Remember that @AWCanada inside of St. Vital Center that got shut down by Manitoba Health? Predictably, that ended up lasting just that weekend and part of the Monday after. Beyond then, no evidence remained. If you'll allow me the time, let's talk about how that's problematic.

https://twitter.com/ConnorsCompShow/status/1979964181961994247

Many major municipalities elsewhere within North America such as New York, and LA County, mandate that restaurants put up some type of grade in a prominent position. New York uses a letter grading system, as does LA County.

In Toronto, they have a three tier grading system with their DineSafe program: pass, conditional pass, or fail/closed. Over in Britain, they have a six tier grading system (more on that in a bit). Manitoba however, has nothing publicly facing of the sort that comes close.

@Lucyna1701 @Kate19826 1).
„La Maritza” [1] by Jean Renard [2] and Pierre Delanoë (1918–2006) [3], sung by Sylvie Vartan (1968) [4] [5] in the arrangement by the band Therion [6] [7] [8] from the 2012 album „Les Fleurs du Mal” [9]. Singing by Lori Lewis [10] [11].

[1] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maritz…

@Lucyna1701 @Kate19826 2).
[2] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rena…

[3] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_De…

[4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Va…

[5] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Va…

[6] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therion_(…

[7] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therion

[8] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therion

[9] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleur…

[10] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Lewis

@Lucyna1701 @Kate19826 3).
[11]

The Solar Temple was a UFO cult founded by ex-AMORC members & Gladio intel operatives. It drew on Aleister Crowley & Theosophy, embraced apocalyptic Sirius beliefs & financed itself via gun-running & CIA money laundering via BCCI before carrying out ritual mass murdɘrs/sui©idɘs.

The Solar Temple was backed by Prince Rainier III of Monaco, with Princess Grace Kelly as High Priestess until her 1982 car accident after threatening to expose the group. Two weeks earlier, Italian papers named Rainier chairman of the P2 Masonic lodge.

https://x.com/toxictiramisu/status/2012723730397491303

Source: Ordo ab Chao - Volume Four: Mind Control by David Livingstone

https://x.com/toxictiramisu/status/2016712861892984848

It's both a poignant and invigorating hike up to the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson above his home in Vailima outside of Apia, Samoa. You can choose a short (30-45 mins up) but quite steep trail or a longer (1 hour+ up) more gradual trail.

The trail is well-marked, and it was carved lovingly through the rainforest by the Samoans who admired and adored 'Tusitala', the tale-teller. The frail genius died in Samoa in 1894 at the age of 44. I cover his life and works in my 'South Pacific Stories' lecture series.

The great writer, traveler, and adventurer wrote his own moving epitaph:

Hope not Hate claims to be a charity “challenging all kinds of extremism”.

But did you know that they also have a political wing?

I have been looking into their records at Companies House. Here’s what I discovered:🧵

The Hope not Hate Charitable Trust’s income in 2024 was £984,868.

But they have been accused of “recycling” money back into Hope not Hate Limited, a private campaigning company.

Instead of going to charity, huge amounts of cash are being used to fund political projects.

One of Hope not Hate Ltd’s directors is Alison Philips.

She also happens to be the current CEO of Labour Together, the disgraced pressure group of Morgan McSweeney fame.

Labour Together were recently revealed to have spied on journalists investigating McSweeney’s corruption.

Re: ICE mobilized to US airports

I’ve been discussing (since 2021) how the US will eventually close borders “from the inside” and restrict people from leaving this country. Allowing ICE to patrol borders (international airports are borders) is a step towards that goal. 1/5

Right now, the regime claims they only stationed ICE at international borders (airports) to “assist TSA.” This will become permanent when they start calling ICE “border agents” with duties that include searching travelers without a warrant (SCOTUS 2022 ruling allows this). 2/5

https://twitter.com/cristianafarias/status/1534539839529525251

When ICE officers at international airports become “border agents,” they not only can determine who legally enters the US, they can also question/search someone leaving the US, determine they’re traveling illegally, and detain the traveler, thus keeping them inside the US. 3/5

Paul O'Kane's comments have sent me back to the website of the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on LGBTI+.

