Reading Ogilvy Ad Agency’s 2014 interview w/ “Big Brother” creator John De Mol. There’s many progenitors of Reality TV (An American Family, Real World), but arguably, the reality era truly began, in 1999, in Netherlands, w/ De Mol’s “Big Brother”
Gonna post interview highlights
“John de Mol is, to me, the purest example of original creative disruption”
I wonder where I’ve heard praise for “disrupters” before?
At the start of making “Big Brother,” John De Mol once said:
“We have to be careful otherwise we’ll be like God”
John De Mol now says Season 1 of Dutch Big Brother was boring “because we were so afraid to hurt people, to harm people”
1/📢 Au conseil municipal du 2ᵉ secteur de Marseille, la diffusion vidéo des débats est refusée.
Motif avancé par le maire dans un débat inutilement électrique et nerveux : 100 000 €.
Un chiffre énorme. Et totalement contestable et loufoque. ⤵️
2/ Témoignage d’une personne présente :
« Le maire était en mode bulldog… parle à 100 à l’heure… mépris et pression…
Ça donne pas envie de prendre la parole.
Et surtout : “c’est moi qui décide.” »
Voilà le climat.
3/ Refuser la vidéo, ce n’est pas anodin.
C’est empêcher :
👉 les habitants de voir les débats
👉 les élus de s’exprimer sereinement
👉 toute transparence sur les décisions
The ones who don't?...they'll find out the hard way when they can't access their own money.
Ten things every Nigerian must know before May 1st or else you gonna learn the hard way🧵
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1/ Your BVN phone number?
You can only change it once in your entire life.
That's it just one shot and after that, it's locked forever.
if your number got stolen, ported, or you just forgot which sim you registered that's your only one chance to fix it use it wisely.
2/ One device per banking app that's the new rule.
Log into your GTB app on a new phone? your old phone gets kicked out automatically.
No more using your banking app on two devices at once, pick one and stay committed lol
Le patriarcat qui repose sur le couple hétérosexuel a été pensé par et pour les hommes, ils en tirent des privilèges énormes mais veulent tjrs se présenter comme des victimes de ce système.
Aucun avantage pour un homme à être en couple hétéro ? Pas ce que disent les études 🧵
1. Le couple hétéro est un système de production domestique au sein duquel le travail des femmes est exploité à titre gratuit au nom de l’amour. Les stats parlent : les F en couple font environ 1h30/2h de travail domestique de + par jour que leur conjoint (📈 avec enfants)
Les hommes ont plus de temps libre et plus de possibilité de développer des loisirs et activités non liées à la sphère privée/domestique, pendant que les femmes subissent une charge mentale. Et ce y compris qd les 2 partenaires travaillent à temps plein
Just achieved 60 tokens/sec with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (35B MoE) on RTX 4070 12GB
Full 128k context + Q4_K_M + running agents daily.
Here’s the complete step-by-step from scratch
1. Build llama.cpp with CUDA
```
cd ~/llama.cpp
git pull
make clean
LLAMA_CUDA=1 make -j$(nproc)
cd build && make -j$(nproc)
```
1/ There will never be a better time than now to attack Europe, says a prominent Russian warblogger. Alexey Zhivov says that victory in Ukraine is slipping away, so Russia needs to act like Iran and attack all the facilities in the EU that are being used to help Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ Zhivov calls 2026 "A Window of Opportunity, or Why Ukraine's Allies Need to Be Attacked Now." He envisages Russia carrying out Europe-wide missile attacks against factories and bases which are supporting Ukraine's war effort, while relying on Trump not helping Europe:
3/ "King Charles of Great Britain's visit to the United States and his address to Congress demonstrated that Trump has lost influence over the Ukrainian peace process since November. With the Republicans' defeat [in November], Trump will finally "wash his hands of the situation."
The FDA knew the COVID shots would kill and maim countless Americans.
They kept injecting anyway.
One government employee tried to sound the alarm about “49 examples” of deadly side effects that conventional safety analyses weren’t detecting.
She was shut down.
Her name was Dr. Ana Szarfman.
