If Amnesty can't stand up to Nazis then they are not needed. They could have easily stated that authoritarian practices in the UK prevented them from operating there. They could have closed and continued their work from abroad, at least officially, while condemning "Rowling" and friends.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5d ago

1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The real issue on Ceuta is the lack of solidarity with a Member State under external attack for reasons of internal politics and political exploitation. Italy, Denmark, Finland, but also the von der Leyen Commission. Meanwhile, more than half have already returned to Morocco.

Amnesty is a fascist organization cosplaying as a human rights organization and this isn't limited to their UK branch.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Spicy.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

Start convicting the CEO personally for the crimes committed and this kind of thing stops happening pretty quickly.

Bill Comeau 🇨🇦@bill-comeau.bsky.social · 2w ago

Correct language: "OpenAI at fault" If an AI tech firm says its "AI went rogue", let's be clear. The AI tech firm is at fault for designing a dangerous product, in the same way a car manufacturer is at fault for designing a dangerous car. The car itself is not at fault. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Teachers are likely far more efficient in reducing crime anyway.

God@thegodshow.com · 2w ago

The news media thinks “defund the police” is some form of gotcha but the truth is that police budgets are way too high and teachers’ salaries are way too low.

Why would anyone want to set foot in an apartheid state?

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2w ago

Israeli Supreme Court Justice Stein now: "Anyone who calls the State of Israel an apartheid state has no place to set foot in the State of Israel."

I think whenever you claim your tool is "free" yet require signup, you're actually lying, because having to signup is really a significant cost.

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

The premise stems from a daily frustration.

I really like how this is mostly about "design for cache" and that applies to a whole lot of other stuff besides parsers. On modern out of order processors, most of the time you're not keeping the "ROB" full anyway, so spending a few extra ALU ops to reduce cache footprint is almost always a win. 🙂

Marvin Hagemeister@marvinh.dev · 3w ago

This is a fantastic article on modern and efficient parser design: www.arshad.fyi/writings/eng...

Handy tip for Iran. Announce that you will not negotiate w trump until the full unredacted Epstein files are released. You win no matter what he does. The world will thank you. #veteransagainsttrump

Rutte must be in the Epstein files

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

holy shit -- Mark Rutte says Trump is "right" about Greenland "When it comes to defense of the arctic, he absolutely was right, because there is a huge risk that Russia and China will gain more and more access to the arctic"

People call for banning AI, but I think that's not necessary. Just enforce every AI prompt processed by models trained on unlicensed content (each such work separately) as a copyright violation and make companies and their CEOs personally liable for anything the AI produces.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last mo.

Tech executives have warned AI could funnel enormous wealth to a handful of people and create a “permanent underclass.” Why should Big Tech get all the profits while we pay the costs? It’s time to tax AI.

Slovenia is an EU country. Granted, back then it was part of Yugoslavia and allied with the USSR, but even then it never was anything close to a "3rd world country." Meanwhile I'm not sure if the USA currently deserves to be called even 3rd world, perhaps 4th world would be more accurate.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · last mo.

Just a reminder that Melania was born in a third world country

If companies can't run data centres without polluting our air and water, pushing up energy bills, abusing workers' rights, harming local communities or wrecking the climate – then they shouldn't be allowed to run them A safe climate and healthy environment are necessities – tech bro profits aren't

EU weighs weaker data centre climate rules in win for Big Tech

Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows

ft.com

So, it turns out that the zionist state of Israel is in fact antisemitic itself?

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · last mo.

Civil war in Israel continues Zionists/Police VS Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Zionists Jews

So about 90 AA launchers just to protect Putin's cottage? Clearly this is about Russia and not about Putin?

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · last mo.

Zelensky ordered Ukrainian intelligence and the army to hit preemptively at sites Russia uses to scale the war. He said Russia has concentrated hundreds of S-400, S-500 and Pantsir launchers around Moscow, with nearly 90 more moved to Valdai. #Ukraine

I have to say I was kinda hoping Thomann would do this.

Matthew McCormack@historymatt.bsky.social · last mo.

In the electric guitar world, there has recently been huge controversy around Fender's attempt to copyright a design that everybody has been copying, adapting and improving for 70 years. One of the world's biggest music retailers is now fighting back: www.thomann.de/blog/en/insi...

Exactly why is this country not under sanctions yet?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last mo.

Israel’s unhinged National security minister Ben Gvir says Bibi should tell Trump ‘no’: “Lebanon should be our playground. We should target all of it. Thousands of Lebanese mothers should cry and not one 🇮🇱 mother… Iranians have to be bombed & bombed…”

This would actually be marginally better than using fresh water. The heat produced might be the same, but if this saves fresh water (a scarcity) for other uses, that's still a win. Thiel should probably be in jail for other reasons though.

Scoops@scooptown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally, a way to heat the oceans directly!! Source: X share.google/82PmVao24Twm...

Is it still a "reflecting pool" if it no longer reflects?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Science! 🙋🏻‍♂️

Does the Iran deal also give Iran a copy of the full unredacted Epstein files as "security assurance"?

Lukashenko is afraid that Ukraine's drones will destroy all their potato fields.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2mo ago

❗️Lukashenko said Ukraine should not expect military action from Belarus, especially from him. He apologized to Zelensky for past insulting remarks and said Minsk does not want war because Belarus would be vulnerable if Ukraine attacked it as it attacks Russia. #Belarus

Time to boycott HTC for providing their design to Trump?

iFixit@ifixit.com · 2mo ago

You can rebrand a phone. You can paint it gold. You can rewrite the marketing. But when you put it next to an HTC U24 Pro in a CT scanner, the disguise falls apart pretty fast. www.ifixit.com/News/117789/...

Someone should just offer a sizeable cash reward for whoever leaks the files. American billionaires are probably mostly on the list or otherwise benefit from the situation, but surely there are wealthy people in the world that know they'll end up holding the short end of the stick if this goes on.

Al Toth@atoth99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: NYT Reporter Glenn Thrush confirms absolute panic inside the White House and FBI over the Epstein files. He exposes a massive conflict between Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. Thrush reveals Trump is terrified his long-standing ties to Epstein will be fully exposed.

They really, really should use confiscated Russian assets for this if they have any (which they probably do).

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2mo ago

Norway allocated 100 million kroner, about $10.5 million, to restore Chornobyl’s protective shelter after it was damaged by a Russian drone attack in February 2025. The funds will be routed through a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development fund to restore the plant’s safety systems #Ukraine

Sounds like someone's dying despite seeking 21 second opinions

While the riots might be in UK at the moment, it'll spread to rest of Europe if this service is not taken down as a whole. Unfortunately our politicians don't understand easy it is to have "algorithms" that effectively give full control over narratives with plausible deniability built in by design.

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.

Might be time for people to wake up for real. This service needs to be classified as a criminal enterprise EU wide.

Nico Ordozgoiti@nicoordozgoiti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The whole Belfast thing made me so angry that I made this: Todo el tema de Belfast me ha cabreado tanto que he hecho esto:

The real problem (and reason the west is so far behind) is that it does not produce natural monopolies the same way as the fossil fuel industry and therefore it's a threat to the oligarchs. Meanwhile China isn't trying to protect a legacy industry and that's why they are so far ahead.

Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 2mo ago

China is Way Ahead of us…. “Solar panels can't be recycled!" Yes they can. 95% of their components are recyclable. Solar has the lowest environmental impact of any energy source. Now do coal and oil... 😅