop Site contributor Jessica Burbank here. U.S. proposes scrutinizing foreign tourists’ social media profiles: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed requiring visitors from 42 visa-waiver countries—including Britain, France, Germany, and South Korea—to submit up to five years of social media history along with extensive personal data as part of their travel authorization, the New York Times reported. Travel industry groups and civil liberties advocates warn that the plan marks a major expansion of surveillance, while slowing approvals and chilling free speech, as CBP says it will take public comments for 60 days before moving forward. Trump says the Times should “cease” publication: President Donald Trump accused The New York Times of publishing “fake” stories to undermine him, calling the paper an “enemy of the people,” and suggesting it should cease publication. He claimed the Times repeatedly misreported his election results and “was forced to apologize” on much of what they wrote—reprising a fabricated apology he occasionally invoked during his 2024 campaign. New York AG refuses to release records about Betar: New York’s attorney general has refused to release records on Betar USA—an ultra-far-right Zionist group notorious for targeting pro-Palestine students—citing an active law enforcement investigation that the state says could be compromised by disclosure. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada reports that Betar USA appears to operate with almost no regulatory oversight, may be functioning as an unregistered agent of the Israeli government, and has been linked to hate-crime plots, student arrests, extremist rhetoric, and possible violations of New York charity law. Read more reporting on Betar and EI’s stymied efforts to investigate it here, and Drop Site’s article on Betar here. Senate report says immigration agents detained and brutalized at least 22 U.S. citizens: A Senate investigation found that federal immigration agents unlawfully detained and abused at least 22 U.S. citizens between June and November 2025, contradicting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s claim that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained.” The 200-page report details what investigators call a pattern of constitutional violations by ICE and CBP—including excessive force, denial of medical care, fabricated charges, and the targeting of children—and warns that these cases likely represent only a fraction of the citizens harmed. Read more coverage of this report from Migrant Insider here. Jasmine Crockett’s campaign backed by Republicans: Rep. Jasmine Crockett was encouraged to run for Senate by an astroturfed campaign from the Republican Party, according to a new report by NOTUS. Watch Ryan Grim’s commentary on Crockett as a new kind of corporate Democrat” here. International News U.S. sanctions a “transactional network” funding the war in Sudan, but does not sanction the UAE: The U.S. State Department announced sanctions against eight individuals and entities involved in what it calls a “transnational network—composed primarily of Colombian nationals and companies—that recruits former Colombian military personnel to fight for the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and trains fighters, including children.” Among the individuals sanctioned is a retired Colombian military officer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However, the sanctions do not name or target the UAE, despite being the RSF’s principal backer. 10 million have been displaced in Sudan, UNICEF estimates: UNICEF says 10 million people have been displaced in Sudan—half of them children—making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world. Many in Darfur and Kordofan are facing near-total cutoffs of food, water, and medical care, while newly exhausted and dehydrated children arrive at refugee camps daily. Visiting Sudan, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell warned that women and girls, many of whom have experienced widespread sexual violence, are bearing the brunt of this devastation, and she urged the international community to act to protect those displaced. Nigerian soldiers detained by Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso is holding 11 Nigerian military personnel after a Nigerian C-130 made an unapproved emergency landing in the town of Bobo Dioulasso, according to a report from The Guardian. Leader of The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Assimi Goïta, denounced the incident as an “unfriendly act” and warned that future violations of the bloc’s airspace would be “neutralized.” The dispute comes less than a day after Nigeria joined an intervention to help the government of Benin foil a coup attempt, and as part of a broader breakdown between the Economic Community of West African States and the breakaway AES union. M23 push towards Uvira in eastern Congo: M23 rebels pushed into the outskirts of Uvira in eastern Congo on Tuesday, as part of a new offensive contributing to more than 200,000 people being displaced in recent days, the Associated Press reported. The advance comes despite last week’s U.S.-mediated agreement between Congo and Rwanda, which is widely understood to be sponsoring the M23 rebels. Fighting has intensified across South Kivu, with officials warning of possible massacres, Congolese soldiers reportedly fleeing, and shells landing in neighboring Burundi. Lithuania declares a state of emergency: Lithuania declared an “emergency situation” on Tuesday after meteorological balloons launched from Belarus repeatedly forced airport closures. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė’s announcement comes amid growing tension between Lithuania and Belarus over the balloons, which have previously been used to smuggle cigarettes but are now suspected to be operated by Belarusian security services, and Lithuanian officials have called the balloons a Russia-backed “hybrid attack.” The move allows the Lithuanian military to join border patrols as the country’s prosecutors and intelligence services investigate, underscoring wider European fears that Russia and its allies are escalating hybrid warfare tactics along NATO’s eastern frontier. Dozens killed after intra-gang fighting in Haiti: Dozens of people, including at least 10 children, have been killed after fierce clashes within Haiti’s Viv Ansanm gang coalition, as a top Bel-Air figure was beheaded and powerful leader Kempès Sanon was wounded, according to reporting from the Associated Press. Human rights monitors say at least 49 people have been killed, burned, or mutilated since Monday, while hunger has surged and instability has deepened in the country ahead of next year’s planned elections. Six killed and three injured in an attack in Pakistan’s Kurram district: Militants stormed a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s Kurram district near the Afghan border, killing six soldiers and three police, Reuters reported. This is the latest escalation as Islamabad and Kabul struggle to preserve a fragile truce after deadly border clashes in October. Pakistan blames the surge in attacks on militants operating from Afghan soil—a charge Kabul denies. Death toll rises in Thailand-Cambodia clashes: Thailand and Cambodia are trading blame for reigniting hostilities along their disputed border, with Cambodia reporting nine civilians killed and 20 injured since Monday, and Thailand said four soldiers have been killed and 68 wounded, according to Al Jazeera. The clashes triggered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, and both governments vow to press on with military operations, despite an earlier ceasefire mediated by the U.S. and its present attempts to quell the conflict. Shells hit Damascus airport: Syria’s Mezzah military airport in Damascus was struck by three shells of unknown origin on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Syrian state media reported no casualties or damage and later announced the discovery of four missile launchers without claiming who was responsible. More From Drop Site Epstein used his billionaire associate’s foundation to support pro-Israel groups: Newly leaked emails show Jeffrey Epstein sat atop a financial apparatus designed to advance Israeli interests in the U.S., wielding power of attorney over Les Wexner’s fortune and effectively running the Wexner Foundation, which has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Israel-linked causes for decades. This correspondence contradicts the Wexner Foundation’s claims that Epstein had “no meaningful role,” instead revealing him to be de facto chief financial officer who directed major tax decisions, credit lines, fund transfers, and oversaw politically sensitive grants. Read the latest from Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim here. Livestream Highlights “Increasing military spending has not been stopped”: Ryan Grim spoke with Just Foreign Policy’s Erik Sperling about the roughly $900 billion, thousand-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Ryan Grim notes is treated in Congress as “must-pass” legislation—allowing lawmakers to slip in policies that would struggle to pass on their own as the bill is hurried to a year-end vote with little public scrutiny. Sperling says the NDAA could help Washington preserve its military footholds in Korea and Europe. “We are asking to be treated like any human around the world”: Gaza journalist Asem Alnabih joined the livestream to discuss the catastrophic conditions in Gaza City, which he says is being made deliberately unlivable by Israel’s bombardment and aid restrictions. Gaza City’s infrastructure has collapsed after the genocidal campaign of the past two years, while families have been pushed into tents “built to last a few weeks, not two years,” and are now facing down a third winter under such conditions, Alnabih reported. He added that strikes continue, despite the announcement of a ceasefire, and he stressed that the hundreds of thousands of people who remain in Gaza City “will not allow Israel to take our city.” The full livestream can be accessed here. Amani al-Khatahtbeh, a prominent U.S. activist and political commentator, cited our reporting on Meta’s suppression of pro-Palestinian content in her debate with Israeli social media influencer Hen Mazzig on Al Arabiya English. A clip from that debate discussing our reporting can be watched here. Programming note: You can sign up here to get updates from us on our WhatsApp channel. If you want to continue getting this newsletter, you don’t have to do anything. 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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/12783 Winter storms are expected to hit Gaza today. Child malnutrition in Gaza remains at crisis levels. Only a third of Gaza’s children are enrolled in school. Israel remains the foremost state perpetrator of journalist killings in 2025 for the third consecutive year. More than 100 Palestinians are detained Wednesday in a sweeping raid on the West Bank. Bolivia restores full diplomatic ties with Israel. President Donald Trump says Russia is “obviously” winning in a wide-ranging interview with Politico. The U.S. military installs Google’s AI technology. A Senate report finds that immigration officials have detained and brutalized at least 22 American citizens. The U.S. sanctions a “transactional network” funding the RSF in Sudan, but fails to mention the UAE. UNICEF estimates 10 million have been displaced in Sudan. Nigerian soldiers are detained in Burkina Faso. The M23 pushes toward the city of Uvira in eastern Congo. Dozens are killed after intra-gang fighting in Haiti, six are killed in an attack on a security installation in northwest Pakistan, and the death toll rises in border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. A new Drop Site report uncovers that Jeffrey Epstein, contrary to previous claims, was de facto chief financial officer of Leslie Wexner’s pro-Israel philanthropic foundation. This is Drop Site Daily, our new, free daily news recap. We send it Monday through Friday. Subscribe now Displaced Palestinians try to drain water that has flooded their tents due to heavy rain and prevent damage to their belongings in Austrian Quarter of Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 16, 2025. A major winter storm is forecasted to hit Gaza Wednesday, placing 850,000 people at imminent flood risk (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images). The Genocide in Gaza Casualty counts in the last 24 hours: Over the past 24 hours, the bodies of three Palestinians, including one recovered from the rubble, arrived at hospitals, while five Palestinians have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 70,369 killed, with 171,069 injured. Total casualty counts since ceasefire: Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 379 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 992, while 627 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health. Child malnutrition remains at crisis levels, UNICEF says: Despite a ceasefire announced two months ago, child malnutrition in Gaza remains at crisis levels. UNICEF reported that 9,300 children were hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition in October, alongside 8,300 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women. UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram warns that the effects will last for years, and a surge in low-birth-weight babies is expected in the coming months. Winter storms to hit Gaza as early as today: Three days of winter storms are expected to hit Gaza today with flash floods, high winds, and hail, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department. The mayor of Gaza City told Al Jazeera that several roads have already been cut off and tent shelters flooded, with some completely submerged. Wind speeds of 31 miles per hour accompanied by a drop in temperature and intense rain is expected. According to the UN, more than 760 displacement sites, housing 850,000 people, face imminent flood risk. The group Save the Children has called on Israel to allow tents, winter clothes, and blankets to enter Gaza to help protect families from the storm. Meanwhile, Israeli Channel 14 host Shimon Riklin sparked outrage after celebrating the storm on air: The weather forecaster said the storm would “drown Gaza,” and Riklin replied that he was “happy” to hear it. Only a third of Gaza’s children are enrolled in school: UN agencies say 390 temporary classrooms are serving nearly 221,000 students in Gaza this year—about 567 children per learning space. Only a little over one-third of Gaza’s school-aged population is enrolled for the 2025–2026 school year, highlighting the severe loss of educational access in the enclave after two years of U.S.–Israeli destruction. West Bank and Israel Over 100 Palestinians detained in the West Bank: More than 100 Palestinians were detained on Wednesday in a wave of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office. The hardest-hit areas included Nablus, where some 30 Palestinians were detained and questioned before some were released. Many of those detained had been formerly incarcerated. A young Palestinian man dies in Israeli custody: Twenty-one-year-old Abdul Rahman al-Sabateen was arrested by Israeli soldiers in late June, and he has been confirmed to have died in Israeli custody last night, according to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The young man from the town of Husan, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, the PA said in a statement, adding that the prisoner had shown no signs of physical or health problems when his family saw him during a court session on November 25. Israel kills more journalists than any state in the world, for the third consecutive year: Reporters Without Borders says Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country for the third consecutive year, with Israeli forces responsible for the deaths of 29 Palestinian reporters—accounting for more than 40 percent of 67 journalists killed worldwide. The report also highlighted Ukraine, Sudan, and Mexico as states that have posed considerable dangers to journalists. A new B’Tselem report refutes the IDF’s account of June killings: A new investigation by B’Tselem and Index Investigations refutes the Israeli army’s claim that two brothers killed in Nablus in June were “terrorists,” finding instead that soldiers shot them “without justification and without them posing a threat.” The full investigation is available here. Bolivia has formally restored full diplomatic ties with Israel: The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar posted photos on social media on Tuesday of a signing ceremony alongside his Bolivian counterpart. Bolivia had severed formal ties with Israel in October 2023, soon after Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza. Bolivia is one of the principal countries involved with the Hague Group, an alliance of nations formed in early 2025 to coordinate legal and diplomatic actions against alleged grave violations of international law by Israel in Palestine. U.S. News Trump says Russia is “obviously” winning in Ukraine and offers other foreign and domestic policy comments: President Donald Trump offered no reassurance to European leaders worried he may abandon Ukraine at a pivotal moment in peace negotiations, instead saying Russia is “obviously” in a stronger position, while criticizing Europe’s role in the war, promoting his own unreviewed draft peace plan, and urging Ukraine to hold new elections. In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Trump attacked European migration policies and vowed to keep endorsing leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in their elections. He, meanwhile, threatened broader military action in Latin America, and insisted the U.S. economy is “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.” U.S. military to begin using Google’s AI tech: The U.S. War Department announced today that it is deploying Google Cloud’s “Gemini for Government” as the first AI system on its new “GenAI(dot)mil” platform, making the tool available across Pentagon desktops and military installations worldwide as part of the government’s “AI-first” push. The rollout follows President Donald Trump’s July directive to secure U.S. AI dominance, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring the military “all in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force.” More on this from Drop Site contributor Jessica Burbank here. U.S. proposes scrutinizing foreign tourists’ social media profiles: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed requiring visitors from 42 visa-waiver countries—including Britain, France, Germany, and South Korea—to submit up to five years of social media history along with extensive personal data as part of their travel authorization, the New York Times reported. Travel industry groups and civil liberties advocates warn that the plan marks a major expansion of surveillance, while slowing approvals and chilling free speech, as CBP says it will take public comments for 60 days before moving forward. Trump says the Times should “cease” publication: President Donald Trump accused The New York Times of publishing “fake” stories to undermine him, calling the paper an “enemy of the people,” and suggesting it should cease publication. He claimed the Times repeatedly misreported his election results and “was forced to apologize” on much of what they wrote—reprising a fabricated apology he occasionally invoked during his 2024 campaign. New York AG refuses to release records about Betar: New York’s attorney general has refused to release records on Betar USA—an ultra-far-right Zionist group notorious for targeting pro-Palestine students—citing an active law enforcement investigation that the state says could be compromised by disclosure. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada reports that Betar USA appears to operate with almost no regulatory oversight, may be functioning as an unregistered agent of the Israeli government, and has been linked to hate-crime plots, student arrests, extremist rhetoric, and possible violations of New York charity law. Read more reporting on Betar and EI’s stymied efforts to investigate it here, and Drop Site’s article on Betar here. Senate report says immigration agents detained and brutalized at least 22 U.S. citizens: A Senate investigation found that federal immigration agents unlawfully detained and abused at least 22 U.S. citizens between June and November 2025, contradicting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s claim that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained.” The 200-page report details what investigators call a pattern of constitutional violations by ICE and CBP—including excessive force, denial of medical care, fabricated charges, and the targeting of children—and warns that these cases likely represent only a fraction of the citizens harmed. Read more coverage of this report from Migrant Insider here. Jasmine Crockett’s campaign backed by Republicans: Rep. Jasmine Crockett was encouraged to run for Senate by an astroturfed campaign from the Republican Party, according to a new report by NOTUS. Watch Ryan Grim’s commentary on Crockett as a new kind of corporate Democrat” here. International News U.S. sanctions a “transactional network” funding the war in Sudan, but does not sanction the UAE: The U.S. State Department announced sanctions against eight individuals and entities involved in what it calls a “transnational network—composed primarily of Colombian nationals and companies—that recruits former Colombian military personnel to fight for the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and trains fighters, including children.” Among the individuals sanctioned is a retired Colombian military officer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However, the sanctions do not name or target the UAE, despite being the RSF’s principal backer. 