Blockchain Runner

Do androids dream of electric coins?

[Blockchain Runner @blockchainrun]

@LomahCrypto ‘The market’ is just an elaborate Truman entertainment mechanism insidiously connected directly into my psychological centres, designed to induce me to take a position, and then when I do, move in the opposite direction for the enjoyment of all the hidden camera viewers.

[Mapping AI @mapping_ai]

Who actually shapes AI policy in the U.S.?

We mapped 1,812 entities: 745 people, 918 organizations, 2,925 relationships. Frontier Labs, AI Safety orgs, Think Tanks, Government, VCs, and more.

https://t.co/6RDB1R0qNd

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." Sound familiar?

[Lukas Ekwueme @ekwufinance]

70% of US farmers are saying they can't afford all the fertilizer they need.

- Less fertilizer = less food production
- More farm bankruptcies = less food production

The world will be put on a severe diet

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader has "forbidden" negotiations with the US under current conditions, per IRGC-affiliated Raja News. Araghchi will not meet with Kushner and Witkoff in Pakistan.

The White House said minutes ago that "Iran reached out and asked for an in-person meeting."

[Campaign Against Arms Trade @CAATuk]

🚨 REVEALED: The UK currently has 203 active military licences for Israel.

In the latest data from 28 February, the UK government confirms it has 203 extant licences for military equipment with Israel worth £130 million.

[Blockchain Runner @blockchainrun]

@akarlin @CanadaNoFuture “…without which Israel cannot survive.”

In what way? Why is this transformation necessary in order for Israel to survive?

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I just finished reading palantir’s manifesto & I need you to understand what you’re actually looking at because this is the MOST important document the tech world has produced this year

most people came away thinking «wow what a thoughtful essay about patriotism and technology »…I came away thinking this is the most elegant justification for corporate capture of the state apparatus ever written & I want to walk you through why

krp opens with «silicon valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible » & frames the entire document as a call to civic duty, but read between the lines and what he’s actually saying is that the engineering elite should be embedded inside the defense and intelligence apparatus of the nation, he’s describing exactly what palantir has already done and dressing it up as patriotism

«the question is not whether AI weapons will be built, it is who will build them and for what purpose »sounds like a warning but it’s actually a sales pitch, he’s telling every gov on earth that the choice is binary either you buy from us or your adversaries will build it without you, this is the oldest arms dealer rhetoric in history wrapped in SV vocabulary

« hard power in this century will be built on software »is the key sentence of the entire manifesto because this is where karp reveals the real thesis, he’s saying whoever controls the software layer of national defense controls the nation itself & if you’ve been following my threads you know that palantir’s gotham and foundry platforms are already plugged into the intelligence feeds the satellite data, financial transactions & communications of dozens of govts worldwide through a single ontological knowledge graph that creates a technological dependency so deep that migrating away would mean rebuilding the entire institutional memory of the organization from scratch

this is vendor lockin at the scale of nation states and I’m personally convinced it was designed this way from the beginning

«we should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act » is karp defending palantir’s expansion into every domain the gov used to handle itself, policing immigration, military targeting intelligence analysis public health, everywhere the state retreats palantir advances and what was once a government function becomes a private service that the government can no longer perform without plantir’s permission

and here’s what I think makes it even more concerning, these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making targeting recommendations threat assessments & resource allocation decisions that humans inside gov are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic

a bureaucrat inside the pentagon / DGSI sees a recommendation from the system & approves it because the system has been right 97% of the time and questioning it would require technical expertise that no one in the room has, this is algorithmic governance wearing the mask of human decision making

«the atomic age is ending, a new era of deterrence built on ai is set to begin »is the MOST chilling sentence in the document because karp is explicitly saying that ai based deterrence will replace nuclear deterrence as the organizing principle of global power, and whoever builds that ai deterrence layer owns the 21st century the same way whoever built the bomb owned the 20th & he’s telling you plainly that palantir intends to be that builder

«national service should be a universal duty » & « we should only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk »sounds noble until you realize that he is proposing a system where citizens serve the state & the state is operationally dependent on palantir, the public bears the risk and palantir captures the value, soldiers fight wars planned by algorithms they can’t audit built by a company they can’t vote out

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The most likely explanation for Trump's Truth Social lies about Iran on Friday, is market manipulation. If so, Trump insiders must have made billions. The next likely possibility is that Trump is either delusional, incompetent, or a combination of both. Either way it's not good.

[Comrade Izzy ☭🦍🟥⬛️🟩 @ComradeIzzy]

Urgently hiring huh?

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Some have said that claims that Israel uses dogs to sexually abuse prisoners are antisemitic blood libels. Unfortunately, there is a good deal of evidence. The organizations that confirmed this include B’Tselem, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Here is the testimony of survivors:

1) "Nihad" (50-year-old father, Ofer Prison): In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Nihad testified that during a pre-dawn raid on January 14, 2024, Israeli soldiers ordered a police dog to sexually assault him. He described it as "the most painful moments of my life" and noted that the assault left him with deep physical wounds and long-term trauma.

2) "A.A." (35-year-old father, Sde Teiman): Arrested from Al-Shifa Hospital in March 2024, A.A. told the PCHR that soldiers took him to a corridor away from cameras, stripped him naked, and unleashed dogs that urinated on him before one dog raped him anally for approximately three minutes. He emphasized that the dog appeared "trained" and "knew exactly what it was doing".

3) "Halim Salem" (Pseudonym, West Bank Detainee): Testified to Middle East Eye that while he was forced to kneel with his head in a toilet, guards brought in a dog that "mounted and raped" him. He recalled that when he screamed, the guards beat him for "disturbing the dog".

4) "Wajdi" (43-year-old, Gaza Detainee): Recounted to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor that during interrogation, he was tied naked to a metal bed and raped by both a soldier and a dog while other soldiers filmed and mocked him.

5) Mohammed Arab (Al Araby TV Correspondent): While detained at Sde Teiman, he told his lawyer he witnessed soldiers forcing dogs to rape prisoners. He stated, "They teach their dogs to have sex with prisoners. Can you imagine?".

6) 18-year-old Gazan Detainee (Sde Teiman): Testified to PCHR that while he and other captives were being raped with bottles by soldiers, there was "also a dog behind us, as if the dog was raping us," serving as a form of extreme psychological and physical humiliation.

7) 48-year-old Detainee (Al-Shifa/Military Outpost): Reported witnessing a dog maul another man’s genitals until the victim bled to death in his arms.

8) The Committee to Protect Journalists and Middle East Monitor have collected dozens of testimonies from journalists who reported being subjected to "dog attacks" and sexualized torture during their detention.

I talked to two guards in Sde Teiman, on more than one occasion. One had seen this happen and said it was too awful to talk about. The other said that he had heard about it from others and believed it was true. This happened. This is happening still. The evidence is too overwhelming.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

@MarineTraffic Mass turn around, nearly every ship attempting the crossing has turned back.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Numerous ships making the break for the Strait of Hormuz this evening have made abrupt U-turns and are heading back towards the Persian Gulf.

Over a dozen ships have already turned back.

[Blockchain Runner @blockchainrun]

@EricLDaugh @LucaTaner Get off your knees you feminine cuck

[Blockchain Runner @blockchainrun]

Finally: pure retardation

[Blockchain Runner @blockchainrun]

@BurnsPatel28265 @ryangrim Your conceptions of masculinity and authority are childish and products of your low IQ.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is not normal

[RUNIC Portal - 🇺🇦 Far Right Watch @mossrobeson__]

A recent issue of @NewStatesman features a drone operator from the Azov movement's (openly neo-Nazi) 3rd Assault Brigade on the front cover. Deputy editor @Will___lloyd writes "Russian propaganda calls these men Nazis," but they are "easily among the most admired men in Ukraine."

[Michael Bento @MichaelPBento]

Outstanding timing. Market closes on a Friday and suddenly we are sending more troops and there is no agreement on what the parties are even negotiating about. Can't say I didn't warn you guys.

[Matt Bracken @Matt_Bracken48]

This is not the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan War, where we could spend months and years without major damage to the US or the global economy. This is like a knife fight in a cave between a SCUBA diver with a diminishing air tank and a moray eel. In this war, time is a more unforgiving enemy than Iran. And the civilization which invented chess understands this even if we do not.