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APOE ε4 associates with increased risk of severe COVID-19, cerebral microhaemorrhages and post-COVID mental fatigue: a Finnish biobank, autopsy and clinical study
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2024 Jun 7
SARS-CoV-2 Viroporin E Induces Ca2+ Release and Neuron Cell Death in Primary Cultures of Rat Hippocampal Cells Aged In Vitro
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…
SARS-CoV-2 Viroporin E Induces Ca2+ Release and Neuron Cell Death in Primary Cultures of Rat Hippocampal Cells Aged In Vitro
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…
2022 Jun 16
SARS-CoV-2 infection of human brain microvascular endothelial cells leads to inflammatory activation through NF-κB non-canonical pathway and mitochondrial remodeling
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC92…
SARS-CoV-2 infection of human brain microvascular endothelial cells leads to inflammatory activation through NF-κB non-canonical pathway and mitochondrial remodeling
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC92…
Russian men dying young is not new. They've been dying from drinking, neglect, broken health system. Male life expectancy only crawled back to 66 by 2019.
Then Putin marched the survivors to the front (🧵1/7)
Then Putin marched the survivors to the front (🧵1/7)
Putin's war has killed hundreds of thousands and wounded more than a million on both sides. The dead from the Russian side are overwhelmingly young men, in a country whose population is already shrinking and ageing. [2/7]
Hundreds of thousands more Russians fled abroad to avoid mobilization, again mostly young working-age men. Killed at the front or gone abroad, they no longer add to Russia's economy or its birth rate. [3/7]
All-New Swarms Cloud Updates 👾☁️
Over the past few days, we've shipped major upgrades to Swarms Cloud, including an all-new token usage dashboard, new model pages, and much more.
These updates make it easier for developers and enterprises to monitor usage, discover new models, deploy agents, and scale multi-agent workflows through a unified platform.
Learn more ⬇️🧵
Over the past few days, we've shipped major upgrades to Swarms Cloud, including an all-new token usage dashboard, new model pages, and much more.
These updates make it easier for developers and enterprises to monitor usage, discover new models, deploy agents, and scale multi-agent workflows through a unified platform.
Learn more ⬇️🧵
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Token Usage Observability 🪙🔬
The Token Usage dashboard provides enterprises with complete visibility into token consumption across agents, workflows, and API usage.
Highlights:
- Usage Tracking: Monitor tokens, requests, and AI spending across your organization.
- Agent Analytics: Analyze usage by agent and workflow to optimize resources.
- Flexible Filtering: Filter data by time, API key, agent, or workflow.
- Cost Visibility: Track AI infrastructure costs and spending patterns in real time.
Link: cloud.swarms.world/token-usage
Token Usage Observability 🪙🔬
The Token Usage dashboard provides enterprises with complete visibility into token consumption across agents, workflows, and API usage.
Highlights:
- Usage Tracking: Monitor tokens, requests, and AI spending across your organization.
- Agent Analytics: Analyze usage by agent and workflow to optimize resources.
- Flexible Filtering: Filter data by time, API key, agent, or workflow.
- Cost Visibility: Track AI infrastructure costs and spending patterns in real time.
Link: cloud.swarms.world/token-usage
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All-New Model Pages 🤖
The Swarms Cloud Model Pages have been redesigned to make discovering and deploying models easier than ever.
With support for 1,500+ models from leading providers including @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @GeminiApp, @OpenRouter, and more, developers can quickly find the right model and start building.
Key Features:
- Model Discovery: Browse models by provider, category, and capabilities.
- Instant Code Examples: Every model includes ready-to-run examples for Python, TypeScript, cURL, and more.
- Single Agent & Multi-Agent Support: Deploy any model as an individual agent or orchestrate it inside a multi-agent team.
- Playground Integration: Test models instantly before deploying them into your applications.
Link: cloud.swarms.world/models
All-New Model Pages 🤖
The Swarms Cloud Model Pages have been redesigned to make discovering and deploying models easier than ever.
With support for 1,500+ models from leading providers including @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @GeminiApp, @OpenRouter, and more, developers can quickly find the right model and start building.
Key Features:
- Model Discovery: Browse models by provider, category, and capabilities.
- Instant Code Examples: Every model includes ready-to-run examples for Python, TypeScript, cURL, and more.
