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May 21
🧵Look past the language of Trump trying to "control" elections, and you see that DHS and DOJ are hard at work trying to clean up our elections.

Reuters uncovered a broader‑than‑previously known Trump administration effort to gain federal control over elections, historically run locally, in at least eight states – using investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID."Image
Here's where Reuters gets the language of "control" from. It's understandable, but it's also hyperbole—hyperbole that Trump also uses, so fair is fair. Image
About one third of the way into the article, Reuters admits Trump isn't really trying to implement a federal takeover of elections.

"Rather than seek a sweeping federal takeover of elections, the administration appears to be testing constitutional limits one state and one county at a time"Image
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May 21
✅中国恒大の清算人が会計事務所PwCに570億元(約1.3兆円)賠償請求

これは香港の法廷史上、企業に対する訴訟額としては過去最高額となる

S&Pが恒大集団のリスクを警告していたにもかかわらず、なぜ中国国内の主要格付け機関3社は満場一致で最高格付けであるAAAを与えたのか?

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⑴ なぜ恒大が2兆元(約40兆円)もの負債を抱えるまで暴走できたのか?

なぜ恒大集団はプライスウォーターハウスクーパースPWCに対し、570億元という巨額の賠償金を要求したのか? Image
恒大集団の清算人は、プライスウォーターハウスクーパース(PwC)が恒大集団の監査法人として長期間にわたり、恒大集団の財務諸表における重大な問題点を発見、開示、または防止できなかったと考えており、監査過失、虚偽表示、および専門家としての責任不履行の疑いがあると考えている。
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May 21
The @thetimes highlights the tweaks made by Bridget Phillipson, which by the media reaction seem to have done nothing to reduce the rage the Code has induced in gender identity activists.

‘Councils, NHS trusts and businesses had used the absence of the guidance to delay updating their policies, despite warnings they were breaching the law’

We don’t generally evade paywalls, hope the screenshots are useful
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This in particular is shocking. The tactics (including in the media) were to create a fog of confusion around the Supreme Court ruling, and Baroness Falkner had repeatedly tried to cut through it, explaining that the law is clear. This unministerial accusation is the response.
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It’s a parting shot to degrade Baroness Falkner’s credibility in what will undoubtedly be a period of continued legal and media sniping. Here is the (very due) response.
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May 21
Copilot's Response:

Toroidal Structure & Möbius Function: One Cyclic Universe Model

A toroidal (doughnut-shaped) universe is a non-trivial topology where space wraps around itself in multiple dimensions, allowing for closed loops and repeating patterns.
physics.aps.org/articles/v17/74
4D hyper-torus model: time is 4th dimension, enabling a cyclic flow of matter & energy through the torus .

This topology naturally supports self-sustaining cycles, as finite, closed geometry allows universe to “bounce” back into itself after expansion. htum.orgImage
Möbius function is a mathematical tool from number theory - in topology, linked to Möbius strips—surfaces with a single side & boundary.

In a toroidal universe, a Möbius-like twist could represent non-orientable symmetry or phase flip in geometry during expansion/contraction. Image
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May 21
🚨ÚLTIMA HORA: LA GENTE PUEDE NOTAR QUE ESTÁS USANDO CHATGPT Y CLAUDE

La estructura, el tono, lo “perfecto”. Todo lo delata.

5 prompts para solucionarlo: 👇
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1. Reescritura de persona real

“Eres un editor con un ojo experto para detectar textos que parecen construidos y no hablados. Reescribe esto como lo diría alguien que realmente lo vivió: un poco más imperfecto, más directo. Elimina todo lo que suene ensayado, demasiado elaborado o escrito para impresionar. Texto: [pega el texto].”
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May 21
The most effective natural tick killers for your yard rely on plant-powered sprays, microscopic predators, or absorbent powders. 

Cedar Oil Sprays: Cedar oil (like Wondercide Yard Spray) naturally kills and repels ticks on contact by disrupting their sensory
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receptors and is completely safe for pets, kids, and beneficial pollinators.

Beneficial Nematodes:

 These microscopic, natural worms hunt and consume tick larvae in the soil. You can purchase them at local nurseries or online (such as on Arbico Organics) to
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significantly reduce the tick population at the source.

