Hasnain says:

“The 30-day ultimatum illuminates a grotesque tension at play among White House leadership. The Biden administration believes that its Israel policy should not be constrained by human rights law, but still badly wants to be seen as committed to upholding human rights. The White House’s letter to Israeli officials gestured at a commitment to human rights by expressing concern over the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza and demanding of Israel improvements in humanitarian access purportedly to ameliorate those conditions.

But the ultimatum was all for show, a public relations maneuver to create the illusion of a commitment to human rights and distance itself from the mass starvation policy it is enabling. That the demands were not enforced, that they were written in a way that would still allow Israel to starve Gaza, and the context in which the ultimatum itself was issued all reveal how deeply unserious the Biden administration was about deviating from the genocidal status quo. In this way, the administration’s PR stunt backfired — it’s now clearer than ever that the Biden administration’s policy is enabling mass starvation in Gaza. The 30-day ultimatum for Israel may not have changed US policy, but it clarified what that policy is.”

Hasnain says:

“Those three factors "got me to my 5.6 million-and-change number for 2024 at my current spend, as of six months ago," said Nader. He added a few caveats, including that his estimate does not fully account for taxes, he's not factoring in Social Security or Medicare, and he's assuming no changes in expenses after his daughter graduates from college.”

Hasnain says:

“Loudon made $1.7 million in illegal profits from the purchase and sale of stock market shares.

Loudon’s wife was an associate manager in mergers and acquisitions at international oil and gas company. Loudon learned her company was planning to purchase a travel center operator business.

Unbeknownst to his spouse, Loudon used the non-public information about the expected acquisition to purchase 46,450 shares ahead of the public notice.”

Hasnain says:

“On October 17, Israeli tanks again encircled the Jabalia refugee camp’s Tal Al-Zaatar area, where Islam Fayyad, his wife, and their three children, aged six, four, and eight months, were living. As Israeli forces closed in, Islam’s wife raised a white flag and attempted to flee with the children. When they neared a checkpoint, Israeli soldiers ordered them via loudspeakers to discard their belongings into a pit and approach the tanks. Israeli forces then separated the men from the women and children, holding Islam’s wife and children in front of military vehicles for two hours while shells and bullets flew overhead. Fayyad’s six-year-old daughter, Marwa, pleaded with her mother, “We are going to die, Mom,” as soldiers continued firing, undeterred by the children’s visible terror.”

Hasnain says:

“Think about how peculiar this argument is. The editorial board members, while again (falsely) implying Israel is not committing violence with impunity and that Palestinians in Gaza have other recourse, are arguing that punishing Israel for committing war crimes gives Trump more ammunition to attack an important international court – that the authors themselves are attacking in this editorial.

The ICC, they suggest, must maintain the legitimacy necessary to punish Putin for his war crimes, but only by undermining that legitimacy in allowing Netanyahu to remain unaccountable for his.

Got it?”

Hasnain says:

I hope folks stay safe and that no one is shot.

“The Ministry of Interior has announced the deployment of the Pakistan Army in Islamabad under Article 245 of the Constitution due to increasing security concerns in the federal capital.

Authorities have issued strict directives to security forces to act decisively against agitators and miscreants while authorising them to take extreme measures such as shooting rioters on sight.”

Hasnain says:

“As the world’s most powerful country, America may feel that appealing to international law and institutions is something that only wimpy Europeans need to do. But even the mighty US needs allies and global rules.”

Hasnain says:

Quite a gaffe from someone who researches misinformation and gave a TED talk on lying.

““The citation bears the hallmarks of being an artificial intelligence (AI) ‘hallucination,’ suggesting that at least the citation was generated by a large language model like ChatGPT,” Bednarz wrote. “Plaintiffs do not know how this hallucination wound up in Hancock’s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question, especially when much of the commentary contains no methodology or analytic logic whatsoever.”
Hancock, who wrote in his expert declaration that he was paid $600 an hour for his expert testimony,”

Hasnain says:

“What can someone gain by improving their mathematical thinking?

Joy, clarity and self-confidence.
Children do this all the time. That’s why they learn so fast. They have to. Otherwise, I mean, nothing makes sense. I think this is also why babies are super happy — because they have epiphanies all day long. It’s wonderful.”

Hasnain says:

This is really cool work

“Improving automated triaging: to get to a point where we’re confident about not requiring human review. This will help automatically report new vulnerabilities to project maintainers. There are likely more than the 26 vulnerabilities we’ve already reported upstream hiding in our results.”