- Single Agent & Multi-Agent Support: Deploy any model as an individual agent or orchestrate it inside a multi-agent team.
- Playground Integration: Test models instantly before deploying them into your applications.
Link: cloud.swarms.world/models
⚡️ A new OSCE report reveals Russia is running a systematic campaign to militarize and indoctrinate Ukrainian children.
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The Expulsion: When Communities Thousands of Years Old Vanished Within a Decade (1/8)
Opening
Between 1948 and 1975, roughly 947,000 Jews left the Arab and Islamic world — Morocco alone, the country with the largest community, lost a quarter of a million Jews. This was not a marginal phenomenon. It was the uprooting of entire communities, some older than Islam itself, within less than a single generation.
And yet, almost no one knows the story.
52,000 testimonies, fewer than a hundred of them
Professor Henry Green, founder of the international "Sephardi Voices" archive, recounts that when he arrived in Jerusalem in 1971 and first heard about the "Black Panthers," he — an Ashkenazi Jew from Canada — knew nothing about Sephardic Jews. That gap stayed with him throughout his career. In the great Holocaust testimony archive at the University of Southern California, out of 52,000 recorded testimonies, fewer than a hundred come from Jews of Arab lands. On the Farhud itself — the pogrom that struck Baghdad's Jews in 1941 — there is not a single testimony in the archive.
Why the silence?
Green offers two reasons. The first: Sephardic Jews became a "minority within a minority" inside the Ashkenazi communities of the new diaspora, and it took a full generation before their voice began to be heard. The second, sharper reason: officially defining Jews from Arab lands as refugees creates an uncomfortable comparison — because it then becomes necessary to also address the question of the 1948 Palestinian refugees. Green himself is careful on this point — he isn't suggesting the two people's suffering be weighed against each other to cancel one out. "We're not looking for equivalence," he says, "we're looking for recognition." Only in 2015 — nearly seventy years after the events themselves — did Israel declare an official "Refugee Day," November 30th.
That's the introduction. What actually happened, country by country, is made up of three threads that are hard to separate: specific violence that pushed people to leave, a legal-governmental mechanism that made staying impossible, and a question, still disputed today, about Israeli involvement in accelerating the process.
Opening
Between 1948 and 1975, roughly 947,000 Jews left the Arab and Islamic world — Morocco alone, the country with the largest community, lost a quarter of a million Jews. This was not a marginal phenomenon. It was the uprooting of entire communities, some older than Islam itself, within less than a single generation.
And yet, almost no one knows the story.
52,000 testimonies, fewer than a hundred of them
Professor Henry Green, founder of the international "Sephardi Voices" archive, recounts that when he arrived in Jerusalem in 1971 and first heard about the "Black Panthers," he — an Ashkenazi Jew from Canada — knew nothing about Sephardic Jews. That gap stayed with him throughout his career. In the great Holocaust testimony archive at the University of Southern California, out of 52,000 recorded testimonies, fewer than a hundred come from Jews of Arab lands. On the Farhud itself — the pogrom that struck Baghdad's Jews in 1941 — there is not a single testimony in the archive.
Why the silence?
Green offers two reasons. The first: Sephardic Jews became a "minority within a minority" inside the Ashkenazi communities of the new diaspora, and it took a full generation before their voice began to be heard. The second, sharper reason: officially defining Jews from Arab lands as refugees creates an uncomfortable comparison — because it then becomes necessary to also address the question of the 1948 Palestinian refugees. Green himself is careful on this point — he isn't suggesting the two people's suffering be weighed against each other to cancel one out. "We're not looking for equivalence," he says, "we're looking for recognition." Only in 2015 — nearly seventy years after the events themselves — did Israel declare an official "Refugee Day," November 30th.
That's the introduction. What actually happened, country by country, is made up of three threads that are hard to separate: specific violence that pushed people to leave, a legal-governmental mechanism that made staying impossible, and a question, still disputed today, about Israeli involvement in accelerating the process.
