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Sadly the world still believes covid 19 means 2019
Sadly the world still believes covid 19 means 2019
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According to Japanese ticket booking site Pushpa 2 Is the worst performing indian film in Japan currently with only 822 lifetime check-ins (online ticket booked) and has been ranked 172 theatrical performance wise out of 179 films running currently in Japanese theatres.
According to the Japanese box office trackers there's no mention of pushpa 2 in even 1 cr lifetime grossers.
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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El Imperio de los Caníbales
Por Vuk Bačanović
El problema no es Trump, sino el sistema que lo engendró.
Una de las formas más extendidas de pereza intelectual es la tendencia a atribuir los fallos de todo un sistema a un solo individuo. +
Por Vuk Bačanović
El problema no es Trump, sino el sistema que lo engendró.
Una de las formas más extendidas de pereza intelectual es la tendencia a atribuir los fallos de todo un sistema a un solo individuo. +
Eliminemos a ese individuo, desterrémoslo como a un demonio medieval, y la realidad, según nos dicen, se corregirá sola. El resultado es una especie de cuento de hadas político para adultos: hubo una vez un presidente feo, grosero y maleducado que lo arruinó todo. +
¿Y el sistema? Sigue siendo fundamentalmente sólido; solo necesita un poco más de decoro, un lenguaje más cuidadoso y, tal vez, uno o dos Premios Nobel de la Paz más, entregados entre intencionadas crisis y la puesta en escena de guerras y genocidios. +
A whole 54/- difference between the cost of kerosene and diesel is a bright recipe for “systemic adulteration”.
My personal free advice: in the future please only fuel diesel from a reliable vendor you clearly trust.
⚠️ potential adulteration coming your way ⛔️ ‼️
#DyeKerosene
My personal free advice: in the future please only fuel diesel from a reliable vendor you clearly trust.
⚠️ potential adulteration coming your way ⛔️ ‼️
#DyeKerosene
Kerosene use has reduced from ~200,000 tonnes (2019) to ~44,000 tonnes (2025). That is roughly a 75–80% decline in 5–6 years.
2025 saw a rare increase (+18.9%), but this was not household demand—it was mainly due to Muhoroni GT
2025 saw a rare increase (+18.9%), but this was not household demand—it was mainly due to Muhoroni GT
The decreed reduction in Value Added Tax on diesel, kerosene and petrol from 13% (as adjusted on April 14), to 8% (a 50% drop), raises some interesting questions.
[1] To start with, MPs foolishly approved a Supplementary Budget with the highest fiscal deficit since 2020 (~ 6.4% of GDP).
There's no justifiable argument to raise spending by over KES 350 billion ($ 2.6 billion), in the middle of the biggest energy crisis on record. Tax revenues were already well below target by March, and the inflation hit from Israel & the United States war on Iran will dent that further.
There's no justifiable argument to raise spending by over KES 350 billion ($ 2.6 billion), in the middle of the biggest energy crisis on record. Tax revenues were already well below target by March, and the inflation hit from Israel & the United States war on Iran will dent that further.
[2] The VAT cut WSR announced today raises the deficit - so if we're serious about fiscal discipline, @KeTreasury should bring in a 2nd Supplementary Budget to cut overall gov't spending and that ridiculous deficit.
Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.
Not a guess. Not a theory.
A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.
Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.
Even when you're just using it as a monitor.
Here's how to turn it off for every brand:
Not a guess. Not a theory.
A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.
Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.
Even when you're just using it as a monitor.
Here's how to turn it off for every brand:
First, what's actually happening.
Your TV has a hidden feature called ACR- Automatic Content Recognition.
Think of it like Shazam, but for your screen.
It takes tiny snapshots of whatever you're watching. Sends a fingerprint to the company's servers. They match it to figure out exactly what's on your screen.
Every show. Every channel. Every game. Second by second.
Your TV has a hidden feature called ACR- Automatic Content Recognition.
Think of it like Shazam, but for your screen.
It takes tiny snapshots of whatever you're watching. Sends a fingerprint to the company's servers. They match it to figure out exactly what's on your screen.
Every show. Every channel. Every game. Second by second.
This isn't speculation.
Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid tested Samsung and LG TVs.
Published in the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
They captured all the network traffic leaving these TVs.
Samsung sent data to its ACR servers every minute.
LG sent data every 15 seconds.
Paper: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid tested Samsung and LG TVs.
Published in the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
They captured all the network traffic leaving these TVs.
Samsung sent data to its ACR servers every minute.
LG sent data every 15 seconds.
Paper: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
Stanford just tested whether LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters’ AI legal research tools are really “hallucination-free,” as they claim.
Spoiler: not even close.
Here’s what the study found.
Spoiler: not even close.
Here’s what the study found.
1. Both LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters have been marketing their AI tools as having solved the hallucination problem.
Casetext said CoCounsel “does not make up facts.”
Thomson Reuters said they “avoid hallucinations by relying on trusted content within Westlaw.”
These are bold claims and Stanford put them to the test.
Casetext said CoCounsel “does not make up facts.”
