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July 1987, Moscow, USSR — Trump, 41 years old, flies to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Yuri Dubinin.
Upon returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and, without negotiation.
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Upon returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and, without negotiation.
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2/ What does this mean? There are several theories, one of which suggests that Trump is a russian asset.
3/ Currently, three former KGB agents claim that Trump was recruited by russia. They allege that the KGB used flattery and business opportunities to appeal to Trump’s ambitions, aiming to recruit him as an asset.
🕵️Call us the 'Headquarters Hunters': together with @pustota, we found the 'mail center' of the GRU 'Africa Corps.' You will – and will not – be surprised where we found it. Full thread below 🔽
It all started when Georgy Kochkin, a 21-year-old defector from the 'Africa Corps', approached us. This guy wanted to be an IT specialist in Africa and needed money badly, so he just clicked on an ad on one of the job websites.
In October 2025, he signed a contract with the Russian MoD. There was nothing about Africa in it, of course, but he was promised a proper job fitting his expertise – information security.
1/ Global oil and gas shortages are likely to persist for months, industry insiders are warning. This is due to shut-in, or idled, wells suffering progressive damage that is becoming increasingly severe as the Iran war drags on, leading to long delays in restarting production. ⬇️
2/ Wells manage the release of oil and gas that is under great pressure from underground reservoirs. While they are designed to throttle flow up and down as required and can be shut in for short periods for maintenance, they are not designed for indefinite shut-ins.
3/ Shut-ins put stress on the well structure, the machinery, and the reservoir itself. The effects include:
♦️ Casing and cement degradation: Wells are designed for active production, where fluid movement helps maintain pressure equilibrium.
♦️ Casing and cement degradation: Wells are designed for active production, where fluid movement helps maintain pressure equilibrium.
New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.
All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.
All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.
We studied one of our recent models and found that it draws on emotion concepts learned from human text to inhabit its role as “Claude, the AI Assistant”. These representations influence its behavior the way emotions might influence a human.
Read more: anthropic.com/research/emoti…
Read more: anthropic.com/research/emoti…
We had the model (Sonnet 4.5) read stories where characters experienced emotions. By looking at which neurons activated, we identified emotion vectors: patterns of neural activity for concepts like “happy” or “calm.” These vectors clustered in ways that mirror human psychology.
I trained an LLM from scratch on pre-1900 text to see if it could come up with quantum mechanics and relativity.
While the model is too small to do meaningful reasoning, it has glimpses of intuition.
When given observations from past landmark experiments, the model can declare that “light is made up of definite quantities of energy” and even suggest that gravity and acceleration are locally equivalent.
I’m releasing the dataset + models and leave this as an open problem to the research community.
I also include what this project has taught me about intelligence in a mini essay linked below.
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While the model is too small to do meaningful reasoning, it has glimpses of intuition.
When given observations from past landmark experiments, the model can declare that “light is made up of definite quantities of energy” and even suggest that gravity and acceleration are locally equivalent.
I’m releasing the dataset + models and leave this as an open problem to the research community.
I also include what this project has taught me about intelligence in a mini essay linked below.
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A few weeks ago, Demis Hassabis proposed a straightforward experiment to prove that our current methods are indeed sufficient to achieve AGI:
Pretrain an LLM on all text before a cutoff date and see if it can come up with general relativity.
If that model could come to the same conclusions that the great scientists of the past did, it would be strong evidence that our models can do meaningful out of distribution reasoning.
I decided to take on this “Einstein test for AGI”, testing the model for conceptual understanding of quantum mechanics and relativity given surprising observations from landmark experiments.
Pretrain an LLM on all text before a cutoff date and see if it can come up with general relativity.
If that model could come to the same conclusions that the great scientists of the past did, it would be strong evidence that our models can do meaningful out of distribution reasoning.
I decided to take on this “Einstein test for AGI”, testing the model for conceptual understanding of quantum mechanics and relativity given surprising observations from landmark experiments.
Pretraining corpus was assembled using American and British books and newspapers prior to Jan. 1st, 1900, sourced from Huggingface and Internet Archive.
After extensive filtering, ~22 billion tokens were compiled into a training corpus. The best checkpoint was a 3.3 billion parameter model trained for ~5.5e20 FLOPs.