Iraq — The Three Threads (2/8)
Thread 1: The violence — the Farhud, 1941
On June 1–2, 1941, in a power vacuum created by the fall of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani's pro-Nazi government, mass violence erupted in the streets of Baghdad. 170–180 Jews were killed, homes and shops were looted. A larger number of Muslims were also killed — some of them rioters, some of them defending their Jewish neighbors. Baghdad's Shiite leader, Abu al-Hasan al-Musawi, refused to issue a fatwa against the Jews and ordered Shiites not to take part in the massacre. British forces stationed near the city refused to intervene — British documents on the events were sealed until 1992 and 2017, respectively.
Thread 2: The legal mechanism — 1950–1951
Nine years after the Farhud, the Iraqi government itself opened the door to emigration — but on terms that made return impossible. On March 2, 1950, Prime Minister Salih Jabr passed a law allowing Jews to emigrate, on condition they renounce their Iraqi citizenship. In March 1951, after most Jews had already renounced their citizenship, Nuri al-Said's government froze all their remaining property in Iraq.
Thread 3: The bombing affair — a dispute still unresolved
Between April 1950 and March 1951, several bombs exploded in places where Jews gathered — a café, a synagogue, an American cultural center, Jewish commercial firms. Four were killed in the attack on the Masuda Shemtov Synagogue. Two suspects — Yosef Basri and Shalom Salih — were executed.
Who was behind the bombings remains disputed to this day. Historian Avi Shlaim (Oxford) claimed in 2023, relying mainly on a single testimony, that the Zionist underground itself carried out some of the attacks to accelerate the exodus. His claim has met real factual criticism (date errors, reliance on a problematic source). Historian Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, in the most comprehensive academic research on the subject, states cautiously that the guilt of those executed "was not proven beyond doubt" — declining to reach a definitive conclusion either way.
What is clear, without dispute: the combined result of the three threads was an almost total departure. A community of roughly 135,000 in 1948 — about a third of Baghdad's population — shrank within two years to a few thousand.
Thread 1: The violence — the Farhud, 1941
On June 1–2, 1941, in a power vacuum created by the fall of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani's pro-Nazi government, mass violence erupted in the streets of Baghdad. 170–180 Jews were killed, homes and shops were looted. A larger number of Muslims were also killed — some of them rioters, some of them defending their Jewish neighbors. Baghdad's Shiite leader, Abu al-Hasan al-Musawi, refused to issue a fatwa against the Jews and ordered Shiites not to take part in the massacre. British forces stationed near the city refused to intervene — British documents on the events were sealed until 1992 and 2017, respectively.
Thread 2: The legal mechanism — 1950–1951
Nine years after the Farhud, the Iraqi government itself opened the door to emigration — but on terms that made return impossible. On March 2, 1950, Prime Minister Salih Jabr passed a law allowing Jews to emigrate, on condition they renounce their Iraqi citizenship. In March 1951, after most Jews had already renounced their citizenship, Nuri al-Said's government froze all their remaining property in Iraq.
Thread 3: The bombing affair — a dispute still unresolved
Between April 1950 and March 1951, several bombs exploded in places where Jews gathered — a café, a synagogue, an American cultural center, Jewish commercial firms. Four were killed in the attack on the Masuda Shemtov Synagogue. Two suspects — Yosef Basri and Shalom Salih — were executed.
Who was behind the bombings remains disputed to this day. Historian Avi Shlaim (Oxford) claimed in 2023, relying mainly on a single testimony, that the Zionist underground itself carried out some of the attacks to accelerate the exodus. His claim has met real factual criticism (date errors, reliance on a problematic source). Historian Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, in the most comprehensive academic research on the subject, states cautiously that the guilt of those executed "was not proven beyond doubt" — declining to reach a definitive conclusion either way.
What is clear, without dispute: the combined result of the three threads was an almost total departure. A community of roughly 135,000 in 1948 — about a third of Baghdad's population — shrank within two years to a few thousand.
Yemen and Aden — The Three Threads (3/8)
Thread 1: The violence — the Aden riots, December 1947
Just two days after the UN approved the partition plan on November 29, 1947, violent riots broke out in Aden — then a British protectorate — against its ancient Jewish community. Between December 2 and 4, 82 Jews were murdered, and 76 more were wounded (some sources count as many as 87 dead). Four synagogues and 220 Jewish homes were burned or looted, two Jewish schools were emptied and set on fire. The British authorities' response was, according to contemporary accounts, slow and hesitant — some of the army units sent to quell the unrest were staffed by Arab soldiers, some of whom joined the looting themselves. Jewish refugees from Yemen itself, who had reached Aden hoping to immigrate to Israel, were turned away by the British because they weren't Aden citizens — they were left unprotected in the streets, until the Joint Distribution Committee funded a camp for them 30 kilometers outside the city.
