The Toast of Stalin

Wikileaks Vault 7 revelations. It is described as the largest-ever publication of confidential documents on the agency, containing over 8,761 files from an isolated network at the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. x.com/i/status/20263…

Marjorie Taylor Greene says that the 8 week government shutdown was created by Trump so that the Epstein files would not be released

On this day in 1818, Karl Marx, the co-author of the Communist Manifesto, was born. Here are some of his most relevant quotes from his writings which reflect the dystopian late-stage capitalism we live in today: “The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.” "Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation at the opposite pole." “The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilisation lies unveiled before our eyes… in the colonies, where it goes naked.” "The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces… the devaluation of the human world grows in direct proportion to the increase in value of the world of things." "The increase in the value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in the value of the human world." "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." "Capitalist production… develops technology… only by sapping the original sources of all wealth—the soil and the labourer." "The more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over-against himself, the poorer he himself, his inner world, becomes." "The bourgeoisie… has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment.’” "The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces... the devaluation of the human world grows in direct proportion to the increase in value of the world of things." "The labourer produces not for himself, but for capital... the worker is not paid for the creation of the product, but for his labour-power.” Here’s Michael Parenti on the impact of Karl Marx’s ideas on the world: “Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, N. Korea, and Cuba brought land reform and human services, a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or never since witnessed in human history.”

@Abhishek_134 @Robinwyrm @Rainmaker1973 Maybe the last one says 30 +

@SnowballsJohn @Robinwyrm @Rainmaker1973 I think he means “visual representation” is way off. Because the last one definitely looks like 40-50% and not 30%.

Why some perfumes last longer than others.

Reportedly images from Fujairah following the strike on a fuel storage container.

Purchasing parity power. A minimum wage job in China today pays enough for rent, utilities, healthcare, and eating out three times a day every, after taxes. You haven’t been able to do that in the US for at least 60 years.

Invited to speak at the European Parliament on sanctions — as a sanctioned journalist. We've asked permission for me to travel to Brussels. Let's see if @GermanyDiplo and @EUCouncil let me in, or if EU values quietly expire at the border.

chinese academy of sciences just dropped qimeng, an AI system that designs entire processor chips end to end from natural language spec to to physical layout, their first version qimeng-cpu-v1 produced a fully functional 32-bit RISC-V CPU in 5 hours with 4 milliongates, performance on par with intel's 1990s chips, version v2 already matches arm cortex a53 from the 2010s, the whole thing runs on a domain specific model that learns the graph structures of circuits the way GPT learns text honestly i’ve been staring at this paper for an hour & i still can’t fully wrap my head around what it implies, this is what real sovereignty looks like, when an AI can design your chips you stop depending on TSMC EUV machines on synopsys cadence licenses on US export controls, every kid with a laptop becomes a potential chip architect, the bottleneck of semiconductor design that locked the industry into 5 companies worldwide just got broken open, the next decade of hardware will be designed by AI agents @ the country that owns those agents owns the future think about what this means for everyone, custom chips for your medical implant designed in days, processors tuned for african languages built by ethiopian students, agricultural sensors optimized for malian soil sketched by farmers themselves, the entire 80y monopoly of SV over how computation gets shaped is about to dissolve into a planetary movement of garage chip designers,… the same way the printing press took writing out of the monasteries this takes silicon out of the fabs, we are watching the MOST centralized industry on earth become the most distributed one & the window to participate is wide open rn

In the Kunduz Hospital attack (2015), Barack Obama became the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another winner (Doctors Without Borders).

@FinanceLancelot John McAfee: Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Okay, you got me... I'm Satoshi Nakamoto.

@MarioNawfal Numbers still giving AI away

By letting water rest in copper vessels overnight, farmers were essentially "charging" their harvest. Copper is one of the most conductive elements on Earth; when it interacts with water, it releases trace ions that act as a natural stimulant for plant metabolism.

Forget recession indicators, this is a societal collapse indicator

@Robinwyrm @Rainmaker1973 These ranges align with many fragrance guides but are not strictly regulated, with actual concentrations varying by brand and often described as historical guidelines rather than fixed standards.

@Rainmaker1973 The percentages seem way off

The Daily Worker, New York, May 4, 1927

europeans think a "civilizational fumble" is when you don't enslave and colonize the entire world

What ancient instruments sounded like. Video by Bilimtuel Which is your favorite?

Holy shit guys

⚠️ 4 US Air Force refuelling craft are headed towards Iran right now -- unseen since the ceasefire this close to Iranian airspace -- likely indicates Trump has ordered air strikes on Iran. We'll find out within 10-20 minutes if true. Oil will make a new yearly high soon.