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Jaron Lanier in the @nytimes on the machine-god cult:
"we need to be honest with ourselves. There is nothing wrong with a new religion, but there is everything wrong with an imposed new religion."
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How do we know this hasn't been a counter-intelligence operation all along?
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Great reporting by @nytimes. The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military. A brief visit by journalists in China found that two of the offices were just empty shells.
Was Jensen Huang a "victim" of a honey trap or was he just trying to make as much money as possible? Was his $25 million donation to Trump's ballroom the price of pay to play? In the US - China tech competition, has the Commerce Dept been co-opted by other interests? Here is a gift article which raises deeply troubling questions.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2026/11/07/busin…
I clicked on the Russell Brand sentencing in "Today's News" and was served up a whole lot of bot activity. These are all replies denouncing the father of Brand.
You can see the flash of anger when he realises the interviewer can see through him xitter.twitterapi.xyz/Baltic_Takes/status/21…
The @AusHumanRights Commission recently argued that the manosphere contributes to radicalisation. But research distinguishes between radical beliefs & radical actions. Predictors of actual violence, including lone-actor terrorism, include prior violence, criminality, substance abuse, psychiatric history. My piece for the @australian
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This is just false.
2009: Channel 4 received a sexual misconduct complaint.
In 2014: Ex-girlfriend Jordan Martin published sexual assault allegations.
2020: Alice, who dated Brand at 16 when he was 30, reported alleged sexual assault to his agent.
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There's just no serious doubt that the "rape" prosecution of Russell Brand, for which he has now been convicted and jailed, was first precipitated by his very public turn toward vaguely right-wing (and admittedly often wacky) political and religious commentary.
In 2022, the Times (UK) published a big feature lambasting him for his purported transformation into some sort of dodgy right-wing "conspiracy guru."
Then in 2023 comes the big expose about Brand's allegedly sordid history of "sexual assault" and "abuse." The Times claimed they first started hearing of such allegations in 2019, but apparently had little urgency to follow up for several years.
Then all of the sudden, in "autumn 2022, Channel 4’s Dispatches formally began collaborating with The Sunday Times to investigate Brand."
Another notable event that occurred in "autumn 2022": Russell Brand was announced as a featured broadcaster on the right-wing (ish) video platform Rumble, alongside the likes of Donald Trump Jr. and Dan Bongino.
Soon enough, boom — here comes the newly frenzied "investigative" activity by the joint Times/Channel 4 task force — eventually yielding the big splashy 2023 "documentary" (more like "slopumentary”) which today they are bragging "led to" Brand's conviction in London for various sexual assault and rape offenses.
(He was also acquitted on multiple counts, in a very curious mixed verdict. NONE of the allegations aired in that 2023 propagandocumentary were ultimately charged at trial.)
Really makes U think...
Paying $80 weekly rent in a spacious sharehouse in a leafy suburb xitter.twitterapi.xyz/AbakpaJob/status/21186…
I don't have the court transcripts. But reports state that there were 8 witnesses who testified to contemporaneous disclosures, two of whom advised her to go to the police, as well as a sexual health nurse who testified that the woman reported an anal rape xitter.twitterapi.xyz/mtracey/status/2118509…
The most credible evidence against Brand comes from a woman named Nadia, who said she was raped by him in LA in 2012. She went immediately to a rape centre afterwards & there are medical records which corroborate her account. She also spent 5 months in counselling after the incident (which there are records of) and contemporaneous text messages from Brand in which he says he was "sorry."
The below accusation, from a woman in Britain, which led to a conviction didn't have the physical evidence. But there were 2 dozen witnesses who corroborated her story, & similarly there were contemporaneous text messages from Brand apologising for what he did.
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The woman in Britain attended a clinic after the incident as well. Contemporaneous medical evidence is understandably persuasive to juries. malaysia.news.yahoo.com/russ…
Just as applicable to Australia as the US
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Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
Combine a short-term mating strategy with Dark Triad traits & you end up with Russell Brand.
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Russell Brand is convicted of rape and sexual assault charges on allegations dating back more than 20 years. The judge said Brand would receive a prison sentence. apnews.com/article/russell-b…
Texas is blue?
Texas?
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It's fascinating how much discourse on AI resembles older forms of religious thought.
For centuries, millenarians have argued that we are on the cusp of two worlds--utopia or apocalypse--and a select group of people must guide us through.
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Who is this 'select group' that must guide humanity through the coming crisis? According to rationalist blogger Scott Alexander, its leaders of AI companies.
Millenarian thought always comes back to this: a tiny group of unusually knowledgeable people must be given responsibility for all of humanity. lesswrong.com/posts/xikGZ8fu…
TMZ has identified all nine people killed in Sunday’s Learjet crash in Florida.
They included Austin tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, his wife Helen Sharp, their children Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, their nanny Anita Maria Cetina, and family friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr.
The two pilots were Jeff Gregory, 55, and co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha, just 20, who earned her pilot’s license at 17.
Another terrific essay from @RLynch43576. This one pushes back on optimisation culture & argues that much time-wasting serves important functions we may not be aware of
quillette.com/2026/11/02/how…
How Wikipedia Rewrote Zionism
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced. And work of editors who have been banned from the page remains.
quillette.com/2026/10/30/how…
Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified.
The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far.
Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete.
As an immediate precaution, Binance has:
- temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed;
- revoked the affected address authorisation;
- engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds.
Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice.
Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
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"The PRC’s rise was one of the fastest in the historical record. Its fall could be similarly rapid. The combination of vast numbers and accelerated pace means the Chinese experience can show us our own future writ large" - @aaron_sarin for @Quillette
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