peatybogged

a former optimist

[SilverTrade @silvertrade]

🚨TURKEY SELLS 11 METRIC TONS WORTH OF GOLD BONDS TO CORPORATE INVESTORS

Wait, wait, wait.

⚠️So did Turkey actually SELL ANY of the 58 tons of gold from its reserves in March, or did it simply use them as collateral to issue GOLD BONDS⁉️

[LPC @landpalestine]

Israel just bombed a building that Palestinian journalist Bisan owda was in

She’s okay and reporting on it. She said it’s the closest she’s ever been to a bombing.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

AI is not floating in the cloud.
It runs on electricity.

And China understands this better than almost anyone.

Researchers from Peking University and Alibaba’s DAMO Academy used AI to map hundreds of thousands of solar and wind installations across China, processing 7.56 TB of satellite imagery.

The result:
319,972 solar photovoltaic facilities.
91,609 wind turbines.
A national “God’s-eye view” of China’s green-energy infrastructure.

This matters because AI is creating explosive demand for power.

China’s data-service and computing facilities saw power consumption jump 44% year-on-year in Q1 2026, reaching 22.9 billion kWh.

So the loop becomes obvious:
Electricity powers AI.
AI maps electricity.
The grid becomes smarter.
Energy deployment becomes more coordinated.
Data centres move closer to wind, solar, land, and cheaper power.

That is not just green policy, but industrial civilization learning to see itself from above.

The West keeps talking about AI as software.
China treats AI as infrastructure — tied to power grids, geography, manufacturing, energy security, and national planning.

That is the difference between building an app
and building an era.

[peatybogged @peatboggery]

Deepseek ftw

[Focus @FocusinfosFr]

🇮🇱📱FLASH INFO

Israël tente d'influencer les réponses de ChatGPT et de Claude par le biais de contrats gouvernementaux.

Il s'agit de la première tentative recensée d'un État pour influencer les conversations d'une IA – Haaretz

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

Marco Rubio was very impressed with the ceiling and light fixatures inside the Great Hall of the People.

[Barchart @Barchart]

Strait of Hormuz Traffic has plummeted 📉📉

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

If you haven’t already watched it, this is an alarming synthesis of what the US has been up to.

[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

Every day Hormuz remains (effectively) blocked, you should ask yourself which of the two realities is more likely:

The US wants it open but Iran’s terms are unacceptable and it thinks it can leverage a better deal

or

The US actually wants it to remain closed

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

🚨The most dangerous thing you can do to your consciousness is doomscrolling.

You think you’re observing reality. But, you’re actually living inside a simulation designed to make you forget what reality feels like.

Every time you scroll through curated feeds of global disasters, you’re witnessing a carefully constructed representation of the world, filtered through editorial decisions, engagement metrics, and profit motives you never see. The information flowing through your device carries the psychological fingerprints of every system designed to keep you scrolling.

You’ve never actually experienced 99% of the events that shape your worldview. Everything you “know” about reality beyond your immediate environment comes through screens controlled by corporations optimizing for your continued engagement, not your accurate understanding.

Your consciousness of global events gets entirely mediated by systems that make money when you feel anxious, angry, or obsessed. Your perception of reality becomes literally sponsored by entities whose business model requires your mental disturbance.

And…this artificial reality feels more real than actual reality. The curated stream of crises feels more urgent than the conversation with your friend. The distant disaster feels more important than the local problem you could actually solve. The virtual outrage feels more meaningful than the present moment you’re actually living.

Your consciousness gets trapped in a kind of meta-reality where consuming information about life replaces actually living life. Where reacting to representations of events replaces participating in actual events. Where feeling informed replaces being effective.

Ancient spiritual traditions warned about this exact trap. Maya in Hinduism. Samsara in Buddhism. The Cave in Plato’s Republic. All describe the same phenomenon: consciousness becoming so absorbed in illusions that it forgets its own direct experience of existence.

Doomscrolling represents the technological perfection of that ancient trap.

You scroll through disasters happening to other people and feel like you’re experiencing something important.

