Notices by Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)

When you search for “mastodon” in the iPhone App Store, the top result is an ad for Truth Social #enshittification

Israel's military secretly surveilled Gaza Health Ministry officials and confirmed that the numbers they release (right now it's 25K dead, 62K injured) are accurate. IDF has no idea how many civilians it's killing, so Israel relies on the Gaza Health Ministry for this data like the rest of us. See the original reporting in Hebrew https://www.mekomit.co.il/%d7%94%d7%a6%d7%91%d7%90-%d7%91%d7%93%d7%a7-%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%a6%d7%90-%d7%a9%d7%93%d7%99%d7%95%d7%95%d7%97%d7%99-%d7%94%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%92%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%93-%d7%94%d7%91/

I'm excited that @theintercept's website now lets authors specify their Signal phone number and their Mastodon and Bluesky account at the bottom of every article!

The Intercept authors can also now verify themselves on Mastodon by linking to their author bio in their metadata.

MY LATEST: Several thousand American Jews have mobilized across the U.S. to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Anti-Defamation League calls these Jewish organizations "hate groups." https://theintercept.com/2023/11/11/palestine-israel-protests-ceasefire-antisemitic/

ADL publishes a map of "Antisemitic Incidents and Anti-Israel Rallies in the U.S. Since Hamas’s Attack on Israel." 46% of the points are antisemitic vandalism, harassment, and assault, much of it from neo-Nazis. The other 54% are anti-war protests which ADL calls "anti-Israel rallies"

Here are some examples of "Anti-Israel Rallies" from ADL's map, all organized by Jews:

- Oct 16, blockading entrances to the White House
- Oct 19, marching on Capitol Hill, hundreds arrested at sit-in in Capitol
- Oct 27, Grand Central Station, largest sit-in in NYC in over two decades

"We’re seeing a genuine rise in antisemitic attacks and white nationalist, white supremacist, antisemitic hate and violence. When white nationalism is on the rise, to cheapen the accusation of antisemitism by applying it to Palestinian rights advocates, including Jews, is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous." - Eva Borgwardt, IfNotNow

Nice Wi-Fi password

For all those doubting the Gaza Health Ministry numbers (which right now is 7,326 dead, including 3,038 children, and another 18,967 injured), here's a good summary of how the numbers are counted:

> The Gaza casualty numbers come mostly from doctors who diligently count every body brought into struggling hospitals, then send the numbers on to the Health Ministry for tabulation, The Associated Press explained regarding the accuracy of the death count. And while Hamas exerts control over the ministry, it's partly funded and run by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank — a key Hamas rival — and many of its civil servants predate Gaza's Hamas takeover. The United Nations and other international institutions and experts "say the Gaza ministry has long made a good-faith effort to account for the dead under the most difficult conditions," AP reported, and "in previous wars, the ministry's counts have held up to U.N. scrutiny, independent investigations and even Israel's tallies."

Source: https://theweek.com/defence/how-trustworthy-are-the-gaza-health-ministrys-casualty-numbers
Original AP source: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033

#FreeSpeech

Confirmed that it works

I just set up a new public Signal number on this old cheap Android phone that has a battery that's ballooning out so much the case doesn't really fit on it :crt_w_green_lines:

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/What_to_do_with_a_swollen_battery 🔥