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Jan 23, 2023
ON INTELLIGENCE, part 3

Today, how our brain integrates distributed perception in our brain.

Think of it as employees in a company: none has a full overview of what's going on, but there are processes in place that allow the company to take decisions AS IF it had a hive mind.
The key is *as if*

Companies do not take decisions themselves, even tho newspaper headlines make it seems so. Employees take decisions based on what they each know, and the aggregate of these *individual* decisions looks like the company itself took decisions

Same for the brain
So, let's continue the thread initiated last week, and understand how distributed perception is aggregated into the human brain.

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Apr 21
If you died tomorrow your family could not access a single thing you own digitally.

Bank accounts. Crypto. Passwords. Cloud storage. All of it locked permanently.

Here is how to fix that in 30 minutes:
1/ iPhone Users

Settings > your name > Sign-In & Security > Legacy Contact

Assign someone you trust. Apple generates an access key tied to them. The moment they show that key alongside a death certificate, your entire iCloud opens up. Photos, files, emails, notes. Everything.

Skip this and your family spends months fighting Apple's bureaucracy with no guarantee it works.
2/ Google Accounts



Set a timer for how long Google waits before acting. Then assign people and decide exactly what each one can see. One person gets Gmail. Another gets Drive. Another gets Photos. You control the split.

Google checks in with you first. No response means your chosen people get in automatically.myaccount.google.com/inactive
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Apr 26
Buenos días. Hilo del día 1.523 de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania. Kiev resiste. Hoy, directo de 'Crónicas de la estepa rusa' , a las 20:30, sí, hoy vuelvo a la carga y analizo la pérdida de popularidad de Putin y la ¿profecía? de Ziuganov. ¡Retuitea! youtube.com/live/igtduXWtf…Image
Soldado ruso evacúa a un compañero muerto... Ucrania utiliza drones para rescatar a las abuelas... la cinta adhesiva es más barata. Ese es el nivel...
Yaroslavl... Refinería de Petróleo Slavneft-Yanos... una instalación de destilación al vacío está en llamas después de una nueva demostración de eficiencia de la defensa pechil. Deberían centrarse en Ust-Luga y Primorsk... mi recomendación.
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Apr 27
A King County employee oversaw $800K in grant payments to five of their own family members. Red flags went unnoticed for years. When a colleague flagged potential fraud, he was fired four days later.
If this happened at a public company, people would be going to prison.
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Routing payments to family members through a grant program = wire fraud + honest services fraud under federal law. Each payment is a separate count. Coordination with family members adds conspiracy charges.

At a public company, that’s years in federal prison.
The whistleblower piece is actually the most legally explosive.

Sarbanes-Oxley makes retaliating against a fraud whistleblower a criminal offense. The paper trail here — fired four days after emailing his manager about “potential or suspected fraud” — is about as clean as it gets.
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Apr 27
I was listening to Zoomer attempts at shoegaze music earlier, and I couldn't believe how contrived and soulless it all was. Almost everything is grasping at recreating these past eras, but it ends up feeling like a mold was chosen off the shelf before any "creativity" took place.
I should add, when I say "almost everything" I mean "most new creative work in general," not just zoomgaze
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Apr 27
Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
Some colleagues are reporting very long wait times (90-120 min).

Not sure what's going on, because I just ran a search and it gave me a decent response in less than 8 minutes.

Keep in mind that it's probably using full-text papers and not abstracts like most AI apps.
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Apr 27
¿No sabes qué ver en Filmin? Os recomiendo 8 PELÍCULAS sorprendentes sobre VIAJES EN EL TIEMPO y BUCLES TEMPORALES. Sigue el 🧵

LOLA (2022): En la Inglaterra de 1941, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, dos hermanas inventan una máquina llamada Lola, capaz de interceptar emisiones de radio y televisión del futuro.

Un logro visual rodado en 16mm y 35mm para que parezca un metraje encontrado real de los años 40. Es una carta de amor a la música y al cine. Dura 75 minutos, pero te dejará pensando mucho más tiempo tras verla.Image
FLASHBACK (2020): Fred es un joven con una vida corporativa gris que empieza a tener visiones aterradoras de una chica que desapareció en su instituto. Al investigar, descubre que todo está relacionado con una droga que consumió en su adolescencia y que le permite experimentar su vida de forma no lineal.

Olvida las máquinas del tiempo: aquí el viaje ocurre dentro de la conciencia. Juega con la idea de que el tiempo es una ilusión y que todas nuestras versiones (pasadas y futuras) coexisten.Image
MÁS ALLÁ DE LOS DOS MINUTOS INFINITOS (2020): Kato, el dueño de una cafeteria, descubre que el monitor de su local muestra lo que ocurrirá exactamente dos minutos en el futuro.

Rodada casi íntegramente en un plano secuencia, con un iPhone y recursos mínimos, esta película es un mecanismo de relojería perfecto. Es ingeniosa, optimista y extremadamente divertida.Image
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Apr 27
The Malaccan Heat (Thread)

- Heatwave in India
- West Bengal elections
- US Iran war
- Rahul Gandhi's current visit of Nicobar
- A 16 year old incident

In this thread
They look different but how all these events are interconnected to each other

1-15 Image
On 1st April

PIB issue a waring of IMD about upcoming heatwave in India but that time nobody spoke about it because everyone knows that April - June are hot months in India and every year temp remains between 40 - 50 degree in this season Image
23rd April

Polling happens in first phase of elections for West Bengal
Record breaking 92% poling happens

And many observer say that this polling went in favour of BJP

Huge poling is also expected in second phase which is scheduled on 29th April
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Apr 27
the generational war is nearing a TKO as elderly will surpass the population of young (likely this year) while the benefits they collect are 6x greater than those collected by the young. This system, created based on pre-WWII patterns of population growth and relatively short life spans in retirement persisting, is now literally sucking the life out of younger generations.Image
As we are now at peak 65-year-old population (with nearly all net population growth among post-retirement age population...the soaring elder population will result in little to no employment growth to support the system that primarily benefits them. The deficit spending required to maintain this demographic inversion will only get wilder.Image
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the soaring elder population (and soaring % of elders among the overall population) and like soaring debt to GDP is being encouraged by decades of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, which encourage Congress to spend ever more...especially with the knowledge the Fed will make the spending "free" with more ZIRP and QE!?!Image
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Apr 27
Si te roban el iPhone, puedes ver la CARA del ladrón y su UBICACIÓN EXACTA.

Sin apps.
Sin “Buscar”.
Sin que lo sepa.

Se activa en 3 minutos.

Y casi nadie lo tiene configurado.

Te explico cómo 👇
Cómo funciona este truco 👇

Envías una palabra clave por SMS a tu iPhone perdido.

Automáticamente el teléfono:

Toma una foto con la cámara frontal (sin sonido)
Captura la ubicación GPS en tiempo real

Envía la foto + ubicación a tu número de respaldo

La persona que lo tenga no se entera.

Tú recibes su cara y su localización en segundos.
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Apr 27
MICHAEL JACKSON’S DEATH AND THE JEWS.

A THREAD 🧵 Image
In 1993 he toured in Israel an was shocked about how they treated Palestinians. Image
He came back to the US and made a song about it.

Sony records refused to release the song. Image
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Apr 27
🧵Examples of Democrats' violent rhetoric
Abdul El-Sayed: “When they go low, we don’t go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out.”
Abigail Spanberger:  "Let your rage fuel you."
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Apr 27
🔴 Les sondages de popularité se succèdent, mais 99% des analyses se résument à regarder simplement le top-3.

Alors que ces sondages sont bien plus riches.

J'ai donc voulu aller plus loin, et analyser pour vous le PROFIL des répondants.

C'est passionnant 🧵⬇️Les 4 portraits ont été réalisés par IA.
AVANT-PROPOS :
📄 Ce fil s'appuie sur les 5 derniers baromètres IFOP, pour maximiser le nombre de réponses.

SOMMAIRE :
1⃣ J.-L. Mélenchon
2⃣ F. Hollande
3⃣ E. Philippe
4⃣ G. Attal
5⃣ G. Darmanin
6⃣ B. Retailleau
7⃣ S. Knafo
8⃣ M. Le Pen
9⃣ J. Bardella

On commence ⬇️
1⃣ Jean-Luc Mélenchon

📈 Tendance relativement stable, mais avec une légère remontée depuis un creux en janvier 2026.

👉 Gros point fort chez les jeunes : 54% des moins de 25 ans ont une bonne opinion de Mélenchon.

👉 Autre point fort dans l'agglomération parisienne, où le leader LFI rencontre 39% d'opinions favorables

👉 Equilibre remarquable entre la popularité auprès des hommes et des femmes. Nous verrons que c'est loin d'être le cas pour tout le monde !

👉 Malgré les polémiques, Mélenchon reste très populaire (87%) auprès des sympathisants LFI ⬇️Image
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Apr 27
Remember the Supertramp predictive album cover? Well there are more symbols of interest mixed in with it.

For example, the anagrams of the name Supertramp:
'Trump Praes', praes being an obsolete form of 'president'

And, Trump Spear, with Trump as the Tip of the Spear in his class, and represented at Trump's inverted triangle at his Dark Tower.Image
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This connects to a sprawling series of threads, which form the basis for a theory on Manhattan being laid out like a massive symbolic Third Temple, representing iterations of it, and of the first two as well.
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Apr 27
Resumen de la guerra imperialista de EEUU y el sionismo contra la República Islámica de Irán 20 - 26/04/26

Resumen anterior:

#1 Desde el punto de vista militar no hay mucho que comentar salvo lo siguiente:
#1 - 1 EEUU continúa desplegando buques hacia Irán con algunos países aliados, lo mismo que intensificó las misiones de reconocimiento con satélites. No podría decirles si es para una operación militar o como forma de presión diplomática. Image
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Lo raro acá es que desde el 01/04/26 no se habló más de fuerzas terrestres (información negativa se le dice) más allá de tres elementos de nivel brigada (11 y 31 unidades expedicionarias de infantería de marina y un fuerza de tareas paracaidista de nivel brigada de la 82 División
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