🇺🇸 The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as FBI Director

🇮🇱🇦🇲 After imposing crippling taxes, Israel has ordered the seizure of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem and its historic properties, which have been under Christian control for centuries.

The move has been repudiated by Christian leaders across Jerusalem and Jerusalem’s Armenian Patriarch has sent a letter of protest to PM Netanyahu.

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🇧🇪 Dries van Langenhove on X:

The dangers of A.I. are abstract for many people, but for me, they are very real.

In two weeks, I face years in prison because the government used an A.I. tool on a groupchat I was allegedly a member of and which was literally called "shitposting".

Their A.I. tool gave every message a 'toxicity score' and concluded most of the messages were toxic.

One of my alleged messages was "Some cultures are inferior, backwards cultures that still practice Female Genital Mutilation, for example". This message got a 100/100 toxicity score and 100/100 for sexism and 100/100 for racism. Yes, this was considered sexist by the A.I. (a punishable offence in Belgium)

Almost all of the messages the A.I. bot concluded to be 'toxic', are completely wrong. Every sentence that included "an African" was deemed racist, for example. Every sentence with "leftist tears" got 100/100 toxicity.

I (allegedly) quoted a black journalist who said something racist, but the A.I. bot does not understand this and attributed the quote to me, adding to the 'total toxicity score' that got me 1 year in jail and a 16.000 EUR fine.

There is no serious way to defend yourself against this, as the Public Prosecutor will use the 'Total Toxicity Score' as his 'evidence', instead of going over all the supposedly toxic quotes.

The Public Prosecutor's definition of 'shitposts' is also crazy: "Shitposts are deliberately insulting messages ment to provocate".

My appeal is next week.

https://x.com/DVanLangenhove/status/1892293193972273305

🇨🇩 M23 is attempting to flank Congolese positions after the Congolese army launched limited counterattacks south of the district capital, Lubero, in the eastern DRC.

🔺Congolese army (FARDC) troops clashed with pro-DRC militia fighters in Uvira town in South Kivu as FARDC troops fled to Burundi and further south on Lake Tanganyika.

🔺M23 captured a village in the Walikale district in western North Kivu province that is located near Pinga, a gateway town to Maniema and Tshopo provinces.

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