Boniface Billy

Bonnie Prince Billy
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[Boniface Billy @signifyingwolf]

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[Boniface Billy @signifyingwolf]

@haydroflask I'd be open to particpating in a chapter of Pal-Anon

[Boniface Billy @signifyingwolf]

@haydroflask a close friend said to me recently that palantir "gets a bad rap" so I searched and sure enough he's in with them

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.

Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.

[Boniface Billy @signifyingwolf]

@Pontifex as it is in musical performance spaces.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Just a friendly reminder that libraries are free.

Not “free trial” free.
Not “free with ads” free.
Not “free if you give us all of your data” free.

But free free.

[Futurism @futurism]

"Cannot stress enough how disappointing it is that Martin Scorsese is collaborating with an AI company and putting a stain on his name so late in his life and career." https://t.co/zmJDerwwSw

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

Never a bad time to watch Pharoah Sanders performing "Kazuko" in an abandoned tunnel in the Marin Headlands circa 1982.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Not exactly true. Elon Musk did not actually dismantle USAID, the agency which allegedly supports some of the poorest countries in the world.

The program was absolutely not dismantled. The 20 billion dollar annual funding for USAID still flows freely out of American taxpayers' pockets, with the only difference being that the program now operates under a brand new name, a highly sanitized new office, and the disbursement channels for the funds are heavily restructured. However, the ruthless imperial and operational doctrine of the program remains entirely intact.

Understand that this symbolic change of name and account details was absolutely necessary because the old USAID infrastructure has been repeatedly exposed globally not as a charitable humanitarian organization, but as a heavily weaponized tool used by Washington to project soft-power imperialism across the Global South. Indeed, through the old USAID model, the CIA maliciously sent young Latin American travelers to Cuba under the deceptive guise of civic health and HIV prevention programs to covertly recruit political activists in a desperate effort to topple the sovereign communist government. USAID extensively funded anti-government NGOs, fake human rights organizations, and compromised media outlets to actively undermine the administration of Hugo Chavez and later Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Furthermore, they heavily financed the structural adjustment propaganda in Africa that forced the massive privatization of state assets, they funneled millions of dollars into right-wing opposition groups in Bolivia to facilitate the 2019 coup against Evo Morales, and they actively bankrolled subversive civil society groups in Nicaragua to orchestrate violent, coordinated regime change campaigns against Daniel Ortega.

So, since the true nature of the program was completely exposed to the global public, it was politically necessary to change the name to preserve the fraudulent myth of America as a benevolent, shining city on a hill sending selfless foreign aid to poor nations. Also, its total integration directly into the US State Department allows American imperialism to pivot aggressively toward modern technological warfare.

Notice that ever since the program was allegedly "scrapped", the American government has been aggressively negotiating bilateral health and infrastructure programs with sovereign countries in Africa and Latin America. They are actively forcing these desperate nations to hand over their citizens' highly sensitive genomic and biometric health data, and demanding they grant exclusive, uncontested mining rights to their rich mineral fields in exchange for tens of billions of dollars in direct health and structural funding.

The mass harvesting of this localized health data is absolutely necessary for the empire to train its predictive AI models, to develop advanced bioweapons, and to build the global biometric surveillance grids required to win the technological arms race against China. Also, the massive Silicon Valley research labs, the gigawatt-scale AI data centers, the modern military equipment, the autonomous drone swarms, and the F-35 stealth fighter jets all desperately need key critical minerals like raw lithium, cobalt, neodymium, gallium, germanium, antimony, and weapons-grade uranium.

It is completely clear now that these massive, extortionate mineral and biometric data deals would be absolutely impossible for the old, decentralized NGO model to secure for the empire. The exact same strategic case can be made for the US government unilaterally pulling out of the World Health Organization. The empire is merely shedding off multilateral diplomatic institutions they know they can no longer fully control or manipulate. Instead, they are choosing to aggressively channel their massive resources strictly into the bilateral strong-arming, technological extraction, and resource hoarding that genuinely matters to remain globally dominant in this newly emerging multipolar world.

[Bisan Owda @bisanowda01]

From the great heart of Gaza... we present to the world two unique short films on which I had the honor of working on!

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

There is currently a plan to connect Atlanta and Charlotte with high speed rail in under two hours but our leaders would rather make us spend $350 each way on planes than fund this.

[c ⁂quioa @ccequioa]

Dance Theatre of Harlem, 1977

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

Why has Manhattan's Chinatown not entirely gentrified away?

Because the community owns the buildings and land.

There's a lesson here.

https://t.co/8EJ52aSrU4

[Janus Films @janusfilms]

Setsuko Hara, who retired at age 42 after Yasujirō Ozu died.

[Smarkreilly🚶‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚍🚉🌴 @smarkreilly]

Meanwhile, residents in Old Louisville are celebrating the closure of I-65

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

If we don’t explain science to the public, others will fill the gap with nonsense.

[Green is a mission @Greenisamissio1]

Repetition

Explaining to children in nature that a tree is alive, that it communicates with other trees, that it breathes in and out, and that trees also sleep at night, creates an understanding, and what children understand they will protect throughout their lives.💚🌱🌿☘️🌳🌲

[Richard @ricwe123]

That particular moment when a British surgeon was giving his testimony to the UK Parliament.

He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children,right on the spot.....

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is not “inorganic foreign interference.” This is people rising up together to stop data centers from overrunning our communities. None of us want the dystopian AI world that Big Tech billionaires are trying to push on us.

[Boniface Billy @signifyingwolf]

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