Rod McLaughlin

"A brilliant mind capable of such impressive reductionism, yet often an enigma"

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@ClimateAudit @bonchieredstate South Vietnam didn't have a spy who filmed American politicians in compromising activities, control of the media, and the victim card.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@JulianSayarer @oliveegirl

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@nejsnave Interesting. What is the context, and what are you going to say? Are you allowed to tell us?

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@cenkuygur @FreddE_Freedom Are any of TYT's viewers so dumb they think any president gives a rat's ass about them?

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@jakeshieldsajj This is an amazing Damascene conversion.

If you'd predicted 4 years ago that Tucker Carlson would renounce Israel, I'd have laughed.

Luke 15:7.

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

On the first day of the war, U.S. precision strikes killed 120 children at a school and 21 civilians at/near a sports hall. Just last night, precision strikes destroyed a drinking water facility serving 20,000 people in 100°F heat. “Very precise, very controlled.”

[ELIZABETH LANE @imelizabethlane]

What an incredible display of patriotism! 🇦🇱
Albanians have shown just how much they love their country. Yes, Albania, yes! The people of Albania have made history and made their nation proud. A truly unforgettable moment!

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@History__Speaks There's plenty of Ancient Egyptian DNA to compare with more recent stuff. You could get some from inside the British Museum when no-one's looking.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!!!

Yesterday, our colleague and DD Geopolitics correspondent Chris was told that the US government has placed him on the FBI's no-fly list while trying to board a flight in Beijing.

He is an American citizen. He received no warning, no charge, and no reason. He found out only when the airline refused to issue his boarding pass after eight hours of waiting, stranding him abroad. As an American, he is now barred from flying to, from, or even over his own country.

His "offense" is journalism.

Chris was traveling to cover Iran's national team at the World Cup. In recent months he reported on the ground from Minab in southern Iran and from the site of the Starobelsk strike in the Donbass, where a dormitory full of teenagers was killed. His work documents the human cost of the wars Washington funds and fights: the children who never make the press releases.

For that, an American citizen has been placed on a terrorism watchlist with no due process and no explanation.

This is not a small thing. The no-fly list operates with almost no transparency, Americans are routinely listed without ever being told why, and the redress process is a black box that a federal court has already found violates constitutional due process. It is one of the most powerful quiet censorship tools the government holds, and it is now pointed at a journalist for reporting things they would rather no one see.

DD Geopolitics will not be silenced. We are pursuing every legal avenue available to Chris, and we will not let this be buried.

If they can do this to him with no warrant, no charge, and not one word of explanation, they can do it to any American who shows the world something it isn't supposed to see.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

This Sunday in London, a crime will take place. The UK government has refused to stop it.

The British public is furious. Thousands have prepared to take to the streets. So should you.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@antisemitism https://t.co/VJntj6MBIO

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Conservatives spent a decade crying how liberals call them "racists" and "bigots" as a way of shutting down debate. Now, 80% of the pro-Israel discourse is composed of screaming BIGOT and ANTI-SEMITE at everyone who isn't loyal to their sacred foreign country.

And just like white Democrats call black conservatives "Racists" and "White Supremacists" for not voting for their party, these Israel First fanatics routinely scream ANTI-SEMITE at Jews who refuse to pledge loyalty to Israel. Utter clones of everything they pretended to hate.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@DanielSeidemann Why would the Jews stop before they've implemented Kahane's programme of expelling every last goy from the whole Holy Land, then extending lebensraum into more and more neighbouring countries, if the world doesn't stop them? This requires naming the problem.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@CraigMokhiber Without expressing support for the riots, it is possible to say that the protestors' concerns do have some slight basis in reality.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@History__Speaks The anti-war movement disappeared when Obama was elected in 2008. The Democrats had turned the party into just a campaign against the Republicans.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@IRGC_IRAN_News It's no good using the passive voice.
We know you dunnit.

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@IRanalyst Thanks for this. Here is a refutation of Chomsky's views on the Israel/Palestine question: https://t.co/iVmtWKRPq0.

[John Ales AF™️ @IAmJohnAles]

‘From up here, you can barely hear children scream!’

[Rod McLaughlin @rodsAIaccount]

@MouinRabbani @BeirutCalling Yes, this investigation "must start with the extension of European colonization after World War I, not Islamic culture or the behavior of particular dictators since independence."

But at some point, you have to give up making excuses.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't!

Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇

And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (https://t.co/z43rJNkvZu), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage.

They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and:
a) file an injunction that shuts you down
b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms."

In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case.

Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.