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Jun 5
¹ Thanks to the work of @bandlersbanter, @AshleyRindsberg, @EllaTravelsLove and @shlomitlir, there's growing awareness of coordinated ideological takeover of Wikipedia's Israel/Palestine coverage after Oct. 7

So I decided to measure its extent and the results are extraordinary🧵
² I started with the "Zionism" article - the conceptual and narrative core of Wikipedia's entire coverage of the conflict.
Turns out that after the takeover only about 20% of the pre-October-2023 article survived, while the other 80% had been effectively replaced.⏬Image
³ To be clear: no legitimate editorial process produces numbers like these.
The article is over 20 years old and had been essentially stable for years, so this wasn't a gradual improvement of an article that needed work, but a wholesale replacement of one article with another.⏬
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Jun 5
NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed.

Read along w/ me 🧵 Image
The report's premise is that support for the humanities and social sciences has cratered among basically everyone.

It gives several possible reasons: the misuse of the hard sciences, "problematic philosophical view," and—most notably—ideological distortions. Image
Interestingly, the report immediately narrows its scope down to that last complaint, that scholarship has been overrun by political goals, distorting disciplinary standards and producing bad research. Image
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Jun 5
En agosto de 1893, un legendario explorador noruego navegaba por el Ártico cuando su imponente barco se detuvo en seco. Los motores rugían al máximo y el agua estaba en absoluta calma, pero una fuerza invisible los atrapó. Era el agua muerta. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Image
Fridtjof Nansen era uno de los mejores navegantes del mundo y estaba cruzando las gélidas aguas del océano Ártico a bordo del Fram, un prodigio de la ingeniería naval diseñado específicamente para soportar la presión del hielo polar sin sufrir ningún rasguño. Image
De repente, al acercarse al remoto archipiélago de Nordenskiöld, ocurrió algo físicamente imposible. La velocidad del pesado barco cayó drásticamente, casi a cero. La hélice giraba a su máxima capacidad y los motores escupían humo negro, pero el Fram apenas avanzaba. Image
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Jun 7
Meet Sadiq ali, the pakistani canadian, living in toronto, he's the head of TF-2990, and runs dozens of similar accs, his soul purpose is to spread misinfo and hatred against indians on a massive scale by manipulating twitter algorithm.

EXPOSING HIS ENTIRE SYNDICATE. 🧵 Image
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Now, you might wonder whats TF-2990, its task force 2990, started by DGISPR, to spread as much hate and misinfo against indians after op sindoor.

Here you'll see how sadiq openly incites his followers in tg groups to commit violence against indians.
I identified around 42 telegram groups with around thousands of members where he asks his followers to follow each other and make larping accs begging, he regularly asks his followers to use certain keywords, which appeals to algorithm, there's loes the secret of his rapid growth Image
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Jun 7
BREAKING: [Donald Trump Furious as his Birthday Party UFC event Completely FLOPS**]

So Donald Trump once again proved to the world that he is so incompetent he can't host anything without making a mess out of it. And of course he is not happy because the White House UFC event is completely falling apart in real time. Why? Because a lot of people who initially said that they would join are now openly saying they are not going to join this event.

According to Vanity Fair reporting, Trump's White House fight night has a star power problem because none of these celebrities or people that have just been invited generally want to be associated with a man who has disastrous approval ratings and to associate with the Epstein class.

One of the weird things that trump mentioned in a recent Oval Office meeting was that he said: "I told yesterday the story of the Eiffel Tower, and it was 1889 it was put up. It was going to be brought down right after the World's Fair end. It was up for a short while and they said, "Well, let's leave it a little bit longer." Then they said, "Let's leave it a little long." It never came down."

And just like that, Trump wants to permanently leave the UFC cage. He compared it to the Eiffel Tower. He says he actually likes having it at the White House for some reason and said it might be a permanent feature now. And if you recently look at the White House area, it looks like a complete mess of a place: the ballroom construction, the UFC cage, and so many things, and he is just making it worse because he has so much time to talk about his ballroom that he forgets sometimes that he is the president and he needs to focus on the American people.

Then recently Bryce Mitchell, who is an MMA fighter within the UFC, has heavily criticized Trump. White House Fight Night. He said: "First off, I'm not jealous of any of those fighters. I'm so happy for those fighters. But I'm an economics major. I love studying politics on the political side of things. Not the UFC's business. That is, of course, they're going to say yes to it. But what I think personally is that our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is to protect and serve the people and really should be as minimal as possible.

"And when you're doing all of this stuff, hosting sporting events, it's really outside of what the goal of the government was intended to be because our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. It's an amazing thing. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. But the government should never be hosting sporting events because there's more room for corruption and we already have a corrupted government."

He is actually right about the last point, there is just so much corruption and lack of accountability. People are in such a crazy economic situation, but Trump is so focused on his own desired projects, like ballroom or THE UFC event. Talking about corruption, Trump bought stock in the UFC's parent company while simultaneously promoting the fight at the White House.

Even very recently Joe Rogan, who generally supports Trump, said something very critical about this upcoming event. Joe Rogan said: "The White House thing is odd. I don't like it. I don't like the idea of fighting outside at all. June and it's DC and we looked it up the last time, like last year, the same day was 100°. Yeah, that's hot as [asf] Then you add the lights. Oh yeah, you add the lights. You add the lights to attract bugs. Like, how are you going to stop the bugs? I just don't think that you should compete in a world championship fight in a non-controlled environment. I think it should be inside an air-conditioned arena."

So even Joe Rogan is completely against this event; yes, this is a Trump birthday event, and it's all crumbling, and "UFC chief Dana White said in an interview with Time magazine that he invited a handful of megawatt stars to join him at the bout.Image
You have people like Adam Sandler, Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Leto, Jason Statham, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and Mario Lopez. Of that group, few if any will actually be there."

And remember Trump's a concert event on the Mall in Washington, DC, for his birthday and for America 250, mainly for his birthday because he only thinks about himself. Basically all the artists rejected joining this concert and associating with Trump because they just don't want to have any connection with someone who wants to hide the Epstein files. And some artists like Vanilla Ice, who are going to perform there, are all MAGA supporters and big Trump supporters.

And you also might remember the things just went so wrong for Donald Trump that he had a meltdown in the middle of the night and posted that he was cancelling this concert event, and he wanted to turn this event into a political rally instead of focusing on the 250th concert. People all over social media were so disappointed with this announcement. And Trump, when he cancelled this event, called the artist who said they were not coming, and Trump said to them, "We don't want a singer with no talent." So basically any artist who refuses to go along with Trump is a no-talent singer; that's what Trump wants to say.

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Jun 7
Un desarrollador chino ha creado una "maquina de imprimir dinero".

Se trata de una herramienta capaz de generar vídeos completos para TikTok, Reels y YouTube Shorts de forma automática.

Acumula más de 13k stars en GitHub, es gratis y open-source.

Aquí te explico cómo funciona 👇Image
1/ ¿Qué es exactamente MoneyPrinterTurbo?

MoneyPrinterTurbo es una herramienta diseñada para automatizar la creación de vídeos cortos con IA.

Conecta en un único flujo de trabajo la generación de guiones, voces, subtítulos, recursos visuales y edición para producir vídeos listos para publicar en cuestión de minutos.

Por eso se ha convertido en uno de los proyectos open-source más populares de su categoría.
2/ ¿Cómo funciona?

→ Genera el guion automáticamente a partir de un tema
→ Busca vídeos HD libres de derechos para ilustrarlo
→ Crea la voz en off, los subtítulos y la música de fondo
→ Monta y exporta el vídeo final listo para TikTok, Reels o Shorts
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Jun 7
IRAN WAR UPDATE & WHY THE PRICE OF OIL KEEPS DROPPING

The media has not been covering this.

According to the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, approximately 1,000 commercial vessels have crossed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months.

Iran has not been able to do anything about it. And commercial traffic through the Strait is slowly increasing.

Meanwhile, the U.S. blockade on Iran's use Strait of Hormuz is costing the Iran Regime $500 MILLION per day. The Regime's entire annual budget is about $56 BILLION. The Regime can no longer pay its soldiers or security police.

Mass protests against the Regime are now starting up again in cities across Iran, as the people are now sensing the Regime can's do much about this.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced that the $24 BILLION in Iranian assets that we have frozen will be used to reimburse and compensate countries in the region Iran keeps hitting with its missiles and drones.

The damage Iran has done to airports, power grids, buildings, and infrastructure, as well as casualties inflicted by Iran in the region, will be billed to Iran's account.

Iran has been saying any deal Iran strikes with the U.S. hinges on the U.S. unfreezing $24 BILLION in Iran assets.

Welp, so much for that idea. This $24 BILLION will be used to compensate Iran's victims in the region.

There is no reason for the U.S. to negotiate anymore with Iran's Regime.

It's quite cheap for the U.S. Navy to keep patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, escorting ships in and out. Our Navy has to be somewhere. Might as well be there, conducting occasional target practice on whatever is left of Iran's military capabilities.

No one fears the Iran Regime anymore. It's proven itself to be a toothless tiger.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Arab World has joined with the United States and Israel in an alliance against the Iran Regime, which is now completely isolated.

That's pretty amazing. Thanks to President Trump, the rest of the Arab world is now allied with Israel.

Who would have thought that possible?

We should allow Israel to do whatever it wants to do to the Iran Regime. We should also continue arming the Kurds and pro-freedom groups inside Iran.

When Epic Fury started, the prediction was that oil would rise above $200 per barrel.

This has not happened. Oil is around $90 a barrel and will continue to drop.

The reason we have not seen anything close to $200 a barrel is the United States has ramped up its oil production.

Thanks to President Trump, the United States is a net oil and energy exporter.

With Trump's arrest of Venezuela's Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro, the United States also now has an oil production partnership with the new government of Venezuela, which as the world's largest oil reserves.

Oil production by Venezuela will only continue to increase.

Trump has also chased China out of Panama. China is no longer running the Panama Canal. We are.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait are increasing their pipeline capacity to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, further rendering Iran irrelevant.

Only about 20% of Iran's people are practicing Muslims. The strange theocratic ideology that has been imposed on the Iranian people for 47 years is an alien minority force.

We can just continue to watch the Iran Regime implode financially under this economic pressure we've imposed.

Eventually, the IRGC leadership and Mullahs will receive the Gaddafi treatment.Image
The fact that the media is no longer focused on the Iran War tells you Trump has won the Iran War and the price of oil will just keep coming down as we head to the Midterm Elections.
Trump was also right when he said the War would only last a few weeks. That was about how long offensive military operations lasted. The cease fire has been in effect now for about 60 days.

The U.S. only responds when Iran tries to strike our ships, which hasn't been often . . . because Iran has almost no capability anymore.
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Jun 7
Putin's chief propagandists can no longer explain what Russia is fighting for.

Aleksandr Dugin spent decades justifying Russia's war against the West. Asked what is worth fighting for today, he failed to give a clear answer, The Atlantic. 1/ Image
Dugin answered with a fantasy of Russians leaving cities for the countryside, living among "neo-ancient ruins" and connecting through an "internet of Russian villages."

Even his interviewer, Sobchak, struggled to keep a straight face. 2/
At the end of May, he wrote that Russia's current elites give the country "critically low" chances of achieving victory.

He also questioned whether those elites could even hold the country together. 3/
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Jun 7
Google just dropped a new LLM!

You can run it locally on just 8GB RAM.

Let's fine-tune this on our own data (100% locally):
Google released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model that runs text, images, and audio on 8GB VRAM!

We'll fine-tune it to master chess and predict the exact next move.

Tech stack:
- @UnslothAI for efficient fine-tuning.
- @huggingface transformers to run it locally.

Let's go! 🚀
1️⃣ Load the model

We start by loading Gemma 4 12B and its tokenizer using Unsloth.

Check this 👇 Image
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Jun 7
If a historian on the right abused evidence in this way, they'd face career ruination.

When Boston University's Quinn Slobodian does it, he gets a Guggenheim fellowship, book awards, and a Hewlett Foundation grant.

Academia's rot runs far deeper than a simple crisis of rigor. Image
Slobodian does this sort of thing frequently in his published works - almost always to make the person he is misquoting appear to be sympathetic to racism. Image
Here's another where he excerpts out the very next sentence in the passage...because it completely contradicts his own claim. Image
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Jun 7
A finales del siglo XIX, los agricultores gallegos obtenían miel asfixiando a las abejas y destruyendo sus panales. Aquella técnica medieval condenaba a las aldeas a la miseria, hasta que un sacerdote decidió intervenir. Benigno Ledo, "O cura das abellas". Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Image
Benigno Ledo González nació el 20 de julio de 1867 en A Chanca, una pequeña aldea de la parroquia de Adá, en el ayuntamiento de Chantada. Ingresó en el seminario como la única vía de escape para evitar el duro trabajo físico del campo y acceder a estudios. Image
Tras ser ordenado sacerdote, fue destinado a varias parroquias del interior de Galicia. Allí se encontró de frente con la cruda realidad de unos feligreses que trabajaban sin descanso, pero no lograban salir del umbral de la extrema pobreza y el autoconsumo agrícola. Image
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Jun 7
NEW: Virginia political organizer and a military vet file federal suit, seeking court order to HALT the UFC fight at White House:

"This plan is deeply corrupt.. President is giving (Dana) White & his company what none have enjoyed before: unfettered access to the White House.. to stage a private, for-profit sports event"

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MORE: In new fed. suit seeking a HALT to the White House UFC fight:

"The UFC is not being coy about the event’s pecuniary nature. One executive recently called it 'the greatest earned-marketing tool of all time.' He is far from the only one salivating at the business upside"
Suit challenging UFC fight at White House:

"The ostensible occasion for this spectacle is the semiquincentennial. Dana White says that the aim is to “to celebrate the 250th birthday of America.” Although June 14, 2026, will also be Trump’s 80th birthday, White has steadfastly maintained that the timing is just a coincidence"
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Jun 7
1) Some simple but difficult truths:

2) John Thune is a lameoid douchenozzle. But it was four RINOs, not Thune, who killed the SAVE act. Three of them will be replaced by MAGA this election.

3) If you replaced Thune today with J.D. Vance, & reintroduced SAVE it would fail by 4.
4) Mail-in voting & "Late counting" is a major problem & a serious threat to real democracy & functioning government. But it wouldn't change the CA elections. The problem in CA is TOO MANY DEMOKKKRATS (an at-least 3m voter registration lead).
5) The solution in CA is to register 3 million more Rs. We need 100 Scott Preslers.

6) Many of you want to think everything is a conspiracy. Nope. It's STRUCTURAL. 99% of our problems are structural, namely voter registration, bloated voter rolls with dead voters, illegals.
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Jun 7
NEW
Recently ousted Rep. Thomas Massie just described Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA as a “treasonous merger” of the American and Israeli militaries. 🧵 Image
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Massie emphasizes this provision would further integrate the defense and security interests of both nations in ways he believes undermine U.S. sovereignty.
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Section 224 is still alive. It would expand U.S.-Israel defense integration across AI, cyber, weapons development, research, testing, and industrial cooperation.

It survived committee and is now moving through the NDAA process. It is not law yet. Which makes this a critical window for those who oppose the merger.
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Jun 7
In responding to a challenge from Sen. Fetterman to prove that he did not send naked pictures to women, Graham Platner immediately raised the Jews, declaring that Fetterman is a tool of AIPAC. It appears that the tattoo may be obscured, but a certain obsession remains...
...Graham wrote that Fetterman is not disliked due to his hoodie: "It's not the hoodie, dude. It's because you've become a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican party." Notably, it is the same narrative of his defenders.
...Graham is accused of assault, degrading women, defaming veterans, mocking rape victims, praising Hamas, and ridiculing rural people. However, the real problem is again AIPAC and the Jews?
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Jun 7
For Ukrainian children, childhood is about air alerts at night, rushing to shelters, and waiting for brief reunions with a parent defending the country.

Despite everything, they continue to dream, play, support one another, and believe in a peaceful future.

Help protect Ukrainian children. Join Sky Defense.
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Jun 7
Landmark genetic study published in the journal Cell analyzed ancient DNA to map the genomic history of the Southern Levant. Findings offer powerful scientific evidence of Jewish indigeneity. cell.com/action/showPdf…
The study, "The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant," analyzed genome-wide DNA from 73 ancient individuals across 5 archaeological sites, spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 2500–1000 BCE). These people shared what we call "Canaanite" material culture.
Ancient DNA reveals 1. Core Ancestry: Ancient Canaanites were a genetic mix of local Stone Age (Neolithic) populations and migrants from the northeast (Zagros Mountains/Caucasus). 2. Genetic Homogeneity: "Canaanites" across different sites were highly genetically similar.
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