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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The dumb part is certain people are now trying to bring up the cases of rape that did happen as some sort of gotcha to claim the NYT report was accurate (see the Reddit /r/news thread about the UN envoy statement right now).

    When that wasn’t the issue with Anat Schwartz’ article in the first place. The claim was never that no instances of rape happened, we know they did, there’s video of it. The issue was her claim that sexual violence was an explicit part of Hamas’ strategy and goal on October 7th, which was completely unsubstantiated by her and the others involved. They, in fact, couldn’t find any evidence of the sort to back up the claim, but still reported the claim as accurate anyways.

    Hamas is an evil terrorist group, but that doesn’t mean we should just open-faced accept pretty obvious propaganda and lies about them. The truth matters, especially in conflicts like this.




  • It’s massively important in the sciences, both for computing purposes and theoretical design and investigation purposes.

    AI is completely revolutionizing genetics research and subjects like biochemistry and pharmacology, because it’s able to extrapolate from already identified genes and compounds and find new ones or identify the purposes of genes just from their sequence structure.

    It’s made processes that would take weeks or months just to identify a single new component to something that takes days or hours.