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Ehud Barak's 76th sent email (Hyperion acct) shows that Gary Fegel blew him off for three days. Communications between these two are fairly frequent, and tend to be short. Mr. Fegel seems like a man worth looking in to, so let's scratch a bit. 
His crunchbase profile shows that he made an investment into FST Biometrics in 2015 and InterCure in 2018:
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We've already heard about FST in a previous email here:
Because most of my fellow Europeans haven't had the time nor stamina to fully acquaint themselves with the complete spectrum of insanity that is the current U.S. administration, I've taken it upon myself to offer a brief, honest introduction to its main characters.🧵
Often affectionately referred to as "pure f*cking evil" by her closest friends and by everyone who has ever met, seen, or heard her really, Kristi Noem is the woman Trump tasked with deporting people to Salvadoran concentration camps, after learning that she shot a puppy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the former heroin addict and self proclaimed imaginary brain worm survivor that once admitted to having eaten a dead bear he stumbled upon before burying the carcass in New York's Central Park at night, currently serves as the U.S. Secretary of Pestilence.
I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.
My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.
So, here goes.
My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.
So, here goes.
1/ I run 5 Claudes in parallel in my terminal. I number my tabs 1-5, and use system notifications to know when a Claude needs input code.claude.com/docs/en/termin…
2/ I also run 5-10 Claudes on claude.ai/code, in parallel with my local Claudes. As I code in my terminal, I will often hand off local sessions to web (using &), or manually kick off sessions in Chrome, and sometimes I will --teleport back and forth. I also start a few sessions from my phone (from the Claude iOS app) every morning and throughout the day, and check in on them later.
just to clarify, i think we should accelerate as fast as possible. but you can’t be bullish on ai without wrestling with the risk
🧵 Who organized and funded the pro-Maduro demonstrations?
I was up when the news broke that U.S. forces had possibly had a military strike on Caracas. Immediately, I knew where to look next, not for confirmation from the Pentagon, but for signals.
🔗 READ my 1st story for @FoxNews in my new role as senior editor of investigations to understand the full narrative of how the street protests were organized within 12 hours, before Nicolás Maduro was even on U.S. soil: foxnews.com/politics/secon…
📽️ WATCH the video here to hear the protest organizers in their own words as they chronicle how they mobilized foot soldiers for the new "class war" they say they are fighting against "American imperialism." They admit they got an unexpected ally: Democratic Party activists in 50501, a group launched last year to organize #TeslaTakedown protests against Elon Musk and #HandsOff protests against Trump.
What I discovered:
As U.S. forces captured Maduro, a parallel operation began almost instantly inside the United States:a rapid, coordinated information and street-mobilization campaign by a network of self-described socialist, Marxist, and communist organizations, most of which operate as nonprofits that DO NOT have to pay taxes.
I'll lay out how I followed the breadcrumbs in this special X Reporter's Notebook...
For three years since Oct. 7, I’d been seeing the same thing at protest after protest: Venezuelan flags showing up at anti-Israel rallies. Not randomly. Not organically.
Always alongside the same slogans, the same organizers, the same faces. That’s when I knew this wasn’t about Gaza, or Venezuela, or “peace.”
🔻 When activists protested Benjamin Netanyahu and burnt the American flag and painted an upside red triangle using the symbol Hamas uses for targets, writing HAMAS IS COMIN, I went to their bus pickup spots to follow the money. I saw protestors climbing into busses. That's when I saw their t-shirts: they were all proudly wearing red t-shirts for the Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational. The group had rented the busses.
Then I went to the address for the @answercoalition that had gotten the protest permit. It was in Adam's Morgan on Florida Avenue NW not far from where I had lived as a 20-something in DC.
Outside there were two flags flapping in the wind. Whose flags are they, I asked the woman who answered the door.
"Cuba and Venezuela."
That's when I knew. This wasn't about peace or anti-war.
It was about ideology.
Stoking discord was a part of that ideology as a tactic called agitation propaganda, or agitprop.
Their goal was to overthrowthe "American empire" and install some version of a Marxist, communist or socialist system. Talk about regime change.
And I learned something else: they had very close ties to Iran, Russia and China, with its leaders taking regular trips to those countries. They wanted communism or socialism in South Korea, the Philippines, Puerto Rico....America.
I saw them again in Chicago, protesting the @DNC. We had cells of proud communists, socialists and Marxists in America and they were appropriating the latest cause of the day to press their cause to dismantle "American imperialism."
They were self-declared, self-professed and proud of their ideological beliefs but the media usually glossed over them to describe them generically as "demonstrators."
So when we learned that there was an air strike on Caracas, I watched the clock -- and waited for the signals.
⏱️ 1:35 AM — As U.S. special operations reportedly land in Venezuela, @BTNews, a socialist propaganda arm of the ANSWER Coalition, posts early video and frames the mission as an “illegal bombing of Caracas.” The narrative is set.
⏱️ 1:45 AM — Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo of @PeoplesForumNYC echoes the “illegal bombing” line. Message discipline is established. The People's Forum had been funded by a tech tycoon named Neville Roy Singham, who lived in Shanghai and funded a global network of socialist causes.
⏱️ 2:29 AM — The ANSWER Coalition drops a red-siren graphic on X calling for protests in Times Square: “NO WAR ON VENEZUELA.” The shift from commentary to mobilization begins.
⏱️ 2:34–2:43 AM — The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation amplify the call. Same poster. Same language. Same timing.
⏱️ 3:21 AM — @VijayPrashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a research institute funded by Singham that examines issues through the lens of "national liberation Marxism," weighs in with a tweet: “Down with U.S. imperialism.” The ideological framing goes global.
⏱️ 6:09 AM — @CodePink condemns the U.S. as “terrorist.” The group was cofounded by Singham's wife, Jodie Evans, a fixture in anti-American protests, along with cofounder @medeabenjamin. Professional CodePink protestor @OliviaDinucci frequently yells at Trump administration officials around town. The nonprofit ecosystem is now fully engaged.
⏱️ 7:49 AM — The International People’s Assembly @peoplesassembly, a global umbrella group for socialist and communist organizations that partners with Singham's Tricontinental institute, circulates an “EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION,” urging resistance to U.S. “hegemony.” The command-and-control layer activates.
This wasn’t outrage catching fire.
This was a socialist, communist, Marxist transnational network executing information warfare with military precision.
By daylight, the narrative was locked.
By midday, the protests were live.
By afternoon, politicians like @RepRashida Talib, Rep. @AOC and @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani were repeating the same lines I’d seen first pushed in the dead of night.
I’d seen the signals broadcast for years. Thorough investigators like @DataRepublican and @thestustustudio have followed the breadcrumbs on this vast network seeking to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system in the name of "anti-imperialism," and I encourage you to follow them to see well-documented information.
Friday night, they came in strong and precise, in a parallel military operation run by comrades in the cause to destroy America as we know it.
This wasn’t just about Venezuela. It was about a global war -- an information war running parallel to a kinetic one -- and what I learned next was that it had been years in the making. 🧵⬇️
I was up when the news broke that U.S. forces had possibly had a military strike on Caracas. Immediately, I knew where to look next, not for confirmation from the Pentagon, but for signals.
🔗 READ my 1st story for @FoxNews in my new role as senior editor of investigations to understand the full narrative of how the street protests were organized within 12 hours, before Nicolás Maduro was even on U.S. soil: foxnews.com/politics/secon…
📽️ WATCH the video here to hear the protest organizers in their own words as they chronicle how they mobilized foot soldiers for the new "class war" they say they are fighting against "American imperialism." They admit they got an unexpected ally: Democratic Party activists in 50501, a group launched last year to organize #TeslaTakedown protests against Elon Musk and #HandsOff protests against Trump.
What I discovered:
As U.S. forces captured Maduro, a parallel operation began almost instantly inside the United States:a rapid, coordinated information and street-mobilization campaign by a network of self-described socialist, Marxist, and communist organizations, most of which operate as nonprofits that DO NOT have to pay taxes.
I'll lay out how I followed the breadcrumbs in this special X Reporter's Notebook...
For three years since Oct. 7, I’d been seeing the same thing at protest after protest: Venezuelan flags showing up at anti-Israel rallies. Not randomly. Not organically.
Always alongside the same slogans, the same organizers, the same faces. That’s when I knew this wasn’t about Gaza, or Venezuela, or “peace.”
