Seth Coleman

Documentary filmmaker and video journalist.

[Faiz @fshakir]

Bernie Sanders: “That is why I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our country.” https://t.co/XJUtwh3j9a via @NYTOpinion

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

As of today, after four years, the wartime state of emergency in Hungary is ending, and with it we are also putting an end to the decree-based emergency rule introduced by the Orbán government six years ago.
We are returning to normality.

[Seth Coleman @seth_coleman]

Secrets of the karst: new species found in Cambodia’s limestone caves – in pictures https://t.co/JEc0c7OSjF

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

America’s foreign policy toward Southeast Asia under Trump has been:

1. Slap them with the some of the highest tariff rates in the world
2. Launch Section 301 investigations of their trade practices
3. Create a global energy and commodities crisis that singles them out for special pain bc of the region’s reliance on Strait of Hormuz

The scenario below is dark, dark, dark … but we have basically waged slow-motion economic warfare against our allies in one of the most important regions in the world.

(via @alexbhturnbull)

[Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎 @suilee]

It breaks my heart knowing that millions of people in my region are suffering the effects of a war thousands of miles away. https://t.co/GvMgTKR34k

[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.

That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?

The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

No war with Iran.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week. It investigates the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary.

With English subtitles:
https://t.co/MswF1wk8qR

[Viktória Serdült @viktoriaserdult]

Attention Hungary-watchers! If you have not seen it already, @veronikamunk has started her English-language substack "Days Until the Hungarian Elections". All you need to know about what's shaping the campaign ! https://t.co/vJKxFMZbbM

[La Défense YIMBY @BarneyFlames]

70% of Laos's economy being cyberscams is wild

[EuroCon🗽🦅🇪🇺 @pl_european]

Magyar: My colleague and future Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary.

Anita Orban: introduces herself.

Magyar: the name is only a coincidence.

Tusk: My name is Donald.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Thoughts?

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

China manufactures about 80% of the world’s solar panels, 60% of the world’s wind turbines, 70% of the world’s EVs, and 75% of the world’s batteries — all at a lower cost than the West.

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

💥🤯Hungarian politics is getting insane: Orbán family’s private guard tried to ram opposition MP @hadhazyakos’s car off the road—but his own car flipped instead. It happened while Hadházy filmed near the Orbáns' lavish Hatvanpuszta mansion.

📽️ by @balazsgulyas, full vid in 🧵👇

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Hungary's corrupt leadership siding with the Kremlin has made it the poorest nation in the EU.

Even EU funds have been funneled into the pockets of Orbán's cronies and family members.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu is not the President of the United States.

He should not be determining U.S. foreign and military policy.

If the people of Israel support his decision to start a war with Iran, that is their business and their war.

The United States must not be a part of it.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

new poll asks if americans think the us military should get involved in the conflict between israel and iran

yes: 16%
no: 60%
not sure: 24%

-yougov (june 13-16)

[Viktória Serdült @viktoriaserdult]

Extraordinary news from #Hungary. Tisza vs. Fidesz: 51-36.

According to the latest Medián poll, published in HVG, Peter Magyar's Tisza party is leading with 51% of the vote among decided voters, while Orbán's Fidesz is lagging behind with 36%.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb. https://t.co/GqPHe3Lfbs

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Important to understand how Trump got America into war with Iran despite saying he wanted peace.

The original sin is that Trump walked into Israel's trap halfway through the negotiations when he moved the goalpost and adopted zero-enrichment fantasy, i.e. that his red line was the elimination of Iran's enrichment program altogether, rather than restricting it. The Israelis knew very well that Iran never would agree to such capitulation (at least short of war).

Predictably, and by design, this position led to a deadlock in the talks. This deeply frustrated the impatient Trump.

Predictably, the Israelis stepped in and convinced Trump to give them a yellow/green light to bomb Iran in order to soften its negotiating stance.

Predictably, bombing Iran hardened their position and prompted Tehran to fight back by targeting Israel with missiles.

Predictably, within 24-48h, the Israelis returned to Washington and insisted that the US needed to step in to finish the war. (Israel has sought to trap the US into war with Iran for more than 20 years.)

Much indicates that this was the Israeli plan from the outset.

Had Trump not walked into the Israeli trap and adopted zero enrichment, there would likely have been a framework nuclear deal by now.