Stavros Yianni

Moderately successful. ASU 23’ grad, Econ, Applied Mathematics

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: A service member says his father was taken by ICE while he was deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for over nine months fighting the war in Iran.

Per his post, his father has a driver's license, social security card, and a work permit.

This post is public on Joshua Aviles' Facebook.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Bro

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: Bulldozers are arriving in Big Bend National Park near Santa Elena Canyon to plow through border barriers & roads.

The irreversible destruction of Texas' crown jewel national park is unfolding and virtually no national media is paying attention. 📷 Natialie Newman

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: More than 140 river outfitters, local businesses and recreation organizations are urging TX leaders to stop CBP's plans to cut off access to the Rio Grande and blast new roads through Big Bend National Park.

Signatories include virtually every local outfitter, Texas Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, American Whitewater, Outdoor Alliance and more.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Russia has designated me as a “terrorist” for refusing its demands for mass surveillance and censorship on Telegram.

Under Russian law, I’m banned from “publishing information on the Internet” 😌

Russian officials are clearly confused about who can ban whom from the Internet 😉

[Patrick Fox @RealCynicalFox]

@SpencerGuard I’ve also got a lovely beachfront property up for sale in Kansas…

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

“Now we’re in Congress and every corner of the United States.”

These people openly brag about viewing themselves as a hostile invading force so we should probably start treating them like one.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Lindsey Graham: Dead.
Mitch McConnell: Probably Dead.
Donald Trump: Monthly Trips to Walter Reed

92 Year Old Sen @ChuckGrassley (R-IA): Alive, farming and 3rd in line to the Presidency.

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.

Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.

In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout.

Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition.

This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

One reason the US is considering acquiring Greenland is to secure access to seafood that could potentially bring back unlimited shrimp at Red Lobster. - US official to the New Yorker

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

China's constant ~ $1.2 trillion trade surplus over the last 12ms of data is a classic case of a dog that hasn't barked. China imports chips and crude. The price of both have soared. China's surplus should be down not flat ...

1/x

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

If you can read a book a week, on average, you'll be one of the top 1% of book readers in America

Teddy Roosevelt found time to read pretty much every day of his life, both as a cowboy and as president

Thomas Jefferson had one of the greatest libraries, if not the best library, in the United States...which he sold to the US to form the basis of the Library of Congress

There's always time to read, it's finding the right things to read that counts!

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“The more you understand this world, the more you destroy yourself. That's why fools are happy, and intelligent people live in loneliness.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

