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I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun. The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

The BMW iX3 and iX are examples of how little the company still understands about BEVs. A very large battery means that in 99.99% of cases, when long distances aren't being driven, an unnecessary amount of weight is being carried around, which is inefficient and expensive. Since a large battery naturally takes longer to charge, even with fast charging speeds, the supposedly advantageous feature of a long range is worthless, because you simply end up spending more time charging and if you take shorter charging stops you could have been more efficient with a smaller battery. To everyone claiming they want to drive 1,000 km without a break: studies show that people with such a strong bladder are rare. And if your family is coming along, forget it. Such cases are so rare that it makes no sense to develop a vehicle for them. Both vehicles are fundamentally flawed in their design and are only suitable for people who, as ICE owners, have been falsely instilled with fear for years that BEVs supposedly don't have enough range or that there aren't enough charging stations—both of which are lies perpetuated by the oil and gas industry.

Global BEV Trend September 2030 currently seems like the point in time when BEV will overtake ICE (incl. HEV) globally. This is after the PHEV peak that right now seems like it will happen in 2028 at around 14%. #builder" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Galler…

This is the most documented conversation hack in FBI hostage negotiation, and Hideo Kojima accidentally built a video game around it in 1998. Chris Voss spent 24 years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator and worked 150+ hostage cases. The first technique he teaches in his book, his MasterClass, and federal training is called mirroring. The instruction is one sentence: repeat the last 1 to 3 words of what someone just said, with an upward inflection, then stay silent for 4 seconds. "My day was good." "It was good?" "Yeah I got ice cream." "Ice cream?" Voss calls it the closest thing in negotiation to a Jedi mind trick. He once mirrored a bank robber mid-hostage-situation and the guy confessed to a separate crime nobody on the scene knew he had committed. He volunteered it. His brain processed the mirror as "this person is with me" and started filling silences with truth. The mechanism is brain stem-level. We unconsciously copy people we trust. Repeating someone's exact words trips the same circuit that fires when a friend matches your posture or laughs at your joke. Voss's clients call this "unlocking the floodgates of truth-telling." The person being mirrored can't help themselves. They keep talking. They keep going deeper. Carl Rogers built a branch of psychotherapy on this in the 1950s and called it reflective listening. Patients reached insights in 6 sessions that took 60 in conventional therapy because the silence forces them to keep elaborating instead of waiting for the therapist to interpret. Kojima's version is the codec. He had a UX problem in 1998. Metal Gear Solid was dense with military lore, character backstory, and Cold War geopolitics, and players were skipping the exposition. So he made Snake's dialogue function as the player's surrogate. "Metal Gear?" "FOXDIE?" "The Patriots?" Every NPC monologue was triggered by a one-word echo. Players got the entire geopolitical thriller delivered conversationally and never noticed they were being lectured because Snake was modeling their exact confusion. Kojima recently called the codec one of his "greatest inventions." He was right, just for a different reason than he thinks. He didn't invent a UI element. He turned a 50-year-old therapy technique into the most addictive exposition delivery system in gaming. The smartest people in any room talk the least and ask the question version of what they just heard.

The Pacific Ocean is so vast it could hold 16 Polands

Zelensky : "My congratulations to Montenegro." ... Zelensky : "F*CK!"

The US president is praising Allah and Iran is defending the Pope, welcome to 2026

the astronomy community is getting FED today

🚨: NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World. This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.😮

i know you don’t know why, so i will explain the theatrics behind this for you while growing up, i had a friend who refused to use a case, he said it ruined the design so one day his phone slipped out of his hand in slow mo, we both watched it hit the ground like a scene from an indian movie 😭 his screen cracked instantly but he picked it up, looked at it for a second… and just laughed. he didn’t fix it for months, that’s when i realized it wasn’t about the phone. .. some people don’t move through life trying to avoid damage, they move like they’ve already accepted it. so rocking a caseless phone means your comfortable with risk or you’ve just accepted that damage is part of the experience, some people want protection but others want to feel everything even if it comes with consequences...

There's a neuroscience reason this works and Hormozi probably doesn't even realize how precisely he nailed it. Your basal ganglia, the part of your brain responsible for habit formation, operates on a threshold model. Every repetition of a behavior pattern strengthens the synaptic connections in that circuit. Below a certain threshold of repetitions, the behavior requires conscious effort, willpower, and prefrontal cortex engagement. Above that threshold, the behavior becomes automatic. Willpower drops out of the equation entirely. The research on skill acquisition confirms this. K. Anders Ericsson's studies at Florida State found that elite performers don't just practice more. They cross a volume threshold where pattern recognition becomes unconscious. A chess grandmaster doesn't "think" about board positions. They've seen 50,000+ patterns and their brain fires recognition before conscious thought engages. The "unreasonable" part is the key. Your brain has a negativity bias calibrated by evolution to make you stop doing things that don't produce immediate reward. Dopamine drops after repeated effort without visible progress. That's the quit zone. Most people interpret that dopamine dip as a signal to stop. In reality, it's the signal that you're approaching the threshold where the skill is about to consolidate. Huberman's lab at Stanford showed that the actual rewiring, the myelination of neural pathways, happens disproportionately during sleep AFTER high-volume practice sessions. The reps during the day are the stimulus. The structural change happens at night. But only if the volume was high enough to trigger the consolidation cascade. Hormozi compressed an entire field of motor learning research into one sentence. Do enough reps that failure becomes statistically impossible because your brain literally rebuilt itself around the task.

俺のチャリにバカでかい鳥止まってて帰れないんだけどww

🧵 1/12: Everyone is justifiably hyped about Elon's TERAFAB announcement and using Lunar Mass Drivers to scale AI and lay the early foundations of a Dyson Swarm. But nobody is connecting the dots to how this unlocks the real prize: large scale interstellar exploitation and colonization. Allow me to explain.

Everyone is covering Terafab as a chip factory. It is not a chip factory. Last night in Austin, Elon unveiled a facility that makes masks, fabricates chips, and tests them inside a single building with a nine-month recursive improvement cadence. No such loop exists anywhere else on Earth. Then he told you 80% of the output goes to space. Then he showed you a 100-kilowatt AI satellite with solar panels and radiators, scaling to megawatt range. Then he said Optimus plus photovoltaics will be the first von Neumann probe, a machine capable of replicating itself from raw materials found in space. Nobody connected the sequence. Terafab produces 1 terawatt per year of compute. The entire United States consumes 0.5 terawatts of electricity. Musk is building a single factory whose output in AI silicon exceeds twice the power consumption of the country it sits in. And he is sending 80% of it off-planet because Earth literally cannot power what he is building. Follow the mechanism. Terafab seeds the chips. Starship launches Optimus robots and solar arrays at 100 million tons per year. The robots mine lunar and asteroid regolith for silicon, iron, and nickel. They 3D-print more robots. They fabricate more solar panels. They assemble more AI satellites. Each satellite runs hotter-burning D3 chips designed specifically for vacuum, where free radiative cooling eliminates the thermal constraints that strangle every terrestrial data center on the planet. The nodes replicate. The replication is exponential. This is a Dyson Swarm bootstrap hidden inside a semiconductor announcement. The math is public. The Sun outputs 3.828 times 10 to the 26th watts. A 2022 paper in Physica Scripta calculated that 5.5 billion satellites at 290 kilograms each, robotically manufactured from Mars resources, capture enough solar energy to meet all of Earth’s power needs within 50 years. A 2025 paper in Solar Energy Materials calculated a partial swarm capturing 4% of solar output yields 15.6 yottawatts, roughly a billion times current human civilization’s total energy budget. Musk just announced the factory that builds the chips that go inside the satellites that replicate themselves forever. 92% of advanced logic chips are fabricated in Taiwan. One factory in Austin does not fix that. But one self-replicating system seeded by that factory, launched by the only company with reusable heavy-lift rockets, assembled by the only humanoid robot in mass production, and powered by the only star within reach, does not fix a supply chain. It obsoletes the concept of supply chains entirely. The market priced this as a $20 billion capex story about semiconductor independence. The actual announcement was the engineering blueprint for Kardashev Type II. Humanity sits at 0.73 on the Kardashev scale. 18 terawatts. The distance between here and harnessing a star is not a technology gap. It is a recursion gap. And recursion is exactly what a single building in Austin that makes its own masks, builds its own chips, tests its own chips, and launches the output into orbit on its own rockets was designed to close. Every civilization that makes it past this point never looks back.

Bro didn’t even flinch 😂😂

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

Every time I watch a catfu video it makes me laugh. Even my kids are completely obsessed with it. I’m officially nominating Catfu as meme of 2026.

This split screen from the French news network LCI is just brutal

My interview with the President of Ukraine youtu.be/hYa7H1EmpCM