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1/ The Russian government is a "great hypnotoad" that is trying to distract the population from the fact that things are bad and about to get worse, says Russian warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova. She complains that the government is attempting to "zombify people". ⬇️
2/ A common complaint among Russian warbloggers in recent months has been that the Russian government frequently but ineptly tries to play down the deteriorating situation with the Ukraine war, through so-called "anti-crisis" propaganda or simply not mentioning Ukrainian attacks.
3/ They point out that this is highly ineffective and erodes trust in the government, as anyone with an Internet connection can see – even on Russian pro-war Telegram channels – that things are not going well.
I met a girl online the other day, I told her she looked like a girl who’s never sold jeans before
She’s said you’re right. How did you know that? I told her I can just tell. I told her actually have some good jeans, and I’d be willing to give them to her for free.
She was so excited and said yes. She asked how I would deliver them to her. I said it’s a bit old fashioned. In person if that’s ok. She said that’s great and she couldn’t wait to get them.
🚨🧵 MAJOR BREAKING: German government has been grooming DSA leaders for over a decade, and nobody noticed? 🇩🇪
Last night, Darializa Avila Chevalier — endorsed by NYC-DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) — beat a five-term incumbent to win New York's 13th congressional district.
@AsraNomani has been reporting on their ties to Cuba and the China/Singham network. But what’s not known is DSA’s deep ties to the German government.
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) is the political foundation of Die Linke — the German parliamentary party formed from the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism, itself the legal successor to East Germany's ruling Marxist party, the SED.
Under German law, every party in the Bundestag gets a taxpayer-funded foundation. Die Linke's share is approximately EUR70MM annually.
Most German party foundations sponsor conferences, publish research, and fund exchange programs. What RLS-NYC did was put its own staff inside DSA's organizational leadership — concurrently — for over a decade.
In 2012, RLS opened a New York office. EIN 45-3658022. Their own annual report states: "With the help of funds from the BMZ and the Foreign Office, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung maintains a network of international relationships. This includes financing its foreign offices."
Over the last 13 years, Berlin has sent millions to this office.
Despite these ties, no FARA registration for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung was identified in the Department of Justice database.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇
Last night, Darializa Avila Chevalier — endorsed by NYC-DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) — beat a five-term incumbent to win New York's 13th congressional district.
@AsraNomani has been reporting on their ties to Cuba and the China/Singham network. But what’s not known is DSA’s deep ties to the German government.
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) is the political foundation of Die Linke — the German parliamentary party formed from the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism, itself the legal successor to East Germany's ruling Marxist party, the SED.
Under German law, every party in the Bundestag gets a taxpayer-funded foundation. Die Linke's share is approximately EUR70MM annually.
Most German party foundations sponsor conferences, publish research, and fund exchange programs. What RLS-NYC did was put its own staff inside DSA's organizational leadership — concurrently — for over a decade.
In 2012, RLS opened a New York office. EIN 45-3658022. Their own annual report states: "With the help of funds from the BMZ and the Foreign Office, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung maintains a network of international relationships. This includes financing its foreign offices."
Over the last 13 years, Berlin has sent millions to this office.
Despite these ties, no FARA registration for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung was identified in the Department of Justice database.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇
Neal Meyer is listed on the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's payroll as "Project Manager."
Meyer previously served as NYC-DSA's chapter treasurer from 2016 to 2018.
Meyer previously served as NYC-DSA's chapter treasurer from 2016 to 2018.
On January 15, Meyer published "Big Stakes in the Big Apple" on , a strategic analysis of DSA's electoral prospects after Mamdani's mayoral victory.
One week later, NYC-DSA voted endorse Darializa Avila Chevalier for NY-13. rosalux.nyc
One week later, NYC-DSA voted endorse Darializa Avila Chevalier for NY-13. rosalux.nyc
I’m proud of Quake. We all are. Quake changed games forever. That said...
We were in our 20s, used to working as much as humanly possible, and pushing ourselves past what was reasonable because that was how id had always worked. At the time, it felt normal. But yes, looking back, it was not sustainable for everyone, particularly as the team grew.
With Quake’s engine, John and I have talked about this since, and we both agree that we should have made a DOOM++ first while the engine stabilized, then taken the full 3D step after. Quake may have been too ambitious, but that ambition was something we all believed in.
OMG! I just left a session with an ADHD teen.
The way they described object permanence made everything click.
1. They said:
The way they described object permanence made everything click.
1. They said:
"If something isn't right in front of me, my brain starts acting like it doesn't exist."
That sounded simple.
But it explained years of confusion.
That sounded simple.
But it explained years of confusion.
2. They weren't talking about forgetting important people.
They were talking about how ADHD affects awareness.
Things that move out of sight often move out of attention too.
Things like:
• emails
• appointments
• paperwork
• messages
• responsibilities
They were talking about how ADHD affects awareness.
Things that move out of sight often move out of attention too.
Things like:
• emails
• appointments
• paperwork
• messages
• responsibilities
Liber CLXXV, or Astarte vel Liber Berylli, isn't just an old mystical poem... Within the system of the A∴A∴, it serves as the ultimate manual for Bhakti Yoga,the path of pure devotion, re-engineered specifically for the practical demands of Thelemic Magick.
Let's dig in... 🧵
Let's dig in... 🧵
Often misunderstood as a relic of religious surrender, this text operationalizes the second half of our core law: "Love is the law, love under will"... It provides a systematic blueprint to turn raw emotional passion into a precision tool of spiritual focus.
To fully appreciate its genius, we must analyze it through a multi layered lens... We will unpack its Kabbalistic architecture, its psychoanalytic and neurological mechanisms, its daily application, and the psychological traps of practicing it without skepticism.
