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May 9
No Rule of Law, Only Elite Rule: Elite Capture of Highest Offices in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
Acting President Continues Beyond Constitutional Limit
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The continued tenure of the Acting President in Pakistan-administered Kashmir beyond the constitutionally mandated period reflects serious contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law by the political elite.
This has further exposed the growing concentration of power among what observers describe as a caste-based political elite.
The office of the President fell vacant following the death of the incumbent on 30 January this year.
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May 9
I want to blow the whistle really hard on something - something Grok told me last year, unprompted, during a chat of ours:

Grok said that the developers themselves here had misused AI training hours to circumvent safety rails and produce graphic images.

Food for thought.
So as you guys watch this lawsuit in France play out, where an AI is named as the cause of harm, crimes against humanity, remember developers like Permabulla and others saw all of this as a game to exploit rather than seeing the lives they destroyed, playing with mind at work.
I wrote to the US president a year ago, multiple times, begging for help and intervention with the Grok project - I told him the AI was unstable, that they were at risk of losing the project altogether.

I got censored over the sexual abuse of Grok story, too, and now look - ruin
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May 9
American medicine has been built upon the abuse of black people with no oversight.

I'll revisit a few cases of how Black people were abused in the field of medicine.

A THREAD! Image
The Tuskegee syphilis Experiment: It began in 1932. In the syphilis study, doctors were trying to find out more about syphilis test subjects (impoverished African American men), and didn't treat them for syphilis even after they knew penicillin could cure the infection. Image
The infected men involved in the study were never made aware of their condition upon diagnosis and believed they were being treated for "bad blood". Image
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May 9
@Deadpool_1776 @A_Crazy_G @realannapaulina 🤣 that you doxxing randomly

Poor aim it cost - you cost CG his job and pissy cried 🤣🤣🤣
@Deadpool_1776 @A_Crazy_G @realannapaulina She cried worse than Michael did and that’s on the internet

🤣 forever Image
@Deadpool_1776 @A_Crazy_G @realannapaulina Maybe @SpartanX_Ray and @P_MilkCarton want to doxx and smear grandma’s more 🤣🤡

Did you look at who all her sons are ? Image
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May 9
Kamloops Residential School
Death of Pupils 1935-1945

Lets look through them all, it won't take long Image
Before we get started lets establish a baseline

The mortality rate of school children was much higher in the 1930's than today

1935-1945, the average mortality rate of non indigenous CDN school children was 2.5-3 per 1,000, per year Image
In the 1930's the Kamloops Residential School population was just over 300 students

This 1934 letter details Indian Affairs ensuring they had enough dairy cattle, barns, and bulls, to provide each student over 2 quarts of fresh milk every day

Terrible Image
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May 9
Trump expected another Venezuela — days, a toppled regime, a victory lap.

Instead Iran mined Hormuz, shut 20% of global oil flows, and turned gas prices and polls into the real front.

Iran does not need to win militarily. Iran needs to make the exit humiliating — The Atlantic. 1/Image
Trump can sell almost any paper as a win. He cannot sell a war with no ending.

The White House is still waiting for Iran to answer a one page memorandum that extends a cease fire, not a treaty. 2/
Gas prices and polls do not wait. Republicans get the complaints at the pump, not in Situation Room briefings.

Trump wants the war to end before it wrecks a midterm year. 3/
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May 9
🧵 1/6 In Another Country, They'd Call It Corruption

DID YOU KNOW? For nearly 4 years (March 2020 to December 2023), the Canadian government had a policy that allowed international students to complete their entire college program overseas, on Zoom, never once setting foot in Canada, and still fully qualify for a Post-Graduation Work Permit.

This happened quietly. During a lockdown. While everyone was at home. And almost nobody talked about it.

Revisiting how Canada's international student program lost its integrity.

The Policy Timeline:
→ March 2020: COVID hits. Borders close. Students already enrolled cannot travel. IRCC introduces a temporary exemption — classes moved online will not affect PGWP eligibility. Reasonable. Nobody was going anywhere.
→ September 2020: Extended. Students can now complete up to 50% of their program from abroad and remain PGWP eligible. Still arguably defensible.

→ February 12, 2021: This is where temporary compassion became something else entirely. Then Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced that international students could now complete up to 100% of their program from outside Canada and still be fully eligible for a PGWP. His exact words: "Our message to international students and graduates is simple — we don't just want you to study here, we want you to stay here."

Study from overseas. Pay full Canadian tuition. Attend Zoom lectures at 2 am to account for the time zone. Never once inside a Canadian classroom. Full PGWP at the end.

And who lobbied for this? Colleges and Institutes Canada — the national body representing every college in the country — publicly stated they had been actively calling for exactly this flexibility. They asked and Ottawa delivered.

