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JD Vance is one of the worst negotiators in diplomatic history
He's not up to the job
He's not up to the job
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A barbarian tribe’s mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
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We just watched many members of the Maga right who had been begging for a reindustrialization of America, actively fight along with many on the political left as part of a moral panic to attempt to disrupt industrialization in America.
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Theorem of the Day (November 5, 2026) : The Jones Knot Polynomial Theorem
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : theoremoftheday.org/Topology/Jones…
notes : theoremoftheday.org/Resources/Theo…
#mathematics #maths #math #theorem
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : theoremoftheday.org/Topology/Jones…
notes : theoremoftheday.org/Resources/Theo…
#mathematics #maths #math #theorem
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2022 study found several ancient Neanderthal genes associated with light skin, freckling, tanning, blue eyes, red and blonde hair in Europeans. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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When students believe America deserved 9/11, we must ask what exactly our universities are teaching them.
A new Buckley Institute survey finds only 65 percent of undergraduates are proud to be American, and well over one in five believe America deserved the September 11th attack.
@Ayaan on how universities are teaching contempt for the country that gives students the chance to am:
URL: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/university-hat…
#RestoringTheWest #September11th #HigherEducation
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As a Muslim, I need to say this uncomfortable truth.
There are so many so-called Sharia laws that have no place in the modern world.
In 2026, Muslim scholars are still defending:
❌ Stoning people to death for adultery.
❌ Killing people for leaving Islam.
❌ Executing people for insulting Muhammad.
❌ Killing people accused of blasphemy.
❌ Child marriage in the name of religion.
❌ Forcing women and girls to cover their bodies.
❌ Treating non-Muslims as second-class citizens.
❌ Giving men the authority to beat their wives.
❌ Punishing women for refusing religious dress codes.
And we wonder why people question Islam?
What exactly are we trying to achieve in 2026?
Are we trying to build a better society or drag humanity backwards?
As a Muslim, I refuse to defend injustice simply because someone attaches the name of Islam to it.
There are so many so-called Sharia laws that have no place in the modern world.
In 2026, Muslim scholars are still defending:
❌ Stoning people to death for adultery.
❌ Killing people for leaving Islam.
❌ Executing people for insulting Muhammad.
❌ Killing people accused of blasphemy.
❌ Child marriage in the name of religion.
❌ Forcing women and girls to cover their bodies.
❌ Treating non-Muslims as second-class citizens.
❌ Giving men the authority to beat their wives.
❌ Punishing women for refusing religious dress codes.
And we wonder why people question Islam?
What exactly are we trying to achieve in 2026?
Are we trying to build a better society or drag humanity backwards?
As a Muslim, I refuse to defend injustice simply because someone attaches the name of Islam to it.
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A pair of studies analysing more than 4,700 ancient human genomes has identified the possible origins of Celtic and Germanic languages
go.nature.com/4z4lG1s
go.nature.com/4z4lG1s
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holy shit physicists have confirmed a THIRD type of magnetism, after over 90 years of thinking there were only two.
it's called altermagnetism, and it could change how computer memory gets built.
inside magnetic materials, electrons behave like tiny magnets pointing in until now, we had two main types:
> ferromagnets:
the tiny magnets point the same way.
easy to read, but outside magnetic fields can interfere with them.
> antiferromagnets:
they point in opposite directions and cancel each other out.
much more stable, but really hard to read.
> altermagnets:
they somehow do BOTH.
their tiny magnets cancel each other out,
making them resistant to magnetic interference,
but they can still produce signals that computers could use to read information.
so scientists may have found a way to make computer memory that's both harder to accidentally scramble AND easier to read.
researchers led by SLAC studied manganese telluride, a material we'd been calling an ordinary antiferromagnet for decades.
they fired left and right handed X-rays at it.
the material reacted differently to each one, revealing a hidden magnetic structure that ordinary antiferromagnets shouldn't have.
they first measured it in 2024,
repeated the experiment in 2025 and published the results in Science in October 2026.
the name "altermagnetism" was only proposed in 2022.
we've been studying magnets for centuries and apparently we're still discovering new kinds of magnetism in 2026 😭
it's called altermagnetism, and it could change how computer memory gets built.
inside magnetic materials, electrons behave like tiny magnets pointing in until now, we had two main types:
> ferromagnets:
the tiny magnets point the same way.
easy to read, but outside magnetic fields can interfere with them.
