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A new Zman Yisrael poll reveals that for the first time in months, the anti-Netanyahu Zionist bloc has a clear outright majority in the Knesset without needing the backing of Arab parties. 1/6 
If elections were held today, the 120-seat Knesset would look like this:
🔹 Anti-Netanyahu Zionist Bloc: 62 seats 📈
🔸 Pro-Netanyahu Bloc: 50 seats 📉
🔸 Arab parties (Ra'am & Hadash-Ta'al): 8 seats
2/6
🔹 Anti-Netanyahu Zionist Bloc: 62 seats 📈
🔸 Pro-Netanyahu Bloc: 50 seats 📉
🔸 Arab parties (Ra'am & Hadash-Ta'al): 8 seats
2/6
The other big story is the rise of Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar party. People thought the Bennett-Lapid merger all but cemented Bennett's position as the likely PM to replace Netanyahu, Eisenkot is breathing down his neck with 19 seats. 3/6
Mr. .@TimBurchett_N
Why are we targeting low hanging fruit ?!?
When will the DOJ, IRS, and House/Senate Ethics Committees announce indictments of Capitol Hill officials involved in secret offshore banking?
1/9
Why are we targeting low hanging fruit ?!?
When will the DOJ, IRS, and House/Senate Ethics Committees announce indictments of Capitol Hill officials involved in secret offshore banking?
1/9
Multiple reports have highlighted lawmakers with offshore accounts, shell companies, and foreign money-laundering ties—including the Henry Cuellar indictment and allegations surrounding Dan Goldman’s Cayman Islands funds.
2/9
2/9
Yet no broad crackdown on Capitol Hill’s offshore banking has followed.
U.S. taxpayers deserve transparency. Will there be accountability for lawmakers hiding wealth offshore, or will this remain a loophole for the powerful?
#OffshoreBanking #CongressionalCorruption
3/9
U.S. taxpayers deserve transparency. Will there be accountability for lawmakers hiding wealth offshore, or will this remain a loophole for the powerful?
#OffshoreBanking #CongressionalCorruption
3/9
PORA PINA
PD perde Pina Picierno. Porca pupazza! Povero Partito! Puntuali, partono prevedibilissimi piagnistei: protestano per populismi, posizioni punitive, purghe parasovietiche, propensioni putiniane, poca pluralità.
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PD perde Pina Picierno. Porca pupazza! Povero Partito! Puntuali, partono prevedibilissimi piagnistei: protestano per populismi, posizioni punitive, purghe parasovietiche, propensioni putiniane, poca pluralità.
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Pina pendeva per partito più progressista (progressista per Pina prefigura partito poco proletario, pigramente pragmatico, pro-mercato… praticamente perfetta parodia PPE, però più pacata). Protestando per posizioni politiche, prendeva perennemente percorsi paralleli.
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Precisiamolo: purissimi principi politici, perentoriamente promanati, paiono provvisoriamente perdersi pei palestinesi. Pasionaria presenza perde propulsione, preferisce passare parola, parla pochissimo, piuttosto pronunciava pilatesche perorazioni pro-Israele. Peccato!
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Events Receiving Limited Public Attention
The deaths of Suchir Balaji & Nuno Loureiro — linked to large affiliated institutions — have drawn less sustained public scrutiny than other high-profile cases, despite their professional significance & controversies surrounding them.
The deaths of Suchir Balaji & Nuno Loureiro — linked to large affiliated institutions — have drawn less sustained public scrutiny than other high-profile cases, despite their professional significance & controversies surrounding them.
Balaji’s controversial death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco Medical Examiner;
OpenAI’s public statements avoided speculation.
Family & critics challenged this, citing inconsistencies in investigation;
without FEDERAL REVIEW, the case remains a private matter.
OpenAI’s public statements avoided speculation.
Family & critics challenged this, citing inconsistencies in investigation;
without FEDERAL REVIEW, the case remains a private matter.
The absence of a criminal investigation limited the scope of public debate.
Similarly, Loureiro’s death, while tied to MIT’s research environment, was not widely reported in mainstream media, possibly due to its lack of direct public controversy or high-profile connections.
Similarly, Loureiro’s death, while tied to MIT’s research environment, was not widely reported in mainstream media, possibly due to its lack of direct public controversy or high-profile connections.
Because SPLC has been in the news I felt a quick look at others operating in their space was warranted. What follows is a structural financial look at groups in the LCCHR.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is a coalition of 260 member organizations - civil rights groups, labor unions, faith communities, disability advocacy, women's orgs, LGBTQ orgs. Most US advocacy money flows through this network in some form.
I pulled the most recent IRS Form 990 for every national entity in the coalition (293 entities, since 51 members operate paired (c)(3)/(c)(4) structures). 242 of 260 members matched - 93% coverage, full data on national-level entities only (state chapters excluded).
Headline numbers across the coalition:
▪ **$7.94 BILLION** in combined annual revenue
▪ **$16.24 BILLION** in combined assets
▪ **$187 MILLION** in combined officer compensation
▪ AARP alone is $1.81B - ~24% of the total. Without AARP: $5.95B
▪ 51 member orgs run paired (c)(3) charity + (c)(4) lobbying entities
▪ 113 of 221 (51%) entities filed IRS Schedule R (related-org disclosure)
Everything below is sourced to public Form 990 filings. None of it is allegation; all of it is what the orgs themselves disclosed to the IRS.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is a coalition of 260 member organizations - civil rights groups, labor unions, faith communities, disability advocacy, women's orgs, LGBTQ orgs. Most US advocacy money flows through this network in some form.
I pulled the most recent IRS Form 990 for every national entity in the coalition (293 entities, since 51 members operate paired (c)(3)/(c)(4) structures). 242 of 260 members matched - 93% coverage, full data on national-level entities only (state chapters excluded).
Headline numbers across the coalition:
▪ **$7.94 BILLION** in combined annual revenue
▪ **$16.24 BILLION** in combined assets
▪ **$187 MILLION** in combined officer compensation
▪ AARP alone is $1.81B - ~24% of the total. Without AARP: $5.95B
▪ 51 member orgs run paired (c)(3) charity + (c)(4) lobbying entities
▪ 113 of 221 (51%) entities filed IRS Schedule R (related-org disclosure)
Everything below is sourced to public Form 990 filings. None of it is allegation; all of it is what the orgs themselves disclosed to the IRS.
The largest single LCCHR member entities by annual revenue, most recent FY filed:
▪ AARP - $1.81B (FY2022)
▪ National Education Association - $388M
▪ Planned Parenthood Federation of America - $378M
▪ Teach For America - $276M
▪ Open Society Policy Center - $257M
▪ SEIU International - $254M
▪ International Union UAW - $245M
▪ UFCW International - $240M
▪ ACLU Foundation - $185M
▪ AARP Foundation - $175M
▪ Sierra Club - $173M
▪ Southern Poverty Law Center - $170M
▪ ACLU (the c4) - $147M
▪ AFSCME International - $140M
▪ AFL-CIO - $118M
The top 15 alone account for roughly $5.4B of the $7.94B coalition total. After AARP and the major labor unions, you reach Planned Parenthood, Teach For America, and the various ACLU/Sierra Club-style paired ops.
The labor unions are notable: SEIU, UAW, UFCW, AFSCME each pull in $140M-$254M annually. That's the membership-dues river - billions of dollars flowing from individual workers through international unions, a sizable chunk of which funds advocacy and political activity in this coalition.
▪ AARP - $1.81B (FY2022)
▪ National Education Association - $388M
▪ Planned Parenthood Federation of America - $378M
▪ Teach For America - $276M
▪ Open Society Policy Center - $257M
▪ SEIU International - $254M
▪ International Union UAW - $245M
▪ UFCW International - $240M
▪ ACLU Foundation - $185M
▪ AARP Foundation - $175M
▪ Sierra Club - $173M
▪ Southern Poverty Law Center - $170M
▪ ACLU (the c4) - $147M
▪ AFSCME International - $140M
▪ AFL-CIO - $118M
The top 15 alone account for roughly $5.4B of the $7.94B coalition total. After AARP and the major labor unions, you reach Planned Parenthood, Teach For America, and the various ACLU/Sierra Club-style paired ops.
The labor unions are notable: SEIU, UAW, UFCW, AFSCME each pull in $140M-$254M annually. That's the membership-dues river - billions of dollars flowing from individual workers through international unions, a sizable chunk of which funds advocacy and political activity in this coalition.
LCCHR member entities split across multiple IRS tax categories. Each has different rules:
▪ **501(c)(3) charitable** (~250 entities): donations tax-deductible, lobbying limited
▪ **501(c)(4) social welfare/lobby** (~26 entities): donations NOT deductible, unlimited lobbying allowed
▪ **501(c)(5) labor union** (~6 entities): member dues, separate DOL filing regime
▪ **501(c)(6) professional** (1 entity): trade/professional associations
▪ **501(c)(7) sorority/fraternity** (~9 entities): the historic AKA / Delta / Omega / Iota / etc.
The (c)(4) count is small in count but disproportionately important: most of the political-action firepower of the coalition flows through these entities, which can engage in unlimited lobbying that (c)(3) charities legally cannot.
The labor unions (NEA, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, UAW, UFCW) operate under (c)(5) status, which means they file Form 990 with the IRS AND Form LM-2 with the Department of Labor - DOUBLE disclosure regime. This is one of the only sectors with this overlap.
▪ **501(c)(3) charitable** (~250 entities): donations tax-deductible, lobbying limited
▪ **501(c)(4) social welfare/lobby** (~26 entities): donations NOT deductible, unlimited lobbying allowed
▪ **501(c)(5) labor union** (~6 entities): member dues, separate DOL filing regime
▪ **501(c)(6) professional** (1 entity): trade/professional associations
▪ **501(c)(7) sorority/fraternity** (~9 entities): the historic AKA / Delta / Omega / Iota / etc.
The (c)(4) count is small in count but disproportionately important: most of the political-action firepower of the coalition flows through these entities, which can engage in unlimited lobbying that (c)(3) charities legally cannot.
The labor unions (NEA, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, UAW, UFCW) operate under (c)(5) status, which means they file Form 990 with the IRS AND Form LM-2 with the Department of Labor - DOUBLE disclosure regime. This is one of the only sectors with this overlap.
1/4 So, here's what I've heard from Democratic Party sources:
1. A source tells me an NYT story is coming that is "worse than sexting but survivable" (this led to me posting squidward banging his head)
2. A different source tells me that a right-wing activist ex...
1. A source tells me an NYT story is coming that is "worse than sexting but survivable" (this led to me posting squidward banging his head)
2. A different source tells me that a right-wing activist ex...
2/4 ...is planning to "go on the record" (their words) with NYT about Platner, but they don't know what she's saying.
3. The first source tells me that the story "isn't as bad" as they initially believed. Remember, they said the story "is worse than sexting but survivable".
3. The first source tells me that the story "isn't as bad" as they initially believed. Remember, they said the story "is worse than sexting but survivable".
3/4
Conclusions: I had been operating under the assumption that both people who told me about this were talking about the same story, but now I'm thinking there might be two separate Platner stories coming and these people each heard a different one.
Conclusions: I had been operating under the assumption that both people who told me about this were talking about the same story, but now I'm thinking there might be two separate Platner stories coming and these people each heard a different one.
The treatment of biological health conditions as though they have a mental illness origin is totally unacceptable.
The Wired article, written by a professor of religion, is an ideological hit job on the very enterprise of medicine and evidence.
Par for the course for religion.
The Wired article, written by a professor of religion, is an ideological hit job on the very enterprise of medicine and evidence.
Par for the course for religion.
Medicine should aspire to have more explanatory power, evidence, and reproducibility than shamanism.
The Wired article is profoundly anti-scientific.
The Wired article is profoundly anti-scientific.
The pathophysiology of long covid is not psychogenic.
Long covid isn’t a mental illness.
It’s a multi-system disruption of endocrinology, energy systems, vasculature, and organs. This is verified in >400K studies, many indexed with MRI and biomarkers.
nature.com/articles/s4157…
Long covid isn’t a mental illness.
It’s a multi-system disruption of endocrinology, energy systems, vasculature, and organs. This is verified in >400K studies, many indexed with MRI and biomarkers.
nature.com/articles/s4157…
ALERT: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) files court brief urging judge to HALT Trump slush fund
Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"
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Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"
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In asking court to intervene and stop the Trump sklush fund, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) emphasize that Trump *again* refused to abandon during news conference yesterday
Sen. Cassidy & Booker's court filing:
"As sitting U.S. Senators, amici are duty-bound to protect the institutional authority of Congress and its duly-elected representatives. The Constitution of the United States directs the power of the purse to Congress alone"
"As sitting U.S. Senators, amici are duty-bound to protect the institutional authority of Congress and its duly-elected representatives. The Constitution of the United States directs the power of the purse to Congress alone"
Marriage has six stages,
But most couples give up at stage three.
Stage 1: The Honeymoon Stage....
But most couples give up at stage three.
Stage 1: The Honeymoon Stage....
In the honeymoon stage, everything feels easy.
You both try harder.
You forgive faster. You overlook flaws because you're still learning each other.
Love feels automatic because life hasn't tested you yet.
This is where everyone wants to stay.
Everything is new. Every touch is electric.
Every conversation feels like a discovery.
The hormones are flooding your system.
You feel like you've finally found what you've been looking for.
This stage is beautiful. But it is not real. It is nature's way of bonding you before reality sets in.
You both try harder.
You forgive faster. You overlook flaws because you're still learning each other.
Love feels automatic because life hasn't tested you yet.
This is where everyone wants to stay.
Everything is new. Every touch is electric.
Every conversation feels like a discovery.
The hormones are flooding your system.
You feel like you've finally found what you've been looking for.
This stage is beautiful. But it is not real. It is nature's way of bonding you before reality sets in.
Stage 2: The Reality Stage
This is where the newness wears off.
The hormones settle.
You start to notice the things you overlooked.
He leaves his socks everywhere.
She needs more reassurance than you expected.
The conversations become less about dreams and more about logistics.
This stage is where many couples panic.
They think something has gone wrong.
Nothing has gone wrong.
You are just meeting the real person behind the chemistry.
This is where the real work begins.
This is where the newness wears off.
The hormones settle.
You start to notice the things you overlooked.
He leaves his socks everywhere.
She needs more reassurance than you expected.
The conversations become less about dreams and more about logistics.
This stage is where many couples panic.
They think something has gone wrong.
Nothing has gone wrong.
You are just meeting the real person behind the chemistry.
This is where the real work begins.
1. FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Prior to January 2018, open discussion of the FISA Court was technically not allowed. Legally forbidden because everything around this issue was considered "classified" and a "national security interest."
Prior to January 2018, open discussion of the FISA Court was technically not allowed. Legally forbidden because everything around this issue was considered "classified" and a "national security interest."
2. If you pull back from the granular debate and think about it, none of the FISA justifications align with reality.
The FISA system is a designated secret court system that is said to only pertain to “foreign nationals.”
Ok, so if we accept the premise. Foreign nationals do not have U.S. constitutional protection. So why does the surveillance and intercept of them, and/or their communications, require secret U.S. courts?
The foundational premise of the FISC doesn't make sense from a constitutional perspective.
However, if you think about FISA and FISC as a false premise, then the actual purpose of both becomes something else entirely.
The FISA system is a designated secret court system that is said to only pertain to “foreign nationals.”
Ok, so if we accept the premise. Foreign nationals do not have U.S. constitutional protection. So why does the surveillance and intercept of them, and/or their communications, require secret U.S. courts?
The foundational premise of the FISC doesn't make sense from a constitutional perspective.
However, if you think about FISA and FISC as a false premise, then the actual purpose of both becomes something else entirely.
3. In reality, the Secret Court is needed because it’s not foreign nationals that need to be navigated in the American surveillance system. Rather, it’s the American citizenry engagement within that surveillance that requires a different legal approach.
