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"As new prime minister briefs cabinet on ‘cost of living government’, critics ask where money will come from"

The "cost of living crisis" = "the climate and ecological crisis". They are one and the same. This connection is hidden, by euphemisms.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

I am not grasping at straws to make this connection. It must be understood that ecology, is the relationship and interdependence of everything. The human economy isn't separate from it, it is a part of it.
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Some of the connections are obvious. Food prices have sharply risen, often because of "extreme weather", which is a euphemism for climate change, as there is no weather, independent of the climate, which is just the accumulation of weather patterns over time.
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@CArchiteut16965 @ame_ism @BenMichou1 1/11

Qu'est-ce qu'un VPN ?

Un tunnel sécurisé entre vous et internet qui chiffre vos données et masque votre adresse IP (similaire au numéro d'immatriculation d'un véhicule) en la remplaçant par celle du VPN.

@CArchiteut16965 @ame_ism @BenMichou1 2/11

💡 Mon conseil : Utilise Proton VPN. Dispo sur Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS... Multi-plateforme, gratuit sans carte bancaire, et basé en Suisse pour la confidentialité.

Un bon point de départ pour protéger sa navigation sans payer tout de suite.

@CArchiteut16965 @ame_ism @BenMichou1 3/11

Fonctionnement

Sans VPN : Votre appareil se connecte à votre box internet qui envoie directement vos données au site que vous visitez, et ce site voit votre vraie localisation.

→ Le site voit votre vraie localisation (France, Région et éventuellement la ville...)

🚨 UPDATE 🧵: Nate George's campaign is currently scrubbing their website to remove inaccuracies and discrepancies in George's claimed qualifications and credentials.

Here's what's changed, and why it matters for a candidate running to be Minnesota's fraud watchdog.

https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb/status/2079683750963593703

Here's the background: George publicly claimed to be a "certified fraud examiner" to attack his opponent's fraud-detection expertise. He's not certified.

His campaign website also claimed George "is" a certified Medical First Responder. That's not true either.

Bill Maher reveals what CEOs are privately concerned about with employees on Ozempic.

MAHER: “I’ve been hearing this on the low for a while.”

KARA SWISHER: "On the low. From who?"

MAHER: “I’ll tell you after the show. Somebody [in Big Tech] you would know... He’s been hearing, and in his company also, they don’t like their employees on this stuff because—”

KARA SWISHER: “Oh, they don’t work hard enough for the man?”

MAHER: “They don’t. It takes away your craving for food and maybe substance abuse...”

“...Also kind of for success, and sometimes for living and for being motivated. They get kind of logie.”
Short Thread 🧵

What you’re hearing on the news and social media about Ozempic is still too little, too late.

A massive study involving 16 million people found GLP-1 users had a 9.09 times greater risk of pancreatitis, 4.22 times greater risk of bowel obstruction, and a 3.67 times greater risk of stomach paralysis.

And if you’ve ever had pancreatitis, it is “quite a painful experience.”

Here’s the story you’re not getting about Ozempic, the business model behind it, and why a growing number of researchers believe another pharmaceutical disaster is already unfolding in real time.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/unmasking-th…

There's been an all-out push by the drug regulators and media to get every adult and child on Ozempic, a drug which causes temporary weight loss and harms the majority of recipients.

Here, two leading food safety activists expose the staggering corruption behind Ozepmic and GLP-1 drugs.

The internet is full of hidden gems, but most people stick to the same 5 websites.

Here are 50 insanely useful websites that will make you 10x more productive.

(Bookmark this thread for later! 👇)

PRIVACY & SECURITY

1. VirusTotal – Scan files & URLs for malware.

2. Privnote – Send self-destructing private notes.

3. Temp-Mail – Create temporary email addresses.

4. File dot io – Share files that auto-delete.

5. Archive dot ph – Save permanent webpage snapshots.

6. SimilarSites – Discover websites similar to any site.

7. Radio Garden – Listen to live radio stations worldwide.

8. Every Noise – Explore music genres interactively.

9. TuneFind – Find songs used in movies & TV shows.

10. MusicForProgramming – Focus music for coding & studying.

CREATE & EDIT

11. Photopea – Free online Photoshop alternative.

12. Squoosh – Compress images without losing quality.

13. Remove dot bg – Remove image backgrounds instantly.

14. Cleanup dot pictures – Remove unwanted objects from photos.

15. Unscreen – Remove video backgrounds.

16. Carbon – Create beautiful code screenshots.

17. Ray dot so – Generate stylish code images.

18. Shots dot so – Create free app & device mockups.

19. Smartmockups – Product & device mockups.

20. Have I Been Pwned – Check if your data was leaked.

Latino Americans Are in Shock. Can Democrats Finally Do Something? via @NYTOpinionnytimes.com/2026/07/17/opi…

