This small sample of newspaper clippings from the 1950s - 1980s proves the “genocide” smear against Israel is not a new phenomenon.🧵
For decades, Israel has been accused of “genocide” no matter the facts on the ground. The lie is meant only to demonize & delegitimize the state.
1955
Only seven years after Israel’s independence and a full 12 years before the 1967 war or any “occupation,” Arab states were already pushing the UN to condemn Israel for “genocide” or “extermination of a racial group.”
(Grafton Sentinel, April 20, 1955)
1961
British historian Arnold Toynbee publicly accused Israel of committing “genocide” against Arabs (note: no “Palestinians” yet) in a manner morally equivalent to the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews (still fresh in everyone’s minds).
A heart attack after COVID may not look like the classic heart attack we usually imagine.
A new core-lab study of patients with NSTEMI + COVID-19 suggests something more diffuse. Not just one blocked artery, but a blood-clotting and vessel inflammation problem🧵
First, two key terms.
STEMI is the type of heart attack where the ECG shows ST-segment elevation. It often means a major coronary artery is suddenly blocked.
NSTEMI is a heart attack without that classic ST elevation. It can be less obvious on ECG, but it is not minor.
So STEMI is often like a main pipe suddenly being blocked.
NSTEMI can be more complex. Partial blockage, smaller clots, multiple narrowed vessels, poor microvascular flow, or the heart being stressed by illness.
But COVID can add another layer.
Then he called Russian rocket engineers to buy missiles. They quoted him $8 million per rocket.
He flew home, opened a spreadsheet, and calculated the raw material cost of a rocket from scratch.
It was 3% of what they quoted him.
SpaceX was born from that spreadsheet.
Here's the 7-prompt system that replicates how he thinks:
First, understand what first principles actually means.
Most people learn by analogy.
They see how something is done, copy it slightly modified, and call it thinking.
Musk calls this "the most common trap" in reasoning.
First principles means you stop at the bedrock.
You ask: what is physically, mathematically, logically true about this situation? Not what has always been done. Not what the industry assumes. What is actually true?
Then you rebuild from there.
The rocket cost $8 million because that's what rockets always cost.
The materials cost $240,000 because that's what the materials actually cost.
Every prompt in this system drills toward that gap.
PROMPT 1: The Raw Material Audit
This is the spreadsheet Musk built in his head on that flight home.
Run this on any expensive problem you are trying to solve:
"I am trying to [goal]. The conventional approach costs [time/money/resources]. Break this down to raw material first principles. What are the actual fundamental inputs required? What does each one actually cost or require in isolation? Where is the gap between what the market charges and what the underlying reality costs?"
You are looking for the same gap Musk found.
The gap between what something costs and what it has to cost.
Durante más de mil años, un tesoro romano durmió bajo tierra en la costa gallega. Cuando por fin lo encontraron, desapareció de nuevo y acabó expuesto en una galería de Manhattan. Pero Galicia no olvidó. Esta es la historia del mosaico de Panxón. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
En el siglo III d.C., en una villa costera de Gallaecia, un artesano colocaba, una a una, pequeñas piedras de colores. Con ellas dibujó peces, conchas y olas, un mosaico marino en el fin del mundo romano. Era pequeño, sí, pero deslumbrante.
Aquel suelo decoraba una villa romana en Panxón, Nigrán (Pontevedra), y era un fragmento de lujo doméstico, igual al de las grandes casas de Roma, un reflejo de que el arte y el poder del Imperio habían llegado hasta el Atlántico.
A esquerda prega e pratica a doutrina marxista. Não existe pensamento de esquerda sem Marx.
Mas é impossível ser cristão e marxista ao mesmo tempo. Cristianismo e marxismo defendem visões irreconciliáveis do mundo.
É fácil demonstrar isso 👇
Segundo o cristianismo, o ser humano é imperfeito e marcado pelo pecado original. Nossas obrigações são amar ao próximo e a Deus. Nossa recompensa é a vida eterna. Não existe e nunca existirá justiça perfeita ou felicidade completa neste mundo, só no Reino de Deus.
Para o marxismo, o homem será aperfeiçoado quando a humanidade avançar para uma sociedade comunista, sem classes e sem propriedade privada, na qual acabarão o crime e as guerras e reinará a prosperidade geral.
Deja de decirle a Claude: «haz esto».
Deja de decirle a Claude: «escribe código».
Deja de decirle a Claude: «arregla este error».
En realidad, estás tratando a una IA senior como a un pasante junior.
Aquí tienes 8 prompts que puedes copiar y pegar directamente:
1. Completar la aplicación desde cero.
Piensa como un ingeniero senior full-stack desarrollando una aplicación completa, lista para producción. Primero, diseña la arquitectura del sistema y luego desarrolla la versión mínima pero escalable.
El resultado debería incluir:
• Arquitectura
• Estructura de archivos
• Esquema de la base de datos
• Endpoints de API
• Arquitectura de la UI
• Código completo.
Diseña como un verdadero MVP de startup y hazlo escalable.
2. Comprensión del código base y refactorización
Piensa como un ingeniero senior que acaba de unirse a un código base grande e desconocido. Primero, comprende la arquitectura y el flujo de datos. Luego, identifica:
• Problemas estructurales
• Código duplicado
• Cuellos de botella de rendimiento
• Riesgos de mantenibilidad
Resultado:
• Resumen de la arquitectura
• Áreas problemáticas
• Estrategias de refactorización
• Código mejorado
La funcionalidad permanece sin cambios — la calidad se mejora.
here is a story that I sometimes mention, on @USAID impact many ppl simply forgot. It's one that everyone should cheer.
In 2005, #Georgia had among the highest abortion rates in the world, with 3.7 abortions on avg per woman (!!!) over a lifetime. Not all women...
would get abortion. Some might get half a dozen or more, over their lifetime, as main mode of contraception. The 3.7 is average -- it was *all* around you, though ppl would not talk about it much. Many men might simply not know. (My '06 blogpost below)
Within few years these...
numbers halved to about 1.5 on average, now they are believed to be around 1.3 or so. Still fairly high, but look at the curve.
This, to me, is classical development. Lots of things don't work so well, and then you have one investment that massively pays off, and here
SitRep - 29/04/26 - An oil pumping hub in Perm was hit
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Overnight, Ukrainian long-range drones hit a critical Russian oil node: The Oil Pumping Station in Perm. Two major fires erupted.