Mastertwit 🇵🇸

Mastertwit 🇵🇸

@mastertwit.bsky.social

Father of two small boys. Reader of books, Saints FC fan, climate worrier, Luddite. Free Palestine.

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The IDF is addicted to murdering children, aid workers, and journalists. Anyone with any links to the IDF or Israeli govt should be regarded as a war criminal.

Zeteo@zeteo.com

Israeli settlers attacked a Jewish American journalist in broad daylight, and Israeli soldiers did nothing. She said from her hospital bed, "Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted. I am sure of it.” @premthakker.bsky.social asks, "Are we going to let her be right?"

Great podcast, great episode. Give it a listen.

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

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this is probably one of the most bewildering parts of the whole story - if you try and google these hallucinated references to see if they're real, often Google's AI summary will give you a summary as if it's a *real paper* making the whole issue worse

Nick Evershed!?@nickevershed.bsky.social

The situation is made more confusing by AI services including Google search. Previously, looking up an invented reference might produce results that would indicate the reference did not exist. Now Google’s AI summary will sometimes create summaries of a fake reference as though it were genuine.

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Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.

theshot.net.auThe fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The ShotFor 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

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Replying to @phillewis.bsky.social

July 4th, 2026, Washington DC. Patriot Front ride the metro to their hateful little march. Her face sums it all up to me. A mixture of defiance and weariness. Both born out of lifetimes of having to put up with this shit. She knows only too well that America never stopped being a racist country.

Excellent piece about the state of US culture. “Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.”

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

"What Fallon offers is a standardized production of 'fun' that feels increasingly like a desperate plea to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls."

Was really looking forward to this weekend. But because Tonda and his goons bullied an intern analyst into spying on Boro, Saints have been kicked out of the playoff final. Absurd, disappointing, enraging. #saintsfc

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Replying to @squigglyrick.bsky.social

I am genuinely sick to death of pretending this is somehow normal or expected. If you use LLMs to do any part of your writing, thinking or synopses (let alone art) you should be embarrassed and out of work.

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” (Anon - often erroneously attributed to Dostoevsky)

Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

Albanese's latest report on the systematic, ubiquitous, soul crushing, permanent torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities, soldiers & settlers is one that we can only turn our eyes away from at the price of losing what is left of our souls. END THE GENOCIDE. NOW! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

“To pretend that this visit from the president of a rogue genocidal project, booed at the Olympics and reviled around the world is apolitical is, frankly, insulting. “Do we get foreign dignitaries from any other nation into parliament to speak for mourning Australians during any other tragedy?”

Entertaining game - should be ahead. Norwich a threat too. Ref losing control of it a bit - they should have a couple of yellows at least. Fraser a poor substitute for Fellows - he always wants to go backwards. #saintsfc

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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine. She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

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This is one of the most confronting things I've read in recent memory. Despite the title, it's not about the environmental impacts of AI - it's about extreme tech oligarchy. Does anyone have an argument or three to refute it? It seems logical to me. open.substack.com/pub/theturni...

open.substack.comYou forgot to mention how much water AI consumes.I used to think climate change posed the biggest threat to the existence of humankind. Now, I think AI is more likely to wipe out the majority of humans, faster than climate change will.

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can we just say this out loud? Climate change = horny male media editors going absolutely nuts with the skimpy fun-in-the-sun pics

Prof Ray Wills@profraywills.futuresmart.com.au

In Western Australia, news editors see record breaking high temperatures as a justification for bikini photos Not an opportunity for good journalism to foster discussion on fate of our planet in relation to #climatechange Every time Brain dead humans Hottest start to summer in #Perth on record

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Tool used as a cudgel to discipline workers is popular with execs and management. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

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“There is no good #Zionism; it is a racist ideology, a violent ideology,” said Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who later aligned himself with the Palestinian cause. He added: “There is nothing to justify, nothing to excuse what Israel does.” Via @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social

There is no ‘ceasefire’ - don’t be fooled.

Jonathan Cook@jonathan-cook.bsky.social

Israeli group B’Tselem notes that, since a supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has: * killed 345 Palestinians, * denied food to 70% of the population who need it, * demolished a further 1,500 buildings. All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.

Great guide on what NOT to give your family for Christmas!

Paris Marx@parismarx.com

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.