Asad Sayeed @[email protected]

I've mentioned before: one of my brothers, a brain tumour doc, died of a brain tumour himself in Feb2020. My family+his colleagues have joined forces to start an endowment for neuro-oncology resident training and research award. Link to learn/donate: bt-endowment.org

.@JanKEliasson is exactly right. If you want to ease starvation of children in Gaza, no need for air drops. The solution is simple: Let the UN and NGOs truck food across the border (and stop shooting desperate civilians trying to get food for their families).

An Israeli minister boasts that “Gaza is being erased, we are wiping out the population.”

lot of cope in the replies. "Well all I wanted was a domestic gestapo. We're getting *that*, right? A gestapo? right?"

You don’t get to just tweet your complicity away. It will haunt you forever.

Hello I am a North American journalist and op Ed writer. For the last 18 months my dang computer has been auto correcting all of my writing and posts to say that what’s happening in Gaza is complicated but necessary. What I actually meant is that it’s bad. Thank you

Because of a family visit, I will be coming in Monday afternoon to #acl2025nlp (so most of a day late not counting tutorials) but I will be there to present posters at the GEM2 and WOAH workshops.

the aid to the population and the hostages Hamas is holding should not be connected issues

Senior Israeli military officials tell the NYT they never found evidence Hamas systematically stole UN aid and that the UN aid delivery system was largely effective nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…

"In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate, unnecessary force against a civilian population—an unarmed, starving population ... until I was in Gaza, at the hands of the IDF and U.S. contractors." — Former U.S. Green Beret

Apparently you have to be logged in to see negative reviews on Amazon now?

Reading this report from Crisis Group, what strikes me is the sheer inhumanity of a military strategy that aims to keep 2 million people permanently on the brink of famine. It is utterly sickening. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…

I am begging you please read every word of this

#BREAKING One-third of Gaza's population has not eaten in several days, WFP report shows

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide – says it plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

“A starting point, in my view, must be recognition that the Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying performance of the economy for the better. This must now be admitted. Too much of the post-Thatcher performance was unsustainable. This was, in good part,…

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Steve Darling interrogates Liz Kendall in today's Work & Pensions committee into the failure to consult with disabled people over the PIP proposals in recent bill. Kendall argues that they consulted with MPs instead via Parliamentary debate 👇

Hundreds of Trusted Computing Firmware Developers, DRM Engineers Eaten by Penguins After "Daring Escape" from Antarctic Gnulag Goes Horribly Awry

Hey @grok, is paying lip service to "AI safety" better than just releasing the model without that ritual?

2/ EDUCATION in the US: students overpay (500-1000% more than European costs), most teaching is done by underpaid adjuncts (<10% of tenured salaries); money goes to administration, real estate developers, & vendors (s.a. Springer). Same model for HEALTHCARE.