Michael Luy

[Michael Luy @adiantumluy]

The yanks offing one of their lawmakers to try and distract from another one sharing his account of visiting Palestine is just too funny. Their disintegration is accelerating hallelujah.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

4 beautiful sisters, Taqua, Yaqeen, Ehsan & Eman Mahmoud Shabana, were all brutally murdered by the israelis while they attempted to flee

[Michael Luy @adiantumluy]

@mfullilove @LowyInstitute @DavidGVallance @guardian A gaggle of weird demagogues, hucksters and shills coming out of the woodworks here. Better be quick to collect your greenbacks - the yanks will not be in a position for much longer to keep you stooges employed.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Matad a todos los bisontes que podais. Cada bisonte muerto, es un indio menos".

Esto dijo el coronel colonial norteamericano, Richard Irving Dodge, en julio de 1867, a sus tropas.

En la foto, colonialistas blancos posan con millones de cráneos de bisontes cazados en Detroit, EEUU. (1870)

La extinción del bisonte era un plan genocida de los colonos, para destruir una de las principales fuentes de alimento de los nativos y exterminarlos... un metodo de conquista colonialista para expulsar a los nativos y obligarles a huir de donde ya no quedasen recursos para sobrevivir.

Para 1890, solo quedaban 750 bisontes, de una población estimada de entre 30 y 60 millones a principios del siglo XIX, las manadas fueron exterminadas por los colonialistas en apenas unas décadas.

Así se construyó la "tierra de la libertad" de EEUU, con el exterminio de los nativos, incluidos los animales y la naturaleza que le rodeaban.

[Michael Luy @adiantumluy]

@simon28483 @AndyBxxx @baoshaoshan That is the crux of the problem really - that we’ve allied and submitted ourselves to a country addicted to violence and terror and happily play along and involve ourselves in its crimes. I’m confident that we’ll break free of that madness yet.

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

🇨🇳China tests missile in Pacific.

🇦🇺Australia melts down.

🇺🇸US does the same tests routinely — zero outrage.

Double standards exposed with Prof. Warwick Powell @baoshaoshan

Watch now 👇

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

Palestinian and Jewish speakers together outside the antisemitism Royal Commission in Sydney protesting against its uncritical conflation of Judaism and Zionism, exclusion of anti-Zionist Jews, and platforming of naked anti-Palestinian racism. Demo organised by JAO48 and SWOP.

[Michael Luy @adiantumluy]

@PeterCronau Hopefully they’ll strike an iceberg or reef.

[Zed @commie_aussie]

Once again, who is projecting military power far beyond its own shores?
No War with China.
Close all US bases.

[Zed @commie_aussie]

China routinely tests a ballistic missile with a dummy warhead and the Canberra stooges claim it is a provocative act.
Their masters in Washington launch very real missiles at an Iranian civilian port.
Crickets...
The US is a terrorist state.

[Michael Luy @adiantumluy]

@ASPI_org @daxe You guys wanting to sacrifice the whole world on the altar of western supremacism is truly despicable. It will also fail miserably. We will make sure of it.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

China is well aware of US plans to encircle and contain it both economically and militarily - it is also well aware of Washington's use of social media to infiltrate and capture national information space and use it to destabilize and politically capture the nation itself.

China has spent decades building up its military, economy, infrastructure, information space, and its population to overcome these US efforts.

This includes the massive Belt and Road Initiative, its unprecedented investments in energy of all kinds, investments in education and industry, and of course the development of its military capabilities.

China has also built up is own ecosystem of social-media platforms to control how information is created/shared/consumed within its own information space - rather than Washington and Silicon Valley doing it for them...

I don't want people to misinterpret my warning about what the US is doing.

The US is not "unstoppable."

The US is only successful because people are too easily divided and distracted from doing anything at all to stop it.

China is already working hard to create a different future and a different global paradigm - Russia as well. So are many others across the multipolar world.

But the world needs as many people as possible everywhere to contribute as well.

The moment people realize what the US is doing and become determined to stop it, they can move mountains to do so - China is already doing it.

My warning is in the hope that many others far beyond China realize this danger and become active in confronting and overcoming it - and contributing to a better future.

The future is what we make of it - but if we are disarmed by information operations, political circus, and diversions - we won't have a part in making that future at all.

[Obitobi @PofferDePof]

@caitoz

[Michael Luy @adiantumluy]

@PeterCronau At this stage it’s clear that outfits like asio are foreign interference operations themselves that seek to undermine and weaken Oz for the benefit of US financial interests.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

"Rape followed by the murder of Vietnamese women was so common that US soldiers had a special term for it: double veteran."

Fuck July 4th and fuck America

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇨🇳NEW VIDEO: US Prepares Army of Terrorists to Fight China Across Eurasia as War on Multipolarism Expands

On YouTube: https://t.co/T0DhtfCNUQ

▪️US government-funded media NPR as part of a multi-year campaign to portray Uyghur terrorists as “freedom fighters” has whitewashed their prominent role among the ranks of Al Qaeda in Syria throughout the US-backed proxy war spanning 2011-2024;

▪️The article seeks to prepare public perception for the use of US-sponsored terrorists to be deployed from Syria across Eurasia to attack Chinese investments, citizens, and perhaps even China itself;

▪️This is only the most recent chapter in the US’ use of terrorist organizations (designated as such by the US itself until delisting them to provide more direct support) to advance US geopolitical objectives worldwide and more specifically vis-a-vis China;

▪️The US is already amid a long-standing dirty war wages against China along its borders following several years in the early 2000s where US-backed extremism was targeting and killing people inside China itself;

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

After reflection, this new narrative by Palantir is probably much more consequential than people may assume.