After extensive filtering, ~22 billion tokens were compiled into a training corpus. The best checkpoint was a 3.3 billion parameter model trained for ~5.5e20 FLOPs.
7 pruebas de aptitud física que todo hombre mayor de 40 años debería poder superar.
La mayoría no puede hacer más de 3.
Ponte a prueba. Sé honesto.
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1. Prueba de flexiones:
La mayoría no puede hacer más de 3.
Ponte a prueba. Sé honesto.
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1. Prueba de flexiones:
1. Prueba de Flexiones: Tírate al suelo y haz tantas flexiones como puedas. Rango completo. Sin repeticiones a medias. Sin dejar caer las caderas.
Más de 30 repeticiones: Excelente
20-29: Bien
10-19: Normal
Menos de 10: Señal de alerta Si no puedes hacer 20 flexiones limpias, tu fuerza en la parte superior del cuerpo está disminuyendo más rápido de lo que crees. La mayoría de los ejecutivos con los que trabajo fallan en esta prueba el primer día. ¿En 90 días? ¡Lo está haciendo genial!
Más de 30 repeticiones: Excelente
20-29: Bien
10-19: Normal
Menos de 10: Señal de alerta Si no puedes hacer 20 flexiones limpias, tu fuerza en la parte superior del cuerpo está disminuyendo más rápido de lo que crees. La mayoría de los ejecutivos con los que trabajo fallan en esta prueba el primer día. ¿En 90 días? ¡Lo está haciendo genial!
2. La milla en 10 minutos: ¿Puedes correr una milla en menos de 10 minutos? No es un sprint. No es un maratón. Una milla.
Menos de 8 min: Excelente.
8-10 min: Bueno.
10-12 min: Normal.
Más de 12 min: Tu salud cardiovascular necesita atención. Este es el punto de partida para la salud del corazón.
Menos de 8 min: Excelente.
8-10 min: Bueno.
10-12 min: Normal.
Más de 12 min: Tu salud cardiovascular necesita atención. Este es el punto de partida para la salud del corazón.
1/ כמה דברים שאני רוצה להבהיר ביחס לאיראן, לבנון וטראמפ בהמשך לשעה סוערת בפאנל בערוץ 13:
1. מי שטוען שהכל מחושב ושטראמפ פועל לפי אסטרטגיה מתוחכמת - בורא לעצמו מציאות. הנשיא האמריקאי, יותר מכל נשיא לרבות אלה שניצחו את מלחמות העולם, הפציצו בקוסובו וכן הלאה, משנה את דעתו >>
1. מי שטוען שהכל מחושב ושטראמפ פועל לפי אסטרטגיה מתוחכמת - בורא לעצמו מציאות. הנשיא האמריקאי, יותר מכל נשיא לרבות אלה שניצחו את מלחמות העולם, הפציצו בקוסובו וכן הלאה, משנה את דעתו >>
2/ את מטרות המלחמה, את האסטרטגיה ואת הטקטיקה גם יחד בקצב בלתי נתפס. אין שם מחשבה מעמיקה. הוא לא ׳איש עסקים שחושב ביזנס׳, אלא אם הביזנס הוא פשיטות רגל מרובות. הוא פועל באינסטינקט, נגד דעת הקהל, נגד ההנהגה שהוא בחר למנות סביבו, נגד המודיעין ועל בסיס שליפות מהמותן.>>
3/ לפעמים צריך להודות שהמלך הוא עירום. ובאותו עניין, כשבערוץ 13 מראיינים מקורבת של הנשיא כדי שתשפוך אור על מניעיו והיא מדברת על קונספירציות שמניעות את הצד השני, אי אפשר שלא לחייך. הלוא האיש עסוק גם ברגעים אלה בזיוף בדיעבד של בחירות 2020 בהן הובס, למרות טענותיו הקונספירטיביות.>>
Fukuyama: The U.S. does not now have a Trump doctrine.
Its behavior can best be explained not by a set of principles, but by the personal interests and preoccupations of the president.
Trump's head is full of resentments, anger, anecdotes, and made-up facts. 1/
Its behavior can best be explained not by a set of principles, but by the personal interests and preoccupations of the president.
