Job training for a PATRIOT fire control enhanced operator requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 20 weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instruction.
Russian S-300 are far worse than Patriot in terms of human interface & "plug and play" maintenance. 2/
They were literally designed to be operated by drafted Ukrainian university educated STEM students.
The Maduro regime didn't trust anyone from the Venezuelan middle class to operate the oil industry, let alone Russian and Chinese air defense equipment.
We are more than $38 trillion in debt. The American people elected Republicans to cut spending and eliminate left-wing waste in the budget. H.R. 6938 does none of this, which is why I voted NO today.
Not only does this “minibus” fail to reduce spending, but it is also packed with Democrat earmarks and socialist pet projects that federal tax dollars have no business financing. Here are just a few examples... 🧵
❌ $1,031,000 for a “Climate Corps Fellowship”, a Green New Deal scam pushed by the @RepPressley
❌ $450,000 to an opera house that regularly features LGBT, drag, and cabaret shows This venue is currently hosting auditions for “Cabaret (1998)” where actors are being asked to wear Nazi armbands, give the “heil” salute, and participate in “sexual situations with all genders." @ChrisCoons
Since 2020, when police murdered George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and more than 1,100 other people, more Americans have questioned the role and practices of police in society – and hoped for meaningful reform.
So, what does the state of policing look like now, 6 years later? 🧵
➡️ For starters, 2022 data show that fewer people are experiencing police contact, but the system is still plagued with issues, including racial disparities in police interactions, misconduct, and use of force.
➡️ The number of people killed by police has been increasing.
In 2024, 1,379 people were killed by police – the highest number on record. This is the direct result of policies & practices that enable and encourage police violence.
🚨🇷🇺Un mystérieux convoi maritime russe fait son entré en Méditerranée :
03 Navires :
🔸 Le cargo 🇷🇺 SPARTA IV (IMO 9743033)
🔸 Le cargo 🇷🇺 MYS ZHELANIYA (IMO 9366110)
🔸Le destroyer 🇷🇺 RFS SEVEROMORSK
Que transporte-t-il ? Où va-t-il ? 🧵
Les deux cargos ont quitté le port de Baltiysk de Kaliningrad, le 01 janvier 2026.
Fun fact : ce n'est d'ailleurs pas très clair sur @VesselFinder puisque les russes y font du brouillage GPS 🙃
Les deux cargos sont sous sanctions. Ils sont régulièrement associés à des missions logistiques "non-commerciales".
Ils ont déjà été observés lors de livraisons de matériels militaires ou de technologies sensibles, au profit direct de l'État russe.
Alfred the Great and Æthelred the King fought ‘for life, loved ones, and country’ and thrashed the Vikings at…
The Battle of Ashdown!
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By 870 the Vikings ‘of hateful memory’ had stormed into England and conquered Northumbria and East-Anglia!
On the 31st of December 870, after invading Wessex, a force of Vikings led from the main host was defeated at the Battle of Englefield by the Ealdorman of Berkshire, Æthelwulf, and his levies.
However, King Æthelred and his brother Alfred, having tried to capitalise on this victory were defeated by the Vikings just a few days later at the battle of Reading.
But they were ‘roused by grief and shame’ and rallied at Windsor.
The Saxons then marched to face the Vikings again with ‘all their might and in a determined frame of mind’ and met them at Ashdown.
The Vikings divided their army into two contingents. One was led by kings Bagsecg and Halfdan, and the other was led by the Vikings earls.
The English did the same with Alfred facing the earls and Æthelred facing the kings.
Ok, it is clear what happened in the October trade data
Imports of pharma collapsed, bring the pharma trade deficit WAY down (reversing the q1 front running); exports of gold soared, generating a big gold surplus
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Net all the pharma noise out and imports remain flattish (up a bit in October v September) at a high level and exports are more or less flat too -- maybe there is a tiny upward trend since May but it is tiny
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The no pharma or gold trade deficit is down a bit v 2025 (there was a bit of front running in other categories too -- see Jan v March) but actually up a bit v September
We read thousands of essays this year to prepare this thread, the cream of the crop of New Right journalism, storytelling and schizophrenic ranting. Scroll to the bottom for links.
