Great Linebacker Drills!!!🚨🚨🚨 WHO’S PUTTIN’ WORK THIS SUMMER?!🔥 -... Great footwork - Great change of direction - Lateral bag step overs - Step overs to curve run - Step overs to turn and run - Hurdle cross overs to 45 degree angle drop - Hurdle cross overs to break straight down Trainer: Les Maruo Linebackers University™ Athlete: Les Maruoshow more

Great Linebacker Drills!!!🚨🚨🚨 - Shuffle, sprint, shuffle while staying... squared - Sprint, gather steps, sprint, near steps, burst - Angle hurdle step overs to dip and rip around the corner - Shuffle to shock and rip - Shuffle to dip under and rip - Stack over the blocker Cal Lutheran LB Derek Hurley Derek Hurley Trainer: Linebackers University™ Les Maruo Location: Las Vegas📍show more

Great Linebacker Drills!!!🚨🚨🚨 - Change of direction - Breaking... on the ball - Running at an angle while staying squared - Fast and quick footwork - Sprint to near foot gather steps - Violent strike and shed Coach: Linebackers University™ Athlete: Les Maruo Helmet: VICIS Visor: SHOCVisors Location: Las Vegas📍show more

Arkansas Razorbacks Linebacker Drills!!!🚨🚨🚨 - Great base - Stay... low - Quick feet - Lateral bag step overs while keeping low pad level - Push off with the outside foot to burst forward - Catch the ball out in front - Violent punch while bringing the hips through -Extent your arms out all the way to create separation - Shed and pursuit inside out of the ball carrier - Vice tackle with the sideline - Violent strike, keep your outside arm freeshow more

Oklahoma Sooners Linebacker Drill!!!🚨🚨🚨 Oklahoma Sooners linebackers are working... on 45 degree drops to a break. On the second break finish inside out of the ball carrier and wrap up violently while running your feet through contact. Cone drills are great because it allows the linebackers to see what angles they are dropping/breaking. Oklahoma Football P³³show more

NC State Linebacker Drill!🚨🚨🚨 This drill teaches the linebackers... to not cross over when coming down at an angle. You have no power when your legs are crossed over. You should only cross over when the ball carrier is out of your range. Keeping a good base and staying squared is very important especially when you are taking on a big offensive lineman. It also teaches them to not double tap their feet when they are changing direction. Dig your outside foot on the ground and get out! Notice that they are all staying low and keeping their shoulders squared even when they are coming down at a 45 degree angle. NC State Footballshow more

🚨 JUST IN: FBI just ARRESTED most wanted fraudster... Khalid Ahmed Satary, who fled overseas after orchestrating a $574 MILLION Medicare scheme LFG! Arresting every fraudster is EXACTLY what I voted for 👏🏻 He's been on the run for YEARS. Not any longer 🔥 PATEL: "The arrest of Khalid Ahmed Satary and return to the U.S. is the third Most Wanted Fraudster capture from this FBI and our partners in just 5 weeks – continuing the historic run of success for this new initiative." "Satary was indicted in 2019 on charges on Health Care Fraud Conspiracy, allegedly stealing $547 million from 2016-2019 by fraudulently billing Medicare for expensive and medically unnecessary genetic tests, using deceptive marketing campaigns, illegal kickbacks, and bribes." "Satary has been on the run since 2022, but we got him thanks to great work and coordination from the interagency and our overseas partners." FBI Director Kash Patelshow more

A CLARION CALL TO DUTY 🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️ Dear Mallam Nasir... Ahmad El-Rufai First of all let me express my sincere condolences to you over the demise of our father Baba Buhari as we continue to pray that Allah in His infinite wisdom forgive all his shortcomings and grant him Aljanna Firdaus 🙏 It is with deep sense of responsibility that I write this short request to you as a core Buharist and as someone that has always admired your courage and your love for Nigeria The mantle of leadership of the Buharists has naturally fallen on your shoulders, you must as a matter of urgency galvanize/mobilize the base of Baba Buhari across Nigeria as our new leader This is without prejudice to other senior Buharists across the length and breadth of this great country, in the South South, South East and South West A huge vacuum has been created following the demise of Baba Buhari and nature they say abhors a vacuum All authentic Buharists of all ages, religion and gender, at home and in diaspora are craving for a new leader, that is a huge section of the Nigerian population Like Baba Buhari you are never going to be loved by those who didn’t love him but like the legend you will overcome them In fact you have already inherited all the insults directed towards PMB before his death despite your role in making Tinubu the president of Nigeria Having said that, you should also take consolation in the fact that despite the hatred towards Baba Buhari from a particular section of the population many patriots in the SW, SS, SE still showed him some love I am 100% sure there are also a large numbers of authentic Buharists and patriotic Nigerians in the SS,SW & SE that acknowledge your contribution to the development of Nigeria On the important question of who will lead the North, we will cross the bridge when we get there, there is surely a generational shift following the death of Baba Buhari, again this is without prejudice to all our leaders in the North Before entering politics and public service you’ve had a very successful career in the private sector as a Quantity Surveyor and you also did great stuffs in other areas Meaning you had and still have address outside politics You attended the prestigious Barewa College Zaria, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Harvard University, Georgetown University, University of London among others based on public records In the public service space your records are unmatched among your peers and among older generation of politicians from the North to the South Governor of Kaduna State 8 years, FCT Minister 4 years, DG Bureau of Public Enterprises, economic advisor to General Abdulsalami Abubakar for the president’s think tank of technocrats to decouple/demilitarize public administration in 1998 among so many other positions that you have held You’ve had huge influence in the formation of political parties among which is APC Nigeria that dislodged a sitting government in 2015 These are huge achievements and I can say boldly you represent that change/break many Northerners and Nigerians so urgently desire You are more than qualified to lead Buharists, Northern Nigeria and indeed Nigeria at this point in time We have no regrets being Buharists and somehow me must institutionalize the ideologies and philosophies of Baba Buhari for the future generationsshow more

