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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

Eliot's thread is a great breakdown of how these groups think and act - completely uninterested in facts, or evidence. Then laundering authoritarian propaganda as critical leftist thinking. Read the whole thread:
bsky.app/profile/elio...

The reflexive defence of any country criticized by the US/West also leads them to repeat propaganda lines from authoritarian states. They'll often claim that those speaking out about what is happening in Xinjiang are simply sinophobic, dismissing all the evidence of abuses in the region.

Tankies are incredibly western centric, even as they use their support for non-western states which do things the US opposes as cover for this. It's why so many of them deny the genocide of the Uyghurs.

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

NEW: Inside the race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army Weapons smuggled from Florida are empowering the country’s militias and enabling them to challenge a fragile government

New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army.

Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.

ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement

On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/

The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army Weapons smuggled from Florida are empowering the country’s militias and enabling them to challenge a fragile government

By Joe Daniels, Myles McCormick, @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @samjoiner.bsky.social and me.
ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

This is what happens when neoliberal meritocratic technocracy hollows out democracy and leaves social media to fill the vacuum with outrage, distortion, and division.

I have said this before but I find the constant British catastrophizing really quite worrying. Yes there are big problems. But
Terminal decline?
Everything falling apart?
Hopelessly broken?

I find this attitude frightening.

This is a really good beginners' guide to how LLMs work, why they churn out hallucinations, and some of the techniques being used to reduce those hallucinations.

Open call for artists, curators & architects - Announcements - e-flux Open call for artists, curators & architects

Just a reminder that there is a little time left for our open call to put on group architecture themed exhibitions in No.1 Poultry
www.e-flux.com/announcement...

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Venn diagram showing you can’t achieve stable services, low density and low taxes at the same time.

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Any questions?

Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

Labour says Reform UK ‘trying to divide communities’ ahead of Farage speech on crime - UK politics live Reform UK leader is to lay out his plans for the criminal justice system if he were to become PM in a speech later this morning

Maybe the real question we should be asking ourselves is what is anyone doing to unite them? - Labour says Reform UK ‘trying to divide communities’ ahead of Farage speech on crime - UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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We've been covering this consistently.

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ [FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...

The leap from this to the systems Chinese police use for social engineering in Xinjiang and Tibet is exceedingly small

My report following the killings of two young Palestinian men (one a US citizen) by Israeli settlers in the West Bank last Friday.
Their families believe both could have lived if they received medical attention on time, they also believe there'll be no justice: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

New: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry.

The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold.

👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry

By @upyorkshire.ft.com @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @janatausch.bsky.social Dan Clark, @gakuito.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

NEW: Inside US’s booming immigration detention industry where increasing levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives and detainees say. ⁦
ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

New: Inside Gaza’s 'death traps'. A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. First-hand testimony, satellite imagery and verified video shed light on the dangerous journey from which many never return.

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By Heba Saleh, Aditi Bhandari, James Sandy, Gaku Ito @digitalcampbell.ft.com and me

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ [FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...

How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president

NEW: Illegal fuel in Mexico has evolved from pipeline tapping to a more sophisticated cross-border smuggling operation that is funding Mexico's powerful cartels.
By @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me Christine Murray @samjoiner.bsky.social and me.
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...

How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president

NEW: Illegal fuel in Mexico has evolved from pipeline tapping to a more sophisticated cross-border smuggling operation that is funding Mexico's powerful cartels.
By @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me Christine Murray @samjoiner.bsky.social and me.
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...

My colleagues Harlo Holmes and Kevin O'Gorman are doing an AMA! Come ask questions about how to more safely share information with the press: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...