Wer viel Geld hat, lebt im Norden der iranischen Hauptstadt. Dort mögen derzeit zwar weniger Luxusautos durch die Strassen kurven, doch die Restaurants bleiben voll. Im Süden Teherans dagegen türmen sich Trümmerberge, und die Menschen wissen nicht, wie... https://www.nzz.ch/international/waehrend-raketen-einschlagen-essen-die-reichen-im-norden-teherans-weiter-ihre-steaks-ld.1932043?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040569cf0301d2d3b66987fb701b
Vor Gericht vergiesst die Frau Tränen und ist geständig. Dann kommt es zu einem Eklat. https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/versicherungsspezialistin-in-zuerich-luxurioeser-lebensstil-durch-betrug-ld.1926597?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040569cf0301d2d3b66987fb701a
Um #Meinungsfreiheit geht es bei unserer nächsten @Denkfabrik_R21 - Konferenz am 14. April in Berlin. Mit @KubickiWo, @anetta2552 @besser_deniz, @zitelmann_en , @Frollein_VogelV, @susannschroeter und anderen. Anmeldung 👇 https://denkfabrik-r21.de/r21-konferenz-zum-zustand-der-meinungsfreiheit-in-deutschland/
The most dangerous lie in human history isn’t about food.
It isn’t about medicine.
It is about sleep.
For 200,000 years, humans did not sleep 8 hours.
That number was invented in 1938 by a mattress company called Simmons Beautyrest.
Before that campaign, the average human slept in two shifts.
Historians call it “Biphasic Sleep.”
You would sleep for 4 hours, wake up for 2, then sleep for another 4.
During that 2-hour window, people would pray, have s*x, write, think, and connect with their families.
Some of the greatest works in human history were created in that sacred middle window.
Shakespeare wrote most of his plays between 1AM and 3AM during his second wake period.
Mozart composed entire symphonies in what he called “The God Hours.”
Then the Industrial Revolution needed workers on a fixed schedule.
You cannot run a factory on biphasic sleep.
So they hired a psychologist named Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman to “prove” that 8 consecutive hours was the biological standard.
He faked the studies.
He was funded entirely by the mattress industry.
And the medical establishment adopted his research without question because it aligned with the factory model.
They turned the most creative 2 hours of human consciousness into a “sleep disorder.”
They called it “Insomnia.”
They medicated it.
They gaslight an entire generation that 8 hours of continuous sleep was healthy.
They pathologized the exact window of consciousness that produced some of the greatest art, music, and literature in human history.
You are not an insomniac.
You are experiencing the most natural form of human consciousness.
And a mattress company convinced you it was a disease.
Stop medicating your genius.
Wake up at 2AM.
Write the thing.
The “God Hours” are calling.
✨🙌🏾💫
© Andre Gonzalves
Wow 🤯
US rescue forces landed multiple planes in a remote base in Iran 👇
Source: NYT
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Before DNS, the Internet ran on a single text file.
You wanted a hostname?
You emailed Elizabeth Feinler’s team at SRI. They edited their local HOSTS.TXT and then everyone downloaded the new copy!
That worked… until it didn’t.
By 1983, it was obvious this wouldn’t scale, so Paul Mockapetris created DNS: distributed, hierarchical, no single point of failure.
The modern Internet exists because we stopped relying on one file to keep it all straight!
JO ADELL HAS ROBBED THREE HOME RUNS TONIGHT.
YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT, THREE!!!
Angels win 1-0 over the Mariners 🤯
Further confirmation by @axios
UPDATE: CBS cites U.S. Air Force official saying this account does not speak for the U.S. Air Force (even though it is an official government account according to Instagram).
R to @DrEliDavid: UPDATE: CBS cites U.S. Air Force official saying this account does not speak for the U.S. Air Force (even though it is an official government account according to Instagram).
R to @DrEliDavid: Source:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWuwT-vjtes/
🚨 Breaking: Official Instagram account of the U.S. Air Force Special Warfare Recruiting is confirming the successful rescue of the F-15 weapons system officer was 👇
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THE FIRST VACUUM TUBE INTEGRATED CITCUT WAS INVENTED TO BEAT UNFAIR TAXES.
