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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
“I have totally defeated you and also transferred $300 billion dollars into your bank account”
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Paying Tribute to the 168 school girls murdered by Donald Trump
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This is a fake AI generated image. x.com/i/status/20668…
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RT @dannyoh337: Been a crazy few weeks but glad to get my side out to the masses💜
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.“
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What a sorry state of affairs in Northern Ireland. For me, it’s the result of successive British governments pandering to the overt bigotry of the so-called ‘Loyalist’ community.
Stormont's Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said the violence that erupted last week was a "stain on Northern Ireland's reputation, locally, nationally and internationally". bbc.in/49VrCQS
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Fascinated by those who think the triple lock is the only thing holding Ireland back from being an aggressive military power engaged in constant military adventurism and invasions.
NONSENSE ARTICLE 25 nations participated in Operation Sophia. ONLY 🇮🇪had a Triple Lock which was completely irrelevant after deployment ⚠️Article ends with wild suggestion 🇮🇪Troops start killing people in future “hostile” missions without Triple Lock 🙄 irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
This is shocking disgrace to serving members of @defenceforces @DubCityCouncil & @TasteDublin @FailFine @FineFail @FineGael @sinnfeinireland @LabourDunL Sort this out!!!!
Replying to @DubCityCouncil
@DubCityCouncil & @TasteDublin You are aware this is, National Memorial to Members of the Defence Forces who died in the Service of the State? First image is how it should be, & second image today Corporate VIP suite! Ticket Sales! Refuse collection! Lack of #Respect ☘️🇮🇪☘️
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Tras más de 16 meses secuestrado y torturado por "Israel", el médico palestino Hussam Abu Safiya, director del hospital Kamal Adwan en Gaza, apareció con vida en una imagen siendo "juzgado" por el apartheid sionista. Hussam fue secuestrado por "Israel", que le mató además a su hijo, en venganza por salvar vidas palestinas en su hospital y no abandonar a sus pacientes, fue metido en una celda de aislamiento de dos metros sin comida, agua, medicinas ni acceso a su abogado... desde diciembre de 2024.
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States: “If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
🇦🇱🇮🇱 Albanian fans pelted Israeli players with trash and curses during the recent International "Friendly" match. Tensions over the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon and the Kushner land grab are rapidly growing.
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
I’ve been investigating the russian refinery for days now and the story gets darker and darker. The shipments are sent to Siberia, smelted, and sold to the russian company ‘ASK’. This company distributes aluminium directly to Russia’s missile & drone manufacturers.
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
"We will constructively advance the security and defence agenda at EU level during the presidency..." I really wish she would advance the security and defence agenda at the national level. 🙄 irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries. The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath: This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR. The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives. AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors. The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now. But the real story is how this happened... On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France. Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government. Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building. It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today. Then Trump accelerated the divorce. January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage. The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset. Europe heard every word of it. On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state. And the response came fast: April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history. Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux. Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law. - Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance - SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure - McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030 None of that money is going to Silicon Valley. The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it. Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law. And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...
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The Cloud and AI Development Act is a legislative proposal—not law—that introduces sovereignty assessments and procurement preferences favoring EU providers but does not ban American AI or cloud services. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cl… ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
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We’re being f*cked by the mega-rich.

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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
May 26
BREAKING: Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages. This is not a battlefield target. It is a critical water infrastructure. This is an act of genocide.
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Italian PM Meloni: If you do not know how to defend yourself, if you ask someone else to guarantee your security, you will pay for it in terms of autonomy, sovereignty, and the ability to defend your national interests. Defense spending is the price of freedom, and I want Italy to be a free nation.
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
May 24
Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI. The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace. They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up: Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it. Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived. Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead. The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much. Uber's story is even worse... Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April. Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems. Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session. The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money. Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans. Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative. Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing: AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs. The stock market rewarded every company that said it. Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up. But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools. Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible. Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone. And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control. The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP. This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in. $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work. What do you think?
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
huffpost.com/entry/released-… “At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app. “While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”
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Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 retweeted
Marco, mate. Europe and Canada aren’t spending trillions over the next decade because you asked nicely. They’re spending it so they can hand you your coat, point at the door, and build something that doesn’t depend on whether Washington is having a good Tuesday. That’s not burden-sharing. That’s a divorce settlement.
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