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@ZarkFiles Didn't NY create a temporary new window in the statute of limitations just so she could bring the case?

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision. That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there. Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level. Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline. The case proceeded anyway. The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence. Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict. An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status. Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

@sweatystartup Are you cleaning the bidet and the toilet bowl often enough?

I know people worth tens of thousands of dollars who don’t use a bidet. They spend time after pooping taking their hand and using paper to smear shit around their body. Make it make sense.

@japan_nobunaga Lol on the AI pictures. Extra extra extra firm tofu held by grandma there.

There's a TV show in Japan that has run for over 30 years. The premise: a parent sends their two or three-year-old child on an errand. Alone. To the store. To buy tofu. Across actual streets. A camera crew follows secretly, hidden, never helping, as a tiny human in a backpack completes a task most countries wouldn't let a child attempt. The kid cries. The kid forgets. The kid gets distracted by a dog. And then the kid comes home, holding the tofu, glowing. It's the most-watched thing of its kind in the country. Americans who discover it cannot believe it's legal. In Japan, we cannot believe it's remarkable.

@Ofanaf1 @aakashgupta To avoid the eventual huge EU fine of over-stating the rating.

@aakashgupta Okay but why would they rate the iPad mini with a E, that sort of destroys the whole argument

Apple gave itself the worst possible rating. On purpose. And the strategy is smarter than anyone's giving them credit for. The EU started requiring energy labels on all phones and tablets in June 2025. A to G scale, just like your refrigerator. Covers energy efficiency, drop resistance, repairability, water resistance. Apple's iPhones qualified for an "A" on energy efficiency by their own testing. They voluntarily submitted a "B." Three iPad lines, the standard iPad, the Pro, and the Air, all got "G." The literal worst score on the chart. The iPad mini scraped an "E." Apple then published a 44-page document explaining exactly why they downgraded themselves. The EU's testing protocols contain ambiguous language on surface materials for drop tests, interpretation of battery workload measurements, and standardization of efficiency calculations. Apple's argument: if a third-party lab interprets the rules differently and scores them lower than what Apple claimed, the PR damage is worse than just taking the hit upfront. Read that again. Apple would rather display the worst energy rating in its own stores than risk someone else giving them a bad grade they didn't control. That tells you everything about how Apple thinks about brand. They don't optimize for the score. They optimize for narrative control. A self-assigned G is a protest. A third-party G is a verdict. The 44-page document is the actual product here. Apple is betting that the technical community reads it, that journalists cover the controversy, and that the label system loses credibility before it gains consumer trust. They're speed-running the refrigerator-label playbook: comply loudly, complain publicly, let the regulator defend a system that rates a $1,299 iPad Pro the same as the cheapest Android tablet on the shelf. The EU projected these labels would save consumers €20 billion by 2030. Apple just made sure every tech outlet is writing about how the ratings are unreliable instead.

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share. “Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count. First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you. Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would. Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands. Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick. Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you. The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

@The_AI_Investor Well, a big show next week? A new local HQ campus?

Wonder what Jensen has been cooking so much in Asia lately: It is also about who controls the supply chain before everyone else realizes it is scarce. TSMC 3nm may be the next major AI bottleneck. TrendForce says AI chips will largely transition from 4nm to 3nm between 2H 2025 and 2026. At the same time, high-end smartphone and PC chips have not broadly moved to 2nm yet. So a lot of high-compute demand will crowd into 3nm in a very short window. Samsung and Intel are still behind TSMC in 3nm foundry capability, which means TSMC effectively controls the scarce supply. TrendForce expects global 3nm capacity to surpass 5/4nm by the end of 2026. By 2027, 3nm could become the second-largest key process node after 28nm. But the bottleneck is not only wafers. CoWoS, substrates, PCBs, HBM, SSDs, T-glass, packaging equipment and raw materials are all becoming strategic resources. NVIDIA saw this early and reserved large amounts of wafer, packaging and component capacity ahead of others. That may be one of the most under-appreciated parts of NVIDIA’s moat.

@yunta_tsai Better be a good Skynet.

If an AI needs to explore the universe, it must self-improve without beaming data back to training clusters and waiting days or months for the next checkpoints. It needs to self-learn as it goes and survive.

@yunta_tsai The plan should then be model specific. Agent should note this in the plan. Even better, agent should provide for the contingency of model change and action plan on that eventuality.

