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too many github issues + PRs! instead of fixing them like a normal human, i've embarked on a separate mission to create a self-maintaining repo... something that reviews issues, fixes bugs, tests and releases new DMGs without my involvement wish me luck! 🫠

QatarEnergy’s Ras Laffan Industrial City to the north of Doha, Qatar's main site for the production of liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquid, as well as the largest export terminal for LNG in the world, has been heavily targeted tonight by ballistic missiles fired by Iran. Extensive damage to the site and several facilities are being reported by QatarEnergy.

Ruxandra makes a great case for three important way to remove unnecessary bureaucracy for medical trials. IRB freedom, notification instead of permission, and GMP light manufacturing will allow many more life saving medicines to reach the market. Millions of lives can be saved.

⚡️The timeline is hype. The direction is real. Neuralink is not chasing better eyesight. It is trying to open a write channel into perception itself. That is the signal. Once silicon can feed usable visual information directly into the cortex, the eye stops being sovereign. Biology becomes the old interface. Sight stops being something you only receive from nature and becomes something you can engineer, compress, expand, filter, and eventually weaponize. That is the real break. Blindness repair is the moral wrapper. Human augmentation is the real destination. First you restore missing function. Then you improve weak function. Then you add capacities nature never gave you. Infrared. Ultraviolet. machine overlays. persistent labeling. synthetic zoom. threat highlighting. object memory. The moment the brain can take stable visual input from hardware, perception becomes a product surface. That changes more than medicine. It changes power. A species whose perception can be upgraded is no longer living inside fixed human limits. It is living inside a stack. Whoever builds the stack starts deciding what can be seen, how it is rendered, what gets highlighted, what gets suppressed, and which humans get access to the better version of reality. That is the deeper truth people keep missing. The first generation will probably be crude. Low bandwidth. narrow use case. clunky adaptation. less magical than the rhetoric. That part almost does not matter. The first airplane was ugly too. The real event is the crossing. Once the brain accepts synthetic visual input well enough to be useful, the barrier is gone. After that, the whole fight becomes engineering, capital, regulation, and control. And once that happens, the human body stops being the final form. It becomes legacy hardware. This is the opening move in the industrialization of human experience. Bottom line: Neuralink is building the first serious port through which software can begin to rewrite what a human being is allowed to perceive.

Coding an app is the new starting a podcast.

⚡️Arthur is right, and most people still are not emotionally ready for how right he is. A real financial crisis is a cash flow crisis long before it becomes an investment crisis. When income breaks and fixed costs stay high, the thing killing you is not lack of upside. It is monthly burn. Mortgage, rent, car payments, tuition, subscriptions, lifestyle overhead, prestige maintenance, all of it becomes a machine that eats time. In that situation, buying a little Bitcoin does not save you. It gives you a story while the arithmetic keeps bleeding. That is the part people hate because it attacks identity, not just budgeting. A lot of high earners do not actually own a lifestyle. They rent an image from the future using expected income as collateral. The moment that income gets hit, the image starts repossessing them. The house is no longer an asset. It becomes a trap. The gadgets become anchors. The status symbols become bricks tied to the chest. That is why downsizing has to happen early, hard, and without sentiment. The people who survive these breaks are usually the ones willing to kill the old self before the market kills it for them. Sell the ego assets. Cut the burn. Shrink the monthly nut. Buy time. Time is the real scarce asset in a downturn because time is what lets optionality survive. The deeper truth is that Bitcoin sits later in the sequence than many people want to admit. Bitcoin is a weapon for preserving and compounding surplus capital across a broken monetary regime. It is not magic dust that cancels a structurally busted household balance sheet. If the foundation is cracking, the first move is stabilization. Then positioning. Then asymmetry. And this gets even more brutal in the AI age because a lot of upper-middle-class people are still living inside a dead assumption. They think income continuity is normal. They think competence automatically protects status. They think the machine that paid them yesterday will still need them tomorrow. That illusion is already fraying. So the people who move first, cut first, and rebase first will look extreme right before they look sane.