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Dec 17
SitRep - 16/12/25 - Zelensky visited The Netherlands

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky visited the Netherlands and Russia is trying to cover up the strike on a Black Sea Fleet submarine.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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Dec 17
@DjOmegaMVP @atrupar 1).
โ€ž @JDVance tripled down on his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating local pets in Springfield, Ohio, while also admitting: Image
@DjOmegaMVP @atrupar @JDVance 2).
ยปIf I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m going to doยซ.โ€

Sept. 15, 2024

@RollingStone archive.ph/Wkhbx
@DjOmegaMVP @atrupar @JDVance @RollingStone Please unroll @threadreaderapp. Thank you in advance ๐“ƒ 
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Dec 17
#MadrasHighCourt will continue hearing a batch of appeals challenging the order of single judge allowing lighting of lamp at the stone pillar (deepathoon) in #Thiruparankundram hills Image
The bench of Justice G Jayachandran and Justice KK Ramakrishnan is hearing the appeals
#Thiruparankundram
The appellants had concluded their arguments yesterday. The respondents (writ petitioners before the single judge) began their reply submissions
#Thiruparankundram
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Dec 17
@rothschildmd 1).
โ€žThough this post was a fake, @realDonaldTrump repeatedly pledged during his campaign to immediately begin lowering prices on groceries, gas and other consumer-related purchases.
@rothschildmd @realDonaldTrump 2).
He also told @kwelkernbc (at 36:38) in Dec. 2024, following his election victory, ยปI won on the border, and I won on groceries. Itสผs a very simple word, groceries, like almost you know, who uses the word? I started using the word.
@rothschildmd @realDonaldTrump @kwelkernbc 3).
The groceriesยซ. In the same thought, he continued, ยปAnd I won an election based on that. Weสผre going to bring those prices way downยซ.
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Dec 17
Korean won incredibly weak right now -- at risk of overshooting fundamentals. US return exceptionalism has generated outflows, but Korea underlying financial position remains solid

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Korean memory chips aren't selling at the same premium as Taiwanese made GPUs, but Korea's current account surplus is huge again -- $110b plus

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Korean FX reserves are amply at $400b -- and they would be a lot bigger if Korea hadn't more or less decided to let the NPS accumulate a massive foreign equity portfolio

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Dec 17
Posted on FB about my disabled vet husband, Conrad Rockenhaus, dying from deliberate medical neglect at FCI Milan ().

A woman named Kristin Grodi commented blaming me.

I explained the trauma/PTSD from the retaliation raids & why visiting exacerbates it. rockenhaus.comImage
Then someone warned in comments: Kristin has mutual friends who are COs at FCI Milan @OfficialFBOP.

Kristin Grodi immediately deleted her comment.

This is how monitoring & subtle intimidation works when you speak out. Theyโ€™re watching.

Pattern of logged retaliation continues.
@OfficialFBOP @threadreaderapp unroll
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Dec 17
Happy to finally share what I have been working on for some time now.

Introducing ยปLudicยซ โ€“ an LLM-RL library for the era of experience.

While there are now a lot of LLM-RL codebases, even many good ones, I want to share my very idiosyncratic way to think about LLM-RL. Image
Ludic is not meant to be the next big framework that everyone will use to train frontier models; there is no way for one individual to compete with an entire team of experienced engineers working on this full-time. What, then, is the purpose of Ludic?
I like about Ludic that there is great conceptual clarity in the way the different concepts from RL are (or can be) implemented in the LLM era. I believe that the over-all architecture is elegant โ€“ though there may still be some rough edges for now that need to be ironed out.
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Dec 17
@michaeldweiss 1).
โ€žFrom day one, Susie Wiles [1] had to grapple with another power center: @elonmusk.
โ€“ ยปHe is a complete solo actorยซ โ€“ said Wiles of Trumpโ€™s billionaire pal who led the scorched-earth blitz known as the Department of Government Efficiency.
@michaeldweiss @elonmusk 2).
Wiles described Musk as something akin to a jacked-up Nosferatu.
โ€“ ยปThe challenge with Elon is keeping up with himยซ โ€“ she told me. โ€“ ยปHeโ€™s an avowed ketamine [user].
@michaeldweiss @elonmusk 3).
And he sleeps in a sleeping bag in the EOB [Executive Office Building] in the daytime. And heโ€™s an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, itโ€™s not helpful, but he is his own personยซ [2].โ€

Dec. 16, 2025
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Dec 17
Electrostatic filtration media used to make respirators and air filters is a true marvel of science & engineering.
Odd that some think it doesn't work.
HEPA filters have been around for decades too.
HEPA filter technology actually makes it possible for you to read this post.
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"Producing the semiconductor chip that you have in
your computer, phone or tablet, is a highly sensitive process. The chip has to be fabricated
in clean rooms where HEPA filters ensure the air contains less than 1 particle per cubic foot."
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camfil.com/en/insights/liโ€ฆ
"As a comparison, most common indoor spaces have hundreds of thousands of air particles per
cubic foot."
Pretty useful tool eh?
Let's also have a look back to 1980 when a paper was written about electret filters. The type of media used in respirators:
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sciencedirect.com/science/articlโ€ฆ
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Dec 17
Just putting this out here re: mystery man Mustapha ...

From Wayback the deleted Brown subpage

web.archive.org/web/2025121615โ€ฆ

"Mustapha Kharbouch '27 is a first-year student considering concentrating in International & Public Affairs and Anthropology with a focus on the Middle East. They are a third-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon. Attaining a scholarship to attend UWC Maastricht, they have led and continue to help with community-building initiatives and social change roles. They are fond of bringing their lived experiences into academic spaces and participating in engaged scholarship. They are highly moved by questions of indigeneity, justice, and inclusion, and particularly interested in the intersection of queer studies with Palestinian studies. Mustapha is also currently the Cultural Programming Coordinator for the Global Brown Center and on the e-board of the Arab Society."
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It appears he's a verified buyer on 'WingTactical'.
(YANDEX is your friend ๐Ÿ˜)
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Here is a school interview of him on Soundcloud.
m.soundcloud.com/internationalaโ€ฆ
Does he go by They/Them?
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Dec 17
My dad, Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, was murdered on December 14, 2025, at Bondi Beach Hanukkah Lighting Festival. He was a fascinating, cheerful and kind person of many talents with an unwavering spirit. He died shielding my mum, Larisa. ๐Ÿงต Image
Born in 1938, he survived the hardships of World War II in frozen Siberia, carrying with him a lifetime of extraordinary stories of resilience, survival, and luck. ๐Ÿงต
My dad was killed simply for being Jewish at the Hanukkah family event. My mum is left without the love of her life, her hero, her protector. May his memory be a blessing.

Source: Sabina Kleytman
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Dec 17
Organizing my thoughts/observations in this thread.

In short: this reads like the perhaps predictable church family system version of "but we did the best we could," where parents/leaders want to be judged by their good intentions rather than the harmful impact.

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I perceive a lot of "mistakes were made" vibes, e.g. the structures were in formation, there wasn't standardization, things were growing, etc.

Okay and also: that is a failure of leadership. That is the building the plane while flying it ethos writ large. Who will own this? 2/
One of the most damning things about this is that ACNA administrative involvement made a complicated situation *worse* & in the end the incompetence on display from leaders means that the court is unwilling to lay the blame at Ruch's feet.

I find this unsatisfactory 3/
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