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Roman concrete could repair its own cracks.
Some Roman buildings have stood for 2,000 years, while modern concrete can start to crumble within decades. For a long time, scientists did not fully understand why.
The Romans made their concrete from lime, water and volcanic ash from the area around Pozzuoli, near Naples. The ash reacted with the lime and created a material that grew stronger over time instead of weaker.
In 2023, a team from MIT led by Admir Masic found another piece of the puzzle, small white lumps of lime scattered through the concrete.
Scientists had always thought these lumps were a sign of careless mixing. In fact, they were the repair kit. When a crack forms and rainwater gets in, the lime dissolves and refills the crack with new mineral, sealing it from the inside.
The secret was “hot mixing.” Instead of using slaked lime, the Romans added quicklime directly to the mix. It heated up as it reacted with water and left these lumps behind on purpose.
To test the idea, the team cracked samples of concrete made with the Roman method and let water run through them. Within two weeks, the cracks had sealed completely. In concrete made without the lime lumps, the water kept flowing.
Roman harbour concrete went even further. Pliny the Elder wrote that once it touched the waves, it became a single block of stone that grew stronger every day. In 2017, geologist Marie Jackson showed he was right, seawater slowly grows rare crystals inside the concrete that hold it together.
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Congrats to Mexico on joining the world's growing community of countries with phone free schools!
Kudos to Mexican President @Claudiashein and Secretary of Education @mario_delgado who have been convening a national conversation about technology's impact on kids. They found that large majorities of parents, teachers, and administrators all wanted strong action.
The TAG Movement and I look forward to continuing to support this ongoing conversation in Mexico and around the world. The latest PISA report underscores the urgency of rolling back the phone-based childhood and the phone-based school day.
nytimes.com/2026/09/22/world…
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Time magazine's doomer covers:
1954 nuclear war
1960 population explosion
1970 ecological collapse
1982 nuclear war
1989 endangered Earth
1992 ozone
1999 Y2K
2001/2006/2007 climate
2005 pandemic
2009 extinction
2013 bees
2019 climate
2020 pandemic
2023 AI extinction
2026 AI tipping point
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First, the pharmaceutical industry got exempted from liability (1986), and then millions and millions in government grants. Read that as they can cause you harm with you having no legal recourse and have your tax money too, folks!
@molsjames @Fynnderella1 @AAPSonline @Honest_Medicine @RobertKennedyJr @SecKennedy @DrJBhattacharya @FLSurgeonGen @ChildrensHD
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@MegEBrock nice call interview at @JenniferHorn.
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After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.
They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.
They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.
An internal memo from 2024 stated:
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
Why used books?
Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.
So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.
The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.
Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.
When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”
Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”
Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.
They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.
Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.
But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.
Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.
AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.
May the most moral company win.
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Chart of the Week: Rep. @AOC is the fundraising frontrunner with $27.5 million to date this cycle. @SpeakerJohnson and Minority Leader @RepJeffries trail behind, and representatives from New York and Louisiana hold four of the top 10 fundraising positions.
ALT Chart showing the 10 House candidates who have raised the most money so far the cycle, and their cash-on-hand totals as of the end of the first quarter of the year.
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German scientists just discovered the neural cost of phone addiction.
Brain scans of 22 smartphone addicts revealed something shocking.
The exact same damage pattern as cocaine and alcohol.
Here's what else they found & why everyone needs to see this NOW:
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BOB MARLEY 🎼
Quando perguntaram a Bob Marley se existia uma mulher perfeita,
ele respondeu: “Pra que se preocupar com perfeição?”
A lua não é impecável — carrega crateras por toda parte.
O mar é lindo, mas suas profundezas são escuras e salgadas.
O céu é imenso, mas muitas vezes fica encoberto por nuvens.
O que é realmente bonito não é perfeito — é único.
E toda mulher pode ser especial para alguém.
Pare de tentar ser “perfeita”.
Escolha ser livre, viver do seu jeito,
e fazer o que ama sem buscar agradar os outros. – at João Pessoa, Brazil
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I understand the intent here. There is genuine desire from all sides to heal the crisis we find ourselves in before it collapses us further. But these takes keep circling the same shallow drains.
If you want to truly heal, you must prioritize depth over division.
It’s women. It’s patriarchy.
It’s wokeness. It’s capitalism.
It’s Communism. It’s Nazism.
It’s Muslims. It’s Christians.
It’s Black culture. It’s White supremacy.
Whenever anyone points to these as the root cause of our civilizational malaise, they’re showing you they haven’t understood the actual root at all.
You can’t fix downstream without addressing upstream.
And that’s all these divisions do. They flatten the vertical back into the horizontal. The transcendent function gets buried under “factors” identified as the culprit by the one-sided diagnoses. And that’s how the hierarchy of causation becomes both-sides fodder that feeds the 21st century’s God: The Algorithm.
Anyone who has genuinely tried to understand human behavior eventually encounters this truth:
The psyche has an architecture.
Jung, Eliade, Maslow, and others mapped it extensively. What they found is that the human psyche is structured for transcendence. Built into it is a need for connection to something beyond, an understanding of one’s place not just on Earth, but in the Cosmos.
MEANING.
So what happens when you remove what served this function?
For millennia, religion played this role. It wasn’t perfect. Far from it. But it addressed the transcendent need of the soul. And that matters. Our ancestors lived objectively under worse material conditions: plague, famine, brutal labor, early death. And yet, no epidemic of suicide, no mass addiction crisis, no civilizational-scale meaninglessness. Why? Because they had cosmological placement. Their suffering was situated within a larger order. See Frankl to understand the true power of meaning.