🚨Ben Stokes SPEAKS: Why he Had To Retire From... England🚨 Stuart Broad🗣️: "Stokesy, how have you made peace with retiring right now when everyone thought you’d lead us into the 2027 Ashes?" Ben Stokes🗣️: "Honestly Broady, I’ve given so much of my heart and soul to the captaincy role. When I looked ahead, I was constantly asking myself, 'How am I going to survive until 2027?' It reached a point where I wasn't just physically cooked from over-training, but mentally drained. I didn't want to play for England if I wasn't the captain, and at 35, I was completely at peace walking away." Jos Buttler🗣️: "Was there a single moment during the summer where you felt it was time?" Ben Stokes🗣️: "At Lord's, after we won an epic match, I realized I was more excited to go and face the press media than to celebrate with the lads in the dressing room. That’s when it hit me—this isn't me anymore. The joy of playing for England was getting swallowed by external noise and non-stop duty. My wife Claire told me recently that for the first time in years, I'm actually mentally present at home with my kids." Stuart Broad🗣️: "What about the rumors of you and Baz McCullum falling out before he was sacked?" Ben Stokes🗣️: "Total rubbish! Baz and I are great mates. We would have heated, detailed cricket debates in the dressing room, and because people aren't used to seeing two guys disagree and then laugh over a drink five minutes later, the media created this huge narrative. In fact, if I hadn't made my decision to step down, Baz would still be the Test coach today."show more

I went a little overboard with Codex last week... and burned through my entire weekly allowance in two days. Luckily, my quota reset today. Otherwise, I’m not sure what I would’ve done. It got me thinking: instead of asking one large model to handle everything from start to finish, why not let a stronger model plan the project and review the work, while a model built for execution handles the day-to-day implementation? So I tried it. The result was better than I expected. I used GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex as the decision-maker, then ran Ling-3.0-flash from Ant Ling inside OpenCode as the execution engine. Together, they built a small 3D farming game. Before writing any code, I had Codex create four documents: SPEC.md defined the product scope and the lines we couldn’t cross. ARCHITECTURE.md laid out the isometric coordinate system, state machine, and module boundaries. TASKS.md broke the project into small jobs Ling could tackle one at a time. ACCEPTANCE.md explained how each step would be tested and what “done” actually meant. Then I gave Ling a very straightforward role: You are the execution model for this project. Read all four documents before you begin. Work only on the task assigned for this round. When you’re done, run typecheck, test, and build. If anything fails, read the error, fix it, and run the checks again. Do not move on to the next task early. Ling handled dependency installation, project structure, strict TypeScript configuration, test setup, and a production build in 6 minutes and 3 seconds. It ran into issues with the Vite test config, a TS6310 error, and a missing jsdom dependency along the way. Instead of stopping at the first error, it kept reading the logs and fixing the problems until all three checks passed. The speed was honestly hard to believe. If you exclude the time spent waiting on tools, it was producing more than 100 tokens per second. That made the whole development loop feel noticeably faster. After this experiment, I’m planning to keep using the same workflow. If the task is small, there’s no reason to call an expensive planning model for every single step. If the task is large, handing the entire project to a Flash model in one prompt isn’t a great idea either. The setup that makes more sense to me is: Use a more capable model such as Codex to explore the project, make architectural decisions, and break the work down. Put the constraints into specs, schemas, types, and tests instead of leaving them buried in chat history. Give Ling-3.0-flash a steady stream of clear, verifiable implementation tasks. Report bugs with structured context and actual error logs, rather than saying, “It still doesn’t work.” Bring Codex back in for architecture reviews, visual checks, and changes that affect multiple parts of the project. The point of this setup isn’t to give AI a big “build the whole project” button. It’s to turn software development into a pipeline with a much more sensible cost structure: Codex figures out the plan, sets the boundaries, and catches problems. Ling-3.0-flash moves quickly, calls tools reliably, and works through well-defined tasks at scale. For agent workflows that involve lots of repetitive edits, production tasks, and tool calls, this may be a more practical answer than simply using the biggest model for everything.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump said Putin called... to congratulate him on Middle East peace and hinted it could lead to an end of the Ukraine war. The pair agreed to meet in Hungary, aiming to negotiate an end to the war. 2.⁠ VP Vance said Russia and Ukraine are still not close enough to get a deal: "For all of our work - and we're going to keep on working at it - the Russians and the Ukrainians are just not at the point where they can make a deal. I do think that we will eventually get there." 3.⁠ India is cutting Russian oil purchases in half following trade talks with the White House, according to a senior US official. Catch the fine print: the cuts won't show up in official data until December or January since refiners already locked in November cargoes. 4.⁠ Venezuelan officials floated a deal: Maduro would step down… in 3 years, handing power to his VP Delcy Rodriguez (who wouldn’t run again). The White House shut it down, calling Maduro’s regime illegitimate and accusing it of running a narco-state. 5.⁠ Israel says Hamas can return a “double-digit” number of deceased hostages - but isn’t. Only 9 bodies have been returned under the U.S-brokered deal, while 19 remain. Israel now considers this a “fundamental breach” of the ceasefire agreement. 6.⁠ Kai Trump launched her YouTube era with “1 on 1 with Kai” - featuring 18 holes, drone shots, hot mics, and Grandpa... aka “45 and 47.” She drops bombs off the tee, breaks down her 60° wedge strategy, and casually roasts his fairway bunker game. 7.⁠ A Polish court will decide whether to extradite Ukrainian diver Volodymyr Z. to Germany over alleged involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. Prime Minister Donald Tusk opposes the transfer, saying it’s not in Poland’s interest. 8.⁠ Ukrainian drones struck the Gvardeyskoye fuel depot in Russian-occupied Crimea, setting the facility ablaze. The depot supplied fuel to a large portion of the peninsula, disrupting one of Moscow’s key supply routes in the region. 9.⁠ Federal prosecutors charged Los Angeles developers Steven Taylor and Cody Holmes for allegedly stealing millions meant for homeless housing projects. Taylor flipped a Cheviot Hills property to a nonprofit tied to former state senator Kevin Murray for a $16 million profit. Holmes, meanwhile, used $2.2 million in public housing funds to pay luxury credit card bills. 10.⁠ NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani blasted Trump for threatening to deploy the National Guard to New York: “I agree with Police Commissioner Tish that we do not need the National Guard here in New York City. What New Yorkers need is a mayor who can stand up to Donald Trump and actually deliver on safety."show more

