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[vchong8 @vchong8]

@elonmusk Everyone needs a tank in the house, war is coming by the looks of it

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.

Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died.

And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop.

As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience."

They built a wall in Washington with American names on it.

A beautiful wall. A solemn wall.

Good. Mourn your dead.

But understand what that wall does not say.

It does not say why they died.

It does not say what they were doing there.

It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was.

It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned.

Three years. House arrest. Pardoned.

For five hundred people murdered in a ditch.

It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today.

Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today.

Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought.

And the chemical companies that made it are still in business.

Still profitable.

Still un-prosecuted.

And yet they send us human rights reports.

They grade our democracy.

They warn us about our behavior.

The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive.

Almost.

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@JonathanACBrown And America wants to make it uninhabitable if that is what it takes to win this war

[Jonathan AC Brown @JonathanACBrown]

I lived and traveled in Iran for months. In Tehran I lived with the family of a retired bank worker who saw me looking for housing. I roomed with his son for months, ate all my meals with them, and they never accepted any money. Once I was sick and throwing up and they all came into the bathroom and the dad stroked my head while I barfed and told me “Aybi nadare” (no shame, it’s ok). I traveled around most of the country by plane, train, bus, shared taxi, etc. Eventually I stopped booking hotels because I’d always meet people on the train, bus etc who’d insist I stay with them. The family of Iran/Iraq war vets from Yazd who took me to Taft for bbq in the mountains. The taxi driver from Rasht who made a bed for me on the floor of his tiny apartment because all the hotels were full. The only time a police officer talked to me was once to make sure I was ok. I never felt in any danger day or night. The land of Iran is as incredibly diverse as its people. There are mountainous rain forests and desert salt flats. I met among the most liberal and most conservative people there, and everything in between. Everyone was so kind it makes me cry with shame.

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@GodfreeTrh automakers. Entire supply chains uprooted and will never be replaced, America has literally destroyed everything it learned and built in manufacturing, preferring to engineer their profits instead of factories.

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@GodfreeTrh Tak a leaf from any developing countries playbook, that invested in manufacturing, the formula is there but it would be too costly and too late for the US now. Study the infamous Chicken Tax on light trucks and you will understand what went wrong with the US

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@GodfreeTrh And lastly, financial engineering, mergers and acquisitions, laying off workers, keep profits overseas to minimize domestic taxes, every successful US company today do not make anything, just spreadsheet models and charts, not engineering drawings.

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@GodfreeTrh Blame on these 3 major reasons, outsourcing everything non-core, even though it used to be the key to the most competitive brand. Less employees means higher productivity, focus on stock prices, more share buybacks means higher rewards for shareholders,

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@GodfreeTrh overseas client has to be cleared by a US bank first. America makes money by being the reserve currency, that is tax for us, profits for you, no manufacturing is required. US corporations like Apple build their supply chain outside the US to maximize profits

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@GodfreeTrh Your year old article appeared in my feed. I read your entire post. Let me put in simple terms why manufacturing (as in raw materials to finished goods) is because America is a bank pretending to be a country. I know because every US dollar I received from my

[Ejaz Bashir @Ejaz_bashir1]

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[vchong8 @vchong8]

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[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 A common claim from US officials is that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world. However, that is the most ridiculous assertion imaginable.

After 9/11, the Iranian government gave their condolences and offered to help the United States fight against Al Qaeda in the Middle East because the terrorist organization had been a long-time enemy of Iran. Russia made similar assurances to Washington, as they had been fighting against Al Qaeda in the Chechen Wars.

At first, Iran was very cooperative with US forces, helping the NATO coalition launch strikes on Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. However, just a few months later, George W. Bush gave his infamous 2002 State of the Union address where he declared the existence of an Axis of Evil that included Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya and Cuba, all of whom had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

And it was on that basis that the Bush Administration, as confirmed by General Wesley Clark established a five-year plan to attack seven Middle Eastern countries who also had nothing to do with 9/11 and were sworn enemies of Al Qaeda:

🇮🇶 Iraq (2003)
🇸🇾 Syria (2011-2024)
🇱🇧Lebanon (2006, 2024)
🇱🇾 Libya (2011)
🇸🇴 Somalia (2007)
🇸🇩Sudan (2019)
🇮🇷 Iran (2026)

After the US invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, they allowed Al Qaeda and ISIS to rise as some of the most powerful political forces in the country and then later armed them in Libya and Syria to carry out regime change against Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad via Operation Timber Sycamore.

