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Hi, I'll be live-tweeting today's Full Council Meeting for #indydocumenters
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The Full Council Meeting started at 7 p.m. with council president Maggie A. Lewis from district 5 introduced councillor Brienne Delaney for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer.
Reverend Mindie Moore from St. Luke's Methodist Church introduced by councillor Delaney recited her prayer at the meeting.
Spending today (yet again) sitting in the court of session listening to the Scottish government discuss its determination that some men should be treated by like women, in one way or another. This time - prisons. I expect to hear much talk “balancing of rights”. But/
As others said, this is a case where an attractive-sounding concept has been introduced into a context where it simply does not belong. Whether we’re talking about rights as moral/ethical, protected in domestic law or international human rights standards…/
there are plenty of times where I don’t have a right to something and “balancing” simply doesn’t come into it. As a trivial example, I don’t have the right to…./
Good morning, this is the final hearing day of Toshack vs GeoAmey. For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers continues on @tribunaltweets 
We expect to continue at 10 am with a final witness. The tribunal is expected to adjourn from approximately 11:30 then return to public session at 2:30 pm for any oral submissions.
Our previous coverage and background on the case can be found here: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/toshack-vs-g…
Our previous coverage and background on the case can be found here: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/toshack-vs-g…
We are a volunteer collective of citizen journalists, please consider following here and on @tribunaltweets and subscribing to our Substack to support our work.
Women are not inferior to men – they are capable of doing everything men can do. Take the case of Kosovo, were president Vjosa Osmani convincingly demonstrates that for the sake of a political career she can be just as spineless as her male colleagues. ⬇️
In a 2019 interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the future Kosovar president Vjosa Osmani talked a lot about her (legitimate and important) goal to strengthen the role of women in Europe´s youngest state. Among other things, Mrs. Osmani said:
“For me, it is important that at the end of my term I leave behind the message that no girl and no woman in 🇽🇰will ever again believe she is in any way inferior. … I am sure that by the end of my term, the women and girls in 🇽🇰will know that there is nothing they cannot do.”
#MadrasHighCourt Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan begin hearing two writ petitions, one filed an individual named K. Athinarayanan of Madurai and another by AIADMK Member of Parliament I.S. Inbadurai, seeking registration of a FIR regarding an alleged cash-for-jobs scam in Minister K.N. Nehru's Municipal Administration and Water Supply department. @THChennai Backgrounder👇
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The Madurai litigant submits a list of criminal cases pending against him. The judges had directed him to submit the list during the last hearing.. Advocate General P.S. Raman reads the list and says 18 out of the 32 criminal cases had been closed. One attempt to murder case booked under the Arms Act too was still pending. Chief Justice asks the petitoner's counsel why his client had not disclosed these antecedents in his affidavit.
Petitioner counsel says, the antecedents will not come in the way of deciding the present writ petition. However, Chief Justice says the criminal cases had been pending for years together and it was not as if overnight all these cases had been slapped on him. CJ says, petitioner must have disclosed this in his affidavit. He asks why should court interfere in the issue at hand at the instance of the petitioner. CJ says, they will examine the issue at the instance of some other person but not at the instance of the Madurai litigant whose bonafides are doubtful.
Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
The timeline is damning.
While still in office, Mandelson was warned by JPM’s Jes Staley (via Epstein) that sticking with Gordon Brown would be "bad form commercially".
Translation: It would hurt his future earning potential.
He got the message.
While still in office, Mandelson was warned by JPM’s Jes Staley (via Epstein) that sticking with Gordon Brown would be "bad form commercially".
Translation: It would hurt his future earning potential.
He got the message.
Just 48 hours after the government fell in May 2010, the "commercial" phase began.
Epstein immediately began brokering a role for Mandelson at Deutsche Bank.
("Petie" being Epstein's affectionate name for Mandelson)
Epstein immediately began brokering a role for Mandelson at Deutsche Bank.
("Petie" being Epstein's affectionate name for Mandelson)
R.I.P generic prompting.
Context engineering is the new king.
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google engineers don't write prompts like everyone else. They engineer context.
Here are 8 ways to use context in your prompts to get pro-level output from every LLM out there:
Context engineering is the new king.
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google engineers don't write prompts like everyone else. They engineer context.
Here are 8 ways to use context in your prompts to get pro-level output from every LLM out there:
1/ PERSONA + EXPERTISE CONTEXT (For any task)
LLMs don't just need instructions. They need to "become" someone. When you give expertise context, the model activates completely different reasoning patterns.
A "senior developer" prompt produces code that's fundamentally different from a generic one.
Prompt:
"You are a [specific role] with [X years] experience at [top company/institution]. Your expertise includes [3-4 specific skills]. You're known for [quality that matters for this task].
Your communication style is [direct/analytical/creative].
Task: [your actual request]"
LLMs don't just need instructions. They need to "become" someone. When you give expertise context, the model activates completely different reasoning patterns.