10 million have been displaced in Sudan, UNICEF estimates: UNICEF says 10 million people have been displaced in Sudan—half of them children—making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world. Many in Darfur and Kordofan are facing near-total cutoffs of food, water, and medical care, while newly exhausted and dehydrated children arrive at refugee camps daily. Visiting Sudan, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell warned that women and girls, many of whom have experienced widespread sexual violence, are bearing the brunt of this devastation, and she urged the international community to act to protect those displaced. Nigerian soldiers detained by Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso is holding 11 Nigerian military personnel after a Nigerian C-130 made an unapproved emergency landing in the town of Bobo Dioulasso, according to a report from The Guardian. Leader of The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Assimi Goïta, denounced the incident as an “unfriendly act” and warned that future violations of the bloc’s airspace would be “neutralized.” The dispute comes less than a day after Nigeria joined an intervention to help the government of Benin foil a coup attempt, and as part of a broader breakdown between the Economic Community of West African States and the breakaway AES union. M23 push towards Uvira in eastern Congo: M23 rebels pushed into the outskirts of Uvira in eastern Congo on Tuesday, as part of a new offensive contributing to more than 200,000 people being displaced in recent days, the Associated Press reported. The advance comes despite last week’s U.S.-mediated agreement between Congo and Rwanda, which is widely understood to be sponsoring the M23 rebels. Fighting has intensified across South Kivu, with officials warning of possible massacres, Congolese soldiers reportedly fleeing, and shells landing in neighboring Burundi. Lithuania declares a state of emergency: Lithuania declared an “emergency situation” on Tuesday after meteorological balloons launched from Belarus repeatedly forced airport closures. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė’s announcement comes amid growing tension between Lithuania and Belarus over the balloons, which have previously been used to smuggle cigarettes but are now suspected to be operated by Belarusian security services, and Lithuanian officials have called the balloons a Russia-backed “hybrid attack.” The move allows the Lithuanian military to join border patrols as the country’s prosecutors and intelligence services investigate, underscoring wider European fears that Russia and its allies are escalating hybrid warfare tactics along NATO’s eastern frontier. Dozens killed after intra-gang fighting in Haiti: Dozens of people, including at least 10 children, have been killed after fierce clashes within Haiti’s Viv Ansanm gang coalition, as a top Bel-Air figure was beheaded and powerful leader Kempès Sanon was wounded, according to reporting from the Associated Press. Human rights monitors say at least 49 people have been killed, burned, or mutilated since Monday, while hunger has surged and instability has deepened in the country ahead of next year’s planned elections. Six killed and three injured in an attack in Pakistan’s Kurram district: Militants stormed a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s Kurram district near the Afghan border, killing six soldiers and three police, Reuters reported. This is the latest escalation as Islamabad and Kabul struggle to preserve a fragile truce after deadly border clashes in October. Pakistan blames the surge in attacks on militants operating from Afghan soil—a charge Kabul denies. Death toll rises in Thailand-Cambodia clashes: Thailand and Cambodia are trading blame for reigniting hostilities along their disputed border, with Cambodia reporting nine civilians killed and 20 injured since Monday, and Thailand said four soldiers have been killed and 68 wounded, according to Al Jazeera. The clashes triggered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, and both governments vow to press on with military operations, despite an earlier ceasefire mediated by the U.S. and its present attempts to quell the conflict. Shells hit Damascus airport: Syria’s Mezzah military airport in Damascus was struck by three shells of unknown origin on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Syrian state media reported no casualties or damage and later announced the discovery of four missile launchers without claiming who was responsible. More From Drop Site Epstein used his billionaire associate’s foundation to support pro-Israel groups: Newly leaked emails show Jeffrey Epstein sat atop a financial apparatus designed to advance Israeli interests in the U.S., wielding power of attorney over Les Wexner’s fortune and effectively running the Wexner Foundation, which has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Israel-linked causes for decades. This correspondence contradicts the Wexner Foundation’s claims that Epstein had “no meaningful role,” instead revealing him to be de facto chief financial officer who directed major tax decisions, credit lines, fund transfers, and oversaw politically sensitive grants. Read the latest from Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim here. Livestream Highlights “Increasing military spending has not been stopped”: Ryan Grim spoke with Just Foreign Policy’s Erik Sperling about the roughly $900 billion, thousand-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Ryan Grim notes is treated in Congress as “must-pass” legislation—allowing lawmakers to slip in policies that would struggle to pass on their own as the bill is hurried to a year-end vote with little public scrutiny. Sperling says the NDAA could help Washington preserve its military footholds in Korea and Europe. “We are asking to be treated like any human around the world”: Gaza journalist Asem Alnabih joined the livestream to discuss the catastrophic conditions in Gaza City, which he says is being made deliberately unlivable by Israel’s bombardment and aid restrictions. Gaza City’s infrastructure has collapsed after the genocidal campaign of the past two years, while families have been pushed into tents “built to last a few weeks, not two years,” and are now facing down a third winter under such conditions, Alnabih reported. He added that strikes continue, despite the announcement of a ceasefire, and he stressed that the hundreds of thousands of people who remain in Gaza City “will not allow Israel to take our city.” The full livestream can be accessed here. Amani al-Khatahtbeh, a prominent U.S. activist and political commentator, cited our reporting on Meta’s suppression of pro-Palestinian content in her debate with Israeli social media influencer Hen Mazzig on Al Arabiya English. A clip from that debate discussing our reporting can be watched here. Programming note: You can sign up here to get updates from us on our WhatsApp channel. If you want to continue getting this newsletter, you don’t have to do anything. 