Cork Praha Cyclist

currently looking in from the outside on Cork City by bicycle. @[email protected]

[Keet @keet_io]

Chat Control passed. Your move:

Keep chatting where they can scan..

👻 Or go ghost mode — no servers, no surveillance, nothing to get

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[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

Smotrich: 'My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don't worry, there will be enough for everyone.'

Generational evil🤮

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I had another chat with the amazing @RaniaKhalek. Somehow, we fit in discussions on all of the following:
Palestine, 3rd party candidates, @NYCMayor, fireworks, dogs, genocide, @TuckerCarlson, cultural boycott, @972mag, @m7mdkurd, the BNC, Lebanon, Sayyid Ali Khamenei's funeral, colonial divide-and-conquer, why Israelis mispronounce the semitic H as "kh," what Iran is teaching the world, especially the Global Majority, and more....
https://t.co/c8Rvn9VAxp

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Well well.....

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What is the EU Chat Control bill?

It allows ALL private companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, Palantir, Whatsapp...

To scan every message you send of any type.

To check it for 'illegal content'.

Even North Korea doesn't have surveillance this invasive.

[Tyler Levitan @LevitanTyler]

CIJA expects us to believe that an Israel lobby group’s version of events is historically accurate, whereas the @CMHR_News version is a “dangerous example of political activism.”

Let’s see the version from the Zionists who took part in Israel’s founding:

[Féach News @_FeachNews]

Data centres in Ireland will be using up to 5 million litres of water a day but don't water your flowers

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

A rocket hasn't been fired from Gaza in 18 months. And Hamas has handed administrative control over to a technocratic interim committee. Yet the apartheid state continues killing children daily. Almost as if it's a holocaust and not a war

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

John F Kennedy was correct when he said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

That’s why police robots are being aggressively normalized today. The empire managers want to make sure violent revolution is impossible, too.

The New York Times’ sports department The Athletic has a creepy new article out titled “The ‘Robodogs’ on World Cup patrol in Mexico” about how wonderful and awesome it is that the international soccer tournament is being patrolled by surveillance robots.

The article is functionally a PR piece for police robots, gushing about how “cute” and “cool” onlookers find the dystopian technology.

The piece opens with the cheery paragraph, “A group of police officers patrolling a stadium with three dogs on a World Cup matchday wouldn’t usually raise eyebrows. But when those three dogs are high-tech robots equipped with video cameras that can sustain speeds of 20kmph, you can understand the fuss.”

“The K9-Xs are made of aluminium and high-strength plastic,” The Athletic writes. “They have facial recognition and behavioural analysis systems installed, which means they detect when a group of people become agitated and send video to the police force’s centre for command, control, communication and computers.”

In a video segment accompanying the article, The Athletic’s Tomás Hill López-Menchero refers to the robots as “creatures” and says the robots “went down a treat with the public” in the World Cup audience.

It’s little things like this that help normalize police robots in public consciousness. Calling them “dogs”, giving them the name “K9”, calling them “creatures” instead of machines. It’s pretty clearly designed to evoke the image of something normal that westerners are familiar and comfortable with.

But westerners should not feel familiar and comfortable with these things, and we should not see them as normal. The fact that we’re seeing more and more use of police robots around the world should frighten us all, and the fact that popular institutions like the World Cup and the New York Times are being used to normalize them should freak us the hell out.

Our rulers are always acutely aware that there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and that we could turn on them at any time. This has been the case for as long as there have been rulers. History is full of examples of the masses turning against their government and establishing a new order, and the oligarchs and empire managers have long been preoccupied with the task of ensuring that this never happens to them.

Autonomous killing machines nullify many of the problems presented by human security forces. You don’t have to worry about the robot army siding with the people, or refusing to fire upon their fellow citizens. An army of militarized police robots would provide the oligarchs and empire managers of the western empire with a perpetually obedient force of bulletproof trigger-pullers who can shut down any uprising when the time comes.

The increasing ubiquitousness of police robots is not separate from the exploding prevalence of surveillance cameras and AI facial recognition, the push for digital IDs and the eradication of online anonymity, or the increasing instances of online censorship and Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation. A technological cage is being constructed around the public to ensure that we can be stopped from turning against our masters.

The story of humanity in the 21st century is the story of a race between revolution and the technologies designed to prevent it. A race between the awakening of collective consciousness to the urgent need for revolutionary change on one hand, and the technological ability to quash a people’s rebellion on the other.

We’re all in this race, whether we realize it or not. We’d better pick up the pace.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

The FAI states its purpose is “to enrich the lives of all through football” – what about those who have never had the chance to live?

My words from the FAI EGM last night: https://t.co/JooC29IIiM

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I don't know how professor Marandi continues to have the patience to deal with these racist, ignorant journalists who aren't worthy of his time and who are morally and intellectually beneath him.

[Keet @keet_io]

"This is not surveillance. This is love."
No ChatControl. 🇪🇺 Try Keet - the chat app that knows nothing about you

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

My God. how heartless, depraved, and diabolical Israelis are. they don't belong among humanity.

#freeDrAbuSafiya

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Friends, Please use this tool to demand the release of Dr Hussam AbuSafiyeh who was kidnapped by Israelis and has been held in their dungeons without charge or trial, tortured and beaten daily without mercy.
Please take a moment to do this one thing today.
https://t.co/Rc5WS19uHr

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Did you know that if you were a British journalist in 1945, and tried to interview a holocaust survivor, you could have faced 14 years in prison for the crime of interviewing a genocide survivor?

Just kidding, that's the policy today for the genocide survivors of Gaza.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.

I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.

And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.

In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.

The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.

It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.

Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.

Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how the BBC reported a doctor being literally raped to death by Israeli forces.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.

Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.

The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.

A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.

This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Only people with no culture and not roots in soil can bear to do this.
#WipeIsraelOffTheMap

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Gilad Shalit was Israel's most famous soldier held captive in Gaza prior to October 7, 2023

New Defense Ministry logs reveal the IDF gave orders to kill him under the Hannibal Directive after he was captured in 2006

Israel targeted hundreds of its own citizens on Oct 7 with "mass Hannibal" orders

Source: Times of Israel, 6/26/26