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Let's see if we can trend this towards December.
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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference?
Don’t care.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared?
Don’t care.
Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you?
Don’t care.
A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings?
Don’t care.
A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you?
Fuck you.
People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy?
Don’t care.
Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you?
Don’t care.
A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack?
Don’t care.
“Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you?
Don’t care.
People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you?
Don’t care.
You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry?
Truly could not care less.
What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive.
The doctors being tortured.
The families erased under rubble.
The starvation.
The concentration camps.
The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure.
But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead.
Not Palestinian lives.
Not Palestinian suffering.
Not Palestinian speech.
Zionist discomfort.
Zionist fragility.
Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups.
All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency.
While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible.
While Palestinian speech is disciplined.
While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable.
That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex.
Not safety.
Not care.
Not protection.
Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale.
Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity.
If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin.
The problem is you.
-- from "The Anti-Zionist" https://t.co/38l41J9sY8
If 51 Jews were killed in 24hrs, every world leader would issue a statement of condemnation & it would be described as the nth worst antisemitic massacre since the holocaust.
When Israel kills 51 people in Lebanon in 24hrs, it's called a ceasefire.
🚨Must read: Israeli soldiers with moral injury admit to unspeakable atrocities they committed in Gaza. They say it "reminded [them] of the Holocaust."
One says they put a Gazan civilian in cage, stripped him down, a soldier peed on him while the others laughed
Another emptied his machine gun into an elderly man with 3 children. When the commander came to the site, he spat on the bodies & called them "sons of bitches."
Another soldier says they encountered an unarmed Palestinian civilian who held his hands up. An Israeli soldier "came near him, waited a few seconds & just fired, without asking questions, without the suspect doing anything," then reported the incident as a "terrorist eliminated."
Another describes how IDF Soldiers "would just take pleasure in destruction" & stealing the belongings of murdered Palestinians.
He said soldiers would steal "electric appliances, gold necklaces, cash, everything" & "called it a blessing to steal from [Palestinians]."
NONE of those soldiers have ever been held accountable, despite their public confessions to their crimes.
The IDF refuses to even recognize "moral injury" as a mental disorder because it negates their propaganda slogan that "Israel has the world's most moral army." Instead, the IDF quietly calls it "identity injury" to imply those soldiers are to blame for feeling bad about murdering Palestinians.
The way I see it, the US and Israel are preparing the world's most obvious surprise attack against Iran, which I expect to happen in the coming week or two.
It will be the widest and wildest operation conducted to destabilize and occupy Iran to date, combining a massive air campaign, assassinations, and a serious attempts to start a ground operation in Iran - potentially on Kharg Island or some other strategic point in the Persian Gulf.
They may also try and do something big to take over the Strait.
I wouldn't rule out a raid on the Iranian parliament, in an attempt to kidnap some leaders or potentially take over the building.
Regional government buildings could also become targets for commando raids.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the US and Israel used EMP bombs to try and blind Iran's military and shock and awe its population.
It is not only the buildup of ground forces and the nonstop delivery of equipment into West Asia, it is a proper appreciation of Israel's control over the American system, which so many people still don't get.
Israel is not done with Iran, and therefore the US is not done with Iran. The fake negotiations will most probably soon be over, or cut off abruptly for the new phase of the war to begin.
Iran will face a major test - the biggest it ever faced. Once again, it will emerge victorious
@MikeLevin Your president, current administration and lawmakers are the culmination and result of the US American mindset and populace. They did not pop out of thin air. USA was always this as a whole. The US govt is just much more open aabd and "transparent" about their intentions.
A story of amazing strength and resilience from the entire team at Taru Villas Maia in Habarana. The property was underwater on the 27th, and now they are back up and running in less than 5 days!
This is Sri Lanka. Nothing will keep us down. We will always rise!
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No degree certificate in Namal’s Law College file, admission breaches entry rules.
Nirmala Kannangara unearths new evidence from the UK and Sri Lanka, suggesting @RajapaksaNamal wasn't eligible for law college admission in the first place.
https://t.co/0tuP2njCaa
A bombshell Times investigation alleges that a Sri Lankan influencer built a massive fake AI content network targeting UK audiences — running over 100 Facebook pages pushing anti-migrant and Islamophobic misinformation.
The report says the operation was designed purely to earn money, with the influencer claiming he made around USD 300,000 through viral engagement and AI-generated posts
@cyphstrain@Hassanx1789@LondonGeezer__@MemeKingc If you read the news just from the past 5 years you'll see the extent of Indian rape cases, some have even become nationalised news due to the extremities of the rape. Rape is not tolerated in Sri Lanka, while India it gets swept under the carpet.
@cyphstrain@Hassanx1789@LondonGeezer__@MemeKingc Not true. Yes, India & Sri Lanka have shared cultural history yet completely different. This was an isolated incident. Every country has these isolated incidents. Although in India it's much worse, I agree. Don't group Sri Lanka with India, please!
@Dailymirror_SL At least if you're writing this drivel write it in your own words instead of using ChatGPT, @Jamz5251. Now even using your own words seems to be beneath you, much alone journalism. Pathetic!