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Former US special forces officer breaks silence on Israeli forces shooting unarmed civilians at Gaza aid sites

Former US special forces officer breaks silence on Israeli forces shooting unarmed civilians at Gaza aid sites

Update: 2025-07-29
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’I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza, former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC




  • Anthony Aguilar, retired US special forces, resigned from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation citing IDF shooting at unarmed Palestinian crowds at aid centers.


  • Reports unprecedented brutality and excessive force against starving civilians, a situation unmatched in his military experience.


  • Raises ethical and operational concerns about humanitarian safety amid the Israel-Gaza conflict and challenges claims of secure aid distribution.



Enough AI Copilots! We Need AI HUDs




  • Revisits Mark Weiser’s 1992 critique favoring AI HUDs over copilot metaphors for augmenting human cognition.


  • Contrasts conversational AI assistants with HUDs that seamlessly overlay information, minimizing cognitive disruption.


  • Examples include airplane HUDs, spellcheck, and AI debugging tools acting as cognitive extensions rather than replacements.


  • Argues HUDs suit complex, unpredictable tasks by empowering expert intuition, reserving copilots for routine work.



How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy




  • Satirically advises developers on how to maximize time spent maintaining websites through indiscriminate npm dependencies, premature framework adoption, and mandatory complex build steps.


  • Highlights the hidden costs of dependency bloat, over-engineering, and build complexity with ironic humor.


  • Encourages reflection on software craftsmanship by exposing common traps that inflate maintenance burdens.


  • Key quips emphasize the inevitability of broken dependencies and unnecessary compilation overhead.



AI-Generated MP ID Site Protests UK Online Safety Act




  • A satirical website uses AI to generate mock UK MP identity cards based on user-entered postcodes, critiquing the recent Online Safety Act.


  • The project embodies digital activism by blending political commentary with humorous AI usage, evoking early internet protest culture.


  • Exposes tensions around government surveillance, digital identity, and legislative overreach.


  • Heavy use of OpenAI credits caused technical limits; recommended to test with known postcodes like Labour leader Keir Starmer’s.

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Former US special forces officer breaks silence on Israeli forces shooting unarmed civilians at Gaza aid sites

Former US special forces officer breaks silence on Israeli forces shooting unarmed civilians at Gaza aid sites

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