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🚨 Lawyer Hassan Abbadi visited prisoner Shaima Fathi Zeidan Khazem from #Jenin camp. Shaima described severe conditions in "Damon prison", reporting that during recent suppressions, female prisoners were taken to the yard without hijab or sleeves. Two were stepped on, and another was beaten. She detailed constant shouting, insults, beatings, lack of privacy, and arbitrary punishments.

It is worth noting that Shaima is the sister of the martyrs Raed and Abdelrahman Khazem from Jenin Camp.

#FreeThemAll

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Hexbear POI twitter drama confirmed!!!

Apparently semi-known X chud Gunther Eagleman has blocked X Eurochud and Newsmega favorite Gunther Feelinger.

CW: Gunthers, chuds, X, German language

Further implications of this are still unclear at this time, we may have to monitor the situation.

Lavrov rules out Putin–Zelensky summit until 'agenda in place'

Trump says he is trying to bring the two warring leaders together, which is like mixing 'oil and vinegar'

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It looks like China banned some Nvidia hardware like the H20. Facebook is halting its AI investments and hiring. Research found that 95% of projects where companies tried to integrate AI into their businesses are a complete failure.

First cracks starting to show in the "AI" stupidity, or as we used to call it before the rebrand - machine learning.

Al-Mughayyir, Ramallah area, West Bank is being attacked under the pretext of an attacked and injured settler — a claim never substantiated against Palestinians - Al-Mughayyir has been subjected to a campaign of annihilation: the mass uprooting of 8,000 olive trees, violent arrests and random searches, assaults on families inside their own homes, and widespread destruction of property. The operation is still ongoing, and the village remains besieged from all directions by hundreds of occupation soldiers.

قرية المغير، منطقة رام الله، الضفة الغربية — تحت ذريعة مهاجمة مستـ ـوطن وإصابته، وهي مزاعم لم تُثبت ضد الفلسطـ ـينيين، تتعرض المغير لحملة تدمير شاملة: اقتلاع ٨٠٠٠ شجرة زيتون، اعتـ ـقالات عنيفة وتفتيش عشوائي، اعتـ ـداءات على العائلات داخل منازلها، وتدمير واسع للممتلكات. العملية مستمرة حتى الآن، والقرية محاصرة من جميع الجهات بمئات الجنود

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✈️🚨 Drone sirens ring in "Bnei Netzarim", "Naveh", "Dekel", and other settlements south of the Gaza envelope.

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James Dobson dead

Inkarri Islam, officially the Islamic Center in Peru (Spanish: Centro Islámico en el Perú), is a nonprofit organization located in the Department of Apurímac. It works to unify Andean culture with Islam.

Purpose: Promoting Islam in Peru from Andean cosmology

Ideology: Islamism Clericalism, Islamic Democracy, Islamic Republicanism

The organization was founded by Edwar Quiroga Vargas in 2012, as an Andean Indigenous rights organizations. Vargas is a Shia convert, and a self-described Ethnocacerist. The organization was accused of inciting social protests in the High Andean Region of Peru. The organization participated in protests in 2019 against the Las Bambas copper mine.

Dardo Lopez-Dolz, former vice minister of the Ministry of the Interior, suggested that the Twelver Shia belief of the Reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi mirrors the myth of the Inkarri.

In the 2021 Peruvian general election, Inkarri Islam endorsed Pedro Castillo.

The organization has been criticized for its alleged ties to remnants of the Shining Path, and alleged ties and sympathies to Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Peru being the second most socially conservative country in South America has spawned some really weird ideologies...

I have been on a small vacation with my wife's family so I've missed the COTW this week. It happens to be a relevant one for me somehow.

In the late 70s during the height of the Lebanese Civil War, my great aunt and her family left Lebanon to Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She was married to a Shia laborer from a village in the south. Her husband had relatives that already migrated to West Africa during the peak of Lebanese migration in the 20s and the 30s. So through good old familial connections and village networks that I'll never get being a Beiruti capital city guy, they put him in touch with some people that could help him get settled in Abidjan. In the end they made a decision to leave, and they got some papers (most of them were fake and bought for significant amounts of dollars back then) and made it to the Ivory Coast. They left Lebanon through the Syrian border and then took a flight to Libya, where they had to stay for a few days as flight schedules in the 70s were kinda weird. After Libya, they made another long stop in Morocco, then finally made it to Abidjan.

The Lebanese community in Côte d'Ivoire was already significant from the early migration, then grew a lot during the Civil War. Locals perhaps jokingly or not used to call Lebanese Ivorians "the Jews of Abidjan". The only interpretation is the antisemitic one, as Lebanese people dominated many big money industries in the country and ran many of the biggest wholesale networks and businesses that specialised in exporting stuff like Ivorian crops to France mostly through their networks in Dakar, Senegal. My great aunt's husband ran a small shop in the beginning, then started to import Syrian products and in the end ran a huge wholesale network for Middle Eastern goods in Abidjan. He passed away after a sudden heart attack in the early 90s, so I never met the man actually. My great aunt and two of her adult children returned then to Lebanon shortly after her husband's passing, but one of her sons actually stayed in Abidjan and until today commutes back and forth between Lebanon and Côte d'Ivoire. I don't know why, but I always find it funny every year when I see his children posting videos of Ashura mourning events in Abidjan. The whole concept of Lebanese people being super Shia in West Africa cracks me up for some reason, I'll never stop finding it almost absurd. It's worth noting that the Lebanese community in general, both Muslims and Christians in Africa are extremely insular and racist. They always just marry within the community, and whenever my great aunt comes up in conversation when I'm in Lebanon, everyone basically expresses this "Hajja Khadija might die of a heart attack if one of her grandchildren marries an n word...". This is not just the family in Lebanon overreacting about things, no, the whole community basically hates you if you marry a native Ivorian instead of a Lebanese person. It's very normal for Lebanese people in West Africa to travel back to their parents' or grandparents' village during the summer and go back to Africa with a spouse.

We end with a fun fact. Notorious Lebanese zombie, eternal Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri was actually born in Sierra Leone in the 1930s.

95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds

$30 billion spent proving water is wet, cool

is now going to use AI to predict future crimes.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-07-30/javier-mileis-government-will-monitor-social-media-with-ai-to-predict-future-crimes.html