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Jan 12
The thing is, first term obama deportation numbers are mostly the result of ICE deportation machinery created under the Bush administration, Obama just didn't dismantle it until his second term. Image
George W Bush was saying "mi casa es su casa" at the RNC while slowly creating a massive deportation machine, which is what a more "centrist" way of doing deportation could potentially look like, but he never had to deal with the radicalized millenial leftist activist class
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Jun 15
the ultimate copy paste guide for onboarding/paywall w/ a 4m MRR app, Cal AI

will cover the ENTIRE thing in this thread, and why each feature matters.

On launch, clean loading screen, and short demo, NO SIGN IN REQUIRED YET! reduces friction significantly Image
easy questions, low friction, before attribution question.

if you ask the attribution on the first question, people will not be invested in even starting the onboarding Image
asking about your previous experience with apps, if yes, may go into detail, find out why you didnt like it and address concern.

literally a cold call techique Image
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Jun 28
8 Exercises For Hip Mobility & Strength:

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Jun 29
1/14 A mainstream cardiologist who understood that most lipid-lowering trials have failed to deliver meaningful clinical benefits, and that whatever modest benefit statins appear to show in industry-funded secondary prevention trials may not primarily be due to LDL lowering.
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2/ His letter showed that at least some cardiologists were willing to question the prevailing narrative.
Dear FDA: Resist the Urge on PCSK9 Drugs
An FDA advisory committee recommended approval of two PCSK9 inhibitor drugs. /3
3/ The FDA usually follows the advice of its advisory committees, but not always.
This was a pivotal moment in cardiology. It was also a huge gamble.
The FDA should have broken with its advisory committee and said No. Not yet.
Here were the reasons.
Target confusion. /4
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Jun 29
📰On June 30, the Dutch Health Council will publish its assessment of the Dutch Protocol—but an article by a legal scholar raises serious concerns about the impartiality of the upcoming assessment. Of 12 committee members, 6 were directly involved in pediatric gender transitions./1Image
The article (auto-translated from Dutch) also raises questions as to whether such significant presence of conflicted gender clinicians — whose professional reputation depends on a positive assessment of the Dutch Protocol — contravenes the Dutch Health Council's own conflict-of-interest code.

The article aptly observes, "it is already a serious question whether a committee can still function independently when one member has a substantial interest in the outcome of the advisory opinion. In this committee, the situation is much more pronounced: half of the committee members have a substantive connection to the intervention they are tasked with evaluating. This makes it difficult to argue that the committee as a whole possesses sufficient distance and impartiality to render a credible judgment."
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The Dutch legal article points out that due to the controversial context of pediatric gender transitions, it was essential to assure that the assessment of the Dutch Protocol by the Dutch Health Council is free from conflicts of interest.

After all, it was the intense national and international controversy that led the Dutch House of Representatives to seek advice from the Health Council in 2024 in the first place. The article notes, “an advisory opinion issued within such a polarized context will only carry authority if it can be demonstrated that procedural safeguards have been adhered to”—something that has, unfortunately, not occurred. /3Image
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Jun 29
There is only one point on Earth from which when it rains water can flow into three different oceans (Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic). However, Canada and the USA both lay claim to the title.

But which peak is the victor? Is it American or Canadian?

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The first candidate, Triple Divide Peak in Montana, is claimed to be the true hydrological apex of the North American continent. Water on one side flows to the Pacific in Oregon, to the Atlantic (via the Mississippi), and to the Hudson Bay via the Nelson river.

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The second candidate is Snow Dome in Alberta, Canada. Water also drains from its slopes into the Pacific and the Arctic (proper), but also into the Hudson Bay.

And this is where the big issue lies.

Is the Hudson Bay part of the Arctic or the Atlantic?
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Jun 29
6 Moves After You Wake Up:

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Jun 29
USO CLAUDE TODO EL DIA SIN ALCANZAR EL LÍMITE DE USO.

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1. Edita el prompt, no añadas follow-ups

Cada mensaje de seguimiento acumula historial y consume más tokens. Cuando Claude no acierta, haz clic en el icono de editar de tu mensaje original, corrige el prompt y vuelve a generar la respuesta. Corrige el prompt, no acumules el chat.

Prompt sugerido
← Usa el icono junto a tu mensaje para editarlo
y presiona ↵ para regenerar la respuesta.
2. Nueva conversación cada 20 mensajes

Claude vuelve a leer todo el historial en cada turno. A partir del mensaje 30, una pregunta simple puede costar 50.000 tokens. Pídele un resumen, cópialo, abre un nuevo chat y pégalo. Las conversaciones largas son caras.

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Jun 29
Nigel Farage is under more pressure than ever.

But did you know that his main financer is connected to multi-million pound exports to the Israeli military?

Here’s what the mainstream media are NOT telling you about Christopher Harborne:🧵 Image
This man is Nigel Farage’s top funder.

Shortly before his 2024 run for parliament, he gave Farage an undeclared £5 million “gift”.

But Christopher Harborne is also the largest shareholder in QinetiQ, an arms firm that has exported over £13m of military components to the IDF. Image
Two months after Christopher Harborne’s £1m personal donation to Boris Johnson, QinetiQ was awarded an £80m government contract.

Johnson was a long-standing supporter of Conservative Friends of Israel.

In 2019, Farage stood down over 300 candidates to ensure a Johnson victory. Image
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Jun 29
One of the most underappreciated ways to play the AI semiconductor buildout may be through materials rather than chips themselves.

As the industry races to produce more advanced semiconductors, demand isn’t just rising for GPUs and wafer fab equipment, it’s rising for the critical materials that make modern chips possible. (1/6)🧵Image
Tungsten is a great example.

It is one of the most critical materials in semiconductor fabrication, prized for its high-temperature stability and resistance to electrical wear. Fabs rely on CVD to fill the deep, high-aspect-ratio vertical vias that link multi-layered chip architectures, while utilizing PVD to deposit the ultra-thin structural barrier layers surrounding them. Because it spans both core deposition categories, tungsten is completely non-negotiable for advanced chip production. (2/6)Image
What’s interesting is that supply appears increasingly constrained. High-purity tungsten metal powder is the primary raw material used to manufacture WF₆ (tungsten hexafluoride, the gas used in CVD). The raw supply chain is overwhelmingly dominated by China, which controls roughly 80% of global tungsten mining, refining, and powder processing capacity.

China exports YTD are down ~50% YoY, and the data demonstrates the pricing pressure global customers are facing on this critical component. (3/6)Image
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Jun 29
INTERESTING: Only 3 months after Rubin Ultra was announced at GTC 2026, the original 4-die Rubin Ultra has been cancelled due to manufacturing execution concerns. The new “Rubin Ultra” is half the size/~ half the real-world performance of the original Rubin Ultra. 1/4🧵 Image
This all comes against the backdrop of NVIDIA’s market share being eroded by Trainium, TPUs, and AMD chips. For NVIDIA to maintain pole position, it must be aggressive in execution. Manufacturing execution issues like this will only lead to more market share being chipped away. 2/4🧵
A good chunk of inference for the most successful AI agent, Claude Code, is done on Trainium, while Claude training is done on TPUs. Just a year ago, it would have been unimaginable that TPUs and Trainium could grow this rapidly, while the CUDA moat slowly eroded. 3/4🧵
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Jun 30
@EricLDaugh Ideological orientation often plays a decisive role in the choice of career and shapes one's scientific work in the long term. It is noteworthy that a considerable number of early AI researchers were quite aware of the disruptive dangers of their work.
@EricLDaugh They often held the view that capitalism in its existing form had to be overcome. They frequently held the view that capitalism in its current form needed to be overcome, and saw artificial intelligence as a historical tool for initiating a fundamental societal transformation.
@EricLDaugh Many of them pinned their hopes on this for a more just world, in which a universal basic income would ensure social cohesion.
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Jun 30
If you have an iPhone 13, 14, 15, or 16, do NOT update to iOS 26. Apple's new "Liquid Glass" design is destroying older phones.

If you already updated, here are 6 settings that fix it:👇
1/ What Happened

A data broker called National Public Data collected personal info on nearly every American. In April 2024, hackers stole 2.9 billion records. Names, Social Security numbers, addresses going back 30 years, phone numbers, dates of birth, relatives. A hacker group put it on the dark web for $3.5 million. Then someone leaked the entire database for free. The company went bankrupt. Your data is still circulating.
1/ What's Happening

iOS 26 runs a new "Liquid Glass" interface. Every menu, notification, and app uses real-time transparency and blur effects. On the iPhone 17, the new chip handles it. On the 13 through 16, your GPU runs at maximum load just to show the home screen. That's why your phone is suddenly laggy, hot, and dying by lunch.
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Jun 30
👵📚 HILO GERIATRÍA:

lo que TODO médico debería recordar en la práctica clínica diaria

La población envejece y los síndromes geriátricos condicionan + morbimortalidad que muchas enfermedades aisladas.

Resumen práctico para consulta, planta, urgencias y at. domiciliaria. ⬇️
🧬 Biología del envejecimiento

Envejecer no es una enfermedad, sino pérdida progresiva reserva fisiológica:

🔹 Acortamiento telomérico
🔹 Alteraciones epigenéticas
🔹 Disfunción mitocondrial
🔹 Senescencia celular
🔹“inflammaging”

⚠️ Resultado: + vulnerabilidad Image
💊 ¿Por qué fallan dosis estándar en ancianos?

Cambios farmacocinéticos:
⬇️ Agua corporal → ↑ cc fármacos hidrosolubles
⬆️ Grasa corporal → ↑ V. media de liposolubles
⬇️ Albúmina → ↑ fracción libre
⬇️ Aclaramiento hepático y renal

🚨 RAM + frc: dosis-dependiente (Tipo A) Image
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Jun 30
1/ Ukraine is reported to be systematically targeting fluid catalytic cracking units at Russian oil refineries, aiming to destroy complex machinery that Russia can't repair itself and may take years to replace. As a result, the current fuel crisis may be a prolonged one. ⬇️ Image
2/ According to VChK-OGPU, the recent drone attacks on Moscow's Kapotnya oil refinery have prevented the facility shipping fuel since the striked. It will take two or three months to carry out repairs, but one of the cracking columns is irreparably damaged. Image
3/ Similar serious damage has also been inflicted on the Yaroslavl and Ryazan refineries, with diesel production at Yaroslavl completely disabled "for a very long time". The two refineries had previously been principal suppliers of fuel to Moscow.
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Jun 30
1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin warns that Ukraine's drone offensive is setting the conditions for a direct attack on Crimea, by chopping Russian forces in the south of Ukraine into isolated fragments with limited manoeuvrability caused by a lack of fuel. ⬇️ Image
2/ In a new message on his Telegram channel, the imprisoned Girkin writes:
3/ "In principle, the situation is STILL developing STRICTLY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ENEMY'S STRATEGIC PLAN: our troops continue to exhaust themselves with any attacks in secondary (for the enemy) directions (especially since the Donetsk fortified region – or rather,…
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Jun 30
[🔴 INFO STREETPRESS]

On révèle le contrat qui prouve qu’Erik Tegnér agissait comme un agent d'influence du pouvoir hongrois ⬇️
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StreetPress s’est procuré le contrat signé le 12 juillet 2021 entre Erik Tegnér et le Danube Institute (DI), un think tank hongrois proche de l’ancien Premier ministre très autoritaire, Viktor Orbán.

Le fondateur et directeur du média d’extrême droite « Frontières » a été chargé de promouvoir les discours de l’institut en France.
Erik Tegnér devait développer ses relais dans les milieux intellectuels et politiques français et favoriser la diffusion de contenus liés à la Hongrie, notamment via des articles dans les médias hexagonaux soigneusement ciblés, comme Le Figaro Vox, L’Incorrect, Le Point ou Valeurs actuelles.

