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Rob Connell
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Education, Socialism, Independence, Celtic, Music, #MDANT For a fairer country & safer planet. The opposite of poverty isn't wealth, it's justice. If you've ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism, you're doing it now.
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We are looking with lawyers at the propensity of AI to produce dishonest and defamatory statements.
I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.
They've misspelled "Epstein visa" there.
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Palantir just released quarterly earnings.

The most important part was the disclosure of $486 million in government contracts.

They’re developing “military AI”, including biometric identity tracking… to find and surgically eliminate anyone, anywhere.

ICE is currently testing the platform.

On US.
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The only other reason I can imagine the Data Center scam is allowed to really continue its infinite creep is due to the overall understanding that they will inevitably be flipped into State Assets used by Palintir to attempt to scale up a truly ubiquitous Surveillance State.
I'm aware it's popped, yet capital is still pumping money into data centers trying to keep the illusion it's not popped yet.
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Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
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Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

(image cia @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social)
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Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:

The right defends economic power.

The left resists economic power.
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Panorama has said that UK children are 7cm shorter (3 inches) and it is all due to austerity.

Starving our children, to increase their profit.
Quick summary of yesterday's big game decisions:
Celtic feel they had a goal harshly disallowed, a penalty harshly awarded against them, and that Rangers' Cornelius could have been sent off.
Rangers feel Celtic's Trusty could have been sent off.
SFA to explain themselves to Rangers.
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The more the spotlight shines on Farage the more obvious it becomes that he offers nothing but a Trump tribute draped in a cloak of transparent racism.
He’s a facist, far-right grifter looking to fleece the gullible and prey on the vulnerable.
He represents the very worst of humanity.
Read this quote a couple of times, and marvel at the double-speak we have arrived at:
"His local and national record of standing against divisive nationalist politics is exactly why he’ll be such an asset to Reform."
I mean, Reform's key (arguably only) cornerstone is divisive nationalism. Jeez.
Scottish councillor and former Tory staffer defects to Reform UK
A NORTH Ayrshire councillor has defected to Reform UK, Nigel Farage's party has announced
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“a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk pegged the # of excess deaths at 2% above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate…that’s 120K unanticipated dead people per year in North America. That’s roughly 2 fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing & killing everyone aboard each day.”
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
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Britain's royal tarnished house has only acted to save their own skins, and only after every other attempt to get everyone to shut up about the story failed, writes Andrew Tickell ✍️

Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Let’s talk about ICE. This post is long, but it’s worth reading to understand how to protect your right to privacy.

It might sound extreme, but everyday Americans may soon want to consider face coverings for reasons far beyond health or fashion.
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That blue box towering over the city of New York is Zuckerberg’s illustration of the massive size of a data centre - ‘Hyperion’ - Meta have invested in.

Used to generate so-called AGI, it could power five million American homes.

Great piece by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com www.ft.com/content/d034...
Once again, for the Record.
Snoop can fuck off from Celtic Park.
To be fair, so can Tory Rod Stewart.
Those are well-evidenced statements, not accusations.
They are about this Labour government, not directed at private individuals personally.
No need to feel it's about you, unless you support the government in these decisions.
Perfectly possible to have voted Labour & still oppose what they're doing
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Fuckin love this song
So after the billionaires failed to launch themselves and their billionaire friends into space, with our tax dollars.

They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars.

Billionaires should've read a little world history.

#SheShed
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Don't let anyone convince you that your empathy is a weakness.
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FFS Daily Mail

No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”

Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter

Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!

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Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk