

Yossi Preminger
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@ExoThinker
#VirtualReality tech evangelist since 2005. I run the biggest #VR and #AR discussion group in #Israel. I'm not a people person, but I'm a person person.



People sharing voices from inside Iran calling for humanitarian intervention are often labeled “warmongers.” Here’s an example of a common message @roxanasaberi and I have received via satellite during the war—this, from a dissident and former reformist inside Iran. 🧵👇🏼



“4. If this war had not happened, two things would have occurred: a massive wave of migration to the West, and an eruption of public anger among people who felt abandoned—possibly in the form of suicide operations against the regime’s repressive forces and its agents. Why don’t people understand that for Iranians this round of war actually began on the 8th and 9th of January, when the regime opened fire on unarmed civilians and killed tens of thousands within two nights?”


People sharing voices from inside Iran calling for humanitarian intervention are often labeled “warmongers.” Here’s an example of a common message @roxanasaberi and I have received via satellite during the war—this, from a dissident and former reformist inside Iran. 🧵👇🏼



NEW 'LORD OF THE RINGS' MOVIE Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (working title), which will go into production after "The Hunt for Gollum." The synopsis: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo - Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began." Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and franchise veteran Philippa Boyens. variety.com/2026/film/news…

NEW 'LORD OF THE RINGS' MOVIE Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (working title), which will go into production after "The Hunt for Gollum." The synopsis: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo - Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began." Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and franchise veteran Philippa Boyens. variety.com/2026/film/news…








In a British study, 11 year olds write free-form aspirational essays. You may think these are kinda useless, or at best amusing. It turns out if you make AI read them, they can predict the children's cognitive test scores pretty well. We're talking more than r = 0.70 well. This is in fact close to the reliability of some of the tests, suggesting the prediction is nearing perfection. Kinda difficult to believe, but certainly the predictions are quite good. We can thus imagine that in the future (or present), there is no need to do any cognitive tests for employment testing because the employer can simply estimate your IQ from your public posts on X. Or rather, your pre-AI public posts.