1. The Holy Bible
2. The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky
3. Moby-Dick — Melville
4. The Iliad — Homer
5. The Odyssey — Homer
6. Crime and Punishment — Dostoevsky
7. Blood Meridian — McCarthy
8. The Metamorphosis — Kafka
9. The Trial — Kafka
10. Lolita — Nabokov
11. Don Quixote — Cervantes
12. The Lord of the Rings — Tolkien
13. Dialogues — Plato
14. Ulysses — Joyce
15. Notes from Underground — Dostoevsky
16. 1984 — Orwell
17. Anna Karenina — Tolstoy
18. Faust — Goethe
19. The Divine Comedy — Dante
20. The First Folio — Shakespeare
21. War and Peace — Tolstoy
22. In Search of Lost Time — Proust
23. Stoner — Williams, J
24. Ficciones — Borges
25. Gravity’s Rainbow — Pynchon
26. Heart of Darkness — Conrad
27. Infinite Jest — Wallace, DF
28. Paradise Lost — Milton
29. Dubliners — Joyce
30. Confessions — Augustine
31. The Idiot — Dostoevsky
32. The Stranger — Camus
33. The Hobbit — Tolkien
34. The Old Man and the Sea — Hemingway
35. 2666 — Bolaño
36. Pale Fire — Nabokov
37. Siddhartha — Hesse
38. The Epic of Gilgamesh
39. Brave New World — Huxley
40. The Count of Monte Cristo — Dumas
41. The Castle — Kafka
42. Tragedies — Aeschylus
43. Journey to the End of the Night — Céline
44. Slaughterhouse-Five — Vonnegut
45. Beowulf — Seamus Heaney
46. The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Tolstoy
47. The Catcher in the Rye — Salinger
48. Industrial Society and Its Future — Kaczynski
49. Tragedies — Sophocles
50. Demons — Dostoevsky
51. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea — Mishima
52. The Master and Margarita — Bulgakov
53. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — Joyce
54. The Sound and the Fury — Faulkner
55. Beyond Good and Evil — Nietzsche
56. Wuthering Heights — Brontë, E
57. Metamorphoses — Ovid
58. Thus Spake Zarathustra — Nietzsche
59. Fear and Trembling — Kierkegaard
60. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Dick, P.K.
61. Storm of Steel — Jünger
62. The World as Will and Representation — Schopenhauer
63. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Wilde
64. The Book of Disquiet — Pessoa
65. Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle
66. The Sorrows of Young Werther — Goethe
67. No Longer Human — Dazai
68. Finnegans Wake — Joyce
69. Catch-22 — Heller
70. The Aeneid — Virgil
71. Confessions of a Mask — Mishima
72. Poems — Eliot, T.S.
73. East of Eden — Steinbeck
74. The Crying of Lot 49 — Pynchon
75. To the Lighthouse — Woolf
76. A Christmas Carol — Dickens
77. The Prince — Machiavelli
78. Frankenstein — Shelley, M
79. The Magic Mountain — Mann
80. A Confederacy of Dunces — Toole
81. The Canterbury Tales — Chaucer
82. The Name of the Rose — Eco
83. Hunger — Hamsun
84. Pride and Prejudice — Austen
85. Poems — Yeats
86. Animal Farm — Orwell
87. The City of God — Augustine
88. The Ring of the Nibelung — Wagner
89. Alice in Wonderland — Carroll
90. Dracula — Stoker
91. The Trilogy — Beckett
92. Waiting for Godot — Beckett
93. Dune — Herbert
94. Mason & Dixon — Pynchon
95. Cthulhu Mythos — Lovecraft
96. The Myth of Sisyphus — Camus
97. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Márquez
98. Genealogy of Morals — Nietzsche
99. The Sun Also Rises — Hemingway
100. A Clockwork Orange — Burgess

[Raphael Barberi📷 @itsrapha83]

I have a strict “enter every church” policy

Here are some gems I’ve found

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

When you say "killed 129", it kind of undersells the fact that they cut the fetuses out of pregnant women, gouged out eyeballs, castrated men, and raped women with knives

This info was kept out of the media, instead focusing on the bombings that occurred.

It was also kept out of the media that the terrorists had arrived through the asylum system, which had such little oversight that it somehow didn't catch a cluster of known ISIS fighters entering the country

[Florian Gallwitz @FlorianGallwitz]

A guy jokingly tweeted “olaf scholz you bastard what the hell is this” in frustration because Fortnite was stuck at 3% download. As a result, German authorities investigated him for committing a criminal offence (insulting a politician, §188 StGB) and forced him to delete it.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

The production of Christopher Nolan received permission for 15 days of filming in Greece with a budget of 16 million euros. The Greek state gave them 6 million as a subsidy from the money of Greek taxpayers, who were never informed about the cast of the film or the distortion of the most important work in our history.

The issue here is not that they received money. We Greeks would gladly have given all 16 million for Nolan to shoot a faithful Odyssey. But it should have been a film that properly represents us Greeks, Hellenism and stays true to the values and writings of Homer. Not so we Greeks could pay for a Black Helen and Clytemnestra, a Batman-like Agamemnon, a trans Achilles or Elpenor (a woman playing a male role), a Black Athena, and a script based on the worst possible "translation" that exists.

In short, Nolan disrespected all Greeks, while the Greek people are now officially in the crosshairs of racism and the falsification of their history and culture. Woke Hollywood must die.

[❄️ scorpina ❄️ @BloodyMary19947]

No amount of PR can save Nolan's Odyssey from being a complete catastrophe. Whatever prestige he has built as a director so far will be obliterated. Sincerely, a very pissed-off Greek.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”

— C.S Lewis