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[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A secret society of the world’s elites co-founded by spyware billionaire Peter Thiel has been exposed by hacktivists.

Dialog is a private, invitation-only network, co-founded in 2006 by Palantir chairman Thiel and data entrepreneur Auren Hoffman.

The organisation holds off-the-record summits for powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, military, celebrity and tech.

Frequently compared to the Bilderberg Group and World Economic Forum, Dialog has spent two decades refusing to disclose the identity of its members and has a private website.

However, a directory in the website’s code was revealed by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, who previously leaked the US government’s no-fly list and hacked surveillance-camera company Verkada, WIRED reported.

The directory included “participant profiles” for those planning to attend the group’s summits, featuring contact information, facts about themselves - and even if they were “looking for love” at Dialog events.

Profiles included Texas senator Ted Cruz, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, chief economist at Israel’s finance ministry of Shmuel Abramzon, and a number of Google and Google DeepMind execs.

Other names from the world of entertainment include Hollywood actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin, podcast host and author Sam Harris, and tech entrepreneur and longevity obsessive Bryan Johnson, Straight Arrow News reported.

In many cases it isn’t known if those named are full members, conference participants or merely guests of the organisation.

WIRED reported that a separate source revealed details of an upcoming Dialog retreat at a venue outside Dublin, Ireland.

The retreat, due to be held 12-16 August this year, is set to host NATO’s top US commander Alexus Grynkewich, as well as multiple officials from the Trump administration, two US senators, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States.

Also present will be six members of the so-called “Paypal Mafia”, and a number of those running the US’s most prominent surveillance and data firms.

The conference is set to feature sessions titled “Navigating WWIII”, “Battlefield Technologies”, “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness”, “Bring Back Nuclear” and “Build-a-Cult”, the latter of which will be moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site https://t.co/nbjzqZ95gS.

[Zionism Exposed @ZionismExposedx]

Do you remember 'All Eyes on Rafah'?

This is what Rafah looks like now, 2 years later. The IDF invaded Rafah in June 2024 and systematically destroyed everything that sustained life.

"Israel" is incompatible with humanity.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Gareth Jenkinson @gazza_jenks]

I am reliably informed that ECB president Christine Lagarde directly ordered Greece to reject Binance’s MiCA license application.

My source said Binance had essentially been given the green light by Greece’s regulator, before the ECB stepped in.

Not good news for crypto if the ECB is ultimately pulling the strings.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

DeepSeek just changed the AI game.

While headlines focus on whether DeepSeek V4 “beats” GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus 4.7, they’re missing the bigger story.

The real breakthrough isn’t the model.

It’s the economics.

For the first time, a near frontier-level open model is available at a fraction of the cost of the leading proprietary models.

That changes everything.

The question is no longer:

“Who has the smartest AI?”

The question becomes:

“Who can deploy intelligence fastest?”

We’ve seen this movie before.

Linux democratized servers.

Android democratized smartphones.

Cloud democratized computing.

Now AI is being democratized.

The winners of the next decade won’t necessarily be the companies building the largest models.

They will be the companies that:

✅ Build the best workflows

✅ Own the best data

✅ Create the best user experiences

✅ Solve the most valuable business problems

Intelligence is becoming abundant.

Execution remains scarce.

As AI gets cheaper, the advantage shifts from technology to strategy.

The future belongs to those who can orchestrate intelligence, not just access it.

The AI race is no longer about models.

It’s about systems.

And we’re only getting started.

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST SHOWED THAT LIGHT CAN TWIST MATTER USING ITS MAGNETIC FIELD.

For a long time, physicists assumed the magnetic component of light was far too weak to have any meaningful effect on matter compared to its electric field. New experiments are challenging that view.

Researchers have demonstrated that intense, properly structured light can induce magnetization and even mechanical twisting in materials through its magnetic field alone. This is an extension of the inverse Faraday effect, but observed with greater strength and control than many expected.

Why this matters:

• It opens new ways to control magnetism and material properties using only light
• Could lead to faster, more energy-efficient magnetic memory and spintronic devices
• Offers a new tool for manipulating matter at the nanoscale without physical contact
• Bridges optics and magnetism in ways that were previously difficult to achieve

The deeper implication:

Light is not just an information carrier under the right conditions, its magnetic field can directly reshape the magnetic and mechanical state of matter.

This blurs the line between electromagnetic waves and material control. If these effects can be scaled and made practical, we may eventually use light itself as a precise tool to write magnetic information or mechanically actuate tiny structures, rather than relying solely on electric currents or physical forces.

We’re discovering that light still has hidden capabilities we haven’t fully exploited.

How do you think being able to control matter with light’s magnetic field could change technology in the next decade?

Follow for more frontier optics, quantum materials, and light-matter physics.

[Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻 @oomahq]

In a nutshell, Core's vision of Bitcoin is that all participants of the network are slaves to malicious transaction crafters.

If you're a regular user and your normal transactions gets outbidded by porn GIFs and orangewashed VC-funded shitcoins that's too bad it's the free market, suck it up. If you're a node runner and don't want to relay and facilitate the garbage that's too bad your mempool needs to predict what will get mined, suck it up. If you're a miner and don't want to help these bad actors that's too bad you need to take their fees or you'll go bankrupt, suck it up. And let's not even get into participating in consensus rule governance, it is up to sanctioned developers and large pools to plan and activate forks!

