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almogo commented on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says   cnn.com/2025/06/12/middle... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
almogo · 3 months ago
We just got strange alerts on our phones here in Israel (3:00am local time), reading:

"""

Emergency alert: Extreme

Home Front Command instructions must be followed.

Due to the preparation for a significant threat, the Home Front Command's instructions, which are currently being distributed throughout the media, must be immediately followed.

"""

almogo commented on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes   harvard.edu/president/new... · Posted by u/impish9208
almogo · 4 months ago
No mention of anti-Asian discrimination? It made big rounds in all the American media circles a few years back, and if memory serves, MAGA boarded that train too.

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almogo commented on AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court   lawfaremedia.org/article/... · Posted by u/hn_acker
bdangubic · 6 months ago
You cannot create something and pretend its use has nothing to do with you.

has always worked with guns so it'll always work with anything else :) and guns will kill more people that AI-generated shit for foreseeable future

almogo · 6 months ago
There is an argument that "AI-generated shit" (on social media, or otherwise) can influence elections, and thus war. The best example I can think of is https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68918330.
almogo commented on Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think   usher.dev/posts/2025-03-0... · Posted by u/tom_usher
ivanjermakov · 6 months ago
I find Youtube amazing when you never leave subscriptions page (excluding all clutter such as community posts and short videos), just a list of videos from creators you find entertaining.
almogo · 6 months ago
And contrawise, if you exclusively watch what "the algorithm" feeds you, you'll find yourself drowning in brainrot fairly quickly.
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almogo · 6 months ago
What kind of fairytale world are we living in that Russia has any plausible deniability here? We can say what we want about NATO expansionism, but this kind of behavior is not dissimilar to that of the Houthis or Somali pirates.
almogo commented on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/dnsbty
GordonS · 7 months ago
> hundreds of peaceful civilians being tortured, taped and murdered

There is no absolute evidence that any of Hamas' hostages have been raped or tortured - according to released hostages, they were treated very well! AFAIK the only known instance of Hamas murdering a hostage was when a fighter lost it after Israel killed his entire family - all the other deaths have been a result of Israeli bombs (because if you want hostages back, you bomb them... right?!).

And as you doubtless know, many of the "peaceful civilians" are actually serving IDF members...

And as you also doubtless know, Palestinian hostages are routinely raped and tortured to death in Israeli dungeons - there is a wealth of evidence.

> It's pretty clear those places are being used as terrorist hideouts and to launch rocket attacks.

This is what Israeli Hasbara do - repeat unevidenced claims until people accept them as "truth". But it's lies, there isn't a shred of evidence that Hamas as used even a single hospital as a "terrorist hideout". You know who has repurposed Gazan hospitals for military ops? Israel - every accusation is a confession with them.

almogo · 7 months ago
Can't believe we're here again.

> There is no absolute evidence that any of Hamas' hostages have been raped or tortured - according to released hostages, they were treated very well!

Hamas literally executed some: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/01/middleeast/israel-gaza-ww...

But yeah, other than that, treated very well!

almogo commented on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials   icc-cpi.int/news/situatio... · Posted by u/runarberg
almogo · 9 months ago
I suppose there's a bit of nuance here. I agree HN tends to be left-wing. I'm just surprised (and again, not very, not anymore) at the degree of anti-Israel rhetoric I see here - it's more alike what I'd expect from more fringe corners of the Internet.

I hope the community is able to moderate itself appropriately, so far I think it's doing a fairly good job.

almogo commented on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials   icc-cpi.int/news/situatio... · Posted by u/runarberg
EvgeniyZh · 9 months ago
I don't think I've seen any pro-Israeli post in top since the beginning of the war. Definitely anything I submitted was flagged to death almost immediately, even if it was hacker-ish (say, the analysis of the Hamas statistics). You can say of course that users decide what they want, but for political stories at least I don't think it is straightforward
almogo · 9 months ago
The HN community is strongly anti-Israel. Which is surprising, but then again, what's really still surprising these days?

I do think this news is major enough to justify being on HN. There is at least some useful discussions on the ICC that I found interesting, intermixed between the typical antisemitic messaging we're all-too used to seeing.

u/almogo

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