The fck is this clown on about. Also has he had a stroke.

Important perspective from Greenland.

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

Also the populist left tbh. “Lexit will allow a break from neoliberalism and unite socialist movements across Europe” nope. “Russia is fighting Nazis in the Donbas” nope. “Trump is against foreign military interventions” nope.

Yes, ICE is a Gestapo-like police force compromised largely of white supremacists who were unable to obtain jobs in traditional law enforcement. But so many of the anti-ICE people I talk to are like the worst wine moms . I have never felt more politically homeless.

‘The main thing is that we remain different from them, that we never allow ourselves to be made into them or start thinking as they do. Even if they conquer the whole world, we must refuse to become Nazis.’ Trudel in Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin.

I hope so. But there’s quite a lot of the internet full of “well actually the gestapo we’re right to execute this unarmed woman”

Danish guy gets it

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

There is literally nothing that could make me go back to being a regular user of X/Twitter. At my peak, I posted 100+ times a day, my account had 60k followers and my bot had more than 125k. It changed my life and my career. But I left more than two years ago. Now X is so toxic, it generates CSAM.

I’m not going to do it, because I don’t use CSAM generating chat bots hosted on a Nazi website, but you could give grok a prompt telling it to double down and refuse to apologize. Would Reuters print that, the credulous pricks

Lots of great ones, but I’ve always loved this by Aphex Twin, directed by Jarvis Cocker youtu.be/hrTBjJM3tTk?...

Eleventy fucking first.

This is a great example of how a picture is not worth more than three words: full of shit

TL;DR: Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.

Genuine question: Why's the reaction of many politicians to AI 'it's transformational, we must go faster, we can dismiss concerns over energy, copyright, job losses', yet the reaction to a clean tech transition that's more advanced and has less overt downsides is 'steady now, we need to slow down'.

right wingers when u quit twitter

Europe is weak, which is why they should surrender to this despot that I'm visibly in thrall to. Look at my cheap gold trinkets and baubles that people bribe me with. Don't look at my tiny decaying hands.

Is the irritating obsequious tone of most chatbots a reflection of how people talk to the billionaires that own them? I don't need to be told that my dumb question is an "insightful observation!".

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived

OCH AYE THE FOOTBALL

Getting closer the more emails are released.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

✅ Trump burst in on teenagers getting dressed on purpose ✅ Ivanka made Trump promise not to date her teenage friends ✅ Epstein violently died in Trump DoJ custody ✅ Tape of that night was edited ✅ Trump has dozens of accusers ✅ one alleged she was raped by Trump at 14 at Epstein’s house (withdrawn)

✅ he was extremely close friends with Epstein ✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump ✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago ✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump ✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files ✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes

✅ He sent a birthday card to Epstein implying they share wonderful secrets ✅ He gave special accommodation to Ghislaine in exchange for her silence WHY IS THIS NOT EVERYWHERE?

This manages to be both as sad as Corbyn's fake peace prize, whilst also the corrupt debasement of football by FIFA. Just sadness all the way down.

Nice waking up to good news for once. Well done NYC

This guy makes it look effortless, but this is how to politics. Also heard him on the Guardian football podcast (ikr) and he was both incredibly natural whilst being totally on message (which was: the World Cup is unaffordable for most New Yorkers despite hosting it).

I see that instead of the Romans, Musk is now completely missing the point about Tolkien in service of his dumb racism.

One crucial thing to understand about the current bubble is that none of the people dumping money into it or hyping it up will be hurt at all when it blows up. The US has made rich, powerful people effectively immune from consequences. It's the plebes who will suffer.

Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…

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These World Cup ticket prices may look high, but don't forget the US ones include a month-long stay in an ICE facility.

America is cooked.

Have two ID cards (from two separate countries). They are a good idea, no secret police so far.

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

A 12 year old could figure out the holes in this logic.

The French radio is carrying this shit live. Some poor guy is having to translate this live. If I were American I would die of embarrassment

How can anyone listen to that voice.

Flashbacks to hippies telling me about some big NSA program to Hoover up all our internet data

Bleakly funny that Elon Musk‘s brain worms mean he is still invoking the idea of a “reasonable centre”. The reasonable centre who believe that inter-ethnic violence in the UK is inevitable, aye right.