Bradley C Hughes

Creator/builder @NeuralCommander. I stand for fair markets, permaculture, local democracy, the beautiful economy, social safety nets, power of prayer. ♒️🚴🏖️⛵️

[Bradley C Hughes @AngelsInTheAI]

Just barbaric piracy.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people around the world woke up today to articles by Reuters and other media saying that the US Coast Guard intercepted a ship carrying “illicit fuel” to Cuba.

But is that what really happened?

No. A crime was clearly committed in international waters. The US commandeered an entire ship—including its cargo, which included fuel, and the crew. The snatching of the ship was revealed yesterday, although it happened on 5 September.

The vessel called M/V Grace was taken over by the US Coast Guard in Caribbean waters between Mexico and Cuba—which the US is starving of fuel.

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LEGAL AND ILLEGAL
It is 100 percent legal for countries to give or sell goods to each other, as long as there are no UN sanctions against such transfers.

In contrast, the US’s unilateral fuel blockade of Cuba has been repeatedly shown to violate international law, AND the UN Charter, AND sovereign equality regulations, AND the principle of non-intervention.

The US actions against Cuba have also been shown to contravene the most basic principle of moral justice, which forbids collective punishment.

To put it simply, you’re not allowed to force families in Cuba to go hungry and hospitals to close down because you dislike the fact that the country has resisted US regime change operations for decades.

Regime change itself is also unlawful.

And then of course we have the US's illegal summary executions of at least 231 people in more than 70 strikes in the Caribbean seas and east Pacific.

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ILLEGALITY ASCRIBED TO THE WRONG SIDE
Yet the reports by Reuters and other media carefully omit all this absolutely crucial contextual information.

They do, however, contain multiple references to illegal actions being taken. In every case, these push the absurd position that the US’s victims are the criminals. For example:

- Reuters quotes a US Coast Guard statement saying that the vessel was carrying containers “believed to contain illicit fuel”.

- Reuters quotes US admiral Adm Kevin Lunday saying: “The high seas are not a sanctuary for lawlessness.”

- Reuters includes his warning that that ships which quote “engage in illicit activities will not evade justice”.

Literally all references to illegality in the report are ascribed to the victims, and none to the United States.

Cuba deserves better. And so do the people around the world who depend on the western mainstream media for their news.
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[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Palantir and Anthropic targeted Minab school, aided by Pentagon stale data and Hegseth psychopathy stripping target review staff.

And it was a triple tap, not a double tap. Children killed on first strike. Parents killed by second strike getting surviving children. Rescue workers killed by third strike rushing in after second strike.

Unforgivable.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This very much sounds like a West-only AI cartel proposal and, in fact, if you read Dario's essay - under the very telling "pacing within democracies" chapter - he specifically says he'd need the US government to issue an "antitrust waiver" for this.

The plan transparently looks like this: agree among themselves not to compete too hard, get an antitrust waiver to make it legal, and while they're at it, get Washington - under the veneer of "safety" - to kneecap Chinese competitors because only "democratic" models can be in this "safe pacing" club.

I'm not even exaggerating: Dario pretty much writes this explicitly.

There are 3 steps to his plan and step 2 is literally: "Frontier AI companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress" -> the "unchecked AI progress" that would need "limits" is simply AI progress that happens outside their agreement. Another word for it is simply competition 🤷‍♂️

He also explicitly writes that "a key part of pacing within democracies is to keep democracies’ AI lead over autocracies as large as possible." You can't possibly be clearer than this...

[Bradley C Hughes @AngelsInTheAI]

@thesupermanmx I have been working on this problem for over a year now.

Efforts currently on hold due to family circumstances.

Enquiries welcome.

https://t.co/yHt0ucGYCj

[Bradley C Hughes @AngelsInTheAI]

@21WIRE Everyone must buy Bitcoin.

Thermodynamic resistance to the digital dollar tyranny.

