Tauriq Moosa
@tauriq.bsky.social
Human rights barrister, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (with distinction) Thesis: Genocide, Gaza & the ICJ (Trinity College Dublin) (he/him) Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA
"a motion was submitted by Sinn Féin councillor Kourtney Kenny to rename the park Hind Rajab Park"
Come on, Dublin. Do it. Your protocols are silly.
Come on, Dublin. Do it. Your protocols are silly.
Herzog Park denaming ‘divisive and wrong’ and should be withdrawn - Taoiseach
Herzog Park denaming ‘divisive and wrong’ and should be withdrawn - Taoiseach
Dublin city councillors expected to approve stripping of Israeli president’s name from Rathgar park on Monday
www.irishtimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"a motion was submitted by Sinn Féin councillor Kourtney Kenny to rename the park Hind Rajab Park"
Come on, Dublin. Do it. Your protocols are silly.
Come on, Dublin. Do it. Your protocols are silly.
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Oh, that's where I know him from
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh, that's where I know him from
I'd love to be cancelled, maybe then I'll also get a profile in the New Yorker, headline gigs, TV shows, op-eds in the biggest papers, etc. all titled things like "I Am Being Censored"
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'd love to be cancelled, maybe then I'll also get a profile in the New Yorker, headline gigs, TV shows, op-eds in the biggest papers, etc. all titled things like "I Am Being Censored"
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ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.
Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
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Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara," reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession.
How Zionism was sold to the world
Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, “Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara,” reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppress...
mondoweiss.net
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara," reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession.
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“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
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The good old pre-emptive surrender. That's the spirit!
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The good old pre-emptive surrender. That's the spirit!
Living in a horrifically windy city is like living with poltergeists: your windows rattle, doors fly open suddenly, weird noises everywhere. Cursed weather.
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Living in a horrifically windy city is like living with poltergeists: your windows rattle, doors fly open suddenly, weird noises everywhere. Cursed weather.
Stadia?!
1 month left to enable Bluetooth mode on a Stadia controller buff.ly/MGHqBIs
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Stadia?!
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People will say anything on here. “We used to be a proper country,” no we didn’t. That’s not true.
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
People will say anything on here. “We used to be a proper country,” no we didn’t. That’s not true.
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...
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You know how I know Eric Garcia is a good reporter you should be following?
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You know how I know Eric Garcia is a good reporter you should be following?
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Sought and found asylum in the UK
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sought and found asylum in the UK
One thing I really appreciate about Season 5 of Stranger Things is how competent and efficient they all are after years of horror and trauma. (Also turning down how cartoonishly loud and exaggerated Joyce and Hopper were from some previous seasons.)
a man in a blue jacket with the words that 's not creepy written below him
ALT: a man in a blue jacket with the words that 's not creepy written below him
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November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
One thing I really appreciate about Season 5 of Stranger Things is how competent and efficient they all are after years of horror and trauma. (Also turning down how cartoonishly loud and exaggerated Joyce and Hopper were from some previous seasons.)
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Shoutout to Kat and I’s work which feels shockingly relevant years later
Shoutout to Kat and I’s work which feels shockingly relevant years later
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Shoutout to Kat and I’s work which feels shockingly relevant years later
Shoutout to Kat and I’s work which feels shockingly relevant years later
The biggest fucking babies lmao
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The biggest fucking babies lmao
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BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a new UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.
The UN committee on torture expressed “deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
"Man in science": He's not a scientist, a doctor, has no training or knowledge in these fields and is actively denying and rejecting the advice, findings and research of actual experts. He is to science what the asteroid was to dinosaurs.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Man in science": He's not a scientist, a doctor, has no training or knowledge in these fields and is actively denying and rejecting the advice, findings and research of actual experts. He is to science what the asteroid was to dinosaurs.
Whoa, Frank Darabont directed some of Stranger Things Season 5 😍
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Whoa, Frank Darabont directed some of Stranger Things Season 5 😍
Jesus
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Jesus