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.”

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. “

Hasnain says:

“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.

…

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.”