If you remove that — any system connecting human beings to something deeper than flesh — a vacuum is created. That vacuum becomes fertile ground for ideology. For pathology. For filling the void with politics, tribalism, consumption, rage.
Mechanics. Not opinion.
Truth is descriptive, narrative prescriptive.
It’s not that women are doing this or men are doing that. There are no opposites that don’t mirror each other.
Anyone who takes such a stark side, by blaming one sex, one group, one -ism, is missing the forest for the trees. And unfortunately, in their confusion, they confuse others. They tragically perpetuate the very disease they want to heal.
As the spirit of Hippocratic wisdom puts it, “Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.”
Because the truth is —
You cannot heal what you do not understand.
And our civilization depends on you & me understanding.
Helen is obviously right. the feminization of institutions is what led to wokeness, and this is close to impossible to fix at this point
but this was phase one. the feminization of information is phase two
text is masculine. sequential and logical, it requires sustained attention and rewards disagreement and debate. you can fact-check text and argue with it. text forces you to show your reasoning
images and video are feminine.
emotional, immediate, contextual, consensus-building. you can't fact-check a vibe or argue with someone crying.
visual media bypasses reason entirely and hits the limbic system directly
look at what's winning
tiktok. reels. shorts. brainrot. goonslop. the entire internet is pivoting from text (debate) to video (feeling). the medium that rewards reasoning is dying. the medium that rewards emotion is taking over
this is selection pressure. the people who thrive in text environments (disagreeableness, logic, tolerance for conflict) get pushed out (that's why 4chan was the last fort during covid). the people who thrive in visual environments (agreeableness, emotional attunement, consensus-seeking) take over
the ethics of care is capturing the information layer itself and once you lose the information layer, you lose the ability to even discuss what's happening
here's where it goes:
cultures that accept this feminize completely, reason becomes offensive, truth becomes fascist, disagreement becomes violence, policy becomes feelings.
birth rates collapse because feelings don't model second-order effects and family formation requires planning past the immediate emotional state
cultures that reject this (religious conservatives, certain immigrant populations, societies that kept women offline or out of institutions) keep having children
whichever population keeps reproducing inherits the future. the feminized cultures don't and will get replaced. slowly at first, then all at once
what i think is the only way to solve this is coordinated pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-fertility propaganda.
not ideal, but women are currently captured by machines making them think that careers matter more than children and families, and they are now convinced of this
counter-signal or lose. give them something to do besides crying online
the alternative is to watch the cultures that figured this out inherit everything your ancestors built
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“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed.”
-General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, February, 1951
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Used wind turbine blades, piled in a field because they can’t be recycled.
This is not “renewable” energy. It’s not “rebuildable” energy either.
This is absolutely not environmentalism.
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Did you hear this reported anywhere?
It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any half-year in recorded human history
Great story from @RogerPielkeJr teapawt.net/RogerPielkeJr/status/1…
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Did you hear this reported anywhere?
It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any half-year in recorded human history
Great story from @RogerPielkeJr
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Superb article by Kim Strassel in the WSJ on the DOE climate assessment report
wsj.com/opinion/the-rise-of-…
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Just listen closely, George Yeo,former foreign minister of Singapore, demonstrates a far deeper grasp of European history and its conflicts than most Western politicians ever have.
It's rare to find a current high-ranking official who can speak with such depth, clarity and insight in an interview.
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It is 1977- we just arrived in DC for Bob's appointment to head up Congressional Comm into the assassination of JFK. Shortly thereafter, files went missing from our basement & we suspected our phones were tapped. Lee H Oswald Did NOT Kill JFK
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🚨 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
“The media wanted sensationalism. Every storm, flood, or fire was blamed on fossil fuels—no critical evaluation, just headlines to push the Net Zero agenda.”
Now the narrative is cracking. People are waking up.
Watch the full interview and discover why this “solution” may be more dangerous than the problem itself.
(The link to the full interview is in the reply.)
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Happy Pub Day to That Day in Dallas by Robert K. Tanenbaum!
@RKTanenbaum
Lee Harvey Oswald Did NOT Kill JFK.
Buy now!
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Bret Weinstein: "They are hiding everything. And what I mean by that is that they are sabotaging all of the mechanisms that we would normally use to figure out what's true. And that sounds like a wild exaggeration, but it isn't. The fact is it's not even just a an attack on the university system."
"It's an attack on every single university. The research done there is low quality, not repeatable. The lessons taught there are actually, in large measure, not even true anymore. Things that are verifiably false are taught as if they are true. Our regulatory agencies work exactly in reverse."
"They protect regulators from from citizens, not the other way around. So something is attacking all of the mechanisms in civilization that are supposed to seek the truth and act upon it, and that's not a coincidence."
"We are now in the nightmare that Rene Descartes feared he might see in, where all of the things that he thought were were factual might not even be correct. And because our, our truth seeking apparatus has been under such intense attack, we don't know what's true. Some things that are very easy to establish."
"It's not a difficult scientific question to figure out whether or not mRNA vaccines cause turbocancers. That's a very straightforward scientific problem, but we are nonetheless left to grapple with anecdote because to the extent that there are studies, they're likely to be set up to fail, and the rest is anecdote."
"So we are left to make sense of the world without the most obvious basic tools, without anything that flows to us from the enlightenment, and that is indeed a very dangerous predicament."