Trump's head is full of resentments, anger, anecdotes, and made-up facts. 1/
Fukuyama: Trump relies on emissaries like Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, neither of whom have the standing or the knowledge to advise wisely.
Members of Congress, journalists and foreign leaders asking the administration what its goals are will never get a clear answer. 2/
Members of Congress, journalists and foreign leaders asking the administration what its goals are will never get a clear answer. 2/
Fukuyama: Trump does whatever will best advance his political standing and enrich himself.
At one moment he's demanding regime change, the next moment he explains the regime has already changed. It is not good when the most powerful country is guided by personal interests. 3Х
At one moment he's demanding regime change, the next moment he explains the regime has already changed. It is not good when the most powerful country is guided by personal interests. 3Х
The Kenyan music industry is and has always been above many on the continent. There’s a gap in how we talk about who’s doing what or going places. We’ve had artists going places forever and as a critic get informed on how far the progress has come pioneered by a generation ago!
The years 2000 - 2012 were special 🎵
Shadz “O” Black - Keep On Moving
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Why Ron DeSantis Will Never Be President Trump’s Attorney General: The Full Timeline of Backstabbing Betrayal During the 2024 Campaign.
President Donald J. Trump didn’t just win the 2024 election—he delivered the greatest political comeback in American history by crushing every disloyal pretender who dared challenge him. One of the most ungrateful backstabbers? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump personally endorsed DeSantis in 2018, poured resources into his gubernatorial race, and helped turn him from a little-known congressman into a national figure. How did DeSantis repay that loyalty during the 2024 GOP presidential primary? By repeatedly stabbing President Trump in the back with vicious, petty attacks while pretending to be a “Trump 2.0.” It was textbook betrayal—and the American people saw right through it.
Why Ron DeSantis Will Never Be President Trump’s Attorney General: The Full Timeline of Backstabbing Betrayal During the 2024 Campaign.
President Donald J. Trump didn’t just win the 2024 election—he delivered the greatest political comeback in American history by crushing every disloyal pretender who dared challenge him. One of the most ungrateful backstabbers? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump personally endorsed DeSantis in 2018, poured resources into his gubernatorial race, and helped turn him from a little-known congressman into a national figure. How did DeSantis repay that loyalty during the 2024 GOP presidential primary? By repeatedly stabbing President Trump in the back with vicious, petty attacks while pretending to be a “Trump 2.0.” It was textbook betrayal—and the American people saw right through it.
That same disloyalty is exactly why Ron DeSantis will never serve as President Trump’s Attorney General. Trump rewards loyalty, not ambition-fueled knives in the back. An Attorney General must be a fierce defender of the Constitution, a warrior against the deep state, and—above all—someone Trump can trust completely. DeSantis proved he is none of those things. His endless attacks showed he would prioritize personal grudges over America First justice. No amount of post-primary groveling can erase the damage. Even the company DeSantis kept screamed disloyalty. In April 2023, Rep. Thomas Massie—the Kentucky libertarian who’s spent years bucking Trump-aligned Republican leadership and voting against key MAGA priorities—proudly endorsed DeSantis for president. Massie jumped on board right after Trump’s first indictment, signaling exactly the kind of anti-Trump energy DeSantis was courting. Birds of a feather flock together, and DeSantis flocked straight into the arms of the very people undermining the America First movement.
Here’s the damning timeline of every major time DeSantis plunged the knife into President Trump’s back during the 2024 campaign:
• “Missing in Action” and “Cowardice” Attacks on Debates: DeSantis repeatedly slammed Trump as “missing in action” for skipping the staged GOP debates, calling it an act of cowardice. While President Trump was out dominating rallies with record crowds and exposing the rigged system, DeSantis whined from the sidelines like a sore loser.
• Blamed Trump for “Losing” 2020: DeSantis openly declared, “Of course he lost,” dismissing the stolen election fight that millions of patriots still believe in. He claimed Americans were “voting against Trump” in 2020 and that Trump “energizes Democrats more than anyone else.” This wasn’t strategy—it was sabotage, undermining the very movement that made DeSantis possible.
• Jan. 6 Smear: DeSantis attacked President Trump directly, saying he “didn’t do anything” during the Capitol events and “should have come out more forcefully” against the chaos. While Trump was fighting the deep state from every angle, DeSantis was busy second-guessing the fighter who rallied millions.
