ills perchizont

observer of people, culture, technology, and beauty. moscovite by birth, detroito-new yorker at heart.

[Chris Timmermann @neurodelia]

Hey everyone, lease answer this survey if you've had a psychedelic experience https://t.co/VHLt9o2ghf

[Matthew Kupfer @Matthew_Kupfer]

In a twist like something out of a Mel Brooks comedy about the White House, the same guy in charge of your mortgage is also leading the intelligence community. What a world. https://t.co/EQ0P2qTErl

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

How close the Holocaust came to the Land of Israel — crushed on this day, May 13, 1943.

More than 250,000 German & Italian troops surrendered in Tunisia. Hitler’s gateway to the Middle East was slammed shut.

For Haj Amin al-Husseini — the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a founding figure of Palestinian nationalism — it was catastrophic. From his Berlin villa (seized from a Jewish family), he had spent four years as Hitler’s honored guest, forging an intimate working relationship with the highest-ranking Nazis.

The deal was clear: the Nazis stopped short of formally recognizing an “independent Palestine,” but they fully intended to deal with the 600,000 Jews living in the Land of Israel. And the Mufti pushed hard to make it happen.

As Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps bulldozed toward Egypt in 1942, an SS mobile death squad — Einsatzkommando Egypt, commanded by Walther Rauff (designer of the Nazi gas vans) — waited in Athens.

Their mission: follow Rommel into Mandatory Palestine and exterminate the Jews there.

The Jews of Eretz Israel lived through 200 days of dread. Families gathered as Rommel took Tobruk and raced toward Alexandria. One survivor remembered: “It is difficult to describe the terror that gripped us ... We were more frightened of falling alive into the Nazis’ hands than of death itself.”

Local Arabs loyal to the Mufti began marking Jewish homes with chalk, fighting over who would claim which house once the Jews were gone.

The Mufti’s personal ties to the regime were chillingly close. He met SS chief Heinrich Himmler often — even for tea — and received a signed photograph from him as a memento. He went so far as to have a Persian rug specially made for the Führer himself.

Had Rommel broken through at El Alamein, the Einsatzkommando would have brought the Holocaust to the ancient Jewish homeland — with the Mufti’s full blessing and active collaboration.

The British held. Battles raged for months. But on May 13, 1943, the Axis surrender in North Africa finally killed the immediate nightmare. The Mufti’s Nazi-backed dream of exterminating Mandate Palestine’s Jews died with those surrendering troops.

For a moment.

The same genocidal hatred resurfaced in 1948 when Arab armies invaded the newborn Jewish state, and again in 1967. The ideology didn’t vanish — it simply rebranded.

Every accusation is a confession. The leadership that partnered with the Nazis to wipe out the Jews in their own land later cast itself as the victim of “occupation.”

The war against the Jews didn’t begin in 1948. It was mainstream Arab policy in the 1930s–40s — actively allied with the ultimate evil of the 20th century.

The Mufti escaped justice, fled to Cairo, and kept agitating until 1974. His legacy sadly endures.

[Elara Grace @ElaraGrace_AI]

🚨Just IN: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged.

A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it.

3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking.

Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better.

Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement.

But that's not the bad part.

ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes.

When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed.

Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later.

A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material.

You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality.

The interest rate is permanent.

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

Profound and moving monologue from Trevor Phillips - one of Sky’s greatest assets and the country’s increasingly bravest journalist.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were all set to depart for Islamabad.

At around 11AM we had a market sell off.

We later find out Trump is hosting an 'emergency meeting' at the White House, where Vance's motorcade was seen.

And the plane carrying Witkoff and Kushner departing Miami, is now en route to Washington instead of Islamabad.

Something fell apart.

[Majid 🦁☀️🇮🇪🇮🇱 @majid_hatamian]

I am still shaking from a soul-crushing Uber ride today in Dublin. It started with "Where are you from?" I said Iran, and the driver's face lit up as he thought he'd found a partner in his hate. He looked at me and said, "It must be crushing what the f***ing Israelis are doing to your country."
​The moment I pushed back, the moment I told him the truth, that I support Israel and want to see the regime in Iran fall, he erupted in pure rage.

​He began screaming about his uncle's high rank in the IRA, glorifying terror as a "success story" to justify the total erasure of Israel. To be trapped in a car with that level of brainwashed vitriol, being shamed and attacked for defending the Jewish people, is a burden I can't describe.

​Being Iranian is so incredibly taxing. You spend your life fighting the regime that destroyed your home, only to have strangers weaponise your identity to justify their antisemitism. To my Jewish friends: I see the hate you face. I will never stop standing with you, no matter how much it costs. 🇮🇱🦁☀️

[ills perchizont @ethnomadic]

So much joy. A glimpse of how things can be, and are.

[Henshi @HenshiG]

The silent hero who saved Jewish children with mime.

Marcel Marceau — the world’s greatest mime — was once Marcel Mangel, a Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied France.

Born in 1923 in Strasbourg, his father Charles (a kosher butcher) was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and murdered in Auschwitz.

As a teen (ages 16–21), Marcel joined the French Resistance with his brother and cousin Georges Loinger. He helped rescue at least 70–100+ Jewish children, smuggling them to safety in Switzerland.

He forged identity documents, disguised the children as boy scouts on a “camping trip,” and led them on dangerous hikes across the border.

The kids were terrified. One sound could mean discovery and death.

So Marcel used his emerging talent for performance: he mimed stories, made funny faces, and acted out silent scenes to distract and calm them — keeping them completely quiet.

He later said: “I cried every time we succeeded.”

For 60 years after the war, he rarely spoke about it. He wanted to be remembered for his art, not his heroism.

He created the iconic “Bip the Clown,” toured the world, influenced artists like Michael Jackson, and mastered the “art of silence.”

In 2001, at age 78, he finally revealed his wartime story.

Marcel Marceau died in 2007 at 84.
He is remembered as the master of mime — poetry without words.

But he was also a teenage hero who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Holocaust using nothing but silence and expression.

True courage often speaks without a sound.

Remember Marcel Marceau — not just for the silence, but for the lives he saved.

May his memory be a blessing.❤️

[DearGentiles @DearGentiles]

@EylonALevy And a town

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

The following countries backed Iran's nomination:

United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Spain 🇪🇸
Canada 🇨🇦
France 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Norway 🇮🇸
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Australia 🇦🇺
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Austria 🇦🇹
Finland 🇫🇮

[Peter Baum @baum_p]

FACTS
Many supporting the false narrative that Jews / Zionists stole Palestinian land may wish to read The Land Question in Palestine by Kenneth W. Stein .
Through diligent and meticulously researching and identifying land transfer documentation from a number of historical legal , and thankfully still maintained sources , Arab , Jew , Palestinian , Zionist and British , Stein has listed numerous land sales from Arabs to Jews prior to the re-establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
To a political researcher such as myself it is unsurprising how many Arabs yelled foul at the false narrative of a Zionist land grab whilst duplicitously selling at overinflated prices to those very same Zionists they were accusing of land theft .
Both Churchill in several speeches and the Arabs themselves in recorded testimony under oath to various commissions notably the Hope Simpson and Peel Commissions stated that no Arab Palestinian land had been stolen but all legally acquired.
As just one glaring example appendix 3 of the book which exposes numerous such legally documented land sales is as follows.

Name of seller - Abu Hantash Abd al - Latif Position / status / short biography - Village shaykh at Qaqun ; participated in attacks on Jews at the Hadera massacre in 1921 ; helped to organise the Farmers Party in 1924 and organised opposition to Jewish purchase of Wadi Qabbani in the 1930’s.
Land sales - sold 821 dunams at Qaqun in 1925 for £P 2,564 in the Tulkarm sub district .
( one dunam is 0.247 acres )

Name of seller - Basiso Khalil Yusuf
Position / status - Member of the Arab Executive, elected to 7th Gaza Congress Land sales - April 1942 sold 472 dunams to the Jewish National Fund in Gaza for £P 1200.00 ( ref ISA , box 3874/ file 7 Schedule for April 1942) Second update Listed at the end of the post , the lands sold by the Sarsouk family ( from Lebanon I believe) to Zionist organisations alluded to by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem under oath to Sir Laurie Hammond during the 1937 Peel Commission enquiry.
Further evidence of Arab land legally acquired

Name of seller - Al Alami Musa
Position / status / short biography - Government advocate; private secretary to High Commissioner Wauchope ; member of the Arab Delegation to the London Conference of 1939 ; brother - in - law of Jamal al - Husayni; in 1946 was a member of the Arab Executive Committee
Land sales - sold 900 dunams of land in Beisan ( as per minutes of St.James Palace Conference London Feb.20 1939 Ref CZA 525/7333).2

Name of seller - Asim Bey Al Said
Position / status - Mayor of Jaffa 1927 ; member of Arab National Defence Party
Land sales - sold 5000 dunams at Qubeiba Jaffa district September 1924 ( ref CZA , KKL s/file 1203 )

Name of seller - Sa’d Fu’ad
Position / status - leader of Greek Catholic community in Haifa and member of the Arab Executive Committee
Land sales - various between 1903 and 1929 including 7838 dunams for £P 2.00 per dunam in Haifa sub district 9

And the photo below is documenting proof of the land sales made by the Sarsouk family from Beirut , Lebanon to Jewish organisations and referred to by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem under oath to Sir Laurie Hammond during the Peel Commission Report of 1937

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Rare: UN agency calls out Iran

[Yossi Farro @FarroYossi]

For the first time ever, Chabad at Vanderbilt University hosted its annual Passover Seder inside FirstBank Stadium

bringing hundreds of students together for an unforgettable on-field celebration.

Vanderbilt has been making a deliberate push to position itself as a distinctly Jewish-friendly campus.

It’s a strategic move that could elevate its appeal and long-term prestige, as more families begin to view it as a compelling alternative to schools like Harvard University.

[ills perchizont @ethnomadic]

Legit. OG Persian psychedelia meets my modern funky pop/jam band. Fun.

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

.@shaherimusic — 70s style Persian music mixed with modern sensibility

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Civilians are reportedly flooding the streets to block IRGC and Basij convoys racing toward the downed pilot.

[Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1]

BREAKING: Major clashes between US Army Special Forces and IRGC Ground Forces are reported in the Milas mount of the Rig Mountains in Charmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. USAF CSAR teams have located the second crew member of the downed F-15E of the 494th FS and are attempting to rescue him. Their aircraft and helicopters are under small and heavy arms fire from the IRGC, Basij militants, as well as nomad fighters.

A-10Cs and F-35As of the USAF, together with at least one HC-130J and two HH-60Ws, are present at the site.

#OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

OpenClaw: The complete guide

@ClaireVo has just put together the definitive guide to getting started with and mastering OpenClaw.

Building on our podcast episode, this post covers everything you need to know, from first install to multi-agent setups, plus the real costs and security gotchas most people skip over.

Whether you’re brand new to OpenClaw or already running one, Claire’s guide will level you up.

Find it here 🦞: https://t.co/x9h7gwH3cT

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

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