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[Bill Ben @pushashark]

How it started vs how it ended!!
Vinaka St Anne's for 8 years of memories for noqu ulumatua.
So proud of #HerMajestyMJ on scooping all those awards at your graduation today. Thank you for your determination and perseverance for the past 8 years.
#AdAstra

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Republicans sat back after Sandy Hook.

They did nothing after Uvalde.

The Florida, Texas, and Tennessee massacres of children.

They do nothing.

Epstein Class, they do nothing.

After the incident this past weekend. They want a ballroom. They say it's more secure.

I'm not sure how these people sleep at night. #DemsUnited

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

REMINDER of that time when trump said, at Charlie Kirk's memorial, that "I HATE my opponent and I don't want the best for them."

Take your bullshit "turn down the temperature" talk and shove it all the way up your asses.

[dobby, luccas, lula e outras referências @dobby_luccas]

a mãe da Coco em Witch Hat Atelier

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Hegseth has fired several top military generals and commanders, including the secretary of the Navy and now you have Kid Rock addressing Pentagon officials on the Strait of Hormuz.

If you’re still not sure the USA has reached shithole country status, here you go.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Desperate to convict Palestine Action defendants, a British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches

It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from mounting a defense
https://t.co/QwngqJyQxz

[Jordae @renaiyahjordae]

The most romantic thing you can do when you’re in love with someone is giving them room to just exist, they do not belong to you

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Breaking | Injuries reported following an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Tuwam Square area, northwest of Gaza City.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

She spent nearly a decade inside the operation. She was recruited at 19 through Turning Point USA. Her following grew to over a million on X. She is the mother of Elon Musk's child. She is not a left-wing critic. She is a woman who operated inside the system for ten years and decided to talk.

Here is what she said, on the record.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🧵THREAD: I want you to see this clearly.

Two hours after a man with a shotgun fired shots at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, sixteen of the most prominent MAGA influencers on X all posted the same message.

The message was not "thank God the President is safe."

The message was "this is why we need the White House ballroom."

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Satellite images taken on April 16 reveal the massive scale of damage to the towns of al-Qozah and Beit Lif in south Lebanon, following the Israeli military's ground invasion and sustained attacks on the south.

[Renée🦋 @reneedowner1]

It actually makes me depressed

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i feel like this bill is designed in a lab to make americans hate israel more

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today.

I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man.

His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The book is called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

Every time you say the word algebra, you are saying his book title. Every time someone says the word algorithm, they are saying his name. Both English words come from him. Both are Latin transliterations of Arabic and of his own identity. The man did not just contribute to mathematics. He named it.

Here is the part almost nobody tells you.

Al-Khwarizmi was born around 780 CE in Khwarazm, in what is now Uzbekistan. He moved to Baghdad and worked at a research institution called the House of Wisdom, which during the Islamic Golden Age was the single most important center of learning on the planet. The caliph al-Mamun hired the best mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers from across three continents and put them in one building with one job. Translate, study, and produce new knowledge.

Al-Khwarizmi finished his book on algebra around 820 CE. The Arabic title contained the word al-jabr, which referred to one of the two operations he used to solve equations. When the book was translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Latin world did not have a word for what he had built. So they kept his Arabic word. Al-jabr became algebra. The discipline was named after a single Arabic word in the title of a single book by a single man.

The deeper insight is what he actually changed about how humans think.

Before al-Khwarizmi, mathematical problems were solved geometrically. You drew shapes. You measured them. You compared areas. The Greeks had built an entire mathematical tradition on visual proofs and physical constructions. It was beautiful and limited. You could not solve a problem you could not draw.

Al-Khwarizmi did something nobody had done before him at this scale. He said you could solve any problem using abstract symbols and rules. You did not need a shape. You needed a procedure. You moved terms across the equation. You cancelled like terms on both sides. You isolated the unknown. He invented the idea that mathematics is a manipulation of symbols according to rules, not a study of physical figures.

That single shift made everything that came afterward possible. Calculus. Differential equations. Linear algebra. Quantum mechanics. None of it works if math is locked inside geometry. He pulled it out.

The second thing he did is the one that changed how the world counted forever. He took the Hindu numeral system from Indian mathematics, refined it, and wrote a book introducing it to the Arab world. That system included the concept of zero as a placeholder, and a positional notation where the value of a digit depends on its location. Roman numerals could not do complex calculation. Hindu-Arabic numerals could.

When his book on numerals was translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the word Algoritmi was just the Latin spelling of his own name. Europeans started calling the new method "doing algorism," then "running an algorithm." The word for the most important concept in computer science is literally his name in Latin.

The third thing he did is the part that should haunt anyone who works in tech.

His method of solving problems was systematic. Step one, do this. Step two, check that. Step three, if condition A, then do X, otherwise do Y. He wrote down procedures that could be followed by anyone, anywhere, who knew how to read. The procedure did not depend on intuition or genius. It worked because the steps worked.

That is exactly what an algorithm is. A finite, deterministic procedure for solving a problem. He did not just give us the word. He gave us the entire concept of programming a thousand years before there was anything to program.

When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago.

The strangest part is what happens when you walk into any tech office in San Francisco or Bangalore or Lahore today. Engineers say the words algebra and algorithm hundreds of times a day. They do not know whose name they are saying. Almost nobody can spell al-Khwarizmi correctly on the first try.

His original Arabic manuscript is preserved at Oxford. His book on Hindu numerals survives only in Latin translation. The Latin version was the textbook that taught medieval Europe how to count.

The man who built the foundation of the AI revolution did not live to see a calculator. He died around 850 CE, a thousand years before the first electric current was sent through a wire. The civilization he built mathematics for collapsed. The library he wrote in burned. His own grave is unmarked.

But every algorithm running on every machine on Earth right now still answers to his name.

[One Take 🎬 @OneTakeNews]

‘SPACEBALLS 2’ will have the subtitle of ‘THE NEW ONE’. #CinemaCon

[One Take 🎬 @OneTakeNews]

The new trailer for ‘STREET FIGHTER’ has been released.

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This story is insane:

• american streamer goes to south korea to do content like a lunatic
• dances on a memorial for wwii sex slaves, plays north korean propaganda on the subway, throws ramen at a store owner like a psychopath
• the country puts a BOUNTY on his location
• a former korean navy seal finds him and knocks him out cold on a live stream
• he gets arrested, charged with 8 counts including deepfake sexual violence crimes
• shows up to his first court date an hour late, hungover, in a maga hat
• calls south korea a "us vassal state" in open court
• prosecution asks for 3 years hard labor
• his mom files a petition begging the judge for leniency
• his last words before sentencing: "i haven't done anything to offend anyone during these proceedings, which shows i learned my lesson"
• judge sentences him anyway, has him handcuffed in the courtroom on the spot
• and when he finally gets deported back to america, he has to register as a sex offender

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Michael @TheMG3D]

It will always be known as Twitter!

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

⚠️So this is the “deal.”

Israel just leaked what it calls a “declaration” reached with Lebanon.

In reality, it is a surrender document.

Lebanon is ordered to disarm Hezbollah, eliminate all non-state armed groups, & ensure only the Lebanese army can bear arms.

In exchange? A 10-day “goodwill pause” that Israel can cancel at any moment.

No Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
No end to buffer zones.
No commitment to stop the destruction.

This is not a ceasefire.
This is Israel demanding that Lebanon do what the IDF failed to achieve on the battlefield, ‘crush’ Hezbollah’s military power, while Israel keeps the right to strike whenever it chooses.

The Lebanese government has still not issued a single word confirming or denying this text.

Silence here is dangerous.

This is not peace talks.
This is asking Lebanon to tear itself apart so Israel can get what it wants through ‘diplomacy.’

Beyond shameful.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

China buys oil. The US steals oil. The US threatens to sanction China because China doesn’t want to be a part of American terrorism. They are crazy.