Thread 2: The mechanism — Yemen's refusal, then cooperation
Before 1948, Yemen's authorities (Imam Yahya) opposed Jewish immigration to Israel. After the state was established and Egypt and Israel signed an armistice, the Imam — following diplomatic pressure, including meetings between representatives of the World Jewish Congress and the Imam's representatives — agreed to an emigration plan. Between December 1948 and September 1950, roughly 49,000 Jews were flown out of Yemen and Aden on about 380 flights, in an operation known as "On Eagles' Wings" or "Operation Magic Carpet."
Thread 3: What happened along the way and in the camps — a dispute that continues today
Not every part of the story ended with the flight itself. Some immigrants waited at the "Geula" camp near Aden for more than three years, under harsh conditions that led to a high rate of infant mortality. In the years that followed, a bitterly disputed affair arose — the "Yemenite Children Affair" — surrounding the disappearance of hundreds of infants and toddlers among the immigrants, whose parents claimed were given up for adoption without their knowledge. Three separate state commissions of inquiry, the last in 2001, found no proof of an organized, systematic abduction operation — but criticism of how the commissions worked, and of records that weren't preserved, continues to this day, and belongs not to the debate over "the expulsion" itself but to a separate and more delicate chapter.
Thread 1: The violence — the Aden riots, December 1947
Just two days after the UN approved the partition plan on November 29, 1947, violent riots broke out in Aden — then a British protectorate — against its ancient Jewish community. Between December 2 and 4, 82 Jews were murdered, and 76 more were wounded (some sources count as many as 87 dead). Four synagogues and 220 Jewish homes were burned or looted, two Jewish schools were emptied and set on fire. The British authorities' response was, according to contemporary accounts, slow and hesitant — some of the army units sent to quell the unrest were staffed by Arab soldiers, some of whom joined the looting themselves. Jewish refugees from Yemen itself, who had reached Aden hoping to immigrate to Israel, were turned away by the British because they weren't Aden citizens — they were left unprotected in the streets, until the Joint Distribution Committee funded a camp for them 30 kilometers outside the city.
Thread 2: The mechanism — Yemen's refusal, then cooperation
Before 1948, Yemen's authorities (Imam Yahya) opposed Jewish immigration to Israel. After the state was established and Egypt and Israel signed an armistice, the Imam — following diplomatic pressure, including meetings between representatives of the World Jewish Congress and the Imam's representatives — agreed to an emigration plan. Between December 1948 and September 1950, roughly 49,000 Jews were flown out of Yemen and Aden on about 380 flights, in an operation known as "On Eagles' Wings" or "Operation Magic Carpet."
Thread 3: What happened along the way and in the camps — a dispute that continues today
Not every part of the story ended with the flight itself. Some immigrants waited at the "Geula" camp near Aden for more than three years, under harsh conditions that led to a high rate of infant mortality. In the years that followed, a bitterly disputed affair arose — the "Yemenite Children Affair" — surrounding the disappearance of hundreds of infants and toddlers among the immigrants, whose parents claimed were given up for adoption without their knowledge. Three separate state commissions of inquiry, the last in 2001, found no proof of an organized, systematic abduction operation — but criticism of how the commissions worked, and of records that weren't preserved, continues to this day, and belongs not to the debate over "the expulsion" itself but to a separate and more delicate chapter.
The Carney government did not send anyone to defend Canadian workers this week, as the United States considers whether to hit our autos, steel, and softwood with a new wave of tariffs.
Trade lawyer Barry Appleton went in their place, and what he saw inside that Washington hearing room left him sickened, Toronto Star reports. 🧵👇 (1/7)
Trade lawyer Barry Appleton went in their place, and what he saw inside that Washington hearing room left him sickened, Toronto Star reports. 🧵👇 (1/7)
The hearings are part of a Section 301 investigation, the same American law that powered the tariff campaign against China. It lets Washington impose duties on its own say-so, with no vote in Congress and no treaty behind it.
