510: Ring Pop Pasties, Hamas as an Israeli asset, and jet plane villas
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I attended my favorite party again this weekend, where immersive artists take over a high rise hotel and convert entire floors into art rooms.
I made art where we ambushed people on a red carpet and interviewed them as news anchors while paparazzi and fans jostled for attention, as well as a modified Mall Santa chair with a hole in it so you don’t actually sit on their lap. This pop art makeup was fun to do as well.
And I learned of the existence of ring pop nipple pasties. You’re welcome. :)
Technology
The Arc open source browser certainly looks prettier and more private than Chrome, but I’m not sure I see enough value to make the switch myself.
You can make silly selfies with AI, but what about professional headshots?
Ideologies
I owe y’all an apology. Two weeks ago I shared a sincere Israeli destroying Palestinian talking points, and said it “taught me many new things, such as the Arab expulsion of Jews around the same time as the Nakba, that Romans renamed Judea to Palestina to disassociate it from Jews, and that Jews accepted the proposed 1947 division but Arabs declined it and started a war.”
After HasanAbi covered that very video in detail with a Palestinian history scholar, I see it as blatant propaganda divorced from factual reality. Taking my above points - the Nakba is different in kind from the Jewish pilgrimages, ‘Palestina’ as a name was in use for centuries, and of course the Jews accepted the divisions because it gave them half of a country they did not have at the time.
To be fair, I did detect his intellectual dishonesty at the end while vilifying Islam, but I feel silly for buying it as much as I did now that the errors have been pointed out.
Rest assured if I ever find facts contradicting what I share here, I will share updates.
What sticks to me most from these two hours here is the current Israeli Finance Minister saying in 2015: “The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset.” Because Hamas is the evil enemy they need to wipe out, while the PLA are reasonable human rights advocates lobbying within the system.
I just heard about the Israeli New Historians, who debunk Zionist talking points, and plan to read them.
Memes
Watch Jason Derulo dance in some gorgeous and unique Bali villas you too can stay in, including one shaped like a jet airplane.