It is extremely bleak and upsetting. Every significant faction of Israeli politics supports the inexorable ethnic cleansing of the West Bank (and Gaza and southern Lebanon). And the entire infrastructure of Israeli society seems custom built to carry it out.

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Jasper Nathaniel's reporting on the West Bank is the best I have read. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

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I hear a lot of smart professional people talk about how the latest AI makes quiet a good research assistant/fact checker now and all I can think is they are literally cannibalizing the future of research and writing by using AI rather than teaching people how to do it. Pulling up the ladder behind.

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Sign of the times in Boston

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Not being a mark is praxis

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