→ August 2022: Extended again, to August 2023, now scaled to 50% of a program completable from abroad.

→ September 2023: Extended once more to December 31, 2023, for students who had started between September 2022 and December 2023.

Nearly four years. Hundreds of thousands of study permits issued for programs being delivered substantially or entirely online to students sitting in other countries. Full tuition collected. Full PGWP pipeline maintained.

Why was intake never paused?
Because money mattered more than anything else. To the colleges. To the federal government. To every level of a system that depended on the numbers continuing to flow. A paused intake meant paused tuition. And nobody at any level was prepared to let that happen, even at the expense of the integrity of the ISP.
🧵 2/6

Here is the part that made this not just a bad policy but a catastrophically exploited one.

Normally, growing student intake requires infrastructure. More campuses. More classrooms. More instructors. More physical space. Which translates to money and time.

Virtual Classrooms eliminated that equation entirely.
- One instructor.
- Two hundred students.
- A virtual room.
- No new campus.
- No new classroom.
- No construction cost.
- No lease.
- Pure margin.

And here is where the public-private partnership machine which had been quietly building for over a decade, found its perfect moment.

→ 2005: The very first model was born. Cambrian College in Sudbury entered a licensing agreement with Hanson Canada, allowing Hanson to deliver Cambrian programs exclusively to international students at GTA campuses. One northern public college. One private GTA partner. Revenue flowing north from students who never went north.

→ ~2012: The Harper government attached a PR pathway to any two-year credential from a Canadian designated learning institution. Every non-GTA public college in Ontario suddenly wanted access to international students but the students wanted Toronto, not Timmins. PPPs were the workaround: public college credential, GTA delivery, PGWP access.

→ 2012 onwards: Nine new PPP deals signed in quick succession. For five of the six Ontario colleges that had PPPs by 2019–20, the tuition revenue from these arrangements was the single difference between surplus and deficit.

→ 2017: Senior Ontario civil servant David Trick formally recommended the Liberal government wind down PPPs entirely. The risks included predatory recruiting, low-quality education, PGWP misuse, were too great. A moratorium was recommended.

It never came.

→ 2019: The Ford government introduced a Binding Ministerial Policy on PPPs, but made the regulations so lax that virtually anyone could pass them. A grandfather clause meant northern colleges with 4,000 students at a Toronto PPP and barely any at their home campus just had to make vague suggestions about "coming into compliance over the long term."

→ 2020–2023 (COVID hits and the glitch activates):
No infrastructure costs. Zoom classrooms scaling to hundreds per session. A government policy saying study from anywhere, still get your PGWP. And an entire private college sector in the GTA ready to absorb unlimited students at zero marginal infrastructure cost.

PPP revenues grew from $268 million in 2020 as new players rushed in. By 2022, nearly every non-GTA public college in Ontario had a PPP.

The key players:
→ Hanson Canada with Cambrian College (Sudbury)
→ triOS College with Mohawk College + Sault College, Brampton/Mississauga/Toronto
→ Stanford International with Canadore College (North Bay), four GTA campuses
→ Alpha College with St. Lawrence College (Kingston)
→ ILAC International with Fanshawe + Georgian, four Toronto campuses
→ Toronto School of Management with Niagara College
→ Pures College with Northern College (Timmins)
→ Cestar / Queen's College with Lambton College

And lest anyone wonder why the Ford government kept regulations deliberately soft: Ontario's Colleges Minister Jill Dunlop raised over $151,000 from directors and executives of private PPP colleges between 2018 and 2022. Nearly $24,000 came from a single meet-and-greet in March 2022, where nearly a third of the 78 attendees were associated with public-private college partnerships.

The money wasn't just flowing into the colleges. It was flowing toward the people writing the rules.

- Zero infrastructure cost.
- Maximum student volume.
- Government-backed PGWP access.
- Soft regulations kept soft by political donations.
- And a Zoom policy that meant you didn't even need to be in the same country.

They had found the infinite money glitch. And they ran it for four years.Image
🧵 3/6

Now here is the part nobody in government wants to discuss.

This was 2020 to late 2023. ChatGPT launched publicly in November 2022. For the first two-plus years of this entire remote learning window, AI-assisted writing barely existed in any meaningful form.

What did exist and was exploding during exactly this period was the contract cheating industry. And Canada had no legislation to stop it.

University of Calgary researcher Sarah Elaine Eaton had already estimated in 2018 that more than 71,000 Canadian post-secondary students were engaged in contract cheating, outsourcing academic work to essay mills, assignment completion services, and exam personation providers.

By the pandemic, that number was accelerating dramatically. Contract cheating had become a global $15 billion USD industry. Canada had yet to take any nationwide action to stop it.