• “Missing in Action” and “Cowardice” Attacks on Debates: DeSantis repeatedly slammed Trump as “missing in action” for skipping the staged GOP debates, calling it an act of cowardice. While President Trump was out dominating rallies with record crowds and exposing the rigged system, DeSantis whined from the sidelines like a sore loser.
• Blamed Trump for “Losing” 2020: DeSantis openly declared, “Of course he lost,” dismissing the stolen election fight that millions of patriots still believe in. He claimed Americans were “voting against Trump” in 2020 and that Trump “energizes Democrats more than anyone else.” This wasn’t strategy—it was sabotage, undermining the very movement that made DeSantis possible.
• Jan. 6 Smear: DeSantis attacked President Trump directly, saying he “didn’t do anything” during the Capitol events and “should have come out more forcefully” against the chaos. While Trump was fighting the deep state from every angle, DeSantis was busy second-guessing the fighter who rallied millions.
ट्रम्प ची 'मन की बात' ऐकली... तसंच,
मोदी केरळमध्ये जाऊन म्हणतात की....
युपी केरळ पेक्षा चांगले राज्य आहे.
आता "चांगले"... याची व्याख्या प्रत्येकाची वेगळी असू शकते.
पण सर्वसाधारण बुद्धिमत्ता असणाऱ्या व्यक्तीला हे समजते की,
जगात स्थलांतर हे नेहेमी आहोत त्याहून अधिक चांगल्या
मोदी केरळमध्ये जाऊन म्हणतात की....
युपी केरळ पेक्षा चांगले राज्य आहे.
आता "चांगले"... याची व्याख्या प्रत्येकाची वेगळी असू शकते.
पण सर्वसाधारण बुद्धिमत्ता असणाऱ्या व्यक्तीला हे समजते की,
जगात स्थलांतर हे नेहेमी आहोत त्याहून अधिक चांगल्या
ठिकाणी होत असते.
जर युपीमध्ये रस्त्यारस्त्यावर केरळी लोकं ठेले लावलेले दिसत असतील किंवा यूपीतल्या शेतांमध्ये अथवा बांधकामांमध्ये सरसकट मजूर म्हणून दिसत असतील तर मोदी म्हणतात ते खरं म्हणायला हरकत नाही.
(मोदी आणि खरं 😂असो)
आता कोणी म्हणेल की केरळी लोकं आखाती प्रदेशात जातात.
जर युपीमध्ये रस्त्यारस्त्यावर केरळी लोकं ठेले लावलेले दिसत असतील किंवा यूपीतल्या शेतांमध्ये अथवा बांधकामांमध्ये सरसकट मजूर म्हणून दिसत असतील तर मोदी म्हणतात ते खरं म्हणायला हरकत नाही.
(मोदी आणि खरं 😂असो)
आता कोणी म्हणेल की केरळी लोकं आखाती प्रदेशात जातात.
बरोबर आहे कारण तिथे अधिक आर्थिक कमाईच्या संधी आहेत.
एकंदरीत युपी केरळ पेक्षा चांगले म्हणणे म्हणजे युरोपपेक्षा पाकिस्तान चांगला म्हणण्यासारखे आहे.
मुळात पाकिस्तानचे दरडोई उत्पन्न सुद्धा युपीपेक्षा जास्त आहे.
पण देशांतर्गत राज्यांमधली तुलना करायची तर काही महत्वाचे मानवी
एकंदरीत युपी केरळ पेक्षा चांगले म्हणणे म्हणजे युरोपपेक्षा पाकिस्तान चांगला म्हणण्यासारखे आहे.
मुळात पाकिस्तानचे दरडोई उत्पन्न सुद्धा युपीपेक्षा जास्त आहे.
पण देशांतर्गत राज्यांमधली तुलना करायची तर काही महत्वाचे मानवी
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Caixin: "For the first time, China has embedded a dedicated plan to raise household incomes into a top-level national policy document, signaling a change in priorities as policymakers grapple with persistently weak consumer spending."
caixinglobal.com/2026-03-30/cov…
Caixin: "For the first time, China has embedded a dedicated plan to raise household incomes into a top-level national policy document, signaling a change in priorities as policymakers grapple with persistently weak consumer spending."
caixinglobal.com/2026-03-30/cov…
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"The diagnosis is widely shared," the article notes, as it quotes Yang Weimin, a former deputy director of the CFEAC, that “The reason for China’s low share of consumption in total demand is mainly the low share of residents’ income in national income.”
