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[Andrew Maguire @AndyKMaguire]

@jgebbia Please don’t get on the train of reposting misinformation. It’s a very ugly habit in our industry right now.

It is well documented by highly credible sources that dismantling USAID is catastrophic.

For example:

https://t.co/IRaFeCJFzq

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

USA v Australia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have a *single state* bigger than France, Germany, and Spain combined.

Alaska is about 1.72m km². Western Australia is about 2.53m km². France, Germany and Spain together are about 1.41m km².

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@Grahamspurs50 @CarlowWeather Remember that a pharmacy shop on the sunny side of the street is not an official recorded temperature. Official temperatures recorded in shade in defined conditions. Street temperatures and car temperatures often show 5C more than official temps.

[Carlow Weather @CarlowWeather]

It’s called summer!

I’ve seen a lot of comments like this and yes it is summer and warmer weather is expected. However what many parts of Europe will see over the next 7 days is not your usual June temperatures. In fact parts of Spain, Portugal, France and Germany along with many others have already began issuing warnings for high temps including red warnings. Over 40c in June is not typical and if you are heading away on holidays then ensure you are aware of warnings and stay hydrated.

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@searchthetruth_ @ddfmarketing1 @sentdefender Interesting, how do you recognize a vapor combustion as opposed to just oil product blowing up?

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@petterlion01 @MarioNawfal What on earth makes you think "they learned a lesson" when history shows the lesson is never learned

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@Vukuzman Why do you say NATO assisted? What is your proof

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Some products last 50 years. Most fail in 5.
The difference is rarely quality of materials.
It's these 5 design principles:

1. REPAIRABILITY
Products designed to be repaired last longer than those designed to be replaced.
The original Land Rover Defender, 1948 design, still in production variants today.
Every component was accessible with standard tools.
Compare to modern vehicles where the battery replacement requires dealer equipment.

2. OVER-SPEC AT THE START
Design to a higher standard than your worst expected case.
The AK-47 was designed to function at ±60°C, covered in sand, submerged in water.
It has a reported MTBF (mean time between failures) of 15,000 rounds.
Over-engineering for the extreme case creates reliability in the normal case.

3. STANDARD FASTENERS
Products that use proprietary screws become unrepairable when the company stops making them.
Products that use M4 bolts are repairable forever.

4. CLEAR FAILURE HIERARCHY
Design so the cheap part fails first.
A fuse blows. A shear pin breaks. A gasket leaks.
These are intentional weak points, engineered to sacrifice themselves before the expensive components fail.

5. THERMAL MANAGEMENT
More products fail from heat than from any other cause.
Electronics, motors, engines, batteries, all degrade faster when hot.
The products that last build heat dissipation in from the start, not as an afterthought.

Design for longevity at the start.
Retrofitting it later always costs more.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Far-left historians today often exaggerate the importance of slavery to capitalism by tracing cotton's derivative products globally.

That said, there is one 19th century figure who directly benefitted from slave-produced cotton: Karl Marx.

For most of his adult life, Marx relied on handouts from his friend Friedrich Engels for his main source of income. From the 1840s-1869 Marx send Engels a non-stop stream of requests for money, which Engels usually obliged. After 1869, Engels sold his business partnership and began giving Marx a regular yearly allowance from the proceeds that more or less lasted until his death in 1883.

Engels's business, in turn, was a large textile mill in Manchester operated by his father's firm Ermen and Engels. And what did that mill make? Yarns and fabrics out of slave-produced cotton, which it sourced from the American south.

We know this because, in 1862, Engels wrote a letter to Marx about the American Civil War in which he reported that cotton from the south had dried up because of the blockade. Other business records indicate that Ermen and Engels got their cotton from shipments through Liverpool, which in the 1840s-1861 meant southern plantation cotton imports from the United States. Indeed, southern cotton would have been the raw material that sustained the majority of Engels' working career since he retired only 4 years after the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States. His firm likely also got cotton from other sources such as Egypt during the Civil War, but for most of his multi-decade career there, the cotton would have been slave-produced.