Palantir is basically being the canary in the coal mine announcing the death of two major assumptions propping up the US economy right now:

1) that AI labs will be able to extract significant economic rent - as opposed to AI models being mere commodities

2) that other countries can accept structural dependency on US technology and services without pushing back on sovereignty concerns

Why are Palantir specifically starting to be vocal about this?

First off, major middle-powers, even US “allies”, are one by one showing them the door. In June, France announced that the DGSI - its domestic intelligence agency, which had relied on Palantir since the 2015 Paris attacks - would replace it with French firm ChapsVision, with Prime Minister Lecornu explaining (https://t.co/SLhEGprBZC) that France “cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere” and shouldn't depend on the goodwill of companies “capable of turning off the tap.”

Germany moved even earlier: its domestic intelligence service, the BfV, also selected ChapsVision over Palantir (https://t.co/pDZVj4SYUY), and the German military has said it will no longer use Palantir at all. Then, just this week, Spain instructed state-controlled companies - including strategic firms like Telefónica, Indra and Navantia - to avoid signing any new contracts with Palantir (https://t.co/0ik4UAFrT7).

Even in the UK, Washington's most loyal vassal, the NHS's £330 million data contract with Palantir is under review following parliamentary pressure (https://t.co/uJl6g4BMsW), and London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a proposed £50 million Palantir contract with the Metropolitan Police.

Palantir making a lot of noise around them caring about sovereignty makes a lot of sense: it's damage control since they keep being told they're a sovereignty risk.

I doubt it will work - because it's true: they are a sovereignty risk - but the fact that they feel the need to be vocal around this tells you where the wind is blowing: they're not shaping the narrative, they're reacting to one they're losing.

What they're saying against closed-source AI (basically a broadside attack on OpenAI and Anthropic), is again highly self-serving. Palantir's sudden love of open-weight AI models conveniently coincides with them launching 2 days before a partnership with Nvidia to sell exactly that: open models models (NVIDIA's Nemotron) in sovereign environments.

So it's essentially a product launch.

It doesn't make what they're saying wrong: it is factual that the value proposition of closed-source AI labs looks increasingly unsustainable. I mean: you're paying 10X the price of Chinese open-source AI models for something that's not really better (or just marginally) and on top of that you have zero control over your data, or the models themselves.

When Palantir says that "the architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha," they're right. I'd add that this also means you shouldn't trust Palantir either with that "tribal knowledge"... they obviously left this part out 😉

When you take a step back, these two things have major implications on many other US companies.

SpaceX - which just went public at the largest IPO valuation in history - is one clear example as I describe in my latest article on the new space race with China (https://t.co/JK3ELAyEVO).

If countries like France concluded with Palantir that they couldn't depend on a company “capable of turning off the tap” when it’s merely analyzing their data, what should they conclude about a company that aims to literally control their entire connectivity - at one man's whim, from space?

What percentage of SpaceX's crazy market cap is based on the assumption that foreign governments will not do to Starlink what they're currently doing to Palantir?

And SpaceX - or Palantir - aren't alone: a significant proportion of the top US tech giants, who rose in a world where no one questioned American technological hegemony, now face an environment that's much less conducive to the kind of lock-in their business models - and valuations - depend on.

When you pair this with the fact that it increasingly looks like the US made a wrong bet with closed-source AI - an extremely expensive wrong bet - the picture that emerges is of a country that bet its economic future on two things - proprietary AI and captive allies - and is losing both at the same time.

And to compound the problem, it doesn't help that the official narrative of the US government - via the voice of Jacob Helberg, the Under-Secretary of State (https://t.co/Z1rotPl9Ee) - is to be vocally opposed to "AI Sovereignty": essentially telling everyone "you know what, your worst fears are real, our tech companies are really out to undermine your sovereignty."

Read Helberg's post (the one I linked) and put yourself in the shoes of - say - a European or Asian leader and ask yourself how you'd react to being told that building your own AI capabilities is "marching in perfect formation into the past," that your pursuit of sovereignty is really just "synchronized mediocrity," and that your only path to the future runs through American technology.

If it was me in a position of power, I'd read this as a massive wakeup call: when another country's official position is that your sovereignty is a problem, history says you're about to need it.

So yes, it looks like - unexpectedly - Palantir, of all companies, is being quite the canary in the big tech mine. Yes they obviously do this for self-serving and cynical purpose, and yes they're of course also very much part of the problem and not the solution. But it doesn't make them wrong: sometimes it takes a vulture to tell you something is dying.

[Dr Colin Hughes @drcwhos]

@ASPI_org @johncoyne14 @geoff_p_wade Oh the hypocrisy as USA pursues an Australian citizen for retrospective crimes

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

@ASPI_org @johncoyne14 @geoff_p_wade ⚠️WARNING: ASPI is directly funded by weapons manufacturers whose sole goal is to use ASPI to scaremonger about the "China threat" so that the Australian government will spend more money with said weapons giants "protecting" Australia from a fictional enemy.