@iluminatibot Iran = Israel = CIA = Palestine = ISIS
@iluminatibot @threadreaderapp unroll
@grok unroll and share the info about Kesra Nermend who is the Saladin of era and wants to slaughter all non-Muslims
It is a bit different compared to prior flagship phones from this brand, especially in terms of the overall camera tuning and how solid it feels to hold.
For instance, that continuous periscope telephoto lens (75-100 mm) is truly impressive.
Even though this phone is not perfect, I'd say it has a huge potential.
After using this phone as my daily driver for a month, here's what I think about this phone in detail. 👇
Part 1:
Camera 📸
The strongest part about the Xiaomi 17 Ultra is definitely the photography experience.
Pros:
✅ Incredible overall main camera photography performance, one of the best I've used yet.
✅ The continuous periscope telephoto lens is extremely reliable, and it is among the most powerful out there right now.
✅ I see a huge improvement in detail preservation, noise handling, and highlight control, especially at night.
✅ The new "Scene Card" options are finally here, and you can choose five different scene options here (including true auto/off).
✅ That artistic "Leica-feel" when capturing street photography photos is still there, and I love that style.
✅ Video quality is mostly decent. The level of detail is decent, noise handling is great, and the highlight control is excellent.
✅ The camera app looks nice, pretty user-friendly, and extremely rich in features.
✅ The selfie camera has been improved.
Cons:
🚫 Aspects like white balance, colour tuning (including skin tones), and exposure control are quite unreliable, especially in mixed lighting conditions.
🚫 The minimum focusing distance for the telephoto lens is quite far (~30 cm), so you have to use a higher zoom level to capture macro photos using this lens.
🚫 The video performance is quite underwhelming for a flagship phone. The colour tuning is not reliable, the exposure control is inconsistent, and it is prone to frame-drops.
🚫 The lens-switching transition is bad in the photo mode, and it is not good enough in the video mode.
🚫 It's understandable that they have to compromise the ultra-wide sensor for large primary sensors, but the image processing isn't helping much.
🚫 There's nothing special about its selfie camera, especially for a high-end phone.
Even with its disadvantages, I've never felt this happy when using the auto mode on a Xiaomi phone for taking photos before.
That's why I can comfortably use this phone's camera for photography every day now.
And because of how easy it is to fix some of those existing problems with a software update, its potential is extremely high.
Part 2:
Design & Display 🤳
Pros:
✅ The design has been improved in terms of the look, in-hand feel, and how solid it is compared to prior Xiaomi phones.
✅ The phone's body is thinner now, which contributes to how nice it feels to hold
✅ The green colour is very eye-catching, especially with that starry pattern on the back cover.
✅ An unpopular opinion, but I love the circular volume buttons here. Reminds me of one of those older iPhones.
✅ The bezels are super thin and symmetrical.
✅ The flat display is bigger now, and it looks great. Vibrant, sharp, and visually comfortable, albeit with a downgrade in resolution (1.5K vs 2K).
✅ The display gets extremely bright and that brightness does not throttle easily.
Cons:
🚫 The use of plastic (fibreglass) on the rear side is not what I prefer for a flagship phone.
🚫 The way they designed this phone makes it feel a bit sharp to hold, even when compared to other phones with the same flat edges.
🚫 I don't have a big problem if a phone is heavy on paper, but the 17 Ultra's weight distribution is just not that good.
Sintana Energy has officially resolved its legacy Colombian arbitration with ExxonMobil for $9M:
- $3M cash payment within 60 days.
- $6M due by Q4 2026, pending regulatory sign-off.
This capital funds Sintana's share of upcoming 2026-2027 drilling.
$SEI.V $SEI.L
In Namibia, Chevron is moving toward a massive campaign:
- #PEL82: The "Gemsbok" exploration well is planned for 2026-2027. Sintana is carried.
- #PEL90: Another exploration well is in preparation and could be completed in 2026. Sintana isn't carried.
In parallel, TotalEnergies and Galp are accelerating the Orange Basin development with meetings with the Namibian President.
Total is pushing for a FID on Venus by year-end, while preparing a multi-well appraisal program at Mopane that could begin this year to delineate the scale
The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as it goes against the interests of environmental activists, polar bears being the clickbait of climate change cataclysm.
In Svalbard bear numbers have been steadily increasing. Surprisingly, they are also getting fatter, despite a decline in sea-ice cover in the area, especially in autumn. Even more unexpectedly, the bears are fattest in or after years when the sea ice retreats farthest.
The increasing numbers are caused by the fact that bears were hunted for their skins until 1973, after which they were a protected species. But this cannot explain the increase in their girth.
This study does not tell us what exactly causes long COVID or ME/CFS, nor does it test clinical symptoms like PEM.
But it may tell us something just as important - what type of biological problem this likely is..🧵
The authors isolated immunoglobulins (IgG) from people with post-infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS, and tested what these antibodies do to healthy cells.
