"Humanity's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order." - Walter Benjamin
Six months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump administration fired all the State Department oil and gas experts.
The people who modeled exactly this scenario.
The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries.
Now nobody knows who to call.
You cannot make this up. notus.org/trump-white-ho…
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
this 2014 study should've been more alarming —
People would rather be electrically shocked
than left alone with their thoughts
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someone built a device that DETECTS when FEDS is SPYING on your phone nearby
its called rayhunter, made by the EFF, and it costs $20
you buy a cheap mobile hotspot from amazon, flash it with their open source software, and carry it in your pocket
feds use devices called stingrays that pretend to be real cell towers so your phone connects to them instead, once connected they can track your EXACT location, grab your phone identity, and potentially intercept your calls and messages
counter-surveillance equipment used to cost THOUSANDS of $ and required serious technical knowledge
now its $20 and fits in your pocket
The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced — or bought out.
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A Chinese student built an interesting app using vibe coding that visualizes nearly 5,000 artifacts in the British Museum from 99 countries around the world.
The app shows:
• When these artifacts arrived
• Which country they came from
• And how the distribution would look if all artifacts were returned to their countries of origin.
BOMBSHELL: Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen & Joe Lonsdale's $125M SuperPAC has a simple strategy.
Destroy *anyone* who tries to regulate AI.
They want to make an example of AI safety advocates so brutal that no politician dares touch the issue again.