@sethharpesq Fun fact the Christian Zionist evangelical Americans who visit Israel often don’t go through the visa process at all, they get waived through
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When he came out agains the genocide in Gaza, one of Col. Anthony Aguilar's main critiques -- seemingly trivial but actually grounded in the laws of war and national sovereignty -- was that American military personnel were illegally operating in Israel under tourist visas.
Megatron@Megatron_ron
BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 The Iranians found the ID card of ‘Major Amanda M. Ryder’ of the U.S. Air Force It can be seen that she got a B2 stay permit from Israel, which is interesting because it only allows tourism or business.
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I mean, not really no, this was a pretty straightforward incident all things considered.
This F-15 was conducting strike operations around Isfahan in preparation for the possibility of a ground team being sent in. They got shot down (like at least 2 MQ-9s before them, probably more honestly), because Iranian Air Defense crews are still quite active in the area.
The two aircrew-men bailed out, landed and started their evasion process. On day 1, the pilot was scooped up by PJs on the two HH-60 that were dragged in via a C-130 tanker variant, but their HH-60s also drew fire (that wounded aircrew/SF) so CENTCOM essentially went “well… we’re not doing that again.”
So they told the WSO to hunker down for a bit while they figured out something else to avoid doing an incredibly dumb Blackhawk Down remake.
One of the damaged HH-60s was filmed in southwest Tehran, so OSINTers geolocated it there, but folk inexplicably presumed that the area where the helo was spotted was where the F-15 crashed. CIA didn’t bother looking that gift horse in the mouth, and started peddling propaganda to the effect that “yeah, the plane landed there, haha, everyone go look for it.”
In the meanwhile, CENTCOM’s planners went back to the drawing board and came up with this new plan, but “someone” forgot to check the areas soil composition, so when the C-130s landed, one of them got stuck in the apparently soft dirt of this agri-landing strip (that’s why I included all of Russia’s and Ukraine’s agri-strips in the order of battle I did for them #selfplug).
The rescue crew got their MH-60s out and fetched the WSO, while airpower dissuaded Basij from checking out the FARP. The C-130 crews realized that they couldn’t dig the wheel out of the dirt for one of them, and the other one was peppered by mortar fire, so they decided to ditch it and the 4 helicopters they brought in with them.
So, they brought in one or more Delta demo teams (someone tag Mike Vining, he’s probably glistening with pride right now) aboard 3 lighter transport aircraft that wouldn’t get stuck, and they blew all of the stuck aircraft and then dipped out.
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
So, if I got that right, here's the narrative: - A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated." (apnews.com/article/donald…) - The plane's weapons systems officer - a "highly respected Colonel," according to Trump - ejected from the plane and got "seriously wounded" (still according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116351956955900185" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
) - He still managed to "hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice" in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (time.com/article/2026/0…) - U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all "Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American's location]" (x.com/ByChrisGordon/…) - To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an "abandoned airport," 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (bbc.com/news/articles/…), which happens to be where Iran's largest atomic scientific center is located (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_N…) - They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) in an operation involving "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" (time.com/article/2026/0…) - Both MC-130 planes got "stuck in the sand" and the U.S. destroyed them themselves "to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands" (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - They deployed "three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel" on the ground (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - There are videos circulating online of "heavy clashes" with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli…) - Iran sent pictures of the aftermath at the "abandoned airport" and it's a sight of utter destruction, with US plane and MH-6 helicopter parts scattered all over the ground, still smoking (turkiyetoday.com/region/wreckag…). Iran claims they are the ones who in fact destroyed all the aircraft. - Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (#47863db0-d61e-51bf-b7e1-6c4a9dc988e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently "safely rescued." - In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed "or even wounded" (according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). - And the 'highly respected Colonel' this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is. So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to "sand" and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down - but not a single person got "even wounded". And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is "SAFE and SOUND." And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous. Trump concludes this all proves the US has "achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies" (@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky. Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling... English
@JakeLandauTO @provisionalidea Lmao all of the world’s greatest cuisines are fusion. You think tomatoes are native to Italy?
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@provisionalidea fusion is the refuge of the chef who cannot create, only remix
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You can't compare them, they're both good. Montréal is famous for the food unique to Québec like poutine and viande fumée. Toronto is instead focused on replicating what other cities have. Both have great food, but different core philosophies behind their restaurant scenes.
Livy@ms_livyyy
To say Montreal has a better food scene than Toronto is such an egregious lie
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@TheJobfather__ The best food city in the world isn’t on anyone’s radar, it’s most likely Riyadh or Jeddah. No where else on the planet is food taken as seriously, the Saudis are serious eaters and they import top chefs from every cuisine.
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I lived in Montreal for 2 years. I’ve been to 23 different countries.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that Montreal is NOT touching Toronto. They arent even in the same weight class.
Bangkok, Berlin, Athens, Rome are all above Montreal but they’re below Toronto.
Livy@ms_livyyy
To say Montreal has a better food scene than Toronto is such an egregious lie
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The book that Mr. Israeli Propaganda is zooming in on is none other than Desmond Young’s Rommel, which can be found at the National Library of Israel too.
It’s one thing to be evil, but why must they also be so embarrassing?
Eylon Levy@EylonALevy
Wait, zoom in… zoom in… zoom in?
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@DAlperovitch Didn’t you say they were going to run out of missiles and launchers two weeks ago?
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@MollySOShea @friedberg It’s hard to imagine how little humanity you have to have in order to be a billionaire advocating for school teachers and garbage men to lose their pension. Truly soulless behaviour.
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BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt"
"People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union.
"$250 billion to $1 trillion short."
