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Jan 5
Congestion pricing has been an unqualified success.

It's made New York City a better place to live. Image
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Jan 7
🧵 Five things you need to know about the protests in Iran.👇🏼1/7 Image
1 - More than 10 days of protests have been met with unlawful force. 2/7
2 - These are the largest protests since the #WomanLifeFreedom uprising of 2022. 3/7 Image
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Jan 7
I collected every NotebookLM prompt that went viral on Reddit, X, and research communities.

These turned a "cool AI toy" into a research weapon that does 10 hours of work in 20 seconds.

16 copy-paste prompts. Zero fluff.

Steal them all 👇 Image
1/ THE "5 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS" PROMPT

Reddit called this a "game changer." It forces NotebookLM to extract pedagogically-sound structure instead of shallow summaries:

"Analyze all inputs and generate 5 essential questions that, when answered, capture the main points and core meaning of all inputs."
2/ ULTIMATE PROMPT FOR LECTURES:

"Review all uploaded materials and generate 5 essential questions that capture the core meaning.

Focus on:
- Core topics and definitions
- Key concepts emphasized
- Relationships between concepts
- Practical applications mentioned"
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Jan 8
Has police & military behaviour become harsher, more rigid & more escalation-prone since 2020?

This isn’t just about politics or “bad apples”.

There’s a deeper, biological factor being ignored…

SARS-CoV-2

I’m a neurologist, and I’ll explain what’s going on here 🧵.
It’s common knowledge that both policing and the military already over select for people with certain traits:

- high threat sensitivity
- comfort with hierarchy
- rule based cognition
- obedience over ambiguity
- identity anchored in authority

This was true long before COVID.
What historically prevented this from becoming outright dangerous at scale was intact frontal lobe function.

The frontal cortex supplies inhibition, proportionality, empathy under stress, moral updating & the ability to back down.

And COVID is proven to damage the frontal lobes
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Jan 8
Okay. Seems like no one likes to do some deep research nowadays, so I did.
Unveiling the holygrail of possibly the most advanced technology "yet" in battery development. Disclaimer, this is not new research, nor it is not something out from utopia.
My verdict on #DonutLab battery
Under is a detailed verdict about the research that I've done. Including the references. This post was collectively written by AI, to save my time. All research was done by me. Understanding the topic and physics behind the technology is a must, so I'll try to write it clearly.
The "Holy Grail" of energy is no longer a lab dream. As of Jan 2026, the first All-Solid-State Aluminum-Graphene (AS-AlG) batteries are hitting the road in the @VergeMotorcycle TS Pro. The specs sound fake, but the physics (Science Advances aao7233) are real.
Let's look closer!
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Jan 8
1/16 A thread on how the issue of ‘sex vs gender’ intersects with UK politics 🧵 Image
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The fact remains: humans do not change sex.
Some people present as the opposite sex, for their own reasons. That is their choice, and they have the right to live as they wish.
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But a pseudoscientific belief should not be imposed on others or disrupt the norms of daily life—especially when it is unfalsifiable.
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Jan 8
Yes, no rabbi should share a platform with @peterbeinart, who is allied with the Jewish people’s enemies. Alternatively, if one feels the need to share such a platform, one should make it clear, publicly, that one recognizes that he is allied with the Jewish people’s enemies and should be shunned.Image
@PeterBeinart @RabbiCosgrove
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Jan 8
You've been blocking spam calls wrong this entire time.

Every time you decline, you confirm your number is active.

The calls multiply.

Here's what actually works:
First, understand why you're targeted.

When you sign up for anything online, your number gets sold to "data brokers."
They package it with your location, age, income, and sell it to call centers.
Each call confirms you're real.
The cycle intensifies.
Step 1: Register with the National Do Not Call Registry.

Go to DoNotCall dot gov (yes, it's real).
Enter your number. It's free. Government-backed.
Within 31 days, legitimate telemarketers must stop calling you.
But scammers ignore this.
That's where it gets interesting...
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Jan 8
1\#Ucraina Fronte del Dniepr: Dopo le vacanze invernali, torna in tutto il suo splendore il Regimento Bolshoy. Un figurante ci delizia con evoluzioni con la bandierina a bratske. Ampliata grey zone su area infiltrazione Image
2\#Ucraina Fronte di Kostijantinivka: Continuano tentativi d'infiltrazione anche verso Kostijantinivka. Leggermente ampliata grey zone su una delle direttrici Image
3\#Ucraina Fronte di Siversk: Russi continuano a spingere oltre Siverk. Ampliata grey zone Image
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Jan 9
I study authoritarianism for a living, so I do not say this lightly: America isn't facing an authoritarian future. America is living an authoritarian present.

(A long 🧵)

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Hollywood would have us believe that authoritarianism wins when Voldemort takes over Hogwarts or Sauron conquers Gondor. But that's wrong. There are no pitched battles between good and evil. Democracy dies in banality and plain daylight, not glory and darkness.

