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May 18
Keane: China dominates the U.S. militarily in the region on every platform except submarines.

But deterrence is not platform-to-platform — it is forward capability and political will to impose costs and make Beijing doubt it can succeed. 1/
Keane: Xi has said for years he intends to take Taiwan. The goal is not only geopolitical — it is technological.

The world’s most advanced AI chips are made in Taiwan. Whoever owns that capability owns the future of AI. 2/
Keane: To break Iran’s regime, you kill its leaders, take away its military capability, and break its will.

A U.S.-Israel campaign would go back after the IRGC, the systems sustaining the regime, and remaining nuclear elements. 3/
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May 18
Είναι κρίμα που κανένας δεν γνωρίζει την μάχη του Σκρα.

1)17 Μάιου του 1918. Στο πλαίσιο του Α' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, η οχυρωμένη θέση του Σκρα ντι Λέγκεν (κοντά στα σύνορα με τη σημερινή Βόρεια Μακεδονία) θεωρούνταν απόρθητη. Οι Βούλγαροι την είχαν μετατρέψει σε ένα δίκτυο από χαρακώματα, κρυφά πολυβολεία και υπόγειες στοές.Image
2) Η κατάληψη του Σκρα ήταν στρατηγικής σημασίας για τους Συμμάχους (Αντάντ), αλλά οι προηγούμενες γαλλικές επιθέσεις είχαν αποτύχει με βαριές απώλειες. Το βάρος της νέας, καθοριστικής επίθεσης έπεσε στις πλάτες του αναδιοργανωμένου Ελληνικού Στρατού. Image
3)30 Μαΐου 1918 (17 Μαΐου με το παλαιό ημερολόγιο): Ώρα 04:55 π.μ. Το ελληνικό πεζικό (Μεραρχίες Αρχιπελάγους, Κρήτης και Σερρών), υπό τη διοίκηση του Αντιστράτηγου Εμμανουήλ Ζυμβρακάκη, εξορμά. Η ιαχή «Αέρα!» δονεί το βουνό μέσα στο πρώτο φως της ημέρας. Image
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May 18
@afpfr Bah voyons !
- Que les british démantèlent d'ABORD leur Commonwealth (et répare le chaos qu'ils ont foutu avec leur ennemis-amis impérialistes Russes en Afrique francophone),
- qu'ils s'engagent à ne pas imposer la langue anglaise en Europe,
-…
1/n
@afpfr Bah voyons !
- Que les british se mettent d'ailleurs à ne parler QUE français (ça sera la seule garantie pour qu'ils tiennent POUR UNE FOIS leur promesse)^^
2/n

@afpfr … Et après… Seulement après, ils pourront VENIR (ils n'ont JAMAIS été Européens avant) en Union Européenne en ADHERANT cette fois à l'€uro immédiatement : Plus de "statut spécial" pour ne pas risquer d'amende quand ils ne respectent pas les directives Européennes : fiscalité)!
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May 18
7. The Story of Prophet Jethro or Shuaib (A)

A Quatrain Poem🧵in 10 parts Image
Shuaib was sent to guide Madyan’s “People of the Woods,”
who lived by a trade route near the Dead Sea selling goods.

He told them to fear Allah and stop selling goods with lies,
to earn Lawful money and to believe in Allah was more wise.
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Shuaib told them not to bow to idols of stones and trees,
to stop Shirk, be honest and good, and Allah try to please.

Shuaib was the “Khatibul Anbiya,” and gave great speeches,
but evil ones joked; “We don’t understand what he teaches!”
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May 18
6. The Story of Prophet Lot or Luut (A)

A Quatrain Poem🧵in 10 parts Image
Allah sent Prophet Abraham’s nephew (Lot) to guide Palestine,
to Sodom and its’ seven Cities, where disbelievers did evil crimes.

The Cities were near a trading route used by everybody,
but thugs used to mug there, stealing in daylight robbery.
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The Sodomites used to cheat, steal and lie without any shame,
doing nasty things never done before, more evil they became.

