🇱🇧🌐 • substack/bsky: samkaram555 retiring tweeter, occasional lurker Likes/RTs/Follows are not endorsements

Joined May 2009
Hes having a crackin season this lad
Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas
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what happens when you pay attention when the world has been robbed of its ability to focus
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It's been fun but I think I should move to Substack. Might still lurk
For You "Elon Saved Free Speech" White Knight Assholes: Read the New Terms of Service Released Today X just updated their Terms of Service effective January 15, 2026. Here's what you agreed to: AI TRAINING RIGHTS GRAB: Everything you post becomes training data for their AI models. Every thought, opinion, creative work. You're building their models for free. No compensation. No opt out. PERPETUAL CONTENT LICENSE: They get a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute your content "for any purpose" in "any media now known or later developed." Forever. They can sell it. Give it to governments. Anything. FORCED JURISDICTION: All disputes must be filed in Tarrant County, Texas. You waive the right to join class actions. If they wrong millions of users, you sue alone in THEIR court. ARBITRARY TERMINATION: They can delete your account "for any other reason or no reason at our convenience." Years of content, connections, reputation. Gone. Zero due process. $15,000 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: Access more than 1 million posts in 24 hours and you owe $15,000. Per million. Journalists and researchers investigating the platform face financial ruin. GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE: They reserve the right to hand your DMs, drafts, and entire history to governments based on what they "reasonably believe" is necessary. ANTI-JAILBREAK CLAUSE: Testing their AI systems, exposing censorship mechanisms, or security research is now explicitly a Terms violation. They added "prompt engineering or injection" to prohibited conduct. ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS: Discover they harmed you after 366 days? You "forever waive the right" to pursue any claim. MAXIMUM LIABILITY $100: They destroy your business, reputation, or life through negligence? Maximum recovery: one hundred dollars. Free speech platform. Sure.
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There is a huge David Graeber shaped hole in the world, ever since he passed away. A great scholar we need now more than ever.
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A brilliant piece by my friend and former colleague Michael Karam about his family, built around the family home in Zabbougha. A true Levantine story, stretching across continents and cultures, all ending up in a hole in Mount Lebanon, and peace. newlinesmag.com/first-person…
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I am testing out the agent mode in the openAI Atlas browser and I can tell you for sure we’re in a bubble
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We’re perfectly set up for the most insane year to date. The American house of cards falling with a World Cup on the horizon. This is why I’m back on this shitty app.
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This dumbass ex-founder is gaslighting a community of intelligent people passionate about the truth, by saying "lots of israelis and US govt departments" denied the genocide so we cant say its a genocide. Incredible.
Replying to @Symmetrial @DanFmTo
Are you actually expressing some ignorance or disbelief? Lots of Israelis U.S. government departments Many many Americans and Europeans Many scholars There are even more people who have not made up their mind, even if they are well apprised of what has been going on in the region.
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I am saddened to learn that Jimmy Wales is in fact a Zionist and i hope the community blocks any implementation of an agenda
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If only the Wikipedia editing community had the Epstein Files which are apparently being redacted in Winchester, Virginia for the interest of national security. Instead we have the Trump editing community. The former have never been salaried, & do it for the love of the game.
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In a world of blatant mistrust, I trust people like Hank Green, Jimmy Wales, and the diligently ethical members of the Wikipedia editing community. youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0ogvP…
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Human attention is a scarce commodity, some people debase themselves just to seek it
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sam karam retweeted
a short video on Autechre's DJ sets, and 3 of my favorites to get started
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You know I'll be forever spicy but I'm taking a break from being a spice to answer the question of what happens when a B-list rapper runs for office. Come through @ZohranKMamdani if you want answers.
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Good morning, still can’t believe Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016
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A good man, honeypot-proof! If they can’t assassinate his character, they’ll get a right wing nut to shoot him. Protect him at all costs, and multiply the amount of Zohrans fighting cronyism
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