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4 Jun 2025
Dear enemies, detractors, libellers, university rats, genocide propagandists, ethnic cleansing & baby murder promoters, & label conscious Davos midwits, it also happens that #Antifragility is the most influential 21st C. concept.
30 Jul 2024
Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book.
While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy
[Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US only]
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We saw the same bad faith during the Oslo negotiations. You can't trust any agreement w/them; you can't trust people who murder emissaries and negociators & don't respect ceasefires.
Ehud Barak kept increasing Area C with such bad faith that even Clinton noticed; then blamed Palestinians for it.
⚡️⭕️ Lebanon/Syria:
In a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa advised Lebanon not to negotiate with Israel
He warned Salam of ‘repeating the same mistake as Syria’, which involved granting concessions without receiving guarantees and reciprocal compensation.
Al-Sharaa stated that Israel’s strategy is pushing you toward granting gradual concessions without providing any guarantees, while simultaneously keeping open margins that allow it to expand the scope of its future aggressions.
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Seven hours. All children.
Jun 12
Cardinal Zuppi read the names of every child who passed away in Gaza. It took him 7 hours.
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Jun 13
It is as immoral to blow up the ugliest country* in the world as the most beautiful one.
* It even applies to New Jersey.
Jun 11
Tucker Carlson called Lebanon “probably the most beautiful country in the world”.
A man of class and good taste.
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Jun 12
Meanwhile in Amioun North Lebanon (not West São Paulo).
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Actually >3 Millennia, way pre-Herodotus who mentioned it in the 5th C BC.
Jun 12
Jerry Seinfeld said Palestine doesn’t exist.
This was actually the subject of my PhD dissertation.
Turns out that Arab, Muslims & Christians have been calling Palestine Palestine continuously for more than a millennium.
Receipts: academia.edu/34686627/The_In…
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Jun 12
Not unique, just bounds.
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If you got to pick only one, go for the personal library over the man cave, but if you can have both, go for both.
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A clergy's principal function is to prevent syncretism.
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Jun 12
Ok, that's really good...
ht @kevinmuir and esp. @nntaleb
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There is a historical constant: no amount of wealth can liberate a third-rate thinker from intellectual envy or from the deeply degrading sense of scholarly inferiority -- that feeling of impoverished erudition.
No amount of wealth.
Jun 12
Who’s excited for the next volume: “You Fucking Idiot”.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb retweeted
パランティアの人間からバルファキスが聞いた話。本当なら今すぐ地獄の業火に灼かれるべき。
ガザの住民密集地を🇮🇱が爆撃する時のスマホを持って逃げ惑うガザの人々の動き「パニックインプリント」をAIに食わせて訓練し「パニック防止AI」として英国NHSに14億ドルで売った
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Jun 11
Roughly the same with Palestinians. The idea that people speaking Arabic (or Arabic related dialects) come from Arabia is as bogus as saying that the French, Portuguese, and Spaniards come from the Latium province of Italy.
Jun 11
Good community note. (Hilariously, OP is an Israeli too.)
Today's Egyptians overwhelmingly descend from Ancient Egyptians. Both Copts and Muslims have a little bit of East African Ancestry, and Muslims have a little bit of Arabian ancestry that Copts lack.
Apart from religious extremists - Salafis, etc - Egyptians including Muslims take pride in their pre-Islamic heritage, just like Iranians do.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb retweeted
Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.
The horrifying assault on our friend Abu Ayoub in the village of Fakhit, as captured by security cameras. Abu Ayoub is currently hospitalized with a fractured skull after undergoing emergency surgery during the night.
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He did similar videos for Iranians last year, and longer ago, for Palestinians in Gaza.
💥Netanyahu's Monday vid to Israelis didn't land, so today he is talking to the Lebanese in a cringe aria of faux nostalgia, as if recalling a stroll along the Corniche: "Do you remember what Lebanon was like before Iran and Hezbollah? Remember the cafés? Remember the culture?"
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Jun 10
No, I see hope.
The below shows that, simply, Paramount, CBS, ShmeBS, et al. have no power hiding the crap, with or without Bari Goebbels.
Jun 9
The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
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This is the last completely Christian village in the Holy Land. This is what Israel just did to it. Are you going to do anything about it, Ambassador Huckabee? @USAmbIsrael
Jun 9
BREAKING:
Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.
A village that has stood for thousands of years.
A place where Jesus once walked.
Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.
And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
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