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[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Von der Leyen: EU’s unelected dictator.

Hides her Pfizer SMS, scans yours.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Our media will not show these NATO-funded military recruiters in Ukraine, as the public would start to question why "standing with Ukraine" translates into boycotting diplomacy and fighting to the last Ukrainian in the NATO proxy war.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, the media and Washington elites treated Dr. Fauci as untouchable.

But if you lie to Congress, destroy records, and mislead the public about the origins of a pandemic that killed millions, you shouldn't be above scrutiny.

I've issued a subpoena for Dr. Fauci. It's time for answers. @CNBC @JoeSquawk

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For six months, I have been negotiating with Anthony Fauci's lawyers over a date to testify before my Homeland Security Committee. He finally agreed to appear this month. Then he backed out. So I subpoenaed him. He will testify in July.

https://t.co/w2599FJASz

[Adam Girard (Gilet Jaune) @AdamGirard1990]

URSULA VON DER LEYEN DÉMISSION IMMÉDIATE !
Un député roumain LA DÉNONCE : « Elle a signé 71 MILLIARDS € pour 4,6 MILLIARDS de doses, soit 10 par citoyen ! »
Son mari dirige Orgenesis… propriété de PFIZER. Corruption CRIMINELLE. Arrêtez de nous voler !

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

A standing ovation for anti-genocide activists charged with hurting the feelings of weapons parts.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Columbia psychologist proved that the moment your brain knows it can Google something, it quietly refuses to remember it.

She ran four experiments to be sure. It happened every time.

Her name is Betsy Sparrow.

She runs a research lab in the Department of Psychology at Columbia, and the paper that closed the argument was published in the journal Science in July 2011, with two co-authors, Jenny Liu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Daniel Wegner at Harvard.

The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed how we think about the internet itself.

The first experiment was simple. She asked participants to answer a series of difficult trivia questions, then immediately gave them a modified Stroop task where they had to name the color of a word on a screen as quickly as possible.

The words were a mix of everyday objects and technology terms like Google and screen. Every participant slowed down measurably when the tech words appeared, but only after they had been struggling with the trivia. The harder the question they had just failed, the slower they were to read past the word Google.

Their brains had quietly reached for the search bar before the question was even finished.

The second experiment is the one that should genuinely change how you live. She gave participants 40 trivia statements to type into a computer, things like "an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain."

Half the participants were told the computer would save their work and they could come back to it later. The other half were told the computer would erase everything the moment they finished. Then she tested both groups on how much they remembered.

The group that believed the information had been saved remembered significantly less than the group that believed it had been erased. Same statements, same typing task, same amount of time spent reading each fact, and one group simply forgot more of it because they knew they would not need it later. The brain had quietly decided that storage was someone else's job.

The third experiment pushed the finding even further. Participants were told their typed statements would be saved into specific folders on the computer, with names like Facts or Data.

When tested afterwards, the participants remembered the folder locations significantly better than they remembered the actual statements themselves. They could not tell you that an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain, but they could tell you exactly which folder you would find that fact in if you went looking for it.

Their memory had reorganized itself in real time around where to find the information, not what the information was.

The fourth experiment confirmed the entire pattern with 34 Columbia undergraduates and a recognition test designed to rule out every other explanation. The result held. People remembered where to find the answer better than they remembered the answer.

Sparrow called this transactive memory, which is a concept her co-author Daniel Wegner had introduced decades earlier to describe how married couples and close colleagues quietly outsource parts of their memory to each other.

You do not need to remember your spouse's mother's birthday if your spouse remembers it. You do not need to remember a complicated client's preferences if your colleague does. The brain treats trusted external sources as extensions of its own memory and reallocates effort accordingly.

What Sparrow showed was that the human brain has done the same thing with the internet now. Google is not the tool you go to when your memory fails. It’s been upgraded to a permanent member of your cognitive team. Your brain just stopped doing the work silently when that happened.

The implication is what should scare anyone who has grown up with a search engine in their pocket. Every fact you’ve looked up in the last 15 years that seemed easy to look up again was processed by your brain at a shallower level than it would have been processed before search engines.

You didn't learn it the way your parents learned stuff. You discover where it lives. The address was written into long-term storage. The stuff went into some sort of cognitive holding area that gets emptied the instant your brain confirms the address is still working.

This is not a moral failing, Brains have always done that with reliable external memory.

The same mechanism that allows you to forget your spouse's phone number because you have it saved in your phone is the same mechanism that allows you to forget almost everything you read on the internet.

Your brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do . Save effort where effort can safely be saved .

