Tony Thomson

@Sillyshib Primitive accumulation never stopped

The toffs have ALWA YS wants to deny us right of way on The land that they should not be allowed to own. If they get this it won’t end here

Abu Dhabi in the dock? They have been involved in brutal fuckery since 2013 when they overthrew the Egyptian government. middleeasteye.net/news/senior-ua…

Google waves the flag. In case you missed the political bias in Google’s AI (Gemini) look at how it presents minorities in the USA (“diverse communities … driving … cultural growth”) and in Iran (facing restrictions … marginalization and persecution”)

@KlonnyPin_Gosch A wr

Trump is a violent architectural psychopath

Palestinians can't enjoy the World Cup, because when they gather together, Israel bombs them. Then their murder will be sanitized with headlines like this⤵️ from the @NYTimes.

Palantir, the US spytech firm accused of abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, enjoys lavish tax breaks on UK profits that are already derived from taxpayers’ money, an analysis by openDemocracy has found. The company has been awarded at least £670m in UK public contracts in recent years. That includes a £330m deal to manage sensitive NHS data, signed despite the fact Palantir's co-founder Peter Thiel has expressed disdain for publicly funded healthcare. Those contracts have helped make the UK Palantir’s second-largest market by revenue, with 2024 pre-tax profits of £25.3m. But its effective UK tax rate that year was only £2m, or 8%, far lower than the norm of 25% paid by firms with profits above £250,000. In 2023 it was even less, at 4.7%, and in 2022 it was 4.2%. For 2025, Companies House filings suggest Palantir paid less than £820,000 in cash tax in the UK, less than it paid in Korea, Japan, France and Germany. The low rate was due a structured arrangement that limits the amount of profits recognised in the UK, as well as a rule that awards large tax breaks to firms that compensate their employees with stock instead of cash, openDemocracy reported. The report said the nature of filings made it difficult to assess the total amount of tax breaks Palantir has received, but by 2022 alone it had accumulated £230m in tax relief from what it called “employee share acquisition relief”. “When profitable companies are paying very little tax, especially when much of their revenues derive from taxpayers' money itself, then it's important to ask why,” Mike Lewis, director of TaxWatch, told openDemocracy. “Is it because tax incentives and tax breaks are poorly targeted? Or is it because companies are shifting profits in ways that our tax system is supposed to counteract?”

Mrs Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc is a 63 year old journalist that has been documenting the Gaza genocide from early on. The UK Govt is charging her with terrorism crimes for simply posting the news out of Gaza, in an effort to silence her. Please RT this - thank you.

One of the most interesting speeches I’ve come across: Afghanistan’s late president, Najibullah asked in the 80s why so many foreign Arab fighters traveled to Afghanistan for jihad when Palestine was right next door.

China will crash the US stock market this year. They're dumping SOTA open-source models on the US, nearly as good as the frontier labs, basically free. Nobody can refuse cutting a $100M AI bill down to $5M. Once that deal is on the table for everyone, Anthropic and OpenAI can't justify their prices, or their valuations. The bubble isn't AI. It's the price of AI. And it's about to pop.

Forest City 1 (there are more in the pipeline) is being proposed inside a deregulated Special Economic Zone in Suffolk, UK. Forest City co-founder Shiv Malik contacted me directly, offering to “answer my questions.” I did what any responsible citizen should: I asked him for clarity about land ownership, democratic control, SEZ plans, governance, displacement, investor benefits, and transparency. He answered. And what he admitted, ‘in his own words’, is more damning than any critic of charter cities could invent. The names backing this project span the extreme right wing, centrist right Labour, and even some Guardian journalists. The names comprise a running total on Forest City 1's website. Patrik Schumacher – Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects Marc Sidwell – Editor, CapX (Centre for Policy Studies) James Price – Former Government Special Adviser, Adam Smith Institute Fraser Myers – Deputy Editor, Spiked Zahira Patel – Free Speech Union Ben Pocklington – Investigation Manager, Revolut Rt Hon Dame Patricia Hewitt DBE (mother-in-law of Shiv Malik) Zander West - Director, Amplify Britain, Basingstoke Labour Party Haroon Siddique - Journalist, The Guardian Adam Pugh - Campaigner, Green Party Austin Williams - director, Future Cities Project Mei Mei Lih - Senior Content Designer, Cabinet office Zaeem Bhanji - Ceo Yolodex Laurence Mackrell, Commercial Director, Apollo Private Wealth Rico Wojtulewicz - Head of Policy, National Federation of Builders Stuart Clarke MBE - Founder, UK Tech Week Patrick Timms - Editor, Wolves of Westminster Kate Bermingham - Journalist, Guardian, The Canary, BylineTimes, New Statesman. x.com/EuropeanPowell…

8 "Antifa" members just got a combined 450 years in federal prison. The prosecution leaned heavily on an "expert" witness who has never spent a day in government or academia - but who spent years at pro-Israel advocacy orgs: kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-in…

New Honest Government Ad is out. Linky in replies.

A joint investigation finds German conglomerate Bayer is behind the liberal israeli use of glyphosate and white phosphorus inside Lebanon thecradle.co/articles-id/38…

Tonight, the government brought to the Knesset plenum a law which would officially prohibit the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli torture camps. MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan of the Likud party, the author of this law, admits publicly that if the red cross visited Palestinian prisoners, it would be a PR disaster for the state of Israel. The government knows very well that the moment any humanitarian organization sees the marks of torture and inhumane conditions on the Palestinian prisoners, thousands of whom are detained without charge or justification, the facade will crumble. The world will know the cruelty that this government has facilitated. Therefore, they must cover their tracks. Unfortunately for the government, it can't hide its crimes against humanity forever. I am proud to say that we successfully voted down this law. Now, I call for the immediate facilitation of humanitarian visits to Palestinian detainees by the Red Cross. Take a stopwatch and start counting. The time for truth is on its way.

In the height of irony, I was detained at John Lennon International AirPort in Liverpool, England by anti-terrorism police concerned about my opposition to the Genocide on Gaza and the war on Iran. They seized my phone, computer, fingerprints and DNA sample. More to come . . .

The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "six thousand years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not. Ancient humans were collectivist. The likelihood that one individual invented anything is slim to none. This is the myth of the genius. Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations. Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development. Believing that the plow was invented by one genius is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events. This is called 'presentism' and it is both an uncritical and ignorant way to view history. Social learning was the main driver of human evolution. Collectivism is how we both survived and progressed as a species. The myth of the genius is an example of uncritical analysis and a flawed lens used to justify the grotesque hoarding of wealth and obscene inequality that is currently tearing at the social fabric our species. It needs to be thrown on the trash heap of history.

JUST IN: Ford rehires more than 300 veteran human engineers after it says AI failed to deliver the same level of expertise.

This man is Nigel Farage’s top funder. Shortly before his 2024 run for parliament, he gave Farage an undeclared £5 million “gift”. But Christopher Harborne is also the largest shareholder in QinetiQ, an arms firm that has exported over £13m of military components to the IDF.

@BladeoftheS @melb4886 3 day week is do- able

@melb4886 The three most profitable industries in the UK are Energy, Banking and Landlordism. Don't pay your Energy and Rent bills, shut down the banks and they lose £300bn profit. Which is half of the economy.

These schemes don't work. They don't create any jobs, a handful of companies will just keep firing and hiring to claim as many times as they can. More free money for billionaires.

It’s called model collapse and it’s coming for the entire industry. They already stole everything we’ve done. Now it’s just breathing its own exhaust. LLMs are a dead end.