I truly don't get why anyone holding this mental model would be interested in Bitcoin. Fortunately it's completely upside-down: in reality all participants are fully sovereign to do what they please, otherwise Bitcoin wouldn't be a decentralized system. Each node runner is free to relay whatever transactions he wants following whatever criteria he wants. And each miner is also free to prioritize transactions for mining following whatever strategy he wants, and signal for whatever forks he supports.

A sane full node software strives to maximize its user's sovereignty and give them tools to wield against bad actors instead of chipping away said sovereignty release after release. While Core doesn't correct course and is still widely used there will be room for other implementations to eat away its market share.

[Rüya @ruyaselcuk]

Dünyanın en "ahlaklı" ordusuna bakar mısınız?

İşgalci İsrail ordusu, öldürmekle yetinmedi; cenazesini omuzlarında taşıyan Filistinlilere de saldırdı. Bu görüntüler, hafızalardan silinmeyecek bir utanç vesikasıdır. Bu vahşeti tüm dünya görmeli.

#ZionismIsEvil #ArmyOfImmorality #FreePalestine

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

A crystal was just discovered that acts like a metal and a glass at the same time.

Molybdenum oxychloride, announced June 1, 2026.

Metals conduct electricity freely. Electrons move through them like water through a pipe.
Glasses are insulators. Electrons are frozen in place.

These two states have been mutually exclusive for the entire history of materials science.

Until now.

MoOCl₂ has a split personality at the quantum level:
• Along one axis: metallic. Electrons flow freely.
• Along the perpendicular axis: insulating. Electrons don't move at all.

This is called extreme optical anisotropy.

Why it matters:
• Smart contact lenses that can display information without power-hungry screens
• Ultrathin AR glasses that process light differently in different directions
• Photonic circuits that route light the way copper routes electricity

We've had one fundamental state for each material for 200 years of engineering.
Now we have both in one crystal.

Materials science just got a new category.

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Woman, mother of minor children, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for criticizing Zelensky on TikTok.

She said that Zelensky benefits from the war.

Corporate media won't tell you the truth.

In Ukraine, tens of thousands of people are political prisoners.

5 years in prison. Who will raise her children?

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The government of Lebanon just filed a formal complaint with the United Nations because Israel sprayed tens of thousands of pounds of poisonous cancer causing chemicals all over Lebanese farm lands.

If you still think this has ANYTHING to do with Hezbollah you're stupid.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

PAVEL DUROV: The excuse used by Keir Starmer of "protecting children" online is a lie and the hallmark of authoritarian tyranny: all tyrants use it, the real goal was included in the "Online Safety Act" and it was to control large social media platforms.

[Patrick Savalle @patricksavalle]

Joden maken nu het Libanese land onbruikbaar door het te chemtrailen met glyphosate.

[Xavier Poussard @XavierPoussard]

Que cache cette longue poignée de mains virile entre Donald Trump et Brigitte Macron ?

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Lebanon files formal complaint with UN over Israel's use of cancerous herbicide, violating Chemical Weapons Convention
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Lebanon has filed a formal complaint with the UN Security Council accusing the Israeli military of carrying out a chemical warfare campaign targeting agricultural lands near the Blue Line, Lebanon's Foreign Ministry confirmed. The diplomatic escalation follows a February aerial operation where Israeli aircraft sprayed southern Lebanese border villages, including Aita al-Shaab, with extreme concentrations of the toxic weedkiller glyphosate.

Laboratory analysis of soil and plant samples from the targeted zones revealed chemical concentrations reaching a staggering 22,750 micrograms per gram—more than 11,000 times the standard levels used in conventional farming.

The Lebanese government explicitly categorized the border spraying as a deliberate war crime intended to systematically poison the environment, destroy local livelihoods, and render entire border communities uninhabitable. The complaint states that the deployment of high-density toxins constitutes a flagrant breach of international humanitarian law and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

UN officials have voiced serious alarms over the long-term impact of the chemical assault, confirming that the operation threatens the health of civilians, risks permanently ruining vital farmland, and violates UN Resolution 1701.

[calle @callebtc]

Orchard – Your Sovereign Bank in Cyberspace.

All-in-one Cashu mint manager with support for Bitcoin Core, LND / CLN, and Nutshell / CDK Cashu mints.

https://t.co/joAVMHgfKk

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Arrestado en Arizona por llevar una camisetaUn hombre en un gimnasio de Arizona fue detenido por la policía solo por usar una camiseta que decía:

“Israel Kills Children” (Israel mata niños)

Miembros judíos del gimnasio se quejaron y exigieron su arresto.

Esto es el nivel de represión que ya existe en Estados Unidos: decir una verdad obvia y documentada (Israel está matando niños en Gaza) se convierte en “delito”.

Libertad de expresión solo existe si no criticas a Israel.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[Coinjoined Chris ⚡ @coinjoined]

Next up, @matthewvuk2 and @luca0x46 of @secondhq are unveiling their Ark integration for @BTCPayServer.
Merchants can now accept Lightning payments, automatically receive funds as VTXOs, store them locally, and withdraw on-chain whenever they choose.
No channels. No inbound liquidity management. Just a simpler path to accepting Bitcoin payments.
Ark solves one of Lightning's biggest usability challenges: inbound liquidity.