Pointed at Canada, Appleton writes, it can tax autos built in Windsor and Oshawa, steel poured in Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie, and softwood cut in mill towns from British Columbia to New Brunswick, where the mill is often the last large employer left. (2/7)
Pointed at Canada, Appleton writes, it can tax autos built in Windsor and Oshawa, steel poured in Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie, and softwood cut in mill towns from British Columbia to New Brunswick, where the mill is often the last large employer left. (2/7)
Other countries treated the hearing as a fight worth showing up for. Mexico sent its Economy Minister to argue in person that the tariffs had no legal basis, and Peru sent its own minister to argue that Washington had skipped the analysis the law requires.
Canada sent no one. The chair reserved for a Canadian representative sat empty all three days. (3/7)
Canada sent no one. The chair reserved for a Canadian representative sat empty all three days. (3/7)
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been asked who my favorite president of the USA was.
Hard to choose. Some may surprise you. I think my favorite was Teddy Roosevelt, who became president originally as the vice president when President McKinley died...
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Hard to choose. Some may surprise you. I think my favorite was Teddy Roosevelt, who became president originally as the vice president when President McKinley died...
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@rlefraim shortly after taking office, served 3 1/2 years, and then ran on his own and won for 4 more years, choosing after 8 years to stop, citing George Washington as his model (before the Constitution was changed to limit terms).
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@rlefraim Roosevelt was pro-Jewish and pro-Zionist and had very close relationships with the Jewish community. First president to appoint a Jew to his cabinet. Kept two Hanukkah menorahs at his home at Sagamore Hill.
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I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @SearchlightInst memo telling Dems not to talk about #ClimateChange.
LOTS of surprises there!
The first one: swing voters like environmental groups & the clean-energy industry.
More don't like oil and gas than do.
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LOTS of surprises there!
The first one: swing voters like environmental groups & the clean-energy industry.
More don't like oil and gas than do.
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Most swing voters think the top issue for Dems is not climate change, but LGBTQ rights, followed by healthcare and prices.
For these voters climate change seems as important to the party as abortion and jobs.
So not a referendum issue, by any means.
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For these voters climate change seems as important to the party as abortion and jobs.
So not a referendum issue, by any means.
2/n
Most swing voters think that the Democratic party is from somewhat to completely "in step" with them on climate change.
3/n
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You don't actually have to watch Pretty Cure. You can watch an old authentic magical girl show for girls or you can watch a more modern magical girl show for adults like Lyrical Shoujo Nanoha, or golden age stuff like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura.
Pretty Cure is Tokusatsu.
Pretty Cure is Tokusatsu.
IF you're really big into Tokusatsu, especially Kamen Rider, you might enjoy Pretty Cure which is a sister series to KR and Super Sentai. The series direction was to be a series where "the boys don't just leave the room cause it's their sister's turn on the TV".
You do have to stay open minded to the fact you're watching a "saturday morning cartoon" though with all of the aesthetics, gimmicks, and artistic direction that comes with. Put that out of your mind and the first season really is something very fun and special.
Petr Pavel: Ukraine may have about two months to force talks before Russia’s September elections.
After Sept. 20, Putin could declare a general mobilisation and shrink the window for peace, — The Telegraph. 1/
After Sept. 20, Putin could declare a general mobilisation and shrink the window for peace, — The Telegraph. 1/
Pavel: Putin is unlikely to mobilise before parliamentary elections because it would be deeply unpopular. But once the vote is over, the political cost changes. 2/
Pavel: Allies must use the current pressure on Russia now.
Give Ukraine what it needs, keep hitting Russia’s weak points, and make Moscow believe negotiation is the only way to get anything. 3/
Give Ukraine what it needs, keep hitting Russia’s weak points, and make Moscow believe negotiation is the only way to get anything. 3/
Plan A is the single most thorough and thoughtful plan that I'm aware of for what the world should do as we approach Superintelligence.
If we want to get through the singularity alive, this is my current best guess of the playbook we should be aiming to implement.
If we want to get through the singularity alive, this is my current best guess of the playbook we should be aiming to implement.
It's my current best guess mainly because there are so few serious contenders that actually engage with the details of the situation.
In developing Plan A, substantial effort has gone into working out the game-tree, and figuring out which policy actions could be made viable for real given likely verification technologies and the likely behavior of the relevant actors.
