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The idea that Zoomers are "utterly screwed" in material terms is total nonsense and I wish people would stop repeating it. Housing is a bit more expensive than previous generations. Many other necessities — food, clothing, most manufactured goods are cheaper than ever.

I think the perception that Zoomers are "utterly screwed" is a combination of (1) opinion being shaped by people who live in the places with the most dysfunctional housing markets (2) extreme negativity bias of social media algorithms (3) nobody has much incentive to push back.

This post is now three years out of date but it's still basically correct. You can plausibly argue young people are a bit worse off than their parents but they are not "screwed." fullstackeconomics.com/p/24-charts-th…

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Gensis of Pakistan's "War from India's East"

EXCLUSIVE: We studied a Pakistan-based information warfare wing for 3 months. The origins of this operation traces back to August 2025, when Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir stated "We'll start from India's East." This marked Pakistan's shift from a western-front-centric posture to exploiting vulnerabilities in India's Northeast.

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@aravind @ShekharGupta @spvaid @sneheshphilip @AnchorAnandN @ARanganathan72 @jsaideepak @major_pawan @easterncomd @official_dgar @OsintTV @HMOIndia @AmitShahOffice @AmitShah @PMOIndia @DefenceMinIndia @SandeepUnnithan @manupubby @ShivAroor @VishnuNDTV @gauravcsawant @dubey_ajit

Four months after this statement, in January 2026, the Badri 313 Cyber Brigade (BCB) was formally launched. Operating under the joint direction of the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN), it functions as a hybrid civil-military information warfare unit.

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PMLN social media coordinators, including Imran Shaheen and Ch Adnan Sialvi, initiated a public recruitment drive for 5,000 "cyber warriors." The mandatory conditions for participation included being a Pakistani Muslim and dedicating 30 minutes to the work daily.

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Tweet 1 of 5: this is a big story where you'll see how it is a major, national problem in our elections. It begins -

A dumpster, an address, an 8-year-old warning.

Recovered from a Renton, WA dumpster: stacks of "Official Ballot" envelopes plus hundreds of WA Secretary of State "Register to Vote" postcards - all addressed to ONE strip-mall mailbox business at 330 SW 43rd St, Renton, State of Washington.

In 2018, King County Elections put it IN WRITING that this address is invalid for voter registration.

Crediting Bill Bruch, Matthew Frohlich and Jalene Cook of Washington State for their findings and work on this.

Guess which store it is:

Tweet 2 of 5: The scale of it in just one City

Public-record contents: 429 distinct names registered or balloted to that single commercial address, across 9 election cycles - Nov 2020 → Aug 2024.

Senders included King County Elections, Pierce County Auditor, Snohomish County Elections.

One mailbox. Nine elections. Three counties. Ballots and other election documents found in a box by a dumpster.

Tweet 3 will blow your mind!

3 of 5: Now for the names on these election documents, keep scrolling:

SIANWET TAN
FELIPE FLORES
SHAOFENG FAN
JUNMING ZHANG
GUOQIANG LU
LORENZO CASTRO MANZANAREZ
JINGXIANG JTANG
YUPING HUANG
WEIMING CEN
LIVING YANG
XIAOLING JIANG
CHUNSONG YANG
XIAOFEI GAO
YOUKUI YANG
JIANBO SHAD
UUXtANE YU
YONGHONG ZHU
SIANBANG HUANG
SIANMING LIU
XIONG GAG
SAT DENG OTH
TINGHUA SU
LIANWANG FENG
NEWT Y
HAOJIE JIANG
AUEANE BAN
THIENG SIZ VOON
JINGXIANG ZHANG
MINGIIE LIU
YONGZHEN YANG
YONGPING XIA
JUNPENG WU
CUISIN YU
SHAOJUN YE
FANYUE KONG
HONG DONG
RUI YING ZHENG
BAOLIAN LU
CHENGUANG L
CHUNMEX LU
VASILIJE DABANOVIC
FULT ZHANG
STANYUN ZHENG
STANMING WU
HOI TUNG CHEUNG
XIANG TONG LIN
BIBARYS NURLANULY NURAKHAN
OCTAVIAN CARABAN
BAN CHENG LIN
SAKEN BAYANOV
OT ARSLAN ASANOVICH ASANOV
BEKZAT DATKAYEV
TT GALIH SATRIO
XIAOLING HUANG
OGULJAN GURBANOVA
KADIRZHAN KHASHIMOV
MUNARBEK ERGESHOV
CO NAZIK ALMASBEK KYZY
ABDULBAASSIT MOLBAYEV
MARSEL ABUBAKIROV
TAM HASANOV
OS ALTYNAI MUSAEVA
ZHAZIRA YESSIMKHAN
TANBEK UULU
SULAIMANALI ADILBEKOV
VIKTOR KIRYANOV
BAIAMAN ISAKOV
LIJUE GAO
CO NURBOLOT RAKHMATOV
JIANBIN JIANG
YONG YU SUN
NURLANBEK AKIMOV
BOBIRMIRZO UZAKOV
ALEKSANDR ARUTYUNOV
AVAZ KALYKBEKOV
BAIGAZY ABIBOV
ALIBEK DUMBAYEV
IGOR KULIKOVSKII
RUSLAN ABDYMANAP UULU
JIN HE
WEIGONG W
QINGYU YANG
HANIN CHEN
YONGLI LIANG
JIAN LI LIN
IN STSTEK
CHAOPING LI
HANHUI XIE
SUYAN TAN
XIAOYAN JI
JIANJUN ZHANG
ULUGBEK OLMOSOV
ELAMAN KALMATOV
BATYR ANNADURDYYEV
EEE EE
ZIYODULLA RUZMETOV
ADYLBEK KERIMBI
SARDORBEK NIYAZMETOV
ARKEN SALAKHITDINOV
SHERZOD ABDUSALOMOV
BELEK MANSUROV
EMIR ALYMBERD
HAOXI ZOU
MDT ATA
SAMAT ASKAROV
FAKHRIDDIN IUSUPZHANOV
XIAOSING CHEN
YAOGUANG PAN
CHAO XU
BAOBAO ZHANG
XIANG QU
XIUFENG JIANG
JINGDI CHEN
KAZYBEK GAZYBEKOV
NURLAN KANASHEV
LAN MAMBETZHANOV
ZHONON IMINOV
TULIA EFREMOVA
RIEAE MATARY
FARUKH IBRAGIMOV
AVTANDIL ADILOV
ABDILL SUIUMBEKOVICH SENTBAEV
BAGDAT KUMYSBEK
ZHOLDOSHBEK LEPSHAKOV
HIKMATILLO ABDIRASULOVICH
KANATBEK ABDUVAKHOB UULU
SIAHONG YE
MYKOLA TOMCHUK
BEREKE ORAZBAYEV
VASILE LUPU
ION BRAGUTA
EDUARD GAVRILAS
OCTAVIAN CARABAN
ELDAR MUKASHEV
SERDAR BEKISHOV
TILEKBEK BORBUSHEV
SAMARBEK UULU
TAMZHAN SULTANOV
MUHAMMADUMAR NABIJONOV
MARAT KABAEV
DASTAN SALIEV
ALTAY AMANBAY
NICOLAE BELOUS
CC DOVLETMAMMET ANNADOV
YERASSYL UMIRZAKOV
VLADIMIR BARANOV
DAULET ABYLGAZIN
BOTIR ABDUMAJIDOV
BELIGTO ZHUGDUROV
SIMION IESEANU
MIHAIL PANFILIL
ELDAR AITEKIN
ABDURASHID ABDULATIF UGLI SHAKHOBIDDINOV
YERIK MURATBEKOV
BEKBOLOT SHAIDYLDAEV
OLESYA TAZIYEVA
KAMRAN SHAHPAZOV
ELDOR TOSHMUKHAMMATOV
JINYAO GONG
OTBEK TEMIRKULOV
IZATULLA RUSTAMOV
FAYZULLO ABDUJALILOV
ASKAR BAITEREKOV
BARSBEK MAPAEV
ELDAR RAKHMATILDAEV
AZIZBEK KHURRAMO
EO OE EE EEE
JON CAZANU
DASTANBEK ZHUSUPOV
BOTIRJON UTASHOV
BEGZODBEK ABDUGANIEV
NURBEK SATKE
NURSULTAN DAMIRBEK UULU
RAVSHANBEK ERKINOV
BAATYR ZHAKSHYLYKOVICH DZHUNUSHALIEV
ABDULLA SIROJOV
HPP TELL
UMARKHON AZAMXONOV
ALEXANDRU TIMUTA
DOOLOTBEK ARYMBAEV
JAKHONGIR YULDASHEV
RAHMATOLLOH OKTYABIROV
EE SSISTONQ:
CHYNGYZ MAMATOV
GAI PO
NODIRBEK ABDUGANIEV
ATAMURAT MAHKAMOV
OBID ERGASHEV
ESO ESISAON
RAUSHAN MANAP
MARSELBEK ZAMIRBEKOV
YONGCHUN LI
JIANKANG HUANG
XIANGMIAN LIU
YUYAO SUN
ZHOU CAO
KADEK SUMAREDANE
BIYING GUAN
YUXIA DING
MUHAMMAD NURQOLIS
CHAO YU
SHENGSONG SU
QICAN LIN
JIANBO CHENG
XUEJIN CHEN
LONGZHE SHEN
JIN YU JIANG
STANCHENG WU
ADE SAEPUDIN
RICARDO BATISTA ALVES
RUICHENG XU
HONGHUA LU
SJIANMING ZHEN
YAGUANG QIN
CHIAWEI CHANG
YUNGET W
ARCESIO ORDONEZ HURTADO
YUSHUN JIN
XIADJIAN GE
KETONG
WEN YUAN CHAN
MENGCHANG HUANG
KAMLAT LO
JIANXING TAN
SHIHUA WU
CHENGHSIUNG TU
NETHONG MA
CHIACHI SUNG
CHUNOING CHEN
CONNIE KWOKHUNG YEUNG
MEW EUEZHEN
PINGJUN YANG
JIALIANG KOU
YONG JI QUAN
RUIFANG JIN
WEIYING KUANG
CHANG HU CUI
MEIYUN LO
KAM PENK CHAN
XINGYUAN ZHANG
TIANLIANG YANG
ZONGFEI TIAN
XTANGDONG GONG
YING ZHANG
ZHUOYONG YANG
XUCHANG HOU
QINGWET JIN
SIANZHEN YANG
MINYUN CHANG
RUIXING HUANG

With HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS more!

2020: 92% Chinese
2022: 92% Chinese
2023: 73% Turkic-Russian (including 9 Kyrgyz here)
2024: 90% Turkic-Russian (including 12 Kyrgyz here)
2025: 70% Turkic-Russian

Across all 5 years, there’s a total of only 10 Hispanic names (about 1.8%). Whites: virtually none.

Voter records flowed through this Mail Box Express for 4½ years AFTER the state put the warning in writing.

Population of Renton, WA is about 105,000.

FULL Prompt and Guide 🥰
What you NEED to KNOW ⚠️
ChatGPT Image 2 & Seedance 2.0

1) Be specific about the Scenes, Camera Angles and number of Scenes. This saves re-rolls!
2) Check the resulting Story Board for Mistakes
3) the map is at best a lose guide (you can also skip it to make space for other things)

ChatGPT Image 2 Prompt:
story = a beautiful woman in a white dress enjoying a amazing sunset evening at a luxury mansion build into a cliff,

Scenes:
1) wide angle drone shot
2) wide angle walk at pool
3) medium wide over shoulder walk at pool
4) medium wide lean on railing
5) close-up hand in water
6) look over bay
7) close-up smile
8) wide angle smile holding champagne with elegant font text "LuxLife Retreats"

Create a cinematic production board / visual planning sheet that presents a complete concept for a short film or commercial. The layout should be clean, grid-based, and divided into clearly labeled sections.

