Surfpig

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye -Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know - The hell where youth and laughter go

[Surfpig @Surfpig1]

We teeter on the edge. What happened to the antiwar movement, to detente, to Statesmen?

https://t.co/o1VmcHvBMf

[Mike the Warthog @thyphoidjack]

16 June 1900 | On this day, Field Marshal Lord Frederick Roberts issued Proclamation No. 5, a resolution that would usher in one of the most controversial and devastating policies of the Anglo-Peasant War. The so-called scrapped land policy was aimed at ending the Farmers' guerrilla war by destroying their ability to benefit from farms, food and civic support.
By mid 1900, the British army had occupied the capitals of the two Farmer's Republics, but the war was long from over. Farmer commandos under leaders like General Christiaan de Wet have frustrated the British forces with surprise attacks, railway sabotage and guerrilla tactics. After De Wet's successful attack at Roodewal on June 7, 1900, Roberts decided to act harder. His proclamation stipulated that houses near places where railways, bridges or telegraph lines were damaged could be burned down and that locals would be held accountable.
What was initially intended as a penal measure against alleged supporters of the commandos quickly escalated into a systematic campaign of destruction. Farmhouses burned down, crops destroyed, livestock confiscated or killed and food supplies destroyed. When Lord Horatio Kitchener succeeded Roberts at the end of 1900, he expanded the policy further.
The burning of farms has left thousands of women and children homeless. To house them, the British government has set up concentration camps. However, the camps were overcrowded and poorly managed, with insufficient food, poor sanitation and poor medical care. By the end of the war, more than 26,000 farmer women and children died in the camps, most of them children. There were also separate camps for black South Africans, where thousands of people perished at once.
The policy has caused great suffering, but at the same time has seriously undermined the Farmers' ability to continue the war. British critics, including Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, described the action as "methods of barbarism". Today, the scrapped land policy is remembered as one of the darkest chapters of the war and an event that left deep imprints on South African history.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇦 This woman in Canada risked her life to save her goat from a cougar

“I knew there was a chance that the cougar would turn on me, so I’d better make whatever I did count”

She's so bad ass

Writer: Ian

https://t.co/9uGpeHvK3q

[David Vance @DavidVance]

This is really disturbing. Labour are looking at VPN bans, overnight curfews and introducing total State control of the internet.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Heres what really happened in the English channel today.

"Today, June 16 at 12.45, the crew of the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" detected a yacht named "Bright Future" under the British flag in the English Channel, which was heading towards a dangerous collision course. They attempted to contact it via radio, but received no response. Therefore, in order to attract attention, they had to fire flares and give audible signals"

Despite the measures taken, the vessel continued its dangerous approach. After the distance had been reduced to 150 meters, the frigate commander decided to fire a preemptive shot at the vessel's course using small arms, as a result of which the yacht immediately changed its course and continued to move away from the Russian military ship.

[lamide @skithedream_]

One of the most brutal wipeouts ever caught on camera Niccolo Porcella at Teahupoo

[CertifiedEcoTourismDoyenne @ms_tourist]

Happened at the Kruger National Park… A close call..No injuries

[Surfpig @Surfpig1]

@skithedream_ Must have qualified as one of the biggest wipeouts too

[lamide @skithedream_]

Hold Down at Teahupo'o🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Sky News verifies a US-made bomb was dropped directly on Iranian civilian water reservoirs in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration is intentionally destroying fresh water supplies for 20,000 innocent residents across 10 villages. Pure war crimes!

[DOQ @doqholliday]

Wedge is firing.

Video credit: Owen Beim

[Surfpig @Surfpig1]

@danabente Nice push back by the anti-vaxxer

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Une des meilleures vidéos que j'ai vu sur internet 🥹🤩🤩🤩🥰

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

"You talk about war with Russia all the time. Only war! You want to drag Germany into it," AfD leader Weidel attacks Merz in the Bundestag.

"You're sending billion after billion to Ukraine, thereby financing the continuation of a war that should have been ended long ago. You still haven't demanded an accounting from Kyiv regarding the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Instead, you're deliberately seeking confrontation with Russia, a nuclear power, to distract attention from your own failures. You talk about war, you talk about nothing but war, you talk about war, and you want to support this war by dragging Germany into it. Meanwhile, peace is precisely what this continent needs, and Ukraine too. Let's finally talk about peace, not war. And the truth is that Ukraine should never become a member of the European Union or NATO. Period."

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.

Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.

Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.

In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.

Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.

Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

IRAN STRIKES CALLED OFF

President Trump says he has cancelled planned U.S. strikes and bombings against Iran scheduled for this evening. He stated that all parties have approved the discussions and final terms in principle and in detail. A naval blockade will remain in place until the agreement is finalized. The time and location for the signing ceremony will be announced shortly.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Daniel Kahneman - the psychologist who won a Nobel in economics - spent his life proving one thing: your confidence is lying to you

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. The answer "10 cents" jumps to mind instantly. It's wrong (it's 5 cents) - and ~50% of students at Harvard, MIT and Princeton say it without checking.

That gap is his whole point: the fast, intuitive mind builds a clean story from almost nothing, and the feeling of certainty has nothing to do with being right.

"Confidence is a feeling, not a judgment."

"Stock pickers can't develop intuition - there isn't enough regularity for it to form."

"You can build a very coherent story out of very little information."

~45 min, free. how your mind fools you - from a man who studied it for 50 years ↓

[John Cocozza @johncocozza]

Surfing at The Wedge, Newport Beach
June 9th, 2026

[Yaya Libram🇿🇦 @Sello_Libram]

🚨Terrorism Alert in Middelburg, 🇿🇦:
SAPS🇿🇦 Police and other state organs have discovered a suspected Al Qaeda sleeper cell in a hideout flat full of illegal middle east & pakistan men of military age.
Unknown electronic devices were found as well as suspicious literature.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S B-52 bomber that took off from Sicily earlier is now over Saudi, and about an hour away from Iran

Trump warned earlier that the U.S was going to bomb Iran again and that it's going to be a "long night."

Source: Geopolitics Watch (Telegram) / Writer: Ian