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Wow. Bad

Something ugly happens to most vaguely progressive politicians as soon as they sense power. An old video, for example, shows Labour's Shabana Mahmood calling for a boycott of Israel, years before the Gaza genocide. Now, as home secretary, she's Israel's biggest cheerleader, and ready to tear up cherished speech and protest rights to protect Israel. So what to make of Andy Burnham's Labour leadership bid? He's being hailed as on Labour's "soft left". It's hard not to have a sinking feeling at the news that Josh Simons MP, a Starmer hatchet man – exposed for commissioning a spying operation on journalists investigating the unlawful actions of Starmer's team – has given up his Makerfield seat to help Burnham oust Starmer. Simons is praised by Labour allies for continuing the long-running antisemitism smear campaign against what they term "the hard left": that is, the tiny number of democratic socialists still in a Labour party that once identified as socialist. The Guardian reports that Simons "is Shabana Mahmood’s beast – lock, stock and barrel". And now he's personally salvaging Burnham's chances of becoming prime minister. Burnham is reported to have showered praise on Simons. Burnham scents power. Make no mistake: it will come at a heavy price.

It can now be revealed that the first six of the Filton 24 stood trial with a “terrorist connection” secretly imposed on their case. That means their sentences could be doubled. The jury were not informed about this before reaching their verdict finding four of them guilty.

'After almost a week of deliberation, the jury could not agree that I was guilty.' 'Every time we show up, we remind ourselves, the country, the world — that this genocide will not go unaccounted for. That there are people who will not stay silent. Who will not be put off. Who will not be frightened into looking away.' — @Majstar7 Incredibly proud of our brother Majid. The state and the lobby threw everything at him. He was unwavering. Uncompromising. After over three weeks, the prosecution failed to prove guilt. Now they want a full 4‑week retrial — to try and convict him again under the Terrorism Act. To make him face up to 14 years in prison all over again. All those resources. All that public funding. Because Majid dared to support the oppressed and illegally occupied Palestinians! God bless and protect you, Majid. We will stand with you every step of the way.

THIS IS NOW CLOSING ON A MILLION VIEWS. Are you listening @Keir_Starmer? More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on you to drop your plan to restrict the right to trial by jury. 30 organisations representing victims of violence against women and girls have written to the Justice Secretary urging him against curtailing the right to jury trials. Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. The government has no mandate to restrict it - a move which will put us on a path toward authoritarian justice. It’s not too late for you to listen to the thousands of voices of victims, judges, barristers, other legal professionals and academics who oppose this blatant act of constitutional vandalism. @RobbieRinder @KarlTurnerMP @thebarcouncil @TheCriminalBar @Kirsty_Brimelow

THE ENTIRE AI INDUSTRY JUST GOT HUMILIATED a tiny model trained in just a few hours on a single graphics card is planning 48x faster than billion-dollar supercomputers. It actually understands physics instead of just memorizing patterns. yann lecun was right the whole time for three years every major lab told you the same story. scale is all you need. just throw more GPUs at it. just train on more tokens. eventually the model will "wake up" and understand the world. it was a lie. or at minimum, a very expensive bet that just lost. LeCun kept saying generative AI is a dead end. predicting the next pixel or the next token is fundamentally wasteful, the model burns trillions of parameters memorizing surface details instead of learning how reality actually works. he proposed JEPA instead. predict abstract concepts in a compressed thought space. don't paint the world pixel by pixel, understand it. the problem was JEPA kept collapsing. left to its own devices the model would cheat, mapping a dog, a car, and a human to the same point in latent space. technically minimizes the loss. learns absolutely nothing. every fix was ugly. seven loss terms. frozen encoders. EMA tricks. stop-gradients. the kind of duct-tape engineering that should have been a red flag. then LeCun's team dropped LeWorldModel. they replaced all the hacks with one regularizer that forces the latent space into a gaussian distribution. the model can no longer cheat. to make accurate predictions it has to actually encode physics. 15 million parameters. single GPU. trains in hours. plans 48x faster than foundation world models. detects physically impossible events on its own. meanwhile OpenAI is raising another $40B to train GPT-6 on a data center the size of manhattan. the entire scaling thesis just got embarrassed by a model that fits on a gaming PC.

@wesstreeting How is it you are getting so much money from the private health sector when you’re supposed to be supporting the NHS?

@wesstreeting You know nobody will accept you as leader don’t you?

I’ve never been so shocked and disgusted by a Labour Party election broadcast. No wonder it has been censored. It’s because we didn’t use our own words - just those of Reform UK politicians. It needs to be watched and shared so that people know who and what they’re voting for.

🚨 Netanyahu: “This is confidential… and can’t be leaked.” Too late, Bibi. Tucker Carlson just dropped the leaked interrogation tapes exposing how Netanyahu allegedly funneled $35 million a month from Qatar to Hamas using American tax dollars as a divide-and-rule strategy to weaken the Palestinian Authority and block any peace deal.

This is a great account, well worth a follow.

🚨🚨NETANYAHU'S POLICE INTERROGATION TAPES JUST LEAKED AND THEY REVEAL HE PERSONALLY FUNDED HAMAS. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.🚨🚨 1,000 hours of secret police interrogation footage of Benjamin Netanyahu. Now public. Banned in Israel. Going viral globally. Here's what's on those tapes: 💀 Netanyahu personally arranged for Hamas to receive $35,000,000 EVERY MONTH from Qatar 💀 This was done IN SUITCASES OF CASH — because even banks refused to cooperate 💀 He personally begged Qatar, a country with no ties to Israel, to give money to his "enemy" 💀 He was doing this while ACTIVELY under corruption investigation 💀 His own words: "under the request of Benjamin Netanyahu personally" 💀 Total transferred to Hamas with his blessing: OVER $1,000,000,000 Let that sink in. The same man who stood up after October 7 and declared "Hamas is a monster, we will annihilate them" was the one keeping Hamas alive with suitcases of Qatari cash. ⚠️ His strategy, from his own transcript: keep Hamas in Gaza, keep Fatah in the West Bank, PREVENT them from uniting — so there would NEVER be a Palestinian state ⚠️ Without a Palestinian state, Netanyahu stays in power — no peace deal means endless war means he stays "Mr. Security" ⚠️ He needed Hamas to survive so he could keep winning elections by being the only man who could "handle" them Now watch what this means: → Netanyahu funds Hamas for years → Hamas grows stronger → October 7 happens → Netanyahu declares war → 46,000+ Palestinians die → War delays his criminal trial → He seeks a pardon → The monster he fed attacked his own people → And he's using that attack to escape justice The corruption trial? 3 charges. Bribery. Fraud. Breach of trust. His court just REJECTED his request to delay hearings — TWICE in one day. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for him for war crimes in Gaza. His own aide was arrested for taking Qatari money. And now his police interrogation tapes show he was the one sending Qatari money to Hamas. The same Qatar he "hates." The same Hamas he "fights." ⚠️ He publicly called Hamas the enemy ⚠️ He privately funded them for years ⚠️ His bombing of Gaza kills tens of thousands ⚠️ His war delays his own criminal conviction This isn't a war on terror. This is a man running out the clock on his own criminal case using 46,000 Palestinian lives as cover. And the world is just starting to understand it.

BREAKING 🚨 Last minute — Iran, Yemen, Hezbollah, and Iraq are together giving Israel a holy Saturday gift...

Rather makes the point

Terence Tao has won every award mathematics can give a human being. Fields Medal. Breakthrough Prize. MacArthur Genius Grant. He is widely regarded as the greatest living mathematician. Not one of. The greatest. He just said something that should terrify every university on Earth. Tao: “We live in a particularly unpredictable era. I think things that we’ve taken for granted for centuries may not hold anymore.” Not years. Not decades. Centuries. The assumptions governing who gets to contribute to knowledge have been in place longer than most nations have existed. Tao just told you those assumptions are dissolving. Tao: “The way we do everything, not just mathematics, will change.” This is not a man who deals in hyperbole. He builds arguments the way he builds proofs. Piece by piece. Nothing unverified. When he says everything, he means everything. Tao: “In math, you previously had to basically go through years and years of education, be a math PhD before you could contribute to the frontier of math research.” That was the contract. You give a decade of your life to an institution. You grind through coursework, committees, dissertation reviews, postdoc rotations. Then maybe you get to touch the boundary of what’s known. The entire system was built on that bottleneck. Time was the gate. Credentials were the key. Tao: “Now it’s quite possible at the high school level that you could get involved in a math project and actually make a real contribution because of all these AI tools.” A high schooler. Contributing to frontier mathematics. The same frontier that used to require a decade of institutional obedience to even approach. He said this about math. He already told you this applies to everything. AI didn’t just speed up the path. It removed the path entirely. The university sold you a ten-year toll road. AI just paved around it overnight. The toll booth operators haven’t realized yet that no one’s coming. Tao: “In many ways, I would prefer the much more boring, quiet era where things are much the same as they were ten years ago, 20 years ago.” This is the line that should haunt you. The smartest mathematician on the planet would rather this wasn’t happening. He is not selling this. He is not positioning himself for a funding round. The acceleration is so violent that even the mind best equipped to process it would prefer it stopped. If Tao is uncomfortable, you should be paying very close attention to your own assumptions about what’s coming. Tao: “The things that you study, some of them may become obsolete or revolutionized, but some things will be retained.” That word “some” is doing enormous work in that sentence. It means the rest won’t be. Entire fields that people spent their careers building will collapse. Not slowly. Not politely. And Tao is telling you he can’t predict which ones survive. Tao: “You should be open to very, very different ways of doing science, some of which don’t exist yet.” Most people will scroll past this. It’s the most important line in the entire clip. He’s not saying learn new tools. He’s not saying adapt your workflow. He’s saying the methods themselves haven’t been invented yet. The frameworks don’t exist. You cannot prepare for what hasn’t been created. You can only build the kind of mind that doesn’t break when the ground shifts beneath it. Tao: “It’s a scary time, but also very exciting.” He said scary first. Every tech founder says exciting first and mentions risk as a footnote. Tao reversed it. When the most brilliant mind of a generation leads with fear and follows with possibility, that is not optimism. That is a man telling you the truth about what’s coming while still choosing to walk toward it. The people who survive the next decade won’t be the ones with the best credentials. They’ll be the ones who stopped mourning the world that was and started building for the one that doesn’t exist yet.

I have waited years for someone to challenge this nonsense phrase on mainstream media. An indictment of the liberal PEP media that it took Tucker Carlson to do it. And he undeniably did it well.

Yeah Afroman @ogafroman for #POTUS !!!

Afroman will bring it to ya!

Officer Lisa broke down in court when they played the diss track about her. The camera cut to Afroman, and he's just vibing to his song. America is not a real place.

Afroman for #POTUS !!! youtu.be/u4AiuqQpB1U?li…

Absolute bombshell. Mearsheimer reveals Trump secretly allowed Iran to sell its oil to keep global prices under 100 dollars. But Israel intentionally bombed Iranian gas fields to ruin the plan, sending prices skyrocketing and destroying the US economy.