Idrees Ahmad

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Associate Editor—@newlinesmag; Contributing Editor—@lareviewofbooks; Bylines—@guardian @nybooks @foreignpolicy @WashingtonPost @TheTLS; Author—Dark Instruments

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The prohibition on attacking ambulances under the first Geneva Convention is extraordinarily straightforward—even ambulances that are being used by belligerents on the battlefield. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

Israel confirms it targeted ambulance near Gaza City hospital, claims it was being used by Hamas

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In 2022, while living in Tunisia as part of a JHR placement, I interviewed the cameraman who filmed Shireen Abu Akleh's murder -- as well as Palestinian journalists who knew her. My newsroom spiked the story. But I still have my notes, from my interviews. Here they are.

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David Frum suggests that the words of students are “murderous.” Compare that to how he excused providing the words as Bush speechwriter that justified a war based on a lie, that led to hundreds of thousands dying

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My new piece in Foreign Affairs: An Invasion of Gaza Will Be A Disaster and Biden Should Stop It. It’s not dark yet but it’s getting there. www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

An Invasion of Gaza Would Be a Disaster for Israelwww.foreignaffairs.com America must prevail on its ally to step back from the brink.

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The humanitarian, strategic and moral catastrophe of Israel's looming invasion of Gaza - my new short piece on the horrors about to be unleashed. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/the-humani...

The humanitarian, strategic and moral catastrophe of Israel's looming invasion of Gazaabuaardvark.substack.com Things are about to get a whole lot worse for Gaza. And for Israel.

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In Gaza, hospitals are running short on fuel; water and electricity have been cut off; and cemeteries do not have room for the dead. Israel’s latest strikes on the territory have drawn warnings from aid workers and residents of a humanitarian catastrophe.

As Warnings of Crisis in Gaza Mount, Palestinians Struggle to Find Room for the Deadnytimes.com Israel’s latest strikes on Gaza have drawn warnings from aid workers and residents of a humanitarian catastrophe. “We are facing a huge disaster,” said one U.N. official.

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im thinking about the terror and fear of being a human being trapped in gaza tonight - no food no water no power, bombs and no way out. and the entire west cheering on the massacres. no end in sight. so many kids.

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Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks | Opinionwww.seattletimes.com As the 2024 election approaches, misinformation researchers at the University of Washington say they won't be deterred by those seeking to undermine their work.

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generative models like Midjourney aren't able to create images that don't adhere to harmful stereotypes,even when instructed explicitly to flip stereotypes https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-

AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go?www.npr.org Researchers were curious if artificial intelligence could fulfill the order. Or would built-in biases short-circuit the request? Let's see what an image generator came up with.

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An example of when Twitter was the place to find breaking news: More than 1,000,000 Ferguson tweets were sent before CNN covered the story in prime-time, three days after the shooting.

Twitter was good at providing one of the most useful things on the internet: surfacing interesting stuff elsewhere. But Musk doesn't get the internet or why that's useful.

Analysis | Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitterwww.washingtonpost.com Musk didn’t buy Twitter. He bought millions of accounts he could repurpose for another app entirely.

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A child bids farewell to 5 members of his family who were killed by Assad forces and Russia in the countryside of Aleppo, Syria. This led to the death of five civilians and the wounding of others. This is Russian culture, this is Russian evil. Russia is a terrorist state.

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