Arles / Arelate - Roman colony founded by Caesar in 46 BCE. The city became an important hub with an amphitheatre, theatre, forum, circus, and even its own productive mint! In later periods the city shrank. Nevertheless the city contains noteworthy Romanesque remains - Thread 🧵
Amphitheatre (70-80 AD) - built slightly before the one in Nîmes both in the Flavian period. Arles still has some structural problems that are fixed in Nîmes. This includes the lack of a barrel vault but instead stone slabs that collapse because of the pressure on the galleries.
The towers were added in the middle ages on each of the cardinal directions (one is lost) when the arena was transformed into a fortress.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Remembering the Israeli Independence Day – A Bit Differently
It might seem strange that I worded the title of this comment as I did. For Israelis this year, it will not be a time of parades and as many parties.
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It will be a day of celebration, but also a day of concern, thanks to the barbaric enemy that must be destroyed, and thanks to the revelation that the world is still ready to sacrifice Jews and
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even the Jewish State for the sake of keeping things quiet in Europe and on university campuses, and looking at political and economic interests.
And this year we are faced with an analysis of what went wrong on October 7, 2023, and
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Abbas Araghchi Ministro Affari Esteri dell'Iran: "Inviare una delegazione statunitense in Pakistan per i negoziati è inutile in questa fase. Negli ultimi due mesi il presidente Trump ha diffuso quotidianamente falsità. Non puoi negoziare con un partner che abbandona la verità ⬇️1
Sia chiaro il fatto che l'Iran non ha mai accettato di consegnare le sue armi nucleari. La Cina non ha mai accettato di interrompere la cooperazione in materia di difesa con noi. Lo Stretto di Hormuz non è mai stato aperto da noi sotto pressione. ⬇️2
Mentre il Presidente e suo figlio traggono profitto ogni giorno, i comuni cittadini americani e di tutto il mondo sostengono il costo di queste bugie e guerre. Il mondo deve vedere di cosa si tratta veramente. Questa non è una lotta per l'uranio iraniano. ⬇️3
I just lost everything to a social engineering scam.
People that I had been in contact with for months invited me to a small circle of investors - a group that got access to early seed rounds.
They infected my PC & had me move funds to vulnerable wallets.
Here's what happened:
I had spoken on and off for months with a person called "Seenthereum" about alpha, opportunities, etc.
He would tell me time to time about an investment group he was in that got early access to polymarket investments and other projects at lower valuations before TGEing.
Eventually he was supposedly involved with one that caught my interest.
He invited me to be a part of this group called "Flur". It was maybe 50 people max. All interacting daily. Even spoke to the leader.
For this first investment, I was able to allocate up to a certain amount.
لكن اذا بتفكر انو جوجل فقط محرك بحث، رح اصدمك واحكيلك، انها تمتلك اقوى منظومة ذكاء اصطناعي 🔥
في دقيقة واحدة رح أعرفك على أبرز 7 ادوات ذكاء اصطناعي خارقة من Google + اشاركك رابط الادوات.👇
احفظ الثريد وتابع المستقبل
1️⃣ Gemini وهو العقل المدبر لمنظومة Google
أبرز الاستخدامات:
- كتابة المقالات والمنشورات
- المساعدة في البرمجة وتصحيح الأخطاء
- تحليل الصور والملفات
- البحث الذكي وإعطاء إجابات دقيقة
- توليد أفكار للبزنس والمشاريع
How to use a Whole Life Insurance policy to replace your income & protect your family's cash flow
Read this especially if you have children or dependents. 👇
1/ Let me start with an uncomfortable truth that most people avoid thinking about.
If you died tomorrow, what happens to your family financially?
Not emotionally — we know that's devastating. I mean practically. Who pays rent? Who pays school fees? Who puts food on the table?
Most families in Kenya are one funeral away from financial collapse. That's not dramatic. That's reality.
2/ Here's another truth that stings even more.
Most of us will work 30-40 years, save diligently, invest in unit trusts, buy land, build rentals — and we'll still never accumulate enough liquid cash to leave our families truly financially secure.
Assets are great. But when someone dies, families need cash — immediately. Not land in Kitengela that takes 2 years to sell. Not shares that need probate.
Cash.
That's the gap whole life insurance fills. And nothing else fills it quite the same way.
I built a site with 200+ works of Reformed theology, Latin works translated into English for the first time, and a personal library you can search with AI.
You shouldn't need a PhD and a research library to read Zanchi. The sources belong to the church.
Here's what it does 🧵
Doctoral work meant reading 300 books but I remembered maybe a third of what mattered.
My system was marginal notes, highlights, and phone pictures of pages I meant to remember. In other words, incredibly clunky.
I figure there had to be a better way. So I built one.
is an AI search engine built on real Reformed sources.
Ask it anything like "How did the Reformers handle Romans 9?" and it pulls the exact passages and cites the sources.
No ChatGPT hallucinations. Real texts with real citations.Commonplace.study
"Temiz, beyaz bir arka plana sahip, profesyonelce çekilmiş, yüksek çözünürlüklü bir kimlik fotoğrafı oluştur. Kişi merkezde ve iyi aydınlatılmış olmalı; kişinin doğal görünümünü bozmadan hatlarını hafifçe belirginleştiren, yumuşak ve iyi dağıtılmış bir makyajla birlikte net, doğal bir cilt yapısını sergilemeli. Kişi düzgün, iş ortamına uygun kıyafetler giymiş, saçları bakımlı ve sakin, kendinden emin bir yüz ifadesine sahip olmalı. Görüntü keskin ve sert gölgeler olmadan eşit şekilde aydınlatılmış olmalı; yüzün net ve doğal bir şekilde sunulmasını sağlamalıdır."
