It's time for another 🧵-- yesterday, the UN tried to explain why it reduced its estimate of the number of women and children killed in Gaza by more than 11,000. But the explanation was misleading in several key respects. 1/

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Caught on 📸: Terrorists roaming and shooting at an UNRWA compound, accompanied by @UN vehicles.

The compound is located in eastern Rafah and is a central point for the distribution of aid on UNRWA’s behalf of Gaza.

COGAT conveyed the findings to senior officials in…

UN says total number of deaths in Gaza remains unchanged after controversy over revised data // new spin on this article. The 'unidentified' have no ID, names, remains, or claims—just a made up number by MoH. cnn.com/2024/05/13/mid…

Still this is quite a circular gem from above:…

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BREAKING: CRAZY FOOTAGE!!! IDF has released footage of Hamas terrorists inside a UN faculty using UN cars and firing at IDF forces. Israel contacted the UN, gave them the footage, and asked for an explanation.

The USG has faced this issue multiple times & every single time arrived at the conclusion that we must keep our research open and national security risks should be dealt with classification (which would apply to both open and closed). Some examples below 🧵

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NEW: In 2021, MIT hired six high-level DEI officials. Two of them now appear to be serial plagiarists.

One official, Tracie Jones-Barrett, copied an entire section on 'ethical considerations' from a classmate in her Ph.D program.

Her dissertation's title? 'Cite A Sista.'🧵

Six months after the debut of the IBM PC and 5 years after the Apple ][, magazines dedicated to computing were still trying to explain to people what computers could be used for.

Microsoft set to face EU competition charges over Teams software ft.com/content/ce8a66… // It isn't like the EU didn't know this at the time Teams was introduced.

UN admits Gaza death toll wrong, with almost 50% fewer women, children killed than previously reported nypost.com/2024/05/13/wor… via New York Post

I will only take a little bit personally if 15 years after Windows added touch, Apple does this. Especially considering all the abuse we got :-)

Still this is not just 'adding touch'. there's a huge amount of work to make it work, not just in the OS but in apps. Apple perhaps…

These hit me at different magnitudes.

People do not use Duolingo to become interpreters. Good grief, Wall Street is irritating at times like this.