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Winter storms are expected to hit Gaza today. Child malnutrition in Gaza remains at crisis levels. Only a third of Gaza’s children are enrolled in school. Israel remains the foremost state perpetrator of journalist killings in 2025 for the third consecutive year. More than 100 Palestinians are detained Wednesday in a sweeping raid on the West Bank. Bolivia restores full diplomatic ties with Israel. President Donald Trump says Russia is “obviously” winning in a wide-ranging interview with Politico. The U.S. military installs Google’s AI technology. A Senate report finds that immigration officials have detained and brutalized at least 22 American citizens. The U.S. sanctions a “transactional network” funding the RSF in Sudan, but fails to mention the UAE. UNICEF estimates 10 million have been displaced in Sudan. Nigerian soldiers are detained in Burkina Faso. The M23 pushes toward the city of Uvira in eastern Congo. Dozens are killed after intra-gang fighting in Haiti, six are killed in an attack on a security installation in northwest Pakistan, and the death toll rises in border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. A new Drop Site report uncovers that Jeffrey Epstein, contrary to previous claims, was de facto chief financial officer of Leslie Wexner’s pro-Israel philanthropic foundation. This is Drop Site Daily, our new, free daily news recap. We send it Monday through Friday. Subscribe now Displaced Palestinians try to drain water that has flooded their tents due to heavy rain and prevent damage to their belongings in Austrian Quarter of Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 16, 2025. A major winter storm is forecasted to hit Gaza Wednesday, placing 850,000 people at imminent flood risk (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images). The Genocide in Gaza Casualty counts in the last 24 hours: Over the past 24 hours, the bodies of three Palestinians, including one recovered from the rubble, arrived at hospitals, while five Palestinians have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 70,369 killed, with 171,069 injured. Total casualty counts since ceasefire: Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 379 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 992, while 627 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health. Child malnutrition remains at crisis levels, UNICEF says: Despite a ceasefire announced two months ago, child malnutrition in Gaza remains at crisis levels. UNICEF reported that 9,300 children were hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition in October, alongside 8,300 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women. UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram warns that the effects will last for years, and a surge in low-birth-weight babies is expected in the coming months. Winter storms to hit Gaza as early as today: Three days of winter storms are expected to hit Gaza today with flash floods, high winds, and hail, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department. The mayor of Gaza City told Al Jazeera that several roads have already been cut off and tent shelters flooded, with some completely submerged. Wind speeds of 31 miles per hour accompanied by a drop in temperature and intense rain is expected. According to the UN, more than 760 displacement sites, housing 850,000 people, face imminent flood risk. The group Save the Children has called on Israel to allow tents, winter clothes, and blankets to enter Gaza to help protect families from the storm. Meanwhile, Israeli Channel 14 host Shimon Riklin sparked outrage after celebrating the storm on air: The weather forecaster said the storm would “drown Gaza,” and Riklin replied that he was “happy” to hear it. Only a third of Gaza’s children are enrolled in school: UN agencies say 390 temporary classrooms are serving nearly 221,000 students in Gaza this year—about 567 children per learning space. Only a little over one-third of Gaza’s school-aged population is enrolled for the 2025–2026 school year, highlighting the severe loss of educational access in the enclave after two years of U.S.–Israeli destruction. West Bank and Israel Over 100 Palestinians detained in the West Bank: More than 100 Palestinians were detained on Wednesday in a wave of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office. The hardest-hit areas included Nablus, where some 30 Palestinians were detained and questioned before some were released. Many of those detained had been formerly incarcerated. A young Palestinian man dies in Israeli custody: Twenty-one-year-old Abdul Rahman al-Sabateen was arrested by Israeli soldiers in late June, and he has been confirmed to have died in Israeli custody last night, according to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The young man from the town of Husan, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, the PA said in a statement, adding that the prisoner had shown no signs of physical or health problems when his family saw him during a court session on November 25. Israel kills more journalists than any state in the world, for the third consecutive year: Reporters Without Borders says Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country for the third consecutive year, with Israeli forces responsible for the deaths of 29 Palestinian reporters—accounting for more than 40 percent of 67 journalists killed worldwide. The report also highlighted Ukraine, Sudan, and Mexico as states that have posed considerable dangers to journalists. A new B’Tselem report refutes the IDF’s account of June killings: A new investigation by B’Tselem and Index Investigations refutes the Israeli army’s claim that two brothers killed in Nablus in June were “terrorists,” finding instead that soldiers shot them “without justification and without them posing a threat.” The full investigation is available here. Bolivia has formally restored full diplomatic ties with Israel: The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar posted photos on social media on Tuesday of a signing ceremony alongside his Bolivian counterpart. Bolivia had severed formal ties with Israel in October 2023, soon after Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza. Bolivia is one of the principal countries involved with the Hague Group, an alliance of nations formed in early 2025 to coordinate legal and diplomatic actions against alleged grave violations of international law by Israel in Palestine. U.S. News Trump says Russia is “obviously” winning in Ukraine and offers other foreign and domestic policy comments: President Donald Trump offered no reassurance to European leaders worried he may abandon Ukraine at a pivotal moment in peace negotiations, instead saying Russia is “obviously” in a stronger position, while criticizing Europe’s role in the war, promoting his own unreviewed draft peace plan, and urging Ukraine to hold new elections. In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Trump attacked European migration policies and vowed to keep endorsing leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in their elections. He, meanwhile, threatened broader military action in Latin America, and insisted the U.S. economy is “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.” U.S. military to begin using Google’s AI tech: The U.S. War Department announced today that it is deploying Google Cloud’s “Gemini for Government” as the first AI system on its new “GenAI(dot)mil” platform, making the tool available across Pentagon desktops and military installations worldwide as part of the government’s “AI-first” push. The rollout follows President Donald Trump’s July directive to secure U.S. AI dominance, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring the military “all in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force.” More on this from Drop Site contributor Jessica Burbank here. U.S. proposes scrutinizing foreign tourists’ social media profiles: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed requiring visitors from 42 visa-waiver countries—including Britain, France, Germany, and South Korea—to submit up to five years of social media history along with extensive personal data as part of their travel authorization, the New York Times reported. Travel industry groups and civil liberties advocates warn that the plan marks a major expansion of surveillance, while slowing approvals and chilling free speech, as CBP says it will take public comments for 60 days before moving forward. Trump says the Times should “cease” publication: President Donald Trump accused The New York Times of publishing “fake” stories to undermine him, calling the paper an “enemy of the people,” and suggesting it should cease publication. He claimed the Times repeatedly misreported his election results and “was forced to apologize” on much of what they wrote—reprising a fabricated apology he occasionally invoked during his 2024 campaign. New York AG refuses to release records about Betar: New York’s attorney general has refused to release records on Betar USA—an ultra-far-right Zionist group notorious for targeting pro-Palestine students—citing an active law enforcement investigation that the state says could be compromised by disclosure. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada reports that Betar USA appears to operate with almost no regulatory oversight, may be functioning as an unregistered agent of the Israeli government, and has been linked to hate-crime plots, student arrests, extremist rhetoric, and possible violations of New York charity law. Read more reporting on Betar and EI’s stymied efforts to investigate it here, and Drop Site’s article on Betar here. Senate report says immigration agents detained and brutalized at least 22 U.S. citizens: A Senate investigation found that federal immigration agents unlawfully detained and abused at least 22 U.S. citizens between June and November 2025, contradicting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s claim that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained.” The 200-page report details what investigators call a pattern of constitutional violations by ICE and CBP—including excessive force, denial of medical care, fabricated charges, and the targeting of children—and warns that these cases likely represent only a fraction of the citizens harmed. Read more coverage of this report from Migrant Insider here. Jasmine Crockett’s campaign backed by Republicans: Rep. Jasmine Crockett was encouraged to run for Senate by an astroturfed campaign from the Republican Party, according to a new report by NOTUS. Watch Ryan Grim’s commentary on Crockett as a new kind of corporate Democrat” here. International News U.S. sanctions a “transactional network” funding the war in Sudan, but does not sanction the UAE: The U.S. State Department announced sanctions against eight individuals and entities involved in what it calls a “transnational network—composed primarily of Colombian nationals and companies—that recruits former Colombian military personnel to fight for the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and trains fighters, including children.” Among the individuals sanctioned is a retired Colombian military officer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However, the sanctions do not name or target the UAE, despite being the RSF’s principal backer. 10 million have been displaced in Sudan, UNICEF estimates: UNICEF says 10 million people have been displaced in Sudan—half of them children—making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world. Many in Darfur and Kordofan are facing near-total cutoffs of food, water, and medical care, while newly exhausted and dehydrated children arrive at refugee camps daily. Visiting Sudan, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell warned that women and girls, many of whom have experienced widespread sexual violence, are bearing the brunt of this devastation, and she urged the international community to act to protect those displaced. Nigerian soldiers detained by Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso is holding 11 Nigerian military personnel after a Nigerian C-130 made an unapproved emergency landing in the town of Bobo Dioulasso, according to a report from The Guardian. Leader of The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Assimi Goïta, denounced the incident as an “unfriendly act” and warned that future violations of the bloc’s airspace would be “neutralized.” The dispute comes less than a day after Nigeria joined an intervention to help the government of Benin foil a coup attempt, and as part of a broader breakdown between the Economic Community of West African States and the breakaway AES union. M23 push towards Uvira in eastern Congo: M23 rebels pushed into the outskirts of Uvira in eastern Congo on Tuesday, as part of a new offensive contributing to more than 200,000 people being displaced in recent days, the Associated Press reported. The advance comes despite last week’s U.S.-mediated agreement between Congo and Rwanda, which is widely understood to be sponsoring the M23 rebels. Fighting has intensified across South Kivu, with officials warning of possible massacres, Congolese soldiers reportedly fleeing, and shells landing in neighboring Burundi. Lithuania declares a state of emergency: Lithuania declared an “emergency situation” on Tuesday after meteorological balloons launched from Belarus repeatedly forced airport closures. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė’s announcement comes amid growing tension between Lithuania and Belarus over the balloons, which have previously been used to smuggle cigarettes but are now suspected to be operated by Belarusian security services, and Lithuanian officials have called the balloons a Russia-backed “hybrid attack.” The move allows the Lithuanian military to join border patrols as the country’s prosecutors and intelligence services investigate, underscoring wider European fears that Russia and its allies are escalating hybrid warfare tactics along NATO’s eastern frontier. Dozens killed after intra-gang fighting in Haiti: Dozens of people, including at least 10 children, have been killed after fierce clashes within Haiti’s Viv Ansanm gang coalition, as a top Bel-Air figure was beheaded and powerful leader Kempès Sanon was wounded, according to reporting from the Associated Press. Human rights monitors say at least 49 people have been killed, burned, or mutilated since Monday, while hunger has surged and instability has deepened in the country ahead of next year’s planned elections. Six killed and three injured in an attack in Pakistan’s Kurram district: Militants stormed a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s Kurram district near the Afghan border, killing six soldiers and three police, Reuters reported. This is the latest escalation as Islamabad and Kabul struggle to preserve a fragile truce after deadly border clashes in October. Pakistan blames the surge in attacks on militants operating from Afghan soil—a charge Kabul denies. Death toll rises in Thailand-Cambodia clashes: Thailand and Cambodia are trading blame for reigniting hostilities along their disputed border, with Cambodia reporting nine civilians killed and 20 injured since Monday, and Thailand said four soldiers have been killed and 68 wounded, according to Al Jazeera. The clashes triggered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, and both governments vow to press on with military operations, despite an earlier ceasefire mediated by the U.S. and its present attempts to quell the conflict. Shells hit Damascus airport: Syria’s Mezzah military airport in Damascus was struck by three shells of unknown origin on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Syrian state media reported no casualties or damage and later announced the discovery of four missile launchers without claiming who was responsible. More From Drop Site Epstein used his billionaire associate’s foundation to support pro-Israel groups: Newly leaked emails show Jeffrey Epstein sat atop a financial apparatus designed to advance Israeli interests in the U.S., wielding power of attorney over Les Wexner’s fortune and effectively running the Wexner Foundation, which has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Israel-linked causes for decades. This correspondence contradicts the Wexner Foundation’s claims that Epstein had “no meaningful role,” instead revealing him to be de facto chief financial officer who directed major tax decisions, credit lines, fund transfers, and oversaw politically sensitive grants. Read the latest from Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim here. Livestream Highlights “Increasing military spending has not been stopped”: Ryan Grim spoke with Just Foreign Policy’s Erik Sperling about the roughly $900 billion, thousand-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Ryan Grim notes is treated in Congress as “must-pass” legislation—allowing lawmakers to slip in policies that would struggle to pass on their own as the bill is hurried to a year-end vote with little public scrutiny. Sperling says the NDAA could help Washington preserve its military footholds in Korea and Europe. “We are asking to be treated like any human around the world”: Gaza journalist Asem Alnabih joined the livestream to discuss the catastrophic conditions in Gaza City, which he says is being made deliberately unlivable by Israel’s bombardment and aid restrictions. Gaza City’s infrastructure has collapsed after the genocidal campaign of the past two years, while families have been pushed into tents “built to last a few weeks, not two years,” and are now facing down a third winter under such conditions, Alnabih reported. He added that strikes continue, despite the announcement of a ceasefire, and he stressed that the hundreds of thousands of people who remain in Gaza City “will not allow Israel to take our city.” The full livestream can be accessed here. Amani al-Khatahtbeh, a prominent U.S. activist and political commentator, cited our reporting on Meta’s suppression of pro-Palestinian content in her debate with Israeli social media influencer Hen Mazzig on Al Arabiya English. A clip from that debate discussing our reporting can be watched here. Programming note: You can sign up here to get updates from us on our WhatsApp channel. If you want to continue getting this newsletter, you don’t have to do anything. 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https://archive.is/ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data. Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II. Hegseth, however, did not talk about weapons in his announcement. He talked about spreadsheets and videos. “At the click of a button, AI models on GenAI can be used to conduct deep research, format documents, and even analyze video or imagery at unprecedented speed,” Hegseth said in the video on X. Office work, basically. “We will continue to aggressively field the world’s best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before.” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s under secretary for research and engineering, also stressed how important GenAI would be to the process of killing people in a press release about the site’s launch. “There is no prize for second place in the global race for AI dominance. We are moving rapidly to deploy powerful AI capabilities like Gemini for Government directly to our workforce. AI is America’s next Manifest Destiny, and we’re ensuring that we dominate this new frontier,” Michael said in the press release, referencing the 19th century American belief that God had divinely ordained Americans to settle the west at the same time he announced a new chatbot. The press release says Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government will be the first instance available on the internal platform. It’s certified for Controlled Unclassified Information, the release states, and claims that because it’s web grounded with Google Search–meaning it’ll pull from Google search results to answer queries–that makes it “reliable” and “dramatically reduces the risk of AI hallucinations.” As we’ve covered, because Google search results are also consuming AI content that contains errors and AI-invented data from across the web, it’s become nearly unusable for regular consumers and researchers alike. During a press conference about the rollout this morning, Michael told reporters that GenAI.mil would soon incorporate other AI models and would one day be able to handle classified as well as sensitive data. As of this writing, GenAI’s website is down. “For the first time ever, by the end of this week, three million employees, warfighters, contractors, are going to have AI on their desktop, every single one,” Michael told reporters this morning, according to Breaking Defense. They’ll “start with three million people, start innovating, using building, asking more about what they can do, then bring those to the higher classification level, bringing in different capabilities,” he said. The second Trump administration has done everything in its power to make it easier for the people in Silicon Valley to push AI on America and the world. It has done this, in part, by framing it as a national security issue. Trump has signed several executive orders aimed at cutting regulations around data centers and the construction of nuclear power plants. He’s threatened to sign another that would block states from passing their own AI regulations. Each executive order and piece of proposed legislation threatens that losing the AI race would mean making America weak and vulnerable and erode national security. The country’s tech moguls are rushing to build datacenters and nuclear power plants while the boom time continues. Nevermind that people do not want to live next to datacenters for a whole host of reasons. Nevermind that tech companies are using faulty AIs to speed up the construction of nuclear power plants. Nevermind that the Pentagon already had a proprietary LLM it had operated since 2024. “We are pushing all of our chips in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force. The Department is tapping into America’s commercial genius, and we’re embedding generative AI into our daily battle rhythm,’ Hegseth said in the press release about GenAI.mil. “AI tools present boundless opportunities to increase efficiency, and we are thrilled to witness AI’s future positive impact across the War Department.”
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Yeah the article is mostly legit points that if your contacting the chatpot in China it is harvesting your data. Just like if you contact open AI or copilot or Claude or Gemini they’re all collecting all of your data. I do find it somewhat strange that they only talk about deep-seek hosting models. It’s absolutely trivial just to download the models run locally yourself and you’re not giving any data back to them. I would think that proton would be all over that for a privacy scenario.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data. Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II. Hegseth, however, did not talk about weapons in his announcement. He talked about spreadsheets and videos. “At the click of a button, AI models on GenAI can be used to conduct deep research, format documents, and even analyze video or imagery at unprecedented speed,” Hegseth said in the video on X. Office work, basically. “We will continue to aggressively field the world’s best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before.” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s under secretary for research and engineering, also stressed how important GenAI would be to the process of killing people in a press release about the site’s launch. “There is no prize for second place in the global race for AI dominance. We are moving rapidly to deploy powerful AI capabilities like Gemini for Government directly to our workforce. AI is America’s next Manifest Destiny, and we’re ensuring that we dominate this new frontier,” Michael said in the press release, referencing the 19th century American belief that God had divinely ordained Americans to settle the west at the same time he announced a new chatbot. The press release says Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government will be the first instance available on the internal platform. It’s certified for Controlled Unclassified Information, the release states, and claims that because it’s web grounded with Google Search–meaning it’ll pull from Google search results to answer queries–that makes it “reliable” and “dramatically reduces the risk of AI hallucinations.” As we’ve covered, because Google search results are also consuming AI content that contains errors and AI-invented data from across the web, it’s become nearly unusable for regular consumers and researchers alike. During a press conference about the rollout this morning, Michael told reporters that GenAI.mil would soon incorporate other AI models and would one day be able to handle classified as well as sensitive data. As of this writing, GenAI’s website is down. “For the first time ever, by the end of this week, three million employees, warfighters, contractors, are going to have AI on their desktop, every single one,” Michael told reporters this morning, according to Breaking Defense. They’ll “start with three million people, start innovating, using building, asking more about what they can do, then bring those to the higher classification level, bringing in different capabilities,” he said. The second Trump administration has done everything in its power to make it easier for the people in Silicon Valley to push AI on America and the world. It has done this, in part, by framing it as a national security issue. Trump has signed several executive orders aimed at cutting regulations around data centers and the construction of nuclear power plants. He’s threatened to sign another that would block states from passing their own AI regulations. Each executive order and piece of proposed legislation threatens that losing the AI race would mean making America weak and vulnerable and erode national security. The country’s tech moguls are rushing to build datacenters and nuclear power plants while the boom time continues. Nevermind that people do not want to live next to datacenters for a whole host of reasons. Nevermind that tech companies are using faulty AIs to speed up the construction of nuclear power plants. Nevermind that the Pentagon already had a proprietary LLM it had operated since 2024. “We are pushing all of our chips in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force. The Department is tapping into America’s commercial genius, and we’re embedding generative AI into our daily battle rhythm,’ Hegseth said in the press release about GenAI.mil. “AI tools present boundless opportunities to increase efficiency, and we are thrilled to witness AI’s future positive impact across the War Department.” From 404 Media via this RSS feed