The thing is, the more you outsource, the less you have inside. The more a brain has learned where to find information , not what the information is , over 15 years , the more it becomes dependent on the external system that contains the actual content .

The moment the system goes down, the moment you can't search, the moment you have to reason out a problem from raw memory alone, the gap between what you know and what you can access becomes painfully apparent.

The answer is uncomfortable and it’s the same answer that worked before search engines existed. You have to deliberately learn things you could easily look up, but which you don't, not because looking up is hard, but because the looking up is what builds the part of you that can actually think without a phone in your hand.

Your brain is not worse than your parents brain.

it simply stopped storing the things it used to store because someone else volunteered to do it for free.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

👑🔥 AGAIN A WOMAN‼️ A QUEEN THAT STANDS UP.
Spanish MEP Irene Montero just torched the room in Strasbourg.
While EU leaders posture and celebrate, she looked them dead in the eye and asked:
What exactly are we celebrating?
Prevented a genocide in Gaza?
Stopped the illegal US-Israeli aggression on Iran?
Broke relations with Israel?
Ended the occupation of Lebanon?
No. We cannot celebrate any of these things.
Then she dropped the line that’s echoing across the internet:
“Happy Birthday, Mr. Genocide.” aimed straight at Trump.
The men in suits stayed silent or complicit.
She spoke.
Thank you, @IreneMontero.
Thank you, Spain 🇪🇸.
This is what moral courage looks like when institutions choose cowardice.

[yusuf kaplan @yenisafakwriter]

İsrail’in Gazze’de kullandığı soykırım silahlarının üretildiği yazılım sistemlerini çökertmek için “operasyon çeken” 5 aktivist Almanya’da yargılanıyor.

Gizli kahramanlar ve insanlığın yüzakı güzel insanlar onlar.

[César Biondini @BiondiniCesar]

EEUU sigue humillando a las selecciones de fútbol que juegan en el Mundial. Ahora le tocó a Uruguay. Los jugadores fueron tratados como narcos, con inspección de perros antidrogas y uniformados con detectores de metales.
La FIFA perpetró una vergüenza histórica este año.

📹 @FutboliPolitica

[Duke Of Nigeria. @xagreat]

Paying Tribute to the 168 school girls murdered by Donald Trump

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”

Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

[Thinknow @thinknowon]

@lalibrebe Le lien est rompu à jamais avec Glatigny - Démission!

[Thinknow @thinknowon]

@GLBouchez Il y a les casseurs et il y a les manifestants- et ces 2 groupes n’ont rien à voir l’un avec l’autre! Et la police le sait très bien. Seulement, à la place de neutraliser les casseurs elle préfère matraquer les manifestants- enfants, profs, parents,…C’est ça qui est grave!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇪 Google held 34 meetings with top German government officials to discuss suppressing "hate speech" and "disinformation" online.

Most were confidential and some were deemed "not suitable for public knowledge."

The meetings, revealed through a parliamentary question filed by the opposition AfD, included then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who attended 4 personally.

The implications go beyond Germany. Under the EU's Digital Services Act, content removed or algorithmically downranked applies globally, not just within EU borders.

If the secret meetings between a government and Google to shape what people can find online aren't information control, what is?

Source: Daily Sceptic, ZeroHedge / Writer: Julie

[Thinknow @thinknowon]

@lesoir @valerieglatigny Vous ne pouvez pas financer les écoles, les jeunes, les profs…mais vous êtes d’accord pour financer les armes et les guerres? Investir dans l’avenir de nos jeunes est sacrifié pour financer des guerres, bravo!! Démission immédiate! Honte à vous!

[Thinknow @thinknowon]

@YVerougstraete Ce sont les paroles d!un ‘politicien’(?} raté. Désolé, dans un pays normal on ne touche pas aux enfants, on ne touche pas aux enseignant, on investit en eux. On donne, on ne prend pas. Quelle honte! Vous ne serez pas pardonné par ces jeunes qui sont l’avenir de ce pays.

[vero 🔻🇵🇸 @veroveronique1]

🚨 Bruxelles, 04/06/2026
❌La police gaze des enfants venus manifester pour leurs écoles
❌Et ils 👮‍♂️ en sont fières 🤮

#Bruxelles #Manifestation #Police #Enfants #Ecole #Enseignement #FWB #Greve #Austerite #JeunesEnColere #Education

[Adrian Thomas @AdrianThomas90]

Alerte, violences policières⚠️Alors qu'un jeune homme est brutalement interpellé sans raison apparente lors de la manif des profs à Bruxelles, une femme (sûrement enseignante) est à son tour repoussée, gratuitement matraquée, plaquée et menottée.😡Ces méthodes sont inadmissibles.