"This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension."
"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."
How we got here:
"California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in.
$250 billion to $1 trillion short.
If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits.
There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits.
It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California.
So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."
Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
California will be bankrupt by 2030. If you’re expecting a state pension, it is at risk. If you don’t believe it, check Grok or Gemini and explore how California politicians changed the reporting rules on your pension so they could hide how underwater it is. The middle class citizens of California will soon be asked to pay a huge price to bail out the state. Why them? Because that is where most of the wealth of California resides. It’s easy to single out “billionaires” but there aren’t many of them and they can and will all leave before the bottom falls out. They are leaving in droves already. The mismanagement in California is biblical - and the scale is huge because it’s the world’s 4th largest economy. California politicians and their henchmen are now entering the coverup phase where they can no longer hide their financial incompetence so they are taking from average California residents to try and hide what they’ve done: You will soon see ballot initiatives with fancy tiles like “billionaire tax”. But those are lies. They are mechanisms to tax everything, every way: Excise taxes Wealth taxes Private property confiscation It’s all happening now. If you want to preserve California, you will need to stand up because California has become a kleptocracy.
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@jmailarchive Are you gonna copyright strike this? @Jason they named it after you
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@BenBajarin Never ask a man his salary, a woman her weight, or AI researchers the latency hit of their new compression algorithm.
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Ok, class, listen up. Your homework today is to come up with scenarios where TurboQuant is negative to memory demand and scenarios where it may actually boost memory demand.
Google Research@GoogleResearch
Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI
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@_clarktang Not to mention the paper came out a year ago, this is just a blog post
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Reading twitter investor's takes on this being a structural breaker to memory is so ... dunning kruger
Like sure, no one thought to compress their KV cache until Google publicly released this technique when it was the single biggest pressure on their business !!!
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Google Research@GoogleResearch
Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI
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@realmemes6 The 6x compression is theoretical anyways, the paper doesn’t even show latency results which means it’s slower for sure
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I may be an idiot but I was reading the turboquant thing about AI using 6x less memory with no losses and it didn't even enter my mind that would be negative for memory. Was actually confused why $MU was down so much. So that's what I think about that.
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@susanabulhawa @enoughformethx I really hope @TuckerCarlson can get someone on who understands what happened on October 7th
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This interview is problematic on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start.
In the broadest sense, Burg functions to sell Israel to the skeptics by presenting what appears to be a reasonable, liberal, human argument. In subtle, and not so subtle ways, he frames genocidal colonial criminality simply as "the other side" in an equation of conflict, with Hamas an equal party whose actions cannot be justified in any way. (he literally says this).
Once that frame is created, he admits to Israeli crimes but softens them to something akin to misdeeds born of fear, justified paranoia, or self-defense.
Then he lies. And he knows he's lying, but @TuckerCarlson doesn't know enough to challenge him. For example, when he talks about "five Arab armies attacking Israel," Tucker doesn't know enough to push back with the fact that all of those armies combined amounted to half the size of the Zionist army, and all of them combined didn't have a fraction of the zionist firepower or training. He also doesn't know enough to challenge him on the fact that those armies came to defend Palestinians who were being slaughtered long before a single Arab army set foot in Palestine. The same for the 67 war, which was actually initiated by Israel.
Burg knows this history, but he intentionally obscures it. He's here performing a different kind of hasbara.
Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson
Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Knesset and interim president of Israel, on why Netanyahu can never settle, only kill. (0:00) Introduction (3:16) What Is Israel's Strategy? (9:21) What Does Victory Look Like for Israel? (13:15) Does Israel Actually Want Peace? (23:06) Was the US Forced Into This War? (29:15) Is Netanyahu Afraid of Trump? (33:09) What Will the US Gain From This War? (36:19) How Do Israelis View Gaza? (47:41) How Do Israelis View the US? (53:59) Is This a Religious War? (59:06) The Many Attempts to Rebuild the Third Temple (1:05:25) How Netanyahu Has Changed Politics Forever (1:13:11) How Real Is the Greater Israel Project? (1:18:37) Will Israel Use Nuclear Weapons? (1:30:37) The Response to Burg's Writings
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@ManyBeenRinsed You think they’re going to rate cut during massive inflation?
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2 randoms off the street just told me they ain’t cutting rates in Canada.
I’m talking about 2 ppl who have no clue wtf is going on.
Both locking in their rates this week.
As I’ve been saying for the past week - if you lock in ur rate right now - ur gonna get rinsed. 💦
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I am sorry, it is legal in international law to charge tolls for a man made canal.
It is illegal to charge tolls for using the sea. Can you imagine if the UK starts charging Europe for passage of the Dover Strait?
This is fundamentally misconceived.
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@JakeLandauTO @OregonHomer You can spit from the bottom end of the Collosus parking lot and hit the city of Toronto proper lol
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@nerfbatplz @OregonHomer One is currently not being used at the closed Cinesphere (thanks Doug Ford). One is in Vaughan, north of Toronto. And one is in Mississauga, west of Toronto. Toronto itself technically doesn't have them, and certainly not if you don't have a car.
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IMAX: "We're investing large amounts of money into preserving the 70mm format for directors to keep using in their films"
Me: "Cool can we get new auditoriums that can play these 70mm films, or at least play 1.43:1 digitally?
IMAX: "haha no"
alan b.@inceptstellar
i'm ngl japan going from having 54 IMAX 70mm theaters to now having 0 is kinda insane
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@JakeLandauTO Because it’s insanely expensive and loses them boatloads of money everywhere but California and NYC
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Eid Mubarak my goyim habibis. May the first bite of knafeh hit like an Iranian ballistic missile.
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