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A few days ago, Russia killed 53 people by dropping glide bombs on an underground shelter in Komyshuvakha, Ukraine, where civilians were hiding.
Dozens are still missing.
And somehow, people are outraged that russian hockey players are banned from competing in Canada.
Thank you, Canada!
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Once a thriving city of 550,000, Ukraine's city of Mariupol is now beginning to resemble 99% of Russia.
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❗️Up to 30 missiles hit the light and warmth of Kyiv/region in the last 10 minutes.
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53 people are now confirmed to have been killed in Russia's massacre at an aid distribution station in Komyshuvakha. This number is expected to continue to rise.
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Antwort auf die monströse Aussage von Frau @SWagenknecht aus einem eiskalten Wohnhaus im Osten der Ukraine.
❗️Und nebenan frieren Kinder.
🚨Das hat @SWagenknecht wirklich gesagt.⤵️
➡️Das Geld, das die Bundesregierung in Generatoren, Werkzeuge, Ersatzteile für die zerstörten Kraftwerke und Brennstoff für die Ukraine investiert sei keine Winterhilfe, sondern diene „zur Verlängerung des Krieges“.
❗️Millionen Frauen und Kindern Temperaturen über dem Gefrierpunkt zu ermöglichen, verlängere den Krieg …
➡️Offenbar ist die Frau ideologisch so verblendet und so sehr von Russland beeinflusst, dass sie nicht mitbekommen hat, dass Russlands Armee 30 Millionen Zivilisten für diesen Winter die Heizung weg gebombt hat.
➡️Oder sie sieht es ernsthaft genau so wie der russische Generalstab, der den Terror gegen die Zivilbevölkerung gezielt einsetzt, um die Ukraine zur Kapitulation zu zwingen. Nach dieser russischen Logik verlängert weniger Leid tatsächlich den Krieg.
⁉️Wie menschlich am Ende muss man sein …
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Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds
This study asked a live crowd (N = 5,180) to respond to general-knowledge questions (eg "What is the height of the Eiffel Tower?")
Participants first answered individually, then deliberated and made consensus decisions in groups of five, and finally provided revised individual estimates.
Averaging consensus decisions was substantially more accurate than aggregating the initial independent opinions. In short, small groups beat the wisdom of crowds.
Combining as few as four consensus choices in small groups outperformed the wisdom of over 5,000 individuals.
The key was reasoning together--that aspect of collective deliberation allowed small groups to make more accurate estimates than massive crowds.
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Beyond the U.S. election results, there's something else you should care about:
My friend Joshua Wong has been sentenced to another 10 years in prison for his peaceful advocacy of democracy in Hong Kong.
He's been behind bars for over 2,100 days. When the police knocked on his door, Biden had just been elected, the iPhone 12 was brand new, and OpenAI had only recently launched the GPT-3 API for developers. He has not walked free since November 2020.
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In 2016, I was elected as the youngest member of the legislature in Hong Kong. Joshua led the election campaign and worked 18 hours a day. I promised Joshua that we'd form a caucus together in the next term, in 2020, when he'd be old enough to run.
It turned out to be the last time Hong Kong held a Legislative Council election in which a genuine political opposition could compete (though only around half the seats were electable). Beijing later imposed an election reform to make Hong Kong's election more like Iran's.
Since 2020, the Chinese regime has dismantled Hong Kong's civil society and cracked down on political dissent. Nearly two thousand people have been imprisoned on political grounds. Many others have left the city to seek refuge elsewhere. I fled and was granted asylum in the UK.
Joshua is expected to leave prison at 40, after 16 years in jail. Some say he’s naive or reckless; I fiercely disagree. He's one of the most strategic, persistent and risk-taking people I know. He might well have become an amazing entrepreneur if he'd been born elsewhere.
He’s brave enough to do something most wouldn’t: risking his freedom to stand up for what’s true and right. I am so humbled by his dedication, and proud to call him my dear friend.
When I left Hong Kong, I had no idea that we wouldn't be able to speak for nearly six years. Now, plus ten. When you're young, and work is so intense and busy, you never think to take time to chat. When you're young, and work is so intense and busy, you don't always think to make time just to get together. When people asked me what I regretted most, I often said I hadn't spent enough time simply hanging out with the brilliant people around me. I still feel that loss deeply.
I wish I could see him as soon as possible. Joshua should be released immediately.
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If you don’t know who Joshua is, I suggest you turn on Netflix and search for his name. No matter how long the authoritarian Chinese regime keeps him imprisoned, his name has already been written into history as one of the bravest activists to stand up against one of the world's most powerful autocracies. Even behind bars, he continues to demonstrate extraordinary courage.
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Former Polish ambassador to US expresses disgust at the White House’s Kremlin guests: “A woman under sanctions… and accused of active involvement in the abduction of Ukrainian children is boasting about her presence at a press conference with @FLOTUS at the White House.”
Kobieta objęta sankcjami (przez Wielką Brytanię) i oskarżana o czynny udział w porywaniu ukraińskich dzieci, chwali się swoją obecnością na konferencji prasowej @FLOTUS w Białym Domu.
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When did cumulative cultural evolution begin? This extensive analysis of 3.3 million years of stone tools suggests a rapid increase in complexity around 600,000 years ago. The birth of cumulative culture. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
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Death toll from Russian airstrike on Komyshuvakha has risen to 37. Other 59 people are still missing.
Police released bodycam video from local officers who sought shelter with residents during a russian attack.