🔻 When activists protested Benjamin Netanyahu and burnt the American flag and painted an upside red triangle using the symbol Hamas uses for targets, writing HAMAS IS COMIN, I went to their bus pickup spots to follow the money. I saw protestors climbing into busses. That's when I saw their t-shirts: they were all proudly wearing red t-shirts for the Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational. The group had rented the busses.
Then I went to the address for the @answercoalition that had gotten the protest permit. It was in Adam's Morgan on Florida Avenue NW not far from where I had lived as a 20-something in DC.
Outside there were two flags flapping in the wind. Whose flags are they, I asked the woman who answered the door.
"Cuba and Venezuela."
That's when I knew. This wasn't about peace or anti-war.
It was about ideology.
Stoking discord was a part of that ideology as a tactic called agitation propaganda, or agitprop.
Their goal was to overthrowthe "American empire" and install some version of a Marxist, communist or socialist system. Talk about regime change.
And I learned something else: they had very close ties to Iran, Russia and China, with its leaders taking regular trips to those countries. They wanted communism or socialism in South Korea, the Philippines, Puerto Rico....America.
I saw them again in Chicago, protesting the @DNC. We had cells of proud communists, socialists and Marxists in America and they were appropriating the latest cause of the day to press their cause to dismantle "American imperialism."
They were self-declared, self-professed and proud of their ideological beliefs but the media usually glossed over them to describe them generically as "demonstrators."
So when we learned that there was an air strike on Caracas, I watched the clock -- and waited for the signals.
⏱️ 1:35 AM — As U.S. special operations reportedly land in Venezuela, @BTNews, a socialist propaganda arm of the ANSWER Coalition, posts early video and frames the mission as an “illegal bombing of Caracas.” The narrative is set.
⏱️ 1:45 AM — Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo of @PeoplesForumNYC echoes the “illegal bombing” line. Message discipline is established. The People's Forum had been funded by a tech tycoon named Neville Roy Singham, who lived in Shanghai and funded a global network of socialist causes.
⏱️ 2:29 AM — The ANSWER Coalition drops a red-siren graphic on X calling for protests in Times Square: “NO WAR ON VENEZUELA.” The shift from commentary to mobilization begins.
⏱️ 2:34–2:43 AM — The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation amplify the call. Same poster. Same language. Same timing.
⏱️ 3:21 AM — @VijayPrashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a research institute funded by Singham that examines issues through the lens of "national liberation Marxism," weighs in with a tweet: “Down with U.S. imperialism.” The ideological framing goes global.
⏱️ 6:09 AM — @CodePink condemns the U.S. as “terrorist.” The group was cofounded by Singham's wife, Jodie Evans, a fixture in anti-American protests, along with cofounder @medeabenjamin. Professional CodePink protestor @OliviaDinucci frequently yells at Trump administration officials around town. The nonprofit ecosystem is now fully engaged.
⏱️ 7:49 AM — The International People’s Assembly @peoplesassembly, a global umbrella group for socialist and communist organizations that partners with Singham's Tricontinental institute, circulates an “EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION,” urging resistance to U.S. “hegemony.” The command-and-control layer activates.
This wasn’t outrage catching fire.
This was a socialist, communist, Marxist transnational network executing information warfare with military precision.
By daylight, the narrative was locked.
By midday, the protests were live.
By afternoon, politicians like @RepRashida Talib, Rep. @AOC and @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani were repeating the same lines I’d seen first pushed in the dead of night.
I’d seen the signals broadcast for years. Thorough investigators like @DataRepublican and @thestustustudio have followed the breadcrumbs on this vast network seeking to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system in the name of "anti-imperialism," and I encourage you to follow them to see well-documented information.
Friday night, they came in strong and precise, in a parallel military operation run by comrades in the cause to destroy America as we know it.
This wasn’t just about Venezuela. It was about a global war -- an information war running parallel to a kinetic one -- and what I learned next was that it had been years in the making. 🧵⬇️
🧵 TICK-TOCK: The pro-Maduro support wasn't born overnight. Here’s the paper trail between these U.S. organizers and Maduro’s Venezuela. Thank you to all of the researchers who helped me connect the dots.
