Yormsane 🇮🇷🐈‍⬛🇱🇧

Is anyone familiar with the Flock AI surveillance cameras that are going up all over Northwest Arkansas right now? These cameras are being installed by a billion dollar corporation so government agencies can spy on us and track our every move, WITHOUT a warrant. Not only do they read every license plate and detailed vehicle description, they also store that data in searchable private cloud servers that are integrated with Palantir (another AI data company). The shills will say it’s for “safety”, but the 4th amendment was written to protect all of us from this kind of mass AI dragnet surveillance, and I won’t be quiet about it, and you shouldn’t either.

@CarlBovisNature When I lived in England, I loved Galaxy bars. Just looked them up, and found that they're now contaminated by palm oil. Here in the US, I occasionally treat myself to a Trader Joes "Pound Plus" bar (or three), which is made in Belgium, from higher-quality ingredients. Yum!

I was just looking for some chocolate WITHOUT palm oil in, in my local Tesco... I couldn't find any! Cadbury, Nestle etc etc all contained bloody palm oil! 😒 Anyone have an idea of chocolate brands that don't use palm oil? 🤔 🍫

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward billionaires robbing the poor

If you see a helicopter towing one of these over your neighborhood, bad news: your town is getting a data center. They’re running airborne electromagnetic surveys to map groundwater in the area. TRANSLATION: figuring out how much water they can divert before people notice.

Xi Jinping is putting on a clinic: “The whole world is watching our meeting. The International situation is turbulent. The world is at a new crossroads: Can China and the US overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together.” The Thucydides Trap is the structural tension that occurs when a rapidly rising power (China) threatens to displace an established ruling power that is in decline (US). By mentioning the Thucydides trap, Xi Jinping is signaling that China is the new leader of the free world and what’s remarkable is, unlike the U.S., China achieved this without dropping bombs, waging endless wars, or spending $1 trillion a year on its military. Instead China became the leader of the free world by investing in its people with housing, education, health care, and the best modern infrastructure in the world, and investing in its neighbor countries through its Belt and Road Initiative, which has funded ports, railways, and energy networks across the Global South. The US became a “superpower” through endless wars, corruption, and selling out its own people to the billionaire class while China became a superpower and surpassed the US by building trade and relations with the world and investing in its people instead of wars. Americans would be wise to take note and then change our corrupt government.

@kennardmatt Every time Argentina makes a tiny little bit of progress, they elect another one of these idiots. Hoping they'll wake up and break the self-harm cycle one day... 😢🇦🇷

Argentina has been a super important country in my life It's grim watching it be dismantled piece by piece by this lunatic president When Menem did similar in 1990s it ended with biggest sovereign default in world history The country's already mortgaged to IMF for generations

A thought or two for any putative Labour leaders going forward.

Cruise ship gift cards, spotted in the grocery store this morning. Probably safer to work your passage on a merchant ship, rather than travelling on one of these floating petri dishes.

@AndrewMackeyUK You're very welcome! It's a little hobby of mine, and I loved the 'smoky industrial town' atmosphere of the original photo.

@Yormsane Wow, that's amazing. Only ever seen the pic in b/w, obviously. Thanks.

Layers of light through Wharfedale.

The troll-bots are swarming all over any tweet regarding #HantaVirus, so someone knows this isn't going to be 'mild' in any way, shape or form. March 2020 all over again.

@visitnorthyork That road is an 'interesting' challenge in the snow!

Oh so quiet 🤫

You’re about to see how a brain damaged populace attempts to prevent another pandemic. Expect denial, systemic incompetence, incoherent communication, poor risk assessment, low critical thinking & impaired judgement. We’re in for one hell of a ride, that’s for sure. Buckle up.

Welcome To The Machine.

Just for funsies, I made an AI rendering of a @Hyundai #Ioniq5, in tarmac rally spec. More than a hint of the late '80s #Lancia Delta in its silhouette, and the #Martini Racing stripes complete the look pretty well.

Gotta wonder if any of these official #HantaVirus responses and guidelines are taking into account the millions of permanently damaged immune systems after #Covid infections.

@davidsirota We’re being told that the proposed ‘Project Taurus’ surveillance data center in Colorado Springs will be air-cooled, and use no water for cooling. And we’ve also got 20+ new car washes here, too. Drought conditions incoming.

The Abundance Institute just sent out an email touting AI data centers by telling us they use less water than golf courses and a major piece of the agricultural system that feeds the planet. Is this really the best argument these people have? Really?

Is he actually planning to swim in this? Looks like some heavily-chlorinated back yard pool in Palm Springs.

@OC_Scanner We’re gonna wake up one morning and find the Salton Sea has drained away into one of those faults.

BREAKING 🚨🚨 #SaltonSea / #California A magnitude 4.4 Earthquake just struck in the Salton Sea area near Brawley, which seems to be going through its own quake swarm at the moment