Al-Baghdadi and Jolani had become puppets of the US, Britain and Israel in Syria in a landscape of chaos that was manufactured by the CIA, MI6 and Mossad. Jake Sullivan openly declared that Al Qaeda was on our side in Syria and Hillary Clinton expressed hope for religious conflict breaking out between Sunnis and Shiites in the country on the grounds that it would be beneficial to Israel.

Furthermore, these terror groups had the full support of Western media who claimed that they reformed themselves simply just because they wore suits.

In 2014, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the command of General Qasem Soleimani took to the frontlines in the fight against Al Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Russians joined forces with the Iranians and President Assad in 2015.

And despite General Soleimani’s role in fighting ISIS, the United States killed him in a drone strike in January 2020 in the name of “fighting terrorism.”

The United States was the main sponsor of these Sunni extremist terror groups going all the way back to the 1980s, offering weapons and financial assistance to the Afghan Mujahideen via Operation Cyclone during the war with the Soviet Union. British media was writing articles referring to Osama bin Laden as a freedom fighter.

Washington’s grudge with the Iranians is that they are arming the Palestinian resistance fighters who are waging an armed struggle for freedom from a genocidal Israeli occupation that has killed 680K Palestinians in the most recent war.

To put it very simply, the biggest state sponsors of terror are the US, Britain, EU and Israel. Iran and Russia are among the most prominent enemies of terrorism around the globe.

Author: Jason Zaharis

[AnnAnne 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍🌱 @AnnAnne700]

@infolibnews I thought Trump said that the US is there to free the Iranian people.
Now he is saying Iranians are among the most evil people ever on earth.
This is from the man whose first act of the war was to bomb a Iranian girls' school and kill 165 young girls.
Trump is an evil man.

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night.

let me tell you what i learned.

1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure

2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision"

3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities

4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle"

5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance

6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad

7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily).

8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless

9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time

10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time

11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%)

12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world)

13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number)

14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago

15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs)

16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode.

17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out.

18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github.

19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium

20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset"

21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time"

this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips.

what a time to be alive.

surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

[vchong8 @vchong8]

@TechLayoffLover It's IBM 1980s layoffs all over again, jobs going to India or emerging economies. When you put your job on the cloud and work remotely, you are the target. Time to move on, America is just a bank pretending to be a country

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Today we will see Trump explode!

Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez has openly confronted Trump after the latter announced yesterday that he would sever trade relations with Spain.

In his speech, he criticized Trump for his decision to start a war, emphasizing that his country does not support it and, above all, adheres to the principles of international law. He also pointed out that 23 years ago, there was already a major war in the Middle East in Iraq, which had devastating consequences, including increased migration and a rise in international Islamic terrorism.

"Spain opposes this catastrophe. Because we understand that governments are there to improve people's lives, to solve problems, not to worsen them. And it is absolutely unacceptable that leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this task use the smokescreen of war to mask their incompetence and line the pockets of a select few."

Sánchez concluded his speech by declaring that his country would not be complicit in anything that contradicts its values ​​simply because of "fear of reprisals from some individuals," and that he had confidence in "Spain's economic, institutional, and moral strength."

[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed Iran.

"The Girl School Bombing"

"Occam’s Razor" is right. Again.

Satellite imagery, provided by @planet, now confirms that the school was hit during the bombing of the base.

It is also clearly visible that all other buildings, just as the the school, were struck at the center. --> indicating that one of the two countries involved in the attack on Iran bears responsibility.

Sec. Marco Rubio said in an interview: "It is clear the the United States would not target... deliberately target a school."
https://t.co/fQQ1HjyhXI

"Deliberately" is the keyword here.

We had already proven that other buildings were struck a the same time.
(https://t.co/vSU9Fec8fv)

Read our previous statemen/assesment here:

"Using logic. Given the school’s position, next to and possibly integrated into a military facility, the more logical explanation is that the school was mistakenly targeted during an attack on the base."

https://t.co/J01OthjgFP

Statement regarding our posts about the bombing of a girls’ elementary school reportedly resulting in the deaths of over 100 girls.