Why should an American citizen suddenly have their constitutional protections switched from a normal U.S. Federal Court to a secret U.S. Federal FISA court simply because their contact -perhaps inadvertent- skims up against a foreign national?
The constitutional protection for an American (the 4th amendment to the Constitution) should not be arbitrary, depending on your contact.
Either you have Fourth Amendment protection, or you do not. If you are American, you do. So, what gives?
A regular federal court judge can decide on the issue of a Title-1 warrant, that can also be filed under seal if the exploration of the contact is a genuine concern.
There is no need for a secret court for either foreign nationals or U.S citizens. The former do not have constitutional protection, and the latter should not lose it under arbitrary determinations of U.S govt officials.
That’s the entire predicate that underpins the 4th amendment.
Why should an American citizen suddenly have their constitutional protections switched from a normal U.S. Federal Court to a secret U.S. Federal FISA court simply because their contact -perhaps inadvertent- skims up against a foreign national?
The constitutional protection for an American (the 4th amendment to the Constitution) should not be arbitrary, depending on your contact.
Either you have Fourth Amendment protection, or you do not. If you are American, you do. So, what gives?
A regular federal court judge can decide on the issue of a Title-1 warrant, that can also be filed under seal if the exploration of the contact is a genuine concern.
There is no need for a secret court for either foreign nationals or U.S citizens. The former do not have constitutional protection, and the latter should not lose it under arbitrary determinations of U.S govt officials.
That’s the entire predicate that underpins the 4th amendment.
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce an American conspiracy theorist, podcaster & antisemite, Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO). She’s best known for spreading conspiracy theories, attacking Ukraine, promoting pro-Kremlin BS, and becoming a favorite of Russian state media.
1/21
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Candace started her career as an intern at Vogue magazine but later moved into political commentary. Her early career focused on criticizing Republicans, calling their antics “bat-shit crazy.” In 2016, her blog even published an article about Trump’s penis size.
2/21
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That same year, she launched a doxxing website called SocialAutopsy. In response, people began posting Owens’s personal information online. During the controversy, she gained support from figures such as @Nero and @Cernovich. And just like that, she became a conservative.
3/21
3/21
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Three world leaders visited India in two weeks-
Cyprus
Myanmar
Venezuela
A Mediterranean EU chair, an isolated junta chief, a state in political limbo. All flew to New Delhi. That is not a coincidence
It is a pattern
Here is what India is actually doing
1/10
Three world leaders visited India in two weeks-
Cyprus
Myanmar
Venezuela
A Mediterranean EU chair, an isolated junta chief, a state in political limbo. All flew to New Delhi. That is not a coincidence
It is a pattern
Here is what India is actually doing
1/10
Cyprus May 20-23
Christodoulides came not just as Cyprus president. He came as sitting chair of the EU Council. The India-EU Free Trade Agreement was concluded in January 2026, covering 2 billion people. Cyprus is the EU's current chair. India used this visit to operationalize that deal fast
Christodoulides came not just as Cyprus president. He came as sitting chair of the EU Council. The India-EU Free Trade Agreement was concluded in January 2026, covering 2 billion people. Cyprus is the EU's current chair. India used this visit to operationalize that deal fast
Cyprus - what India got
A Strategic Partnership upgrade, defence MoUs, and Cyprus backing India's entry into the IMEC corridor. Cyprus is already a top-10 investor in India. With the FTA live, it becomes India's preferred hub for shipping, fintech, and trade access deep into Europe.
A Strategic Partnership upgrade, defence MoUs, and Cyprus backing India's entry into the IMEC corridor. Cyprus is already a top-10 investor in India. With the FTA live, it becomes India's preferred hub for shipping, fintech, and trade access deep into Europe.
“Visions?”
“Visits?”
“#VisitHollandBookNow?”
“#EarthsflatExplorers??”
#TruthWillOut!
#SystemsWillHeal!
#TurnToJesusChrist!!!
