1/ Russian soldiers in Ukraine are unhappy that army health and safety inspectors have ordered them to tear down their camouflage nets because they are too flammable. They've been told to put up bright red fire safety equipment instead. ⬇️

2/ 'Unofficial Bezsonov' complains:

"A commission from Moscow visited some of our units' temporary deployment locations. They ordered us to remove camouflage nets, as they violate fire safety regulations, and to hang up red signs like these."

3/ "Friends, these are frontline zones where our soldiers are trying to deploy secretly.

The war is five years old, but the number of differently-talented people serving on these commissions hasn't decreased.

I'm a very visual person. when I was first getting into ML, I'd try to draw out every concept on pen and paper.

back then I couldn't vibe-code a visualization. but now you can!

here are my favorite ML visualizations I've been saving for a while. take them as inspo for the next complex topic you want to visualize 🧵

1/ Transformer Explainer

amazing visualization among many cool visualizations by @alec_helbling

here, you can explore what QKV is, go through all the attention heads, and understand how a transformer actually comes up with the next word

https://x.com/alec_helbling/status/1988246477508845732

2/ every modern attention variant

Sebastian Raschka @rasbt diagrammed all the state-of-the-art architectures side-by-side

if you’ve ever wondered, “what does DeepSeek’s or Kimi’s attention actually look like?” this is the best reference

https://x.com/rasbt/status/2033167146302210058?s=20

🧵1.Forget Cenk & Piker THIS will might be the most controversial post of the day: I’ve just been accused of being a “racist white woman” after me and a white guy very politely asked a young black woman, sitting directly behind us, on a @TfL bus, to please take her very loud conversation off speaker phone. TO BE CLEAR: Fake claims of racism to cover-up anti-social behaviour do not fly with me.

🧵2. Every time a PoC makes a fake claim of racism they irrevocably harm the cause of fighting ACTUAL racism. The man & I stayed calm; she didn’t. After a long, loud rant she called her friend back without the using the speaker phone and was able to communicate with him perfectly well.

🧵3. Over and over again she shouted at us, “I’ve paid my 1.75” I can do what I want. Shut up. Shut your face!”. This sort of poor behaviour is now commonplace in our shared spaces and it’s poisonous to social cohesion. @TfL when will you start putting up signs asking people not to do this.

🧵 How to Make a Leaders List & Why It Matters

1/
Whenever the market is trying to change its structure — if you’ve followed my 5SMA thread you’ll know exactly when this transition happens — that’s the precise time to start forming your leaders list.

Two things to filter on 👇

https://twitter.com/rj_lonewolf/status/2060808170461917325

2/
Filter 1 — Weekly Location

Even a high RS stock needs to be in the right spot on the weekly chart.locations to look for 👇

•Near pivot inside the base — consolidating,
• Outside the base — just broken out, still in play
• Flag

Personal favourites are OTB & Flag

3/
Filter 2— High Relative Strength (RS)

Stocks holding up or making new highs while the market is still weak.

This tells you institutions are already accumulating. These names will lead when the upswing begins.

American Hedge Fund billionaire Bill Ackman is a learning machine.

"You can learn investing by reading books."

Here are his 9 favorite investing books everyone should read:

1. Security Analysis

This book is a valuation masterclass.

"The stock market is a voting machine in the short run and a weighing machine in the long run."

2. Quality of Earnings

This book shows the importance of examining a company's financial statements and earnings to determine their true quality and reliability

ONE CHEMICAL IN YOUR WATER IS TURNING MALE FROGS INTO FEMALES—AND IT’S DOING THE SAME TO OUR BOYS. The EPA says it’s “safe.” Europe banned it 20 years ago.

ATRAZINE—85 million pounds sprayed yearly on U.S. corn—is in your tap water right now at levels PROVEN to wreck human hormones.

Science doesn’t lie:

Here are Atrazine’s Proven Harms – Straight from the Studies:

- Chemical Castration: Turns male frogs into fertile females at 0.1 ppb; complete sex reversal & hermaphroditism (Hayes et al., PNAS 2002, 2010)
- Crushes Male Fertility: Up to 50% lower sperm count, tiny testicles, infertility in men & animals (Swan et al., 2003; Fan et al., 2011)
- Cancer Trigger: Probable human carcinogen—prostate, breast, ovarian, lymphoma, leukemia (IARC 2024; Pathak et al., 2022)
- Birth Defects: Preterm birth, low birth weight, genital deformities, brain defects (Waller et al., 2010; Agopian et al., 2013)
- Hormone Chaos: Mimics estrogen, tanks testosterone → delayed puberty & “chemical castration” (Cooper et al., 2000)
- Brain Damage: Parkinson’s, cognitive decline, anxiety in farmworkers (multiple studies EPA buried)
- Obesity & Diabetes: Prenatal exposure = adult obesity & insulin resistance (Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020)

Europe: 0 ppb allowed.
USA: Up to 3 ppb “safe.”

