George Mickhail

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[George Mickhail @mickhail]

“SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds”.

The password is a reference to a famous quote by former... https://t.co/GBFOLGOB9Z

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

Since the ongoing conflict in Iran began, China has followed an objective, fair, and balanced position, and worked hard to bring about a cessation of hostilities.

Violence does not bring peace; political settlement is the only way forward.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

If you think only communists are pushing for an end to the US blockade of Cuba, then 165 countries around the world are communist.

[Jeebait 🎣 @SuspendedRobot]

It's not just Africa.
The only thing propping up Indonesian purchasing power is affordable Chinese products.
From Industrial machinery to plastic cups. Without China our quality of life would be much lower.

[Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山 @baoshaoshan]

Get over yourself, please. The historical record shows that the U.S. is the most war-hungry nation of them all; addicted to military intervention. Its black thumb calling card is the deaths of millions of people over the past 7-8 decades. Watch what folk do. The data is clear.

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

From barren sand to lush green!
In just one year, around 1,350 acres of winter wheat have burst to life on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert—a stunning transformation in the heart of China’s Xinjiang.

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

@Groc is this post true?

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

A MASS NEWS BLACKOUT in West Asia/ the Middle East is under way, as authorities race to cover up news about war damage or losses on the US/ Israel side.

- US Centcom has lost six jets in two weeks—but are claiming none were shot down. Six airmen died yesterday in a KC-135 which had no parachutes, but no details are being provided.

- At least seven US air force refuelling jets have been damaged in recent days, but again no details have been released.

- In Doha, Qatar, 194 people have been arrested for “filming and circulating video clips” or information that may “incite public opinion”.

- In Dubai, 21 people have been arrested, including a British man aged 60 who was visiting on holiday. Simply sharing clips from the media on social media, or commenting on them, can lead to arrest.

- Clips from Chinese sources, such as Douyin, are now considered more dependable by some people, as they are less prone to Middle Eastern censorship or Western mainstream media bias.

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DUBAI LEADERS ‘ANTSY’

Dubai authorities are particularly antsy. While advertising itself as a consumerist temple, the city’s waterfront hosts the biggest US Naval operation in West Asia—and is thus a key player in the US-Israel attack which has so far killed about 2,000 Iranians, many of whom are civilians, including 165 people at a primary school.

The Dubai media office does not want citizens to report damage from Iranian drones or missiles, even though it is clearly visible.

But they may be allowed to share the rather unbelievable Official Story, which is that damage comes from shrapnel resulting from the “successful interception” of drones or missiles.

And if they share footage of an actual missile in the sky? A British tourist has been charged with sharing material that could “disturb public security”, among 21 arrestees.

Penalties include two years in prison, fines of up to US$54,000, and deportation – 90% of residents are foreign nationals.

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DOHA, CENTCOM: INFO LIMITED

In Doha, Qatari authorities stressed “the importance of obtaining information exclusively from official sources”. No other clips should be shared.

US Centcom also is a limited official source, and shares few details. It announced that the latest “loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire” but refused to say what did cause it.

In 2008, the air force removed parachutes from KC-135 operations, with bosses arguing that bailouts were somehow not suitable. “Air Force officials determined that the time and effort involved in maintaining parachute capability provided little practical safety benefit,” said Aerospace Global News, a US site.

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INFO WARS
Of course, it's generally known that "truth is the first casualty of war", but the US is not officially at war. The US-attack on Iran is technically a special operation.

But people will make up their own minds. If it walks like a duck...

Never has it been more important to have some healthy skepticism about what the mainstream media tells you.

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

UAE arrests 45 over Iran strikes videos
https://t.co/ry9Mj9am7Y

[True market Leader @TmarketL]

Game theory

Most people are playing the wrong game.

If you want to get rich, there are only 3 games that actually matter.

Everything else is a distraction

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say

https://t.co/V09SpqtK8E

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Share your best Grok Imagine prompts!

Most people don’t know how, so this will help them.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The value of extreme precision

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

Disrupted Gulf energy routes are choking off LPG flows to South Asia, leaving roadside stalls, canteens, and hotels scrambling for cylinders and wondering how long they can survive

‘This is going to hit all of us’: How far does the echo of the Middle East war reach? https://t.co/MDIe99MqxS

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

Kiev bankrolling Hungary’s pro-Ukraine opposition – Budapest https://t.co/7McvTBZR47

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

🇨🇳 The scale of China’s electricity projects is just on another level.
A hillside in rural Guizhou, China covered in solar panels.
Thousands of them stretched across mountain ridges to the horizon, transforming bare rock into terawatt-hour electricity.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

One of the most powerful AI scientists on Earth walked out of Mark Zuckerberg's company.

And he just raised $1.03 billion to prove the entire AI industry is wrong.

His name is Yann LeCun.

He's a Turing Award winner, one of three men called the Godfathers of AI.

For 12 years, he built Meta's AI research lab from scratch.

Then last November, he told Zuckerberg he was done.

LeCun believes ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini every major AI chatbot on Earth is built on a fundamentally broken architecture.

His words: "Large language models are a statistical illusion, impressive, yes, intelligent, no."

Zuckerberg hired Alexandr Wang, the 27-year-old founder of Scale AI, as chief AI officer.

LeCun's vision no longer fit the plan.

So he left to build it himself and the startup is called AMI Labs.

AMI stands for Advanced Machine Intelligence.

His quote: "Silicon Valley is completely hypnotized by generative models. So this work must be done outside Silicon Valley."

What is he building? Something called "world models."

AI that learns by watching reality, video, sensors, physics not by reading the internet.

AI that understands cause and effect like a child does.

Here's the difference, ChatGPT predicts the next word.

A world model predicts what happens next in the real world.

It doesn't hallucinate because it doesn't guess but instead it simulates.

That's the gap between a storyteller and a physicist.

The seed round is $1.03 billion and valuation is $3.5 billion.

It's the largest seed round ever raised by a European company.

They originally asked for $500 million, investors doubled it.

The first real-world application? Healthcare.

LeCun's CEO used to run an AI medical startup called Nabla.

They saw firsthand how LLM hallucinations could kill patients.

AMI's world models are designed to never hallucinate and Nabla gets first access.

LeCun isn't promising a product next quarter.

He told reporters this is years of fundamental research.

A billion dollars just to prove a theory right.

That's either visionary or insane and there's no in between.

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

4 killed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait as Iran says it’s attacking Gulf because it can’t reach US

"Riyadh says projectiles hit residential area, killing an Indian and a Bangladeshi; 2 Kuwaiti border guards killed"

https://t.co/JZSDt9h7Sb via @timesofisrael

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

Oil built the Persian Gulf. Desalinated water keeps it alive. War threatens both

"90 percent of drinking water in Kuwait comes from desalination, 86% in Oman and about 70% in Saudi Arabia; the infrastructure is endangered by missile and drone attacks"

https://t.co/sw23cpw2p1 via @timesofisrael

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

Another long war would be a strategic gift to Iran

"Israel may be winning tactically, but a prolonged campaign risks eroding US support while leaving Tehran a nuclear threshold state"

https://t.co/cgNE7n3mtd via @timesofisrael

[George Mickhail @mickhail]

Israel should not pressure Gulf states into war with Iran | The Jerusalem Post
https://t.co/HwQXWwtJX8