⛬
[ #Earthsflat ? ]
[ #AsEarthsflatTowers ? ]
[ #ASongOfElfsAndGnomes ? ]
"#Agartha?"
cccooommmeee ooonnn
L'Arctique, encore…
Au @SPIEF, Kirill Dmitriev, PDG du Fonds Souverain russe (américanophile, passé par @Harvard) a déclaré que 🇷🇺 et 🇺🇸 signeront demain un MoU pour la construction d'un tunnel sous le détroit de Béring, entre le Tchoukotka et l'Alaska.
Au @SPIEF, Kirill Dmitriev, PDG du Fonds Souverain russe (américanophile, passé par @Harvard) a déclaré que 🇷🇺 et 🇺🇸 signeront demain un MoU pour la construction d'un tunnel sous le détroit de Béring, entre le Tchoukotka et l'Alaska.
Depuis les années 50, l'URSS a proposé de nombreux projets d'infrastructure et de géoingénierie pour le détroit de Béring.
Tunnel, pont, barrage, barrage + réchauffement artificiel des eaux, cable électrique à très haute tension…
Rien n'a jamais débouché, jusqu'à Trump ?
Tunnel, pont, barrage, barrage + réchauffement artificiel des eaux, cable électrique à très haute tension…
Rien n'a jamais débouché, jusqu'à Trump ?
Tout ça, j'en parlais dans mon livre de 2019 "Les Mondes polaires" car, à l'époque déjà, Donald Trump n'était pas hermétique à l'idée d'artificialiser le détroit de Béring en partenariat avec la Russie.
👉 puf.com/les-mondes-pol…
👉 puf.com/les-mondes-pol…
Cualquier documental que presente a Diane Dimond como fuente fiable para establecer un veredicto sobre el caso de Michael Jackson, carece de rigor informativo honesto y muestra una clara intención de engañar al espectador desde el primer momento.
🧵HILO 🧵
🧵HILO 🧵
El historial de fraudes protagonizados por Diane Dimond va desde promocionar víctimas falsas en TV y presentar evidencias fabricadas y pagar sumas desorbitadas a testigos desacreditados, hasta pactar de forma ilícita con el fiscal Tom Sneddon para violar el secreto de sumario y distorsionar lo ocurrido en el juicio de 2005, con el único fin de manipular y envenenar a la opinión pública para rentabilizar sus índices de audiencia.
Empezamos por el principio...
1993. Dimond, entonces reportera del programa sensacionalista Hard Copy, se convirtió en la principal correa de transmisión de las filtraciones de la fiscalía en el caso Chandler contra Jackson. Dimond perpetuó en TV un mito que perdura hasta hoy: que la descripción física de las intimidades de Jackson hecha por Jordan Chandler (por su padre, en realidad) coincidía "perfectamente" con las fotos de la inspección de Jackson. Esto es una mentira documentada.
1993. Dimond, entonces reportera del programa sensacionalista Hard Copy, se convirtió en la principal correa de transmisión de las filtraciones de la fiscalía en el caso Chandler contra Jackson. Dimond perpetuó en TV un mito que perdura hasta hoy: que la descripción física de las intimidades de Jackson hecha por Jordan Chandler (por su padre, en realidad) coincidía "perfectamente" con las fotos de la inspección de Jackson. Esto es una mentira documentada.
3 juin 2026
#MitterrandALaRadio
« Je t’aide, moi non plus »
Les relations entre Mitterrand et Chirac, à partir du dîner chez Édith Cresson, le 25 octobre 1980, jusqu’à l’hommage de Chirac le 8 janvier 1996 : « Je souhaite que nous méditions son message »
#AffairesSensibles, Fabrice Drouelle, avec #JeanGlavany 🧵1/15
radiofrance.fr/franceinter/po…
#MitterrandALaRadio
« Je t’aide, moi non plus »
Les relations entre Mitterrand et Chirac, à partir du dîner chez Édith Cresson, le 25 octobre 1980, jusqu’à l’hommage de Chirac le 8 janvier 1996 : « Je souhaite que nous méditions son message »
#AffairesSensibles, Fabrice Drouelle, avec #JeanGlavany 🧵1/15
radiofrance.fr/franceinter/po…
I. Chronologie
II. Enseignements
I. 1. Du dîner du 25/10/80 à la victoire du 10 mai 81
De ce dîner secret chez E. Cresson, nul ne sait rien, pas même JG, sauf que FM et JC ont parlé 1/2 h seuls. On suppose une complicité tactique contre l’adversaire commun, Giscard. 2/15
II. Enseignements
I. 1. Du dîner du 25/10/80 à la victoire du 10 mai 81
De ce dîner secret chez E. Cresson, nul ne sait rien, pas même JG, sauf que FM et JC ont parlé 1/2 h seuls. On suppose une complicité tactique contre l’adversaire commun, Giscard. 2/15
2. Du 10 mai 81 au 16 mars 86, le président et le maire de Paris sont devenus rivaux et s’affrontent par le verbe, surtout après le tournant de mars 83.
FM remet JC à sa place : « M. le maire » ;
JC lui reproche d’avoir, telle la cigale, « tout sacrifié à l’immédiat » 3/15
FM remet JC à sa place : « M. le maire » ;
JC lui reproche d’avoir, telle la cigale, « tout sacrifié à l’immédiat » 3/15
“Visions?”
“Visits?”
“#VisitHollandBookNow?”
“#EarthsflatExplorers??”
#TruthWillOut!
#SystemsWillHeal!
#TurnToJesusChrist!!!
⛬
[ #Earthsflat ? ]
[ #AsEarthsflatTowers ? ]
[ #ASongOfElfsAndGnomes ? ]
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ssssssssshhh...
I hadn't slept a full night in 3 months.
Melatonin. Magnesium. Meditation apps. Nothing worked.
A friend pushed me to see a sleep doctor. I expected blood tests, a sleep study, maybe a CPAP referral.
He didn't even look at me.
He looked at my iPhone and said:
"There are 3 settings turned ON right now keeping your brain awake at 3 AM. 9 out of 10 patients I see have the same 3 toggles."
Me: "So my own iPhone is the thing keeping me awake?"
He didn't answer.
Here's everything he showed me (save this, your sleep depends on it):
Melatonin. Magnesium. Meditation apps. Nothing worked.
A friend pushed me to see a sleep doctor. I expected blood tests, a sleep study, maybe a CPAP referral.
He didn't even look at me.
He looked at my iPhone and said:
"There are 3 settings turned ON right now keeping your brain awake at 3 AM. 9 out of 10 patients I see have the same 3 toggles."
Me: "So my own iPhone is the thing keeping me awake?"
He didn't answer.
Here's everything he showed me (save this, your sleep depends on it):
Setting #1: Always-On Display
Open Settings → Display & Brightness → Always-On Display.
What it does: Keeps a dim version of your lock screen visible at all times, even when your phone is face down or face up on the nightstand. Available on iPhone 14 Pro and later.
The pro side (honest): Useful during the day. Quick glance at the time, notifications, calendar, widgets without unlocking. Saves dozens of pickups per day. I use it during work hours.
The con side (the sleep problem): That dim glow runs all night long. Even at 1 to 2 lux, it can interfere with melatonin if your phone is within arm's reach of your face.
Open Settings → Display & Brightness → Always-On Display.
What it does: Keeps a dim version of your lock screen visible at all times, even when your phone is face down or face up on the nightstand. Available on iPhone 14 Pro and later.
The pro side (honest): Useful during the day. Quick glance at the time, notifications, calendar, widgets without unlocking. Saves dozens of pickups per day. I use it during work hours.
The con side (the sleep problem): That dim glow runs all night long. Even at 1 to 2 lux, it can interfere with melatonin if your phone is within arm's reach of your face.
The smart fix (not "just turn it off"):
The honest middle ground. Inside Always-On Display settings, turn ON these two toggles:
✓ Show Notifications → OFF at night
✓ Show Wallpaper → OFF
✓ Show Widgets → OFF
Or set a Sleep Focus (I have cover this in tweet 7) that automatically turns Always-On Display OFF at bedtime and ON when you wake up.
Best of both worlds. Useful during the day. Silent and dark at night.
