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News outlets have been reporting on how the Terrorgram, O9A, 764, and murder loving European fascist groups have been organizing on Telegram (it's in the name!) for years.

Discord at least attempts to do some moderation about this.

Telegram's strategy to deal with violent extremist groups on its platform is to not ban them but just make it hard to discover. But this doesn't stop someone already in the groups from inviting their buddies. I bet they actually prefer it this way.

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

tightly integrated with Twitter

Not sure that is a good thing.

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

He seems to spend most of his free time trying to incite a race war in the UK with his twitter posts.

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

More like I think Musk's proclaimed ambition

are you talking about making the Moon and Mars livable?

They have unused capacity in their Tennessee datacenter. We don't know everything but the backend of Grok probably runs in the TN datacenter. Grok is not as popular as hoped, so the TN datacenter has unused capacity.

There are other companies besides Google and Anthropic that are considering renting capacity in xaispacex's datacenters.

Global capacity for GPU hosting is tight at the moment. That TN DC is the only one not totally 110 percent already allocated for five years in the world .

If you're responding to me, no I'm not.

US intelligence agencies continue to state Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. They just don't.

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-202...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/israel-iran-nuclear-...

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-built-its-case-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/politics/iran-nuclear-...

They definitely have a 'nuclear program'. They have a 'nuclear program' to generate energy. They are a country on this earth and have the right to do this.

Just because we play rhetorical tricks and try to equate "nuclear program" with "nuclear weapons program" does not make it true.

The CIA (lets for now ignore the alleged Director of the CIA) has for years been saying Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Iran has been saying for years it does not have a nuclear weapons program. Every country has the right to pursue a civilian nuclear energy program.

It is difficult to extract the real purpose of most things about this war, if you're in the US, since almost every single part of it seems against the US' interests and public face.

You're probably technically correct and that the US didn't intentionally look in Google Maps for an elementary school and decided to destroy it. But did we really need to Double Tap it?

Timothy Snyder has an opinion about this: https://x.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/2040883546093436941?s=20

I'm not quite there yet.