Tony Cook

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[Tony Cook @BTonyCook]

@LiberationTimes @EngagingThe The “UFO disclosure train” has been on the move for many decades, pushed along by quality investigations. Lue is helping to accelerate the train, certainly, but didn’t start it.

[Sound, Light & Frequency @hollywoodufos]

It's a story of Hollywood power politics, mixed with UFOs, one you've never heard before. We're breaking our silence after thirty years...
Watch the entire episode on a YouTube live premiere on Sunday night 6pm PT (9pm ET).
https://t.co/MB8uSt45Ao

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

Better angle of today's midair collision in Idaho.

The trailing plane (on the right) appears to have descended onto the plane below it, perhaps after losing sight of it in a blind spot.

Miraculous that all four ejected safely.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

33 years ago a PhD student cracked Microsoft's secret protocol alone.
Linus Torvalds invented Git because of him. 🤯

Meet Andrew Tridgell 🇦🇺

> Australian engineer. Born 1967. Goes by "Tridge."
> 1991 ~ a PhD student in Canberra.
> Couldn't get his computers to share files with Windows.
> Microsoft's networking protocol was a black box.
> So he wrote a packet sniffer. Read raw network traffic.
> Reverse-engineered Microsoft's protocol byte by byte. Alone.
> Built Samba in 1992. Released it free.
> Today every Linux server, every NAS box, every printer, every Android backup ~ runs Samba. 🚀
> 2001 ~ Microsoft CEO called Linux "a cancer."
> Microsoft refused to share its protocols. Samba had to keep guessing.
> 2006 ~ Tridge flew to Luxembourg.
> Testified against Microsoft in EU antitrust court.
> Microsoft lost. At every level.
> Forced to publish their secrets.
> Meanwhile in 2005 ~ he reverse-engineered BitKeeper.
> The proprietary tool the Linux kernel ran on.
> BitKeeper retaliated. Revoked Linux's license overnight.
> Linus had no version control. He locked himself in for 10 days.
> Out came Git.
> Today 94% of every developer on Earth uses it.
> No Tridge ~ no Git.

He built how the world talks to Windows.
He beat Microsoft in court.
He forced the birth of Git.

One Aussie hacker. Three battles. All won.
No company. No fame. Still codes from Canberra.

Open-source GOAT. 🐐

[Terence McCarthy @TerenceMcCart14]

Melbourne…shrouded in fog!

[Tony Cook @BTonyCook]

FBI investigating recent deaths and disappearances of multiple US scientists - ABC News https://t.co/4w7mCRXiI1

[Tony Cook @BTonyCook]

@JonMajerowski @richgel999 I agree. Why start publicly revealing this 60 years later?
Is it to soften us up for other revelations?

[Tony Cook @BTonyCook]

@analyticflying I’d say it coincides with the rise of Remote Work.
The day trips MEL->SYD->MEL for a couple of meetings have dried up.
Costly too

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Thenewarea51 @thenewarea51]

Happy Stealth Black Hawk Day

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

A 2005 state-designed worm designed to corrupt physics simulations sat undetected on VirusTotal for nearly a decade. Fast16, intercepted executable files at the kernel level and silently rewrote floating-point calculations to make them produce slightly wrong answers. Targets: high-precision engineering suites used for structural analysis, crash simulations, and physical process modeling, including LS-DYNA, a tool cited in reports on Iran's nuclear weapons research. The sabotage vector relied on deployment of the driver across a network via worm, corrupting calculations on every machine, and eliminating the possibility of cross-checking results against a clean system. Stuxnet got the documentary. Fast16 got twenty years of nothing. https://t.co/3qfJMziXVd

[Joe Murgia @TheUfoJoe]

"[UFO Disclosure will] be a little uncomfortable. There'll be some truths that [will] be a hard pill to swallow." ~Grusch

New David Grusch: "There's truly anonymous signatures in the skies [and] the U.S. government understands it represents a form of sentient, non-human intelligence. I know that sounds very Star Trek, a la, you know, Gene Roddenberry and Rod's dad's Sci-Fi series, but it is true.

"And I want, you know, the American public to be comforted that the Universe is teeming with life, it seems, and readily able to be explored. And the U.S. government does have a lot of information that I think will inspire Gen Alpha and Gen Z and the American populace at large. And it will be a new era.

"It'll be a little uncomfortable. There'll be some truths that [will] be a hard pill to swallow, but I think it's, ultimately, a good thing to get this out there. And I think the people of the world and the American public will be very happy to understand their place in the Universe, so to speak. Without sounding too much like Carl Sagan."

[TheGolfDivoTee™  @TheGolfDivoTee]

A week after Payne Stewart's tragic death in 1999, Stuart Appleby honoured his close friend by wearing one of his outfits in the final round of the Tour Championship -

Appleby got permission from Tracey Stewart to wear her husband's clothes and from Payne's closet he and Ian Baker-Finch picked out this traditional Scottish outfit complete with the Clan Stewart tartan.

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

The True Size of Australia 🇦🇺

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

BREAKING: Ridley Scott is releasing a new film this August. The trailer for that film just dropped. It’s called The Dog Stars, featuring Josh Brolin, Jacob Elordi, and Margaret Qualley. This is the story of a pilot surviving in a post-pandemic, abandoned Colorado. I’m seated.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First teaser for ‘SPACEBALLS: THE NEW ONE’.

In theaters on April 23, 2027.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

Allergies CURED?
Dr. Richard Urso started giving Vitamin D to every patient. They keep coming back stunned: nonstop runny nose gone. Couldn’t function, now they can. Protocol: ~1,000 IU per 32 lbs body weight daily. Low Vitamin D fueling irritation.

[Tony Cook @BTonyCook]

What happened to paying the man in front? #AFLBluesPies

[Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd]

As a medical school professor, this may be the most unexpected finding in metabolic medicine right now.

A massive new study shows GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide don't just help with weight and blood sugar. They slash depression risk by 44% and anxiety disorders by 38%.

Hospitalizations dropped by 42%. Substance use-related sick leave fell by 47%.

Even suicidal tendencies declined.

These are staggering numbers that suggest metabolic health and mental health are far more connected than we ever taught in medical school.

This isn't just a weight loss drug producing side benefits. GLP-1 receptors are found throughout the brain. Preclinical research shows they directly affect mood, motivation, and reward circuits -- effects independent of weight loss.

It's more evidence for what I write about in "Lies I Taught in Medical School": the metabolic dysfunction driving obesity is the same dysfunction driving depression, anxiety, and addiction.

Full breakdown coming on the Health Longevity Secrets podcast.

Source: https://t.co/Jm6eSDpn9d

#GLP1 #MentalHealth #MetabolicHealth #Longevity #HealthLongevitySecrets