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As Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…

“Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth. This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are framing in extremist religious terms. R…

The Brand Hunch
Where we explore ideas and hunches around how marketers are growing great brands...
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The only April Fools prank I endorse:

Probably going to do another lunch-break reworkctf stream tomorrow around the same time, will announce details and share a link in the morning.
Goal for this round is going to be running through as many challenges as I can in the available time.

"And now to the ugly. Unfortunately, we are seeing a rise in cancer in people under 50. It’s no longer just a disease linked to ageing. As I’ve written previously, cancer rates increased by 22% in the age group 25-29 in industrialised countries between 1990 and 2019. Researchers from Harvard University have argued that each cohort of people born at a later time, such as a decade, have a higher risk of developing cancer later in life."

So I guess the Strait of Hormuz isn't going to open itself, and the US isn't just going to walk away, and a lot more damage will be done to energy infrastructure all around the Gulf, and the chatter of the past 48 hours was just that... talking down the markets. Buckle up, this could get interesting. https://ww…

Oil prices rise in choppy trade as Trump addresses the U.S. on Iran war
Oil rose in volatile trading as Trump in his address to the nation on Iran war said that he expected the conflict to last another two to three weeks.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Set the Unsettled II 🧘
尘埃落定 II 🧘
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Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Oracle layoffs: AI pivot triggers 10,000 job cuts in India
Oracle has cut around 10,000 jobs in India, sources told ET. This is part of a global restructuring affecting 30,000 employees. The company is reducing roles in its tech divisions. Oracle Financial Software Services also saw job losses. Employees are concerned about increased workloads. This follows similar tech industry layoffs this year.

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.