Police said the suspect had been shot by officers after the incident in Kraków
Five people were killed and around a dozen others injured, including police officers, in a shooting in the historic heart of the southern Polish city of Kraków, police said on Saturday.
A man drove into the city’s Main Market Square at around 3 p.m. and opened fire at random people from his vehicle, regional police said in a statement on X.
Police said a suspect had been shot by officers and was being taken to a hospital.
Footage and photographs showed paramedics working near the city’s famous St. Mary’s Basilica, while an air ambulance helicopter landed in the square.
Emergency services continued rescue operations at the scene.
“Alzheimer’s disease and many other diseases that cause dementia are characterised by the gradual accumulation of harmful proteins in the brain over decades. Now that we can safely enhance the brain’s own clearance system, which gradually becomes less effective with age, while people are still healthy, it may be possible in future to prevent these diseases, or at least slow their progression,” says Professor Vesa Kiviniemi, head of the Functional Neuroimaging Research Group at the University of Oulu.
Previous studies in mice have shown that temporarily lowering blood pressure can enhance the clearance of cerebrospinal fluid and the large molecules it contains from the brain. These findings provided the basis for a study combining blood pressure-lowering medication with Piezo1-targeted whole-body vibration stimulation.
The effects of the treatment were studied in 29 healthy adult volunteers using multimodal magnetic resonance imaging, physiological measurements and blood-based biomarkers originating in the brain.
Phenomenal consciousness has no satisfactory explanation in the strict natural scientific physicalist framework. This may be an indication of consciousness not being a causal outcome of neurophysics at all. If this is the case, there would be no grounds for postulating that the collapse of neurophysical structures at death would dissolve consciousness and its constituent elements. If consciousness does not disappear when neurophysical functions terminate, the near-death experience could be an indication of the continuation of consciousness after the collapse of brain functions. This would be in line with the proposal that higher spatio-temporal dimensionality is involved in the emergence and maintenance of phenomenal consciousness, even after death.
The three essentials of any sentient communication system are:
its rules
awareness of those rules
meta-awareness of how those rules are working
Culture is fundamentally a communication system.
Individual sentient beings require communication within themselves (the bodily system, individual subjectivity).
Humans also require communication with other sentient beings, especially humans. This could be called the instinct to be in or to form a culture.
We see this instinct in its rawest form in children as they learn language and behavior.
We also see it in raw form in adolescents and young adults as they seek out communication systems in art, politics, religion, ethnicity, career, community alliances, etc.
Psychologically, humans are most fulfilled when they:
are in a culture with good communication rules
are aware of those rules
are able to achieve metacognition of those rules; that is, how they are working within themselves and in relation to other humans
This satisfies the instinct to be in or to form a culture.
The instinct to be in or to form a culture can be super-satisfied if the culture has:
really good rules
members are aware of those rules
metacognition of those rules has great explanatory power and is gratifying psychologically
Related: Buddhist practice can be divided into Three Trainings:
Sila or ethics, morality
Samdhi or concentration, mindfulness
Prajna or wisdom
To me these Three Trainings look very much like the three points made in several ways above.
Until very recently, I had never thought of this but FIML practice can also be understood in terms of these three basic approaches to cultural and psychological communication.
FIML practice:
fulfills our instinct to form or to be in a culture
harmonizes our psychologies
provides a metacognitive vantage that explains (or enlightens us to) many things.
Since FIML rules are simple and open to infinite input, partners are able to form a super-satisfying culture based on their own needs and desires.
Billionaire Nvidia boss Jensen Huang allegedly had a romantic relationship with a Chinese businesswoman suspected of spying for Beijing, according to an explosive US intelligence memo.
The alleged tryst has raised fears of a potential honey trap targeting one of America’s most powerful technology executives.
The 63-year-old tech mogul reportedly became romantically involved with Alice Huang (no relation), an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed.
Megaspeed, a major Nvidia customer, was already under investigation over allegations it helped funnel restricted American microchips into China.
US intelligence officials believe the woman was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security, Beijing’s principal civilian spy agency, to gather information about the Nvidia chief and potentially influence his decisions.
Nvidia boss and Ms Huang together in a bar in Taipei in June 2024
Despite the intelligence concerns, Huang has continued to enjoy extremely close access to the president.
When Trump prepared to fly to Beijing in May, Huang was initially excluded from the group of American executives accompanying him.
But after discovering his absence, Trump is said to have telephoned the Nvidia chief, who flew to Alaska and boarded Air Force One during a stopover.
The advice offered is practical and, maddeningly, necessary. The situation described is a perfect example of horrible communication. This example is specific and legalistic but it is also emblematic of the awful shadow that hangs over 99% of all human interpersonal communication. Far too many people use communication as a means to an evil end. Arguably our most beautiful and wondrous human faculty is our capacity for speech and authentic communication. Virtually all psychological and sociological problems are rooted in devious, manipulative, cruel, inauthentic speech. Nearly everyone is so afraid of authentic speech, you almost never hear it. ABN
ABSOLUTELY AVOID THESE – Paying it immediately out of panic. – Setting up a payment plan (this legally admits you owe the full amount). – Calling the billing department to argue on the phone. – Believing “insurance denied it” means you have to pay.
IF YOU WANT TO SLASH THAT BILL FROM NOW ON ↓
1. Demand the Itemized Bill with CPT Codes Hospitals hide $80 Tylenols and $200 “mucus recovery systems” (a box of tissues) under bundled charges. When you force them to itemize every single billing code, the total magically drops by 30% because they delete the fake charges.
2. Actually, the one I recommend most is…
“The Federal Dispute Script”
Never negotiate a medical bill on the phone. Send their billing department this exact email and BCC your personal records:
“I am requesting a fully itemized statement with all CPT billing codes for this encounter. Under the Federal No Surprises Act, I am formally disputing this balance. Please place this account on a 30-day billing hold while I cross-reference these codes for potential upcoding violations.”
Once the billing department sees “CPT codes” and “No Surprises Act,” they realize you understand medical coding liability. Most will instantly offer a 50% “settlement” just to avoid a federal audit.
Hospital admins call this “gaming the system.” Working people call it refusing to go into $30,000 of debt for a 2-hour ER visit.
Why is it completely legal for a hospital to charge you $4,000 for a room, but if you ask for the exact price beforehand, they say “we don’t know”?
Because the flu shots are ubiquitous, every day there are millions of mRNA-vaccinated Americans walking around who are vectors of disease — destroying their own bodily systems and shedding on others. Basically these shots put the entire population into a state of chronic vaccine injury — whether you are vaccinated or not.
That’s why they pushed this approval so hard, and fired anyone who got in the way including Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Ralph Abraham, and Jim O’Neill. The goal is to make the adult population as sick as the heavily overvaccinated childhood population and drain all wealth out of the bourgeoisie through iatrogenic injury.