Thomson Reuters said they “avoid hallucinations by relying on trusted content within Westlaw.”
These are bold claims and Stanford put them to the test.
2. Researchers designed 202 legal queries across four categories:
- general legal research
- jurisdiction-specific questions
- false premise questions
- factual recall
They ran them through Lexis+ AI, Ask Practical Law AI (Thomson Reuters), and GPT-4 as a baseline.
They then had legal experts manually evaluate every response.
- general legal research
- jurisdiction-specific questions
- false premise questions
- factual recall
They ran them through Lexis+ AI, Ask Practical Law AI (Thomson Reuters), and GPT-4 as a baseline.
They then had legal experts manually evaluate every response.
1/ PropAMMs and the Next Chapter of Permissionless Market Structure
For years, onchain trading won on access, lost on execution. Some feel better performance requires moving backwards to centralized systems
PropAMMs on @solana are proving permissionless can outcompete centralized
For years, onchain trading won on access, lost on execution. Some feel better performance requires moving backwards to centralized systems
PropAMMs on @solana are proving permissionless can outcompete centralized
2/
In March, the median PropAMM fill on SOL/USDC executed ~0.7 bps from the best midpoint across the top four CEXs
The all-in cost of a similar trade on a CEX with the best institutional fee tier would have been ~2.5 bps. A retail user on the standard tier pays 10.57 bps all-in
In March, the median PropAMM fill on SOL/USDC executed ~0.7 bps from the best midpoint across the top four CEXs
The all-in cost of a similar trade on a CEX with the best institutional fee tier would have been ~2.5 bps. A retail user on the standard tier pays 10.57 bps all-in
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91.9% of PropAMM fills beat the best institutional CEX all-in cost, 90.2% by notional
99.3% of PropAMM fills were better for retail users paying the standard CEX all-in cost
91.9% of PropAMM fills beat the best institutional CEX all-in cost, 90.2% by notional
99.3% of PropAMM fills were better for retail users paying the standard CEX all-in cost
@PartidoMorenaMx quiere caras diferentes en Guadalajara?
El pasado domingo en el auditorio del Sindicato de Telefonistas, ubicado en Avenida Alcalde, se dieron cita los morenistas tapatíos y ahí rindieron protesta los Presidentes y Secretarios de las secciones electorales🧵 1/5
El pasado domingo en el auditorio del Sindicato de Telefonistas, ubicado en Avenida Alcalde, se dieron cita los morenistas tapatíos y ahí rindieron protesta los Presidentes y Secretarios de las secciones electorales🧵 1/5
El enviado nacional fue Arturo Martinez Nuñez, Secretario de Ciencia, Arte y Cultura del CEN, y él fue enfatico en señalar que para la elección de candidatos rumbo a la elección del 2027 serán considerados los que tengan menos negativos ante la ciudadanía 2/5
Ello, por encima de los más conocidos. Y a los presentes les dejó cuatro tareas básicas: capacitarse, participar en redes sociales, salir a tocar puertas y repartir la propaganda. 3/5
For decades, Germany blocked every attempt to build European defense without America. Merz reversed course after concluding Trump was ready to abandon Ukraine.
Germany leads a coalition planning to run NATO without the US. The project has a name: "European NATO" — WSJ. 1/
Germany leads a coalition planning to run NATO without the US. The project has a name: "European NATO" — WSJ. 1/
Germany, France, the UK, Poland, the Nordics, and Canada are planning to fill US command roles, run air-and-missile defenses, and secure reinforcement corridors into Poland and the Baltics.
The planning runs through side meetings and dinners inside NATO. 2/
The planning runs through side meetings and dinners inside NATO. 2/
Pistorius, German Defense Minister: "NATO must become more European in order to remain trans-Atlantic."
The plans accelerated after Trump threatened to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark. The Iran war standoff gave them fresh urgency. 3/
The plans accelerated after Trump threatened to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark. The Iran war standoff gave them fresh urgency. 3/
Hodges: Crimea is still the decisive terrain of the war. For Putin it is symbolic, because the whole war started with seizing it.
It also anchors Russia’s ports and its ability to project power across the Black Sea. 1/
It also anchors Russia’s ports and its ability to project power across the Black Sea. 1/
Hodges: If Russia can no longer use Crimea’s ports, bridge, and ferries safely, the peninsula loses real value.
The Black Sea Fleet has already been pushed out of Sevastopol, and isolating Crimea further would strip Moscow of a key military asset. 2/
The Black Sea Fleet has already been pushed out of Sevastopol, and isolating Crimea further would strip Moscow of a key military asset. 2/
Hodges: Ukraine does not need a frontal assault on Crimea right now.
It should keep isolating it, keep hitting airfields and air defenses, and make the Kerch bridge unusable. Crimea is still on Zelenskyy, Syrskyi, and Budanov’s objective list. 3X
It should keep isolating it, keep hitting airfields and air defenses, and make the Kerch bridge unusable. Crimea is still on Zelenskyy, Syrskyi, and Budanov’s objective list. 3X