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I was talking with a generative art collector and realized that over the past years I've built a number of things that are not easy to find, and even when found, they are not presented the way I want them to be. Well, here is this Sunday's project: art.vrypan.net

@PublicProof Don't we all?

I still use a folder called Dropbox even though I haven’t subscribed to the service in over a decade.

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just built a headless browser from scratch that makes Chrome look like a joke for AI agents. It's called Lightpanda. Bookmark it for later. Not a Chromium fork. Not a WebKit patch. A completely new browser written from zero in Zig with one purpose: headless performance for machines. Here's the problem right now: Every AI agent doing web automation is running Chrome under the hood. A full desktop browser with CSS rendering, GPU compositing, image decoding, font rasterization. All of it running on a server. For an agent that will never see a single pixel. You're paying for 100% of Chrome and using 20% of it. Lightpanda strips out everything your agent doesn't need and keeps everything it does: → Full JavaScript execution via V8: Ajax, Fetch, SPAs, infinite scroll, dynamic content → HTML parsing via html5ever (Mozilla's battle-tested parser) → Custom DOM engine built in Zig → No CSS layout. No image decoder. No GPU compositor. No font rasterizer → Built-in MCP server for direct AI agent integration The benchmarks are brutal: → 100-page scrape: Chrome takes 25.2 seconds. Lightpanda does it in 2.3 seconds → Peak memory: Chrome uses 207MB. Lightpanda uses 24MB → At scale: 140 concurrent Lightpanda sessions fit in the same RAM as 9 Chrome sessions → At 100 tabs, Chrome takes over an hour. Lightpanda finishes in under 5 seconds Still in Beta and Web API coverage is growing. But the founder built this after running 20 million Chrome crawls per day at his previous company and watching the infrastructure costs pile up. 100% Opensource. AGPL-3.0. (Link in the comments)

🚨🇫🇷 NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck [@lemondefr]

I think I finally figured out why OpenClaw is amazing and took off like wild fire and why Peter is a genius, as Altman called him. And it's actually a different way of looking at it. It's not a DeepSeek moment for agents. It's a Napster moment. And just like Napster it will eventually force the industry to change. In essence when Napster came out the entire world told the music industry we don't want to buy CDs anymore and if you don't provide us a digital download experience we are just going to take it until you do. It forced the industry to create Apple Music and eventually Spotify. Both essentially killed most music piracy by making it ubiquitous and cheap and good. But it forced change. The same will now happen to software. Here's why: In essence OpenClaw lets you take what vendors don't want to give you: Unified access to countless applications. We all want a personal assistant that can talk to freaking everything and do anything for us in the digital world. But vendors don't want this. They want you locked into their bullshit. For example, none of the messaging platforms want bots on there. None. They all have explicit policies against them and make it hard to do this. WhatsApp doesn't want you on there. Signal. Telegram's bot father is garbage. It's all designed to keep bots out. They were designed for a pre-agentic era when bot = spam. Many other things are like this. The API layers are gated, hoop-jumping bullshit. Go get an enterprise account and wait for approval and yada yada. Want access to WhatsApp? Get a business account and attach a number (what small business has a real number anymore 😂) and messages can't come from a person, etc. Google ads? It's not just an auth, it's go get a special manager account and create an enterprise key and blah blah blah. It's a horrible experience because it was all designed for corporations to control access. Now people are saying, make your app easy to access and accessible to me and my machine avatars and do it in a headless way or you will be dead. Peter hacked around all this by making everything command line in the classic Linux style and using things like an open source library that reverse engineered the web version of WhatsApp. It's all a bit house-of-cards-y because he had no choice. At my company we had a similar idea early (and failed). Basically we wanted to make the best multimodal/computer using model because then it doesn't need an API or access hoops. You just go through the human interface layer and ain't nobody going to stop you. We failed because we weren't big enough and it's really a job for the mega-labs to solve because it is a hard problem and costs a shit ton of money. Peter was much smarter. Make it all command line because that is ready now. Use any reverse engineered library or project or proxy available come Hell or high water and make it work by any means necessary even if it is hacky. In short, he signaled to the software world that they better change and change fast or we are going to do this anyway and you can't stop us. Of course some are foolishly trying. Meta is banning Claws on WhatsApp, etc. They will all try to build their own gated, controlled, enshittified version of this thing. They will fail. And eventually everyone will offer a clear, easy way to get access via API for agents or they will be gone. In essence OpenClaw gave people what they wanted, which was an app connected to everything, even when most of the vendors don't want you to have this.

Custom LLM models trained on datasets like policy frameworks, regulatory texts, and administrative procedures can be a huge benefit for citizens. mistral.ai/news/forge @Europarl_EL? @govgr?

incredible seeing the SEC cite @ensdomains as a premiere example of a legitimate digital tool using blockchain technology 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Naming on the internet is changing. But the rules governing it haven’t caught up. ENS Labs just submitted a public comment to ICANN on “name collisions,” and it highlights a deeper issue with how naming is still being approached. Here’s why it matters. ↓

Redesigning country pages for EurovisionSearch. open.substack.com/pub/eurovision…

awwww, the bully needs help now, that's so cute.

Looking forward to the usual seminar about how free speech works in America. youtube.com/watch?v=gJzW-e…

@PublicProof Try again.

F’n hell only half credit

One of the most damaging consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement was the collapse of the political camp in Iran that supported engagement with the West. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was never an enthusiastic supporter of the deal. In contrast, President Hassan Rouhani consistently advocated for it and ultimately managed—despite resistance from hardline factions, to persuade Khamenei to allow the agreement to move forward. Even at the time, opponents of the deal within Iran warned that the United States would eventually abandon the agreement and betray Iran. The success of the nuclear negotiations became Rouhani’s most important political achievement. Riding on that success, he won reelection in 2017, defeating Ebrahim Raisi and benefiting from widespread public hopes in Iran for gradual change in the country’s relationship with the world and for economic improvement. The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement severely undermined the political standing of Iran’s moderate and pragmatic camp. It validated the arguments of hardliners who had long claimed that the United States could not be trusted, weakening those in Iran who advocated engagement with the West. Today, as Iran faces heightened security pressures and the possibility of war, the environment in which leadership emerges is very different. Rather than leaders shaped by diplomacy and engagement with the international community, the political system is increasingly likely to elevate figures rooted in the security establishment and confrontation with the West. Had the nuclear agreement remained in place, the pool of viable leadership candidates in Iran might have looked very different. #iran

Okay good, let's say the WH planned for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz following the attack. 1. The U.S. sold off its helium reserve before waging a war that they knew would disrupt helium exports to allies, which make computer chips we rely on. Weird decision. 2. The U.S. let oil stockpiles fall to a multi-decade low before waging a war they knew would disrupt oil shipping. Why? 3. The U.S. didn't build any kind of coalition to assist tankers coming under attack in the region, and two weeks into the war they're only now asking allies to reinforce the US Navy. But they knew they'd need to do this for ... "years"? If this is what "a plan" looks like, god forbid we see what unplanned operations look like.

OMG who made this 😭😂🤣

The "black rain" that fell for days in Tehran as a result of air strikes on major Iranian oil storage facilities could have lasting impacts on human health and the environment, according to scientists. abcnews.link/p5yulFn

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power. ft.com/content/34df20…

Trump: The Navy is gone laying at the bottom of the ocean. 46 ships. I got a little upset with the people. I said why didn't we just capture the ship? We could have used it. I said why sink them? He said it's more fun to sink them. They like sinking them better.

Country pages redesign: ✅

@eurovisionjo You rock.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas & home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.