🧵On the occasion of Palestine’s upcoming parliamentary elections, I’m showing this for the first time 3 years after it happened

You can hear them laughing.

Last time a parliament was deliberately blown up with explosives like this was 1944 by Nazi Germany squads in Poland->

Not since 1944 had a parliament building been deliberately wired and blown up with explosives. In the brutal aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising, Nazi Germany’s specialized demolition squads “the Sprengkommandos” systematically leveled Poland’s entire government quarter, dynamiting the Polish Sejm chamber by chamber. For nearly eight decades, modern history recorded no equivalent act of such deliberate parliamentary demolition. That unbroken precedent stood until November 2023, when the exact same fate was brought down upon ours.

Picture below: Ruins of the Polish Sejm (parliament) “source: Archive: Archiwum Biura Odbudowy Stolicy (BOS)”

This building was never Hamas’s. It belonged to us the people. From the Fatah to the Marxists, to the liberals to the Left and the Right and every Palestinian.

It’s the building where the first Palestinian Legislative Council was sworn in, in 1996 the same year Yasser Arafat took his oath affront of the parliament as the first elected President of Palestine, chosen by the first free vote Palestinians ever cast.

Picture: Late President Arafat affront of the Palestinian parliament (the building blown up in the video)

@DataRepublican lol, these are my text messages and documents. The "markings" are FOIA redactions required even for voluntary disclosure. To prove this isn't a "trap," I will happily disclose the documents myself. Here they are (1/x):

An internal Global Engagement Center report, never before public, reveals how the former State Department office worked with foreign governments to monitor so-called “gendered disinformation.” When doing so, GEC betrayed their stated mission and targeted domestic criticism of a Biden administration appointee. ⬇️

@DataRepublican In a congressional hearing in October 2023, the Deputy Coordinator of GEC emphasized that the State Department entity “does not do any work domestically.”
That was a lie.

‼️Always stay alert‼️

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This weekend "August 22 and 23"
GlobalSign is planning a Global Root Certificate transition.

👇 Here's what this means and why this is important for you to know 👇

Network security systems (managed by providers like Imperva and Thales) are migrating active web application traffic from the aging and deprecating GlobalSign Root R3 chain to the newly updated, highly secure Root R46 chain.

The Root Network connects to the XRP Ledger through a native bi-directional XRPL Bridge and runtime modules (pallets) that allow two-way asset transfers. It also integrates XRP as a core gas token for its programmable EVM environment.

Even if we have ways to break up neural networks into interpretable parts, the largest weights between those parts can be confusing. Why is that?

In our new research note, we study the *weight* superposition that causes interference weights.

Here's one example: If you analyze how a tiny transformer completes the word "ACETYLCHOLINE" (a neurotransmitter), the "IN" token before "E" votes to complete the word as "ACETYLCHOLINutions" instead (with maximum virtual weight).

Why?

"INutions" never occurs in the training data, so this weight never improves the training performance. Training this weight directly would make it small, but we don't train it directly! It must be large due to the low-rank bottleneck of the residual stream (superposition).

🔥Yeowza! The Red Green Alliance - Proven communists, Bernie and Jane Sanders, are majorly linked to pro Palestine protests! A Bernie and Jane Sanders, Progressive International partner, The Palestine Youth Movement, is linked to the first Oct 7th pro Palestine protests in support of the murder and rapes of Israelis. But that’s not all, college campuses have been infiltrated, read on.

🔴 The Palestine Youth Movement, which is in the US, is linked to Iran who provides support for Hamas. And they organized protests in the USA. It is illegal for a foreign power and enemy to organize US protests.

Khamenei posted about the Palestinian Youth Movement THREE hours before they did their thread announcing mass protests in the US and Canada etc.

And these protests were announced within hours of the Oct 7, 2023 Israeli attack.

🟢Another Progressive International partner, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), operates through a network of over 200 campus chapters, its activities are heavily concentrated within this 40% slice of total U.S. demonstrations.

National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), functions as a strategic and narrative hub. As soon as October 8, 2023, National SJP called for a nationwide “Day of Resistance” and circulated organizing toolkits that framed the violence as an act of legitimate liberation. Local chapters echoed this messaging both in protests and across social media platforms.