[Paul Barry @TheRealPBarry]

Julie Bishop was paid US$600,000 a year by Greensill Capital (which went spectacularly bust in 2021). Its founder Lex Greensill just copped a 9-year ban as a company director in the UK. Alexander Downer was a member of Sanjeev Gupta’s Australian and global advisory boards.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel's cheerleaders:

"Any comparison between Israel's behaviour and the Nazis is outrageous antisemitism!"

Israel's National Security Minister:

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Imagine having to pander to brainwashed ethnosupremacists who believe the US government is obligated to provide an anti-missile system to protect their children’s vacation in a foreign colony

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

I did not think my contempt for this little, LITTLE snivelling man could go any deeper,but behold, it has 👇

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israeli officials have spent recent days circulating antisemitic conspiracy theories, with Benjamin Netanyahu boasting that he manipulated the United States into war with Iran, and Itamar Ben-Gvir sharing an AI video of Palestinians being sent to Nazi-style concentration camps.

In an appearance on Israel’s Channel 12 on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in Hebrew that he’d “been against Iran for almost 40 years” and had worked hard influencing the United States to join Israel in a war of aggression to topple Tehran.

“It took a long time to bring the United States in,” the prime minister said. “I was able to do this because I had close to a thousand hours on American television, influence in the United States, and intimate knowledge of all its leaders — both those who support us and those who do not.”

As we all know, it is a horrifying evil disgusting monstrous Nazi antisemitic trope to suggest that Washington is manipulated by Israel or that Israelis have anything to do with American wars. The Anti-Defamation League tells us that such assertions “play into tropes about ‘Jewish control’ of government and are unacceptable.” Earlier this year the ADL Center on Extremism warned that the war in Iran is leading to “a rapid convergence of extremists, alleged anti-war activists and anti-Israel groups around a shared set of narratives, including that the strikes were launched for Israel’s benefit at the cost of American lives, that Jewish or Zionist actors exercise illegitimate control or power over U.S. foreign policy.”

So I am sure we can expect antisemitism watchdog groups to take a short break from yelling about Hasan Piker and instead spend some of that energy denouncing Benjamin Netanyahu’s crazed and hateful conspiracy theories about himself and his own personal actions.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has also contributed to the rising tide of antisemitism by posting an AI video promoting the hateful blood libel that Israel treats Palestinians in the same way Nazi Germany treated the Jews.

In the video, which Ben-Gvir subsequently deleted in response to public outcry, a group of obese AI-animated Arabs are seen having their dreams of a happy future crushed as the national security minister loads them onto a conveyor belt feeding them into a concentration camp with barbed wire walls where they are seen weeping and growing emaciated like Holocaust victims.

According to the IHRA definition of antisemitism which western governments are firmly encouraging us all to comply with, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of hateful discrimination against the Jewish people. By publicly boasting of Israeli policies that he himself is responsible for instituting which are clearly intended to evoke the memory of Nazi death camps, Ben-Gvir clearly now stands guilty of an antisemitic hate crime.

Since our society has decided that antisemitism is the single most urgent threat on our planet and must be placed front and center of our attention at all times throughout all of our politics and media, I trust that we will soon see these Israeli antisemitic blood libels treated with the widespread condemnation they so deserve.

[Pepecoin @pepecoins]

The memecoin timeline can never be changed 🐸

[Bradley C Hughes @AngelsInTheAI]

@JohnThexton @PeterCronau Nothing in your reply is of any relevance to the OP. You didn't engage with the article's actual content: IDF soldiers entering on visas, the Frankcom killing, or the events at the Sydney Marathon, including what the runners did to support a free Palestine. Start your own thread.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

I have no doubt this screed released by Laura Loomer is retaliation for my lawsuit against the DHS for its illegal seizure of my phones following my return from a reporting trip to Iran. Our lawsuit succinctly details Loomer’s role in lobbying for the unconstitutional seizure, and her claims of credit for it. Now she’s seeking cover in the Zeppelin-sized shadow of Randy Fine.

