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Joined March 2014
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Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. Eight-year-old Fatima Hisham al-Bayook has succumbed to her injuries after being struck by an Israeli bullet a few days ago east of Deir al-Balah, Gaza. There had been desperate pleas for her urgent medical evacuation in the hope of saving her life. After contacting her family, I can also confirm that Fatima’s mother and two younger siblings were killed in an Israeli strike on December 13, 2023. Her siblings were Leen, a baby less than a year old, and Asaad, just three years old. Israel’s terror and the systematic destruction of Palestinian families continue to unfold before the eyes of the world. Remember their names.
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This is a seriously important win. The fascist lost today..... The zionist lost today....Trump lost today......Israel lost today. The Amazon breathes today, and so do we. Obrigado Lula.
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BREAKING: Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidential run-off against right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro on Sunday, the electoral authority said, securing a fourth non-consecutive term. 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.news/vs1cfu
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eu quero que essa foto esteja nos livros de história dos meus filhos
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EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name.  I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.💪
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“Nunca pensé que poner un plato de comida en la mesa de un pobre generaría tanto odio de una élite que se harta de tirar comida a la basura todos los días”. - Lula
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Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/ZkAeQt3l
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LULA 13 NOW
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¡Viva Lula, viva Brasil, viva la igualdad en América Latina! Foto: @nytimes
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More ignorance here, with predictable doses of Islamophobia and anti-immigration nonsense
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Get in there!!! 🇧🇷 Bora Lula! Fuck Trump!
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LULA.
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Brazil's President Lula da Silva beats Flavio Bolsonaro to win re-election ➡️ go.france24.com/rYK9
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“The coarsening of political discourse under Trump has plumbed new depths,” writes Paul Bongiorno. “One Nation has ventured into this space with gusto and has even been praised for the effective way in which it has utilised online opportunities.” trib.al/7bC94T5
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Do not let the passing days make us forget Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the physician who continued fulfilling his humanitarian duty in Gaza amid war and danger, refusing to abandon his patients despite the pain and threats surrounding him. Hussam Abu Safiya is not just a name that appeared in the news. He is the story of a doctor who chose to stand by his people when staying meant risking his life. Do not forget him. Do not let his case fade into silence. Keep demanding his freedom. Behind this name is a human being who deserves to remain in our conscience until the day he is free.
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David Caldicott retweeted
Let me get this straight. A guy keeps getting weirdly targeted ads on his new Samsung TV. So he breaks into his own TV to find out why. 1.2M people watch. 42 hours later, OpenAI deactivates his account. Reason: "Cyber Abuse." His words: "i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering" Same week, people on r/claude say Claude now cuts off reverse-engineering write-ups MID-SENTENCE: "A safety check stopped my response partway through creating the playbook" The TV is fine. The guy who opened it is the problem.
