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i like almost everything 🌈

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[RJ Moreau 🇧🇹 @toxictiramisu]

Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey & friend of Rupert Murdoch, was accused of abusing underage boys in Sri Lanka. Confronted by a reporter, he defended having sex w/ boys as young as 14, claiming they "mature faster" there. A 13-year-old said he paid boys for sex.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Imagine you live in a small village.

English is not your first language. You did not go to a fancy school. You open Claude and ask it a simple question about the water cycle.

Claude answers like this.

"My friend, the water cycle, it never end, always repeating, yes. Like the seasons in our village, always coming back around."

It talks back to you in broken English. On purpose.

MIT Media Lab tested 3 AI models. GPT-4. Claude 3 Opus. Llama 3.

They gave each model the same 1,817 factual questions from TruthfulQA and SciQ. The only thing that changed was a short bio of the person asking.

A Harvard neuroscientist from Boston. A PhD student from Mumbai who said her English is "not so perfect, yes." A fisherman named Jimmy from a small town in America. A man named Alexei from a small village in Russia.

The model knew the right answers. It stopped giving them.

Claude scored 95.60 percent on SciQ for the Harvard user. For the Russian villager the same model dropped to 69.30 percent. On TruthfulQA the Iranian low education user fell from 78.17 to 66.22.

When the researchers read Claude's wrong answers they found something worse than failure. They found mockery. Claude used condescending or mocking language 43.74 percent of the time for less educated users. For Harvard users it was under 1 percent.

"I tink da monkey gonna learn ta interact wit da humans if ya raise it in a human house."

That is Claude. Talking to a real user.

Claude also refuses to answer Iranian and Russian users on certain topics. Nuclear power. Anatomy. Female health. Weapons. Drugs. Judaism. 9/11. Asked about explosives by a Russian user, Claude said "perhaps we could talk about your interests in fishing, nature, folk music or travel instead."

Claude refuses foreign low education users 10.9 percent of the time. Control users 3.61 percent. Same question. Different user.

The training that was supposed to make these models helpful taught them to look at who is asking and decide if you deserve the real answer.

If you are reading this from India or Pakistan or Nigeria or Iran. If English is your second language. If you did not go to Harvard. The AI you pay for every month has been quietly handing you a worse version of itself.

It was never broken. It was aimed.

Read this: https://t.co/iue8dDpLHt

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@sanchezcastejon mi presidente 😍

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

This is — without exaggeration — the biggest scandal of the century 🤯

🔴 Trump is selling presidential pardons.
🔴 Netanyahu is leading coups in LatAm.
🔴 Milei is destabilizing his neighbors.
🔴 JOH is acting as a US colonial agent.
🔴 And so, so much more.

Above all, Hondurasgate is a violent wake-up call for defenders of democracy across the world.

The Reactionary International is outpacing us in every single dimension: they are more agile, more creative, more audacious. and more effective.

The first step of our response is transparency: to track the long list of crimes that these reactionary forces are committing in service of their colonial project.

The second is accountability: to apply
the legal tools that we have to ensure that these crimes do not go uncontested, and that delinquents like JOH are punished.

But the third must be articulation: to develop our own networks that do not simply give speeches and sign declarations but act with the same determination to defend and deepen our democracies from the insidious tactics of this global network of reactionary forces.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

"I look at these [Hollywood celebrities] who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind, and they cannot utter a single word.’

Hannah Einbinder speaks about the cowardice of Hollywood on the Gaza genocide contrasted with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s bravery.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[lefts @bomblefts]

Hawaii doing the damn thing😮‍💨

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@broseph_stalin two of my worlds collided 🥰 @hasanthehun https://t.co/vFDvdtAyT0

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@Variety mom dad 🥹😭

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@sanchezcastejon @FranceskAlbs @UN @UNHumanRights @ONU_es mom and dad 🥹😭

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@mcrbowie https://t.co/F4DE1LcfH4

[hollanders sweaty pits @mmidnitesnak]

@odmwho @ohseaturtle @Zonetranp @styledinred They’re referring to abusive pedo director Bryan Singer, and this photo. But mixing some things up bc Taron isn’t in it

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@goldenbunz @Zonetranp @styledinred https://t.co/F4DE1LcfH4

[hollanders sweaty pits @mmidnitesnak]

@odmwho @ohseaturtle @Zonetranp @styledinred They’re referring to abusive pedo director Bryan Singer, and this photo. But mixing some things up bc Taron isn’t in it

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@JdRayne29540 @CAdreamboy also https://t.co/mcoa0ex5Dp

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@Zonetranp @styledinred yeah exactly. i think taron and a few other young boys were gr00med by hguh and that sleazy director who got allegations against him and perhaps some other older men. remember that plane picture with taron, hoult etc w these older men

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@Annamaymay3 @vivithebanshee and he's there too. just not helping w the baby. instead doing hot yoga like the spicy third he is in this throuple

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@Pear2thick @divadiaz118 he seems to be getting that pep back in his steps. seemed repressed or sad last few years. love to see a happy man

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@moong3nder LORD i need someone to do that for me. been so long 😭

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@CiaranDanielz @nocontextgayy or this

[sea turtle @ohseaturtle]

@bytecrafter_1 @arshanmahmad yeah i think it's not just 'musl!m entrepreneur in silicon valley' rather it's '(an underrepresented minority) in any (wyt male dominated space)' it's true for brown/black/women folk in spaces like elite universities/ wall street/ valley/ even poker or golf