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I grew up in France, in a Jewish community where unconditional love and support for Israel were the norm.
The term Zionism, the movement for the establishment and support of a Jewish state in present-day Palestine, wasn’t even used because that’s all we knew.
Jews had been nearly wiped out by pogroms and repeated holocausts, and a Jewish state was the only way to keep us safe.
Antisemitism wasn’t just a fact of history; we all experienced it in our daily lives.
Zionis…

Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid.
This article was originally published here in the Washington Post I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived for four years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the Israeli Defense Forces. When that is your world, it’s

Integrating AI in NDE: Techniques, Trends, and Further Directions
Eduardo P\'erez, Cemil Emre Ardic, Ozan \c{C}ak{\i}ro\u{g}lu, Kevin Jacob, Sayako Kodera, Luca Pompa, Mohamad Rachid, Han Wang, Yiming Zhou, Cyril Zimmer, Florian R\"omer, Ahmad Osman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03449<…

Integrating AI in NDE: Techniques, Trends, and Further Directions
The digital transformation is fundamentally changing our industries, affecting planning, execution as well as monitoring of production processes in a wide range of application fields. With product line-ups becoming more and more versatile and diverse, the necessary inspection and monitoring sparks significant novel requirements on the corresponding Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) systems. The establishment of increasingly powerful approaches to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) may provi…

Jewish Australians Are Rejecting the Zionist Establishment https://jacobin.com/2024/04/jewish-council-of-australia-zionism/

Jewish Australians Are Rejecting the Zionist Establishment
Inspired by anti-fascist organizing in the 1940s, a group of progressive Jewish activists have formed the Jewish Council of Australia. Its goal is to challenge the hegemony of right-wing, Zionist groups that claim to speak for all Jewish Australians.

I like this "comedy rebels" framing to explain why certain comedians use cancel culture panic as a method of developing an audience.
Also why Lorne Michaels like these guys.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/25/1233584316/<…

Since it's Easter, let's talk of Gregorian calendar. The calendar was introduced by pope Gregory XIII in 1582, replacing the earlier Julian calendar. It seems like quite a progressive move from such a conservative establishment as the catholic church. However, we should consider two facts.
Firstly, the primary motivation for the calendar reform were… issues with computing Easter date. So it wasn't really about doing something for the sake of science, but rather using science for theological purposes. Would the church undergo a calendar reform if not Easter? In fact, wouldn't it even explicitly oppose any civil reform attempt?
Secondly, the religious character of the change meant conflict with other churches. Perhaps the catholic church was in the best position to enforce a calendar reform throughout much of Europe. Nevertheless, the adoption took a few centuries. Notably, Great Britain resisted until 1752, and Moscow until 1918. And the orthodox church still uses Julian calendar internally.
I'm not claiming that civil rulers were in any better position to introduce a calendar reform. In fact, I don't even know if they would have any motivation to do so. Nevertheless (yep, I love that word), I find it hard to consider the calendar reform as a progressive move — rather as something good that was made for the wrong reasons.

This is a really good short article critquing UK Labour Party centrists like Wes Streeting, whom Grace calls 'liberals':
"The contradiction here is very obvious: liberals construct their own tribal political identity based on the claim that they do not appeal to tribal political identities."
#UKLabour

The Establishment Fundamentalists
When centrists claim to be guided by common sense over populism of ideology, they ignore that their loyalty to a bankrupt status quo is a fanaticism of its own.

Thinking of the Alabama IVF case: Given the overt religiosity of the decision and opinions, I wonder if anyone is going to raise a Federal civil rights claim that this decision is a violation of the 1st Amendment prohibition on an establishment of religion?

QAnon Was Born Out of Sex Ad Moral Panic Over Backpage.com
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/27/backpage-com-sex-trafficking-qanon-conspiracy-moral-panic/

QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking and ads on Backpage.com. Then came another conspiracy theory.

"All the while, oblivious governments are subsidising the establishment of more #datacenters to the detriment of local communities.

