Ancuta Hansen

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🦋🇪🇺 @eurosky.social -or any alternative PDS. How? Why?

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Price of the White House ballroom now at $400 million and rising. Which is still relatively cheap when you consider that would only buy four fighter jets for Kuwait to shoot down and, hey, that barely gets us through a day of a fresh Mideast war.

Le gros con en 4x4 qui attends au feu rouge et entre temps il ouvre son paquet de cigarettes et jette le plastique protecteur par la fenêtre n’est pas extinct, il existe encore, à Paris, restez assuré. Il est jeune, en plus. #groscon

La théologie apocalyptique évangélique, ça alimente littéralement des guerres.

Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.

I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!

Manchester & Salford,
March 3rd 2026

First Light: 05.37
Sunrise: 06.52
Sunset: 17.50
Nightfall: 19.05

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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a horse, tire track, oil wells on fire, a hellscape.

From Steve McCurry’s series War, Kuwait, 1991.

www.stevemccurry.com

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

In Dubai, they call it a shock, a catastrophe.

In Ukraine, it's called Tuesday.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

I no longer live in war, but war lives in me forever. I put the kids to sleep and am shaking with a cocktail of emotions, as if I am not hearing the distant sound of birds but rockets overhead.

Should you need them in these trying times, Cinémathèque française has a selection of free-to-stream movies with English subs, silents and talkies

www.cinematheque.fr/henri/english/

Tiniest violins for the many European tax exiles and gangsters who never quite understood how much of a geopolitical house of cards the UAE is

Yet thou didst kill my children.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

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Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.

Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

For Trump, a military conflict with Iran would distract from:

-Epstein files
-His deadly deportation agenda
-Losing on tariffs at SCOTUS
-Tanking polls
-His devastating (and unpopular) budget bill
-Millions of people protesting his authoritarianism

When he's cornered, he lashes out. Be warned.

Our daughter watching a Maroon 5 video: « mum, why is the boy (😅) naked from the waste up, is it a underwear commercial, again? » Fair enough, good question. 😂

a skeletal figure playing a rifle like a flute, while soldiers dance around it

David Henry Souter

Iran is an evil regime and deserves to fall. But that's not a good argument for launching a war of regime change without Congress and against the will of the American people.

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Ça a commencé. Allez savoir ce qui arrivera. Contrairement à certains, je ne pense pas que d'actions mauvaises inititiées par des gens mauvais pour de mauvaises raisons puisse advenir quelque chose de bien. Mes pensées sont pour le peuple iranien, qui a déjà tant souffert. Puisse-t-il prévaloir.

P1:Do it. P2: Wait! P3: You Mustn’t! P4: Not until it’s full.

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