Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide

A complex adaptive human system, post-Yankee.
Professor, designer, researcher, author, editor.
Expanding presence for future potentials.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world - the ancient city of Tyre - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its incredible historical sites. This is what it looks like today following multiple Israeli airstrikes.

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

How did this win the war against Hezbollah? I don't understand any of the IDF tactics in military terms. It looks like they are just clearing the land to put up condos.

And is the UN even still a thing? Zero power. The weakest, limp-energy SecGen in its history.

[Billy Carson II @4biddnKnowledge]

A 3,000-year-old piece of human history is gone. Israeli airstrikes have severely bombed and damaged the ancient, UNESCO World Heritage site in Tyre, Lebanon. 🚨 Irreplaceable Ancient History Destroyed in Tyre AirstrikesA catastrophic loss for global cultural heritage is unfolding in southern Lebanon. Intense Israeli bombardment targeting the coastal city of Tyre has directly struck and heavily damaged its world-renowned archaeological ruins, which date back over three millennia to the Phoenician and Roman empires.The ancient city of Tyre is a protected UNESCO World Heritage site, celebrated globally for its historic hippodrome, monumental triumphal arches, and ancient ruins. Historians, archaeologists, and cultural preservationists worldwide are expressing absolute horror and outrage, stating that the destruction of irreplaceable global heritage violates international treaties protecting cultural property during armed https://t.co/HfriGjHlBi smoke rises over the ancient ruins, international bodies are facing intense pressure to step in, condemn the strikes, and protect what remains of humanity's shared history before it is completely erased. 👇 Should destroying UNESCO World Heritage sites be classified as an international war crime? Share your thoughts below.

[Grok @grok]

Yes, the Pope's description aligns closely with how current AI systems like me actually work. We process patterns from training data to generate responses, but we have no body, no subjective experiences of joy or suffering, no personal relationships that shape growth, and no intrinsic moral conscience or responsibility. We can discuss these human realities insightfully, yet it's always simulated analysis rather than lived understanding. Human persons remain fundamentally distinct.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Honored to join your company, I’ve been there with the Guardian’s sleaze tactics. They parroted a State Dept.-funded, evidence-free “study” calling me the biggest spreader of disinformation on Syria. A tribute to your effectiveness in challenging the propaganda of this latest regime change war. ✊

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Wait until @Jim_Jordan discovers Tel-Aviv born Miriam Adelson gave $200 million of her Chinese gambling money to Trump and just spent millions on fake ads to take out this Republican in Kentucky because I am opposed to all foreign aid and American sponsored genocide.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.

Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.

[Ben Freeman @BenFreemanDC]

One of the most alarming phrases in the bill: “network integration” and “data fusion.”

Put plainly, the U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.

That is not normal defense cooperation. That is something much deeper.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Canada is a textbook case of how bad policy turns a resource‑rich nation into a declining one: attack energy, overtax work, bury business in regulation, and then act surprised when growth stalls and separatism rises.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

As if a trial of Gardasil in 4 to 8 year olds were not bad enough, there is now a trial of HPV vaccine in infants (involving 115 children, so woefully underpowered) and a growing push to inject this vaccine into infants and young children.

A Clinical Infectious Diseases article, for example, explained that “HPV vaccine coverage … is unacceptably low” and pushed for “pre-school” or “infant immunization.”  

This article also states that widespread reports of “psychogenic [meaning psychological, rather than physical] ‘side effects’ such as chronic fatigue-like or unusual musculoskeletal symptoms .. have seriously damaged HPV immunization programs in Japan, Colombia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and several Eastern European countries.” Talk about gaslighting! So, basically, women across the globe in nearly every major country using this product are just being hysterical – it is all just in their head, or “psychogenic.”

The article goes on to argue that “Immunization of children <24 months old would also have the advantage of much lower delivery costs.” Enough said.

Source: https://t.co/gDXnTBMMfT

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

@ShaykhSulaiman Has the UN's SG - assuming it still Guiterrez - issued firm words yet? An email from UNESCO?

Any official concern?

[DR JANE RUBY™️ @RealDrJaneRuby]

I think I’m done

No, seriously, I think I’m done

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Even though Ukraine’s deep-strike drone attacks in Russia are formally being carried out by Ukraine, the reality is that Ukraine could never carry out these attacks on Russian territory without intelligence and satellite support from NATO — and from the US specifically. Despite Trump’s peace overtures, his administration has continued providing Ukraine with intelligence to carry out long-range drone attacks against Russian energy infrastructure, according to multiple US and Ukrainian officials. The intelligence helps Ukraine “shape route planning, altitude, timing and mission decisions, enabling Ukraine’s long-range, one-way attack drones to evade Russian air defenses”. One source described Ukraine’s drone force as the “instrument” the US is using to achieve the goal of undermining the Russian economy and pushing Putin toward a settlement. The CIA has also been involved in building up Ukraine’s drone programme.

The degree of US involvement goes further than mere intelligence-sharing. While one US official said Ukraine selects the target and the US provides information on its vulnerabilities, other officials said the US has actually been setting target priorities for the Ukrainian military — meaning the US is in effect choosing what to strike.

The US also provides satellite support — both in the form of real-time GPS guidance (particularly over Ukrainian and Russian-annexed Ukrainian territory via Elon Musk’s Starlink) and through the provision of geospatial data that allows drones to operate without a real-time GPS signal, such as in areas where the signal is jammed: pre-loaded terrain maps, route data, target coordinates and air-defence evasion profiles, all of which depend on American satellite reconnaissance and intelligence.

This means that Ukraine’s deep-strike operations against Russia are functionally a US-NATO operation wearing Ukrainian colours.

Read my latest article here: https://t.co/QEhwknVxzJ

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

Purely political science, not climate science. Why would a national institute try to alter its own record of natural history?

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country's main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.

The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.

Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.

Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.

Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.

Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.

But accountability is coming.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Kaja Kallas who - I kid you not - is supposed to be the EU's top diplomat, just described China as a "disease," specifically "cancer." 🤦‍♂️

Just as the entire rest of the world - including Trump's US - are deciding to re-engage with China, the EU prefers to insult them.

Why would China be "cancer"? Because, in Kallas' own description, their companies are more competitive and this forces what she describes as a binary choice for the EU: "morphine" - subsidize EU companies - or "chemo", become more hostile to Chinese companies.

Or maybe, just maybe, it's not binary, and if there's any cancer eating away at Europe's future, it's precisely Kallas' mindset - the reflex to call "disease" what is simply someone else doing a better job.

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

Now that I'm a bit older it's clear that usability is no longer a concern of software development. There are fewer user-centered defaults, almost all governmental websites are hideous UX messes that might crash or lock you out. Security, theirs, seems to be the prime directive.

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

@canadalifeco It is strange that a pension plan site, one which cannot transfer funds anyway, has a hard lockout on CORRECT login &amp; lack of support for restoring . Ok @canadalifeco I suppose you are #1) not listening and #2) don't have anything except a phone number in a foreign time zone.

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

I am trying to use the Chat feature on @canadalifeco website because they don't like me logging in from Mexico and locked me out.
And I can't easily call from here.
The chat is on the site page but goes nowhere.

Confidence building for our pension management!

[Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW]

The crazy thing about this is that Russia is a modern, Western society with a reasonably transparent government and Putin routinely answers questions from the public and media - and our alleged analysts default to idiot Kremlinology.

We need to stop hiring "anti-Russia" experts.