The data centres are the factories of our time. But we can not see them or their carbon #footprint, so they are very easy to ignore. So we do. If we can stick with …

Per Axbom (@axbom@axbom.me)
There is a broad understanding for the need to fly less, as the aviation industry accounts for more than 2% of global CO2 emissions. Yet the data centres we depend on for computing already account...

The speech below, given by an Israeli on the acceptance of a prize for best documentary at this year's Berlinale for a film about the West Bank, accurately and succinctly describes the apartheid regime imposed by Israel.
He (an Israeli Jew) is being accused of Antisemitism by the entire media and political establishment in Germany.
The dissemination of specious mainstream narratives (bordering insanity in this case) is a fascinating phenomenon.
This should be the actual…

I am constantly amazed at all the ways we continue to allow religious institutions to directly impact the function of our democracy despite the Establishment Clause essentially telling us to maybe not:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/

Churches don't have to be accessible. That's a voting rights problem.
In 2024, millions of people will vote at religious sites. What if you're disabled?

How the UK Conservative party establishment fought to frustrate RedBird's UAE-backed Telegraph bid; sources say Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch had a key role (Financial Times)
https://t.co/cRWhpeRRye

One of the reasons I like using Apple products is their relentless privacy focus. Good to see they're continuing to tighten privacy. https://mastodon.social/@fj/111969752716686597

"... nobody has spoken about the leaders of Germany, France and Italy who have increased the sales [of arms] to Israel since the beginning of the genocide."
"...nadie ha abierto la boca sobre los líderes alemanes, franceses e italianos que han aumentado sus ventas a Israel desde que comenzó el genocidio."
Unión Europea | Clare Daly: “El papel de la Unión Europea ha sido frenar la paz en Ucrania y estšn haciendo lo mismo con

Clare Daly: “El papel de la Unión Europea ha sido frenar la paz en Ucrania y están haciendo lo mismo con Gaza”
La eurodiputada irlandesa de The Left Clare Daly se ha hecho conocida por sus duros discursos contra el establishment. En esta entrevista se despacha contra la Comisión Europea y muy especialmente contra su presidenta, Ursula Von der Leyen.

A Material Sensing-Assisted Initial Beam Establishment Method for JCAS Systems
Yi Geng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14829 https://arxiv…

A Material Sensing-Assisted Initial Beam Establishment Method for JCAS Systems
Communication systems operating at high frequency bands must use narrow beams to compensate the high path loss. However, it is incredibly time-consuming to achieve beam alignment between the transmitter and receiver due to the large volume of beam space with narrow beams. The high latency of initial beam establishment will challenge the implementation of future 6G networks at high frequency bands. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes an initial beam establishment method using the materia…

RT: @NicolaSturgeon
The House of Commons reduces itself to farce because even on an issue as serious as the situation in Gaza, the Westminster establishment can’t bring itself to rise above hostility to the SNP.
Proud of my @theSNP colleagues but deeply depressed by the state of UK ‘democracy’. #CeasefireNOW

"All the while, oblivious governments are subsidising the establishment of more #datacenters to the detriment of local communities.

The data centres are the factories of our time. But we can not see them or their carbon #footprint, so they are very easy to ignore. So we do. If we can stick with …

Per Axbom (@axbom@axbom.me)
There is a broad understanding for the need to fly less, as the aviation industry accounts for more than 2% of global CO2 emissions. Yet the data centres we depend on for computing already account...

Please don't use terms like "mainstream media" (or "MSM") when referring to establishment media. There is nothing "mainstream" about under-representing, dismissing, or ignoring popular policies like taxing the rich, public ownership of key industries, investment in free universal health care, or addressing the climate emergency -- and certainly nothing mainstream about using state and corporate media networks to provide public relations for the 1%. That is t…

Fast forward to the past: the noise around the revival of Russia’s death penalty Written by Anastasiia Ratieieva, UCMC/HWAG analyst Following the Russian Volunteer Corps raid into Russia and ISIL’s te Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/fast-forward-t

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy."
— Albert Einstein, #OTD