A startup called Rainmaker says its drones produced about... 19 million gallons of rain over Alaska in just three hours, by releasing tiny silver iodide particles into clouds. The number is the company's own estimate, based on radar and modeling. Critics point out that rain was already falling naturally at the time, so how much of that water was truly created by the drones is still an open question.show more

The UAE has successfully tested artificial rain technology in... the desert at 50°C. As reported by Business Insider, in the United Arab Emirates, to combat the 50-degree heat, they intend to use drones to make it rain. This method is known as "cloud seeding". The UAE has used drones that strike clouds with an electric current, which provokes them into a collision and precipitation.show more

Woke up to severe rain before 5am this morning.... Got a flash flood alert about 6:00. What is falling from the sky right now? It’s more than just water. It’s easy to see with the naked eye but trying to capture it on video is not easy. You might think everything is just a rain drop but these small particles aren’t falling like the rain is, more like floating to the ground. If it was winter I might assume it’s snow but it’s not. On this clip everything that looks like a line is rain. Watch the speed it falls and compare it to the small particles that are traveling much slower. Some of the small bits are flying sideways and up. That’s not rain.show more

The flood affected me so bad that I was... traumatised by the sound of rain for days. I couldn’t go to the office or attend some meetings. Disappointed clients! My son couldn’t also go to school for a whole week, and the time he managed to go, we had to go drop and pick him by walking through the water that wasn’t flowing. The days I was able to go out or it’s important to, I had to follow trailers and trucks just to cross the water. No bike, no bolt or anything to come around. My car was also badly damaged by water because I drove it through the water. In fact, I spent so much that I got angry yesterday when I was asked to pay another money to fix something again that was damaged by water. We had to buy a pumping or draining machine to start draining the water into the coastal road drainage which became a waste of money and effort because the rain was just back to back. My plan is now to just move out of this location, despite having 8months lefts in rent, to a better on, free from flood and stagnant waters.show more

talking about the 00z bringing the rain😆🐉 🦊you should’ve... been born just a little later 🥟yahh (rain) even without kim seungmin? 🥟theres definitely be something to it..its definitely not because of kim seungmin..now out of these four, minus kim seungmin, theres a problem among the other three..if one of the 00z line is out and it doesn’t rain? then that one was the problem lmaoooshow more

"a lot is said in the cockpit at the... end of a race fueled by adrenaline and some of your comments about the vsc timing.." lando: "none of that was adrenaline, that was just facts"show more

Headlines were made when Western Union embraced stablecoins last... week. Today, that story continues with Rain. If you think of stablecoins as the water, Rain is the pipes and taps that make them usable. Rain is integrating its infrastructure with the Western Union Digital Asset Network so that customers can convert onchain balances into local cash payouts at participating Western Union locations. Faster, more efficient settlement is only half the solution. Real-world usability—powered by Rain—turns digital dollars into everyday spending power for millions.show more

Putin on Greenland: "It would be a great mistake... to believe that this is just some eccentric talk of the new American administration. Nothing of the kind in fact ... let me remind you that by 1869 the American papers laughed at the purchase of Alaska. The deal was called a folly."show more

Chinese Swarm Drone Systems: 48 and 96 Drones Some... time ago, I wrote about the evolution of autonomous systems and how only the Chinese were truly making progress in this field. After starting serial production of the Swarm-2, which features 48 drones and real-time tracking, they are now testing a version with 96 drones. These are divided into three categories: reconnaissance, jamming, and attack. Each drone can carry a variety of payloads, including electro-optical reconnaissance, strike munitions, and relay communications. They can be flexibly combined into different operational groupings, forming multifunctional swarms capable of complex missions. These drones have an individual range of 15 to 50 km, but the manufacturer claims that by maintaining a swarm network communication, this range is significantly extended. This strongly reinforces what we discussed a while back: that future wars will be dominated by drone systems that will severely delay any ground troop advancement, as already evidenced by the conflict in Ukraine.show more

What a delight! Ukrainian sea drones strike Russia’s “shadow... fleet” Ukrainian media report that SBU Sea Baby maritime drones hit Russian tankers from the so-called “shadow fleet” in the Black Sea. It is claimed to be a joint operation by the SBU and Ukraine’s Naval Forces. Footage of the attack has already appeared online. And that’s not all! Russian oil exports through Novorossiysk have been completely halted — the drones disabled one of the key terminals of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. The CPC confirmed that the single-point mooring system used for loading oil was seriously damaged after the night attack. No casualties were reported: protection systems shut off the pipeline in time, so according to preliminary information, there was no leak. The company says the facility can no longer operate, and tankers have already left the terminal area.show more

sorry, they just did WHAT someone gave a machine... one disease name, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world with 1.5 million americans already in its path, and it came back pointing at a drug that has sat in pharmacies for years under a different label: 551 papers read in 30 minutes against the 294 hours a human would have needed, and the loop that did it is public on GitHub most agent setups answer one question at a time, so the ceiling on the work is the quality of the question you happened to think of this one was handed a single question and wrote the second one itself. turns out that follow-up is where the real find was: a target called ABCA1, upregulated threefold, in an experiment no human ordered i read the whole paper looking for the trick, and the trick is structural. that is the second question, and it is the gap between an assistant and a factory: - hand the loop a field rather than a task: it was given a disease, and choosing the mechanism was part of its job - make it rank before it spends: 151 papers in, ten candidate mechanisms out, scored against each other before anything touched a bench - split reading from judging, so the agent that forms the theory is a different agent from the one grading it - close every cycle on physical reality: the verdict was an experiment, and another model's opinion was never allowed to stand in for one - feed each result back as the next question rather than a log line, which is the step almost nobody builds - search what already passed inspection first: the winner was an approved compound with a safety file already on record - write down what the round learned before opening the next one, so round two starts where round one stopped my read, and i think it is the uncomfortable one: reading was the entire bottleneck in that field, and everybody spent the decade optimising the writing. people ran every physical experiment here, the analysis agent needs a domain expert writing its prompts, and the authors decline to call this the leap it resembles. the thinking got replaced, and the hands did not so the question i cannot answer for my own setup: which step of your loop still stops dead until you sit down and type something bookmark this one. the four parts that turn one model into a line that runs like this, the queue, the rooms, the write permissions and the gate, are built file by file in the piece below ↓show more

Footage released by Russian Forces in Eastern Ukraine show... that Electronic-Warfare Units were able to Down 1 out of the 15 Boeing Insitu “ScanEagle” Surveillance Drones provided to Ukraine by the U.S. in Late 2022; each Drone with its “Sensor Payload” is worth between $500,000 and $1 Million with an entire System including 4 Drones, a Control Station/Terminal, and the Launch System being worth $4-5 Million.show more

Thank you to our Armed Forces. 🇦🇪 We are... proud of you. Iran fired over 2,000 missiles and drones at the UAE. The interception rate on ballistic missiles: ~92%. On drones: ~94%. Out of 314 ballistic missiles - 301 destroyed or fell into the sea. Out of 1,672 drones - over 1,580 intercepted. But consider what that number could have been without the people who stood between this city and everything that was thrown at it. The UAE absorbed more projectiles than Israel. More than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain combined. And life continued. Restaurants open. Roads full. People are happy! That doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because of Armed Forces of UAE. Safest country on earth. Now you know why. 🇦🇪show more

Op shared that taehyung’s Rolling Stone magazine was completely... sold out at her nearest store in the USA, which is why she couldn’t even take a video of it. this really says everything about his reach and influence. He’s loved by so many and truly the King of Sold Outshow more

Sold 32 coins. Bought 1,550. 48 times more, at... a 15% discount, into the crash the market blamed on the sale. Strategy disclosed today that while everyone panicked over its $2.5 million Bitcoin sale, it was quietly buying the dip that panic created. 1,550 Bitcoin for $101 million, at $65,332 a coin, far below the $77,135 it sold for and below its own cost basis. The bears called the sale the first crack, a forced liquidation, the start of the death spiral. The answer was a buy 48 times the size of the sale that scared them. This is the machine we described: a state-contingent allocator. Above its funding line, it turns market access into Bitcoin. The sale was the exception. The buy is the rule. It also closed the question the sale opened. The cash reserve behind the preferred dividends had thinned to $900 million, about six months of cover. He rebuilt it to $1 billion in the same week. But watch how, because that is the real story. He funded none of it with coins. He funded it with $181 million of freshly issued stock, then spent it on Bitcoin and the reserve. The coins were never the funding source. The equity is. That is the flywheel working exactly as built, and the cost of it surfacing at the same time. Every turn now runs on issuing shares, and the premium that once made each share buy more Bitcoin than it diluted has compressed hard. He bought low. He sold his own stock low to do it. So the question quietly turns. It was never whether Saylor sells his Bitcoin. He just proved again that he buys far more than he sells. It is what each turn of the engine now costs in dilution, and how long the market keeps paying a premium worth that cost. He bought the dip. The dip was partly his own making. And he paid for it in equity, not coins.show more

CW: Suicide This is really bizarre — is this... a video of Jeffrey Epstein attempting to take his own life? In the Epstein files, there is this short video that is dated on the day he was found dead, is time-stamped just a couple of hours before he was found dead, and has “J. Epstein” on it. The problem is, we’ve always been told by the DOJ that there was no camera in his cell. Video on the left, and an image from a 60 Minutes story about his suicide on the right. DOJ Link: H/T Riley Walzshow more

🇷🇺🇲🇩 Russian Shahed/Geran-long OWA-UAV violated the airspace of Moldova... on Wednesday. The drone was spotted over several Moldovan settlements, inluding the city of Bălți, flying as deep as 50 kilometers into the country's airspace. The incident was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of Moldova, which noted in its statement that the Shahed disappeared and reappeared on the radar a number of times.show more