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Every loss of life is a tragedy. Canada has done so much to help us protect lives in Ukraine, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and all Canadians following the explosion and fire at the military base in Wainwright. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those lost, and we wish a swift recovery to the injured.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do. It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors. For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel. Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite. So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for. It never ends with the Jews.
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The cost of REA (reverse engineer anything) is going to be nobody’ll want to innovate in software again, unless you’re big enough to fund a network effect effort.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
And just like that, as the Russian troll farms and data centers go ablaze, the term free Palestine disappears from social media. The term genocide has also been in rapid decline of use on social media. It was always a psyop.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
CANADA PM CARNEY’S OFFICE SAYS CARNEY SPOKE TO TRUMP AND THAT CANADA WILL MAXIMISE EXPORTS OF OIL AND DIESEL TO THE U.S., WITH OIL EXPORTS TO THE U.S. YIELDING OVER 1 MLN BARRELS OF DIESEL DAILY.
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Whoever solves AI context rot will get my money.
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Lately I’ve been killing about 40 or 50 agents a day with handoffs to keep my contexts small and reduce token burn. I sometimes feel bad for my little helpers, but then I realize they’re just electrons.
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量子スピンが生み出す力だけで数センチメートル規模の物体を動かすことに成功。肉眼で見える大きさの物体が量子力によって動いたのが観測されたのは初めてです。この成果は、巨視的な量子重ね合わせの実現と物理学の統一的理解に向けた重要な一歩となります。@ScienceAdvances oist.jp/ja/news-center/news/…
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
russia is importing diesel from IRAN Trump is directly funding the IRANIAN MILITARY
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Just to make it even fucking more absurd!
russia is importing diesel from IRAN Trump is directly funding the IRANIAN MILITARY
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
Trump's diesel deal with Putin is designed solely to protect Russia's oil infrastructure from Ukraine, not help the American people. It's treason.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
The idea of this is not to bring diesel prices down. The idea is to stop Ukraine from striking russian refinaries and safe russian energy sector. Now every strike on russian refinaries by Ukraine will be treated as attack on American energy supply.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
I don’t think recycling and renewables are their top priorities
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
Do boomers remember the prime interest rate reaching 21 percent in 1980? Gas lines? Working our asses off to get ahead?
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
We often criticize the CAF, but not this time. -READ THIS WRITE UP- Army followers will understand the unicorn level rarity of a Private being sent on the US Ranger course, passing that AND Jump master, then beating up AND outrunning an entire US special forces group is great.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
This lady makes a very good point!
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
Waiting at gate at Tel Aviv airport to go back to US, checked my email. A reader of my Substack wrote this below. It's terrifying to me, but we have to know this is real, so we can fight it. I'm a 59-year-old Gen Xer; v. few people my age & older have any idea this is going on.
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 retweeted
Replying to @kmad @matthew_pines
I think we might lose public key cryptography.
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