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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Taking a measure on tragedy is cruelty
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Taking a measure on tragedy is cruelty
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The view from Venezuela. A good read.
How Foreign Media and Analysts are Misreporting Venezuela | Caracas Chronicles
U.S. legacy media are spreading some big lies while trying to debunk and criticize Trump's discourse on Venezuela. Here's where they get it wrong
www.caracaschronicles.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The view from Venezuela. A good read.
Nother reason to hate all these cretins who decide that UAE and Dubai are good holiday destination.
I won't be posting the videos because they are gut wrenching. Yes. The RSF besieged a town in the region where the black minority lives, and now that the town has falled they are mass murdering all black people they can find.
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Nother reason to hate all these cretins who decide that UAE and Dubai are good holiday destination.
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I won't be posting the videos because they are gut wrenching. Yes. The RSF besieged a town in the region where the black minority lives, and now that the town has falled they are mass murdering all black people they can find.
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I won't be posting the videos because they are gut wrenching. Yes. The RSF besieged a town in the region where the black minority lives, and now that the town has falled they are mass murdering all black people they can find.
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the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
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Orwell hated the theatre of moral absolutes that let people excuse cruelty as duty.
“They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.
“They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Orwell hated the theatre of moral absolutes that let people excuse cruelty as duty.
“They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.
“They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.
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My granddad's cousin went to Spain in early '37 to fight the fascists and kept a diary of his experience. One entry read that he'd been shown how to clean his rifle by another, more experienced, Englishman by the name of Eric Blair. So yeah, I think we all know what Orwell would think.
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
September 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
My granddad's cousin went to Spain in early '37 to fight the fascists and kept a diary of his experience. One entry read that he'd been shown how to clean his rifle by another, more experienced, Englishman by the name of Eric Blair. So yeah, I think we all know what Orwell would think.
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If there was any meaning to this obsolete undemocratic and generally terrible concept of monarchy, it would be the king stepping up now and saying that all Nazis should jump of the Dover cliffs and then human rights respecting liberal democracy is the only way forward.
September 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
If there was any meaning to this obsolete undemocratic and generally terrible concept of monarchy, it would be the king stepping up now and saying that all Nazis should jump of the Dover cliffs and then human rights respecting liberal democracy is the only way forward.
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Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas
0/n 🧵
0/n 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas
0/n 🧵
0/n 🧵
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Interesting priorities...
Israel has impressive military, but also a joke of of "justice" and "law enforcement" systems, let alone the tragedy that is human rights there.
I used to support Israel, but now it is just another (very well armed) MENA shithole.
Israel has impressive military, but also a joke of of "justice" and "law enforcement" systems, let alone the tragedy that is human rights there.
I used to support Israel, but now it is just another (very well armed) MENA shithole.
August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Interesting priorities...
Israel has impressive military, but also a joke of of "justice" and "law enforcement" systems, let alone the tragedy that is human rights there.
I used to support Israel, but now it is just another (very well armed) MENA shithole.
Israel has impressive military, but also a joke of of "justice" and "law enforcement" systems, let alone the tragedy that is human rights there.
I used to support Israel, but now it is just another (very well armed) MENA shithole.
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"If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai. But know that you will not be blameless for doing so. Every Instagram post, every TikTok video, every gloating WhatsApp message sent from its luxury is an abomination."
Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar
In Dubai.
newleftreview.org
July 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai. But know that you will not be blameless for doing so. Every Instagram post, every TikTok video, every gloating WhatsApp message sent from its luxury is an abomination."
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Political religion is the source of the largest threat to liberal democracy.
July 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Political religion is the source of the largest threat to liberal democracy.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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In total 15 died, they claimed on methane, well more likely they were hit by own chloride gases they use frequently but who knows, in any case better to leave Kurdistan
🇮🇶🇹🇷 12 Turkish soldiers have died, with 15+ in very critical conditions, after a failed search operation for a dead Turkish serviceman in northern Iraq. The unit entered a cave that was exposed to methane gas.
The death toll is expected to rise further.
>LEAKLIV:/
The death toll is expected to rise further.
