For people thinking that DeepSeek-OCR is the first model to render text as images, the University of Copenhagen already did this in 2023 Paper is called "Language Modelling with Pixels". They trained a Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) by rendering text as images and masking patches

This is not a "peace deal", it's a land grab, a permanent occupation. An area called the red zone holding 2MIL Palestinians to be left in ruins, in a state of living hell. A green zone holding the agricultural area will be developed under Israeli control theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…

You cannot "help" any significant group of people without first respecting their rights. "Help" without justice isn't sustainable.

The most reactionary anti-trans account with a large audience I know of in Sweden is also rabidly anti-Palestinian and almost entirely motivated by Islamophobia -- which I gather is a norm elsewhere too.

Nothing to see here, just the Israeli minister of national security saying there are no Palestinian people while also calling for ethnic cleansing. There is no peace for Palestinians.

Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington is being misread. Much commentary assumes Riyadh is inching toward normalisation with Israel. It is not. The fundamentals blocking normalisation remain unchanged, and Israel shows no sign of meeting even minimal conditions. #thread

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is indicated by the ICC, at the start of the cabinet meeting: "Our opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state on any part of the land has not changed. Gaza will be disarmed, and Hamas will be stripped of its weapons, the

explains why people think LLMs are good at language maybe? assuming that predictive processing strategies aren't principally recovery mechanisms?

i do not want to hear faffing about with oh but it's 20C in the Levant. No. Stop.

Activist Bisan Owda describes the horrible situation on the ground in Al-Shujaiya refugee camp, east of Gaza City, as families struggle to survive amid relentless rain that floods their tents and soaks their belongings. She highlights the urgent need to allow heavy equipment

was told in the not too distant past that with-us-or-against-us discourse is healthy, normal, good

Asad Sayeed @[email protected] Sneha Jha bc you guys seem to doubt my (sometimes fuzzy, I admit) memory, I have to dig them out (thanks ChatGPT) ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3…

how is ‘hank’ short for henry. it makes no damn sense

this is the most accommodating Palestinian voice online, probably, and yet: see the replies

vittorio Roman Empire fell due to consultants pushing outsourcing

How low you can go really? Next election, you're all OFF to the dusty pages of history. You are appalling The Labour Party Keir Starmer Shabana Mahmood MP

My own slightly similar take coming soon. Pretty clearly Europe is diminished in the modern world. But the EU and to a lesser degree the UK still have many strengths. At the moment they are mostly in denial in wanting to recreate the world gone by. ft.com/content/307c73…

i don’t think there’s any sort of redemption, reeducation, or rehabilitation for the people who do this and for the people who can see this and say “they did nothing wrong and are also the victims”