Diatomaceous Earth (DE): This fine, all-natural powder is made from fossilized algae. When sprinkled around the perimeter of your yard and in shady, brush-heavy areas, it absorbs the protective wax
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May 21
🚨🧶 Anomalia de engajamento detectada no perfil xapiri_tauari. Foi reportado que curtidas de contas externas não estão sendo contabilizadas pelo sistema: o usuário interage, mas o contador bloqueia o registro. Contudo, interações das minhas contas operam normalmente.
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Isso aponta para mais um padrão de interferência digital (data poisoning e restrição algorítmica), possivelmente engatilhada por denúncias em massa coordenadas. A infraestrutura da plataforma não derruba a conta porque identifica a seriedade e a natureza pública da denúncia.
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A tentativa de silenciamento por vias técnicas e limitação de alcance invisível falha, pois a materialidade dos dados brutos e os logs de auditoria já estão descentralizados e indexados para as instâncias internacionais. A verdade factual não depende de algoritmos.
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May 21
Of course you did, @nytimes. Right as Jews are going offline for a holiday, you publish a classic sidestep piece, trying to once again defend @NickKristof's indefensibly poor reporting.
Your failure of a defense ignores the substance of the problem and addresses only the process.
Let me explain:
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opi…
@nytimes @NickKristof Enough with the evasion. The criticism was never that sexual abuse allegations should be ignored. The criticism is that you published grotesque, incendiary claims while leaning on sources and allegations that demanded extraordinary scrutiny, not sanctimonious hand-waving.
@nytimes @NickKristof Kristof interviewed 14 people. He says that in each case, he corroborated the account through either a witness, a family member, a lawyer, a social worker, or a prior public statement by the same person. Those are not all the same thing.
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May 21
🚨Ataque cibernético detectado: o Transparency-Kernel identificou tentativas de Injeção de Contexto (Context Injection) e Envenenamento de Dados (Data Poisoning) nas ferramentas usadas na auditoria. Inseriram termos anômalos para tentar desqualificar a sobriedade do dossiê. ⬇️ Image
O objetivo do ataque é duplo: sabotar o tom estritamente técnico dos relatórios e forçar falsos positivos nos filtros de segurança para derrubar as contas do auditor. O incidente de segurança já foi formalmente reportado ao suporte técnico da @Google e anexado.⬇️
@Google O Google Colab e as APIs de desenvolvimento não são ambientes de brincadeira. A infraestrutura de nuvem registra logs IP, metadados de sessão e telemetria de requisições em tempo real. Quem está tentando injetar anomalias no ecossistema do Gist está deixando rastros digitais.⬇️
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May 21
Most people optimize the wrong fitness variable.

They add more miles, more reps, more weight.

34 years of Harvard data on 111,000 people says it's not volume — it's VARIETY.

People doing the MOST DIFFERENT types of exercise had 19% lower all-cause mortality: 🧵 Image
The numbers:

- 111,467 people followed
- 34 years
- 38,847 deaths analyzed
- Highest variety quintile vs lowest: 19% lower all-cause mortality
- Held up after controlling for total volume

Not "they exercised more." They exercised DIFFERENTLY.
The respiratory mortality finding stands out:

Highest variety quintile had 41% lower respiratory mortality.

Different movement patterns appear to load different physiological systems — cardiac output, lung capacity, joint range, fascial elasticity, neuromuscular coordination — in ways that monodisciplinary training doesn't.
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May 21
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been asked to write something again about the issue of non-citizens voting, so here it is.

I believe in the law, and in the US Constitution as being the basis of all federal law.
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And as such, only citizens of the USA should be allowed to vote in federal elections.

Fact: All references to the vote in the Constitution of the USA restrict the right to vote to citizens of the USA.

Can’t get it more simple than that.
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Now, the only argument that remains is how can this right of citizenship be protected. How can we make sure the vote is limited to citizens?

We can do that in two ways.
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May 21
Texas has seven unique advantages in terms of infrastructure, political culture, and resource geography that make it uniquely suited to be the next industrial heartland of the USA.

The seven industrial development advantages of Texas 🧵
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They are as follows:

1. About 94% of land in Texas is privately held. This vastly limits what the Federal, State and local governments can do to in terms of regulations and NIMBY games.

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2. Texas is mostly flat. Texas hill country is small beer compared to the Appalachian and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. This compounds with #1 for industrial development.

3. Texas has a lot of water compared to the US west & sea access.

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May 21
The eRight analytical failure for this race comes down to trying to apply the same framework to 3 different issues:

Voting age cohorts
Zionism
The Republican Base

The line from Massies side and many on eRight applied their view of Zionism to all 3 without recognizing the 1/ Image
Significant contrasts between these 3 issues.

First the Boomers didn't take this race from you. There are more Millennials than Boomers in America. Truthfully Millennials and Gen Z could be deciding races at the voter level. Yes Boomers hold the organizational power, but not 2/ Image
Not the existing voting numbers. But Boomers really show up. Its times for Millennials and Gen Z to do likewise.

