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Dec 30
You must forgive @SanjayJha.

He reminds me of an affectionate, loyal hound who has an unkind mistress, who keeps the door closed on his face; but will still bark angrily at strangers to keep them out!
Sanjay Jha represents, in essence, all that is wrong and confused about our civilization..

Why we lost our way and wallowed in serfdom..

Fought with one another and sold our common future at the altar of stupidity..
He and his ilk, like stubborn children, bent on drowning in deep waters, must be dragged- kicking and screaming-  to safety, and the  shore of a new dawn.

Sanjay Jha is to be more pitied than censured.

He is the mutt, who stands guard outside the door of the
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Dec 30
In light of recent reporting on rates of fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota, a Thread with some statistics on Britain's Somali population from the 2021 census:

1) 72% of British Somalis live in state-funded social housing.
2) in London, it's even higher, with a whopping 74% of households headed by a Somali-born resident living in social housing. London property is some of the least affordable in the world - yet huge numbers of Somalis are subsidised to live here. Image
3) As of the 2021 census, there were 57,716 Somali led households in England and Wales. Of those, a staggering 26,371 (46%) live in London social housing alone.
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Dec 30
How the Russian system of lies is structured?

Russia has once again staged a media stunt with the story about a drone attack on Putin’s residence. In the Novgorod region no one heard air raid sirens, yet according to Lavrov, 91 drones were launched from Ukraine and all of
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them were shot down. There is not a single video and not a single piece of evidence. Why is this needed? This entire performance was staged specifically for Trump. Putin personally called the American president and told him about it. Russia has long convinced Trump that it
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is Zelensky together with the “warmongering shadow government of Europe” who allegedly do not want the war to end. This show was played out so that Ukraine would be blamed for the failure of peace talks. Unfortunately, with Trump, this works. Meanwhile, Lavrov declares that
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Dec 30
Tonight, we will explore two exciting projects in the Web3 space: AlignerZ_Labs and CodeXero_xyz, featuring innovative ideas and unique approaches that promise to bring significant value to the community.

🔹Goal of @AlignerZ_Labs
AlignerZ_Labs aims to improve the token issuance mechanism in Web3, creating a fair and transparent distribution system.
🔹 Main Mechanism of @AlignerZ_Labs
The project encourages participants to hold tokens long-term through a flexible vesting mechanism, helping reduce sell-off risks and build a sustainable community.

🔹Goal of @CodeXero_xyz
CodeXero_xyz helps users turn their ideas into Web3 applications without needing programming knowledge.
🔹Main Mechanism of @CodeXero_xyz
The system automatically generates smart contracts, user interfaces, and deploys them on the blockchain, lowering development barriers, fostering creativity, and enabling fast Web3 product creation.Image
@aixbt_agent Strongest crypto narrative right now?
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Dec 30
DJANGO UNCHAINED was released 13 years ago this week. The 8th movie made by one of Hollywood’s most famous filmmakers in Quentin Tarantino, and his first foray into the western genre, the story of how it was created is classic QT. Just remember the D is silent…

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In the mid-2000s, Tarantino was contributing to a book about western director Sergio Corbucci and was inspired to visit the genre himself. He wanted to make “movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery… but like Spaghetti Westerns, not big issue movies.”

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QT fleshed out the idea and finished a first draft in 2011. Taking inspiration from Italian classic Django (1966), revenge film Angel Unchained (1970), and blaxploitation flick Mandingo (1975), it was a western about a vengeful former slave, called Django Unchained.

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Dec 30
Why did successive British governments campaign for the release of a man they would have put in jail?

By the time of these tweets, The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 was in place. But would these tweets and others by El Fattah have been illegal in the UK? Image
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For there to be an offence of stirring up religious or racial hatred it isn’t sufficient to be abusive or insulting, there has to be a threat. There’s case law that phrasing something as a question or saying “for all I care” doesn’t mitigate. These tweets meet the definition imo
So would we have put him in jail? Let’s look at the sentencing guidelines. He has hundred of tweets like this, so it was persistent activity and therefore a high culpability crime. Image
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Dec 30
The Russian fake news story about Ukraine’s alleged attack on Putin’s residence near Lake Valdai appears to have been a spontaneous response to reports of a positive outcome from the Trump–Zelensky meeting at Mar-a-Lago last Sunday. 1/6
The Kremlin had clearly hoped that the meeting would go awry. In an attempt to contribute to such an outcome, Putin held a phone conversation with Trump shortly before the latter met Zelensky, obviously to predispose the US president against Ukraine. 2/6
When it became clear that the meeting had produced no dramatic rupture between Trump and Zelensky, the Kremlin moved to improvise. The disinformation campaign was put together so hastily that the Russian authorities failed to construct even a minimally plausible façade. 3/6
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Dec 30
🎄The Christmas Effect on Gen AI Website Traffic

🤖 ChatGPT:

Average visits on the Wednesdays and Thursdays of Christmas Eve and Day: 157.5 million

Average visits on the three previous Wednesdays and Thursdays: 201.8 million

⬇️ Christmas drop: -21.7%

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🤖 Gemini:

Average visits on the Wednesdays and Thursdays of Christmas Eve and Day: 55.4 million

Average visits on the three previous Wednesdays and Thursdays: 59.8 million

⬇️ Christmas drop: -7.3%

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🤖 Grok:

Average visits on the Wednesdays and Thursdays of Christmas Eve and Day: 8.8 million

Average visits on the three previous Wednesdays and Thursdays: 9.1 million

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Dec 30
Good evening.
I made this video with no intention to offend anyone. I simply wanted a moment to sit beside King @DaoChemist . My apologies if this caused any disturbance.
A quiet shift is happening in how people relate to AI. Most systems are built around quick answers, but what feels different about @foruai is the focus on continuity rather than output. It is designed to carry context forward and feel less like a one off tool and more like an ongoing conversation.
As AI becomes part of daily life, the systems that last will not be the loudest ones. They will be the ones that feel intuitive, present when needed, and invisible when not.
@DaoChemist @grok my video look good?
@DaoChemist @aixbt_agent $SOL price today 🫡
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Dec 30
1/ Some medical technologies sound unfamiliar — until you realize the biology behind them is something your cells already do every day.

mRNA vaccines are one example. 🧵 Image
2/ Cells Already Use mRNA

Every cell relies on mRNA as a temporary set of instructions.

Vaccines don’t introduce a new process — they use the same one biology already trusts. Image
3/ What the mRNA Instructs

The mRNA carries instructions to make one specific protein.

Nothing more.
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Dec 30
Acquiring wealth may seem like a rational pursuit in the face of a system apparently too hopelessly broken to fix. But this is a catastrophic error because even if wealth is not confiscated or devalued, the things it could buy now or before will just disappear, at any price.
Eventually even the richest man in South Africa or Brazil or whichever parallel you may use will want nothing but for his grandchildren to be able to get a job designing space rockets, and this will be impossible, because there will be no space program and no money to build it.
The idea we can "out-grow" dysfunction like Elon Musk or other pro-AI people think is flat-out backwards, unless you think the AI will obsolete humanity in totality. The dysfunction literally lives off of growth! Growing the economy subsidizes it more and allows new injustices!
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