This is what most chest thumping nats don't ubderstand "foreign aid" isn't charity, its a hard nosed calculation that 10 bucks soent today over there saves 500 here tomorrow.

diaspora being the perpetrator of modern orientalism feels like a specific type of betrayal.

Hi all, please remember the Tiananmen square massacre.

The burst of AI bubble is imminent but its damage is going to stay. Both the internet and printed materials around us are polluted with slops, and the most insufferable person you know is having their ego boosted by chat bots. We are all living in a post apocalyptic digital wasteland.

This could also explain the downfall of Hong Kong government's efficiency since the national security law enacted.

The two ends of the political horseshoe have been very quiet on this meeting.

The most hopeful thing Ive seen recently is that the AI companies making their subscription plans less and less generous, this is the sign they are running out of cash to burn.

Seems like the purpose of the UK in the Trump imagination is to comfort his delusions of grandeur while the influence of the UK itself on the world stage keeps on getting reduced.

The average Twitter users are too young/dumb to understand what happened to Japan in the 90s and the US in 2008.

I thought Bluesky is a refuge for folks who hate AI slop techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/b...

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

I am sure the geopolitics space of Chinese internet has the most impressive mental gymnasts. No matter which direction the geopolitical events are developing towards, the Chinese MAGAs could always come up with a conclusion that Trump is winning and "the left" is behind everything they dislike.

It's also rather funny to see supposed PRC-lovers talking about "zionist genocide" when I see Chinese workers in Israel daily building infrastructure and when China operates Haifa port. So, calling out anything what has to do with Israel is okay, but also okay is to earn money and connections off it

Dominic Lee is well known in Hong Kong for being anti-welfare and xenophobic.

Andrew Tate is in Hong Kong now, all the local incels are summoned and defending him on the internet 🤢🤮

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total internet blackout with national connectivity at 4% or ordinary levels. The incident comes amid US and Israeli combat operations and matches measures used during last year's war with Israel.

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

I will say one goddamn thing, because it's relevant to the preliminaries: every news service saying this is an "Israeli" attack after it was clearly reported that we were begging Israel to strike first to give us cover is a disgrace upon disgrace.

Honestly though, seeing luddites as inherently terrible is also problematic since "[t]he Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality."

Labelling anyone who oppose an emerging technology "luddites" is naive because in fact, there are many examples of people realising a technology is bad and decided to prohibit its proliferation: CFC, lead gasoline, asbestos...

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Hong Kong's leader lashed out at Jimmy Lai's "evil deeds," whilst the Committee to Protect Journalists said the Apple Daily founder's jailing "underscores the complete collapse of press freedom..." In full: buff.ly/pD8DfQE

I see Threads is slowly becoming X (full of Westerners being delusional about China)

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It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct

Just found out Rojava is actually still fighting, I admire their defiance!!

Sad to see Rojava gone, I hope the best for the Kurdish people.

⚠️ Update: Metrics show a very slight rise in internet connectivity in #Iran this morning after the 200 hour mark. However, overall connectivity remains at ~2% of ordinary levels and there is no indication of a significant return.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

⚠️ Update: At 180 hours, the total internet blackout in #Iran now exceeds the core duration of the 2019 shutdown, and there is still no partial or regional restoration. in 2019, it was only after connectivity was restored that the scale of the brutal crackdown became known.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has passed the 156 hour mark as the silence deepens after a brutal crackdown. Meanwhile, the online information vacuum is resulting in the amplification of pro-regime accounts, AI fakes, and other agendas.

⚠️ Update: Network data show the #Iran has now entered the seventh day of a near-total telecoms blackout, with the incident passing the 144-hour mark; the disruption ranks among the longest on record and continues to isolate over ninety million Iranians from the outside world

Geoblocking implies they *still think it’s ok to do it*. It’s literally a feature, not a bug.

West Bank Bedouin community driven out by Israeli settler violence. While attacks by Israeli settlers affect communities across the West Bank, the semi-nomadic Bedouins are among the territory's most vulnerable u.afp.com/SXRZ

⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been offline for 120 hours. Despite some phone calls now connecting, there is no secure way to communicate and the general public remain cut off from the outside world. What footage makes it through shows extensive use of force against civilians 📵

A report by @iraninternational.bsky.social reveals a staggering toll: at least 12,000 killed in a brutal crackdown on protests in Iran, ordered by the highest levels of power amid a deepening communication blackout. #Iran #HumanRights #IranProtests #FreeIran www.iranintl.com/en/202601130...

Hengaw human rights group: Irfan Soltani, 26 has been sentenced to death with his execution slated for Wednesday Soltani would be the first demonstrator hanged during the 16-day #IranProtests #Iran

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⚠️ Update: As #Iran wakes up to a new day, metrics show the national internet blackout is past the 84 hour mark. Years of digital censorship research point to these workarounds: 📻 Shortwave/HAM radio 📶 Cell towers at borders 📡 Starlink terminals 🛰️ Direct-to-Cell satellite

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is now past the 60 hour mark as national connectivity levels continue to flatline around 1% of ordinary levels. The censorship measure presents a direct threat to the safety and wellbeing of Iranians at a key moment for the country's future

Is the lion flag of Iran necessarily a pro-monarchy symbol, or it is just a symbol against the current regime Iran? According to Wikipedia the Iranian government before the 1953 coup d'etat was also using the same flag.

I thought the right's whole thing was that we shouldn't live in fear of arbitrary state power, whoopsies

It is frustrating to live in an era where photos, videos and testimonies cannot decisively settle arguments because 1. AI and 2. too many people being too delusional to accept things that contradict their beliefs.