Rob

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

WTF!!!!!

Trump is f-cking using Honor Guards at a UFC event on the Lincoln Memorial.

No this is NOT ok. Don’t you dare call yourself a “patriot” while supporting this crap.

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

In 1937, a 21-year-old MIT student sat in a quiet library, mapping abstract philosophical logic onto electrical circuits to pass the time.

By the time he finished his thesis, the young man had mathematically proven that mechanical telephone switches could perform complex calculations. Instead of just routing phone calls, they were destined to become thinking machines.

He had just discovered the mathematical trigger for digital computing.

But when he published his work, the leading engineers of the industrial world paid little attention, viewing his mathematics as a mere academic parlor trick.

His name was Claude Shannon.

It would take years for the industrial establishment to fully realize he was right and adopt the binary logic that now powers every computer, smartphone, and network on Earth.

His breakthrough against traditional engineering is the ultimate lesson in what happens when rigid practices clash with unexpected philosophical reality.
In the early 20th century, engineers believed they understood circuit design. They knew that as telephone networks grew, they needed more physical wires and relays. But traditional engineering offered no universal science; it was a manual process of brute-force trial and error.

The systems would grow into a chaotic, tangled mess of blueprints and copper lines.
The entire industrial establishment agreed: every circuit, no matter how complex, had to be wired by manual experimentation. It was a tedious, costly formula.

But in that library, Shannon realized the establishment had left a massive variable out of their equations: 19th-century symbolic philosophy.

Shannon recalculated the engineering, factoring in what happens when you treat an electrical switch using the laws of Boolean algebra.

What he found shattered the industrial consensus.

He proved that an electrical switch has only two possible states: it is either closed and letting power through, or open and blocking the current. This was mathematically identical to True (1) and False (0).

The circuit could evaluate logical statements. There was no limit to what it could compute. It could automate human thought, transforming physical electricity into digital logic.

When Shannon presented this concept, mainstream electrical engineers were skeptical. They couldn't accept that an abstract philosophical concept could solve real-world hardware bottlenecks.
Shannon was initially ignored. The establishment stuck to their traditional wiring methods.

Instead of fighting a rigid, closed system, Shannon quietly expanded his work into Information Theory, proving that all data could be compressed into a universal currency called the "bit." Decades later, when the global tech revolution exploded, the world realized the 21-year-old student had been right all along.

The philosophical blueprint Shannon left behind is a vital truth for navigating complex problems and institutional pushback:

Comforting traditions will always be more popular than disruptive innovations. Trust the system's underlying logic anyway.

Most of us approach our careers and projects seeking the validation of current experts or established guidelines. When we propose a radical new idea or try to change a broken system, and the authorities tell us we are wrong, our instinct is to assume our logic is flawed. We abandon our data to fit the consensus.

But Shannon’s legacy proves that traditional industry consensus is not the same thing as truth.
Gatekeepers are human; they protect their own methods, their own training, and their own comfort.

What is a bottleneck, a project, or a direction you’ve abandoned just because an expert or a boss told you it wouldn't work? What happens if you stop looking for their permission and trust the structural logic of your own work?

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours assaulted a woman yesterday by slapping her in the face.

It was never about protecting women and girls, and he clearly wasn't raised properly. You should never hit a woman.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

VAN SUSTEREN: Who is our best friend in South America at this point

KRISTI NOEM: We've worked so much with El Salvador ... Costa Rica has been fantastic

(El Salvador and Costa Rica, dear reader, are not in South America)

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is STILL under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.

Please RT this until this until he no longer is.

Thank you

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

If the Michelle Mone yacht worth £10 million is confiscated and the £148 million owed to taxpayers is 'paid back' that's £158 million right there in the defence pot.

Oh and let's not forget the £500 million owed in taxes by M'Lord Bamford.
#BBCLauraK

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Today’s @independent front page

Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The liars of Brexit are suddenly being exposed

They have got away with it for so long - sooner or later it was going to catch up with them.

Is this yet another reason Farage is in hiding

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Suella Braverman, a trained barrister, is peddling a dangerous, deliberate lie to scrap the Equality Act.

This Act explicitly bans positive discrimination and quotas, it protects everyone, including white men, from unfair treatment on race or sex grounds.

She knows this. She’s weaponising the very real fears and frustrations of uninformed white working class men, pretending to champion them while cynically exploiting them for votes.

Disgusting. It is divisive poison from a politician happy to rip the country apart and let bad bosses discriminate freely, all for her own political resurrection.

Don’t let this grifter play you for fools.

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Ryan Bridge has been filmed striking a female protestor in the face in Brighton. That single act destroys any claim Raise the Colours make about “protecting women and girls.” Please share this he cannot be allowed to get away with it. I hope she’s okay and has reported the assault to the police.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I’m just going to post this every few days rather than arguing with faceless, nameless trolls in the comments.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Ah yes that famous “negotiation” where Japan unconditionally surrendered after two atom bombs and Hitler blew his brains out.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

This could be interesting.

[#PositiveForLabour @nowayjomo]

@afneil Makes a big difference to some lives

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

So, it turns out that the violent protestors, who Farage & Reform would have us believe were regular members of the public showing justifiable rage, had numerous previous criminal convictions
https://t.co/HHCaxa2QZf

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

No other president in US History has ever been this rude, insulting or ignorant!

Repost if you agree

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Reminder: there would not be a need for assistance if he hadn't put tariffs on Canada or started an illegal war in Iran

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He's literally using his insane wealth right now to fund and amplify the far right in the UK.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

JD Vance went to Ohio State then Yale. But clearly not to study history. WW2 did not end ‘with some kind of negotiation’.