🗓️ 2003 — Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro back the Francisco de Miranda Front, a socialist organization that became a part of the global International People’s Assembly @peoplesassembly, creating the backbone of an international “solidarity” apparatus designed to defend the socialist "Bolivarian" project abroad and forge alliances with U.S. groups.
🗓️ 2013 — Nicolás Maduro takes power. The solidarity infrastructure is already in place.
🗓️ 2019 — As Maduro faces international pressure, The People's Forum Manolo De Los Santos organizes a pro-Maduro protest outside Venezuela’s consulate in New York City, physically blocking opposition figures from entering.
🗓️ 2019 — Party for Socialism and Liberation leader Claudia De la Cruz travels to Caracas for an International People’s Assembly conference, urging socialists worldwide to “collectivize” the anti-imperialist fight and promotes the message with #HandsOffVenezuela.
🗓️ 2019 — The People’s Forum hosts Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in New York City. He demands an end to U.S. sanctions. He urges the audience to protest U.S. actions with the help of The People's Forum.
🗓️ 2019 — After a failed coup attempt, De Los Santos appears on Venezuelan state TV , boasting of organizing U.S. religious leaders to “battle ideas” against U.S. “imperialist aggression.”
🗓️ 2021 — The Singham network's Vijay Prashad and De Los Santos pose with Maduro on election day. Public endorsement. They all pose with thumbs up for “Sovereignty against imperialism.”
🗓️ 2021 — De Los Santos speaks at a Caracas conference livestreamed on Maduro’s own account, holding a manifesto titled “Plan to Save Humanity.”
🗓️ 2022 — De Los Santos returns to Caracas for the International Anti-Fascist Summit, reinforcing operational coordination with these global organizations.
🗓️ 2023-2024 — The same network repeatedly mobilizes “Hands Off Venezuela” protests in the U.S., while Venezuelan flags increasingly appear at unrelated causes, from anti-police protests to anti-Israel rallies.
🗓️ April 2024 — Maduro publicly recognizes De Los Santos at a Bolivarian Alliance conference.
🗓️ Fall 2025 — These same players lead coordinated U.S. protests again erupt in support of Maduro.
🗓️ Jan. 3, 2026 — U.S. military forces capture Maduro. Within minutes, the same network activates with graphics, slogans, protests, like a switch flipped on.
This wasn’t solidarity.
It was a long-running relationship, tested, rehearsed, and ready.
🗓️ 2003 — Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro back the Francisco de Miranda Front, a socialist organization that became a part of the global International People’s Assembly @peoplesassembly, creating the backbone of an international “solidarity” apparatus designed to defend the socialist "Bolivarian" project abroad and forge alliances with U.S. groups.
🗓️ 2013 — Nicolás Maduro takes power. The solidarity infrastructure is already in place.
🗓️ 2019 — As Maduro faces international pressure, The People's Forum Manolo De Los Santos organizes a pro-Maduro protest outside Venezuela’s consulate in New York City, physically blocking opposition figures from entering.
🗓️ 2019 — Party for Socialism and Liberation leader Claudia De la Cruz travels to Caracas for an International People’s Assembly conference, urging socialists worldwide to “collectivize” the anti-imperialist fight and promotes the message with #HandsOffVenezuela.
🗓️ 2019 — The People’s Forum hosts Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in New York City. He demands an end to U.S. sanctions. He urges the audience to protest U.S. actions with the help of The People's Forum.
🗓️ 2019 — After a failed coup attempt, De Los Santos appears on Venezuelan state TV , boasting of organizing U.S. religious leaders to “battle ideas” against U.S. “imperialist aggression.”
🗓️ 2021 — The Singham network's Vijay Prashad and De Los Santos pose with Maduro on election day. Public endorsement. They all pose with thumbs up for “Sovereignty against imperialism.”
🗓️ 2021 — De Los Santos speaks at a Caracas conference livestreamed on Maduro’s own account, holding a manifesto titled “Plan to Save Humanity.”
🗓️ 2022 — De Los Santos returns to Caracas for the International Anti-Fascist Summit, reinforcing operational coordination with these global organizations.
🗓️ 2023-2024 — The same network repeatedly mobilizes “Hands Off Venezuela” protests in the U.S., while Venezuelan flags increasingly appear at unrelated causes, from anti-police protests to anti-Israel rallies.
🗓️ April 2024 — Maduro publicly recognizes De Los Santos at a Bolivarian Alliance conference.
🗓️ Fall 2025 — These same players lead coordinated U.S. protests again erupt in support of Maduro.
🗓️ Jan. 3, 2026 — U.S. military forces capture Maduro. Within minutes, the same network activates with graphics, slogans, protests, like a switch flipped on.
This wasn’t solidarity.
It was a long-running relationship, tested, rehearsed, and ready.
A socialist–communist–Marxist cell in the U.S. mobilized foot soldiers in 12 hours to foment a "class war." What unfolded isn’t spontaneous dissent. It's transnational information warfare. It's a deployment. Expect more of it. The comrades have just begun.
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I crunched the data. Again.
I made a map. Again.
The picture is now even CLEANER.
States without voter ID requirements are 16x more likely to offer welfare benefits to illegal immigrants than states requiring ID (67% vs 4%, p<0.0001).
Dems are importing and paying illegals for votes.
Details👇
I made a map. Again.
The picture is now even CLEANER.
States without voter ID requirements are 16x more likely to offer welfare benefits to illegal immigrants than states requiring ID (67% vs 4%, p<0.0001).
Dems are importing and paying illegals for votes.
Details👇
Just one state out of 27 with effective voter ID provides welfare to illegal immigrants. Rhode Island.
Specifically, healthcare to children.
That's the 4%.
16 of 24 states without effective voter ID provide welfare to illegal immigrants.
That's the 67%.
Specifically, healthcare to children.
That's the 4%.
16 of 24 states without effective voter ID provide welfare to illegal immigrants.
That's the 67%.
The data are highly statistically significant across most categories.
Stop asking AI to "draw a diagram."
The text usually comes out messy and unreadable.
Use this specific prompt framework for perfect Sketchnotes:
The text usually comes out messy and unreadable.
Use this specific prompt framework for perfect Sketchnotes:
Step 1: The Prep
Don't feed the AI a whole book. It needs structure.
Paste your content into ChatGPT and ask:
"Summarize this into short, concepts to learn this easily"
Copy that summary.
Don't feed the AI a whole book. It needs structure.
Paste your content into ChatGPT and ask:
"Summarize this into short, concepts to learn this easily"
Copy that summary.
Step 2: The Prompt
- Open Gemini
- select “Create Image”
- Upload or add your text
- and use this exact prompt.
Copy/Paste Prompt:
“Create a hand-drawn sketchnote visual summary of these notes. Use a pristine white paper background (no lines). The art style should be 'graphic recording' or 'visual thinking' using black ink fine-liners for clear outlines and text. Use colored markers (specifically teal, orange, and muted red) for simple shading and accents. Center the main title in a 3D-style rectangular box. Surround the title with radially distributed simple doodles, business icons, stick figures, and graphs that explain the concepts. Use arrows to connect ideas. The text should be distinct, handwritten, all-caps printing, legible and organized like a professional brainstorming session. Layout should be A4.”
- Open Gemini
- select “Create Image”
- Upload or add your text
- and use this exact prompt.
Copy/Paste Prompt:
“Create a hand-drawn sketchnote visual summary of these notes. Use a pristine white paper background (no lines). The art style should be 'graphic recording' or 'visual thinking' using black ink fine-liners for clear outlines and text. Use colored markers (specifically teal, orange, and muted red) for simple shading and accents. Center the main title in a 3D-style rectangular box. Surround the title with radially distributed simple doodles, business icons, stick figures, and graphs that explain the concepts. Use arrows to connect ideas. The text should be distinct, handwritten, all-caps printing, legible and organized like a professional brainstorming session. Layout should be A4.”
This Nobel Prize winner spent 44+ years proving that you're not in control of your decisions.
He exposed a hidden pattern that governs human behavior called "game theory."
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
And you'll question every decision you've ever made. 🧵
He exposed a hidden pattern that governs human behavior called "game theory."
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
And you'll question every decision you've ever made. 🧵
Meet John Nash.
In 1950, at age 22, he wrote a 28-page PhD thesis that would change everything.
But there was a problem, Nash was developing schizophrenia and barely spoke to anyone.
Yet his mathematical discovery became the foundation for predicting human behavior...
In 1950, at age 22, he wrote a 28-page PhD thesis that would change everything.
But there was a problem, Nash was developing schizophrenia and barely spoke to anyone.
Yet his mathematical discovery became the foundation for predicting human behavior...
Nash discovered something called "equilibrium."
It's the point where no one can improve their situation by changing their strategy, if everyone else stays the same.
Sounds boring?
This formula now controls how you shop, what you watch, and even who you date.
It's the point where no one can improve their situation by changing their strategy, if everyone else stays the same.
Sounds boring?
This formula now controls how you shop, what you watch, and even who you date.
11 STOCK RESEARCH PROMPTS MOST PEOPLE NEVER USE
Most people research stocks like this:
“Is this stock good?”
“Should I buy now?”
“What’s the target price?”
If you’re doing that, you’re skipping the part that builds real clarity.
Here’s a clarity-first stock research workflow 👇
Most people research stocks like this:
“Is this stock good?”
“Should I buy now?”
“What’s the target price?”
If you’re doing that, you’re skipping the part that builds real clarity.
Here’s a clarity-first stock research workflow 👇
Step 1: Build First-Principles Understanding (Gemini)
Before numbers, the focus is on clarity.
Prompt 1 - Business Clarity
“Explain this company’s business like I’m explaining it to a non-investor. What do they sell, who buys it, and why it exists.”
Stock: [ticker]
This is meant to reduce jargon and improve basic understanding.
Before numbers, the focus is on clarity.
Prompt 1 - Business Clarity
“Explain this company’s business like I’m explaining it to a non-investor. What do they sell, who buys it, and why it exists.”
Stock: [ticker]
This is meant to reduce jargon and improve basic understanding.
Step 2: Verify Facts & Reality (Perplexity)
Now I fact-check everything.
Prompt 2 - Reality Check
“Summarize recent news, earnings highlights, and major events for this company. Cite sources.”
Company: [ticker]
Perplexity helps ground the research in current, verifiable information.
Now I fact-check everything.
Prompt 2 - Reality Check
“Summarize recent news, earnings highlights, and major events for this company. Cite sources.”
Company: [ticker]
Perplexity helps ground the research in current, verifiable information.
Polyphenols are one of the most underrated anti-aging compounds on Earth.
Used right, they extend cellular lifespan & activate your body's youth genes.
Yet no one talks about them.
So I researched the science.
What I found will blow your mind: 🧵
Used right, they extend cellular lifespan & activate your body's youth genes.
Yet no one talks about them.
So I researched the science.
What I found will blow your mind: 🧵
First, what are Polyphenols?
Polyphenols are plant compounds found in dark berries, green tea, olive oil, and dark chocolate.
For decades, scientists overlooked them.
That was a mistake.
Polyphenols are plant compounds found in dark berries, green tea, olive oil, and dark chocolate.
For decades, scientists overlooked them.
That was a mistake.
These compounds activate sirtuins, proteins that control how fast your cells age.
Sirtuins ON: your cells repair themselves.
Sirtuins OFF: you age faster.
This isn't speculation. It's biochemistry.
Sirtuins ON: your cells repair themselves.
Sirtuins OFF: you age faster.
This isn't speculation. It's biochemistry.
How to negotiate any price down (10 psychological tactics):
a THREAD 🧵
Tactic 1: The Flinch
When they say the price, visibly react.
a THREAD 🧵
Tactic 1: The Flinch
When they say the price, visibly react.
Raise eyebrows. Lean back. Go silent for 3 seconds.
Studies show sellers drop prices 15-20% just from your body language.
Your silence creates pressure THEY need to fill.
Studies show sellers drop prices 15-20% just from your body language.
Your silence creates pressure THEY need to fill.
Here's what most people get wrong:
They negotiate with words.
But negotiation happens in the space BETWEEN words.
Your facial expressions, pauses, and body language do 80% of the work.
Master the silence. It's your secret weapon.
They negotiate with words.
But negotiation happens in the space BETWEEN words.
Your facial expressions, pauses, and body language do 80% of the work.
Master the silence. It's your secret weapon.
The Venezuela plot thickens:
While Venezuela holds 303 BILLION barrels of oil reserves, much of this is HEAVY crude oil.
Texas and Louisiana also *happen* to have 6 of the LARGEST HEAVY crude oil refineries in the world.
What does this mean? Let us explain.
(a thread)
While Venezuela holds 303 BILLION barrels of oil reserves, much of this is HEAVY crude oil.
Texas and Louisiana also *happen* to have 6 of the LARGEST HEAVY crude oil refineries in the world.
What does this mean? Let us explain.
(a thread)
In the early 2000s, Venezuela was a MUCH larger oil producer than the US.
In fact, Venezuela produced 3 TIMES as much oil, at nearly 3.3 million barrels per day.
By 2020, Venezuela's production had declined to just 900K/day, while the US hit 5 million/day.
This is key.
In fact, Venezuela produced 3 TIMES as much oil, at nearly 3.3 million barrels per day.
By 2020, Venezuela's production had declined to just 900K/day, while the US hit 5 million/day.
This is key.
First, Venezuela has been heavily sanctioned by the US for years.
This resulted in old infrastructure, hindering the ability to extract HEAVY crude oil.
Heavy oil is far more expensive to extract than light crude.
This requires advanced techniques like steam injection.
This resulted in old infrastructure, hindering the ability to extract HEAVY crude oil.
Heavy oil is far more expensive to extract than light crude.
This requires advanced techniques like steam injection.
What's happening in Venezuela is not war but deal-making (and back-stabbing). As VP Delcy Rodriguez assumes power, remember that she was negotiating with Trump in 2025 for this outcome: new boss, same regime. And that she's alleged to be involved in drug trafficking herself. 1/
It's not war when the only people killed are a few civilians and the president's bodyguards - and Russia barely reacts. The Miami Herald says Rodriguez' reached out in early 2025, less than a year after Maduro stole the election - with Maduro's OK. 2/
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Maduro surely imagined a cushy retirement rather than arrest and extradition. The Miami Herald says Trump nixed that. But Delcy Rodriguez and her brother Jorge succeeded - they now control the presidency and National Assembly of Venezuela, icing out the democratic opposition. 3/
1/ Vladimir Putin's heavy investment in the regime of Venezuelan former President Nicolás Maduro has been a costly and disastrous failure, according to Russian commentators. They admit that Russia is too weak to stop its allies from being picked off one by one by the West. ⬇️
2/ Maxim Kalashnikov is scathing about what the fall of Maduro means for Russian foreign policy, saying that it "marks the collapse of the Russian leadership's long-standing PR-fueled foreign policy."
3/ "For a long time, it resembled a fireworks display: much noise and hype, but no real benefit to the development and industrialisation of the Russian Federation, or to the reunification of the Russian people.
If you started using Claude Code over the holidays, you might be curious about how AI actually works, the benefits and risks, and where it's headed.
Here are some of my favorite papers on alignment, interpretability, and societal impacts 🧵
Here are some of my favorite papers on alignment, interpretability, and societal impacts 🧵
First Dario's essay on Machines of Loving Grace.
Why is it worth building AI, despite the risks? Because if we do it right the future can be radically good.
darioamodei.com/essay/machines…
Why is it worth building AI, despite the risks? Because if we do it right the future can be radically good.
darioamodei.com/essay/machines…
How do they work?
LLMs are not as complex as you might think.
I've really enjoyed 3blue1brown's breakdown of concepts like neural networks, gradient descent, transformers and attention.
LLMs are not as complex as you might think.
I've really enjoyed 3blue1brown's breakdown of concepts like neural networks, gradient descent, transformers and attention.
Venezuela is often reduced to a single statistic: the world’s largest oil reserves.
That headline number conceals a far more complex reality.
Venezuelan oil cannot simply “return” to global markets overnight. We need more than that.
Let's analyze 🧵
That headline number conceals a far more complex reality.
Venezuelan oil cannot simply “return” to global markets overnight. We need more than that.
Let's analyze 🧵
Venezuela’s oil is among the most technically challenging, capital-intensive, and institutionally demanding resources on Earth.
Years of socialism, corruption, and state collapse transformed immense geological wealth into a totally wasted opportunity.
Years of socialism, corruption, and state collapse transformed immense geological wealth into a totally wasted opportunity.
Roughly three quarters of Venezuela’s oil reserves are extra-heavy crude from the Orinoco Belt, which can only be processed in highly specialized refineries.
This crude has very low API gravity, high sulfur and metal content, and extreme viscosity.
This crude has very low API gravity, high sulfur and metal content, and extreme viscosity.
How Do Brain Functions Differ in Patients With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
ASD involves complex neurobiological shifts across distinct functional domains.
While once viewed as a simple behavioural “deficit,” studies revealed a pattern of atypical connectivity and structural organisation that alters how the brain processes social and sensory data.
Meaning, the ASD brain follows a unique computational logic rather than a "broken" one.
Here’s a breakdown of the neurobiological substrate of ASD: 👇🧵
ASD involves complex neurobiological shifts across distinct functional domains.
While once viewed as a simple behavioural “deficit,” studies revealed a pattern of atypical connectivity and structural organisation that alters how the brain processes social and sensory data.
Meaning, the ASD brain follows a unique computational logic rather than a "broken" one.
Here’s a breakdown of the neurobiological substrate of ASD: 👇🧵
The Connectivity Paradox
ASD is characterised by a "disconnection syndrome" in how the brain organises information.
This stems from an imbalance where local neural circuits are over-developed at the expense of global integration.
• Long-range under-connectivity: Reduced communication between the frontal and posterior regions.
• Local over-connectivity: Excessive neural density in sensory zones.
This explains why patients excel at details but struggle with global behavioural integration.
ASD is characterised by a "disconnection syndrome" in how the brain organises information.
This stems from an imbalance where local neural circuits are over-developed at the expense of global integration.
• Long-range under-connectivity: Reduced communication between the frontal and posterior regions.
• Local over-connectivity: Excessive neural density in sensory zones.
This explains why patients excel at details but struggle with global behavioural integration.
The Salience Network (SN)
In ASD, the SN—the brain's "toggle" between internal thought and external stimuli—shows atypical functional organisation.
Hyper-connectivity here makes it difficult to filter "noise" from "signal," leading to:
• Chronic sensory overload
• Difficulty prioritising social info
• Intense "bottom-up" attention
This hyper-sensitivity creates a state where the brain cannot optimise attention, as it is biologically compelled to treat every stimulus as a high-priority alarm.
In ASD, the SN—the brain's "toggle" between internal thought and external stimuli—shows atypical functional organisation.
Hyper-connectivity here makes it difficult to filter "noise" from "signal," leading to:
• Chronic sensory overload
• Difficulty prioritising social info
• Intense "bottom-up" attention
This hyper-sensitivity creates a state where the brain cannot optimise attention, as it is biologically compelled to treat every stimulus as a high-priority alarm.
Juguemos al Dilema del Prisionero.
6 jugadores:
Delcy y Jorge (sin precio por sus cabezas y sin sanciones relevantes).
Padrino y Diosdado (sancionados y con recompensa de $25 millones).
Maduro y Cilia (presos y sin poder).
El chavismo enfrenta una prueba de fuego🔥:🧵
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6 jugadores:
Delcy y Jorge (sin precio por sus cabezas y sin sanciones relevantes).
Padrino y Diosdado (sancionados y con recompensa de $25 millones).
Maduro y Cilia (presos y sin poder).
El chavismo enfrenta una prueba de fuego🔥:🧵
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Antes de comenzar el dilema hay que aclarar y definir algunas cosas:
Lo primero a decir, es que por la forma en que sucedieron los eventos, yo no tengo duda de que gente del mismo chavismo cooperó, se hicieron los locos, o en el peor de los casos vendieron a Maduro.
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Lo primero a decir, es que por la forma en que sucedieron los eventos, yo no tengo duda de que gente del mismo chavismo cooperó, se hicieron los locos, o en el peor de los casos vendieron a Maduro.
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Sin importar quienes hayan sido esos que cooperaron, se hicieron los locos, o vendieron al tirano, en su propio lenguaje ellos le llaman "TRAICIÓN", es decir, la confianza y la lealtad real se rompió entre ellos, y el daño fue letal, ellos mismos rompieron su propia ley.
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