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Here's a thread of articles & investigations as a source of initial research on 'dark money' & far-right funding for anti-trans hate groups...

"Cash from the US Christian Right is funding movements against women’s and LGBTQ rights"... opendemocracy.net/en/5050/eu-urg…

.@openDemocracy has done a huge amount of investigation into the funding of anti-gender (LGBT/women/abortion) movements across the globe.
While it's impossible to track specific transactions, it's clear from mass money movement it's come to the UK.
opendemocracy.net/en/5050/specia…

Revealed: $280m ‘dark money’ spent by US Christian Right groups globally

Lawmakers say scale of spending – particularly by Trump’s lawyers and allies – is ‘alarming' and call for urgent action to increase transparency
opendemocracy.net/en/5050/trump-…

DON'T WRITE RUST WITH AI. Heard that a lot last year. The justification was always that AI is bad at writing Rust (presumably because of a lack of training data). This might be the year that assumption flips to something like DON'T WRITE ANYTHING BUT RUST WITH AI. Here's why...🧵

1. Rust adoption is taking off -> The amount of training data is rapidly increasing.

2. For the first time, reports are coming in that the new models are writing Rust well.

Here's where it get's interesting...

3. Rust's rich type system packs more information into code, which results in useful context for agentic debugging.

4. Rust has the best error messages of any language. That too is incredibly useful context for agentic debugging.

🧵
1- Analyzing Iran’s protest movements of the last decade, non-Iranian observers must recognize Iranians' unique position compared to other Middle Eastern nations. Those trying to copy-paste the same templates onto the Middle East lack knowledge of Iran’s history.

2- In the last decade, 4 widespread movements occurred in Iran, each growing larger and more powerful: Dec 2017, Nov 2019, Sept 2022, and the current revolutionary campaign, active for 10 days. Analysis shows as these grew, they faced increasingly bloodier responses.

3- In the Middle East, "campaigns of terror" and unbridled repression are weapons regimes use to sow blind sectarian wars and divide opponents. A prime example is Bashar al-Assad’s intentional campaign of violence, which turned a united revolution into a nusty sectarian war.

BREAKING: Don't copy and paste answers from ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writing is easily detectable.

Use these prompts instead and see the magic:

1. The Professional AI Humanizer

“Act as a professional human-writing editor. Rewrite the following text to sound natural, human, and conversational. Remove robotic phrasing, stiff structure, and unnatural flow while keeping the original meaning intact. Text: [paste text].”

2. Natural Human Tone Converter

“Rewrite this text so it sounds like it was written by a real human with experience and confidence. Improve sentence rhythm, word choice, and flow. Avoid robotic patterns or overly formal language. Text: [paste text].”

Most people treat their iPhone camera like a point-and-shoot toy.

They’re carrying one of the best true pocket cameras and using about 50% of its potential.

Here are the settings you need to change to fix that:

Starting with the one that confuses nearly everyone…

1/ The problem isn’t your phone
Apple’s camera hardware is incredible.
What holds it back is default settings designed for speed, not quality.

A few changes = a massive jump in results.

2/ The most annoying issue first: random lens switching
You move closer to a subject and suddenly the view jumps.
That’s auto macro stepping in without asking.

La forma más elevada de inteligencia no es el coeficiente intelectual, ni la lógica, ni la memoria ni la velocidad. Según los neurocientíficos, la inteligencia más excepcional es distinto. La mayoría nunca la desarrollan. Y quienes lo hacen, superan a quienes los rodean.

El neurocientífico Anil Seth y el psicólogo Robert Sternberg coinciden:

La forma más alta de inteligencia es la metacognición.

La capacidad de pensar sobre tu propio pensamiento.

No reaccionar a ciegas.

No funcionar en piloto automático

Sino observar tu mente en tiempo real.

Metacognición significa:

Observas tus pensamientos

Cuestionas tus reacciones

Interrumpes los reflejos emocionales

Actualizas creencias en lugar de defenderlas

Cada vez que dices:

"Espera... ¿por qué reaccioné así?"

Tu cerebro empieza a cambiar.

Just returned from my first trip to China, mostly looking at the energy and robotics industries. Fascinating. Random observations, both business and general, below...
1/x

The speed to add manufacturing capacity is stunning. Permitting takes weeks. A factory making sophisticated equipment is built in 12 months. An auto plant took 16 months from groundbreaking to first production. Slack in labor market makes it easy to staff and flex employment.
2/x

The US and China have significantly decoupled since early 2020. The # of flights between the two countries is down roughly 70%. Two long-term residents I spoke with said the # of American expats is down 50-75% from the peak. The # of Americans studying in China is down ≈90%.
3/x

MI AMIGO SIGUE PAGANDO POR ALMACENAMIENTO EN GMAIL.

Le dije que hiciera esto antes.
Pasó de 14,9/15 GB a 6 GB en una sola tarde.

Espero que esto te ayude ↓

⚠️ Antes de empezar, solo quería avisarte que junto con @soy_adnan3
y @ecommartinez, hemos reunido y categorizado 900+ herramientas de IA!

Es un verdadero diccionario IA para tu vida diaria.

¡Y es gratis! 👇
alejoxadam.beehiiv.com/c/900-herramie…

1. Encuentra los verdaderos devoradores de espacio en Gmail

Primero, revisa el desglose de almacenamiento de Gmail:

-Ve a drive.google.com/settings/stora…
-Comprueba qué está usando espacio en Gmail, Drive y Fotos
-Haz clic en “Gmail” para ver los principales responsables

Luego, en la barra de búsqueda de Gmail, escribe:

- 'has:attachment larger:10M' (encuentra correos de más de 10 MB)
- Ordena por tamaño, selecciona varios y elimina lo que no necesites
- Prueba larger:5M o larger:3M para una limpieza más agresiva

Solo con eliminar adjuntos grandes puedes liberar gigabytes al instante.

Como psiquiatra, te advierto algo:

No intentes entender a un psicopata desde tu lógica, moral o empatía.

Si no eres un psicopata, siempre te quedarás corto. Son seres con un cerebro que funciona totalmente diferente, propensos a la maldad, la mentira y falta de empatía 🧵

Hace años ciertos estudiosos describieron la psicopatia como una Demencias semántica.

Se referían a que eran capaces de conocer el concepto de lo que es el bien y el mal, pero no podían conectar emocionalmente con ello.

Entendían la letra, pero no la melodia

Te explico:
Un psicopata puede saber qué es la maldad, reconocer qué actos tienen consecuencias negativas, identificar qué daña a otros, pero NO puede experimentar remordimiento al realizar conductas que ellos mismos saben que son negativas.

Por eso son fríos y maquiavelicos

1/x VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers) have been somewhat in the news lately. They're carrying lots of crude oils or derivates around which, under the right (wrong?) circumstances, are combustible. So you might ask: why don't we hear about oil tankers exploding?

2/x Indeed, it doesn't happen very often that a tanker actually explodes. The last major explosion (not a fire, but an explosion) was the tanker SS Sansinena in 1976. This ship (246m) exploded in Los Angeles after discharging its cargo of 90,000 m³ Indonesian Light Crude.

3/x The midsection of the ship (160m long) was lifted and thrown 200m further away. Within a 2.5mi (4km) radius there was heavy damage to houses. The explosion was felt up to 44mi (70km) away. Windows shattered up to 19mi (30km) away.

إيلون ماسك نشر خوارزميات X.
هذه 10 نقاط تشرح كيف تُقيَّم التغريدات فعليًا، وما الذي يرفع مشاهداتها أو يحدّ منها. 🧵

1️⃣ كل تغريدة تُقيَّم بشكل مستقل (Candidate Isolation)

الخوارزمية لا تقارن تغريدتك بتغريدات أخرى في نفس اللحظة.
كل تغريدة تُقيَّم بذاتها، بناءً على سياق المستخدم وسلوكه، لا على الترند أو أداء الآخرين.

