Russia moves to completely ban Visa and Mastercard
The Central Bank of Russia has officially announced plans to fully remove Visa and Mastercard cards from the Russian market.
“Our position is that cards of international payment systems should, of course, leave our market. They no longer perform the functions they used to provide,” stated Alla Bakina, head of the National Payment System Department.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2058906282946404718
accelerate
Iran's Foreign Ministry confirms that an environmental tax will be charged on ships:
"There is no toll; people should use the correct terminology
Iran and Oman are currently drafting a new protocol
Under this new system, maritime services will be provided to protect the environment of the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf, and the Sea of Oman, which requires the collection of an Environmental Tax
We hope to reach a final agreement with Oman on this matter soon"
https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/2058829058482356313
“We will have a crash, I just can't tell you when, and I can't tell you how deep. But I can assure you, unfortunately, I wish I wasn't saying this, we will have a crash,” says Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial journalist and author of “1929.”
https://x.com/60Minutes/status/2058686985858924826
We kicked the 2000 crash up to the housing market.
We kicked the 2008 crash up to the UST market.
We kicked the 2020 crash up to the USD.
This means whenever the next crisis starts, we will see stocks rise in USD (blue) but fall in gold (red)…as has happened since 4q21👇:
https://x.com/LukeGromen/status/2058920588182180200
The Scottish Beaver Scouts went on an “educational visit” to the Stirling Islamic Centre and Mosque in Scotland where they were forced to partake in Muslim prayers
One brave boy did not comply.
Left wing indoctrination is NOT stronger than the will of the Lord.
“The Lord is my shepherd… I will fear no evil, for you are with me” - Psalm 23
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2058921593263325598
noice o7
get your mind out of the gutter anon kek
entitlement off the charts for one reason and one reason only
JUST IN: India orders migrant detention centres for undocumented Bangladeshis & Rohingya in West Bengal.
https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2058938987838918954
the nerve of these motherfuckers kek
Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.
What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.
"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."
"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."
These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.
And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.
Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."
The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.
https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2058889513213030638
safe to say sex with the vaxxed spreads it?
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
https://x.com/giveashitnature/status/2058775068268785834
CONGRATS! Fists fly at a graduation ceremony in Tennessee.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2058943722587390378
Where Americans moved to and from in 2025.
Massachusetts experienced the most loss of any state, Kansas the most of any Republican state, and South Carolina grew the fastest of any state. In contrast, Delaware grew the fastest of any Democrat state.
Republican states dominated in growth overall.
https://x.com/AFpost/status/2058911163186819289
the memes exist for a reason kek
true POS party that they are……
Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran.
https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/2058933132686999804
MASSIVE organized crime network busted in Canada 🇨🇦 All but one are based in Canada, but get this, none of the accused are Canadian citizens 👀
A combined 109 criminal offences linked to organized crime activity, including extortion
https://x.com/MelissaLMRogers/status/2058913904512639429
in the comments
13 service members killed (the deadliest single-day loss for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in over a decade)
https://x.com/realJoelFischer/status/2058944890801688801