Matt

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Ro will be traveling to Maine tomorrow to actually campaign for Graham Platner.

You quite literally cannot make this up.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The architects of “Believe all women” are really going mask off right now.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

@pwlot You might wait til we actually see it to crow about who was right to predict it when.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

You misspelled “Hezbollah murdered.”

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

“If an activist hasn't lifted a finger for thousands killed in Sudan, tens of thousands massacred in Iran, a million Uyghurs put in camps—but all they speak about is Israel—then we can ask if they are motivated by human rights, or something much darker.”
https://t.co/Bb3c861GAe

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Hezbollah began firing rockets isn’t an escalation.

But Israel responding is escalating the conflict.

You cannot hate the New York Times enough.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Never forget October 7. 💔

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

I’m pretty sure that when Henry Nowak’s father said he did not want his son’s death to create more division, he did not mean: “I want left-wing politicians and commentators to weaponise my grief to shut down debate.”

Yet that is exactly what is happening. It’s disgusting to see his words misappropriated as a political battering ram, used to attack anyone who asks difficult questions about the way Henry was treated, and about the anti-white ideology explicitly codified in the public sector.

Mr Nowak also said that the police treatment of his dying son was “inhumane and degrading”.

We should make sure no other British child is treated the way Henry was.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

More human beings have died of dysentery and the diarrhoeal diseases beside it than of almost any other cause in the history of the species.

Not war. Not famine. Not the great named plagues that get the documentaries. A bacterial infection of the gut that turns the bowels to bloody water and empties a person out until there is nothing left to give.

It is the quiet killer running underneath all of history. In nearly every war ever fought, until distressingly recently, disease killed more soldiers than the enemy did, and the disease, more often than not, was dysentery. Armies dug their latrines upstream of their own drinking water and then wondered why they were dying. It killed in the camps, the prisons, the slums, and above all the nurseries. For most of human history, the child who reached the age of five had already beaten the thing most likely to kill it, and the thing was, overwhelmingly, the runs.

Then, over the last hundred and fifty years or so, we beat it. Not with diet. With plumbing.

Clean water. Sewers that ran away from the wells instead of into them. Refrigeration. Soap. Antibiotics for when all of that failed, and vaccines for the other killers sitting alongside it. This is where the famous rise in life expectancy actually comes from. Not from anyone eating more sensibly. From engineering, sanitation, and medicine dragging the infant mortality rate down through the floor, so that the average lifespan, which had always been held low by all those dead children, could finally climb.

Here is the part worth sitting with.

Of all the things that added decades to human life over the last century, the modern diet is not one of them. The dietary advice that arrived in the 1970s did not extend anyone's life. It turned up after the hard work was already done, and took the credit anyway. Over the very same decades that sanitation and antibiotics were adding years, the food was quietly taking them back, in the form of an explosion of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease that our great-grandparents, for all their dysentery, simply did not have.

We solved the thing that killed people fast. We are still living, every single day, with the thing that kills people slowly.

Progress rarely happens on all fronts at once. We got very good indeed at not dying young of infection, and we have spent that hard-won breathing room inventing an entirely new way to be unwell.

The plumbing saved you. The food guidelines just stood next to it in the photograph.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Islamists in Brussels rampaged through the city, attacking police and destroying public property.

What has Belgium done to itself?

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If a guy screams "Heil Hitler!" in your face, you're not going to accomplish anything by debating the finer points of the Rhineland occupation. Similarly, if someone is shrieking for intifada, they don't care in the slightest that their genocide libel is fake. They've announced what they value, and it isn't the truth.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Canada just appointed this guy to a committee to combat Antisemitism.

I am relieved to see they did not appoint Mel Gibson or Kanye West to this committee.

Well done 👍

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

@HolgerFlier @PaulRRobichaud Indeed, there has never been, and there has always never been, ever since the Enlightenment.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

@erwd @ai_sentience The *only known* explanation of why other people reliably report having experiences - and those experiences are similar is “computational universality” (human beings’ brains do similar things) hence we are all similarly conscious.

No such explanation exists for LLMs.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

@ai_sentience Stars are obviously tiny, dim and cold.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

@KonstantinKisin The underlying dispute is not about whether there is a problem or how to solve it. It is about whether one is a friend of the (Dutch/English/Scottish) Enlightenment or an enemy.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

It is genuinely bizarre that UK has a College of Policing that teaches Critical Race Theory and other identity bollocks to aspiring coppers.
It’s a cult. No common sense. Zero humanity.
It left Henry to die.
Urgently need to go back to without fear or favour policing

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

It goes without saying that we should respect the grief and privacy of families going through the trauma of coping with a violent death.
Commentators and MPs who turned the deaths of Stephen Lawrence, George Floyd and even Chris Kaba into public events now have no right to lecture anyone about “politicising” the death of Henry Nowak.