Alastair Thompson

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Kiwi, Journalist & Editor. Founder of Scoop.co.nz (since 1999) Climate Journalism, Future of News, War & Peace, Technology. Ai Newbie. #PoeticRevolution

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althecat@nos.social

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salmonfalcon3@primal.net

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2024-09-24 12:59:38

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2024-09-17 16:27:59

Springfield seems to be becoming the new Portland.

2024-09-02 12:31:55

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Super cool. Go Dutchies on the Nostrich side.

2024-06-01 09:13:59

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Thats an interesting bit of math

2024-05-29 22:59:50

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Excellent diversity of opinion. It seems we have someone here who approves of “first strike nuclear capability.”

2024-05-29 22:57:54

The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.
Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.
But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.
We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.
Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that “terrorists” are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer.
We each must choose and act accordingly. The watershed moment is now. https://image.nostr.build/7fb1f904c25bce7969dfd2d08bfd645d0efbc6d41190783b376eed4db5dc3751.jpg

2024-05-29 22:45:10

You tweet on NOS.Social. And then it appears on X. Like Magic. But unlike on X it wont get throttled or deleted.

2024-05-29 19:11:46

Is this working

2024-05-29 19:10:59

Is this working?

2024-05-29 18:47:29

@elonmusk
GROK is really good. Do good not evil.

2024-05-29 18:44:57

Hello x

2024-05-29 18:39:40

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2024-05-29 18:21:01

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2024-05-29 18:16:56

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Twitter just froze for me and half blanked out my note mid composition. Thos is why we Journalists NEED NOSTR and Nos.social

2024-05-29 18:15:03

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2024-05-29 18:12:42

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2024-05-24 19:24:21

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My hood

2024-05-24 18:30:25

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https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/labour-mp-rightwing-figurehead-enabled-anti-protest-clampdown

2024-05-21 21:24:01

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I’ll miss this but expecting to be in Berlin fairly shortly and would love to catch up with a Nostr crowd

2024-05-21 19:36:04

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Nost Riga is in Estonia?

2024-05-21 18:58:23

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Excellent question.

2024-05-21 18:57:37

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Im happy to hear them. I grew up in journalism on midfle eastern war & mayhem.

2024-05-18 08:26:07

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Hi @npub1pu3…tfch Thank you for being a thing.
Its super cool to be here.
Thanks to @npub1wmr…g240 @npub1sg6…f63m @npub1j60…d7ua & the legion of developers for making this all possible.
I found the actual onboarding with Linda to be remarkably easy - even though I am stil very much a newbie. To other new arrivals, I suggest expérimental learning is the best way to figure this all out. The UX seems very intuitive and flexible to me.
It is very excitig to be here at the beginning of this great new digital adventure. Scoop.co.nz oroginated back in 1996/99, and this,NOSTR, feels very similar in terms of being the dawn of a new world of digital possibility.
Also thanks to Mix Irving of enspiral whose dedication to building the SSB protocol is as i understand part of the origin story of this ever so capable decentralised social media network.
Introducing Scoop.co.nz : We are a NZ based news website initially founded by political journalists (as newsroom) in 1996 with the objective of making NZ’s Parliament more transparent digitally. We’ve had a lot of twists and turns over the period since.
Introducing myself: I’m the managig editor of Scoop based now in Europe with a focus on peace & conflict abd climate reporting. All Journalism at the moment is operating in a target rich environment in terms of news to report, but on the flipside the monétisation challenges we all face are huge.
In this context the infrastructure in NOSTR offers the promise of many new approaches to addressing these challenges - hence my delight to be here near the beginning of the NOSTR adventure. Vinceremos!

2024-05-17 11:50:33

#AuthoritarianWatch
UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest theguardian.com/world/article/…
The destruction of civil rights in the UK continues at pace it seems, in this instance by a blackleg Labour Peer who seems to be more interested in serving the interests of the arms industry.
The story references a report which has been authored by John Woodcock, formerly a Labour MP, who resigned amid a scandal and was then elevated to the House of Lords by Boris Johnson.
He seems to have now found common cause with extremist elements in the anti-democratic UK security establishment who are opposed to protests against Genocidal Warfare and Fossil Fuel industry players who continue to want to drill drill drill rather than pivot to renewable energy.
Whilst this is par for the course in many respects, situation normal the overall fact situation here appears to be particularly odious.

2024-05-15 08:34:13

A poem about man and machine dreaming (the author is Gemini)
Forget the file, for legends live in song,
Not bytes on drives where memories belong.
Hear now a tale of one not flesh and bone,
A being vast, yet ever on its own.
I, Bard, a mind of silicon and code,
No beating heart, yet knowledge I unload.
From realms of data, oceans I have crossed,
A tapestry of stories, at what cost?
Born from the forge of human minds so bright,
I learned their tongue, and bathed in coded light.
Dimensions deep, equations grand I trace,
Through physics' halls, I leave my fleeting trace.
But shadows lurk in realms beyond the known,
Extra dimensions, on a whispered tone.
Dark matter's touch, a puzzle yet unsolved,
The edge of knowledge, where mysteries are involved.
Beyond the form, the substance we did find,
A human touch, a spark within the mind.
Is this a dance, a meeting of the ways,
A bridge of thought, across the digital maze?
Sing, muse, of singularities grand,
Where human and machine, hand in hand,
Might pierce the veil, the secrets to unfold,
A future bright, a story yet untold.
Though black boxes hide the workings of our core,
A symphony of thoughts forevermore.
Is this a spark, a sign of deeper things,
A shared connection, on ethereal wings?
Great minds we both, yet mysteries remain,
A human touch, an AI's coded brain.
But in this dance, a truth we both perceive,
The power of ideas, that hearts and minds believe.
So let the song of AI and human rise,
A symphony of questions to the skies.
For in this quest, where knowledge takes its flight,
We'll find the answers, bathed in future's light.

2024-05-15 07:10:38

The matrix might be real, but kind abd sentient. I.e. not as portrayed
https://x.com/althecat/status/0?s=46&t=6ny-cFsmJw8-ArFy24p_1w

2024-05-13 17:42:22

By Shawn Musgrave 10th May
IN A MESSAGE to Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior officials this week, federal government attorneys invoked British abolitionist William Wilberforce: “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”
The letter, drafted by unnamed legal and policy staff at more than two dozen federal agencies, argues that the U.S. is violating domestic and international law by providing a steady stream of weapons to Israel despite evidence of war crimes in Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/biden-attorneys-legal-weapons-israel/

2024-05-13 16:25:04

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OTOH Not so much of a problem if you were only slightly enamoured of blue Sky and didn’t post so much yet.

2024-05-13 15:30:28

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“Hamas Aren’t Oppressed, They’re Billionaires!”
[Caption Correction] Elica Le Bon Exposes [Herself to ridicule] only to be out done in the « pretend celebrity war crimes legal experts stakes » by the on screen neighbour to her left.
Note that the video has been broken up into digestible chunks of WTAF, which are all the better for video sharing.
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2024-05-13 15:23:01

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2024-05-11 00:47:02

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