The Post-Partisan Emporium

  How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza According to whistleblowers, Israel's AI system is generating targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs JONATHAN COOK It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction  inflicted on Gaza  over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave. Now Israeli whistleblowers have provided details of how these crimes against humanity are being carried out – and how they are being rationalised internally within Israel’s military and political echelons. An extraordinary series of testimonies jointly pu blished by the Israel-based publications 972 and Local Call last week established that the huge death toll of Palestinian civilians is, in fact,  integral  to Israel’s war aims, not an unfortunate side effect. The known dead so far are estimated at almost 16,000, with a further

  Is it legal? On laws, authorities, and superstition CARLOS RAMALHETE (What the heck is going on here?!) During the personal lockdown my poor health imposed on me, I became so depressed I could hardly read anything more complicated than a cake recipe. That’s when I found what I call “the bottom of the Internet”:  pages  whose main business is reproducing idiotic Reddit tales, interspersing them with inane text that more or less paraphrases the original story so that there is some “original” content to shield them from accusations of copyright violation. Two kinds of stories are often republished at the bottom of the internet: familial woes, and workplace problems. The kind of thing that in regular fiction or news (even if most news is fictional nowadays) would provide no more than a background. Great fodder for depressed Thomist sociologists temporarily unable to face organized studies of what, in the end, is the same subject matter. The few neurons still alive in my brain, of course,