His name was Shaaban. He was loved by his family and friends, a memorizer of the Quran. He’s named after the month that in the Islamic tradition is referred to as the forgotten month. Let him never be forgotten.

Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence that the Israeli military is using Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza. Watch this excerpt from our Al Jazeera Investigations investigation.

How the Israeli military's artificial intelligence systems operate - also from our Al Jazeera Investigations investigation, 'Gaza'.

My piece on labor is part of the 50 most read articles on It's Nice That ! Thank you Elizabeth Goodspeed for the commission and the thoughtful editing!

With all the #Ghibli-fication of everything this week, it seems to be a good time to flag our paper on #styletransfer and #illustration (accepted for #chi2025). The takeaway: Copying style = extracting value arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410

With all the Ghibli-style images in our thread, it's important to ask: How do artists perceive style transfer results? Who benefits from these results within the political economy of creative labor? Check out our #CHI25 paper for fresh insights! 📄✨ arxiv.org/pdf/2409.17410

I’m exhausted by this constant sale of epistemic revolutions, to be told everything is going to change from now on. I’m exhausted to have to be amazed by nonsensical images, to pretend they change how I see the world as if the world I know is an image julienposture.substack.com/p/the-end-of-p…