Tip: If you have a daily workflow you want to automate, ask the agent to write down the steps so it can faithfully execute it every time. It is an extension of its skills. It may take some iterations to reach deterministic results, but it’s worth the effort. In my private repo, I have more plans than code. You should, however, make sure to write a unit test against your plans so that when the model changes it does not catch you off guard.

@wholemars Must be easy to install

So excited to see this becoming the standard for commercial air travel in the US

@JohnTinsman There are ooperating costs too

XAI spent $3-4 billion on Colossus I They are leasing it out for $45 bil of 3 years to Anthropic!!! AM I THE ONLY ONE PAYING ATTENTION. THATS THE BEST ROI EVER!

On route to Washington DC to testify for the first time in the United States Senate. I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God 🙏❤️👊

@JHS19701 @JCChristopher Disconnect vehicle wifi before bed?

We got our Starlink Mini on Friday right before a road trip up to Santa Barbara and Morro Bay, CA. It has been really great when cell signal is bad up in the mountains. We did learn not to leave it plugged in overnight in the Model Y with the WiFi still connected. It proceeded to upload 25GB of FSD data while we slept. Our monthly plan only has 100 GB. 😂

The Starlink section of Best Buy in Humble, TX today. I would say Starship flight 12 went pretty well!

@squawksquare Ferrari is for those middle aged crisis men with money. If you want peace, comfort, easy to get in and out, quiet, it is not for you. That's why many Ferrari and expensive sport cars have low mileage. Not practical for daily use.

I’m sorry but $650k for a Ferrari EV? I love Ferrari but I’d rather spend $650k on a SF90 Straddle. $tsla.

@farzyness Airport people movers, shuttles, buses, etc. Autonomous mass transit. This is autonomy of @TeslaSemi class vehicles.

There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.

@SinoopyS @japan_nobunaga Open carry and conceal carry. Each state has own rules. Big cities also have their own rules. Most mass shootings are in the gun-free zones because the bad guys know they would encounter minimal / no resistance.

Correct, you could see someone with a shotgun slung over their shoulder in a grocery store buying oranges or something. Its not usual in rural areas. The main difference in cities is that guns are typically concealed. This gives the impression to some people that the guns don't exist which is the purpose. That doesn't mean the guns aren't there... you just can't see them.

Hello from Japan 🇯🇵👋 I have a question for Americans 🇺🇸🙋 I've never seen a real gun in my life. Only in anime and movies. Is it true that Americans sometimes see guns at stores like Walmart? In Japan, we only see them on TV. Is that normal in America? 🤔

@is_OwenLewis @SawyerMerritt Last time Elon tried to reduce waste and fraud in the federal government, many got really mad. That crypto account may be trying to drive engagement.

@SawyerMerritt Plus obviously it's not as simple as "just throw money at it." If it was, government, for all their incompetence, would have solved problems like poverty years ago.

Elon’s companies create far more value for society than if he simply donated his wealth (which is mostly tied up in Tesla & SpaceX stock) to charities: • Neuralink: Brain-implant technology aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities, enabling users to control computers and robotic arms using their thoughts. Soon, they'll release their new Blindsight chip, while will enable blind people to see. • Tesla: Accelerating the world toward a sustainable future and saving lives with self-driving cars • Starlink: Bringing internet connectivity to remote areas worldwide • The Boring Company: Reducing traffic & travel time • And more

@elonmusk @XFreeze The comparative short orbit life in LEO requires a consistent replacement of Starlink satellites. Many advantages of LEO, but it has a potential continuity issue if replacement satellites are disrupted somehow.

There will also ultimately be >100k V3/V4/V5 satellites for Starlink broadband and direct to cellphone connectivity. If growth continues, Starlink will one day carry the majority of Internet traffic. At that point, it is the Internet and everything else just connects to Starlink.

Starlink V3 is a massive capacity leap From SpaceX’s S-1: Starlink V2 • Launched February 2023 • 96 Gbps downlink capacity Starlink V3 • Launch targeted for 2026 • 1,024 Gbps downlink capacity That is roughly a 10.7× jump This is the next phase of Starlink: • More bandwidth • More capacity • More users served • More global connectivity V2 helped scale Starlink to 9,600+ satellites and ~10.3M subscribers. V3 looks like the layer that pushes Starlink from “satellite internet” closer to true global broadband infrastructure

Conducted 2 technical interviews today. Reminded me how serious of a task this is. You get to decide potentially the next n number of years the person you are interviewing within the span of 30 minutes or so. I have nothing but hate towards those who conduct interviews without a care asking dumb leetcode hard questions they themselves couldn’t solve if the shoe was on the other foot.