Praetorian Cap

The sun was free. They sold you SPF 50 and a vitamin D deficiency. Sleep was free. They sold you an app, a pill, and a wearable that tells you your sleep was bad. Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill, a fitness tracker, and a £180 pair of trainers. Fasting was free. They sold you meal replacement shakes and the anxiety that skipping breakfast would wreck your metabolism. Cold water was free. They sold you a £3,000 plunge barrel and a podcast episode about it. Silence was free. They sold you a meditation app with a premium tier. Animal fat was cheap. They sold you seed oils, then supplements to replace what the animal fat contained. Tallow was cheap. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine and a clinical trial proving your face needs ceramides. Meat was cheap. They are currently selling you the idea that you shouldn't eat it. The 20th century removed access to everything the body needs to function. The 21st century is selling it back, one subscription at a time. Your great-grandmother had none of the products. She had all of the things.

@investingwithac Cash on an insurance company books is not excess cash like with non financial companies. It’s held against future liabilities. I they underwrite well they get to keep some of that cash. $oscr is in a wait and see mode now. They need to meet the crazy guidance with q1 earnings.

$OSCR 1. Has a 3.7 billion market cap 2. Has 2.5 billion in “real cash” 3. Guiding for +60% revenue growth 4. Guiding for a 700m positive income swing 5. Do I even need to continue?!

“Kluczem do przeprowadzenia pierwszego ROZBIORU RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ było osadzenie na funkcji marszałka sejmu Adama Ponińskiego, realizującego polecenia wrogich mocarstw, które zwiększały ich władzę nad Polską oraz niweczyły opór zwolenników SUWERENNOŚCI .” via @EJagiellonians

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

1/7: Polska wnioskowała z SAFE 43,7 mld EUR — największą jednorazową pożyczkę w historii państwa. Rząd mówi: to inwestycja w bezpieczeństwo. Ja mówię: to przebiegły biznesplan, który wzmacnia nie Polskę, lecz francusko-niemiecki przemysł zbrojeniowy. Thread 🧵

@ntwork 2.5 years in development and still unable to show the midsize? Come on

@ntwork When are you actually going to show the midsize and price points?

At Investor Day we’re sharing the strategy behind our new midsize platform, including the first two vehicles planned for it: Lucid Cosmos and Lucid Earth. Two SUVs designed to bring Lucid’s performance, efficiency, space, and driving dynamics to a much larger market at scale.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

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@Buckarobanza Co za dzicz. Jacy ludzie taki kraj.

Pamiętacie wydarzenia z półfinału Pucharu Narodów Afryki, gdzie kibice i oficjele z Maroka kradli ręczniki bramkarza Nigerii? Wczoraj podczas finału Yehvan Diouf, rezerwowy golkiper Senegalu, musiał dosłownie bić się z Marokańczykami, by pomóc koledze

@historyinmemes Likely a fake

Hackers broadcasted a giant Troll Face on Russian military radios and nobody knows who did it still… Hackers carried out a bizarre cyber prank by hijacking Russian military radio frequencies and transmitting the iconic Troll Face. Routine communications were replaced with warped audio and the infamous meme, briefly turning a secure channel into an episode of digital mockery. The incident underscored how even protected systems can be exposed to cyber intrusion, serving as a reminder that modern conflict isn’t limited to weapons and territory—it’s also waged through code, signals, and memes.

@ntwork What's the plan to address the disaster that $LCID's stock price has been?

@naiivememe A 90% drawdown

Apart from breakup, what else can make a man be like this?

@BartosiakJacek USA pokazalo jak slabym gwarantem i partnerem sa Chiny.

Kilka obserwacji wstępnych dotyczacych operacji w Wenezueli: 1. Amerykanie przeprowadzili błyskotliwą operacje wojskowa przeciw Maduro, ze znakomitym skutkiem wojskowym. Budzi to szacunek, nadal robić to potrafią, a w obecną wojnę systemowa weszli jako jedyni z przygotowanym i doświadczonym wojskiem. Do II wojny światowej nikt nie był gotowy, w tym Niemcy. To duża różnica i zarysuje się dlatego pokusa używania przez Waszyngton sily militarnej wobec państw słabszych wlasnie w takich operacjach, w których Amerykanie celują.: małych, precyzyjnych, krótkich, asymetrycznych z wielka akcja informacyjna na temat sily USA. Tu wyłoni się z czasem amerykańska globalna strategia operacji wojskowych i wywiadowczych wobec takich właśnie państw w celu kontroli ich zasobów strategicznych (surowców, ważnej infrastruktury i kluczowych skrzyżowań strategicznych). Będzie ona w opozycji do chińskiej strategii budowy infrastruktury, podstawiania swapow walutowych, dedolaryzacji, pożyczek oraz udostępniania technologii i chińskich dóbr kapitałowych w zamian za dostęp do tych samych zasobów strategicznych od tych samych panstw wobec których USA będzie rozważało operacje specjalne . Która strategia przeważy zobaczymy, ale amerykańska będzie burzyła nasz spokój i przekonanie o spokojnym świecie a chińska będzie niepokoiła konsekwencja, nieustepliwoscia, skala i masa. Terenem starcia obu będzie Globalne Południe i Ameryka Pld, miejmy nadzieje, ze nie Europa choć nie wykluczałbym z czasem, ze tak sie stanie wskutek slabosci UE, jesli nic sie tu nie zmieni. 2. Nie zmienia to postaci rzeczy, ze błyskotliwa operacja wojskowa dokonała się po długich miesiącach bezskutecznej demonstracji sily USA i miliardach wydanych dolarów na dyslokacje 1/4 floty USA u wybrzeży Wenezueli, słabnięcia mocy sprawczej USA wobec innych państw Ameryki Pld i w sytuacji Maduro byl podtrzymywany przez Chiny i Rosje i się nie wystraszył. Nie świadczy to dobrze o ogólnej potędze geopolitycznej USA a jedynie o sprawnym wojsku, które sprawnie:  przeprowadziło operacje, które lubi najbardziej: przeciw państwu peryferyjnemu, republice bananowej. USA przemyslowo nie jest gotowe do wielkiej i długiej wojny z Chinami. To zupełnie inna sprawa i tym stwierdzeniem chciałbym ostudzić gorące głowy nad Wisłą.  3. Chodziło w tej operacji o dwie sprawy: percepcje wyłącznej strefy wpływów USA na zachodniej półkuli oraz utrzymanie systemu petrodolara, dzięki któremu USA mogą drukować pieniadze wedle potrzeb, Wenezuela ma ogromne zasoby ropy i próbowała wyjść z systemu dolarowego co zagrażało petrodolarowi.  4. Skuteczna operacja wojskowa otwiera Amerykanom drogę do uzyskania obu powyższych celów, ale ich ostateczne uzyskanie nie zależy od zdolności do prowadzenia takich operacji, ale od wielu innych czynników jak: wymiana handlowa, kompetencje produkcyjne i przewagi technologiczne, tu wiele zależeć będzie od reakcji Chin na to co się stało i czy inne kraje Ameryki PLD a zwłaszcza Brazylia zaczną bac się USA ale nie na tyle, by nadal chcieć i to jeszcze mocniej wzmacniać relacje z Chinami. Nie wiem tego, nie znam się ma Ameryce Pld w ogóle, ale na miejscu Pekinu zrobiłbym Amerykanom taka kontestacje peryferyjna zakotwiczona na bardzo dużej i ludnej Brazylii 5. Jak dalej sprawy się potoczą w samej Wenezueli nie wiem, daleko nadal jest do realizacji planu USA, czyli stabilizacji politycznej Wenezueli na modle USA, wyrzucenie Chin z kraju oraz przejecie sektora naftowego kraju. 1/2

@SkySportsNews @Fanalysisapp Major brain damage listening to this “analysis”.

"I wouldn't take one Arsenal player currently" Aston Villa fan Justin Hawthorne says he wouldn't add to their current squad and that none of Mikel Arteta's side would make his starting XI 🗣️ #SkySportsFC @Fanalysisapp

@DailyAFC The dude is so cringe. A good coach with mentality of an insecure teen.

🗣️ Unai Emery: “I am so happy! Even losing today, I am so happy. Congratulations Arsenal.” 👏

@Djoko_UTD Let’s simply have all men and women compete in one competition for the same prize money

World No.1 Women’s Tennis player lost to a Man who was injured for the last 2 years, almost retired and had lower court area to hit… Absolutely horrendous storyline for everyone fighting for equal pay

@joeroganhq Where did the $15m go?

Hunter Biden: "I’ve got $15M in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off… We have no generational wealth." What about all the paintings?

@WallStreetApes So basically a 100%+ bump in premiums followed by a 30%+ reduction? That’s a terrible plan and does not solve anything for folks

FINALLY ‼️ The GOP advances the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act This will give Americans an alternative to Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act and finally bring down health insurance premium costs as much as 30%+ Americans can buy insurance in Groups without the Big Insurance companies controlling costs This bill sets up Pooling for Large-Group Advantages - Small businesses, self-employed individuals, and groups can band together (often across industries or states) to form or join an AHP - This pools them into a single “large group” for insurance purposes, allowing access to the same regulatory framework and pricing as big employers - Large-group plans typically have lower premiums than small-group or individual plans Proponents cite potential reductions of 8-30% (or more in some cases) compared to traditional small-group or individual Affordable Care act plans

during Covid the government spent $4-5T or 20-25% of GDP on various handouts and stimulus programs. it's now clear – as was very predictable at the time – that this spending was overwhelmingly ridden with fraud. and the fraud wasn't really a side effect. the point was to use Covid to hand out gibs to all of the Biden admin's chosen affinity groups. meanwhile, every American ended up footing the bill through the resultant inflation. the Minnesota fraud is just the tip of the iceberg but it's totally indicative of what went on. no fraud checks whatsoever (remember that the emphasis during CARES and PPP was shoveling money out the door, and "some amount of fraud" was deliberately tolerated). I know I'm not alone in remembering the lines around the block at the luxury stores when the PPP cash first started going out. official government sources now admit staggering quantities of fraud. the SBA estimates $200b in PPP fraud [1]. the GAO estimated [2] pandemic-era unemployment fraud at $100-$135b. and of course, this is still under-reported, as no one wants to admit that the government funded fraudsters with taxpayer cash. more examples of massive billion-dollar frauds continue to trickle in, with MN being a great example. the real number is almost certainly in the trillions. this is one of the biggest institutionalized thefts in history, and we're still paying for it today, through higher debt levels, structurally higher inflation, higher short-end rates (to cure the burst of inflation), and higher long-end rates because creditors don't trust the government any more. an absolute travesty that few will acknowledge. [1] sba.gov/document/repor… [2] gao.gov/assets/gao-23-…