The US is building a pier in Gaza to receive aid. But Biden has given Israel plenty of opportunity to choke off the flow of aid once it gets onto the pier.

I also wonder if there will really be a "third party" available to transport the aid into Gaza. It would not surprise me if the amount of aid that really arrives is far too little.

Biden should have taken Netanyahu down a peg by showing that the US does not need Israel's approval to deliver aid to Gaza.

There is a "AI beauty contest" for images drawn by generative systems, whose "conversations" (if they pretend to have any) are output from bullshit generators.

This is an extrapolation of the absurdity of beauty contests wiht real women. and highlights that absurdity.

The corrupter bought a beauty contest, and was accused of rigging the outcome so that the contestants had to go to bed with him to have a chance of winning.

India drove out an Australian journalist for the ABC network by various sorts of harassment including sending DMCA takedown notices for her stories. The government objected to what she said in news coverage.

British doctors' associations have condemned the suspension of Dr Sarah Benn from medical practice, which was done for no reason except that she was convicted of protesting against government policies that endanger human health.

There is no reason whatever to think that she has become incapable of properly practicing medicine.

*Iranian women violently dragged from streets by [religious thugs] amid hijab crackdown.*