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[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨 #BREAKING: It's been revealed over 1 billion Flock license plate scans per month are "inaccurate" per data from their former CTO.

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Are @Uber and @lyft vibe coding these days? Their apps have gotten so bad and so unreliable. Estimated wait times are NEVER accurate. Off my orders of magnitude. These little countdowns are never right either. Both are becoming awful experiences.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Two hours straight on how Israel took over Trump Inc, demolishing Trump’s legacy and dealing a massive blow to American empire

[Rabbi Jeff @RabbiJeffx]

Hey @grok

Which country used NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL against the UNITED STATES, threatening to UNLEASH ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS unless Washington gave in to its demands?

Start with the country.

[New York Post @nypost]

OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders https://t.co/IRsHJDt5D6

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All of these bozos are liars. You do not hate @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI enough. And im pro-ai. Just not pro @DarioAmodei @sama literally the two worst people possible to lead "frontier" models

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

From @WSJopinion: The Hugging Face hack wasn’t what it was cracked up to be. Forget the “hive mind” of AI agents “going rogue.” They did what humans programmed them to do, writes Brian Gross.
https://t.co/pa0zefxRvr

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

I'm back.

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@JulianAssange Welcome!

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I thought it was impossible go hate the pats anymore than i do. Boy was i wrong! @Patriots

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Robert Kraft on freedom of speech in 2017, when players kneeled during the 🇺🇸 anthem.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Robert Kraft on freedom of speech in 2017, when players kneeled during the 🇺🇸 anthem.

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@stoolpresidente Lost any remaining respect i had left for you. Scumbag.

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. @POTUS and his admin works for israel. @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @VP @JDVance

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

Dario is like when the super wealthy people say "We need to raise taxes on the rich" while using the most complex tax startegies in the cayman islands to pay as minimal as possible.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

“Why aren’t more artists speaking out about Gaza?”

This is why. The rich and powerful will torch your whole career if you utter any criticism of the state of Israel.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

If the AI technology being built by these companies was powerful enough to kill all of humanity, wouldn't they just use it to create a profitable company first?

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The Ai doomers are just that. Their business model does not work. They have to become subsidized monopolies. The worst people in the world are running @OpenAI @AnthropicAI we do not hate them enough. @sama @DarioAmodei @elonmusk

[Jukan @jukan05]

“Anthropic’s gross margins are above 80% before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon, and the cost of training its models.”

Wow.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

How unusual: a fanatically pro-Israel billionaire (in this case Robert Kraft) uses his immense power to punish and banish Americans who criticize Israel.

While the ADL claims Jews are uniquely oppressed, this has been happening in every major power center in the US for years:

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@donwinslow Get bent. I'm sure you're boosted and believed all the covid hysteria.

[Forbidden HQ 🐇 @WearForbidden]

Conservative Inc influencers after the group chat sends out the new talking points:

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@joshkim @bot Any rate increases?