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Part 1.1 - Lilin Tengah Malam

Malam itu hujan deras mengguyur seluruh desa tanpa henti. Kilatan petir menggelegar sesekali memendarkan cahaya ke dalam rumah melalui jendela. Aku terbangun oleh sebuah mimpi aneh yang sulit untuk kujelaskan.

Sebuah mimpi yang menunjukan bahwa bapak, ibu, dan mbakyu datang kepadaku dalam wujud pocong dengan wajah yang sudah membusuk dan penuh dengan belatung.

Aku memutuskan untuk keluar dari kamar dan mengambil segelas air putih dari pawon untuk menenangkan diriku.

A longevity scientist explained why visceral fat is so dangerous (& how to fix it):

1. It doubles the risk of early death

Visceral fat is dangerous because it’s metabolically active.

It releases inflammatory molecules that damage your cells, organs, and brain.

Not only does this cause insulin resistance & even worse...

Visceral fat increases the risk of metastatic cancer by ~44%

Signs you have visceral fat:

1. “TOFI” → Thin Outside, Fat Inside
2. Fat stored around your organs (liver, intestines, kidneys)
3. Constant fatigue after meals (inflammation)
4. Brain fog (brain inflammation)
5. Belly feels “hard”, not soft

Now, fix it with...

I max dosed psyllium husk but did not expect this.

For the past 28 days, I've maxed out on psyllium husk, taking two tablespoons 3x a day, and it's quietly changed my life.

Here's what it did to my body:

What is psyllium husk?

Psyllium husk is a soluble fiber.

It absorbs water and forms a gel in your gut.

That gel slows digestion, feeds your gut bacteria, and controls how your body handles glucose and cholesterol.

Most people think it's just for constipation. Big mistake.

Here's what the research shows on psyllium husk:

1. 2023 meta-analysis: reduced total cholesterol, blood pressure, and fasting blood sugar
2. 2024 Gastroenterology study: improved gut bacteria, less inflammation, better bowel function
3. Reduced hunger and increased fullness between meals
4. The Lancet: people with the highest fiber intake had 15–30% lower all-cause mortality

Colorectal cancer is now the #1 cancer killer under 50. This makes fiber a necessity.

Economics is, at its core, a discipline of uncomfortable truths. It requires explicit comparison between feasible alternatives under real constraints, rather than reliance on idealized outcomes that reflect what is socially desirable or rhetorically appealing but often unattainable in practice.

https://x.com/dr_alexpadilla/status/2044843298741743834

A central objective of economic reasoning is to discipline intuition and reduce social desirability bias—the tendency to support policies because they sound good, signal virtue, or align with moral intuitions, rather than because they are likely to generate desirable outcomes once incentives and constraints are taken seriously.

This perspective is closely associated with Ronald Coase’s emphasis on comparative institutional analysis. The relevant question is not whether an institutional arrangement achieves a first-best outcome, but how it performs relative to alternative, imperfect arrangements available in practice.

THIS IS INSANE 🔥

Most people spend YEARS on language apps and still can’t speak.

Claude did in 4 weeks what Duolingo couldn’t fix in 4 years.

Here are the prompts 👇🏽👇🏽

1 . Prompt 1 — Daily Immersion Plan
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You are my personal language coach for English fluency.

Create a 7-day immersion plan for me that covers:

1. 20 essential phrases for daily conversations
2. 15 vocabulary words grouped by theme (work, social, travel)
3. 5 grammar points with 3 example sentences each
4. 3-minute speaking exercise with audio script
5. Quiz to test everything at the end

Make it feel like a real conversation, not a textbook.

2. Prompt 2 — Real Conversation Practice
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Act as my English speaking partner from New York.

We are meeting for coffee and talking about [your day/your job/your favorite hobby].

Keep the conversation natural.

Correct my grammar and pronunciation mistakes gently.

Suggest better words when I use basic vocabulary.

Ask follow-up questions to keep it going 10 minutes.

If I make a mistake, say "That sounds good! Just one small thing..."

Most people making $100K+/month on YouTube have one thing in common that nobody talks about:

They're all using a YouTube CMS.

And if you're serious about YouTube, you NEED to understand this

Here's everything you need to know about a CMS (bookmark this) 👇🏼🧵

So first, what even is a YouTube CMS?

CMS = Content Management System

It's basically a special dashboard YouTube gives out to people who manage a ton of content.

Like if you have 40, 50, 100 channels and you need to manage them all in one place instead of logging in and out like a maniac.

But here's the thing

YouTube doesn't just hand these out to anyone.

You need to be a "large content holder"

Meaning you either run a massive network of channels, or you own a huge library of copyrighted content (like music, stock footage, etc)

It's not something regular creators get access to, in fact it's almost impossible to get one yourself (but more on that later)

Do you follow @PopBase, @PopCrave, or @PopTingz?

These accounts present themselves as lighthearted pop culture sources — Taylor Swift tours, K-pop photoshoots, Eurovision updates, and celebrity news.

Yet a closer examination reveals something far more concerning: they are operating as vehicles for a coordinated influence campaign. 🧵

A review of their 𝕏 posts shows an unmistakable pattern: every number below represents posts that explicitly mention Israel.

2025:
• @PopBase: 34
• @PopCrave: 18
• @PopTingz: 7

2026 (through mid-April):
• @PopBase: 13
• @PopCrave: 4
• @PopTingz: 6

Why do accounts that are supposed to be reporting on Pop Culture have such an infatuation with Israel?

This is not incidental news coverage. It is a deliberate, disproportionate focus.

While these accounts flood feeds with Coachella lineups and album releases, the only other consistent topic is Israel — always framed through an anti-Israel lens.

Examples include:
• Praising Ghassan Kanafani, a terrorist linked to the 1972 Lod Airport massacre that killed 26 civilians.
• Random posts about the Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz amid pop culture content.
• Labeling Israel’s war on Hamas “genocide” while pushing boycotts.

🚨Claude can build your entire business plan, pitch deck, and go-to-market strategy like a startup advisor charging $500/hour. For free.
Here are 9 prompts that turn your idea into a real business. 🧵

Here's the reality of starting a business in 2026:
Most people have the idea.
Most people have the drive.
Most people even have the skills.
But they never start because they don't have the roadmap.
A proper business plan used to cost $5,000 from a consultant.
A pitch deck another $3,000.
A go-to-market strategy? Another $2,000.
That's $10,000 before you make a single dollar.
Claude just made all of that free. Here's how 👇

Most businesses fail not because of execution — but because nobody actually wanted what they built
Claude Prompt 1:
"Here is my business idea: [describe]. Act as a brutally honest startup advisor. Validate this idea by analyzing: the problem it solves, who has this problem and how badly, existing competitors and what they're missing, why this idea could work in 2026, and 3 reasons it could fail. Give me a validation score out of 10 and tell me exactly what I need to prove before moving forward."

here we have Christiane Amanpour randomly claiming to have been a major in the U.S. military

https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/2045178770756190419

just very very funny to see a journalist claiming they had "the very same rank" as an actual major in the U.S. Army

1/15 The greatest geopolitical shift of the last 25 years was a quiet transfer of physical reality.
To cut costs & boost margins, US Corporates sent their Productive Labor & Capacity overseas to China.
The West optimized for short-term efficiency, sacrificing long-term resilience

2/15 This offshoring hollowed out what I call Critical Product Production.
Why does this matter?
Because true National Security & sovereignty is downstream of Productive Capacity.
If you cannot physically build the Technology of the future, you cannot secure your future.

3/15 The US Auto industry is the most dangerous example of this self-inflicted vulnerability.
Automotive mfg provides dual-use Critical Product Production.
The factories are fungible - the same capacity that builds cars can be rapidly repurposed to build drones, robots, or military equipment, as seen in WW2

Simple way to see this is wrong:

If you view a system as having inputs (like hearing something) and outputs (like saying something) then you can divide system properties by whether or not they affect I/O.

Claude's weights somewhere storing "Paris is in France" affect I/O if you ask a question about Paris.

The exact mass of the power supply to the GPU rack for that Claude instance doesn't affect I/O.

That Claude instance being made out of silicon instead of carbon, or electricity in wires instead of water in pipes, doesn't affect I/O given a fixed algorithm above the wires or pipes.

Nothing Claude can internally do will make anything get damp inside, if it's running on electricity.

Nothing about "electricity vs water" can affect Claude's output for the same reason. It always answers the same way about France. Nothing Claude can internally compute will let it notice whether it's made of electricity or water flowing through pipes.

When someone says "a simulated storm can't get anything wet", they are unwittingly pointing to the difference between the physical layer and the informational/functional layer. Things that the computer physics affect without affecting output; things that affect the output without depending on the exact computer-physics.

The material it's made of doesn't affect the output. The output can't see the material because no algorithm can be made to depend on the choice of material. You can always run the same algorithm on different material, so you can't make the algorithm depend on that, so the output can't depend on that.

By reflecting on your awareness of your own awareness, the fact of your own consciousness can make you say "I think therefore I am." Among the things you do know about consciousness is that it is, among other things, the cause of you saying those words.

You saying those words can only depend on neurons firing or not firing, not on whether the same patterns of cause and effect were built on tiny trained squirrels running memos around your brain. You couldn't notice that part from inside. It would not affect your consciousness. That's why humans had to discover neurobiology with microscopes instead of introspection.

