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"Vajag darīt tā, kā darīt vajag, bet darīt tā, kā nevajag darīt, nevajag" /VP

[Agate @etaga]

@EsEsmuTuEsmuEs Tālumā bija LV pludmales volejbola čempim Saulkrastu posma fināls, tāpēc arī gaisa balons un ballīte :)

[Alise Pabērza @alise_paberza]

Mana nemīļākā daļa visā šajā darba padarīšanā – sevis reklamēšana, bet – kas jādara, tas jādara. Tad nu gribēju darīt zināmu, ka mana ikgadējā Latvijas vasaras sezona ir sākusies un es piedāvāju gan fotosesijas, gan kāzu un citu saviesīgu notikumu sabildēšanu. 🫶🏻

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Brian Cox turned 80 a few days ago, the timing of which nearly collides with the 8 year anniversary of the day Succession premiered. This is a show of a lifetime. Cox…he gives the performance of his career in this show, and he’s had an amazing fucking career. Long Live the Roys

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

People keep asking what the Soviet occupation actually cost the Baltic states. You don't have to imagine it. There's a control group, and it's sitting right across the gulf.
In 1938 — the last full year before the war — Estonia and Finland had essentially the same GDP per capita. Two small nations, same sea, neighboring languages, the same starting line. By some rankings Estonia was even slightly ahead. Heritage FoundationX
Then history split in two.
Finland fought the Winter War and kept its independence. Estonia was occupied, annexed, and folded into a planned economy. Same decade, opposite roads.
Fifty years later:
🇫🇮 Finland — ~$24,000 per person (1992)
🇪🇪 Estonia — ~$2,800
An eightfold gap — from an identical starting point. Not because Finns worked harder. Not because Estonians were less capable. One country was free to build. The other was told what to build, for whom, and at what loss.
The wages say it even more cleanly: in 1938 Estonian purchasing power was just 4% below Finland's; by 1988 it was 42% below. That cliff is the occupation, drawn in numbers.
And here's the part that ends the argument. Set free for a single generation, Estonia has already clawed back to roughly four-fifths of Finnish income. A gap that took 50 years to open is closing in 30. That's the proof it was never about us — it was the system imposed on us.
There's a cost that never shows up in GDP, either. No occupation means no cattle cars to Siberia. No murdered and exiled intelligentsia. No decades of settlers moved in to outnumber the natives — which means the very "Russian-speaking minority" Moscow is now parading before the ICJ wouldn't exist at anything like that scale. The grievance Russia is litigating is one it manufactured itself.
So no — we don't wonder what we lost. We can see it from the ferry.
And free at last, it's what we're finally becoming again. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

[Agate @etaga]

@alise_paberza @Janchelis Ahahahahahaaaa, uzreiz atcerējos kā viņa tajā savā vestē staigā apkārt un sāka "mail mēērdž"

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

✨Robert De Niro's Closet Picks! ✨ The legendary actor and director stopped by for a brief visit to the Criterion Closet, where he shared some of his Italian-cinema favorites and talked about his experience working with Agnès Varda.

[Andris Šuvajevs @suvajevs]

1/6 Pāris fakti no Valsts kontroles revīzijas par kokrūpnieku afēru:

Atcerieties, kā visiem tika stāstīts, ka nozarē ir krīze? Krauze joprojām tā apgalvo.

Tomēr izrādās, ka krīze bija tik liela, ka daži uzņēmumi sev izmaksāja dividendes.

[Zane Ārmane @vasarasraibumi]

"Sauciet K.Ālu par "spaidermenu", bet viņam sestā maņa saka, ka gan Lidija, gan Vecais Gils, gan dīdžejs pie saviem honorāriem un autoratlīdzībām tiks. Viņi tiks arī pie bezdarbnieka pabalstiem. Vaicāsiet – kā tas ir iespējams?

"Mistika," atbildēs K.Āls."
https://t.co/GIwbkPepE0

[Agate @etaga]

@girts_zag Mums tikko uz Ženēvu un atpakaļ arī bija. Es tieši mēģināju izdomāt arī, kāda ir loģika par to, kuros lidojumos būs un kuros ne.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

[Agate @etaga]

@alise_paberza Man pašiem pamatiem ļoti labi patīk duolingo šaha sadaļa :)

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Kyiv is the only capital on earth where New Year arrives in silence.

While the world celebrates with fireworks, Ukrainians have to listen for drones.

Wherever you are in the world, think of Ukraine and remember who caused this

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

it’s like if RFK Jr. bought Pfizer. but no I’m sure everything will work out fine.

[Mārtiņš Staķis @MStakis]

Vēl vesels gads līdz Saeimas vēlēšanām, bet @VairaVF tikai ar vienu tvītu izdevies sabiedrībai parādīt vietējo orbānistu sapņu koalīcijas aprises. Desmitniekā, prezidentes kundze!

[Mārtiņš Staķis @MStakis]

Protams, parakstījos par Stambulas konvenciju, jo atbalstu vardarbības novēršanu ģimenēs. Neesmu dzirdējis nevienu jēdzīgu argumentu par labu denonsācijai. Ja tas notiks, neapskaužu diplomātus, kuriem nāksies sarkt, to visu skaidrojot ārvalstu kolēģiem. Saeimas vairākums izskatītos pēc Kremļa naratīvu nozombētiem dīvainīšiem.

[Žagars @AtisZagars]

Houston, I have a problem. 😭Netīšām nopirku DIVAS biļetes uz 🇱🇻 vs. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Pie kam "lētās" pa 42eur. Der invalīdiem (man), studentiem un pensionāriem. Negrib kāds students vai pensionārs (vai cilvēks ar invaliditātes apl.) 1 atpirkt? Pleeeese. RT. B sektors. 16.rinda. Atdošu lētāk.

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

yeah

[Agate @etaga]

@AnnijaGreka Aha, gandrīz datoru aiz dīvāna aizmetu. ⚡

[Agate @etaga]

Nez, kam lai pasūdzās, tāpēc sākšu ar šo vietu un @RigasDome
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