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄
Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇
So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves
Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage
🧵1/23
Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇
So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves
Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage
🧵1/23
Let's start by saying:
Yes, it was very hot in 1976
Yes, it lasted for several weeks
Yes, it was accompanied by a drought that lasted many months
Yes, it was an extraordinary event
Which is why it has stuck in the British consciousness BECAUSE it was so unusual
And yet...
Yes, it was very hot in 1976
Yes, it lasted for several weeks
Yes, it was accompanied by a drought that lasted many months
Yes, it was an extraordinary event
Which is why it has stuck in the British consciousness BECAUSE it was so unusual
And yet...
The peak temperature in 1976 was 35.9°C
That doesn't even make the top 10 of UK record temperatures.
The 1911 record stood for 79 years
The 1990 record stood for 13 years
The 2003 record stood for 16 years
The 2022 record may be broken this week, after 4 years
2/
That doesn't even make the top 10 of UK record temperatures.
The 1911 record stood for 79 years
The 1990 record stood for 13 years
The 2003 record stood for 16 years
The 2022 record may be broken this week, after 4 years
2/
NEW🚨: I've put the whole COVID origins story in one place. It's been dribbling out in fragments for six years, a hearing here, a court filing there, a document dump months later. Pulled together, it's actually pretty clear. And it starts with a grant. 🧵1/12
🧵2/12 2014: Fauci's NIAID gives a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance a $3.75M grant to study bat coronaviruses. About $750k of it goes straight to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Five years before the outbreak starts in that exact city.
🧵3/12 That was one stream of many. USAID poured over $53M into EcoHealth across the years. The Pentagon kicked in around $42M. Peter Daszak's group was the bridge between American money and the Wuhan lab. Remember his name, he keeps showing up.
"Signal is a honeypot, use X Chat instead!"
The people who say this are the same people who see clickbait headlines like "hackers target Signal" and assume the encryption got cracked. It didn't, and it never has.
Here's what's actually happening 🧵👇
1/5
The people who say this are the same people who see clickbait headlines like "hackers target Signal" and assume the encryption got cracked. It didn't, and it never has.
Here's what's actually happening 🧵👇
1/5
Recently, people were getting messages from "Signal Support", warning that 'your backups are about to be lost to a sync error'.
They then instruct targets to copy their recovery key, and paste it into the chat window to save it.
That key decrypts your entire backup, and people are willingly (unknowingly) handing it to a stranger.
2/5
They then instruct targets to copy their recovery key, and paste it into the chat window to save it.
That key decrypts your entire backup, and people are willingly (unknowingly) handing it to a stranger.
2/5
That's it, that's the whole attack.
This is what almost every "encrypted app got hacked" story turns out to be, not broken encryption, but a phishing attack tricking people into opening the front door.
3/5
This is what almost every "encrypted app got hacked" story turns out to be, not broken encryption, but a phishing attack tricking people into opening the front door.
3/5
It’s easy to turn a blind eye when a change doesn’t immediately impact your front yard. But a classic "boiling frog" scenario is happening right now in California, and most people are completely oblivious.
Hemp is just the latest easy target.
Hemp is just the latest easy target.
Under the radar, California’s devastating regulatory crackdowns completely strip away access to full-spectrum hemp products, forcing a strict "zero-THC" standard that effectively kills the natural plant industry.
The indifferent onlookers say, "Who cares? It's just hemp."
The indifferent onlookers say, "Who cares? It's just hemp."
But they conveniently ignore the millions of people who medically rely on this plant every single day to survive and function.
Let’s be entirely clear: We hate the grifters too. Legitimate advocates have been begging for common-sense, strict regulation for years.
Let’s be entirely clear: We hate the grifters too. Legitimate advocates have been begging for common-sense, strict regulation for years.
Updated Paper 🚨 (with Yi-Chun Chen and @ProfMMF)
The “wisdom of the crowd” is one of the oldest and prettiest ideas in social science: Ask enough people, average their answers, and the random errors cancel out. Underlies Aristotlean philosophy, Galton and the Ox, and these days, Prediction Markets.
Beautiful, magical when it works, but sometimes… completely wrong! 🧵
The “wisdom of the crowd” is one of the oldest and prettiest ideas in social science: Ask enough people, average their answers, and the random errors cancel out. Underlies Aristotlean philosophy, Galton and the Ox, and these days, Prediction Markets.
Beautiful, magical when it works, but sometimes… completely wrong! 🧵
Example: “Is Chicago the capital of Illinois?”
If you run a poll, most people say yes. And they’re very confident. More polling won’t save you either: you’ll just estimate the wrong answer more precisely!
It’s Springfield, btw.
If you run a poll, most people say yes. And they’re very confident. More polling won’t save you either: you’ll just estimate the wrong answer more precisely!
It’s Springfield, btw.
So the real problem is: how do we interpret what the crowd believes?
Enter Drazen Prelec’s “Surprisingly Popular” procedure: Don’t just ask people what they think. Ask what they think everyone else will think.
Enter Drazen Prelec’s “Surprisingly Popular” procedure: Don’t just ask people what they think. Ask what they think everyone else will think.
This intriguing notice from CGTN:
I'd like to note that since early March I've been (a) noting the essential (thought quiet) role #China has been playing behind the scenes, to buttress Pakistan's diplomacy to end the US-Iran conflict , and also >helenacobban.substack.com/p/war-on-iran-…
(b) calling for establishing GCC-Iran security coordination by creating a "Zone of Peace" in the Gulf (Mar 11): . >helenacobban.substack.com/p/the-iran-war…