That means Engels very much made his family fortune as a derivative beneficiary of American slavery. And he used that slave-derived fortune to directly subsidize Karl Marx ;-)

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@searchthetruth_ @ddfmarketing1 @sentdefender Explain please

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@Monther_On_X @sentdefender He's shouting yalla yalla

[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

If you listen to folks in the AI labs right now, they’re all quietly terrified by the speed of AI development. Anthropic just published a letter openly asking for the option to pause or slow R&D because of how fast recursive self-improvement is coming but noting that they can’t do that without being able to verify that their competitors were doing the same.

That’s why it’s critically important that we build the tech needed to verify AI agreements. On this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, I sat down with two experts on AI governance, @fiiiiiist and @janet_e_egan, to talk about the kinds of verification technology we need for AI, the challenges of building it, and the world it could unlock if we did.

Given how critical verification technology is, you would assume there are thousands of people working in it. In reality, there’s only around fifty. We urgently need to put our attention, time, and energy into this critical area.

Check out our full conversation: https://t.co/FimnY84Plw

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

By striking the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the greatest holy sites of Christianity, Putin has forever put his name on the list of history’s worst barbarians.

He should be damned for centuries. And he will lose this war.

From the Horde in the 13th century to the Nazis and Bolsheviks in the 20th century, Kyiv’s sacred monasteries have suffered numerous barbarically attacks.

Now we are dealing with Russian terrorists who have already outmatched ISIS in their crimes against cultural heritage. Only Russian scum who have nothing sacred can deliberately damage the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a unique UNESCO heritage site under special protection.

We will be urgently initiating all relevant procedures within UNESCO and all other international mechanisms, demanding immediate and adequate responses to this state barbarism.

We expect strong reactions by international institutions and capitals. No vague words, silence, or weak steps. We need action now to stop Russian barbarism.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

2/ And the implementation they are threatening is insanely dangerous. They are going to ask adults to upload biometric face scans, passports, government id etc to the very tech companies they claim to be fighting against. That's a wildly stupid thing to do from a safety point of view.

[Michael Okun @michael_okun]

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse — the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

The most important chart in the world now includes data for 2025.

Trend lines are unchanged (bad).

[Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳 @_JakubJanda]

Chairman of Alternative for Germany (AfD) Saxony Jörg Urban was just caught at the Russian Embassy in Prague by Czech journalists from @enkocz.

Russian Embassy in Prague often serves as a regional headquarters of Russian intelligence to run their assets in Germany.

Full story:
https://t.co/x0dMzNrui4

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I stand with the brave women of Afghanistan who face guns, bullets, beatings and arrest, simply for saying no to forced hijab.

I tried to cover my face. I couldn't breathe behind that piece of cloth for even a few seconds. A total humiliation. And the Taliban is demanding Afghan women wear it for a lifetime.

To every Western politician who calls the burqa Afghan "culture" you’re better listen to Women, Afghanistan, and Iran, who lived under Islamic regimes. You're sitting in a parliament in a free country, with a salary and a vote and a podium calling this culture. This is a total betrayal to us who are wounded but unbowed to our oppressors.

Stop legitimizing Taliban. Be the voice of women of Afghanistan. Who wants to end this Apartheid regime.

#LetUsTalk

[Kyrylo Shevchenko @KShevchenkoReal]

⚡🇧🇪 Belgium is openly buying hundreds of thousands of tons of #RussianSteel slabs from Kremlin-linked oligarch Vladimir Lisin’s #NLMK every year. Russia supplies 58% of the EU’s slabs, with Belgium taking nearly one third, per @KyivIndependent. These ultra-cheap semi-finished products flow to NLMK’s plants in Wallonia (just 22 km from Brussels), giving local re-rollers a major cost advantage. 🇧🇪authorities openly block #EUSanctions on Lisin to protect jobs in a struggling region. Full phase-out is delayed until 2028. This is sanctions hypocrisy at its finest: national economic interests override pressure on 🇷🇺war economy. #MakeRussiaPay
Photo: @KyivIndependent

[gavanmac @gavanmac]

@TomTheFormless @Ruesavatar Lol