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The West Bank is witnessing a dangerous escalation in Israeli measures, with the occupation seemingly working to impose new realities on the ground while the region remains preoccupied with military developments.

Cities and villages across the West Bank have been placed under strict lockdown in recent days by Israeli forces, amid official silence from the Palestinian Authority and a rapid deterioration in living conditions.

watanserb.com/en/2025/06/23/is…

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"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."

On chatbots as a bad design paradigm

(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)

tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is…

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strongly agree.

Earlier today I found myself summarising LLMs as “a bullshit generator powered by a theft engine that you can ask questions to”.



Iran likely took preemptive measures to shield critical parts of its nuclear infrastructure before recent US airstrikes, according to new satellite imagery analyzed by a Washington-based nonproliferation group.

The Institute for Science and International Security published Airbus satellite images showing trucks dumping soil into tunnels at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility on Friday, two days before the airstrikes.

english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

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Rusland, China en Pakistan willen dat VN-Veiligheidsraad stemt over resolutie staakt-het-vuren in Iran, steun VS onwaarschijnlijk nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/23/rusla…


#slope : any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon

- French: pente

- German: das Gefälle

- Italian: pendenza

- Portuguese: enclinação

- Spanish: ladera

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"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/goo…





Financiële markten reageren nauwelijks op escalatie in Midden-Oosten nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/23/finan…


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Southern Syria has witnessed a sharp escalation in Israeli military activity, coinciding with Israel’s ongoing campaign against Iran.

The incursions have transformed parts of Syrian territory into corridors for intercepted Iranian drones and missiles as fears grow that Syria may become Israel's next primary target if it emerges victorious in the conflict.

newarab.com/news/israel-expand…

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Technofilosoof Rens van der Vorst schreef een boek over de videoscheidsrechter. In de basis een goed idee, maar totaal ontspoord. „We hebben de moed nodig om technologie wat meer naar de achtergrond te drukken”. nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/22/de-va…





Met de NAVO-top komen deze week ruim veertig regeringsleiders naar Nederland. Elk met hun eigen vliegtuig. De Airforce One is favoriet. „Je kunt haar al van verre horen, eerst komen de twee straaljagers.”
nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/23/net-a…