Tertulia

Welcome to The Notebook, the more personal side of Tertulia. This is generally where I will publish. Some of my thoughts are presentable, maybe even beneficial to my career — some may even prove profitable. Many are just for me and anyone paying attention. This is the space for those thoughts. Nothing written here constitutes medical, financial, or legal advice. Opinions are mine alone, etc.

"The Jewish people, for millennia, were oppressed, discriminated against, killed. Europe was responsible for much of that. They understandably sought a refuge in a place where they had historic ties. That is undeniable. What is also undeniable is that they took the land of people who were expelled. And those people, understandably, said, 'This is an injustice, and I want my land back.’

"If the attitude of Israel is, now we're the strongest, the most technologically advanced in the region, and our security depends on us doing whatever we need, taking whatever we want, and not making any concessions to anyone, then you've ceded moral ground, if that's the position you take.”

“That may work short-term... but you have ceded moral ground if that is the position you take.”

“I would say the current Israeli government appears to have taken that. It is incumbent on them to recognise that 7 million Palestinians are not going anywhere. It is not sustainable to press upon them a condition that no-one would accept for themselves.”

— Barack Obama, Oct 13th, 2026

www.aa.com.tr Obama says Israel has ‘ceded moral ground’ in Middle East conflict Former US president says Israel ‘took land off people and they were excessive’ | Anadolu

Harris was speaking at the Asan Memorial Lecture in Seoul, South Korea, where she said the U.S. had “fallen short” on its “moral obligation to human rights and international law,” Israeli news outlet Haaretz reported.

“Most recently, the failure to use our leverage to curtail the Israeli government’s horrific conduct in the war in Gaza, both under the current administration, which offers Netanyahu a blank check, and our administration before, where we should have acted sooner and more forcefully,” she said, referring to both the Biden and Trump administrations.

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thehill.com Harris calls out Biden administration over Israel’s actions in Gaza war Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday said the Biden administration should have responded sooner to the Israeli government’s “horrific conduct” in the Gaza war. Harris …

8/8: no.

No other government in the history of the state of Israel has done more to avoid a Palestinian state than this government, with 103 new villages all across Judea and Samaria [the West Bank], and 160 farms. A total revolution and Judea and Samaria. A total annihilation of the Fayyad programme. — Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Candidate for Knesset

i just watched louis theroux's documentary on dementia wards.

you can spend years studying human behavior, neurobiology, sexual coercion, and group violence — trying to map out the darkest or most complex corners of how humans make decisions — and you're still completely floored by memory loss. the quiet ways people try to navigate a dissolving reality, the grief of losing identity in real time, and the sheer endurance of their caretakers... simply: wow.

a lot of folks are asking how we might apply computational medicine to oncology, how we will cure cancer, and whether ai is the right tool — and we should. but what can computational tools do about brain damage and memory? can advanced modeling actually help us map degraded neural circuits, rebuild lost pathways, and restore memory? if you can restore the ability to form new memories, or identify and correct the bioenergetic deficits at the root of some forms of memory loss, what does that mean for memories that have already degraded, or that were encoded across signaling pathways that no longer exist?

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

The best is yet to come! – The Honorable Kimberly Guilfoyle

https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1298082547533066245

be me.

layover at an airport with my friend's favorite burger chain.

i send the group chat a photo of no. 1 tucking into a tasty burger.

phone rings immediately. it friend.

"like a knife to the heart!"

i bring my friend a tasty burger from far away.