Franck
@franckfugu.bsky.social
Anti fascist and supporting the fight against far right. Living in Asia but traveling often Interests: arts, history, politics, books and movies, cats and espresso
but basically, Tesla had more Clean Air Act violations in May than any other auto assembly plant in the country has had in five years I've been reporting on this since 2019 www.thedrive.com/tech/28338/d... www.thedrive.com/tech/28339/t...
Documents Show Persistent Air Quality Non-Compliance At Tesla Factory
Tesla ignored air quality regulations when it repeatedly installed and operated equipment without permits and failed to test properly or maintain and report records.
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A £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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Three Studies for Portraits: Isabel Rawsthorne, Lucian Freud and J.H. https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/three-studies-for-portraits-isabel-rawsthorne-lucian-freud-and-j-h-1966
Voir l'exécutif danois houspiller l'Espagne qui fut la première à s'insurger contre les velléités du régime de Washington au Groenland a quelque chose de franchement vomitif. Que 22 pays européens participent à cette farce téléphonée depuis le bureau ovale est immonde, entre sabotage et trahison.
With the Aug 4 earnings call and Aug 6 stock unlock on the horizon, I have some thoughts about SpaceX and Tesla. montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Elon Musk's Hubris May Doom any Tesla-SpaceX Merger
With Tesla shrinking fast, a bailout merger would fit the Musk pattern. But there are some key impediments to consider.
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So this was a right wing misinformation campaign. He says Facebook and instagram. Who bought those ads and where does the money go back to? This boy’s face, it’s heartbreaking 💔
TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 6d agoIf you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.
Premium Newsletter: AI is becoming way too expensive. The 190GW of planned data centers need between $1.62 trillion and $2.92 trillion in annual compute demand that doesn't exist - and every new data center costs way more than the last. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-is-getting-way-too-expensive/
Premium: AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive
A great deal of the discussion of the so-called benefits or problems with AI comes down to the theoretical jobs that are (or are not) lost as a result of things LLMs can (or cannot do), or the equally...
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Tesla’s latest model has not lived up to expectations.
Kid's Toy Car Powercrash
ALT: Kid's Toy Car Powercrash
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Per UBS, OpenAI and Anthropic will account for 27% of Google Cloud's 2026 revenue and more than 48% of 2027's. Investors are being sold a story about diverse AI demand that is simply not true - hyperscalers spent a trillion dollars to feed money back to themselves and pretend it's real growth.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 6d agoWas awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth
Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Rights group says India continues to support the Israeli military despite genocide 'broadcast worldwide on daily basis'.
India's arms sale to Israel risks complicity in Gaza genocide, Amnesty says
Rights group says India continues to support the Israeli military despite genocide 'broadcast worldwide on daily basis'.
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« Un tableau vit de son entourage, il s'élargit et s'anime dans le regard de l'observateur sensible. » Rothko 🟥
A new poll shows half of America wants Netanyahu arrested on U.S. soil.
Half of Americans Support Arresting Benjamin Netanyahu: Poll
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes
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Photo; This is the Color of My Dreams https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/photo-this-is-the-color-of-my-dreams
“Iran is a country run by religious extremists, y’all!!!”
Would be so sad for these pieces of shit...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.(Bloomberg) - Larry Ellison and his family would be on the hook for $9.8 billion if Paramount Skydance Corp.’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. falls apart. @bloomberg.com $PSKY $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Forced pregnancy - and therefore any abortion restriction - is reproductive violence - a specific, systemic form of gender-based violence. The UN has spoken.
Columnist Carrie N. Baker: A groundbreaking UN resolution calls forced pregnancy what it is: reproductive violence - Daily Hampshire Gazette
It took until July 7, 2026, for the world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant — or forcing them not to be — what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution a...
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“AFA at its height consisted of far more than its activist core & far more than just its street fighters. AFA activism involved public speaking, magazine, pamphlet production & fund-raisers… AFA actions were mainly based around countering known - or intelligence-indicated - fascist mobilisations.”
1985-2001: A short history of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)
A brief history of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), which fought a secret war against the far right in Britain and drove them off the streets.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · last wk.#OtD 28 Jul 1985 Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was launched at a meeting at @ConwayHall in London, UK. Its dedication to "physical and ideological opposition" to fascism would see it drive numerous far-right groups off the streets. This is a short history: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1002...
Factcheck: Netanyahu is a war criminal.
David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · last wk.Note: While everybody freaks out because Mamdani, who talks less about Israel than many NY mayors, speaks the truth, they're gliding right by the fact that Netanyahu, who is, in fact, a war criminal, is being embraced today by the White House.
Thanks to all who participated to this circus and supported the games instead of boycott them...
NPR@npr.org · last wk.FIFA has a complex plan to sell chunks of its commercial rights to the World Cup to minority investors, including a firm run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner. n.pr/44TyzyY
Israel is progressively forcing Palestinians into smaller and smaller concentration camps
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last wk.Israel expands 'yellow zone', forcing thousands more Gazans to flee again "We are taking our belongings out and going to leave the place because the occupation (Israel) has moved the yellow line all the way to Salah al-Din Street," www.reuters.com/3fec1b0a85a0...
In a simulated hiring experiment, LLMs including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini segregated fictional job candidates by ethnic group far more aggressively than human participants—scoring roughly 65% higher on a segregation scale.
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.
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