Toby Low

And all the fat, skinny people And all the tall, short people And all the nobody people And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people

[Toby Low @Toby_Low]

On reflection I do wonder if, when you follow the money, and who benefits the most from the Ukraine debacle, if it wouldn’t be more correct to frame the conflict as a proxy war between the West and China. The first perhaps since Vietnam? A view that sees Russia as effectively a vassal state of China.

That if China is seeing conflict with the west ahead that they are, what’s the word for preparing the battlefield, getting things in place. You would want your proxy war, Russia/Ukraine, for example, to cause dissent, distrust, discord amongst the opposing faction, in this case the West.

That Trump, unknowingly or maybe knowingly (no, surely not?) is helping their cause, by causing the disintegration of that which has been the most successful alliance in history, NATO.

With many thanks to the nobility of the USA, for making it happen, funding it so with so much treasure, but that which is American exceptionalism, is the moral dimension to US actions, the ability to admit fault, to always improve, to want win-win outcomes, to support the downtrodden, at home and where possible abroad, and to offer them refuge from the storm in the American Dream.

[Toby Low @Toby_Low]

Cooling space-based AI data centers is one of the most critical engineering hurdles for the future of orbital computing. While the vacuum of space is cold, it acts as a perfect thermos flask, making it incredibly difficult to reject the massive thermal loads generated by high-performance AI chips. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

The Core Problem: The Bottleneck of Radiation [1, 2]
AI data centers pack immense processing power into small areas, generating severe concentrated heat. In space, you face a brutal thermodynamic reality: [1, 2, 3, 4]
•No Ambient Air: Terrestrial data centers use massive fans, air conditioning, or liquid-to-air heat exchangers. In a vacuum, there is zero air to blow away the heat. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
•The Stefan-Boltzmann Law: Heat rejection in space relies strictly on thermal radiation. The energy radiated (P) depends on the surface area (A) and the fourth power of temperature (T⁴), governed by the formula:
\(P=\epsilon \cdot \sigma \cdot A\cdot T^{4}\) [1, 2, 3]
•Low Efficiency at Low Temps: Because radiation efficiency drops drastically at lower temperatures, cooling chips to standard operating limits (~ 70°C to 85°C) requires exponentially larger radiator surfaces. [1]

Engineering Solutions Under Development
To prevent orbital AI hardware from melting itself, aerospace companies and agencies are designing specialized thermal management architectures:
•Two-Phase Liquid Cooling: Pumped loop systems use volatile fluids that boil at the AI chip interface (absorbing massive latent heat) and condense out at the radiator panels. [1, 2]
•Deployable Radiator Arrays: Because static satellite surfaces are too small, space data centers deploy massive, feather-like radiator sails—similar to the basketball-court-sized arrays used on the International Space Station.
•High-Temperature Semiconductors: Engineers are exploring wide-bandgap materials like Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN). These chips can run efficiently at 150°C or higher, massively boosting radiation efficiency.
•Orbital Shielding: Data centers must use multi-layer insulation (MLI) to completely block external radiation from the Sun and Earth, ensuring the cooling radiators only point toward deep space (which sits near absolute zero at -270°C). [1]

[Realign For Palestine @rfpalestine]

To move toward a successful Palestinian state, discourse must be liberated from the “shackles of sloganeering and maximalism,” says RFP’s Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib.

The reality is that neither the “pro-Israel” nor the “pro-Palestine” camps will ever secure the “whole land” on their own terms. Israel is a permanent reality and a Palestinian nation free of Hamas is a necessity.

Instead of chasing “river to the sea” fantasies that divide, the focus must shift to the achievable: co-existence and mutual prosperity for two neighboring states.

[Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rima_medUA]

While I was briefly back in the US, I was disheartened by how many would say "oh is that still going on?" when referring to the war in Ukraine.

It was incredibly frustrating for me especially as an active duty medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At that point its just willful ignorance. Everyone has a cellphone, laptop, tablet, etc. Information is literally at your finger tips. But instead of informing oneself properly, the choice seems to be watching AI slop, mainstream media, and other short attention span apps.

The was is not over, it has not slowed down, we are still working and fighting for freedom in Ukraine, the frontline is still 1000 km long, civilians are still being killed by r*ssia every day. We can only go so far to inform you. The rest is up to you. Up to date sources, @KyivIndependent @KyivPost @saintjavelin @U24_gov_ua

Stay informed and inform others.

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Hamas are vile.

I hope one day soon they will be overthrown.

[Toby Low @Toby_Low]

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[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Colonialism is bad, right?

Wrong.

The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule.

India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours.

India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out.

Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests.

The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894.

Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone.

Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed.

Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it.

Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains.

Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of.

If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

[Samer Sinijlawiسامر السنجلاوي @SSinijlawi]

I stand in full solidarity with @abedalati20 Abdel Hamid Abdel Atti, one of Gaza's honest and courageous voices.
For nearly two years, more than two million Palestinians in Gaza have been trapped in unbearable and inhumane conditions. Families are living in tents, deprived of dignity, security, and hope. Children face hunger, disease, and conditions that no human being should ever have to endure.
In such circumstances, Palestinians have every right to raise their voices in anger and frustration. They have every right to demand change and to speak out against the conditions imposed upon them and against anyone contributing to the continuation of this tragedy.
The campaign to demonize Abdel Hamid and portray him as a traitor or an agent simply because he dares to speak honestly about the suffering of Gaza's people is a profound moral failure. Silencing Palestinian voices will not solve Gaza's crisis. Smearing those who speak out will not feed a hungry child or provide shelter to a displaced family.
I am proud of my recent friendship with Abdel Hamid. I have come to know him as a sincere Palestinian patriot whose loyalty is to his people and whose concern is for the dignity and future of Gaza's civilians. His voice deserves to be heard, respected, and protected—not attacked.

[Toby Low @Toby_Low]

To be fair the main responsibility for those deaths must and should lie with the people who are supposed to care and protect their fellow Palestinians, Hamas. They could have stopped the killing at any time by surrendering the hostages. Hamas chose not to do this because they cruelly think that they increase support every time a Palestinian gets killed. For Hamas dead Palestinians are a good thing.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on.

I believed it. I repeated it. For years.

Then I moved to France. And I met Jews.

Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth.

What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration.

Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not.

I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door.

I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people.

Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it.

That difference is not incidental. It is the point.

The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination.

Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open.

The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them.

When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value.

I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation.

It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own.

I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition…

Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

At long last, the UN Human Rights Council has formally acknowledged that Hamas in Gaza carried out executions, torture, improperly used medical facilities for terror purposes, and engaged in violent abuses against women and children after October 7. The report captures only a fraction of what actually occurred, in part because documenting these crimes is extraordinarily difficult and because Gazans fear retaliation if they report anything to the UN or other investigators. The findings on Hamas were buried beneath a long section on Israeli settler abuses in the West Bank, but even so, this marks a significant shift for an international body that has long struggled to speak plainly about Hamas’s brutality in Gaza.

Most importantly, the report acknowledges but barely scratches the surface of how extensively Hamas has weaponized Gaza’s medical infrastructure, embedding fighters in hospitals, using patients as shields, and turning civilian facilities into operational hubs. The UN even notes that Doctors Without Borders evacuated non-essential staff from Nasser Hospital because Hamas was interfering with the hospital’s operations.

When I shared this information, including testimonies from Gazans who documented Hamas’s fascistic behavior inside hospitals, and photos of fighters emerging from Nasser Hospital after the ceasefire, the online “pro-Palestine” chorus had nothing to offer except accusations of Zionist collaboration, accusations of betrayal, and personal insults. This UN report is an indictment not only of Hamas, a violent extremist terror organization responsible for immense suffering, but also of every activist, journalist, and academic who chose to look away. It shows that Hamas’s crimes were so egregious, so undeniable, that even a slow, hesitant, and often ineffectual body like the UNHRC could no longer pretend not to see them.

Shame on anyone who still defends Hamas or ever believed its violence constituted “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinian people.

[Tami 🇮🇱 @roitele1]

🕯️ Esta sinagoga no tiene electricidad. Nunca ha tenido electricidad. Cada viernes por la noche, el personal enciende más de mil velas a mano, y la habitación tiene exactamente como estaba en 1675.

La sinagoga portuguesa en Ámsterdam, conocida como Esnoga, fue construida por la comunidad judía sefardí que había huido de la Inquisición española y portuguesa y encontró refugio en los relativamente tolerantes Países Bajos. Cuando se completó en 1675, fue una de las sinagogas más grandes del mundo, y fue construida por una comunidad de personas que habían pasado generaciones escondiendo quiénes eran, obligadas a practicar su fe en secreto bajo amenaza de muerte.

El suelo de arena que cubre todo el interior es uno de sus rasgos más distintivos, y la razón de ello todavía se debate: algunos historiadores apuntan a la acústica, otros a las tradiciones de construcción holandesas de la época, y otros ven en ella una referencia a la errante del desierto Éxodo. Lo que no se debate es la luz. La decisión de nunca instalar electricidad fue deliberada, y el edificio sigue encendido hoy por 72 lámparas de aceite de latón y más de mil llamas de velas, tal como estaba el día en que se abrió. ✡️
Una comunidad que sobrevivió a la Inquisición escondiéndose construyó una de las sinagogas más magníficas del mundo en el momento en que fueron libres.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas is in full panic mode over the June 26 calls for mass protests against its violent, authoritarian, fascistic rule in Gaza. It has unleashed its agents, operatives, loyalists posing as “journalists,” West Bank activists, online propagandists, and terror networks to incite violence, demand a crackdown, and even organize counter‑demonstrations.

Hamas is circulating flyers calling for protests demanding the resignation of Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace executive committee chair overseeing the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), after he criticized Hamas’s stalling and obstruction. Even worse, Hamas supporters in the West Bank, including the vile “journalist” Souad al‑Khawaja, are openly calling for the killing of anyone who protests against the terror group and its “resistance.” Expect the same from Western “pro‑Palestine” circles in Europe and the US: they will smear anti‑Hamas protesters as “collaborators,” “traitors,” “Israeli agents,” or “suspicious individuals.” We saw this during the war, when thousands of Gazans demanded the release of hostages and an end to the conflict Hamas ignited.

Watch closely how the most anti‑Palestinian elements of the “pro‑Palestine” cult will once again find any excuse to side with Hamas over the actual people of Gaza.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

President of Israel Herzog addresses the Lebanese people in Arabic, in a video, inviting them to peace.
Yesterday, a Lebanese court sentenced journalist Maria Maalouf for 15 years in prison for only going on Israel channel Kan 11.
The gap between peace-seeking Israel and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon remains large.

[Sara Ghorbani @d_white_rabbit]

Muslims created a whole country dedicated to their religion and called it “the land of the Pure”, basically excluding and delegitimizing anyone who isn't a Muslim as unpure and Najis. Then they turned around and accused every other country of being an apartheid state.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ukraine finds and strikes Russian targets nearly 90% faster. Soldiers pull satellite images straight onto their phones, skipping headquarters review.

Each image reaches the frontline unit on a phone, tablet, or laptop about 15 minutes after the satellite captures it — WSJ. 1/

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Three years ago, on June 6, 2023, russians destroyed the Kakhovka Dam — one of the worst ecological disasters of the century.

Hundreds of villages flooded, dozens of lives lost, ecosystems wiped out for generations.

Not an accident — state terror.

We remember.

[Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog]

Turkey re-exported German and Croatian optical sights to a long-term FSB supplier and American micrometers to the Alabuga special economic zone, where Shahed drones are produced, The Insider reported. In 2025 the country also served as a transit point for Western flow meters and level sensors used by Russian fuel exporters. Turkey remains one of the main hubs for supplying sanctioned dual-use equipment to Russia.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.

There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.

After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.

During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.

Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

The greatest lie Russia ever told was convincing people it is a superpower.

Its economy is smaller than Italy's.

Its GDP per capita is lower than Uruguay's.

Its military is the second-best... in Ukraine.

The only things Russia truly invests in and innovates are kinetic warfare and information warfare.

It has one of the worst demographic outlooks in the world.

Russia is a paper bear.