[Analysis] Netanyahu is trying to void an election he lost.

Thursday morning a Shin Bet leak landed at 9am: Qatar had allegedly sent tens of millions of shekels to Arab parties. Whoever handed it over gave it to diplomatic reporters, not the crime or security desks. Channel 14 went into special broadcast mode, called it "the terror of the ballot boxes", and its panelists wanted the election cancelled.

What's important really is what the #Likud actually asked for. It was not an investigation. It demanded the Knesset Speaker vote be frozen immediately, because the opposition, Arab factions included, looks likely to have the votes to replace Amir Ohana.

[...] "The purpose of the stunt is transparent, and even openly declared. Likud is not focused on investigating the suspicions raised by Shin Bet chief David Zini, but on their political consequences. The faction demanded today, immediately, to suspend because of the investigation the voting process on appointing the Knesset Speaker. The explanation is simple: the opposition, including the Arab factions, seems to have a solid majority to replace the current Speaker, Amir Ohana of Likud, as a first step toward legislation that would begin to reverse the legal reality set by the judicial overhaul laws of the previous term. Netanyahu and his partners are determined to thwart this."

The story has been shrinking ever since. By evening the figure was hundreds of thousands of shekels, not tens of millions. The Justice Ministry had known about preliminary suspicions since the end of last week and called them limited. Zini himself had said on election day that the voting was clean. So if he really believed a foreign state was meddling. Why sit on it until the ballots were counted? Because Netanyahu lost.

Haaretz compares the play to Trump in January 2021.

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/elections/2026-10-29/ty-article/.highlight/000001a1-887c-d8ef-a1f1-c8fcb13f0000 (archive: https://archive.ph/KXJ4y)

https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/117523327255438261

#likud #israelelections2026 #israel #apartheid

@sbrudenell @dramypsyd One direct way to go about it may be to point out that AI companies have been relatively successful at de-anonymizing data, so just stripping away personally identifying information may not be sufficient to protect the confidentiality of patients.

Here's a reference, if you need one: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.16800

@dramypsyd @sbrudenell one deep truth we have learned is that ethics is a process. it is not a fixed set of rules. the rules are just the peace treaty that marks where the last round of fighting left off.

alas, yes, not everyone sees it that way ><

If you're one of the many therapists I'm seeing who was approached by an AI company offering six figures for "de-identified" notes, reports, etc, and you've abandoned your ethics enough to consider the offer, make sure when you negotiate your compensation that you factor in legal fees and the cost of losing your license.

I hate it here.

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404 Media: Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning

https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

#proton #AI #AIpocalypse #email

fly with #SCUL on #Halloween
October 31st @ 830pm allston pump track
#hallowheels #BostonBikes #FreakBike #boston #massachusetts #bikeTooter

Today is exactly six months since @cambridgemass.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy told us (the working group) they were pivoting to quick-build on Mass Ave northwest of Harvard, after like a year of silence.

Not a peep since. Project began in late 2022. Still never seen a concept plan for the whole corridor.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lfgml77nbpvhijgcv6n7phzh/post/3mlnqhbav7s2r

My son and his friends (8th grade) clown AI shit so hard I almost feel sorry for the people making this slop. Its wild, how much they hate it.

Talked about our family’s board game tradition at the kid’s class today and we may have too many games

For anyone illegally crossing the border, know your rights:

¡Soy el presidente de Brasil!
Eu sou o presidente do Brasil!
我是巴西总统！ (Wǒ shì Bāxī zǒngtǒng!)
मैं ब्राज़ील का राष्ट्रपति हूँ! (Main Brāzīl kā rāshṭrapati hūn!)
હું બ્રાઝિલનો રાષ્ટ્રપતિ છું! (Huṁ Brāzilno rāshṭrapati chhuṁ!)
M se prezidan Brezil!

When our grandparents came, they assimilated. Today's immigrants keep insisting they're the duly elected president of Brazil :/ www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Bolsonaro claims he is Brazil'...

The teen is going to a “corvid party” today and they’re going to do a trinket swap and I’m intensely jealous because OMG how fun does that sound?!? It sounds like maybe the older teen version of a Halloween party? I have no idea. Kids are alright.

Be sure you savor and re-savor this •incredible• right-wing self-own:

Two “Project Veritas” operatives committed fraud at a Minnesota polling place to prove they wouldn’t get caught

••• and they got caught •••

and both are facing multiple felony charges.

1/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/voting-felony-disguise-minneapolis

Periodic reminder: EVERYONE. Even very smart people. Even people who work in security. Even people who work with account phishing. Even you. EVERYONE can fall for a scam.

The more strongly you believe you could never fall for a scam, the worse you're going to get fucked when one slips past your defenses. Scammers LOVE people who think they're too smart to be caught.

Never shame someone for getting caught by one - be understanding and helpful and supportive. Because you're going to be in that seat someday.

@josch

This is a really, really difficult question. It’s something that classroom / course process tactics can mitigate, but not something they can solve. You really have to go deep into psychology: what students think education is for, how they imagine their own learning, what pressures they’re experiencing, what kinds of resilience they have.

There are some advantages I have going for me in my situation that an instructor can’t control:

- liberal arts college → students already likely to be invested in the idea that the •experience• of school is what’s valuable, as opposed to just the credential you acquire at the end

- unusually human-centered and anti-conformist campus culture

- strong cooperative (I’d even say anti-competitive) academic culture among the students

There are also things that •are• under instructor control:

- CS curriculum that’s •extremely• heavy on active learning: in-class time spent working hands on with code instead of just lecture (especially in intro classes)

- lots of projects and smaller assignments with a creative element that create pride of ownership, sense of agency, emotional investment in results

- flexible grading policies that help reduce the sorts of panic that lead to shortcutting and cheating

- positive student/instructor relationships, as much as I can manage

- normalizing struggle as a common and a •desirable• part of learning

…and then in that context, I talk a lot about •why• we’re doing what we’re doing, how learning works, how time and struggle are essential (“If you go to the gym and have a robot lift weights, do you expect to get stronger?”), and how grades are just a transient and essentially meaningless incentive structure and the •only• real thing of value they take away from the class will be the experience.

@ireneista @baldur

Academic Urban Legends. Also, spinach is not a good source of iron.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312714535679

@rmd1023 Were pineapples rented for parties in the 18th century? https://marzipanandminutiae.tumblr.com/post/831723247304409088/i-have-a-line-to-the-article-but-before-it

Third pair of "dress" pants this year that have incurred a torn bottom (i.e., buttock) -- they're just not made to withstand bike commuting. 😑 #BikeTooter (lit.)

Let’s not forget that his push for policing is in the context of his book about gun violence, and that is so upsetting. We cannot arrest our way out of gun violence. Carceral responses are not solutions. They are not prevention. I just want to scream.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:otz3umegqdgojgc4dj7kn5wr/post/3myy5nd5im22t

In Saint-Brévin near Nantes, France, a huge serpent rises from the sea near the Loire estuary. Completed in 2012 by Huang Yong Ping, Chinese-born French artist.

The sculpture is covered and uncovered at each tide: at low tide it is possible to walk around it, but only the head and the top of the vertebrae stick out at high tide. It is intended to be gradually invaded by vegetation and marine fauna ...

#art #artist #StreetArt