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  It feels like society is about six months away from someone creating a deck of collectible cards featuring deranged tech CEOs, and we collectively start hunting them down with pitchforks like they're sick Pokémon that somehow escaped Dante's Inferno. #society #bigtech #oligarchy #politics #healthcare #techbros #gambling #insane https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kalshi-defends-bet-drug-trials

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  Kind of understand why ketamine boy had to drop out of Stanford.

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  WTAF! They've essentially taken satellite imagery, one of the world's most recognisable sources of geographic ground truth, and attached an hallucination engine to it. 'Reimagine the world with Nano Banana in Google Earth' #technology #ai #geospatial #science #osint #disinformation https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation/

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  The singularity: when the people who spent years telling you not to anthropomorphise AI start talking about it like it's Jesus. At this point, I don't even have a joke about the AI singularity. I'm just tired of watching billionaires discover science fiction in real time. #society #technology #ai #oligarchy #fraud #scifi

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  Every time one maritime choke point calms down, another one starts auditioning for the role. At this rate the global economy is basically running on duct tape, spreadsheets and the hope that nobody parks a 400-metre container ship sideways again. #geopolitics #politics #security #maritime Yemen's Houthis announce 'maritime embargo' against Saudi Arabia - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2gmddx1ldo

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  I can't believe the classics department died for this. Our entire western civilization is only three budget cuts away from rediscovering etymology. #nolan #odyssey #humanities #classics #greekmythology #twitter #joke

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  Data point: of 30 IMO verified Jones Act waiver vessels we checked against Tokyo/Paris MoU detention records, the one with 38 deficiencies, unpaid wages, and an ISM failure got zero press. The China-flagged tanker with a clean record got a dockside protest and wire coverage. I wonder why. #geopolitics #politics #maritime #osint #uspolitics https://gcaptain.com/american-mariners-protest-chinese-tanker-as-jones-act-waiver-faces-growing-scrutiny/

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  A corporation scans your face, adds you to a criminal database, shares it with dozens of retailers, and when it's wrong, you get £25 voucher and silence from the ICO. We gave algorithms the power to punish. We gave victims a QR code. #society #technology #ai #statistics #justice #law #facerecognition https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name

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  IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17m penalty. Alternative title: "IBM continues in its tradition of pandering to fascist regimes" #technology #society #dei https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/ibm-folds-to-trump-anti-dei-push-admits-no-misconduct-but-pays-17m-penalty/

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  A simple explanation for the Great Silence. Every advanced alien species eventually invents internet, loses focus, and abandons its interstellar program. Not extinct, just stuck arguing in comment sections across the cosmos. #astronomy #space #aliens #science

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  The UK Parliament will debate the future of Palantir’s NHS data contract on April 16. Ask your MP to attend to keep up the pressure! #uk #politics #nhs #palantir #surveillance https://www.foxglove.org.uk/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116397732624612922 “It was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image could both speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.” Book of Revelation 13:15

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  Genuinely curious how the same people applauding the EU's new government-ID-linked internet verification app would describe Iran's white SIM card system if a journalist asked them about it. #internet #censorship #eu #ageverification #technology #security #privacy https://www.keystone-collective.org/the-internet-kill-switch-iran-built-while-the-west-was-busy-debating-age-verification/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116410023265099490 I am sure that BlackRock being major shareholder is pure coincidence. Their donation to Agent Orange's ballroom is also act of selfless generosity. #technology #security #infosec #corruption

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  Wes Streeting: Mandelson's playbook, Keir Starmer's branding, now shipping NHS policy with a side of Palantir and calling it "reform". #society #technology #nhs #palantir #surveillance #ai #data https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps

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  Western Europe has cathedrals, Central Europe has survived them. A short story about what happens when Silicon Valley meets a Moravian water spirit, and the water spirit wins without trying. #writing #technology #society #ai #centraleurope #folklore #slowtech #slavic #mythology #language #linguistics 'The Clockmaker's Algorithm: Some Lessons Are Not Taught in English' New read at: https://www.keystone-collective.org/the-clockmakers-algorithm-some-lessons-are-not-tau...

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  High Court rules Met Police scanning millions of faces on London's streets is perfectly legal and not at all the beginning of something we'll deeply regret. Anyway, smile, you're on camera. All 50 van's worth. #technology #society #london #surveillance #police #facerecognition #uk #court #justice https://www.keystone-collective.org/the-court-has-spoken-the-cameras-are-staying/

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  Watching ministers talk about NHS data strategy is like watching someone confidently rewire a house with no understanding of electricity. The language sounds polished, the reassurances are endless, but the substance just isn’t there. Choosing a company like Palantir isn’t a neutral technical decision. It’s a long-term structural commitment with real implications for control, access, and public trust. Yet it’s presented as a simple procurement exercise. And when political careers move on, as th...

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  Nothing more reassuring than knowing billion-dollar AI models are powered by toLowerCase() and a really motivated regex. The singularity isn’t near, it’s just \b(fuck|awful|useless)\b away apparently. #ai #aislop #technology #developer #machinelearning #fun

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  At Anthropic, we deeply value the contributions of the open source community. After extensive internal discussion, we’ve decided to release the full Claude codebase under the MIT License. We look forward to seeing what the community builds next. #ai #aprilfools #opensource #privacy #surveillance #technology https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/claude_code_source_leak_privacy_nightmare/