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Feb 17
A Leonord Leo-linked watchdog group, Americans for Public Trust (APT) did a report on several nonprofits and their grant-making on climate. Then a group of state AGs--led by the new chair of the Republican Attorneys General (RAGA) Montana AG Austin Knudsen, a group funded by Leo and big energy-- wrote a letter to DoJ recommending a FARA investigation of those groups, based on APT's report.

The FARA arguments in the report at one point cite PR slop posts.Image
RAGA then likely sent this to Fox News, the only national outlet that has so far covered this.

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Feb 17
In Russia, "import substitution," like many other things, has long turned not into technological development but into a convenient way to siphon off budget funds. The state allocates money for the creation of "domestic developments," after which companies take ready-made
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Western solutions, slightly adapt them, and present them as their own innovations, keeping subsidies and reporting an alleged technological breakthrough. A telling example is the case of the company Newco. The Ministry of Industry and Trade attempted in court to recover
177.6 million rubles, arguing that hearing aids developed with state funding were in fact based on technology from the Danish company Oticon and did not constitute an independent development. However, the Moscow Arbitration Court sided with the business, ruling that
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Feb 17
Advice for AI engineers 💡

Voice assistants do not need cloud models.
A small local model does the job.

Faster. Cheaper.

Here's an example ↓
docs.liquid.ai/examples/lapto…
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺?

Most devs default to API calls, like GPT-5, Gemini 3 and friends.

And this works great when you want to impress your boss, or your next round of investors.

However, it does not move the needle in most businesses.

Why?
- Bye bye data privacy
- Hello latency.
- Costs through the roof.

Local models solve these 3 problems. Here's a real world example ↓
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Feb 17
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Feb 17
This started as a flat 2D floor plan.

and I'm sharing the exact AI method I used to turn it into a 3D tour inside freepik Spaces 🧵
The key in this @freepik Space is keeping the spatial consistency tight using the reference floor plan.

From there, we create different nodes to generate each room cohesively and then assemble the final video.

Let’s get started 👇 Image
We upload the floor plan and create a List node with different styles, plus an Image node using the prompt you see in the screenshot.

Hit play and boom, you’ve got your first 3D versions that stay consistent with the original layout. Super easy with Nano Banana Pro. Image
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Feb 17
In 2018, Ray Dalio gave a 40-minute masterclass on how to never lose money investing.

His frameworks:
• Economy as a perpetual motion
• Four forces, three equilibrium, two levers
• Holy grail of investing

15 lessons on markets and money:

1. Write down your decision criteria
"Every time I would make a decision, I would write down the criteria I used."

"The same things happen over and over again."

"By taking the time to write them down, then seeing how those criteria would have worked over time, I could get perspective."
2. The economy is a perpetual motion machine

"There are four big forces, three important equilibriums, and two levers."

"If you get this down, basically everything through my eyes is along those lines."

"You can almost picture where you are in the cycles and anticipate what will happen next."
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Feb 17
If you study the roots of a large part of conditioned inhibition what you find is that the way the UK is set up is to make areas that are "achieving" and "doing well for yourself" as institutionally clashing with erotic/sexual expression

It implicates parenting and children
In the UK what happens is that if you look the way society is governed, you have Lily Phillips and the law of the land = No problem

BUT then if you take the 'Professions' what are the 'Professions' = Teacher, Doctor, Nurse, Police..

Like what do you want to be when you grow up?
And it covers loads of areas, armed forces, lots of areas.

The parents want the daughters and children to strive to become a 'Professional' or whatever it is that parents want for their kids

So due to the prohibitions that are built into society the parents groom their kids
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Feb 17
🧵Since the start of the war, media outlets, NGOs, and so-called researchers have pushed the claim that Israel “targets journalists” to “silence the press.” But when you actually examine who these “journalists” were and the circumstances of their deaths, a different picture emerges: many had direct familial ties to Hamas or were members themselves. And, in numerous cases, those labeled “journalists” were not journalists at all. That is the case with Issam Mohamed Sobhi Bahar.Image
Let's start with the basics: Alleged journalist Issam Bahar was killed in an IDF strike on October 16, 2023, along his wife & other family members. According to IDF statements Issam was targeted because he was a member of Hamas, unrelated to any association to Al-Aqsa TV. Image
But was he even a journalist? There is no evidence that Issam Bahar worked for Al-Aqsa TV, or for any media outlet, at the time of his death. He appears to have worked as a camera operator years ago, but there is no indication he continued in that role after 2016. Aside from media reports labeling him a “journalist” after his death, nothing suggests he was actively employed in journalism. Notably, the Committee to Protect Journalists does not list him in its database of killed journalists, further indicating that journalism was not his profession at the time.Image
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Feb 17
THREAD 4
WHEN LAW REPLACED CUSTOM
(surnames, forms, the myth of timeless patriarchy)

1️⃣
This is where the break happens.

Not in ancient India.
Not in temples.
Not in epics.

But in files, registers, and forms. Image
2️⃣
Pre-modern India ran on custom.

Identity was local.
Lineage could be maternal.
Marriage could be flexible.

The system worked because society did not need every child tied to a named father.
3️⃣
Colonial administration could not function like that.

The state needed:
Land titles.
Tax rolls.
Census categories.
Inheritance clarity.

Custom was messy.
Plurality was inefficient.

So lineage had to be fixed.
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Feb 17
HRCP's explosive fact-finding report about the Crime Control Department (CCD), created by the Punjab government last year to combat serious crime, but which has instead become a vehicle for staged encounters and extrajudicial executions.

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In just eight months (April–December 2025), 924 people, including two women, died in what the report describes as likely staged encounters and “deliberate executions.”

In the same period, only two police officials were reportedly killed.
“In genuine armed confrontations, such a ratio appears to be statistically implausible. This imbalance suggests deliberate executions and reckless disregard for the sanctity of life,” writes the HRCP.
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Feb 17
🧵The KGB – The Immortal Deep State of Russia
1/ The KGB didn't just appear. Its bloodline starts with the 1917 Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky – Lenin's terror machine to crush "enemies of the people." But the modern Committee for State Security (KGB) was officially born on March
13, 1954, as the "sword and shield of the Communist Party." From day one, it was built to protect the regime at all costs.
2/ Core purposes? Foreign intelligence, domestic counter-intel, border security, protection of the leadership, technical espionage, and silencing dissent.
They infiltrated churches, intellectuals, and anyone who stepped out of line. The KGB wasn't just police – it was the Party's invisible hand, operating in the shadows while the visible government played politics.
3/ Cold War era? They hit the ground running. By 1954 the Iron
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