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sapere aude

[Pastrami Mommy @ewelannawhite]

addicted to saying “not my circus, not my monkeys” to things that are absolutely both my circus and my monkeys

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

Someone once told me that fear of heights is not really the fear of falling but the fear that the irrational urge to throw yourself over the edge will become irresistible. True in my experience

[c @j_errantry]

can someone address the victims of zverev in their victory speech the next time he loses?

[ESPN @espn]

"You're the lucky charm … not today but usually.” 😅

Alexander Zverev to Trinity Rodman after he beat her boyfriend Ben Shelton in the US Open Final 🎾

[Fiona @FionaSmall]

Breakup of the UK under the first Catholic Prime Minister

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose.

🔗: https://t.co/VeumqCHVkT

[c @j_errantry]

"not so united" kingdom.

[Marina Watanabe @marinashutup]

“i misogynistically or perhaps homophobicly assumed” going straight into the lexicon i fear

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Hezbollah-affiliated TV channel” is such absurd framing.

They bombed a reporter on video after 3 years of being the world’s biggest killer of journalists and you’re still trying to justify it.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

What they're admitting is that Apple smart watches are recording people's conversations and behaviour without their knowledge, which makes this a terrific time to mention that Apple develops their AI tech in Israel, and uses cobalt and minerals unethically extracted from Congo.

[c @j_errantry]

just found out that in my culture a suicide is considered a 'bad' death and the family cannot officially mourn or do any sort of veneration.

[Neerja @neerjadeodhar]

Such delicious writing: "Anybody worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating" https://t.co/AwZZQkwxnY

[Cogito @cogito_yuri]

sam altman might actually be the most evil tech CEO of all time, do you all have any idea just how high that bar is?

[c @j_errantry]

spineless.

[NIK @ns123abc]

>sam altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet"
>rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes
>the professor: using codex for a year
>openai: has all his logs
>checked every codex session tagged to N-S
>found the most promising one
>spun up 10,000 agents to finish the proof where he couldn't
>they got caught
>told the guy if you say anything you'll destroy your own career
>he ruins his career over this
>openai: "we did not see his work"
>also openai: "we cannot rule out that de-identified data from their usage helped improve our models"

they stole it lmao

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇰🇷 | High tensions in South Korea as protests erupt against Iran war deployment plans.

South Korea is actively preparing to become the first country to join the US militarily in the Strait of Hormuz — and Seoul has seen daily protests ever since officials confirmed it.

Police tried to contain demonstrators as they took to the streets. With slogans such as "Everyone opposed to the Hormuz deployment, unite!" and "Refuse US military pressure!", activists are protesting near the US embassy in the capital.

The demonstrations are organised by Seoul Peace Solidarity and National People's Action, which have urged the government not to bow to US pressure or capitulate to Washington, and vowed to continue the mobilisations. Further protests are planned.

Washington has pressured Seoul for months to deploy forces to West Asia. It has never looked closer to reality.

Seoul has notified Washington it is willing to dispatch naval ships and maritime patrol aircraft, and local media report parliamentary approval is already being prepared.

It would be South Korea's first deployment at US request in 22 years.

The deployment still requires that approval to proceed, but officials confirmed preparations are already under way regardless.

While South Korea frames the package as "defensive," it would actively supply and enable US military operations against Iran, providing logistics, intelligence and direct cooperation with US forces.

South Korea imports essentially all of its crude oil, 70% of it from the Gulf, leaving it heavily dependent on traffic through the Strait.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warned Seoul on Monday, in Korean, that any country operating in the Strait would be regarded as directly supporting the aggressor, and that a sovereign state must not yield to US pressure.

Just last month, Washington downgraded its most important annual drills with Seoul, saying South Korea had refused to back its war on Iran.

South Korea is arguably the most subordinated country in the world to the US military. Under OPCON, it is the only country on earth whose military would pass to American command in wartime.

It hosts one of the largest US contingents anywhere, and Washington is its most important diplomatic and military partner.

[໊ @ilswyth]

tip: if you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. this will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow

[Grace @gracecamille_]

not to post last paragraph but

[sergi @sergiart5_]

self-aware
oil on paper

[kos @kostancaaa__]

all the lindsay clancy case proves is that multiple things can be true at once but all of you have only one brain cell so that may be hard to comprehend

[🎨Artsy M*rxist 🎨 (commissions closed) @ArtsyMarx1st]

do not give in to defeatism yall, they want us to resign ourselves to no future rather than have us hold accountable those responsible, who are very much still alive.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Nepal flood death toll reaches 1,287 with over 5,083 people missing.