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• Post #4298092

  #Malaysian pilot arrested in Indonesia with 70,000 Ecstasy pills after drug-fuelled #flight "pilot who tested positive for meth, MDMA, & cocaine after flying a passenger plane to #Indonesia risked the #deathpenalty for allegedly #smuggling more than 70,000 #Ecstasy tablets in his suitcase.. flight# indicated it was a #MalaysiaAirlines plane. “.. at the time of the flight, he was under the influence.. What concerns all of us is that this person’s profession is a #pilot,”"🤦‍♂️ https://w...

• Post #3640696

  #TruthTuesday 👇 This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇

• Post #1111699

  #Film They Don’t Want U to See #filmastodon #mustwatch " #Israel & its supporters don't want (us) to see te bureaucratic machinery tt perpetuates its mass #slaughter, but I suspect, it doesn't want (us) to see te #humanity of #Palestinians who resist.. Despite critical acclaim, Oscar-nom'd director, & Brad Pitt & Joaquin Phoenix behind it, te film faced major difficulties getting an American distributor.. “The Voice of #HindRajab” reminds...

• Post #951131

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116346459548837070 #Football fans, this is at #Pele god-level.👇🏆♀️

• Post #951130

  🧐The myriad problems discussed herein wrt #Singapore folks managing their #private #properties cld be boiled down to 1 underlying cause, if one cld be brutally honest, & tt's #selfishness driven by a lack of social cohesion (or worse, #social #responsibility). Why? It needs more attention fr sociologists.👇 Managing million-dollar sinking funds, costly repairs: Do #condo councils need mandatory training?🤔 "residents may join councils bec they've a personal agenda...

• Post #951129

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116352927748049737 Exactement! 👇💯 #snoopyverse

• Post #926932

  RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116332521472873351 #BernieSanders for #POTUS48 👇 #justdoit

• Post #926931

  Face-saving chance for #tRump to pause te war on #Iran "Iranians hv proven resilience. In 1980-88 war w Iraq, Tehran absorbed te loss of ~500,000 lives. It won't hesitate to do so again.. Trump wld've been better off if some of te key Gulf states joined te war directly. But all of them r aware of te perils of doing so. His frustration over tis evidenced in reportedly bitter language he used at an invt forum mocking Saudi Crown Prince Mohd bin Salman for “kissing his a**”...

• Post #926930

  #LetterOfTheWeek Forum🇸🇬 Don’t let medical progress become a loophole for #insurers "Life #Insurance Assoc'n recently updated its #Critical #Illness Framework to incl modern “keyhole” & endovascular treatments.. a clear admission tt old, highly invasive definitions r medically obsolete. However these updates are not retrospective. Tis creates a 2-tier sys where those who've dutifully paid #premiums for decades r penalised for te v #medical progress tt makes #surge...

• Post #926929

  What to do when the #publicgood of #information goes bad 🧐"given today’s #tech, marginal cost of disseminating info is essentially zero. Yet creating true info isn't free at all.. A tax on big #AI bizs shld be dedicated to supporting te #creative #commons.. we shld be delighted tt jury in California found #Meta & #Google #guilty of “ #negligence” & damaging users. Such bizs hv been shielded against consequences of te damage their indiff'ce inflicts, not l...

• Post #926928

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/116329931879386724 Probably true. 👇 #bananarepublic 🇺🇸

• Post #926927

  RE: https://floss.social/@downey/116337415720027032 #LinkedIn has gotten from bad to worse after becoming "microsofted". #MustShare 👇 P.S. No need (as yet) to delete LI accounts and certainly avoid #Chrome like the plague.

• Post #926926

  For any GP worth their salt, a sales pitch with a #zeroloss #proposition, but not backed up by any bona-fide guarantee to that effect, should always be promptly dismissed. That #privatedebt became a $2.5 trillion (🤦‍♂️!) "asset" class says a lot about the liquidity-driven madness in #global #investment #markets - sad.⚠️ Private debt bumps up against managers’ #competence "The sales pitch that #privatecredit is somehow a zero-loss proposition looks increasingly questionabl...

• Post #926925

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116338104784922147 Even though we don't condone the evils of the theocratic Iranian regime, we respect international law of #sovereignty. It behooves us to recognize this👉: killing innocent civilians has long become just another day at the office ( #Gaza, #Lebanon & #Iran ) for #Netanyahu and his #genocidal goons at #IDF.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ #Israel is no longer NOT a #pariahstate. #JailNetanyahu #StopIDF #stopgenocide

• Post #926924

  #tRump learns that [unlike him] not everyone has a price "Trump's been irreverent abt #Americans captured/maimed in te line of service.. #GOP's made up of once-proud wo/men who #abased themselves to him in ret for #highoffice.. how often Trump's seen pple forfeit their ideals under duress.. If Trump had true believers ar him, might at least gain insight into how foreign govts think. Instead he has likes of #Vance, fmr moderate turned #hardright when it became con...

• Post #926923

  #BangkokPost: SEC bans #auditor after #Stark #scandal "regulator filed a complaint with DSI against Nantawat Sumraunhant, a #capitalmarket auditor affil w #Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Jaiyos Audit Co, citing severe #violations of auditing #standards.. #SEC revoked his capital market auditor licence & imposed a 6-year ban.. Fr a criminal perspective, SEC determined tt Nantawat's actions contributed to enabl'g fraudulent activities & #financialstatement #manip...

