HIGLIGHTING THIS PART: "Freen and Becky proved that a... GL pairing can generate revenue at the same level as BL leading pairings. Estimated appearance fees were around 500,000 - 1,500,000 baht per event, while presenter and advertising fees were around 2-6 million baht per campaign." THEY'RE SO EXPENSIVE 💅 #ฟรีนเบค #FreenBeckyshow more

🇺🇸 Patriot Interceptors Are Being Fired At A Stunning... Rate Reports claim the US Army launched between 96 and 160 PAC 3 MSE interceptors from Patriot batteries in Jordan tonight against an estimated 32 to 40 Iranian ballistic missiles. That means roughly 3 to 4 interceptors were used for every incoming missile. At around $4 million per interceptor, a single defensive wave could represent approximately $380 million to $640 million in interceptor costs alone. For perspective, a fully loaded Patriot battery can reportedly carry around 72 to 96 PAC 3 MSE interceptors on its launchers. The scale of this expenditure highlights just how costly sustained ballistic missile defense can become.show more

CBum did have to get as low as 1500... calories on his off days 1800 calories on training days So we can assume an average of around 1700 This is not depletion either This was in the thick of his prep At 250 lbs!!! (he said his weight in the same video) using TONS of drugs Granted he was lean as fuck & attempting to get even leaner but again 2 5 0 POUNDS WITH DRUGS and he was doing HOURS of cardio per day (he also said this in the same video) So, yes…your average Joe that weighs 180 trying to get that last bit of fat off to get to a pretty lean 175 might need to drop as low as 1700, 1600, 1500 calories per day!show more

The problems in Russia’s oil and gas sector are... already becoming systemic. Russia is refining less oil, transporting it at a higher cost, facing problems with export infrastructure, and already losing oil and gas revenues. Let’s take a look at what exactly is happening inside Russia. First, the Russian authorities themselves are no longer treating the shortage as a short-term disruption. A complete ban on diesel exports was introduced in early July, and it is quite likely to be extended through the end of the year. Gasoline exports are banned until January 31, 2027, and jet fuel exports until the end of November. Russia has also started importing additional petroleum products from Asia and Belarus. Second, Russia is physically refining less and less oil. According to Kpler, Russian refineries processed around 3.8 million barrels per day in July - the lowest level in more than two decades. EA Analytics estimates the figure even lower, at approximately 3.6 million barrels per day. For comparison, the normal level for this period in 2020-2025 was 5.3-5.6 million barrels per day. Third, Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries are continuing. A cycle has effectively formed: strike - repairs - partial recovery - another strike. Following the August 21 attack, the Perm Oil Refinery, with an annual capacity of 13.1 million tonnes, was completely shut down. Since August 2025, at least 25 Russian oil refineries have been targeted. Fourth, the diesel shortage is making the economy more expensive - increasing the cost of harvesting, reducing the resilience of Russia’s logistics system, and consequently affecting prices overall. Fifth, even the oil Russia manages to produce is becoming more difficult and expensive to export. In the first half of August, exports from western ports amounted to around 2.3 million barrels per day instead of the planned 2.7 million. Novorossiysk was particularly affected: shipments fell to around 400,000 barrels per day, compared with 800,000-1 million in June-July. Previously, problems at refineries could be partially offset by increasing crude oil exports. But when refineries, ports, terminals and tankers are all being targeted simultaneously, this becomes much harder. Exports have not collapsed, but they have become more expensive and less predictable. The same applies to petroleum products: in July, seaborne exports of fuel oil and vacuum gasoil fell by around 12%, to 2.4 million tonnes. The situation with gas is structurally worse. The Power of Siberia pipeline has already nearly reached its contractual ceiling - around 38.8 billion cubic meters per year. Power of Siberia 2 is primarily constrained by price: China wants gas at a significantly lower price than Russia is willing to sell it for. LNG faces even more problems: the EU has already begun phasing out imports, while redirecting supplies to Asia means longer and more expensive logistics. China is increasing its purchases of Russian gas, but it has not replaced Europe and will not replace it quickly. The most serious problem is the budget. In the first half of the year, Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell by 22.7% year-on-year, and by 16.8% over the first seven months. By January-April alone, the federal budget deficit had reached 5.88 trillion rubles, exceeding the planned deficit for the entire year. On top of this come the costs of refinery repairs, air defense, fuel imports, alternative routes, freight and insurance. Despite all these losses, we can see that Russian oil and gas revenues have not yet collapsed, although adaptation is becoming increasingly expensive. For now, the Kremlin is being helped by the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz, which is keeping oil prices high. At the same time, Russia’s ability to refine and export this oil is deteriorating. So far, high prices are offsetting these losses. If the situation around Hormuz stabilizes and Brent prices fall, the current logistical and fuel problems could become much more serious for Russia.show more

