Ken Jones

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

American capitalism created the world's first trillionaire, while Chinese socialism lifted 740 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty.

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

A powerful video on the FIFA World Cup

[Cuban Americans For Cuba @Cubans4Cuba]

Raúl Castro has been indicted over the 1996 BTTR shootdown.

Scroll to read our breakdown of the reality of the situation, and understand how the U.S. is using this as pretext for further violence and escalation against Cuba🧵

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[Cuban Americans For Cuba @Cubans4Cuba]

4/4

[Ken Jones @kenjones49]

https://t.co/I8vj0tBSU5

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

In addition to Israel's destruction of the Gaza Strip, Israel's (ongoing) slaughter of Palestinians, Israel's gunning down Palestinian fishers (as Israel has done for 20+ years), this:

"No one is talking about the fact that Israel has, up to this moment, seized and taken more than 58% of Gaza’s land, including our homes and our lands that were once our source of life and safety.

More than 1.5 million people are now living in less than 40% of Gaza’s original area, confined to worn-out tents along the seashore, with no basic necessities for life.

No agriculture, no industry, no fishing, no livestock, no goods, and not even the ability to travel or escape this harsh reality. We are not only losing land we are losing everything with it our lives, our stability, and our future.

Speak about the settlement expansion, speak about this ongoing suffocation, speak about the death we are living through every day."

[Ken Jones @kenjones49]

https://t.co/TdALGmI34C

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92:

Here he is explaining why the US🇺🇸 has conducted so many covert CIA and over military interventions since WW2, and destroys the myth that the US intervenes to support ‘democracy’.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

"I have never seen the US government arrive in a desert to plant life. They always arrive to destroy."

Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodríguez gave a master class on US sanctions policy in 2024

She connected it directly to Palestine: "The genocide against Palestine is an extension of the same policy—the destruction of humanity, exterminating peoples so that speculative capital survives."

What she said:

🔹 The US controls SWIFT, the international financial messaging system. Every global transaction flows through it. One button excludes any country.

🔹The hegemon uses unilateral coercive measures, so-called 'sanctions', as a means of extortion against countries that do not obey its instructions.

🔹26,000+ unilateral sanctions exist worldwide. 31 countries sanctioned—representing 28% of world population and 72% of Earth's territory.

🔹96% of sanctions are concentrated on 10 countries. Mostly oil and energy producers essential for the development of humanity.

🔹Venezuela lost access to 77% of its international correspondent banks "in one second"

🔹99% drop in national income. $232 billion in lost oil production. $700 billion total economic damage—comparable to WWII bombing of Germany and France.

🔹US State Department stated, 2018: "Our sanctions forced Venezuela to default... We are seeing total collapse. Our policy works."

🔹Citgo seized. $22 billion in assets frozen. Venezuelan gold stolen by Bank of England "because we don't know who the government is"

🔹The US-appointed "president" of Venezuela's Central Bank lives in Miami and runs a hamburger business. This is who they claimed should control Venezuela's gold reserves.

"International law does not govern. The only thing that governs is barbarism."

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

China just turned the night sky into a masterpiece of precision and intelligence. 🌌

What struck me most about this is how seamlessly innovation turns into art.

A drone show in Chongqing just broke the Guinness World Record with 11,787 synchronized drones, creating breathtaking 3D animations that looked closer to CGI than real life.

No human pilots.
No delays.
No crashes.
Every movement guided by AI and GPS, choreographed with perfect timing.

To me, this is far more than a light show.
It’s a glimpse into how technology, creativity, and coordination can merge to shape a new era of expression and innovation.

When intelligence takes flight, it doesn’t just illuminate the sky — it redefines what’s possible.

Could this be the moment where technology begins to turn the world itself into its stage?

#AI #Innovation #Technology #Drones #Automation #Creativity #China #Engineering #FutureOfWork #DigitalArt

Credits: longliveai

[Laura Blum @laura8blum]

I agree. It changed me.

What Matt Kennard @kennardmatt said also resonated with me.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Tucker just visited a camp for Gazan refugees in Qatar, spending time with children who are now amputees and otherwise mangled due to the US-financed destruction of Gaza by Israel.

He came away speaking the way any decent person, by definition, would:

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Gideon Levy...bravo👏🏻

[Ken Jones @kenjones49]

Great interview with journalist Jasper Nathaniel who just returned from the West Bank - and was almost murdered by Israeli settlers. Starts at about 10:16. https://t.co/wB6r48IfkS

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of any threat.

One soldier recalls a man on a roof hanging his washing. A tank brigade 700 meters away decided to label him a “spotter” with no evidence of threat, and blew up half the residential tower, killing and injuring many civilians.

Another remembers two teenage boys quietly pushing a cart, and Israeli soldiers deciding to shoot one in the head, adding: “If they walk too fast, they’re suspicious. If they walk too slow, they’re suspicious. They’re plotting something… If you want to, you can always find a reason to incriminate someone. If I wanted to, I could incriminate the entire Strip.”

“Eli,” another soldier, said his commander reported their unit killed 112 “terrorists” at the end of their deployment— before admitting only one was even suspected of being armed.

Soldiers said they were ordered to “ignore international law” and told to “take revenge on them all.”

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

This is dynamite. Listen to every single word.