Jen Roberts
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Jen Roberts
@JenRoberts
Founder & Curator @goldenslippers7. Freelance writer. PhD researcher: trade disruption at the dawn of the Viking Age. Climbing convert.
London Katılım Ekim 2008
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After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
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Yes it's absolutely true - the human race survived hundreds of thousands of years without vaccines.
Most people didn't reach 40 and half the babies never saw their first birthdays but hey, those were the days, right?
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🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.
The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.
Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.
The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.
What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.
Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.
We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.
This bird does 11 days.
Without a runway.
The Curious Tales@thecurioustales
🚨BREAKING: Scientists tracked a bird that flew 8,425 miles (13,560 km) without stopping even once — the longest non-stop flight ever recorded.
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Most eyes are on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. It's also worth paying attention to waters off Sri Lanka, 4,000 km away 1/4
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Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country. on.wsj.com/3ZYXCy3
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For context, their safeguards are 1) no using their AI for fully autonomous weapons and 2) no using their AI for mass surveillance on US citizens.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards, per Axios
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Apple has just published a paper with a devastating title: *The Illusion of Thinking*. And it's not a metaphor. What it demonstrates is that the AI models we use every day - yes, ones like ChatGPT - don't think. Not one bit. They just imitate doing so.
Let me explain: 🧵👇
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Worse than San Francisco is AMAZING and ought to be IMPOSSIBLE.
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Please spread the word. My bag was stolen today and inside was my ring with my grandads ashes in it. Please get me that CCTV @GWRHelp
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Can’t quite fathom what I was able to capture at Dún Laoghaire today. Biblical waves!
Only a phone shot for now as I have to go straight to work.
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They really shouldn't have blocked the King of the North's return as MP. #AndyBurnham
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@seaninsound @mattxiv I don't want to tag that mortifying journo and news site, but jeez, textbook false equivalence.
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@mattxiv This is what they’re reporting on whilst the world discusses abusive elites?! cityam.com/gb-news-huge-l…
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this is not a normal reaction to a singer asking the government to stop kidnapping immigrants and sending them to concentration camps
Ben Leo@benleo444
NEW: I went to Billie Eilish’s $3m LA pad to see if she practices what she preaches. STOLEN LAND? EVERYONE’S WELCOME? Not at Billie’s high-security home. Huge walls, security fencing, cameras and MASSIVE front gate. Rules for thee but not for me 🤔
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