🤖 Sociability

Society and technology, #climateemergency, media and platforms.

[Globalsat Group @Globalsat]

All mission-critical telecommunication services we provide globally are operating nominally at this time.

[ (i.) @ignace]

WTF:

[Loreene de Jesus @bailardejesus]

Yep.

[𝕄𝕖𝕠𝕨𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @Meowllian]

The Defensive Reality of NATO — Debunking common misconceptions propagated by Russian Influence Networks.

@Anderson10x3 debunks misconceptions Americans have been lead to believe about NATO. By controlling both the alternative media on the right and on the left, propaganda can be directed to consistently blame the West, no matter the perspective of the audience.

•The Scissor Strategy (1:00 - 4:00): How Russia and China have effectively divided and influenced political discourse. While China is seen as influencing the Left, Russia has shifted its approach to appeal to conservative-minded audiences, often by branding Vladimir Putin as a traditional, Christian leader to build support. (À la Susan KOKINDA, Promethean Action, LaRouche, Cynical Puberty, Data Republican, Jack PoSoviet, Mike Benz etc)
•Media and Influence (2:30 - 3:30): How alternative media figures, such as Tucker Carlson and Jackson Hinkle, are frequently used to propagate these narratives. Even mainstream media, while ostensibly supporting Ukraine, may be caught in a feedback loop where they feel obligated to adopt stances that serve these broader geopolitical shifts.
•NATO's Role and Misconceptions (3:40 - 7:00): NATO is a defensive alliance built on consensus, not an aggressive organization as often portrayed by Russian propaganda. They argue that countries like Sweden and Finland joined NATO specifically out of fear of Russian aggression, rather than being coerced.
•Military Realities (16:00 - 27:00): The current Ukrainian war effort is a "revolution in warfare" due to the innovative use of drone technology. The Ukrainian military has essentially "flipped the table" on conventional strategies. If Ukraine loses, it would have catastrophic consequences not just for Europe but for the West.
•Chemical/Biological Programs (30:00 - 37:00): How the G7 nations inadvertently helped Russia develop modern, state-of-the-art facilities under the guise of disposing of chemical weapons, a process that allowed Russia to maintain its capabilities while fooling the international community.

@JRNyquist @ANZAC_USA_93 @TrevorLoudon1 @KLWNEWS1 @TimmyG_60610 @FulkIntelReport

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

One of the fascinating lessons of Jensen Huang's resignation is about power. Just a few weeks ago he was described as the most powerful engineer in the world. No more. The paradox of power is that the more of it you have, the more vulnerable you are. 1/

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

There is an active outbreak of avian flu (H5 influenza) in dairy herds in Washington State, particularly the Yakima Valley. A number of dairy workers have been infected, with at least one death. Speaking with workers, we believe the official case numbers are a vast undercount. 1/

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

There’s a startling irony in it that feels Greek in its scale.

The man who supplied the silicon that made generative AI possible is now watching that technology script his fall from grace in a deluge of humiliating AI memes.

Hardware has no loyalty program.

[Doug Madory (also on Bluesky) @DougMadory]

Exchange Online is finally climbing back. After ~18 hours running about 85% below expected levels, traffic to Microsoft’s email service began rising sharply at 6:20 AM ET (11:20 UTC), the biggest gain we’ve seen since the outage began.

[🤖 Sociability @Sociability]

Deliberate.

[Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne @PeteUK7]

An entire BBC article about cold and flu symptoms, OTC treatments /costs and medical advice if suffering symptoms.

Yet not a single mention of COVID.
It's in high circulation.

How is such an omission even remotely conceivable if not deliberate?
https://t.co/KtcFTj8qDo

[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

Zelensky again saying that Starshield has been limited. Right as Kushner and Witkoff land in Russia.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US military warns Israel to prepare for renewed full-scale war against Iran "in the near future," a US official tells Kan.

Similar warnings were issued to Gulf states urging them to raise their alert levels, the official says.

Trump abandoned talks with Iran hours earlier, declaring the US no longer needs a deal with Iran.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is also expected to arrive this weekend, bringing the total carrier count to three.

[Cato the Elder @catotheelderrr]

@felschwartz The fall of the American empire is lit dawg, we’ve even got our own Rasputin.

[Bucky @BuckyNoseBest]

You can’t make this up.

While Donald’s son-in-law is in Moscow telling Putin everything is going great, Melania’s personal ad guy and movie producer, Marc Beckman—no security clearance, no diplomatic experience, doesn’t report to State or the NSC—is on the phone with Moscow and Kyiv every day brokering localized truces and bragging on Fox & Friends.

The entire foreign policy of the United States has been turned into a side hustle for family friends and marketing consultants.

Personally, I think Beckman is Melania’s boyfriend.

[tern @1goodtern]

Musk is collaborating with Putin again.
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I want to past the whole text of what @GretaThunberg said at COP31, because it is so profound and true.

'Greta Thunberg has said that the planet is “not dying, it is being killed and we know by who” in a stark intervention at the Cop31 climate talks in Antalya, Turkey.

“It is being killed by the very same people thought to come to our rescue,” Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, said. “No one is coming to our rescue.

“When our human rights are being threatened by states and other institutions, it’s our duty to stand up and be the adult in the room and fight for everyone’s human rights.”

Thunberg spoke at a packed press gathering in the Cop31 venue alongside other activists from Nepal, Australia, Palestine and Canada. All of them lambasted governments’ inaction on the climate crisis and called for the end of Turkish energy shipments to Israel, which Thunberg said was “directly feeling the genocide in Palestine.”

“We are heading towards a future of more genocides and more ecocides and the complete compromise of our basic rights and where basic necessities become luxuries,” Thunberg said. “It’s more clear than ever in spaces like these that the situation could not be any less under control, the planet is not dying, it is being killed.”'
https://t.co/fSxI07LXK4

Now ask, why so few other if any people with a platform, are speaking the unvarnished truth like this.

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

The unusual spate of suicides at agencies that conduct electronic spying and hacking operations on US adversaries has prompted White House and congressional staff to question their leaders behind closed doors, officials told @business.
https://t.co/oqvZMPkzwP

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Spike in suicides reported at NSA and US Cyber Command, the agencies responsible for spying and hacking operations on adversaries.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

"'Everything and everyone we love is at stake' - Greta Thunberg"

'Cop31 is the first UN climate summit Thunberg has attended since the Cop26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021, where she dismissed promises made by global leaders as “blah, blah, blah.”

@GretaThunberg was right wasn't she, it was all just blah, blah, blah? But then Greta is always right.
https://t.co/8fX1LNT69p

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: In further embarrassing AI executive news this evening, OpenAI's national security officials were tricked into thinking they were speaking to the Ukrainian Intelligence service. It was actually a Russian prank duo, and they uploaded the call online. https://t.co/4RLo2gEd9n

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Remember when Jensen was not invited and then suddenly he was because Trump wanted it?

Trump knew he was compromised and didn’t care because he thought it was a favor to his “friend Xi”—and that it would hurt the stock market if it came out.

High crimes and misdemeanors.