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I love this guy! Always learn something amazing about middle east! https://youtube.com/shorts/ZgbkS2dn5fQ?si=N7Oqpj-tTd8ZcER3

🤫 A story shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly “secure” messaging app, are activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad 🥷 🥸 The US government spent $3M to build Signal’s encryption, and today the exact same encryption is implemented in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Messages and even Skype. It looks almost as if big tech in the US is not allowed to build its own encryption protocols that would be independent of government interference 🐕‍🦺 🕵️‍♂️ An alarming number of important people I’ve spoken to remarked that their “private” Signal messages had been exploited against them in US courts or media. But whenever somebody raises doubt about their encryption, Signal’s typical response is “we are open source so anyone can verify that everything is all right”. That, however, is a trick 🤡 🕵️‍♂️ Unlike Telegram, Signal doesn’t allow researchers to make sure that their GitHub code is the same code that is used in the Signal app run on users’ iPhones. Signal refused to add reproducible builds for iOS, closing a GitHub request from the community. And WhatsApp doesn’t even publish the code of its apps, so all their talk about “privacy” is an even more obvious circus trick 💤 🛡 Telegram is the only massively popular messaging service that allows everyone to make sure that all of its apps indeed use the same open source code that is published on Github. For the past ten years, Telegram Secret Chats have remained the only popular method of communication that is verifiably private 💪

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Happy birthday Slavoi Zizek ! https://youtu.be/UQjsIK11ZMI?si=gaG0AkWrPLCtU8Ya

Today begins month of Ramadan. It’s month when muslim people will be fasting for 30 days. In Islam fasting is done from sunrise to sundown. Personally I practice intermittent fasting throughout the year(4-5 days a month) whenever I feel like I’m starting to gain extra weight or I’m feeling inflammation in my body(which usually happens at the same time). Intermittent fasting is when you don’t eat anything for at least 16 hours, after that your body cells begins to eat the broken/weak cells which can cause all kinds of sicknesses(even cancer). Some Muslim people like to wake up to eat food before sunrise, personally I think it’s a bad idea for following reasons: - Going back to sleep right after eating is not good for digestion; - You’re not going to have good sleep after eating; - You are going to decrease health benefits from fasting by shorting fasting time(don’t you want to lower chances of getting cancer?!); - You will actually gain weight instead of loosing if you do that. Fasting is only hard first 1-2 days after that you get used to it and you actually feel more energetic. I personally like to do something physical when I’m fasting so I don’t think about food, for example house cleaning 🧹 For Muslim i wish not only to be able to keep fast and also mental strength to keep a pure mind (which is a lot harder than not eating). For non Muslims I suggest to try intermittent fasting if you’re experiencing inflammations in your body. https://youtu.be/350bk9Ph3ak?si=df5wktiOigkWhK2v

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Interesting fact that the state of Israel was created with the help of Stalin(USSR). USSR was the first country to support Israel in UN. However everything changed once Israel allied itself with West. USSR switched sides and became supporter on Palestine. Now everyone has forgotten who started the whole thing.

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Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI. Everyone is speculating what was the real reason behind this departure. The new interim CEO is Mira Murati, she previously worked at Tesla. Interesting 🤔