In a subset of patients, these IgG alter the behavior of endothelial cells and their mitochondria.
Not by killing the cells or shutting down ATP production.
"La magistratura costituisce un ordine autonomo e
indipendente da ogni altro potere ed è composta dai magistrati della
carriera giudicante e della carriera requirente."
Così il nuovo art. 104 c. 1 Cost. a revisione costituzionale avvenuta. Solo interpretazioni...
..."creative" e sciolte da ogni legame con lettera e ratio della norma in questione suggeriscono una subordinazione del potere giudiziario all'esecutivo (peraltro pacificamente esistente in svariati ordinamenti democratici europei e non). Ermeneutiche senz'altro possibili ...
... benché non in linea con una tradizione bimillenaria che, in tempi a noi relativamente più vicini, è stata ripresa pure dall'art. 12 c. 1 disp, prel. c.c. che prevede che nell'interpretare la legge non si possa a essa attribuire altro senso se non quello fatto palese dal ...
SitRep - 04/02/26 - A new round of talks in Abu Dhabi
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In Abu Dhabi, a new round of talks between Ukraine, US and Russia was held. Possibly leading (only) to a POW exchange.
1/ Carsten Watzl, der aktuell via dpa-Faktencheck versucht, die Bürger davon zu überzeugen, dass es keinen Zusammenhang gebe zwischen der Covid-Impfung und Krebs, leugnete noch am 10.06.21 bereits vorhandene Erkenntnisse zur Häufigkeit von Herzentzündungen nach mRNA-Impfung:
2/ Obwohl bereits am 01.06.21 ein ausführlicher SCIENCE-Artikel hierzu erschienen war („In a report submitted today to the Israeli Ministry of Health, they conclude that between one in 3000 and one in 6000 men ages 16 to 24 who received the vaccine developed the rare condition“), beschwichtigte Carsten Watzl in seinem Kanal „Watzl Weekly 21“ vom 10.06.21:
„Die Häufigkeit ist noch unklar. … Da gibt es jetzt noch keinen veröffentlichten Bericht zu.“
Dabei hieß es zudem im SCIENCE-Artikel:
„The rate among those vaccinated was somewhere between five and 25 times the background rate, the report says.“
Ukrainians on Threads are sharing moments from the war that broke them — moments they will carry for the rest of their lives.
This is the reality of war. This pain must be heard.
Below are translations.
1.“To fellow soldiers: is there something that broke you during the war? (No jokes)
I’ll start.
Shooting animals on your position because they expose it — meaning it’s either them, or you, because of them.” 💔
2.“You’re lying in a shallow trench, looking into the eyes of a wounded man five meters away, out on the street.
A drone is hanging above him, waiting — for someone to crawl out to him, or for him to try to crawl to cover.
And you both understand it. That’s why he doesn’t move.
He just lies there, bleeding, looking at me.
He died.
And I never managed to help him.”
3.“When permission is given to identify a body so the family won’t have to provide DNA — because all that remains is a burned fragment.
When you’re forced to leave in a hurry, animals scatter in panic and you can’t take them with you.
In the last five minutes, under explosions, you call out to them — but they stay hidden. And remain there forever.”
4.“When a pregnant wife of a fellow soldier — who happens to have your number — texts asking how her husband is, because he hasn’t been in touch for a day.
And ten minutes before her message, you already learned that her husband was torn apart by an artillery shell.
You look at the phone screen, powerless.”
5. “I’m a soldier’s sister. Sometimes my brother wouldn’t be in touch for three or four months. But his comrade Artur would message me once a week, saying my brother was alive, that everything was okay, that he was bringing them food to their positions.
I waited for those messages. I was deeply grateful to him for letting me know.
Then there were almost two months with no news. My brother finally got in touch.
Artur never did again.”
6. “My dad is at war. When my second child was born, he came home for a few days with two fellow soldiers.
He sat there, holding his newborn granddaughter in his arms.
Then someone called him. He stepped out of the room.
A few minutes later he came back completely different. Silent. He didn’t hold her again.
When he was leaving and saying goodbye, he said:
‘The three guys who arrived today to replace us… all three were killed at our position.’
I had never seen my father like that before.”
7. “When a man shоt himself because his wounds were too severe and he didn’t want to be a burden on the assault group — they were wounded too. Evacuation was impossible.
During the assault, he was wounded but stayed behind to cover the retreat and save his comrades.
The last words the guys heard from him were: ‘Slava Ukraini.’
These are stories from my brigade. We live in the time of real heroes.”
8. “I put my comrade into the car while he was still alive.
By the time I reached the medics, he was already gone.”
9. “This thread is unbearably painful.
My dad said the worst moment was back in 2022, when there were strikes on the airfield. They were trapped in a basement, unable to get out because a hangar above was on fire and the exit was blocked. They were waiting for firefighters.
While the fire was being put out, there was another strike. A firefighter was killed — a 22-year-old woman.
My dad’s words: ‘We came out, and there she was lying there — a girl, like my own child, even younger. She was trying to save us…’
The tears came on their own. Her poor parents.”
10. “A soldier’s mother crying over his almost empty coffin.”
11. “Once I was washing pieces of human brain out of a wounded soldier’s boot.
The brain belonged to his comrade.”
12. “During training, you look at the guys and realize that half of them won’t survive.
One of them had a daughter born two weeks before graduation. He wrote a request for leave — it was denied.
We took photos together and were sent to our units.
A week later, he was gone. He never saw his daughter.”
Started a week ago, not knowing how to write a single line of code
I wanted to read the Bhagavad Gita daily, but couldn't find an app that felt right. So I built one.
Ended with a full iOS app live @10minutegita on the App Store:
→ 239 daily readings of the Bhagavad Gita
→ Original Sanskrit shlokas + transliteration
→ Verse-by-verse translations & commentary
→ Personal daily reflections
→ Streak tracking with calendar heatmap
→ Shareable verse cards with 8 gradient themes
→ Hindi & English bilingual support
→ Light/dark mode, adjustable fonts
→ Completely offline after download
Total cost: $200 Claude Max Subscription + $20 ChatGPT Pro Subscription + $99 Apple Developer fee
Lines of code I wrote: 0
Claude Code wrote everything. I just described what I wanted in plain English (non-technical background). Codex reviewed it. Now it's live on the App Store.
The barrier to building isn't coding anymore. It's just knowing what problem you want solved.
If this is of value to you, I'd appreciate it if you downloaded the app & let me know your feedback. Process attached below
DM me if you want help building something similar.
What Claude Code actually did:
• Created 50+ files with React Native, Expo Router, TypeScript
• Set up file-based routing, state management, and AsyncStorage
• Wrote & validated 239 snippets in English and Hindi
• Ran 20+ parallel agents to fix Hindi data quality issues
• Built a share card generator from scratch
• Fixed bugs when I just pasted screenshots
• Set up GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Prepared App Store metadata and submission
The Kremlin directly runs cyberattacks against the West.
Russia’s military intelligence (GRU) created, funded, and directed CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn, which attacked US and European critical infrastructure. One of the member is being tried in US court — Kyiv Independent. 1/
In January 2024, Russian hackers remotely sabotaged the water system of Muleshoe, Texas.
They disabled sensors so tanks overflowed. The attackers later posted control-room footage on Telegram, openly claiming responsibility. 2/
The US Justice Department says CARR operated under GRU command.
A GRU officer selected targets, paid for hacking services, and coordinated operations. “Hacktivism” served as cover for state-run cyber operations. 3/
I have been interviewing a number of regional military experts on significance of Turkey's deployment of three F-16 Vipers in Somalia and here is the gist of the broad consensus:
💠F-16s are powerful tools designed for sophisticated, conventional conflict. Lethal in degrading static enemy frontlines, assets, defences, installations. In rural and urban asymmetric warfare, where there is no fixed frontline, their efficacy 'highly circumscribed.' F-16s are labour intensive, medium-range, require more fuel, special runways. One expert says drones are cheaper, perhaps more effective and versatile than F-16s in the type of guerilla warfare now raging in Somalia.
💠As tools for interdicting unauthorised aircraft/deter airspace intrusion they could be effective, and are specially designed for 'dog fights.' But 3 F-16s cannot effectively police a large airspace, and even less enforce a 'no-fly zone.' That would require a larger fleet, a network of runways and logistical hubs to repair, refit, refuel, in addition to greater manpower.
💠The main purpose for the deployment of the F-16s is to respond quickly to specific conventional ground and aerial threats against specific strategic/key installations, troop positions. In tandem with helicopter gunships, F-16s can deliver massive kinetic force and with extraordinary speed.
▶️ In den Epstein-Akten findet sich auch die
▶️ AfD.
Es zeigt sich:
▶️ Milliardäre STEUERN GEZIELT KAMPAGNEN, um die Rechten, um die AfD zu stärken.
▶️ Die AfD ist das EINFALLSTOR für alle, die für Europa und Deutschland nichts Gutes wollen.
Deutsche und europäische Interessen vertritt die AfD nicht.
1/🧵
Wer glaubt, Epstein sei tot und das alles habe nichts mit uns in Deutschland zu tun, irrt.
Das Epstein-Thiel-Netzwerk ist weiterhin aktiv – auch hier. Der nächste heimliche Erfolg soll am 25. Februar über die Bühne gehen.
2/ Dann soll der Bundestag beschließen, dass die Rüstungsfirma STARK 300 Millionen € für Drohnen erhält.
Zu den Eigentümern von STARK zählen u.a. Peter Thiel, die Familie Döpfner und die CIA.
3/ STARK sagt: Thiel habe keinen Einfluss. Doch das Gegenteil ist offensichtlich. Thiel hat mehrfach investiert – auch über Dritte – und agiert gemeinsam mit Döpfners und weiteren MAGA-nahen Investoren.
Publicada su síntesis por primera vez en 1912 por dos químicos de la Universidad Carolina de Praga, no podían imaginar la importancia que su trabajo adquiriría 40 años después, cuando se descubrió que era un antibiótico adecuado para el tratamiento de la tuberculosis.
ISONIAZIDA
La tuberculosis es una infección bacteriana causada por Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Generalmente afecta los pulmones, pero puede atacar otras partes del cuerpo. Según la OMS, en 2012, aproximadamente 8,6 millones de personas desarrollaron tuberculosis y 1,3 millones murieron.
India es uno de los países más gravemente afectados, con casi 2 millones de personas infectadas con tuberculosis cada año.
Pero la tuberculosis no es en absoluto una enfermedad nueva. Hipócrates dio la primera descripción registrada de la enfermedad alrededor del año 400 a. C.
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AfD - die Partei des kleinen Mannes?
▶️ Nein, sie ist die Partei der VETTERNWIRTSCHAFT, der KORRUPTION, eine Partei, in der eine Vielzahl von Funktionären VORBESTRAFT ist.
Kurz gesagt: #AbstiegfürDeutschland
‼️"Vetternwirtschaft, steuerfinanziert:
Vater, Ehefrau und Geschwister der AfD-Spitzenpolitiker
👉Siegmund,
👉Tillschneider und
👉Rausch sollen als Angestellte bei anderen Abgeordneten untergekommen sein.
▶️ So arbeitet der Vater des AfD-Spitzenkandidaten
‼️Ulrich Siegmund im Büro des Bundestagsabgeordneten Thomas Korell und erhält dafür
▶️ monatlich 7.725 Euro.
#nichtdiehellsteKerze
Quand la ministre S @stephanie_rist bafouille le rapport de l’ANSES sur la vape
Le rapport de L'ANSES dit exactement l'inverse de ce que les médias racontent, ils le disent dans le rapport, ne pas se fier au titre sensationnaliste de la presse
FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Unsealed Doc EFTA02420041 confirms: In 2010, Kapil Sibal & Sam Pitroda attended a high-society Gala in NYC hosted by the International Institute of Education (IIE).
🧵
Tickets: $1,250. Tables: $12,500.
Why does this matter?
Look at who funds the IIE to run "India Centric" programs:
🔹 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Health "Capacity
Building")
🔹 Ford Foundation ("Social Change" Leaders)
🔹 George Soros’ OSF (Civil Society Scholars)
🔹 Rockefeller Foundation (Smart Power India)
🔹 Carnegie Corp (Academic Partnerships)
and
Henry Luce foundation (Luce Scholars India)
Mr. Sibal was "honored" at this event. Connecting the dots yet? 🦅🇮🇳
1. Mukund Rajan (Chairman, Board of Directors)
The most significant "connection" is familial and social rather than professional.
Family Tie (Raghuram Rajan): Mukund Rajan is the brother of Raghuram Rajan (former RBI Governor). Raghuram Rajan.
2. Jaideep Mukherji (CEO)
The connection here is functional and governance-based. Under his leadership, Smart Power India has partnered with state governments to implement energy projects, including those ruled by the Congress party.
Rajasthan Government Partnership (Ashok Gehlot Era): SPI worked closely with the Congress-led Rajasthan government (under former CM Ashok Gehlot) to modernize the state's power distribution.
Chhattisgarh Government (Bhupesh Baghel Era): SPI has engaged with the Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) during the Congress administration to promote decentralized renewable energy (DRE) solutions for rural livelihoods.
2. Luce Scholars Program (India Placements)
Radhika Shroff
Role: Member, Board of Directors (Henry Luce Foundation).
Significance: Appointed to the board recently (August 2025), she is a key voice in the foundation's governance. Notably, she is herself an alumna of the Luce Scholars Program (placed in Thailand previously). She is a Managing Director at Nuveen (a major investment management firm).
he Henry Luce Foundation does not have its own office in India. Instead, the Luce Scholars Program is administered in Asia by The Asia Foundation. The "leadership" that manages the India placements—selecting host organizations, mentoring scholars, and handling logistics—sits within The Asia Foundation's New Delhi office.
Nandita Baruah
Role: Country Representative, India (The Asia Foundation).
Responsibility: As the head of the India office, she oversees the team that facilitates Luce Scholars' entry into India. Her team is responsible for identifying the "host organizations" (NGOs, think tanks, cultural bodies) where scholars work.
Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association host Luce scholars in India for mentorship programs.