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Nov 17, 2019
As early as 2007, US government was shipping weapons to Santa Cruz in Bolivia. Ambassador Goldberg wrote about it. This whole affair seems shady. This guy they were "shipping" weapons to hid it behind his house? Image
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US government was already sending opposition prefect money. In 2006, THEY INCREASED it.

Btw... now, I put a QR code that takes you to my sources so its easier for you to figure it out. Image
What is the US consulting firm used by former President Gonzalo Sanchez the Lozada in his 2002 consulting campaign?

(Whoever finds the answer will get a free gift from me) Image
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Mar 9, 2023
🚨⏰🚨 1/? AUTISME ET TOUS VACCINS !!!
FAITS aux USA⬇️ : Entre 1962 et aujourd'hui :
- nbre de doses vaccins passées de 5 à 72 sur période d'âge de 0 À 18 ANS !!!
- taux d'autisme passé de 1/10 000 à 1/36 Image
🚨⏰🚨 2/? AUTISME ET TOUS VACCINS !!!
"Autisme lié à la Vaccination ! Il n'y a plus de doute à avoir."
C'ÉTAIT LE 10 DÉCEMBRE 2002 !
Voir tous les liens dans le descriptif sous la vidéo !!!
P.S. : dérivés de mercure = thimérosal, thiomersal ou timerfonate
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🚨⏰🚨 3/? AUTISME ET TOUS VACCINS !!! Image
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Feb 27
Thread with excerpts from Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" (1984), a book on the failure of US welfare and social policy 1950-1980 to achieve its goals.

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Thread with excerpts from Helen Andrews "Boomers" (2021). Steve Jobs was an atypical Boomer - he didn't care for politics or philanthropy.
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More money increased male and reduced female fertility
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It is completely false that redlining was "explicit racial gatekeeping."
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Thread with excerpts from "Why Post-Liberalism Failed."
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May 18
1/20
Most people only know Jaime Escalante from Stand and Deliver.

Few know there was a Chinese immigrant teacher who did something just as extraordinary:

For 20 years in the Arizona desert, he took the state’s poorest Indigenous, Latino, and Black middle schoolers — many with broken English and shattered foundations — and turned them into statewide champions.

His name is Michael Xu.
The “Sage from the East.”

A man who survived China’s Cultural Revolution, hard labor in the jungle, lifelong dyslexia, and insomnia… yet became a legendary math teacher.

This thread is the first time his full story is being told.
And it reveals something much bigger than one teacher’s success.Image
2/20
Now, fellow Chinese immigrant and award-winning author Yellow Heights is telling Mr. Xu’s full story in a powerful new bilingual Substack series:
yellowheights.substack.com/p/introducing-…

This isn’t just one teacher’s miracle.

It raises two explosive questions that cut to the heart of America’s education crisis:

1. Is Mr. Xu’s miracle a victory for progressive education — or powerful proof against it?

2. Why did his students arrive in middle school with shockingly weak math foundations?
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Why has U.S. K-12 math failed generations of kids?Image
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3/20
Before the miracle, face the brutal reality Mr. Xu walked into.

His first year felt like total defeat.

Chaos. No discipline. Constant rebellion.

Kids already defeated before they sat down.

Middle schoolers with arithmetic knowledge that left him stunned — full of deep misconceptions about what math even is.

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May 20
Robert Sapolsky es un neurocientífico de Stanford que demostró que el estrés crónico es el asesino silencioso que los médicos ignoran.

Reveló 10 hábitos que haces todos los días y que te quitan años de vida.

1) Repasar conversaciones en tu cabeza
Las palabras exactas de Sapolsky: «rumiando sobre esa cosa rara que le dijiste a un profesor hace 15 años».

Tu cerebro no sabe que la conversación no está ocurriendo en este momento.

Desencadena el mismo pico de cortisol que la amenaza original. Notalo. Nómbralo. Redirígelo.
2) Preocúpate por escenarios que no han sucedido

La frase emblemática de Sapolsky:

"Una cebra reacciona a un león durante 30 segundos, luego pasta pacíficamente. Un humano se preocupa por un león imaginario durante 30 años"

Cuando te pilles haciéndolo: pregúntate "¿está esto ocurriendo ahora mismo?"
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May 20
Woody Allen sobre el antisemitismo hoy 1/2

Woody:
«Saben, siempre pensé que la mayor ventaja de Nueva York era que uno podía ser neurótico y nadie lo notaba. En otras ciudades te mandan al médico si hablas contigo mismo. En Manhattan te ofrecen una columna en una revista por ello.

Ayer salí a comprar salmón. Por cierto, es la única tradición judía estable que ha sobrevivido a Babilonia, Roma y a mis relaciones con mujeres.

Caminaba por Brooklyn pensando en la muerte. No porque sea filósofo. Sino porque ya tengo más de noventa, aunque originalmente había planeado llegar como mucho hasta los setenta.

Y de repente —una multitud frente a una sinagoga. Al principio pensé que allí actuaba un famoso psicoanalista. En Nueva York la gente hace cola durante horas para escuchar por qué su madre tiene la culpa de todo. Aunque los judíos eso ya lo saben sin necesidad de conferencia.

Pero no. Estaban gritando algo sobre “intifada”. ¿Y saben qué me sorprendió más? La cantidad de energía que tiene esa gente. ¿De dónde la sacan? Yo después de subir dos tramos de escaleras ya empiezo a escribir mi testamento. Y ellos listos para una revolución sin haberse tomado ni un café decente.

Un tipo gritaba algo sobre “descolonización”. Dios mío. Cuando yo era joven, “colonización” significaba que la tía Frieda ocupaba nuestro sofá durante tres meses y se negaba a irse. Hoy de repente es una conspiración sionista.

En general, el antisemitismo moderno se ha vuelto demasiado intelectual. Antes simplemente nos odiaban. Sin rodeos. Hoy no.

Hoy alguien con bufanda, que parece que escribe poemas sobre su propia barba, te explica con ayuda de Heidegger y Nietzsche por qué la existencia de los judíos es una forma de agresión y una amenaza para la humanidad.

Y yo estaba allí pensando: antes al menos nos pegaban personas sin título universitario. Hoy los organizadores de pogromos tienen diploma de Columbia University.

Luego una chica a mi lado dijo: “Estamos contra el sionismo, no contra los judíos”. Eso es como si mi exmujer hubiera dicho: “No tengo nada contra ti. Solo estoy contra todo lo que dices, haces, sientes —y especialmente contra acostarme contigo”. El significado es el mismo.

Y entonces alguien gritó: “¡Los sionistas son nazis!”. En ese momento sentí que mi abuela se habría girado en su tumba tan rápido que podría haber abastecido de electricidad parte de Queens.

Mi abuela, por cierto, vivió a auténticos nazis. Se escondió en un sótano en Polonia con un hombre que tosía tan fuerte que los alemanes podrían haberlos encontrado solo por el sonido bronquial.

Y ahora un chico de una universidad de élite, cuyo mayor trauma en la vida es un café frío de Starbucks, me explica qué significa fascismo.

Realmente vivo en tiempos sorprendentes.

Hoy la gente habla como si se hubiera tragado accidentalmente una biblioteca universitaria. Nadie dice ya: “Perdón, soy un idiota”. No. Hoy se dice: “Estoy deconstruyendo el relato dominante”.

Escuchen, yo crecí entre judíos. Nosotros no deconstruimos relatos. Nosotros creamos relatos.

Llegué a casa y encendí la televisión —porque cuando uno tiene ansiedad, la televisión parece una idea excelente. Es como tratar el alcoholismo con un martini con hielo.

Allí Roger Waters volvía a explicar el mundo. Los músicos de rock siempre me dan miedo cuando envejecen y empiezan a hablar como paranoicos que ven conspiraciones al mirar un gato negro.

Luego apareció Kanye West. En mi infancia, los locos al menos parecían locos. Pelo despeinado, abrigo, palomas, conversaciones con cubos de basura. Este tipo simplemente se pone una máscara negra y dice que ama a Hitler. Y ahí entendí: la humanidad ha avanzado mucho —de “nunca más” a “discutamos los matices”.

¿Y los políticos? Los políticos dicen: “La situación es complicada”.

No.

Complicado es explicar a una madre judía por qué su hijo de cuarenta años aún no está casado.
Woody Allen sobre el antisemitismo 2/2

Pero cuando una multitud frente a una sinagoga grita “muerte a los sionistas”, eso no es complejidad. Es un remake. Y además malo. Sin guion original, pero con un presupuesto enorme para redes sociales.

Y lo que realmente me asusta no son los radicales. A los radicales estoy acostumbrado. Viví en el Nueva York de los setenta. En aquella época ya se consideraba radical a cualquiera que desconfiara del agua del grifo y lavara la fruta con jabón.

Lo que me asusta es la velocidad con la que la gente normal empieza a actuar como si no pasara nada. El ser humano se adapta increíblemente bien. Incluso cuando a una chica judía le tiran del pelo y a un chico con peotillas le ciegan con luces estroboscópicas.

Nos acostumbramos a todo. A la guerra. Al odio. A que el café cueste nueve dólares. A esto último, por cierto, solo con mucha dificultad.

Por la noche estaba en la cama pensando: quizá habría que no darle tiempo libre a la humanidad. Porque en cuanto la gente se aburre, o intenta salvar el mundo, o se mata entre sí, o graba podcasts sobre los beneficios del conflicto.

Y aun así… si mañana vuelve a haber alguien gritando sobre la muerte de los sionistas delante de una sinagoga, saldré. No porque sea valiente. Soy el tipo de persona que una vez se desmayó al sacarle sangre. Sino porque los judíos han esperado demasiadas veces que la locura desaparezca sola. Nunca lo hace. Solo se pone traje, entra en la universidad y abre una cuenta de TikTok.

Pero bueno… primero me comeré mi salmón. Preferiría no morir con el estómago vacío. A mi madre judía eso nunca le habría parecido bien.»
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May 21
𝗛𝗔𝗬 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗦 𝗤𝗨𝗘 𝗡𝗢 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡 𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗥. 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗦.

Y por eso, necesitan seducir constantemente.

Necesitan gustar.

Necesitan generar deseo.

Necesitan sentir que alguien las prefiere.

Que alguien las busca.

Que alguien las admira.

Porque, en el fondo, no están intentando construir intimidad emocional.

Están intentando llenar una sensación profunda de insuficiencia que nunca desaparece del todo.

(ABRO HILO) 👇👇👇👇
Hay personas que solo se sienten valiosas cuando despiertan deseo en otros.

Y entonces, convierten las relaciones en una fuente constante de validación emocional.

Necesitan gustar para sentirse suficientes.

Necesitan atención para sentirse visibles.

Necesitan sentirse elegidas para sentir valor interno.
Por eso, algunas personas se obsesionan muchísimo más con gustarle a alguien que con conocer realmente a esa persona.

Porque el objetivo no es el vínculo.

El objetivo es comprobar que tienen poder emocional sobre alguien.
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May 21
אחרי הטיזר, צללתי לפרטים וזה באמת סיפור נפלא.

בשרשור הזה אסביר מה ההישג יוצא הדופן ש-chatGPT הגיע אליו ולמה זה הרבה יותר מרשים מכל מה ש-AI עשה במתמטיקה עד היום.🧵
נתחיל ממה קרה - OpenAI הכריזו אתמול שגרסה מתקדמת של chatGPT (שטרם שוחררה לציבור) הצליחה לפתור בעיה מתמטית מפורסמת בת 80 שנה. המודל שפתר את הבעיה היה מודל שפה כללי (לא ייעודי ספציפית למתמטיקה) ועשה זאת לבד ללא עזרה חיצונית (פורסמו 125 עמודים שמתמללים את כל מהלך החשיבה של המודל).
מה הייתה הבעיה שנפתרה? כמו מקרים דומים בעבר זו הייתה בעיה שניסח המתמטיקאי המנוח פאול ארדש. אבל לא כל הבעיות של ארדש נולדו שוות - בעוד שיש אלפים כאלו ו-AI כבר הצליח לפתור כמה נישתיות, הבעיה הספציפית הזו מפורסמת ומתמטיקאים טובים בטופ העולמי ניסו לפתור אותה ללא הצלחה.
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May 21
🚨 The man who invented calculus had a daily ritual nobody knew about.

