kinda the plot of children of time by adrian tchaikovsky
a faction of humans creates a garden planet and then tries to infect monkeys with a virus to make them sapient, with the endgoal being a monkey slave workforce that sees humans as god
obviously it failed at the first hurdle and spiders accidentally get uplifted instead
luxembourg's representative for eurovision might be a zionist, since she said she "loves israel", her brother is in the idf, and she dedicated her win in the luxembourg song contest to him... also the luxembourg song contest was produced by an israeli team, the same people who worked on the eurovision song contest in tel aviv in 2019
there are artists who called for their broadcasters and the european broadcasting union to exclude israel but they're still not doing anything. recently it was 1005 artists from sweden that signed a letter for svt, but svt just said they're "in dialogue" with the ebu, so i doubt anything will come of that either. it's all expected but disappointing tbh, considering they never banned azerbaijan and the broadcasters forced them to ban russia against their will
there's a palestinian artist competing in iceland's national selection though, that's pretty cool