You argue that the only sensible action is to hold off, that is, not use genAI. Would that be your position on all new technology, all new technology in the current environment, or is there something special about genAI (e.g. being a psychological hazard)?

I ask because I don't like to contemplate how different, and possibly worse, my life would have been if my parents had taken such a cautious position about personal computers in the 80s.

@matt The entire blog post is an argument that there is something special about generative models that works in ways that are similar to homeopathy and psychic cons and has a risk model that's more similar to pharmaceuticals than other tech. I mention several examples of how it's different including citing another long blog post of mine.

If you missed that then I must have made a huge mistake in how I wrote the blog post.

Human Rights Watch:
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[...] The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The international community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and legal responsibility.
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Over two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in famine. Since March 2, 2025, Israel has blocked all humanitarian supplies and life-saving assistance - constituting the longest total siege Gaza has ever experienced.
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Despite this catastrophic reality, over 3,000 aid trucks and 116,000 metric tonnes of food are ready and waiting to enter Gaza – obstructed solely by Israel.
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We therefore call for the immediate organization and deployment of a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to Gaza through the Rafah Crossing.

We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions -at the highest possible level- to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah Crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them. This act is grounded in states’ legal obligations, moral courage, and human solidarity.
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hrw.org/news/2025/05/19/unifie…

Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now

Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organizations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted.

^{Human Rights Watch}

At the end of the day,
'Israel still blocking aid for Gaza despite promise to lift siege, says UN' and
"the leader of the country’s centre-left Democrats party said his country was becoming a pariah nation that “kills babies as a hobby”.

Only five trucks of aid had reached Gaza by Tuesday afternoon and aid workers had not been given permission to distribute even that token shipment, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office (Ocha) told a Geneva press briefing.

Israeli authorities have approved “around 100” other trucks to enter Gaza but not yet let them cross, he said.'
More: theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

I believe the ordinary conditions needs are in the several hundred trucks for the millions of people.
Now after long self-admitted Israel-manufactured intended famine the need is extraordinarily high, not less.
If the number let in is 5 or 93, whether allowed to distribute all, some or nothing, it would at their best claim STILL be not even remotely enough and STILL an actual textbook war crime to keep blockading the humanitarian relief standing by to save more than tens of thousands indisputably 100% civilians.

Israel still blocking aid for Gaza despite promise to lift siege, says UN

Continued restrictions come as opposition leader says Israel is becoming pariah nation that ‘kills babies as a hobby’

^{Emma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)}

The latest from Doctors without Borders (MSF) UK now:
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Aid instrumentalised, health system under fire: Gaza is being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces

An insufficient amount of aid is being allowed into the Strip, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over. Meanwhile, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week by advancing Israeli ground operations, intensified airstrikes, and widespread evacuation orders. As people remain in desperate need of medical care and aid, Israeli authorities must stop the deliberate asphyxiation of Gaza and the annihilation of its healthcare system, that is underpinning their campaign of ethnic cleansing
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Read the rest on their website, here:
prezly.msf.org.uk/aid-instrume…

Aid instrumentalised, health system under fire: Gaza is being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces

Jerusalem, 20 May 2025 – An insufficient amount of aid is being allowed into the Strip, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over.

^{MSF UK}

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Joint Statement – We Are Headed to Gaza: By Land, Sea, and Air

The Overland Convoy to Break the Siege on Gaza – Sumud, the Global March to Gaza (an international initiative comprising 25 delegations from around the world), and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition jointly announce their coordinated efforts in support of initiatives aimed at ending the siege imposed on Gaza. We have established a Joint Coordination Committee, which includes several other international initiatives and organizations, with the aim of following up and coordinating the planned movements toward Gaza in mid-June.

We call on all freedom-loving people around the world to join and actively participate in these initiatives, in order to break this unjust siege and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Let us break the siege on Gaza — by land, sea, and air!

Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Overland Convoy to Break the Siege on Gaza – Sumud
Global March to Gaza
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freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/20…

Absolute heroes of humanity.

Meanwhile the politicians ponder the Palestinians to eradication for personal political profit purposes.

Joint Statement - We Are Headed to Gaza: By Land, Sea, and Air - Freedom Flotilla

The Overland Convoy to Break the Siege on Gaza – Sumud, the Global March to Gaza (an international initiative comprising 25 delegations from around the world), and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition jointly announce their coordinated efforts in support o…

^{FFC Media team (Freedom Flotilla)}

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A Month After Conscience Attack: [...] Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) launched the Madleen, a civilian ship now sailing toward Gaza carrying humanitarian aid and international human rights defenders in direct defiance of Israel’s illegal and genocidal blockade.
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On board are volunteers from multiple countries, among them Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, and climate justice activist Greta Thunberg. The ship is carrying urgently needed supplies for the people of Gaza, including baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, women’s sanitary products, water desalination kits, medical supplies, crutches, and children’s prosthetics.
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“I am aboard Madleen because silence is not neutrality—it is complicity, The Palestinian people in Gaza are being starved and slaughtered, and the world watches. This ship is not just carrying aid, it is carrying a demand: End the blockade. End the genocide.” Rima Hassan

“We are seeing a systematic starvation of 2 million people. The world cannot be silent bystanders, Every single one of us has a moral obligation to do everything we can to fight for a free Palestine.”
Greta Thunberg
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freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/01…

My thread on the attack is todon.eu/@b9AcE/11443680651738… there.

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European civil society calls for the protection of the freedom flotilla and an end to the Gaza blockade

A vessel attempting to carry medicine, food, and infant supplies to Gaza is currently sailing across the Mediterranean. A previous attempt at such a voyage was ended following an attack by armed drones. A letter so far signed by 220 organisations and 4,700 individuals calls on European and other governments to take action to ensure the protection of the vessel, and an end to the siege [...]

On board are 12 humanitarians and activists – including MEP Rima Hassan and climate activist Greta Thunberg – carrying essential aid: medicine, food, and infant supplies, destined for a Palestinian population subjected to an illegal blockade and enduring an ongoing genocide.

On 2nd June 2025, ten UN experts, including nine Special Rapporteurs, demanded that this vessel be granted safe passage, reminding the international community that:

• Gaza has the right to receive humanitarian aid by sea, even under occupation;
• The Flotilla is navigating entirely legally in international waters, in accordance with maritime and international humanitarian law;
• UN member states have both a legal and moral obligation to end the famine and the crimes being committed in Gaza.
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statewatch.org/news/2025/june/…