Every morning during the Plague of 1665, Isaac Newton (fresh Cambridge graduate sent home by the outbreak, future Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, the man whose Principia Mathematica changed physics for 300 years) sat at his mother's wooden farm table in Woolsthorpe, England, with a notebook he called the Waste Book and wrote down every problem he was thinking about, every approach he had tried, every dead end he had hit, and every new question that had occurred to him overnight.

He called it the Waste Book. It was 1 of 10 techniques he used to invent calculus, formulate the law of universal gravitation, and split white light into colors. All in 18 months. From his mother's farm. During a plague.

I turned the 10 into Claude prompts.

You describe any cognitively demanding work you're trying to do... and it runs you through the same method Newton ran every morning at his mother's farm during the plague.

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1. THE WASTE BOOK... CAPTURE PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS IN A DAILY WORKING NOTEBOOK

Act as a focus coach teaching the Waste Book... Isaac Newton's daily working notebook practice, where he wrote down every problem he was working on, every approach he had tried, every dead end he had hit, and every new question that had occurred to him overnight. The original Waste Book (1664-65, now at Cambridge University Library) is the document where calculus was first written down.

Help me build a Waste Book I'll actually use every day... so my hardest problems compound across days instead of resetting every morning, and my dead ends become future material instead of forgotten effort.


1. Ask what hard problems I'm currently working on and how I currently track them before starting
2. Choose the medium... bound paper notebook, plain text file, Obsidian, Notion (Newton's bound paper outperforms most digital tools for cognitive reasons)
3. Set the daily ritual... 15-30 minutes at the same time daily (morning or end of work)
4. Define what gets captured... open problems, approaches tried, dead ends, new questions, partial insights
5. Build the indexing system... how I find an old idea or dead end 6 months from now
6. Build the review habit... weekly scan, monthly synthesis
7. Set the cross-pollination trigger... when an old entry gets pulled back into a new problem



- Capture dead ends with their cause... a failure with no cause is wasted material
- Write the question, not just the answer... questions compound, answers are static
- Don't filter during capture... the messy entry is the honest entry
- Review before solving... most "new" problems are old problems in disguise
- Test: am I finding old ideas I'd forgotten about in the weekly review


Current Problem Tracking Audit → Medium Selection → Daily Ritual Time → Capture Categories → Indexing System → Review Cadence → Cross-Pollination Trigger
2. VOLUNTARY ISOLATION... THE PLAGUE-YEAR MODEL OF DEEP WORK

Act as a focus coach teaching Voluntary Isolation... the practice Newton stumbled into during the Plague of 1665, when Cambridge sent him home for 18 months and he produced calculus, gravitation, and optics in that single uninterrupted stretch. The principle: removing external stimuli is the lever that lets cognitively demanding work compound across weeks instead of fragmenting across days.

Help me design a Voluntary Isolation block for a project that requires sustained cognitive depth... so I have a tool for the work that won't yield to daily focus hours and needs a different kind of attention entirely.


1. Ask what project I'm considering for isolation and what's stopping me from doing it before starting
2. Set the duration... 1 week minimum, 2-4 weeks ideal, anything less is a sprint not isolation
3. Define the physical separation... different location, removed devices, restricted contact
4. Negotiate the boundary... what to tell clients, family, colleagues before it starts
5. Design the daily structure... 4-6 hours deep, 2 hours admin, the rest rest
6. Build the no-interruption contract... what specifically gets ignored even when it feels urgent
7. Plan the re-entry... how to return without losing the gains



- Physical separation matters more than digital separation... being in the same house as your normal life leaks attention
- The duration is the lever... 3 days produces nothing, 3 weeks produces the project
- 4-6 deep hours per day is the ceiling even in isolation... biology doesn't yield to discipline
- The no-interruption contract must include real urgent items, not just trivial ones
- Test: at the end of the isolation, do I have a specific shippable output, not just "progress"


Project Fit Check → Duration → Physical Separation Plan → Boundary Negotiation Scripts → Daily Structure → No-Interruption Contract → Re-Entry Plan
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May 21
This 45-second clip with Dr. Peter Hotez is difficult to watch.

