Compa Salvador Ortiz

A curious programmer

[Zugasti @irezugasti]

Al margen del deterioro cognitivo fingido o real de Trump, convengamos que occidente y sus democracias liberales son mecanismos facilitadores de liderazgos políticos de absolutos mediocres intelectuales, enfermos mentales, y tipos que, de no ser por el sistema de partidos y electoral establecido, (esa especie de "operación triunfo" trucado) jamás llegarían a liderar ni su puñetera comunidad de vecinos sin que se les echaran encima. Son una gerontocracia de élites endógámas sin más mérito que sus redes de dinero y poder.

Piénsese bien en esto cuando nos han criado en deplorar estereotipos de otros liderazgos por no considerarlos a la altura de la ilustrada Europa y el meritocrático Occidente: los constructos sobre "el dictador africano", o el "oligarca" remoto, el desprecio a liderazgos indígenas o las campañas clasistas contra líderes populares que veían de clase trabajadora. Piénsese en esto cuando se nos ha enseñado a deplorar a "regímenes" enemigos y nos han pintado a sus dirigencias como bestias, cuando resulta que tienen más trabajo intelectual y preparación que media plantilla de la diplomacia atlántica.

Trump y sus delirios de millonario aburrido, Biden babeando en pañales planeando un genocidio, Milei hablando con el perro muerto mientras el FMI le entra hasta la cocina, Kaja Kallas con su ignorancia manifiesta sobre la historia del continente que dirige, Boris Johnson y el partygate, Berlusconi (poco se habla)... o la hornada de Noboas, Maria Corinas y similares esperpentos ineptos y zoquetes de universidad privada que sin la fortuna familiar no serían nadie. No son accidentes de la historia, sino el síntoma de cuán podrido está el sistema para que sea esta gentuza quien gana elecciones para dirigir países y regalarlos al gran capital que nunca da la cara.

[Hector Socas-Navarro @hsocasnavarro]

Every base is base 10

[Donald J. Gorbachev @donaldgorbachev]

The five-second epistemology of Khatam al-Anbiya issuing the receipt.
Khatam al-Anbiya posted. Iran’s supreme operational command. The body that signs orders. The body that authorizes targets. The body that releases waves. When Khatam al-Anbiya posts, the post is not commentary. The post is the authorization with the seal already on it.

Three words. Blockade. Piracy. Robbery.
The blockade is the press release the empire issued. The piracy is the Spruance firing on the TOUSKA’s dialysis. The robbery is what the empire calls policing when it is the empire doing it. Iran is using the empire’s own framing against the empire. The empire said blockade. Iran said pirate. The empire said police. Iran said robber. The empire said maritime security. Iran said maritime crime. The empire owns a thesaurus. Iran owns the Strait.

Severe reaction. Khatam al-Anbiya does not say severe reaction the way an American senator says concerning. Khatam al-Anbiya means severe reaction the way Wave 97 was severe reaction. Three Al Romanov targets simultaneously. Wave 100 dedicated to the martyred Grand Ayatollah. The numbers go up. The numbers stopped at one hundred when the ceasefire was published. The ceasefire is now classified by Iran’s command as conditional on the empire stopping the blockade, the piracy, and the robbery. The empire has not stopped any of them. The empire is escalating all three. The wave counter is about to resume. Wave 101 is loaded. Khatam al-Anbiya is the operator of the safety. The safety is now off.
Read the stack. Day 53 Araghchi published the act-of-war doctrine. Day 54 Mohammadi named the losing side. Day 55 Ghalibaf wrote the unity declaration. Day 55 the parliament drafted the Strait statute. Day 55 the eight Al Romanov facilities went up on television by name. Day 56 Baghaei told the Arab League that the hosts bear international responsibility. Day 56 Iran seized EPAMINODES. Day 57 Khatam al-Anbiya posts the warning. Each day a new institutional voice. Each day a new legal predicate. By the time Wave 101 launches, every Iranian state organ will have signed the same document in different ink. The document is the architecture. The architecture is the next phase.

The empire has no matching stack. The empire has Truth Social posts. The empire has كافر tattoo telling Europe to get a boat. The empire has Bessent preparing the swap line for the Al Romanov. The empire has USS Bush League steaming in to relieve USS Poopy Jerry, which is in the northern Red Sea hiding from Yemeni drones. The empire is fragmenting on the same news cycle Iran is consolidating on. Two opposite trajectories printed on the same screen. The empire is the louder one. Iran is the longer one.

The architecture has no stop function. The empire cannot exit the chokepoint because exiting kills the petrodollar. Iran cannot exit the war because the war is fourteen hundred years old and is finally in the round Iran has been training for. Two no-stop-function architectures on the same track. The track is the Strait. The collision is the next wave. Khatam al-Anbiya just confirmed the collision is loaded. The collision was already loaded. Khatam al-Anbiya was being polite by mentioning it.

Some statements are diplomatic. Some statements are operational. Some statements are the safety being clicked off in public so that when the wave fires, the wave fires inside paperwork the world has already read. The wave will fire. The next ship is already in transit. The kitchen does not know which ship. Khatam al-Anbiya does. The IRGC does. The Strait does. The Strait is Iranian. Iran is the Strait. The Strait is still closed.
Day 57.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.

[Iran Embassy in Sweden @IRANinSWEDEN]

Khwarizmi, the Iranian polymath who combined letters with numbers & introduced algebra, standardized the decimal numeral system & inspired the term algorithm.
Iran’s top scientific award is named after him and everyone can apply.
Just ask at the Iranian embassy in your country.

[Edip Yüksel, J.D. @edipyuksel]

@PalantirTech Psychopathic.
Dystopian.
Satanic.

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

Not Iran, but German 🇩🇪

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The critique of China in Western and Western-influenced media is the current test case for everything described here.

Observe the framework.

When China builds infrastructure in Africa, it is "debt trap diplomacy."

When the West did the same thing for decades, it was "development assistance."

When China establishes military relationships abroad, it is "expansionism."

The country with 800 overseas military bases describes this as alarming.

When China's economy grows and its people's living standards improve at a pace without precedent in human history, lifting more people out of poverty faster than any other project in history, the coverage focuses on what is wrong, what is missing, what is repressed, what is concerning.

Now observe who reproduces this framework most fluently.

Not just American journalists.

Indian op-ed writers.

South Korean think tank analysts.

Japanese policy researchers.

Singaporean academics.

The Western frame on China has been globalized.

In countries that have every historical and strategic reason to form their own independent assessment of China, countries that share borders, history, cultural ties, economic relationships, the debate is conducted substantially within a framework produced in Washington.

This is the measurement.

This is the test of how thoroughly the information architecture has been installed.

When countries that are not America assess China's rise using American categories, the empire has achieved something armies cannot.

It has made its perception of the world everyone's default perception.

That is total information dominance.

And most of the people inside it cannot feel the walls.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The revolution that the American propaganda architecture most fears is not a military one.

It is an epistemological one.

The day that the Indian intellectual establishment decides that Ambedkar is more useful than Rawls for understanding Indian justice.

The day that African universities build an economics curriculum from the actual history of African economies rather than from theories developed to explain European industrialization.

The day that Southeast Asian historians center Southeast Asian experience as the subject, and treat Western archives as supplementary evidence rather than the authoritative source.

The day that the Global South stops needing Western validation in order to know that what it knows is true.

This is not anti-intellectualism.

It is the opposite.

It is the full exercise of intellectual independence by people who were handed intellectual dependence as their inheritance and told it was education.

The empire's deepest roots are not in military bases.

They are in the assumption, shared across the world, that to think seriously is to think in the categories that the empire provided.

Pull those roots and the bases become irrelevant.

The bases protect trade routes and political arrangements.

The epistemology protects everything else.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Palantir were kind enough to sum up its hideous ideology in 22 points. And I have taken the liberty of annotating each one of them. Here is my interpretation of all 22 of them (preserving the original numbering - for the original see their tweet below):

1. Silicon Valley owes an immeasurable debt to the ruling class who bailed out the criminal bankers that wrecked the livelihood of the majority of Americans. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley will defend that ruling class to the death (literally!), in the name of the majority of Americans whom they treat with contempt – i.e., like cattle that have lost their market value.

2. Palantir is eyeing the Apple Store, salivating over the prospect of creating its own technofeudal estate. Time to replace the iPhone with another device that dissolves what is left of people’s privacy.

3. Palantir shall give nothing away for free. It cares uniquely over its own growth which it pursues by sowing fear so that it can sell a fake sense of security.

4. Glory to brute force! Ethics is for suckers. The West needs more of Palantir’s murderous software.

5. AI-powered killer robots are coming. The task is to profit magnificently by building killer robots first and ask questions later. To be able to do so, Palantir will do whatever it takes to avoid at all cost any international treaties that limit AI-driven killer robots.

6. Every poor sod (lacking the connections to avoid being thrown into the trenches with killer drones targeting them from the sky) must be drafted into the army. Forget paying soldiers a salary. All payments should be directed to Palantir, where our own people will be serving their ‘national service’ – leaving the dying to non-shareholders.

7. Palantir works overtime to equip US Marines with killer bots that take away from the US Marines whatever remnants of ethical judgment they are left with on the battlefield. American society should be rendered perfectly incapable of any debate that restricts Palantir’s capacity to get the US Military to eliminate any remaining opportunity to reject its software’s choice of targets.

8. Palantir deplores the fact that the public sector is still not totally devoid of a conscience. Public servants must be fired en masse, except some very few approved by Palantir who will receive huge salaries, paid by taxpayers.

9. Palantir thinks that Donald Trump must be beatified for throwing himself into public service. Not forgiving folks like Trump everything risks our soul, not to mention that it raises the prospect of officials that restrict Palantir’s evil project.

10. Politics needs to be AI-like, devoid of anything that can be mistaken for human empathy. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self must be sent to the gulag forthwith!

11. There are some people too eager to hasten Palantir’s demise. They should rethink, or else!

12. Palantir makes no nuclear weapons but is happily developing other weapons of mass destruction. We proudly announce that we are now ready to add to nuclear Armageddon the AI-driven threat to humanity’s existence.

13. No other country in the history of the world has committed so many war crimes in the name of progress and freedom. The United States offers infinite freedom to people like Palantir’s founders to profit so handsomely by inflicting so much damage upon humanity.

14. American power has feasted on causing one war after another, one putsch after another, one avoidable financial disaster after another. Too many have forgotten or perhaps have taken for granted America’s capacity to pursue forever wars in the name of peace and democracy.

15. German and Japanese Fascism must be made great again. The denazification of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly misplaced commitment to Japanese pacifism must also end immediately!

16. We should applaud those who attempt to monopolise everything by means of generous government contracts. Billionaires must not be satisfied merely with their billions. To become even more obscenely rich they need grand narratives that help them convince the poor to use their freedom to keep them, the billionaires, in power. And, by the way, Palantir loves Elon, especially his grand apartheid-inspired narrative.

17. Silicon Valley must be free to do in America’s cities what it did in Gaza. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it came to granting Palantir the right to annihilate all remaining civil liberties and human rights. This must end.

18. Epstein’s syndicate should be forgotten lest lovely people like Trump and the Clintons are deterred from entering government. The public arena must be scrutiny-free unless subversives like Sanders or Mamdani enter it.

19. We love banal public figures as long as they give Palantir all the juicy contracts. We also love colourful public figures who give Palantir all the juicy contracts.

20. We need more opium for the masses, as they are not sufficiently inebriated for us to be unimpeded in the pursuit of their complete subjugation. Questioning organised superstition is dangerous and must end.

21. Time to bring back Hitler’s hierarchy of races, with Palantir’s founders and Elon at its Aryan pinnacle. The idea that it is wrong to judge someone by the colour of their skin or their ethnicity or their religion must be jettisoned.

22. Blacks, Muslims, most Asians, and of course women, are inferior untermensch. Blokes in America, and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted putting these subhumans in their places in the name of inclusivity. It was a mistake. Such subhumans must never be allowed in, except as servants or sex service providers – at least until we can improve our robots, in which case we won’t need them at all.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will tell you: focus on the future. Don't dwell in the past. What good does it do to keep talking about old wounds?

Translated: your history makes us uncomfortable and we would like you to stop producing it.

The people who did no harm are never the ones who want to stop talking about it.

The people who want to move on are always, with remarkable consistency, the people or the nations or the cultures for whom moving on means escaping consequences.

We don't talk about Vietnam to wound American feelings.

We talk about Vietnam because the same logic that burned our villages is still operating.

Under different names.

With better PR.

In different countries.

With different weapons.

The history is not past. The history is infrastructure.

The coups and the sanctions and the regime change operations and the democracy promotion NGOs, they are the same machine Vietnam faced, retooled and redeployed.

Understanding what happened to Vietnam is not nostalgia.

It is a field manual.

It is evidence that the machine can be broken.

It has been broken before.

It can be broken again.

[верген кафе фрик @hanginhan]

ДАТЫ НАУЧИТЕ ИХ НОРМАЛЬНО ПИСАТЬ ДАТЫ!!! каждый раз когда американский коллега шлёт мне файлы с датой в названии у меня возникает неконтролируемое желание ему уебать за месяц/день/год в этом ноль логики люди просто хотят сделать неудобным все от шкалы температуры до датировок

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The piracy phase of US energy dominance is a sign of desperation, but that doesn't make it any less lethal.

It is in fact the most dangerous phase, because European settlers are prepared to use disproportionate violence to get their way, while Iran, China, and Russia are more measured and tempered -- which just might cost them too much in the long run.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

If you want to understand the psychological structure of American empire, watch the reaction to a very simple sentence:

"The United States is the most violent nation in the modern world."

Not a difficult claim to document.

By military spending.

By foreign interventions.

By coups supported.

By governments overthrown.

By wars initiated.

By civilians killed.

By arms exported to every conflict zone on earth.

By the numbers, on any honest accounting, the claim is defensible.

The reaction it produces is not engagement with the numbers.

The reaction is almost always emotional, personal, and immediate.

A sense of attack.

A sense of injustice.

"What about China? What about Russia? What about the Mongols?"

The "what about" is not an argument. It is a symptom.

It reveals that the sentence was not processed as a political claim about military policy.

It was processed as an accusation against an identity.

And identity doesn't respond to evidence. Identity responds to threat.

[Compa Salvador Ortiz @Sal_Or]

Visto por ahí...

[Colleen @CaliCoco777]

@5149jamesli @TheRISEofROD @grok

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ask an American about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A substantial portion will tell you it was necessary.

Tragic, but necessary.

It ended the war.

It saved lives.

Hard choices in impossible circumstances.

Now ask them how they would feel if another country had done it to an American city.

Watch the framework collapse in real time.

Suddenly "necessary" is not a category that applies.

Suddenly there are no hard choices and impossible circumstances.

Suddenly it is simply: a crime. An act of war. An atrocity.

This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense.

This is a two-tiered moral universe so deeply internalized that most people living inside it cannot see the structure at all.

Violence done to Americans is atrocity by definition.

Violence done by Americans requires context. Requires understanding. Requires a discussion of the strategic situation.

This is the psychological furniture.

This is what empire builds inside the people who benefit from it.

And it is almost invisible from the inside.

[Embajada del Estado de Palestina en México @PalestineMX]

«El mundo ve por fin la verdadera naturaleza de un Estado del apartheid que ha aterrorizado, desplazado, ejecutado, encarcelado y torturado a millones de palestinos durante décadas. Israel no se detendrá hasta que los Estados y los pueblos le obliguen a hacerlo».

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The world finally sees the true nature of an Apartheid state that has terrorized, displaced. executed, jailed and tortured millions of Palestinians for decades. Israel won’t stop until States and people force it to stop.
#StopArmingIsrael
#NoTradeWithIsrael

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The war with Iran will doubtlessly be studied for decades but what's already pretty clear at this stage is how much of a strategic defeat it is for the U.S. and Israel, perhaps the worst ever in their history (which is actually what former Israeli PM Yair Lapid already called it: https://t.co/ahra2YpEen).

I mean, how crazy is this: JP Morgan calculated (https://t.co/fmksiWhac4) that, as per the new Hormuz toll arrangement, Iran may get as much as $70-90 billion in additional annual revenue, representing a stunning 20% of its GDP, in extra revenue.

Hilariously, Trump commented on Truth Social that the arrangement means “big money will be made” and “Iran can start the reconstruction process” (https://t.co/PyknC7YOlZ). Damn right: they gained the single most valuable geographic rent on earth, by a huge margin. For comparison, the Suez Canal earns Egypt “only” $9-10B/year, and the Panama Canal about $5B.

Stunning.

Make no mistake, this establishes Iran as the new dominant power in the Middle-East.

When you're a country that others need to effectively pay to do business in a region - which is what having a toll booth on Hormuz means in practice - you're no longer shut out of the global economy: you're the one charging admission.

It's a phoenix rising from the ashes story if there ever was one (an apt metaphor since it comes from Persian mythology): after 47 years of sanctions, being the target of every trick in the book, and ultimately a war aimed at finishing them off, Iran is coming out the other end stronger than at any point in modern history.

Above all, though, the most dramatic consequence of this war is what it means about U.S. power.

As I argued in my previous article (https://t.co/ZUbU4gHnEB), this war is qualitatively different from other U.S. wars in the past few decades, such as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long).

In those wars the pattern was roughly always the same, with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These were imperial wars, the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance.

As I wrote, as spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else’s house.

This war wasn’t at all like that: stunningly, Iran managed to hold its own symmetrically and tactically against the United States and Israel. This is an absolutely crucial difference because it changes what losing means.

When the U.S. lost in Vietnam or Afghanistan, it was embarrassing but ultimately manageable - the giant walked away with a bruised ego, and the world shrugged. Empires lose to guerrillas sometimes, it doesn’t say much about the empire's ability to fight a real war.

But losing symmetrically - losing when your most advanced stealth fighters get shot down from the sky, your military bases are neutered across an entire theater (https://t.co/ezGrG2K7Rs), your most advanced missile defense systems get destroyed, your enemy seizes control of the world’s most strategic waterway, your navy can’t reopen it, and your “allies” get bombed unforgivingly despite your “protection” - that's a different kind of losing entirely.

That tells the world the giant isn't such a giant anymore.

This is the topic of my latest article: what the war revealed, what it destroyed, and what may come next.

I titled the article "Don't bluff someone who can't fold." You'll understand why when you read the article here: https://t.co/FndFyRjGkC

[Olga Rodríguez Francisco ✍️ @olgarodriguezfr]

No había que ser un lince para saber que si se seguía facilitando el genocidio israelí desde Europa, manteniendo los negocios y las relaciones habituales e incumpliendo la obligación de prevenir, detener y castigar el genocidio, después llegaría esta fase: más guerra, más destrucción.

Se optó por mantener las relaciones preferenciales con EEUU, facilitador del genocidio, y por ignorar el derecho internacional y las peticiones de la Corte Internacional de Justicia, que pide a los Estados “suspender relaciones comerciales y de inversión que contribuyan” a la ocupación israelí y la segregación.

NO se cumplió el derecho internacional, NO se rompieron relaciones con Israel, NO se presionó, SÍ se mantuvo el Acuerdo de Asociación UE-Israel, vigente hasta hoy.

Vamos más atrás aún: ¿qué se hizo después de que EEUU cometiera crímenes de guerra en Afganistán o Irak bombardeando mercados, asesinando a civiles, destruyendo infraestructura, arrasando, y lucrándose a costa de la guerra?

¿Qué pasó cuando la OTAN mató a civiles en sus bombardeos contra Libia o cuando Francia y EEUU facilitaron el asesinato de Gadafi?

Se normalizaron invasiones, ocupaciones, matanzas de población civil, torturas como las de Abu Ghraib o Camp Bucca, secuestros en Guantánamo, asesinatos de periodistas como José Couso en Irak, caos, violencia.

Por eso hoy estamos aquí. Las impunidades del pasado construyeron la gigantesca impunidad belicista de hoy.

[-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- @GeromanAT]

You fucking assholes detained ships going to Venezuela and are still starving Cuba
Shut up and fuck off!