We are happy to announce that as part of the project #MetaLing we are also inviting Francesco Periti from #kuleuven. He will tell us about his work on #semanticChange with #LLMs. The event is taking place online tomorrow at 14:30 CEST.
dllcm.unimi.it/it/modeling-sem

S for Stop
I for Investigate the source
F for Find better coverage
T for Trace the claim to its original context

Bloem has seen it before — the same pattern playing out in slow motion. “Asbestos,” he says “Lead in gasoline. Tobacco. Every time, we acted decades after the damage was done.” The science existed. The evidence had accumulated. But the decision to intervene always lagged. “It’s not that we don’t know enough,” he adds. “It’s that the system is not built to listen when the answers are inconvenient.”

politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-

...and this is how German authorities address the problem:
aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/g

If you don't see the violation in the article, that's right. They are worried about graffiti and a verbal offence committed in an attempt to protest the explicitly declared refusal to acknowledge "the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts" (as per ICC).

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Microsoft are so desperate to find an use case for copilot, that they are pushing hard for a new prevasive "service" nobody wants in order to achieve a full-scale mass surveillance.

If you are still using Windows (or any other Microsoft product), remember it's never too late to switch.
arstechnica.com/security/2025/

@edgren @gabrielesvelto do you use these from the web interface or an app? I'm not a list user yet, and am trying to understand how I can use them.

During Ramadan, a charity kitchen gave out three thousand meals a day. Rice, meat- nothing extravagant, but enough to keep people moving, if only barely. The line was always long: barefoot children, hollow-eyed mothers.

Then the food dwindled. First the meat. Then the rice. Then the silence.

Today, there was nothing.
The door stayed shut. A small boy stood closest, holding his container like something holy. His voice barely rose above the dust:
“No rice today?”

A man in a stained vest shook his head. No words. Just the gesture, final, like a curtain closing on a funeral no one attended.

There were no tears left. No surprise. Hunger had become the atmosphere.

The children drifted away. Some wandered aimlessly, still clutching their pots. Others returned to ruined homes, tents, hollow rooms with no glass in the windows. The sun burned. Nothing had changed. Their mothers waited, not with hope, but with the resignation of those who’ve made peace with cruelty.

A mother doesn’t scream when there’s no food. She listens for her child’s empty return and prepares to say something kind with nothing in her hands.

That night, the children slept, or something like it. The body shuts down what it can spare. Dreams were rare. The starving do not imagine.

In the photo taken later, their faces showed nothing. Not because they felt nothing, but because feeling had long turned inward, into bone, into soul.

And in that emptiness, something vast appeared: That children can starve under an open sky, and no one will come.
That hunger is not the only absence.
That you can cry out until even God becomes an echo.

They would wake again. Wait again. And the days would go on, not because it made sense, but because no one remained to say otherwise.

#GazaGenocide‌

"Anyone invested in a mutual fund that owns Tesla shares could be about to bail out Musk and his billionaire friends."
mastodon.online/@electrek/1142

"The initial account of the vehicles not having emergency lights on was mistaken, an Israeli military official told journalists Saturday evening. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations."

"One medic, Assaad al-Nassasra, is still missing, the Red Crescent says. Abed said he saw al-Nassasra being led away blindfolded by Israeli troops. Al-Khatib said the organization has asked the military where it is holding the staffer.

Al-Khatib said the slain men had been “targeted at close range” and that a forensic autopsy report would be released soon."

"Israeli troops, some with night goggles, dragged Abed out of the ambulance and onto the ground, he said. They made him strip to his underwear, beat him all over his body with their rifle butts, then tied his hands behind his back, he said.

They interrogated him, asking him about his paramedic training and how many people were in the ambulance with him, he said. One soldier pressed the muzzle of his automatic rifle into his neck. Another pressed his knife blade into Abed’s palm, almost cutting it, until a third soldier pulled them away and warned Abed, “They’re crazy.”

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