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So China produces over 50% of the worlds steel. We really need to remember this before we get into a military conflict with them because in a World war II style industrial war we would not have a chance. How many people knew that Iran was in the top 10 of steel production!? Trivia night gold! 😄
And yet your entire society is based in violence Curious
The frack you say!? Larry Ellison is another world's richest person!? Bloomberg billionaire index fact check now!
i need a wealthy benefactor to subsidize my fickle pursuits
I like how we've just completely given up on the idea of obvious lies to Congress being perjury.
The old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born
Daily we scream in torment & agony & we resist. You neither hear us nor see the violence inflicted upon us, yet in callous, egomaniacal arrogance you think you’re qualified to rationalise & excuse the atrocities inflicted upon us. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
I'd rather be playing with AI too (on my lunch break)
Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
This is going to be so cool People are gonna make so much money using AI for middle management sales between suppliers and commercial customers
Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) Google has introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open standard designed for secure agent-led transactions. This protocol builds upon existing Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) frameworks. AP2 est… #ai #news
"Cheese, gender, what the fuck's next?" is now one of my new favorite quotes
4th screenshot killed me I'm giggling at work in front of everyone
what if horseshoe theory but for gender politics?
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Birds aren't food
What looks like progress, swapping beef for chicken, is actually mass killing on a far greater scale.
He ain't mine... 🤐
NO LEAVE HIM ALONE, LEO!
#Unitree G1 robot's "abuse" test video goes viral overseas. Despite brutal kicks and punches, it stands firm or recovers instantly. The clip trended on Bilibili, X, and Reddit, stunning global viewers. open.substack.com/pub/robopub/...
Two eVTOLs from XPeng AeroHT collide and crash during air show
🇨🇳⚠️ Two Xpeng Aeroht flying cars collided during rehearsal for China’s Changchun Air Show, causing one to catch fire after landing, - Bloomberg One passenger was injured but not seriously.
Oops...
Sighber Punk.
Pointing out non-vegans' victims often triggers a whirlwind of denial. 🎨 VeganSideKick
Chinese state media: Alibaba has secured China Unicom as a major client for its AI chips; earlier reports said Alibaba was supplying tens of thousands of chips (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a stronger ban than earlier guidance focused on H20 (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts YouTube teases new AI-powered tools for turning podcasts into video clips, even if they're audio-only. #ai #news
People have lost their goddamn minds
*Repeatedly hitting my head on a desk*
America isn't really free and it's ironic that Conservatives are so gung-ho to be the ones to prove it to everyone while shoving Patriotism and loyalty down throats
Workers nationwide, many of them educators, have either been let go from their jobs or placed on leave after allegedly making comments online following the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
Texting like he's from the Civil War Alrighty...
The Pam Bondi who supported the "freedom" of bakeries to refuse to bake LGBT wedding cakes is the same Pam Bondi who wants to "go after" an Office Depot that refused to make copies of a Charlie Kirk poster.
Your brain on Evangelicalism 🍳
This is fucking insane!
Buttigieg has been exploiting the victims of shootings, for political gain, for years I don't wanna hear it
The Republican senator defended constitutional hate speech protections in the wake of the assassination of the right-wing political activist.
Prosecutors say alleged Charlie Kirk gunman wrote: ‘I had enough of his hatred’ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Charlie Kirk couldn’t have risen to prominence without robust free speech. Now MAGA leaders are seeking to use his death to silence debate, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily:
Utah prosecutors vowed on Tuesday to seek the death penalty for the accused assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and revealed new details of their case, including text messages in which he was alleged to have privately confessed to the fatal shooting.
As a side note to anyone who has a problem with me or my friends being armed:
Disable and kill whoever you want by spreading COVID to people though Make that make sense...
Ohio's laws that criminalize living with HIV have led to at least 200 prosecutions in recent years. This crime can be prosecuted regardless of whether the virus was transmitted or protection was used.
"Ohio law considers it a type of felonious assault to have sexual contact with another person without telling them if you have HIV, hepatitis or tuberculosis. ... It doesn't matter if the person had an undetectable level of virus in their blood and was unable to transmit HIV."
From blues to gospel, country to rap, people have been making music behind bars for decades. Here’s why we should all tune in.
"The rich history of American prison music — especially before the rise of mass incarceration began 50 years ago — offers ... vivid reminders of how we used to be more connected to people in prison."
Will we get the day off to use to remember Charlie? Or will we be expected to work?
Have you lost your minds?
from the way the business-priests speak of it one would think the end of the fiscal year would mark a monumental shift in the order of things, and yet nothing perceptible occurs
"the fiscal year" gotta be one of the weirdest things u can believe in
"[T]here are no mandatory standards for reproductive health care in jails or prisons in this country."
Again I am asking people to stop 🛑 using innocent, beautiful pigs to represent greed and/or moral repugnance. If anything, it should be pigs using humans as derogatory caricatures #EndSpeciesism #LanguageMatters
So let me get this straight: the Trump-brokered deal for American ownership of TikTok means: Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz get all the profits But China still controls the algorithm So it was never about national security and all about skimming cash.
"CEOs at the 350 largest publicly owned firms make 290 times more than the average pay of a typical worker at their companies, with the gap much larger at some corporations. The median Walmart worker made $29,469 in 2024, while CEO Doug McMillon took home $27.4 million — a 930-to-1 gap."
It's like the ultimate panopticon, one where millions of kids would join voluntarily and say the most insane shit. It's the perfect way to monitor pretty much every kind of organization, bad or good, going on in the world.
PSA: Discord is not a safe channel to discuss politics.
