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@Gubloinvestor Until they take jobs from Canadians

Indian international students in Canada work at Fast food restaurants to get their permanent residency. Seems easy.. But what people don’t know about them is.. They are hardworking.. They have no family here.. They go through a lot due to constant changing immigration policies.. They get no meal on time.. They get no care of anyone when sick.. They have strong work ethics.. They have strong desire to contribute to the community and country.. They get exploited.. They get treatment like slave in many cases They get trapped by system.. They overpaid fees… They were lured in.. They take their youth and gain Tax slave for next 40-45 years.. i have mass respect for anyone who is trying to make it.. More power to international students who are trying to make it here…

@ihtesham2005 So he is Uzbek? Not Persian

A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today. I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The book is called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Every time you say the word algebra, you are saying his book title. Every time someone says the word algorithm, they are saying his name. Both English words come from him. Both are Latin transliterations of Arabic and of his own identity. The man did not just contribute to mathematics. He named it. Here is the part almost nobody tells you. Al-Khwarizmi was born around 780 CE in Khwarazm, in what is now Uzbekistan. He moved to Baghdad and worked at a research institution called the House of Wisdom, which during the Islamic Golden Age was the single most important center of learning on the planet. The caliph al-Mamun hired the best mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers from across three continents and put them in one building with one job. Translate, study, and produce new knowledge. Al-Khwarizmi finished his book on algebra around 820 CE. The Arabic title contained the word al-jabr, which referred to one of the two operations he used to solve equations. When the book was translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Latin world did not have a word for what he had built. So they kept his Arabic word. Al-jabr became algebra. The discipline was named after a single Arabic word in the title of a single book by a single man. The deeper insight is what he actually changed about how humans think. Before al-Khwarizmi, mathematical problems were solved geometrically. You drew shapes. You measured them. You compared areas. The Greeks had built an entire mathematical tradition on visual proofs and physical constructions. It was beautiful and limited. You could not solve a problem you could not draw. Al-Khwarizmi did something nobody had done before him at this scale. He said you could solve any problem using abstract symbols and rules. You did not need a shape. You needed a procedure. You moved terms across the equation. You cancelled like terms on both sides. You isolated the unknown. He invented the idea that mathematics is a manipulation of symbols according to rules, not a study of physical figures. That single shift made everything that came afterward possible. Calculus. Differential equations. Linear algebra. Quantum mechanics. None of it works if math is locked inside geometry. He pulled it out. The second thing he did is the one that changed how the world counted forever. He took the Hindu numeral system from Indian mathematics, refined it, and wrote a book introducing it to the Arab world. That system included the concept of zero as a placeholder, and a positional notation where the value of a digit depends on its location. Roman numerals could not do complex calculation. Hindu-Arabic numerals could. When his book on numerals was translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the word Algoritmi was just the Latin spelling of his own name. Europeans started calling the new method "doing algorism," then "running an algorithm." The word for the most important concept in computer science is literally his name in Latin. The third thing he did is the part that should haunt anyone who works in tech. His method of solving problems was systematic. Step one, do this. Step two, check that. Step three, if condition A, then do X, otherwise do Y. He wrote down procedures that could be followed by anyone, anywhere, who knew how to read. The procedure did not depend on intuition or genius. It worked because the steps worked. That is exactly what an algorithm is. A finite, deterministic procedure for solving a problem. He did not just give us the word. He gave us the entire concept of programming a thousand years before there was anything to program. When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago. The strangest part is what happens when you walk into any tech office in San Francisco or Bangalore or Lahore today. Engineers say the words algebra and algorithm hundreds of times a day. They do not know whose name they are saying. Almost nobody can spell al-Khwarizmi correctly on the first try. His original Arabic manuscript is preserved at Oxford. His book on Hindu numerals survives only in Latin translation. The Latin version was the textbook that taught medieval Europe how to count. The man who built the foundation of the AI revolution did not live to see a calculator. He died around 850 CE, a thousand years before the first electric current was sent through a wire. The civilization he built mathematics for collapsed. The library he wrote in burned. His own grave is unmarked. But every algorithm running on every machine on Earth right now still answers to his name.

@camhigby Jew

Alright, who did it?

