40+ million Americans take statins for heart health, yet heart disease remains our leading cause of death.

If statins are the solution, why is this?

The truth is more complex than it seems.

Here’s what we need to understand about statins: 🧵

2/ The statin story starts with a controversial scientific study in the 1960s.

John Yudkin (blaming sugar) vs. Ancel Keys (blaming fat/cholesterol).

Keys won with his "Seven Countries Study", which EXCLUDED countries that didn't fit his hypothesis.

What did the study say?

3/ "Seven Countries Study" linked fat intake to heart disease, but it only showed correlation, not causation.

Keys attacked Yudkin’s sugar hypothesis as “a mountain of nonsense."

Sugar industry groups derided Yudkin’s work as “science fiction."

THREAD on broad thoughts from hearing: My "gut" is that SCOTUS will follow what I call the Kavanaugh approach to nationwide injunctions and hold that there are rules & those must be followed and those rules require class certification to provide relief beyond Plaintiffs. 1/

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1923013681249415617

2/ Justice Kavanaugh (echoed by several other justices) stressed that exigent circumstances purportedly justifying nationwide injunctions don't exist because courts can grant TRO/Preliminary Injunctions for putative classes (meaning class action lawsuits not yet certified).

3/ Given that reality, Justice Kavanaugh suggested the argument that we need nationwide injunctions collapses. And as he stressed couple times, there is a rule & those rules must be followed. If you listened to the argument, Justice Kavanaugh's approach came off balanced & sane.

The points I made here are not really about AI, but about our culture's false view of reality, which wrongly equates, symbolic representation, such as language, as the same as reality. It is at the heart of the climate crisis.

1/🧵threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922795…

As I've repeatedly explained, the climate crisis is not the same as anthropogenic climate change. It's a crisis, because we have the science, that tells us we are in dire trouble, but our governments/leaders, act as if it is not a real emergency.
2/

What our culture profoundly misunderstands, is that abstract, symbolic representation of things like the natural world/systems, is not the same as the actual natural world. The map is never the territory.

3/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80…

The real scandal about the Air Force one is Boeing's failure as it has serious National Security Implications: The current VC-25A fleet, in service since 1990, is aging and increasingly costly to maintain,
1)

with reliability issues posing risks for presidential transport. Delays in replacing these aircraft heighten concerns about the President's safety and operational readiness.
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The new Air Force One aircraft, designated VC-25B and based on Boeing 747-8s, were ordered in 2018. This followed a contract finalized in February 2018 during the Trump administration for two aircraft at a cost of $3.9 billion.
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@sobebyf @esjesjesj @MattBinder @grok 1).
„As 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 visual investigative journalist @AricToler wrote on X earlier today: »I can’t stop reading the Grok reply page. It’s going schizo and can’t stop talking about white genocide in South Africa«.

@sobebyf @esjesjesj @MattBinder @grok @AricToler 2).
Toler posted four screenshots of Grok replying to users with variations of the same boilerplate response [1] [2].”

May 14, 2025

[1] @AricToler x.com/AricToler/stat…

x.com/threadreaderap…

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922702…

@VentureBeat venturebeat.com/ai/elon-musks-…

@sobebyf @esjesjesj @MattBinder @grok @AricToler @VentureBeat Please unroll @threadreaderapp. Thank you in advance 𓃠

Here’s what Voltaire, one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment, had to say about Ukraine as a nation in 1731, in Book Four of "Histoire de Charles XII", page 85:

(Translated from the original French)

A thread 🧵

"Ukraine has always aspired to be free, but surrounded by Muscovy, the Ottoman Empire, and Poland, it was forced to seek a protector and thus, inevitably, a master."

Ukraine first sought protection from Poland, but was treated too much as a subject. So it turned to Muscovy, which ruled it harshly. At first, Ukrainians could elect their own leader, the Hetman. But even this right was later stripped by Moscow.

🚨NEW STUDY: We could trap 18 billion kilos of CO₂ a year by tweaking how we treat our wastewater.

