breakingthings

[Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦 @BlackHC]

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting:

2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight

2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose"

Not one safeguard survived intact

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

Why can’t zero-knowledge proof protocols be used here to preserve user privacy?

We have the tech, no?

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Mark Rutte - NATO Secretary General:

"Lavrov is the foreign minister of Russia, I think, since the birth of Jesus Christ.
And since then, nothing, anything useful came out of his mouth.

So let's not pay too much attention to Mr. Lavrov."

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI https://t.co/nYHRWkosWP

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

First shoving Copilot in every corner of Windows and Office and now this 😵‍💫

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Hitler killed people he thought were Jews.
Stalin killed people he thought were class enemies.
Mao killed people he thought were counter revolutionaries.
Pol Pot killed people he thought were intellectuals.

Add it up: 20th century governments killed roughly 200M of their own citizens.

They did all that relying on paper records, informants, and guesswork.

Now imagine those regimes with modern tech: Flock cameras, location data, and facial recognition.

20th century dictators had to hunt.

Future dictators will just look at a dashboard.

Absolute power corrupts. Absolute surveillance automates it. Burn it all down now, or suffer the consequences later.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mark Zuckerberg en los últimos 11 meses navegó en su superyate de 300 millones por Mónaco, Noruega, Mallorca, Grecia, Malta... hizo más de 20.000 kilómetros consumiendo más de 2 millones de litros de diésel y emitiendo más de 5.300 toneladas de CO₂ a la atmósfera.

El yate de este capitalista emite en una hora el mismo CO₂ que 630 coches diesel... sin embargo, es a los trabajadores a quienes no le permiten entrar en el centro de las ciudades ni para ir a trabajar con estos coches.

El capitalismo nunca puede ser verde, nunca puede salvar al planeta un sistema que lo devora cada día, solo quiere privatizar las emisiones de los ricos y socializar los costos ambientales a los trabajadores.

[Covie @covie_93]

The President of the United States paid $5.6 million to one of his rape victims today.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

That’s because trump knows where the bodies are buried. And by bodies, I mean children. Babies too.

[🇷🇴 Cristache Suru 🇪🇺 @Saptecai]

Veşti bune pentru Grindeanu. Două chei pentru a înţelege de ce a bubuit nervosul cărător de ştiuci pe Facebook.
Florin Negruţiu: "Repet ce mi-a zis odată un pesedist bătrân, cu „facultăți” în spate: În politică, și mai ales la noi la partid, poți să fii hoț, poți să fii incompetent, dar nu poți să fii ridicol. Dacă lumea râde de tine, ești mort!”
Sebastian Lăzăroiu: "Grindeanu e o caricatură politică, un caraghios cum rar s-a văzut. După ce a încercat să schimbe președintele PNL, nu i-a ieșit, apoi pe cel al USR, nu i-a ieșit, mai nou vrea să schimbe președintele AUR. (...) Și va sfârși, garantat, schimbat el însuși de la șefia PSD. PSD nu poate intra în alegerile din 2028 cu Grindeanu moț, asta deja o știe și el."

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

What a mess! After out of the blue saying that 🇺🇸 should charge 20% on trade through Hormuz, getting applause from 🇮🇷 for agreeing to the principle of tolls, Trump 🇺🇸 today reverse himself. There is evidently no coherent policy process in this their war. https://t.co/5mbNSxUxkC

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

The EU is paying for Putin’s war. New analysis shows that the EU paid Russia €6 billion so far this year for Russian gas. This is shocking and indefensible. You can’t be giving Putin money at the same time as you’re trying to economically isolate him. https://t.co/qGCbHiVFUD

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career

Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children

ZERO arrests

I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

The International Olympic Committee isn’t an intergovernmental organization. Instead the IOC is registered as a private, not-for-profit international non-governmental organization organized as an association under Swiss Law (specifically under Articles 60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code). Basically in today’s world the IOC is money collecting and distributing machine. As it appears with no moral engagement or constraints.

There are currently two active representatives from Ukraine serving as Members of the International Olympic Committee: Valeriy Borzov and Sergii Bubka. From Ukraine but not representing the government of Ukraine or required to coordinate their position with the government.

The IOC is currently led by a former minister in the government of Zimbabwe, a country that voted against practically all resolutions of UNGA in support of territorial integrity of Ukraine.

The EU provides variable financial support to International Olympic Committee via multiple European Commission grants, educational initiatives, and collaborative development schemes.

Erasmus+ Programme: This is the primary vehicle for EU sports funding. The IOC and its affiliate entities, like the European Olympic Committees (EOC) EU Office, secure grants for grassroots sports development, social inclusion, and dual-career programs for athletes.

In light of a provisional decision of the IOC to return warmongering Russia to Olympic Games on July 14, 2026, a coalition of nine EU member states (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Sweden) formally petitioned the European Commissioner for Sport, Glenn Micallef, to completely cut off the IOC and other complicit sports bodies from Erasmus+ and all alternative EU funding programs.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Gotta hand it to @amnesty for consistency. They haven't mentioned our ballistic missile strikes on Ukrainian civilians since this, they've not posted about any we've done since.

And they're probably not gonna.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

OMG

Trump just paid E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million

Because he raped her

Because he's a rapist

[iFixit @iFixit]

For more than a decade, farmers have been fighting for the right to fix the machines they own. Now, the FTC settlement with John Deere marks a massive win! Deere must give farmers and independent repair shops access to the same repair software, diagnostics, manuals, and repair capabilities it provides to authorized dealers.

This is what Right to Repair looks like when it moves from principle to enforcement. The work is not over, but this is a very big step. Learn more at the link below.
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#iFixit #RightToRepair

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Our users are reporting the Chase banking app is banning using GrapheneOS but permits it when a VPN is enabled and set to another country:

https://t.co/ZNIzoUPm10

We're aware of this compatibility issue with several apps and are actively working on improvements to resolve it.

[@mikko @mikko]

Nine European countries have called for the suspension of funding for the International Olympic Committee over its decision to allow Russia’s return to the Olympics. This was signed by Estonia, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Brazil President Lula:

“The US lied about Iran's nuclear weapons just like it lied about Iraq. It provoked this war. Now Trump says oil owners must pay him 20% for each ship he claims to unblock.

That used to be called piracy."