https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1601199990419750914
You think we forgot about Canada?! No, not like that… we forgot about CANADA?!
Our primary league ally!
The flesh and blood of our future Victory! Canada, we love you! ❤️
https://u24.gov.ua/
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of the National Bank of Ukraine and allocated by assigned ministries to cover the most pressing needs
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX
https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1598693811252875264
.@SBF_FTX, we appreciate that you've been candid in your discussions about what happened at #FTX. Your willingness to talk to the public will help the company's customers, investors, and others. To that end, we would welcome your participation in our hearing on the 13th.
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1599511560384225281
Rep. Waters, and the House Committee on Financial Services:
Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain.
I'm not sure that will happen by the 13th. But when it does, I will testify.
https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1599858166359068676
.@SBF_FTX,Based on your role as CEO and your media interviews over the past few weeks, it’s clear to us that the information you have thus far is sufficient for testimony.
As you know, the collapse of FTX has harmed over one million people. Your testimony would not only be meaningful to Members of Congress, but is also critical to the American people.
It is imperative that you attend our hearing on the 13th, and we are willing to schedule continued hearings if there is more information to be shared later.
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1601186251876360192
1) I still do not have access to much of my data – professional or personal. So there is a limit to what I will be able to say, and I won't be as helpful as I'd like.
But as the committee still thinks it would be useful, I am willing to testify on the 13th.
2) I will try to be helpful during the hearing, and to shed what light I can on:
–FTX US's solvency and American customers
–Pathways that could return value to users internationally
–What I think led to the crash
–My own failings
3) I had thought of myself as a model CEO, who wouldn't become lazy or disconnected.
Which made it that much more destructive when I did.
I'm sorry. Hopefully people can learn from the difference between who I was and who I could have been.
>Hopefully people can learn from the difference between who I was and who I could have been.
>coming bigtime
https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Everyone done pinched themselves and we're sure this isn't a dream?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_death
Aedh, irregularly ordained, shall return as a dog to his vomit, and be again a bloody murderer, until at length, pierced in the neck with a spear, he shall fall from a tree into the water and be drowned.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_death
The Norse god Odin is also associated with the threefold death. Human sacrifices to Odin were hanged from trees. Odin is said to have hanged himself and while falling, impaled himself on his spear Gungnir in order to learn the secrets of the runes.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bG8CVUujhs
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601859370739908608
Saruman … your staff is broken.
https://rumble.com/v203x56–pbd-gets-pissed-at-the-media-downplaying-the-twitter-files-to-hide-their-e.html
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https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247
all this child exploitation was going on under a bunch of ex FBI agents watch
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1601378833214877697
Twitter didn’t simply engage in viewpoint discrimination. They lied about it and then tried to cover it up. That’s not a good-faith mistake. It’s malicious and likely illegal.
https://twitter.com/BBCHARDtalk/status/1599799516760113152
EXCLUSIVE: “Let me tell you a secret… I had possession of the all the Chelsea Manning information before it came out in the press” - Pentagon Papers whistleblower
Daniel Ellsberg says he was given leaked US diplomatic cables “as a backup” by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
>When they take relatively healthy reproductive organs out of "trannies" where to do those "spare parts" go?
https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/307861069882347521
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/opinion/twitter-yoel-roth-elon-musk.html
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.
Nov. 18, 2022
By Yoel Roth
Mr. Roth is a former head of trust and safety at Twitter.
This month, I chose to leave my position leading trust and safety at Elon Musk’s Twitter.
My teams were responsible for drafting Twitter’s rules and figuring out how to apply them consistently to hundreds of millions of tweets per day. In my more than seven years at the company, we exposed government-backed troll farms meddling in elections, introduced tools for contextualizing dangerous misinformation and, yes, banned President Donald Trump from the service. The Cornell professor Tarleton Gillespie called teams like mine the “custodians of the internet.” The work of online sanitation is unrelenting and contentious.
Enter Mr. Musk.
In a news release announcing his agreement to acquire the company, Mr. Musk laid out a simple thesis: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” He said he planned to revitalize Twitter by eliminating spam and drastically altering its policies to remove only illegal speech.
Since the deal closed on Oct‌. 27‌‌, many of the changes made by Mr. Musk and his team have been sudden and alarming for employees and users alike, including rapid-fire layoffs and an ill-fated foray into reinventing Twitter’s verification system. A wave of employee resignations caused the hashtag #RIPTwitter to trend on the site on Thursday — not for the first time — alongside questions about whether a skeleton crew of remaining staff members can keep the service, now 16 years old, afloat.
And yet when it comes to content moderation, much has stayed the same since Mr. Musk’s acquisition. Twitter’s rules continue to ban a wide range of lawful but awful speech. Mr. Musk has insisted publicly that the company’s practices and policies are unchanged. Are we just in the early days — or has the self-declared free speech absolutist had a change of heart?
The truth is that even Elon Musk’s brand of radical transformation has unavoidable limits.
Advertisers have played the most direct role thus far in moderating Mr. Musk’s free speech ambitions. As long as 90 percent of the company’s revenue comes from ads (as was the case when Mr. Musk bought the company), Twitter has little choice but to operate in a way that won’t imperil the revenue streams that keep the lights on. This has already proved to be challenging.
Almost immediately upon the acquisition’s close, a wave of racist and antisemitic trolling emerged on Twitter. Wary marketers, including those at General Mills, Audi and Pfizer, slowed down or paused ad spending on the platform, kicking off a crisis within the company to protect precious ad revenue.
In response, Mr. Musk empowered my team to move more aggressively to remove hate speech across the platform — censoring more content, not less. Our actions worked: Before my departure, I shared data about Twitter’s enforcement of hateful conduct, showing that by some measures, Twitter was actually safer under Mr. Musk than it was before.
Marketers have not shied away from using the power of the purse: In the days following Mr. Musk’s acquisition, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a key ad industry trade group, published an open call to Twitter to adhere to existing commitments to “brand safety.” It’s perhaps for this reason that Mr. Musk has said he wants to move away from ads as Twitter’s primary revenue source: His ability to make decisions unilaterally about the site’s future is constrained by a marketing industry he neither controls nor has managed to win over.
But even if Mr. Musk is able to free Twitter from the influence of powerful advertisers, his path to unfettered speech is still not clear. Twitter remains bound by the laws and regulations of the countries in which it operates. Amid the spike in racial slurs on Twitter in the days after the acquisition, the European Union’s chief platform regulator posted on the site to remind Mr. Musk that in Europe, an unmoderated free-for-all won’t fly. In the United States, members of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission have raised concerns about the company’s recent actions. And outside the United States and the European Union, the situation becomes even more complex: Mr. Musk’s principle of keying Twitter’s policies on local laws could push the company to censor speech it was loath to restrict in the past, including political dissent.
Regulators have significant tools at their disposal to enforce their will on Twitter and on Mr. Musk. Penalties for noncompliance with Europe’s Digital Services Act could total as much as 6 percent of the company’s annual revenue. In the United States, the F.T.C. has shown an increasing willingness to exact significant fines for noncompliance with its orders (like a blockbuster $5 billion fine imposed on Facebook in 2019). In other key markets for Twitter, such as India, in-country staff members work with the looming threat of personal intimidation and arrest if their employers fail to comply with local directives. Even a Musk-led Twitter will struggle to shrug off these constraints.
There is one more source of power on the web — one that most people don’t think much about but may be the most significant check on unrestrained speech on the mainstream internet: the app stores operated by Google and Apple.
While Twitter has been publicly tight-lipped about how many people use the company’s mobile apps (rather than visit Twitter on a web browser), its 2021 annual report didn’t mince words: The company’s release of new products “is dependent upon and can be impacted by digital storefront operators” that decide the guidelines and enforce them, it reads. “Such review processes can be difficult to predict, and certain decisions may harm our business.”
“May harm our business” is an understatement. Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to get Twitter’s services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes.
Apple’s guidelines for developers are reasonable and plainly stated: They emphasize creating “a safe experience for users” and stress the importance of protecting children. The guidelines quote Justice Potter Stewart’s “I know it when I see it” quip, saying the company will ban apps that are “over the line.”
In practice, the enforcement of these rules is fraught.
In my time at Twitter, representatives of the app stores regularly raised concerns about content available on our platform. On one occasion, a member of an app review team contacted Twitter, saying with consternation that he had searched for “#boobs” in the Twitter app and was presented with … exactly what you’d expect. Another time, on the eve of a major feature release, a reviewer sent screenshots of several days-old tweets containing an English-language racial slur, asking Twitter representatives whether they should be permitted to appear on the service.
Reviewers hint that app approval could be delayed or perhaps even withheld entirely if issues are not resolved to their satisfaction — although the standards for resolution are often implied. Even as they appear to be driven largely by manual checks and anecdotes, these review procedures have the power to derail company plans and trigger all-hands-on-deck crises for weeks or months at a time.
Whose values are these companies defending when they enforce their policies? While the wide array of often conflicting global laws no doubt plays a part, the most direct explanation is that platform policies are shaped by the preferences of a small group of predominantly American tech executives. Steve Jobs didn’t believe porn should be allowed in the App Store, and so it isn’t allowed. Stripped bare, the decisions have a dismaying lack of legitimacy.
It’s this very lack of legitimacy that Mr. Musk, correctly, points to when he calls for greater free speech and for the establishment of a “content moderation council” to guide the company’s policies — an idea Google and Apple would be right to borrow for the governance of their app stores. But even as he criticizes the capriciousness of platform policies, he perpetuates the same lack of legitimacy through his impulsive changes and tweet-length pronouncements about Twitter’s rules. In appointing himself “chief twit,” Mr. Musk has made clear that at the end of the day, he’ll be the one calling the shots.
It was for this reason that I chose to leave the company: A Twitter whose policies are defined by edict has little need for a trust and safety function dedicated to its principled development.
So where will Twitter go from here? Some of the company’s decisions in the weeks and months to come, like the near certainty of allowing Mr. Trump’s account back on the service, will have an immediate, perceptible impact. But to truly understand the shape of Twitter going forward, I’d encourage looking not just at the choices the company makes but also at how Mr. Musk makes them. Should the moderation council materialize, will it represent more than just the loudest, predominantly American voices complaining about censorship — including, critically, the approximately 80 percent of Twitter users who reside outside the United States? Will the company continue to invest in features like Community Notes, which brings Twitter users into the work of platform governance? Will Mr. Musk’s tweets announcing policy changes become less frequent and abrupt?
In the longer term, the moderating influences of advertisers, regulators and, most critically of all, app stores may be welcome for those of us hoping to avoid an escalation in the volume of dangerous speech online. Twitter will have to balance its new owner’s goals against the practical realities of life on Apple’s and Google’s internet — no easy task for the employees who have chosen to remain. And as I departed the company, the calls from the app review teams had already begun.
Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) was the head of trust and safety at Twitter. He had spent seven years working on the company’s policy and enforcement work on abuse, election security and anti-spam issues.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathologists-harvested-organs
Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent
Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families – a practice it said ended in the 1990s – it emerged at the weekend.
The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called "antisemitic".
The revelation, in a television documentary, is likely to generate anger in the Arab and Muslim world and reinforce sinister stereotypes of Israel and its attitude to Palestinians. Iran's state-run Press TV tonight reported the story, illustrated with photographs of dead or badly injured Palestinians.
Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab MP, said the report incriminated the Israeli army.
The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who released it because of the row between Israel and Sweden over a report in the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet.
Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."
Hiss said: "We started to harvest corneas … whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
However, there was no evidence that Israel had killed Palestinians to take their organs, as the Swedish paper reported. Aftonbladet quoted Palestinians as saying young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israeli forces and their bodies returned to their families with missing organs. The interview with Hiss was released by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who had conducted a study of Abu Kabir.
She was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that while Palestinians were "by a long shot" not the only ones affected, she felt the interview must be made public, because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, [is] something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."
Israel demanded that Sweden condemn the Aftonbladet article, calling it an antisemitic "blood libel". Stockholm refused, saying that to so would violate freedom of speech in the country. The foreign minister then cancelled a visit to Israel, just as Sweden was taking over the EU's rotating presidency.
Hiss was removed from his post in 2004, when some details about organ harvesting were first reported, but he still works at the forensic institute.
Israel's health ministry said all harvesting was now done with permission. "The guidelines at that time were not clear," it said in a statement to Channel 2. "For the last 10 years, Abu Kabir has been working according to ethics and Jewish law."
you otter be ashamed of yourself
https://www-mako-co-il.translate.goog/news-israel/health/Article-2f068ab0353a521004.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Where do the organs from Abu Kabir go?
A recording by an anthropologist from the USA revealed a Pandora's box at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir. For years, organs and skin were removed from corpses against the law, and without the consent of the families. While Aryeh Eldad claims that all the actions were done in accordance with the law, there is testimony from the Bozaglu family who lost their son Zev Z L who claims the exact opposite, after the delusions were removed from his eyes
Prof. Yehuda Hiss, the state pathologist, and director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir, spoke about what was happening at the institute he ran freely, perhaps too freely. In a tape recorded in 2000, he told for almost an hour about the management of the institute, and the operations he performed on the bodies that arrived for examination, operations which he hid from the public eye.
Hiss, only wanted to promote the issue of organ donation in Israel. It's just that promoting the issue caused Hiss and the doctors who worked under him to break the law. They would approach the body, and remove corneas from it intended for transplantation, contrary to the law of anatomy and pathology, which requires the institute to contact the family of the deceased and ask their permission to take organs suitable for transplantation from his body. The law allows the family to object, in which case the institute's doctors are prohibited from harvesting the organs.
>https://www-mako-co-il.translate.goog/news-israel/health/Article-2f068ab0353a521004.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
IDF's response: "The IDF spokesperson wishes to state that this activity ended about a decade ago and no longer exists."
https://www.ibtimes.com/who-adam-mosseri-longtime-facebook-exec-named-head-instagram-2721762
Who Is Adam Mosseri? Longtime Facebook Exec Named The Head Of Instagram
Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom abruptly announced their resignations from Facebook last week, six years after selling their photo-sharing app to Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media giant.
On Monday, Instagram announced their replacement: longtime Facebook exec Adam Mosseri.
A New York native, Mosseri ran a design consultancy and worked at the startup TokBox before hopping on the Facebook bandwagon in 2008, according to TechCrunch. The 35-year-old stayed on the Facebook side of things in one capacity or another before taking parental leave earlier this year. During his time at Facebook, he worked in the design and product management departments before being put in charge of News Feed operations.
Mosseri was in charge of News Feed during some of Facebook’s most contentious periods. He put his name on official company responses to the “fake news” problem when it blew up during and after the 2016 presidential election. The Russian interference debacle also occurred during his tenure as the head of News Feed.
When he returned from parental leave, his role changed within the Facebook corporate hierarchy. Mosseri switched from the company’s namesake social network to Instagram, becoming the photo-sharing app’s VP of product. According to TechCrunch, he performed well in that role and there was no notable tension between he and Systrom.
Instagram’s announcement said Mosseri will be working with a new executive team. He will be in charge of every aspect of Instagram in his new role. The blog post, written by Krieger and Systrom, expressed confidence in Mosseri’s ability to lead Instagram into the future.
“We remain excited for the future of Instagram in the coming years as we transition from being leaders at Instagram to being just two users in a billion,” the blog post said. “We’re confident that under Adam’s leadership, Instagram will evolve and improve and we look forward to the future of the product and community.”
When Krieger and Systrom left Facebook, reports indicated there was considerable tension between the duo and Zuckerberg. The two sides reportedly disagreed about where Instagram stood in Facebook’s product line.
Mosseri graduated from New York University in 2005 with a degree in information design. This is his sixth different position at Facebook, according to his LinkedIn page.
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shirt looks Ukrainian
>Trump ban came after Michelle Obama, others pressured the company