Hasnain says:

I am hoping this does not turn into WW3. As others put it more eloquently on twitter, this was the most preventable war of all time.

Hasnain says:

This is one of the most disgraceful interviews I’ve seen recently, and I’ve seen a lot of them. I am still incredulous at the display of racism here. I know people harp on and on about media being biased (from both sides!) but it’s been interesting seeing how media is portrayed in the states. Growing up, we treated media as biased always, and we tried to correct for it. But in the US people tend to ignore that for some reason. It’s often hidden (or agrees with our biases so we ignore it). But.. it’s there. And we should call it out for what it is.

TNC has the patience of a saint.

Quoting someone on Twitter:

“Among the many reasons that this segment will likely live in infamy as a clear example of open Islamophobic racism and journalistic malpractice from @CBSNews:

The producers flanked two Black journalists to provide a cover to a white journalist who is making an open, racist case for apartheid, and who suggests that human rights do not exist for Palestinians. A combination of racism and ignorance that suggests a deeply failed moral center for that show and that news operation.”

Hasnain says:

“Thomas Wolf suggested “paste the url of your website/linkedin/bio in Google’s NotebookLM to get 8 min of realistically sounding deep congratulations for your life and achievements from a duo of podcast experts”. I couldn’t resist giving that a go, so I gave it the URLs to my about page and my Twenty years of my blog post and got back this 10m45s episode (transcript), which was so complimentary it made my British toes curl with embarrassment”

Hasnain says:

“A growing body of social-science literature suggests that, yes, this is in fact quite different. The rise of sports gambling has caused a wave of financial and familial misery, one that falls disproportionately on the most economically precarious households. Six years into the experiment, the evidence is convincing: Legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake.”

Hasnain says:

“On the matter of Israel’s man-made famine, Foer provides an interesting corroborating detail. In early April, national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli officials in the Situation Room and was prepared to tell them, “You’re about to be responsible for the third famine of the 21st century.” Sullivan never got to make his speech, because the Israelis sprang a new crisis on the White House by telling Sullivan they had just bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria, killing prominent Iranian military leaders.”

Hasnain says:

Climate change is here. This is 4 hours away from any coast, 2k meters above sea level, and it still got leveled.

Also took out the world’s only source for quartz that’s used to make the crucibles for making silicon chips as I understand it.

““We have complete neighborhoods that are no longer there,” he said. “We’re just trying now to go to where these neighborhoods were and just try to do some sort of search-and-rescue in some of the houses that are still there.”
�Days after the rain subsided in the Southern Appalachians, numerous flood alerts were still in effect because of continued runoff and swollen waterways. Multiple flash flood emergencies, the most dire flood alert, were in effect Sunday for numerous lakes along the Catawba River in western North Carolina because of both “catastrophic and historic inflows” and dam releases that could lead to “life threatening” flooding downstream.”

Hasnain says:

Appointing Khan has been the one unquestionably good thing Biden has done, I’d hate for that to be reversed later.

“Roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel that the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies, compared to only 3 percent who say it should be doing less, according to new polling. Nearly 90 percent of Democrats, meanwhile, feel that lobbyists and corporate executives hold too much power over the government.

The same poll, commissioned by the Tech Oversight Project, found that more than three-fourths of Democrats feel Big Tech wields monopoly power in ways that harm consumers and small businesses. Only 7 percent said the companies should face no repercussions, since they have continued to innovate.”

Hasnain says:

“historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.

Many previous studies have shown that HPV vaccines are extremely effective in preventing cervical cancer. But the study, published on Monday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is the first to monitor a national cohort of women over such a long time period and find no occurrence of cervical cancer.”

Hasnain says:

Always interesting watching something you worked on - very tangentially (I did only a smaaaaallll slice of work here) - hit the news later. I didn’t realize it spawned an investigation, but it makes sense.

“Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.

Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in plaintext and stored them in a database that had been searched by roughly 2,000 company engineers, who collectively queried the stash more than 9 million times.”

Hasnain says:

Can’t check the news without instantly getting depressed these days. At least I have the privilege to just ignore the news unlike those suffering. So many thoughts, so hard to put everything into words.

“Iran’s Foreign Minister Sayyed Abbas Araghchi told the UN Security Council the attack on southern Beirut by Israel involved 5,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs supplied by the United States.”