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Your baby should be sunbathing

As a father, I have skin in the game

Let’s put this ridiculous notion that we shouldn’t get our newborns and infants out under sunshine to rest

SUNLIGHT BABY THREAD

We hear it all the time now

“You shouldn’t expose your newborn or infant child to sunlight”

This is parroted as some paragon of truth, yet it’s one of the most damaging things a parent can do

Even worse, parents today lather their children up with sunscreen to “protect” them from sunlight

This is nothing short of madness that’s fueled by ignorance and propaganda media campaigns

I’ll show you exactly why this is true

Time to come back to reality. Smoking weed is NOT harmless.

It literally shrinks your brain, drops your IQ, and might even cause cancer.

Let’s talk about it:

HOW WEED WORKS.

You get high from THC, a chemical in weed known as a cannabinoid.

The cannabinoid receptors in the brain are pre-synaptic, meaning they regulate how much of a neurotransmitter a neuron puts out.

Cannabinoids, with chronic use, are known to DECREASE:

◇ DOPAMINE: vital for motivation, attention, reward and movement
◇ ACETYLCHOLINE: important for maintaining attention / alertness and memory formation, learning
◇ GABA: Important for relaxation and anti-anxiety effects
◇ GLUTAMATE: Needed for synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, maintaining consciousness

It should come as no surprise that these functions are significantly altered when using weed.

Smoking weed reduces dopamine synthesis.

This results in:

◇ Lower motivation
◇ Worse energy
◇ Worse mood

Correlation isn't causation, but this is one of the primary mechanisms of how cannabinoids work in the brain, they reduce neurotransmitter synthesis.

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At today’s (9 September) parliamentary select committee on the work of the @BBC, @RupaHuq MP AGAIN tried to get clarity on the selection criteria for panellists on the BBC’s flagship @bbcpolitics show, @bbcquestiontime.

Tim Davie dodged the question and misled the Committee.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1965343926887612653

The actual decision on the political balance of panels, over the course of a season, @BBC Director General Tim Davie insisted, was an ‘editorial decision’, considering such factors as seats held, opinion polls, and possibly regional variations.

The lack of precise criteria is of great concern, leaving the @BBC open to accusations of bias, which harms the BBC and the country: it’s why Rupa and many others have been so insistent on trying to make this aspect of the BBC’s political output more transparent.

🧵Degrowth is everywhere. Its flagship framework is Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics: prosperity must stay within a “safe and just space” between social needs and planetary limits.

My recent paper in Contemporary Economic Policy shows the model is a stale doughnut that predicts nothing it purports to.

The doughnut model makes a strong claim: capitalism and growth inherently push societies out of that space and the result is imbalance, injustice, and ecological overshoot. In other words, we leave the doughy part of the doughnut.

It does not say that sometimes capitalism makes us leave the doughy part. It says that a much stronger, structural claim: that capitalism (sometimes and often presented as neoliberalism in Raworth's book) and growth are intrinsically incompatible with balanced development

Growth-oriented (she and others would say growth-fixated) market economies inevitably push societies out of the "safe and just space" by over-advancing some dimensions of well-being (notably income, consumption, and material output) while neglecting or degrading others (such as ecological stability, social cohesion, equality, and political voice).

In other words -- the growth imperative with all it implies (free markets, profit maximzation, capital accumulation -- markets ) leads to leaving the doughnut's doughy part.

Of all the degrowth models, it is by far the most popular and most cited. It racks up 1000 citations per year -- twice as much as the nearest competitor.

Telling an LLM to "act as an expert" is lazy and doesn't work.

I tested 47 persona configurations across Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini.

Generic personas = 60% quality
Specific personas = 94% quality

Here's how to actually get expert-level outputs:

Here's what most people do:

"Act as an expert marketing strategist and help me with my campaign."

The LLM has no idea what kind of expert.

B2B or B2C?
Digital or traditional?
Startup or enterprise?
Data-driven or creative-first?

Garbage in → garbage out.

The framework that took me from 60% to 94% output quality:

Every persona needs 5 elements:

1. Specific role + seniority
2. Industry/domain context
3. Methodologies they use
4. Constraints they operate under
5. Output format they'd deliver

Let me break down each one:

미국또라이재벌놈들이 pc 렌탈 ㅋㅋ 시대를 시작하겠다고 함 ㅅㅂ 윈도우에서 강제로 계정로그인 안하면 내컴도 내가못쓰는 레벨을 넘어서 이제 물리적으로도 뺏으려고함

https://twitter.com/_Akamig/status/2016164096148979718

오픈ai가 창업부터 지금까지 수익이 0임 투자금 생각하면 -쳐빌리언달러 근데 걱정이 없어 엔비디아가 돈 쏫아붓고 다시 받아올테니까 ㅋㅋ 수익 0 인류에끼치는해악뿐인 산업에 기업들이 돈 주고받으며 몸집만키우고 투자금만받아나누고 이 버블터지면 쓰나미다

Wir müssen mehr arbeite in unserer Life-Style-Blase

Diäten seit 2009 verdoppelt
KTF zweckentfremdet
Kritis verkauft an USA
Palantir zur Totalüberwachung angeschafft
Höchster Krankstand der Abgeordneten
Höchste Fehlzeiten im Bundestag

https://twitter.com/Hirn_aus_Hack/status/2016523237669171694

Leerräumen der Kranken u -Rentenkassen
Subventionen in Fossile
Steuergeschenke an die Reichsten der Reichen
Zusammenstreichen der med. Leistungen, Primärärztesystem, nächstes Jahr nochmalige Anhebung der KK-Beiträge um 0,6Prozent

Fraktionsreisen unter dem Radar auf Steuerzahlerkosten
Plagiatsvorwürfe und Vetternwirtschaft

Since NED is the epicenter of the Censorship Industrial Complex, & after Trump's 2016 win NED began hiring officers & directors for their specialty in censorship work, here's a 🧵 on the Censorship Industrial Complex activities of Rep. Joaquin Castro, on NED's board since 2023:

https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/2016403556887134406

2: Since Castro is on both the House Intelligence Cmte & Foreign Affairs, he's uniquely privy to & influential on CIA, State Dept, USAID & NED matters, which those committees oversee. 2017-2018, Castro led the intelligence crusade that "Russian disinfo" online helped Trump win.

3: As the 2020 election approached, Castro demanded the FBI take action on "right-wing misinformation" on social media that might get Latino voters to vote Trump. That demand held weight as Castro both oversaw the FBI in Congress & also chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Stanford researchers just published a prompting technique that makes today’s LLMs behave like better versions of themselves.

It’s called “prompt ensembling” and it runs 5 variations of the same prompt, then merges the outputs.

Here’s how it works 👇

The concept is simple:

Instead of asking your question once and hoping for the best, you ask it 5 different ways and combine the answers.

Think of it like getting second opinions from 5 doctors instead of trusting one diagnosis.

Stanford tested this on GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5, and Gemini 3.0.

Here's the systematic approach to generate prompt variations:

Variation 1: Direct Question
"What are the main risks of [decision]?"

Variation 2: Role-Based
"You're a risk analyst with 20 years experience. What are the main risks of [decision]?"

Variation 3: Contrarian Angle
"What would a critic say are the main risks of [decision] that most people overlook?"

Variation 4: First Principles
"Breaking this down from first principles, what are the fundamental risks of [decision]?"

Variation 5: Historical Comparison
"Based on similar decisions in the past, what are the main risks of [decision]?"

Each variation triggers different reasoning paths in the LLM.

Now comes the merging strategy...

we're launching the new Sentry CLI.
it's made for developers and agents, by developers and agents, with a focus on dev workflows. It's has things backed in like:

@sentry’s AI features:
sentry issue explain → for root cause analysis
sentry issue plan → for a proposed fix plan

the goal isn’t to build another coding agenm but to give the one you already use the best possible context

it’s inspired by GitHub’s CLI (gh). we automatically detect your @sentry project when you run it inside a repo, including monorepos with multiple sentry projects, so you don’t need to pass --org or --project for commands like sentry issue list

THREAD: A number of people have responded dismissively to the Israeli military’s confirmation that the casualty figures provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health are accurate.

Some have done so on the grounds that data about the Gaza Genocide does not require validation by those who perpetrated the genocide and are directly responsible for these casualties.

Others have argued that the Israeli confirmation was made for strategic reasons. According to this interpretation, Israel’s purpose was to lock in the current numbers produced by the Ministry of Health, and thereby discredit the significantly higher casualty figures that can be directly attributed to Israel’s genocidal military campaign.

Did Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 under 45k including flights for 7 days. Lived well, ate better. A short itinerary thread🧵

Galle (day trip) → Mirissa → Weligama → Hiriketiya → Ella → Colombo

Stayed in great Airbnbs and hotels, amazing food throughout.
Took buses over PickMe, cheaper and honestly part of the experience.

