If the facts don't fit the existing theory there is a discovery to be made.
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"We're 5 years and 400,000 research papers into the devastating effects of a global, vascular pandemic. Are you usually this far behind with the most basic medical literature?"
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.
Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.
Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.
In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small cafรฉ, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.
These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the soundโฆ it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.
I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.
You thought it was you. It is not you.
Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.
Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.
The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.
Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.
What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.
Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.
They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.
The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."
The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.
This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.
The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.
Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
On a hillside this summer, a man will pay good money to take the coat off a sheep, then watch that coat earn him almost nothing at all.
This is the wool trade now. A thing his great grandfather built a life on, worn down to a chore he runs at a loss.
So look at the maths square in the face. It costs him around two pounds to shear one ewe. The fleece that comes off her, even now, in the best year for a decade, brings back about a pound and a half if she is a fine crossbred. If she is a hill sheep, a Welsh Mountain or a Swaledale, he might get thirty pence for the whole fleece. British Wool says the price would have to nearly double again just to cover the shearing.
So every sheep he clips, he loses on. And he has to clip every one.
A sheep left in her fleece overheats, cannot walk right, and gets eaten alive by maggots. The wool has to come off, for her sake, whatever it is worth. He pays, quite literally, for the privilege of being kind to his own animals.
Now feel the weight of what we have let go.
Wool once made this country rich. Whole towns were built on the back of it, and the great wool churches still standing across the Cotswolds were paid for with it. To this day the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords sits on a woolsack, set there centuries ago so nobody in the room would forget where England's wealth came from.
A fleece was worth fourteen pounds a kilo in the 1950s. The wool cheque, in his father's day, paid the rent for the year.
Today it will not cover the diesel to deliver it.
And so, in farmyards across the country, men who would rather not are quietly burning the fleeces off their own sheep, because a fire is cheaper than the trip to the depot. A material so fine that a kingdom was built on it, going up in smoke in the yard because nobody will pay a pound for it.
And what did we reach for instead. Plastic. Most of our clothes are now spun from oil, polyester and acrylic and nylon, shedding tiny threads into the sea with every wash, into the fish, into our own blood. It will not rot for generations.
So here we stand. A fibre that grows back every spring on nothing but grass and rain, that warms a child and then feeds the soil when its work is done, burning unwanted in a field.
While we dress ourselves, head to foot, in the very oil it was meant to spare us.
The sheep on that hill is still growing the finest coat in the world. We simply stopped being worthy of it.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
For thirty years of my career studying this, I considered the #AMOC tipping risk a high impact but low probability risk for the future of humanity.
Recently I've changed my mind.
Here I explain why. โฌ๏ธ
youtu.be/Cg0N9MWw9Vk?si=sNcrโฆ
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
The number one reason for school absence is illness.
By a very long way.
The DfE today launched a toolkit to help schools improve attendance โ with suggested measures including allowing pupils to skip the lunch queue on their birthday
tes.com/magazine/news/generaโฆ
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
i took a 45-minute uber ride home from the airport last night after a brutal, three-day business trip.
i was completely emotionally and physically drained, and my social battery was at absolute zero.
when i got into the car, the driver.. an older guy named kabir.. didn't say the usual "how was your flight?" or turn on the radio.
instead, he just handed me a small, laminated piece of paper attached to the back of his headrest.
it was a literal "ride menu."
it said:
1. *the silent ride* (total quiet, no pressure to talk).
2. *the therapist ride* (if you need to vent about your day, i am listening).
3. *the tourist ride* (i will tell you cool facts about the city).
4. *the radio ride* (we just listen to old jazz and coast).
i smiled, pointed to number 1, and whispered, "silent ride, please. thank you."
he gave me a warm nod in the rearview mirror, adjusted the AC, and drove the entire 45 minutes in absolute, beautiful silence.
it was the most peaceful, therapeutic boundary iโve experienced all year. i felt my entire nervous system finally reset.
when he dropped me off, i gave him a massive tip and told him, "that menu is a genius business idea. you must get amazing reviews."
He looked back at me and said, "i didn't make the menu to get better tips, dear.
my daughter has severe social anxiety, and she told me that the hardest part of her day is navigating small talk with strangers when her brain is tired.
she told me it feels like running a marathon.
i made the card so that anyone who gets into my car can feel completely safe dropping the mask for a little while."
i walked into my apartment and just sat on my suitcase.
we live in a world that is constantly screaming at us to perform, to network, to be "on," and to over-communicate.
but sometimes, the deepest form of love and respect you can show another human being is just creating a small, safe pocket of silence for them to rest in.
pay attention to the people who give you permission to be quiet. they are rare.
Elbows Up Canada!
Charlie Angus: There was a group of young Normandy students, and two young teenage girls read a poem in French to the commemoration ceremonies and to the immense field of the dead. And she said, "We are the children that you never had. We are the children of liberty."
And there wasn't a dry eye in the house, but I always remember because Charles Scott Brown, in his 90s, stood up. And he broke protocol, of course, and he said to those young girls, "Don't cry for any man in this field. They came to free you, and they would do it again if they were asked."
That's what we come from. That is [Canada's] legacy. Do you think that we're going to let the likes of Pete Hoekstra push us around, or Donald Trump and his predator government threaten us? That's what we represent.
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Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Last night, the House chose to stand with Ukraine, and I was proud to cast my vote.
We passed military and reconstruction aid for Ukraine, plus hard new sanctions on Russia.
We did it over the objections of Mike Johnson and Republican leadership, who spent over a year trying to keep this bill from ever hitting the floor.
Eighteen Republicans crossed the aisle and did the right thing.
Why does this matter?
Because when a giant authoritarian state invades a smaller democracy, there is no gray area. There is no โboth sides.โ
Vladimir Putin is a thug. He started an unprovoked war. He flattened cities. He stole children from their families. Helping Ukraine isnโt charity. Itโs the test of whether we still mean a single word we say about freedom.
I heard every excuse. The warโs winding down, they said, so letโs wait and see. Nonsense. You donโt strengthen a democracy by going wobbly the second things get hard. You donโt stop the next invasion by telling the world American resolve comes with an expiration date. Putin is watching. So is every dictator who dreams of taking what isnโt his by force.
This bill still has to clear the Senate and survive a presidential signature. The odds are long. But the House did its job. And we said it plainly: no country gets swallowed whole just because a tyrant wants it.
Iโll keep fighting to see this through. Ukraineโs fight is our fight, and we do not abandon our friends.
ms.now/news/house-passes-ukrโฆ
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Can we verify this?
Gaza: 80% of the country destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.
Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. Itโs not 1944. Read that again.
The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.
He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.
He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.
This is happening in a British prison right now.
I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Pacific Subsurface Heat โ May 2026
This is why the world is in 4ยฐC El Niรฑo territory.
Something potentially massive is forming beneath the Pacific ocean.
This is NOT just surface warming. The 3D diagnostic analysis based on ARMOR3D data shows a huge subsurface heat reservoir with anomalies reaching +6ยฐC below the ocean surface. If powerful WWB (Westerly Wind Burst) events intensify and push that heat upward, the surface response could theoretically explode toward +3ยฐC to +4ยฐC.
The 20ยฐC isotherm displacement is the tell. In that 3D cross-section, the solid white line (actual) sits far below the dashed line (1991โ2020 climatology) across most of the basin. That isnโt surface noise โ itโs the thermocline being physically shoved downward by accumulated Kelvin wave pulses. The heat isnโt at the surface yet because it hasnโt been upwelled. Itโs loaded beneath it.
The mechanism is not exotic. This is standard ENSO dynamics operating at unusually high amplitude. WWB โ downwelling Kelvin wave โ thermocline depression โ eastern Pacific warm water volume expansion โ eventual upwelling when Bjerknes feedback kicks in. Whatโs unusual is the magnitude of the subsurface anomaly and how far east the +4 to +6ยฐC anomaly region extends.
โSuper El Niรฑoโ alone undersells what makes this potentially different. The pre-event background SST is already elevated by secular warming, so the El Niรฑo signal is stacking on a warmer baseline than 1997 or 2015 had. A Niรฑo3.4 anomaly of even +2.5ยฐC in 2026 climate conditions has larger absolute SST than a +2.5ยฐC anomaly did in 1998.
The critical watch item is MJO phase. If the Madden-Julian Oscillation propagates into a WWB-favorable phase over the next 6โ8 weeks and generates another Kelvin wave pulse, thatโs the accelerant. The next two TAO/TRITON buoy updates and the June ENSO diagnostic discussion from CPC will be worth watching closely.
The +6ยฐC subsurface heat reservoir is already larger and deeper than anything seen in recent decades and itโs still growing. We may be watching the early stages of one of the most powerful El Niรฑo events of modern times.
atmoslabwx.com/armor3d-pacifโฆ
Credit: AtmosLabWX โ ARMOR3D
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Take a slave owner or residential school founderโs name off a street or remove a statue and thereโll be endless screaming about preserving history. But when Israel destroys Tyre - older than all European capitals - in Lebanon and destroys ancient monuments itโs silence.
Geo_Mel ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ retweeted
Iโm proud to have our latest research published on how long #SARSCoV2 remains infectious while airborne! We studied the fundamental processes that drive the loss of viral infectivity in the aerosol phase. #COVIDisAirborne
Hereโs a thread going over some of the findings.
