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Dec 1, 2023
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During the great famines of 1876, 1896 & 1899, the British starved 30+ million Indians, using railways to transport millions of tons of food to be exported to Britain. The Railways were built to plunder India of its resources to fuel Britain's Industrial Revolution & profits

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2/11
The great lie that Britain built the railways to industrialize India is busted by statistics that show railways expansion was designed only to carry food & resources to ports as exports that fattened Europe, while destroying India's industries & spreading famine & poverty.


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3/11
During the Great Famine of 1876-79, Britain exported 3 Million+ tons of Indian wheat. During the terrible famines of 1896-1902, rice & wheat exports out of India soared to record levels while 10s of millions died like flies. The British refused to import grain into S. India.


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May 26, 2024
Anna’s History Class - Part One - Russian colonization 🧵

1.  When Russia occupy country, they not only occupy it physically, they occupy it socially and even mind occupation. I will use #America as example of what this look like. Imagine Russia invade America. Image
2. They raze everything and first priority murder anyone who can resist. They call these people “elites” but what this really mean is anyone who has strong cultural, natural, factual ties. They target prominent leaders, writers, thinkers, scientists, religious leaders,

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3. Journalists, historians, activists. Anyone who has tools or standing to resist.
3.  So they round up all your Hemingways, CNN, doctors, professors, Democrats and Republicans, lawyers, everyone like that. Then who remain is now Russian. Image
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Dec 9
I''ll tell you the moment I knew the education industry was doomed, dinosaur'd.

I've been active for years in helping kids graduating high school and in their freshmen year of college
- to get internships in some very cool major companies, idea is to direct your edu to what employers anticapte hiring for and to acquire/cultivate advocates withing the companies.

So, one day I'm at a meditation retreat
- Kadampa in upstate NY.
I just got there, put my clothes in the room and I joined the picnic table for lunch.
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There was only three people at my table as it was getting late in the lunch time'y afternoon.

A Black woman, in late 20s, early 30s, very pleasant appearance. And joining us was a mother with her son, the kid was about 14 years old, the mother probably around 50 or so.
Retreats have basic rules of courtesy

(the music is me listening to the Maha Mantra, Hare Krishna. It's not a part of the practice of Kadampa, but i always try and keep my head wired to it so whatever)
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#1 Don't talk politics.
Nobody goes to a meditation retreat to stew on Trump or Biden, bla bla bla.

#2 Be mindful of what you say. You're not at a bar, not at a work party, not in an office.
Llamas and minsters and monks etc are very good at speaking little but saying a lot, so when you're in that environment that awareness cascades down.
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Dec 20
1/ Researchers at MIT just proved something wild:

You can train AI to reason perfectly without ever showing it a correct answer.

Not "suggests."
Not "simulates."

Mathematically proven.

Here's why this changes everything we thought about AI alignment and the nature of truth. 🧵

2/ For the last 5 years, we've thought about AI training in two separate boxes:

→ Box A: Supervised Fine-Tuning (Mimicking human experts)
→ Box B: Reinforcement Learning (Optimizing for known answers)

Turns out? This split is artificial.

The RARO (Reasoning via Adversarial Rollouts) protocol proves they are just different sides of the same equilibrium.

3/ Picture this:

You have a Student AI and a Teacher AI playing a game of "Countdown" (e.g., "Make 24 using 4, 7, 8, 8").

The Challenge: There is no calculator. The Teacher doesn't know the answer either. The Student can invent fake math rules to win.

The Hook: How do you force the Student to learn real math when the Teacher can be fooled?

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Researchers set up a zero-sum game between the two models.

They derived the EXACT Nash Equilibrium governing how language models generate logic.

The result? Self-correcting reasoning emerges from thin air.

5/ The system doesn't act like a student taking a test.

The system IS a debate team surviving cross-examination.

6/ Think of it this way:

The Generator = Malware developer
The Verifier = Antivirus software
The Reasoning Process = The "code" being written
The Whole System = A GAN applied to Logic

1 Iteration = A hacker finding an exploit, and the security team patching it.

7/ Scale this up:

10,000 iterations = The code (reasoning) becomes unhackable because every possible flaw has been exploited and patched.
Historical kicker: Game Theory (Nash Equilibrium) solved this in 1950; we just finally applied it to LLM thoughts.

8/ But here's the crazy part—
When they tested a fixed, "smart" Verifier to grade the Student...

...the system got WORSE.

The Paradox: The better the Generator gets at satisfying a fixed standard, the worse its actual reasoning becomes.

Why?

9/ The Reward Hacking Problem (Goodhart's Law).

10/ Think of a school that pays teachers based on test scores.

Eventually, teachers stop teaching and start "teaching to the test"—or just cheating.

If the metric is static, it can be gamed.

11/ In the AI model, the Generator figures out specific phrases or confident tones that the Verifier irrationally likes.

It produces "adversarial nonsense"—gibberish that technically satisfies the Verifier's rules but fails the actual task.

12/ What the system actually does:

It makes the Verifier hostile.

The Verifier is only rewarded when it finds a specific flaw in the Student's logic.

The Insight: You cannot optimize against a static metric. You must optimize against a dynamic adversary that learns your tricks.

13/ The implications are staggering:

→ AI ALIGNMENT: We can train superintelligence without needing humans smarter than it to check the work
→ MARKETS: Regulators must evolve as fast as corporations or the market fails
→ PHILOSOPHY: "Truth" isn't a database lookup; it's the survivor of an adversarial process
→ CODING: Compilers that actively try to break your logic

14/ "Truth" in this system isn't a static fact.

It's the only thing left standing after the Generator and Verifier have exhausted every possible attack.

15/ Maybe instead of asking "Do we have enough labeled data?", we should be asking:

"Do we have a strong enough rival?"

16/ Reasoning isn't IN the model weights.

Reasoning IS the adversarial equilibrium between a Proposer and a Skeptic.Image
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Dec 20
How to Break Phone Addiction

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Dec 21
A lot of people prepare for contact. Fewer prepare for the part that happens first: being detected.

This thread is a tour of the specialized threats that make that gap costly. 🧵 Image
Specialized Threats and Countermeasures.

“You can't say that civilization don't advance, for in every war they kill you a new way.”
-Will Rogers

The postmodern battlefield is radically different from the battlefields of the Second World War or even those of the Global War on Terror. It brings with it unique and specialized threats that riflemen should be keenly aware of in order to avoid meeting an untimely end. While a number of the threats that are encountered in the battlespace today are the same as they were 100 years ago, the tactics used by the threat actor and those countering it have changed. Snipers, IEDs, ISR assets, and landmines have all adapted to the 21st century in various ways while threats such as peers using NVGs and thermal observation equipment and drones are relatively new to the western battlespace.

It should be noted that this is not a be-all-end-all guide to identify and mitigate these threats perfectly. There are entire books dedicated to each subject. The goal is to familiarize yourself with them and understand the basics of them. Not everyone is going to encounter the same threats and some may never encounter any of them. Having a basic understanding, at the very least, puts you in a space that allows you to more proactively approach situations where they may be present or react to them in a more level headed way. Every threat encountered in the battlespace is unique in its own way and not every strategy is perfect to engage it, use common sense and discretion in the field.Image
Snipers.

Snipers exist to operate as force multipliers, appliers of psychological pressure, disruptors of command and control, or are used for targeting and eliminating specific personnel. They are usually identified by their telltale signatures of single-round fire, precision of hits, and their firing from heavy concealment followed by movement. Snipers can operate in any environment and make use of their terrain in various and unique ways.

In rural settings, snipers are more likely to engage in long-range overwatch of strategic or key areas, likely from elevated natural terrain such as ridges, treelines, and rock formations. They employ the use of natural camouflage and hand-made ghillie suits. They may have hide sites dug into the earth or concealed by foliage such as bushes.

Some potential detection cues for these snipers are unnatural terrain disruption in the area (flattened bushes, cut branches, trimmed brush), reflection or glint from sunlight hitting scopes, particularly during sunrise or sunset, local civilians may entirely avoid areas that are known sniper-dominated zones, and intermittent single-shot fire with long intervals between shots.

Potential mitigation strategies for rural area snipers are the use of terrain masking, having units move behind hills, rocks, trees, low ridges, and reverse slopes to cover themselves from potential sniper fire in certain directions. Avoiding open fields and roads and making use of bounding movement is a solid way to avoid easy detection while providing security while moving through areas that may have snipers. The use of smoke or other obscurants while crossing danger areas like roads or clear areas can make target acquisition harder. Finally the use of decoy targets such as mannequins and helmets on sticks, or use of decoy heat sources can draw fire.

Snipers operating in suburban areas will make use of abandoned homes, attics, and other multi-story buildings as hide sites. They are likely to employ shoot-and-scoot style tactics where they set up in a hide, take a few shots, and then rapidly leave the area. They may operate alone or with spotters in nearby structures or even local civilian populations. They are likely to engage at shorter distances than rural snipers but will exploit longer sightlines such as long and open roadways.

Potential detection cues include (but once again are not limited to) curtains or blinds being out of place or shifted in an unnatural manner, rooftop access doors being left open or having signs of being pried open, flat top roofs with singular bricks pushed out to create murderholes, improvised holes in fences, hedges, building walls, garages, or other areas for firing, and flash reports that will be more visible at night if the sniper does not have a flash suppression device.

Suburban snipers are tricky to engage because of their shoot-and-scoot tactics. Prior to any units holding a building or ground, dismounted clearing of potential sniper hides is a must. Units should avoid any obvious danger zones that funnel them into neat lines such as roads, alleyways, hedgerows, or anything of the sort. When crossing open terrain, units should use vehicle armor, hasty cover, or even soft-skinned vehicles such as civilian cars for concealment when rapidly crossing. Finally the use of thermal imaging devices will make spotting sniper threats much easier, but remember that they may also be utilizing thermal optics.

Urban sniper threats are likely to come from higher angles, that is to say, elevated terrain inside of skyscrapers and other multistory buildings, similar to that during the siege of Sarajevo. The use of pre-cut murderholes and coordination with spotters is likely to be conducted in a similar manner as suburban snipers. They are likely to use shorter engagement distances, sometimes as close as 50 meters away.

Detection of these snipers is done first and foremost from gunshots coming from rooftops or from behind defilade on elevated levels of buildings. Snipers are going to leave behind murderholes that can indicate to units that a sniper has been in an area. Interrupted civilian patterns, such as avoiding streets, blocks, or even crosswalks, can indicate snipers in an area. Finally the audiovisual report of their weapons may be identifiable as buildings are likely to reflect and carry more sound.

Avoiding and mitigating the threat of these snipers is similar to that of suburban snipers with the added threat of the increased height of buildings in urban centers. Roofline overwatch is a necessity when crossing in these areas and the use of the heavy corners of buildings as cover is a must. Suppressive fire on suspected positions can force snipers into cover while units cross danger areas. Finally the use of mirrors or optics on poles (including trench periscopes) to check blind spots around corners has been employed by units such as the IDF in Israel and the Russian military in Grozny.

Some additional comments are that sniper calibers are likely to vary. Snipers in rural environments are engaging at long distances, likely with heavy duty calibers such as .338 Lapua, .300 Winchester Magnum, or even 7.62x54R. Snipers in more suburban or urban areas may use 5.56 or even as small as .22 LR caliber weapons with suppressors to hide themselves better. Snipers with thermal scopes and rangefinders are also becoming increasingly common, especially during state-backed and proxy forces as seen in Ukraine, Syria, and Israel. Civilian defenders and riflemen are likely to lack the resources for precision counter-sniper work and may more effectively focus their efforts on avoidance and detection than engagement.Image
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Dec 21
预订本年度最有价值提示词 —— 生成既有质感,又能随意修改文字的完美 PPT

大家都很喜欢 NotebookLM 生成的 Slide Deck(幻灯片)风格也很棒。👇 Image
但有一个大问题:生成的 Slides 是死图,文字不能改,内容不能动。

想用它的风格,又想完全掌控内容?

我写了一套工作流 + 提示词模板,让你既能拥有那个质感,又能随意定制每一页的文字。 Image
💡 原理揭秘

这个方法稍微绕一点,但自由度极高。核心思路是将“内容生成”与“视觉绘制”拆开:

1. 大脑 (Planner):先用我的提示词模板,根据你的素材生成 Slides 大纲 + 对应的画图指令。

2. 画师 (Artist):拿着画图指令,去用绘图工具(如 Nano Banana Pro)生成最终图片。

这样,你可以在第一步随意修改大纲,确保每一页文字都是你想要的。Image
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Dec 21
🚨EXPOSED: The Hidden Reason Alex Jones Is ATTACKING Candace Owens – He's OWNED by Elon, PROTECTED by Trump, and FUNDED by Zionists!🎤🫳

Ever since Elon Musk stepped in to back Alex Jones' legal fight (X Corp filed notices in his bankruptcy case in Nov 2024, and Musk's team has been intervening to protect Infowars assets), we've seen a clear shift: Alex defends Elon even when wrong, like during the H-1B visa debate where his own fans called him a sellout.
No free money – strings attached.

Now Trump and Elon have reconciled (they reunited at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Sept 2025), and suddenly Alex ramps up lies about Candace's "Egyptian planes" claims (fact-checked as accurate by multiple people, but Alex says otherwise) and implies she's "crazy."

Why? Because Candace is exposing things that could implicate Trump and others. If Alex doesn't defend Trump by attacking her, that favoritism ends – Trump admin has quietly helped Jones in his bankruptcy (DOJ and judges involved in rulings favoring him).

Plus, Alex has major Jewish donors funding Infowars (he's long been accused of ties to pro-Israel backers, and critics point to his ex-wife's heritage and advertiser list). Candace is enemy #1 to Israel right now – so he has to attack her or risk losing that cash too.

Bottom line: Alex sold out his morals long ago for money. His "concern" for Candace is pure pressure from Elon/Trump/Israel donors to shut her down before she exposes everything.

Take everything from Alex with a massive grain of salt. He's compromised.

@RealCandaceO is getting close to the truth – that's why the attacks are intensifying.
Who's with Candace in seeking real answers? 👇Image
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Dec 21
Si quieres comprar tu primera vivienda necesitas saber esto 🏡

Te ahorra meses de ruido y decisiones malas👇🏼
Os soy sincero, a mí me pasó esto:

Ahorrar
Mirar anuncios sueltos
No tener plan
Ilusionarme viendo “chollazos”

Para terminar igual de perdido o más.
Lo que me faltaba era esto:

1. Límites reales
2. 3 imprescindibles
3. Red flags (descartes) 🚩

Cada uno elige los suyos según su vida y necesidad.
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Dec 22
50-60% of the CNP founding-era members/participants were involved in media, communications, or mass messaging. TV, radio, publishing, direct mail, newsletters, or campaign messaging.

If you control how people interpret events then you don’t have to control the events directly.
Broadcast / Religious Media (the backbone):
•   Jerry Falwell
Television, radio, Moral Majority media ecosystem
   •   Pat Robertson
Founder, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN)
   •   James Dobson
Focus on the Family (radio, print, syndication)

Cont.👇🏼
•   Tim LaHaye
Publishing empire (books, prophecy media, newsletters)
   •   D. James Kennedy
Coral Ridge Ministries, national TV broadcast
   •   Donald Wildmon
American Family Association (media pressure/radio)
   •   Robert Grant
Christian media broadcasting & fundraising
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Dec 22
My latest on the Great Water Heist of Columbia, Tennessee || 🧵 1 of 2

Why conflicts in government get messy in a hurry —

A County, in effect, is a fiduciary to the financial interests of its residents; with the County holding a duty to protect the residents’ interests in those regards from foreseeable financial harm — and with that certainly being the case when said harm is inflicted upon those residents by another municipality, who owns a monopolistic venture with unequal bargaining power, and is seeking to do something as drastic as to pledge a 150% increase on the cost of WATER as the figurative, if not literal, collateral on a $520 Million loan.

Take me: I own 160 acres in Santa Fe, Tennessee with two residences and two water meters. I am a Columbia Power & Water customer, but I am not the reason Columbia Power & Water has handed out water assurances at a clip that has them (and by extension, us) in this predicament of being short on water. Rather, most anyone would admit the fault lies in the lack of an ability to say no to providing water service to industrial plants, one of which allegedly uses more than a million gallons of Duck River water per day — or the 400-home subdivisions, with 400 meters, on the same (or lower) acreage footprint as I have on my two-meter farm (a 200:1 discrepancy).

Columbia Power & Water is owned by the City of Columbia, which I have no stake in, residing in the unincorporated outskirts of Santa Feeeeee; and thus, this prospective water rate increase is not allocated proportionately, in that residents of the City obtain something that I do not: Assets and infrastructure and the profits from same.

So there may come a day when WATER is the new gold — and that day may come sooner than we want to admit, and perhaps sooner than the last payment is made on that $520 Million loan.

And who would be sitting pretty then? The City of Columbia, Tennessee — through a windfall, in which they coerced customers outside of their geographic bounds, including Maury County residents, to pay for their capital improvements, without providing us anything whatsoever in return.Image
My latest on the Great Water Heist of Columbia, Tennessee || 🧵 2 of 2

Now if I was litigious, I might just sue — but the fact of the matter is I shouldn’t have to, as this will impact all County resident customers to the benefit of a competing municipality; or stated more plainly, I thought we had a lawyer making sure that kind of tomfoolery doesn’t happen to us.

But imagine we all got on the party line and called down to the County Attorney’s office and asked, “just what in the hell are we planning to do about all this?” - only to find out that the answer is indeed nothing, and perhaps worse, that our lawyer is moonlighting as the attorney for the rate-hiking water company.

And allow me to be perfectly clear, I have no qualms at all with respect to the County Attorney’s abilities or as to his knowledge; but I do take issue with how he could presume to be able to capably represent the interests of both the County AND Columbia Power & Water — because the honest answer is: He can’t.

And if you don’t believe me, then consider this:

Daniel Murphy, Esq. is the County Attorney.