On March 1, 2021, less than three months after the rollout of the COVID-19 injections, Dr. Ana Szarfman, an employee at CDER and safety data mining developer, warned that the FDA’s existing system could hide vaccine safety signals due to a flaw called “masking.”
She proposed a newer method developed by statistician Dr. William DuMouchel that corrected for this issue and, when applied, detected “49 examples of extreme masking” that the standard system did not.
These “49 examples of extreme masking” include not “minor” but serious adverse events:
• Bell’s palsy
• Cardiac failure
• Acute left ventricular failure
• Agonal rhythm (severe end-of-life arrhythmia)
• Pulmonary infarction
• Cerebral artery occlusion
• Aortic stenosis
• Sudden cardiac death
• Hypertensive emergency
• Basal ganglia stroke
When Dr. Szarfman proposed a new method, she was told to “hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses.”
Later, they “made it clear” that she “needs to focus on her assigned work” and “should not be discussing or providing internal analyses externally.”
As Dr. Szarfman puts it, her work became a “pest” for raising concerns about safety signal masking.
In September 2021, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official, decided that Dr. Szarfman’s COVID vaccine data-mining days were over.
He informed Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the then director of CDER, that Dr. Szarfman “has been asked to cease and desist conducting her data analysis.”
Dr. Marks complained that Dr. Szarfman’s work had become “a major distraction” and that her efforts could “create erroneous conflicts that feed into anti-vaccination rhetoric.”
Dr. Szarfman went on to retire from the FDA in 2025 after more than 35 years of service.
She raised concerns about safety signal masking. The FDA essentially told her to shut up.
Because in their eyes, “49 examples of extreme masking” could create “erroneous conflicts” and fuel “vaccine hesitancy.”
Unfortunately, this is not a one-off instance. It’s part of a much deeper problem: the gap between what’s known internally and what’s allowed to reach the public. 🧵
For years, Americans were told the COVID vaccines were “safe and effective.”
Not mostly safe.
Not partially effective.
Not still being studied.
Safe. Effective. Full stop.
The message was absolute, repeated by government officials, doctors, media outlets, hospitals, employers, schools, and nearly every major institution in the country.
But internal records now suggest something very different was being discussed behind the scenes.
The story is no longer just about whether the COVID vaccines caused harm.
That debate has been raging for years.
The bigger question is what federal health agencies knew, when they knew it, and why the public was told a much different story than the one officials were discussing behind closed doors.
Senator Ron Johnson’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations obtained thousands of pages of subpoenaed HHS records.
The investigation and subpoenaed records suggest that the CDC and FDA were aware of serious safety signals involving myocarditis and strokes, yet continued pushing the vaccines while downplaying the risks.
That’s the part we can’t ignore.
Vaccine trust was built on a very simple promise.
The government said the products had been carefully tested, monitored, and transparently evaluated.
If a serious safety issue appeared, the public would be told.
But according to the records Johnson released, that isn’t how the COVID vaccine rollout worked. Not even close.
Der Abfluss sensibler Polizei-Daten: Die Spur aus dem FPÖ-Umfeld zur AfD und die Verbindung zu russischen Geheimdiensten
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Der aktuelle Skandal um die FPÖ wegen der Weitergabe von Daten österreichischer Polizisten an Russland betrifft das Jahr 2018 – genau jenes Jahr, das ich bereits im Zusammenhang mit der Moskau-Reise und dem Treffen von Herbert Kickl mit einem Polizeigeneral der früher beim KGB diente, beschrieben habe. Der Ex-FPÖ-Abgeordnete Hans-Jörg Jenewein sowie Egisto Ott und Jan Marsalek sind die zentralen Figuren dieses Datenskandals.
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Recherchen des Falter aus dem April 2026 belasten die FPÖ im Zusammenhang mit einem massiven Datenskandal. Im Zentrum steht der Vorwurf, dass Datensätze von 36.368 österreichischen Polizistinnen und Polizisten mutmaßlich an Kreml-Agenten gelangt sein sollen. Die Daten sollen 2018 während der Amtszeit von Innenminister Herbert Kickl entwendet worden sein.
Russland: Thesen zum Machtwechsel.
