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[Łukasz Krajnow @krajnow]

#COVID19 been an excuse for the greatest money transfer from the middle class in history.

[Łukasz Krajnow @krajnow]

Świat płonie ale spoko, imperium ma dla Was igrzyska

[WORLD NEWS @_MAGA_NEWS_]

JUST NOW: In a major development sending shockwaves through the Iranian regime, the United States has struck the Dar Khweyn (Darkhovin) nuclear power plant construction site in Iran's Khuzestan province, the first direct US strike on an Iranian nuclear power plant.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A “Matrix glitch” occurred in Vietnam: a woman entered a shop and couldn’t find the sales assistant for a long time because they were moving in perfect sync.

After about a minute, the two finally managed to find each other.

[Łukasz Krajnow @krajnow]

We are so done

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

POPE LEO XIV ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC

WE LIVE IN A SIMULATION

[Łukasz Krajnow @krajnow]

💩💩💩

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

🇺🇸Trump explaining the meaning of “sea” to his supporters:

“Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.”

[Julien Jomaux @JomauxJulien]

Deep negative prices do not happen everywhere.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[Daniel Franke @dfranke]

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.

You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.

You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.

You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.

You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.

You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

[Brian Potter @_brianpotter]

The US consumes over 20 million barrels of oil each day.

But it doesn't consume it directly. Oil refineries take raw crude and turn it into various products - gasoline, diesel, jet fuel - that we can use.

This week, I look at how oil refineries work. https://t.co/4hnjSmfs2d

[anna wittenberg @annawitten]

Palantir w Polsce próbuje sprzedać swoją technologię wojsku. Zestaw argumentów: unikalny soft, wszystko zostaje na dyskach, firma tech jak każda inna, tylko lepsza. Sympatyczni lobbyści.

A tymczasem w USA:
-> AI nową bronią atomową;
-> Nie ma czasu na etykę;
-> Big Tech ma obowiązek służyć państwu i armii;
-> kontrakty wojskowe to „misja”, nie biznes;
-> państwo ma kupować szybciej i zadawać mniej pytań;
-> liberalne wątpliwości to luksus czasu pokoju.

:)

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇹🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧 Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan turns up the heat on Netanyahu:

"Israel is trying to turn the situation in Lebanon into a fait accompli; this must not be allowed."

[D Williams @DDavewill0325]

@Antunes1

[Vlad the Impaler @count_drakulaa]

@clashreport

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The U.S.-Indonesia Defense Partnership has now been formalized, with the U.S. even planning to deploy over 17,000 troops to Indonesia under the guise of "exercises and operational cooperation."

Indonesia controls the Strait of Malacca, through which over 80% of China's oil imports currently pass.
As the U.S. kidnaps Maduro, controls Venezuelan oil, maintains a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, and now prepares to send troops to Indonesia while eyeing the Strait of Malacca, a clear pattern has emerged: this is a war against China and the Multipolar Order.

From all indications, we can safely conclude that the U.S. is preparing for World War III.

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

In the bustling garment factories of southern India, rows of workers hunch over sewing machines and folding tables, their foreheads strapped with compact head-mounted cameras that silently record every subtle twitch of their fingers. These aren't surveillance tools for oversight—they're data harvesters, capturing egocentric footage of precise hand movements: the way a seamstress adjusts fabric under a needle, the exact grip and twist required to fold a towel with factory-floor efficiency, or the micro-adjustments that turn chaos into order. This real-world video becomes training gold for AI systems, feeding algorithms the nuanced, imperfect dexterity that lab simulations can't replicate. Humans aren't just performing manual labor anymore; they're meticulously demonstrating it, frame by frame, teaching machines the intimate choreography of the human hand in motion.

Yet in this quiet exchange lies a profound irony: these workers are architecting their own obsolescence. By donating their lived expertise—the muscle memory honed over years of repetition—they empower AI-powered robots to master the very tasks that sustain them, from stitching seams to assembling parts with superhuman consistency. Factories sell this data to robotics giants, accelerating a future where humanoid machines, trained on thousands of these captured gestures, step into assembly lines and displace the hands that trained them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of progress, where today's essential labor becomes tomorrow's redundant skill, leaving workers to wonder if they were ever building a legacy or simply scripting their own exit from the workforce.

A thread on AI systems 👇

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

This is Takuya Nakamura, a NYC-based artist blending jazz, jungle, and electronic music while playing trumpet live during his DJ sets

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇧🇩 That’s how people get off the trains in Bangladesh … after riding on top

[The Honest Broker @RogerPielkeJr]

A New Index of G20 Energy Security
Plus - Estimated structural exposure to the Hormuz crisis

Link in reply . . .

[Łukasz Krajnow @krajnow]

Empire is bleeding.
It can be defeated

[Łukasz Krajnow @krajnow]

America's soft power is done 🤝

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

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