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[Haral Tsitsivas 🇺🇸🦅🇬🇷🇺🇦 haral.bsky.social @haral]

I’ll be spending more time at Blue Sky! I’ve had enough of the Leon s**t show…

https://t.co/k1tnOoTIQo.…

[Haral Tsitsivas 🇺🇸🦅🇬🇷🇺🇦 haral.bsky.social @haral]

@SirLordsonHQ @Bushra1Shaikh That’s Trump negotiating with himself. Iran is not listening…

[Muh Proxy @MuhProxy]

@Bushra1Shaikh From all Americans, we know...

[Better Markets @BetterMarkets]

📈 PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENTS: Speak out while there's still time! New SEC proposal eliminates quarterly reports that contain vital information, leaving investors blindfolded.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Russia: Long queue of cars hoping to fill up at a gas station that still has some gasoline in Krasnodar this morning after night strikes on the local refinery.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump spent years teaching his supporters that math is suspicious whenever the final total isn't what they wanted. California law has allowed ballots to be counted after Election Day for years. This isn't new. He just discovered it when his candidate lost.

[keepitquarterly @keepitquarterly]

SEC Rule S7-2026-15 would let public companies hide bad numbers for six months at a time. Insiders dump their shares before disclosure, retail buys the bag. Comment is open until early July.

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

France has identified a network of propaganda sites linked to Beijing.

On June 4, Viginum, the French state watchdog against foreign digital interference, revealed the existence of a network of 13 fake news sites linked to CCP-owned state media outlet 🇨🇳 CGTN.

Dubbed "Fawn Mianju" by French intelligence services, this operation was first brought to light in the summer of 2025 by 🇺🇸 Graphika, which identified 11 websites and 16 English-language accounts on social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Threads, and X, all relentlessly pushing 🇨🇳 CGTN articles, specifically targeting young people. Other sites shared them in French ("Actu Méridien"), Spanish ("Amigo News"), and Vietnamese.

Published primarily between Mar 2015 and Feb 2026, the pseudo-articles posted on "Actu Méridien" unilaterally promoted Chinese aeronautics and AI, China as a leader of the "Global South" and the ecological transition, and the supposed benefits for France of aligning itself with Chinese interests. Another article, published in various languages, criticized a France 2 report on the treatment of Uyghurs in China.

After several months of investigation, Viginum experts were able to establish that these sites, now numbering 13, are directly linked to 🇨🇳 CGTN.

In addition to the fact that the domain names were registered in Beijing and purchased from Alibaba Cloud, it uses a distributed architecture, meaning it is simultaneously duplicated on multiple servers. This more expensive feature, along with the use of paid plugins to improve search engine ranking, points to an actor with significant resources.

By exploring the site's archives and its unindexed subdomains, Viginum experts found a test page modeled after the CGTN website. The administrator of "Actu Méridien" and the other sites inadvertently left a trace of his login credentials and was thus identified. He is an IT specialist working as a "senior project manager" at CGTN Digital, CGTN’s digital arm.

His GitHub page reveals that he’s working on numerous projects exploiting text generation algorithms, LLMs such as ChatGPT, and that he had a digital key that allowed a website to be directly connected to AI to generate semi-automated publications. Since the end of 2025, of the 2,975 articles published on CGTN, 2,307 have reappeared, slightly rewritten, on the "Fawn Mianju" network, often with modifications aimed at a younger audience.

Furthermore, a stylometric analysis showed that the original versions of the articles exhibited a high rate of variation in sentence length and punctuation type, typical of human writing, whereas this rate of variation was reduced by a factor of 2 or 3 on "Actu Méridien" and its English and Spanish-language counterparts. “We can’t prove that a site is AI-generated, but we can establish a body of evidence.”

The average time between the publication of an article on CGTN and its republication on “Actu Méridien” does not exceed 1 hour, regardless of the site or time of day, an indication that the “Fawn Mianju” network was probably directly connected to CGTN to automate article production.

These sites meet two of the essential characteristics of a digital interference operation: secrecy and coordination. Despite several campaigns to buy visibility on Facebook and Threads targeting 89 countries, primarily in French-speaking Africa, they’ve never managed to exceed 15,000 views. 39% of the “likes” for the most liked posts came from people in Burundi, whose sole activity is engaging positively with Chinese pages.

Given the low visibility of these sites and accounts, this operation can be considered an 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲. Moreover, "Actu Méridien" has been inactive for several months. Nevertheless, these sites demonstrate China is clandestinely pushing its narratives to people in Western countries; it’s using LLM to automate content production; and, finally, it’s targeting young people and French-speaking Africa.

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[Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211]

According to NYT Witkoff is one of the targets by the Israeli’s.
Does that mean they are spying on all his dealings/communications with the Kremlin?

[Haral Tsitsivas 🇺🇸🦅🇬🇷🇺🇦 haral.bsky.social @haral]

A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters. https://t.co/YtLERYFxye

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Trump announces new coal export terminal in Oakland https://t.co/PqERAStyZN

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

How a simple mix-up fueled false conspiracies about L.A. vote count https://t.co/XizGDXGXOV

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Swedish court rules seized ship linked to stolen Ukrainian grain may be handed over to Kyiv.

https://t.co/oeVxqbAxRx

[Haral Tsitsivas 🇺🇸🦅🇬🇷🇺🇦 haral.bsky.social @haral]

Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims - The Washington Post https://t.co/cz6GRbyGhB

[Rubbish Talk @RubbishTalkHQ]

United States-Israel Defence Technology Cooperation Initiative. Read Now!

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Haral Tsitsivas 🇺🇸🦅🇬🇷🇺🇦 haral.bsky.social @haral]

@gundrymd_ His videos are too long-winded for me…

[Medical Xpress @medical_xpress]

Tiny PET microplastics stayed in mouse lungs for at least 14 days—and allergy-linked immune cells kept moving in. https://t.co/NR8avmo9Jr

[Haral Tsitsivas 🇺🇸🦅🇬🇷🇺🇦 haral.bsky.social @haral]

USA PANICS As Airbus CEO Goes PUBLIC: Europe Will Build Its Own Fighter, NEVER Buy American Again

https://t.co/sHhDu1j25Z