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Good afternoon. This is Day 3, pm session#1 of Toshack vs GeoAmey Ltd, from the Edinburgh Employment Tribunal. We expect to start at 1.30pm

Mr Toshack (DT) asserts that he was dismissed because of his gender critical beliefs. His appeal against his dismissal was subsequently upheld. He is claiming harassment, discrimination and indirect discrimination on the grounds of his gender critical beliefs.

Our Substack with background on the case and reporting threads from earlier days of the tribunal can be found here: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/toshack-vs-g…

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In today’s Debunk of the Day (2), we’ll look at… nuclear blackmail. Vatniks love using Russia’s nuclear threats as a reason for surrendering or for not lifting a finger to help Ukraine: “see, they have nukes, we have to give them whatever they want”.
The argument is absurd:
1/5

Nuclear deterrence has been a reality for decades. Both the US and Russia have lost wars without resorting to nukes. We are not submitting to the whims of Pakistan or North Korea either. For vatniks, it’s just an insidious way of siding with Putin.
2/5

https://x.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1581004273030086657

We can’t just give in to the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail, to the threats their officials and propagandists make five times a day to scare us into letting them have something they know perfectly well is not theirs, with no limit to their appetite.
3/5
vatniksoup.com/en/nuclear-thr…

REPORT: AUTHORITATIVE OVERREACH IN CPS AND FOSTER CASE

This case is very egregious. I will be changing names to protect the minors. Some photos may be disturbing for readers.

🚨 Panola County Grandmother Placed Behind Bars for Withholding Her Five-Year-Old Foster Child, “John,” from Visitation with Abusive Mother - Alleges Medical Neglect and Rights Violations 🚨

CARTHAGE, Texas - When Lisa Broomfield walked out of the Panola County Detention Center on January 24, she carried more than her release form. The 49-year-old grandmother says she left with visible injuries, unresolved medical issues, and a paper trail she believes exposes serious failures inside the county jail.

Broomfield was arrested January 15 on a contempt of court charge after withholding visitation in a long-running child custody case. She and her husband have served as permanent managing conservators of “John” since 2020 (when he was just a baby). Court records show the child’s biological mother, Carly Jones, faces pending felony charges and an active warrant for violating bond conditions, and the child had reportedly expressed fear of returning to her care.

“There’s an open r*pe investigation regarding the older child from when he was around 5. All three of her kids have been removed, tested positive for drugs, and all made outcries.” - Lisa Broomfield

In these photos, you can see the mother, Carly Jones, and her criminal history. You can also see her at “John’s” first birthday party, sitting in her 7-yr-old’s lap and engaging in disturbing behavior.

See full story in thread 👇

According to Lisa, the mother’s daughter tested positive for marijuana at seven years old “because Carly liked to hotbox the car to get her to sleep.”

“John was positive at birth for amphetamine, methamphetamine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, benzodiazepines, and marijuana.” — Lisa

Lisa states that she withheld visits after he made outcries, and the last CPS call was made by the school because he told them he had to go somewhere he isn’t safe and that he is scared of her (his mother).

Within days of her detention, Broomfield suffered a seizure. She alleges she was shackled afterward and left unattended, causing her to fall face-first onto a concrete floor. She sustained facial bruising and a chipped tooth.

She was transported to UT Health Tyler, where hospital records documented her condition and discharge instructions. Broomfield says jail staff later ignored those orders. Despite being placed on a clear liquid diet, she was served solid foods she could not eat. Her prescribed medications were allegedly withheld, and she says staff attempted to administer insulin she was never prescribed (a potentially dangerous error).

Over nine days, Broomfield says her total food intake was minimal, leaving her weak and medically compromised.

Conditions inside the jail, she alleges, were cold and degrading. She reports cell temperatures between 50 and 60 degrees, no privacy for female inmates using toilets or showers, and unsanitary conditions in solitary confinement. The day before her release, Broomfield says she was placed in isolation after refusing a tuberculosis test, which she believed she had the right to decline.

She also alleges jail staff attempted to coerce her into signing a HIPAA waiver granting access to her hospital records and told her she could not contact her attorney while hospitalized.

Financial discrepancies added to the family’s concerns. Deposits made to Broomfield’s commissary and phone accounts were unavailable during her detention. Only part of the money was returned upon her release, with no explanation.

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