Hasnain says:

This is horrifying. The more I’ve read and internalized about what’s going on, the more my views have gone from “the people in leadership need to stop” to [thing that would get me banned from Facebook ].

This quote is one of the less horrifying bits of the article. It really is grim.

“While touring the hospital we walked through one of the ICUs and found multiple preteens admitted with gunshot wounds to the head. One might argue that a child could have been injured unintentionally in an explosion, or perhaps even forgotten when Israel invaded a children’s hospital and reportedly left infants to die in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Gunshot wounds to the head are an entirely different matter.

We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, who’d been shot in the head. They’d go on to slowly die, only to be replaced by new victims who’d also been shot in the head, and who would also go on to slowly die. Their families told us one of two stories: the children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces.”

Hasnain says:

“I’m not naive. I know that the American people care far more about Biden’s age and debate performance than they do about his Middle East policy. I know that, if Biden is convinced to step aside, it will be because of his inability to string two sentences together in public, and not because of his nearly ten months of unconditional support for Israel’s live-streamed annihilation of Gaza. In a more moral world, the utter disregard for Palestinian life that this president has displayed since October 7 would make the idea of him seeking a second term in office laughable. The debate among pundits and voters would not be whether he has the constitution to steward the country for another four years, but whether a sitting American president should be remanded to The Hague before or after he is impeached.

We live in a world where Palestinian lives are so cheap that American journalists will watch a limbless child die screaming on the filthy floor of a bombed-out hospital, and then talk about Joe Biden’s impressive foreign policy record.”

Hasnain says:

The ruling goes on to say they breached article 3, i.e basically declaring it apartheid. They have declared Palestinians have a right of return and Israelis must leave. I hope states help enforce the ruling, though I suspect calls that ICJ is Hamas will be starting.

“ICJ finds Israel systematically discriminates against Palestinians

The international court of justice finds that Isreal systematically discriminates against Palestinians in the occupied territories and calls the occupation of these territories “de facto annexation”.”

Hasnain says:

Software is great, folks!

“Australian banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters first raised the alarm as thousands of machines started to go offline. The issues are now spreading, as businesses based in Europe are starting their working days. UK broadcaster Sky News is currently unable to broadcast its morning news bulletins, and is showing a message apologizing for “the interruption to this broadcast.” Ryanair, one of the biggest airlines in Europe, also says it’s experiencing a “third-party” IT issue, which is impacting flight departures.”

Hasnain says:

https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/s/Ih54W8LZpX I do not want to be involved in the post mortem for this because yikes it seems so many healthcare and other orgs are affected (united flights seem down too)

Hasnain says:

"Our dependence on AC, in fact, masks the true scope and scale of the challenges we face.

In the end, addressing the climate crisis is not about building better technology. It’s much bigger than that. We need to rebuild our world. Fast-rising temperatures and more extreme weather are forcing us to rethink everything about how we live – where we get our energy, how we grow our food, how we build our cities, and, mostly importantly, who we vote for.

The sooner we stop clinging to the old ways and focus on building a smarter, more sustainable, more equitable future for everyone, the better off we – and every living thing on this planet – will be.

What has already been lost during the climate crisis is a tragedy. But what can be won in this fight is worth imagining too."

Hasnain says:

“Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court proved that it valued Trump over the rule of law when it granted him absolute immunity. Today, Aileen Cannon proved that she values Trump over the rule of law when she dismissed the charges against him. The rule of law is not failing—it has failed.

We live in frightening times because the rule of law has failed. America is right now, functionally a failed state. It is wrong and intellectually facile to pretend otherwise. I don’t have the solution, but I know we’ll never find one if we don’t accept the reality of our situation.”

Hasnain says:

“So Blue Maga may not be violent or authoritarian like Red Maga, but the consequences of a second major political party in the United States succumbing to a weird online cult of personality could be disastrous for our democracy.

Democrats who have spent the past decade (rightly) attacking Republicans for their blind and zealous devotion to Trump would do well to heed the advice of Friedrich Nietzche: “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.””

Hasnain says:

This certainly started with a compelling hook.

“So how successful has your program been?

The results speak for themselves. A bunch of our people went to the Olympics in 2021. At the most recent world championships, every female American gold medalist in individual events was a UVA athlete. Kate Douglass showed up here at UVA a few years ago, swimming the 200-meter breaststroke in two minutes and 30 seconds. Now she’s the American record holder, with a time of two minutes, 19.30 seconds. She just broke the U.S. Olympic trials’ all-time record, and she’s a favorite to win the Olympics this year.

Nine UVA athletes, including Kate, just became U.S. Olympians — one-fifth of the U.S. team! Gretchen Walsh won the 100-meter butterfly, setting the world record. Paige Madden got second in the 400-meter freestyle, right after Katie Ledecky; Paige is now a two-time Olympian.”

Hasnain says:

“While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has complicated things,” Elliott said, the collaboration between the U.S. and Russia on BEST is still ongoing, for now. Barinov says the team at Baksan is considering using a new source of neutrinos, such as zinc, to further test the result. They may even construct a third chamber of gallium around the source. For now, the anomaly remains unsolved, with no sign of a resolution on the horizon. “It has us all puzzled,” Haxton said.”