Cool, Cornell isnât just deporting protesters, they are also happily admitting to generally surveilling and punishing student anti-genocide activists and âscrutinizingâ the behavior of faculty in class. Healthy university, youâve got there! cornellsun.com/2024/10/02/a...
Thereâs lots of good books (and a lot of dreck) on Hezbollah, and I recommend a few of them here. But my top recommendation is Munira Khayyatâs Landscapes of War which really shows the long term effects of decades of Israeli war on south Lebanon. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-after...
The risks of a widening war with no limits, plus this week's MENA Academy
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information website is down, as is their database of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. Why? Likely because NCEI is based in Asheville NC. Climate-fueled unnatural disasters spare no-one and nothing. www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...
Back in 2018 I wrote a piece for a British architecture magazine about the state of the UK's public libraries. Not good. So many austerity causalties. I just brushed up for this current project. Holy hell. It just keeps getting worse. The Conservatives have sabotaged the UK's public institutions.
While most edtech discussion these days is about spectacular and speculative AI promises, the more mundane day-to-day reality in the edtech industry is firms paying to get contracts with schools over their competitors and boost market share schoolsweek.co.uk/councils-acc...
Conflict of interest concerns as councils reveal fees handed to them amid growing MIS tussle for schools
Summary of Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassemâs speech: - Fighting will continue - Hezb is prepared for an Israeli ground invasion - Nasrallahâs successor will be announced soon (I still think itâs gonna be Safieddine) Nothing new really
According to WashPo, the main munitions used in the Haret Hreik strike were US-made BLU-109s (2000 lbs). They're a form of "bunker buster" designed to penetrate hardened structures. Remember that many people were likely vaporized by the explosions, so won't be represented in casualty counts.
Videos shared by the IDF show fighter jets they say were involved in the Nasrallah operation carrying BLU-109s, an American-made 2,000-pound munition.