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Striving to make the latent patent

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year.

According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually.

That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats.

Numbers don't lie. Our priorities do.

[George Mack @george__mack]

When you’re 5 years old, a year is 20% of your life. And when you’re 50 years old, a year is 2% of your life. This is an explanation given why time speeds up as you age. It's called Janet's law. It states you’ve experienced roughly half of your perceived by life by 20 years old. Or to put it another way: A summer holiday for a 5 year old feels as long as the 10 years from 40 to 50 years old.

But Janet's law can be broken with high agency.

You have agency over the speed time. You're not a passive victim. A better explanation of why time speeds up as you age is because you have fewer new experiences as an adult, so your brain deletes the memories. If you take agency over your life, do new things and create memory dividends, time slows down.

If you live your life on autopilot, you may die at 80, but feel like you died at 20 years old.

If you take agency over your life, you may diet at 80, but feel like you died at 200 years old.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

The world would be such a better place if we had more leaders like Ireland's new president, Catherine Connolly.

She drew from Ireland's own experience of colonisation.
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[الهاشمي - ALHACHIMI @MALHACHIMI]

Sami Hamdi is my son, and these are further clarifications in reply to the two tweets from the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

It’s deeply unfair to see Sami treated this way—his reputation attacked, his voice silenced, his work distorted. Sami is not an extremist; he’s a journalist and political analyst who stands for dialogue, respect, and human dignity. (He also loves football and supports Arsenal FC.)

When some individuals burn the Qur’an, insult Islam, and spread hostility toward Muslims, it’s called freedom of speech. But when Sami criticizes Israeli policies or asks hard questions, he’s punished, arrested, and deported.

I often hear U.S. officials urging Europe to uphold free speech—yet Sami is denied it. Why can’t freedom of expression apply to him first?

Sami is a principled man. At 23, he moderated TV discussions between Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders to promote understanding. His pinned tweet condemns antisemitism. Why can’t his opinion be tolerated? Condemning the genocide in Gaza is not a crime—it is a moral duty shared by Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists alike.

Sami represents a generation of young moderate Muslims who believe in peaceful coexistence and on dignity and freedom to all, including the Palestinians. Silencing him weakens democracy and Harm America's image and reputation worldwide. All he asks for is the same freedom others take for granted: to speak, question, and be heard without fear.

If this still doesn’t convince you, remember: Sami is a journalist, and punishing him for speaking the truth not only undermines the freedom and democracy America claims to uphold, but also puts it in the same league as some of the most oppressive dictatorships in the world. Surely America deserves better than that.

@realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio @DHSgov @TriciaOhio @Oprah @TuckerCarlson @DonaldJTrumpJr @Bannons_WarRoom @mtgreenee @amanpour @elonmusk @POTUS44 @MichelleObama

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla is another grave offence by Israel of global solidarity and sentiment that is aimed at relieving suffering in Gaza and advancing peace in the region.

On behalf of our government and nation, I call on Israel to immediately release the South Africans abducted in international waters, and to release other nationals who have tried to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.

The interception of the flotilla in international waters is contrary to international law and violates the sovereignty of every nation whose flag was flown on the dozens of vessels in the flotilla.

This action also violates an International Court of Justice injunction that humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow unimpeded.

South Africa calls on Israel to ensure that the life-saving cargo transported by this flotilla reaches the people of Gaza, as the flotilla represents solidarity with Gaza, not confrontation with Israel.

South Africa supports the call by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Israel to urgently lift the blockade on Gaza and allow the entry of life-saving material through all means possible.

My thoughts are with all of the abductees and their families and it is my expectation that Israel will release the human rights activists as these abductions serve no purpose in the context of efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The big, brave IDF pointing machine guns at aid workers.

Terrorism is all they are good at.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

My entire life I was taught about the West’s values of human rights, women’s rights, and freedom. I dedicated 3 decades to advancing that cause, fully convinced until the past 2ys tore it all apart.

This is the true face of the West.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am honored beyond words can say. I look forward to our embrace, people of Apartheid-free South Africa. You shine.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

In the 1950s, hundreds of thousands of Jews lived in Iraq. Mossad carried out bombings in Jewish neighborhoods and blamed local Arabs, creating fear to force migration to Israel.

Jewish historian Prof. Avi Shlaim has documented this.
https://t.co/ogZ8T9ux1O

[Breyn @breynza]

The documentary the BBC refused to show exposing the targeting, detaining, & torturing of Gaza’s medics aired on Channel 4.

It reveals IOF using secret torture sites to brutalize medical staff

î$rael bomb hospitals&hunts the medics who keep Gaza alive.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

This is the film they didn't want you to see, the film that the BBC refused to air.
Watch 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' NOW at https://t.co/nc9UmuBbBB.

[MSJ @MSJ_Research]

Rituximab showed superior effectiveness on MRI and clinical activity, compared to cladribine, over 4.5 years.

Observational data from the Norwegian #MultipleSclerosis Registry and Biobank @UiB @UniOslo ▶️ https://t.co/f1Uoz5Gs9Z

[Freedom Flotilla Coalition @GazaFFlotilla]

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish citizen.
Pressure their foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!

Web: https://t.co/uCGmx8sn8j
X : @SweMFA
FB : @SweMFA
IG : swedishmfa

#AllEyesOnMadeleen

[Constitution First 🇿🇦 @Constitution_94]

Tshidi Madia's full interview with a rightwing, pro Donald Trump channel, the @NewsNation, in the United States of America

Tshidi represented South Africa so well.

She put facts & allowed the folk to scream at he4

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“There’s a reason why ISIS never attacks Israel. Because they’re sponsored by Israel and the CIA.”

—Former British diplomat Craig Murray

https://t.co/H6SSO6fSTI

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Look at all those Qatari flags 🇶🇦 being flown outside Congressional offices. The Qatar Lobby has taken over our government!

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

“Whether in the Palisades or in Palestine…”

Phenomenal message by Dave Chappelle on SNL.

It takes a lot to do this on live tv in this climate. Thank you brother Dave.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[amaarah garda 🇵🇸 🇨🇩 🇸🇩 @amaarahg]

On 19th November, @Discovery_SA is hosting a Summit with @FohFuture in Cape Town, South Africa

The Summit sounds innocent enough - it’s a “Leadership Symposium”
One look at the Programme and the group called FOH, things become much more concerning
Why this should anger us

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