These are the 📰Top 10 Based Reads of 2025📰.
1. The Shame of Our Cities — @ArminRosen for @countyhwy
Chris Rufo and Ryan Thorpe’s City Journal reporting on Somalian welfare fraud in Minnesota ended up triggering NYT coverage and a fiery Trump reaction. But, it turns out, Armin Rosen wrote an earlier, much deeper report on the fraud, which was published a week prior in County Highway. Walter was a little understandably miffed about his writer and publication not getting credit for breaking the story.
The important thing is that the story is out there now. Rosen’s coverage is the far more beautifully-written piece, and one that gets to the heart of the painful cultural incompatibilities resulting from mass immigration.
"In the Western imagination, civic trust is something both natural and infinite — the product of a virtuous feedback loop, with acts in service of the common good creating bonds of cooperation and interdependence that produce additional acts in kind. Minnesota is so trusting that there are no turnstiles to enter the Twin Cities light rail, which now has prominently posted codes of conduct that gently remind riders that it is illegal to poop on the trains or in the stations. Somalis — like the vast majority of people on earth, who do not live in prosperous or stable democracies — tend to have the hard-earned attitude that trust is a limited commodity, something to be jealously guarded and reserved only for the tiny sliver of the human race with whom they share some organic, non-externally constructed bond. Compared to the clan, or Somali culture, or Islam, the state is something meaningless or temporary, or at best instrumentally useful."
2. The Lost Generation — Jacob Savage for Compact
Was there any question? Every few months an essay lights the dissident sphere on fire, and this time it was Jacob Savage’s lament in Compact for the white men who were systematically pushed out of high-status careers across the woke era. This one hit home for creative millennials who watched it happen but were petrified to say anything for fear of total career annihilation. With a nod from JD, expect it to dominate the discourse well into 2026.
Most of the men I interviewed started out as liberals. Some still are. But to feel the weight of society’s disfavor can be disorienting. We millennials were true believers in race and gender-blind meritocracy, which for all its faults—its naïveté about human nature, its optimism in the American Dream—was far superior to what replaced it. And to see that vision so spectacularly betrayed has engendered a skepticism toward the entire liberal project that won’t soon disappear.
3. How Progressivism Died / How Conservatism Died — @GreeneMan6
In the first piece, Greene observes how Current Year progressivism tried to be too many things to too many people, and is collapsing from its internal contradictions. Its foundational Enlightenment ideals of emancipation, equality, and inevitable historical progress have become incoherent amid modern realities.
In the second piece is targeted at the boomercons who, instead of seizing the moment with progressivism on the back foot, are preoccupied with defending captured mainstream institutions from right-wing radicals like Nick Fuentes, while tolerating or even collaborating with left-wing extremists. Conservatives seem to have little more to offer disenfranchised young white men than the leftists who openly despise them.
You aren’t going to veto the discussion of reality by pearl-clutching and making appeals to being “reasonable”, you aren’t going to restore the risk-averse conservativism of National Review by telling century-old horror stories about the ascendency of Adolf Hitler. You aren’t going to shut out critical conversations because you think their conclusions are distasteful.The time when mainstream conservatism held this kind of power is over. And you will never have it ever again. Which is why you, and other conservatives, need to abandon the pretension and stop trying to pursue this futile task, for your good and the good of others that come after you.
* El 4-1-1-4 con balón
* Las distintos formas en salida
* El valor de Roony
* El triángulo Raphinha-Ferran-Fermín
* La variante de la 2ª parte
Con @KlipDraw + @Effmatch + @gusfop + @adnaaan433
HILO 👇👇👇
Finalmente Flick reservó a Lamine de inicio y dio la alternativa a Roony Bardhgi. Eric atrás, De Jong-Pedri en la sala de máquinas y Fermín claramente por delante
@Effmatch
1-4-1-1-4 PARA ATACAR: Esta vez, el Athletic no presionó alto sin que hizo lo que la mayoría de equipos le están haciendo al Barça últimamente: combinar momentos de bloque medio con otros de presión arriba. Y el Barça derrumbó esta estrategia adoptando diferentes formas en salida
A trading bot is a software program that automates buying and selling financial assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies based on pre-defined strategies and rules.