بمعنى:
تغريدتك لا تخسر لأن غيرها أقوى
ولا تربح لأن غيرها أضعف
التقييم يعتمد على سؤال واحد فقط:هل هذا المستخدم، الذي ظهرت له التغريدة تحديدًا، سيتفاعل معها؟
بالتالي:

ركّز على تقليل الإشارات السلبية
وزيادة ملاءمة المحتوى للمستخدم
الجودة والوضوح أهم من الضجيج

2️⃣ الترتيب قائم على التنبؤ بالسلوك (Action Prediction)

خوارزمية X لا تسأل: هل سيتفاعل المستخدم؟
بل تتنبأ كيف سيتفاعل.

كل تغريدة تُقيَّم عبر احتمالات متعددة:
رد
إعادة نشر / اقتباس
مدة التوقف
نقر
زيارة الملف الشخصي
متابعة الكاتب

ثم تُدمج هذه الاحتمالات بأوزان مختلفة لإنتاج الدرجة النهائية.

النتيجة:
الإعجاب وحده إشارة ضعيفة
الردود ومدة التوقف إشارات عالية الوزن
التغريدة الجيدة هي التي تولّد أكثر من نوع تفاعل، لا نوعًا واحدًا

باختصار:
الانتشار لا يأتي من “تفاعل واحد مرتفع”، بل من سلوك متنوع ومتوازن دون إشارات رفض من المستخدمين.

President Trump’s “Board of Peace” may well prove a decisive blow for an already beleaguered United Nations. The UN has been in pretty tough times before, with big states ignoring the Charter almost since inception. But never has the UN’s principal founder and the world’s preeminent power since WW2 attempted to create a rival global peace organization. It’s important at this juncture to remember that animosity by many in the US towards the UN has a very specific history. (1/6)

The UN during its first couple of decades was enormously popular with both US political leaders and the general public, even as America’s inbuilt majority in the General Assembly waned over the 1950s. Washington believed it could still count on the early Secretaries-General to remain faithfully aligned; U Thant’s role in deescalating the Cuban Missile Crisis only underlined a sense of UN usefulness. But in February 1965 everything changed when U Thant began to publicly criticize the war in Vietnam and questioned whether the American people were being told the truth. Even more annoyingly, he had begun seeking a brokered peace. For Washington the UN went from being an occasionally helpful tool to a dangerous political headache. (2/6)

For others in the US, the Six Day War and the UN’s push for a Middle East peace settlement that included a full Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied territories, proved a decisive betrayal - appearing to reveal the organization as inherently anti-Israeli. A myth around the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers on the eve of the war reinforced this narrative, as did the place of Israel within the organization’s broader decolonisation agenda. (3/6)

HOW TO SELECT YOUR BABY'S SEX.

Sperm cells are either X or Y. The X chromosome is always X. If an X sperm cell meets the egg(X), the baby will be a Girl (XX). If a Y-Sperm cell meets the egg(X), the baby will be a Boy (XY).

The Y-Sperm cells move fast but die fast (its lifespan is about 24hrs). X-Sperm cells move slowly but survive longer (up to 3-4days).

Therefore, if you have intercourse some days before ovulation, most of the Y-Sperm cells would have died leaving mostly X-Sperm cells-

to fertilized the egg

Here's a simple way to calculate your ovulation period.

1. From the first day you see the blood of your period.
2. Pick up a calendar and count 15 days including the first day of the blood stain.
3. Mark the 15th day with a pen.

One year ago, President Trump was inaugurated with a mandate to make America great again.

Since then, he's delivered win after win for the American people ⤵️

The State Department has revoked more than 100k visas from foreign nationals – with the vast majority of revocations from those who committed crimes like assault, theft, and driving under the influence, or those who applauded violence against American citizens.

The State Department designated Cartel de Los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, and President Trump ordered the successful capture of indicted narco-terrorists Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, in an operation to apprehend these fugitives of American justice.

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act is a 1994 United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 248) designed to protect access to reproductive health services and religious worship.

Prohibited Actions
The act makes it a federal crime to use force, threats of

force, or physical obstruction to:

Interfere with religious freedom: Obstructing anyone exercising their First Amendment right to religious freedom at a place of worship.

Recent Applications: In January 2026, federal officials cited the FACE Act while investigating an

anti-ICE protest that disrupted a church service in Minnesota.

Penalties
Violations can result in significant criminal and civil penalties:
Nonviolent first offense: Up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Violent first offense: Up to one year in prison and a