Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers
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    QuillcrestFalconer
    5h ago 100%

    German media is currently plastering the image of a Palestinian burning in his hospital bed everywhere - not because they’re outraged over Israel’s crime against humanity, but because they’re demanding a politician who shared said image critically to resign over “antisemitism“

    Germans just can't help themselves being nazis

    https://nitter.poast.org/frutiger_sof/status/1847665436566933873

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    9h ago 100%

    hamas-red-triangle

    Lt.Col Daksa was the head in charge of the operation in Jabalia. He and his team arrived to the camp to gather intelligence from the field before Hamas blew up his military vehicle

    There are others dead. Some senior officers were with him in the vehicle

    https://nitter.poast.org/ytirawi/status/1848031646185857362

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    11h ago 100%

    Yes, furthermore I believe the count only includes people who died as a direct consequence of Israel's bombings and massacres, and doesn't include the (at least) 10's of thousands of deaths from hunger and disease, and the thousands of people that have 'disappeared'.

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    1d ago 100%

    What's going on in Northern gaza right now is truly horrifying.

    Literal killing fields happening

    Breaking Israeli occupation forces prepared a deep hole in one of the squares surrounding the Indonesian Hospital, and placed some males in it with their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded In north Gaza

    Link has a video, no gore. There's also other photo where children can be seen

    https://nitter.poast.org/HossamShabat/status/1847653843288441319

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    1d ago 100%

    Jesus fucking christ. I said last week that Israel was going full steam ahead with extermination in the north, and it seems my worst fears have come to pass

    Hossam Shabbat, a Palestinian journalist reporting in North Gaza, says the IDF has made a “deep hole” in the grounds of Indonesian Hospital, and has placed males in it with hands tied and eyes blindfolded.

    This follows reports of summary executions taking place in the hospital.

    https://nitter.poast.org/NaksBilal/status/1847656402908561581

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    1d ago 100%

    Death to idf-cool

    They're out here doing literal kristallnacht re-enactment

    Tonight, over 100 armed Israeli terrorist settlers invaded the village of Jaloud in Nablus, West Bank.

    They set cars ablaze, fired at houses, hurled stones, and cut water and electricity lines. After their assault, they blasted music and danced in the streets, celebrating the terror they had caused.

    https://nitter.poast.org/IhabHassane/status/1847076394695905591

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    1d ago 100%

    Breaking News: Yemeni Armed Forces target the ship "MEGALOPOLIS" in the Arabian Sea due violation of Yemeni law banning ships and companies linked to Israel from shipping.

    Yemen really didn't like the movie

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    QuillcrestFalconer
    3d ago 100%

    Incredible, even the US Congress now admits that Australia will probably not get the AUKUS submarines. And they propose an alternative that achieves the feat of being even far worse than AUKUS (which was already a terrible deal).

    In a new report (which you can find here: crsreports.congress.gov/prod…) the US Congressional Research Service admits that the country's industrial base is very far from achieving the target of building 2.33 submarines per year needed to build replacement submarines for those sold to Australia: in fact the rate is currently only "1.2 to 1.4".

    Given this, they actually propose to just forgo the sale of submarines entirely (!) and go for an alternative approach where the US deploys US submarines manned by the US Navy to Australia instead: "up to eight additional Virginia-class SSNs would be built, and instead of three to five of them being sold to Australia, these additional boats would instead be retained in U.S. Navy service and operated out of Australia."

    But since they don't want to miss out on the Australian money meant for the subs, they conveniently propose that Australia instead spends it on other US military products: "Australia, instead of using funds to purchase, build, operate, and maintain its own SSNs, would instead invest those funds in other military capabilities—such as, for example, long-range anti-ship missiles, drones, loitering munitions, B-21 long-range bombers, or other long-range strike aircraft".

    All this for the purpose of "performing military missions for both Australia and the United States".

    So essentially, from Australia's standpoint, the new deal would mean:

    • Zero control over the submarines operated on its territory since it'd all be manned by the U.S. Navy
    • Australia still spends a similar eyewatering amount of money ($368 billion) on US military equipment that is mostly "long-range": "long-range anti-ship missiles", "B-21 long-range bombers", "long-range strike aircraft". Meaning by definition not used for the defense of Australia but undoubtedly to attack China. Which is pretty clear: China is mentioned 44 times in the document...
    • This US military equipment is to be used, as per the document, to "perform military missions for both Australia and the United States" which is extremely unusual: militaries normally don't perform missions FOR another military. Allied countries might perform missions alongside each other or in support of each other, but not explicitly "for" each other.

    How could Australia possibly justify such a deal to its public? AUKUS was already, according to former Australian PM Paul Keating the “worst deal in all history” because it'd "turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States", but this new proposal would strip away even the illusion of Australian sovereignty.

    https://nitter.poast.org/RnaudBertrand/status/1847162340829262239

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  • www.nature.com

    I know people here are very skeptical of AI in general, and there is definitely a lot of hype, but I think the progress in the last decade has been incredible. Here are some quotes > “In my field of quantum physics, it gives significantly more detailed and coherent responses” than did the company’s last model, GPT-4o, says Mario Krenn, leader of the Artificial Scientist Lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. > Strikingly, o1 has become the first large language model to beat PhD-level scholars on the hardest series of questions — the ‘diamond’ set — in a test called the Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark (GPQA)1. OpenAI says that its scholars scored just under 70% on GPQA Diamond, and o1 scored 78% overall, with a particularly high score of 93% in physics > OpenAI also tested o1 on a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad. Its previous best model, GPT-4o, correctly solved only 13% of the problems, whereas o1 scored 83%. > Kyle Kabasares, a data scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Moffett Field, California, used o1 to replicate some coding from his PhD project that calculated the mass of black holes. “I was just in awe,” he says, noting that it took o1 about an hour to accomplish what took him many months. > Catherine Brownstein, a geneticist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, says the hospital is currently testing several AI systems, including o1-preview, for applications such as connecting the dots between patient characteristics and genes for rare diseases. She says o1 “is more accurate and gives options I didn’t think were possible from a chatbot”.

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