These automated systems can manage portfolios without human intervention, operating 24/7.
1/ 🇷🇺 Putin is silent — and the silence is loud.
After the U.S. removed Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, Moscow said almost nothing.
No emergency speech.
No strong response.
Just… silence.
That tells us more than any statement ever could. 🧵👇
2/ This is a strategic humiliation for Russia.
Venezuela was a Russian ally.
So was Iran — until the U.S. struck its nuclear infrastructure.
So was Syria — until Assad’s regime collapsed.
Russian “strategic partnerships” now mean nothing.
3/ Why couldn’t Moscow respond?
Because Ukraine consumes everything.
Russia’s war has drained its military, industry, and attention.
Maduro asked for drones, missiles, radar.
The Kremlin had to say no.
Russia can barely sustain Donbas — let alone project power globally.
Bis Okt. 2020 hatte ich hier nur einen Leseaccount mit Klarname, mit dem ich nie tweepte 🫠 weil vor Corona gab es keinen Grund, da genügend anderweitig beschäftigt mit Barcelona, Marokko, oder Faschos terrorisieren und co. - 2019 war deng Gerhard schom hier sehr aktiv 🤡
so keine Ahnung wann 2020, war er schon genauso "Punk" wie die Ärzte, also nicht, sondern 'ne Nutte des Mainstreams ^^ die einen im Music Bizz, der andere auf.... Twatter 🤡 ... da war mir ja noch langweilig und kannte den Wixxxer gar idd, aber später dafür ^^dank deng Bohne ^^
They lost in Yemen during these last days, but it was previously a victory for the UAE :
-created a pseudo separatist state of South-Arabia
-took control of Aden city in 2018
-invaded and occupied the strategic and touristic Socotra island
-annexed other islands
Let's get back to the history of the UAE foreign policy :
After gaining independence in 1971, the UAE pursued a foreign policy that was:
▪️Discreet and defensive
▪️Closely aligned with Saudi Arabia and the United States
▪️Focused on the survival of the young federal state
1-Vatikan adı da Etrüskçe adak anlamına gelen vatik sözünden gelmektedir.Papalığın merkezi olan Vatikan, Roma şehrinin yakınlarındaki Vatican (adayan) adlı eski bir Etrüsk şehrinde kurulmuştur. Venedik şehrinin adı Etrüskçe soy; ırk anlamına gelen venete sözünden gelmektedir.
2-Cenova şehrinin adı ise Etrüskçe kan; aile anlamına gelen cina sözünden gelmektedir.
Etrüsklerin İtalya'da kurduğu diğer şehirlerden bazıları şunlardır: erdem anlamına gelen Aritimi, Artam ya da Artem (bugünkü Arezzo şehri);
3-Maymun anlamına gelen arim sözünden gelen Arimna (bugünkü Rimini); kap anlamına gelen Kapna ya da Capna (bugünkü Capena); doğan, atmaca anlamına gelen kapu ya da kapuş (kapış; kapan) sözünden gelen Kapua ya da Capua (bugünkü Capua); kasap, kesen anlamına gelen Kesena,
Bueno, los jueves son de hilo de planes para el fin de semana en La Plata así que sale el primero de la temporada ✨2026✨
Pongan like & rt que arranco:
1) Los jueves del verano en Gule van a estar sacando en el salón ✨panchitos de mollejas✨ además de la carta habitual de hamburguesas. Empieza hoy y me se ve muy espectacular.
📍46 10 y 11
2) Los jueves son de Vermú Interferencia y en enero abren el bar en Ciudad de gatos. Prometen ferias, cocinas invitadas, propuestas culturales. Hoy: cocina Tatana sándwiches de focaccia y van a armar altar al Gauchito Gil. Lleven ofrendas y ganas de copar la vereda.
Ronson manipuluje odwiedzającymi ich stronę. Pokazują lipny licznik odwiedzin przez co wytwarzają:
- fałszywe wrażenie niedostępności mieszkań
- lęk przed utratą okazji do zakupu mieszkania.
