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[𝕏 Ghana 🇬🇭 @xghana_]

Ghanaian witch doctor Nana Kwaku Bonsam, who claimed Harry Kane would have a goalless night, says he has ‘released’ him now after England drew with Ghana.

🗣️“I am now going to release Harry Kane so that he can score in the next match for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿” - Nana Kwaku Bonsam

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[himejofries 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 🐈 🍟 @bourglor]

Lady LAUGHING maniacally histerycally as she records herself in selfie mode while couple in the background fights, eventually the couple makes up and she turns around disappointed angry frustrated single stantwt reaction video meme

[dua lipa pics @lipapictures]

“when i launched my book club, it wasn’t in a cozy café. it was in a reading group at downview women’s prison. i’ll never forget what one of the women shared with me: ‘perhaps if i’d read more books when i was younger, i wouldn’t be here now’.”

— dua lipa at the booker prize

[Audny 🎀 🩷 @AudnyApeiron]

She’s right
More women need to get out of their heads and into their bodies, connect with their senses & stop obsessive rumination and analysis of the men in their lives

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Mad Men star Christina Hendricks played a four-hour DJ set, spinning indie, shoegaze, dream pop records including Chromatics, Sky Ferreira, St. Vincent, Broken Bells, Beach House, Warpaint, Cocteau Twins, Mitski, Lana Del Rey, Spiritualized, and more. https://t.co/elJLRp8TUq

[anna @IonesomeIoves]

baby that’s don draper

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[Uther🇵🇸 ✩☭☭☭🔻 @Uthyr_Pendraeg]

"Warto też pamiętać, że tragedię Gazy wywołał brutalny atak Hamasu"

Pewnie, a tragedię Warszawy w 1944 wywołał brutalny atak AK :)

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

NEW | Instagram has removed the verified account of Gaza slain journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi, who had 4.5 million followers.

Archived snapshots of his page on the Wayback Machine, the largest public internet archive, also appear to have been wiped or disabled, raising concerns about digital erasure of Palestinian documentation.

Al-Jafarawi, known for his frontline reporting on the Gaza genocide, had previously faced repeated censorship. He was killed yesterday by an armed group collaborating with Israel.

Observers warn that these developments may signal “a new phase in efforts to erase evidence of Israeli war crimes from the internet.”

[Global Sumud Polska @pl_globalsumud]

Poseł Franciszek Sterczewski @f_sterczewski został porwany przez Siły Okupacyjne Izraela na międzynarodowych wodach podczas legalnej, pokojowej misji humanitarnej Globalnej Flotylli Sumud.

Wstawcie się za Franciszkiem i jego towarzyszami u polskich władz!

#globalsumudflotilla #emergency #solidarity #flotilla #gaza #palestine

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Record-breaking crowd gathers for Budapest Pride after Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, attempted to ban it and threatened legal repercussions.

[Luc Bernard @LucBernard]

Americans lusting for war.

Meanwhile my friends in Lebanon, Israel and Jordan are terrified that the war grows larger and they may not live.

You American sofa revolutionaries are some of the most vile humans on earth.

[GOTHICC @frankenfemme_]

They could never make me hate this cutie pie sugar plum

[Maya Angelique👑 @moneyymaya]

Please boost

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[josh! @queersocialism]

there are so many introductory articles, books, podcasts, youtube videos, etc., for anyone that truly wants to understand. this phenomenon of ‘dumbing down’ is truly one of the most egregious forms of anti-intellectualism (and, in this specific case, thinly veiled sexism) lol

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

The Sex Lives of College Girls returns to HBO Max this November.