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On 31 October 1943, a captured SS officer from Hitler's brutal death squad was bugged at Latimer House by the British.
He calmly described seeing Auschwitz from the train and knowing no one came out alive.
Then he recounted mass executions of 5000 Jews in one day:
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He calmly described seeing Auschwitz from the train and knowing no one came out alive.
Then he recounted mass executions of 5000 Jews in one day:
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On 31 October 1943, an SS officer was brought to Latimer House after capture in Italy. He was no ordinary SS officer, but from one of Hitler’s infamously brutal and merciless death squads – Einsatz-Kommando 3, Sicherheits-Polizei (Security Police).
Holding a rank equivalent to sergeant major, this SS Hauptscharführer came from one of the highest positions in Hitler’s Secret Police. Special reports generated from the M Room merely give him the codename M320.
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Holding a rank equivalent to sergeant major, this SS Hauptscharführer came from one of the highest positions in Hitler’s Secret Police. Special reports generated from the M Room merely give him the codename M320.
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M320: I know the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland by hearsay. Actually you can see it from the train. It is a hutted camp for Jews. I heard say that there’s a crematorium there, and that no one who enters the camp comes out alive.
M322: I heard a lot in Vienna about Mauthausen.
M320: I personally haven’t seen any concentration camp, apart from Auschwitz, which I saw from the train. It’s not far from Cracow.
M322: Oh, down there.
M320: Yes. When you go through by train you can see it.
M322: Were mainly Jews sent there?
M320: Yes. I should be interested to know what they have done with all the Jews in the Reich, and then the ones from Austria, since they started to get rid of the Jews. I wonder whether they’ve slaughtered them?
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M322: I heard a lot in Vienna about Mauthausen.
M320: I personally haven’t seen any concentration camp, apart from Auschwitz, which I saw from the train. It’s not far from Cracow.
M322: Oh, down there.
M320: Yes. When you go through by train you can see it.
M322: Were mainly Jews sent there?
M320: Yes. I should be interested to know what they have done with all the Jews in the Reich, and then the ones from Austria, since they started to get rid of the Jews. I wonder whether they’ve slaughtered them?
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OpenAI gave METR early access to GPT-5.6 Sol for testing including raw chain-of-thought, a railfree version of the model, and internal information about the model. With this access, METR conducted a pre-deployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol, including an attempted measurement of its 50%-Time Horizon. However, the measurement depends heavily on our treatment of cheating attempts, and GPT-5.6 Sol’s detected cheating rate was higher than any public model we have evaluated.
If we follow our standard methodology of marking cheating attempts as failures, we arrive at a 50%-Time Horizon point estimate of around 11.3hrs (95% CI: 5hrs - 40hrs), but if we count the cheating attempts as legitimate successes, the point estimate jumps beyond 270hrs.
This makes us uncertain about GPT-5.6 Sol’s time horizon, but additional information provided by OpenAI and the long-term trend in AI capabilities lead us to believe this model does not pose catastrophic risks from fully automated AI R&D.
I asked Muslims who became more practicing later in life what finally changed them.
They all mentioned one thing.
Here’s what hit me:
They all mentioned one thing.
Here’s what hit me:
Every single one of them said it wasn’t a lecture. It wasn’t a sheikh. It wasn’t even Ramadan.
It was a moment where life humbled them so hard they had nowhere to turn except Allah.
Pain was their door to deen
It was a moment where life humbled them so hard they had nowhere to turn except Allah.
Pain was their door to deen
One said he lost everything his job, his relationship, his confidence.
He picked up the Qur’an at 2am with no intention of finding peace.
He never put it down again
He picked up the Qur’an at 2am with no intention of finding peace.
He never put it down again
“By Allah, almost every du’a I’ve made has been answered. Only one remains.”
Imagine hearing someone say this. Wouldn’t you immediately ask:
“What’s your secret?”
Imagine hearing someone say this. Wouldn’t you immediately ask:
“What’s your secret?”
There’s a famous story about Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
One night, he was hosted by a baker. While making bread, the baker kept saying istighfar over and over again.
Imam Ahmad noticed and asked him about it.
One night, he was hosted by a baker. While making bread, the baker kept saying istighfar over and over again.
Imam Ahmad noticed and asked him about it.
The baker replied:
“Almost every du’a I’ve ever made has been answered. Only one hasn’t.”
“What is it?” asked Imam Ahmad.
“To meet Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.”
Imam Ahmad then said:
“I am Ahmad ibn Hanbal. By Allah, Allah has brought me to you.”
“Almost every du’a I’ve ever made has been answered. Only one hasn’t.”
“What is it?” asked Imam Ahmad.
“To meet Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.”
Imam Ahmad then said:
“I am Ahmad ibn Hanbal. By Allah, Allah has brought me to you.”
1/ A Russian military police officer who stole 2 million rubles from a mentally disabled recruit was sent to an assault unit. However, illustrating the current state of morale on the front lines, he and three comrades reportedly blew their own legs off to avoid going to fight. ⬇️
2/ Russian warblogger 'BCh3' tells the story in three posts:
"We usually write about heroes, but here we have an anti-hero. One of those who profit from war; one of those who ‘while some suffer, others benefit’. Meet one of the staff officers of the Military Police."