How? By adding alkaline rocks like olivine—turning treatment plants into climate allies. A quick thread🧵1/7

#CDR #CarbonRemoval #ClimateSolutions

2/ Carbon dioxide removal is about pulling CO₂ out of the air and locking it away.

One such technique, OAE, helps the ocean absorb more CO₂ by increasing its alkalinity, which reduces surface ocean acidity.

3/ This study tested something new: adding olivine-rich rock to urban wastewater before it hits the ocean.

The result? A big jump in both alkalinity and CO₂ capture in the treated water.

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦🇫🇷‼️The explosions that shook Macron: What happened to the French officers‼️

May 15, 2025

Secret strikes in the depths of western Ukraine: New Russian missiles S8000 "Banderol" caused chaos among foreign operatives? 👇

In the latest wave of precision strikes, western Ukraine has been hit by explosions that have severely shaken critical military infrastructure.

According to information spread on the Internet and reports from Russian sources, the latest S8000 "Banderol" type missiles, specially developed for neutralizing complex electronic warfare systems, air defense positions and military warehouses, were used - and with exceptional precision.

The areas around the cities in Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions were particularly affected by the strikes. Citizens reported tremors, so strong that some even thought it was an earthquake. 👇

And indeed - it is not the first time that such an effect has been recorded. Back in March, after the impact on energy systems and the gas network, seismologists registered a 2.5-magnitude ground tremor.

This time the targets were more serious. Reports from social networks, as well as allegations circulating among analysts, indicate that storage facilities and command posts where, according to Russian sources, foreign military advisers were located, were hit. Special mention is made of the officers connected with the French contingents and logistics.

One of the sources stated that it was these losses that motivated French President Emmanuel Macron to recently declare that Paris "gave Ukraine everything it could." In diplomatic circles, this sentence is interpreted as a signal of saturation, perhaps a hint of a change in strategy. 👇

Jordan Peterson and Andrew Huberman changed my life.

I watched hundreds of their videos over the last few years.

Here are the 11 best habits I learned that will change your life:

1. Caffeine Use

How to use caffeine properly:

• Don’t take caffeine within 90-120min of waking up
• Don’t take caffeine 10 hours before going to bed
• Don’t take more than 3-4 cups of coffee per day

Use this as guidelines, not rules.

2. Sleep Optimization

Sleep is the number 1 productivity hack.

• Avoid screens in the evening
• Get 8 hours of sleep per night
• Have a consistent sleep schedule/rhythm

Sleep well to perform well.

EXPLAINER !!
Hello folks! Today we continue our trade series by unpacking a major invisible barrier to trade in East Africa - Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs)
Let's break it down 👇

1. What are NTBs?
NTBs are trade restrictions that aren’t tariffs–like import licenses, inspections, arbitrary customs procedures and fees in Govts use them to protect domestic industries,control trade flows, or achieve political goals–but they make trade costly & unpredictable.

2. Why should we care about NTBs in East Africa?
The EAC Treaty & customs union protocol committed Partner States to eliminate NTBs and not to introduce new ones.But despite the legal commitments, NTBs persist – and they affect trade,businesses, and livelihoods across the region.

1).
„The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement [1]), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory [2] [3] [4], is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory [4] [5] [6] espoused by French author Renaud Camus [7].

https://twitter.com/the_ins_ru/status/1922942156534091883

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The original theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of »replacist« elites the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white peoples – especially from Muslim-majority countries –

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through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the U.S. [8] [9] [10].”

Endnotes:

[1] fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_rem…

[2] @NCBI pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC75…

What if we told you that one of India’s most strategic borders was secured… without a single bullet fired?

No troops. No conflict. Just one man on a quiet mission — sent to reclaim a land India hadn’t yet claimed.

#UnsungHero #IndianHistory #ForgottenHeroes #Tawang #NortheastIndia #IndianArmy

In 1951, as China closed in on Tibet, Tawang stood unguarded. No Indian flag. No administration. Vulnerable.

So the government turned to an unlikely hero — a former soldier from Manipur, armed not with weapons, but with resolve.

Swipe to discover the untold story of the man who secured Tawang… with faith, not force.>>