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Many of the details of the agreement reached after 3 days of indirect talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh remain unclear and challenges of implementing its terms are immense.
But in recent days, negotiators have closed gaps between Hamas and Israel over the details of the first phase of the 21-point plan announced by Trump in the White House last week.
It was not immediately certain whether the parties had made any progress on thornier questions about the futu…

I first read "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson around 15 years ago. It included a visit to the Telegraph Museum (now PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications) at Porthcurno in Cornwall, and I finally got to go there. One of the things that Stephenson describes is a collection of faulty cables. And its still on display.

Dallas Cowboys kick off Heroes Appreciation Day with World War 2 aircraft flyover https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-kick-off-heroes-appreciation-day-world-war-2-aircraft-flyover

"In the first 21 months of war, 104 flights supplied the equivalent of just four days of food for Gaza, Israeli data shows, for a cost running to tens of millions of dollars. Spent on trucks, the same budget would deliver much more food"
#GazaGenocide
#GazaStarvation …

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

"Hitler personally had more German generals executed than all the Allies combined managed to kill during the entire war. That’s not micromanagement; that’s murder as a management style."
Very interesting thread!
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115266663243424953

"And quite an adventure the life of Margittai Neumann Janos Lajos was. A child prodigy, he published his first paper in mathematics before age 20. He was the indisputable champion of applied mathematics in the 20th century. His work yielded groundbreaking advances in theoretical mathematics, quantum mechanics, game theory, economics, fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, electrodynamics, meteorology, and computing."

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Was the almost endless protection of "exercise of religion" and the now almost dead "establishment of religion" clauses in our First Amendment a mistake?
I think it is.
We have seen and are seeing the extremes of fundamentalist religion: Al Queda, ISIS, MAGA, etc
Israel has its own fundamentalist problems too. (Link below).
It has been said "never let a good crisis go to waste". Well, we certainly have several good crises going on.

As Other Israelis Die in War, Ultra-Orthodox Resist Call to Fight
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition.

Two of Israel’s best-known human rights groups said Monday
that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The two groups were B’Tselem, a rights monitor that documents the effects of Israeli policies on Palestinians,
and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel.
Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide,
an assessment previously reached by some organizations like Amnes…

In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide
Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not Palestinians as a group. But two of Israel’s best-known rights groups — long critical of Israeli policy — now say they disagree.

Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defence minister, said “an acceptable armistice may never formally arrive” and that Kyiv should formulate “a revised theory of victory” – which accepts that the Kremlin considers itself engaged in a forever war against its smaller neighbour.
The former minister describes the new approach as “strategic neutralisation”, a permanent and dynamic military effort to ensure that Russia’s forces cannot advance and that Moscow becomes “operationally incapab…

Famine set to be officially declared in Gaza for first time by UN-backed group
A famine is set to be declared in Gaza by the international body responsible for monitoring world hunger.
The Guardian understands that the report will declare that the threshold for famine has been reached in Gaza City, in parts of the south and central areas of the territory but not in the north, where data is insufficient.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/22/famine-benjamin-netanyahu-palestine-gaza-israel-war-latest-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The genocidal war criminals in the Israeli Government just double-tapped a hospital in order to kill journalists and first-responders in addition to the injured civilians and medical workers they killed with the first bombing run.
The ‘western world' frets about calling a spade a spade... and cowers at US and Israeli pressure to continue turning a blind eye and re-arming the genocidal army.
I am embarrassed and shocked as both a Canadian and Spanish citizen at our flacid response to blatant murder of innocents.
#Israel #Hamas #Palestine #Genocide #Famine #WarCrimes #Gaza