> antiferromagnets:
they point in opposite directions and cancel each other out.
much more stable, but really hard to read.
> altermagnets:
they somehow do BOTH.
their tiny magnets cancel each other out,
making them resistant to magnetic interference,
but they can still produce signals that computers could use to read information.
so scientists may have found a way to make computer memory that's both harder to accidentally scramble AND easier to read.
researchers led by SLAC studied manganese telluride, a material we'd been calling an ordinary antiferromagnet for decades.
they fired left and right handed X-rays at it.
the material reacted differently to each one, revealing a hidden magnetic structure that ordinary antiferromagnets shouldn't have.
they first measured it in 2024,
repeated the experiment in 2025 and published the results in Science in October 2026.
the name "altermagnetism" was only proposed in 2022.
we've been studying magnets for centuries and apparently we're still discovering new kinds of magnetism in 2026 😭
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The fact remains that the appalling, brutal regime in Iran still stands, holding 90 million Iranians hostage and threatening the whole region.
This problem isn't going away.
This problem isn't going away.
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it's pretty bleak to me how unpopular AI is in spite of how transformatively useful it is
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The idea of "programming language" is looks obvious today - but how did we get from plugging cables or punching idiosyncratic codes on a tape to a language as an independent entity?
Find out in the third part of my Cultures of Programming series!
youtube.com/watch?v=FXN_QY…
Find out in the third part of my Cultures of Programming series!
youtube.com/watch?v=FXN_QY…
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Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
✍️ @KardumTomislav
quillette.com/2026/02/17/pop…
✍️ @KardumTomislav
quillette.com/2026/02/17/pop…
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Indians were thrown out from Uganda in August 1972 on orders from President Idi Amin Dada. Indians had transformed Uganda into the most prosperous country in all of Africa. Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee, who had come to power on 25ᵗʰ January 1971, felt that they were 'blood suckers'.
Idi Amin claimed that on the 4ᵗʰ of August he had dreamt that Indians should be expelled. On the 8ᵗʰ of August he issued the necessary orders. Indians were given 90 days to pack up and go, leaving behind all their wealth and possessions. A person was allowed to carry only one hand bag with them as they left Uganda. They were permitted to carry only £50 pound with them. Everything else was confiscated, all jewellery, all money was physically taken away. Businesses which had been set up by Indians were handed over to supporters of Idi Amin.
Before expelling Indians from Uganda, Idi Amin had had killed most of the officers of the Ugandan army belonging to the Acholi and Lango ethnic groups. He was well known for indulging in violence against anyone he disapproved of.
As a result, Indians did not wait to argue with him. They fled immediately. Those who delayed fleeing were shot, their women raped.
About 90,000 people were thrown out of Uganda. All of them had been born in Uganda.
About 38,000 Indians arrived in Britain to a life of poverty and want. Some of the local governments, such as that of Leicester, issued public notices asking Indians to not come to Leicester which already had a large Indian population.
Why did Idi Amin throw out Indians from Uganda? As mentioned earlier, Idi Amin declared that he had been given a divine message in a dream to expel Indians from Uganda. In the explanations for his actions which he gave later he called Indians 'blood suckers' who were draining the Ugandan economy. Once Indians left, the Ugandan economy was ruined. Uganda became one of the poorest countries of Africa.
Did Idi Amin face any consequences for his actions? No, Idi Amin did not face any consequences for his actions. He remained President of Uganda for five more years till on 11ᵗʰ April 1979 he was finally ousted after a mutiny by a section of the Ugandan Army resulted in a military intervention by Tanzania. During his brutal rule Idi Amin had managed to kill over 500,000 black Africans. But when he was ousted the new government thought it fit to let him flee to Saudi Arabia rather than seek revenge upon him.
