"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte
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No matter how you spin it, the #Iraq_war was criminal !
What is worse, no accountability whatsoever…
POSTSCRIPT;
“I still dream about it - deep down I wish it had never happened” Campbell tells @PiersUncensored
The families of a million Iraqis also dream about it & wish it happened, Alaistair
In 2011, Major Laurie said the dodgy dossier was drawn up "to make the case for war"
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EXCLUSIVE: Palantir sent ‘intimidating’ letters to British MPs who criticised or asked difficult questions about the US spytech firm in parliament.
Read the full report here: novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/p…
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#Breaking: European diplomats, including French and Polish representatives, who went to the West Bank to observe the olive harvest, have been violently assaulted by Israeli settlers.
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Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine is hospitalised, after being brutally attacked by Israeli settlers this morning
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
Stefan Simanowitz retweeted
The dawn raid and the take over by state appointed trustees of one of the main opposition channels @halktvcomtr is a direct assault on the right to freedom of expression which includes the right to give and receive information.
Media freedom is at the heart of all freedoms.
Stefan Simanowitz retweeted
J’étais aujourd’hui aux côtés des lycéens et des étudiants mobilisés à Paris.
J’ai été témoin d’un usage totalement disproportionné de la force face à des jeunes qui demandent simplement à être entendus.
J’interpelle le ministre de l’Intérieur : les consignes doivent être revues d’urgence avant qu’un drame ne survienne.
Aux jeunes mobilisés : vos revendications sont justes. Continuez à vous organiser et à faire entendre votre voix. Mais ne cédez à aucune provocation. Restez unis et non-violents !
C’est par votre nombre et votre détermination que vous obligerez le gouvernement à vous entendre.
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Bally Bagayoko tente de calmer
la tension lors de la manifestation
lycéenne et étudiante à Paris.
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Aujourd’hui, Amnesty International France participait à la mobilisation des lycéen·es.
Objectif : soutenir le droit de manifestation des jeunes et être à leurs côtés.
Notre présidente @ASavinelBarras était sur place 👇
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وقفة احتجاجية أمس الأحد أمام المقر الرئيسي لشركة #Palantir في حي سوهو اللندني. واحدة من أكثر من 40 تحركاََ احتجاجياََ في جميع أنحاء المملكة المتحدة.
حسب ستيفان سيمانوفيتش صاحب التغريدة ادناه:
«يجب على رئيس الحكومة البريطانية #أندي_بيرنهام أن ينهي العقد مع هيئة الخدمات الصحية الوطنية #NHS (المُوقّع عام 2023)، بقيمة 330 مليون جنيه إسترليني».
ويتابع: «إذا كان الهدف هو الاستحواذ على البيانات الجينية لجميع السكان، فستكون المملكة المتحدة بمثابة حقل تجارب لشركة بالانتير».
#خطة_بالانتير
#PalantirPlan
#اطردوا_بالانتير
#KickPalantirOut
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205/. This was the protest outside #Palantir’s Soho HQ yesterday: one of 40+ demonstrations across the UK
@andyburnham must terminate their £330m NHS contract signed in 2023
If the goal is a population-wide genomic data grab, the UK will be Palantir’s Petri dish
#PalantirPlan
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o FT FOI reveals further flaw in NHSE's claims about Palantir's Federated Data Platform in the NHS
o UK Office for Statistics Regulation has opened another investigation
o Over 20 NHS trusts are no longer using the Palantir technology
ft.com/content/cc1f2e28-117f…
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“Unless concrete steps are taken to protect genomic data, it will only show how little the govt understands the interplay between AI & genomics – the real existential challenge” @MPIainDS
FOOTAGE shows Palantir’s Thiel & Karp heading off with our NHS data
120/. #BREAKING: The shadowy US data firm #Palantir have rprtdly won the £480m contract for a NHS data platform (with Accenture)
This is devastating news!
Will Britain now become a Petri dish for unregulated genomic research & bio-invasive surveillance?
ow.ly/RHLS50Q5PCT
Stefan Simanowitz retweeted
Still going strong in soho square - speaking to people, I think Tom Watson has really helped get people out tonight. Thanks Tom!
Kick Palantir out
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It's People Vs Palantir day of action!
Can't make your local protest? Use our tool to say NO to Palantir ❌ 👇
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MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.
And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.
The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.
This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.
A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.
So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.
Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.
Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.
Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.
The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.
What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
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204/. “Get Palantir out of our NHS!”
Protest this morning outside #Palantir’s London HQ
Today is the contractual deadline for Palantir to provide NHS England with an exit plan should the govt choose not to continue with the FDP contract whose “initial term” ends early next year
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics - Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him.
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202/. International Day of Action against Palantir
WHEN: 1st October
WHERE: 20+ locations across England & more globally
Week of action demanding the govt uses the break clause and gets #Palantir out of our NHS
#PalantirPlan #Genomics #DataGrab #NHS
amnesty.org.uk/issues/intern…
🚨On Thu 1 Oct, join protests at 20+ locations across England against US spy-tech company Palantir.
We're demanding the government uses the break clause and gets Palantir out of our NHS.
We need you to join us ⬇️
amnesty.org.uk/issues/intern… #PeopleVsPalantir
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Breaking
Stand up comedian Deniz Göktaş who has spent 88 days in isolation for his hugely popular stand up show TO BE RELEASED from prison after being convicted at his 1st hearing of 2 of the 3 charges he faced.
He should not have been imprisoned a single day let alone convicted
