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19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi executed by Iran in a public hanging.
Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi were executed as part of Iran's brutal crackdown on protests.
According to human rights groups, Mohammadi was tortured to confess "to the capital crime of waging war against God."
"His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society," said human rights activist Nima Far.
The protesters were accused by the regime of killing two police officers with knives and swords. They "fast-tracked proceedings that bore no resemblance to a meaningful trial," Amnesty International said.
RIP.
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Made a nice Thursday update for Grok users on Android — Widget now supports more sizes and works much better with Material theming 🧑🎨
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还蛮感动的！一群被狗贩子偷走的狗狗，上演高速生死逃亡 - 几只狗狗先后被狗贩子偷走，本已难逃一死，被拉往很远的地方。 途中在高速上，狗笼意外掉落，那只德牧脚掌受伤，仍拼命咬破受损的笼子，救下了自己和同伴。 劫后余生的它们，结伴踏上返乡路。 德牧负伤跑不快，其他狗狗便一路把它护在队伍中间，彼此照应、艰难逃亡，直到被人发现。 动物之间的友谊尚且如此。。。
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@shanaka86 I remember last helium crunch a decode ago, all my annealing experiments have to be swapped into nitrogen.
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Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it.
Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product.
Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply.
South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops.
SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems.
Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale.
The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks.
The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it.
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@zephyr_z9 This is a sign of self destruction for humanity if humans can
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$40k drones destroy $100 billion in revenue
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JUST IN - Iran's attacks on Qatar have wiped out 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity for up to five years, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue — Reuters
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If MAS is the future of localized computing…who will figure it out first on the intelligence of ant colonies or octopus ?
Tyler Storm@tylervstorm
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent ⚡ Faster than a single agent 🎯 More accurate than four separate single agents The first steps in multi-threading of LLMs.
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People are closer to nature 2000 years ago, those feelings cannot be reproduced with more knowledge or civilization.
Ted@ted_huang
Zhuangzi (莊子) was more philosophical on the universe 宇宙 (space-time): 宇 'Yu' is real space but has no fixed location; 宙 'Zhou' is real continuum but has no beginning or end. Space and time thus manifest the boundless, ungraspable quality of existence
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