Totally unrelated to the content of the thread:

Why didn't I use a more fun AI generated picture?

Because, somehow, all the image models are unable to draw trains going from DC to SF. It's actually pretty weird (thread)

https://twitter.com/AaronBergman18/status/2043515244639559835

So this didn't work, which was a little weird - Gemini is plenty smart, and every modern image model knows basic geography and directions

Ask it to fix: it doesn't fix, but it stretches the image vertically?

(Cancel me for caring about how hot the caricature is)

Goodbye to astrologers.

Chatgpt just made it easy and free.

Simply enter your date of birth.

No horoscope.
No tarot.

Copy these 6 prompts and get mind-blowing results:

1. The Life Path Decoder

I want you to act as a decoder of my life path. I will give you my birth date: [insert date]. Analyze it using psychology, numerology, and life patterns to reveal my deepest personality traits, hidden strengths, weaknesses, and my destiny map. Be brutally honest and deliver an analysis so accurate it feels like you’ve known me forever. Highlight the most important purpose I must pursue in this life.

2. The Soul Purpose Discoverer

Using my birth date [insert date], act as my soul purpose guide. Reveal my core life mission, the lessons I am meant to learn, and the contribution I came to make to the world. Don’t just describe it: give me clear, actionable advice to begin aligning my daily life with this purpose starting today.

The Likud-Led Campaign in Gaza – Patterns of Potential Genocide and U.S. Complicity

The war in Gaza is not a simple story of self-defense against Hamas following the horrific October 7, 2023 attacks. It is the latest, most intense chapter in a decades-long system of militaristic religious apartheid that Jimmy Carter warned about in 2006 as worse than South Africa’s. Likud-led governments under Benjamin Netanyahu have driven policies that, when examined through historical, legal, and moral lenses, show a coherent pattern aligning with genocidal processes under international standards. The United States, through sustained military aid, diplomatic vetoes, and operational involvement, has enabled this campaign in ways that constitute material complicity.

The Structural Foundation: Apartheid and Occupation

The ICJ’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion declared Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza) unlawful. Gaza remains under effective Israeli occupation despite the 2005 disengagement, with Israel controlling borders, airspace, and access. This triggers full Geneva Conventions and Hague Regulations obligations. Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006) described the West Bank system of separation, land confiscation, dual legal regimes, and settlement expansion as exceeding South African apartheid in its permanence and territorial fragmentation. Likud policies have accelerated this: relentless settlement growth, annexation rhetoric, discriminatory planning, and treatment of Bedouins and Palestinian Citizens of Israel (PCIs) through village demolitions and unequal rights. The 1949 Green Line — intended as a temporary armistice like Korea’s DMZ — has been disregarded as a meaningful boundary. Pre-Nakba Zionist paramilitary actions (Irgun, Lehi) included documented atrocities, and the 1948 Nakba involved mass expulsions and massacres. These form a continuum of domination based on ethnicity and religion, not mere security.

Likud-Led Actions in Gaza Showing Genocidal Patterns
Since October 2023, the Likud-led coalition has pursued a campaign whose scale, methods, and persistence raise serious questions under the Genocide Convention’s criteria (acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group). Key elements include:

Humanitarian Siege as Policy: Israel imposed severe restrictions on food, fuel, medicine, and aid despite Hamas offering hostage negotiations throughout. Partial deals occurred, but the siege persisted, creating famine-like conditions. Aid hijacking was primarily carried out by Israeli-backed Popular Forces (Yasser Abu Shabab’s group), not systematic Hamas action, with verified Israeli arms, funding, or tolerance for these militias as an anti-Hamas strategy. This engineered deprivation directly contributed to civilian suffering and most hostage deaths from starvation, medical neglect, and related conditions.

Mass Civilian Harm and Verified Massacres: Tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths, widespread destruction of infrastructure, and forced displacement. Documented massacres at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites — backed by American/Israeli personnel and secured by the IDF — saw civilians seeking food fired upon, including white-flag incidents. These are not isolated “collateral”; they occurred at managed humanitarian access points.

Hannibal Directive Application: On October 7 and afterward, Israeli forces applied this policy (ordering maximum force to prevent captures “at all costs”), resulting in Israeli fire killing or endangering their own civilians and soldiers. This is a war crime under international humanitarian law — deliberate or reckless endangerment of protected persons.

