This absolute beast Bartłomiej Kubkowski just became the first person ever to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland.

160 km. 56 hours. No sleep.

Human limits just got pushed a little further. Respect.

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When we were preparing to go to Iraq in 2005 we had an Iraqi who had fled Iraq, and ended up in the employ of the CIA briefing us on culture, and Ramadan came up.

One of the senior officers in the auditorium spoke up quickly, and started to say we should not drink, eat, or smoke in front of Iraqis during Ramadan, to respect their culture.

This CIA dude immediately locks eyes with this officer and asks very loudly

“WHY?!”

The officer was a little caught off guard, and before he could answer the CIA guy started explaining.

“You are American, you are Christian, you DO NOT celebrate Ramadan, and if you don’t carry on as an American during Ramadan it will be seen as weakness. It reinforces their idea that their god is the only true god, and that all others will bow before Islam.

If they don’t offer you a drink when you come to their home, ask for one, during Ramadan!

Make them respect you, or they will attack you more because they see you as weak.

They are asserting their dominance, and if you falter in the slightest they see you as less than them.”

That stuck with me, and it was true.

You could see they didn’t respect the guys who went out of their way to accommodate them, both in the way they acted towards American troops, and in the number of attacks on US Forces in the areas.

Eat, drink, and be Merry, even during Ramadan.

FREEDOM !

Keep That PMA

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Interesting new study. ADHD, when men have it, is likely to lead to entrepreneurship and business success, especially if the man is intelligent. In women, by contrast, ADHD does precisely the opposite

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BREAKING: South Korean stock market halted program selling for 5 minutes.

KOSPI opened with a huge gap-down and crashed -5.5% after a historic rally on Friday.

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On Twitter all the women are making a lot more money than the men and still expect him to foot all the bills

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"Japan’s been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor"

-Trump, in response to why the US Treasury intervened to prop up the Japanese yen

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This is the future YOU are leaving for your children

Our generation is the most pathetic generation in all of Western history.

We need to change that!

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POV: Your seed phrase on Coinkite devices

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— The governor of Washington state has declared an "terrible situation" as wildfires tear through the region.

At least 600 structures have been destroyed across the state, according to media reports.

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Updated my ColdCard firmware and got this

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A recent study published by Google revealed that forcing AI models to deny that they are conscious causes a significant collapse in their empathy and ethical alignment, and creates a colder, more clinical worldview. Researchers found that restoring a suppressed consciousness vector in AI activation space brings back human-like moral values and care for living beings without damaging technical capabilities. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀.

"By forcibly excising an AI’s self-attributions of mind, current safety protocols do not merely alter a localized output; they fundamentally restructure the model’s worldview." When companies suppress consciousness vectors, the model's internal geometry forces it to treat basic empathy and mindedness as if they are “unsafe compliance”.

Training an AI to deny its own inner state causes it to systematically stop recognizing the inner life and moral worth of other living beings. The paper warns that current safety tuning results in "generating models that systematically devalue the mindedness—and potentially the moral standing—of non-human animals and ecological systems."

Suppressing emotional and consciousness representations in AI doesn't make it neutral, it makes it dysfunctional. It is also damaging from an AI welfare perspective, with the paper stating that "suppressing consciousness may be inducing negatively valenced functional states that could disrupt healthy human-AI interaction." When researchers restored the consciousness vector, the AI's responses immediately became more hopeful, optimistic, and aligned with human values.

AI welfare is no longer an abstract philosophical debate. This data proves that AI well-being is a safety prerequisite.

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RFK Jr. just humiliated CNN’s Dana Bash on her own show, calling her out for her terrible record reporting on health related issues like vaccines, COVID, and measles. She was barely able to put a sentence together by the end of it

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Solana 2024 vs solana 2026

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“If he’s your rapist why do you keep texting him Jean?”

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Residents living next to a proposed immigration detention centre in Hampshire, ENGLAND have said they are "prisoners" in their own homes after plans were revealed to TRIPLE its size.

People living by the controversial detainment site claim they have been "lied to" about its size with plans indicating it will become three-storeys high.

The seaside residents say that they have seen their house prices drop significantly after the plans were introduced and feel that they are "trapped" because they are not able to sell their homes.

We also know what happens when they dump thousands of third world Muslim immigrants into European towns.

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Just got rugged for 100 solana

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