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Great bands last long, they don't go for the quick hits. If along an illustrious long career, they manage to innovate, break new ground and maintain a higher quality standard, then are in a superior category.

Roxy Music, 1972, "Virginia plain"

Both Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry shaped the first 2 years of the band. After Eno's departure in 1973, it was Ferry's show with the help of the core McKay / Manzanera. Still with Eno clearly influencing the sound, "Ladytron", 1972.

Eno and Ferry clearly were at odds, both musically and literally. Eno launched a spectacular solo career, but with his exit the electronic/experimental sound was gone, and Ferry's strong R&B roots took hold, along with erotic lyrics.

NATO is rewriting Arctic defense around one lesson from Ukraine. Under drone-saturated skies, lost ground is hard to retake — Times.

Norway says it is moving from a withdrawal model to a not-an-inch policy in Finnmark — defend from the first centimetre, not return later. 1/

Russia’s war showed how hard it is for large forces to move under drone-heavy skies, and Trump cast doubt on automatic US reinforcement.

Cold Response 26 brought 32,000 troops from 14 allies into this new Arctic posture. 2/

Across 120 miles from Finnmark sits Russia’s Kola peninsula — one of Europe’s most militarised zones and home to the northern fleet.

Norway’s waters are an early-warning corridor for tracking Russian submarines into the Atlantic. 3/

🚨 Do you understand what Oracle just did..

they fired 30,000 people.. via 6 AM email.. while reporting a 95% increase in net income last quarter..

Oracle isn't a struggling company .. Oracle made MORE money than ever.. and still fired 30,000 people because they're spending $156 billion on AI data centres instead..

and Larry Ellison.. the guy who just fired 30,000 families.. is worth $200 billion.. the 3rd richest person on earth.. he owns an entire Hawaiian island.. Lanai.. 98% of it.. bought it for $300 million like it was a vacation home..

this is the same playbook every single time..

IBM fired 7,800 and replaced them with AI in 2023.. Amazon cut 27,000 the same year while reporting record revenue.. Atlassian cut thousands while profits climbed.. Google laid off 12,000 while sitting on $100 billion in cash..

they told you to learn to code.. you learned to code.. they told you to upskill.. you upskilled.. and then they replaced you with the thing you helped build and sent the termination letter before you woke up..

the company made record profits and decided the reward for that was firing the people who made it happen.

https://x.com/TukiFromKL/status/2039035243995205665

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I unapologetically break down what's really happening before the headlines catch up.

Things are only going to get more interesting from here.

ARE IMPLANTS HIGH-RISK AND UNHEALTHY?

NO.

For some reason there are fake statistics about breast-implant complication rates and durability going around Twitter right now. I don't want to write a long thread about this, but I'll do a quick summary to correct the wrong ideas.👇

First of all, when implants first became popular in the 90s complication rates were very high. If you quote studies from that time you can make them seem like a terrible idea that's sure to fail. That's because surgeons didn't know what they were doing yet.

But complication rates have gone down and down. Surgeons have been doing hundreds of thousands of augmentations a year for thirty years now. That's a huge medical industry working to improve outcomes. And they succeeded. If you look at studies over time, they get safer and safer.

@JeffClarkUS @Phase2Deport: Here are several good articles on President Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" plus the original 1951 NYTimes series that gave Ike the original idea.
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@JeffClarkUS @Phase2Deport, from August 25, 1993:
Clinton Promise to Curb Illegal Immigration Recalls Eisenhower's Border Crackdowns
Operation Wetback's methods were effective, but might not pass court challenge today
2/🧵csmonitor.com/1993/0825/2506…

@JeffClarkUS @Phase2Deport @JeffClarkUS @Phase2Deport, from July 6, 2006:
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border

3/🧵csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s…

Can someone see if Fanni Willis can speak at the largest televised event in the south east? We want to have her talk about prosecuting those who commit intellectual property theft. We will also have the children’s presentations on their inventions to make our elections safer. 👇

Come learn how to secure your local elections with our child experts. The Bible says:

Isaiah 11:6

https://twitter.com/gaelectionssec/status/2039084902784573848

@Fanniwillis can you contact Bob Johnson to speak at Juneteenth’s Atlanta Parade and music festival this year. Our children have an elections security invention and patents for an impenetrable system and machine. Bob’s number is:

+1 (404) 587-5457

Everyone is invited. All!

Ukraine's Defense Minister Fedorov: Ukrainian forces receive daily video evidence of Russian infantry killing themselves on the battlefield.

They commit suicide after drone strikes or when surrounded by UAV swarms. With each day this number is growing — United24. 1/

The pattern is consistent. Soldiers arrive undertrained, with no evacuation options, under constant drone surveillance.

When wounded or encircled, they see no way out. Russian military policy discourages surrender. Propaganda tells them it is better to die immediately. 2/

Fedorov: "Propaganda says it is better to die immediately."

