Artem Ervits

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[ONE Championship @ONEChampionship]

Yuki Yoza's ONE debut against Elbrus Osmanov was ELECTRIC ⚡ @yozayuki_1

#ONEChampionship

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

An Iranian to Prime Minister Netanyahu: “You were about to finish the Islamic regime. You always stand by your words, and the Iranians respect you more than any other world leader. That's why we call you ‘Bibi Joon’ (beloved Bibi).”

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Traffic to DuckDuckGo's proudly 'No AI' search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update https://t.co/RtvQ4UNEQ8

[Sandhya @agenticgirl]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a variable

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🇺🇸 U.S. VP JD Vance chest bumps cadet at graduation ceremony 😂

[giraffe @neckincrisis]

mind your own fucking business

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

Holocaust survivor in a full-circle moment, standing with IDF Special Forces soldiers. 🇮🇱❤️

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens."

And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds.

Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before.

Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax.

A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program.

Simple.

They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why.

They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed.

They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak.

By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that...

And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren???

Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget.

NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K.

NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane.

The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol.

So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that.

A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical.

It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools

THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY.

Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough.

Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem.

That's the SCAM.

Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her.

Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal.

Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck.

Outrage is deflection.

They'd rather she pay.

Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

JEFF BEZOS:

"If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway."

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

ELON MUSK IS WRONG❗️
ISRAEL IS NOT #1 IN THE WORLD, HE IS. WE ARE #2.
“I’m a huge admirer of the innovation coming out of Israel. It is objectively true that Israel punches high above its weight. I think, honestly, number one in the world.
Innovation per capita, Israel is by far number one in the world.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A 77 year old Russian grandma shocked the gaming world after solo-wiping a full enemy team on Dust2 in Counter-Strike 2, a squad of teens who had no idea what was coming.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Nakba Day - on May 14, 1948 Israel declared its independence.

A coalition of five Arab nations including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq immediately declared war and invaded Israel.

Israel won the war.

The Arab nations created a day to commemorate the embarrassing loss.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

It's quite simple actually. The mayor isn't an American in any meaningful way other than paperwork, and in fact seems to hold nothing but contempt for our traditions and values, so why would we expect him to care about the men and women who fought and sacrificed to defend this country?

There will be endless billions for progressive nonprofits to 'organize' on behalf of the DSA and for useless pet projects and leftist special interests, but our veterans get less in the annual budget than we spend to build a single public toilet. It's a disgrace.

My district has the largest number of veterans per capita in the entire city, and my district office hosts the first and only veteran resource center in New York. I meet these men and women every day and my office tries to do everything we can for them, but we're already operating on a shoestring and it's heartbreaking to think we're going to have even less to offer them.

When we import the third world, we become the third world. And with that we discard what's always been most important to us as a nation, as our resources are pillaged and our traditions defiled.

Very sad.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

The coolest pregnancy announcement ever!

[Henshi @HenshiG]

In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Tunisia—the only Arab country to suffer direct German occupation—a drunken officer bragged at dinner about the Jewish woman he planned to seize from a forced brothel.

He named her.

Across the table sat Khaled Abdul-Wahab, a 31-year-old wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York, spoke fluent German, and was trusted by the Nazis. They invited him to their tables. He smiled, poured the wine, finished the meal… then raced through the night.

He pounded on the door of the woman’s family at midnight. “Pack nothing. Come now.” He gathered 25 terrified Jews—mothers, fathers, children, cousins—and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm. For four agonizing months, he hid them in the olive press, stables, and storage sheds.

He fed them as supplies ran desperately low. He kept crying babies silent. When German soldiers came to count Jews, the hidden families pinned on their yellow stars, stood motionless, then tore them off the moment the danger passed.

One terrifying night, a drunk soldier stumbled upon them and threatened to kill everyone. An 11-year-old girl, hiding under a bed, watched in horror—until Khaled appeared like a guardian angel.

He calmly disarmed the soldier and sent him away.

No one on that farm died.

In May 1943, the British liberated Tunisia. The 25 returned home alive. Khaled went back to his quiet life—painting, raising daughters, serving his country—and never spoke of it again. Not to his wife. Not to his children.

He died in 1997 at 86. His secret died with him.

A decade later, his daughter Faiza sat in a Paris café reading a newspaper. An American historian was describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews. He named her father. She was 45 years old and hearing the story for the first time. “I rediscovered my father,” she said.

Khaled was nominated to be the first Arab recognized as Righteous Among the Nations—Israel’s highest honor for those who saved Jews. The committee declined.

Today, those 25 souls have hundreds of descendants living in Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl under the bed grew up, built a family in Paris. None of them would exist if Khaled had looked away that night.

He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he carried the silence for the rest of his life.

The world almost forgot him twice.
Now you know his name: Khaled Abdul-Wahab.

A true hero. A Muslim who stood against evil when it mattered most.

Colorized image of black and white photo poster by Israel the Jewish State.

[Artem Ervits @dbist]

Happy Mother's day from #thefightlabUSA

[Manish Gill @mgill25]

Friendly reminder to those who got laid off / are searching - I'm hiring Senior / Staff+ at ClickHouse. If you have build distributed data infrastructure and bring in Kubernetes knowledge, please DM me.

[Artem Ervits @dbist]

I can't recommend the Gemini AI Pro plan to anyone. You can't really do much with the current rate limits. The limits now kick in at 7AM. It's a joke.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A woman accidentally left the TV on overnight

and when she checked her camera the next day, she discovered her two cats had stayed up all night watching Tom & Jerry.