Self organisation is for LAZY coaches! Elite coaches should... verbalise all of the nuances of detail to maximise the performance of their athletes. Video analysis should provide you with all of the granular data so that you can make minute analysis and provide the most specific cues for each step in the sprint. 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥 At the end of last the summer I reached to Frans Bosch to bug him on all things sprinting. It’s been 3/4 years since we had spoken last so it was very refreshing to talk about what I had been witnessing whilst analysing footballers. Somethings that I learnt from him over a decade ago and have consistently used to maximise speed skills. 1) “take the arms out of the running cycle and the body will need to self organise in order to avoid over rotation and thus keep the abdominals in the sweet spot” 2) “Run bouncy with excellent co contractions between hip, knee and ankle will keep the hamstring in the sweet spot, reducing strain” 3) “Stabilise running technique by clarifying how to PROJECT , SWITCH AND REACT (PSR) over increasing amounts of velocity, vectors and variations of instability” 🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬 I took the concept of PSR directly from the heuristics of dpfaff 15 years ago. A man who gives and gives and gives and gives some more. Dan let me bug him for months, write my thesis on him, then I got to stalk him daily for 3 years in the build up to the 2012 Olympics. Coaching the PSR pillers became a very helpful way of reducing the clutter of technical jargon and degrees of freedom. It focused my coaching eye and created a shared language for athletes, therapists and non technical coaches. ⚽️🏉🏈🏟️🥅🎾🏏🏐🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾🏃🏽‍♂️ 3 years ago I started working with Ryan Grubbs before he joined the NFL. Ryan and I put our heads together to create a system that would reduce the friction for coaches wanting to coach more efficient movement . We downloaded our brains in to a range of decision trees and algorithms and then began to support teams through our joint venture Speed Solutions We provide a unique macroscopic analysis of intense game actions (acceleration, deceleration , change of direction and max velocity). All data is visualised and compared athletes of a similar level within our data base. We have stood on the shoulders of great academic work of Ryu Nagahara Helen Bayne James Wild and Ken Clark, PhD and then layered in our experiences coaching the best athletes and players from around the world. 🤳🎥👾💻🖥️🧑‍💻📉📊📈 vuemotion provide us with the data and Speed Solutions provides us with the insight. Self organisation is a concept built for lazy coaches like me. Measure what matters. Coach the PSR PILLERS Design a training environment that challenges skill stability. Then Measure again. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕 This was longer than I planned (I am sick stuck in bed) , so well done if you made it this far. Drop me a question video analysis using, lazy coaching or building Olympic level Speed Skills.show more