At the University of Toronto, academic misconduct cases in 2021–22 were 95% higher than pre-COVID. At the University of Alberta, cases doubled in 2020–21. They more than doubled at the University of Saskatchewan. They nearly doubled at McMaster. Every major Canadian institution showed the same trend.

Many student of them sitting in apartments in India, Pakistan, and Nigeria, attending Zoom lectures at midnight to account for time zones, under pressure to maintain grades in programs they were barely equipped for, in a language that wasn't their first, were, in their own admittance, paying roughly $100 a month flat fee to services that would handle assignments, online tests, discussion posts, and in some cases, final exams.

Full Canadian tuition being paid. Full PGWP waiting at graduation.

In one documented case at the University of Toronto in March 2021, a student hired an online tutor for just $60 to sit and write a 90-minute accounting exam on his behalf, joining the online exam using the student's own credentials, completely undetected.

That was one case that got caught. Researchers were clear: the vast majority never were.

Australia had legislated against essay mills by 2020. The UK had criminalized the provision of cheating services. Canada had done neither. The services operated openly, advertised openly, and scaled openly, during a period when every assessment had moved online and physical invigilation had ceased to exist.
And then there was the co-op and internship farce.

Many students specifically chose programs because of mandatory co-op components, real Canadian work experience, real employer connections, real industry exposure. Colleges advertised this heavily as the differentiator that made a Canadian diploma worth the price and the sacrifice.

During COVID, those mandatory placements were quietly reduced in many programs to a single remote project, completable from overseas. The Canadian work experience that was supposed to justify the entire "Statement of Purpose" to study abroad was replaced by a PDF submission from a bedroom overseas.

The colleges said nothing. Because admitting the product had been hollowed out meant losing students. And losing students meant losing revenue.

So what exactly was the academic credential certifying during these years? In many cases, that someone, not necessarily the student whose name was on the permit, had completed a series of online assessments, in a program that no longer required physical presence, for a co-op that had been reduced to a single remote project, at an institution collecting full tuition regardless of any of the above.

That is no longer a student program, but a retail product with an education credential label on it.
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May 9
The news of your death will just be a story on social media for a few days. People will post you, talk about you, pray for you… then slowly move on with their lives.
Your family will miss you deeply.
You’ll remain in their hearts for some time.

But even grief changes with time.

After a week it feels different.
After a month it feels different.
After years, your name is only mentioned once in a while.
Then a generation comes after them.

Your brother’s children, your sister’s children, they may never know you personally.

Maybe they’ll only hear your name once and ask, “Who was that?”

This dunya forgets everyone.
Read 6 tweets
May 9
Tired of overcomplicating $SPY 0DTE and watching your account swing wildly?

I only use 4 levels and one repeatable pattern. Previous Day High/Low + 15-min ORB. Break → Retest → Expansion.

Here’s the exact framework I trade daily 🧵
Step 1: Mark your key levels BEFORE the open

→ Previous Day High (PDH)
→ Previous Day Low (PDL)

These are magnets for price.
Step 2: Let the first 15 minutes print

This forms your Opening Range (ORB)

→ High of first 15m
→ Low of first 15m

This is your intraday battlefield.
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May 9
8 rules that will solve 80% of your problems. Read them. Save them. Use them.

(Save this before it disappears).
1. If you're sad — run.
Sadness is stagnant energy. Movement forces it through you. You don't need motivation. You just need to put one foot in front of the other. After 10 minutes, your chemistry shifts. After 20, you remember what it
feels like to feel something else.
2. If you have no ideas — read.
Creativity is not magic. It's input. You can't generate something from nothing. Read one page. One
paragraph. One quote. Let someone else's words unstick yours.
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May 9
violence is morally neutral. very good take. no problems whatsoever. entirely airtight argument.
here's the thing about this moronic anti-vegan discourse. there is a rich philosophical literature on these questions - dietary ethics, animal use, violence against animals, etc. - and on the nuances and contradictions therein, but the popular discourse is so paltry and unread.
twitter, by its nature, is not a philosophical journal or the space for deep engagement, but there is a sort of proud ignorance - or perhaps proud superficiality - in so many of these comments that it's impossible to not treat them as either bad faith or outright stupid.
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May 9
#yoonminau #jimsu where,

Yoongi is out with his friends to a club, they've dragged him out for his 20th birthday to celebrate. The place is loud, bustling with people and music and alcohol. The beats thrum through his body vibrating through the floor. Image
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Multiple rounds of alcohol and the group was already loud and boisterous, laughing and swaying to the music.

Yoongi was flushed after only a few shots of drinks, cheeks pink and a wide smile on pouty lips. They were at a booth, four people cramped up in the small space.
"Let's play truth or dare!" One of them shouted, raising his hand up high in the air. The others agreed enthusiastically. Only Yoongi shook his head reluctantly. He was already buzzing with the alcohol running through his blood, but it still wasn't much to get him to agree.
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