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🇺🇦❗️Yale report links Russian oil sector to child deportation from Ukraine, - Reuters Russian energy giants participated in the kidnapping of 2,000 Ukrainian children. Ukrainian children were taken to at least six camps in Russia and occupied Crimea, including three camps owned by Gazprom subsidiaries, as of 2025.

@BillQueens @anemll 3090 doesn’t work with my 12G and 24G phones, perhaps it can be made to works as eGPU but I want the setup to be mobile and fit in my pocket

@anemll Just buy a 3090 why do people not just buy GPUs

Here is gemma-4-26B-A4B-it on A17 Pro chip w/8GB memory ( MacBook Neo) ~ 7 t/s running on AMX ( GPU is slower on A17) Gemma's 4 expert is x2.3 larger than Qwen See Qwen 35B below

"Had ik het allemaal maar niet gedaan. Had ik het allemaal maar laten gebeuren. Ik ga nu dood. Jullie weten dat ik dit niet ga overleven", zei #Weski ook nog.

ICYMI in 2025 (and previous years): Russian state TV said that in his second term, Trump would cut off aid to Ukraine, destroy relations with allies, disrupt internal workings of the U.S. government, lift Russian sanctions, and withdraw America from NATO. yahoo.com/news/putin-pal…

someone at ANTHROPIC just showed CLAUDE finding ZERO DAY vulnerabilities in a live conference demo claude has found zero day in Ghost, 50,000 stars on github, never had a critical security vulnerability in its entire, history... it found the blind SQL injection in 90 minutes, stole the admin api key, then did the exact, same thing to the linux kernel

Under Orbán, Hungary has already become just another Russian oblast. Recent revelations and investigations clearly show this, so let’s look at their main findings: - Hungarian FM Szijjártó has been leaking information from EU Council meetings directly to Russian FM Lavrov - The Hungarian government has wiretapped its citizens and used Pegasus spyware against journalists - Fidesz thugs are running a massive interference campaign in the Hungarian countryside, intimidating people to vote for them or lose their jobs, electricity, or food aid - These same thugs have given drug addicts drugs for their votes and provided pálinka for alcoholics so they would vote for Orbán’s candidates - Some families have even been told their kids would be taken away if they do not vote “correctly” - For diaspora voters (where Fidesz gets 95% of the vote), Orbán is sending “thank you” messages and propaganda together with the ballots - At the same time, Orbán’s masters in the Kremlin are helping him in every way they can. AI-generated fakes, fake news, disinformation, and mass commentary in crude Hungarian language. The system is run by Sergey Kiriyenko, who organizes “elections” and runs the massive disinformation machinery in Russia - Orbán also uses his thugs, titushky, to intimidate people at voting booths and rallies. This was evident at yesterday’s rally in Győr - Fidesz has filled the country with AI-generated posters of Zelenskyy. Someone counted 94 of them on the road from Budapest Airport to the city center - For years, Fidesz has gerrymandered the electoral map to benefit the party in power. And still, Orbán is losing. It seems that people are finally fed up with his shit. In case Orbán still manages to cheat his way to victory, the EU should not send another cent to Hungary, and its voting rights should be revoked immediately.

This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there). A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.

@awdebooy @DuijneElly @chrisklomp ik denk niet of iedereen, inclusief Elly, daar nu zo dankbaar voor moet zijn.. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… aan de andere kant: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@DuijneElly @chrisklomp Dank Elly, voor het bewijzen van Chris’ gelijk

@chrisklomp @Joey_Ventura_ ‘94 I designed a social psychology experiment testing Melvin Lerner’s Just World hypothesis & blaming the victim. Some people have a psychological need or else the world false apart scu.edu/ethics/ethics-… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-worl… Let things fall apart themarginalian.org/2026/03/13/whe…

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‼️Statement on the Orbán Government Accusing Me, an Investigative Journalist, of Espionage‼️ Today, the Hungarian government has filed a complaint against me for espionage. Accusing investigative journalists of espionage is virtually unprecedented in the 21st century for an EU member state. This is typical of Putin’s Russia, Belarus, and similar regimes. I have spent over a decade documenting how Russian spies and interests have penetrated Hungarian politics, so I am probably the least surprised by this. Despite growing signs that the Hungarian government acts as a Kremlin ally and copies the Russian model, I still trust that parts of the Hungarian state—and the judiciary—follow the Hungarian constitution, not that of the Russian Federation. I have never engaged in espionage. I see my work as journalistic counterintelligence—from exposing the hacking of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry by Russian actors to revealing the activities of Hungarian pro-Kremlin propagandists. Defending myself publicly would be easier if I were not bound by source protection. But that remains my top priority. I cannot reveal who provides me information or what I receive, including from within Hungarian state structures. If I were not a journalist, I could list many facts proving it is impossible for the Hungarian state to genuinely believe I am spying. Certain meetings, contacts, and information gathering could never have happened otherwise. This baseless accusation now forces me to share details of a specific investigation, including a conversation with a confidential source that appears to have been wiretapped. Normally, this would appear in a finished article or my upcoming book—not here. (It will appear there as well.) Since 2023, I have investigated whether the relationship between Péter Szijjártó and Russian officials exceeds legal limits. The published audio, where I’m heard talking to a source, mentions that communication between Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov is recorded by EU intelligence services. Less attention has gone to my point that this relationship raises strong suspicion of political intelligence activity and influence operations in Russia’s interest. These are serious claims and hard to prove. As a journalist, I cannot force anyone to speak or hand over documents. That is why gathering this information has taken so long—and why I spoke to that sensitive source (while the conversation was secretly recorded). Serious claims require serious evidence, and I believe I have gathered some. I have not engaged in espionage. I have not cooperated with any foreign intelligence service in surveilling Szijjártó. Instead, I tried to verify earlier fragments of information about Szijjártó–Lavrov communication. I sought to identify the channels and phone numbers used, and whether a secret channel—possibly used by Russian intelligence—exists. In other words, whether Szijjártó uses a hidden device or number unknown even within the Hungarian Foreign Ministry. This was only one part of my research. The other, more serious topic is this: Since at least 2016–2017, EU and NATO intelligence services have had indications that large amounts of cash and precious stones may have been transported from Russia on Hungarian government aircraft or private jets used by government figures. Officials from at least six countries made such claims to me. These signals did not come from monitoring Hungarian targets, but, for example, from intercepting Russian officials discussing or preparing such shipments. Alongside Szijjártó–Lavrov communication, I examined how baggage screening and handling works on such flights, which officials travel with what luggage, whether more packages arrive from Moscow than depart, and how such shipments could be handled discreetly. I know how serious this is, and I would not have written even this much—but since I do not know what else may be taken from the edited recording, or what fabricated accusations (like, for example, that I was seeking such details to commit terrorism) may follow, I believe I must share this now. Why do I investigate all this? According to many sources familiar with the Hungarian state and counterintelligence, there is no independent body in the Orbán system able to investigate or act if a senior official is suspected of espionage. Government members direct intelligence services and set expectations. The services lack both tools and authority to investigate a government member. I knew this would be difficult when I chose to pursue it. But few people in Hungary can or dare to do this, so I felt it was my duty. We have now reached the point where the Orbán government—of which Szijjártó is still a member—aware of my reporting plans and the risk they pose, has preemptively accused me of espionage. I am a Hungarian patriot. I serve the public. As an investigative journalist, my job is to hold power accountable. Neither political theater nor legal threats will deter me.

I have lived on earth long enough so I can tell you that until 2014: Russians raised their children to hate Ukrainians ALWAYS. Ukrainians raised their children, some in tolerance, some in love with Russia. Even my father, a true, conscious patriot of Ukraine (of which there

We already knew the Kremlin was sending men to die in Ukraine. But a new @dossier_center investigation based on leaked military records shows it's far worse than anyone imagined. For soldiers in front-line assault units, the odds of surviving the war are approaching zero. (Read on)

Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi, who wrote about the wiretapping of Péter Szijjártó, was wiretapped, and the pro-government media spun the story to make it seem like he had given the FM's phone number to a foreign intelligence ser... telex.hu/english/2026/0…

Just implemented Google’s TurboQuant in MLX and the results are wild! Needle-in-a-haystack using Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across 8.5K, 32.7K, and 64.2K context lengths: → 6/6 exact match at every quant level → TurboQuant 2.5-bit: 4.9x smaller KV cache → TurboQuant 3.5-bit: 3.8x smaller KV cache The best part: Zero accuracy loss compared to full KV cache.

PSA: If you have multiple macbooks that support RDMA, you can cluster them using @exolabs and run 30B+ models at 70 tok/s over thunderbolt5. tensor parallelism on consumer hardware is a solved problem. you are renting GPUs that are worse than the laptop on your couch. 2X M4 Max(64GB each) running mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-4bit @ 70 TPS

It's optimization time. Qwen3.5 35B at 13.1 tok/sec on iPhone 17 (no-pro). 2.3x from baseline of 2 days ago. Experimental features: --- Fused attention CMD1+CMD2 Merge Fused Expert Kernel Expert Prefetch I/O Fanout (credit @anemll) cc @danveloper @danpacary

@igorsushko I understand the sentiment, but invoking God with enemies is not Christian, your X has that in common with Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists

Russia: Chief propagandist Margarita Simonyan who repeatedly called for genocide of all Ukrainians is dying, her propagandist husband is dead after extensive suffering, and her child is dying. As some people might say, God works in mysterious ways.