The 1926 German Radio Tax: How One Clever Tube Beat the Bureaucrats (And Why Governments Will Repeat the Mistake with Robots)
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In 1926, the German government had a brilliant idea for raising revenue from the exciting new world of radio broadcasting: tax the radios themselves. Not by their price, size, or even their power consumption. No. They taxed them by the number of vacuum tubes (or, more precisely, by the number of valveholders or sockets they contained).
The more tubes your receiver had, the higher the Rundfunksteuer (radio tax) you paid. It was a classic case of early 20th century bureaucracy trying to squeeze money out of technology it barely understood.
Enter Loewe Audion GmbH, a German radio manufacturer. They were not about to let a silly per tube tax kill their business. In 1926, they introduced the Loewe 3NF.
A single glass envelope that packed three triode vacuum tubes, plus two fixed capacitors and four fixed resistors, all sealed inside one unit. It was essentially a complete radio receiver circuit in one tube.
A full featured three stage radio now only needed one socket, so it was taxed as a humble single tube set.
The 3NF let Loewe undercut competitors dramatically, and roughly one million of these ingenious devices were produced.
It was, quite literally, one of the worlds first integrated circuits. Decades before the silicon chip. But born not from Moores Law, but from tax evasion.
When one filament eventually burned out (as tubes did back then), the whole expensive assembly had to be replaced, but Loewe even offered a repair service. Innovation driven by government overreach?
Sounds familiar.
Governments Never Learn
Fast forward a century. Radio tubes are long gone, replaced by transistors, microchips, and now AI powered robots and autonomous systems. Yet the bureaucratic impulse remains exactly the same: when something new and productive emerges, tax it by counting its parts in the most literal, outdated way possible.
Imagine the future headlines: New EU Robot Tax Bill: Levy Based on Number of Actuators, Sensors, or AI Cores or how large the parameters. Or an American proposal: Tax robots per motor or per teraflop of compute.
Policymakers, desperate for revenue as automation displaces traditional jobs, will inevitably reach for the same blunt instrument Germany used in 1926.
They will ignore value created, economic output, or societal benefit, and instead fixate on something countable and physical. Just like counting glowing glass envelopes in a wooden radio cabinet.
The 3NF proved that clever engineers will always find a workaround. Companies will design single actuator humanoid robots that somehow perform like multi limbed ones, or cloud based AI systems that minimize on device taxable hardware. Innovation will be diverted into tax dodging contortions rather than genuine progress. Meanwhile, the tax collectors will be left scratching their heads, just as they were when the first 3NF equipped Loewe radios flooded the market.
History does not repeat, but it rhymes. In 1926, the German state tried to meter the future with 19th century logic and got outmaneuvered by a single brilliant tube.
A hundred years later, when robots roam factories, homes, and streets, the same shortsightedness will return. Because governments, like bad comedians, only have one joke.
The Loewe 3NF was not just a radio part. It was a warning: tax the technology stupidly, and the technology will tax you right back.
Now do you understand why I keep telling you that data from "EHR databases" that cannot be verified - like those from @opensafely that fraudulently misrepresented potential COVID treatments - are a problem?
And why I tried to warn you about #EMRgate 3 years ago.
Optical stocks have become the hottest trade in the AI space:
Lumentum, $LITE, is up +1,137% over the last 12 months, the 2nd-best performing stock in the S&P 500.
Over the same period, Applied Optoelectronics, $AAOI, is up +551%, Coherent, $COHR, +282%, Corning, $GLW, +223%, and Fabrinet, $FN, +176%.
This marks a massive outperformance of the Nasdaq 100, which returned +23%.
These companies make optical components that use light instead of traditional copper wiring to move data inside AI data centers.
This technology has gained popularity as AI infrastructure demands faster and more efficient communication.
In early March, Nvidia, $NVDA, announced it would invest $2 billion each in Lumentum and Coherent.
Optical stocks are the latest beneficiary of the AI boom.
More than three million pages from the Epstein files are now public.
Cannibalism. Rape. Murder. Pedophilia.
Not a single arrest. Not a single investigation.
How cruel world we are living in.
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They know the next shot could end in death. Not worth it. No job is.