Because many readers still misunderstand our posts or how geolocation verification works, I will explain this as simply as possible.

1) The girls’ school was located next to a military base and according to multiple sources even within the perimeter of that base.

However, this does not make it a legitimate target under the Law of Armed Conflict, even if it was within the premises.

The school was not in Pakistan or Afghanistan, as some claims suggest. (because the location is GeoConfirmed)

The footage is not old.

In Iran, schools are open Saturday through Thursday. (https://t.co/p11mbeHA5Q).

Fact: The school, located in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran, was destroyed, based on the footage.

Geolocation of the school bombing: https://t.co/OVEne9QjZ0

2) The claim that the explosion was caused by a failed IRGC missile launch has no supporting evidence, at this time (!). The widely circulated footage used to support this theory originates from a location approximately 1,300 km away from the school.

It is impossible that a missile failure visible there caused the bombing at such a distance.

At this moment, there is no proof that a failed missile launch caused the incident.

(See below or https://t.co/wxXNVLQITM)

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Using logic. Given the school’s position, next to and possibly integrated into a military facility, the more logical explanation is that the school was mistakenly targeted during an attack on the base. A thorough investigation is required to confirm this assessment, or additional verifiable evidence must emerge to support alternative claims. When conducting analyses, always consider the principle of "Occam’s Razor"

(https://t.co/kqTtxc3WoX):

"When presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction and both hypotheses have equal explanatory power, one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions."

In this case, the only “evidence” for the failed IRGC missile launch claim has been proven false.

Therefore, there is currently no credible evidence supporting that theory.

Reminder: OSINT, and reporting (journalism) in general, is based on the information available at the time an investigation is conducted. Therefore, analyses may change as new footage or evidence emerges.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

If you are Vietnamese and "shocked" by me comparing Khamenei to Hồ Chí Minh, ask yourself very simply:

Shocked by what exactly?

That he led a country demonized by America?

That he refused to kneel to Washington and Tel Aviv?

That he chose sanctions over surrender?

That he was called a monster by the same media that once called us "gooks" and "communist aggressors"?

You do not have to love Iran.

You do not have to agree with everything Khamenei ever did.

But if you grow up on stories of Điện Biên Phủ, of the Trường Sơn trail, of B52s over Hà Nội, and then you find yourself instinctively defending the narrative of the very empire that napalmed your grandparents, you should pause.

Hồ Chí Minh and Khamenei are not identical men.

Vietnam is not Iran.

Our paths, cultures, and systems are different.

The comparison is about something else:

Both led countries that refused to be obedient clients.

Both were marked for destruction by the same empire.

Both were turned into caricatures so that bombs and sanctions would look like "justice" to Western audiences.

Both paid, and made their people pay, a huge price to hold a line against a global system that prefers compliant oil monarchies and comprador elites.

If you can understand why Uncle Hồ accepted isolation, bombing, hunger, and demonization rather than hand Vietnam back to France and America, you already understand the logic of why Iran chose resistance over humiliation.

If that logic looks noble when it is Vietnamese, but "fanatic" when it is Iranian, then the shock is not moral. It is colonial.

You are uncomfortable that someone placed our own symbol of resistance next to a man your enemies told you to hate.

So instead of interrogating their propaganda, you defend it for free.

We do not honor Hồ Chí Minh because he was perfect.

We honor him because he refused to sell our future for comfort.

Khamenei, for his people, played a similar role: a leader the empire could never buy, who chose to live and die under siege rather than kneel.

If that comparison offends you, fine.

But be honest about why.

Is it because you truly believe no nation has the right to resist empire the way we did?

Or is it because somewhere along the way, you started seeing through American eyes which struggles are "legitimate" and which are "terrorism"?

As a Vietnamese, I will not let the country that slaughtered ours dictate which other nations are allowed to fight back with dignity.

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

They attempted to speak over Joy Reid, but she wouldn't tolerate it; she was ready to state the facts whether they approved or not. The United States has tried this in various countries around the world, but it never ends well.