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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️

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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️

@provisionalidea

founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech. 🗣️ I have strong opinions; you will not agree with all of them. That’s a good thing. 📚 I share what I learn.

Toronto

Joined November 2014

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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Dec 8, 2025
The most exciting part of electrical and computer engineering to me was always the prospect of designing tools that adapt to us as we adapt to them. Some of this fascination is probably due to my background in neuro, anthro, and cybernetics, but mainly I’m fascinated by how this
James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Dec 8, 2025
sanity (accelerated improvement demands co-research between experienced human experts and machine technicians) prevails again every burst of sanity brings us closer to a soft landing
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Aug 17, 2025
we have now reached the point where israel is calling israelis hamas
Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין
@MairavZ
Aug 17, 2025
Estimates of over 100k Israelis marching now in Tel Aviv, police estimate nearly 250k passed through hostage square. Israeli government officials called the protest “Hamas support riots”
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Mar 16, 2025
If you thought “The Department of Government Efficiency” sounded like an Orwellian twist on a Kafkaesque nightmare — wait til you see this.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Nov 15, 2023
I’m sorry as someone who used to work in MRI that propaganda video alleging bags with guns were stored in the same room as an MRI machine makes me want to swear profusely you cannot. put metal. in the same room. as a giant. fucking. magnet.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Jun 5, 2025
I get the sense a lot of Americans have a cartoony, Hollywoodized understanding of what life under authoritarianism is like. They don’t get that most censorship is self-censorship; most people just go about their normal, daily lives not talking about the things they shouldn’t.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Oct 22, 2024
The CNN death-by-bulldozer apologia is even more disturbing when you realize the IDF killed American activist Rachel Corrie that way in 2003.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Oct 11, 2024
A few things to note. 1) faced with an unreasonable demand, @weatherchannel decided to declare a simple article of clothing held dear by an entire cultural community “offensive” and not fit for public display. This is a far more political act than the original ad.
The Weather Channel
@weatherchannel
Oct 10, 2024
Replying to @StopAntisemites
The Weather Company and its consumer brand, The Weather Channel, are widely recognized for our integrity and the trust we have with the public. We deeply apologize to anyone we offended through the inadvertent selection of an image in our recent ad campaign. We certainly don’t
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Oct 20, 2024
imagine describing bombing banks this way
Jason Brodsky
@JasonMBrodsky
Oct 20, 2024
#Hezbollah financial institutions are literally collapsing tonight following #Israel's airstrikes.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Feb 9, 2025
TIL Elon has never used SQL
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Mar 2, 2024
Israel is banning *water purification tablets* from entering Gaza
Tamara Qiblawi تمارا قبلاوي - tqiblawi.bsky.social
@tamaraqiblawi
Mar 1, 2024
New investigation: we explored Israel's ghost list of items that are being arbitrarily denied access to Gaza since October 7. These include: Anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, crutches, solar panels, ventilators and water purification tablets. cnn.com/2024/03/01/mid…
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Apr 28, 2024
Fareed Zakaria
@FareedZakaria
Apr 26, 2024
Why has the Gaza war spun colleges into chaos? Because campuses have weakened as actual communities, where people mingle, interact and get to know and trust each other. My latest column: cnn.com/2024/04/26/opi…
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Feb 13, 2025
it’s amazing that 500,000 Israelis live illegally in the West Bank (720k w East Jerusalem), and the idea of relocating them to Israel in line with the law is considered impossible and verboten to discuss but forcibly moving 2 million Gazans to other countries? That’s a WSJ oped.
dylan saba
@shaabiranks
Feb 13, 2025
Hamas has proposed the population transfer that is required by law: the return of Palestinian refugees in Gaza to their homes and the return of illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank to within ‘48. Israel has categorically rejected this, choosing to commit genocide instead
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
May 3, 2024
you can tell the NYPD had IDF training because they use the same ridiculous media tactics as Herzog
 Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (waitmanwbeorn.com on 🟦)
@waitmanb
May 3, 2024
Oh...oh dear. The NYPD has found...the @OUPAcademic Oxford Very Short Introduction series. I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
@provisionalidea
Aug 18, 2024
why do we keep doing superfluous rework instead of pushing the boundaries of knowledge this is from 1972 they chose a tactile standard because they understood you wouldn’t always be able to look at your controls and should be able to tell what you were doing without looking
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)
@HeidyKhlaaf
Aug 18, 2024
A significant amount of safety research has existed since the 70s on Human Machine Interfaces proving exactly this. It's exhausting to watch money and effort wasted in a tech hype cycle to constantly undo and redo what we already know in safety engineering.
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