Qasim

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@CarriePrejean1 My friend @jayson_casper says otherwise, Christian Zionists are interesting people

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@MominISheikh And India’s capable of launching missiles at our dams, and we are capable of launching our missiles at theirs.

There’s got to be another outcome instead of mutual flooding, erasure of agriculture.

[Sandra Rodríguez ✝︎ @sandrarodrrguez]

«La única solución efectiva contra la gente mala y violenta, son personas buenas más hábiles en violencia».

~Bushido

[Tony Otoa @Comrade_Otoa]

I always come back to this presentation.

[Ja Leto @_falsi1ke]

“Never play fair in a game where others cheat.”

— Machiavelli

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@shaehahahaha @faisal_parla They do this funny demonic stuff. Also bombed Turkish military positions, did all kinds of funny business.

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@Serendipit30567 @Phazaell @worqas But… additional context, they have an IPO coming up.

Chinese models undercut pricing+performance in ways Americans can’t compete with.

Incredibly lofty claims, and pure snakeoil salesmanship is what they resort to. While anthropic’s own codebase got leaked repeatedly by ai.

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@NawabRafiq @SaadInCyber Dunno if you’ve ever been to Emaar in DHA phase 8 Karachi, but it has multiple parks and play areas and tall apartment buildings right next to the beach.

It’s arguably the best housing society in Pakistan.

[Péter Szilágyi @peter_szilagyi]

@aliomerhorzum @lex_node It was trained on copyrighted data, both from the internet and off internet. Their models were trained of theft. They don't get to claim ownership over it. That is my thesis.

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@NawabRafiq @SaadInCyber Naw. Emaar in Karachi seems way better than this!

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

When The World Was Busy Cutting Down Trees, China Built Nanjing Street And Planted Over 1,00,000 Trees 🔥

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@ck0x0 @ahmad__bobak Not really, global economic situation bi kafi kharab hai. EU, Canada, UK, US are all anti emigrant now.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[sphinx @protosphinx]

Amazon doesn’t even bother working on newer models anymore they just tweet like this

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“If justice truly existed, prisons would be filled with politicians, not the poor.”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@GaZaColaRuLeS @jam_kamal Remarkable oversight that they managed to slip that.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it.

The United States and Israel.

[Qasim @Quibbles57]

@neta_ji_babu @kashmiricanibal She's from South Asia, the "in-bred" thing is a given.

The only variations are gaomutra sprayed, or cousin married.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I didn’t realize this would be posted, but I’m glad it was. Two hours before I gave my speech honoring the brave sailors on the USS Liberty, I met with about a dozen of them in my office and asked how I could best represent them and those who had perished.

[Phantom Pain @phantompain1984]

The USS Liberty Was Not Supposed to Have Survivors

Marine Bryce Lockwood said “a radio operator ran coax cable through a damaged antenna and forced out the distress call.”

The U.S. Sixth Fleet heard it.

The Israelis heard it too.

And the attack stopped.

That Mayday saved them but then LBJ called off the rescue.

Rep. Thomas Massie said survivors were left for 17 hours, while many bled and waited.

That is where this thread begins:

the distress call that broke the silence and the cover-up that followed.

3:10 — leaked Isræli HQ audio shows they knew it was an American ship before the attack.

Thread for the historical records — with NSA/CSS evidence, CIA files, and the intercepted record showing Isræl knew it was a U.S. ship. 1/8🧵