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I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel. A thread. 🧵

Arab invaders attacked a convent of nuns and captured a beautiful virgin, whom they offered as a gift to the commander of their troop. When the commander saw her, he was dazzled by her beauty and sought to corrupt her. She then said to him: "Wait a moment, for I have learned a skill passed down among virgins, and it can only be performed by a virgin — otherwise, it is of no use." He asked her: "And what is this skill?" She replied: "It is an oil: if someone is anointed with it, no sword or weapon can harm them. You, who go often to war, would greatly benefit from it." = He said to her: "And how can I be sure of that?" So she took some oil and said to him: "Anoint your neck with it and give me your sword so that I may strike you." = He replied: "No! You shall anoint your own neck first, and I will strike with the sword." She agreed gladly, anointed her neck with the oil, and said: "Strike with all your strength!" He drew his sword, which was very sharp, and she bent her neck. He struck with all his might, and her head rolled to the ground. Thus, she chose to die by the sword rather than to defile her virginity. The commander was deeply grieved and wept bitterly for having killed such a beautiful soul. He then realized that she had deliberately deceived him in order to escape defilement and sin… This is Saint Febronia of Syria.

La phyllotaxie de Vogel fait apparaître naturellement le nombre d'or. Si vous placez des graines une à une autour d'un centre, le rayon croît comme √n parce que la surface occupée par n graines doit croître linéairement avec n (chaque nouvelle graine prend la même place que les précédentes). L'angle, lui, est la même rotation α répétée à chaque pas. Tout le mystère se concentre sur la valeur de α. Si α est un multiple rationnel du tour complet (p/q), après p tour complet, la (q+1)-ième graine retombe exactement sur la même position angulaire que la première graine. Les graines s'alignent en rayons, comme les rayons d'une roue de bicyclette. Essayez 144° dans le simulateur : vous obtenez cinq rayons parfaits, parce que 144° = 360° × 2/5. Pour densifier l'occupation du disque, il faut donc choisir α irrationnel. Mais tous les irrationnels ne se valent pas. L'unique nombre dont le développement en fraction continue ne contient que des 1 est aussi le moins bien approximable par les rationnels : φ = 1 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + …))) = (1+√5)/2 ≈ 1,6180339887 C'est le nombre d'or. L'angle d'or s'en déduit : α_or = 360°/φ² ≈ 137,5078°. CQFD Salukes ✅​ Simulateur de la science disponible sur le Linktree. #science #physique #profbucella #lasciencepeuttout

Esto es, realmente, un DELIRIO. Agarraron 2.245 currículums reales escritos por humanos y le pidieron a ChatGPT, DeepSeek y otros modelos que los reescriban. Mismo curriculum, experiencia, estudios... todo igual, solo que reescrito. Después, le mostraron pares al azar a cada IA y le pidieron que eligiera el mejor: el suyo contra el del humano. Todos se eligieron a sí mismos más del 95% de las veces. Incluso después de controlar por calidad (asegurándose de que el CV humano no fuera objetivamente peor) seguían eligiendo el suyo. Después, simularon procesos reales de selección en 24 industrias y descubrieron que, si usaste el mismo modelo que el reclutador, tenés entre 23% y 60% más chances de pasar el primer filtro. ¿Por qué pasa esto? Los autores tienen una hipótesis fuerte: cuando le pedís a un modelo que te mejore el CV, te lo reescribe con su huella estilística: sus palabras favoritas, su ritmo, su forma de armar oraciones... Cada IA tiene un estilo propio, como cada escritor tiene una letra. Después, cuando esa misma IA evalúa, se reconoce del otro lado y se pone un diez. Cuanto más capaz es el modelo, más afilada es su capacidad de reconocerse. Ahora buscar laburo es como el test de Turing pero al revés: en lugar de una máquina intentando convencerte de que es humana, parece que ahora somos nosotros los que tenemos que convencer a los robots que somos uno de ellos.

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝟒𝟔𝟑 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒. 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐒. Every time someone trots out the Crusades to lecture Christians or the West, they leave out four centuries of history. I'm putting it back on the record. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 Muhammad died in 632. Within three years, Muslim armies had taken Damascus (635). The next year, Antioch (636). The year after that, the entire Holy Land (637) — the spiritual center of Christendom, gone. Armenia became the first Christian nation fully conquered (639). Egypt, the Coptic Christian power, fell two years later (641). By 650, Muslim forces had reached southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴" and "𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴." Then came Spain — Muslim armies crossed from North Africa in 711 and overran most of Iberia by 715. In roughly 80 years, Christianity lost the Middle East, North Africa, and most of the Iberian Peninsula. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 — 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 This was not exploration. This was conquest. In 717, Muslim forces besieged Constantinople itself — the capital of Eastern Christendom. The siege lasted a year before they were repelled. Had it succeeded, the path into Europe would have been wide open. In 730, they invaded France. Charles Martel stopped them at Tours. In 792, the ruler of Al-Andalus called for a second invasion of France. Repelled. In 848, a third invasion of France. Repelled again. In 827, Muslims invaded Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks and pillaging Christian communities. Sicily would remain under Islamic rule for 250 years. In 846, they invaded Rome itself and forced the Pope to pay tribute. By 909, they had taken Sardinia. This was relentless, coordinated, and existential. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 In 937, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher — built over the site Christians believe is the tomb of Christ — was burned to the ground. More churches in Jerusalem were torched alongside it. In 1009, the Church of the Resurrection was destroyed. By 1012, Al-Hakim's oppressive decrees against Christians had begun in earnest. Christian pilgrims could no longer safely visit the sites of Christ's ministry. The holiest city in Christendom was ruled by a hostile power systematically destroying the faith itself. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 In 1071, Muslim Turkish forces shattered the Byzantine army at Manzikert and occupied most of Anatolia. Constantinople was now directly threatened. In 1094, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent envoys to Rome begging Western Christendom for military aid. In 1095, Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade. 𝟒𝟔𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲.

🚨 NOW: A LARGE emergency response is underway following a structure fire at one of the OLDEST churches in Washington, DC, St. Dominic Catholic Church It’s unfortunate that these fires are seemingly becoming more common in these historic churches, as one of the oldest churches in NYC burned down just a couple weeks ago. Thankfully, there is a fire station with ladder trucks just one block from the church, or this could’ve been MUCH worse. No details on the cause of the fire just yet, but National Guard responded to the scene alongside MPD and DCFD.

J'ai un mauvais goût dans la bouche. Parlé à une amie française catho hier, mère de deux enfants scolarisés dans un collège de "bonne" banlieue bien bourgeoise... avant. Ses gamins se font traiter de « kaffirs » (infidèles) . Ou de chienne à b..r, à 13 ans, pour un débardeur et une jupe d'été. On les pousse dans les couloirs parce qu'ils mangent du porc, on leur a craché dessus parce qu'ils mangeaient dans la cour pendant le Ramadan . Le directeur ne prend plus ses appels, elle en est à écrire des lettres. Les profs ont peur... ou alors font partie de la nouvelle génération voilée qui se moque d'elle en lui conseillant que sa fille "s'adapte". Elle me demande sur Zoom comment ca se fait (en tant qu Israelienne, je suis une grande spécialiste de l Islam)... Et en fait oui. Je connais un peu plus qu elle. Moi j'ai lu, je connais les concepts de Hijra et Jihad al-Hijra – la « jihad par la migration ». Ce n'est pas une théorie du complot. C'est enraciné dans l'histoire de l'islam : Mahomet lui-même a fait la Hijra de La Mecque à Médine, et cela a lancé la conquête. Aujourd'hui, des voix islamistes parlent ouvertement de la migration massive vers l'Europe comme d'un devoir religieux pour islamiser les terres des « kuffar ». Peupler, dominer démographiquement, imposer la charia progressivement. Erdogan l'a dit aux Turcs en Europe : faites beaucoup d'enfants, vous êtes l'avenir du continent. Oui, oui, me dit-elle. C'est exactement ca, du super-marché où elle envoie maintenant son mari au métro qu'elle prend les fesses serrées de trouille. Je lui raconte un souvenir d'enfance- l'interview sur 7/7 avec Anne Sinclair, du recteur du nouvel Institut du Monde Arabe, vers le debut des annees 90, ce monstre moche juste à côté du Trocadero avec ses moucharabiehs high-tech et son antenne 'la'plus haute de Paris' "Paris est maintenant une terre d'Islam", disait-il. Je m'en souviens car ma mère avait fait une vraie crise, et moi gamine je l'avais prise pour une folle. Mais elle avait raison. Ma copine s'étrangle. "Ca'fait si longtemps?" Eh oui. L islam, a depuis longtemps visé au cœur la ville des « kuffar ». Et bientôt, les'indigènes' deviendront dhimmis : dans la tradition islamique, les non-musulmans (Juifs, Chrétiens) qui vivent en terre d'islam sont « protégés ».(ahem).. mais en fait seconde classe. Ils paient la jizya, subissent des restrictions, doivent se soumettre et accepter une infériorité juridique et sociale. Donner leurs filles sous peine de violence, prier leur dieux seulement en secret... le 20heures, quoi. Devant nos yeux, en Europe, la Hijra s'accélère :Des quartiers entiers où les seules patrouilles de police sont les milices de la charia. Les flics, pas soutenus par la justice, ont peur. Dans les écoles on autocensure les programmes car personne ne veut être Samuel Pathy. On s'excuse de l'histoire de France. , Les filles non voilées sont harcelées etvleurs frères attaqués en bande s'ils s'interposent. Des attentats, des émeutes, et une insécurité quotidienne qui explose. Ce n'est pas de la haine de dire cela. C'est regarder la réalité en face. J'ai aimé la France des Lumières, du vin, des fromages, de la liberté et de la laïcité. Le multiculturel 'soft' où j ai grandi, ensemble avec cette même amie effarée aujourd’hui. Tout le monde était accepté... tant que tout le monde respectait le mainstream Gaulois. J'aimais bien. C'est fini. Il va falloir que les Français décident entre se battre ou devenir une province de l'Oumma où vous serez dhimmis. Parlez-en. Décidez. Votez . Agissez.

Why do galaxies seem to align their spins? For a long time, we imagined galaxies as mostly independent islands of stars, each rotating according to its own history. A galaxy forms, collapses, gathers gas, spins up, and evolves. From that perspective, the direction of its rotation should be more or less random. One galaxy spins one way, another spins another way, with no deeper pattern across the universe. But the universe is rarely that simple. Galaxies do not form in isolation. They grow inside the cosmic web, a vast network of filaments, sheets, clusters, and voids made of dark matter, gas, and galaxies. On the largest scales, matter is not distributed randomly. It flows along filaments, gathers at intersections, and collapses under gravity into increasingly complex structures. So the question becomes more interesting: if galaxies form inside this web, could the web itself influence the way they spin? The answer appears to be yes, at least to some extent. The basic idea comes from tidal torque theory. In the early universe, matter was not perfectly smooth. Tiny density differences created uneven gravitational pulls. As proto-galaxies formed, these surrounding tidal fields could twist them slightly, giving them angular momentum before they fully collapsed. In simple terms, a young galaxy gains spin when its early shape is slightly misaligned with the gravitational pull of its surroundings. That mismatch creates a torque. This does not mean all galaxies spin the same way. They do not. The universe is not a giant synchronized machine. But statistical patterns can still exist. For example, low mass galaxies are often found with spins more aligned along cosmic filaments, while more massive galaxies can show different behavior, sometimes orienting more perpendicular to those structures. This is thought to reflect different formation histories: smaller galaxies grow along filaments, while larger galaxies experience more mergers and interactions, which can reorient their spin. That is where the topic becomes really interesting. A galaxy’s rotation is not just a local property. It can carry memory of how that galaxy assembled, where gas flowed in, whether it merged with others, and how it was embedded in the cosmic web. In recent years, astronomers have also reported possible large scale asymmetries in the apparent spin directions of spiral galaxies. Some studies using deep surveys, including JWST fields, have claimed an imbalance between clockwise and counterclockwise spiral galaxies. These results are intriguing, but also controversial, because measuring spin direction from images is difficult. Selection effects, image orientation, classification bias, telescope geometry, and sample size can all create apparent patterns if not handled very carefully. One JWST based study reported asymmetry in galaxy spin directions in deep fields, but this remains an active and debated area rather than a settled result. So there are really two related questions here. The first is conservative and well grounded: do galaxy spins correlate with their local cosmic environment? The answer is increasingly yes. Galaxies appear to remember the structure they formed in. The second is much more provocative: is there a preferred direction in the universe as a whole? That would be a much bigger claim, because it would challenge the cosmological principle, the assumption that the universe is statistically homogeneous and isotropic on large scales. At the moment, the evidence for that stronger claim is not conclusive. The standard cosmological picture still holds very well overall, but these possible anomalies are worth investigating carefully. There is also a newer and very visual piece of this story: rotating cosmic filaments. In 2025, astronomers reported a huge rotating filament of galaxies and gas, roughly 50 million light years long, using observations including MeerKAT radio data. Structures like this suggest that angular momentum may not belong only to individual galaxies. It may also exist coherently on much larger scales inside the cosmic web. That does not mean the whole universe is spinning. If the universe had a global rotation, we would expect to see strong directional signatures in the cosmic microwave background and large scale galaxy distributions. Current observations place very tight limits on that possibility. But it does mean that local and regional alignments can emerge naturally from gravitational structure formation. The subtlety is important. Random does not mean patternless. A shuffled deck of cards has no designed order, but you can still find local sequences. In the same way, galaxy spins may be random globally while still showing correlations with nearby filaments, clusters, and tidal fields. That is why this topic matters. It sits right at the boundary between galaxy formation and cosmology. If spin alignments are local, they help us understand how galaxies acquire angular momentum. If they persist on unexpectedly large scales, they could tell us something deeper about the early universe, structure formation, or hidden observational biases in our surveys. For now, the safest answer is this: galaxies do not seem to spin in complete isolation. Their rotation is shaped by the cosmic web around them. But whether there is a truly cosmic preferred direction remains unproven. And that is exactly why the question is fascinating. Because every galaxy spins. But the deeper mystery is whether some of them still remember the direction from which the universe built them.

Justin Martyr, writing to a pagan emperor around 155 AD, described what Christians did on Sunday. Walk into a Catholic Mass tomorrow and tell me what's changed.

Plato and St. John were right.

"And he measured the wall at 144 cubits, the measure of a man, which is that of an angel." - Rev. 21:17

The Riemann Hypothesis is the biggest unsolved math problem in history… and it secretly runs half of computer science. Your encryption, AI randomness, prime-based algorithms - they all quietly depend on it. Let me explain it so even non-math CS folks get the “whoa” moment. 🧵

Few people appreciate that the surface of the moon is layered ten meters thick with microscopic metal razorblades called Regolith

@gchampeau Toute personne qui a eu affaire avec l’URSSAF en vrai, peut se poser la question. Et pour le reste? La télé perd de l’audience parce que sa vérité est davantage vraie à votre avis??

Discuté avec un jeune ado qui me dit “l’Urssaf c’est des voleurs”, “les retraités sont beaucoup trop payés“, “y a trop d’immigrés”, etc. Il le disait comme une vérité évidente, pas du tout pour provoquer. En creusant j’ai compris qu’il répétait du contenu poussé par YouTube (…)

O diabo só teve certeza de que Cristo era Deus após Ele ser condenado sem tentar argumentar contra a condenação. Antes o diabo "jogava verde" para descobrir quem afinal era aquele homem. Às vezes perguntava: "Se és o Filho de Deus, faça isso e aquilo". Às vezes fingia já saber, "Sei quem tu sejas". De um lado Cristo sempre o rebatia, de outro não deixava claro que é literalmente Deus. Em um primeiro momento, o diabo só decidiu matá-lo (pois é o diabo quem entra em Judas no momento em que ele come do pão) porque se enganou, decidindo que Cristo era só mais um profeta. Mas quando Cristo começou a não responder as perguntas que lhe faziam, coisa que, se fizesse, poderia ter escapado (o que Pilatos deixa claro), "caiu a ficha" do diabo: tudo isso foi uma grande armadilha. Por isso os doutores consentem em afirmar que o sonho que a esposa de Pilatos teve foi inspirado pelo demônio, pois naquele momento ele já tinha percebido que perdeu o jogo. Por isso Deus fala para Jó: "Poderás extrair o Leviathan com anzol?". Pois na pesca cobrimos o anzol com uma isca, e o peixe, mordendo a isca, é fisgado pelo anzol. E foi o que Cristo fez: oferecendo a isca de sua carne, fez o diabo ser preso pela virtude de sua divindade. Esses ensinamentos estão na gigantesca obra Moralia in Iob, do São Gregório Magno, que traduzi durante 4 anos direto do Latim. São 8 volumes: o primeiro é a camada literal do livro de Jó, do São Tomás de Aquino, os outros sete são a camada mística e moral, o Moralia. A coleção está nos principais marketplaces, como a Amazon, e principais livrarias, como Ecclesiae e Vide Editorial. Procure o melhor preço!

Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers. x.com/MarchUnofficia…

I heard the term 'plasmoid' for the first time a few year ago. I knew plasma was cool, but I didn't know it unlocked the nature of reality. The Universe is electric.

Pour construire une seule pièce, Louis XIV a déclenché une opération d'espionnage industriel à l'étranger. Avec assassinats à la clé. La Galerie des Glaces, à Versailles. 73 mètres de long. 357 miroirs. 12 mètres sous voûte. Construite en 6 ans par Hardouin-Mansart, peinte par Le Brun. Au XVIIe siècle, fabriquer un grand miroir relève du miracle. Une seule île au monde sait le faire : Murano, près de Venise. Le secret est gardé sous peine de mort. Trahir la formule, c'est mourir, soi et sa famille. Colbert envoie des agents sur place. Il rachète, il corrompt, il exfiltre. Entre 1665 et 1667, plusieurs maîtres verriers vénitiens disparaissent vers la France à prix d'or. La République de Venise riposte. Elle envoie ses propres tueurs. Plusieurs des fugitifs meurent en France dans des circonstances étranges. La galerie sera surnommée la "salle des miroirs sanglants". En 1684, la Manufacture royale produit ses propres glaces. Murano est balayée. La galerie devient le symbole de la supériorité française. Elle deviendra Saint-Gobain. Aujourd'hui, vous regardez des miroirs payés en vies humaines.

Watch a radioactive Uranium isotope firing alpha, beta, and gamma rays inside a mesmerizing Cloud Chamber