another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

if you need something, get it now before consumer electronics becomes another sacrifice we make to the AGI gods

The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts. This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous. Here's why: 🧵

I helped build the FAccT academic conference, and white men like Seth have to come along and make sure that the people we tried to get away from, the TESCREAL eugenicist ghouls, have every academic space in addition to the billions they're drowning in.

Ramadan begins on Wednesday in KSA, UAE, and Qatar! While Thursday is the first day in Egypt, Oman, Jordan, and Syria! 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

It's not that I wish to see rude content, quite the opposite. It's that I don't want to accidentally get caught in that filter. Users should be able to understand the rules so that they don't accidentally violate them. With something as subjective as "rude," that's really important.

We spoke to 68 migrant parents raising 134 children about the Government’s proposed “earned settlement” model. 👇They told us the plans would push families into government-imposed poverty and make it harder to keep their children safe, housed and secure.

Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon kills four near Syrian border - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strike-eastern-lebanon-kills-four-near-syrian-border

We’re looking for two new volunteers to support our creative and educational activities: 👯‍♀️ Dance and Movement Co-Facilitator 🗣️ Conversation Club Co-Facilitator, Online (via Zoom) Find out more: www.refugeewomen.co.uk/volunteering/ Deadline Sunday 22 February, 8pm.

This story will be updated: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system. Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock. Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.

the problem with this is: why was Prince Andrew, an enormously unqualified, oafish and inadequate person, a trade envoy

Israel approves West Bank policy to expand settlements, deepen control - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-west-bank-policy-expand-settlements-deepen-control

Is there anyone else who imagines ICE as Dementors, the blind, hooded guards of Azkaban prison? This is how I always see them!

🔴 Israel issued at least two forced displacement orders since two mornings ago: one in Khan Younis, which was later targeted with heavy Israeli strikes, and another currently active near Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.

Residents in Sudan’s city of Dilling taste bananas for the first time in two years, after SAF soldiers broke through the RSF siege on the South Kordofan city this past week.

Deepmind's marketing department known as Nature.

"Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism."

Cops siding with cops

The first Palestinians returned to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing this week, after being stuck outside Gaza for two years or more. They described grueling interrogations, intimidation, and threats by Israeli soldiers at the crossing. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/hand... #Palestine #Israel

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First post from me for a while on my occasional Substack, about Labour's earned settlement proposals and the damage they will do. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

La meg sitere @maryamaldossari.bsky.social: “det urovekkende er ikke at det saudiarabiske regimet selger illusjonen om fremgang, men hvor ivrig vestem er etter å kjøpe den”. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saud...

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

Only 12 of the 42 Palestinians who sought to return to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Border Crossing on Monday were allowed to enter, according to a Tuesday report, which said 30 were blocked and were returned to Egypt.

My statement on the Gorton & Denton by-election:

🟠We could never see anything like ICE on the streets of Britain... Or could we? 👇 open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

Two HRW employees that make up the entirety of the organization's Israel and Palestine program are stepping down after the leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a "crime against humanity." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

As of 5pm 13 arrests had been made at the Palestine Coaliton protest and one at Stop the Hate One of the arrests at PC march was for assault after a passing man "confronted protesters". Some others related to signs and chants relating to Palestine Action and calls for intifada, the Met Police said

Today's protest by the Palestine Coaliton march in London vastly outnumbered a counter-protest by Stop the Hate and an unrelated march by Ukip, whose leader advertised it in a video wearing a...black shirt Photos posted on X by the Met Police - 1. Palestine Coalition, 2. Stop the Hate, 3. Ukip

What is the meaning of 'globalise the intifada' and when did it first appear? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-meaning-globalize-intifada-and-when-did-it-first-appear

NEW: An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers @oregonian.com spoke with in Nike’s second-largest production hub said they earned that much.

Exclusive: Blair meeting with Gaza committee stresses no role in politics, disarmament - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-blair-meeting-gaza-committee-stresses-no-role-politics-disarmament

Starmer's faction would rather burn the Labour party to the ground than lose control. New column 👇

🧵 #BREAKING | Itai Levy, CEO and co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity firm Kernelios, is convicted of raping children for MONTHS Levy pleaded guilty in Israel's Central District Court to four counts of statutory rape of a minor, but, of course, with the Israelis it gets worse

"Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week". The West's normalisation of the mass death of black Africans (because that is predominantly who these people are) will never be less than devastating.

SPOILER ALERT: "Hamstrung by human rights laws" means "not allowed to murder you for no reason".

“So sorry that we can’t torture people because of human rights law”

🔊Should settlement rules change without hearing from communities? We don’t think so! 📖Our guide breaks down the different questions, what they mean, and ways that you can answer. Please take the time to use our guide and share your voice! The online consultation is open until the 12 February.

Saudi dissident awarded $4.1 million by UK court for hacking, assault 'by Saudi Arabia' . Saudi Arabia had tried to throw out his lawsuit, arguing it had state immunity, but its argument was rejected by the High Court in 2022. www.reuters.com/world/uk/sau...

Syrian army, Kurdish-led SDF accuse each other of ceasefire violations https://aje.news/wymmnk

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Imagine debasing yourself by saying dumb shit like this

It suits the day! #Jan25 By Nikita Gill