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JUST IN: This might be the closest thing to universal water access. Vital Lyfe just launched a portable system that turns any water source into clean drinking water on demand. • Works with saltwater, rivers, and other sources • Battery-powered so it runs fully off-grid • Aerospace-grade build but simple to use • App to track water quality and system health • Built by ex-SpaceX engineers focused on water independence Pre-orders are live at $749.

💥BOOM! 🚨IT'S OFFICIAL: Former CDC Director Robert Redfield, BY OATH, CONFIRMED that they were hiding the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. When justice? 🤬

Sub-agents in (latent) space! We’ve been working on a side project. As far as I know, this is the first massively multiplayer, completely LLM-driven game. Come play Gradient Bang with us. See if you can catch me on the leaderboard. This whole thing started because I wanted to explore a bunch of things I’m currently obsessed with, in an application of non-trivial size, that felt both new and old at the same time. So … a retro-style space trading game built entirely around interacting with and managing multiple LLMs. Factorio, but instead of clicking, you cajole your ship AI into tasking other AIs to do things for you. Some of the things we’ve been thinking about as we hack on Gradient Bang: - Sub-agent orchestration - Partial context sharing between multiple LLM inference loops - Managing very long contexts, and episodic memory across user sessions - World events and large volumes of structured data input as part of human/agent conversations - Dynamic user interfaces, driven/created on the fly by LLMs - And, of course, voice as primary input If you’ve been building coding harnesses, or writing Open Claw agents, or doing pretty much anything that pushes the boundaries of AI-native development these days, you’re probably thinking about these things too! This is all built with @pipecat_ai, the back end is @supabase, the React front end is deployed to @vercel, and all the code is open source.

TLDW: RW influencers are all in a group chat with government ppl and they get their talking points in the chat and billionaires and campaigns pay them for posting the talking points; this money doesn't have to be reported to the FEC because it's just a post.

I almost posted something identical yesterday. I went down the soda aisle and in that moment just decided I couldn’t afford Diet Coke anymore. And it’s not that I don’t have $9, but the cost vs value just doesn’t math anymore. Grocery prices are a full blown crisis at this point, and I’d really like to see some congressional action on price gouging. Because starving people living in the same country where grocery conglomerates are posting record profits is not a sustainable model. The greed has gone too far. Time to rein it in.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

If you understand this chart you understand the state of livestreaming in 2026. You can propel any influencer to high viewership regardless of content quality by tricking algorithms into featuring them. It guarantees followers and is basically pay to win. Here's how it works: Central Discord servers post opportunities for anyone to clip any content from a streamer in exchange for CPM ($s per 1000 views.) Typical CPMs are .50c to $2, with a minimum view limit for payout of 100,000 views. The clippers are mostly second or third world where the USD currency exchange rate is more favorable. Platforms are usually Tiktok, Instagram, and YT Shorts, but also sometimes X. Clavicular has said payouts are sometimes as high as $30 CPM, but I don't believe that. Because of the view limit, many of the views on these charts are free. Clavicular had 2.2 billion views on 70,000 clips, putting the average clip at 31,700 views. That would suggest most of the views are free (below the 100,000 view limit.) I am also told a single clipper can count multiple clips towards that view limit. If that is true, it would make these campaigns much more expensive than what I state below. Assuming 90% of the views are free, it would cost about $222,123 a month to run his campaign alone at $1 CPM. That number goes up to $666,371 if only 70% of the views are free. It's also exponentially higher if the CPMs are even remotely where Clavicular says they are (it would be in the millions per month.) Now here's the interesting part. None of these people are running these themselves. With respect to these streamers, some of them are quite smart but none of them have the marketing prowess to run a campaign like this. These campaigns are being run and funded by Kick themselves. To quote Clav on stream last month: "I believe it’s about a thousand clippers right now. A billion views a month. Kick has helped push me a lot with their clipping budget, over six figures a month in that campaign going towards pushing me out to new audiences." Kick is spending MILLIONs of dollars a month promoting these streamers, and then is also paying them via their partner program as well. It seems to be totally arbitrary who gets promoted and who doesn't, a "who you know" sort of thing. This is a different approach to Twitch's growth marketing strategy that they executed from 2012-2019ish, which was to pay streamers for exclusivity and the number of viewers they had with MGs and bonuses. It's a much more effective strategy because it abuses algorithms. 70,000 clips in a month of Clavicular tells an algorithm "hey a ton of people are posting about this person, make sure anything he posts blows up." You could be the most uninteresting person ever (indeed some of the people on this list are) and still get massive reach because it's not the people that are voting on your popularity with engagement. It's the algorithm pushing it no matter what because it's taught that sheer volume of posts about the same thing = that thing is important. From one perspective this is astroturfing content creators and creating false ecosystems. From another it's a new age multi-million dollar marketing campaign from a platform to drive viewers to itself. Wherever you stand on it, streaming is a much more "gamed" ecosystem now and will remain so. There's no real way to police this behavior since it hijacks how algorithms perceive growth and serve content. This makes livestreaming the most "rigged game" in content creation and you will see very few broadcasters come up in the next couple years who aren't utilizing this strategy.

