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From $540 to $89 This is the most insane crash i’ve ever seen $DUOL

A blog post just wiped $30 billion off IBM in a single afternoon. Not a product launch. Not an earnings miss. Not a competitor undercutting on price. A five-minute blog post explaining that Claude can read COBOL. IBM dropped 13%. Worst single-day loss since October 2000. Twenty-five years of stock resilience ended by one AI company publishing a capability update. Here’s what happened: 95% of ATM transactions in America run on COBOL. Hundreds of billions of lines power banking, airlines, and government systems. The developers who built them retired decades ago. The knowledge left with them. Finding engineers who can even read COBOL gets harder every quarter. IBM’s moat was never the technology. It was the fact that nobody else could understand it. Entire consulting empires existed because the code was too old, too tangled, and too critical to touch. Companies paid IBM billions because the alternative was catastrophic system failure. Then Anthropic published a blog post saying Claude Code can map dependencies across thousands of lines of COBOL, document workflows, identify migration risks, and translate legacy logic into modern languages. Modernization in quarters instead of years. The market heard: the priesthood just lost its monopoly on the sacred language. And this isn’t the first time. Last week Anthropic announced Claude Code Security for vulnerability scanning. CrowdStrike dropped. Okta dropped. Cloudflare dropped. One company is serially destroying legacy moats with blog posts. Now here’s where it gets surreal. This same company, on the same day, also published evidence that three Chinese AI labs ran 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million exchanges to steal Claude’s capabilities. DeepSeek used it to build censorship tools. MiniMax pivoted within 24 hours when a new model dropped, redirecting half its traffic to steal the latest version. And yesterday, the Pentagon summoned this same company’s CEO for what officials called a “sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting,” threatening to blacklist them like Huawei for refusing to let the military use Claude without safety restrictions. Three stories. One company. Twenty-four hours. The company destroying legacy moats faster than the market can reprice them is simultaneously being threatened by its own government and looted by foreign competitors. Anthropic is valued at $380 billion. Its CEO says a 12-month delay in AI would make him bankrupt. The Pentagon wants to designate it a supply chain risk. Chinese labs are running industrial espionage against it. And it just proved it can vaporize $30 billion in market cap with a Monday morning blog post. Whatever you think about AI disruption, IBM’s stock just settled the argument. Full institutional analysis on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@thenihiin Are they allowed to catch me? And can I choose a person?

Which?🤔

@ThomasG00342200 @Independent Give it a re-e-wind.

@Independent What's the context can someone Fill Me In?

Singer Craig David has gone viral after sharing a video of himself trying to rescue a flying fish in the Maldives. Click the link in bio for more 🔗

RIP to the most iconic on-screen Mom of all time, Christmas won’t be the same knowing Catherine O’Hara isn’t out looking for Kevin.

@Artlist_io your roll out needs to be rolled back. Cloud flare blocks, credit drain, processing not happening. Really not a good look. I’ve had to go elsewhere to complete projects.

@MoTastischYT @Artlist_io Same here. Absolute shambles.

@Artlist_io But why? Happens the 3rd time now after the update

Everything is about to change. Stay tuned to find out more

Fun fact: Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by Parmigiano Reggiano and poses with wheels of cheese

They shut off the street lights to scare people back into their homes. It did not work. Iranians are standing stronger than ever, in the dark, without fear. Proud to be Iranian. Proud of our people..

Day 9 of 2026

Persian Spider-Man beats Keystone Cops to change Iranian flag at Iranian Embassy in London.

It’s only the 10th day of 2026 and we already have a strong competitor for ‘Man of the Year’ Absolute GOAT.

@netflix Kali would have died in the roof explosion, ending the illusion long before El actually disappeared. Sooo…..

"I believe."

A new 🇨🇳 gain of function study created chimeric coronaviruses that can infect human cells and kill mice (up to 100% mortality). 🚩"The viral infection [and all animal experiments] were performed in a BSL-2 laboratory"(!)🤦‍♂️ *The authors thank a.o. Ben Hu & Zheng-Li Shi.

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we stand united in remembrance of those who give their lives in service to our nation and in the name of freedom.

It’s happening

A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.

This is unbelievable. @comet automatically hunts down Sora 2 invite codes across the web and signs you up. No more begging for access.

@everydaytem Now THAT’S a flyer.

+1, for stand-up comedy night program. crmrkt.com/QDybQz