Migrating to @phatcontroller.bsky.social

When Eisenhower was asked why the United States did not allow the 1956 Vietnamese reunification elections agreed upon at Geneva, he answered with unusual honesty. He said that if elections were held, Hồ Chí Minh would win with approximately 80 percent of the vote. So they cancelled the elections. Think about that every time an American politician talks about "spreading democracy." They cancelled the democratic election because the "wrong" person would win. They then spent the next two decades killing people to prevent the government that would have been democratically elected from taking power. And they called the other side anti-democratic. This is not ancient history. This is the logic that still governs every "democracy promotion" operation today. Democracy is acceptable when it produces the "right" results. When it does not, you cancel the election, back a coup, fund the opposition, impose sanctions, and call the government that the people actually chose a "dictatorship." Vietnam exposed this logic completely. Not with arguments. With history. With the receipts.

🚨: Millionaire paid US$10,000to hunt buffalo in South Africa and ended up brutally killed by the animal itself.

My fellow Africans, look at the world: Iran has oil & and refineries. Russia has oil and refineries. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait have oil and refineries. They export refined oil products. Now look at Africa: Nigeria, Angola, Congo, and Sudan have oil but few to no refineries. We export crude… and import finished fuel. Really? Others refine and supply their regions. Africa only exports and not even to its neighbors. Africa needs to fix this now.

There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.

The US ambassador in Beirut today stated that the US government asked the Israelis to “spare Christian villages” in South Lebanon.

Pete Hegseth accuses Iran of investing in missiles and weapons instead of people, during a speech in which he's asking for $200 billion for weapons, instead of people.

The Tories gave 23 contracts to Palantir Labour gave the 24th contract to Palantir to implement its software in Coventry City Council. Coventry City Council signed a £500,000 contract with Palantir to use AI for transcribing and summarising notes in child services, the first known deal between a UK local authority and the company. The Coventry contract is small potatoes compared to what Labour has done at the national level. Palantir hired four ex-MoD officials in 2025 alone, and held official meetings with the Prime Minister, six cabinet ministers, and senior officials from the Cabinet Office, the Treasury, and the Home Office. Questions have been raised in Parliament about whether Peter Mandelson, who was a controlling shareholder in Global Counsel, which had Palantir as a client, played any role in the December 2025 £240 million MoD contract. The 10 new contracts are all extensions to the previous ones.