#Gaza / Egyptian source: U.S. “has accepted” Israel's plan for a military operation in Rafah as part of a deal to avoid a wider attack on Iran
According to an Egyptian source, Egypt is preparing militarily along the Gaza border in anticipation of a potential Israeli military operation in #Rafah, Palestine. The source claims the U.S. “has accepted Israel's” plan for a military operation in Rafah as part of a deal to avoid a wider attack on #Iran. Egypt is diplomatically working to delay or cancel the Israeli operation, focusing on protecting civilians and ensuring aid can continue to flow. Egypt is also increasing the capacity of displacement camps in Khan Younis and coordinating with both sides to manage the expected influx of displaced people.
@oatmeal : whether the Biden administration did or did not agree upon such an insane "deal": let's be patient until an official USA source officially confirms or officially denies it.
This conflict is becoming much bigger if it leads to #WW3. It is in Putin's interest to have WW3 (no more weapons to #Ukraine), and he may help achieve WW3 by exactly stating the OPPOSITE in fake news. Russian trolls are all over the place.
At the very least, he benefits from confusion.
And as I said before, more regimes may benefit from WW3, or from the opposite (keeping the conflict localized). It is hard to know who to believe.
Which is why I wrote in my profile that you should not (blindly) trust me. Even if Erik van Straten is my real name (which it is, but anyone can claim that): I'm not the only person called "Erik van Straten".
Looking at reputation usually helps a lot, but even then you may be deceived.
The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.
Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.
Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".
Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."
Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."
Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."
"If a young woman does not follow the social injunction to have feelings in a sexual relationship, she knows that she risks being called to order, being punished. Or to feel shame or guilt. This burden of the social norm is primarily internalised."
"There is, in all circles, the threatening 'spectre of the faggot'. The determination to appear as 'a man, a real man' and secure one's masculinity, while escaping suspicion of homosexuality, which is considered demeaning and dangerous. Some gay boys from privileged backgrounds have told me that they were in a relationship with a girl at school to give the impression, to cover their tracks."
"If a young woman does not follow the social injunction to have feelings in a sexual relationship, she knows that she risks being called to order, being punished. Or to feel shame or guilt. This burden of the social norm is primarily internalised."
"There is, in all circles, the threatening 'spectre of the faggot'. The determination to appear as 'a man, a real man' and secure one's masculinity, while escaping suspicion of homosexuality, which is considered demeaning and dangerous. Some gay boys from privileged backgrounds have told me that they were in a relationship with a girl at school to give the impression, to cover their tracks."
La norme sociale est construite : elle ne se produit pas naturellement mais est créée par la société dans laquelle on la trouve.
Il n'y a donc pas d'actions qui soient intrinsèquement anormales ou universellement condamnées par toutes les sociétés à tout moment. La déviance est donc situationnelle et contextuelle.
Les contacts rudes, les percussions passent par un maximum vers sept ans. Elles sont petit à petit remplacées par la surveillance entre pairs dans les années qui suivent.
Isabelle Clair : "L’adolescence est un âge très normatif." Au collège, "il y a un rapport très dur à ce qu’il convient de faire".
Margot Déage : "Les violences physiques sont beaucoup plus nombreuses en primaire, puis décroissent ensuite au collège, et progressivement jusqu’au lycée."
Margot Déage : "Une fille qui n’est pas appropriée par un garçon ou par un homme peut à tout moment basculer dans la catégorie des putes, et qlq soient ses vêtements, et qlq soient ses pratiques sexuelles."
Margot Déage : "Le fait de dire qui est une pute et qui est une fille bien, c’est un pouvoir en soi dans le groupe des filles ; qui est fortement mobilisé par certaines filles. Celles qui peuvent tomber, en général, sont les plus dures sur le sujet."
Risk tools come to still improve our chances. A study shows:
➤ Risk assessment reduces the likelihood of incarceration for relatively affluent defendants,
➤ Risk assessment increases the likelihood of incarceration for relatively poor defendants.
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
“Levy describes a system that has almost reached perfection. The political echelon wants to maintain the status quo, and the military provides it with legitimacy in exchange for funds and status.”
“Levy points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces[…]:
• the military’s complete reliance on technology as a decisive factor in warfare;
• the adoption of the concept […] of an army that is “small and lethal”;
• the obsession with the idea of #deterrence, which is supposed to negate the other side’s will to fight; and
• the complete addiction to the status quo as the only possible and desirable state of affairs.”
Here is a follow-up of
Yuval Abraham's investigation:
"The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties" https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
It seems like the expectation is that they are the same, but that does not appear to be the case. It could be just the differences between the accounts generating the posts that I'm commenting on, but it feels like in general, comments (even well-written, lengthy responses with #hashtags) disappear into the wind, while any basic post, directly submitted to the stream gets #engagement.
Does someone have a "who sees your post" flowchart for Masto that includes #comments?
If I understand correctly, there is no residual #information on user and/or post #Quality being used in the algorithm?
This also has relevance for discussions about intra-network content #curation, #factcheck, #reputation, and other #SocialMedia#community functions that could be getting shortchanged by the current protocols & other norms.
Here below are graphs of discrimination ratios over time by racialized group. The shaded area is 95% confidence region. You may notice that #discrimination has been stable since the #1970s except for a rise against MENA-passing persons since 1990.
Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah: "Countering violent extremism, governmentality and Australian Muslim youth as ‘becoming terrorist’"
Abstract
This article explores how a ‘regime of truth’ about Muslim youth has been historically produced through the underlying logic of Australia’s counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and practices. The article is divided into three parts. I first look at how the pre-emptive logic of countering the ‘becoming terrorist’ constitutes young Australian Muslims. I then interrogate the way CVE has constituted Australian Muslims as a self-contained space, a governmental population divided between ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’. Lastly, I discuss how CVE operates as a technique of governmentality in the way that it deploys grants programs to foster the ‘conduct of conduct’ of Muslim subjects within this self-contained racialised space. I argue that the central organising logic of community partnership has been the targeting of the conditions of emergence of ‘extremist’ Muslim subjects, thereby guaranteeing the racialisation of Muslim youth as always at-risk, marked with the ‘potential’ of ‘becoming terrorist’.
Me: Is there a third character?
My twelve-years-old: Maybe it's God?
(You can use hints from the description.)
A painting by Fatma Haddad (spouse Mahieddine): "Femme et enfant en bleu" (Woman and child in blue), 1947. Courtesy of the Grey Art Gallery, collection of Isabelle #Maeght, #Paris.
Bahia Abdi died when her daughter was nine years old.
The latter used the name #Baya has her art name.
Her works went on a fame track when two rich French men discovered it in Algiers in 1947.
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Bahia Abdi died when her daughter was nine years old.
The latter used the name #Baya has her art name.
Her works went on a fame track when two rich French men discovered it in Algiers in 1947.
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(end of @art 🧶)