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Some of you might have noticed that there have been repeated attempts to create a "two-state solution" in Eretz Israel (or "Palestine" if you want) and that it never works. The primary reason it never works is that the "Palestinian" side of it and its terror groups reject it. The reason they reject it can be found in the 1988 Hamas Charter explicitly, which declares that they recognize the entire region as having been set aside as Islamic Waqf since the seventh century. This is a doctrine within Islam and Sharia and, as you should expect, the Muslim Brotherhood and its derivatives take it extremely strictly and literally. The doctrine of waqf is probably 98% of the reason why the Middle East is the way that it is with regard to the (modern) state of Israel, but almost nobody ever actually seems to recognize this. The doctrine of Waqf is roughly an Islamic land trust, although the "owner" of that land is taken literally to be Allah once it has been declared waqf. Since Allah "owns" it, it is fully "Dar al-Islam" (land of Islam) in a fully irrevocable, permanent, and inalienable way. No one can have any ownership of the land, but certain Muslims in good standing can hold stewardship of it. No one else can. It cannot be sold. It cannot be traded. It doesn't matter if it is conquered by a thousand armies. The land is viewed under Sharia as inalienably Islamic and belonging to Allah. The doctrine sees land under waqf as having been subdued or purified under Islamic doctrine. The land has been returned to its pristine state, in some sense. It is therefore regarded as an unholy defilement for anyone to make any claim upon the land, no matter how legitimate, old, or under any circumstances. To sell the land as a Muslim steward, especially to a Jew, is to incur a fatwa against you and your family (a capital offense). To occupy the land is the same. People who believe this in the way the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, etc., believe it, believe these things literally. They believe they have a holy obligation to murder anyone involved in what they see as a desecration of Allah's pristine Dar al-Islam land, and they act upon it. There is no possibility of compromise, partition, sharing, or any other such thing with people who believe this doctrine in this way. None. Ever. Under any circumstances. Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc., believe that in the late 7th century when the Muslim Caliph conquered all of Syria-Palaestina ("Palestine") and declared it waqf (specifically in part so Jews could never return), that was final and irrevocable. The case is closed. There can never be so much as a serious discussion of any change. Therefore, when the Allies, particularly British and French forces, conquered the Ottomans in 1917 and issued the Balfour Declaration, effectively taking control of the land as conquered territory under their management ("British Mandate Palestine" and "French Mandate Syria"), they had absolutely no legal standing to do so under Sharia, from the Islamist perspective. They could conquer people but not Allah or his irrevocable claim on the land. When the League of Nations ratified the Mandates in the following years, the same. When the United Nations attempted to issue a partition in 1947, the same. When Israel declared independence in 1948, the same. When the Arab armies attacked and lost the next day, this did nothing to strengthen their case for legal occupation of the land. When a million attempted partition and two-state solutions were proposed only to be rejected by the Arab Palestinians every time, this is ultimately why. Almost all the rest is window dressing and taqiyyah. The issue is seeing the land as Islamic Waqf under Sharia, to which the Muslim Islamists have submitted. The Muslim Brotherhood (thus Hamas, etc.) doctrine on submission is that you fully accept all of this as I have stated it or you are not a real Muslim at all. You are apostate, and your life is in danger, if not forfeit, unless you will change your ways, perhaps under duress. Do you understand? Either you think this way, or the MB and its affiliate terror organizations do not recognize you as a Muslim to begin with, so your opinion is as irrelevant and moot as a Westerner, a Christian, an infidel, or a Jew. If you are taking the "Palestinian" side in these conflicts or see Israel as intrinsically the aggressor, provocateur, problem, etc., in the region, you are implicitly endorsing the Sharia and the doctrine of waqf that is the overwhelming primary reason for those beliefs. Full stop. You're supporting a view only intelligible under Sharia. Waqf, the idea of Allah owning land in religious trust, is a uniquely Sharia doctrine. It does not exist anywhere else. Israel obtained nearly all the land in Eretz Israel legally. The Allied Forces (that's us, fam) beat the Central Powers in WWI, including the Ottoman Empire, and took the entire region from them. All international law recognized it, including the League of Nations and later United Nations, and no serious challenge to that legal reality was ever made. Zionists bought land there, often from Ottoman landlords, and slowly moved in. Almost all immigration was legal with the only illegal immigration being during WWII when the British limited legal immigration in order to appease the Mufti. When Britain withdrew in 1947, the United Nations suggested the partition, and only the Arabs rejected it. Under every system of law that might apply except Sharia, the people we recognize as Israelis today moved in legally. It was not "settler occupation" except under Sharia. We are not under any obligation to recognize Sharia, or, therefore, waqf. We do not need to care what they believe about ownership of that land under their religious-political doctrine, especially since they try to hide the ball behind displacement, Arab nationalism, and some claimed right to self-determination (which they lost in wars that they always started, with the exception of WWI, which the Central Powers including the Ottomans started). The fig leaf they hide waqf behind here is this claim to self-determining pan-Arab nationalism, but what it actually means to have self-determination is to be able to determine the land is irrevocably theirs under Sharia because of waqf. If you don't recognize Sharia as legitimately binding international law, then you don't recognize the "Palestinian's" claim on the land of Eretz Israel, including Judea or Samaria (the "West Bank"), or Gaza for that matter (which was held by the Egyptians). Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Everyone should hear this at least once. This is the best explanation of Western civilisation you’ll ever hear:

@StewartGreen81 @meanolkissyface @ctvottawa @ottawacity When did living within walking distance of your workplace - regardless of any disabilities an employee might have - become a mandatory after-the-fact requirement never revealed at hiring? Unreliable public transport a punishingly impractical alternative!

@meanolkissyface @ctvottawa @ottawacity Correction, federal government is the largest employer, not DND. When did parking become a “right” of employment? Do you actually think if some folks can’t park at work the City’s economy will collapse? Please.

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Een kwart van moslimjongeren in België vindt geweld tegen homo’s gerechtvaardigd (JOP Monitor). De helft van Turken in Duitsland vindt homoseksualiteit een "ziekte". De helft van Europese moslims wil geen homo's als vrienden (Koopmans). Dat zijn de studies ik gisteren LETTERLIJK citeerde in @deafspraak, met verwijzing naar o.a. @Ruud_Koop_mans. Maar Petra De Sutter snoefde dat ik daarmee alleen maar blijk gaf van "zorgwekkende vooroordelen" over moslims. Dat was het échte probleem. QED. Zo reusachtig blijft de blindheid van vele progressieven over de islam. Zulke woke ideologen staat nu aan de top van onze wetenschappelijke instellingen. vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/de-…

Data centers aren’t stealing your water. Even if the total water draw of data centers triples by 2030, they’d require just 8% of the water consumed by American golf courses. @dodgeblake interviewed @AndyMasley, the man who’s been debunking AI water doomerism. Full story 👇

Jon Haidt @jonhaidt is one of the greatest psychologists of the 21st century, having illuminated moral cognition, the relation between emotion and intellect, the perils of politicization and viewpoint homogeneity in social science, and the roots of the youth mental health decline. That NYU students should protest this wise and brilliant man as their commencement speaker is a backhand vindication of his diagnosis of what's wrong in higher ed. Our sometimes coauthor @PamelaParesky explains: Reports of The Death of 'Woke' May Be Greatly Exaggerated realcleareducation.com/articles/2026/…

One of the biggest historical scams people successfully pulled off was convincing the world that Arabs only started massacring Jews in the Land of Israel because of “occupation” and modern Israel. The 1929 Hebron Massacre alone completely destroys that narrative. On August 24, 1929, Arab mobs in Hebron slaughtered one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. There was no Israel. No IDF. No checkpoints. No “occupation.” No settlements. Just Jews. Hebron’s Jewish community had existed for centuries. Many were deeply religious families with roots going back generations, long before political Zionism even existed. But after weeks of incitement and false rumors surrounding Jewish access to holy sites in Jerusalem, Arab mobs stormed Jewish homes and began butchering civilians. Jews were stabbed, beaten, mutilated, and hacked to death with axes. Families were murdered inside their homes. Synagogues were ransacked. Children and elderly Jews were not spared. 67 Jews were murdered. Some survivors were only saved because a handful of neighbors hid Jewish families in their homes while the mobs searched the streets outside. The massacre was so horrific that the surviving Jews were evacuated by the British, effectively ending a Jewish community in Hebron that had existed for hundreds of years. And this is the part people desperately try to avoid: This happened in 1929. Before “occupation.” Before “settlements.” Before “the Nakba.” Before modern Israel existed. People can argue and complain all day about modern politics, borders, settlements, or governments. But the claim that anti-Jewish violence in the Land of Israel only began because of modern Israel falls apart the moment you look at what happened in Hebron in 1929.

