Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy

“If you, as a White person, would like to be treated the way Black people are in this society, stand." Watch who stands in response to Jane Elliott.

US OFFICIALS MISLABELLED EVERY AFRICAN COUNTRY it named at a conference this week. Top US envoy Jeff Graham showed a slide of a diagram with African nations in random positions, with no relation to reality. The audience at a global conference in Brazil, many of whom were familiar with Africa’s real geography, were stunned by the US State Department presentation. . NATIONS SHIFTED THOUSANDS OF MILES - Nigeria was moved from the coast to the middle of the Sahara desert. - Cameroon was moved in a northeasterly direction. - Mozambique was moved from south-eastern Africa to the northeast part known as the Horn of Africa. - Côte d’Ivoire was moved from west Africa to the eastern coast. After a picture of the presentation was shared in a Substack post by Emily Bass, who works in AIDS prevention, the State Department said: “We take full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation it caused for attendees, including our African partners.” The presentation was made at the Aids 2026 conference in ⁠Rio de Janeiro earlier this week. . ‘OPENAI USED TO MAKE MAP’ Analysis indicated that staff apparently used OpenAI to make the map, and the program “hallucinated” the countries’ locations instead of looking them up. The result was evidently not checked by actual humans before being released. . PEOPLE AREN'T FACTCHECKING Many analysts fear that the widespread careless use of AI is causing vast amounts of damage to the foundations of human knowledge. Even if 80% to 90% of the generated material is roughly correct, the rest, which consists of outright lies presented as dependable data, can cause immense harm, they warn. If professional politicians and mainstream journalists aren't factchecking, the public definitely won't either. . GLOBAL CALL FOR AI CO-OPERATION At the 2026 World AI Conference last week in Shanghai, China, delegates from more than 100 countries and international organisations discussed these issue. While there was widespread agreement that it was imperative for countries to co-operate to head off potential AI-caused disasters, there was also concern about the hostile, uncooperative attitudes of some western nations. . .

They have a word for every form of resistance. If you fight with weapons, you are a terrorist. If you fight with boycotts, you are antisemitic. If you fight with words, you are spreading hate. If you fight with international law, you are politicizing the courts. If you document the casualties, you are spreading propaganda. If you mourn publicly, you are inciting violence. If you survive and refuse to be silent about surviving, you are a threat to stability. There is no form of resistance they will permit. Because the point was never to find a form of resistance they could accept. The point was to make resistance itself the crime, so that the original violence, the violence that created the conditions requiring resistance, could be discussed, if at all, as an unfortunate but necessary background detail. The trick is not complicated. It just requires everyone to look at the resistance and never at what produced it. They have spent centuries perfecting the art of controlling where you look.

Bloomberg asks whether Kimi K3 threatens U.S. dominance. The answer is already buried inside its own report. Washington assumed Chinese frontier models would remain six to nine months behind. Kimi K3 has cut that gap to roughly two or three months—despite chip restrictions, limited access to advanced hardware, and the constant attempt to dismiss Chinese progress as nothing more than “distillation.” But a distilled model cannot outrun its source. If Kimi is approaching the frontier, then Chinese researchers have mastered far more than imitation: architecture, algorithms, tool chains, efficiency, and deployment. That is the part Washington refuses to admit. China is not merely building models under constraint. It is turning constraint into an engineering advantage. Less compute. Lower deployment costs. Open weights. Wider global diffusion. So the Western Free Market™ works like this: Rule 1: It is a free market as long as the West is winning. Rule 2: Once the West’s lead begins to narrow, fabricate stories to demonize the competition. Rule 3: The moment the West starts losing, everything—down to a literal clove of garlic—becomes a “national security threat.” What a glorious decline.

WTF AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp. The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell. What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.