Montant de la prestation affiché : 4.200 euros hors taxes par mois.
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Jun 30
0/ 🧵 NO us heu sorprès, des de fa un temps, que a l'entrada de Barcelona ha aparegut un gratacels de 25 plantes enmig del no-res?

Aquesta torre. La que veieu venint per la Diagonal o la Ronda de Dalt. Doncs té una explicació. I no és la que us han venut com a "districte d'innovació en salut".

Te tota una trama que explica com funciona aquest país 👇Image
1/ Es diu Tower One. 25 plantes, 100 metres, jardins verticals, piscina a la planta 22 amb "vistes bestials" (paraules textuals del propietari al seu YouTube).

Un hotel de luxe de 526 habitacions clavat a la frontera d'Esplugues. Preciós.

Es diu Tower One perquè hi haura una Two. Que si no la torre sola passa pena (i els seus inversors, ja ho veureu, també)

La pregunta que ningú fa: per què les planten AQUÍ? Per casualitat?Image
2/ Perquè just al costat hi posaran el nou Hospital Clínic.

Una operació pública de 70 hectàrees + ampliació del metro L3.

Centenars de milions d'euros. Diner de tots.

I el diner públic té una propietat gairebé màgica: converteix un solar qualsevol en una mina d'or. 🪙 Image
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Jun 30
80% of pain-free over-50s have disc degeneration on MRI but many have zero pain.

Here's a 🧵why scans don't always add up when it comes to back pain Image
Brinjikji et al. (2015) pooled imaging data from over 3,000 asymptomatic people across 33 studies.

Disc degeneration: 80% by age 50, 96% by age 80.
Disc bulges: 60% in pain-free 50-year-olds.

These are normal age-related findings, not damage. Image
This matters clinically. A report reading 'degeneration,' 'bulge,' or 'annular fissure' sounds alarming — but for most patients, that's closer to grey hair than to injury.
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Jun 30
Yes, let's discuss France.

1. There are countless examples of all-white or almost-all-white teams outperforming in soccer, such as Croatia, Argentina, Uruguay (ruling out "it's just because they're rich" explanations), Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands, Iceland's "golden generation"... You could just as easily make the opposite argument.

2. Is an almost-100% black team "diverse"?

3. As we are seeing this year apparently black footballers while very good in many places are apparently bad at shootouts so you could argue it's why France lost in 2022 to all-white Argentina team.

4. In 2002 France was heavily favored to win and yet lost in the knock-out stages, subsequent reporting showed it was because of ethnoreligious strife within the team. Could diversity not always be a strength?

5. In 2006 France famously lost to all-white Italy team after Materazzi insulted Zinedine Zidane's mother and the latter chimped out, something which only befuddles people who have never interacted with Maghrebi Muslims (interesting that in spite of major public pressure Zidane has always refused to apologize for his chimp-out).

6. The audience for soccer in France has been slowly taken over by the audience for rugby which was a very niche sport when I was a child; although nobody wants to say this outloud the reason is obviously that rugby is white-coded while soccer is non-white-coded. In French culture, soccer has gone from a factor of social unity that transcended class/culture/geography/etc. to a factor of class/race division. French soccer is probably dead over the long run because people are watching less and less.

7. See below for how France achieves such excellent "diversity"Image
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Oh, I forgot: in 2018 the runner-up was all-white Croatia.

In 2022, the runner-up was diverse (lost to an all-white team): therefore, diversity is good!

In 2018, the winner was diverse (the runner-up was all-white, though): therefore, diversity is good!
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Jun 30
🚨BREAKING: 10 free GitHub repos that scrape any website on the internet.

Save them all.

Companies pay thousands a month for this.

These cost nothing:
1. Firecrawl

Point it at any site, crawl every page, render the JavaScript, get clean markdown ready for an LLM. Over 130k stars, a top 100 repo on all of GitHub. github.com/firecrawl/fire…
2. Browser-Use

An AI agent that drives a real browser like a person. Clicks, scrolls, logs in, fills forms. Over 100k stars in about a year. github.com/browser-use/br…
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