What happened to the Indians who were expelled? While the British government tried its best to stop the flow of Indians into Britain, the Jews of Britain welcomed them and provided them much needed support. The displaced Indians rebuilt their lives, much in the manner of Indians when they are persecuted. One such was the father of Zohran Mamdani, the young man who was elected Mayor of New York. Priti Patel, the British politician active in Conservative Party is another. Then there is the Jatiana family who became one of the richest families in UK with a wealth estimated to be over £650 million. The Madhvani family, led by Manubhai Madhvani too needs mention.
The majority of those forcibly displaced did not make it so big. Many had to struggle to make two ends meet. A very large number had to take up low paying jobs which required hard labour. But, they all remained resilient. None of them took to a life of crime nor did they commit suicide. About 300 of them did accept the apology of President Museveni in 1997 and set up businesses once again but, this time only in Kampala.
Pic. Indians getting off the flight from Uganda at Stansted airport on 18 September 1972. Photographed by P Felix who then worked for the Daily Express.
Courtesy Indian history fb post
Idi Amin claimed that on the 4ᵗʰ of August he had dreamt that Indians should be expelled. On the 8ᵗʰ of August he issued the necessary orders. Indians were given 90 days to pack up and go, leaving behind all their wealth and possessions. A person was allowed to carry only one hand bag with them as they left Uganda. They were permitted to carry only £50 pound with them. Everything else was confiscated, all jewellery, all money was physically taken away. Businesses which had been set up by Indians were handed over to supporters of Idi Amin.
Before expelling Indians from Uganda, Idi Amin had had killed most of the officers of the Ugandan army belonging to the Acholi and Lango ethnic groups. He was well known for indulging in violence against anyone he disapproved of.
As a result, Indians did not wait to argue with him. They fled immediately. Those who delayed fleeing were shot, their women raped.
About 90,000 people were thrown out of Uganda. All of them had been born in Uganda.
About 38,000 Indians arrived in Britain to a life of poverty and want. Some of the local governments, such as that of Leicester, issued public notices asking Indians to not come to Leicester which already had a large Indian population.
Why did Idi Amin throw out Indians from Uganda? As mentioned earlier, Idi Amin declared that he had been given a divine message in a dream to expel Indians from Uganda. In the explanations for his actions which he gave later he called Indians 'blood suckers' who were draining the Ugandan economy. Once Indians left, the Ugandan economy was ruined. Uganda became one of the poorest countries of Africa.
Did Idi Amin face any consequences for his actions? No, Idi Amin did not face any consequences for his actions. He remained President of Uganda for five more years till on 11ᵗʰ April 1979 he was finally ousted after a mutiny by a section of the Ugandan Army resulted in a military intervention by Tanzania. During his brutal rule Idi Amin had managed to kill over 500,000 black Africans. But when he was ousted the new government thought it fit to let him flee to Saudi Arabia rather than seek revenge upon him.
What happened to the Indians who were expelled? While the British government tried its best to stop the flow of Indians into Britain, the Jews of Britain welcomed them and provided them much needed support. The displaced Indians rebuilt their lives, much in the manner of Indians when they are persecuted. One such was the father of Zohran Mamdani, the young man who was elected Mayor of New York. Priti Patel, the British politician active in Conservative Party is another. Then there is the Jatiana family who became one of the richest families in UK with a wealth estimated to be over £650 million. The Madhvani family, led by Manubhai Madhvani too needs mention.
The majority of those forcibly displaced did not make it so big. Many had to struggle to make two ends meet. A very large number had to take up low paying jobs which required hard labour. But, they all remained resilient. None of them took to a life of crime nor did they commit suicide. About 300 of them did accept the apology of President Museveni in 1997 and set up businesses once again but, this time only in Kampala.
Pic. Indians getting off the flight from Uganda at Stansted airport on 18 September 1972. Photographed by P Felix who then worked for the Daily Express.
Courtesy Indian history fb post
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