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In the age of information, ignorance is a choice - Cartoon by Wiley Miller [email protected]

[Juan J Gil V @juantxon]

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

Eric Hoffer, The true believer (1951)

[Harris Meyer @Meyer_HM]

I worked with Stephen Miller every day. He’s going to fail. Catastrophically. https://t.co/p98ybfFM2U

[Geoff @GeoffBrown82]

Both Lutnick and Trump are invested in Nvidia. They both profited off the sale of chips to a Chinese cutout. The U.S. knew Alice Huang was a spy but sold chips to her company anyway. When some admin officials tried to enforce export controls Lutnick blocked them. Follow the money . . . right into Lutnick's and Trump's pockets.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Months after a fund tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump put about $30 million into a nearly bankrupt spa company, the Trump administration awarded that company nearly $40 million in federal contracts to screen for Ebola.

The company made most of its money from airport spas and waxing salons.

It had never worked with Ebola.

It had never worked overseas.

Yet part of the money is for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people this year. The company's CEO said, "I'm not sure we can do it."

This keeps happening. The same Trump-linked fund invested in a drone company, and five months later that company got an Air Force contract worth up to $90 million. A startup linked to Trump Jr. got a $620 million Pentagon loan after a top White House aide stepped in.

Their fund buys in, and federal money follows. Taxpayers foot the bill, and with Ebola, our safety is on the line too.

This is all totally corrupt.

Americans deserve answers under oath, and our conflict of interest and procurement laws must be enforced.
https://t.co/xJIHd4rJuN

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Election maps need to be 3D in order to show population density for true accuracy.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

He's speaking to an audience of 1: his id.
It's pure self preservation. He's a narcissistically mortified octogenarian trying to stave off collapse.

[Martín Dandach @MartinDandach]

El Papa León XIV está llorando desconsoladamente y se seca a cada rato las lágrimas mientras canta Alma Misionera en Perú. Que tipo maravilloso. Siente exactamente lo mismo que todos los que fuimos a un colegio católico y está muy feliz por estar en su país después de haber pasado tres días increíbles en Argentina. Él y Francisco son los dos Jefes de la Iglesia Católica mas humanos que nos tocó ver. Que Dios le de mucha vida para seguir desparramando toda su humanidad en el mundo.

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

Jensen Huang was a fool. Now he’s exposed Donald Trump’s network of them : Exactly nobody should be surprised to hear that Donald Trump has terrible judgment. And exactly nobody should be surprised that, even when proven to have been dangerously wrong (see: the Iran war), he digs his heels in. https://t.co/HOSNgxDd7n

[°❀🐞.ೃ࿔*:･࣪ ִֶָ☾. @phadrii]

Tres semanas creí que los de la basura me estaban robando al perro. 🚛

Todas las mañanas el Capulín se salía en cuanto oía la campana. Regresaba a las dos, cansado y oliendo a todo. 🔔

Un martes lo vi: iba parado en el estribo del camión, entre los dos muchachos, muy serio.

Salí en bata a reclamar que ese perro era mío.

«Será suyo en la tarde, seño. En la mañana es el jefe de ruta.» 🦺

Me explicaron que se trepa solo, que ladra cuando falta una bolsa y que no los deja arrancar si alguno se queda abajo.

Ya no le digo nada. Le pongo su desayuno a las seis y media, porque en esta casa el único que entra a trabajar temprano es él. 🙄

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Russian Olympic jackets, just in case you still weren’t sure which team they are on.

[Rafael Fontana @RafaelFontana]

"Eu sou o papa Leão", diz o papa aos controladores de voo do Peru.
A cena foi gravada após o avião entrar no espaço aéreo peruano.
Absolute cinema!

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

See if Alice Huang is a spy, then Jensen Huang, Trump, and Lutnick (at minimum) committed treason. So maybe she's now not a spy? Fun watching the gears turn inside their tiny brains...

[Plan Maestro @PlanMaestro]

But have you seen the ballroom?

[Pablo Malo @pitiklinov]

En mi opinión, lo que cuenta @juansotoivars aquí es un problema moral más que político. La Ley de Violencia de Género se ha convertido en un tótem: algo sagrado que no se puede tocar, ni siquiera para mejorarlo. Ningún partido se atreve a criticarla de verdad, ni siquiera Vox. Porque hacerlo ya no es una cuestión política o fáctica; es una cuestión de pureza moral, cuasi-religiosa.

Las mujeres han conquistado el rol de víctima privilegiada, y en nuestra cultura el estatus de víctima otorga superioridad moral automática. Quien se atreve a señalar problemas en el sistema de protección (denuncias instrumentales, presunción de culpabilidad del varón, desigualdad ante la ley, saturación de los juzgados, etc.) no está debatiendo una ley: está atacando a las víctimas. Y atacar a las víctimas te convierte en hereje. El feminismo institucional se ha convertido en la religión de Estado de este país. Criticar la LVG es blasfemar, y nadie quiere ser etiquetado de “machista” o “negacionista”. Es más fácil mirar para otro lado y seguir fingiendo que el rey va vestido.

El tabú no se sostiene por la fuerza de los argumentos, sino porque el coste reputacional de cuestionarlo es demasiado alto. Mientras el papel de víctima siga dando capital moral y el papel de cuestionador dé estigma, la ley seguirá siendo intocable. No porque funcione perfectamente, sino porque cuestionarla te coloca del lado de los malvados.

[Luke Glowacki @HSB_Lab]

Remarkable finding. Humans were using poison weapons in hunting at least 125,000 years ago. Think about the cultural complexity required to learn to safely extract poison from plants and use it for hunting.

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

Culper profiles in TechCrunch.
Then the WSJ.
Now the Times.

@nytimes $NVDA
https://t.co/nUE0yDqGW2

[Mackenzie Hawkins @mackhawk]

A year ago, we asked Nvidia about a Shanghai data center with links to Alice Huang. They declined to answer our questions and insisted that when it came to Megaspeed, there was nothing to see

We now have filings showing there are indeed banned Nvidia chips at that site

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[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Love this. You can go home again, even if you're the Pope!

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

¡Oh, Dios mío! You can tell Papa is home upon landing in Chiclayo!
Video: Vatican Media

[Ade Ferro 🟧 🌻 @adeferr]

Any immigration reform must include a path to citizenship for those who qualify. We are not fighting for second- or third-class citizens. This fight is for all of us, with all of us, by all of us.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: Is it a situation where the price of groceries and gas became an issue that you didn’t address?

Trump: I feel like I had to do what I did in Iran. Historically it will be a great decision. I think my approval rating is good