BREAKING:
The security forces of the Islamic regime in Iran just found the bodies of a group of Basij militia terrorists who were out looking for the downed American airman in the mountains of south-western Iran.
Looks like they ran into an American search and rescue group.
Remember Trump's "Board of Peace"?
Ask them to help open the Strait of Hormuz.
Kick out any country that refuses.
Die Weltlage ist unsicher. Kriege toben. Warum es trotz allem nie wichtiger war, zu reisen. Eine Hymne auf die Ferne. https://www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag-magazin/von-delhi-ins-engadin-warum-es-nie-wichtiger-war-zu-reisen-als-heute-ld.1932315?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040569cf0301d2d3b66987fb7011
Justice delayed is justice denied. OAIC doesn’t triage FOI reviews by public interest or urgency. Every case waits in same queue. By the time a determination lands, the accountability window has closed. The body meant to ensure transparency functionally shields agencies from it.
I’ve just learned that @leicspolice have investigated @ABridgen for sharing the Amelia video below. I’d like to inform the Leicestershire constabulary that I made the video, the @ukhomeoffice created the character, and that they’re great bloody Orwellian wankers who can sod right off.
cc @makeukgood @AmeliaOnSolana @AmeliajakSolana @BasilTheGreat @benonwine @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain_ @elonmusk @godblesstoto @SmashJT @RoyalFamily
Pinned: Read this article. It's physics - time itself - not money, that is required for restoration.
@shanaka86
"...physics prices a disruption measured in years"
https://substacktools.com/sharex/kspV-get
R to @anish_koka: Excerpt from :
Anyone who claims asylum and then travels back to the country they supposedly fled should be instantly and permanently disqualified. If the country is safe enough for a holiday, it is safe enough to stay in. It’s almost unbelievable that this even has to be said.
Basel und die Young Boys trennen sich in einem intensiven Spiel 3:3. Das hilft niemandem weiter. Der Berner Ausgleich durch Ebrima Colley fällt in der 90. Minute. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/spektakulaerer-klassiker-zwischen-basel-und-yb-endet-33-ld.1932471?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040569cf0301d2d3b66987fb7010
NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos
“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...
They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs.
Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me.
So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page.
Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube.
Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”
Language "ghetto" for Russian-speaking children in Lviv
In Lviv, around 40,000 internally displaced children do not attend school.
One of the reasons is the language barrier, as these children face intolerance, mockery, and insults. Language becomes a serious obstacle for them, and in effect, a kind of “ghetto” of such children is being formed.
— Ivanna Kobernyk, Adviser to the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
Perhaps this is a very expensive effort to begin full disclosure about an event that most believe to be true - a kind of 'bedrock' for scientific endeavour and the modern world. It's not so long ago that everything was called `space age'....
Der HC Davos gewinnt etwas glückhaft die erste Halbfinalpartie gegen die ZSC Lions mit 4:2. Die Freiburger gewinnen derweil gegen Genève-Servette mit 3:1. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/eishockey-national-league-davos-gewinnt-erste-halbfinalpartie-gegen-zsc-lions-ld.1932470?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040469cf0301d2d3b66987fb700f
This is just so much better in French 😂
🔥 “The influx of these patients to the medical services was resisted by the medical residents and interns. On June 30th, 1981, the entire medical training program signed a resolution denouncing liver transplantation as an unrealistic objective and an “unethical pursuit.” Starzl shrugged, and from that point on admitted all these patients to his own surgical service, which at the time consisted of two surgical residents and two attendings.”
Laut dem Chef des grössten Schweizer Medienkonzerns haben Regional- und Lokalzeitungen in der digitalen Welt keine Chance. Das grosse Gespräch über das Ende einer Epoche und die ungewisse Zukunft des Hauses Ringier. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/ringier-chef-marc-walder-prophezeit-den-zeitungen-ein-massensterben-in-der-schweiz-duerften-digital-nur-drei-medienmarken-ueberleben-ld.1931793?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026040469cf0301d2d3b66987fb700e
I will be introducing legislation to permanently end this kind of fraud.
If someone claims asylum but then returns to the country they claim to be fleeing, their asylum claim must be revoked.