Lily Lynch
@lilyslynch
Foreign affairs writer, Associate @alamedainst, co-founder/editor-in-chief @Balkanist, Californian
Hotel Yugoslavia in Novi Beograd, Serbia.
Big shouts out to the people getting their dissent in just before the final solution in Gaza, like students submitting their homework at 11:59 pm. Definitely still counts and nobody noticed.
listen guys, i've read the wikipedia entry for genocide x.com/Romy_Holland/s…
listen guys, genocide is a longtime special interest of mine (i’m extremely against it ftr). i know more than any human should know about the holocaust and the cambodian genocide. we need a word for this distinct behavioral phenomenon, and if you start calling every war a…
Sy Hersh's last report was that the US was wants to get rid of Zelenskyy. I imagine this will compound that. x.com/hlib/status/19…
A protest against authorities' decision earlier today to kill Ukraine's anti-corruption infrastructure. First mass protest in Ukraine since full-scale Russian invasion. Video by @ukrpravda_news
🎥 #Video | In a rare and risky visit to Gaza, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, led a delegation into the enclave on July 18th to show their support.
Vietnam has replaced China as the major source of US imports for many simpler manufactured goods.
Every blue-check tweet from San Francisco sounds like it’s coming from SS headquarters
Something that’s pretty awkward is that I IQ tested >200 people for my undergrad thesis and developed an intense special interest in intelligence research following that, so I just think my predictor models of people’s IQs are actually just unusually calibrated. I’m pretty…
Today, the United States announced our decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Like many UN organizations, UNESCO strayed from its founding mission. Going forward, U.S. participation in international organizations must make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.
Turkish FM Hakan Fidan: “(To groups in Syria) If you move towards division and destabilization, we will perceive this as a direct threat to our national security and intervene.”
Bakan Fidan: "(Suriye'deki gruplara) Bölmeye ve istikrarsızlaştırmaya doğru giderseniz, bunu milli güvenliğimize doğrudan tehdit olarak algılar ve müdahale ederiz"
🇺🇸🇪🇺 Armas para pensar | ¿Convergencia de Estados Unidos y Europa sobre Ucrania? ✍🏼 @lilyslynch diario-red.com/articulo/armas…
If you do this I genuinely do not think of you as a human being. Consciously choosing to outsource your own cognition to a machine is rejecting what makes us human, which is our intellect. You reject reading, you reject learning, and you reject thought. Why even be alive?
Spending an hour asking ChatGPT about Adam Smith generally teaches you 3x as much as spending an hour reading Wealth of Nations. The undergrads are using AI because it's just a better, more efficient way to learn things
Neat overview of Trump's recent blustering on Ukraine by @lilyslynch newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
In the Balkans, even the animals move to the West
🇽🇰 Kosovo lion "Gjon" has moved to Netherlands for better living conditions. Gjon was sheltered in Kosovo after it was rescued from a local restaurant where it was kept to amuse clients.
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and…