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I don't get how you are considered unemployable past 70-80 years old and yet that's the age group exclusively running most countries

let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

Official trailer for ‘MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE: LIFE’S STILL UNFAIR’

Exclusive: American Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross county coach from Jackson, Michigan, is the personification of never giving up. He won the 2026 Los Angeles Marathon in 2:11:16.50, capturing the title in the final stride of the 26.2 mile race Sunday.

Lebanese die, Israelis are killed

Lavrov telling the Gulf countries that they are spineless. Never seen him this pissed before.

Living under the Epstein regime has you thinking its normal behavior to jack up your prices in times of crisis

5.2 acres of land in Italy, a working olive grove that produces oil, private woodland, a renovated stone farmhouse and an 80m² cellar. €260k ($300k). A lot of people are rethinking where they live and how they live. This is what that looks like in practice. A courtyard with a wood oven and grape pergola. Three connected structures, 150m² (1,615 sq ft) of living space, 2 beds and 2 baths. Get Starlink, run your business from anywhere, add solar panels, collect your water. You're largely off-grid. One hour from Rome if you ever get bored and need the city. Is this the kind of property that starts making more sense the more the world changes?

America's first large-scale indoor vertical farm for strawberries in Richmond, Virginia. Using 30-foot towers, it produces over 4 million pounds of strawberries annually on less than an acre of land. This innovative method reduces water use by 90%, land use by 97%, and eliminates the need for pesticides. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

BREAKING: Birth control pills are now listed as a Group 1 cancer-causing agent, per WHO.

We’re spending $200B+ a year on data centers to power AI. One company raised $11M, grew human brain cells on a chip, and the cells taught themselves to play a 3D shooter in a week. Cortical Labs grew 200,000 human neurons on a silicon chip and taught them to play Doom. The cells navigate, target enemies, and fire weapons in real time. Their previous game, Pong, took 18 months on older hardware. Doom took a week. An independent developer with zero biotech experience built the integration using a Python API. The neurons did the rest. That compression from 18 months to one week tells you everything about where this is going. Here’s what the “can it run Doom” crowd is missing: each CL1 unit costs $35,000. A full 30-unit server rack draws 850 to 1,000 watts total. Your brain runs on 20 watts. A single GPU cluster training an LLM can draw megawatts. The energy economics of biological compute are orders of magnitude better than silicon, and that gap scales. The investor list tells you who’s paying attention. Horizons Ventures, Blackbird, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm. In-Q-Tel doesn’t fund science projects. They fund intelligence infrastructure. 115 units started shipping in 2025. Cortical Labs is now selling “Wetware-as-a-Service” through the Cortical Cloud. Developers can deploy code to living neurons remotely without touching a lab. They’re pricing access at the level of a software subscription while the hardware runs on real human brain cells derived from adult skin and blood samples. The Doom demo is marketing. The platform play is a bet that biological neurons will eventually outperform silicon at exactly the tasks AI struggles with most: real-time adaptation under uncertainty, learning from minimal data, and processing ambiguity without brute-force compute. The question was never “can it run Doom.” The question is what happens when it can run everything else.

I should’ve been an engineer this is incredible

The radars and bases America is losing are not worth billions. They are priceless. America cannot get the rare earths nor can they manufacture anything anymore, they will never replace this hardware. These assets are just lost. Iran is decolonizing the region.

This is nice 😂

When it’s all said and done, Trump has a home to return to. Meanwhile the Arabs have set themselves back by 20 years. And rebranded their region as unstable.

I used to cover food and agriculture on Wall Street and I predicated this almost 10 years ago. Precise targeting of weeds and pests — making the use of chemicals unnecessary. Incredible to see it becoming reality.

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations. With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

The rule of unwanted betas Whenever crypto people pivot into any sector outside of crypto that sector tops within 1 month

Parenting turns you into a morning person the same way being chased by a bear turns you into a runner.

Watching Iran, and its diaspora, I can’t help but have incredible respect for the Chinese people. The CCP/CPC repeatedly did insane things (impacting people including the fathers of Xi Jinping and the founder of Huawei, to different extents). But the populace understood that a breakdown in state authority, and an intervention by foreign powers, would be a disaster for the country (obviously there are many references to this in Chinese history and literature). All this in a culture with an ancient right of rebellion when things go wrong. Far older than anything in the Western tradition (Locke, for instance). As a country and a people they deserve all the success and prosperity the 21st century now appears to be bestowing on them. Rather than balkanise they’ve attained the status of global power.