A black-and-white cartoon depicts a post-apocalyptic scene where a man in tattered business attire sits around a small campfire with three children amidst a barren, dark landscape with the faint, jagged silhouettes of a ruined city in the background. The man, gesturing with one hand, looks toward the children as he delivers the caption below the illustration: “Yes, billionaires took over our media, co-opted democracy, and destroyed our planet. But we had some great Earth Day celebrations.”

Happy Earth Day, everyone!

Who’s going to read it?

'When I returned from Gaza they called me a hero. But I felt I was a monster' Some of Them Killed Civilians in Gaza; Others Just Looked On, or Witnessed Abuse and Cover-ups in the Name of Revenge. Now They're Trying to Cope With Something a Bit Different Than PTSD

I don’t give af about mass murderers feeling bad for murdering our children.

You *are* a monster for mass murdering civilians.

You want to feel human again? Expose those who gave you the order to murder. Be a ‘traitor’.

Grow a fucking spine. 🧵

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The AI bubble is about to burst because the hyperscalers as they are called have used up all their own cash and are now borrowing money. They are effectively net-debtors at a time when they are spending huge volumes of money on data centres without having the guarantee that they are going to make profits. And it is that worry that actually there isn't money to be made in the business which is gradually dawning on investors, which is going to be why they are going to pull away. Infact there are already signs of people withdrawing from the AI sector because they fear that this is indeed a bubble. It seems to me utterly inevitable, the only question is only when." - Ann Pettifor

A warning from the economist, Ann Pettifor.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.

Both are war crimes punishable under international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Maintaining southern Lebanon buffer zone could cost Israel $6.4 billion annually Holding the Zone Would Require an Additional 40,000 Reserve Troops, an Israeli Defense Official Said, and Could Cost as Much as 19 Billion Shekels ($6.4 Billion) Annually, The Marker Calculated. The R...

Sorry American tax payers, Israel needs to occupy another people so pay up

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1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.

WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)

that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

you really thought

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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L’eterno populismo.

Perché gli elettori che desiderano una protezione sociale più solida, un’economia più equa e maggiore solidarietà sociale continuano a eleggere governi che producono l’esatto contrario? Perché il populismo autoritario (di destra e di sinistra)

Rust and …?

BBC News on Instagram: "Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of deliberately targeting health worke... 12K likes, 1,233 comments - bbcnews on April 16, 2026: "Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of del...

Yesterday, Israel used a triple tap attack to kill paramedics in Lebanon. This means that they first bombed, waited for paramedics to come, bombed again, waited, and then bombed again. It was all caught on camera.

There is no peace possible with this.

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Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

This is a far bigger fuel,fertilizer,food crisis for Asia & Europe than it is for US. That has been my argument since war began That weakest people will suffer most.Again, just as after Ukraine

20-30% SUPPLY is out.Asian govts now doing Covid-style DEMAND-side reductions
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A screenshot reading "Netanyahu said Israeli troops would remain in southern Lebanon."

Israel has been bombing and occupying Lebanon for decades. They invaded in 1978 and 1982, occupied south Lebanon until 2000, then bombed Lebanon in 2006, 2023, and especially 2024. Then they signed a “ceasefire” with Hezbollah, which they violated at least 10,000 times.

crimethinc.com/lebanon2026

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Good

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

Solar manufacturing capacity is approx double demand. Same with wind nacelles and batteries.
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is not overcapacity!
It's UNDERDEMAND.
But how will it look as 2 x big fossil fuel supply shocks sink in?

Iran in Ghana & @IRAN _GHANA. 8h Dear Italy, Your PM just defended Pope and lost an ally in Washington - the Commander in Grief, yet the most 'powerfool'man on earth. We'd like to apply for the vacancy. Our qualifications: 7,000 years of civilization, a shared love of poetry, architecture, and food that takes longer to prepare than Trump's attention span. The only thing Iran and Italy have ever fought over is who invented ice cream. Faloodeh came first. Gelato came louder. We've been in a 'cold' war over this for 2,000 years.

Iran’s … trolling.

1/ Beyond the merits of the case, many critics, blinded by ideological bias, labeled L’Espresso’s cover as AI-generated. Depending on whether they were lying or sincere, we can distinguish two types of reaction:
- the liar’s dividend
- the deepdoubt

In Germany, the Holocaust is commemorated by portraying Hitler as a Palestinian.

Ohhh, can you point me to the new repo?

‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.

It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

In Just 10 days April 2026 has broken FAR more records worldwide Than any full month in history and This is just an appetizer of what's coming:
Dozens of thousands of records will be smashed in over 170 countries in all Continents every single day.

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