Not the Onion

An Israeli man attacked an Israeli woman with an axe in Jerusalem on Wednesday, mistakenly believing she was Christian, Anadolu reported yesterday, citing Israel’s Channel 13.

According to the media reports, police suspect that the attack, which took place in Jerusalem’s Old City, was motivated by “hatred of Christians”.

Eyewitnesses told the channel that the suspect shouted “Christian” at the victim before violently attacking her inside her home, leaving her with severe injuries. The suspect then fled the scene.

Florida police arrested a 27-year-old Jewish man, Mordechai Brafman, on suspicion of attempting to murder two men he believed were Palestinian. The victims were an Israeli father and son visiting from Israel.

According to investigators, Brafman overtook their car in Miami Beach, made a U-turn, exited his vehicle and fired 17 shots at them. Local authorities said Brafman didn’t know the victims and there was no prior confrontation between the sides.

Brafman drove home after the shooting and was arrested shortly after. He is charged with attempted murder. While police have not officially determined a motive, they said: “It should be noted that, while in custody in our interview room, the defendant spontaneously stated that while he was driving his truck, he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both. The victims and the defendant do not know each other,” Police added that he told investigators he had killed them.

Brafman, a married plumber, was interviewed last year by Florida media after vandals targeted a Miami Beach bagel shop displaying an Israeli flag. "It's just horrifying," he said at the time. "I’d like to see more unity, for people to fight less with each other and be more together."

The Onion actually predicted this in 2019:

Netanyahu Defends New Alliance With Israel’s Far-Right Aryan Supremacy Party

“Independent media” funded by the US propaganda-industrial complex. CJR is more respectable than most, but this is a bridge too far, and quoting Gramsci of all people adds insult to injury.

You are not immune to propaganda 📺

Previously.

The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, accusing the country’s government of “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners and offering them asylum in the US.

The order criticised a law signed by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, last month that allows for land to be expropriated with “nil compensation” in limited circumstances.

South Africa was ruled by white Afrikaner leaders during apartheid, which violently repressed the country’s black majority, including forcing them to live in segregated townships and rural “homelands”. Afrikaners are descended mainly from the Dutch, who began colonising South Africa in 1652, as well as French Huguenot refugees sponsored by the Dutch.

More than three decades after white minority rule ended, South Africa remains hugely unequal, with land and wealth still largely concentrated among white people, who make up 7% of the population, about half native Afrikaans speakers, while black people are 81%.

In a series of tweets, the rapper shared his admiration for Adolf Hitler as he wrote on X, “I LOVE HITLER. NOW WHAT B***," followed by “Let's SEE IF YALL GIVE THAT MONEY BACK," before adding, "IM A NAZI." He also took a hit on Musk as he wrote, “ELON STOLE MY NAZI SWAG AT THE INAUGURATION YOOOO MY GUY GET YOUR OWN THIRD RALE."

West’s latest rant appears to be a reference to a widely discussed incident involving Elon Musk at Donald Trump's inauguration, where the SpaceX founder’s gesture was perceived by some as resembling a Nazi salute. The controversial moment, which sparked widespread debate at the time, seems to have resurfaced in West’s tirade, with the rapper using the incident as fuel for his ongoing anti-Semitic rhetoric, as reported by The Mirror US.

A 33-year-old Turkish man, known as the "Suicide Traveler," attempted to take his life for the 232nd time by climbing to the rooftop of a five-story building in Manavgat, Antalya.

Carrying a knife, a noose, and a plastic bottle filled with gasoline, his actions caused panic among passersby. Emergency responders, including police, firefighters, and medics, rushed to the scene to de-escalate the situation.

During negotiations, the man admitted he was extremely hungry. Officers promptly ordered him a shawarma (döner kebab), which led him to abandon his suicide attempt.

According to Turkish media, the man has gained notoriety for his repeated suicide attempts across the country, earning him the nickname "Suicide Traveler." Despite continuous rescue efforts and psychological support, he persists in his tragic endeavors.

Someone whose job it is to faciliate remembering a genocide calls a group of people "fundamentally evil". Must have not ever walked into the museum.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54528982

Tax “holidays” are commonly used by governors and state legislatures to promote certain industries or give relief to consumers during a specific time of year — a popular tax holiday, for example, is a sales tax reprieve for parents buying supplies for their children in the months leading up to the start of school.

DeSantis’s proposed budget includes six separate tax holidays. Among them is a “Second Amendment Summer” sales tax holiday that would last for over a month — from Memorial Day Weekend to the Fourth of July.

Last month, Sebutinde, who arguably holds the most prestigious judicial position, was accused of directly lifting sentences almost word for word in her dissenting opinion written on 19 July.

A study seen by Middle East Eye compiled by Majd Abuamer, a Palestinian researcher at the Doha Institute, for an upcoming book by US scholar Norman Finkelstein has now alleged that “at least 32 percent of Sebutinde’s dissent was plagiarised”. The research will be presented as part of a chapter in Finkelstein's upcoming book Gaza Gravediggers, which will be published in June.

Finkelstein told MEE that when he initially read the Ugandan judge's dissenting opinion in July, he found it to be “bizarre”, and suspected that sentences may have been plagiarised. “So I posted on my Twitter account: ‘Would anyone care to volunteer to help me track down some plagiarism?’” the writer and scholar said.

Following Finkestein’s call-out on X, formerly known as Twitter, Abuamer, who grew up in Gaza, responded with a thorough examination of the document. “He's very precise. He finds 32.2 percent of her dissent was plagiarised," said Finkelstein. One of the sources Abuamer found that Sebutinde repeatedly borrowed sentences from, word for word, is a video by conservative activist David Brog, entitled “Why isn’t there a Palestinian state?”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25076763

Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.

“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process,” the applications say. “We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”

Anthropic released Claude, an AI assistant that’s especially good at conversational writing, in 2023.

This question is in almost all of Anthropic’s nearly 150 currently-listed roles, but is not in some technical roles, like mobile product designer. It’s included in everything from software engineer roles to finance, communications, and sales jobs at the company.

Trump said that he had asked Musk and SpaceX to get “the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration”. The US president added on Truth Social: “Good luck Elon!!!”

Nasa has insisted that the two astronauts are not stranded in space, akin to Matt Damon in The Martian, and that they could be returned at any time, but that bringing them back now could leave the space station understaffed and jeopardize the science and maintenance of the outpost, which is why new astronauts are generally brought up to replace returning ones.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4364827

Lmao

probably a better fit on a different community

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52907210