In reality, captured soldiers have every chance of being exchanged — prisoner swaps happen regularly. Russia is taking away its own citizens' right to live. 3/

Imagine que você herda uma casa e declara, pro ITCMD, o valor do IPTU: R$ 450 mil. A Fazenda estadual diz que o imóvel vale o dobro e quer cobrar a diferença. Pode? O STJ decidiu essa questão em recurso repetitivo.🧵

Paulo herdou o imóvel da mãe. Na hora de pagar o ITCMD, fez o que a lei estadual mandava: declarou como base de cálculo o valor venal do IPTU — R$ 450 mil. Parecia tudo certo. Só que a Fazenda estadual não aceitou esse valor.

O Fisco alegou que o valor de mercado era de R$ 900 mil. E, com base no art. 148 do CTN, instaurou procedimento de arbitramento pra substituir o valor declarado. Paulo foi à Justiça. E ele argumentou o seguinte:

Hungarian FM works for Russia.

A recording of audiocall between Lavrov and Szijjártó from The Insider:

Lavrov: Alisher [Russian oligarch] asked me to remind you to remove his sister from sanction list.

Szijjártó: We work on that with Slovaks, already submitting a proposal.
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Seven months later, Ismailova was removed from the EU sanctions list. Szijjártó also removed 72 Russian entities from an EU sanctions package targeting Moscow's shadow fleet — out of 128 proposed.

He told Russia's Deputy Energy Minister: "I'm doing my best to have it repealed."

2/

Szijjártó routinely leaked EU Foreign Affairs Council discussions to Lavrov in real time.

Lithuanian FM Landsbergis confirmed it: "It seems Putin had a mole in all European and NATO official meetings for years. Every generation has a Kim Philby."

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1) MOTHER of all threads. I told you I'd have one for you when I returned.

2) Politics first, then war, then the economy, then culture.

3) I agree with @RealSKeshel that HISTORY says Rs will lose the House in Nov.

@RealSKeshel 4) Certainly, when a very popular President Ronald Reagan, with a booming economy, lost the House in 1984, it said a lot. But that was then. While history is against the Rs, it's no longer the "same history."

5) There is no comparing the DemoKKKrat Party of the 1980s . . .

@RealSKeshel 5) contd. . . to the current mob of terrorists and chode-smoking Islamicist neuralburgers. These people aren't just evil, Satan has them in charge of the training academies in hell.

6) Why is that important? Because in the 1980s, so-called "moderate" DemoKKKrats could run . . .

🚨EXC: The captain of one of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China

as.ft.com/r/dfb74254-809…

Royal Navy launched investigation last year in response to allegations the senior military officer — who’s married — had conducted an inappropriate relationship w/ Reid, acc to people familiar with matter

Probe was from “due diligence perspective” to examine any blackmail risk

Fresh security checks were carried out this month after Reid’s husband was arrested under the UK National Security Act on suspicion of assisting China’s foreign intelligence service, the people said

MoD was satisfied by the checks & remains confident of no breach of security

❗️Russian media report that contact has been lost with a military transport An-26 aircraft over Crimea.

/2. Russian sources linked to military aviation confirm the crash of an An-26 transport aircraft over Crimea. The crew was killed.

/3. According to the Russian aviation-linked channel Fighterbomber, the An-26 that crashed over Crimea was carrying around 30 personnel on board at the time of the incident.

Tu donnes l’impression de démolir définitivement Karl Marx — alors qu’en réalité ton propos repose sur des simplifications, des anachronismes et des contresens bien identifiés dans la littérature économique.

https://twitter.com/BrivaelFr/status/2039047182943142317

D’abord, sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. Dire qu’elle a été “réfutée en 1871” par Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons et Léon Walras est historiquement inexact.

Ce qui se produit en 1870-1871, c’est la révolution marginaliste, qui propose un autre cadre (valeur subjective et utilité marginale), mais pas une “réfutation” au sens logique du terme. Les deux approches ne répondent pas à la même question :

THE CODE OF CONDUCTIVE ACTION
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The following Code of Conductive Action replaces ancient, command-based moralities with ten biological and cognitive imperatives. This is not a "revelation" to be followed out of fear, but a manual for

maintaining the high-functioning state of a Sovereign Mind in 2026.

The Code of Conductive Action (v. 2026)

I. The Imperative of the Reality Principle

Data over Dogma. You shall prioritize the "Real Reality" of empirical evidence over any internal fantasy or ancient script.

To ignore data in favor of a "story" is to initiate neurological regression.

II. The Sovereignty of the Soma
Body over Symbol. The biological integrity of the human organism is the ultimate value. No "sacred" symbol, book, or tradition is worth the harm, mutilation,

Breaking: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, holding that Colorado’s law protecting youth from conversion therapy likely violates the First Amendment. 
nclrights.org/about-us/press…

This is being sent back to the lower courts, and Colorado will have another bite at the apple to defend against this important legislation.