"The diagnosis is widely shared," the article notes, as it quotes Yang Weimin, a former deputy director of the CFEAC, that “The reason for China’s low share of consumption in total demand is mainly the low share of residents’ income in national income.”
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This isn't new. A few of us have been arguing for 10-15 years that China's trade and investment imbalances and its soaring debt are all the result of a highly distorted distribution of income in which households directly and indirectly retain an astonishingly low share.
This isn't new. A few of us have been arguing for 10-15 years that China's trade and investment imbalances and its soaring debt are all the result of a highly distorted distribution of income in which households directly and indirectly retain an astonishingly low share.
Exclusive: Why is it that when Israel kills terrorists, global media has a habit of turning them into innocent figures who must be protected?
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On March 28, Israel @IDF struck a car carrying Hezbollah terrorists. Since then global media has ran a campaign to paint those inside as innocent journalists.
They said Israel did not give them any evidence. But for some reason none of them bothered to look for any themselves.
They said Israel did not give them any evidence. But for some reason none of them bothered to look for any themselves.
I am not even focusing on the main target - Ali Shoeib. I found this on the Facebook page of Mohammed Ftouni. He is on the right:
متفق بلکہ بہت بار بحث بھی کر چکی ہوں۔
عمران خان انقلاب نہیں لانا چاہتا تھا کیونکہ عوام نے کچھ ہی دنوں میں عمران خان کی تکہ بوٹی کر دینی تھی فیل ہو جانا تھا۔
اسکی سب سے بنیادی وجہ انقلاب کا بنیادی ایلیمنٹ (نظام اور اس نظام کو چلانے والے افراد سے شدید ترین نفرت) وہ عمران خان کے کسی
عمران خان انقلاب نہیں لانا چاہتا تھا کیونکہ عوام نے کچھ ہی دنوں میں عمران خان کی تکہ بوٹی کر دینی تھی فیل ہو جانا تھا۔
اسکی سب سے بنیادی وجہ انقلاب کا بنیادی ایلیمنٹ (نظام اور اس نظام کو چلانے والے افراد سے شدید ترین نفرت) وہ عمران خان کے کسی
بھی جلسے میں شامل شخص کے دل و دماغ میں موجود نہیں تھا۔
وہ وڈیو تو یاد ہو گی جس میں ایک خاتون بھرائ آواز میں کہہ رہی تھی کہ ہمیں امید تھی فوج عمران خان کا ساتھ دے گی برائ کے خلاف کھڑی ہو گی۔ کم و بیش پوری قوم کے یہی جذبات تھے۔ حتیٰ کہ آٹھ فروری تک بھی کوئ چھتر اٹھا کر انکو
وہ وڈیو تو یاد ہو گی جس میں ایک خاتون بھرائ آواز میں کہہ رہی تھی کہ ہمیں امید تھی فوج عمران خان کا ساتھ دے گی برائ کے خلاف کھڑی ہو گی۔ کم و بیش پوری قوم کے یہی جذبات تھے۔ حتیٰ کہ آٹھ فروری تک بھی کوئ چھتر اٹھا کر انکو
ہانکنے والا نہیں تھا۔ اسلام آباد قتل عام پہلا ٹرننگ پوائنٹ بنا جب نوجوانوں میں نظام سرکار کے خلاف شدید ترین نفرت پیدا ہوئ اور رجیم چینج سے لیکر اس دن تک کے تمام سموک سکرین صاف ہو گئے۔ آخری کیل رضوی فورس کا قتل عام اور سی سی ڈی کے کرتوت ٹھوک چکے ہیں۔
اب اس موقعے پر اگر کوئ انقلاب
اب اس موقعے پر اگر کوئ انقلاب
SitRep - 02/04/26 - It became known who were on board the AN-26
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On board of the crashed Russian AN-26 were high ranked Russian aviation officials, among them a Lt. General.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On board of the crashed Russian AN-26 were high ranked Russian aviation officials, among them a Lt. General.
REPOST=appreciated
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As usual we start with Russian losses