@nytimes @Christina_M18 @jrusstimes @JaceyFortin hate Hispanics, Latino Americans, and foreign nationals from Latin America.

They could not be bothered to format the victims’ names - the Spanish compound surname - correctly.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo = Mr. Salgado.

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@nytimes @Christina_M18 @jrusstimes @JaceyFortin Johan Sebastian Durán Guerrero is the complete name of the deceased person in Maine.

If his father is Omar Durán, then his surname is not Guerrero. Durán Guerrero, or Durán by itself, but not Guerrero by itself.

Clearly, @TheDemocrats hate America.

Sad !

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2026年上半期、中国のマクロ債務総額は458兆7000億元に達し、マクロレバレッジ比率はさらに急上昇して319%となった。

中国の債務コストがGDPの約10%を消費し、消費と投資を圧迫する構造です。

果たして債務依存の経済成長モデルは持続可能なのか？

(※)長文になります

まとめ

2026年上半期、中国のマクロ債務総額は458.7兆元に達し、前年同期比7.4%増加、マクロレバレッジ比率は319%に急上昇した。

2026年を見据えると、中国が安定したマクロレバレッジ比率を維持できるかどうかは、インフレ期待の改善と名目成長率の回復の持続性に大きく左右される。

家計債務は縮小・回復し、政府全体のレバレッジ比率は119%、企業レバレッジは高水準を維持した。過去10年間、中国の債務増加率はGDP成長率の2.2倍であり、経済成長は債務拡大に大きく依存しており、債務コストがGDPの約10%を占め、消費と投資を著しく抑制し、このモデルは持続困難となっている。

In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age.

This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century.

American scientific progress was the beating heart of the 20th century. After World War II, we adapted to a new world by reinventing our scientific institutions, and we must do so again today.

This report lays a policy foundation that frees American scientists to do their most groundbreaking work, revives the national pursuit of ambitious scientific missions, and positions the United States to lead the AI-driven scientific revolution that will define the next century.

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A little over a month ago, Alexey Korshenko, director of the Sheremetyevo business aviation terminal (VIP Terminal A), was found hanged.

It was at this terminal that Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane was being serviced when a bomb was planted on it.

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It was from this terminal that the founder of the Wagner PMC departed on his final flight, which ended in an explosion.

The body of 57-year-old Korshenko was discovered on June 6 in his apartment building on Flotskaya Street.

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He had been hanged from the balcony. Understandably, the incident was immediately chalked up to suicide. However, his friends don't believe this theory.

@SomeBitchIIKnow He often does.

Passing along a warning from a mutual friend - don't visit Chicago. That's not directed against you, personally, L. Chicago has simply become a dangerous place for ANYBODY to visit, because police protection has been broken by the mayor.

@SomeBitchIIKnow There has been a wave of robberies in a number of the neighborhoods that tourists are likeliest to visit, that have been particularly concerning. The victims have been forced into cars at gunpoint, and then ordered to use the bank apps on their phones to empty out their accounts.

@SomeBitchIIKnow The victims that have complied have then been left on the curb by those robbing them, who have gone racing off, confident that they would not be caught, because Brandon, the not so beloved mayor, won't allow the police to engage in hot pursuit.

Seems like a good day not just to talk about the DSA platform, which is (a) Communist af, (b) retarded, (c) unrealistic as hell, (d) childishly presented, and (e) extraordinarily radical -- calling for a new Constitution even -- but to do a thread showing its stupid points. 🧵

It starts off with an imaginative exercise, illustrated with silly cartoons: imagine you have a day off in a future without capitalism. Apparently you will work because you like to (a Marxist delusion) and you won't have any bills (another Marxist delusion).

