1/ Wealthy Russians are reportedly being offered the chance to have an hour-long meeting with Elon Musk's father Errol for the generous price of 1.9 million rubles ($25,000). Interested parties are advised to book slots quickly, as he flies out of Moscow tomorrow. ⬇️

2/ Russian warblogger Alex Kartavykh has published an apparent Telegram conversation offering access to Errol Musk, who is said to be organising resettlement opportunities for Afrikaner farmers from South Africa.

3/ The elder Musk has been a fairly regular visitor to Moscow in recent years. He was pictured over the past weekend attending an Easter service in the presence of Vladimir Putin.

https://x.com/runews/status/2043612802699374727

1) Allow me to address and refine a pretty common approach to Trump among MAGA. There is a notion that every move he makes "here" is predetermined to "obscure" some other move he is making "over there." He is brilliant, but that's not how he set it up.

2) When we were in Hollywood looking to sell our film, I met numerous successful directors. One of the things they explained was that anyone who sees success in Hollywood has multiple projects all going at once--rolling rocks up a hill.

3) They expected that some rocks would get stuck, some would roll back down, but that sooner or later they'd get rocks over the top and the projects would roll.

4) That's the way to view Trump's policies now for over a year.

5) In 2017 he fired up the rock rolling machines.

DYSPAREUNIA (PAINFUL S€X)

LETS TALK ABOUT PAINFUL S€X WITHOUT SHAME BECAUSE S€X IS NOT MEANT TO HURT

IT IS MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK.

When Pleasure Hurts: A Woman’s Body Is Speaking, and We Must Listen

There is a story many women carry quietly, and it begins in a bedroom and ends in silence. It is the story of pain where pleasure is expected, and of endurance where joy should live. Dyspareunia is the name medicine gives to painful sex, and yet the experience itself has existed long before we learned to label it. As a gynaecologist, I say this without apology and without whispering: sex is not meant to hurt, and when it does, the body is not being dramatic, it is being honest. According to the guidance of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists(RCOG), painful sex should never be dismissed, because pain is often a message, and messages deserve interpreters, and interpreters deserve time

Sometimes the pain waits at the doorway of the vagina, like a guard refusing entry, and sometimes it hides deep inside the pelvis, like a secret with sharp edges. Superficial pain may come from dryness, from infections, from conditions of the vulva, and from the quiet hormonal changes of menopause or breastfeeding, when oestrogen slips away like a lover who forgot to say goodbye. Deep pain, however, may whisper the names of heavier things: endometriosis, pelvic infections, fibroids, ovarian cysts, or adhesions, and these are not small matters, even when they are spoken of in small voices.

You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical

debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than

North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards.
You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant

A Japanese cardiologist says:

80% of heart attacks start with a single morning mistake, and almost everyone makes it!

Flood 🧵

Banakoma Onako observed this pattern for over 20 years:

Patients who appear healthy on paper:

• Normal weight
• Non-smokers
• No clear genetic risk

Yet still develop:

• Heart attacks in their 40s–50s
• Sudden onset
• Normal imaging the year prior
• No clear warning signs

The usual factors were investigated:

• Stress
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Genetics

None fully explained the pattern.

Then a simpler variable stood out.., how they wake up in the morning.

All of them were doing the same thing:

How much vending machines pay you:

1 machine = ~$800/month
5 machines = ~$4,000/month
10 machines = ~$8,000/month
20 machines = ~$16,000/month

I own 85 machines that generated $124,364 in revenue last month.

Here's exactly how:

Most people think vending is just about placing machines and collecting cash.

It’s not.

What really makes you successful is solving a problem businesses already have.

AKA, employees getting hungry during shifts with nowhere convenient to buy food.

But here's the part nobody talks about:

Once you nail the first few machines?

Scaling is just copy-paste.

• Same pitch
• Same systems
• Same installation

In 1841, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay detailed how entire nations lose their minds at the same time.

From financial manias to holy wars and everything in between.

His conclusion? Men think in herds. They go mad in herds.

They recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

You think you're too smart to fall for a scam? You aren't. (thread) 🧵

Mackay studied the madness across centuries and cultures. The same mechanism repeated every time.

A nation fixates on one object. Gold. Tulips. Land. Crusade. Witch trials.

Millions become simultaneously impressed with a single delusion and chase it until something shinier comes along.

What does the cycle look like?

The pattern has four stages:

1. A plausible story emerges. Just credible enough to hook the ambitious.

2. Early winners appear. Their success silences the skeptics.

3. The entire population joins. Nobles, merchants, servants, clergy. Nobody wants to be left behind.

4. The floor disappears. Those who got in last are ruined. The few who got out early hide their wealth from their neighbors.

What made these manias so devastating? 👇

With the president of the United States now thinking of himself as Jesus, I figured I’d tell you about the very Trump like Chinese peasant who, after having dreamt one night that he was the younger brother of Jesus, started arguably the bloodiest civil war in human history. 🧵

Born in 1814 in an impoverished Chinese village, the sound of mind Hong Xiuquan would misguide his family into pouring all their meager savings into his education, in hopes of him dragging them out of poverty by passing the infamously difficult Chinese Civil Service Exams.

Having spent his entire childhood and teenage years preparing for it, he managed to completely fail the exam three times in a row, more or less bankrupting himself and his entire extended family in the process, which led him to have a rather understandable mental breakdown.

MORE | A sanctions-focused analyst reported on April 13 that Iran’s onshore oil storage capacity is 13 days, after which Iran would have to shut down its oil fields, potentially causing long-term damage to the oil fields.

Iran’s limited storage capacity highlights the difficult position the US blockade has put Iran in.

https://x.com/criticalthreats/status/2044222835296440388

2/ Iran appears to have three other courses of action that it could take to respond to the US blockade on Iranian ports.

3/ It is unclear which course of action Iran will pursue at this time. The courses of action include:

1. Iran could agree to a deal acceptable to the United States, which would likely require Iran to make concessions on its nuclear program and other issues.
2. Iran could attempt to run the blockade, a move that would almost certainly result in a US response and possibly the seizure of Iranian vessels central to Iran's oil trade.
3. Iran could restart or widen the conflict, although it is unclear whether a resumption of the conflict would necessarily end the US blockade on Iranian ports.

Alan Watts spent 30 years studying human consciousness.

His most powerful insight?

Nearly everyone is trapped in 2 mental illusions that silently drain happiness, purpose, and energy.

Here's how to identify them (and how to permanently break free):

Meet Alan Watts.

A philosopher who dedicated his life to understanding why humans suffer.

For 3 decades, he studied Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, and human consciousness.

What he found challenges everything we believe about ourselves ↓

Watts identified 2 fundamental illusions that control your life:

1) The Separate Self
2) The Pursuit of External Happiness

These illusions drive your career choices, relationships, spending habits, and chronic dissatisfaction.

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To push the frontier of AI Research, we need systems that scale well. Developing AIRA₂, we learned a lot about the bottlenecks and what it takes to resolve them — insights already driving our next iteration:

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First, sample throughput heavily constrains the agent. We develop infra that moves AIRA₂ from sequential execution to asynchronous parallel exploration, enabling throughput to scale linearly with GPU resources.

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Most people are unknowingly destroying their ability to focus every single day.

Human attention spans have dropped by over 30% in the last decade due to "modern habits."

Here are 8 silent killers that are draining your dopamine and wrecking your focus (& how to fix them):

1. Checking Your Phone First Thing

Your phone floods your brain with dopamine before you've done anything.

This trains your brain to crave stimulation — deep work feels impossible by 9am.

Keep your phone out of the bedroom. Don't touch it until your first work block is done.

2. Infinite Scroll

TikTok, Instagram, and X are built like slot machines — every scroll is a pull of the lever.

Each hit lowers your dopamine baseline, making real work feel increasingly unbearable.

Delete the apps. Use grayscale mode. Make opening them feel like friction.