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In 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
A THREAD.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
A THREAD.
On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building.
The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire.
I've been kind of interested in having sex lately, and I've been going back and forth on how hard this should be.
On the one hand, it seems like there ought to be some v*gan women in my extended network who are independent-minded or emotionally-skilled enough that I like spending time with them, and for whom it would enrich their life to casually date me.
But on the other hand...
well for one thing, all of the women I've dated, and many of the women that I've liked, have either been outright asexual, or disinterested in sex.
The base rates, so far, are not good.
well for one thing, all of the women I've dated, and many of the women that I've liked, have either been outright asexual, or disinterested in sex.
The base rates, so far, are not good.
Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
πΉ 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal
πΉ Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts
πΉ Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost
πΉ Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows
Kimi K3 is now live on on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API.
Open Weights by July 27, 2026.
π API: platform.kimi.ai
π Tech blog: kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
πΉ 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal
πΉ Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts
πΉ Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost
πΉ Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows
Kimi K3 is now live on on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API.
Open Weights by July 27, 2026.
π API: platform.kimi.ai
π Tech blog: kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
K3 is built on Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) and Attention Residuals (AttnRes), two architectural updates designed to improve how information flows across sequence length and model depth.
We have also scaled up Mixture of Experts (MoE) sparsity, effectively activating 16 out of 896 experts when paired with a Stable LatentMoE framework.
Together with refined training and data recipes, these structural changes yield an approximate 2.5Γ improvement in overall scaling efficiency compared to K2, allowing the model to convert compute into intelligence more effectively.
We have also scaled up Mixture of Experts (MoE) sparsity, effectively activating 16 out of 896 experts when paired with a Stable LatentMoE framework.
Together with refined training and data recipes, these structural changes yield an approximate 2.5Γ improvement in overall scaling efficiency compared to K2, allowing the model to convert compute into intelligence more effectively.
Internal knowledge work bench
Beyond public benchmarks, Kimi K3 Max also shows consistent gains on our internal benchmarks, which are built from recurring patterns and challenges in real-world user-agent workflows.
It scores 75.5 on Online Exp Bench, 73.5 on DECK-Bench, and 62.6 on Finance-Bench, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 (max) and GPT-5.5 (xhigh) across all three.
These results reflect broad improvements in Kimi K3's agentic knowledge work capabilities, enabling more capable and reliable performance in real-world use cases.
Beyond public benchmarks, Kimi K3 Max also shows consistent gains on our internal benchmarks, which are built from recurring patterns and challenges in real-world user-agent workflows.
It scores 75.5 on Online Exp Bench, 73.5 on DECK-Bench, and 62.6 on Finance-Bench, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 (max) and GPT-5.5 (xhigh) across all three.
These results reflect broad improvements in Kimi K3's agentic knowledge work capabilities, enabling more capable and reliable performance in real-world use cases.
Things that break your salah even if youβve prayed your whole life
A person may pray for sixty years, yet their prayer is not accepted.
Do you know why?
Abu Hurayrah (RA) said:
βA man may pray for sixty years, and not a single prayer of his is accepted.β
It was asked: βHow is that?β
Do you know why?
Abu Hurayrah (RA) said:
βA man may pray for sixty years, and not a single prayer of his is accepted.β
It was asked: βHow is that?β
1. Not moving the lips during recitation.
In prayer, it is necessary to move the lips to constitute βreadingβ; silent recitation in the heart without lip movement is insufficient for the obligatory prayers.
In prayer, it is necessary to move the lips to constitute βreadingβ; silent recitation in the heart without lip movement is insufficient for the obligatory prayers.
Ask Allah whatever you want by with this Dua and it will be Accepted
Have you been searching for a powerful Dua which contains the Greatest Name of Allah? The supplication that will be answered by Allah swt when recited before your personal Dua? If yes, then I would strongly suggest you go through with this dua.
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Iβm thinking about endorsing Gavin Newsom US President in 2028. @GeorgiaDemocrat if you want that to happen β reach out. Inbox open.
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Honor, Respect & Team work are my guiding lights β values I learned in peace time service and war time service to our nation.
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We need to move beyond the age of the railway policing itself and move away from allowing Provincial Politicians to tinker with critical fire prevention funding as if it is their own slush fund to use. @MarkJCarney @CNRailway @TSBCanada @Transport_gc @stevenmackinnon
The Ontario Liberal Party criticized the Doug Ford government for underspending on emergency forest firefighting. Ontario budgeted only $150 million this year, down from $271 million last year. Meanwhile we are dealing with the worst air quality on earth. ontarioliberal.ca/devastating-foβ¦
If itβs hot weather it can disrupt signals for trains but we need to take public transportation seriously and modernize these vital systems.
This piece of 'guidance' attacks the very foundation of Modern Medicine. Which is why I am SO incensed by it.
Let me explain why. A historical π§΅.
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Let me explain why. A historical π§΅.
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Prior to the Enlightenment, medical learning was all about theories and books. Mostly Galen. The assumption was that very little could be learnt directly from the patient.
One of the most radical ideas of the Enlightenment was that Galen was just plain wrong. And that doctors
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One of the most radical ideas of the Enlightenment was that Galen was just plain wrong. And that doctors
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knew absolutely diddly about bodies, diseases or cures. π±
The solution proposed was to study patients and their diseases like other physical item, according to the tenets laid out by the Greats of the Scientific Revolution - Bacon, Locke, Boyle and Newton.
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The solution proposed was to study patients and their diseases like other physical item, according to the tenets laid out by the Greats of the Scientific Revolution - Bacon, Locke, Boyle and Newton.
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There's a diet proven to cut visceral fat by 14%, even if you don't lose a single pound on the scale.
It's not keto. It's not carnivore. And it's definitely not about counting calories.
It's the world's easiest diet for removing visceral fat.
Here's how to do it: πͺ‘
It's not keto. It's not carnivore. And it's definitely not about counting calories.
It's the world's easiest diet for removing visceral fat.
Here's how to do it: πͺ‘
Visceral fat is the fat wrapped around your liver, pancreas, and intestines.
It pumps inflammatory compounds into your bloodstream 24/7.
You can't pinch it. But it's quietly destroying your health.
It pumps inflammatory compounds into your bloodstream 24/7.
You can't pinch it. But it's quietly destroying your health.
Too much visceral fat silently destroys your body and brain.
People in the top quartile have 10x higher odds of hypertension and 6x higher odds of diabetes.
Cardiovascular disease risk jumps 55%. Midlife belly fat predicts Alzheimer's markers 20 years before symptoms appear.
People in the top quartile have 10x higher odds of hypertension and 6x higher odds of diabetes.
Cardiovascular disease risk jumps 55%. Midlife belly fat predicts Alzheimer's markers 20 years before symptoms appear.
A woman had Netflix for 6 years.
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.
Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.
She said "it feels like a completely different app."
He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."
Here's every setting he changed π
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.
Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.
She said "it feels like a completely different app."
He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."
Here's every setting he changed π
First what Netflix's default settings are actually designed to do.
Netflix makes money when you stay subscribed. You stay subscribed when you feel like there's always something to watch. The algorithm's job isn't to show you the best content. It's to show you content that keeps you engaged just enough to not cancel.
That's why the homepage feels endless but never satisfying. That's why you scroll for 20 minutes and settle for something mediocre. That's why trailers autoplay before you've even decided to look. Every default setting is tuned for engagement time, not enjoyment.
The engineer knew this because he helped build it. He spent 3 years optimizing the same recommendation engine that was now feeding his friend 45 minutes of scrolling every night.
He said the irony was simple. Netflix has 9 settings that fix every frustration users complain about. They just ship the app with all of them turned off or buried behind menus nobody opens.
Here are the 9 things he changed.
Netflix makes money when you stay subscribed. You stay subscribed when you feel like there's always something to watch. The algorithm's job isn't to show you the best content. It's to show you content that keeps you engaged just enough to not cancel.
That's why the homepage feels endless but never satisfying. That's why you scroll for 20 minutes and settle for something mediocre. That's why trailers autoplay before you've even decided to look. Every default setting is tuned for engagement time, not enjoyment.
The engineer knew this because he helped build it. He spent 3 years optimizing the same recommendation engine that was now feeding his friend 45 minutes of scrolling every night.
He said the irony was simple. Netflix has 9 settings that fix every frustration users complain about. They just ship the app with all of them turned off or buried behind menus nobody opens.
Here are the 9 things he changed.
Change 1: He turned off autoplay previews.
This was the first thing he did. He opened her account on a browser, went to Account β Profile β Playback Settings, and unchecked "Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices."
That's it. One checkbox.
The blaring trailers that played every time she paused on a thumbnail for more than 2 seconds went silent. The homepage became something she could actually browse without being assaulted by sound and motion every time she stopped scrolling.
Netflix enables autoplay by default because their data shows it increases engagement. More previews watched means more time spent in the app means lower churn. The fact that it makes browsing feel chaotic and stressful doesn't matter to the algorithm. Your stress is their retention metric.
He turned it off in 4 seconds and she said the app immediately felt calmer than it had in 6 years.
This was the first thing he did. He opened her account on a browser, went to Account β Profile β Playback Settings, and unchecked "Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices."
That's it. One checkbox.
The blaring trailers that played every time she paused on a thumbnail for more than 2 seconds went silent. The homepage became something she could actually browse without being assaulted by sound and motion every time she stopped scrolling.
Netflix enables autoplay by default because their data shows it increases engagement. More previews watched means more time spent in the app means lower churn. The fact that it makes browsing feel chaotic and stressful doesn't matter to the algorithm. Your stress is their retention metric.
He turned it off in 4 seconds and she said the app immediately felt calmer than it had in 6 years.
When he died in 2022, at the age of 98, America lost the last living Medal of Honor recipient of World War Two.
He earned it as a 21-year-old, alone, with a flamethrower, over four hours of hell on Iwo Jima, on the very day the flag went up on Mount Suribachi.
This is the story of Woody Williams..π§΅1/7
He earned it as a 21-year-old, alone, with a flamethrower, over four hours of hell on Iwo Jima, on the very day the flag went up on Mount Suribachi.
This is the story of Woody Williams..π§΅1/7
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Hershel Woodrow Williams, known as Woody, was born in 1923 on a dairy farm in West Virginia, the youngest of eleven children. He weighed just three and a half pounds at birth and was not expected to live. He did, growing up hard on the farm, losing his father when he was only eleven.
When the war came, Woody tried to join the Marines. They turned him down. At around five and a half feet tall, he was told he was too short.
But Woody would not take no for an answer. He kept at it until the Marines finally accepted him in 1943. They trained him for one of the most dangerous jobs a man could be given in the Pacific. He would carry a flamethrower.
Hershel Woodrow Williams, known as Woody, was born in 1923 on a dairy farm in West Virginia, the youngest of eleven children. He weighed just three and a half pounds at birth and was not expected to live. He did, growing up hard on the farm, losing his father when he was only eleven.
When the war came, Woody tried to join the Marines. They turned him down. At around five and a half feet tall, he was told he was too short.
But Woody would not take no for an answer. He kept at it until the Marines finally accepted him in 1943. They trained him for one of the most dangerous jobs a man could be given in the Pacific. He would carry a flamethrower.
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By February 1945, Woody Williams was a 21-year-old demolition sergeant, and he was landing on Iwo Jima.
The tiny volcanic island was one of the most heavily fortified places on earth. The Japanese had honeycombed it with pillboxes, squat forts of reinforced concrete, connected by tunnels, their machine guns interlocking to cover every inch of open ground. They were so solidly built that bombs and bazookas often failed to destroy them. American tanks trying to break through bogged down helplessly in the soft black volcanic sand.
Woody's unit was being torn apart trying to advance. As he attacked, he later said, the enemy would just mow the Marines down, and they would have to fall back.
By February 23, five days into the battle, Woody later recalled that he was the only man left from his original demolition team. The others had been killed or wounded.
That was the day his commander turned to him and asked if he could do anything with his flamethrower.
By February 1945, Woody Williams was a 21-year-old demolition sergeant, and he was landing on Iwo Jima.
The tiny volcanic island was one of the most heavily fortified places on earth. The Japanese had honeycombed it with pillboxes, squat forts of reinforced concrete, connected by tunnels, their machine guns interlocking to cover every inch of open ground. They were so solidly built that bombs and bazookas often failed to destroy them. American tanks trying to break through bogged down helplessly in the soft black volcanic sand.
Woody's unit was being torn apart trying to advance. As he attacked, he later said, the enemy would just mow the Marines down, and they would have to fall back.
By February 23, five days into the battle, Woody later recalled that he was the only man left from his original demolition team. The others had been killed or wounded.
That was the day his commander turned to him and asked if he could do anything with his flamethrower.