@NewsWireLK Thank you Ranil

Deputy Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Chathuranga Abeysinghe, in a Facebook post, has highlighted government economic performance and ongoing public sector reforms, while pointing to several recent incidents as examples of systemic weaknesses. He said one of the key criticisms of the new government was an alleged lack of experience in managing the economy, but added that despite challenges in 2025, including “Trump tariffs and Ditwa,” Sri Lanka had achieved “significant economic performance in 2025.” “If this continues, the same old opposition will have to fade away for good,” he said. Abeysinghe noted that inefficiencies in public services and their vulnerability to risk and fraud would take time to address through digital transformation. “We all know government services are inefficient and vulnerable to risk and fraud. It may take many years to fix such issues through the use of digital transformation. We have started, but it will take time,” he said. He said there was a pattern where administrative inefficiencies were being used for political criticism. “The opposition now use the inefficiencies in government services to attack the political leadership,” he said. He referred to several recent issues, including problems in curriculum book printing, delays in customs clearance under a fast-track container system, coal tender processes, and vulnerabilities in Treasury-related payment systems. “All four counts are due to deficiencies in process or people in government services, and these need to be improved. Many more will get exposed,” he said. Abeysinghe added that reforms were aligned with broader governance goals. “We should improve the process and system and continue the journey on good governance, transparency and economic reforms which were the demands of Aragalaya,” he said. He also expressed hope that citizens who supported change would understand the wider reform process. “We hope that people who believed in change (60%) will see the big picture and the reforms taking place,” he added. (NewsWire)

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@DailyDarkWeb 😬😬😬

🇨🇦 UNVERIFIED: Bell Canada Data Allegedly for Sale A threat actor claims to be selling a database linked to Bell Mobility / Bell.ca, one of Canada’s largest telecom providers. Claimed size: ~1.8 million records Price: $100,000 Source: “internal network” (unverified) At this stage, there is no confirmed evidence of a breach. The actor is newly active and credibility remains unclear. ⚠️ Such listings are often exaggerated or based on previously leaked / aggregated data. DDW is monitoring the situation and will provide updates if validation emerges. #DataLeak #CyberSecurity #DarkWeb #ThreatIntel #DataBreach

@NalakaG @TheMorningLK The masses voted for the lowest level of people in Sri Lanka. Many of whom have never had any kind of work experience. What were the expectations here? Sri Lanka has always been two steps forward and one step back. So we will continue to stumble along.

Is there anyone in #lka govt seriously thinking of reputational damage their #AmateurGovernanceLK is doing to JVP/NPP alliance but also the rising erosion of public trust in democratic governance as a whole? Forthright editorial in @TheMorningLK minces no words. Worth a read, esp for regime defenders! themorning.lk/articles/AZFfa…

@Camp4 Garland pose from yoga

Your ability to move *is* your age. The deep squat is called “the anti-aging position”—one movement that improves strength and range of motion in the ankles, knees, hips, and lower back. Work up to 3 minutes each morning and I bet you’ll feel younger.

@jackpoint627 and don't even mention a nuclear power plant...

Digitalization with low government capacity may bring more problems than it solves. The digital ID is another unnecessary project that should not go ahead. See my old blog post jestforkicks.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-ne…

@SethFromColombo Sad story of Swabasha education. Nothing is free.

"Free education is the foundation of a just and equitable society" - Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara (Father of Free Education in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ) #LongLiveFreeEducation 🇱🇰 ❤️

@SPriyawickrama let's start in 1948 @anuradisanayake

It’s highly unlikely that an external actor, without internal backing, could manipulate the entire chain of command involved in foreign debt repayments. That narrative doesn’t hold up. This situation raises serious red flags and points toward the possibility of a large-scale fraud. A comprehensive forensic audit of every repayment processed under the current secretary is urgently needed.

@aselawaid @harshap

Why did the shooter Cole Allen have an IDF shirt?

@kelums @NayanaGeneva Send somebody smart to Cancun or Miami Beach to see how tourism has been developed.

@NayanaGeneva Beach is public as it must be.MY case is with the joints.

Govt must impose a hefty luxury tax for our prime beaches to kick out the low cost joints that keep feeding cheap tourism . We must capitalize on our Equatorial beaches far more than now. Free the waterfront from being overrun by cheap tourism that hugely dilute the brand value.

@Meow_LK @nimilamalee good one! NPP is going to investigate all loan repayments since 1948 @NewsCurrySL

@nimilamalee Oh, but don't worry! All Sri Lankans should focus on the holy dog touring the street! When the numbers from the French loan come out, they are going to bring down a sacred donkey to tour SL!

"We are looking at the possibility of some inside help that may have been given to an outside party to breach our system,” a senior government official told the Sunday Times. By Damith Wickremasekera, who has impeccable sources. sundaytimes.lk/260426/news/tr…

This guy in 16 minutes teaches you how to monetize a YouTube channel in just 9 days. Save it; it’ll be incredibly useful for you.

20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here cnbc.com/2026/04/24/20k…

@Watchdog_MP All Chinese...

🚨 BREAKING: Toronto Police just seized “SMS Blasters” fake cell towers never seen before in Canada. These portable devices hijack thousands of phones at once, blast fake bank/Canada Post texts, and knock out real service (even 911 calls). Tens of thousands of phones hit. Over 13 MILLION disruptions. Three men charged 🇨🇳 • Dafeng Lin, 27, of Hamilton • Junmin Shi, 25, of Markham • Weitong Hu, 21, of Markham This is next-level cyber crime on our streets. Stay alert. Never click surprise links. #Toronto #CyberCrime #ScamAlert