The idea that you will work because you like to comes directly from Karl Marx's own vision of a Communist circumstance, where the worker has been transformed back to his original/completed "social (i.e., human)" nature. This vision includes the idea that people will see work, not for themselves but for the community, as their main desired life activity.

Communism posits that you and everyone else (who can) will work on behalf of everyone else but never yourself because you have been re-educated (re-socialized, Mao: ideologically remolded) to believe in working for the commune.

Everything you have will therefore be provided to you by the organizing force of the society, which is left vague. Everyone knows it will be the state, which is what calling them "common goods and utilities" refers to, but Communists, including the DSA a few more lines down, believes that in the realized Communist world that never arrives, there won't be a state.

In the meantime, it will be the state, which is organized entirely to resocialize and remold you into a socialist (that is, human being, says Marx) who accepts this ridiculous notion.

So it starts off by asserting that things other people have to work to provide for you are to be free because they're human rights and that everyone (including you) will have to work to provide these things for everyone else (but not yourself) because you've been psychologically transformed to believe in working for the sake of upholding the magical community, including all its loafers, free riders, cheats, scoundrels, etc.

Socialists would object here by saying that being such a thing would be outlawed (by the state that isn't supposed to exist) and punished (again, by the state that doesn't exist), and in practice, every socialist/Communist state has actually done this. The problem is that the socialists and Communists in charge get to decide who the criminals and loafers are, and it's funny how most of their political enemies end up on that list regardless of anything else.

Oh, and what you really don't have isn't bills. It's recourse when your rights get violated. If the Communists in charge (state or not) decide you're a problem, you don't have any individual rights. Those are bourgeois, selfish, and against the will and needs of "the people," who you have been remolded to always support.

Mao instructed that the purpose of this ideological remolding, by the way, is to learn to see from "the people's standpoint," which means as the Communists want you to see it, as the right theoretical representatives of "the people," who are, in Mao's definition as well, those who support the building of socialism. Everyone else is "the enemies of the people," and the purpose of the people's democratic dictatorship of the proletariat, say both Mao and Lenin, is to crush the enemies of the people.

If you are listed as enemies of "the people," you will not be enfranchised (voting) because that's not real people's or proletarian democracy. You will not have free speech because you misinform people away from the people's standpoint and cause agitation and division, plus it's an expression of your bourgeois values because not everyone has equal access to speak. You have no rights to due process because the Communist leadership knows what is best and knows all, including all your (imaginary) crimes. You have no right to your property because that's the primary thing Communism is abolishing.

Good luck, Wokies! It's only worked like this every time!

After spending one whole short paragraph talking about how you'll live in a magical world with no bills, the DSA goes on with its fantasy and cartoons to imagine your day off. Yes, your day off. Your one day off.

In China today, which operates under CCP control, allegedly not even fully Communist or something, the workers or laboring class (who the title of the document says "deserve more") called "ku li" (bitter work) work 12-hour days, 28 days in a row, with the 29th day off. They're paid in a combination of RMB and rice and live in hovels, usually with a few bunks to a room and no indoor bathroom. They wash in a basin on the sidewalk outside of their hovel, if they wash.

That's what happens when you live under Communism for a while, though. They wouldn't tell you that up front!

But what they actually wrote in this little fantasy is interesting. In the morning you might do some basic things (like stand silently in a bread line). In the afternoon, you might do some hobbies. In the evening, you can recreate. This is an allusion, though. The framing they present is actually borrowed from... Karl Marx!

This is how Karl Marx envisioned the daily life of a realized Communist in a world without capitalism, from The German Ideology:

“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”

In practice, Mao Zedong used this idea to make sure that every Communist worker was also fully well-rounded in all the jobs: student, teacher, farmer, steelworker, army, etc. He turned the working population into a de facto military corps and sent people, who never became those things, like Marx said, from one job to the next in cycles. The result was everything that was actually done was done by people mostly incompetent to do them. Guess how it worked out! Famines! Disasters! Catastrophes! Failures!

The punishment for those things was gulag, hard labor, thought-reform prison, withholding of food at the canteen (often a death sentence), or death. Worked great!

But this isn't the paragraph about your work. They don't talk about that much here. This is your one coveted day off. You could do all kinds of things without ever having to become good at anything!

