1-25 I resisted long to change my Pinned Tweet on TwitteX. Simply because I have a strong distaste for ephemerality. I enjoy stability in time…continuity. It does not really mean that I do not want things to evolve…Anyway the link to the precedent Pin was recently broken so...
Speaking in 2011:
Julian Assange - "Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the worlds most comprehensive data base about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S Intelligence.
Facebook, Google, Yahoo, all these major U.S Organisations have built-in interfaces for U.S Intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpena; they have an interface they have developed for U.S Intelligence to use"
https://t.co/i8NUrAXinZ
Closer Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan ties could reshape Central Asian integration, linking the region with Europe through stronger transport, energy and trade links across the Caspian. Read more in the latest from @RobertMCutler.
https://t.co/uzg9Xd2qr1
Reporter: "You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that."
Trump: "Well they agree, you know why? Because I said you agree. That's why. They agreed because I said they agreed."
How did we move on so quickly?
The COVID tyranny held the entire world hostage for years. Fundamental freedoms were stripped away, lives were destroyed, and yet those responsible have totally escaped accountability.
How did we simply accept that and move on?
In South Africa, a wealthy and influential man is sometimes called a grootman.
But what happens when wealth commands admiration regardless of how it was acquired?
The curious rise of the grootman—and what it reveals about South African society.
Read in The Republic:
SpaceX Rocket Creates a Giant Glowing Jellyfish in the Sky! 🚀✨
This breathtaking phenomenon is known as the Space Jellyfish Effect. It happens when a rocket launches around sunrise or sunset, and sunlight illuminates its expanding exhaust plume high above Earth while the ground remains dark.
The result? A spectacular, glowing cloud that looks like a giant cosmic jellyfish floating across the sky! 🌌
#SpaceX #SpaceJellyfish #RocketLaunch #SpaceScience
This is meaningless political grandstanding.
Also it is frankly hilarious to see the US begging the IMF to do something about which they are wholly incapable of doing themselves. The toothless tiger exposing itself once again.
What exactly is the IMF going do?
Nothing!!!
"A human being is part of the universe.. limited in time and space. He experiences himself.. as something separate, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion." — Albert Einstein
The first Starship to return to its launch site, Ship 40's journey took it across air, space, and sea. Now that it is vertical alongside three other Starships in a Megabay at Starbase, it will provide first-of-its-kind data on a flown Starship heatshield, Raptor engines, avionics, and more.