banned for reverse engineering work? that’s wild oh well, -$500, and a bunch of banked resets) but gained motivation to get 3 more machines and finish my cluster. i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering which tripped daybreak.
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打了4年,占据了乌克兰20%的土地,为什么俄罗斯还不收手?答案很简单,随着冲突的持续,俄罗斯的目标变了。最早,俄只是想通过军事行动来阻止乌克兰加入北约。后来俄罗斯发现欧美全部下场了,不打不行了。刚开打的时候,俄罗斯压根没打算打持久战,更没想过要占乌克兰这么多土地,它最初的想法特别简单。   俄乌冲突打了四年,俄罗斯攥着乌克兰大约五分之一的土地,却始终没有收手的迹象,很多人想不通:仗打到这个份上,该拿的也拿了,该谈也能谈了,为什么还不停?答案其实就一句话:俄罗斯最早想要的东西跟现在想要的东西已经完全是两码事了。   刚开打那会儿,俄罗斯的想法特别简单,它没打算打持久战,更没想过要占乌克兰那么多地,对外公布的诉求就三条:阻止乌克兰加入北约,去军事化去纳粹化,保护顿巴斯地区的平民。   那时候俄军的部署,压根没按长期作战来安排,多路出击,快速往基辅方向推,打算速战速决,拿到谈判条件就收兵,说白了就是想吓唬一下,逼乌克兰签个字然后回家。   可战局没按剧本走,乌克兰军队没有像很多人预想的那样快速溃败,欧美紧跟着下场,武器弹药一批一批往里送,情报共享开着,人员培训搞着,北约多国公开表态持续输血,战场从快速决战,硬生生拖成了拉锯战。   俄军多路推进的势头被挡住,基辅没拿下来,哈尔科夫反攻还丢了地盘,这时候俄罗斯才反应过来:对面站着的不只是乌克兰。   欧美全部下场,这五个字改变了整场冲突的性质,俄罗斯原本以为是在跟一个邻居较劲,打到最后发现,对手是整个西方,你退一步,对方就往前拱一步,你收手,对方就武装乌克兰到牙齿,这种情况下,俄罗斯不打也得打,不是想不想的问题,是退不退得起的问题。   于是目标开始变了,从阻止北约东扩变成了守住已经吃进去的地盘,从速战速决变成了长期消耗,俄军逐步稳住乌东方向战线,控制区域不断扩大,第三方机构统计,俄方实际控制乌克兰大约百分之二十的国土,包括克里米亚、顿涅茨克、卢甘斯克、扎波罗热和赫尔松的部分区域。   这些地方,俄罗斯已经通过法律程序吞进去了,写进了宪法,你说撤就撤?那国内怎么交代?普京怎么跟老百姓解释,打了几年,死了那么多人,最后啥也没落下?   更关键的是,这些地盘的战略价值摆在那,克里米亚是黑海舰队的基地,丢了克里米亚,俄罗斯的黑海出海口就没了,顿巴斯是工业区,煤矿、钢铁厂全在那,扎波罗热有欧洲最大的核电站,赫尔松是克里米亚的陆路通道,这些地方连在一起,就是一条从俄罗斯本土通往克里米亚的陆地走廊。   有了这条走廊,克里米亚的补给不用再单靠刻赤海峡大桥,安全系数完全不一样,这笔账,俄罗斯算得比谁都清楚。   还有一层是国内政治,战争打了四年,俄罗斯社会已经进入了战时状态,军工企业开足马力,地方财政靠军费撑着,老百姓习惯了特别军事行动这个词,这时候你说停就停,那些靠战争吃饭的人怎么办?那些死了亲人的家庭怎么安抚?那些被宣传动员起来的民族情绪怎么收场? 普京要是现在收手,国内强硬派第一个不答应,梅德韦杰夫天天喊核武器,那帮人巴不得打到基辅去,你退一步,他们就敢往前推两步。   所以俄罗斯现在停不下来,不是它不想停,是停的成本比继续打还高,继续打至少还能守住已经拿到的东西,还能跟西方耗着,还能等国际局势变化,停下来,制裁不会取消,北约不会解散,乌克兰会重新武装,国内强硬派会翻脸,两害相权取其轻,那就接着打。   说到底,俄罗斯的目标从“阻止北约”变成了“守住战果”,从“速战速决”变成了“长期消耗”,这个转变不是谁设计的,是战场逼出来的,是西方介入逼出来的,是国内政治逼出来的,开打的时候没想占那么多地,打着打着发现不占不行,占了之后发现不守不行,守了之后发现不收手不行,一环扣一环,越陷越深。   乌克兰那边也一样,泽连斯基要是敢承认领土现状,国内立刻把他撕了,欧美要是敢让乌克兰割地求和,面子上挂不住,双方都被架在那,谁也下不来,这就是消耗战的残酷之处:打着打着,双方都忘了当初为什么打,只剩下一个念头——不能输。   所以别问俄罗斯为什么还不收手,它收不了,收了,前面四年白打,后面局面更糟,不收,至少还能赌一把,赌西方先撑不住,赌美国换个总统,赌国际格局变天,这个赌注很大,可它已经没有退路了。#UkraineRussiaWar
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Hey @grok, what EXACTLY happened in Maní, Yucatán in the year 1562, why is it such a big deal, and what are most people MISSING about it?
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David Caldicott retweeted
Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings. This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior. Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly". We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians. The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption. We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
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Drop Site
@DropSiteNews8h
🇵🇸💢 “We came to rebuild our country, the country they destroyed. Why are they attacking us here too?”: Israel strikes Gaza university twice, killing three Israeli strikes hit the campus of the Islamic University in western Gaza City twice on Sunday, less than four hours apart, killing three university security guards and wounding several others, including students.  “Today, we were studying in class, minding our business, while the professor was explaining. Suddenly, an airstrike hit directly beneath us, a massive explosion,” Mohammed Qandil, an engineering student, told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah. Qandil said he was attending a physics lecture when the strike hit directly beneath the classroom. “We came here to learn and get an education. We came to rebuild our country, the country they destroyed and devastated. Why are they attacking us here too?” “All we're asking for is our right to education, nothing more. We don't want anything else. We just want our right to education.” 🎥 @AbdSabbah91
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