Bryan Fair, the SPLC's CEO, was kind enough to mention my congressional testimony in his video. He also mentioned my exclusive on @FBIDirectorKash separating the FBI from the SPLC last year.
As a piece of damage control, Fair's announcement is very interesting.
He acknowledges that SPLC paid informants to monitor "extremely violent groups." He claims this program is over. He frames it in terms of the civil rights movement and the 1984 bombing of SPLC HQ.
@CelineLouiz N'importe quoi... Juste ici pour dégueuler sa haine en toute mauvaise foi et en exhibant son inculture !
C'est secret jusqu'à temps que Papa Trump fasse l'annonce !
@CelineLouiz Le seul chose dont je doute, est de parler de délits d'initiés (même si cela revient au même), car ici il ne s'agit pas d'acheter de bourse ni de 'ventes/achats d'actions/titres/obligations…', mais de 'parier' (genre polymarket) en crypto sur des événements possibles à venir.
Derrière ces plateformes de 'paris' (d'un nouveau genre, profitant donc de lacunes/failles juridiques) bcp sont proches de Trump.
Les Paris sont du genre "l'Iran capitulera t'il d'ici 48h, 'oui' ou 'non'?"
New paper! LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
LLMs are enabling a new way of working: delegated work, where users supervise an LLM as it edits documents on their behalf.
Delegation requires trust: does the LLM complete tasks without introducing errors?
We simulate delegation across 52 professional domains and find that LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate. 🧵1/N
We built DELEGATE-52: 310 work environments across 52 professional domains.
Each has real documents + 5-10 complex editing tasks.
Key idea: every edit is reversible.
Apply forward edit → backward edit → compare with original for evaluation.
Chain 10 of these → simulate long-horizon delegated interactions.
Finding #1: Every model degrades documents over time.
We tested 19 LLMs.
Even frontier models (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT-5.4) corrupt 25% of document content after 20 interactions.
Average across all models: 50% content loss.
Maine's AG established a tip line for people to report ICE activities. I got the emails sent to the address via a FOAA request. Mainers didn't use it as Frey had hoped. Out of 151 pages of emails, only one, possibly two, used the address as Frey intended.🧵
Many of the emails were just Mainers criticizing the Mills Administration and their attempts to undermine federal law enforcement. "I bet it's crowded in there."
Maine's DOJ took two months to hand over these emails. Now I think we know why they didn't want them published.
La leyenda de la fundación de Roma el 21 de abril del año 753 a. C. es estupenda pero… ¿Qué hay de cierto en ella?
Ha llegado la hora de centrar nuestra atención en los verdaderos fundadores de Roma más allá del mito. Sígueme en este nuevo #HiloRomano para conocerlos.
Son muchos los autores que contaron la leyenda de la fundación de Roma: Tito Livio, Ovidio, Plutarco, Dion Casio, Dioniso de Halicarnaso… Sin embargo, las referencias más antiguas que conocemos de la leyenda datan del siglo III a. C.
Las versiones de la leyenda varían en los detalles e incluso en las fechas. Fueron Varrón y Ático quienes fijaron el año 753 a. C. como la fecha canónica de la fundación de Roma. 751, 748, 750 a. C. fueron algunas de las fechas que barajaron con anterioridad.
Okay the Personnel subcommittee has gaveled in. Looks like Rice's amendment will be last in the agenda.
Revised letters from Auditor of State and Lt. Governor pass w/out discussion
Rice: The amendment is necessitated because many Arkansans feel Profiri has broken their trust over multiple issues. In the 18 years I've been in the Legislature, we have required employees to testify. Profiri refused.
The more interesting question is why the person keeping the score and the person who showed up to therapy feel like two different people.
It's called structural dissociation. Everyone has some version of it. Most people never learn what it is:
In 2006, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele published The Haunted Self.
It showed how chronic stress and trauma fragment the personality. They create gaps between parts of the psyche that should be communicating.
The fragmentation happens on a spectrum.
The model names two kinds of parts:
ANP — Apparently Normal Part. The version of you that answers emails, pays rent, attends the meeting. Its job is daily life. Its goal is to avoid emotional material.
EP — Emotional Part. The version of you that holds the survival response. Fear, rage, freeze, collapse. Its field of awareness is the stressor, not the present moment.
At 46, I got my abs back and this breakfast is the biggest reason why.
Here's what's in it and why it works:
I call it Glop.
It looks disgusting, tastes great, and the best part is it takes less than 3 minutes to make.
It contains 4 ingredients:
300g low-fat Greek yogurt 1-2 scoops whey protein
1 tbsp psyllium husk
100g frozen fruit
That's 350 calories. 40-60g protein. 10g fiber.
How to make it:
1. Prep this the night before (you'll see why) 2. Put 300g Greek Yogurt into a bowl with 1 scoop whey protein, along with a tablespoon of psyllium husk, and mix 3. Add 100g frozen fruit of choice 4. Put in fridge overnight
Overnight, the psyllium husk expands while the frozen fruit thaws, giving you a hearty breakfast you can eat right out of the fridge.