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What if the biggest threat to free societies isn’t just conflict abroad, but how it’s used to shape minds at home? "Our tolerant societies are being lost by rising intolerance, driven by the normalisation of authoritarianism, fuelled by ideological subversion carried out by bad-faith actors in the Western world." - @elicalebon

@yaelbt @ezraklein is clearly that kapo.

We know this schtick. Every generation some Jew comes along to tell the rest of us that if we just stop doing this one thing, everyone will like us. I’d rather retain my spine than be liked.

@rsarver Pls open source. Sounds amazing

People think they’re being clever when they compare Hamas to the Jewish resistance against the Nazis. “You want me to condemn Hamas raping, murdering, and kidnapping civilians? That’s like asking me to condemn the Warsaw uprising.” Except it’s not. Hamas doesn’t exist to protect Palestinians; it murders them and uses them as human shields. The Warsaw uprising, led by Zionist Jews by the way, was the last stand of people who were days from Auschwitz, fighting the soldiers who came to gas them. They didn’t murder German women and children. And Israel has not been, nor was planning to, systematically exterminate six million Palestinians in less than 4 years. So no. It’s not the same. Not even close.

At JFK Airport, as travelers waited in hours-long lines, an infant became unresponsive and stopped breathing. The panic of the child’s family and nearby passengers were heard by an ICE agent stationed at a checkpoint. This heroic officer immediately sprang into action—rushing toward the cries, taking the child, and performing a Heimlich maneuver that restored the infant’s breathing after nearly two minutes. This officer’s extraordinary bravery embodies the selfless service of DHS law enforcement.

@piersmorgan But you’ll never say thank you to the people protecting you.

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

@MarioNawfal Ridiculous statement. Iran has been fighting an unconventional war through arming and training irregular groups/terrorists since 79 while building standoff reach with missiles and a nuclear weapons program to deliver them. Poorly informed or Iran funded propagandist. Lame

🇮🇷 The "told you so" crowd has it backwards... Every hawk on the internet is pointing at Iran's missile range and multi-country retaliation as vindication. "See? We had to hit them. Look how dangerous they are." That reasoning collapses under its own weight. Iran didn't launch anything until it was attacked. Responding to being bombed is not the same as posing an imminent threat. If self-defense proves you deserved to be attacked, then every country with a military is fair game for preemptive war. Capability without intent is not a threat. Brazil has a military. So does Indonesia. Nobody is suggesting they need to be neutralized. The moment you start treating the mere existence of weapons as justification for striking first, you've created a world where every nation on earth is either attacking or waiting to be attacked...

@gummibear737 @piersmorgan @piersmorgan this

@piersmorgan But you're talking past the actual criticism directed at you I don't think you're antisemitic The criticism is of your voluntary and arbitrary editorial decision to repeatedly platform people who are

New rule for the X community: if you call me antisemitic, you’re now getting blocked. Instantly, permanently, and with no appeals process. I’m having a clear-out of malicious morons who disingenuously weaponise that word to silence legitimate scrutiny/criticism of Israel’s govt.

The media had a smoking gun — or rather, a smoking bomb — and still failed to mention it.🧵

@pradojj Es el paso en materia de seguridad más importante que se ha dado en mucho tiempo. Que nos dé viada hacia un estado de ley y seguridad para todos los ecuatorianos.

Esta cooperación en acciones militares conjuntas con USA es una muy buena noticia para Ecuador.

The US and Ecuador launched a joint military action against what the US military called “Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador,” according to US Southern Command bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@USTradeRep Amazing news!

The United States and the Republic of Ecuador substantially concluded negotiations for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and expect to sign the agreement in the coming weeks. Learn more: ustr.gov/about/policy-o…

The giant Chinese fishing ship swarms are brighter than all the cities in the southern half of South America combined! China operates more than 500,000 fishing vessels, and at least 50,000 overseas fishing fleets that wipe the oceans clean on their path! Collectively, they probably consume more petroleum fuel by volume and emit more CO2 than all the cars in Europe combined, let alone the global scale environmental and ecological mass destruction. Never saw @GretaThunberg, @Greenpeace and other UN and WEF puppets protesting against the Chinese deliberate destruction of the marine ecosystem all across the world. @CyrusShares

Concerned about latest reports that Peru could be powerless to oversee Chancay, one of its largest ports, which is under the jurisdiction of predatory Chinese owners.  We support Peru’s sovereign right to oversee critical infrastructure in its own territory.  Let this be a cautionary tale for the region and the world: cheap Chinese money costs sovereignty.

What summer in Miami looked like in 1997

A passenger flying in a Peruvian passenger aircraft took this chilling video showing scores of Chinese fishing vessels operating illegally inside Peru's water. The Chinese Distant Water Fishing Fleet operating illegally inside the waters of Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and other South American nations are so big that they can be seen even from the space. China's global fishing offense is ruining our planet.

@naval Not just intelligence- but understanding. As knowledge availability booms in this AI era, genuine real-world understanding becomes a scarce resource... Understanding is to knowledge, What knowledge is to information.

@NextScience @grok what is the source study of this? Do you have a paper or study link?

🧠 MIT recently completed the first brain-scan study on ChatGPT users—and the results are deeply revealing. Rather than boosting brain function, prolonged AI use may be dulling it. Over four months of cognitive data suggest we might be measuring productivity all wrong ⤵️ In MIT’s study, participants had their brains scanned while using ChatGPT. → 83.3% of users couldn’t recall a single sentence they’d written just minutes earlier. → In contrast, those writing without AI had no trouble remembering. Brain connectivity dropped sharply—from 79 to 42 points. → That’s a 47% drop in neural engagement. → The lowest cognitive performance among all user groups. Even after stopping ChatGPT use in later sessions, these users showed continued under-engagement. → Their performance remained lower than those who never used AI. → This suggests more than dependency—it’s cognitive weakening. Beyond the scans, educators flagged the writing itself. → Essays were technically solid, but often called “robotic,” “soulless,” and “lacking depth.” Here’s the paradox: → ChatGPT makes you 60% faster at completing tasks… → But it reduces the mental effort required for learning by 32%. The top-performing group? → Those who began without AI and added it later. → They retained the best memory, brain activity, and overall scores. Using ChatGPT can feel empowering—but it may quietly offload your thinking. → You gain speed, but lose engagement. → You get answers, but stop learning how to think. The takeaway isn’t to avoid AI—but to use it intentionally. → Use it to assist, not replace your mind. → Build cognitive strength—not dependency. MIT’s early study on AI and the brain lays out the stakes. The way we use these tools matters more than ever.

Naval Ravikant shares the 4 traits that guarantee long-term success: