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[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.

It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.

Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:

* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving

We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.

[Mossadil Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 ISRAELI MUSIC PEACE ACTIVIST AND CREATOR ITAY BENDAL SAYS YOUTUBE TOOK DOWN HIS CHANNEL

Bendal is asking for help getting his channel restored, saying the case needs to be reviewed again by a real person.

If anyone has direct contacts at YouTube or can help escalate the issue, he’s asking people to reach out and share his message.

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@SammyHistorian @StellarStylus Done ✔️

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@SammyHistorian @Oracle10271198 Done ✔️

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@SammyHistorian @g_jaramillo2033 @DegCult Done

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

PROTECT your countries, your identity, your kids’ future. BAN political Islam and any party that uses religion for power!

DO IT NOW
Tomorrow is already too late!

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@SammyHistorian @AlanNasif Done 😆

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Indian pilot Smit Machchhar will be added to Fauda season 6.

[Joseph Gelman @JosephGelman]

Back when Jews were called Palestinians and Arabs were called Arabs. Most people have no clue about history and are easily manipulated.

[🇮🇱 David Ha'ivri 🤠 The Israel Tour Guide @haivri]

The Jewish faith does not promote proselytizion. Non Jews can convert if they so please. No encouragement from this side. Being a good person is enough. Just saying.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Thailand has ordered the deportation of Frenchman Kevin Dimino, co-owner of Samui Exotic Park on Koh Samui, after he banned Israeli visitors from the zoo and displayed a Palestinian flag.

An Israeli family with two children was refused entry, and video showed staff confirming Israelis were not allowed before Dimino confronted the family and behaved threateningly. Other footage reportedly showed him confronting and headbutting an Israeli man.

Dimino displayed a Palestinian flag and a crossed-out Israeli flag at the park and acknowledged posting “no jews” on social media. His Instagram account also stated: “YES NO ISRAEL IN MY PARK IS CLEAR LIKE THAT.” He had also called Jews a “dirty race.”

Thai authorities said Dimino’s broader conduct included threats, harassment, physical assaults and offensive behavior, and accused him of promoting activity capable of creating racial, religious and political divisions.

Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul signed the expulsion order: “We have the right to ask them to leave the country if they have done anything inappropriate.”

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

Everyone should be able to access high-quality financial assets, wherever they live.

That's what tokenization unlocks: taking the best of US capital markets and making them available on a global scale.

The industry is still small compared with global finance, but the advantages are becoming harder to ignore. Traditional market infrastructure was built around fixed hours, closed networks and layers of intermediaries. It was never designed for 24/7 execution, programmable assets, composability or self-custody.

The needs of investors have moved faster than the rails underneath them. We're working to change that.

What gives me confidence is seeing how many different people are now pushing this industry forward. Founders are building new products, LPs are bringing liquidity, traders are finding new uses, and infrastructure teams are making the whole thing work.

It's a privilege to be in the trenches with all of you.

We are still early, and there is a huge amount left to build. It will also take time and effort for the old guard to get onboard. This is worth fighting for.

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@SammyHistorian @Sumeriannwarior Followed

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat.

Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.

Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it.

The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them.

From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this.

⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities:

— Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.

— The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared.

Stay vigilant! ☝️

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

Boy George is an iconic British superstar.

This week he put out a song to show solidarity with the Jewish people post October 7. It is called We Will Dance Again.

As a result, he has been libelled by almost all British media as “pro genocide”.

He has had to withdraw from his West End role in Jesus Christ Superstar.

He has lost his label manager.

You think Jews are all controlling and protected by institutional power?
This is what has happened to a British ICON in a matter of DAYS.

You don’t know what bravery is until you fight Jew hate and antizionism.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@SammyHistorian 👌

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

There’s been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We’ve outlined our views in full here: https://t.co/NtXQuWm2g5

[pavin.eth @PavinTarn]

@PhillipInIsrael @AgamCohenv0 Reported and Blocked 🚫

[🇮🇱 Phillip Pasmanick 🇮🇱 💛 @PhillipInIsrael]

Be careful about these accounts from Nigeria.
@AgamCohenv0
Report then Block