The Ukrainians are now fielding fully autonomous, AI controlled machine gun turrets in both frontline positions as well as anti drone air defence roles

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has fallen to the same level as it was during the war

The MoU has only raised it from approximately 5-10 vessels a day to about 15-20 vessels a day.

For reference, peacetime traffic through the Strait is supposed to be 150-200 vessels daily, the current volume is only 10% of that.

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇮🇷/🇻🇦Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, member of the Assembly of Experts and former head of Islamic seminaries in Iran:

‘I recently heard that Pope Leo XIV wrote an encyclical letter titled ‘Magnifica Humanitas’, calling for the disarmament of Artificial Intelligence.

I found the letter very good; humanity must rid itself of this AI, which defies all divine purpose and is used in evil ways the majority of times. We must be aware of this.

It is truly a worthy goal of a joint intellectual Jihad / Crusade, in which our Christian brethren can play an important role.’

@Middle_East_Spectator

Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

You're next...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/humanoid-robots-baggage-handlers-japan-airports

Statement from The Center for Democracy and Technology on the KIDS Act passed by the House today:

Op-ed: Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone — not just kids — accesses the internet.

At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity.

That’s because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes — and, for some services, outright requires — age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of users’ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify users’ ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed “sexual material harmful to minors,” a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly.

That’s a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, “there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are.”

Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalists’ confidential sources.

READ: https://archive.is/9QeUb

"Recently in Kyiv, Zelenskyy greeted the head of Palantir, Alex Karp. So techno-fascism is everywhere. Not only Palestinians in the West Bank are subjected to constant surveillance and techno-fascism, but today drones are used to trace not only to kill the enemies, to kill people in the war, yes, but to trace also those Ukrainians who are trying to flee the country illegally. Drones are constantly monitoring the entire border and they are trying to prevent Ukrainian men from fleeing the country..." Dr. Marta Havryshko 🛰

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It be like that sometimes.

Can't always spoon feed people.