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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 7h

Release the hostages!

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 8h

And right now I’m seeing very little deep thought about this stuff. We’re putting more tech and legislative and policy energy into stablecoins and TikTok than we are into how the entire Internet will work over the next 50 years. That should change!

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 18h

So much emotion in those faces!

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 21h

not the investors...

Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 21h

Is there anything like 20% as mature as JUCE for writing a realtime audio applications in Rust? I can even do without a GUI. Everything on rust.audio seems a little primitive, or I'm, missing something.

Rust Audio

rust.audio

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

It sure feels like you're inside the legal borders of Israel when you're in area C.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Indeed. But virtually all West Bank residents who aren't subject to military law are (at least per their id cards) Jewish.

It's definitely a complicated situation without obvious simple solutions, especially as long as the powerful on all sides derive their power from conflict.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

It's citizenship that is determined based on race/religion under the Law of Return.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

The Nobel Prize committee should give Jared the peace prize just to fuck with Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Collective punishment isn't allowed under international human rights law. It's also universally practiced :-(

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Just because they're tried in different courts under different laws based on race, does that make it an unfair trial? (Residents of the West Bank are tried in different legal systems based on whether they're Palestinian)

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

It's really weird to see the Palestinian prisoners being kept by Israel not also being referred to as hostages!

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Blazel is such a mess.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Huge pre-trump tariffs. It's why there are no good pickups in the US either.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 2d

USB is not a chill stack.

Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

So we've restricted exports to China of supplies (semiconductors, etc) that can help their tech & defense industries for years, but now that they're restricting exports of supplies (rare earths) that can help our tech & defense industries that's some kind of outrage? It seems frankly restrained.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

My grandparents hid their illegal (Jewish) neighbors from the (occupation Nazi) police in occupied France during WW2.

I know what I'll have to do when fascist police come to my neighborhood. I want to have to do this, but neither did my grandparents.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

Having known much of the original Android team from Danger I was surprised that it was as open as it was.

My take is that Google's been able to thrive in open ecosystems and struggles in closed ones. I don't think that this view extends far above my pay grade any more.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

Is this AGI? 🦋

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

And Google's just Chuck Schumering along behind.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

The reason that Apple doesn't want to allow modern browsers is the same reason that the US and Chinese governments don't want to allow free communication. There's no conflict here.
The American embrace of the iPhone foreshadowed the embrace of Trump's comfortable totalitarianism.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

The fact that Nate Silver posts about being wrong when he's wrong is something to appreciate rather than criticize. There's *lots* to criticize him for, so why pick on him for this?

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3d

There's a lot to criticize about Nate Silver but he's not afraid to say when he was wrong. Like here. How many other pundits are saying they were wrong about the utility of AI?

Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 4d

Lower case L or upper case i?

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 4d

Please protest, but kings aren't the problem.

Do you see Canada, the UK or Australia having these problems? How about Denmark or Sweden or Spain? They have plenty of problems but the issue of an autocrat is a problem with the American constitution, not of monarchies.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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