A mom from Texas desperately asks him why she keeps getting “really bad” COVID.

She got three COVID shots, took multiple rounds of Paxlovid, but she keeps “getting COVID often.”

Dr. Hotez tells the woman that her repeated COVID infections are basically her fault for skipping boosters.

WOMAN: “I’m getting COVID often. I took Paxlovid the third time, and then a few weeks later I got it again. COVID was really bad on me.”

HOTEZ: “After you had your first two immunizations way back in 2021, did you get boosters regularly?”

WOMAN: “I got one booster, and then after that I stopped getting them.”

HOTEZ: “Yeah. So that’s the reason why you keep up with the boosters.”

The saddest part about this interaction is that the woman was so convinced by Hotez that getting COVID was her fault that she was eager to get another booster shot after the show.

This is an extreme case of medical gaslighting that is easy to spot.

But what about when it’s not?

What about the times you did everything your doctor recommended—only to find yourself worse off than when you started? 🧵
Something seismic has happened to public health in America—and most people haven’t fully processed its scale.

A 2025 JAMA study surveying pregnant mothers and parents of young children found that only 37% fully trusted the CDC vaccine schedule and planned to follow it completely.

Five years ago, a number that low would have been unimaginable.

So what’s causing the drop? And what does it mean?Image
To understand the big picture and why it matters, you need the baseline.

In 2000, only 19% of parents had concerns about vaccines. By 2009, that number was 50%. And by 2013, 9% had declined all immunizations, while 32% had safety concerns.

The medical establishment found those numbers alarming. But what we’re looking at today is in a different category entirely.Image
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May 21
(1/19) Europe finally seems ready to act against China’s predatory economic policies (Industrial Accelerator Act, etc)…

Great! But beware: Beijing can escalate much further in derailing European defence and other industries…

Its critical raw material weapon remains intact… Image
(2/19) Europe was never merely 'collateral damage' in the US-China tech war.

Beijing's sharp cut in critical raw material exports in 2025 –like its vast industrial policies– advance China's far more ambitious goals… Image
(3/19) They deepen global dependence on China, while accelerating the construction of President Xi’s self-reliant industrial fortress and advancing “reunification” with Taiwan.
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May 21
me recordo muito de uma série de livros que ganhei aos 13 anos, era um pré-RPG que colocava o adolescente como responsável pelo CURSO DA HISTÓRIA: se respondesse A, ia para a página X; se B, página Y. tinha uma interatividade das perguntas sobre a história. (+) Image
as perguntas que eram feitas no decorrer da história, e as respostas escolhidas eram FUNDAMENTAIS para o curso e desenvolvimento dos fatos. você era um leitor mas tinha uma RESPONSABILIDADE com o que ia acontecer (+) Image
por vezes, a retórica ordinária insiste em perguntar apressada: "e aí? 2024 valeu a pena? Para quê? Para isso?"

independente da tua resposta o que me intriga aqui é formulação da pergunta. ela é o mais importante. é na COMPREENSÃO DO QUESTIONAMENTO que começa a resposta (+) Image
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May 21
This is a genuine email from NHS England:

"I refer to your email of 27 September 2024 in which you requested information under the FOI Act from NHS England...
... Your Freedom of Information request was:

“The Welsh Gender Service (FOI/24/552) have informed me that you can provide the following information from...
... your Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service:

1. Of the 884 patients referred for surgery by the Welsh Gender Service in the period 1.1.2019-31.12. 2023 how many have had surgery? ...
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May 21
In 2018 Zucman published a paper in a top econ journal that inadvertently revealed the total federal/state/local tax rate of the top 0.001% was ~40%.

A year later, he realized this undermined his wealth tax. So he fudged the stats to fit his politics.

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Details and receipts here, including how I caught Zucman initially trying to hide the old stats off his website.

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And here is a longer academic journal article I wrote about this episode, including digging into what Zucman altered to put his thumb on the statistical scale. independent.org/wp-content/upl…
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May 21
movie about world where fake is illegal??
dude reviews movies??
@threadreaderapp unroll
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