Kiel Cathers

Professional musician & counsellor from the mighty Derg

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

The stupidest thing is how transparent the cheating was. Man City were averaging £600m more in commercial income than Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in the decade to 2020. It was stark raving obvious that those numbers could not be real for City’s global scale at that time.

[Kevin Clark @bykevinclark]

Oh just one more thing, Belgium.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

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[Kiel Cathers @kielcathers]

@SpencerGuard Laundering war crimes, have you no shame?

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Why regulate and prosecute big tech companies and teach children critical thinking skills and how to deal with the world around them, when we can advance a total surveillance state that will soon be controlled by a far-right Reform government? What could possibly go wrong?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

She is lying. Brazenly. Israel has forced over a million people (a million!) from their homes, razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, told Christian villagers to not let Shia villagers stay in their villages, and killed multiple first-responders in double tap strikes.

[Fergus Navaratnam-Blair @Fergus_NBlair]

The thing about these kinds of Gen AI use cases is that the BBC could have easily made this video before these tools existed - you could do it with actors in makeup, you could do it with traditional VFX.

The fact that you're only doing it now means you only thought it was worth doing once the cost was essentially zero. That is to say, the content's existence has become a tacit acknowledgement of its own worthlessness.

[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.

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

Shocking to see the destruction by IDF in #Lebanon with whole villages razed to the ground, destruction of 50,000 homes, & over 2,600 dead & over 8,000 injured since latest bombing began on 2 March. Same tactics as in #Gaza. When, if ever, will there be accountability?

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Just fantastically online crackpots, scams, fraud and bullshit all the way down

[Kiel Cathers @kielcathers]

‘Some get spiritual cos they see the light, others cos they feel the heat’ - Ray Wylie Hubbard

[Secret Drug Addict @ScrtDrugAddict]

Did Christopher Guest direct this?

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies having to be sold so desperately. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Within 10 days, parts of the global economy will start running short of critical goods
After 30 years studying economic sanctions and blockades, I don’t say this lightly:
--Not just higher prices
--Shortages.
Markets are not ready for this

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I've long thought and continue to think that the single dumbest group of people are those who believe that the US Govt fights wars to free the oppressed peoples of the world.

The slightest knowledge of US history shows it far more often imposes dictatorships than uproots them.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Every week, when markets open, Trump makes these kinds of statements to drive down oil prices. Even his five-day deadline aligns with the closure of the energy market.
But in reality, there are no negotiations underway, nor does Trump have the capability to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's firm threat has once again forced Trump to back down.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

An illegal war waged by two countries the UK arms & supports

B52s launched from British soil. Israeli jets built with British parts

A UK economy still hooked on fossil fuels.

We must end support for the war, cut fossil fuel addiction & support families facing this price shock

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Jeffrey Sachs does not mince words

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

For literally 45 years US planners have discussed this exact scenario and always decided against war with Iran for this reason. It took an incredible combination of blackmail, graft, lobby money and end time prophecy lunatics for Israel to make the US commit imperial suicide

[Kiel Cathers @kielcathers]

@CalJamieson @VP So a man so mendacious and cynical - that is on record as calling Trump America’s Hitler - who wouldn’t have been given the role he’s in had he not been a true believer in all this fascist nonsense is going to solve it?