🚨#BREAKING: Two boys on paddle-boards are being praised as heroes after heartwarming footage emerged of them RESCUING A DROWNING RACCOON during the Texas storms.
The two boys, Tucker and Owen saw the raccoon being sucked under by the current, scooped it out of the water, saving it's life.
The animal crawled underneath Tucker's legs, hiding from the rain and the storm.
They paddled him all the way to shore through the storm and let him go.
Absolutely awesome!!!!!! ❤️
Watching The Odyssey, especially in the wake of Oppenheimer, it’s clear Nolan fears that civilisation is collapsing, that our hubris is inviting a new dark age, that the world we’re passing on to our children will be bleaker & more brutal than the world into which we were born.
Ben Gvir is posting videos showing off the execution chamber where he will exterminate thousands of Palestinian hostages.
Imagine if Hitler broadcast videos of his gas chambers to gloat like this.
Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora.
He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.
Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s.
A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football.
That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it.
Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty."
His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't.
As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again.
He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15.
Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since.
Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.
Gracias por recibirme con tanto cariño en Nueva York. Son más que correspondidos. Mexicanas y mexicanos trabajadores, los quiere y admira todo México 🇲🇽
I thought my father-in-law didn’t like Argentina cos it looked like the officiating was favoring them, until he told me yesterday about how one-third of Argentina was blacks & how Argentina subtly erased them so they are almost 100% white by sending the black population to wars they know they would never come back from, etc.
This story changed my perspective entirely.
I am a black man & this hurts me
The Chinese president stood on a stage in Shanghai and laid out China's entire AI playbook in one speech.
It was his first-ever in-person appearance at the World AI Conference. I went through the whole thing and pulled out everything that matters.
- he opened with his signature maxim that great changes unseen in a century are unfolding across the world.
- he said AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country but a symphony of international cooperation.
- he reaffirmed China's commitment to open source AI in the name of openness and shared benefit.
- he warned against overstretching the concept of national security in AI, where one country puts its own security above everyone else's.
- he said China opposes the emergence of new historical injustices in AI, one of the strongest-worded lines in the speech.
- he pledged 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries over the next five years, naming ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the SCO, and BRICS.
- he committed to giving 30 countries access to a Chinese AI weather system that provides early disaster warnings.
- a day before the speech, 29 countries signed the agreement creating a new World AI Cooperation Organization headquartered in Shanghai.
strip away the politics and one thing stands out to me. he didn't pitch benchmarks or chatbots. he pitched AI as infrastructure, weather warnings for countries that lose thousands of lives to storms they never saw coming, and training programs for regions the AI boom has skipped.
meanwhile most of the Western AI conversation revolves around which lab ships the next frontier model.
I don't care who wins the race. I care whether the computing power reaches the people who need it.
The full speech is below, and it's worth your time.
A song that is now an anthem of loss and erasure across the Global South..
“They demolished our homes and criminalised our existence.
They falsified our origins.
They separated our loved ones and slaughtered our children.
They made our blood cheap and demonized our revolutionaries.”
This is insane...
Whitney Webb exposes the history of Palantir.
Palantir started as a DARPA project. It was going to completely destroy our constitutional protections so it was quietly taken out of government and rebranded as a private company to do the EXACT same thing.