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Power is a process, not a thing someone holds. Authoritarian power is thus a process in which we decide not to defend ourselves -- because it's risky, uncertain, or just inconvenient.

Authoritarianism wins every day citizens decide not to fight. To wait. To watch.

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Jan 9
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OpenAI stellt mit „ChatGPT Health“ eine auf Gesundheit spezialisierte KI-Anwendung vor.

Das ist kein Feature-Update, sondern ein struktureller Wendepunkt.

Ein🧵- warum das für das deutsche Gesundheitswesen und insbesondere die elektronische Patientenakte zur Gefahr wird. Ankündigung von OpenAI: ‚ChatGPT Gesundheit ist da‘ – eine speziell für Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden entwickelte Erfahrung in ChatGPT. https://openai.com/de-DE/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
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Die Zugriffszahlen von ChatGPT Nutzern zu Gesundheits- und Medizin - Themen zeigten schon bisher die Relevanz:

Mehr als 800 Millionen regelmäßige Nutzer weltweit.

Jeder Vierte stellt jede Woche Gesundheitsfragen.

Über 40 Millionen Menschen täglich.
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Gesundheit ist eines der wichtigsten Dinge die Menschen umtreibt und deshalb im Fokus von Big Tech.

Gesundheitsversorgung wird absehbar endgültig dort vorentschieden, wo Menschen Antworten suchen, bevor sie Ärzt:innen, Pflegekräfte oder Gesundheitseinrichtungen erreichen. Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Nutzungsdaten von OpenAI: Über 800 Millionen regelmäßige Nutzer, davon jeder Vierte mit wöchentlichen Gesundheitsfragen; mehr als 40 Millionen Gesundheitsanfragen pro Tag.
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Jan 9
I don't get why most people don't use Perplexity for deep research.

Let me show you 7 prompts that turn it into a PhD-level research assistant (and save you weeks of work): Image
1. The Deep Dive Prompt

"Act as a PhD researcher in [field]. I need a comprehensive literature review on [topic]. Include:

- Key theories and frameworks
- Major studies from the last 5 years
- Contrarian viewpoints
- Research gaps
- Citations in APA format"

This forces Perplexity to go beyond surface-level summaries.
2. The Methodology Architect

"I'm researching [topic]. Design a research methodology that includes:

- Research questions
- Data collection methods
- Analysis frameworks
- Potential limitations
- Timeline for a 3-month study"

Gets you a complete research blueprint in seconds.
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Jan 9
If Google wants you to pay for Gmail storage, do this first.

I went from 14.9/15GB to 6GB in one afternoon.

I hope this helps you as it has helped me:
1. Find the real storage hogs inside Gmail

Go to your Gmail storage breakdown first:
- Visit drive.google.com/settings/stora…
- Check what's using space across Gmail, Drive, and Photos
- Click on "Gmail" to see your biggest culprits

Then in Gmail search bar, type:
- `has:attachment larger:10M` (finds emails over 10MB)
- Sort by size, select multiple, and delete what you don't need
- Try `larger:5M` or `larger:3M` for a more aggressive cleanup

Just clearing big attachments can free gigabytes instantly.

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2. Nuke entire categories in bulk

Gmail sorts emails automatically use this to delete fast:
- Search: `category:promotions` (all promo emails)
- Search: `category:social` (Facebook, LinkedIn notifications)
- Search: `category:updates` (receipts, confirmations)
- Click the checkbox → "Select all conversations that match this search"
- Delete in one shot

These categories pile up over years most are safe to delete.
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Jan 9
#GemsOfASI #14
Theft, loss, and inventory failure

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When artefacts disappear from protected monuments, the response is usually administrative.
Files are opened, reports are written, and records are updated.
By the time this happens, the loss has already occurred much earlier. Image
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Many antiquities under protection are still incompletely catalogued, irregularly verified, or stored without consistent physical security.
In such cases, legal custody exists on paper, but effective control on the ground is weak or absent. Image
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Once local community presence was removed from many sites, informal and continuous surveillance disappeared with it.
As a result, losses are often discovered only years later, during audits or inspections, when recovery is no longer realistic.
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Jan 9
The new era temple of Satan worshipping for Muslims made in Petra.
Some churches around the world promote this place as the original place of Islamism.
In fact the mahometians started their piracy network in the same place but it didn't have the carvings at that time:
Dan Gibson is behind this international hoax. Somehow he is right because this place was the original place of the pirates in that area. So maybe he wants to gather pirates from the world and send them back to their original land!
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Jan 9
The last decision making in setting a car on fire and fleeing to Islamabad of Netherlands shows his science of decision making.
He can write a Sharia promoting article about the matter.
In his article he can mention how such an act can promote the industry of insurance and car industries as well as Islamic banking in all aspects of Muslims' life:Image
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