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The oldest story about human ambition ends with language being shattered. The newest chapter begins with language being reassembled. Thousands of years ago, someone wrote the story of the Tower of Babel. All of humanity speaks one language. They decide to build something that reaches beyond their own limits. They nearly succeed. What stops them is not force. It is the fracturing of the one capability that made the project possible. Communication. Scatter the language, scatter the people. Divide the ability to understand each other, and the tower collapses on its own. That story has been read as a warning for three thousand years. But that is exactly what we are living through. For millennia after the story was written, humanity remained scattered. Thousands of languages. Thousands of separate pools of knowledge that could not speak to each other. A breakthrough in one country buried for decades because the paper was written in a language nobody else in the field could read. The fragmentation was never just cultural. It was cognitive. Every language barrier was a wall between minds. Every wall between minds was a ceiling on what humanity could build together. AI is trained on language. That is not a technical detail. It is the most philosophically loaded sentence in the history of technology. The machine that might surpass human intelligence was built out of the one thing whose fragmentation has kept humanity divided since the oldest story we tell about ambition. The tower was made of bricks and held together by a common tongue. The moment the tongue fractured, the bricks were useless. The new tower is made of mathematics and held together by every tongue at once. Every language humanity has ever spoken, written, or recorded, now fed into a single system that can move between all of them. We are not rebuilding the tower out of stone. We are rebuilding it out of the very thing that brought the first one down. The machine does not speak one language. It speaks all of them. The wall that divided humanity for three thousand years is the training data. A person in rural India and a researcher at MIT can now interact with the same intelligence, in their own language, at the same depth. The barrier between minds is dissolving not because we taught everyone the same language, but because we built something that understands all of them. We should probably notice that we are doing this again. With the same raw material. At a scale the story never imagined. Building something that doesn’t just reach toward the heavens but thinks for itself on the way up. The ancient warning was not that the tower was too tall. It was that the builders might not be ready for what they find at the top. And this time, the language holds.
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Energiearmoede maakt mensen ziek. Letterlijk: armoedefonds.nl/energiearmoe… “Mensen die de verwarming uitlaten en nauwelijks koken, hebben misschien geen hoge energiekosten, maar leven letterlijk in de kou, en lopen daardoor gezondheidsproblemen op, ook door bvb vocht en schimmel”
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Donald Trump has spent forty years telling us he's the greatest dealmaker alive, and the evidence is a book he didn't write. Armed with that, he marches into century-old conflicts with the preparation of a five-year-old at a chess tournament and the confidence of a man who's never lost anything except casinos, an airline, and the popular vote twice. The results speak for themselves. He's sold out America to Russia, pitched beachfront hotels on the rubble of Gaza, and signed a diesel deal with Moscow while the war it's funding is still going. He got Greenland, triumphantly, and never noticed he'd been handed the same 1951 defense agreement the US already had, rewritten in a bigger font. The best bit is what the actual author said afterwards. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, called the book lipstick on a pig, said he'd title it The Sociopath today, and admitted he invented the phrase "truthful hyperbole" to dress up the lying. The man has a black belt in lying, and it's the only one he's ever earned. The one deal Trump ever closed was getting someone else to make him sound clever.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis: “Putin is playing President Trump like a fiddle. And history is not going to look good on an America that failed to rise up and defend the Western world.”
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You've read a lot about how much China reduced extreme poverty but without much international recognition Indonesia hasn’t been far behind the Chinese! Respect.
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Jensen Huang on The smartest person he's ever met:
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If proven this could be grounds to ban the AfD.
Unknown hackers claim to have stolen 421,179 emails from Germany's far-right AfD, exposing Nazi greetings, swastikas and threats against a photographer. The party confirms a breach, but the explosive allegations are still largely unverified.
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Available on Nebius Token Factory from Day 0: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Built for agents that read documents, interpret charts and images, and combine reasoning with tool use to get work done. Evaluate it on your workload: tokenfactory.nebius.com/?mod…
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Politico: Republicans are already starting to blame each other as the midterm election spirals further out of their control. Everyone is bracing for President Donald Trump’s ire if the party loses big in November. House Republicans are planning to accuse the Senate side. National GOP operatives are quietly furious at lackluster candidates who didn’t do enough to prepare for a tough year despite early warnings. And some GOP candidates are pointing the finger back at their own party committees.
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Frequency Wave Theory: Telluric Resonance — Can the Human Body Detect Groundwater? What if water dowsing isn't about mystical forces, but a possible interaction between Earth's electrical fields, biological sensitivity, and resonance? Frequency Wave Theory (FWT) proposes that physical systems interact through coupled waves, frequencies, and phase relationships. Underground water moving through porous rock can generate measurable electrical signals called streaming potentials, produced by the movement of charged fluids across mineral surfaces. Groundwater also changes underground electrical conductivity, which geophysical instruments can detect. My hypothesis is that these subtle environmental variations might provide signals that biological systems could respond to under certain conditions. The question isn't whether groundwater produces measurable electrical effects. It does. The question is whether the human nervous system can detect those effects without instruments. Here's where magnetoreception, quartz, bone piezoelectricity, and the ideomotor effect come together. Researchers have identified magnetic mineral deposits in human sinus tissues, while a 2019 Caltech-led study demonstrated that rotating Earth-strength magnetic fields can produce measurable changes in human brainwave activity. Bone also exhibits piezoelectric properties, generating electrical responses under mechanical stress. My FWT hypothesis is that an undiscovered biological sensing mechanism might couple environmental electromagnetic variations to neurological activity. If such a signal could influence tiny involuntary muscle movements, a loosely held copper dowsing rod could amplify those movements into visible rotation. But there's an important distinction: magnetite has not been established as a functional groundwater sensor in humans, bone piezoelectricity does not demonstrate magnetic-field detection, and ordinary ideomotor movements already explain why dowsing rods can move without conscious effort. The proposed connection between groundwater and an actual sensory response remains unproven. My FWT solution: Build a controlled experiment combining copper dowsing rods, surface electrical-potential sensors, magnetometers, and measurements of involuntary muscle activity. I've experimented with copper-rod dowsing myself, and the next step is to isolate what actually causes the movement. Map groundwater independently, conceal its location from participants and observers, then compare rod responses against measured electrical gradients, magnetic variations, and randomized control locations. Introduce controlled changes in groundwater flow where practical and determine whether responses follow those changes more accurately than chance. The objective is to test an entire chain: groundwater movement → electrical field variation → possible biological detection → nervous-system response → involuntary muscle movement → amplified rod rotation. If every connection can be independently measured and replicated, we would have evidence for a new biophysical sensing mechanism. If the responses disappear under blinded conditions, that would tell us something equally important. Perhaps the question isn't whether the rods are detecting water. It's whether the human body has an undiscovered way of sensing the environment that the rods merely reveal. Drew Ponder | Frequency Wave Theory FrequencyWaveTheory.com FrequencyWaveTheory.Substack…
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Telluric Resonance: How the Human Body Detects Groundwater 💧⚡ In this episode, we break down the biophysics of water dowsing, moving past the misconception of mysticism and analyzing the exact physiological mechanisms that allow the human body to detect subterranean aquifers. 🌍🧠 A deep forensic analysis of magnetotelluric streaming potentials and human magnetoreception: Magnetotelluric Streaming Potentials: Examining how deep, flowing aquifers generate extremely low-frequency (ELF) magnetic gradients. As conductive water moves through the Earth's crust, it induces localized telluric currents that radiate to the surface. 🌊🧲 Human Magnetoreception & Ethmoid Magnetite: Breaking down the bio-mineralized hardware inside the human skull. Biogenic magnetite deposits in the ethmoid bone act as physical transducers, detecting microscopic shifts in local magnetic gradients. 🧠⚡ Piezoelectric Bone Responses & The Ideomotor Amplifier: Analyzing the physiological cascade from detection to physical action. Magnetic gradient changes induce piezoelectric responses in skeletal structures, triggering a localized neural cascade. This prompts an involuntary muscle contraction—the ideomotor effect. The dowsing rod acts merely as a mechanical amplifier, translating this imperceptible neurological signal into a visible macro-scale movement. 🌿⚙️ 00:00 - The Biophysics of Water Dowsing 01:15 - Subterranean Magnetotelluric Streaming Potentials 02:40 - Telluric Currents & Surface Magnetic Gradients 03:55 - Human Magnetoreception & Ethmoid Magnetite 05:10 - Piezoelectric Bone Responses to Magnetic Fields 06:30 - The Ideomotor Effect & Involuntary Muscle Action 07:15 - The Dowsing Rod as a Mechanical Amplifier #TelluricResonance #SpectrumGuns #Biophysics #Magnetoreception #Piezoelectric #WaterDowsing #Magnetotelluric #Geophysics #AdvancedPhysics
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A large group of Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets reportedly broke through Russia’s air defense system and penetrated deep into enemy territory. Ukrainian pilots allegedly carried out powerful, precision strikes against key Russian targets. Explosions were reported in government districts, at military airfields, ammunition depots, and strategic industrial facilities. Moscow was reportedly hit particularly hard, with claims that facilities in the city center were burning and columns of smoke could be seen even from the suburbs. Russian fighter jets reportedly scrambled to intercept the Ukrainian aircraft but were quickly neutralized by Ukrainian F-16s and air defense systems. According to these claims, many Russian pilots simply refused to engage, realizing that their chances of survival were extremely slim. Total panic has allegedly gripped Moscow. Residents are reportedly trying to flee the city en masse, while state television channels have switched to “technical breaks.” According to unconfirmed reports, Putin has been urgently evacuated to a bunker. Russian propaganda is reportedly in complete disarray. First, it blamed a “drone attack,” then “Western mercenaries,” and now, according to the account, it has fallen silent because the scale of what is happening can no longer be concealed.
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BREAKING: DHS APPOINTEES SOUGHT TO SECRETLY HACK A VOTING MACHINE. ProPublica reports they wanted CISA to obtain a machine, identify vulnerabilities, and send findings to the White House WITHOUT notifying the manufacturer. Career staff resisted. The operation never happened. Meanwhile, the Trump administration cut roughly ONE-THIRD of CISA's workforce. State election officials say critical cybersecurity support disappeared. Some no longer trust CISA with sensitive information. The agency tasked with protecting elections is losing the trust of the people it protects.
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Entire industries will be built on open models. Developers need the freedom to build them. @JensenHuang on why keeping these models open and accessible matters.
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Waarom zien we hier op X / Twitter NIETS over de MASSALE No Kings protesten van gisteren in HEEL Amerika? Wie is hier snoeihard de midterms aan het beïnvloeden denken jullie?
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Two mirrors in empty space pull on each other. Nothing is between them. Casimir called it in 1948. Measured to 0.19% by 2007. My theory: plates are tuning structures for the field Φ. Its modes add a pull, P ∝ −ηħc_s/a⁴, tracking mass, not electrons. frequencywavetheory.substack…
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Lula crushed Bolsonaro in last night’s debate. Brazil must remain vigilant against the interference from the US, Israel and Russia. If it holds strong, it will give Latin America the momentum needed to resist and reverse the spread of Trump corruption across the continent.
Lula challenged Flávio Bolsonaro over whether he would hand Brazil’s strategic mineral wealth to US oligarchs. “It is obvious, and the Brazilian people have noticed, that the Bolsonaro family is subordinate to US interests.” #DebateNaBand
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Over Christmas 1938, Lise Meitner, a refugee in Sweden after fleeing Nazi Germany that July, received a letter from Otto Hahn in Berlin describing a result he could not explain: bombarding uranium with neutrons seemed to produce barium, a much lighter element. Her nephew Otto Frisch was visiting from Bohr’s institute in Copenhagen. The two went for a walk in the snow near Kungälv, Frisch on skis and Meitner keeping up on foot, and stopped at a tree stump to calculate. They concluded that the uranium nucleus had split in two. Frisch borrowed the term “binary fission” from biologists describing cell division and named the process fission. Bohr carried the news to America, and their paper went to Nature in January 1939. Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone; Meitner was never recognised by the Nobel committee for her role. 📷 © picture-alliance / akg-images, akg-images
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Economists spent 200 years assuming humans make perfect decisions, until a political scientist proved we just grab the first option that's good enough, won the Nobel Prize in economics for it, and then taught a machine to think the exact same way. I read this and immediately thought about every decision I made today. Not one of them was perfect. All of them were good enough. His name was Herbert Simon. The book is called Administrative Behavior. It started with a college paper about playgrounds. In 1935, Simon was a student in Milwaukee studying how the city spent its parks budget. He expected the managers to weigh every option and pick the one that gave the city the most value. That's not what he saw. The people who maintained the playgrounds wanted the money for repairs. The people who ran activities wanted it for staff. Nobody was comparing every possible choice. Each side just pushed for what looked reasonable from where they stood, and they called it a day. That small observation broke something huge. Economics was built on a fantasy person. Economists called him "economic man." He knows every option. He has unlimited time. He calculates the perfect choice every single time. Simon looked around and asked one question. Who actually lives like that? Nobody does. Your brain has a small amount of attention and a short amount of time. So instead of searching for the best choice, you search until you find one that clears the bar, and then you stop. You do it all day without noticing. - You park in the first open spot, not the closest one - You pick a restaurant after reading three reviews, not three hundred - You hire the first candidate who checks the boxes - You take the job offer before seeing every other job on Earth Simon gave this a name. Satisficing. Satisfy plus suffice. And he gave the bigger idea a name too. Bounded rationality. We are rational, just inside walls we can't climb over. He wrote about the real enemy decades before anyone had a smartphone. "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." In 1978, the man who wasn't an economist won the Nobel Prize in economics for telling economists their perfect human didn't exist. But that wasn't even his most important work. Back in 1955, Simon and his colleague Allen Newell asked a wild question. If humans solve hard problems with shortcuts instead of checking every possibility, could a machine do the same? They built a program called the Logic Theorist. They gave it a famous math book full of proofs that took two of the greatest minds in philosophy years to write. The program didn't try every path. That would take forever. It used rules of thumb to chase the paths that looked promising and skip the rest. The same way you skip the parking spots at the far end of the lot. It proved 38 of the first 52 theorems. One of its proofs was cleaner than the original. In January 1956, Simon walked into his class and told his students: "Over Christmas, Allen Newell and I invented a thinking machine." It became one of the very first AI programs ever written. Think about the loop he closed. He studied why humans can't be perfect. Then he built a machine that worked because it stopped trying to be perfect too. We keep asking AI to be flawless. The man who helped invent it already knew the secret. Good enough is how every mind gets anything done.
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