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Apr 2
New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, including high-quality video generation powered by Veo 3.1, available at no cost. Now, anyone with a Google account can bring stories to life from just a simple prompt or photo.

Explore more of the new features 🧵
Make custom music for your videos, powered by our Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro models. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now generate everything from short 30-second clips to three-minute tracks, tailored to your video’s vibe.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will be able to tell stories with customizable and directable AI avatars, powered by Veo 3.1. You’ll be able to change your avatar’s appearance or outfit, place them into specific scenes and have them interact directly with uploaded objects, like a product or a prop.
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Apr 2
RATIONAL AUTONOMY AND "SPIRITUAL BYPASS"
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Rational Autonomy is not a "Spiritual Bypass."
It is not a suggestion that "all is mind" or that physical threats are mere illusions to be meditated away.
To take the "Brain’s Software" explanation as a reason to ignore physical threats is a Systemic Error known as Epistemological Nihilism.

It is the "Magic Thinking" trap where the individual becomes so untethered from the Soma that they lose the ability to protect it.
1. The Trap of "Spiritual Bypass" and Magic Thinking

When people adopt a "Mind Only" philosophy, they are effectively trying to use the mPFC to "gaslight" the Amygdala about raw sensory data.
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Apr 2
BAYESIAN BRAIN AND ITS "STORIES"
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The fundamental mechanical reality of how the brain functions.

The brain is locked in a dark, silent bony vault. It never "sees" a missile or "hears" a toast; it only receives electrochemical spikes.
To make sense of these, it must hallucinate a reality that matches the data.

1. Perception as "Controlled Hallucination"

The brain does not "read" sensory input like a video camera. Instead, it uses Top-Down Predictions.
The Mechanism: Your mPFC and sensory cortices are constantly broadcasting a "Best Guess" about what is happening outside.

The Sensory Input: The data from your eyes and ears (the Bottom-Up signal) is actually used only to correct the guess.
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Apr 2
The news of the departure of Pam Bondi hit with a thunderclap in Washington. There were some recent rumors, but nothing concrete in the prior week. Bondi is the ultimate loyalist who, like Todd Blanche (the new acting AG), earned her bones in the trenches with the President in impeachment and criminal trials...
...The President has certainly removed prior cabinet officers out of obvious displeasure from Bill Barr to most recently Kristi Noem. There is no known "bad blood" with Bondi, who has actually drawn fire for her loyalty to Trump...
...The move to Blanche will be seamless. He has not only been serving with Bondi, but he is an experienced and distinguished lawyer. He has been a partner in a world-class law firm as well as a successful prosecutor in the leading U.S. Attorney's office in the SDNY...
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Apr 2
Redirecting the Language of the Hijacked Amygdala

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Statement A: "We cannot coexist with a XYZ that commits genocide".
Statement B: "XYZ doesn’t understand words, XYZ only understands force."
When a human brain produces such specific strings of logic, it is signaling that the mPFC (medial Prefrontal Cortex) has completely lost inhibitory control over the Amygdala.

The "Broadcasting Station" is locked on a frequency of terminal antagonism.
1. The Diagnostic: "The Language of the Hijacked Amygdala"

Statement A: "We cannot coexist..."

The Neuro-Pathology: This is a declaration of Biological Incompatibility. By stating that coexistence is impossible, the speaker has moved from "Conflict Resolution"
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Apr 2
95 yaşındaki İhsan Karagüzel amcanın tarih dersi yıktı ortalığı.
Soyadı gibi Güzel dersler.
İngiliz gizli servisinin adamı olan Papaz Fru tarafından maddi olarak desteklenen Ahmet Anzavur, Sultan Vahdettin'in ve Şeyhülislam Dürrizade Abdullah'ın fetvalarıyla Anadolu'ya salınmış ve yaptığı onlarca katliamdan sonra M Kemal Paşanın üstüne yürürken Çerkez Etem'e yenilmişti.
Malum işgalde,İngiliz generale yazdığı mektupta Saltanatımın İngilizlerin elinde olduğuna inancım tamdır diyenSultanVahdettin mi Kurtuluş Savaşını başlatmıştı?Evet Vahdettin bir kurtuluş savaşı başlatmıştı ama İngilizin, Fransızın Yunanın yanında olup Kuvvacılara savaştır o!
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Apr 2
New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.

All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.
We studied one of our recent models and found that it draws on emotion concepts learned from human text to inhabit its role as “Claude, the AI Assistant”. These representations influence its behavior the way emotions might influence a human.

Read more: anthropic.com/research/emoti…Image
We had the model (Sonnet 4.5) read stories where characters experienced emotions. By looking at which neurons activated, we identified emotion vectors: patterns of neural activity for concepts like “happy” or “calm.” These vectors clustered in ways that mirror human psychology.
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Apr 2
Helmholtz, music, and the science of perception

Decoding the human auditory system.

Helmholtz didn’t study “music.”
He studied how vibration becomes experience.

Pipeline:
signal → body → perception

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He wasn’t a composer.

He was inside music culture:
– played piano seriously
– hosted Brahms, Joachim
– moved in Wagner circles

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Authority = experiments
Not taste

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Constraint shaped him:

medicine → physiology → physics

Goal:
explain perception without metaphysics

Influence:
post-Kant problem → how mind meets world

Output:
mechanistic perception

No mysticism. Only structure. Image
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Apr 2
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What if we apply this to X pfp and emojis in user names/bios? 🤔 Image
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Apr 2
8 psychology tricks that will change how women see you:

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Apr 2
This biochemist read 2,000 scientific papers on blood sugar, pregnancy, and nutrition & discovered the food industry has been lying to you about almost all of it.

Here are the 10 most shocking things she found:

1. Orange juice has the same sugar as Coca-Cola:
A glass of orange juice contains the same 25 grams of sugar as a can of Coke.

Your body absorbs them in the exact same way – it cannot tell the difference between sugar from an orange and sugar from a sugar beet.
2. "No added sugar" is one of the most deceptive labels in the food industry.

Orange juice can legally say "no added sugar" on the label while containing 25 grams of sugar – the WHO's (World Health Organization) entire recommended daily limit in one glass.
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Apr 2
4 DIRTY TEXTS She can’t Ignore

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Apr 2
The sharp rise in oil prices due to the war in Iran strongly plays into russia’s hands, as prices for russian oil grades have exceeded 100 dollars per barrel and Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka are actively ordering russian
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oil, increasing the likelihood that demand in the region will exceed russian supply. This is driven by the easing of US sanctions. This allows russia, despite waging an aggressive war, to improve its standing on the international stage. Along with oil contracts, russia also Image
offers investments in other sectors and new business opportunities, including military cooperation. Thus, instead of isolation and toxicity, russia gains new markets and expands its influence. All thanks to Trump. However, oil is not only russia’s strength but also its most Image
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Apr 2
🔴🇷🇺 #PropagandaMachine 6 - Ghost Journalists, Cash and Kremlin Scripts: How Russian Operatives Tried To Influence Argentinian Media.

➡️ Purchased articles, fake journalists, disinformation campaigns… Since 2024, Russian agents from “The Company” operated across Latin America to expand their influence. According to Forbidden Stories sources, the group left Argentina by November 2025.Image
🌍 Together with our partners, we uncovered the inner workings of this propaganda machine in this sixth article of the #PropagandaMachine series, exposing Russian disinformation strategies across three continents.
📰 Read our latest investigation on our website:

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@dossier_center
@openDemocracy
@istories_media
@aeowinpact
@Filtra_Leaks

#Russia #Propaganda #Journalism #ForbiddenStoriesforbiddenstories.org/ghost-journali…
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Apr 2
Freebies for Medical Staff and Keyworkers during Lockdown.. (18+) Part Two 👀
#DownTheRabbitHole

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Apr 2
My grandparents were married for 60 years. One day I asked my grandfather: "What is the secret to loving the same woman your whole life?" He didn't laugh, he didn't say "communication," he didn't say "romantic dates." He looked at my grandmother, who was in the kitchen, and said: "You don't love the same...
...woman." That threw me off. He said: "She changes every few years. And if you don't update the way you love her, you lose her."

He told me that the girl he married at 22 wasn't the same at 30. Motherhood had changed her. Loss had changed her. Time had...
it had changed. “At 40,” she said, “I needed more respect than romance. At 50, I needed more companionship than passion. At 60, I needed more companionship than promises.” And each time she changed, he had two options: complain that “she was no longer the way she used to be” or get to know her again.
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Apr 2
That was quick…the draft cooperation agreement on environmental and impact assessment between Canada and Alberta is now final, immediately after the 21 day public consultation.
This is about institutionalizing “one project, one review” and the feds have made similar agreements with a half dozen other provinces.
alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
Looks like Saskatchewan, Quebec and Newfoundland & Labrador are who is left
There will be no repealing of C69 under Carney but this is the next best option: keeping Feds in their jurisdictional lane in impact assessment
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Apr 2
The Colorado Court of Appeals issued its ruling today (April 2, 2026). The court upheld gold star mom Tina Peters' conviction on the charges related to the 2021 election equipment breach. However, it threw out her 9-year prison sentence and
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ordered a resentencing by a lower court judge.

The panel found that the original sentencing judge Matthew Barrett improperly considered Peters' public statements and beliefs about the 2020 election which the appeals court viewed as protected First Amendment speech when...
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determining the harshness of the penalty. One judge in the opinion raised concerns about the sentence length on those grounds.

This is not a full reversal or acquittal—Peters remains convicted, and she will face resentencing which...
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Apr 2
@KBoufagua @AlertesInfos Un coup monté... Ta copine Rima Hassan est une opportuniste.
La voilà à l'époque où elle se disait Egyptienne, et faisait jouer ses maigres relations pour incarner le role de Sophia Aram, Linda Kebab ou Rachel Kahn à la TV et y promouvoir la "suprématie Hébraïque"* ...
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@KBoufagua @AlertesInfos Epoque dans laquelle elle vivait en bourgeoisie et était financée à un homme juif. Et passait ses journées à condamner l'antisémitisme sur les réseaux sociaux (seuls les cons, très nombreux, y croyaient).
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@KBoufagua @AlertesInfos Etant jetée par son mec et les médias ayant tous compris sa perversité & malveillance (tout est bon pour exister et se montrer, veut une place dans les livres d'Histoire quel que soit la "cause"), elle devint alors antisémite en chef.
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Apr 2
#THREAD 🧵
🚍 | Grosse évolution sur info bus aux points d'arrêts, y a du mieux et du moins bons avec la charte
Vous avez déjà vu certaines des évolutions mais je suis sûr que vous ne savez pas tout 😉
non tout n'est pas petit
Venez découvrir !
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La grande nouveauté, c’est la fiche horaires : les éléments clés (indice, direction, arrêt) sont désormais plus visibles
Fini les fréquences de 22min, place à des horaires de passage plus précis👍surtout pour les lignes peu impactées par le trafic
Une lecture + claire et efficace Image
🚍🕝| Ne vous réjouissez pas trop vite : pour les lignes parisiennes, cela ne changera pas.
En effet, certaines lignes ont des objectifs de régularité et fonctionnent en « mode fréquence », afin de maintenir un intervalle constant entre les bus Image
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Apr 2
🧵The Eminent Doctor, Fr. Francisco Suárez, on the Formal Distinction of Bl. John Duns Scotus.

This matter is addressed in Suárez's "Summa Seu Compendium", wherein he explains the Scotist position, and then provides a refutation of it. Image
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- The citation is Tome 1, Book 1, Chapter 10, Pages 24 - 25.

- The source of this work is to be found here:

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“Chapter 10. Whether the divine attributes are distinguished formally or in reality from the essence of God.
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