Hiroshima 1945. A target-poor environment.
A target-rich environment
What Israel's use of AI in the killing of Palestinians implies for the future of repression.
Childhood memories of The Newcastle Show
Newcastle Show, to me as a child in the 1960s, was an extravagant feast for the senses that marked it as one of the great highlights of the year. The smells, sounds, lights and crowds of the nighttime show made it seem to me like a magical town, with its streets and alleys and the big public square of the main ring. I drank in the excitement of the event with wide-eyed enthusiasm. The Show really seemed like a city to me – so huge, with so many different areas, each with an entirely different feel,…
Watching a murder-suicide
As soon as Israel made it clear that its goal, following the October 7 Hamas attack, was more or less a total purging of Gaza, that no two-state solution to its forever war against Palestinians would be countenanced and that there was no upper limit to the death and destruction it was willing to inflict, the words that sprang into my mind were “murder-suicide”. Somehow the assault on Gaza seemed of a type with other Israeli doctrines, like the “Hannibal directive” – where it is better to kill your own people than let them be taken…
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