The honest middle ground. Inside Always-On Display settings, turn ON these two toggles:
✓ Show Notifications → OFF at night
✓ Show Wallpaper → OFF
✓ Show Widgets → OFF
Or set a Sleep Focus (I have cover this in tweet 7) that automatically turns Always-On Display OFF at bedtime and ON when you wake up.
Best of both worlds. Useful during the day. Silent and dark at night.
Would an LLM tell you if it’s gaming your eval? Often, no. But we can still catch the model thinking about it.
New research: we measure how close a model comes to saying it’s being tested. This detects eval awareness with 10× to 100× fewer samples than monitoring model outputs.🧵
New research: we measure how close a model comes to saying it’s being tested. This detects eval awareness with 10× to 100× fewer samples than monitoring model outputs.🧵
The idea is simple: we estimate how likely the model is to say it's being tested (throughout the chain of thought), by reading directly from its next-token logits.
If this probability really captures eval awareness, it should spike on prompts from evaluations. It does: monitoring this probability using a single rollout separates evaluation from real-user prompts better than an LLM judge reading 100 rollouts.
Ratios are essential to analyze a company.
Here are 12 Financial Ratios every investor should understand:
Here are 12 Financial Ratios every investor should understand:
1. Interest coverage: ratio used to determine how easily a company can pay the interest on its outstanding debt.
The higher this ratio, the better.
Seek for companies with an interest coverage ratio higher than 5.
The higher this ratio, the better.
Seek for companies with an interest coverage ratio higher than 5.
2. Net Debt / EBITDA
Shows how many years it takes for a company to pay off its debt when it would use all EBITDA to pay down debt.
The lower this ratio, the better.
You want the Net Debt / EBITDA to be lower than 4.
Shows how many years it takes for a company to pay off its debt when it would use all EBITDA to pay down debt.
The lower this ratio, the better.
You want the Net Debt / EBITDA to be lower than 4.
1/ Now that we're running out of data, how do you optimally scale multi-epoch pretraining to hundreds of epochs?
Our first paper from Q! q0 trains a population of models, instead of single model that saturates fast, reaching a dramatically lower loss at *every* epoch budget.
w/ @bishmdl76 @akshayvegesna @ShmuelBerman
Our first paper from Q! q0 trains a population of models, instead of single model that saturates fast, reaching a dramatically lower loss at *every* epoch budget.
w/ @bishmdl76 @akshayvegesna @ShmuelBerman
2/ Paper:
q0 is built on one intuition, motivated by Solomonoff induction: instead of training one perfect model, train a population of diverse models and aggregate predictions. Everything in the algorithm follows from this one goal of efficiently training a population. It comes down to three core primitives:arxiv.org/abs/2606.03938
q0 is built on one intuition, motivated by Solomonoff induction: instead of training one perfect model, train a population of diverse models and aggregate predictions. Everything in the algorithm follows from this one goal of efficiently training a population. It comes down to three core primitives:arxiv.org/abs/2606.03938
3/ Primitive 1: fast exploration of weight space. Training many models from scratch to build a population is too expensive. Inspired by FGE, we collect many models along a few parallel cyclic trajectories. The mechanism is anti-correlating weight decay with the LR, so each cycle explores early (high LR, low WD) then settles into a low-norm basin right before we snapshot.
Primitive 2: model capability compounding via chain distillation. Independently trained models all come out about equally good, so adding more doesn't lift quality. We train each model against its predecessor as a frozen teacher (KL on soft targets), so every model improves on the last and the population compounds.
Primitive 3: a learned generalization prior. Uniform averaging wastes the good members. We fit one softmax weighting over models on a held-out set by minimizing ensemble loss, then reuse it to pick and weight the best K models for any inference budget.
Primitive 2: model capability compounding via chain distillation. Independently trained models all come out about equally good, so adding more doesn't lift quality. We train each model against its predecessor as a frozen teacher (KL on soft targets), so every model improves on the last and the population compounds.
Primitive 3: a learned generalization prior. Uniform averaging wastes the good members. We fit one softmax weighting over models on a held-out set by minimizing ensemble loss, then reuse it to pick and weight the best K models for any inference budget.