I don't want to “download the app” to pay for parking. I don't want to “create an account” to see a menu. I don't want to “provide feedback” on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash
Erin Brockovich on data centers: “You’re pushing people too far at this point. You’re taking their water. Their air is jeopardized. Their land is jeopardized. Their sanctuary is jeopardized. Their wildlife is jeopardized. The trees, the rivers, the creeks, the birds, all of it”
Just to show you how great of a businessman Trump is, he decided to put tariffs on a country we had free trade with. What's better than free? He decided that Americans should pay more for the products we get from Canada.
More recently, here in Michigan (Detroit). Canada built an expansion bridge from Canada to America. It's called the Gordie Howe Bridge. Howe was a Canadian and Detroit Red Wing hockey player who played for Detroit for 25 years. He was a 21 time all-star, a Hall of Famer and brought 4 Stanley Cups to Detroit.
Canada built the bridge at a cost of $4 billion dollars. Not one cent was paid for by the United States. Yet, Canada is splitting bridge revenue 50/50 with the United States. Trump keeps delaying the opening of the bridge, saying he is trying to negotiate a better deal for the U.S. What's better than free money?
Can you now understand the six bankruptcies and that he's never been a great businessman?
Shocked to discover designating AI data centres as “National Critical Infrastructure” means water companies are prohibited from restricting water to them even in times of drought. Households will lose water first. Hear more on my @RestIsPolitics series👇
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It's quite obvious that the USA World Cup was used by Infantino, in cahoots with Trump, to demonstrate to investors how much money can be extracted out of the beautiful game. The whole thing - the hydration breaks, the awful half time show - it was all a set-up.
Every few years they give you a new enemy.
In the nineties it was welfare queens and crack addicts and super-predators.
In the 2000s it was Islamic terrorism and you were told to be afraid of your neighbor on the airplane and to accept surveillance as safety.
In the 2010s it was immigrants, caravans, invasions at the border.
In the 2020s it was the other political party, upgraded to existential threat, fascists, communists, destroyers of democracy, depending on which channel you watched.
Notice what is never the enemy.
The hedge fund manager who bought your neighborhood and raised your rent 40 percent is never the enemy.
The pharmaceutical executive who priced insulin at a level that makes rationing a survival strategy for American diabetics is never the enemy.
The defense contractor CEO who has budgeted for cost overruns as a profit mechanism and built political protection into every congressional district where a factory or base exists is never the enemy.
The private equity firm that bought the hospital, extracted its capital, laid off the nurses, and left the community without emergency services is never the enemy.
They are never on the screen.
They are never the face you're shown when you're told to be angry.
They are never the subject of the prime time segment.
They are the people who own the screen.
The enemy is always someone who looks like the person next to you.
Always someone who can be found in your neighborhood, your workplace, your family dinner.
Never someone who can be found on the Forbes list, the Davos guest list, the Epstein flight manifest.
This is not accidental.
This is the product.
This is what the media is for.
Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.
🚨Edward Snowden’s Ominous Warning to the World
🚨These Programs, Mass Surveillance is NOT About Public Safety.
🚨It is not about terrorism.
🚨It is about power.
It is about economic espionage.
It is about diplomatic manipulation.
And it is about social influence.
It is about understanding the actions of everyone in
the world as carefully as they can, no matter who they are, no matter how innocent their life.
But we see how these same technologies are being applied to create what they call the social credit system.
If any of these family photos,if any of your activities online, if your purchases, if your associations, if your friends are in any way different from what the government or the powers that be of the moment would like them to be, you're no longer able to purchase train tickets.
You're no longer able to board an airplane.
You may not be able to get a passport.
You may not be eligible for a job.
You might not be able to work for the government.
All of these things are increasingly being created and programmed and decided by algorithms.
And those algorithms are fueled by precisely the innocent data that our devices are creating all of the time, constantly, invisibly, quietly, right now.
Our devices are casting all of these records that we do not see being created that in aggregate seem very innocent.
You were at Starbucks at this time.
You went to the hospital afterwards.
You spent a long time at the hospital.
After you left the hospital, you made a phone call.
You made a phone call to your mother.
You talked to her until the middle of the night.
The hospital was an oncology clinic.
Even if you can't see the content of these communications, the activity records, what the government calls metadata, which they argue they do not need a warrant to collect, tells the whole story.
And these activity records are being created and shared and collected and intercepted constantly by companies and governments.
And ultimately, it means as they sell these, as they trade these, as they make their businesses on the backs of these records, what they are selling is not information.
What they are selling is us.
They're selling our future.
They're selling our past.
They are selling our history, our identity.
They are stealing our power and making our stories work for them.
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals!” - Edward Snowden
Wilson’s Brooklyn tattoo aesthetic made a lot of Americans forget the she is a Baliol College upper crust classical snob
Personally I love that both her and Nolan’s Odyssey exist
Polite request to @BBCPolitics. Is this fair? To allow people I’ve been investigating like Banks & Phillips, below, a platform to slag me off on air? Without revealing she worked for Cambridge Analytica - who I exposed. Or asking her anything about it?
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
I continue to follow with deep concern the ongoing and escalating violence in the #HolyLand, where, in recent days, many civilians, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, have once again fallen victim. I make a heartfelt appeal for a return to negotiations to achieve a just political solution, founded on the equal dignity and equal rights of every human person. At the same time, I urge the rejection of further military actions and unilateral decisions, especially those that violate the respect for and the status quo of the holy places of every religion.
I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.
My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.