When you watch things like that, you realize that a lot of the AI discussion nonsense would be spared if anthropology was taught as a matter of course at college level education, but also, sadly, if anthropology taught itself in a way a bit better than it tends to do now.

Don't make geopolitics the next story. Remember the destruction and agony of Gaza every day.

Israeli military Israel Defense Forces tweeting a map of Israel which is not the map of Israel. (h/t Alonso Gurmendi )

Drone loud over central Beirut.

The mother of all Freudian slips: “Israel has also spread chaos, terror, and suffering throughout the region” — US Ambassador at the UN Security Council meeting on Iran. Sometimes, the truth slips through...

From Lebanon it's quite beautiful to watch Iranian opponents abroad denouncing the attack against Iran and stating with absolute clarity that whatever change you aspire too, it will never ever come from aligning yourself with a murderous genocidal drive giving itself free reign.

Yesterday, the last warning came from Nasser Hospital: “In 24 hours, there will be no formula left for premature infants.” Not a metaphor. Not exaggeration. A clinical fact. And the response? Silence. Not one truck. Not one crate. Just the silence of steel-hearted men, satisfied

Old enough to remember the world, one month ago, when the ongoing daily destruction of Gaza and its people, including dozens of them every day at food aid points, cast a shadow on all others news, good and bad. (86 killed on Tuesday according to Haaretz). haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

103 killed in Gaza in last 24 hours. A colleague was telling me today that for the so-called 12-day war the orders of magnitude are 600 killed in Iran, 30 in Israel, and 1000 in Gaza, but the latter don't count any longer, it is teaching and being taught to be indifferent to it.

It's super niche but this groundbreaking study on whale language published earlier this year totally vindicated Bateson's hypothesis in his late 1960s most lovely text on cetacean communication that cetacean language had to be digital like verbal language. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My friend (& once student) Shatha from Jenin asks that you have her brother Assem in your prayers if you pray. Read his story, bcz it's the story of one unique individual like you or me, & at the same time one story amongst 1000s of such stories. God bless Assem & Shatha & Jenin.

Israel killed 63 people in #Gaza this morning, before I even started preparing #breakfast for my kids. some burned in schools they were sheltering in. Others trying to get aid packages to feed their families. It has been like this almost every day for almost two years.

Eichmann in Chantilly, VA.

Can't stop thinking of this guy I saw driving a cybertruck in Hamra, Beirut tonight, and how every night he plugs it into a mazout generator.

""Eat a chicken leg in my stead. Do as if it was me eating it. Please. Please." Read this below and use the translate tool if you can't read French.

Rashid Khalidi: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This interview with Mahmoud Khalil is truly worth watching, because he's an admirable man, because of his authenticity, that disorients his NYT host, & because of the threads he weaves between fighting the Syrian regime & fighting for Palestine in the US. youtube.com/watch?v=A2BLU3…

However smart our phones, whatever indispensable an appendage we make them to be — they won't ever ever take a good picture of the Moon you see in front of you and that's the most reassuring thing.

Israel killed my cat Leo. In Gaza, Israel kills everything that breathes.