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“To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire – and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only...

“To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire – and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger,” Yuval Abraham told the Guardian.

“I don’t know what Germany is trying to do with us,” he added. “If this is Germany’s way of dealing with its guilt over the Holocaust, they are emptying it of all meaning.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/27/israeli-director-receives-death-threats-after-officials-call-berlinale-antisemitic

“Ahead of “Day X”, the 20-21 February UK High Court hearing in the extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange,...

“Ahead of “Day X”, the 20-21 February UK High Court hearing in the extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) examines 12 of the common misconceptions about the US government’s case against him.” #Assange #JulianAssange #DayX

https://rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-misconceptions-case-against-julian-assange

Results of first Gloop glaze Face Vase experiment #ceramics #glaze #gloop #pottery

Results of first Gloop glaze Face Vase experiment #ceramics #glaze #gloop #pottery

For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism — by Bernie Steinberg, Contributing Opinion WriterBernie Steinberg...

For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism — by Bernie Steinberg, Contributing Opinion Writer
Bernie Steinberg was the executive director of Harvard Hillel from 1993 to 2010.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/29/steinberg-weaponizing-antisemitism/

Also did a cut-up & flipped the piece, which gives a really nice effect (pic 3) - gonna make a new block with different patterns and...

Also did a cut-up & flipped the piece, which gives a really nice effect (pic 3) - gonna make a new block with different patterns and colors later this week :)

Nerikomi 💜 combined my block with my friend’s block. Turned out really pretty! #porcelain #nerikomi

Nerikomi 💜 combined my block with my friend’s block. Turned out really pretty! #porcelain #nerikomi

“There is no doubt that both Washington and Tel Aviv underestimated the military capacity of the Hamas-led armed resistance.”“It is...

“There is no doubt that both Washington and Tel Aviv underestimated the military capacity of the Hamas-led armed resistance.”

“It is one thing to snatch Palestinians off the streets of the West Bank and disappear them into a military court system, a practice Israel has perfected over the decades. It is quite another to defeat a well-armed insurgency that has spent decades building vast underground infrastructure beneath its own territory and training for this very moment.”

“Both Biden and Netanyahu know what they dare not say in public: On a military level, things are not going well.”

“Israel, a nuclear-armed nation state with modern weapons systems and intelligence capabilities and fully backed by the most powerful nation on Earth, is desperately struggling to achieve a meaningful tactical victory over the armed Palestinian guerrilla forces in Gaza.”

“Despite the vast resources Israel has dedicated to its propaganda effort, it is also flailing in its effort to defeat Hamas on that front.”

#jeremyscahill

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/20/gaza-israel-biden-netanyahu-war-strategy/

"We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen, whose latest article for The New Yorker looks at the politics of...

"We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen, whose latest article for The New Yorker looks at the politics of Holocaust commemoration in Europe. Gessen was scheduled to receive the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize in Germany on December 15, but the ceremony was postponed after some award sponsors withdrew support over Gessen's comparison in the article of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto. A smaller award ceremony is set for Saturday. Gessen says Germany's culture of learning about and atoning for the sins of the Nazi regime has morphed into steadfast support for the state of Israel despite its actions, while banning most forms of pro-Palestinian solidarity as part of a flawed effort to fight antisemitism. The cornerstone of this form of "memory politics" is that "you can't compare the Holocaust to anything," says Gessen. "My argument is that in order to learn from history, we have to compare."

#MashaGessen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtSD2Y5g5OM

"In collaboration with Meidosem and Infrastition, Minimal Wave proudly presents Kintsugi, a new album by the highly lauded French group...

"In collaboration with Meidosem and Infrastition, Minimal Wave proudly presents Kintsugi, a new album by the highly lauded French group Martin Dupont. The album features lush re-works of their old songs, originally released on their highly sought-after 1980s albums. The French band is known for making beautiful, heady electronic, with striking, poetic vocals. A hard-to-classify group from Marseille with a cult following and some mainstream success, Martin Dupont has inspired some of the luminaries of the contemporary music scene crossing many genres from trip-hop to electro to techno. Kintsugi reassembles their old spirit that is colorful, enthusiastic, and delicate, yet also melancholy and mysterious. A mixture of hot and cold, light and dark. Martin Dupont’s music is considered electronic though they also incorporate guitars and clarinets. They are described by many as New Wave, though their music truly transcends genres. Listen to Kintsugi, a collection of Martin Dupont’s emotive songs that have now been reinvigorated with a larger-than-life presence. Pressed on 140-gram vinyl with gold embossed sleeve."

So good! Enjoy <3

#MartinDupont #MinimalWave

https://martindupont.bandcamp.com/track/not-such-a-joke-3

Follow the RÚV English live blog for news as it breaks on the #Grindavík evacuation and the latest on any possible...

Follow the RÚV English live blog for news as it breaks on the #Grindavík evacuation and the latest on any possible eruption

https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-11-10-magma-tunnel-lies-under-grindavik-live-396249

I am afraid of this."Israel Is Walking Into a Trap.”“Hamas’s leaders and their Iranian backers have a conscious strategy. Like...

I am afraid of this.

"Israel Is Walking Into a Trap.”

“Hamas’s leaders and their Iranian backers have a conscious strategy. Like almost all other acts of spectacularly bloodthirsty terrorism, Hamas’s assault on southern Israel was designed to provoke an emotional and equally or even more outrageous response by the targeted society. Hamas and Iran are attempting to goad the Israelis into Gaza for a prolonged confrontation—which is to say that the intended effect is precisely the ground assault Israel is now preparing in order to root out and destroy Hamas as an organization, kill its cadres and leadership, and destroy as much of its infrastructure and equipment as possible.”

“If Israel instead exercises restraint, however difficult doing so might be both politically and emotionally, it can thwart the goals of Hamas and its Iranian sponsors. Restraint would go a long way toward ensuring that the diplomatic opening with Saudi Arabia continues to move forward, dealing a major blow to local revisionist powers, such as Iran, and global ones, such as China and Russia, that wish to supplant a rules-based order with one based on “Might makes right.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-iran-trap/675628/

Genetics firm 23andMe confirms user data theft in a credential stuffing attack.The hackers released 1 million lines of data targeting...

Genetics firm 23andMe confirms user data theft in a credential stuffing attack.

The hackers released 1 million lines of data targeting Ashkenazi Jews.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/

Google's enshittification memos “When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of...

Google's enshittification memos

“When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.”

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/

#Pluralistic #CoryDoctorow #Google #enshittification

This is indeed wild. Unbelievable!“It was like a dysfunctional family,” Lipman-Stern recalled fondly in a recent interview. “You’d...

This is indeed wild. Unbelievable!

“It was like a dysfunctional family,” Lipman-Stern recalled fondly in a recent interview. “You’d have a murderer on your right hand side and a bank robber on your left. You just couldn’t write these characters up.”

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/telemarketers-is-a-fantastically-wild-scam-filled-gem/

“Dit is de laatste stuiptrekking van de oude bestuurscultuur: Ondanks dat Hoekstra geen kennis, kunde noch wil heeft om een totale...

“Dit is de laatste stuiptrekking van de oude bestuurscultuur: Ondanks dat Hoekstra geen kennis, kunde noch wil heeft om een totale klimaatcatastrofe tegen te gaan, wordt juist hij voorgedragen als EU-commissaris.” Teken! #WopkeHoekstra #Shell #McKinsey #asswipe #lobbyist

https://campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/geen-hoekstra-als-eu-commissaris

Good times at #cccamp23

Good times at #cccamp23

“The Russia investigator on exposing assassinations and Putin’s plots, looking over his shoulder — and using a cat to find a secret...

“The Russia investigator on exposing assassinations and Putin’s plots, looking over his shoulder — and using a cat to find a secret agent.”

https://www.ft.com/content/03f220e1-6a7e-4850-bf4e-4b0f521d8f8c

Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst and anti-war activist whose disclosure of the so-called Pentagon Papers revealed systemic US...

Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst and anti-war activist whose disclosure of the so-called Pentagon Papers revealed systemic US government deception about the Vietnam War, has died, his family announced in a statement. He was 92.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his family said. Ellsberg announced his diagnosis in March, saying at the time that doctors had given him three to six months to live and that he had decided not to undergo chemotherapy.

He died on Friday at his home in Kensington, California, according to his family.

Considered “the patron saint of whistleblowers” for revealing to The New York Times in 1971 that the US knew the Vietnam war was “unwinnable,” Ellsberg spent his life focused on peace and transparency, later co-founding the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

“Daniel was a seeker of truth and a patriotic truth-teller, an antiwar activist, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, a dear friend to many, and an inspiration to countless more,” his family said. “He will be dearly missed by all of us.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/16/politics/daniel-ellsberg-dies/index.html

Fired & glazed! I made this cup a few weeks ago. They have some air bubbles though. Lucky that they didn’t explode in the kiln....

Fired & glazed! I made this cup a few weeks ago. They have some air bubbles though. Lucky that they didn’t explode in the kiln. Learning as I go working with this delicate material #porcelain #nerikomi

Another Nerikomi cup! I hope it will hold, since it’s a delicate process that demands patience, technique and meticulousness, something...

Another Nerikomi cup! I hope it will hold, since it’s a delicate process that demands patience, technique and meticulousness, something I’m not great at when it comes to porcelain. But, maybe I get lucky 🤞🏼 #porcelain #nerikomi