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I mean you can’t tell me someone in Macron’s team didn’t pipe up and say now hear me out about that connard Kushner, we almost kicked him out ourselves a couple of weeks ago…

This is just one clip from this insane presser, there are limits, when my uncle lost it his immediate family refused to accept it, most of the family went around saying someone should do something… of course my uncle was not in charge of an army with nuclear capability… I’m out for the day at least

I spent a year inside the content moderation workforce in Nairobi and Manila — the human cost of making AI 'safe' is a class story nobody wants to tell - Silicon Canals The people who teach AI the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable content earn $230 a month in Nairobi and Manila. The companies whose products depend on that labor are worth trillions. This is...

"The story of making AI 'safe' is fundamentally a story about class, about which humans absorb the costs so that other humans never have to think about them."
siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...

Iran’s deputy health minister, Dr Ali Jafarian, says more than 1,255 people have been killed and 12,000 wounded in nine days of US-Israeli attacks on Iran, adding that most of the dead are civilians.

Still digesting the technocratic detail but it’s a less inspiring Carney inspired speech from an uninspiring leader… my bitterness may soften on a reread but if this is the European call to arms, maybe Kallas will bring the ode de joy

Every leader should be saying this

This guy, even my septuagenarian Spartan mother has voted him off the island

The LNP’s phrase-banning law is wide open to constitutional attack. Is it a victory for the people, or a smart political play? | Anne Twomey By banning two political slogans outright, the government has exposed the law to a greater risk of being struck down as invalid

University of Sydney professor emerita in constitutional law, Anne Twomey, after passage of the Qld govt's pro-Palestine slogan ban, says govt has "cast off the constitutional armour that its bill had carefully constructed, & left its law wide open to attack" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Definitely a theme to my reading and viewing presently, I’m rewatching Narcos of an evening, reading Eduardo Galeano and agree with Dr Walker this is a great segment in these dark times of fire and brimstone…

March 2nd, massive anti US and Israel protest in the Philippines decrying the illegal war of aggression in Iran and killing of civilians. Protestors tried to reach the US embassy, stopped by riot police.

Palantir staff working in Defence offices. Removing standard audit requirements. Watering down cyber-attack reporting. That’s the deal that the surveillance giant got with the Australian government.

Read the report here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel strikes, sources say The U.S. message to Israel was "WTF."

A certain former reality TV performer may have been displeased with this content.

Apocalyptic scenes in Tehran perhaps not the military spectacle POTUS was hoping for.

Wait until he learns Israel is not pursuing the Venezuela model in Iran.

www.axios.com/2026/03/08/u...

“676 million women lived in proximity to conflict, that is almost every 6th woman in the world — the highest number and proportion ever recorded.”

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Thousands flee Akobo after South Sudan army issues forced evacuation order

Thousands flee Akobo after South Sudan army issues forced evacuation order https://aje.news/10ighf

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

UK faces growing calls from locals to remove Cyprus military bases Foreign minister, Constantinos Kombos, tells Guardian Iranian-made drone that hit airbase was launched from Lebanon

[UK faces growing calls from locals to remove Cyprus military bases]

“Britain is facing growing calls to withdraw its military bases from Cyprus as locals step up protests against facilities seen as threat to their security after unprecedented drone attack“

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Laws that Suppress Free Speech The NSW and federal government have passed several pieces of legislation that increase state control at the expense of free speech under the guise of preventing hate crimes.

Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Laws that Suppress Free Speech.
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/austral...

Despite all the screeching and Trump-grovelling of the British right, support for the US action against Iran has *dropped* to 22%

Great show, smart people no nonsense, Michael West’s use of ‘debac’ 🤌 Dr Burchill about our govt’s ‘bizarre and crazy’ out front support for the US Israel war… frankly it’s all bizarre and a bloody crazy debac, catch it later if you missed it and need some sanity given the media unreality

The rule of law allows for mitigation and remorse upon a guilty finding, proportionality is part of punishment, one needn’t be a lawyer to see these aren’t narco traffickers, most are likely their victims, even if they are Escobars they’re entitled to due process not summary missile execution at sea

SA Liberals back One Nation as leader won't condemn Bernardi comments South Australia's Liberal opposition will preference One Nation over Labor at the upcoming state election, as other parties condemn "outrageous" comments by One Nation's Cory Bernardi.

The SA Liberals will recommend voters preference One Nation ahead of Labor in all seats

"We want to see as many as Liberals elected as possible, and that's the prism in which we look at all our preferences," Ms Hurn said.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

AI images, old videos and false viral claims: what to watch out for when checking posts about the Middle East on social media – Full Fact In the last week we’ve seen a surge of misinformation relating to the war with Iran—we’ve fact checked 10 viral posts, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

AI images, old videos and false viral claims: what to watch out for when checking posts about the Middle East on social media

NEW: The Trump-Vance-Rubio administration has once again bypassed Congress to push through a $151.8 million bomb sale to Israel —>

“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” I can’t remember the biblical reference because Sunday school was a long time ago and I’m lapsed (or Godless according to my mother) but upon seeing more of this depravity today it’s all I can think and hope for…

Naked imperialism, if Americans can’t/won’t stop illegality, corruption & chaos being inflicted on them and the world by their rogue President’s regime, when will the rest of the world say enough because inevitably our complicity will lead to everyone’s demise slowly or via rapid disassembly