A federal judge has clearly stated that my Fourth Amendment rights were violated through the seizure of my phones. She framed the DHS action as an attack on my First Amendment rights as well, situating it within the Trump administration’s wider assault on press freedom.

Loomer and a trio of Israel First backbenchers have responded by escalating their attack on my First Amendment rights. It’s a desperate bid to silence me and The Grayzone - not for breaking any laws, but for journalism which exposes wanton corruption and war crimes.

They are particularly incensed by my reporting on the crimes of a certain foreign apartheid state whose lobbying proxies guide their careers. Indeed, their letter is packed with hysterical complaints about my journalism, demanding that I be “investigated” for producing a documentary on Iran’s Jewish community and for clinically exposing official Israeli deceptions about October 7 designed to generate public support for genocide in Gaza.

The letter also contains blatantly false, libelous statements. For instance, its authors claim I was “cultivated by an agent of influence by an FTO and current military adversary.” This is textbook defamation, and I don’t think it’s protected by congressional immunity.

Finally, it’s impossible to ignore the irony of Randy Fine falsely accusing an American journalist of unspecified crimes just days after Fine was filmed rummaging through a private citizen’s mailbox while he was campaigning for reelection.

Breaking into a mailbox is a federal crime. Journalism is not.

[~ cooking ~ @malikkhalidejaz]

I may never meet you, brother, and we may have lived very different lives, but we reached the same conclusions.

The game the empire plays: you win it when you possess a lot. The game more advanced civilizations play: you win when you are not a servant to money like that, instead able to do something lasting & meaningful. And in an unjust world, that often becomes a moral stand.

A moral stand is an alien concept for the empire. It only uses it for propaganda. Doesn’t realize there is actual value in it.

I think a big factor is in: who they are taught are heroes. If the forefathers were heroes, plundering is what they did, so plundering is what they do. If Bill Gates is a success story, then the young are looking to make billion dollars. If the hero instead is a person who sacrificed for others, it teaches sacrifice for principles.

If i could teach one thing to the empire, it would be: there is nothing more profitable than goodwill, but hollow words, cannot sustain it. Actions should match it. In principle. Even when it is the tough thing to do.

Of course many in the west understand this, and even speak up against their own governments’ policies, but the elite that holds power, they believe power comes from a more profitable deal. That’s their experience. That’s the lives they lived.

Money, is the God they serve. Deal is the language they speak. Profit is the criteria for right or wrong. A sad, miserable, purposeless existence.

Steal, snatch, horde, die. End of story. What was the point? Was better if they hadn’t.

But it is not the people. The majority is just suffering under them. At times so lost in the rat race that they don’t even realize they are suffering, or better is possible. Proudly suffering 😂

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The empire cannot understand purpose that doesn't resolve into comfort.

This is its deepest intellectual failure, and it is structural, not accidental.

Because the empire's own story resolves into comfort. The American dream is a comfort story. Work hard, sacrifice now, accumulate, arrive. The destination is always material. The meaning is always eventually cashed out.

So when imperial strategists encounter a people willing to sacrifice across generations for something that does not resolve into material gain:

They conclude it must be fanaticism. Manipulation. False consciousness imposed by cynical leaders on suffering populations.

They cannot compute the alternative:

That some things people decide are worth more than comfort.

That land and dignity and the right to shape your own collective future are not irrational values simply because they cannot be priced.

This incomprehension is not a minor analytical error.

It is why they keep losing wars they expected to win.

They bring the offer.

The offer is refused.

They escalate the pain, certain the offer will become more attractive as the alternative worsens.

The offer is still refused.

And they never fully understand why.

Because the answer lives outside the vocabulary they were given to understand the world.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BOYS PRAISED: When the top three winners at the skating junior grand prix in China this week saw that Gold medal winner Lev Lazarev was not allowed to pose with his flag, they went and put their flags away too.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

I’ve been working on my court case and missed this.
An Israeli company found to have interfered with elections in several countries. Where are the headlines across world?

I’ll have a bit to add to this myself, in due course 😉

[stranger @strangerous10]

Nick McKim lets loose on Labor for being "captured by Zionist interests"—then hits James Paterson straight to the face as he interjects
“Mate you’re captured by Zionist interests as well” 🔥 #auspol

[Bradley C Hughes @AngelsInTheAI]

Linus is a true living legend of computing science, gifting the Linux operating system and Git to the world.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A 21-year-old computer science student in Helsinki bought his first PC in early 1991 and immediately hated the operating system it came with. So he sat down to write his own.

On September 25, 1991 he posted a quiet message to a Usenet newsgroup announcing what he called "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU."

35 years later that hobby runs every Android phone on Earth, every supercomputer on the TOP500 list, the entire backend of the internet, the International Space Station, and SpaceX's Falcon rockets.

His name is Linus Torvalds. The hobby is called Linux.

Here is the story, because the man who runs the most consequential codebase in human history almost no longer needs an introduction inside engineering and still walks the streets unrecognized everywhere else.

Linus was born in Helsinki, Finland on December 28, 1969. He was named after Linus Pauling, the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, in Chemistry and in Peace. He joked he might also be partly named after Linus van Pelt from the Peanuts cartoon. His family was unusual. Both parents were journalists. His grandfather was a statistician. Another grandfather was a poet. The family belonged to Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. There are fewer than 30 people in the world with the surname Torvalds, and according to Linus, they are all related.

At 10 he started programming on his grandfather's Commodore VIC-20. By his teenage years he was writing his own assemblers, editors, and games. He served in the Finnish Army for his mandatory national service and rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant. Then he enrolled at the University of Helsinki to study computer science.

In early 1991 he bought a personal computer with MS-DOS and disliked it intensely. He wanted UNIX, the operating system he had used at the university. UNIX cost thousands of dollars. He could not afford it. So he started writing his own.

He posted the now-famous announcement to comp.os.minix in August 1991. He called the kernel Linux, a portmanteau of his name and MINIX. He released the source code under the GPL license. Anyone could download it, read it, modify it, and ship it for free.

Within a year hundreds of developers around the world were sending him patches. Within five years Linux was running web servers. Within ten years it had taken over the supercomputer market. Within twenty years it was running on most of the internet. Today every Android phone on Earth runs the Linux kernel. Every Chromebook runs Linux. Most of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure runs Linux. Every Tesla runs Linux. Every SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule runs Linux. The International Space Station runs Linux. Every supercomputer in the world's TOP500 list runs Linux.

That was the first thing he built.

In 2005 the proprietary version control system the Linux community had been using, BitKeeper, revoked its free license. Linus was furious. He sat down and wrote a replacement in 10 days. He called it Git. The first commit was on April 7, 2005. Today Git powers GitHub, GitLab, and the source control of every major software organization on Earth. Every line of code at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Microsoft flows through Git. Every AI model on the planet is versioned with software a Finnish engineer wrote in less than two weeks.

He won the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for engineering. He won the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award in 2014. He completed his master's degree from Helsinki along the way, with a thesis titled "Linux: A Portable Operating System." He moved to the United States, became a citizen, and now works from his home in Portland, Oregon, employed by the Linux Foundation.

A Finnish student announced a hobby project on a message board in 1991.

His code is now in every pocket on the planet.

He still writes most of his important communication on the Linux kernel mailing list.

[Bradley C Hughes @AngelsInTheAI]

Reprehensible.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Hugh Marks axes ABC’s 40-year-old Indigenous TV Department
The ABC has also scrapped a key Indigenous leadership role, and cancelled an Indigenous-led TV series that it previously promoted as a flagship program.

"What is certain, is Hugh Marks has made a decision to fundamentally alter the way ABC TV has made Indigenous programs, including some of the most acclaimed television the country has produced, immediately after a high profile right-wing campaign against the last show that the Indigenous department ever produced."
https://t.co/29dGF8raGY