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So, This sounds nice. It won't work as advertised because the following: The Sins of the Inverted Product Cycle. The real issue is military procurement is the inverted product cycle that has poisoned all military procurement since 1996. Problems with building Drones🧵 1/ https://twitter.com/DOWResponse/status/2105393585507938653 Most previous Cold War military development specifications included, and most significantly, MIL-STD-499 SYSTEMS ENGINEERING. Both it and MIL-STD-973 Configuration Management were repealed from the military procurement system in the 2nd Clinton Term. 2/ US aerospace firms bought removal of those two inconvenient military procurement regulations with campaign contributions to the Clinton political machine, and Congress, after the systemic accountability those specs documented caused the cancellation of the US Navy A-12 stealth bomber. 3/

1/ An Artificial Intelligence Reality Check 2/ As the AI titans chase what they believe will be the biggest-ever pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they should ask why none of their models today is capable of winning consistently in financial markets—the same markets in which AI enthusiasm is responsible for 85% of this year’s gains. 3/ In June, The Wall Street Journal reported on the results of a study that compared stock trading strategies created by AI models to those employed by the average human investor: "Researchers found that AI models mostly failed to outperform simple buy-and-hold investing. The reason sounds surprisingly human: The bots missed out on gains in bull markets by being too conservative, and then racked up heavy losses by trading too aggressively in bear markets." wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-sto…

Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike with two doses of pentobarbital. She survived. The state’s second failed execution in 4 months. Gov. Bill Lee has now halted Tennessee’s remaining 2026 execution and ordered an independent review. #OpDeathEaters yacnews.com/tennessee-gave… Before Tennessee tried and failed to execute Christa Pike, institutions repeatedly failed to protect her. Her clemency case documented rape and abuse beginning in early childhood, later sexual assaults, physical abuse and neglect, much of it known to adults or authorities but ignored. #OpDeathEatersAt 11, Pike was raped by a neighbor. Her school reported it; he received a suspended sentence. Her petition says her mother did not believe her. At 17, she was raped again; a hospital collected evidence, but police failed to identify the attacker. #OpDeathEaters

Part 2 of afternoon session. https://twitter.com/tribunaltweets/status/2105627053278028110 Any reasonable reader of the correspondence would conclude that the C or counsel asked for support from RCN. C instructed counsel 5 days after SM contact, and MG was clearly acting on her behalf and instructing SF in March 2024. This was the time to have asked RCNto provide legal support. Why not? C and those advising her were perfectly content with the legal advice she was getting. She had found her tribe. It was a case of strategic importance to at least one campaigning organisation. In my submission this head of claim falls at the

October 13, 1944. An American pilot takes off from an airfield in Italy in an F-5E Lightning. But he isn't going to fight the Germans. He's going to join them. He lands behind German lines, hands them the aircraft and eventually joins the Waffen SS. This is the story of Martin James Monti..🧵1/5 🧵 2/5 Martin James Monti was born in St. Louis on October 24, 1921. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces in December 1942, qualified on the P38 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. In August 1944 he was sent to a replacement depot in Karachi, India. Then he disappeared without orders. Monti made his way west, hitching rides through Cairo and Tripoli until he reached Italy. On October 13, he arrived at Pomigliano Airfield north of Naples. There he found an unarmed F5E Lightning, the photographic reconnaissance version of the P38, waiting for a test flight. Monti had no authorization to take it. He climbed inside anyway and flew north. Straight toward the Germans.🧵 3/5 Monti landed in German held Milan and surrendered himself and the intact American aircraft. The Germans were suspicious. They initially suspected that the American pilot who had suddenly appeared offering to defect might be a plant, and Monti spent time in a POW camp before convincing them he was genuine. Then he began working for the Nazi propaganda apparatus. Monti joined SS Standarte Kurt Eggers, the Waffen SS propaganda organization, and received the rank of SS Untersturmführer. Using aliases including Marti

⚽️UEFA Nations League Fantasy - Round 3 - Preview⚽️ OR 🌍: 822 Big rank gain thanks to 'Quick Fix'. But now need to address the most immediate concerns: Isak & Mbappe out thru injury. R4 is a short turnaround so be prepared for rotation. #unlfantasy #nationsleaguefantasy 🧵Footnote: International per-90 metrics aggregated from recent UEFA Nations League, World Cup Qualifiers, and EURO matches. 1. Expected Goals (xG) • Haaland (NOR): 0.88 adj xG vs WAL; penalty duties and unmatched conversion. • Yamal (ESP): 0.70 adj xG vs CZE; lethal inverted wing cuts at home. • Kane (ENG): 0.72 adj xG vs CRO; elite box presence and spot-kicks.

Seneca cured anxiety 2,000 years before therapy existed. He was the richest man in Rome and advisor to an emperor. And yet he spent his life writing about how to calm the mind. If your mind keeps turning tomorrow into an emergency, read this: ↓ 1. Don’t suffer something before it happens. Most of what you're afraid of hasn't happened. And much of it will NEVER happen. Seneca actually warns against becoming unhappy before a crisis comes. 2. Your mind can make a problem bigger than it is. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” Your fears are real. But the story you build around them is not real. Don’t let your imagination turn fear into catastrophe.

Sugar is aging you faster than the sun. Wrinkles, stiff joints, brain fog, belly fat. Here are 8 natural ways to cut it without giving up dessert: 1. Vinegar before the meal First, the mechanism. Excess glucose in the blood sticks to proteins. The process is called glycation, and the products are called AGEs, which is not a coincidence. Glycated collagen is stiff and brittle. That is wrinkles in skin, stiffness in joints, and hardening in arteries. The fix is not zero sugar. It is smaller spikes. Here is how. 1. Vinegar before the meal. A tablespoon of vinegar in a glass of water, ten minutes before eating, cuts the glucose spike of that meal by around 20 to 30% in trials. The acid slows the enzyme that breaks starch into sugar and pushes muscle to take up what arrives. Any vinegar. Not a shot, always diluted. Way 2 costs nothing.

A guy booked a flight to LA for $487. Economy. Middle seat. Row 34. His coworker 1.2 million miles, 3–4 flights a week looked at his confirmation and said: "I can't watch this. Give me 10 minutes." Same flight. Same day. Same plane. His coworker was in first class. Lie-flat. $212. He was in row 34. Middle seat. $487. "How?" "You booked through Expedia. Price dropped $96 and you never checked. A $67 upgrade bid is sitting in your email unopened. You're paying $35/bag when your credit card covers it. You paid $28 for a seat you could've gotten free at check-in. And you'll sit in the terminal for 4 hours eating a $19 sandwich while a free lounge with your name on the list is 50 feet away." "Same app. Same airline. Same flight. Different inputs. Different experience." Here are 10 things he does before every flight that most travelers have never tried:🧵 1. "First — you booked through Expedia. That's mistake number one." His coworker pulled up the Expedia confirmation email and pointed at it like a crime scene. "When you book through a third-party site — Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com , Kayak's booking function — three things happen. You lose the airline's 24-hour free cancellation guarantee. You lose access to the airline's price drop protection. And you lose upgrade eligibility on most carriers." "The 24-hour rule — the DOT regulation that lets you cancel any flight within 24 hours for a full refund — applies to tickets booked directly with the airline. Third-party sites have their

BCCI was a bank tied to CIA & Saudi intel, involving the Bushes, Bin Ladens & Saudi elites, used to fund covert ops & engage in corruption. Its "special protocol dept." provided prostitutes to VIPs, including kidnapped virgins as young as 16 and girls who hadn’t reached puberty. https://twitter.com/toxictiramisu/status/1984755589931811034 The BCCI’s "special protocol dept." in Pakistan serviced the Al-Nahyan family & other Middle Eastern rulers, kidnapped virgins as young as 16 & some were girls who hadn't reached puberty, were physically injured, and that BCCI also supplied males to VIPs. https://x.com/toxictiramisu/status/1958202779849134168 Sources: 1. Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network by Joseph Trento 2. House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger 3. Dirty Money: BCCI by Mark Potts, Nick Kochan, Robert Whittington https://x.com/toxictiramisu/status/2077069334900306358

Mixed selectivity is everywhere in cortex: from visual to PFC. This paper is related to Cover's theorem but the typical explainer kind of sucks. I'll try to explain how the theory relates to the paper, and the importance of "weird" neurons. Here is my toy model and notes: The reason I say the typical explainer sucks, is that usually a new feature with a math function is added, but the brain cannot relay on math functions. The brain has to just use more neurons. I'll try to explain my point.Let me start with a simple example: A low dimensional mouse with three neurons: two processing (r1, r2) and one motor, is learning how to survive. The mouse needs to learn that at night, when she hears a rustle, food is nearby and needs to jump out of her nest to catch it.

[Return from short break. We resume]Note also treatment JM and evidence from Darlington nurses, unions have been as one on this as you will be aware. Also PM surprising on the point that Wallace could behave as appallingly as he likes without being expelled from RCN. Failure to hold men to account for their misbehaviourThe respondents failure to hold these men to account symptomatic of GI belief. A key to understanding provided by Pm and 2017 Fair Care doc. Before SC judgement it was practice in Helath Care, reflected a widepsread view across HC before SC in FWS. The whole of Health Care had