@batcountry1980@o_reachtaire I do have a grá for Faith No More's version of 'I Started A Joke'. I was introduced to it many moons ago while living in Sydney. That and 'Long Gone Day' by Mad Season were on the same mix tape. I digress
Jewish Israeli soldiers systematically raped European citizens while they were in Israeli custody, and there's total silence from European media and European governments.
Everything Palestinians have said about Israel and about western governments is proving to be true, right before the world's eyes.
They're demons.
Finito.
I used to hold those who support Israel in moral disgust, eliciting a deep visceral revulsion.
Today I hold ALL those not disgusted by Israel in moral disgust.
Life is too short to tolerate evil & abettors of evil.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
@malonebarry The pirate mindset of these creeps is off the chart. Taking centuries of human knowledge, art, science, and collective endeavour, then repackaging it and selling it back by the meter, is exactly why they are utterly unfit to shape the future of society.
Roberto Firmino on Mohamed Salah’s farewell at Anfield and the end of their iconic trio yesterday:
🗣️ “Seeing Mo leave and looking back at everything we achieved together… it really hits different now.
Salah, Mane, and myself we weren’t just a front three, we were a problem for every defence in the Premier League and in Europe. Week after week, season after season, we played with understanding that didn’t need words.
We terrorised teams at Anfield, away from home, in Champions League nights… it felt like everything we touched turned into danger.
Now, standing here after Salah’s farewell yesterday, it feels like a chapter has truly closed. The best moments of my career were built with those two beside me.
We didn’t just win games… we changed how teams feared Liverpool.”
Some trios win matches… but ours made history feel normal.”
And what hurts the most is knowing moments like that don’t come back twice.”
@LiveOnTheChat@unusual_whales The private sector routinely depends on government infrastructure and funding. The internet, GPS, motorways, air traffic control, even Amazon’s logistics systems were built on public investment. “Efficient" for profit and effective for society are not the same thing.
WOW
A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.
One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.
An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.
Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC
Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7
@CryptoMikli The elevation of entrepreneurs into sage like public intellectuals is one of the biggest cons of late stage capitalism. Having a successful business does not make someone uniquely insightful about human behaviour, it just makes them profitable.
“Those monsters [Israelis] took pleasure in beating me, in sexually assaulting me and my friends.. They removed our clothes, endured us with cold weather and forced us to kneel on the ground with the head on the floor and said, ‘IF YOU LIFT YOUR HEAD WE WILL SHOOT YOU’”