Katetifa

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[Katetifa @katerwriter]

"You must remove hatred from your own heart first."

~ HE Garchen Rinpoche

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! CBS News Senior Reporter Michael Kaplan exposes massive insider trading by Donald Trump.

He bought $1M in Nvidia stock just a week before his administration loosened export controls!

He also bought Palantir and UFC stock right before directly promoting them!

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

Disturbing.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

The popular joint supplement glucosamine is linked to a 25% faster progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease.

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Metabolism has uncovered a troubling connection between glucosamine—a widely used over-the-counter supplement for joint pain—and accelerated cognitive decline.

Researchers at the University of Florida analyzed 12 years of electronic health records and discovered that patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who regularly took glucosamine were 25% more likely to progress to full-blown Alzheimer's disease than non-users.

Even more concerning, for individuals already diagnosed with dementia, the supplement was associated with a 25% increase in mortality risk. Because glucosamine easily crosses the blood-brain barrier, scientists believe it feeds into an already overactive protein 'sugar-tagging' pathway in vulnerable brains, worsening metabolic dysfunction.

Crucially, researchers emphasize that this risk appears highly specific to individuals whose brains are already undergoing neurodegeneration. In cognitively healthy adults, previous research has actually suggested that glucosamine may have a protective effect. However, with an estimated 40 million glucosamine users in the United States alone—including many seniors who deal with both joint stiffness and cognitive changes—these preliminary findings underscore the urgent need for clinical trials. Until those trials provide definitive answers, experts suggest that individuals with cognitive concerns consult their healthcare providers before continuing their daily joint supplement routine.

source: Hawkinson, T. R., Gentry, M. S., & Sun, R. (2026). Hyperglycosylation is a metabolic driver of Alzheimer's disease. Nature Metabolism.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Ian Carroll reveals Grok completely destroyed Eric Trump's massive coverup! The administration desperately claimed the leaked insider trading messages were fake.

Carroll confirms Grok officially verified Daniel Cormier actually posted them. Total corruption!

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

Good job, Michelle!

[Luther Luke Campbell @unclelukereal1]

After Josh Hoke falsely claimed Michelle Obama is a man at a White House event, she responded decisively. She filed a defamation lawsuit, froze his UFC earnings, and pledged all case proceeds to organizations supporting Black women's mental health and anti-harassment programs.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy smokes.

Why is Trump holding hands with France's first lady Brigitte Macron in front of her husband?

Did he just need help walking down, or did he think for a minute it's Melania?

Something is terribly off with Trump.

Is it just dementia or more than that?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JUST IN: Adam Schiff Just Revealed A Conversation That Hits Very Differently Today.

When Todd Blanche was being considered for high office, Schiff says he asked him a simple question:

What happens if a president asks you to do something immoral, unethical, or illegal?

Do you have the independence to say no?

According to Schiff, Blanche's answer was:

"I don't think I'll ever be put in that position."

Years later, critics are accusing the Justice Department of targeting political opponents, pursuing investigations that align with Trump's public grievances, and blurring the line between law enforcement and politics.

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

This.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”

— Freeman Dyson

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

Nothing better than the sound of baby laughter. Dream sweet!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A dad noticed his baby found the sound of the tape being unwrapped funny, so other parents tried it too.

Apparently all babies find the sound funny.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A dad noticed his baby found the sound of the tape being unwrapped funny, so other parents tried it too.

Apparently all babies find the sound funny.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history.

Here is exactly what happened.

Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice.

But the storage was not the part that broke the internet.

The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected.

They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting.

They never told you.

David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not.

Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model.

Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result.

J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time.

Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built.

This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance.

They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened.

The developer community did not forget that.

WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! NYT confirms JD Vance demanded the Insurrection Act be invoked to violently crush protests after ICE killed two American citizens.

He coldly admitted it would be painful but wanted to send a terrifying message. The White House is eager to unleash troops on us!

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

@LucasSa56947288 Adulthood.

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

A 36-year-old man from Texas flew to Bogotá, Colombia and allegedly sexually abused a 7-year-old boy on a balcony in broad daylight.

Neighbors heard the screams. They filmed. They called police. Because of them, three children ages 4, 7, and 15 are now safe.
Sources indicate he may have adopted all three of those children.

Let that sink in.

This is not an isolated incident. Colombia has already turned away 100 foreigners for sex tourism in just the first half of 2026. American passports are being used to exploit the most vulnerable children in the world.

Colombia’s president is now calling for visas to stop predators from entering the country.

🎥: @cbsnews / @lilialuciano

[The AI Colony R&D @TheAIColonyRD]

This is the NUDT mosquito drone, a spy UAV built by China's National University of Defense Technology for covert surveillance you can't see coming.

Under 0.3 grams. Wings that flap 500 times a second.

Sensors built for covert surveillance, all packed into a body you'd swat without thinking.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Fox is buying Roku.
Ellison bought CBS and CNN.
Bezos owns WaPo.
ABC and NBC owners support Trump.

We need to grow independent, pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Your daily reminder that Medicare for All would save $650 billion and 68,000 lives each and every year, per CBO and the Yale School of Public Health.

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

We should be so lucky.

[Sara | Journalist @AyatollahAraafi]

Breaking news; 🇮🇱 According to a poll conducted in Israel, Netanyahu is predicted to lose the elections with a 24% drop in support. If he loses the elections, Netanyahu will face trial in The Hague for war crimes.

[Katetifa @katerwriter]

I've long loved this painting too.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 2012, the people of Ireland were asked to choose their favorite painting in the world.

They did not choose a Caravaggio, a Vermeer, or a Monet. They chose this: two lovers saying goodbye on a staircase...

It is called Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, painted in 1864 by Frederic William Burton. It is a watercolor, which makes its richness and depth almost impossible to believe, and it hangs today in the National Gallery of Ireland.

The story comes from a medieval Danish ballad. Hellelil, a noblewoman, fell in love with Hildebrand, the prince who had been assigned to be her personal guard. Her father forbade it and ordered her seven brothers to kill him. When they attacked, Hildebrand killed six of them. At Hellelil's desperate cry, he spared the youngest, and that hesitation cost him his life. He died of his wounds. The surviving brother imprisoned her, and she did not live much longer...

Burton could have painted the battle. He could have painted the deaths, the grief, the blood. Instead he chose the one intimate moment before all of it: the lovers passing on a turret staircase, stealing a final embrace, knowing what is coming.

And every detail in the painting carries the weight of that knowledge. He does not seize her in passion. He bows his head and kisses her arm with a tenderness that is almost unbearable, because it is goodbye. She does not collapse into him. She turns to climb the stairs, her face hidden from him and from us, because to look back would make it impossible to leave.

The Victorian novelist George Eliot saw the painting and described it perfectly. The face of the knight, she wrote, is "the face of a man to whom the kiss is a sacrament."

And that is precisely why it has moved people to tears for more than a hundred and sixty years. It shows something that most of us have felt: not love at its beginning, when it is easy, but at the moment it must be given up, which is the moment that reveals everything it was worth.

Burton understood that the most powerful thing he could paint was not the tragedy itself, but the last gentle second before it arrived, held forever in paint, so that the two of them never have to climb those stairs apart.

Eliot, who was a friend of Burton's, captured it best: "It might have been made the most vulgar thing in the world, but the artist has raised it to the highest pitch of refined emotion."

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[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Epstein Files: Two children were strangled and raped to death.

This is why I will never stop.

[FinleyFinn @FionnualaFini]

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Barn owls inside = 3,000+ rodents gone per year. No more chemicals. Just smart nature.