Consciousness is in the class of things that can affect your behavior and can't depend on underlying physics, not in the class of direct properties of underlying physics that can't affect your behavior. A simulated rainstorm can't get anything wet. Running on electricity versus water can't change how you say "I think therefore I am."

And that's it. QED.

https://x.com/allTheYud/status/2045181640297578605

PS: This is also how we know panpsychism is false.

If consciousness were a property like mass, except for not affecting the motion of atoms in any way, it couldn't change how you say "I think therefore I am." You would not be able to determine whether that property existed among your atoms by introspection. Noticing yourself to be conscious (and then saying the words "Cogito ergo sum" after noticing that) could not be downstream of whether or not particles had this extra "consciousness" property that didn't affect their motion.

Suppose alternatively that the special consciousness property of particles does affect their motion. Suppose there is some quality of electrons which both contains a wordless pearl of awareness, and also makes electrons spin a tiny bit faster. Could that make us say "Cogito ergo sum?" No, only the pure component of electron structure which is the motion-effect alone, could influence how we say "Cogito ergo sum". Anything else which affects motion the same way, without being an inherent consciousness property, would make us say "Cogito ergo sum" for isomorphic reasons.

We could never determine by introspection whether or not our brain was made of the sort of atoms that spin a tiny bit faster because they're conscious, or spin faster merely because there's an ordinary spin-faster rule built into the dry numbers of physics. It would be like trying to determine by introspection, rather than by microscope, whether your neurons were firing because of neurotransmitters or flashes of light accumulating. Suppose someone built a simulated brain of you, with the simulated spin-faster rule not being produced by the tiny pearl of awareness inside electrons, but just by a line of code saying to make alter-electron spin faster. You could not notice that variation from the inside of that brain, and it could not make you say "Cogito ergo sum" any differently.

It doesn't matter if you say that both electricity and water have the material property of consciousness. Either way, panpsychism tries to make consciousness be a property of the material layer that can't affect I/O and that I/O cannot depend on. Consciousness is known to affect I/O by making people say "Cogito ergo sum." Therefore panpsychism is false.

Jessica spells out "since different substrates can implement the same casual weave, causal weaves cannot depend on substrates, so cannot directly see or feel the choice of materials" at greater length.

https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/2045230828960272747

🧵 Ecco cosa si dice negli eventi organizzati dall'ambasciata russa in Italia.

"Siamo pronti all'escalation, prima con attacchi convenzionali nelle maggiori città europee, poi con l'impiego di armi nucleari". "Siamo pronti a punire l'Europa".

Fatemi dire un paio di cose.

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1) Questi sono dei pagliacci.

Non bisogna spaventarsi, perché fanno scaremongering da quattro soldi. Ero indeciso se pubblicare il video o meno, perché la diffusione delle minacce è ciò che vogliono.

Ma lo ho caricato perché non possiamo accettare questo linguaggio.

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Questi buffoni non possono dire cose così gravi senza subirne le conseguenze. In un Paese normale l'ambasciatore russo verrebbe convocato e cacciato via a calci nel culo, e tutti i "centri culturali" russi e filorussi verrebbero chiusi all'istante.

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🔥 Day 1514 of russia’s war against Ukraine — here’s what’s happening

🧵 1/14

🔥 Tuapse refinery becomes black sea volcano

Thick smoke stretches for 250 km as the fire spread to nearby tanks. One of the largest refineries in southern russia is still engulfed in flames severely disrupting fuel production for the russian military.

2/14

🔥Tuapse: the terminal suffered damage to deep-sea tankers, pipeline infrastructure, and storage tanks. A severe fire broke out and the 50N6E radar was also destroyed in the coordinated strike by Alpha, SBS, SSO, and GUR.

3/14

HOW ONE MAN REVIVED A NATION
The population pyramid of Kazakhstan is unlike any other in the world. Birthrate decline was stopped and reversed, even as the country grew rich.

Nursultan Nazarbayev led 🇰🇿 for 27 years from its founding in 1991 and got it to grow again! 🧵!

Kazakhstan's population pyramid inverted in the mid 1980s as the number of births declined sharply and fertility fell below replacement in the 1990s.

But then births sharply recovered and Kazakhstan experienced a baby boom lasting almost 30 years even as it's GDP grew 15x! 2/7

The father of his country, Nazarbayev was incredibly popular, with an approval rate of around 90% through most of his long presidency.

On December 12, 1995, Nazarbayev introduced the Altyn Alka and Kumis Alka awards for mothers of many children. A pronatal culture was forged. 3/

Murur, tanazul dan sederet inovasi haji 2024 Gus Yaqut yang patut diapresiasi (A THREAD) #gusyaqutadalahkita

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