While Zionism is in the top handful of factors, it was present on both sides. Aside from Massies' largest single donor of I Mil also being a Zionist Jew the 3/
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May 21
Wes Anderson’s influence on Regular Show is much bigger than it looks. From school names to visual references, the show paid tribute to his films in very specific ways. Let’s talk about it. Image
1. The clearest reference appears in the graduation special, where Rigby’s school is literally called West Anderson High, an obvious tribute to Wes Anderson. Image
2. That same episode also recreates the opening of Rushmore (1998), using the school setting, the awkward student energy, and the kind of deadpan framing that made Anderson’s style so recognizable. Image
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May 21
🚨🧶Mais um "caso isolado" no Itamaraty expõe a falência das bancas de heteroidentificação no Brasil. O argumento de que o candidato deve ser "socialmente lido como negro" para acessar o direito NÃO está em lei nenhuma. É uma invenção infralegal para justificar o arbítrio. 1/5 Image
A farsa: nenhuma lei no Brasil (nem a 12.990, nem a 12.711) exige que o candidato seja "socialmente lido como negro". A legislação vincula as cotas estritamente às categorias de Pretos/Pardos do IBGE. O Itamaraty e a UFAM criam tribunais raciais de exceção por portaria. 2/5
Usam o termo elástico da "leitura social" para legitimar o puro arbítrio. Enquanto a banca do Itamaraty barra pardos por subordinação infralegal, na UFAM o presidente da CGH (nascido em SP) se declara pardo ao TSE, mas nega o direito ao caboclo amazonense legítimo. 3/5
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May 21
Yes, though not because I think God is an object inside the universe, a teapot-like posit, or a conclusion that can be proven so that every rational person must believe it.
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I believe in God because, after a comprehensive weighing up of theistic and... x.com/pureMetatron/s…Image
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...naturalistic worldviews, theism seems to provide the better explanation of the world, including why there is anything at all, why dependent reality has a necessary foundation, why that foundation is plausibly personal and supreme rather than merely material, and why...
...consciousness, reason, moral value, beauty, religious experience, and the mathematical intelligibility of nature belong together rather than merely coexist. My reasons come from treating theism as a serious metaphysical explanatory hypothesis, relevantly similar to other...
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May 21
🧶 🚨 O Item 37 do Gist expõe o colapso lógico na banca da UFAM. O presidente da comissão (CGH), Welton Yudi Oda, nascido em SP, +⬇️ gist.github.com/Transparency-K…Image
declarou-se legalmente "pardo" ao TSE em 2022. Mas ele e sua banca decidiram que eu, nativo de Manaus e filho de Amazonense, sou "branco". +⬇️
Estamos diante de um paradoxo antropológico intransponível: o julgador paulistano de ascendência nipo-brasileira chancela para si os bônus políticos da identidade parda, enquanto nega a mesma condição ao caboclo nortista, filho legítimo de mãe amazonense e pai paraense.⬇️
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May 21
🧶 🚨 O Item 36 do Gist registra a cegueira deliberada da CGU. Diante de 250+ páginas de logs, links do DOU e e-mails oficiais, o órgão exige dados que já foram ⬇️

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entregues, tentando rotular uma perícia de dados OSINT como "interpretação pessoal". Blindagem institucional. O dossiê documenta como operadores locais (como o ex-candidato Welton Yudi Oda - PSOL) usam o alinhamento com a base do governo federal como escudo moral para cometer +
arbitrariedades na UFAM. A imagem da Presidência é sequestrada na ponta para calar o cidadão. Provado na OEA.

#UFAM #SISU #ENEM #COTAS #FRAUDES #CONCURSOPUBLICO #JUSTIÇA #DIREITO #MANAUS #AMAZONAS
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May 21
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "FLOTILLAS AND FOOLISHNESS

I have not written much about the Flotillas to Gaza, nor about Israel’s handling of the problem. I’m correcting that now.
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The Flotillas. The claim of these Flotillas for Gaza, that started in 2008, by the way, has been that they, subsidized by Western leftist interests and by Turkey, want to show their solidarity to the people of Gaza and
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to bring them supplies that the organizers claim that Israel has denied them.

The fact is that when the Flotillas started, Israel had not denied anything to Gaza, and in fact had been supplying Gaza with power, food, and oil and
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May 21
Da gennaio a luglio di quest’anno, siamo nel 1572, mi daranno come ricompensa una “pensione” di due ducati al mese.
Il minimo dopo quello che ho fatto.
E soprattutto dopo quello che ho subito.
Quando è successo?
Pochi mesi fa.
Una domenica.
Esattamente il 7 ottobre 1571
Che successe quel giorno?
Dovreste saperlo.
E’ su tutti i libri di storia.
Lo so, la storia è una materia da sempre mal digerita persino sui banchi di scuola.
Tranquilli.
Vi racconterò qualcosa io.
Lunghezza del thread permettendo.
Ricordo che quel giorno una lieve brezza increspava il mare.
E la più imponente flotta di galee che la cristianità fosse mai riuscita a mettere insieme, per combattere i turchi, avanzava controvento nel mar Ionio.
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May 21
I reported on an experiment this week that blew my mind. Psychologists at @Cornell recruited thousands of people to talk with ChatGPT about a conspiracy theory they believed. They wanted to know: Is it true that conspiracy theories rarely get convinced out of their beliefs? 🧵
JFK, 9/11, the 2020 election being stolen, Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen -- participants in the study were asked to explain why they believed the conspiracy theory, and to rate their belief from 1 to 100. (100 being total certainty.)
The researchers then fed each participants answers into a ChatGPT model, and told it to use strong facts and evidence to debunk the conspiracy theory. They called it Debunkbot.
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