Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
Jewish-Israeli, against apartheid and genocide. Co-host parallelweltpalaestina.info (in German), co-founder @thediasporist.bsky.social
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Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
· Aug 8
Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist
The antideutsch leftists papering cities in pro-Israel stickers
thediasporist.de
In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples
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The UN, human rights organizations, and scholars have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
What are the views of people living in Germany on Israel's offensive and Germany's role?
A long 🧵based on survey results.
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
What are the views of people living in Germany on Israel's offensive and Germany's role?
A long 🧵based on survey results.
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
Gaza, Israel, and German Foreign Policy: A View on Public Opinion
A survey conducted in August 2025 found that the majority of people living in Germany support a foreign policy towards Gaza and Israel that is guided by international law and seeks to uphold universal...
www.giga-hamburg.de
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The UN, human rights organizations, and scholars have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
What are the views of people living in Germany on Israel's offensive and Germany's role?
A long 🧵based on survey results.
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
What are the views of people living in Germany on Israel's offensive and Germany's role?
A long 🧵based on survey results.
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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Worth noting just how impressive it is that public opinion has so steadily turned against Israel in the United States considering the fact that news like this basically does not get covered in any of the legacy media publications.
🔴 Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror
Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...
Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Worth noting just how impressive it is that public opinion has so steadily turned against Israel in the United States considering the fact that news like this basically does not get covered in any of the legacy media publications.
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a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
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Ben Gurion, 1951: "Arabs should not be living here [in Israel] just as American Jews should not be living in America"
quoted in Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival
quoted in Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ben Gurion, 1951: "Arabs should not be living here [in Israel] just as American Jews should not be living in America"
quoted in Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival
quoted in Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Lily knows the score.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Lily knows the score.
I loved Duolingo and used it for years. It helped me. I quit immediately when they announced that and haven’t looked back. I hope they can listen to the market, go back to human labor, and regain my trust.
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I loved Duolingo and used it for years. It helped me. I quit immediately when they announced that and haven’t looked back. I hope they can listen to the market, go back to human labor, and regain my trust.
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that's right. fuck that stupid owl
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
that's right. fuck that stupid owl
Fantastische Diskussion, sehr empfehlenswert und auch im Nachhinhein aufrufbar!
Gleich geht es los, das Symposium zum Aufstieg & Fall der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Heute in der ETH Zürich. Morgen im Kunsthaus.
dergrossekanton.ethz.ch
Für alle Daheimgebliebenen:
Livestream Deutsch:
www.youtube.com/live/gAqrlYy...
Livestream Englisch:
www.youtube.com/live/r93VmXe...
dergrossekanton.ethz.ch
Für alle Daheimgebliebenen:
Livestream Deutsch:
www.youtube.com/live/gAqrlYy...
Livestream Englisch:
www.youtube.com/live/r93VmXe...
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Fantastische Diskussion, sehr empfehlenswert und auch im Nachhinhein aufrufbar!
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Gleich geht es los, das Symposium zum Aufstieg & Fall der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Heute in der ETH Zürich. Morgen im Kunsthaus.
dergrossekanton.ethz.ch
Für alle Daheimgebliebenen:
Livestream Deutsch:
www.youtube.com/live/gAqrlYy...
Livestream Englisch:
www.youtube.com/live/r93VmXe...
dergrossekanton.ethz.ch
Für alle Daheimgebliebenen:
Livestream Deutsch:
www.youtube.com/live/gAqrlYy...
Livestream Englisch:
www.youtube.com/live/r93VmXe...
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Gleich geht es los, das Symposium zum Aufstieg & Fall der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Heute in der ETH Zürich. Morgen im Kunsthaus.
dergrossekanton.ethz.ch
Für alle Daheimgebliebenen:
Livestream Deutsch:
www.youtube.com/live/gAqrlYy...
Livestream Englisch:
www.youtube.com/live/r93VmXe...
dergrossekanton.ethz.ch
Für alle Daheimgebliebenen:
Livestream Deutsch:
www.youtube.com/live/gAqrlYy...
Livestream Englisch:
www.youtube.com/live/r93VmXe...
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Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
AI dialogues shifted political support by 2 to 3 points in trials, eclipsing standard ads. Roughly one-third of this effect persisted for a month. However, models optimized for persuasion proved more factually error-prone.
#MLSky
#MLSky
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
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Look I get the urge to ignore science, I find it hard to accept that cheese is bad for you/jogging has a point/bourbon isn't a vegetable. It's normal, you get over it, whatever.
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Look I get the urge to ignore science, I find it hard to accept that cheese is bad for you/jogging has a point/bourbon isn't a vegetable. It's normal, you get over it, whatever.
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
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All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
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Great short thread on the National Security Strategy.
I am probably naive, but it reads like there is logic behind the NSD document. It might not be a coherent and well-thought-out one. Yet, it is simple and accessible: i) the US has the privilege to use force (of different sorts) to protect its interests,
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great short thread on the National Security Strategy.
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A weakness for conservatives is that, if you let one look 500 years into the future, they would invariably consider themselves to have failed. Bc no matter what anybody does, the irresistible weight of history will make the world unrecognizable. It is only looking back that their story makes sense.
August 26, 2024 at 2:12 PM
A weakness for conservatives is that, if you let one look 500 years into the future, they would invariably consider themselves to have failed. Bc no matter what anybody does, the irresistible weight of history will make the world unrecognizable. It is only looking back that their story makes sense.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace
Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games journalist about AI and labor.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace
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The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
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Plus, 50s sitcoms emerged when networks were being terrorized by (or in many cases, just folded to) the anti-communist blacklist & when Southern affiliates wouldn’t show Black faces. So the MAGA fantasy weirdly fixates on these shows to justify replicating the conditions that produced them
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Plus, 50s sitcoms emerged when networks were being terrorized by (or in many cases, just folded to) the anti-communist blacklist & when Southern affiliates wouldn’t show Black faces. So the MAGA fantasy weirdly fixates on these shows to justify replicating the conditions that produced them
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No eugenics was bad because it was founded on faulty genetic reasoning about shaping the genetic character of future generations which were known from its inception. Its practitioners knew about genetic averaging and chose to pursue their programme of selective breeding which was doomed to fail
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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I think we haven't paid enough attention to the way that intensifying working class stratification follows directly from the laws of value, from the basic principles of capitalism. The old socialist utopias were often founded on a belief that uniformity would rule, but there's a dialectic of 1/
We too often look at prices when talking about affordability & not enough at wages. As Harold Meyerson explains, had the bottom 90% earned the same share of national income they did in 1975, by 2023 they would have made an additional $79 trillion!
prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...
prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...
The $79 Trillion Heist - The American Prospect
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
prospect.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I think we haven't paid enough attention to the way that intensifying working class stratification follows directly from the laws of value, from the basic principles of capitalism. The old socialist utopias were often founded on a belief that uniformity would rule, but there's a dialectic of 1/
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The "Gaza ceasefire" is a period of reduced intensity in terms of Israeli attacks.
For the Israeli government this is merely a lull until the genocide can be resumed with full strength, with the aim of mass ethnic cleansing.
Any other plans would have to be imposed on Israel.
For the Israeli government this is merely a lull until the genocide can be resumed with full strength, with the aim of mass ethnic cleansing.
Any other plans would have to be imposed on Israel.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The "Gaza ceasefire" is a period of reduced intensity in terms of Israeli attacks.
For the Israeli government this is merely a lull until the genocide can be resumed with full strength, with the aim of mass ethnic cleansing.
Any other plans would have to be imposed on Israel.
For the Israeli government this is merely a lull until the genocide can be resumed with full strength, with the aim of mass ethnic cleansing.
Any other plans would have to be imposed on Israel.
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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization