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turnt but tired

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

the front of every newspaper today is about the russian ship firing in the channel.

the news of israel directly interfering in our elections broke last week and hasn’t once been a front page story.

[Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇼 @theashrb]

Well Keir Starmer is selling my medical records to Palantir so arrest him too 🤷🏾‍♂️

[maki ❦ @reaIesbian]

ITV News and the BBC referred to Omar Artan as a “Somali refugee” and “Somalia’s top refugee” instead of correctly identifying him as a professional referee.
They’re shamelessly pushing a narrative about a man who was travelling for work

[⭐️ Frog @nightcroack]

The most bullshit manhwa slop will come into your life and seem like peak fiction the night before you most important exam.

[Wesley @WesleyLowery]

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.

Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 CAF, WHERE IS YOUR VOICE?

Africa’s best referee — Omar Abdulkadir Artan, CAF Referee of the Year 2025 and the first Somali ever selected for the FIFA World Cup — was denied entry into the US despite a diplomatic passport and approved visa. Turned back at the airport like a criminal. No reason given.

This is a direct humiliation of African excellence on the global stage.

CAF — you crowned him the best on the continent. Now you stay silent while one of your own is disrespected by the host nation?

No strong statement. No demand for answers from FIFA or US authorities. No defense of African officials.

This is not leadership. This is complicity in the face of Western arrogance.

Africa’s talent deserves better than puppet organizations that bow when it matters most.

Stand up for Omar Artan. Stand up for African football. Or step aside for those who will.

[yang goi @GongR1ght]

Qatar even allowed Israeli journalists to cover FIFA World Cup 2022 despite not even recognizing Israel as a country whereas the USA is not even giving visas to British fans for World Cup let alone people from countries like Iraq, Iran, DR Congo etc.

Guess which WC host got negative press from the western media?

[Vince Staples News @staplesvincent]

Happy Pride Month!

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Pastor Kristian A. Smith spoke about the people who say that homosexuality is a sin

“You can't really get through to Christians when talking about sexuality if you don't deal with what they believe about sin. It doesn't matter what you say. You can say, ‘You know, Q+ people—they're the entire music ministry. We wouldn't have a church without them,’ and so on and so forth —all of these valid points. But at the end of the day, it always comes back to ‘but it's sinful.’

So in my theology, I deal with that directly. If the greatest commandment is the core of Jesus's message—because when he was asked, ‘What's the greatest?’ He said, ‘This is it. Everything hinges on this’ —then if love is the greatest commandment (love for God, neighbor, and self), the first rule of love is ‘do no harm.’ If I love you, I'm going to at least commit to not harming you. I can't help everybody—I’m a finite human being—but I can make a commitment to not harm anybody. So if the first commitment of love is ‘do no harm,’ then sin is anything that causes harm. That’s why I barely even use the term "sin" anymore. I talk about harm. Because sin is harm, and harm is sin. If something is not harming anybody, then it’s not a sin.

And if you can reorient your understanding of sin, maybe you can start to think differently about same-gender-loving people and trans people who are just living their lives, not harming anybody. They’re simply trying to live their truth. So then the question becomes: if they’re just trying to live their lives without harming anyone, and you, as a Christian, are condemning them and pushing them down, then you are the one causing harm. Right? So you are the one living in sin.”

🔗 https://t.co/IlIrgHPuqf

[shego 🔻 @shegoisback]

paramedics in south lebanon are now filming their rescue missions to debunk israeli claims and documents israeli war crimes yet the WHO and HRW are still silent about the deliberate attacks medics are facing on daily basis.

[maria @resistancestan]

Mind you, Cuba accomplished this while under the most excruciating sanctions. Imagine everything they could do if the US sanctions were lifted.

Long live the Cuban revolution!!! Long live Fidel!! Long live Raul!! Love live Che!!!

[🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab]

the director of ‘OBSESSION’ is 26
the director of ‘BACKROOMS’ is 20

do you see what happens when you stop gatekeeping big creative opportunities from young creators ?

[Mohanad @MohanadElbalal]

The picture is from Eid in Al Fashir in 2015 a city that was sieged and subsequently massacred by the UAE sponsored RSF militia late last year.

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

spitting fire right out the gate

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Reading calls to “stop ICE-style policies from coming to Europe” always feels surreal to me, because Europe has never been separate from that kind of violence. Fortress Europe already exists: migrants are locked inside detention centres, abandoned to die at sea, deported to countries they barely know, and subjected to constant surveillance, humiliation, and terror. African migrants in particular are often targeted through racist policing and far-right violence, attacked in the streets, harassed in their homes, and sometimes killed simply because of the colour of their skin. The European Union continues to market itself as a global symbol of liberal democracy and human rights, yet its border regime is already built on militarisation, exclusion, and racial brutality. Europe does not need petitions warning against imported American violence; it needs people willing to confront and organise against the violence that has long been embedded within Europe itself.

[Eleanora (on hiatus) @EleanoraStats]

If Russia had kidnapped a family member of a Western head of state, we would currently be in the middle of WW3 because of how furious Western governments would be.

But Israel is sacrosanct, so they can do whatever they want. They could kill her and Labour would still defend them

[Bibinyi @swartgevaar1]

I’ve explained before, the idea of whiteness and white unity as it exists now is a very recent phenomenon.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇲🇿 AFRICA IS RISING 🚨

Mozambique just dropped a bold new Mining Law:

• State gets minimum 15% stake in ALL mining projects

• Total ban on exporting raw minerals — process them locally!

• 10% of revenues for community development

Parliament debating it TODAY. No more looting our resources while we stay poor.

This is how you build real sovereignty.

Who’s next? Ghana? Tanzania? Nigeria?