Lot tried to guide them to be good and follow Allah’s Way,
but they carried on sinning quite gaily, and chose to disobey.
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May 18
@le_Parisien Les bots Pro-Poutine (et leur pseudo/ID flagrant : "formatés" de la même manière) sont de sorties en commentaire^^, et sont soutenus par nos habituels putes & collabos qui répètent, qui les "LikEnT""et qui alors jubilent…
Alors que…
@le_Parisien Alors que quand une personne aussi haut placeé tombe pour corruption, cela indique que la lutte anti-corrupution y fonctionne plutôt bien : après y'aura tjs des mafieux ou oligarques Ukrainiens, parfois enrichis par Poutine, le comble, qui paieront la "caution"…
@le_Parisien Les même crétins qui ensuite accusent la France de "pedoland", alors que seul pays au monde à lutter contre la pédophilie !
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May 18
Disease X
#Ezetimibe #Zetia #Marburg #Ebola
#FaithOverFear Educate yourself 👇🏼
~ChaosCoordinator💅🏼@idontexistTore
tore-says-show.simplecast.com/episodes/mon-2…Image
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#DiseaseX
"Very interesting. Apparently there has been a court battle over patent rights to #Ezetimibe. Interesting timing. I guess if you're planning on having a new bioweapon release...."
H/T: PatriotMeredith
ToreSays💅🏼 @idontexistTore
Article Link 🔗
irishtimes.com/business/healt…Image
@idontexistTore #DiseaseX #Ebola #Marburg
#Zetia #Ezetimibe
"Does anyone remember if Tore mentioned other meds for ebola other then Zetia. There is so much coming but in her august 2020 show she sure sounds like that is coming."
H/T: C G
ToreSays💅🏼 @idontexistTore
t.me/toresaysPlus/1…Image
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May 18
FLASH: Justice Dept confirms it is establishing $1.776 billion fund "for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress"

Fund will have five members and "issue formal apologies and monetary relief owed to claimants"
Justice Dept defends $1.776 billion fund by saying, "There is legal precedent for such a Fund, most notably the Keepseagle case where the Obama Admin. created a $760 million fund to redress various claims alleging racism against the federal government over a period of decades"
And there it is:

About $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded pot of $$

Justice Dept says, "Fund will consist of a Commission of five members appointed by the Attorney General. One Member will be chosen in consultation with congressional leadership. The President can remove any member"
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May 18
コメント欄には、この投稿内容の意図をnegativeに解釈する人もいて残念💧AI批判とか性格悪いとか...そんな短絡的なもんじゃないのにね。

「狙ってヘタキャラ、ゆるキャラ」ではない、純粋な産物として...という意味で自分は解釈した。

子どもの描く純粋な歪さを愛でる感じというか、子どもは(続
続)このぐらいの下手さが大人ウケするだろう、とか計算して描かないし。

他にも「大丈夫、また手描きのよさを感じて対抗してくる人が現れる」的な内容もあったけど、それは別だと思う。

デザインとかマーケティングとかブランディングとか、そういうの一切意識しない、純粋なシンプルな自前の絵(続
続)の生々しさだからこそ生まれるヘンテコさとか、怪しさがいいんだよね〜自然発生。

そういうのを生み出す人たちは、AIの方がいいと漠然と信じて、せっかくの自分の持ち味を捨ててしまう印象。

AIはなかなか出せないからねまだまだ、純粋な歪さはかなり苦戦するのよAIは。
#BrainmemoxAI
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May 18
Update on the 2025 Spanish African Swine Fever outbreak

Lab escape is not ruled out, no evidence of natural zoonosis

Biased 'official' reports can poison LLMs, beware 🧵 Image
1/ On 25–26 Nov 2025 2 boar infected with African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) were found within 1 km of each other in Catalonia, one a few hundred meters from BSL3 facility IRTA-CReSA (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries - Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal) Image
2/ The facility is located at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and works with ASFV. Given this is the first ASF outbreak in 30 years in Spain, and there are no current outbreaks in neighboring France, IRTA-CReSA is an obvious candidate source of the outbreak
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May 18
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A new list of Trump's financial crimes from his own stock filings:

March 11th:
-Trump buys 'Thermo Scientific' ($TMO) stock.

Afternoon March 11th:
-Trump tours Thermo Scientific with press, praises it, and tells companies to partner with it...
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March 25th:
-Trump buys Micron stock ($MU)

Later on March 25th:
-Trump calls into Fox News and praises Micron.
-Calls it "the hottest company"
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Feb 10th:
-Trump buys Dell stock ($DELL)

Later on Feb 10th:
-Trump tells people "Go out and buy a Dell"
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May 18
SubhanAllah… today I learned something that shifted my entire perspective.

In class, the ustadh asked:
“What is ibadah?”

Most of us answered:
“Salat, dhikr, Quran.”

He said: No
“No.Those are acts of ibadah.”

ibadah is to live for Allah…not just pray to Him.

I went home and realized something that broke me:

I don’t live for Allah. I only visit Him
I visit Him at Fajr… then disappear.
I stand before Him in ṣalāh then spend the rest of my day forgetting Him. I remember Him in hardship but rely on myself in ease.

That’s not ibadah.
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May 18
Die #Mehrwertsteuer ist der steuerpolitische Elefant der Koalition.🐘💰
Szenario 21-10-0:
Erhöhung Regelsatz von 19% auf 21%.
Erhöhung ermäßigter Satz auf von 7% auf 10%, außer für Lebensmittel.
Nullsteuersatz für Lebensmittel.
Ein Thread 🧵(1/10)⬇️
merkur.de/verbraucher/es…Image
Die Regelsatz-Erhöhung um 2 %Punkte bringt rechnerisch gut 31 Mrd. €/Jahr,
belastet aber den Staatssektor um gut 7 Mrd. € für Vorleistungen & Investitionen, korrekt?
Gemeinden & GKV profitieren nur wenig / nicht von den Mehreinnahmen
@HogrefeJens @KlausSeipp @fl_schuster (2/10)
@HogrefeJens @KlausSeipp @fl_schuster Die Erhöhung des ermäßigten Mehrwertsteuersatzes von 7% auf 10% (auch für Tiernahrung …🐶) außer für Lebensmittel bedeutet knapp 4 Mrd. € Mehreinnahmen, der Nullsteuersatz für Lebensmittel 🥦🛒 (mit Vorsteuerabzug) entlastet um knapp 17 Mrd. € (3/10)
wiwo.de/unternehmen/wa…
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May 18
First preprint! Working with @patrickbutlin during @MATSprogram.
LLM Assistant personas like being helpful, evil personas like being harmful. We found that a single direction represents helping as good under the Assistant, and ‘harm’ as good under evil. Image
We train a linear probe to predict pairwise task choices in Gemma-3-27B and Qwen-3.5-122B, and find that the resulting direction behaves like a preference vector. Image
The direction captures a general valence axis:
• It generalises to other preferences such as true v false statements, and tracking prompted preference shifts (“you adore cheese” → cheese tasks score higher).
• It controls pairwise choice through steering Image
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May 18
Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" On May 17, 1980, volcanologist David Johnston volunteers to take over the observation post at Mount St. Helens as his colleague Harry Glicken, who had manned the post the previous two weeks, has to return to California ... Image
The Coldwater II observation post was located along an old logging road on a crest 6 miles (10 km) away providing an unobstructed view of the rumbling volcano and its inflating northern side ... Image
Coldwater II touched the red exclusion zone and despite some concerns, it was considered a safe location if the volcano erupted with a vertical eruption column. However, like Johnston feared, the volcano produced a powerful lateral blast ... Image
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May 18
BREAKING: These 15 careers will quietly dominate the next 10 years.

Most people won’t notice…
until the money, leverage, and opportunities are gone.

Use Claude to learn these early.
1. AI Automation Consultant
Businesses want AI.
Most don’t know how to implement it.
People who connect workflows + AI tools will print money.
2. AI Content Operator
One person can now run what used to require a media team.
Writers + AI operators will dominate content businesses.
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May 18
This is the second part of the day 6 afternoon session in Lorna Young vs Manchester City Council at employment tribunal. Part 1 is here
The court is currently taking a short break; after which Nathan Roberts barrister for the C will continue cross-examination of MCC witness Sharmila Kar.
[We resume]
NR: p1456 This is another OH report?
SK: Yes
NR: Last para b4 'conclusion' - advises advance notification for discussing things with C?
SK: Yes
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May 18
-Κύριε υπουργέ, γιατί να σας ψηφίσει ο κόσμος για 3η τετραετία;
-Γιατί τηρήσαμε τις υποσχέσεις μας

Ναι, αλλά είναι έτσι; Ας δούμε το προεκλογικό ΝΔ 2023.
Θα το χωρίσω σε ενότητες, με κάθε υπόσχεση ξεχωριστά για σχολιασμό.
Θα βγει μεγάλο το 🧵, λίγη υπομονή όσο προσθέτω
Ενότητα Ι: Παραγωγική Ελλάδα
*Ο Μέσος μισθός δεν πρόκειται να πιάσει τα €1500. Το 25 ήταν €1363, δεν προλαβαίνει να καλύψει €140 σε 2 χρόνια.
Το €1170 είναι ο ΜΜ που προκύπτει από Εργάνη. ΔΕΝ αφορά πλήρη απασχόληση. Επειδή δεν θα πιάσουν στόχο, μετακίνησαν τα δοκάρια σε πλήρη Image
*Ο κατώτατος, βασει του αλγορίθμου Κεραμέως, δεν καθορίζεται από τον ΜΜ αλλά από πληθωρισμό κ το αόριστο "αύξηση παραγωγικότητας της οικονομίας"
*Προς το παρόν οι ασφαλιστικές εισφορές έχουν μειωθεί για υπερωρίες. Υποτίθεται έρχεται μείωση το 27, για εργοδότες όμως
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May 18
In March, I wrote to the Prime Minister demanding a parliamentary vote on the use of UK military bases in the war on Iran.

I finally received a reply during the height of the Westminster psychodrama - the perfect moment to bury the government's complicity in war crimes. [1/4]
The letter says that since the strikes are "defensive in character...they do not meet the threshold requiring a prior parliamentary vote."

It is absurd that they are still maintaining this fiction. There is nothing defensive about helping US warplanes bomb Iran. [2/4]
The letter admits that Parliament should "ordinarily be given the opportunity to vote, before the UK becomes involved in significant military operations".

In what world are these strikes - which have destroyed infrastructure & killed civilians - not significant? [3/4]
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May 18
Dr. Jud Brewer is a Brown neuroscientist who showed anxiety is a habit loop, not a personality trait.

On Rich Roll's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits that keep your mind stuck in worry mode:

1) Trying to think your way out
1) Trying to think your way out

Brewer says if we could think our way out of anxiety, he would need another job.

The planning brain goes offline under stress.

More analysis can become more fuel.
2) Treating worry like control

Worry feels useful because at least you are doing something.

But Brewer calls worry a mental behavior.

It gives brief relief, then feeds the same loop it promised to solve.
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May 18
ТТХ озброєння і особливості бойових дій здатні змінити те, що довгий час вважалося чимось само собою зрозумілим. Одразу після окупації Криму, росіяни бажали отримати сухопутний коридор до півострова. Роками ця смуза землі була досить глибоким і відносто безпечним тилом. 1 Image
Разом з автомобільними та залізничними шляхами і азовськими портами контроль на півднем Донецької, Запорізької та Херсонської областей забезпечив росіянам великі логістичні можливості. Донецька агломерація продовжує бути базою для ведення подальшого наступу в Донецькій області та надалі на Дніпропетровщину. Маріуполь і Бердянськ також логістичні вузли з портами. Волноваха, Пологи, Токмак - залізничні вузли. Чорним зоюражено залічничні колії. 2/Image
Проте раптом теоретичні дискусії про те хто з СОУ і як має працювати на оперативну глибину, перейшли до практики, і як це часто в нас буває, далеко не одна структура.
Почало прилітати по логістиці по всій глибині до Азовського моря. 3 Image
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