UPDATE: a second Palestinian has been murdered in the West Bank today during the olive harvest

No intelligent person can look at satellite images of Gaza and say it’s not a genocide.

Debunking Israel’s latest list of ‘terrorist’ journalists in Gaza The evidence against the 170 media workers named in ‘The Press Files’ includes empty pages, clearly edited documents, and unverifiable snippets. Analysis by @muhammadshehad2. 972mag.com/israeli-army-gaza…

Lost!🙄

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: nature.com/immersive/d41586-…

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed 74,245 Palestinians in three years, Gaza’s health ministry says. “There is a ceasefire in name only,” said a senior policy fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

The leader of the Catalan far right separatists: “Long live Israel and long like Catalonia!” The modern Right and “nationalist” movement are a complete joke lmao

Um AfD-Wähler wieder mehr zu erreichen: ARD zeigt Tagesschau nun auch in rassistischer Sprache der-postillon.com/2026/10/ta…

RT @S_Ibrahimkhil: Willst du die AfD politisch bekämpfen, musst du zuerst an der Union vorbei.

We all saw the Google Earth footage of Gaza flattened. Netanyahu told Fox News that this happened because Hamas booby-trapped every building. I spent weeks checking that claim against what Israelis said in Hebrew, to each other. There is no doubt that Israel flattened every building to make sure Gazans had nowhere to return to. Here is the proof.

At 8:15 am CET sharp I started my first lecture for our math majors entitled "Computer assisted solutions to mathematical problems". No, I did not expect that I will have to start this lecture at such a historic moment for mathematics. So what I did? I told students a nice story about the passage from mathematical numerics, to symbolic methods, to formalization of mathematical proofs. We had many examples, like "what is square root of 2?", "is Python float actually a number?", "what it means to show equality in 1+1/(1+1/(... ) = (1+sqrt(5))/2?". I barely talked about AI because it was my story about human UNDERSTANDING. I told my students that it's particularly important now to understand that they need to work hard to stay in the loop with the reality and it's going to be fascinating to learn beautiful new concepts that will emerge soon. After 90 minutes they missed the moment where we were supposed to stop, so I had to pause abruptly. But then they stayed with many questions about simplify tactic in SymPy, about the distinction between truth and provability etc. They even developed a healthy paranoia about checking the domain of the variables they discuss. It was good time. So, yeah, bring upon this world more of these AI generated new results. We are still here and we need to train people to think. That won't change. And there is an infinite number of new directions we can develop from this point on. Brave new world!

It's only the afternoon local time and in the West Bank, there are at least two dozen Palestinians injured and one Palestinian, 44-year-old Ali Bazari was killed. Today's attacks are specifically called for by Israelis in light of October 7th. Out of the Palestinians killed in the West Bank in the last ten months, nearly 35% were killed by armed Israelis while 65% were killed by the Israeli army. They're both working in coordinated efforts not just to kill and injure, but to also create hostile environments in the West Bank to further push Palestinians out.

it’s hard to not see much of the hypebros’ excitement about AI results like this as a sort of giddy desire to see expertise torn down, and experts torn a new one. there’s a kind of promise of anyone being able to do anything without putting in any hard work or effort that the marketing taps into, a sort of ‘get rich quick’ notion but for knowledge work, where all you need to do is ask the right question and the machine does it all for you. the very suggestion that it still doesn’t work that way and you have to do some work and know what you’re talking about to interpret the output really pisses those folks off.

The morning after.

Of course Israel decided to escalate raids in West Bank today, October 7. haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…

Der neue Film der Macher von „No Other Land“ enthüllt Systeme, die Israel bei der massenhaften Tötung von Zivilist:innen im Gazastreifen einsetzte. Mit Juristin Natali Gbele & Journalist Yossi Bartal 📍Rio Filmpalast, München 📅 Di, 13.10.2026, 20:00 medico.de/termin/2026-10-13/…

„Displaced Palestinian children attend an outdoor cartoon screening held among buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks “(Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images).

oh man, ganz schön komisch, dass die CDU so heftig gegen die Linke kämpft, während sie sich mit der AfD verbündet, ich frage mich ob es irgendein historisches Beispiel dafür gibt, was passiert wenn sich die Mitte mit den Rechtsradikalen verbündet

Warum Existenzrecht nur für Israel und keinen anderen Staat?

The #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries that have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality. Life’s chemistry is what chemists call homochiral, after the Greek words for “same” and “hand”. Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in your cells. The other is rarely found in nature. For a long time, chemists wondered how homochirality can emerge. When they began to experiment with chemical reactions that can form two mirrored molecules, they always obtained equal proportions of both in their test tubes. However, chemists strived to produce only one of these mirror images, because in the development of molecules that will interact with living beings – such as in pharmaceuticals – only one mirror image will have the desired effect. Thanks to laureates Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, we now know how homochirality can emerge. Their discoveries have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.