Include: Shared creative direction (top bar): overall constraints such as number of shots, unified color palette, and general environmental context.

Character + styling reference section: A model shown from multiple angles (front, back, side, close-ups, relaxed pose), accompanied by wardrobe and accessory references. Emphasize consistency of identity while allowing minor variations for specific scenes.

Environment and set design section: A scenic outdoor location with dramatic natural features, plus a top-down diagram illustrating movement through the space. Include camera positions and labeled shot types mapped along a route.

Storyboard section: A sequence of numbered frames (about 8 shots) showing progression of the scene. Each frame includes: Camera type / lens feel Shot size (wide, medium, close-up, macro) Movement (static, tracking, handheld, etc.) Brief description of action and emotional progression Lighting / mood / style notes: Visual examples paired with short descriptions of lighting conditions, atmosphere, and texture. Include transitions across time of day and variations in light quality. Mood and keywords block: A concise list of emotional tones and thematic descriptors guiding the piece.

Audio / tone section: Indications of ambient sound, music style, and overall sonic atmosphere.

Cinematography notes: General visual philosophy including lens characteristics, movement style, and post-processing feel.

The entire board should feel cohesive, cinematic, and professionally designed—like a director’s pre-production guide that communicates tone, pacing, and visual storytelling at a glance.

1) Repeat all scenes in the Seedance 2.0 Prompt
2) You can see that one Scene runs backward. Separate sound in CapCut (click on extract sound, to put sound on own track) and reverse the scene. Easy Fix
3) Prompt out mistakes in re-rolls like: No camera gear in Scenes. No drone in scenes. No talking.

Seedance 2.0 Prompt:
follow this Story Board to create a AD. dynamic camera movement, no camera gear in the shots, only her, only text in the last scene

story = a beautiful woman in a white dress enjoying a amazing sunset evening at a luxury mansion build into a cliff,

Scenes:
1) wide angle drone shot
2) wide angle walk at pool
3) medium wide over shoulder walk at pool
4) medium wide lean on railing
5) close-up hand in water
6) look over bay
7) close-up smile
8) wide angle smile holding champagne with elegant font text "LuxLife Retreats"

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.

Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

Born in Berkeley, California in 1996, Ask Jeeves was the author of several books as well as being a pioneer of natural language search. In 2006 he dropped the name Jeeves and later became 3D. He is survived by Connie, the AOL mascot.

From 2000-2004 Ask Jeeves graced the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in balloon form. He was also a NASCAR sponsor and in later years helped Seattle residents with place-based public information queries.

ESCALOFRIANTE 🧠

1921: Este hombre regresó de un trance de 39 días con "prueba de las leyes universales".

Envió sus descubrimientos a 500 científicos pero, 499 se rieron excepto Tesla.

Él dijo: "Guárdalo en una bóveda por 1000 años. La humanidad no está lista".

¿Por qué?
Sus hallazgos cambian cómo ves la realidad:🧵

Walter Russell no era un hombre común

Era escultor, pintor, músico, científico

Creía que no estamos separados del universo

Nosotros somos el universo
Solo en forma humana

Esta creencia pronto sacudiría al mundo

En mayo de 1921, Walter entró en un trance profundo

Durante 39 días apenas comió o bebió

Afirmó que su conciencia viajó a la fuente de todo conocimiento

Cuando despertó, comenzó a escribir frenéticamente

La información que brotaba de él parecía interminable

🔴 Le niveau scolaire S'EFFONDRE à un point que vous n'imaginez même pas.

