Sympathist

not a simp tho.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

You MUST by all means develop a strong opinion of yourself so you don't end up internalizing the beliefs others have of you.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Gabriel @sigildealer]

You must avoid having guilt and shame at all costs

Guilt and shame are the lowest of low frequencies

Most arent even aware of this

When you are vibrating on the frequency of guilt or shame you are in the lowest possible state of being

In hell

Now what do you think you attract when you are in a low frequency? More low frequency entities

Scarcity is low frequency . Struggle is low frequency .

This is why some people cant seem to outrun misfortune

This is why it is so important to live in alignment with a total clear conscience

You simply cannot ascend into higher states of being without getting rid of your guilt and shame

[‏ْ @marklfcx]

Zlatan Ibrahimović on the VAR decision that denied Iran a last-minute winner against Egypt:

🗣️ “This is exactly why people are losing faith in VAR. We're told it's here to eliminate clear mistakes, yet somehow it keeps creating even bigger controversies on football's biggest stage. That's simply unacceptable.”

“I've watched the replay again and again, and I still don't understand how anyone can call that offside. If you're going to cancel a goal that could decide a nation's World Cup, you better be 100% certain not guessing behind a screen.”

“Millions of Iranians celebrated what they believed was a historic moment, only for a group of officials to erase it within seconds. You didn't just disallow a goal you stole a nation's dream.”

“The referee and VAR officials should be held accountable for decisions like this. You cannot hide behind technology when the technology is being used incorrectly. That's not justice, that's incompetence.”

“A World Cup is played once every four years. Players sacrifice everything to get here, supporters travel across the world, and then one shocking decision destroys months of hard work. That is unforgivable.”

“If this is the standard of officiating at the biggest tournament in football, then something is seriously broken. Football deserves better, the players deserve better, and above all, the fans deserve far better than this.”

[Martín Dandach @MartinDandach]

El capitán de la Selección de Irán, Mehdi Taremi, explotó contra la FIFA y la organización de Estados Unidos.

“Esta es una Copa del Mundo desastrosa. Como jugadores profesionales no podemos jugar una competición en estas condiciones, no está bien ni es justo. Si la FIFA piensa que esto es justo, tema de ellos, pero no lo es. ¿Quién debería solucionar este problema por nosotros? ¿La FIFA? ¿EE.UU.? ¡No sé! Díganme un nombre. El presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, vino a nuestro vestuario después del primer partido contra Nueva Zelanda y dijo que iba a resolver todos los problemas, pero en realidad, la FIFA no hizo nada. Respondiendo la pregunta de: "¿Sienten que los organizadores de la Copa del Mundo, incluidos la FIFA y los funcionarios estadounidenses, prefieren que Irán sea eliminado de la competencia?", digo: Tenemos que luchar contra absolutamente todo. No podemos quedarnos en el país, viajamos y nos sometemos a controles migratorios cada vez que queremos jugar, ahora no podemos quedarnos en Seattle y tenemos que volver a Tijuana. Han hecho todo lo posible para eliminarnos, entonces desde nuestra perspectiva, sí, creo que lo quieren así, nos quieren afuera”.

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard:

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

[Tyler Oliveira @tyleraloevera]

The video I filmed in CANADA exposing INDIANS illegally smuggling other INDIANS into AMERICA has been BANNED in INDIA by the INDIAN government 😳🤡

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

Dear conspiracy theorists.. sadly, you were right again…

🚨 Dr. Robert Malone: Declassified Docs Expose U.S. Military Releasing 282,800 Radioactive Ticks, Sparking Lyme Disease Epidemic and 40-Year Cover-Up

- The U.S. military released 282,800 radioactive lone star ticks (labeled with Carbon-14) across Virginia sites along bird migration routes from 1966–1969; before the experiments, these ticks were not found north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but they soon established populations on Long Island for the first time.

- CIA operatives under Operation Mongoose (1962) dropped infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers via nighttime C-123 flights; one operative’s infant son suffered a life-threatening 105°F fever requiring emergency tracheotomy after family contamination.

- Plum Island Animal Disease Center (under Army Chemical Corps) conducted open-air tick experiments with containment failures: test animals mingled with wild deer and birds, and deer from nearby Lyme, Connecticut, swam to the island while birds fed on insects—Lyme, CT, is only 13 miles away and became the namesake epicenter in 1975.

- Willy Burgdorfer (who identified the Lyme bacterium in 1982) discovered a second pathogen called the “Swiss Agent” (Rickettsia helvetica) in patient samples but deliberately omitted it from his published research; materials found in his garage after his 2014 death proved 40+ years of suppression of co-infection data that could explain chronic Lyme treatment failures.

- Under Project 112 (1962–1974), the Pentagon ran 134 bioweapons tests (plus hundreds more classified), investing $3–4 billion and building capacity to produce 100 million infected mosquitoes and 50 million fleas per month; the program was “categorically denied” by the military for nearly 50 years until 2000.

- Operation Big Itch (1954) successfully dropped 670,000 tropical rat fleas from cluster bombs to prove the weapons could incapacitate an entire battalion-sized target area for up to a full day.

- Multiple tick-borne diseases (Lyme arthritis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever) erupted simultaneously around Long Island Sound right after the tick releases (1968–1972), clustering statistically around Plum Island—an anomaly the article attributes to possible lab enhancement or accidental release (45% probability per the analysis).

- Burgdorfer, recruited in 1951 for tick weaponization and linked to Nazi scientists brought via Operation Paperclip, left a cryptic note before dying: “I wondered why somebody didn’t do something,” and in 2013 video testimony insinuated an accidental release while admitting he “didn’t tell you everything.”

These claims are based on a review of 41 primary declassified sources, testimony, and suppressed research presented in the article.

https://t.co/zZbnLlEcw4

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone’s missing the real story here.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.

7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”

Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.

Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.

This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.

Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.

And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.

The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.

[Vlad @VladTheInflator]

https://t.co/HFS8manQ1Q

[Vlad @VladTheInflator]

HOLY FUCK it wasn't even close.

I'm going to tell my kids this is Epstein Island

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This story is actually insane:

• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

[Jil Theo @theo_jil]

No religion, no therapy, no remedy will improve your well-being as much as making the effort to turn inward, work on yourself, and track down the fears, bad habits, and personal beliefs that have led you to where you are today.

[signüll @signulll]

being “busy” is usually a self own. you should have ~50% of your time completely unallocated to just think + be.

the human mind needs that slack to absorb, integrate, & synthesize. i would never ponder anything meaningful if i didn’t have this.

busy ppl optimize throughput. free ppl develop perspective. one compounds, the other plateaus.

[LLONER 🦅🪐 @eyojoel77]

I actually don't want to climb any corporate ladders. I don't care about job titles. I don't need accolades.

I just want to have income to fund my lifestyle, not be depressed, help other people, and be around good humans.

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

China just took over a Canadian gold mining company in a $5.5 BILLION deal.

It's been a little over a week since Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new "strategic partnership" with China.

Things are moving fast.

https://t.co/OX1KnXfq2g