Rakesh

Software developer who’s into graphic design, photography, gadgets, etc.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Don’t fall for the fake Fox/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.
https://t.co/a7ROEAtoOD
https://t.co/886sJycfeL

[Andrew Case @attrc]

To summarize: HuggingFace got autonomously compromised by a model from an American company. HF then tried to use American frontier model(s) to defend themselves, but were blocked by guardrails. HF then had to turn to open source Chinese models to defend themselves from another American company.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

How can you begin to understand this level of evil

[Last Chalice @lastchalice]

A father buys Halo: Campaign Evolved on the family PS5 with the intention of playing the advertised split screen co-op with his son.

He immediately discovers upon booting the game that he needs to purchase a PS Plus subscription for not only himself, but also a second PS Plus subscription on a second account for his son so that they can play the campaign together side by side in the living room on the couch after purchasing a $50 game with no multiplayer.

Read that again, let it sink in and then understand that this is all true and was posted on the official Halo website earlier today.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing and city infrastructure.

When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Taj Jackson @tajjackson3]

Wait, Is this that same Maureen Orth who wrote a Vanity Fair article stating Michael Jackson was sacrificing cows to cast voodoo spells on director Steven Spielberg. Yes, she actually wrote that and yes it was actually published.
Thank you for proving my point WSJ, about the media’s hate and constant propaganda against Michael Jackson and his legacy.

[dax @thdxr]

was waiting for this to come out

this is the only angle left to attack open source, it's going to be china fear mongering

it's going to be extremely effective as well

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Golders Green attacker also allegedly tried to murder a Muslim friend of his.

This seems relevant, given this attack has fuelled demands for another clampdown on civil liberties.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If you could travel back to 2015 -- let alone 2005 -- and explain that a founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria will be made President with the help of the US and Israel, then warmly welcomed in the WH and western capitals, you'd be called a crazy anti-west conspiracy theorist.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

A member of an offshoot of the Jewish Defense League — designated by the FBI as a "known violent extremist organization" — was allegedly building explosive devices to target the home of Nerdeen Kiswani in a chilling act of political violence. The defendant reportedly planned to flee to Israel following the attack.

This comes amid an alarming rise in threats and violence across the country targeting Palestinian human rights advocates.

I am thankful that the NYPD and FBI thwarted this plot, which could have endangered Nerdeen’s life and those of other New Yorkers.

Let me be clear: We will not tolerate violent extremism in our city. No one should face violence for their political beliefs or their advocacy. I am relieved that Nerdeen is safe.

Our city must meet hate with solidarity, and meet fear with an unshakable commitment to justice and to one another.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 REPORT | An Israeli citizen was arrested in Las Vegas after police found a cache of weapons, lab equipment, and more than 1,000 samples of unknown liquids at a home tied to a widening biosecurity investigation, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Ori Solomon, 55, is accused of illegally possessing firearms and improperly disposing of hazardous waste. Authorities said officers in protective gear removed materials from the home, which were consistent with those found in a separate case in California.

That investigation began when a foul smell led officials to a warehouse in Reedley, where they discovered a hidden lab containing thousands of biological samples, 1,000 lab mice, and evidence of at least 20 infectious agents including SARS, hepatitis, and dengue.

Prosecutors say Chinese national Jia Bei Zhu ran a scheme from there, importing COVID tests from China and selling them as American-made, and a congressional report flagged over $1.3 million in unexplained payments from Chinese banks tied to the operation.

Investigators found Zhu had listed a Las Vegas house as bail collateral and called it hundreds of times over the past year, making it a key lead that led police to raid the Sugar Springs Drive property, where Ori Solomon was identified as the manager.

[Spencer Kelly @spenley]

This is how thieves can swipe your bag without you noticing. I lost my passport and my devices, so couldn't fly home. Later I'll share what happened next, including how I tracked down some of my possessions, how you remotely wipe your devices, how I got an emergency travel document, and how amazingly kind people were to me.

Please share this video, and you might save someone else from going through the same thing.

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#robbery #mugging #barcelona

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company.

Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
https://t.co/3uEsb5pmXP

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

An email apparently from Ghislaine Maxwell appears to confirm that THIS photo of ex-Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Guiffre - who accused him of sexual abuse - was real

Andrew had questioned whether the picture had been doctored & claimed he’d never met Virginia Guiffre.

Her brother Sky Roberts tells #Newsnight ‘It truly does vindicate Virginia... she was not lying this entire time’

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

⚠️We need an urgent parliamentary inquiry into the Mandleson-Palantir right now:

* 27 Feb Starmer had a meeting at Palantir HQ in US that was not noted in PM’s register of visits
* Mandelson had a commanding interest in a company, Global Counsel, hired by Palantir
*Palantir lands £240 million UK deal
*UK companies weren’t allowed to compete for it

#EpsteinFiles

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

By searching for "Farage" in the Epstein Files database (https://t.co/CwQeD94pY7), 38 results come up.

In one, Steve Bannon suggests to Epstein that his advisory roles to European political parties means he can influence European Parliament

"I now am advisor to Front; salvini/ the league; afd; Swiss peoples; orban; land and freedom; farage; --- next may is European Parliament elections--- we can go from 92!seats to 200--- shut down any crypto legislation or anything else we want"

LINK: https://t.co/biHNM5sDMU 

Most other results seem to relate to newspaper/magazine articles about Nigel Farage that have been shared in correspondence

[Rakesh @rax506]

@dok2001 @Cloudflare Dynamic D1 database bindings for workers.

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

At the time we aired this we got an enormous amount of legal pushback…Now we see the full extent of Epstein’s friendship with the man he called “Petey” @TomPorterC4