BREAKING:
Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.
A village that has stood for thousands of years.
A place where Jesus once walked.
Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.
And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
If you see a helicopter towing one of these over your neighborhood, bad news: your town is getting a data center. They’re running airborne electromagnetic surveys to map groundwater in the area.
TRANSLATION: figuring out how much water they can divert before people notice.
A 37 year-old man is being federally investigated after throwing a rock at a monk seal, an endangered species with only around 1,500 seals left.
He got beaten up by locals and quickly fled Hawaii.
Maui Mayor Richard Bissen says tourist who threw rock at Lani, a local Hawaiian monk seal, in viral video will be prosecuted
The person has been identified as a 37‑year‑old tourist from Seattle, Washington
"Lani is a beloved seal and cherished member of Lāhainā's ocean ʻohana"
🚨🇲🇽 SHEINBAUM — MORE DEBTS CANCELLED
After cancelling the housing debts of more than 5 million families, the Mexican President has instructed the 'Institute For Returning To The People What Was Stolen' to WIPE OUT FARMERS' DEBTS.
More than 60,000 will benefit:
most with full cancellation, the rest with a discount and restructuring at non-usurious interest rates.
An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later.
I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it.
His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics."
The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages.
Here is the story almost nobody tells you.
He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it.
Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years.
Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science.
Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I
Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment."
That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance.
The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation.
He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes.
The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics.
The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught.
Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework.
Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham.
The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him.
He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.
I’m old enough to remember when Fox News threw tantrums and Republicans called for endless hearings when Joe Biden received a $40,000 loan repayment check from his brother.
Trump has made over $4 billion from various grifts and shady deals, from just his second term.
He’s already making the most annoying centrist Democrats mad with this one, which is just another reason to continue supporting him on top of the fact that he’s advocating for great policies.
CHINA JUST DREW A LINE ON AI
A court in China has ruled it ILLEGAL to replace human workers with AI purely to cut costs.
They have put responsibility back on corporations.
They can’t automate just to boost margins while workers are pushed out.
China has decided that wages, fairness, and employment aren’t optional.
And that’s a big shift.
While the west races to replace labour as fast as possible, viewing AI as a free-for-all… China has set a precedent that profit alone isn’t enough and corporations must answer to society.
A Chinese boy invents a primitive version of Edison’s famous device using simple tools.
A young Chinese student managed to recreate the “phonograph” invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, using only two coffee cups and a needle — an experiment that drew wide attention.
In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.
Just thought y’all should know.
Horror in Dubai.
A 24 year old American female airline worker in Dubai has been arrested.
Dubai police installed a surveillance tool on her phone.
Without her consent.
They found her sharing an image of a burning building with her mother.
So they set a trap.
They pretended to be her office staff and called her in for a meeting yesterday.
When she arrived, she was arrested.
2 years in jail.
That spying tool is installed on every foreigner's device in Dubai.
That means the Dubai Police are watching everything foreigners send to their families.
Every message. Every photo. Every video.
Including the most intimate moments.
Dubai has denied her a lawyer.