🧵of indeterminate length...

parliament.scot/get-involved/c… x.com/LucyHunterB/st…

Here's some general information about cross-party groups (CPGs for short)

parliament.scot/get-involved/c…

Here's the remit of the CPG. Having such a CPG

🚨 Do you understand what just happened..

five minutes before Trump announced he's halting attacks on Iran.. someone bought $1.5 billion in S&P 500 futures and sold $192 million in oil..

five minutes.. not five days.. not five hours.. five minutes..

the trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else hitting the market at that time..

someone knew the exact words the President was going to say before he said them.. and turned that information into the biggest single trade of the day..

they tell you the stock market is a "free and fair market".. that "anyone can build wealth".. that "the system works for everyone"..

the system worked for someone today.. five minutes before you even knew what happened.. they already got paid..

this isn't insider trading anymore.. insider trading implies they're hiding it.. this is broad daylight.

https://x.com/TukiFromKL/status/2036145087894438153

🚨 If you’re seeing this, follow me and turn on my post notifications.
I unapologetically break down what's really happening before the headlines catch up.

Things are only going to get more interesting from here.

Thank you Markham and Houston Energy Economist @edhirs for a fresh analysis this morning on the chaos from Trump knowing how to Start a War, but not End a War.

Oil, LNG and fertilizer I knew, but apparently aluminum now too.

I’ve read elsewhere about pharmaceutical feedstock…

https://twitter.com/politicalham/status/2036134318750441928

You two have a nice combination of academic rigor but also straight talk.

Here’s the post I saw on pharmaceutical feedstock, using acetaminophen example. I believe Atabay in Turkey uses slightly different process. Bad importer for Canada, tho’.

@LukesDrugMart @TheBreakdownAB

https://twitter.com/shanaka86/status/2035207475860054303

@LukesDrugMart @TheBreakdownAB On @NewsHour 4 March, US Sen Katie Britt "explained" why MAGA voted down debate on war, claiming Trump had it under control.

But plan is vague, only considered offence, not Iran's pushback, creeped in interview "days" ➡️ "weeks".

@edhirs @politicalham
pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Once again, my opponent has chosen the “the law doesn’t require me to do so” excuse. Satellite polling locations will not allow yard sign displays during early voting. This is how freedom erodes… slowly.

See comments for the full story!

First, they said “Let’s do early voting! It will be exactly the same as Election Day. There’s nothing to worry about!”.

Then, they say, “No, we don’t have to allow poll watchers and challengers during early voting, because the law doesn’t require us to do so.”

Now 40% +/- of the ballots are cast without either political party being able to watch or challenge the process. This is NOT what integrity looks like. This is NOT transparency.

Update: DeepSeek-V3 running at 1.4 tok/s on my MacBook Pro.

671 billion parameters.
355 GB of weights.
One M4 Max, no cloud.

Here's some of the system...

I built a bash script that runs Claude Opus in headless mode. (sound familiar?)

Each iteration:

Read the codebase + 43 research docs.
Pick one experiment.
Implement it.
Benchmark 3 times.
Commit or revert.
Write findings for the next agent.

It ran 40+ experiments while I slept.

5 wins from 40 experiments.

Same pattern every time - overlap work on different hardware:

Pipeline f16 behind MLA (+14%)
SSD reads behind shared FFN (+34%)
Defer conversion to GPU phase (+6.6%)
Cache dense layers in RAM (+15.9%)
Batch attention via sgemm (+6.1%)

1. It's been two nights since I watched #Dhurandhar2‌.Unlike the last time when I shared my reactions on #Dhurandhar almost immediately after watching the movie,I couldn't get myself to do the same for #Dhurandhar2‌ because there was a lot to unpack. I will attempt to do so now.

2.Whether it's a book or a movie,I think they tell us a lot about how the creator sees the world,or at least how he or she wants us to see it,& the impact or reaction their work is intended to create or elicit. In that sense, #Dhurandhar & #Dhurandhar2‌ are markedly different.

3. The way I see it, @AdityaDharFilms wanted to pack the Navarasas as judiciously as he could within the bounds of the story and the script he had in mind for both the movies. From Shringara to Shanta, each of the Navarasas has its place and treatment in his vision.