Meanwhile, you’re sitting in a chair, staring at light patterns on glass, having emotional reactions to stories about events you will never directly encounter involving people you will never meet in places you will never visit.

Your nervous system responds as if these stories are your lived reality. Your consciousness accepts these mediated experiences as genuine knowledge. Your identity becomes shaped by your reactions to simulations rather than your engagement with actual existence.

The matrix exists every moment you choose the feed over the present, the screen over the room, the story about life over life itself.
The red pill? Simply turning off the device and remembering that your consciousness exists independent of any information system designed to capture it.

Reality doesn’t need updates. Consciousness doesn’t need feeds. Existence doesn’t require commentary.

The world you can touch, smell, and directly influence has always been more real than the world you can only scroll through.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

Iran accepts payments for Strait of Hormuz passage in USD1 stablecoins issued by World Liberty Financial, which is run by Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff’s adult children

[peatybogged @peatboggery]

@cirnosad dear cirno we are grateful to have your coverage of the war

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Final monologue of Sonya to Uncle Vanya is one of the most hauntingly beautiful final acts in the last decade of cinema.

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Images of the Laser and Plasma Research Institute as well as the girls' dormitory of Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University targeted by US airstrikes.

Follow Press TV on Telegram: https://t.co/LWoNSpkc2J

[ViralMind @ViralMindLive]

After the death of the martyr Ali Larijani, his immense wealth was discovered and inventoried.

His possessions:

1. A 2011 Samand car (valued at approximately $3,000-$4,000)

2. He paid his monthly rent (approximately $60)

3. He owned an Iranian-made pistol, a gift from Imam Khomeini (valued at approximately $1,000-$2,000)

4. He had a ring, a gift from Ayatollah Khamenei (valued at approximately $200)

A bus driver who owed him $30 for taking his daughter to school and hadn't paid him that week attended the memorial service. Larijani forgave the debt.

[peatybogged @peatboggery]

@beautyskillz Puella Magi Madoka Magica. 12 episodes + a few movies

[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

@kitahnji Not just bad optics (although I agree that’s probably a factor), but Iran’s strategy very much seems designed to inflict the most pain on the groups that will flee the region once it has been de-Americanized and to minimize the pain on the groups that will remain.

[peatybogged @peatboggery]

@Kathleen_Tyson_ I would love if you could talk about CBDCs and stablecoins

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: MIT study warns AI can reinforce false beliefs and trigger “delusional spiraling” in users.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Mehdi Hasan spent years crusading for regime change from Syria to China based on phony State Dept human rights reports that were easily debunked.

He zealously celebrated the Al Qaeda takeover of Syria, and has kept quiet ever since about Israeli troops occupying the country while prisons full of ISIS fighters were emptied along Iran's borders.

Mehdi is now hyping a bunk regime change narrative to discredit Iran's leadership as they face down a campaign of state destruction imposed by Israel and the US. His source is Amnesty, the EU-backed NGO which legitimized the Kuwaiti incubator babies hoax that enabled the US to launch the First Gulf War on Iraq.

On January 8 and 9, Mossad-backed rioters murdered hundreds of police officers, guards and civilians across Iran, while burning down government buildings and mosques. The extensively documented regime change riots provided a bridge between the 12-day-war and the current assault on Iran, and form the blueprint for Israel's stalled plan to destabilize the country from within.

At the time, Amnesty described the rioters as "largely peaceful protesters," as though they were staging a lunch counter sit-in. Amnesty also held rallies in Europe throughout January which supported the toppling of Iran's government.

Mehdi confidently echoes Amnesty's deceptive language in order to browbeat his interview subject, presenting him as a criminal while his colleagues at Iran's Foreign Ministry face the threat of assassination by Israel.

With his deployment of yet another shabby regime change narrative, and his characteristic refusal to acknowledge any facts which might undercut his pre-packaged argument, Mehdi has joined the US-Israeli information war against Iran. None of his virtue signaling about Palestine can deflect from the insidious role he's playing.

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Iraq 99% literacy, free education
Libya 99% literacy, free education
Iran 99% literacy, free education

See a pattern?