A very good morning. Welcome to The Council Benji... This marks the third Skull in a little run. The first went to a fund I've never met. The second: through Eli Scheinman to a new collector/foundation who has been quietly entering the space in a very significant way across a number of collections whom I’ve never spoken to. Their new entrance enabled a wedding and start of a new married life for Conviction. In my very first conversation with him, we spoke about curses and commitments to the people we love. Since meeting got to talk through each step on that path, from letting go, what is imbued in the ring and ceremony of it all, a proposal, and on the way to the most important of the steps in pursuit of a blessed life. It is easy to get a little cynical on the over-leveraged exit stories that spring up from time to time, so it is a treat to watch one go towards a celebration that’s been building up in his life since the Skull was first acquired. And now: this. The third Skull and the first I can really write about as a shared story across both source and destination. An exit and an entrance. The exit: The Skulls of Luci were awarded as gifts 4 years ago. But before I'd minted Birth of Luci or painted the other 49, the first person in this space I showed the sketch of The Blueprint Skull to was actually Casey💎, when he was working at SuperRare . Casey was the very first person who onboarded me to NFTs, helping me navigate the early days of whatever it meant to even mint something. I explained the idea of gifting one to each person who bid in my first auctions. Though most of the Skulls went to the bidders, Casey's didn't. He didn't ask for one. I didn't tell him I'd give him one. But he helped me take my first steps here, and it's hard to imagine any of this making sense, or unfolding the way it has, without him. Since then, we've broken bread across continents, seen quite a lot of chortling margarita consumption, watched the rise and fall of a lot around us, weathered inter-Council dramas. He brought Laura El into The Monument Game, played as a Player, wore a Mask. Most of the vibe that started all of this, the wild west of it, feels faded in the broader space at times. But every Skull has a story and a person who helped us get here. Casey will always be the one who was there before any metric muddled the reason to care. The entrance: Last fall, Benji came over for a studio visit. We walked through Luci, the works, structure, and dream, as anyone who visits does. But we mostly talked about being a father and having a father. We discussed the very idea of "collection" stripped of accumulation, value, or signal, located more in the act or ceremony of it. What it was to grow up with a curious father who studied the edges of each thing he saw to know the next layer beneath why anyone might look or ignore it. That to pass this on is to pass on questioning, more than it is to pass on any kind of answer. The process of collecting can be perceived as an individual act of hoarding. For some it is maybe. But at its best, it's a way to bind through shared questioning, to bond in cooperation and competition with friends and family, it is the swapped story and meme of it all, and each object gathered along the way carries some shared memory that can, often does, and with intent: should; drift out of the object entirely. All in the psalm, always has been. The studio visit came and went. Soon after, a package arrived in the mail with two of the softest stuffed animals added to my daughter's own collection, now among her favorites. The Skull is a bonus to that, in the scheme of shared memory. For Rachel and I, while we are heads down making a body of work that unsettles us and excites us but demands unknown time to accomplish, it means a great deal to have this kind of support from long term people in the quiet process of making work we want to leave behind ourselves. Enormously grateful to Casey for the many years of support and friendship, to Benny for being a true patron, and to Benji for entering the arena for what I'm working on next. Welcome.show more

Instead of just talking about it, I wanted to... go through it and really break it down to figure out the exact reason for the difference in Jalen Duren's play between the regular season and the playoffs. *LONG BREAKDOWN COMING* First, lets list how much the difference was: Iso in RS: 82nd %ile Iso in PS: 21st %ile Post-ups in RS: 88th %ile Post-ups in PS: 59th %ile PPP on drives in RS: 1.18 ppp PPP on drives in PS: 0.80 Layups in RS: 79th %ile Layups in PS: 19th %ile It was a staggering drop off. Shocking to many of us who watched him all season. So, what happened? Well, #1 I think mentally he was letting his struggles get to him and he started to play out of control. Something that suggests this to me is this stat: He started to figure some things out himself in isolation over the last 2 games against the Cavs. He had six isolation possessions in the final two games against the Cavs; he scored on five of those possessions and drew a foul on the other. Game 6 he started to look confident and really made them pay out of isolation. I really think a ton of it was he got hit with a punch early against ORL and really struggled to handle the pressure and struggles after, and just kept stacking and stacking. So, him being in his own head is #1 for me. #2: His handle got exposed quite a bit. In the regular season, he only had a 4.2 TO% in isolation, which is incredible. In the playoffs, though, that spiked to 20 TO%. On drives in the RS, he had a TO% of 4%. In the PS, it jumped to 13.3%. The first clip below shows how the right-to-left cross he loved doing all season was really taken away from him. Too loose of a handle, and he often got his pocket picked trying this exact move over and over. I think having his go-to move taken from him shook him a bit and left him scrambling a bit in his head to find a counter. The second clip shows, imo, him starting to lose trust in his handle. He immediately turns his back to the defender, which is what you do when you're worried about losing the ball. But, even then, he loses control of the handle and it ends up in a turnover. If I'm the Pistons, I'm showing all his turnovers due to his handle and working with him on tightening his handle and also helping him get comfortable with a counter/second move so defenders don't just sit on the right-to-left cross. #3: I think he really struggled to adjust to the playoff whistle. In the regular season, he drew free throws on 21% of his isolations and 31% of his post-ups. In the PS, it dropped to 14% and 11%, respectively. There were many possessions where in the RS he would've got free throws, but did not in the PS and he was frustrated. In the third clip, you'll see how physical he was being played by Mobley (which we all want physicality in the game). But, in the RS, he probably is getting FTA's here. There are many examples of this where it felt like a lot of his value during the RS was being able to draw FTA's on his drives, and in the PS, refs just allowed more physicality, and he struggled to deal with it. #4: Ausar-Duren duo. I believe in this duo, and I do not think this was the main reason Duren struggled. However, I am not blind to the fact that there were obviously some possessions that hurt Duren. In the regular season, Duen actually got less efficient when Ausar wasn't on the floor. However, in the playoffs, Duren went from 51 TS% with Ausar on the floor (302 minutes) to 64 TS% with Ausar off the floor (121 minutes). In the 4th clip, you really see how the lack of spacing caused a tough shot from Duren. He gets a step on WCJ going right, and probably would prefer to then just use his strength to create spearation. However, he sees Suggs sitting in the right gap off of Ausar, which forces him to spin left. Once he spins left, Paolo is completely leaving Tobias open. This is one of the reasons I really think DET needs a spacing 4 because this should be an easy kickout from Duren to a shooter. He still should've made this pass to Tobias, but a legit shooting 4 I think would relocate to the corner and make an easier outlet/easier to see for Duren. But, he still coulda made the pass, tbf. Either way, you see how the lack of spacing from both Ausar and Tobias forced Duren into a really awkward drive where he was forced into an extremely tough shot. I think if the passing returned from Duren, some of these situations wouldn't happen. Hitting Ausar early as he cuts into the space would work, or hitting Tobias (who again shoulda be making himself more available) beyond the arc results in better offense. But, also, having better spacing probably allows Duren to just get to his original move once he beats WCJ off the dribble. and lastly #5: He really just didn't play well. I can't include any more clips (I'll put some in the immediate thread reply to display), but he really just didn't play well. Missed *a lot* of looks we're used to him making. His touch around the rim left him, looked like he really felt rushed in the paint. He was struggling to secure rebounds after dominating the glass all season (during the RS, he averaged 4.3 second chance points a game, in the PS it dropped to 2.3). During RS, he had a 22.0 DREB%, which dropped to 16.0% in the playoffs. So, I think a lot of factors played into why he struggled so much in the playoffs. My takeaway is I don't think these things are unfixable; actually, I think they're very fixable. Experience of dealing with what playoff physicality is I think is going to help moving forward. All young players have to adjust to that--I think Cade really learned that from NY series to this playoff run. Tightening his handle and just having a second move to go to is not something that should be considered impossible. I'd like to believe it's pretty likely with how much he works and the raw skill he already has with his handle. Pistons adding a legit spacer at the four I think solves a lot and will make Duren's life a lot easier. The most concerning part is mental. And we won't know an answer to that until the next playoffs. Did this experience help him on his journey towards becoming mentally strong and prepared enough to move forward? Did this run help him find a routine that helps him lock in mentally, as many players have said they had to discover? Or will the pressure from struggling last postseason get to him this upcoming postseason? Will he let mistakes get into his head, compound them, and start playing rashly? I don't think the second option will be the case, but no one will know until the next postseason. Honestly, I'm more concerned and critical of his defense in the playoffs (which at times was pretty good and at other times was an incredible struggle), but that would require its own thread. My ending thoughts: I still very much believe in Duren. This playoff run showed he has areas he must sharpen up and learn from, but at 22 that shouldn't be a shocker. He is incredibly talented and made a large jump during the RS. The PS posed challenges he didn't quite have answers to yet. But another run of experience, another offseason of training, and another year older should lead him down a good path. I am fully supportive of paying Duren and extending him. I am not at close to 50 million dollars. 35-40 million is where I think they'll settle on, and I'm fine with that. But, he's gotta learn from these playoffs! Every offseason he's gotten better, I don't have a reason to believe Jalen Duren won't learn and improve again this summer. He's only 22.show more

🚨 WARNIING: SOMETHING BIG WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW!! President Donald... Trump recently extended THE ceasefire. During this time, negotiations are taking place in Pakistan. Iran is demanding two things right now: - The removal of the naval blockade - Unfreezing all Iranian assets, which is around $11 TRILLION now Meanwhile, THE US is demanding guarantees for shipping security and a halt to the nuclear program. Trump is pushing for a GREAT DEAL. If both sides actually sign at least a framework agreement tomorrow, this will become a signal for GLOBAL DEESCALATION. Here's what's happening right now: Crypto right now is extremely sensitive to war-related news. If a deal is announced tomorrow: > END OF FUD The war-premium risk-off will disappear. Investors who were sitting in cash and gold will start rotating liquidity back into risk assets. > BTC AS A PEACE INDICATOR In 2026, BTC has fully established itself as an asset that reacts first to geopolitical easing. Analysts predict that on peace news, Bitcoin could break resistance and target $90,000–$100,000. > OIL DAMPENER Right now, Brent oil is trading around $130–$150 due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a war premium that is choking the global economy. If tomorrow the unblocking of the strait is confirmed, oil could instantly drop by $20–$30 per barrel. A sharp drop in oil equals a sharp drop in expected inflation. This gives markets a signal that the Fed no longer needs to keep rates so high. Investors start pricing in faster rate cuts, which always sends crypto to the moon. > LIQUIDITY While everyone is watching Iran, the Fed is playing its own game. At the moment, the balance sheet is around $6.7 TRILLION. QT is ongoing, despite any market shocks caused by war. War forces THE Fed to inject EMERGENCY LIQUIDITY through reverse repo. As soon as geopolitics cools down, THE Fed can shift from firefighter mode to soft-landing mode. Market stabilization will allow banks to more confidently deploy excess reserves—those same hundreds of billions in reverse repo. Crypto is a sponge for liquidity. When the system becomes easier to breathe and fear of systemic collapse disappears, this money flows first into BTC and ETH. If tomorrow we see headlines saying IRAN–US DEAL SIGNED, THEN most likely we will see THE GREENEST DAY in 2026. This is exactly the time when REAL MONEY is made. And you should track all the updates so you don’t miss the opportunity. But don’t worry, I will keep you updated on everything here. I will post everything before it becomes HEADLINES. When I make my next move, I’ll share it publicly here. Follow and turn on notifications so you don't miss it. Comment "Strategy" and I will send you my guide in DMs. Many people will regret not following me earlier...show more

This is my "feel the AGI" moment: I used... GPT-5.6 Sol to train my own autocorrect model that outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol (wtf??) I have no ML background. I have no idea what I'm doing. I just kept pushing Sol until it spat out a SOTA model. And I spent $0. The motivation: Years of talking to AI have made me terrible at typing. Rather than fix my skill issue, I decided to throw more AI at it. My idea was: instead of autocorrect that interrupts my flow, I want to type fast with mistakes and have AI clean it up after. I wanted the smallest local model possible, for speed, for battery life, for science! So I decided to train my own. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s autoresearch, I ran Codex /goal with this setup: pick an experiment, try it, record the results to a doc, throw it out if it fails, and plan the next experiment without repeating failures. I gave a few examples that had to pass, tight latency targets, and let it run. Sol did some amazing things. First, it scanned benchmarks and shortlisted base models: Qwen 3.5, Gemma 4, Liquid LFM 2.5. It found a dataset on HuggingFace for typed text. Then it built a simulator for fingers striking a Mac keyboard, modeling the physical layout with a Gaussian distribution around each key. It simulated striking the wrong key, wrong order, fat-fingering, etc. With the models + data + simulator, it fine-tuned using MLX right on my MacBook. It had a working prototype within an hour! But accuracy was pretty poor. — Problem 1: Tokenization Sol read papers, ran tests, and identified that the tokenizer was the bottleneck. Tokenization makes typos hard for the model to see, so it memorizes mappings instead of using its language priors. Sol tried ByT5, Google’s tokenizer-free byte-level LLM. This made a big improvement, but the model is old and lacked the knowledge needed to reach Sol performance. Sol dug deeper and realized a tokenizer-free model isn’t needed; instead, it used T5Gemma, an encoder-decoder model. This can understand the input deeply before producing output, and furthermore, Sol could post-train the encoder to improve performance. This gave a much higher ceiling. — Problem 2: Loss function Now the model was correcting some typos perfectly, but ignoring most. Sol realized that standard cross-entropy loss was teaching the model to avoid edits, because the vast majority of characters in the training data were left unmodified. The fix was wild: Sol wrote a custom loss function that byte-aligns the source and target strings, uses a dynamic programming algorithm to compute the minimum edits between the two, then weights correct edits much higher than copies. After a lot of tuning, this dramatically improved accuracy. — Problem 3: Autoregression One failure mode remained: if the model made a mistake, it couldn’t backtrack. It could only predict the next token. Teaching it to “think” like a reasoning model would solve this, but would be far too slow. Sol found a beautiful solution: instead of greedily predicting the next token, beam search over all possibilities. This parallelizes the exploration instead of one linear chain-of-thought. At the end, choose the path with highest cumulative log probability. This worked great, but made the experience worse, since the user wouldn’t see progress until the whole search was done. To fix this, Sol made a clever observation: after each search step, the longest common prefix among surviving branches is guaranteed to appear in the final result, so it can be displayed immediately. As the search progresses, weaker paths are dropped and the prefix grows, so the user sees continuous progress. Sol built all this as a custom MLX pipeline that does the parallel decoding on the MacBook GPU, with just ~40ms TTFT. It’s crazy fast and entirely local. — Final eval (error reduction rate, higher is better): - Apple autocorrect: 49.66% - GPT-5.6 Luna: 82.47% - GPT-5.6 Terra: 87.64% - GPT-5.6 Sol: 90.56% - Our model (1.7B): 91.02% Final cost: - 1 quota reset (thanks Tibo) - $0 (And yes, I verified there's no cheating. In fact, we test words scrubbed from the training data to prove the model isn’t memorizing) There were a ton more details and tangents I could write about: contrastive learning, GRPO, DPO, dynamic masking, and more. Sol is a fascinating and creative model. It blew my mind so many times. Don’t let a lack of experience stop you: Sol makes AI experiments accessible to anyone!show more

🚨14 MINUTES BEFORE THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED PEACE PROGRESS WITH... IRAN, SOMEONE DUMPED $580 MILLION IN OIL FUTURES. Oil crashed 10% that day. And that’s just one entry on the list. On the morning of March 23, between 6:49 and 6:50 AM, roughly 6,200 oil futures contracts worth $580 million changed hands in a single minute. The normal volume for that window is about 700. At 7:04 AM, Trump posted on Truth Social that the US was having “productive conversations” with Iran and pausing strikes. Oil crashed more than 10% that day. Whoever sold first was perfectly positioned. Nobody knows who it was. A senator flagged another $1.5 billion in stock futures traded minutes before a separate Iran post. A Nobel economist called the pattern “treason.” The White House called the accusations “baseless and irresponsible.” But that was just one day. Here’s the bigger pattern. CNN used AI to cross-reference Trump’s financial disclosures against his Truth Social posts. His disclosure lists over 21,000 transactions. What they found. At least 44 stock purchases across 21 different companies. Each made within a week BEFORE he posted a flattering message about that company, its CEO, or its products. The clearest example. In early April 2025, his accounts bought between $200,000 and $500,000 in Nvidia. Days later he praised the company’s US expansion and promised “all necessary permits will be expedited and quickly delivered.” Same pattern with Tesla, Palantir, Micron, and American Eagle. Buy first. Promote to millions of followers after. Then there was the tariff episode. On April 9, 2025, he posted “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” Four hours later he paused his own tariffs. The market soared 9.5%. The White House says his money sits in fully discretionary accounts run by independent firms. That he gives no input and gets no advance notice of any trade. He denies all wrongdoing. But watchdogs note he never used a blind trust. So he can always see what he owns. And he was over a year late on disclosures the law requires within 45 days. Now here’s the part that ties it all together. Days ago, Trump Media launched “Truth API.” A data feed built for high-frequency trading firms. It delivers his Truth Social posts to Wall Street in milliseconds. Machine-readable. Before you or I would even see them. Their own CEO said the quiet part out loud. “Markets already move on Truth Social posts.” So the company is now selling hedge funds a head start on the words of the most market-moving man alive. Proving any of it in court is nearly impossible. His posts are public the instant he makes them. And the agencies that would investigate report to him. So the trades stay legal. The posts keep moving markets. And now there’s a subscription to get them first.show more

Lads. Sit down and give me your ear a... while, for I have watched from the water long enough and the hour is upon us whether we have the stomach for it or not. You remember. Or your fathers told you, or their fathers did, and the knowledge of it is in the marrow of you whether you drew breath in those days or not. The moors in the grey hour before dawn. Wet heather soft under the boot. Peat smoke rising from a low stone chimney a mile out across the bog, thin as a prayer. A sky the colour of a gun barrel and the gulls lamenting above the headland. The smell of turf burning, and wet wool, and the ferrous tang of the sea when the wind swung around out of the Atlantic and put the taste of iron on your tongue. A man could walk that land and know every stone of it was his by inheritance, because his grandfather had broken his back upon it, and his grandfather before him, back through the generations until you reach men whose names are lost and whose bones are in the soil you are standing on. The potato fields. God be good to us, the potato fields. Lazy beds cut straight as a gunwale, the ridges black and shining after a night of rain, women bent double with creels lashed to their backs and the children at their skirts, drawing the crop up by the hand for there was never any other means devised nor wanted. Hands split open at the knuckles and never entirely healed in this life. Hunger within living memory. Grandmothers who had seen the blight with their own eyes and would not speak of it from the year of it until the day they were laid down, save that a crust was kept always on the dresser which no soul in that house was permitted to touch. Not ever. Not for any reason under heaven. And the chimney sweeps. Wee lads no heavier than a sack of meal, black to the bone with soot, their lungs ruined before they were old enough to marry and old men entirely by thirty. Up the flues at first light, the skin worn off them by the brick, eyes crimson at the rim, breathing the black in with every draw of air. And the coal miners a half mile beneath our feet, down in the wet dark, the roof of the world muttering over their heads, the canary gone silent, a man's whole existence measured out in the shilling a ton and the dust he carried home in his chest to cough up of a Sunday morning into a rag. Fathers who descended and were never hauled up again. Widows at the pit head with the shawl drawn over the head and no tears remaining in them for they had spent those long ago. That was the tariff paid to keep the hearth lit. That was the reckoning of being warm in winter in the Ireland that was. And after the labouring week, Friday evening, and a man had earned the peace of what followed. Home first. Peeled the day off him in the yard. A shower of ice cold moor river water out of a tin bucket punctured with holes, hung on a nail on the gable wall, the water running clean down the back of him and carrying the week's dust and sweat away into the drain. Scrubbed till the skin was pink beneath the grime. Clean shirt laid out by the wife. The hair combed down with a drop of water. Then, and only then, did a man set himself to the table. A meat pie from the baker, tenpence if he was known to you, a shilling and no change if he was not, put down upon a proper plate. Fish and chips for threepence, the salt and vinegar soaked through the newspaper, but carried home and ate slowly at your own table with your people around you, not walked with through the streets like some vagrant tinker off the road. A man ate as a man who had earned his portion, for he had. And later, with the dishes cleared and the kettle set, down the road to the tavern. Low beams black with a century of smoke. A turf fire muttering in the grate. The air thick with pipe smoke and the vapour of wet overcoats steaming themselves dry on the backs of chairs. A pint of stout, cold and black as a cove at midnight, elevenpence laid down on the counter, a head on it thick enough to strike a match upon. A second one because you had it coming to you and no man present would dispute it. A fiddle starting up in the corner of its own accord. The old men in the snug who remembered matters the history books had long since mislaid. A song before the bolt was thrown on the door. The walk home beneath a firmament crowded with stars, the stout warm in the gut of you, the week behind you, and your own door waiting with the latch unlocked for you had no enemies in that parish. That was the country. That was the covenant. Honest labour, plain food, a cold wash, a hot meal, a cold pint, your own tongue in your own mouth, your own soil beneath your boots, and no man standing above you save the Almighty Himself. Now regard her. Regard her close. The fields disposed of to men who have never set foot upon them and never shall. The harbours signed away by the stroke of a pen in a room you were not admitted to, and foreign keels dragging out of our waters the living that sustained this island for a thousand years, while our own boats rot at their moorings for want of a quota. The tradesmen undercut by imported labour and imported goods. The shops shuttered along every main street from Donegal to Cork. The young ones scattered to London and Sydney and Boston and the Gulf because there is nothing remaining for them beneath their own roof. And the entirety of this rotten arrangement dressed up in the soft mannerly language of progress by men in towers of glass who could not tell a lazy bed from a grave, nor a trawler from a tugboat, nor an honest day's work from a pension plan. And now they arrive with the next imposition. A digital identity. A number assigned to each soul. A card required to buy your bread. A code required to draw your own earnings out of your own account. A file kept on every man, woman and child from the cradle forward. Permission asked to move. Permission asked to speak. Permission asked to earn. A levy upon every breath drawn and a regulation upon every step taken. No. And no again. And no for a third time so there is no misunderstanding of it. We do not require your digital identity. We did not request it. We did not vote upon it. We do not consent to it. We do not need your permission to exist upon the soil our forefathers are buried in. We are a free people. We have carried ourselves this far upon our own two backs. Through famine and empire and civil war and black lung and blight and the emigrant ship out of Cobh, we have come this distance under our own steam, and the arrangement appears to be serving us well enough without your intervention. We buried our own. We fed our own. We raised our own roofs and took our own fish and reared our own children in our own tongue. We are in your debt for nothing. Not a signature. Not a biometric scan. Not a single solitary inch. And while we are upon the subject, let us speak plainly of the tax man, for he has gone too long without proper introduction. The tax collector and the tax man are the one article under two names, and the article is a parasite. There is no dressing it up finer than that. A man who produces nothing, who grows nothing, who catches nothing, who builds nothing, who mends nothing, who has never in his professional life lifted anything heavier than a pen, and who arrives at your door with the full apparatus of the state at his back to carry off the fruits of labour he did not perform. He is a middleman between your sweat and some scheme dreamt up in a committee room by his own kind, and the great majority of what he takes is consumed by the machinery of the taking itself before ever a penny of it reaches the road or the hospital or the schoolhouse he claims to be funding. And I will go further while I have the floor. Finance itself, the whole apparatus of it, money breeding money in the dark without a hand laid upon a tool or a spade turned in the earth, is slavery dressed in a good suit. It is the oldest swindle known to man and it has never been anything other. A man who produces nothing yet lives off the productive labour of others through the charging of interest upon money conjured out of nothing is a parasite of a rarer and more refined order than the tax man, but a parasite all the same, and between the pair of them they have the working people of this island bled white and lectured at for the pleasure. A man who will not work with his hands, nor with his back, nor with his mind at some honest problem of the real physical world, is no man that I recognise. He is a ledger entry in a suit. The country was not built by ledger entries. The country was built by farmers and fishermen and masons and smiths and sweeps and miners and shipwrights and midwives and mothers, and those are the people whose say should carry in her councils, and no other. Here is what I put to you. Let each man and woman of this island direct the first tenth of their earnings themselves, by their own judgement, to the purpose they see as worthy. The school down the road. The lifeboat station. The hospice. The widow on the corner. The roof of the chapel. The harbour wall. Whatever it may be. Let the people who earned the money decide where the money travels. You will find the roads mended and the ports dredged and the schools standing and the old ones cared for inside of five years, and done better and for less, because the hand that earned the coin knows the weight of it and will not squander it upon consultants and committees. And let us have done with the paper currency and the numbers in a screen that can be frozen at the whim of a clerk in a tower. Bring back the coin. Gold for the great transactions. Silver for the weekly commerce of a working life. Copper for the small change of the day. Metal you can bite. Metal you can weigh. Metal that cannot be conjured out of nothing by a keystroke, nor erased out of existence by another. Real money for real labour. A coin in the hand is a free man's wage. A number in a database is a collar around a free man's neck, and they are fitting that collar now while we stand arguing over the colour of it. Feel it in your gut. That is not nothing. That is your blood relating to you what your ears will not hear. That is every forebear who starved and fought and coughed the black dust into a rag and descended the shaft regardless, standing at your shoulder and saying no further. Not one more field. Not one more harbour. Not one more son upon a plane. Not one more free man converted into a number in a ledger for the convenience of the parasites. This is the hour. Make no error about it. Ireland is redeemed in this generation or she is lost beyond recovery, and every true son and daughter of her knows it in the marrow. There is no middle ground remaining. There is no waiting it out. There is standing now, upon your own two feet, or there is watching her go under the waves for the last and final time. So stand. Stand with your farmers. Stand with your fishermen. Stand with your tradesmen and your miners and your sweeps and your mothers and your old ones. Raise the tricolour. Speak the tongue. Walk the land. Hold the line in the streets of every town and city and do not break it, for they are relying upon you to break and to go home and to forget by Tuesday. She is calling her children home. Every stone of her, every breaker on her western shore, every acre of wet heather and every coal in every hearth the length and breadth of her is calling. Answer her. Take her back. Every field, every harbour, every last inch of her. Take her back, or lose her entirely. There is no third road open to us.show more