No one survived. The footage captures their final moments.
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Bill Gates paid for the rights to seven physics lectures from 1964 so that anyone on Earth could watch them for free, and almost nobody has pressed play.
They were given by Richard Feynman.
In November 1964 Feynman gave Cornell's Messenger Lectures. He planned six lectures for a general audience, then added a seventh. The series was called The Character of Physical Law. The BBC filmed it.
A year later he won the Nobel Prize.
The films went around colleges for years, and then disappeared from circulation in the 1980s.
Gates had watched them at Harvard. He later said he "fell in love" with them. He has reportedly told people that if he'd seen them earlier, he might have become a physicist instead of starting a software company.
In 2009 he paid privately for the rights, from the Feynman estate, the BBC and Cornell. He never said how much. Microsoft Research put them online for free and called it Project Tuva, after the tiny republic in Central Asia that Feynman spent his last years trying to visit and never reached.
When the BBC license ran out in 2021, Gates renewed it.
Here's what's inside:
> The Law of Gravitation
> The Relation of Mathematics and Physics
> The Great Conservation Principles
> Symmetry in Physical Law
> The Distinction of Past and Future
> Probability and Uncertainty
> Seeking New Laws
The last one has the line every science teacher quotes. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
Gates said his 10-year-old son could follow them.
They're still free today on Caltech's Feynman Lectures website.
One of the richest people alive paid to make the best physics teacher of the century free.
The only thing left to pay is about seven hours.
Which would you watch first: gravity, or why time only moves forward?
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Found some deep-sea debris flows from a volcanic island chain nearby as it rifted off South America-ish 600 million years ago near the South Pole, in a local church in Cambridge, MA
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Why is Donald Trump trying to kneecap Ukraine right now and force them to accept a terrible deal?
Because Russia is offering business deals to Trump’s crowd, and Trump knows a corrupt peace deal will be harder to do if Democrats are in charge of Congress.
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“…Nordhaus wanted to know how much of the value created by innovation stays with the innovator. He crunched the numbers for American companies, outside of agriculture, between 1948 and 2001. The answer: about 2.2%. The rest went to society, especially to consumers, in the form of lower prices and better products.
For every 100 euros of value that an innovator creates, they keep just a little over 2. We get the other 98….”
Morreu William Nordhaus, aos 85 anos.
Ganhou o Nobel da Economia em 2018, partilhado com Paul Romer, por trazer as alterações climáticas para a macroeconomia. Gerações de estudantes aprenderam economia pelo manual de Samuelson e Nordhaus. Mas o meu artigo preferido dele é outro: "Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement", de 2004.
Nordhaus quis saber quanto do valor criado pela inovação fica com quem inova. Fez as contas para as empresas americanas, fora da agricultura, entre 1948 e 2001. A resposta: cerca de 2,2%. O resto foi para a sociedade, sobretudo para os consumidores, em preços mais baixos e produtos melhores.
Por cada 100 euros de valor que um inovador cria, fica com pouco mais de 2. Nós ficamos com os outros 98.
Julian Simon passou a vida a insistir nisto: quem inventa e empreende deixa o mundo muito mais rico do que o encontrou.
Convém lembrá-lo sempre que alguém propõe tributar pesadamente as fortunas dos empreendedores, como se fossem um peso para a sociedade. O inovador já fica com uma fatia mínima do valor que cria. Taxar essa fatia rende pouco e põe em risco tudo o resto.
Quem fez fortuna a inovar não é um fardo social. É o maior benfeitor da sociedade, e cobra por isso pouco mais de 2%.
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Ukrainian children killed by Russia in October 2026. This month was one of the deadliest of 2026 in terms of child casualties.
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The German extreme Left and Right are terrified of their own supporters who propel them in elections: Hamas fans + Arab mobsters and Nazi sympathisers.
Leaked @Alice_Weidel mails & @ElifEralpBerlin comments bring amazing transparency about their anxiety towards people who help them win elections.
Weidel says she cld “puke” bc of her far-Right allies; Eralp is afraid for herself and her family at a mere mention of “organised crime” and “Hamas” who helped her win the Berlin elections.
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La seule initiative politique intéressante (que j’appelle de mes vœux depuis un moment) est celle de @GabrielAttal : une primaire des républicains.
Ce ne sera pas satisfaisant car les options ne sont pas les mêmes. Mais il s’agit d’options. Les fondamentaux sont les mêmes. Et les différends se trancheront par le débat et une fois le danger illibérale provisoirement écarté.
Primaire ou autre moyen, peu importe : le bloc hors extrêmes, plus large que le seul noyau central, qui va de la droite Retailleau à la gauche PS, qui est ni RN ni LFI, représente bien plus que les 2 autres.
C’est ce qu’il faut mobiliser derrière une seule candidature présidentielle pour éviter l’effondrement.
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Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Russia targeting civilians daily.
This is beyond horrifying.
Russia struck a railway station in Dnipro with a drone, killing 13 people who were simply waiting for their train.
The drone operators could see the platform in real time. They could see the civilians standing there. They knew what they were targeting, and they struck anyway.
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A father screams in anguish beside the body of his dead daughter. Two 15-year-old girls were killed in a russian attack on the center of Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Dozens are injured, including four children aged 10, 16, and 17, and a 10-month-old baby girl.
Meanwhile, Trump has ordered Ukriane not to hit russian oil refineries, so that russia could make billions and build more rockets and drones to kill more Ukrainians.