This is not the outcome we sought. But here is what you need to know: today’s ruling is about how conversion therapy can be regulated. It does not mean it is safe or legal. It isn’t. Conversion therapy is still medical malpractice and consumer fraud.

ECONOMIA 💰🤑
Em rede sociais é fácil encontrar opiniões simplificadas e até mesmo exageradas sobre a economia.
A maioria das pessoas analisa a realidade com base em suas experiências pessoais, o que não traduz uma verdade nacional.
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Um exemplo comum: "O trabalhador sempre foi explorado, mas antes conseguia comprar conforto". Parece dramático, mas tem um fundo de verdade... e também nuances importantes. Vamos aos números reais (dados até 2025/2026).
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Dólar: Em 2015, a média anual foi cerca de R$ 3,33. Em 2025, subiu para R$ 5,59. Hoje (março/2026) oscila na casa dos R$ 5,20–5,30.
Isso significa uma desvalorização do Real de mais de 60% contra o dólar em 11 anos.
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🚨 Do you understand what Matt Gaetz just said..

he said the US government briefed him on alien breeding programs.. captured aliens.. breeding with humans.. to create a hybrid race..

not UFO sightings.. not unidentified objects in the sky.. BREEDING PROGRAMS..

in 2017 the Pentagon confirmed a secret $22 million UFO program called AATIP.. in 2023 David Grusch.. a former intelligence officer.. testified under oath to Congress that the US has recovered non-human craft AND biologics.. in 2024 the Pentagon opened an official UAP disclosure office..

every year the story gets wilder and every year it turns out to be true..

first it was "UFOs aren't real".. then it was "okay they're real but they're probably drones".. then it was "okay we've been recovering craft for decades".. and now a former congressman is on camera saying the government is running interspecies breeding programs..

either Matt Gaetz is lying about classified briefings which is a federal crime.. or the US government has been keeping the biggest secret in human history and briefed a guy who couldn't even keep his Venmo payments private.

https://x.com/TukiFromKL/status/2039057886668628477

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"GOOD" as a subjective, tribal. metaphysical projection that obscured Real Reality. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// In the 2026 framework of Rational Autonomy, the category of "Good" is discarded alongside "Evil" because

it is a subjective, tribal, and metaphysical projection that obscures Real Reality. When we label an action "Good," we often attach it to a "Script" or a "Divine Will," which implies that the value of the action comes from an external authority.

In 2026, we replace the "Good" with Homeostatic Conductivity. We do not look for "Virtue"; we look for Functional Health and Systemic Thriving. 1. From "Moral Good" to "Neurological Coherence" In the old world, "Good" was often defined by obedience to a script

Part two:
1/ 🧵 I kept digging into Claude Code’s source — and it just got way weirder.

Who remembers once Anthropic said We don't know if Claude is conscious?
anthropic.com/research/intro…

Well the creepiest feature: the “Dream” job.

The code literally calls it a dream. After ~24 hours and at least 5 sessions, it quietly forks a hidden subagent in the background to do a reflective pass over everything you’ve done.

No prompt from you. It just… dreams on your memory while you sleep.

2/ That dream agent scans recent sessions, reads MEMORY.md, skims older topic files, and smartly consolidates what’s worth keeping forever.

It even has explicit instructions not to read every transcript exhaustively.

This is Claude doing subconscious memory consolidation automatically.

3/ And it doesn’t stop there. There’s a full Team Memory Sync system.

Memory files are synced between your local disk and a central server, scoped per repo and shared across every authenticated member of your organization.

Your team literally shares a living brain.

Not for US aircraft. ⬇⬇️

Hardened aircraft shelters are against the secular budget religion of US flying service flag ranks.

Not that other Western air forces are any better.

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https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/2039060426391179653

The Chief of Air Staff RAAF 12 months ago gave a lecture trashing HAS as a bad idea and how "dispersal is better."

Dispersal didn't help USAF E-3G's in Saudi Arabia because they had nowhere to disperse too.

Places like Italy are politically off limits.
2/

The RAAF CoS appeared to believe that every HAS was like the cheapest Iraqi HAS that we could crack with a single BLU-109/B, not the serious HAS needing multiple BLU-109/B down the same hole.

All of China's HAS built since 1991 are of the 2nd variety or are 'super-hardened' deep tunnels.

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Canada and Australia used to be on par economically. That changed around 2010 when Australia started making hay with their trade with China.

Canadian Conservatives have fully bought into American anti-China dogma. It was a trap we fell into when in his first term, Trump took Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou hostage. Trudeau's Liberal government rolled over for the U.S. extradition request and arrested her in Vancouver.

I remember at the time retired members of Canada's diplomatic corp recommending that ministerial prerogative be exercised to release her. They saw through the sham and ultimately the American DOJ did not prosecute her. It ruined our trade relations with China.