Vous ne serez plus la même personne après avoir vu ces chiffres hallucinants 🧵⬇️

1️⃣ Expérience passionnante : on a soumis à la même dictée des élèves de CM2 en 1987 et en 2021.

👉Le nombre moyen d'erreurs a augmenté, et pas de 10% ou de 20% : il a explosé de +70% !

Par exemple... ⬇️

... 1 élève sur 2 ne sait pas écrire "aussitôt", contre seulement 1 sur 5 en 1987.

👉 Et ce n'est pas tout, vous devez regarder les courbes qui suivent ⬇️

General Vasyl Syrotenko, Chief of Ukraine's Engineer Troops:

Traditional concepts such as the line of contact, deep rear, or safe zone have largely disappeared, as unmanned capabilities now cover all these areas. 1/15

Unmanned systems have fundamentally changed the entire architecture of warfare. As a result, these systems are now one of the main factors shaping combat, delivering strikes, and enabling the execution of a wide range of tasks. 2/15

Engineering units responsible for building obstacle systems increasingly rely on mobile platforms, unmanned, and robotic systems to carry out engineering support tasks on the battlefield. 3/15

When your manager says:
"We are thrilled to promote you to Lead! However, company-wide raises are frozen right now, so we will revisit compensation in Q4."

USE THE GOLDEN RESPONSE:

(They are never revisiting it. You are just doing a harder job for the exact same pay.)

"I appreciate the recognition. Let's keep my current title and scope as is until the budget unlocks, and we can make the transition official with the corresponding compensation."

The modern corporate machine runs on the extraction of free labor through ego. Here are 18 rules to stop working for free, build actual leverage, and force real capital: ↓↓

1. The "Title First" Trap

Situation: You accept a massive increase in responsibility for a flashy new title. You assume the money will naturally follow once you prove yourself in the new role. You think management is testing your capability before unlocking the budget.
System: Refuse the title. A title without an immediate capital adjustment is a math equation where the company wins and you lose. Tell them you will gladly accept the new title the exact day the new compensation clears payroll.
Why it works: It forces the company to treat you as a premium vendor, not a naive employee.

I'm 55.

If you're in your 30s or 40s, read this:

1. Marriage won’t fix loneliness. Neither will kids, money, or sex.

2. If you don’t know who you are alone, every relationship will confuse the hell out of you.

3. You’re not late. You’re not early. You’re not missing a bus, a window, or a train. Your timeline is yours alone.

4. In ten years, your friend list will look nothing like today. Your best friend at 30 may be a stranger at 40. That's normal.

5. Don’t put off starting that business. The people you think are “too young” are building empires while you’re hesitating.

A group of five Ukrainian hackers tricked 2500 Russians into revealing their location — The Times.

They created a bot that posed as a group of cybercriminals. Russians asked to add their Starlinks to the database as Ukrainian. In exchange, they gave their crypto wallet.

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“Fucking Ukrainians, you are liars! Always find a way to take money. You are worse then Jews” — a Russian soldier after he was told that he was scammed by Ukrainian military.

After getting the wallet, the hacker group always revealed themselves to demmoralize Russians.

2/

Ukrainian hacker: Sometimes we create images of girls with AI and pretend to be them while talking to Russians on the frontline and recieve information from them.

This group also gained access to the location of Russian arms factories which were struck later.

3X

A new large cohort study in Frontiers in Medicine looked at people who developed shingles after COVID-19.
Could shingles after COVID be more than just a painful rash - with possible links to later blood-cancer risk?🧵

The authors used the TriNetX global health network - electronic health records from more than 140 healthcare organizations.
They compared COVID-19 survivors who developed shingles within 1 year with COVID-19 survivors who did not.

After matching, the study compared roughly 29,270 people in each group.
The follow-up 3 years.
The authors were not only looking at short-term symptoms, but later infectious and blood-related outcomes.

