Be ungovernable

"The only chess title I [@Kasparov63] never won was the under-16 championship. I tried, first in 1976, and then again the following year. The competition took place in northern France. My mother, always an essential, supportive presence at my matches back home, was replaced by a state-appointed coach. ["Before I turned 20, the KGB would not allow my mother to travel abroad with me to competitions, essentially holding her in the USSR as human collateral to discourage defection"]. "I was a 13 year-old kid from Baku, on the fringes of the Soviet empire, with only a stranger as my company in a strange land. It was a deeply uncomfortable experience, and I just couldn’t manage the win." "Still, the Soviet authorities could not hold a blindfold over my eyes. I, too, was exposed to the fruits of a free society, and from a much younger age than Boris Yeltsin. "In France, I met a family who would cross the border into Belgium each morning to buy milk (and they were confident there would be milk readily available to buy!). That shattered my sense of travel as a deeply proscribed activity. No commissar had to sign off on that family’s daily excursion. Free societies enable freedom of movement." "Four years later, in 1980, I was in Italy, on my way back from my first chess olympiad in Malta. During a long layover, I caught The Empire Strikes Back. It was my first experience with American cinema that hadn’t filtered a censor and a dub. What a drag to leave the theater knowing I was returning to a country where the Darth Vaders ran the show. Free societies foster creative expression; unfree ones force it underground or wipe it away altogether." "In 1991, in the final days of the Soviet Union, I spoke at a rally—as it happens, in support of Boris Yeltsin’s presidential campaign (we had higher hopes for him back then). I stood on Manezh Square, just beyond the Kremlin walls. I was confident; I’d been in the public eye for some time. But, standing in front of hundreds of thousands of people, I briefly found myself at a loss for words." "When I collected myself, I recounted how I’d recently been to America. There, I only saw long lines in one place: Disneyland. I told the crowd that we ought to have a country where people queued for amusement park rides and not for food." "Free societies deliver abundance." - @Kasparov63 @chessninja @UrielEpshtein @Renew_Democracy

This century’s main threat to America and its partners is the rapidly emerging axis between China and Russia, and their associated outriders like North Korea, Iran, and Belarus. afr.com/policy/foreign-affai…

If you don’t believe in free speech for people who you disagree with, and even hate for what they stand for, then you don’t believe in free speech.

Being a CCP simp is so normalized in Australian society nowadays that Bob Carr and Dan Andrews probably genuinely had no idea that anyone could doubt their decision to join Xi’s “anti-fascist” (opposites day LOL) parade

From @abcnews: China has built a 3,200-hectare network of island military bases in the South China Sea, some of which are now capable of launching nuclear bombers, intelligence reveals. abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/t…

Last year I declassified intel exposing China’s weapons support for Russia in Ukraine. China denied it. Russia denied it. And wrongly, so did the US. Now however, the evidence is landing on the battlefield. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…

There is no difference between saying "Globalise the Intifada" and "Jews to the ovens". The intended meaning is the same.

I am not in favour of Israel killing Ali Khamenei. He should be handed over to Iranian women to lynch him. It's their right.

‼️ WE DID IT ‼️ The law is going to CHANGE to address #Uyghur slavery in 🇬🇧 renewables. A HUGE deal. Happy, but emotional thinking about @rahimamahmut and so many others in the #Uyghur community who have to fight so hard for any recognition of their people's suffering.

Two Versions of Me; One Oppressed under Islamic Republic in Iran, One Free. Yes, having such a normal joy and freedom with your family is a crime in Iran. I’ll never forget the first time I went to the beach, wore what I wanted, and threw myself into the sea. That moment felt like true freedom, a freedom the Islamic Republic has worked tirelessly to deny us, belittling women with the phrase: “You think freedom is just about getting naked,” and alienating us from our own bodies. When I launched my campaign against compulsory hijab in 2014, I was relentlessly attacked. The regime’s propaganda machine claimed “Masih Alinejad wants to encourage Iranian women to be naked.” They even aired lies on State TV, saying I “undressed on the subway” and were to be raped by 3 men. This is their mindset. Now, I hear the same demeaning rhetoric used to shame women like Parastoo Ahmadi, who defied the ban on women’s voices and held a protest concert in the clothes of her choice. They insult her, saying: “Getting naked isn’t protest.” The same words were hurled at Ahoo Daryaei, the woman who removed her clothes in Tehran to protest the brutality of the morality police. To those who say, “You just want to get naked,” we say: “Yes. If reclaiming our bodies is your red line, we will cross it. We will fight until neither turbaned nor suited clerics have any claim over us.” #WomanLifeFreedom is more than a slogan, it is the future of Iran. We will fight for a future where our bodies, our voices, and our lives belong to us, free from repression, free from fear, and free from you.

So the French can produce nuclear power at $85.61 per MWH, but CSIRO says it can only be produced for $300 to $500. Are we in a parallel universe or should the CSIRO be defunded? statista.com/statistics/1267…

A reminder regarding CSIRO cost predictions.

So @CSIRO has released their next consultation draft for GenCost. The most important conclusion is this one... That renewables have "lowest cost range of any new electricity generation" I wonder whether the data supports that?

Maybe we can entice them with a knish.

At @CYBERWARCON, @Google’s Threat Intelligence Group revealed they have been tracking GLASSBRIDGE, a group of four companies that operate networks of inauthentic news sites and newswire services publishing pro-PRC narratives. cloud.google.com/blog/topics…

VIDEO 🔴: Acclaimed novelist @SalmanRushdie to the German tabloid @BILD: “If there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas, and that would make it a Taliban like state. …and it would be a client state of Iran. Is that what the progressive movement of the western left wants to create?”

Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating w/ Dept of Homeland Security, FBI to police “disinfo.” Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that undermines trust in financial institutions. interc.pt/3Dq6TDB