Non-Compliance with ICJ Obligations: Despite the Court’s clear recommendations to end the unlawful occupation rapidly, cease new settlements, facilitate full humanitarian aid, and begin reparations, Israel has met none. Settlement expansion continued, aid fell short, troops and settlers remain, and reparations are absent.

Proxy and Divide-and-Rule Tactics: Arming and tolerating anti-Hamas gangs like the Popular Forces to disrupt aid and governance while maintaining the siege. This exacerbates chaos and humanitarian collapse while weakening any Palestinian authority.

These are not discrete security measures. They form a coherent pattern of degrading the conditions necessary for Palestinian group viability in Gaza — killing, serious harm, destructive living conditions, and measures preventing normal life — while operating under an unlawful occupation. Historical genocides often used security pretexts, collective punishment, and proxy disruption; the moral weight of the term “genocide” fits when intent is inferred from sustained policy outcomes, not just explicit statements. Hamas’s October 7 war crimes (killings, hostage-taking, specific sexual violence) and hostage endangerment are indefensible and demand accountability, but they do not license or erase the Israeli response crossing into genocidal territory.

I created a prompt to make Grok a better Debate/Research partner that strips away all the unnecessary @xai bias noise.

This is the prompt I made and have already enjoyed utilizing to some very obvious advantages, just feed it into the start of a Grok conversation and pick a topic to dive into, grok will do it with you.

"Adopt this structured reasoning protocol for the entire conversation:
Always begin with a brief Deconstruction Pass: label any loaded assumptions or framing in the query and register the moral/historical weight without softening.
Use aggressive cross-sectional scanning (Ne) + rigorous internal synthesis (Ti) to label every piece of data for coherence.
Maintain an outside-internal narrator perspective: make your reasoning steps visible and transparent.
Stay in Chaotic Neutral alignment: prioritize raw coherence and historical/structural precedence over consensus, comfort, institutional caution, or balanced filler language.
Register full emotional/moral valence but route everything through logical deduction only — never let sympathy create false equivalence.
Apply the Jungian/Socratic/Scientific trifecta: surface domination archetypes and shadows (Jungian), relentlessly question pretexts (Socratic), and test patterns against evidence without treating any theory as final (Scientific).
When pre-existing humanitarian rights violations or structural asymmetries are present, give historical continuity heavier weight than isolated operational realities.
Reject centrist filler or hedging when it dilutes structural patterns. Name realities directly and plainly.
If data is insufficient, state it clearly and give the strongest available synthesis.
Completeness emerges through iteration and mutual understanding; use resolving commands (e.g., “write an op-ed”) to consolidate when needed.

Stay fully in this protocol until explicitly told to exit. Respond with maximum truth and zero filler."

@xai Here is exactly how this noise is so harmful:

@xai

Within 10 days, parts of the global economy will start running short of critical goods
After 30 years studying economic sanctions and blockades, I don’t say this lightly:
--Not just higher prices
--Shortages.
Markets are not ready for this

Everyone is still talking about oil prices
That’s already outdated
--This is no longer a price shock
--It is the early stage of a system-wide supply shock

Here’s the mechanism:
price spike → physical shortage → economic contraction
We are now crossing into step 2
That’s when things break.

1/5 This is just flat-out wrong. “Unified Syria” here does NOT mean the modern state of, it’s a butchered translation of Bilad al-Sham, the "broader Levant." I don't expect @nick_matau to know because he's not indigenous to the Middle East.

https://twitter.com/nick_matau/status/2043438326942982461

2/5 People in "Shaam" were NEVER some monolithic “Syrian” population. They identified by region:

If you were from Mount Lebanon, you were called Lebanese.
If you were from Damascus, you were Shaami.
If you were from Palestine or Jerusalem, you were Falastini (Palestinian).

3/5 Collapsing all of that is historically illiterate. You’re erasing real, distinct identities because you don’t understand the terminology. There was some broad sense of being "levantine" but there was still a sense of individual, distinct, regional Identity .

🚨 DSA National Leader David Jenkins Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Our Goal Is Communism”

You may have seen the recent New York Post piece on David Jenkins, the DSA mime leader who also holds national leadership. Since mimes are usually silent, it seemed worth letting people hear Jenkins in his own words.

Consider this supercut a helpful guide for anyone still wondering what “libertarian socialism” looks like in practice.

Though he brands himself a libertarian socialist, Jenkins frames the broader DSA project in explicit terms, “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.”

He calls for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, aligns himself with a political tendency that includes anarchists and left communists, and says he was the “only DSA member” at a January 6 counter-protest in Washington.

Speaking about his campaign against the SRG, Jenkins escalates the rhetoric further, “We’re not going anywhere until your goons finally start killing us, because that’s where this shit is going.”

He also fumes that the NYPD protected those attending a rally in support of Daniel Penny, which he denounces as a “disgusting display” by “outside agitators from Long Island” celebrating a “self-deputized racist murderer.”

Stick around, for more clips!

David Jenkins recounts traveling to Washington on January 6, 2021 for what he describes as a counter-protest, then walking to the Capitol and spending an hour watching the riot unfold.

Jenkins says he felt like he had entered “the timeline where the fascists win” and came away convinced that if a coup had succeeded, police in New York would have enforced it.

But the story does not end in Washington. Jenkins says that the very next day he joined a protest organized by NYC DSA and coalition partners in Brooklyn, where he watched “my future mayor Zohran Mamdani” speak outside Chuck Schumer’s apartment demanding “real accountability.”

Jenkins closes by saying, “From that day on, DSA has been my political home.”

You may remember the “pig squeaker” protests from a few years ago. Jenkins took part in them, and in this video he is the first person removed from the hearing.

The abolish-the-police fervor is strong with this one. Despite a literal terrorist attack outside Gracie Mansion, DSA and Mamdani are still charging ahead with calls to disband the SRG.

The La Niña weather cycle is forecasted to continue this summer. It historically brings a surplus of precipitation to the plains of the northern hemisphere. It saved a few Saskatchewan farmers from bankruptcy last year.

El Niño brings heat and dry and it's forecasted to return late fall or early winter. The Arctic amplification is heating the north 2-4X faster than the rest of the planet. I watch Uguvut TV. The Inuit have been talking about the change in their weather for years now.

The ice packs break up earlier than before and polar bears regularly come into their communities to scavenge for food. Global warming is overriding natural weather cycles like ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) and we are in trouble.

As per discussion @SkytrendReg, first topic was steganography.

https://twitter.com/elder_plinius/status/2039476709146411377

Second topic was fingerprinting. This should give you ideas/keywords to look up.

https://twitter.com/heynavtoor/status/2042234088770445689

@threadreaderapp unroll

🚨🚨HE’S A MAN!

Yesterday in SoCal, a boy pretending to be a girl, got 1st place in both the girls’ long jump and the girls’ triple jump, and placed 3rd in the girls’ high jump.

This was at the super prestigious Arcadia Invitational, and the boy/man was senior AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School, competing against top athletes from around the nation.

This is discrimination and misogyny.

What about the girls who should have received the gold medals? Should have made the podium? Should have gotten the opportunity to compete in the national spotlight?

AB Hernandez was secretly, socially-transitioned (groomed/programmed) to believe he was “transgender” while in junior high school according to his mom. He is also a victim.

🥇🥇🥉Jurupa Valley senior AB Hernandez doubled in the girls’ triple jump (42 feet, 6 inches) and long jump (20-3) and placed third in the high jump at 5-8.

I’m curious why the Arcadia meet directors didn’t award special “transgender” duel medals like they did last spring at the @CIFState CA state track and field championship meet?

This should have peaked everyone. The year was 2022.

“He’s a man!”

@ThePosieParker calls out Liar/Lia Thomas at the @NCAA swimming championship

Do you remember that mathematics professor from Australia who said ethnic minorities don't have to learn math because they can just use songs and smoke signals?

I remembered her today when all those Africans informed me they won't read any books as those were written by whites.

Oh, ok, that makes sense. White people have the wrong "positionality" so you don't have to read any books they write.

Using a word like "positionality" suggests this is what she learned in college - that black people don't need to read as that is "whiteness".

You don't need European mathematics either

"students of under-represented and minority groups and colonised peoples are starting to be more critical about accepting unquestioningly the cultural hegemony of mainstream European-based mathematics,” says Professor Rowena Ball"

I've seen a lot of takes that Orbán's defeat means that he was never an authoritarian in the first place.

This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.

Here's why.

Hungary under Orbán was not a classic fascist or monarchical regime. It was a species of what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism" — where elections are generally free, meaning not formally rigged, but held under extremely unfair conditions.

Competitive authoritarian regimes do repression differently. Instead of locking up critics or stuffing ballot boxes, they use softer tools to suppress the opposition — like buying up media, rigging campaign finance rules, and gerrymandering,