ex-CTO. Stopped working in tech as it pollutes more than the air industry. Back to Brussels 🇧🇪after 10 years in NZ 🇳🇿 (ze/zir/zirs)

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Mamdani is the undefeated champ
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter Citizenship. While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised. link.motherjones.com/click/4…
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When your heart is in full of hate, you understand how important this man is to world history.
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Amy Remeikis reveals the terrible decisions being inflicted upon particularly First Nations Peoples by the right wing northern Territory govt amyremeikis.substack.com/p/g…
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“The protest highlights the role NZ is playing in Trump’s attempts to bypass international law and expedite deep sea mining in the Pacific”
"NZ being a US puppet" Greenpeace boards research vessel in seabed mining protest stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36103858…
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"..., convoys from the UN, partner organizations, and the Red Cross have already come under fire..."
The UN has responded to the situation in Oleshky—a city where people are eating grass, burying bodies in basements, and waiting for an evacuation that never comes. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, was asked whether the organization could assist in establishing a humanitarian corridor for civilians. He explained that UN teams are attempting to reach people near the front lines and in the hardest-hit areas, and are working to ensure the safety of humanitarian convoys. According to Dujarric, convoys from the UN, partner organizations, and the Red Cross have already come under fire. The UN pledged to continue its efforts to help the people holding out in their homes. Oleshky is an occupied city located 9 km from Kherson. For nearly a year, residents have lived without adequate supplies of food, electricity, gas, or drinking water. The last food delivery took place on May 26; there is also an acute shortage of medicines. All roads and access routes to the city are mined, making the safe evacuation of civilians virtually impossible. Attempts by commercial suppliers to deliver food to the city have been met with shelling. Ukraine has appealed to the ICRC and international partners regarding the evacuation of civilians, but no agreement on a humanitarian corridor could be reached. Russia, which occupied Oleshky in 2022, has not consented to this.
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Wow, yeah, that’s really crazy. Totally off subject, but who did you by chance vote for? #FAFO By the way, Kamala never would have done this to you. We actually read her farm bill.
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Human's are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction. 83% of wild mammals have already been pushed past the brink. If nature goes, its taking us with it. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity #natureneedshalf #biodiversity #votegreen
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Some of the operatives that I suspect are working on behalf of Innovation Council Action (the $100m industry group) don't clearly disclose their affiliation. One posted a professionally made TV ad attacking effective altruists, which got 163k views, without any mention of who made it. However, it used the same sound and transition effects as past attack ads published by Innovation Council Action. Another operative, who removed Innovation Council Action from his LinkedIn a few weeks ago, has deleted tweets saying he isn't paid for his work.
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Dozens of accounts became full-time posters accusing those worried about AI of being doomers, cultists, woke, or part of a hoax/psyop. Many of these accounts have direct links to industry front groups fighting AI regulation full-time, including the $140 million OpenAI/a16z super PAC, and the $100 million White House-aligned Innovation Council Action.
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‼️ Below is an audio clip of Maria Farmer describing experiences that were very similar to mine with members of the self-described “Jew Crew,” including Leslie Wexner, his interior designer Richard Himmel, Allan Krammer, and several other gay Jewish men from Chicago who were raping underage boys. ‼️
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“I think we need to put Sam Altman in jail” — Edward Snowden
BIG BREAKING: Edward Snowden calls for the IMPRISONMENT of Sam Altman to establish liability for the damages caused by OpenAI's models, to a thunderous applause in a packed hall of 1000+ people at ETH Zurich. Let's stop this claptrap of safetyism and throw Altman in JAIL.
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Atlas tim Beveridge continued to be a absolute COC sucker on political central,no mention on nicky hagar book,instead it was pervert glasses, slagging the greens,covid inquiry,act party policy & parliament has risen.
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🦔A farmer in Vineland, New Jersey photographed a neighboring golf course and accidentally caught 62 unpermitted gas generators at a data center that powers Microsoft's AI tools. Each ran at 1,982 kilowatts, over 50 times the state permit threshold. New Jersey fined operator DataOne $1.1 million, the largest fine ever against a data center in the state. DataOne can keep operating while it reapplies for the permits it already failed to get. My Take DataOne applied for permits, got rejected, and turned the generators on anyway next to farmland, homes, and two schools. The fine is a million dollars for a company with billions in capital. They decided it was cheaper to break the law and pay the penalty than to wait for approval. And they're probably right, because the fine doesn't shut anything down. They get 45 more days to reapply while the generators stay on. Oracle can't get a gas pipeline permit in New Mexico. Over 500 communities have banned new data centers. And here's a company that just skipped the permits entirely and got a fine it can pay without noticing. The AI infrastructure buildout is on a collision course with every community it touches. These companies need power now and they're not going to wait for anyone to say yes. New Jersey already killed data center tax credits because residents organized. The more of these stories that come out, the harder it gets to site the next facility anywhere. The industry wants to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure, but the people who live next to it have a vote too. Hedgie🤗
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A nursing home boss stole his workers' Social Security and Medicare money. He got 18 months and $4.4M restitution. A Mar-a-Lago dinner erased it. If pardons go to whoever can afford a plate, workers get robbed twice: once by him, once by the system. #TrumpsCorruptCongress #DemsUnited
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Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors: The Nazis hid their worst crimes in the fog of war. They used coded language, secret speeches, and the chaos of a world war to conceal what they were doing. Even they understood some things could not be done in the open. Israel has done the opposite. The starvation, the flattening of neighbourhoods, the mass displacement of a population that is half children — all of it has happened in daylight, on camera, with officials speaking plainly about making Gaza uninhabitable. One regime tried to hide it. The other has carried it out in front of the world and called it self-defence. That is the difference. Free Palestine.
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Nothing to see here except Bill Gates openly admitting “AI is powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths.”
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RT @ISASaxonists: I like this Scottish artist. Gorgeous work and the way she offends racists is 🔥🔥🔥
Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁
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