The most frequent external collaborator is the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which frequently partners with National SJP and other campus groups.

🔵 Another Progressive International partner, Code Pink, is a frequent pro Palestine protestor. I really don’t think I even need to expand on this network. I’ll link their event page.

The Sanders, Progressive International has a strong pro Palestine stance. And you totally would not expect this from a Jewish person. But look at Soros. 😏

This is the Red Green Alliance. Red = Marxist
Green = Islam

https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1721907064895943008

The Sanders, Progressive International Red (Marxist) Green (Islam) alliance.

(Progressive International partner, Palestinian Youth Movement, acts as a primary community organizer for pro-Palestinian rallies in North America.)

“The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) was born from the urgency of a people in exile, shouldering a duty to resist colonisation, preserve identity in the face of erasure, and fight, unflinchingly, for liberation. Today, this transnational grassroots movement mobilises globally; the coalition of young Palestinians and Arabs recognises that their struggle is not isolated—it is inherently connected to the broader fight against colonialism, racism and Indigenous dispossession. As part of the Dazed 100, PYM exemplifies resistance, solidarity and a commitment to meaningful action.

Strength takes shape in the collective, and for the Palestinian diaspora, the Palestinian Youth Movement offers a vital foundation. The movement binds together organisers in Chicago, Toronto and Seattle in the US, through to the UK, Tunisia, Lebanon, and to refugee camps in Palestine. Its members strategise for the weeks and years ahead, uniting communities fractured by exile. These gatherings foster a space where young Palestinians can reaffirm their commitment to liberation while building the infrastructure to achieve it. 
In April of this year, PYM stood at the forefront of a campus encampment at Columbia University in New York City, where over 120 student-led activist groups demanded the institution divest from Israel amid the escalating death toll in Gaza. Comprising 50 tents, the encampment ignited debates over freedom of speech and the handling of campus activism as the NYPD arrested more than 100 student protesters in one of the largest mass detentions on campus since 1968. PYM’s presence was instrumental in grounding the coalition’s efforts, working alongside groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace to hold institutions accountable for their complicity in systems of oppression.

In July, PYM was a key organiser in a mass demonstration in Washington DC, mobilising thousands to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the US. Partnering with groups like the ANSWER Coalition, The People’s Forum, and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, PYM unified a diverse network, including members of anti-Zionist Jewish sect Neturei Karta, in a powerful display of resistance against US support for Israeli apartheid. Organising events weekly, PYM once again rallied its members for a major protest on October 5th, marking one year since Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, refusing to let the Palestinian struggle fade from global conversations as the world is lulled to global complacency.”

Read more 👇🏻

archive.is/9Pcju

Sanders Progressive International partner, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

•SJP refers to a network of anti-Zionist student groups on university campuses across the U.S.

•SJP is also used as shorthand for National SJP or NSJP, the National Students for Justice in Palestine, which is led by a Steering Committee.

•Individual SJP chapters and National SJP have justified and/or glorified the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel. They were also a central organizer of the 2024 student encampments across US universities and colleges.

•SJP chapters take their cues from NSJP and often promote and cross-post the same messaging and “calls to action” on social media and at protests.

•National SJP (NSJP) and many SJP chapters have called for "Zionists"— those who believe in the Jewish people's right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland and have connections to Israel—to be removed from campus spaces or from universities altogether. Some SJP chapters have called to ban Hillel (the premier Jewish student group in the US) and Chabad, and some activists have gone so far as to call for harassing or intimidating Zionists and vandalizing Zionist institutions.

•Many SJP chapters have shared explicit pro-Hamas or other FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) rhetoric on social media, including through the promotion of FTO statements and images featuring members of FTOs, at times with weapons.

•Pre- and post-October 7, SJP has been a leading campus organizer of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and anti-Israel protests on university campuses.

•The SJP network includes individual SJP campus chapters, of which there are approximately 275 (mainly in the U.S. and Canada), and "informal" affiliates (other local campus organizations like Palestine Solidarity Committee, or PSC)

•SJP says members of its network are “autonomous” entities brought together by “points of unity” and a shared set of principles in “the fight for Palestinian liberation.”

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1/ USA Credit Risk?

Which nations can borrow money from the international market at lower rates than the US?

2/ If your answer included Greece, you deserve a prize.

3/ Mr. Market is a ruthless realist. He hears what presidents, prime ministers, treasury secretaries, and central bankers say about what they want, predict, or plan.

It’s not okay when the Deep State sets you up to commit a crime.

I have never been more angry in my life.

I walked in with good faith. Ready to collaborate on Cuba.

Got shoved a bunch of hardcopy documents to “leak”. Didn’t check them before accepting. Gave a noncommittal answer.

Yep. Markings that would have gotten me in big big trouble.

The markings weren’t crossed out. I consulted people and if this were a sanctioned leak - they would have just sent over email. They tried to entrap me.

@Oliveeue Yes; as I understand the situation, there has to be evidence of persecution on specific grounds such as race.

Thus, I respectfully suggest not emphasizing how wonderful these people are and how well they would benefit the United States.

It may be true, but not relevant.

1/

@Oliveeue Government officials have limited time.

One needs to focus on what is relevant - persecution etc. - and not use time discussing irrelevant topics.

No matter how wonderful they are, that won’t help anyone to qualify.

America is not looking for generic immigrants.

2/2

@Oliveeue @threadreaderapp please unroll

“‘Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—& they can do whatever they want,’ Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of [about] 50 white nationalists in Rome,” before adding, “This is a good thing.” By Phil Williams 8/19/26 … 1/

2/ Link: confrontthehate.com/p/white-nation…

3/ On 7/29/16, Tech billionaire Peter Thiel met w/ Kevin DeAnna who wrote under the pseudonyms ‘Gregory Hood’ & ‘James Kirkpatrick. In 2012, DeAnna (as Hood) had written that, “It’s time to fight for a country of our own. It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again.” counter-currents.com/2012/11/a-whit…

Here is a 100% true story about which I have been thinking about lot and which actually lead to a profound change in my views. It was one of those times in my life when I turned out to be badly wrong in some of my deep convictions.

It happened in lye 2003 or early 2004,,probably the latter. Operation Iraqi Feeedom, aka US Invasion of Iraq to remove the Saddam Hussein regime, had been a remarkable success (as Imjad expected) but the occupation had started running into difficulties.

I was living and working in Japan and at that time the idea of moving back to Poland had not even occurred to me. However, I was regularly visiting the math department of the University of Warsaw, usually for about two month at a time.

1/ 🚨In February 2020—before lockdowns transformed the world—Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben @GiorgioAgamben_ issued a warning almost no one wanted to hear:

What if an epidemic could become the successor to terrorism as the justification for a permanent state of exception?

He was condemned for saying it.

Six years later, his writings deserve to be read again.🧵👇

2/ Agamben wasn't some internet provocateur.

He was one of Europe's most influential living philosophers, whose Homo Sacer project spent decades examining sovereign power, “bare life,” biopolitics, and the state of exception.

COVID suddenly placed the very questions he had spent his career studying into everyday life.

And he began writing almost immediately.

3/ THE INVENTION OF AN EPIDEMIC — February 26, 2020

This was the bombshell.

Agamben argued that Western governments had increasingly normalized emergency powers—and feared an epidemic could provide a new justification for extending exceptional measures.

His unforgettable warning:

“Once terrorism has been exhausted as the cause of exceptional measures, the invention of an epidemic can offer the ideal pretext to extend them beyond all limits.”

Whatever one thinks of his early epidemiological assumptions, the political question he raised was enormous:

What happens to liberty when emergency becomes the normal mode of government?

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A good explanation of a model's behavior should help you make predictions in related situations.

We turn this into an eval, with thousands of real behaviors found in the wild.

Can interp tools help here? On average, no.

🧵

The eval data is produced by our pipeline CHIVE (Counterfactual Hypothesis Investigation Via Edits) that can be ran on any model or prompt source.

In this example, it finds that Gemma is making a coding error due to misleading variable names.

The causes vary widely: specific words in the prompt, quirks of the model (a misremembered fact about an actor), or abstract properties (a user's angry tone).