Der offene Dissens in Russland eskaliert und erreicht eine neue Phase. Die Gruppe Ivashov/Girkin/Druschina stellt nun Thesen zur Diskussion, wie der Übergang der Macht nach Putin erfolgt. Dass Putin geht gilt als gesetzt.
(mit @AWerberger ) 1/
Seit Prigozhin nutzen verschiedene Gruppen, von Nationalisten bis Funktionseliten, online Medien wie Telegramm und Youtube, um ihre Standpunkte zu vermitteln. Was als akademische Debate in Codesprech begann, hat praktische Strukturen wie die Russkaja Druschina hervorgebracht.
2/
In den letzten Monaten dehnte sich der Dissens immer weiter, bis in die Staatsduma und auf Fachkonferenzen, aus. Die letzte Eskalationsstufe war die Popularisierung der Systemkritik über den bislang systemtreuen Propagandist Remeslo, die Influencerin Bonya und den Chef der KP.
3/
🚨BREAKING: Victory for Life! U.S. Fifth Circuit blocks Biden abortion regime that facilitated the death of thousands of Louisiana babies through mail-order abortion pills.
The Biden abortion cartel facilitated the deaths of thousands of Louisiana babies (and millions in other states) through illegal mail-order abortion pills. Today, that nightmare is over, thanks to the hard work of my office and our friends at @ADFLegal. I look forward to continuing to defend women and babies as this case continues. aglizmurrill.com/Article/512
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed @JoeBiden’s 2023 REMS NATIONWIDE. This is a huge victory for life! 🍼🇺🇸
A recent viral paper claims to reverse-engineer the parameter counts of frontier models: GPT-5.5 = 9.7T, Opus 4.7 = 4.0T, o1 = 3.5T, etc.
@ben_sturgeon and I investigated and found serious issues in the paper; fixing them gives GPT-5.5 as ~1.5T (90% CI: 256B-8.3T).
The paper, “Incompressible Knowledge Probes” (by @bojie_li), constructs a dataset of 1400 factual questions, and fits accuracy against parameter count.
By inverting the fit, Li infers the parameter count of closed-source models from their dataset scores. arxiv.org/abs/2604.24827
@ben_sturgeon and I read the paper and reproduced the author’s results. We identified two serious methodological/data issues. The core idea behind the paper – the linear relationship between IKP score and log parameter count – survives, but the parameter count estimates do not.
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Pakistan thought they shot down 5 Indian jets…
What they actually destroyed were empty red drones.
While they celebrated “victory,” India’s ghost fleet fooled their entire air defence, lit up every radar, and dismantled it in one night.
The secret? A small red drone called the Banshee.
How India completely tricked Pakistan — the most underrated story of Operation Sindoor 🇮🇳👇
#MakeInIndia
2/8 Two drones. One doctrine.
🔴 Banshee Jet 40+/80+ — British-origin, Indian-operated jet-powered decoy. Sea-skims at 5m, climbs to 30,000ft, carries Rattler payload simulating Mach 2.6 threats.
🟡 Lakshya — DRDO’s indigenous reusable target drone (700 km/h + onboard ECM).
Together? A fake Indian Air Force.
#Banshee #Lakshya
3/8 Add Luneberg lenses → they look like Su-30MKIs on radar.
Add IR augmenters → they look like Rafales to heat-seekers.
Deploy in coordinated swarms → Pakistan sees full fighter squadrons.
HQ-9 batteries light up. Radars go active.
That was the trap.
#IndianAirForce
But I now recognise that the left, the anti-racist movement, and the feminist movement have been taken over by 5th columnists, and now stand for the exact opposite of their original aims.
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All 3 movements - the left, the antiracist movement, and feminism - are now overridden with racist Jew haters and misogynistic trans activists.
I have long suspected that this ideological takeover is not an organic, people-driven shift.
I think we are victims of deliberate manipulation, and my instinct + evidence suggests the agents of this manipulation are Russia, Qatar money, and the IRGC & affiliates.
SitRep - 01/05/26 - Ukraine hit Su-34 and Su-57 fighters
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a recent operation, Ukrainian long-range drones have reportedly hit Su-34 and Su-57 fighter jets in Chelyabinsk region.