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Nuclear Engineering ⚛️

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

A muchos rojos se les cae la farsa...

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Today marks five years since the Communist Cuban regime brutally suppressed the peaceful July 11 demonstrations and yet again silenced Cubans’ cries for basic rights, dignity, and opportunity. To this day, hundreds of Cubans remain unjustly detained, suffering brutal conditions, for the simple sin of asking why Cubans cannot freely own businesses, participate in the political process, or provide for themselves and their families. The regime must release these political prisoners immediately.

President Trump and I want a better future for Cuba, in which Cubans have greater opportunity, freedom, dignity, and Cuba ceases to harbor hostile foreign military, intelligence, terror, and subversive operations 90 miles from the American homeland. The United States will continue to use every tool at our disposal to drive significant economic and political reforms in Cuba and to protect Americans from subversive threats emanating from Cuba.

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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire

The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite conclusions. One produced the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The other produced the guillotine. This is the most important civilizational fork in modern history.

1. The French Enlightenment begins with the assumption that human beings can be improved by reason – that if you strip away the corrupting institutions of Church, tradition, and inherited authority, the natural goodness underneath will organize itself into a just society. This sounds like progress. It is a fantasy with a body count. Every attempt to implement it has required, at some point, a Committee of Public Safety to handle the people who turned out not to be naturally good enough.

2. The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment begins with the opposite assumption: human beings are what they are, not what they could be if properly enlightened. Hume grounds morality in human nature as it actually operates – sympathy, habit, sentiment, the slow accumulation of social trust. Smith shows that self-interest, properly channeled, produces collective benefit without a planner. Neither man is building a utopia. Both are building with the actual material available.

3. Burke is the direct refutation, written in real time. He published Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – before the Terror, predicting it precisely – because he understood that institutions are not obstacles to human flourishing, they are its precondition. They contain accumulated wisdom — the knowledge of the dead — that cannot be recovered once destroyed. Pull society apart to improve it and you don’t get the General Will. You get Robespierre.

4. The American founders read Burke, Hume, Smith, and Montesquieu – the Frenchman who looked at England and understood what France was missing. They built a system that takes human nature as given — self-interested, power-hungry, tribal — and constructs institutions to contain those tendencies rather than assume they disappear once the right people are in charge. Checks and balances are not a design flaw. They are what you build when you don’t believe in philosopher-kings.

5. 1776 versus 1789. Same Enlightenment, same century, same vocabulary of liberty and reason. One produces a constitutional republic that has survived two and a half centuries of stress, civil war, and upheaval. The other produces, in sequence: the Terror, Napoleon, 1848, the Commune, and eventually — via Marx, who was a Frenchman in spirit if not in birth — the entire catastrophe of the twentieth century. The difference was not intelligence or intention. It was the starting assumption about human nature. Get that wrong and everything that follows is wrong with it.

6. The guillotine is not the Revolution’s failure. It is its logical conclusion. If man is naturally good and the system is corrupt, then whoever seizes the system in the name of natural goodness is licensed to do anything. The General Will cannot be wrong. Those who resist it are not opponents – they are enemies of nature itself.

7. The real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire was never a better French philosopher. It was a different civilizational tradition – one that builds with human beings as they are; that treats inherited institutions as repositories of wisdom rather than obstacles to progress; that distributes power rather than concentrating it in whoever currently claims to know the General Will. That tradition was built in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia. It is currently under sustained assault — from exactly the same ideas, in exactly the same form, with exactly the same confidence — that Burke watched demolish France in 1789. He was right then. He is right now.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

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[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨Inside Communist-Controlled Cuba:
As Cuba faces its largest humanitarian crisis in years amid growing tensions with the US, I went to see what 60+ years of communism has done to a country.

Within 24 hours I was planning my escape out of the country after being followed by their intelligence agents, and a 2 star general waited to interrogate me outside my hotel room at 4 AM. Right now Cuba has no oil or gas, 7/10 people are going hungry, there is no medicine and some haven't even had eggs in a year.

In communism there is no freedom of speech or press, and I was almost taken hostage for asking about communism. This is a look into Cuba like never before, no one truly knows how bad it is until now.
Like and share this video like wildfire!

[meme bastard 🍕 @mask_bastard]

How do you feel about climate change and nuclear power?

[𝗔𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 @anadeaustria_]

Los niños que crecieron viendo esto hoy deben de ser los dueños del mundo.👇😟😇

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This Japanese Professional Tennis Player has become a beacon for motivational monologues and I can confirm, they go HARD

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

I'm not crying, you're crying 🧵

1. literally watered up

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Ever wanted to see the world in a whole new way..? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind

1. An Interesting Fact About Russia and USA

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We should send rockets not at each other, but rather to the stars

[Universo Recóndito @UnvrsoRecondito]

DE PASEO A JÚPITER

Júpiter es un "planeta gaseoso", sin superficie sólida.

Si tomamos una nave hasta este gigante ¿Podríamos caer por un extremo de Júpiter y salir por el otro?

¿Será como atravesar una espesa nube?

Un🧵👇🏼

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

This idea changed my life (and may change yours)...

The Law of Reversed Effort:

[CERNpress @CERNpress]

[Press Update] Brazil becomes Associate Member State of CERN

Brazil has become the first Associate Member State of CERN in the Americas

Find out more: https://t.co/UMf491wuAQ

[Miguel Ángel | GptZone @MiguelMaestroIA]

Internet es educación gratuita.

Pero el 98% de la gente aún no ha descubierto los mejores cursos online.

16 sitios web para aprender gratis:

[jamie @gnuman1979]

We need more if this please.

[EDDIE CHENG @ecomEddie]

The cost of distraction is the life you could’ve lived.

If you suffer from distraction, read this.

Cal Newport’s protocol for deep work:

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people.”

- Richard Feynman, Fun to Imagine (1983)

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

🚨 Google's new Quantum Computer completes the task in 6 seconds that would have taken one of the world's best computers 47 years.

Quantum computers can change what we can build and how we understand the world.

Here's everything you need to know: