MSNBC Reporter: "Would you be willing to step down to save the people of Cuba?"
Cuba President: "Is that question from you or is it coming from the US State Department?"
It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves
Everytime I see new images of our Earth I keep thinking of this soviet anti-war poster by Boris Rogachevsky that says "There's no other home!"
I think it's really sweet
Reminder that in 1960, France tested its first nuclear bomb in the south of Algeria around 30 miles south of the small town of Reggane. To this day, the local population suffers from a cancer rate 100 times higher than the national average.
last week, you were told that you should support a regime change war in Iran in part to support women's rights
this week, one of Israel's "preventative" air strikes in Iran hit a girls' elementary school killing 40 little girls and counting
Greentext summary of the article:
>be me, computer nerd
>looking into the company that checks your ID when you sign up for websites (Persona)
>stumble across a weird hidden web address: "openai-watchlistdb"
>why the hell does OpenAI have a watchlist?
>dig a little deeper and find the company's secret portal for government agencies
>some idiot programmer accidentally left the site's entire source code completely public
>didn't have to hack, didn't need a password, literally just clicked download
>start reading the code to see what they are actually doing with your data
>turns out, when you upload your ID and selfie to use ChatGPT, it does way more than just check your age
>an AI scans your face to see if you "look suspicious"
>it compares your selfie to a massive database of world leaders, politicians, and criminals
>it runs over 200 background checks on you in seconds, including tracking your crypto wallets
>saves your face in a biometric database for up to 3 years
>if the AI decides it doesn't like your face or background, it flags you
>the system has a built-in button for the feds to instantly file a "suspicious activity report" on you to financial police and intelligence agencies
>the exact same company taking your passport photo for a chatbot is running a massive surveillance machine for the government
amazing to think we likely won't see another simultaneous lent, chinese new year, ramadan and disgraced member of the british royal family being arrested in our lifetime
Police in Kansas didn’t like a newspaper opinion essay a local man published, so they opened a criminal investigation of him and tracked his movements using license plate readers.
https://t.co/gwi4DGMJXA
White people geeking out over the Epstein files need to realize that this is who their forebears were, too. They are the original child traffickers, pedophiles, slavers, and rapists here.
That nastiness will exist here as long as colonialism persists.
They will never get over the Haitian Revolution because they know what it represents. It’s a stain in their memory that the empire refuses to forget. That is why they have been punishing Haiti for centuries. Enslaved people defeated an empire.