Dongguan de Marco

[kiki 🕯️ @kikillo]

hahaha alright dude take it easy see you later

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.

[elie @eliebakouch]

computed the similarity (CKA) on the J-lens geometry of every layer inside and across 38 open models. the patterns are weirdly universal: same depth layout, same organization at the same relative depth, even between unrelated families like llama and olmo

https://t.co/C6188kLOXg

[Rory Blank @BoneJail]

Peter Thiel has James Bond strapped to a table, some sort of lethal contraption getting to mangle Bond

Thiel: well Bond I… i uh i uhhhgh well uhhh i you see i uh uhh uhh the thing is well i uh but but but but but well i i i i i i but uhhhh

Peter Thiel begins sweating profusely

[Ricky Hollywood @victim_burn77]

Mao and Sankara for like a rush hour dynamic

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

"NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANY MORE!"

A brief history of capitalists complaining that nobody wants to work for starvation wages.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The irony in this story is overwhelming.

The guy fled China in 2014 because he faced prison for fraud and corruption. No-one believed China, despite them issuing an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest. Western media and US officials universally presented him as a brave dissident unfairly harassed by the "CCP" in a "politically motivated" way (https://t.co/z0vpZvYDrT) because he was fighting corruption (see this VOA story for instance: https://t.co/0rC47K7QDM), a complete inversion of reality.

Steve Bannon even started a nonprofit with him called the "Rule of Law Society." The irony writes itself.

Long story short and true to form, Miles Guo used his "dissident" credibility in the US to - guess what - defraud Americans of $1 billion.

And here we are, 12 years afterwards, with US courts essentially concluding "yeah no, he is actually a crook, our bad."

Which makes it probably the most expensive fact-check in history: $1 billion of damage to verify what an Interpol Red Notice said a decade ago.

I know I'll sound like a broken record but this is yet another fantastic illustration that the kneejerk anti-China bias in Western media is actively harmful. When China says "careful, that guy is a dangerous crook" maybe, just maybe, it's worth checking before branding him with a heroic "dissident" narrative that he can then use to rob your people's life savings... Just a thought 🤷

[COSMIC 🖖🏾 SLOP @afrocosmist]

Brian Bolland cover art for Animal Man #57, March 1993 (DC/Vertigo)

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

A reminder of how horrific things have been and for how long. In 2014, the Israeli military dropped a missile on Palestinians watching the World Cup on the beach in Gaza killing 8 Palestinians while they watched Argentina play the Netherlands. Here's how the @nytimes framed the headline:

[Dongguan de Marco @semnopithecus69]

@HormuzLetter honestly good for them

[Dongguan de Marco @semnopithecus69]

some are calling it the most consequential VAR decision of all time

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iranian state media says it has now "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb" to remove "the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran" from the table, arguing Iran must "absolutely reach nuclear deterrence" before current negotiations can be conducted "from a correct position," per Fars.

Iran adds the acquisition is not only driven by negotiation leverage but also by Trump's two recent nuclear threats against Iran, including his April warning that "a whole civilization will die tonight" and his May threat of "one big glow coming out of Iran."

This is also among the most direct nuclear weapons advocacy published on Iranian state media to date.

[Dongguan de Marco @semnopithecus69]

@ripplebrain put that outer unit in a limestone gargoyle. inner unit? a grandfather clock

[Dongguan de Marco @semnopithecus69]

@Is_Not_Brian they’re doing the “and such small portions” classic bit

[Dongguan de Marco @semnopithecus69]

@clashreport makes a compelling point... NOT

[rabies🇵🇸 @SaddamTransfem]

Don't even think about calling me if it ain't on the ProlePhone

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

IRGC Navy 📻 : "The Strait of Hormuz is closed"

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

A friend of mine sent me this ! There is a coffee chain in Singapore called Cafe Yugoslavia and it already has 3 locations and just has portraits of Tito on the wall and Play Yugoslav and partisan songs while serving coffee! 😀 I'll go get a cup on my next layover there 😁

[Dongguan de Marco @semnopithecus69]

@SexbeanPernicus the first man who figures out how to prepare this delight in the old country will be a thousandaire