El 1 de mayo de 1958, el doctor Arturo Frondizi asumió la presidencia de la Nación. Llegó al Poder Ejecutivo en un contexto político y social particularmente complejo, marcado por las consecuencias del derrocamiento de Juan Domingo Perón en 1955 y por la etapa abierta bajo el gobierno de la Revolución Libertadora. Su primer año de administración pondría de manifiesto las enormes dificultades que implicaba gobernar en aquel período de la vida nacional.

Frondizi accedió a la presidencia tras su triunfo en los comicios del 23 de febrero de 1958. El apoyo de Perón a su candidatura, sumado a respaldos diversos que iban desde el Partido Comunista hasta sectores católicos y nacionalistas, permitió al candidato de la UCRI obtener una victoria abrumadora. Con 4.070.000 votos, casi dos millones más que los obtenidos por su fuerza en las elecciones constituyentes de julio de 1957, Frondizi derrotó ampliamente a Ricardo Balbín. El triunfo no se limitó a la elección presidencial. La UCRI obtuvo 133 de las 187 bancas de la Cámara de Diputados, asumió el control de todos los gobiernos provinciales y conquistó la totalidad de las bancas del Senado. Este resultado ofrecía a Frondizi una base institucional excepcionalmente sólida, algo que el propio presidente electo consideraba indispensable para iniciar su gobierno con el mayor respaldo posible. Según la perspectiva de Rogelio Frigerio, esa fortaleza política permitiría al nuevo gobierno resistir las presiones de quienes “trataban de desvirtuar el sentido revolucionario, transformador del gobierno”.

El 1 de mayo, Frondizi asumió la presidencia de la Nación. En su discurso inaugural enumeró los principales objetivos de su gobierno y precisó las medidas mediante las cuales esperaba encaminar al país hacia el desarrollo nacional. El eje central de su programa estaba puesto en la economía, especialmente en la necesidad de impulsar las industrias pesadas y alcanzar el autoabastecimiento de petróleo. Frondizi anunció, además, su decisión de asumir una responsabilidad directa sobre YPF, al tiempo que señaló que el capital extranjero sería necesario para acelerar el crecimiento económico. Consciente de que las tensiones sociales podían obstaculizar ese proceso, comprometió a su gobierno con una política de aumento salarial y con la devolución del control del movimiento obrero, incluida la CGT, a los dirigentes que los propios trabajadores eligieran, sin interferencia oficial.

Resumen de la guerra imperialista de EEUU y el sionismo contra la República Islámica de Irán 26/04 - 03/05/26

Resumen anterior:

https://x.com/IvanSid1122MRR/status/2048895158054166733?s=20

#1 Trump dio por finalizada la guerra con Irán y se proclamó vencedor. El nivel de delirio de este tipo no se si viene de la senilidad, de lo que consume o de un cóctel de ambas. No obstante, puede reiniciar las operaciones cuando se le antoje.
usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

El canciller alemán Merz se despachó lindo contra a incompetencia demostrada por EEUU

UN ANÁLISIS DE LA GUERRA DE UCRANIA DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA PERONISTA - ACTUALIZACIÓN SEMANAL: 27/04 - 03/05/2026 - FIN DE LA PAUSA OPERACIONAL RUSA

Rusia busca derrotar a la OTAN en ucrania

Resúmenes anteriores:

https://x.com/IvanSid1122MRR/status/2046030292356419875?s=20

Esta semana estuvo caracterizada por el fin de la Pausa Operacional (de la que ya habíamos hablado) y por las ofensivas tácticas rusas, en especial en Sumy y Kharkov. Les dejo este video que explica más en detalle lo de la Pausa Operacional:

Los sucesivos avances rusos han dejado a las relaciones públicas ucranianas bastante mal paradas frente a sus aliados europeos que buscan librar la guerra contra Rusia hasta el último ucraniano. Como no podía ser de otra manera los ucranianos, lo mismo que los nazis en la segunda