• Post #926922

  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/116342727421792519 True 👇 #WarCrimes #IDF #USA #JailNetanyahu #impeachtrump

• Post #926921

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116345092225164255 After going at this internationally #illegal #war for 4+ weeks, there's nothing intelligent about this so-called "intelligence" on #Hormuz. It wld qualify as intelligence if it was recognized BEFORE te reckless attacks, & considered then in conjunction with evidence tt #Iran didn't hv any nuclear weapons of mass destruction (unlike #Israel). #USA has been manipulated by #Netanyahu into commen...

• Post #926920

  Firm backed by #POTUS47 sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran "drone-maker backed by Trump’s 2 oldest sons is trying to sell to #Gulf c'tries while they're under attack by Iran & dependent on #USmilitary led by their father.. Richard Painter, fmr chief #WhiteHouse #ethics lawyer under GW Bush. “Tis is going to be te 1st family of a president to make a lot of money off war – a war he didn’t get consent of Congress for”&quo...

• Post #900366

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Bellingcat/116334425525692509 While US DOD still dallies on the #Minab killings, @Bellingcat has already analyzed further traces of the strike by #US #military using #tomahawk #missile that took far too many innocent #schoolgirls lives.👇 " #Bellingcat also asked the US Department of Defense whether it had any further information on the strike since its reported preliminary findings. It referred us to CENTCOM, which said: “We have nothing for you on this. The i...

• Post #718583

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@joseph11lim/116186575318065677 Bombed #Iranian #girls #school had vivid website & yearslong online presence👇 "Mon, TehranTimes published photos of wat it said were "remnants of #American missile tt struck an elementary school in #Minab” At request of Reuters, H Farid, digital forensics & comp science prof for UofCali Berkeley, analysed te images & found no evidence of manipulation or AI generation. 2 of those missile parts m...

• Post #718582

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116238093667826296 It has been too long overdue to #BreakupBigTech - no country allows dangerously addictive narcotics to #selfregulate (correct?) - so, if you can't effectively regulate them, break them up.👇 #bananarepublic

• Post #718581

  Top #US #counterterrorism official quits over #Iran #war "Joe Kent director NCC wrote..“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation & it's clear tt we started tis war due to pressure fr #Israel & its powerful #American #lobby”.. “As a veteran deployed to combat 11times & a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife in a war manufactured by Israel, I can't support sending te next gen off to fight & die in a war tt serves no benefit.. Kent&a...

• Post #718580

  #Singaporean man who fled to Thailand while on #bail for alleged vice-related offences to be charged ⚠️"“ #Vice #syndicates hv leveraged #tech to facilitate their operations & extended their reach across national borders,” said Senior Assistant #Commissioner Yeo Yee Chuan, covering director of #CID.. adding tt the #Singapore #police will take tough #enforcement actions against such syndicates"✅️ 👆 The #courts need to step up & mete out tougher #deterrent #sentence...

• Post #718579

  #Palantir ⚠️Faces Growing #Backlash in UK Following Mandelson Scandal "Euro c'try tt rejected Palantir was Switzerland.. te Swiss mag tt revealed te #Thiel-chaired gp failures to win Swiss govt contracts, Republik, is sued by Palantir for not giv'g it suff right to reply.. FT: Palantir is grappling “w EU fears over US cos managing sensitive state sys”.. prob for some govts is it may already be too late to turn back te clock.. cos like Palantir . r creat'g new OSs...

• Post #718578

  Viriyah mulls higher #EV premiums "EV #insurance biz registers a combined ratio #loss slightly above 10%, meaning total claims & op'g expenses exceed te #premiums collected. As a result, te co's considering adjusting EV insurance premiums tis yr to better reflect actual #risk levels.. Viriyah plans to adopt a model-by-model pricing strategy, assessing risks based on individual EV brands & models.✅️ Some EV models hv manageable claims perf, while others car...

• Post #718577

  #Cigarette smoking #kills in nefarious ways: 168 #human lives extinguished & 1,987 housing units in eight tower blocks all 👇destroyed.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Deadly #HongKong #fire ‘most likely’ caused by smoking, #public inquiry hears "A clip showing workers #smoking on the rooftop of one #WangFuk Court building on November 26 was played during the hearing, with Dawes pointing out that residents had long complained about the issue to #contractors & #authorities" ⚖️🚭 #tobaccoK...

• Post #718576

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/116254708913303419 Shit people won't own up to their own shit, even when caught red-handed.👇 🤦‍♂️💩👎

• Post #718575

  #Gold shop safety measures expanded "there r 2 major #goldshop #chains tt often ignore #police recommendations on #security measures🧐, & statistics show tt these shops r frequently targeted.. their branches r typically located inside BigC & Lotus's #supermarkets.. on te ground floor near entrances & exits to attract customers.. 1 possible reason these gold shop brands aren't tightening their security measures is tt they rely on #insurance coverage...

• Post #718574

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middle-east-news-oapkqap7z/-/a-Wbcvy9ZbS4WB4QO4VhTSCg%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0 👇 Who gave the orders for these assassinations? Why hasn't the one who ordered the murders been indicted?🤦‍♂️ #JailNetanyahu #StopIDF #killersofchildren #Israel