A "senior developer" prompt produces code that's fundamentally different from a generic one.
Prompt:
"You are a [specific role] with [X years] experience at [top company/institution]. Your expertise includes [3-4 specific skills]. You're known for [quality that matters for this task].
Your communication style is [direct/analytical/creative].
Task: [your actual request]"
2/ REFERENCE CONTEXT (For websites & content)
All of us know this that LLMs hallucinate when they guess what you want.
When you show them exactly what "good" looks like, they stop guessing. Reference context transforms vague requests into precise execution.
This is how agencies get consistent brand voice across hundreds of outputs.
Prompt:
"REFERENCE EXAMPLES:
[Paste 2-3 examples of the style/format you want]
WHAT MAKES THESE WORK:
- [Pattern 1 you noticed]
- [Pattern 2 you noticed]
- [Pattern 3 you noticed]
NOW CREATE:
[Your specific request] following the exact patterns above. "
All of us know this that LLMs hallucinate when they guess what you want.
When you show them exactly what "good" looks like, they stop guessing. Reference context transforms vague requests into precise execution.
This is how agencies get consistent brand voice across hundreds of outputs.
Prompt:
"REFERENCE EXAMPLES:
[Paste 2-3 examples of the style/format you want]
WHAT MAKES THESE WORK:
- [Pattern 1 you noticed]
- [Pattern 2 you noticed]
- [Pattern 3 you noticed]
NOW CREATE:
[Your specific request] following the exact patterns above. "
1/Last August we launched a series of investigative articles asking: “Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West?”
You should read it. Six installments (so far), each covering an important part of the bigger picture. We start at SFI.
america2.news/part-one-just-…
You should read it. Six installments (so far), each covering an important part of the bigger picture. We start at SFI.
america2.news/part-one-just-…
2/On Epstein’s good friend John Brockman, and his efforts to infiltrate the worlds of science and culture.
america2.news/part-two-jeffr…
america2.news/part-two-jeffr…
3/On efforts by Epstein to infiltrate and operationalize Brockman’s “Edge”network.
america2.news/part-three-wha…
america2.news/part-three-wha…
Welcome to Earth: where the graphics are photorealistic, the NPCs have feelings and nobody’s found the logout button yet….
#matrix #glitch #simulation #flatearth tiktok.com/t/ZP8HDbuE7/
#matrix #glitch #simulation #flatearth tiktok.com/t/ZP8HDbuE7/
We call it Earth, but maybe it’s just the loading screen of something far older—gravity the frame rate, mountains the geometry, and every sunset a perfectly timed render pass.
The blue marble spins in silence, too beautiful to be accidental, too consistent to be real—perhaps we’re not living on a planet, but inside the most expensive screensaver ever coded
🧵 THREAD: The quiet revolution in aerosol transmission (2017–2019)
In the years just before COVID, scientists were increasingly clear that “droplet vs airborne” was a false binary and that real-world transmission didn’t fit it.
In the years just before COVID, scientists were increasingly clear that “droplet vs airborne” was a false binary and that real-world transmission didn’t fit it.
Across epidemiology, virology, and aerosol science, researchers were synthesising evidence from influenza, SARS-1, measles, and TB that challenged droplet-based infection models.
Scientists including Linsey Marr, Lidia Morawska, Julian Tang, Tellier, and Zeynep Tufekci were making this case publicly in papers, commentaries, and outbreak analyses.
I’ll cover their work in individual profile tweets.
I’ll cover their work in individual profile tweets.
Here's a 🧵on @awaisaftab's proposals for DSM 6. While presented as reformist, they leave the core logic & ideology of the DSM intact, doing nothing to correct the systemic harms caused by the manual. Here's why his proposals will, in essence, enable more of the same👇
The categorical diagnostic framework remains unquestioned, while there's no serious challenge to the DSM’s authority to arbitrarily define, partition & pathologise what it frames as 'disorder' - a term he protects via redefinition. 2/8
e.g. -While he calls for more clarity regarding the meaning of terms like “disorder” or “dysfunction” he elects to retain them, & does little to address that diagnoses, in actuality, continue to function as quasi-disease entities within healthcare, research, insurance systems.3/8
@dalocrypto @grok @SionBen86 @RedLipRiots I didn’t say you were, but you you did mock the suggestion that Brexit is responsible for inflation. All this conversation has shown you is that it did directly increase consumer costs by around 3-6%. “It also increased incentives for irregular migration by removing the UK’s …
@dalocrypto @grok @SionBen86 @RedLipRiots most effective legal mechanisms for returning asylum seekers, and significantly changed the demographics of migration from predominantly young migrants from eastern and southern Europe who tended to be single, employed, and short-term residents to non-EU migrants from India …
@dalocrypto @grok @SionBen86 @RedLipRiots Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Africa, who are on average more likely to arrive with dependants and settle long term. This has increased pressures on housing, schools, and healthcare at a local level. Reform UK now attributes these outcomes to failures of past & present …
