A big recommend for Lauren Groff's Matrix
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A big recommend for Lauren Groff's Matrix
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Flashback to our Mediterranean crossing: in darkness, 120 miles west of Sardinia, Wrack disturbs a sleeping whale. It slaps the sea, close by the hull, and rolls away, churning the low swell to a white froth while blowing a saline mist and noxious rotting fish smell.
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Flashback to our Mediterranean crossing: in darkness, 120 miles west of Sardinia, Wrack disturbs a sleeping whale. It slaps the sea, close by the hull, and rolls away, churning the low swell to a white froth while blowing a saline mist and noxious rotting fish smell.
Reposted by Laura
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.