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[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Skys John Sparks, speaking from Jerusalem: ".. the ceasefire in Gaza, the 1st phase was implemented last Oct, its brought about a semblance of peace in Gaza"

Moments later:

Dr James Smith, speaking from Gaza: "I must challenge your correspondent, there is no ceasefire in Gaza"

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

They are charging her with terrorism, which in the UK means using words to object to genocide.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court.

As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Britain today: An elderly woman in a wheelchair is escorted away by the police and risks up to 14 years in prison for supporting terrorism since the Home Secretary proscribed a protest group in 2025.

Her crime? She said: "I support Palestine Action and I encourage you to join".

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It is within the Prime Ministers power to scrap this proscription and end these dystopian scenes for good.

There is simply no excuse in a democracy for a crackdown in support for protest groups like this.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Jonathan Porritt has been arrested.

As he says "trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal judgment on the Palestine Action ban.

We will be arguing in the Supreme Court that the ban is unlawful, as it is disproportionate to free speech and the right to protest.

The fight continues.

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

It is unfathomable that Andy Burnham's new Government is continuing with the proscription of Palestine Action meaning huge numbers of police resources are being redeployed and used to police and arrest pensioners peacefully protesting a genocide.

[DaddyNeedsCoffee 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 🎨 🇪🇺 @DaddyCoffee73]

I have compained to @BBC and @OFCOM relating to @nicholaswatt breaking off live interview with @ZackPolanski to read out personal texts from former MP @Nigel_Farage.
Given sleaze allegations against Farage, I believe Mr Watt may be in receipt of financial inducements or bribes.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.

They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.

They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.

An internal memo from 2024 stated:

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”

“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Why used books?

Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.

So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.

The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.

Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.

When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”

Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”

Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.

They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.

Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.

But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.

Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.

AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.

May the most moral company win.

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

Both sides are bad

The sides

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

A house that is not in Israel and has been there decades before Israel even existed apparently needs a permit from Israel??

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Add a fourth ICC member to list granting safe passage to war crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu

He is about to enter Canadian airspace on his way to US

@MarkJCarney, you are an accomplice to genocide and international gangsterism

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Companies such as Palantir supply technology to the Israel Defence Forces that is used in attacks on Palestinians.

Yet, instead of holding these companies to account, the UK Government continues to award them taxpayer-funded contracts.

As long as companies linked to human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories continue to benefit from UK public money, ministers’ calls for peace will ring hollow.

I’ve signed a parliamentary motion calling on the Government to end contracts with these companies and exclude them from future tenders.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Why are we allowing the destruction of a centuries-old legal system to protect Israel's genocide?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We are witnessing the destruction of decades of legal protections and democratic principles, and for what?

So the British government can maintain and hide its atrocious complicity in genocide.

That is the real crime — and we will never give up until there is justice.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

War crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to US

An arrest warrant for him was issued by ICC in November 2024 for a litany of horrific crimes

Today, three ICC member countries—Greece, Italy and France—have permitted him to use their airspace

Rogue, lawless nations

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Spraying red paint on a bank. That's what the CPS wants sentenced as terrorism; for an action from August 2024, before Palestine Action was even proscribed. You might not care about Palestine. But this is dystopian as hell. Literally the stuff of authoritarian dictatorships.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

It is a basic legal principle that you and the jury must first hear the charges that you may be sentenced on. Otherwise there is no basis for a proper defence or a fair trial.

Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists
https://t.co/pmKtSFFn4F

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Just because you lobbied to have the man who issued the war crimes taken down doesn’t mean the war crimes disappear or your guilt is assuaged. You will not outrun justice. You will not lobby history. You are a murderous maniac Benjamin Netanyahu. You will always be remembered as such.