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The founder of Niantic built Google Earth. He has been building this for years. I got a demo. It is stunning. And is the platform that will bring us infinite realities. I call it the Holodeck.

Mockup of how would @AnthropicAI's new labor automation chart would've looked 200 years ago. For our ancestors, the outer ring would be almost unrecognizable. "Computer & math" was nonsensical. Medicine and law were tiny and barely professionalized. The first photo was just about to be taken, so it would have been unfathomable to have a single blockbuster gross more than the entire gross national product of that period. "Office & admin" barely existed as a concept; counting-houses employ a tiny literate class. Agriculture alone consumed maybe 70-80% of the labor force in the US. There was a thick band of artisanal trades that don't map onto any single modern category: coopering, blacksmithing, weaving, tanning, milling. Clergy was a major professional category and Maritime labor was its own significant sector.

BREAKING: Iran has been supplying Russia with Shahed drones to kill Ukrainians since 2022. The Pentagon just asked Ukraine to help kill Iranian Shahed drones in the Gulf. That is not irony. That is the most elegant strategic reversal of this entire war. Here is the economics that made this conversation inevitable. One Iranian Shahed drone costs $30,000 to manufacture. One Patriot interceptor missile costs $1.5 million. For every dollar Iran spends building a drone, it costs the UAE $20 to $28 to shoot it down. Iran has tens of thousands of Shaheds. The Gulf states have a finite number of Patriot missiles and a finite production rate to replace them. That ratio is a slow-motion financial siege. Iran does not need to get through Gulf air defenses. It just needs to drain them faster than they can be replenished. Ukraine spent three years solving exactly this problem. When Russia began deploying Iranian Shaheds against Ukrainian cities in September 2022, Ukraine could not afford to burn $1.5 million missiles against $30,000 drones indefinitely. So Ukrainian engineers built something different. Interceptor drones. Small, fast, cheap, designed specifically to kill other drones at a fraction of the cost. The interception ratio is not 1:50. It is closer to 1:1. Drone kills drone. The economics invert. Ukraine went from being the world’s test laboratory for Iranian drone warfare to being the world’s leading expert in defeating it. And now the Pentagon, watching Gulf air defenses burn through interceptor stockpiles against Shahed swarms, has picked up the phone to Kyiv. The geopolitical architecture of this moment is worth sitting with. Iran armed Russia. Russia used those weapons to develop tactics. Ukraine defeated those tactics under fire and built countermeasures. The Gulf is now buying those countermeasures to defeat the original Iranian weapons. Tehran’s drone doctrine has completed a loop that ends with its own drones being hunted by technology born from fighting its own drones. That is not a footnote to this war. That is the war economy of the 21st century operating in real time. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

🚨FUN FACT: Did you know that in The Matrix you can see the camera in the reflective doorknob when Morpheus and Neo go to visit the Oracle? You never noticed because the shot is so cool and fast and you’re in the moment. They covered the camera with a black coat to hide it.

911? We'd like to report a murder.

@GergelyOrosz I’d add Warp

"You don't see any big useful app emerging, like 10-20 years ago." Oh gosh. Just in my circles, counterexamples: Notion (2016) Figma (2017) Linear (2019) Raycast (2020) Clubhouse (2021) Playdate (2022 - not an app, but a console!) Cursor (2023) Zed (2024) Claude Code (2025)

This article explains how to chain a Gateway API controller and an ingress controller behind a single LoadBalancer to incrementally migrate traffic from Ingress to HTTPRoutes ➜ ku.bz/NCl2NKfS_

Lottie animations in @jittervideo and prototype in @lovable ✨

Andrej Karpathy explains the next generation of computers the llm is the cpu, context window is memory, tools are system calls, and the prompt is the terminal, video/audio/text are I/O "the llm is a new kind of computer"

@GergelyOrosz Do you have an alternative you're considering for a deepdive?

I was considering a deepdive with Anthropic for a while, but I’m putting it on hold while this crazy talk about wiping out the job market continues. I don’t want to support a company that wants to replace humans at scale and destroy the labor market in the next 12 months.

I generally like Anthropic: but the more they paint a dystopian future where AI “manages” people (“AI middle-managers”) the more I am starting to think they are losing their marbles. LLMs is a tool humans should use. The tail should not wag the dog; Anthropic should know better

This is Clint Eastwood. He's starred in 60+ films, won 4 Oscars, and is directing his 40th movie at 94. His secret? 5 simple rules that keep him sharper than people half his age. Let's break them down: (The 'Eastwood Code' for staying young forever 🧵)

New wallpaper 🌍

The iPhone 16 is coming soon. It will be Apple's biggest release with iOS 18. 10 features you can't miss:

@_akhaliq Is the source code for this available?

Apple presents Ferret-UI Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with

@brettunhandled Definitely right. No question

left or right?

@chmeyer187 @dcinvestor Let me know if you need a tow

@shooley @dcinvestor I look forward to watching you drive around NA Shawn

the attraction to curvature is innately human primal, as the most basic of instincts and its use in product design goes beyond aesthetics, often offering important functional value to improve aerodynamics and strength so now, i must ask, what in the actual F is this?

visionOS: Metal Shaders for SwiftUI is also supported on visionOS💡 - View Modifiers: colorEffect, distortionEffect, and layerEffect - API: developer.apple.com/documentation/… - FYI: RealityKit Custom Shader API [PDF]: developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Re…

#SwiftUI: You can animate an object's center of gravity (anchor) to create a subtle movement, for example, top-bottom or leading-trailing.

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