>LEAKLIV:/
🇮🇶🇹🇷 The incident occurred on June 28 (yesterday). In the footage, #Turkish evacuation #helicopters can be seen operating in northern #Iraq.
July 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In total 15 died, they claimed on methane, well more likely they were hit by own chloride gases they use frequently but who knows, in any case better to leave Kurdistan
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Gen alpha so cooked they’re gonna need an LLM to write their mass shooter manifestos
AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gen alpha so cooked they’re gonna need an LLM to write their mass shooter manifestos
East Germany is in its current desolate state for two reasons: they elected Nazis who lost the war, and then they ended up in Russia's sphere of influence and Moscow made it into underdeveloped hole without future.
So one would expect people to endorse whomever else than pro-russian Nazis.
So one would expect people to endorse whomever else than pro-russian Nazis.
June 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
East Germany is in its current desolate state for two reasons: they elected Nazis who lost the war, and then they ended up in Russia's sphere of influence and Moscow made it into underdeveloped hole without future.
So one would expect people to endorse whomever else than pro-russian Nazis.
So one would expect people to endorse whomever else than pro-russian Nazis.
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The Khamenei regime's willingness to support Assad and Hezbollah in the mass murder of 100 000s of Syrians to preserving an "Axis of Resistance" against Israel proved not just a crime against humanity but also a complete strategic failure even in terms of cynical Realpolitik
June 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The Khamenei regime's willingness to support Assad and Hezbollah in the mass murder of 100 000s of Syrians to preserving an "Axis of Resistance" against Israel proved not just a crime against humanity but also a complete strategic failure even in terms of cynical Realpolitik
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and the answer is, of course, that it's the blood and the tyranny that they're really excited about, not the prospect of helping others or making a better world.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
and the answer is, of course, that it's the blood and the tyranny that they're really excited about, not the prospect of helping others or making a better world.
Dictatorship and theocracy where only certain people of male gender can vote has it's new head 🥰
Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
May 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Dictatorship and theocracy where only certain people of male gender can vote has it's new head 🥰
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Sailors on USS Bunker Hill celebrate Victory in World War II Day by lighting a large bonfire on its deck, May 1945
May 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Sailors on USS Bunker Hill celebrate Victory in World War II Day by lighting a large bonfire on its deck, May 1945
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One of the biggest victories of the right is that they've managed to nearly completely substitute one's relationship to capital with masculinity as the determinant of class in popular discourse.
Many deem a self-employed electrician to be more working-class than a minimum wage Starbucks employee!
Many deem a self-employed electrician to be more working-class than a minimum wage Starbucks employee!
So much of Blue Labour comes down to the desperation of a very bourgeois network of people to signal that they have not betrayed a working class identity that only exists in their imagination
April 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
One of the biggest victories of the right is that they've managed to nearly completely substitute one's relationship to capital with masculinity as the determinant of class in popular discourse.
Many deem a self-employed electrician to be more working-class than a minimum wage Starbucks employee!
Many deem a self-employed electrician to be more working-class than a minimum wage Starbucks employee!
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Asi starnem, celý deň som sa udržal nenapísať nič o pápežovi, minule ⬇️ sa mi to nepodarilo.
Tak aspoň tak zoširšia: myslím že demokrati by sa nemali upínať k hlave absolutistickej monarchie, ktorá s demokraciou a jej hodnotami nemá nič spoločné.
Tak aspoň tak zoširšia: myslím že demokrati by sa nemali upínať k hlave absolutistickej monarchie, ktorá s demokraciou a jej hodnotami nemá nič spoločné.
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Asi starnem, celý deň som sa udržal nenapísať nič o pápežovi, minule ⬇️ sa mi to nepodarilo.
Tak aspoň tak zoširšia: myslím že demokrati by sa nemali upínať k hlave absolutistickej monarchie, ktorá s demokraciou a jej hodnotami nemá nič spoločné.
Tak aspoň tak zoširšia: myslím že demokrati by sa nemali upínať k hlave absolutistickej monarchie, ktorá s demokraciou a jej hodnotami nemá nič spoločné.