Wykorzystują nielegalny „dark pattern”
„Tą ofertę dziś zobaczyły X osoby” 1/8
Po co w ogóle licznik? Chodzi o „społeczny dowód słuszności”, czyli „inni tak robią, to też tak zrobię”. Co jeśli tysiące ludzi też sprawdziło twoje wymarzone mieszkanie? Musisz się spieszyć! Masz przestrzeń do negocjacji?
Licznik tyka, nie ryzykuj, nie pytaj, kupuj! 2/8
Deweloperzy mają interes w tym, aby licznik zawsze wskazywał na wysokie zainteresowanie. Dlatego sprawdziłem dwa kluczowe słowa: „dziś” oraz „osoby”. Na stronie Ronsona liczniki nie pokazują odwiedziń ani dzisiejszych, ani ludzi.
Łamie to Dyrektywę 2005/29/WE (UCPD). 3/8
".. on asetettava etusijalle ruokavalio, joka perustuu kokonaisiin, ravinteikkaisiin elintarvikkeisiin - proteiineihin, maitotuotteisiin, vihanneksiin, hedelmiin, terveellisiin rasvoihin, ja täysjyväviljoihin. .."
En 1985, un joven corría vestido de blanco por un aparcamiento de Nueva York saltando bordillos y trepando muros, mientras su hermano lo grababa con una cámara VHS. Estaba creando la animación más fluida de la historia para un videojuego: Prince of Persia. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Jordan Mechner acababa de graduarse y tenía una obsesión: el cine. No quería hacer un videojuego de "marcianitos" o naves espaciales, quería una película interactiva. Su inspiración no fue otro juego, sino los primeros 10 minutos de "En busca del arca perdida".
El problema era la tecnología. El Apple II, la máquina para la que programaba, era una cafetera comparada con lo que había en los arcades. ¿Cómo meter un humano realista en esos pocos kilobytes de memoria y procesador prehistórico? La respuesta estaba en una técnica de 1915.
@dhruvtrehan9 tested if LLMs can perform end to end ML research. 3/4 attempts failed. One worked and led to a paper accepted at Agents4Science 2025, world’s first conference for AI authors.
In the report we document six failure modes and four design principles. 🧵
1/ We wanted a system with minimal scaffolding. To do this we built a modular agent system prompt, and mapped six agents to the scientific workflow starting from Idea Generation, spanning Experiment Execution, Evaluation and Paper Writing.
We used Gemini 2.5 Pro for most of these agents, and Claude Code led the Experiment Execution on Modal.
Each agent had basic read, write, and list tools, working in the same idea-level directory with all context files.
2/ To test our system, we generated 4 ideas across World Models, Multi-Agent RL, and AI Safety from a 135+ paper corpus from A* research venues.
Ideas from World Models and MARL failed during implementation. The AI Safety research idea completed the full pipeline from idea generation to final paper.
This documented the Consistency Confound: a failure mode of using semantic entropy for jailbreak detection.
دیشب یکی از دوستان نقشه قرارگاههای عملیاتی کشور بر اساس استان رو گذاشته بود. الان نقشه رو بردم GIS و با نقشه راهها ترکیب کردم. اگر چه امیدوارم حضور اونقدر زیاد باشه که فشار سرکوب پراکنده بشه، اما لازمه که کلیت داستان و نحوه استفاده از اون رو بدونیم. پس خواهش میکنم پخش کنید.
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۱۱ قرارگاه عملیاتی داریم که هر کدوم چند تا استان رو پوشش میدن. تصویر اول. این یعنی وقت اعتراض اگر اعتراض شدید بود و در سطح شهر نیروی سرکوب جواب نداد، به ترتیب از کجا نیرو اعزام میشه. با مثال میگم که روشن باشه. مثلا مسئول سرکوب برای استانهای همدان، کرمانشاه و ایلام مشترکه.
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توجه کنید که اینا قرارگاههای سپاه هستن، یعنی مسئولین اصلی سرکوب. برای این سه استان قرارگاه نجف اشرف مسئوله که ستاد فرماندهیش کرمانشاه است. مثال معروف این روزها یعنی شهرستان ملکشاهی به مرکزیت ارکواز رو برای نمونه تحلیل میکنیم. در سطح اول اگر در شهر نتونن سرکوب انجام بدن، از
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