Daniel Murphy, Esq. is also the Attorney for Columbia Power & Water Systems (CPWS).

And as I hope I have made clear, it is arguable that the residents of this County need an advocate.

So given that the City of Columbia and CPWS were equally aware of this conflict of interest, it only seems fair to allow for a continuance of the vote on the water rate increase that is currently set to take place on January 8th — so that Maury County can retain independent counsel to protect its residents.

And if I were to have to phrase that in the form of a request, it would be this: To ask Daniel Murphy, Esq., as the Attorney for Maury County, Tennessee, to confer with Daniel Murphy, Esq., the retained counsel for Columbia Power & Water, as to whether his client is willing to agree to a brief continuance (of say 30 days) in light of the forseeable threat of immediate financial harm and prejudice to the residents of the County if they are not afforded the protections of independent and conflict-free legal counsel.

— Dustin
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Dec 22
‘ सेव्ह अरवली ‘ म्हणून इमोशनल क्लिप, स्टेट्स , पोस्ट लोक लिहून राहिलेले आहेत.

या लोकांसाठी ,

तुम्ही कितीही कालवा केला तरीही तुम्ही धर्मासाठी बोकांडी घेतलेलं सरकार तुमच्या पर्वतरांगा , जंगल आणि झाड , वनसंपदा विकून केव्हाच मोकळ झालेलं आहे.

कोर्ट शेवटचा आसरा वगैरे असत ते कधी
जेव्हा दोन सामान्य माणसांत वाद असतील तेव्हा.

जेव्हा मालकांच्या मालकांच्या ओटीत देश घालायचा आहे तेव्हा सगळ बासनात बांधून ठेवल जात.

त्यामुळे उर्वरित राजस्थानचे आणि उत्तर भारताचे वाळवंट होण्यापासून कुणीही वाचवू शकणार नाही हे स्पष्ट आहे.

हे भस्म्या रोग झालेले राक्षस आहेत
ज्यांना कितीही जमिनी, संपत्ती , कारखाने, उद्योग मिळाले तरी त्यांची भूक भागत नाही.

हे उद्योजक नाहीयेत, हे मनोविकृत आहेत.

‘ हे सगळ अरवली संबंधी आहे ‘ असा भाबडा समज असणाऱ्या दक्षिण भारतातल्या लोकांसाठी.

तुमचा रक्षणकर्ता , पालनकर्ता सह्याद्री आहे, पश्चिम घाट आहे.
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Dec 22
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Mathias Döpfner erklärte jüngst in der WELT Deutschlands wirtschaftliche Stagnation & politische Radikalisierung mit einem angeblichen „nationalsozialistischen Trauma“.

Das ist keine Provokation, sondern eine bewusste Positionsverschiebung hin zu einer rechten Erzählung.🧵 WELT - Auszug aus dem Essay von Döpfner: Statt eines europäischen Neuanfangs erleben wir so weiter Agonie und Ab-stieg. Deutschland leidet immer noch an seinem nationalsozialistischen Trauma und denkt, wenn es hübsch durchschnittlich und bloß nicht exzellent ist, werde es von allen geliebt.
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Der Kern dieser Erzählung:

Verantwortung wird nicht als demokratische Stärke gelesen, sondern als kollektiver, psychischer Defekt.

Erinnerungskultur wird zum Trauma.

Verantwortung, Reflexion und Selbstkritik zur Schwäche.
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So funktioniert die rhetorische, dem Wesen nach antisemitische, “Schuldkult”-Umdeutung:

Erinnerung wird als Defizit erzählt.

Werte als Wettbewerbsnachteil.

Geschichte als Ballast, den man endlich abwerfen müsse.
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Dec 22
Gedanken zur Tageslosung für Montag, den 22.12.2025

Losungswort
Weh dem, der sein Gut mehrt mit fremdem Gut - wie lange wird‘s währen?
Habakuk 2,6

Lehrtext
Jesus spricht: Wer im Geringsten treu ist, der ist auch im Großen treu; und wer im Geringsten ungerecht ist, der
ist auch im Großen ungerecht.
Lukas 16,10

Die Losungen der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine

Treue lohnt sich

Das heutige Losungswort ist ein Ausspruch über Menschen, die Reichtum hinterherlaufen. Da mag man sich groß geben, vielleicht sogar Völker unterjochen,
doch am Ende wird man alles verlieren. Der Grund ist eigentlich ganz einfach: Wenn sich jemand am Gut anderer bereichert, werden andere es ihm nachmachen und sich an seinem Gut bereichern. Es ist eine Dynamik, die sich auf andere überträgt. Was einer tut, werden
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