Hasnain says:

Why does this senseless violence continue? Why must Pakistanis / Muslims kill other Pakistanis / Muslims? When will this end?

“Ajmeer Hussain, 28, survived the attack.

“Gunfire suddenly erupted and I started reciting my prayers, thinking these were my final moments,” Hussain told the AFP news agency.”

Hasnain says:

TIL. But also not surprising given the related civil rights case against a US university (I forget which one, either Columbia or Cornell iirc) who has a shared program with Tel Aviv university and is being sued because they intentionally discriminated against Arab Israelis.

““These cases seem to reflect systematic discrimination against U.S. citizens of a certain ethnicity, religion or nationality, which is directly in violation of the program requirements,” it continued. “

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“The survey by Israel's Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism found that 36.7 percent of American-Jewish teens either "agreed" or "strongly agreed" to the statement, "I sympathise with Hamas", Israeli media reported on Thursday.

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An even greater percentage of American-Jewish teens, 41.3 percent, agreed with the statement that Israel was "committing genocide" in Gaza.

Hasnain says:

This whole speech is so powerful and worth reading. I wish he’d continue in his role longer. Was so hard to find a single thing to quote as I kept reading and deciding I needed to quote the next thing. So here’s one at random.

“legitimate to us Europeans to a greater part of the international community to portray ourselves as the guardians of international law and human rights when we see this being blatantly disregarded on a daily basis.

We cannot pretend to be and portray ourselves as the guardians of international law if we look to the other side when international law is being violated. We cannot proclaim ourselves to be the guardians of the rule of law without acting on the basis of the judgement of the International Court of Justice, confirming the illegality of the occupation.

We cannot pretend to hold a rule based international order and not implement the decision of the International Criminal Court. We cannot pick and choose the decisions we like and those we do not like. And we must ensure that the ICC is able to function without the impediment of any third party and without threats and intimidation like the one I have mentioned at the beginning that certainly terrifies me, because it is not coming from an authoritarian state, it is not coming from a Third World dictatorship; it is coming from the US Senate. Accountability has to be comprehensive and impartial.”

Hasnain says:

Humblebrag detected.

“On average, around 15 million TLS connections are established with Cloudflare per second. Upgrading each to ML-DSA, would take 1.8Tbps, which is 0.6% of our current total network capacity. No problem so far.”

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Bookmarking for future re-reading as this will take a few turns to internalize.

"Future language design should rethink concurrency once more: Instead of adopting async/await, new languages should model themselves more like Java's Project Loom but with more user friendly primitives. But like Scratch, it should give programmers really good APIs that make concurrency natural. I don't think actor frameworks are the right fit, but a combination of structured concurrency, channels, syntax support for spawning/joining/selecting will go a long way. Watch this space for a future blog post about some things I found to work better than others."

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“May” doing some heavy lifting here because what. This is a clear violation no?

“Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law.

Turkey carried out more than 100 attacks between October 2019 and January 2024 on oil fields, gas facilities and power stations in the Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), according to data collated by the BBC World Service”

Hasnain says:

Powerful words.

“This is us. This is mainstream, ruling class Australia.
This has also been the bleakest 13 month period for humanity in my living memory. We have all seen so many things we cannot unsee. Any illusions of Western morality, or even the benevolence and effectiveness of our political systems, should be well and truly out the fucking window by now. Hold it all in contempt, you do not need to cheer for any of these people. Personally, I don’t think any of this deserves your “social cohesion”.
No matter how small it may prove to be in the end, these warrants are a win for justice and humanity. May they make it as awkward as possible for genocide deniers to carry out their horrendous work.”

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“Accidentally”

I would honestly love to see the engineering post mortem here or given the stakes I am unfortunately biased towards assuming bad faith unless proven otherwise (sorry to my friends that work there)

“The plaintiffs’ counsel makes clear that they have no reason to believe the deletion was intentional. But they do say the incident underscores that OpenAI “is in the best position to search its own datasets” for potentially infringing content using its own tools.”

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The reactions are all over the place:

"The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the decision was not political but made by a court and thus should be respected and implemented.
"The tragedy in Gaza has to stop," he said.

Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi also said the ICC's decision must be implemented, adding that Palestinians deserved justice after what he termed Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza.

The Netherlands' foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp said his country acts on arrest warrants for people on its territory and will not engage in "non-essential" contacts.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, said: "The court is a dangerous joke. It is now time for the U.S. Senate to act and sanction this irresponsible body."

The ICC has "lost all legitimacy" after issuing the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said."