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Ralph Nader: Both Israel and HAMAS have reasons to undercount the deaths in Gaza. It could be far more than 30,000 already.

Much like Iraq Body Count, the practice of counting only identified corpses will inevitably underestimate the number of dead.

Kenneth Stern in 2019: *I drafted the [IHRA] definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it.*

He says it was not designed to be a basis for censorship and objects to its use for that.

Nowadays, said weaponization has spread to the entire right wing, both Jews and non-Jews, including powerful right wing Christians with billions of dollars. In 2022, Stern, himself a Zionist, condemned the use of this distortion of his work to falsely label political support for Palestine as "antisemitic".

He also explains that encouragement of a culture of hatred of some groups — whichever groups they may be — promotes hatred of other groups. One bigotry promotes other bigotries. Thus, right-wing leaders that justify hate in the name of opposing antisemitism indirectly promote antisemitism (as well as the hate they try to justify).

Some Google employees reportedly wrote that "open source" LLMs are progressing faster than Google or Open"AI" can possibly do. There are even small models that can run in personal computers, and that can run on CPUs, not as prisoners of the GPU (*).

Most "open source" programs are free software, but there are exceptions.

It is crucial to verify that at least one of these systems entirely composed of free software &mdash with zero nonfree or unreleased components. And ideally more than one.

* State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union.

*UN finds "convincing information" that Hamas raped and tortured Israeli hostages,* based on the testimony of released hostages.

This adds to the evidence of the corpses of people that were raped and then killed on Oct 7.

But there was never any doubt that HAMAS attackers committed even worse crimes: killing civilians or kidnapping them with the threat to kill them.