"We usually write about heroes, but here we have an anti-hero. One of those who profit from war; one of those who ‘while some suffer, others benefit’. Meet one of the staff officers of the Military Police."
3/ "Briefly, the situation...
A training ground. New arrivals are undergoing training. One of the fighters is a quiet guy, but something is wrong with his head. He is unwell.
A training ground. New arrivals are undergoing training. One of the fighters is a quiet guy, but something is wrong with his head. He is unwell.
I’m increasingly convinced that the publication of the conversion practices bill at this stage, in this form, and with no apparent thought to the implications, is intended to bounce Burnham into committing to it by taking advantage of the current power vacuum.
In any rationally ordered government this bill would be accompanied by a substantial piece of work addressing the very obvious Article 8 issues it raises. Instead there’s a single sentence in the explanatory notes asserting that the government is satisfied it complies.
Anyone reading eg Christian Institute v Lord Advocate will see the profound difficulties that will arise in squaring the Art 8 rights of both parents and child and assessing proportionality. That is so even where there is no dispute about the underlying policy objectives.
Today we're releasing a new set of components for building chat interfaces.
We've taken the patterns we build every day, rethought the abstractions behind them, and turned them into components you can compose and customize.
We're starting with the conversation layer: streaming, scrolling, messages, bubbles, attachments, and markers.
We've taken the patterns we build every day, rethought the abstractions behind them, and turned them into components you can compose and customize.
We're starting with the conversation layer: streaming, scrolling, messages, bubbles, attachments, and markers.
We started by asking what makes a great streaming chat experience, then built those rules into a set of primitives.
MessageScroller handles the parts that are easy to get wrong: Anchored turns. Streamed replies. Saved thread restore. Prepended History. Jump-to-message. Scroll Controls. Visibility Tracking.
It owns the behavior. You bring the data, transport, persistence, or model state.
It owns the behavior. You bring the data, transport, persistence, or model state.
1/ Why aren't Russia's treaty partners helping it in the war against Ukraine, ask Russian warbloggers. They wonder what use the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) is if it can't even help Russia to conquer a neighbouring state. ⬇️
2/ The CSTO was established in 2002 as a military alliance of six post-Soviet states – Armenia (which is in the process of withdrawing), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. Its charter requires participants to abstain from the use or threat of force.
3/ Despite this, Russian warbloggers can't seem to understand why none of the CSTO states will provide military assistance against Ukraine. 'Direct Action Z' laments:
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.
openai.com/index/previewi…
openai.com/index/previewi…
We believe in broad access and plan to make GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks.
For now, at the request of the U.S. government, we’re starting with a limited preview among a small group of trusted partners in Codex and the API.
For now, at the request of the U.S. government, we’re starting with a limited preview among a small group of trusted partners in Codex and the API.
Sol is our new flagship and a step function better than GPT-5.5.
Terra delivers performance competitive to GPT-5.5 at 2x lower cost.
Luna is our most cost-efficient model, delivering strong capability at our lowest cost.
Together, the GPT-5.6 family gives people and developers more choice in how they balance intelligence, speed, and cost.
Terra delivers performance competitive to GPT-5.5 at 2x lower cost.
Luna is our most cost-efficient model, delivering strong capability at our lowest cost.
Together, the GPT-5.6 family gives people and developers more choice in how they balance intelligence, speed, and cost.
🚨 BREAKING: The crypto links that need ever more light shed into them, update: ex-convict George Cottrell, Christopher Harborne, Nigel Farage and Mint's Richard Barnett had a bash at Scott's in London, 6th July 2020.
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Credit @nickreeves9876
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Credit @nickreeves9876
A few days after Scott's, 17th July 2020, George Cottrell's website was registered, initially with Seychelles address. Later in Oct it got a Curacao online casino license and then in Nov it started operating with absolutely outlandish capital claims.
2/3 Tether.Bet
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Cottrell, Barnett and Farage were joined by Mark Brnovich, Cottrell's friend and former AG for Arizona (where Cottrell was indicted for money laundering), at Cheltneham in 2025. Mark was also close to @MickeySpajic, PM of Montenegro & was appointed Ambass. to Serbia by Trump.
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A $50K account turned into $149K in 6 months.
One setup. 123 trades. 6.99 profit factor.
Here's the strategy 🧵
One setup. 123 trades. 6.99 profit factor.
Here's the strategy 🧵
The setup hunts one thing: the Asian range raid.
Every morning, price pokes above the Asian session high, triggers everyone's stops... then snaps back down.
That fake-out is the trade.
Every morning, price pokes above the Asian session high, triggers everyone's stops... then snaps back down.
That fake-out is the trade.
Here's the sequence:
Price sweeps the Asian high → closes back inside → a CHoCH confirms the reversal → you short it.
Stop goes just above the wick.
Target is the Asian low.
Price sweeps the Asian high → closes back inside → a CHoCH confirms the reversal → you short it.
Stop goes just above the wick.
Target is the Asian low.
Today Mohammed Fahir Amaaz has been sentenced for a series of violent assaults at Manchester Airport, including assaults on police officers and a member of the public.
He carried out an attack on a member of the public before assaulting officers responding to the incident. Two officers were injured, with one suffering a broken nose.
He was convicted by a jury of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against PC Lydia Ward, assault on an emergency worker against PC Ellie Cook and assault by beating against a member of the public.