Things you should have - Part 1 - Portable Solar Panels - 400W or more preferably. - Meshtastic - Think of it like decentralised comms network irl You never know when you might need this

BREAKING: The SEC just officially eliminated the $25,000 minimum rule for day trading. This is the biggest change to retail trading in 24 years. Since 2001, if you wanted to make more than 3 day trades in a 5 day period, you needed at least $25,000 sitting in your account at all times. If you dropped below that, your broker would lock you out of day trading completely. This rule blocked millions of retail traders from actively participating in markets simply because they did not have enough capital. That rule is now gone. The SEC today approved FINRA's proposed change which replaces the fixed $25,000 requirement with a real time margin system. Instead of a fixed dollar threshold, brokers will now monitor your actual risk exposure throughout the day and adjust your buying power based on the real risk of your positions, not an arbitrary account balance. Now you no longer need $25,000 to day trade. You just need enough margin to cover the actual risk of your open positions.

Your daily dose of good news: Revolution Medicines says its potential breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug succeeds in late-stage trial Experimental drug daraxonrasib delivered stunning Phase 3 results, nearly doubling survival (13.2 vs. 6.7 months) and cutting the risk of death by 60% compared to chemotherapy. Honestly, this is more impactful than expected, especially for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers with just a 13% five-year survival rate.

The timing - guy just spoke negatively of Israel.

Mo Gawdat, ex-CBO Google: For the first time, we may see massive unemployment (30%-50%) not from crisis, but because machines outperform human labor. Capitalism could come to an end in his perspective. That cuts to the core of capitalism: a system built on hiring labor to produce and sell at a profit. If production moves toward near-zero cost, labor arbitrage disappears, and with it, the foundation of pricing and markets. But the real paradox is this: capitalism depends not just on production, but on consumption. AI boosts output while removing workers, undermining the very demand the system needs to survive. As intelligence becomes abundant and production cheap, we’re entering a world where work may no longer define value—and where capitalism itself has to evolve or break.

@FLDadReborn @Polymarket Smh

@Polymarket So a Hollywood tabloid had to do the job that the Washington Post and countless other MSM entities have refused to do for decades.. incredible.

JUST IN: Multiple congresspeople projected to resign this week, as TMZ opens DC office to expose scandals.

The Stop Killing Games movement has officially backed the proposed California bill focused on protecting players when online games are shut down. > Publishers must provide an offline mode or a way to keep the game playable after server shutdown. > If this is not possible, players should receive a full refund. > The goal is to protect digital ownership and game preservation. This proposal follows growing concerns over games becoming completely inaccessible once support ends, especially after shutdowns like The Crew. Most gamers think that if players pay for a game, it should remain playable or be fairly compensated.

@KimDotcom Hmm

The reign of Visa and Mastercard is coming to an end in Europe. A new "Pay by Bank" button is taking over online checkouts, it’s dismantling American financial dominance. No more hidden fees. No more US middlemen.

This is the most depressing post I’ve ever seen on NextDoor. My heart absolutely breaks for young people. Older generations do not seem to comprehend how bad things are. What are young people going to do with 6 figures in student loan debt & no jobs?

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New Policy Drop: I just released the Texas Psilocybin Freedom and Veteran Mental Health Innovation Act. This bill does five key things: 1. Decriminalizes responsible home cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms for adults 21+ (max 3 mono tubs, doubled to 6 for multi-adult households). 2. Creates a regulated medical therapeutic program where screened adults can purchase limited take-home amounts of tested psilocybin. 3. Builds on Texas’s $50 million ibogaine research to expand veteran-focused mental health innovation. 4. Prioritizes Texas veterans with licensing preferences and equitable access. 5. Generates new revenue through licensing fees and excise taxes — every dollar goes to the Freedom Fund to accelerate property tax relief (combined with the Cultivate Texas Act). It’s responsible, veteran-first, and Texas-first: liberty with guardrails, no open recreational market, and real revenue to cut your property taxes. Read the full bill here: KennethHyde4TxGov.com This is part of my plan to Reclaim 1836 — practical solutions that protect sovereignty, help veterans, and deliver real tax relief. What do you think? Let me know below. Reclaim 1836. Kenneth Hyde Republican Candidate for Texas Governor 2030

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP.. Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap".. They proved something terrifying.. Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power.. Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse.. But here's the trap.. No company can afford to stop.. If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway.. So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives.. It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically.. The numbers are already stacking up.. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion".. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI.. Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team.. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases.. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.. And here's what should scare policymakers.. The researchers tested every proposed solution.. Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate.. Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human.. Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it.. Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing.. Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker.. The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand.. The paper's conclusion is devastating.. This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone.. And no market force can break the cycle.. The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.