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🇺🇲🚨Have you heard of the 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 : The geoengineering idea that never took off!!

It shut down quietly on January 15th 2025. Not due to technical failure.

But because the indigenous folks said NO and actually WON the fight!🧵👇

The Arctic Ice Project (AIP) was a U.S based nonprofit focused on surface albedo modification a type of climate intervention to reflect sunlight back into space. What looked like a climate solution on paper felt like a dangerous experiment imposed on indigenous homelands.

Indigenous leaders then highlighted a fundamental violation: there was no Free, Prior and Informed Consent. The communities whose food systems, waters and ice would be affected were never genuinely consulted about an intervention with harmful impacts on ecosystems they depend on.

I have said "we live in the shadow of an old aristocracy" quite often in my threads. but why?

Let's pick a random part of life. Entertainment. A random popular show. Seinfeld. A random character. Elaine

Daughter of French Billionaire, but not just any Billionaire
(🧵 1 of 14)

So it turns out, Seinfeld's "Elaine" (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is from a family dynasty of the largest food shippers in the world. She's not just some random quirky former SNL-cast member.

(2 of 14)

Leopold Louis Dreyfus was the "King of Wheat" and his empire controlled the World's wheat supply during the Great Depression and World War 1 and World War 2.

They even "diversified" into arms trade.
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PAYPAL STABLECOIN PYUSD 🚨 LONG POST ALERT 🚨

Most people write off $PYUSD as "just a token for Venmo." They are missing the invisible revolution.

$PYPL isn't building a crypto asset. They are building the settlement layer for the entire internet.

While Wall Street fights over trading volume, PayPal is quietly winning the war for commerce.

Here is the deep dive on the strategy nobody noticed 🧵👇

1. The "Boring" Business Model

First, let's look at the mechanics. How does a free token generate revenue?

It’s called "The Float."

When you buy $1,000 of $PYUSD, you give PayPal's partner (Paxos) cash.

They park that cash in short-term U.S. Treasuries earning interest (currently ~3.5% - 4%). You get the token. They collect the yield.

With a market cap near $4 Billion, this pile of cash generates roughly $150M annually in risk-free revenue.

Paxos takes a fee for managing the compliance, but $PYPL captures the majority of the net interest income, pure profit just for letting the money sit there.

2. The Pivot: From Payments to "PayFi"

In 2023, $PYUSD launched on Ethereum. It was safe, but too slow and expensive for daily use.

Then, $PYPL flipped the switch.

They aggressively expanded onto Solana, dropping transaction costs to fractions of a penny. Suddenly, PYUSD wasn't just a "store of value", it was a high-speed payment rail.

This speed enabled two massive shifts that just went live this month (Dec 2025):

✅ YouTube Creator Payouts

As of this week, U.S. creators can bypass banks and get paid instantly in PYUSD. No more "3-5 business days" to see your ad revenue.

✅ Funding the AI Boom

PayPal just unveiled the "USD.AI" initiative. They are using PYUSD liquidity to finance GPU data centers, offering holders a ~4.5% yield to back the loans.

They aren't just moving money anymore; they are powering the infrastructure of the AI economy.

The most common mistake people make in the gym:

Stretching their calves on a slant board.

From 7 years of Physical Therapy experience,

Here’s the 11 best slant board exercises to help you escape joint pain (plus one stretch to avoid at all costs):

Every exercise demonstrated with and without equipment. The strech to avoid can be found at end of thread.

1. Single leg Deadlift

Shift your weight into your heel and squeeze your glute muscle as you stand up.

2. Heel squat and 3. Toe squat

Heels elevated to challenge your knee.

Toes elevated to target your hip and ankle.

AI is eating up consulting..

Gemini 3.0 PRO just produced in 2 mins what you'd pay a consultant $100k for.

Here's how to use Gemini 3 as your free consulting team:

(prompts I actually use + examples)

Consulting reports usually take weeks and cost $100k+

I tested Gemini 3.0 PRO to see if it could:
→ Analyze markets
→ Build strategies
→ Create investor-ready reports
→ Audit competitors
→ Fix churn & pricing problems

The results? Mind-blowing.

use case 1 - Market Analysis

Prompt:
"Analyze the AI startup funding landscape. Identify key investors, deal volumes, and emerging sub-sectors."

Gemini 3.0 PRO delivered a full investment intelligence report:
→ $192B raised by AI startups in 2025 (64% of all VC dollars)
→ Top backers: Sequoia, a16z, YC, Nvidia, Microsoft
→ Emerging sub-sectors: AI agents, biotech AI, crypto-AI, robotics

'Eat less and move more' is a lie.

The truth is you can get lean eating more food.

How?

You need to focus on High Volume to Caloric Ratio Foods.

