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May 15
🇬🇪🇺🇦Georgian Dream wants one gift from the West: recognition.
GD does not want the gift Kyiv just offered: friendship.
The Yerevan handshake between Zelensky and Georgian PM Kobakhidze was not normalization. It was a strategic trap.
Here's why GD secretly hates this opening.
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This is the third pressure in six weeks.
April 3: Marc Rubio's call to Kobakhidze. The gift GD wanted. Triggered Iranian and Russian counter-signals in 48 hours.
April 12: Hungary's Orbán lost his election. EU firewall gone.
May 4: Zelensky offers the gift GD did not want.
2/15
Sidelines of the 8th European Political Community summit in Yerevan. Ukraine initiated. Kobakhidze "immediately confirmed."
🇺🇦FM Sybiha and 🇬🇪FM Bochorishvili met separately. Return of ambassadors discussed.
Sybiha called it "historical."

3/15jam-news.net/irakli-kobakhi…
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May 15
A company called Liberty Rock claims you can pay your tax with a magic cheque.

They'll make all your tax go away, for the small, small fee of 30% of the amount.

The only problem: it's a fraud.

We’ve obtained the documents and are naming the names.

Thread: Image
The idea is simple:

1. The client pays Liberty Rock a fee equal to 25% of its tax bill (plus VAT). Thirty per cent of the fee is payable up-front. Image
2. Liberty Rock then sends HMRC a piece of paper labelled a "bill of exchange", instead of money, and the client is told the tax has been "settled".
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May 15
Personal positions on the Andy Burnham thing.

1/ Like most people in Manchester I like Andy, he’s done many good things here, many of which are below the radar outside GMcr.
2/ He’s not the messiah and he will not prove more powerful than the Labour Party machinery >
3/ Do not expect him to change tack on Atlanticism, militarism, Israel etc.
4/ I would expect him to be bluntly oppositional to Farage & the far right and massively dent their success.
5/ I’d expect a pragmatic, functional response to eg asylum backlogs & immigration policy. >
6/ I think he’ll be less successful at holding off the Greens nationally than Reform. His shortcomings are those which bother Green voters.
7/ He won’t bring the meaningful solutions we need but would be a vast improvement on Starmer and help stabilise our basket case society. >
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May 15
Graham: China buys 90% of Iranian oil and tops Russian oil purchases. Xi could call and end both wars today.

If this summit ends with no action on that — we made a big mistake.

1/
Graham: China buys Russian and Iranian oil cheap — keeps both war machines running. Stop it — the wars end.

Xi isn't irrational. If he believes Trump will crush China's economy for propping up Iran, he'll change. Make it real.

2/
Graham: China puts on a show — but their economy struggles. 1.4 billion people, no social security, no Medicare.

Our worst day is China's best day. Trump must tell Xi: fuel Iran and Russia — get punished. Stop — get rewarded. That's the goal of this summit.

3X
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May 15
Bolton: Xi could trade Trump concessions on Iran or trade for one phrase: "The US opposes Taiwanese independence."

Taiwan is terrified. We don't know yet if Trump gave it. They still have hours of meetings left.

1/
Bolton: Trump wanted the biggest trade deal in history — he won't get it today either.

Some Boeing sales, some economic deals he'll tout. But the core issues aren't resolved. China played rare earths. They may agree a trade war ceasefire. That's it.

2/
Bolton: If the US pulls back on Taiwan, Taiwan is in real jeopardy.

China won't invade across 100 miles of open ocean — they'll blockade and wait to see if we break it. Deterrence works only if China stays uncertain what Trump would do.

3/
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May 15
Today we shall be tweeting from day 5 of the Employment Tribunal case brought by Lorna Young against her former employer Manchester City Council. Image
Our Substack page on the case (including reporting from the earlier days of the hearing) is at tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lorna-young-…
Ms Young is gender critical and Catholic and was formerly Equality Team Manager at MCC. She was dismissed from this role due to her social media content.
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May 15
Read repost. Next - Go learn all 55 vulnerabilities remaining in Georgia elections systems at HederaThon.org.

Want these resolved? Vote for ONLY governor candidate who met w/
inventor of the global system to secure Dominion infrastructure.

[Keep reading] x.com/thescif/status…
What is the exact name of the governor candidate? Glad you asked.

It’s Rick Jackson.

Or Slick Rick Jackson the good guy! Go hear the song. 👇

music.amazon.com/albums/B0H1R5C…
Lastly Burt Jones had an opportunity to pass the law to resolve all 55 vulnerabilities. Ask him why he did not.

Go learn of our insecure elections at:



The students led movement is still hoping @burtjonesforga @LtGovJonesGA does the right thing! Will he? iBlackVote.com/proposalImage
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May 15
Accidentally overheard an AI researcher from Anthropic at a conference bar.

He didn't mention prompt engineering or context windows once.

Only talked about 3 structural shifts that separate people who get real value from LLMs vs people who don't.

I turned them into Claude prompts. Here they are:
PROMPT 1 : MAP HOW YOU ACTUALLY USE AI

Act as a workflow auditor, not an AI coach.

Ask me 5 questions to map how I currently use LLMs: what tasks I delegate, what I still do manually, where I copy-paste between tools, what I've tried and abandoned.

Don't give advice yet. Just build the map.

One question at a time.
PROMPT 2 : FIND WHAT'S REAL VS WHAT'S THEATER

Here's my AI usage map: [paste]

Now identify:
- What's saving me REAL time (measurable hours back)
- What FEELS productive but isn't (theater)
- What I'm doing manually that an LLM should be doing

Just patterns. No judgment, no advice yet.
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May 15
SitRep - 14/05/26 - A large Russian overnight attack

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a massive Russian overnight missile and drone attack, lots of residential areas were hit and civilians died. Russian terror.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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May 15
CJI Surya Kant: The word woman in Haryana is anti-climax that is why they are not able to digest the 30 percent representation given to women in the bar council elections. #SupremeCourt Image
CJI: Make sure a former Supreme court judge, former chief justice of the punjab and haryana HC and an eminent member of the Supreme Court bar is there in the panel to look into grievances concerning the bar council elections.

Bar body seeks time till Monday to come back with details.Image
CJI: Bring me the composition of the panel on Monday. We will see. Senior members.
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May 15
The times when people will ask, "Who am I, where am I?
What is this place?"
between real worlds and fake simulations are very near...

The next generation will wander between real worlds and fake worlds and will not be able to understand the differences...

A scent, a spice, a smoke will open up transitional dimensions...
➡️Image
Hacked brains, hacked lives...
Like a computer being taken over, lives will be taken over by viruses without anyone even realizing it...
The person themselves won't even know or understand...
Where there's smart dust technology and chemtrails, no one will be 100% trustworthy...
Augmented reality and virtual reality have been advanced so much by artificial intelligence that humans won't be able to distinguish between the real and the fake world... and these words won't fully explain the situation...
Indistinguishable reality

Because pleasures are triggered by the same chemicals released in the brain

And sometimes, even if you realize it's not real, you'll surrender to it because you'll enjoy it...
This will be called Indistinguishable reality. Incomprehensible reality AND ECTImage
Since the Bootstrap (fate, destiny) paradox allowed for the creation of digital currency and even simulations of the world using a quantum computer brought from the future, the energy and financing problems of new quantum computers are being solved; Image
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May 15
Pelumi’s e-commerce backend was handling 200 users comfortably.

Then they ran a promo.

800 users hit the platform in 45 minutes.

The server didn’t crash because of traffic.

It crashed because of one line of code that had been sitting in the codebase since day one
Pelumi had built a product listing page for her fashion marketplace.

NestJS backend.
Prisma ORM.
PostgreSQL database.
Clean architecture.
Well-structured code.
Everything looked perfect locally.
The endpoint fetched all products and, for each product, returned the seller’s name and rating.

The code looked innocent:

const products = await prisma.product.findMany()

for (const product of products) {
product.seller = await prisma.user.findUnique({
where: { id: product.sellerId }
})
}

Worked perfectly in development.
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