PS: Unless you're in the Party, you're not taking any trips, so don't bother planning them. LOL joke's on you. Don't count on that doctor being there or worth going to either. The movie will be mandatory, and it will be brainwashing propaganda.

It only works this way every time!

In the night of 20-21 July, a new yellow block was seemingly placed further south on the same road.
31.399931, 34.370667
@GeoConfirmed
Approx. 195m from the official yellow line.

https://x.com/NemoAnno/status/2079559007908339906

@GeoConfirmed Footage also shows damage to houses, other structures, road infrastructure and greenery around the yellow block.
Video: (0:06-0:54 & 1:05-1:25) t.me/QudsN/722809
Photo: t.me/mohnadQ/91430?…

@GeoConfirmed The yellow block previously geolocated and reportedly placed in the night of 17-18 July appears to be visible in the distance.
Video: (0:24-0:32) t.me/QudsN/722809
x.com/NemoAnno/statu…

I posted a list of the 20 best foods on earth for metabolic health. Nobody argued about the meat.

They argued about the vegetables.

Spinach was the lightning rod. Broccoli drew fire. The replies were smart, passionate, and split right down the middle.

Half the audience said plants are essential. The other half said plants are poison.

They are both wrong. And they are both right. Here is why. 🧵

Plants are not trying to be eaten. They cannot run. They cannot fight. So they evolved chemical defenses. Oxalates. Lectins. Phytates. Goitrogens.

These are real compounds with real effects. They are not a myth. They are not a conspiracy. They are biology.

The question is not whether antinutrients exist. The question is whether they matter for you. And the answer depends on dose, preparation, and your individual biology.

That is root cause thinking. Not "plants good." Not "plants bad." Context.

Oxalates. The real issue nobody talks about.

Spinach is one of the highest oxalate foods on earth. 970mg per 100g. So are chard, beet greens, and almonds. In high doses, oxalates bind to calcium and form crystals. Those crystals can cause kidney stones, joint pain, and urinary symptoms.

One person in my replies said she spent decades with an overactive bladder. Her doctor told her it was because she was overweight. She found the real cause on X. It was oxalates. Nobody in the medical system ever mentioned it.

That is not a fringe case. That is a root cause failure.

General Mykhailo Drapatyi is one of Ukraine’s most experienced combat commanders and represents the "new school" of Ukrainian military leadership. 1/10

A battle-tested general, his candidacy enjoyed particularly strong support from both Ukrainian civil society and the military. 2/10

He has earned a reputation for exceptional military leadership, a modern understanding of warfare, personal courage, integrity, and the ability to successfully conduct some of the most demanding military operations. 3/10

OK - now at USA v. Arrabaca, fire in front of 26 Federal Plaza yesterday, in big courtroom 23B. Arrabaca has 2 Federal Defenders but still no complaint. Inner City Press is covering the case(s) and will live tweet, thread below

4:48 pm
Arrabaca is brought out of the holding cell by three US Marshals. He is short, wearing eyeglasses. Look over at us reporters sitting in the jury box. There are four ADAs.
4:51 pm
All rise!

Judge Robyn Tarnofsky: You have been charged in a Complaint. I have you financial affidavit. Did you sign it?
Arrabaca: Yes Your Honor I signed the affidavit.
Judge: I appoint Ms. Brown of the Federal Defenders to represent you.

Drapatyi is an excellent choice. As OTU Kharkiv and Luhansk, OSUV Khortytsia/Dnipro, and Joint Forces Task Force commander over the past two years, he brings a wealth of experience commanding units on most of the front line with a good understanding of the character of the fighting. As Land Forces commander, he also has recent experience in mobilization/training issues. Both are critical as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

https://x.com/RALee85/status/2079653651618947380

As Land Forces commander, Drapatyi began to institute a series of reforms to improve the culture, including officers taking responsibility. Notably, after multiple Russian missile strikes on training areas, he submitted his resignation and took personal responsibility for the problem instead of deflecting. He set the example for his subordinates. 2/
t.me/Drapatyi_KSV/34

Several of his brigade commanders praised his approach when he was OSUV Dnipro and Joint Forces Task Force commander. Instead of simply giving orders, he listened to their opinions, welcomed feedback, and asked them how he could support them. A common criticism from brigades throughout the war is that the General Staff doesn't properly support the units holding the front line or a sense that the General Staff doesn't have a full understanding of the situation on the battlefield, and gives orders with poor situational awareness. I suspect among the first things he will do is to ask Task Force commanders what they need, and ensure the General Staff supports them properly. I suspect this will have an immediate positive effect. 3/

Introducing “expenditure horizon”: a proposed method for measuring AI capabilities on continuously-scored problems.

The method compares performance as a function of spend for humans vs agents. The point where humans become more cost-effective is the agent’s expenditure horizon.

Expenditure horizon requires us to estimate human performance as a function of cost, but lets us compare humans and agents fairly when the cost of experimental compute or agent tokens is significant. We can use it to e.g. quantify model progress over time:

As an example, we applied this to NanoGPT. We estimate the marginal returns to human labor as roughly $2500K per 1% optimization, from interviewing NanoGPT contributors. Using this estimate, the best models have crossover points (expenditure horizon) around $2-$3K, although models may be overfit to the public NanoGPT challenge.

1/ The 'SVOshnik' – a drunk, traumatised, violent veteran of the Ukraine war – has become a figure of fear in Russia. Russian journalist and activist Anastasia Kashevarova, who has fought for soldiers' rights, admits that some veterans are out of control. ⬇️

2/ Many participants in the Ukraine war have been discharged, usually through ill-health or in some lucky cases, having completed contracts. They have brought with them a wave of violence and crime, with even prostitutes avoiding them.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1962073553622208760

3/ A large part of the problem, as Kashevarova notes, is that participants in the 'Special Military Operation' (SVO) are often treated with deference by law enforcement agencies, leaving ordinary people vulnerable to their violent behaviour. She writes:

N-Acetylcysteine is a mental health marvel.

From anxiety, to ADHD, autism and even suicidal depression, it acts as a master mood stabilizer.

Let's talk about the benefits of NAC, the science and how to use it yourself:

N-Acetylcysteine cuts OCD in half in clinical study.

Titrated up to 2.4g per day (as add on treatment).

NAC works here by reducing glutamate release from neurons.

This glutamate is responsible for "excitatory" brain processes, which in excess can contribute to OCD.

N-Acetylcysteine cut depression by >60%, anxiety by 50% in this paper.

1.2 g per day.

Excess glutamate in distinct brain regions can contribute to these feelings.

NAC's ability to lower it in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex contributes to its antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects.

El Arca de Noé es uno de los relatos más conocidos del planeta, pero en 1872, un empleado del Museo Británico descubrió una tablilla de barro que contaba la misma historia 1.000 años antes que la Biblia. Y en la versión más antigua, el arca era redonda. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

El relato bíblico está en el Génesis. Dios, decepcionado con la maldad humana, decide borrar la vida de la Tierra con un diluvio, y avisa a Noé, un hombre justo, para que construya una embarcación enorme y salve a su familia y a los animales.

Las medidas están escritas. El arca debía medir 300 codos de largo, 50 de ancho y 30 de alto, unos 140 metros por 23 por 13. Tres cubiertas, una puerta lateral y madera recubierta de brea. Es la descripción de un cajón flotante gigantesco.

why is AOCIA not saying a word about this despite having a huge platform, so that Massie, MTG and Ro Khanna are the lone voices mobilizing against it in the House? Is it perhaps because AOCIA's J-Street Israel lobby handler Matt Duss wants it to pass so that she can safely pretend to support "stopping aid to Israel" (the Netanyahu position) because they will have access to all US arms and funds indefinitely?

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2079549137515655611

the answer from AOCIA cultists is "LULZ BUT SHE WILL VOTE AGAINST IT THOUGH LULZ" you dumb fucking idiot, she is not using her massive platform to mobilize against it, thereby proving she's actually delighted to see it pass like her J-Street lobby handlers

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2073312855688982687

why are MTG, Massie and Ro Khanna the ones who are pointing this out? AOCIA just gave a bullshit token "ummm yeah I guess that's bad" weeks ago and hasn't talked about the most consequential bill in modern US history, because she actually supports it

https://x.com/FmrRepMTG/status/2079385900027355242