Discord is scary because it has 0 encryption. 0 encryption. 0% encryption at all whatsoever. People don't seem to realize that. Everyone's looking at your chats bro. Every last one of them. They have no interest in changing that.
lol fucking discord
Don't fedpost on Discord
This feels about right
"Just 19 seconds after first entering the apartment, Goc fired." "Goc killed the 4-year-old [Terrell] alongside Miller's abusive boyfriend." "[C]leared of any wrongdoing." "Less than 2% of police murders end with officers being prosecuted." #Illinois #USA #Policing #Incarceration
The AI data annotation pivot continues - this time at Google.
cloud.google.com/blog/product...
A few years ago, someone crudely built an app that let an AI agent pay a person to do work. Now, Google has formalized the idea with the launch of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)—an open, secure standard for AI agents to conduct transactions, debuting with support from over 60 partners.
I get it's an accessibility feature, but I think there's a difference between describing that something is a painting of a flower and spending three paragraphs describing its sinewy shapes and rich turquoise textures.
Some of the descriptions of images on here are so detailed it's almost like you guys WANT to train AI.
"This year alone, Israel has bombed six countries ... on top of Israel's constant bombings, unrepentant massacres of children, and total destruction of life in Gaza; as well as Israel's ongoing annexation of the occupied West Bank."
"While [Luigi Mangione] was clearly expressing an animus toward [UnitedHealthcare], and the health care industry generally, it does not follow that his goal was to 'intimidate and coerce a civilian population' ... [T]here was no evidence presented of such a goal."
"We wanted a record." "The couple meanwhile continue posting on their anti-war Telegram channel and marching in support of Ukraine — but every ICE check-in carries a fear that has intensified under the Trump administration." #NewYork #USA #Russia #Ukraine #Incarceration #Deportation
"A judge [..] threw out a pair of charges against Luigi Mangione." "The judge indicated that just because Mangione may have been motivated by ideological opposition to the for-profit industry, that does not de facto make it terrorism under New York statute." #NewYork #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
Arm soreness finally subsiding after vaccines yesterday. Managed to use it all day at work today without too much issue moving heavy stuff around.
A 2–4°C spike in sea temps triggered an octopus surge. Industry response? Empty the seabed. Climate chaos turned into commerce 🐙
"A commission of independent experts at the United Nations on Tuesday said Western countries must stop providing military aid to Israel." "'It's not a choice,' said Pillay. 'It's an obligation that states have under the Genocide Convention.'" #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #UK #Genocide
otoh, Sam Altman has this weird obsession with human ID surveillance, a la worldcoin, and giving him any kind of reasonable pretext to compromise your privacy was always going to be exploited
Becoming increasingly urgent for privacy reasons that Apple and Google work with states to enable privacy-preserving digital IDs
Fuckers 🙄
"Trump threatened [..] to jail the [CodePink] peace activists who disrupted his dinner with pro-Palestinian chants." CodePink: "Trump is trying to intimidate people who speak up for peace and justice, and we won't be intimidated." #WashingtonDC #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide
Fucking amazing I am so jealous of the kids that are gonna get to grow up with AI in games by default
By linking up an LLM to Animal Crossing, villagers are now organizing against Tom Nook: "did you know Tom Nook is practically robbing us blind with these houses?" www.404media.co/ai-powered-a...
By the way, the "organizing" wasn't spontaneous, it was prompted by the creator of the mod: arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
"If President Trump were living in Brazil and had done what he did at the capitol, he would be on trial here too ... [T]he law applies to everyone."
Very cool
"When people stop earning money, they feel like it's a demotion or something ... It's an example of how the capitalist economy is designed to eat the commons and eat the community. I've been seeking the antidote."
Of course they did Europe was wholly complicit in establishing "Israel" on top of mass graves full of Palestinians and the rubble of their communities And they did it all out in the open, shamelessly, while calling Arabs "terrorists" for resisting it
"[A] disgrace." "Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza have been trained at Britain's prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies." "The soldiers trained at RCDS include Colonel Yaniv Asor, the current chief of the Israel Defence Forces." #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
Liberals have refused to condemn this violence for 80 years
"One IDF soldier even boasted online about how 'fun' it is to kill Palestinian children ... Yet another IDF soldier proudly claimed: 'I just went to Gaza, and there were two little girls playing football. So, what did I do? I took my weapon and shot them in the head.'"
Microsoft announces a $30B investment in the UK over four years to support AI infrastructure and ongoing operations, including $15B to build a supercomputer (Tom Warren/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
"Google handed over data to ICE before notifying [Thomas-Johnson] or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena." "Meta gave Taal 10 days to challenge the subpoena in court before the company would comply." #NewYork #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
1st rate hitler shit
Nazi orders his vicious mob to kill who now?
Hitlerian Fascism
ABC: “What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech.” Trump: “We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. Maybe they'll have to go after you.”
"[Brian] Kilmeade has previously supported the killing of people experiencing homelessness. ... Kilmeade said that Daniel Penny was a 'hero' for killing a Black unhoused man, Jordan Neely, on the subway in New York City."
"The police, the army came when the settlers were attacking us ... They did not stop them. One of the settlers chased one of the solidarity activists, and he beat her on the ground. The soldiers were watching, didn't do anything."
I saw someone earlier basically say that the shooter [just doesn't have any politics to condemn] other than [used violence once] and that's a very big problem for the establishment
my impression is that, at least so far, someone who is very clearly more normal and sympathetic than charlie kirk murdering charlie kirk works very badly for them and they cannot do anything with it