Here are 5 of my favorites to help you eat more and stay lean:

= Thread =

To torch fat you have to be in a caloric deficit.

Nutrition is the easiest way to do this.

'Yeah, but I don't want to starve myself'.

You don't have to.

The key is knowing the right foods you can eat more of to get lean and stay full.

Here are 5 of my all-time favorites...

1. Blueberries:

Blueberries may just be my favorite.

⚬ Tast delicious
⚬ High in nutrients
⚬ Low in calories

This makes them nearly impossible to 'overeat'

You can eat half a kg of these for just 250 calories.

A great option when torching fat.

Rich people collect fancy watches.

I collect useful mental models—timeless rules of thumb that simplify decisions.

12 most powerful (and dangerous) mental models I've found:

1. The Power of Walking

1. The Power of Walking

When bored and lacking ideas, keep walking until the day becomes interesting. (via @sahilbloom + @bzaidi)

2. Perell's Hotel Bathroom Principle by @david_perell:

Dress well enough to enter any hotel bathroom unnoticed...

לאחר שחייג למשטרה לדווח על פשיטת מתנחלים על ביתו - מזה כיממה פלסטיני עצור במקום לא ידוע. תגובת המשטרה וצה״ל טרם נמסרה.

עיד (52) ממגורשי קהילת עין רשאש שליד מאחז ׳מלאכי השלום׳ עבר עם משפחתו בתחילת המלחמה לאדמות שמזרחית לדומא עם מפונים נוספים. מאחז שהוקם בסמוך לביתם החדש ממרר מדי יום את תושבי הקהילה הבדואית הענייה.

זה סיפור שגרתי , שגרה שספק אם מוכרת מספיק. שרשור>>

קרדיט וידאוים - תורת צדק @JustHerds

אתמול בבוקר מתנחלים מהמאחז הסמוך יצאו למרעה. המרעה הוא כמובן בתוך חצרות הקהילה - בין הבתים, מהמספוא הפלסטיני. למרעה יצאו הנערים כשהם מאובטחים בחמוש עם נשק צה״לי. חיילי הגמ״ר מוצבים בעשרות מאחזי חווה ופעמים רבות מאבטחים את המתנחלים ביציאה ל׳מרעה׳. ה׳מרעה׳ יכול להיות גם בתוך רחובות מבונים, בתוך מטעי זיתים, כיד הבוזז החופשית .

נחזור על המובן מאליו - חיילי ההגמ״ר האלו נמצאים בשירות מילואים פעיל. את התגמול הכלכלי לאבטחת ׳מרעה׳ שהוא בפועל פשיעה לאומנית - הם מקבלים מאיתנו .

בסרטונים - מרעה בחצר ביתו של עיד אתמול. ו׳מרעה׳ ברחובות הכפר דומא החודש.

עיד והשכנים ניסו לסלק את המתנחלים שאיפשרו לעדר שלהם ללחכך בחצר. נזכיר, 120 חוות חולשות על למעלה מ600,000 דונם שטחי מרעה. הפלסטיניים כבר לא יוצאים למרעה - זה מסוכן מדי. הם נאלצים לקנות חציר (וזה יקר), ועתה המתנחלים יושבים בחצר ובוזזים את החציר, מאכילים בו את צאנם תוך שהם פולשים ומשליטים אימה.

לא בכל יום מתלווה לרועים חמוש, אתמול כן.
ואותו חמוש ירה באוויר.

בתיעוד בתחילת השרשור נראים המתנחלים עם אלות ותפילין כרוך מאיימים ״אתה רוצה כדור בראש?״ במהלך שיח ממושך ואלים. בוידאו אין יידוי אבנים, ניתן לראות את המתנחלים עם אלות בידיהם דורשים מהצלם ״להוריד את זה״. עפ״י המתנחלים מדובר באבן שהחזיק בידו.

(1/7) Comparative Assessment of Russian and Ukrainian Irreversible Losses in 2025 - Converging Toward Parity
Analytical synthesis based on public OSINT datasets and formal administrative records

Public open-source datasets covering declared fatalities, disappearances, and legally registered casualties indicate that irreversible losses suffered by Russia and Ukraine in 2025 are broadly comparable once categories are normalized.

The apparent asymmetry often observed in public debate largely reflects differences in recording practices, certification timelines, body-recovery capacity, and legal confirmation procedures, rather than substantial variation in overall losses.

The objective of this analysis is not to estimate total casualties, but to identify comparable trends by clarifying how available data are structured and recorded. Widely circulated falsified or unverifiable leaked documents discussed this year on both sides are therefore excluded. The focus is limited to by-name OSINT documented sources and official administrative records.

Scope and Definitions
Two tiers of irrecoverable personnel losses are examined:

- Irreversible combat losses
Confirmed KIA plus MIA assessed as likely KIA
- Irreversible force-availability losses
Combat losses plus desertion and long-term AWOL

As Clausewitz cautioned, analysis operates under unavoidable uncertainty:
“The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight.”
— On War, Book I

▶️ Confirmed Fatalities (KIA): The Direct Evidence
Named and confirmed fatalities constitute the most verifiable and least ambiguous category of wartime losses. These cases are typically documented through obituary notices, official registries, or published death certificates. Individuals in this category have undergone legal confirmation, and families have completed formal settlement procedures.

Publicly verifiable records for 2025 (as of early December):
◻️Russia (Mediazona)
- ~29,000 named soldiers with deaths dated to 2025

◻️Ukraine (UALosses)
- ~11,500 soldiers with publicly confirmed deaths dated to 2025
- ~11,000 additional individuals registered as deceased with unclear dates

Applying proportional temporal distribution yields an estimated ~15,000 confirmed fatalities attributable to 2025.
At this stage, Russian losses appear significantly higher. However, this discrepancy primarily reflects administrative timing differences, not underlying loss dynamics as we will see in the next parts.

Read it on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/delwinstra…

#UkraineRussianWar #Analysis #Strategy

(2/7) Administrative Backlog and Russian MIA Conversion Into Casualty Records
Russian data for 2025 include a substantial volume of formal death-recognition procedures processed through legal institutions.

Mediazona identified ~80,000 new entries across monitored systems in 2025. This figure does not represent real-time disappearance events, but rather the legal formalization of cases previously known at unit or institutional level.

Mediazona’s breakdown indicates:
- ~8,000 non-war civilian deaths
- The majority represent delayed administrative processing of battlefield deaths accumulated over multiple years
- A high proportion of filings originate from military institutions, indicating state-initiated confirmation rather than attempt at concealing information
- Legal confirmation is required to activate inheritance, pensions, and dependent compensation

The net effect of this process is a delayed conversion of battlefield losses into legally recognized fatalities. Consequently, interpreting the full 2025 volume as deaths occurring in that year would be analytically misleading.

After excluding non-war cases and delayed confirmations from prior years, a realistic segmentation suggests ~30,000–40,000 deaths attributable to the 2025 calendar year.

(3/7) Interpreting MIA Registries
Recorded disappearance figures differ sharply between Russia and Ukraine, but these differences primarily reflect institutional and procedural structures, not casualty rates.

◻️Ukraine (official registry)
~40,000 individuals received disappearance dates in 2025 (predominantly men of military age) compared to ~30,000 in 2024.
This increase reflects both rising losses and several contributing factors:
- Public, searchable, continuously updated MIA database
- Increasing difficulty of body recovery during withdrawals and in siege conditions
- Suspension of compensation payments until formal death confirmation puts a strain on state budget, forcing a gradual recognition process.
- Rapid expansion of digital reporting infrastructure since 2022

Sources:
lostarmour.info/ukr_mia
ualosses.org/en/soldiers/

◻️Russia (visibility comparison)
Russian disappearance figures appear ~20% lower, largely because many cases enter the system directly as delayed legal death confirmations rather than public MIA entries.
The administrative backlog identified by Mediazona therefore represents the Russian equivalent of unresolved cases, but processed through legal recognition rather than public missing-person registries. In aggregate, both systems appear to reflect a similar total unresolved caseload, on the order of ~80,000 MIA since the start of the war.

Key contextual differences:
- Greater Russian body-recovery access on controlled territory
- Ukrainian losses become visible earlier (MIA precedes confirmation)
- Russia processes losses retrospectively through administrative channels, while Ukraine records them prospectively from operational reporting.

Side note: Additional Russian MIA may exist, but no OSINT database allows comparison. As shown in Section 6, conclusions remain unchanged.

Rutte for ARTE: Russia is the next threat and EU is already in danger

Russia spends around 40% of state budget on defense and about 10% of national income on military. It has developed missiles capable of reaching the EU within 5–10 minutes

There is no “safe” Europe anymore 1/

Rutte: Peace is hard to predict because Russia is unpredictable

Security guarantees must ensure that after any peace deal or long-term ceasefire, Ukraine stays strong and Russia cannot attack again

If Russia gains control over Ukraine even 5% defense spending won’t be enough 2/

Rutte on Ukraine’s defense: First, strong Ukrainian armed forces. Second, an EU-led coalition of the willing.

NATO is already deeply involved. We coordinate weapons deliveries, training and lessons learned from the war through NATO–Ukraine structures and coordination hubs. 3/

THE SWAMP'S LAST MERRY CHRISTMAS & DOG COMMS!
🔥🎁🎄🔥🎁🎄🔥🎁🎄
1. President Trump dropped a HUGE Christmas Message!
(In Part)
"Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to “drop him like a dog” when things got too HOT..."

"When their names get brought out...(plus one lowlife “Republican,” Massie!), and it is revealed that they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of explaining to do..."

"Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President Donald J. Trump"
🔥🎄🎁🔥🎁🎄🎁🔥
(Thread)

2. 12/25/2025 Dan Scavino Truthed Video of SEVERAL Dogs!
Posted at 1:13PM ET. See post 7 Below.

3. Dog Comms - Refers to Swamp person / people that aren't going to be around!

Q1649 Every Dog has its day refers to No Name and No Name was the first hint from Q about this "dog" to bite the dust! No Name (McCain) was a bad dude and within weeks of this post, No Name had a strange illness and had a sudden funeral on 8/25/2018!

No one can ever control you if you learn these 34 psychology tricks:

-Thread-

El balance de los dos años de gobierno de Javier Milei en Argentina es desastroso (y podría haber sido peor sin el rescate del FMI y de Trump): drástico recorte de salarios, jubilaciones y ayudas sociales, y destrucción de tejido productivo, empresas, salarios y empleo. Datos 🧵

La principal política de Milei ha sido forzar un superávit público en Argentina, lo que implica quitarle más recursos a familias y empresas a través de impuestos que los recursos que les entrega en forma de servicios y prestaciones públicas. Es decir, les ha empobrecido.

Esto se puede apreciar atendiendo a muchos indicadores. Por ejemplo, los salarios reales de los argentinos sufrieron una fuerte caída y todavía no se han recuperado. En promedio, esto supone que cada argentino ha perdido el equivalente a más de 2 nóminas mensuales.

I thought I'd power up and inventory my systems that don't have CPUs made by Intel/AMD/Cyrix, but are x86 compatible. I do have a few! Let's have a quick look at them in a 🧵 here!

Let's start with the system on the far left, the tower. It happens to be an ITX Llama system, built around the Vortex86EX CPU. It's similar in performance to a 486 or Pentium system. I did make a custom BIOS build to play the Nokia tune 😂

Oh, I should give some specs. 128MB RAM, ATI Rage Pro 128 AGP card, 120 GB SD card for storage, Crystal audio, and an RDC Ethernet card as you will see from my Windows screenshot here. This is a quirky system.. a bit buggy... and I HAD to use QEMM for memory management

The real test of reform is whether it reduces stress for people

2025 marked a clear shift in governance, with reforms focused on outcomes, not complexity. Simpler tax laws, faster dispute resolution, modern labour codes, and decriminalised compliance reduced friction for citizens and businesses alike. The emphasis was on trust, predictability, and long-term growth, showing how well-designed policy can quietly improve everyday life

Read the full thread to see how these reforms made life easier across sectors and for people on the ground

#ReformInAction
#GoodGovernance

For millions of Indians, tax relief became real

Incomes up to ₹12 lakh attract zero tax. Middle-class families now retain more of what they earn, giving them flexibility to spend, save and invest with greater confidence

#ReformInAction
#GoodGovernance

A new tax law for a New India.

Replacing the 1961 Income-tax Act, the Income Tax Act, 2025 streamlines compliance and brings clarity, transparency, and fairness to the direct tax system, making it more taxpayer friendly and aligned with today’s needs

#ReformInAction
#GoodGovernance

🔥 A landmark study challenges the long-held belief that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is irreversible.

➡️ Using advanced mouse models that mimic human AD pathology, researchers found that restoring and maintaining healthy levels of NAD⁺, a key cellular energy molecule, can not only prevent but also reverse advanced Alzheimer’s pathology and fully restore cognitive function in mice. 1/

The team showed that NAD⁺ deficiency is a central driver of AD pathology—leading to blood-brain barrier breakdown, neuroinflammation, oxidative damage, and impaired neurogenesis. 2/

➡️ By administering a compound that rebalances NAD⁺ (P7C3-A20), all these pathological features were reversed, and memory and cognitive function were recovered.

➡️ These effects were seen in both amyloid-driven and tau-driven models, with supporting evidence from human AD brain samples suggesting disrupted NAD⁺ homeostasis in patients. 3/

1🧵> I caught @SubstackInc censoring Epstein info from this post: The Epstein Saga Shows That the American Government Is Collapsing open.substack.com/pub/robertvanw…

2> Here is what I was trying to share with the kool image creation quote tool i've used a hundred times before:

"directors of Butterfly Trust; of companies holding Epstein’s real property" this image is what was offered as a quote, note the missing words-

3> Here is the paragraph with the Butterfly Trust #EpsteinFiles info.