* When rich people convince themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart — instead of lucky and ruthless — they misapply their talents to areas beyond their expertise.*

The article uses Ex-Twitter and Starlink as examples to show that we should not allow companies to direct such systems however they wish, given that more important things than private profit are at stake.

* I covered the Rwandan genocide as a reporter. The language spilling out of Israel is eerily familiar.*

Israel shelled a group of journalists reporting just across the border in Lebanon.

Israel has a history of attacking the press when it bombs Gaza.

The US attacked a press office in Baghdad in one of the invasions of Iraq.

*You can condemn Hamas and name its actions as evil, even as you support the Palestinians in their quest for a life free of occupation and oppression. And there should still be room in your heart for a Jewish child whose last moments were filled with unimaginable terror — the same terror his grandparents, and their grandparents, thought they had escaped for ever.*

At some US colleges, supporters of Palestinians and supporters of Jews are accusing each other of bloodlust.

Both HAMAS and Israel are displaying plenty of bloodlust. To diminish that, it behooves us to criticize the bloodlust of both sides and to mourn the civilian victims (present and past) on both sides.