Data cleaning is one of the most important parts of analytics, but it’s also one of the most ignored skills while learning SQL. Real-world datasets are messy. Missing values, duplicate rows, inconsistent text formats, extra spaces, invalid phone numbers, and outliers can completely affect reporting accuracy. SQL helps analysts clean and standardize data before it reaches dashboards, reports, or machine learning models. Strong analysts don’t just query data. They prepare reliable data for decisions. #sql

As a radiologist who was told that my job would disappear in 10 years exactly 12 years ago, let me tell you why this prediction is completely wrong. I was the Canadian clinical lead on the first commercial GE AI radiology project. I'm not a computer programer, but I understand what I'm talking about. Because the math behind AI is a probability model, if it is missing an input, it must generate a best guess to fill in that data point. Often the guess is close enough, sometimes it is comedically wrong and depending on how this error is compounded, the output can end up being ridiculously incorrect. Tasks like answering emails, research, and calculations are all within the area of competence of more sophisticated AI programs. Anything requiring innuendo or out of the box thinking is where humans are required. Will AI replace call center attendants? Almost certainly. Will it replace a lawyer working on a complex piece of litigation? Not a chance. What we saw with radiology was, that after a similar decree by someone who had no training in the field of medical imaging, there was anxiety in those who had previously expressed interest in the field. However, since that time, the demand for radiologists has exploded. We can't train enough of them fast enough to meet the clinical needs. Why? The irony is that it was partly because of AI at the field expanded so rapidly. AI algorithms allowed for MRIs to function far more efficiently creating greater volumes which necessitates more Radiologists. Medicine has also shifted towards more image and lab utilization, separate from the advent of AI. So don't worry when someone outside of your field tells you that your job will be gone and a month, a year, or a decade. As they say, Jon Snow, you know nothing.

Not only have conservatives become vanishingly rare in academia, so have centrists. That’s how complete the left’s dominance is: Even moderates are now a fringe group in academia. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/academias-le…

→ Cloud Native Systems Don’t Scale by Accident They scale because every architectural layer is intentionally designed for failure, change, and growth. Most teams focus on tools. Mature systems focus on structure. Here are 7 core layers that define modern cloud-native architecture: → Infrastructure Layer • Compute, storage, and networking from cloud providers • Elastic capacity on demand • Foundation for all workloads → Containerization Layer • Applications packaged in isolated units • Portable across environments • Eliminates configuration drift → Orchestration Layer • Automates deployment and scheduling • Handles scaling and failure recovery • Ensures system stability under load → Service Layer • Decomposed into independent services • API-driven communication model • Enables parallel development at scale → Networking Layer • Service discovery across distributed systems • Load balancing for traffic distribution • Secure service-to-service communication → Observability Layer • Logs, metrics, and distributed traces • Real-time system health visibility • Faster root cause analysis → CI/CD Layer • Continuous integration and deployment pipelines • Rapid and reliable software delivery • Reduced release risk with automation → Key Insight Cloud-native maturity is not about adopting tools. It is about aligning every layer for scalability, resilience, and velocity. P.S. Where do you see most organizations struggling today, architecture design or execution discipline? #cloud #DevOps #AWS #Developers

BREAKING NEWS: BriaCell Completes Manufacturing of Clinical Supplies of Bria-PROS+ for Prostate Cancer

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You know what PHYSICS education needs more of? Indigenous pseudoscience. This new paper wants to integrate "Indigenous Knowledge Systems" into physics classrooms to "advance epistemic justice." You see, physics is frequently characterized as "culturally neutral" and "universally valid" despite being "grounded in Western epistemology," and this cultural bias "marginalises Indigenous ways of knowing." We need a "pluriversal engagement framework that operationalizes Indigenous Knowledge Systems integration...to teach thermodynamics [and] community-based astronomy initiatives linking Indigenous cosmologies with physics concepts." By "embedding Indigenous knowledge within physics curricula in universities of technology and similar Global South contexts," we can finally get to back to what physics education is supposed to be all about: "advancing epistemic inclusion." Just think of what @SpaceX could achieve if @elonmusk integrated Indigenous Knowledge Systems into rocket design. They would be truly unstoppable!

Step 1: A Hamas-linked NGO publishes a "report" making an atrocity allegation against Israel, citing anonymous sources, internal documentation, and other organizations in the same network. Step 2: That report is submitted to UN mechanisms, the UNHRC, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur system. UN Special Rapporteurs, themselves often appointed through processes heavily influenced by the same NGO network, incorporate the NGO findings into official UN documents. Step 3: The UN citation transforms the original NGO report. It is now "a UN-backed finding," not an allegation from an organization whose chairman endorsed October 7 or whose funding sources are opaque. Step 4: The laundered claim enters the ICJ case. In South Africa's ICJ application against Israel, 45 originated with politicized NGOs with documented PFLP links. South Africa did not build an independent evidentiary case. It assembled the NGO dossier. The PFLP-linked NGO directors attended the ICJ hearings as part of the South African legal delegation. Step 5: Journalists cite the ICJ case, which cites the UN, which cites the NGO, which originally cited Hamas. By the time it reaches a reader, the chain of custody has been laundered through four institutional filters, each conferring additional authority. The Hamas talking point is now "international legal consensus." Step 6: Euro-Med's WikiRights activists embed the laundered consensus into Wikipedia, creating a persistent reference that the next journalist cites closing the loop and beginning the cycle again. That is how every single LIE about Israel and US involvement gets filtered into American political discourse. Then it gets picked up biased losers who will parrot anything that is against Israel. They exit on the right and the left. They are usually the ones screaming their heads off into the camera. Sometimes in their cars. Rinse and repeat. Don't be a sucker. Figure out where the information you are consuming comes from. Then try to understand if it has been manipulated. Then you can make your own decision but if you just blindly accept information, you are at the whim of idiots. Diabolical idiots who want to destroy Western civilization.

A few weeks ago, a former dean at the University of Utah told me she’d rather not tenure social psychologists. Her reason: she doesn’t trust the field’s findings. She has a point. I just published an essay about why so many of my colleagues seem determined to keep proving her right. A decade after the replication crisis, senior figures in psychology are still arguing the audits were flawed, the reforms were unnecessary, and everything was fine all along. Every time they say it, another smart outsider stops listening. speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/a-dean-told-…

An old and worthy insight from the Nobel laureate and originator of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, Herb Simon: Don't spend 15 minutes figuring out a shortcut that will save you 10 minutes. Information-gathering and decision-making themselves have costs, so "satisfice" rather than seeking to optimize. This op-ed by David Epstein draws out implications for life decisions. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opi…

LangChain Cheatsheet ⚡ LangChain is one of the most popular frameworks for building LLM-powered apps, RAG workflows, chatbots, and AI agents. This cheatsheet breaks down the key ideas: Core concepts → LLMs, prompts, chains, agents RAG workflow → load, chunk, embed, retrieve, generate Vector databases → FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone, Weaviate Memory types → conversation buffer, summary, window, vector memory Agent basics → choose tools, call actions, return answers Best practices → clear prompts, safe tools, structured outputs The simple idea: LangChain helps you connect LLMs + data + tools + memory into useful AI applications. Save this if you are learning AI app development, RAG, or agent workflows.

How many Western media outlets have already retracted the Hamas-fabricated claim that “70% of casualties in Gaza are women and children” — or even “75–80%,” according to the honorary PhD holder @FranceskAlbs? This utterly false statistic was used for more than two years to buttress accusations of “genocide.” In reality, the casualties in Gaza are overwhelmingly male and of fighting age, while women and children were killed at rates far below their share of the population. Does anyone care? In the Belgian and Dutch media — which repeated the “70%” blood libel repeatedly — I have seen absolutely nothing. No corrections, no retractions, not even fact-checks of Albanese’s deranged claims. Zilches. “Adult male deaths in Gaza are 3.3x higher than adult female deaths, with older teenage males similarly disproportionate at 2.8x higher. Women and children were killed at rates far below their share of the population, which definitively contradicts claims of indiscriminate bombing or deliberate targeting of women and children.”

A recent “systematic review” claiming transgender women show no meaningful strength differences from women after hormones went viral in progressive circles, but it should never have been published. It included studies that didn’t even meet its own criteria, and excluded relevant studies that did but contradicted its preferred conclusion. It made sweeping claims based on limited (and flawed) data, and one outlier study drove the headline result. This did not pass even basic expectations for scientific rigor, and yet it passed peer review in a top journal. Exercise scientist @JamesLNuzzo does the rigorous, line-by-line review this paper should have received before publication, breaking down exactly where it went wrong and why the conclusions don’t hold up. Read the full article below. 🔗realityslaststand.com/p/how-a-flawed…