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[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Thiiiiis.

[Spooky Scary Socialist @SpookySocialist]

Watching Jeremy Scahill make Ro Khanna visibly uncomfortable by needling his support for Iron Dome and condemnation of the Palestinian Resistance was a great start to the day

Wish there were more principled left voices holding politicians accountable for their liberal Zionism

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

As recently as a few hours ago, the third party was still advertising its access to the official Signal account, and communicating with potential sources. The account responded to me as recently as today. https://t.co/9oVXyceCU2

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

People just saying stuff out loud.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

AI presents an incredible opportunity for Jews because "instead of trying to control the whole world" and "manage" social media, "we can go directly to the companies" with "advocacy solutions," Dr. Maya Ackerman tells the American Jewish Committee.

"For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world!" Ackerman says.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

This timeline, man 😭

[Senator John Connor @JohnConnor_US]

This is such an irritating tweet because the bioavailability of cocaine is substantially higher (almost 2x) for insufflation compared to smoke inhalation. Hunter is likely confusing the rapid onset of smoked cocaine, because smoke inhalation presents the fastest absorption of any route of administration, despite the fact that almost third of the drug itself is destroyed by heat (and that’s under ideal conditions).

If waste is the user’s primary concern, oral administration is the most efficient path, with bioavailability approaching 80%. Injection offers bioavailability similar to insufflation, but with much more rapid onset (though still not as rapid as smoking). Elimination is similarly rapid, though, with the shortest half-life of any route of administration. It’s also trashy as fuck and I NEVER accept interns with track marks.

Vote Connor!

[Cuban Embassy in US @EmbaCubaUS]

🇨🇺 Cuba has done it again.

Meet VAXIRA® — a therapeutic cancer vaccine developed by Cuban and Argentine scientists that helps the immune system recognise and destroy lung cancer cells. Approved in both Cuba and Argentina for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

🔬 It works by mimicking a molecule found on cancer cells but almost entirely absent in healthy human tissue — meaning it targets tumours with remarkable precision and very few side effects.

📊 Clinical trials showed a significant improvement in survival for advanced lung cancer patients, with 1-year survival nearly doubling compared to the control group. Real-world data shows median survival of up to 24.5 months in maintenance therapy.

💉 Minimal side effects. Suitable for long-term use. Affordable and accessible — unlike many Western immunotherapies that price patients out of treatment.

And in 2025, VAXIRA® received Cuba's National Technological Innovation Award. All of this achieved by a country under decades of US economic blockade.

The United States spends billions on cancer research. Cuba, under sanctions, develops vaccines the world hasn't seen before. 🇨🇺🔬

#VAXIRA #CubanScience #LungCancer #CancerResearch #Biotechnology

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Juliet Lamont, an Australian documentary filmmaker and Gaza flotilla activist, speaks to Double Down News about being raped by Israeli soldiers after the aid vessel she was aboard was intercepted earlier this month.

Lamont says soldiers pulled down her trousers and underwear and that an Israeli soldier forcibly penetrated her vagina while she was in detention. She was among more than 450 activists seized when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters. Organizers say at least 15 detainees reported sexual assault or rape while in Israeli custody.

Full interview is linked below.

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

...what.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Trump administration is planning to send Americans exposed to Ebola to a quarantine facility in central Kenya, which the U.S. military has been directed to establish within a week, according to people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/kuveDc6ZTq

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

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.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.

https://t.co/mJqk5FxkFY

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Incredible.

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

She’s on a roll folks

[lifeline4gaza.com @ll4gaza_ofcl]

To every "pro-Palestine" account on social media and platforms IRL,

We urge you all desperately to drive awareness, action, and material support to the https://t.co/B6DLLWico1 platform and grassroots community initiatives like @sameerproject.

As you might have heard already, WCK has stopped operating in the south of Gaza and the @sameerproject has had to scale down their daily sandwich distributions by 50% due to lack of funding. Family survival appeals have been stagnating like never before (we currently have over 1,445 appeals on our "5R" stagnation list, many with no donations for several weeks or more).

This can't go on like this. If it does, being "pro-Palestine" will no longer mean anything - because no Palestinians will be left in Gaza.

We are all in this together, and we all have to make sure this genocide is stopped in its tracks. That is only possible when people actually provide material support to the Palestinian families desperately trying to survive it.

So in short: get material support to family survival campaigns at https://t.co/B6DLLWico1 and grassroots community initiatives like @sameerproject. Plan, organize & act IRL to make #FreePalestine a reality before it's too late!

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Goddamn man. Get em 💔 🔥

[Austin Ahlman @ahlmanforne]

I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people.

Let’s take Nebraska back.

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

HOLY shit.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Jesus fucking christ.

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes

They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.

Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Hell yeah brother.

[Popstonox @Popstonox]

Chris Rabb, PA-03 candidate, on John Fetterman

"The first thing to understand about Senator Fetterman is that he is an asshole.

He engaged in populist cosplay at the expense of the people. It has nothing to do with him having a stroke, it's because he's an asshole.

I wasn't impressed with him ever. The fact that when he was running he was for marriage equality, he wanted to legalize adult-use cannabis, he believed in prison reform, I'm like– you're supposed to be for those things. You're a Democrat. That's not particularly impressive in Philadelphia.

A lot of people meeting me for the first time say, 'I like what you're doing, but how do I know you're not going to break my heart too?'

My response to them is, Fetterman had tweets, I have receipts. I have a decade of a legislative track record. I'm on the record on every issue you can imagine."

via @LeverNews

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Goddamn.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

if you read propaganda from apartheid-era South Africa, you will find that it is strikingly similar to Israel's propaganda today: https://t.co/Zh27gjkvhd

[slartiblaetfast @gvert123456]

Predictable, but still grim.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b