Oh you don’t say

Yesterday, the head of MI5 warned that far-right, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim extremists are becoming increasingly likely to consider carrying out terror attacks. This should worry us all. 🧵

New article on a topic that "AI 2040" completely misses: if TESCREALists try to involuntarily impose their idiotic vision of the future on the rest of humanity, there will be a mass, global, anti-extinction & anti-disempowerment RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. People will fight back.

🧵The latest vile idiocy coming from the Student Ticket in Serbia: a tweet from one of their more public supporters. This is a refrigerator truck found at Kladovo, it contained the bodies of 84 Albanian civilians killed by Serb forces. Faces on it are the leaders of the "European Serbia" coalition. ⬇️

"AI self-replication would only likely work with smaller models ...homes and small businesses would probably be the first target... devices [that]come with small built-in AI chips, including smart ovens, smart TVs, automatic lawnmowers, security cameras and video-conferencing units."

Perhaps it's that sipping Guinness actually works like waterboarding with him? So... waterboarding with Guinness... 🤔

The world saw a huge drop in right-wing engagement online after Ukraine starting striking data centers in Russia. Evidence points towards Russia being behind large bot operations to promote MAGA, the AfD, Reform, and other pro-Russian extreme parties in the West.

I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

Like water flows from Canada to California... because ketchup dribbles down a wall map 🙄

FWIW I keep thinking of the comparison to the development of 'genetic engineering' as a transformative technology with the potential of huge benefit and harm AFAIK we didn't have the CEOs of Monsanto etc saying that their labs would inevitably make Godzilla, so everyone needed to get ready for it 🤷

As far as I can tell it's based on a disgusting misrepresentation of the grim situations where non-viable 'neonates' can be delivered at term and medics do not make an unethical pretence of 'trying to save them'

Yes. Moldova is a successor-state of the USSR, with its borders set in 1991 just like Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc, etc

Sure, but it's not as simple as 'Ukraine steamrollers the Russians and withdraws within days, then the Moldovans are greeted with flowers by joyous fellow-countrymen delighted to have been liberated from the Russian yoke'🤷 Without a pressing need and/or Moldovan govt request, not a good idea IMHO

IIRC it was quoted at a total of c. 5000 'support/security' personnel + garrison-type troops using a couple of bases with stockpiled fuel/munitions/supplies pre-2022 Not used in the full invasion attempt and AFAIK has stayed passive since, so may well have been drawn down like Kaliningrad's forces

Having made the shortlist because your first name began with a 'K' - a kkkey requirement?

👍And it has operated as a pseudo-independent Russian client statelet, with its current population being self-selected pro-Russians, economically-reliant on Moscow Moldova faces big enough problems trying to reassimilate it democratically, let alone if a Ukrainian invasion started that process