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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

DIVINATION ENGINES! Carefully rendered genealogy of data-intensive AI from the shifting epistemologies and practices of comp. linguistics, signal processing, speech recognition, telecommunications. This book explains how language became digital text, and meaning […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Hand holding the book Divination Engines: Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and the making of digital culture.

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Laura Kerr @sedserio.com · 11/10/2026

Instructions For Abandoning Hives

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/10/2026

A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.”

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A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech

A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You might also take an interest in the history of the Spectator.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Checkmate is fine, and the point remains that both Zionism and anti-Zionism are protected beliefs is the point. I'm aware of the statement you refer to but not of the investigation you mention - in any case that language is not in the motion bsky.app/profile/wjon...

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No-one 'practices' Zionism, and sweeping generalisations of 'Jews in Britain' are always inaccurate bsky.app/profile/anns...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For us, it is not the motion that poses a threat to Jews, but the media storm around the motion, which is presenting Zionism as if it is some sort of protected Jewish characteristic. This is extremely dangerous and incredibly offensive. Stop it.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So is anti-Zionism, so checkmate I guess.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminds me of that Musk interview from I think a year ago -'most people think of me as an engineer'. Like no, no they do not.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, but you would be much more cynical if you thought that Charlie handed over his brother on the basis that the investigation into his dealings with Chinese spies was halted.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or does Israel overnight magic unicorn itself, to borrow a phrase, into a functioning democracy based on equal rights for all?

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The German and European Green parties are, which is hardly surprising. If the Israel in your 2-state solution will not be an ethnostate, which Israel as it is now very much is, then what will it be?

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

your commitment to a two-state solution means you do quite literally support an ethnostate. sincere apologies if that makes you uncomfortable.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hide the card-reader from Andrew

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you're good with maintaining support for an ethnostate within a 'two-state solution' then crack on, but it's perfectly reasonable for a political party to decide that this is not a view it wants to be present within its membership or its policymaking.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again, the motion doesn't call for forcible removal of Israelis, but for a unitary state that is not an ethnostate. Your two-state solution is the only approach that maintains an ethnostate as a central feature, and is hardly going well re: displacement, genocide, or a clear roadmap.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm good for commentary on my state of mind, altho thanks for sharing. And it does beggar belief to take a 'won't someone think of the potential difficulties' position re: a unitary state, when a 2-state solution is hardly providing to be either achievable or non-violent.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also how do you think an ethnostate 'happens', in the sense of what are the consequences of maintaining Israel as that? There you don't have to speculate, because the realities of Gaza and the West Bank are fully available.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gotta love how this leads you to find fault with the motion rather than reflect on your own ongoing support for an ethnostate.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A single democratic state does not = removing Jews.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a unitary single state for everyone living there. Really unclear why this is complicated.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The motion says nothing of the sort re: Jews should cease to exist in the area. There's also nothing very complicated about supporting an ethnostate.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The motion doesn't go down that route though - it's not specifically applicable to Jewish party members, and will be implemented using existing anti-racist rules and procedures (thus giving the opportunity to 'account for the reasons' for membership of a Zionist organisation).

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If that's the case, then why would an amendment be reassuring?

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'd really caution against using Jews and Zionists interchangeably, tbh. And given that the motion doesn't provide any means for people to be 'hunted down' (it'll be implemented via existing anti-racist party procedures), rejecting the amendment is rejecting that (inaccurate) framing.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Asked and answered bsky.app/profile/wjon...

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Again, none of this is in the motion.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it's a poor choice of language in that context, precisely because it gives rise to conversations like this, but wanting international justice is not an unusual or illegitimate aim.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean do I dream of a glorious future in which Zionist war criminals will be brought before an international court or special tribunal? Sure. Is that what happened to the Nazis? Yes. Would I use personally that language in that context? No. None of that has anything to do with the motion.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it's one of them, and also I'm fine with Zionism being dismantled.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Because the motion does not change the existing party disciplinary procedures that will be used to enforce it, and is quite clear about its scope. An amendment that addresses risks that don't exist/have ben ruled out in this way is rightfully voted down bsky.app/profile/anns...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This motion is just one example of how Palestinians are fighting back and asking for us to recognise the realities of Zionism as they have experienced it. One of the authors of the motion has lost over 40 members of their family in three years in the Israeli genocide...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same process as for any other motion. Want to reform that? Crack on, but don't pretend it's only a problem only for this specific motion you don't like.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'A vehemently and resolutely Zionist Green Party disagrees with anti-Zionist position' colour me shocked, how illuminating

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gender critical Greens should be heaved out of the party also, hope that helps.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'Is 'Zionism is racism' a reasonable Green Party position? we asked the most vehemently Zionist Green Party in all of Europe'

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The story quotes the German and European Greens, nothing about Spain or indeed any other country. So no, the evidence is not linked.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's reporting on the German Greens, with a side order of European Greens - neither of their takes are surprising. 'Across Europe' is not accurate.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yh asked and answered, I think.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm generalising from my own specific locality, as i said. Altho I've always found terfs to be overwhelmingly pro-Israel.

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

very good re: addressing that rare presentation of the motion then, I guess

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wjonez.bsky.social @wjonez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Right, but I'm really not sure I've seen anyone presenting an 1100 to 800 vote as the 'iron-clad democratic will of the membership'.

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