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[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

In the last 15 years the wealth of the billionaire class has tripled while everything is worse for the rest of us. In this video I discuss why this happened and how coming together to fight for our co-workers, neighbors, and communities is the only way to stop it!

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

Now that the USA is starting to collapse just like the USSR, you could say the USSR’s past is from USA’s future — which is why all Americans should come to our mini-retrospective of Russian films about Soviet collapse.

https://t.co/tzpPGCrEti

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I hope the US/Israeli efforts to topple the Iranian government continue to fail. I hope Iran gets stronger so that it can hammer Israel whenever Israel does evil things. I hope the US war machine implodes, the US empire ends, and Palestine is freed from the scourge of Zionism.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."

Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.

Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.

Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.

That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that hosting US military bases while the US is using them to illegally attack your neighbours makes you less secure not more. Security and peace in West Asia requires permanently removing the bases.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

When Europeans steal a country they name themselves after it.

Israelis claim to be "Semites" despite being European

Colonists claim they're "Americans" while reducing real Americans to "Indians"

Boers claim they're "Afrikaners"

Identity theft is a huge part of colonialism.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

So let me get this straight:

When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.

When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.

Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

An entirely new demographic is about to find out how disappointing she is

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

In 1981, the PLO laid down its arms in Lebanon, scrupulously upheld a ceasefire for nearly a year, and offered to recognize Israel via a two-state settlement.

Israel responded with an unprovoked invasion, killing 15-20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel: *ignites regional war*
Israel: *never abides by ceasefire agreements*
Israel: *bombs southern Lebanon every day*
Israel: *openly sabotages US negotiations with Iran*
Israel: *begins bombing Beirut*
Iran: *bombs Israel*
Zionists: They attack us because of our religion 😢

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

In 1999, China’s🇨🇳 economy was smaller than Italy’s. Today, China’s economy is larger than the combined economies of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada.

It now has surpassed the US in GDP @ PPP.

Here are some of China’s incredible achievements:

-800 million people brought out of poverty in 4 decades

-Extreme poverty eliminated in China

-Lifted 98.99 million rural citizens out of poverty since 2013

-Expanded the Belt and Road Initiative to over 150 countries

-Has built a larger high speed rail network than the rest of the world put together, expanding it from 10,000KM to over 50,000KM

-Installed renewable energy capacity in China is roughly 4× larger than that of the United States today

-Made China the world’s largest industrial economy, with manufacturing output now exceeding the US & EU combined

-Presided over the largest housing and urbanisation programme in history, moving hundreds of millions into modern cities with infrastructure, utilities, and services. In 2013 730 million lived in cities, in 2025, 954 million lived in cities. An increase of 224 million.

-By 2030, China is projected to account for over 40% of the world’s middle class

-Average disposable income has increased more than 25x since 1980 (real terms)

-China’s middle class already drives the majority of domestic consumption, shifting growth away from exports

-China now contributes more to global consumption growth than the US and Europe combined

-Steel production: China produces approximately 55% of global steel

-Shipbuilding: China accounts for over 50% of global shipbuilding output

-China produces more cement than the rest of the world combined

⚡️The renewable energy dominance:

-China controls 80%+ of the global solar manufacturing market across the entire supply chain (wafers, cells, panels)

-It produces approximately 98% of solar wafers, 92% of solar cells, and 85% of solar panels globally

-In 2025 alone, China exported 200+ GW of solar cells, with exports surging over 73% year-on-year

-Solar cells & wafers now make up 40%+ of China’s solar exports

-China drove over 50% of global solar expansion in 2025

-Chinese battery giant CATL alone holds approximately 42% of the global EV battery market

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Edward Said, a Palestinian-American intellectual, was asked in a 2003 lecture whether Israelis🇮🇱 have any claim to the land.

In this powerful lecture, Said argues that Arabs have a significantly longer history of continuous residence in the region, far exceeding the period of ancient Israelite rule.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

my hatred of Zionist scum, particularly those who hide behind liberal, progressive, pseudo-radical covering, cannot be expressed in words. They are the most degenerate, depraved, sadistic, morally vacuous genocidal scumfuck pieces of shit I have ever come across, and I will never stop spending as much of my time as I can to opposing them by whatever means I can

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Another day for the psycho state.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Over the last 24 hours:
1. IDF soldier shot an killed a 7 months old Palestinian baby in Hebron
2. IDF kills a senior Lebanese military officer and two other Lebanese soldiers in an air strike in southern Lebanon
3. Israeli Settlers aided by at least one IDF soldier (see video) conduct a Pogrom in the Palestinian village of Huwara. 9 Palestinians wounded