Your son’s future masculinity is collateral damage for cheap corn.

Filter your water. Buy organic. Demand a ban.

Tag someone who drinks tap water. They need to see this.

All cited research linked in replies below...

Research Sources on Atrazine: Chemical Emasculation / Full Gender Switch: - Hayes et al. (2002): Hermaphroditic, demasculinized frogs after exposure to atrazine at low ecologically relevant doses.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🧵TODAY Hamas admitted that Abdullah Breis was a commander posing as a “journalist”— it is no longer “Israel says so” evidence. Over 60% of "journalists" killed in Gaza are outed as combatants, more every week. A systematic human shield strategy. NINE recent examples below: 1/

May 22: Maysara Ahmed Salah was a Qassam commander posing as a “journalist.” He was identified long before, but now Hamas openly admits it. 2/

May 20: Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Ali was outed as a PIJ commander posing as a journalist, one of 5 claimed "journalists" killed that day. This was a widely covered IDF attack that fueled claims that Israel not only killed journalists, but targeted them. That narrative has collapsed. 3/

Red state pension funds tend to vote with management if management is providing good returns (ie, doing their job); blue state pension funds tend to vote with management if the company does leftist things (ie, ESG, or not paying CEOs very much).

This reflects a general difference in attitude towards institutions; rightists prefer institutions do what they were created for (eg police should fight crime, the military should fight wars, companies should make money doing their business, schools should teach)...

...while left-wingers want every institution to have pushing the Party Line as its #1 priority (extremely totalitarian in that regard). The formers produces a better society, the latter is more politically powerful but destroys everything in the long run.

Super El Nino increasingly becoming a reality in 2026, it is often coincide with flooding rain in Chennai. My personal opinion, Chennai already went beyond feasible natural flood mitigation solution, Chennai need a engineered solution to mitigate heavy flood impact. 1/3

The worst case flood scenario for Chennai is when these events happen at once
1. Soil saturated & upstream lakes filled due to previous rainfall
2. A strong/moist weather system hitting Chennai, that keep sea tide high, this stormy sea doesnot allow river to drain the water 2/3

3. Extremely heavy widespread rain blasting chennai, Ranipet, Kanchipuram, and Chengalpattu districts with multiple places reporting 200+mm rainfall, most places reporting 100+mm, few places reporting 300+mm. Lakes opening, All these water need to drain through Chennai city 3/5

🇩🇪⚖️ Germany Employment Law Discussion
H-1B is the U.S. equivalent = EU Blue Card

Let's assume, an Indian in Germany not speaking well in German language while facing the Client and he was terminated. So, in practical terms, he lost the job. He is finding a reason to confront it with his former employer in court as per this screenshot from @macroschema
He is more worried about bringing his spouse (Indians call generally spouse as wife) from India. Loss job is not deportation automatically. Until the court rules or the parties settle, nobody can say with certainty that he legally lost his job.

Interesting case for anyone following:
• EU Blue Card workers
• Employment rights in Germany
• Probation-period terminations
• Digital signatures vs legal written form
As always, allegations and legal claims should be independently verified, and courts—not social media—determine the outcome.
#Germany #BlueCard #EmploymentLaw #TechJobs #Immigration

Legally: Not necessarily.
Practically: Yes, for now.
Employment status according to the company: Yes, he lost the job.
Employment status according to his legal claim: Maybe not. The court will decide.

The EU Blue Card is Europe's version of a highly skilled worker visa, somewhat similar to the U.S. H-1B visa, but generally with fewer restrictions.

Permanent Residency
In Germany, many Blue Card holders can qualify for permanent residence after:
About 21 months with strong German language skills, or
About 27 months with basic German language skills.

A software engineer on an EU Blue Card claims his employer terminated him via Adobe Sign during probation and stopped salary payments.

If true, German Civil Code (§623 BGB) generally requires employment terminations to be in written paper form with a handwritten signature. Electronic termination notices are typically not valid.

The employee says he challenged the termination in labor court and believes he remains employed until a legally valid notice is served.

Germany has more benefits than to H-1B of USA hence Indians' second destination is EU if USA visa is refused/rejected/denied

I picked up this parallel to IDE CD-ROM thing off of the free table at VCFSW. I got it to work!! Let's talk about it in a quick 🧵

So, first of all, the drive in it is completely toast. Let's swap it out for another IDE drive. Ahh, that's better!

So, let's identify this. First, looks like at least one is available for sale on FleaBay. This looks to be a H45 Technology QuickCD 24x. Can we find drivers for it? I did grab a picture of the controller board in case we needed it.

We take for granted that larger models are better than smaller ones, but why is this so? Our new paper, led by Jing Huang and @EkdeepL, traces this to a data-induced competition for resources (neurons), using formal analysis, idealized tasks, and real pretraining.

Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.29548

We first observe that scaling laws already predict that smaller models will fail to learn data mixtures that larger models do learn, even with infinite training data: