Did you ever have a time in your life when you find something you were involved in turned out to be the antithesis of what you believed you were doing? And anyone you bring it up to is telling you to shut up about it, but you can't because it isn't right?
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MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for the release of the Epstein files and not be conflicted in any way?
PLATNER: Yes, of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults at an earlier part of my life. That seems like a fairly normal thing most people do. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing.
Hummingbirds scratch like this 🤯
“Did you know that hummingbirds… to scratch their necks… have to pass their little feet behind their wings?”
“Look at that mini acrobatic feat… with those tiny legs.”
✨🇨🇳Many metro lines in China are piloting a new operation mode where turnstiles stay open all the time.
Under this mode, the turnstiles remain open continuously. Passengers can pass through right after swiping cards or scanning QR codes, with no need to wait for the barriers to move. This helps raise traffic efficiency by roughly 20 percent.
All passengers follow the rules and use their cards or QR codes voluntarily.
BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu DESTROYS Trump's Agriculture Secretary over her insane lie that Joe Biden is to blame for the screwworm outbreak — which is a direct result of DOGE cuts!
Democrats are done playing nice with these liars...
"Dear@SecRollins: You keep getting fact checked for your lies," the congressman wrote on X. "It’s your Administration that cut the Screwworm programs. Also, the life cycle of a Screwworm is 14 to 54 days. The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days. If you can’t stop lying, you need to resign."
Lieu was reacting to a video of Rollins insisting that this new screwworm problem traces "back to the last administration" and Biden's nonexistent "open border policy."
This is yet another blatant example of the Trump administration coming into power, breaking something that they don't understand, and then blaming Biden for the consequences. They are pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for any of their blunders.
"Dear @SecRollins: Did the Screwworm come from the trump Administration’s beef import plan with Argentina?" Lieu wrote in a followup post, boosting a report that Trump signed a trade deal with Argentina that permitted "unrestricted beef imports" from that country despite its screwworm problem.
Screwworms, which devour tissue and can kill cattle, have been detected in a growing number of calves in Texas. One case has been discovered in a dog. The pest had been considered eradicated in the United States for decades, but under Elon Musk's tenure at DOGE, the government slashed preventive measures and funding aimed at hampering the spread of the creature.
Before those cuts, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), spent tax dollars on monitoring and containing the spread of screwworm in Central America. It was one of the most worthwhile government investments on the books, because it helped stop destructive outbreaks like the one we're currently witnessing.
"Trump GUTTED funding for screwworm detection and fired 25 percent of workers whose job it was to monitor the disease," Congressman Shri Thanedar wrote on X.
We know who's to blame here and it's not Joe Biden. It's Donald Trump and Elon Musk, ignorant oligarchs who were so hellbent on slashing spending to pay for more tax cuts for the obscenely rich, that they didn't care what they destroyed in the process.
Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation into DOGE!
Ciudadanos albaneses repelieron con éxito a las fuerzas de seguridad de Israel para detener la construcción en los humedales, donde flamencos en peligro de extinción anidan junto con los últimos 300 focas monje mediterráneas en peligro de extinción, arrecifes de coral y tortugas.
America is back fighting a war we already won because Iran shot down an Apache helicopter with a military we already destroyed, and it's all over nukes they never had and a strait that was wide open.
Is that about right?
Would you also like to see photographs of them?
Left, Virginia Roberts, sex trafficked beginning age 14. Epstein’s network trafficked her hundreds of times.
Carolyn Andriano, 14 when trafficked to Epstein and through his network hundreds of times.
Both spoke up.
Both are dead.
Bodies of Evidence, a new Al Jazeera Originals investigation documents Israel’s long history of torture, se*ual violence and abuse against Palestinian detainees.
Survivors, lawyers and international experts speak on camera about what happened inside Israeli prisons and detention centres, including Sde Teiman.
Watch the full investigation:
https://t.co/AZBIwKYAKK
I don't care if people call me an anti-Semite
I do care that Israel is using white phosphorus on civilians
It's my duty as a journalist to make sure the world knows
"Quién quiera cooperar con nosotros, es bienvenido... pero ahora en Burkina Faso, los recursos nos pertenecen al 100%, si vienen con el espíritu de amo a tratarnos como esclavos, los expulsaremos".
Ibrahim Traoré, lider anti-imperialista de Burkina Faso, declara que se acabó el saqueo imperialista en el pais y ahora los recursos son 100% nacionalizados.
The tent… perhaps one of the most cruel and degrading shelters ever imposed on human beings.
A filthy, torn piece of cloth, no more than six square meters, is called a “home” for an entire family. A small kitchen on the ground, one single mattress, and all our life crammed into one space: we eat, sleep, urinate, cry, and fight in the same spot. No privacy, no dignity, nothing that resembles human life.
In winter, it turns into a watery grave. Rain pours through the threadbare roof as if it were paper, and sewage water floods in from below. We end up sleeping in a pool of mud and filth, while the children drown in their own coughing until morning.
In summer, it becomes hell on earth. Temperatures exceed fifty degrees, the air burns, and we suffocate inside until we feel like dying. Rats run over our bodies, snakes sneak in at night, and flies devour the faces of our children.
During bombing, we sit inside it terrified as it shakes and trembles with every nearby rocket. A tattered piece of cloth facing tons of explosives, while we cling to it and wait for death to tear us apart.
The tent is not housing it is a daily, ongoing punishment. Overcrowding beyond imagination, diseases that eat away at body and soul, hunger that devours the guts, cold that shatters the bones, heat that melts the flesh, fear that crushes the heart, and endless daily humiliation.
For more than three years we have been living under this rag. No safety, no dignity, no future. Just a filthy tent that reminds us every single moment that we have become less than human, and that the world watches us while leaving us to rot under a tattered piece of cloth.
"Remember my children, that all the Earth must belong to us Jews, and that the Gentiles, being mere excrements of animals, must possess nothing."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild ✡️ on his deathbed, 1812
A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history.
His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.
Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.
Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain.
He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway.
In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra.
Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language.
Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules.
Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it.
For 83 years, the book sat there.
Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't.
He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before.
An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches.
That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made.
After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago.
The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end.
He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly.
He died a few days later. He was 49.
He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules.
His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying.
The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.