Every bodybuilder on the internet tells you to eat... a gram per pound of bodyweight. The research says you can stop at 0.7. For a 170 pound man that is 170 grams a day against 119. Fifty grams. Every day. Forever. A pooled analysis of forty-nine resistance training studies found that gains improved as protein went up, and then stopped improving at around 0.7 grams per pound. Past that point the line went flat. More protein in, no more muscle out. The error bar around that plateau stretched up to a gram per pound. The number in circulation is the top of that error bar, repeated for thirty years until it became the target. So the extra fifty grams does not build anything. Your liver strips the nitrogen off it and burns the rest, which is an expensive way to produce two hundred calories. Two hundred calories you could have taken as butter, which arrives with vitamin A, D, E and K2 already dissolved in it. At 119 grams you get there from food without trying. Three eggs, a ribeye, a lump of cheese, and you are past it before dinner. At 170 you are weighing chicken breast on a kitchen scale and drinking your supper. The men who set that number were building physiques on more than food, and the protein was never the part doing the work. There is also a ceiling, because your liver can only convert so much protein an hour. Trappers living on lean rabbit worked that out centuries before anyone measured it. So eat the meat, eat plenty of it, and then add the butter. That is the only thing on the plate with no ceiling on it, and the one part nobody has ever tried to sell you.show more

we spent $2,352 promoting a health app on tiktok.... here's what happened. most brands are paying $8 CPM for ads nobody watches. this app converted $0.09 per install instead. we scrapped the whole thing and ran it through Content Rewards with an Adaptive AI slideshow agent instead. 25,638 downloads. $6,635 MRR. 30 days without paid ads. what changed: before: -> paying creators flat fees with no guaranteed results -> creators posting inconsistent formats with no proven structure -> briefs going back and forth for days before a single post went live -> 15-20 slideshows a week if they were lucky after: -> brands drop the agent link in their Content Rewards campaign brief -> creators open it, type a topic, slideshow is ready in minutes -> 200+ creators posting the same proven format simultaneously -> 25,638 downloads in 30 days -> $6,635 MRR. $0.09 per install. 2.82x ROI on spend same $2,352 and a 16x-38x better revenue outcome than Meta. the agent writes the story. Void AI generates the slides. exports a PNG pack and MP4 ready to upload. comment "SLIDES" + RT and i'll send you the agent so you can run this for your next Content Rewards campaign (must be following so i can DM)show more

You can now design high-converting, on-brand, ready-to-send emails directly... inside of Claude (‼️) So many ecom brands have been telling me the same thing recently. "We're using Claude for everything, and it knows everything about our brand, our products, our customers, our ad performance, etc." They don't want to start teaching another platform about their brand all over again. They want to use everything that Claude already knows as the foundation for strategizing and designing their emails. So we built a connector that plugs directly into your Claude account. Now inside your Claude account, you can: → Generate high-converting email campaign ideas and strategy → Generate on-brand copy → Design on-brand emails → Click one button and schedule the designed emails in Klaviyo Zero manual work. Zero excuses to not be sending at least 2-3 email campaigns per week and generating easy revenue and a high ROI on your Klaviyo bill. Comment "AUTOMATE" and I'll send over instructions on how to set up our connector in your Claude account to start automating your email marketing end-to-end.show more

This guy cracked the code on AI-powered fashion ecommerce... using synthetic face technology and now pulls $50,000 to $150,000 per month from two Shopify stores without paying a single real model. He got tired of watching DTC fashion brands burn $20,000 monthly on photoshoots while their competitors tested 40 product angles in the same timeframe, so he built a system that generates hyperrealistic fashion content using his gaming PC and real-time AI masks instead of studios, contracts, or casting calls. His monthly profit hit $150,000 last month from just 2 stores and organic TikTok traffic, while traditional fashion brands cap out at $30K after paying models $400 to $800 per shoot and studio rentals of $200 to $500 per session. Here is the exact breakdown: → Real-time synthetic face technology becomes the only tool you need, but most people butcher the setup by skipping motion sync calibration in the first 30 seconds → Product selection comes first, and if you mess this up nothing saves it. Stick to women's accessories (bags, sunglasses, jewelry) because that is where organic TikTok engagement lives → Avatar casting is not random. You build one consistent AI face that repeats across all content so your audience recognizes the "model" and trusts the brand continuity → You are picking who your customer projects onto, not who looks expensive. That is your positioning baked into the face → Motion capture runs before generation, and this is what kills the uncanny valley effect that destroys watch time in 4 seconds → You mirror your own gestures through webcam: wave, chin tap, finger point, shoulder dance. The AI mask tracks every micro-movement and applies it to the generated face in real time → Batching is the move 94 percent skip: same outfit base, multiple product swaps, one recording session. No re-shooting, no model schedules, no usage rights negotiations → The system generates 3 to 5 TikToks before lunch, while traditional brands test 2 per week and wonder why their conversion rates are stuck at 0.8 percent The economics are stupid: each video costs him $0 in talent fees, pulls 1.5 million views organically, converts at 0.03 percent into 450 orders at $45 to $60 retail with $30 to $45 margin per sale. That is $15,750 profit per viral video, while fashion brands pay $1,200 per shoot and net $3,000 after ads. The key move nobody talks about: you cannot skip the motion synchronization test. If you generate the AI face without mirroring your own natural gestures first, the avatar moves like a mannequin. The blinks lag. The smile timing breaks. The whole thing screams "synthetic face technology" and your hook rate dies at 1.1 seconds. His system records him doing the exact dance trend first, so the AI mask inherits human timing, natural head tilts, and spontaneous energy that reads as a real creator showing off a product find, not a rendered advertisement. One accessories store generated 10 variants of the same handbag reveal in 18 minutes with different outfits, different backgrounds, different trend audios, and found the winner in 72 hours without spending $6,000 on influencer gifting. They were previously paying $800 per UGC creator and burning $4,800 per week on content that plateaued at 40K views. Now they spend $0 for 10 variants and their cost per acquisition dropped from $62 to $18. UGC agencies now panic because their entire margin was built on talent scarcity, and this removes the human bottleneck. The outfit changes between clips like a wardrobe filter. The lighting matches bedroom setups. The hand gestures sync with beat drops. No casting call. No model release. No location permits. Just a webcamera, a real-time AI mask, and the discipline to batch-test product angles before you commit ad spend to one creative.show more

A loop of AI agents built me a gun.... It just can't make it shoot. Day 11 of building GTA 6 with a loop of agents. Yesterday I said today they'd learn to steal cars and shoot. Today's progress: - 2 weapons in - Pickup system works (we can grab weapons now) The downside: you pull the trigger, nothing happens. The loop is incredible at the overall, but shooting is the main part of the game, so I think we wire this one up ourselves. So here is the progress I'm taking shooting and sitting down to learn the physics myself with agent as support. At the same time J A Z I I takes driving by hand. The agents keep doing what they're good at. They're building out the police system and the economy right now, while I type this. Also spent the weekend in SF at a Tripo3D Donut event learning 3D art.show more

🕸 Spyder Campaign $AURK 🕸 We’re excited to announce... yet that AURK AI / $AURK is now being advertised to potential reach of 1,000,000+ Crypto Users out of a 2,000,000+ Potential Audience through our Telegram Spyder-bot 🕷 Here’s why this campaign is game-changing for $AURK: ✅ ADs Format – Combo (Max Impact) ✅ 10-Day Duration – Balanced Approach ✅ Targeted Reach – 1,000,000 Users This is a powerful campaign to maximize visibility and engagement for AurkAI / $AURK. Over the next 10days, it will be seen by hundreds of thousands of crypto users and potentially a million, driving attention from a heavily targeted audience of traders, investors, and crypto enthusiasts. The best part? You can do the same and enhance your projects visibility to over 2 million crypto users! Don’t waste valuable time - get in touch with us at [email protected] or and select the perfect ad option for your project! ✨ Per Aspera Ad $ASTRA ✨show more

The government can find out everywhere you have been,... without ever asking a judge. It just buys the information. Most apps on your phone quietly collect your location and sell it to data brokers. Those brokers package it up and sell it on. Some of their biggest customers are police departments and federal agencies. Because you technically agreed to share your location with a weather app or a game, officials argue they do not need a warrant to buy that same data later. Privacy lawyers call it a workaround the courts were never meant to allow. This is not a theory. In 2026, researchers at Citizen Lab exposed a system called Webloc that turned advertising data from around 500 million phones into a tracking tool, used by immigration agents, US police, and a foreign intelligence service. The most unsettling part is how ordinary it is. You are being tracked through the same apps you open without thinking, every single day.show more

2020 COLLECTION: 5 YEARS LATER - DAY3 OOF. at... this point it was pretty clear Duncan and Griffin at NiftyGateway that one person was winning every single auction. There were still 10 more to go on this Sunday... At the very last second of the final auction, a extremely last second bid cam in taking the total from about $350k to $777k, destroying the record for the most expensive NFT ever bought. you can see the disbelief in the video as we were sure the auction was over. but our boi tim.eth ⁙ illestrater came through at the last second clinching single W against the insane performance that Metakovan had built over the last two days winning every other auction. i was fully a pile of mush at this point, trying to wrap my head around how I had just sold $3.5M worth of this 'thing' that almost nobody I knew understood and I had only learned of less than 2 months earlier. but the real people who made this event possible are Metakovan and tim.eth ⁙ illestrater and i really don't think they get enough credit for the insane belief and conviction this took. their actions over this weekend literally changed the course of art history. little did i know that as fucking INSANE as this was... it was actually just the beginning. 😅show more

This guy cracked the code on AI girlfriend monetization... using real-time technology and now pulls $76,000 per month from one Instagram profile without ever showing his real face or hiring an actual model. He got tired of watching creators split 80 percent of revenue with agencies while their competitors ran 24/7 chat operations with zero burnout, so he built a system that generates hyperrealistic AI influencer content using motion capture and synthetic face generation instead of photographers, makeup artists, or Miami beach rentals. His monthly profit hit $76,455 last month from just 90.4K followers and organic short-form traffic, while traditional creators cap out at $15K after paying 40 percent platform fees and $2,000 monthly for content production teams. Here is the exact breakdown: → Real-time face swap technology becomes the only tool you need, but most people butcher the setup by skipping gesture synchronization in the first 10 seconds → Character design comes first, and if you mess this up nothing saves it. Stick to approachable features (freckles, natural makeup, warm smile) because that is where parasocial engagement lives → Profile building is not random. You craft one consistent AI persona that repeats across all content so your audience recognizes the girl → You are picking who your subscriber projects onto, not who looks unattainable. That is your retention baked into the face → Motion capture runs before generation, and this is what kills the uncanny valley effect that destroys engagement in 3 seconds → You mirror your own gestures through webcam: confused shrug, hand raise, lean-in shock, peace sign wave. The AI mask tracks every micro-movement and applies it to the generated face in real time → Batching is the move 91 percent skip: same room setup, multiple emotion sequences, one recording session. → The system generates 7 to 10 TikToks before dinner, while traditional creators test 3 per week and wonder why their conversion rates are stuck at 0.4 percent The economics are stupid: each video costs him $0 in talent fees, pulls 2 million views organically, converts at 2 percent into 1,800 clicks to private platforms at $10 to $15 subscription with $40 to $60 backend PPV per fan. That is $76,455 profit per month, while real creators pay $5,000 for production and net $22,000 after platform cuts. The key move nobody talks about: you cannot skip the natural gesture library. If you generate the AI face without mirroring your own spontaneous reactions first, the avatar moves like a CGI render. The eye contact breaks. The smile timing lags. The whole thing screams and your retention dies at 2.1 seconds. His system records him doing the exact confusion-to-delight emotional arc first, so the AI mask inherits human timing, natural eyebrow raises, and spontaneous energy that reads as a real girl reacting to comments, not a scripted advertisement. One Instagram profile generated 12 variants of the same "how I afford this lifestyle" hook in 40 minutes with different outfits, different lighting setups, different trending audios, and found the winner in 96 hours without spending $8,000 on influencer collaborations. They were previously paying $1,200 per UGC creator and burning $6,400 per week on content that plateaued at 60K views. Now they spend $0 for 12 variants and their cost per subscriber dropped from $48 to $11. Agencies now panic because their entire margin was built on model exclusivity, and this removes the human dependency. The outfit changes between clips like a wardrobe swap filter. The lighting matches bedroom authenticity. The hand gestures sync with emotional beats. No casting call. No model contract. No location scouting. Just a webcamera, a real-time face swap AI, and the discipline to batch-test emotional hooks before you commit traffic spend to one persona.show more

Leftist Entitlement Princess, Part 2: Yesterday: Whining she can’t... afford “life in general” while casually sipping a $6+ iced coffee in her nice car. Today: “Nobody wants to work here… nobody gets paid enough to wanna be here.” Peak entitlement attitude: The job owes her excitement, high pay, and fulfillment — not the other way around. Showing up, working hard, and earning raises? Nah. Just complain that the world won’t subsidize your bare-minimum effort. This is exactly why so many entry-level spots stay empty and businesses struggle: a generation raised on “you deserve better” instead of “become better.” Fix? Drop the victim script, treat the job like a stepping stone, build real skills, and watch opportunities (and paychecks) follow. Or keep filming these “relatable” rants while wondering why life stays expensive.show more

A high-end injection mold can cost $400,000-$500,000, with dozens... of cavities, hydraulic slides, lifters, ejectors, valve gates and hot runners packed inside hardened H13 or S136 steel. Some molds carry 128 cavities, producing 128 parts per cycle, while precision machining can hold tolerances around ±0.005 mm. Cooling circuits circulate water through channels inside the steel, with temperature control around 1-2°C, cycle after cycle. These aren't designed for a few thousand parts. High-end production tooling can be engineered for 1-2 million+ shots, operating through repeated injection pressure, heating, cooling and mechanical movement without losing much alignment. The industrial ecosystem required to make them is enormous, CNC machining, EDM, grinding, polishing, heat treatment, metrology, mold flow simulation, thermal management and hot-runner engineering all have to work together. And China has become the centre of gravity for this industry. China represented nearly 17.8% of the global injection molding market, while some industry estimate puts Chinese manufacturers at roughly 68% of global plastic injection mold supply. These are the machines that make the machines. For any country trying to build a serious manufacturing base, the ability to produce tooling this precise and complex is fundamental. These molds sit at the core of thousands of factories, determining how cheaply, quickly and reliably everything from cars to medical devices can be manufactured at scale.show more

57 YEARS OLD GUY IN US MADE MORE SELLING... THIS TOOL THAN HE MADE IN 30 YEARS WORKING ON CONSTRUCTIONS Here's the story: a guy named John, worked all his live as a construction worker, his main job was building foundations for commercial and private properties He was getting too old and the job was physically exhausting, so he took a risk: He understood what problems his part of job has and started searching how to fix it He found this tool for reinforcement bending and came to his employer with an offer: Your firm spends $5,000/a month per guy who is responsible for this job + it takes 1 hour what this machine does in 1 minute I don't remember the whole math behind this offer, but he came up with $5,000 price per this device and they were ready to buy it He sold 20 of this to his firm, then he went to other firms and sold another 200 pieces Overall he managed to make around $500,000 of pure profit, making him a good retire money The guy saw the opportunity, took the risk and made it.show more

A large Gas Turbine is one of the most... complex machines ever built. A 500+ MW class industrial gas turbine can generate enough electricity to power roughly 300,000 to 500,000 homes, while consuming around 700 to 850 cubic metres of natural gas every minute at full load running 24/7 for 5-6 months on end before a shutdown for hot section maintenance. Inside, a multi tonne rotor spins at around 3,000 RPM for 50 Hz grids or 3,600 RPM for 60 Hz grids. At these speeds, a few grams of imbalance can create enormous centrifugal forces, damaging bearings, shafts, and turbine components worth tens of millions of dollars. During such rebalancing, engineers use high precision balancing machines to detect and correct tiny mass differences, often removing or adding material in gram-level corrections to bring vibration within strict industrial limits to attain peak efficiency. The turbine itself can cost $50 million to $200 million+, built from nickel based superalloys, advanced coatings, and precision components designed to survive temperatures exceeding 1,400°C. The hot section is built to last 30,000-50,000 operating hours. What looks like a simple balancing test is actually the final step in controlling a machine where tonnes of metal rotate thousands of times per minute, keeping entire cities powered. 🎥ayoobi.dpgmshow more

Happy Tuesday! So far we're quite happy with where... Mel and Warwick landed on the 6 cost side, so for TFT13.4 it's time to get Viktor there. Right now a zero item Viktor is providing far too much power and utility, while an itemized Viktor doesn't feel like its different enough or worth the investment. Even 2* Viktor is the worst of the 2* 6 costs. So let's change that! Viktor will no longer shred and sunder, and the % HP damage part of his spell is going down significantly. However in exchange, the damage is going up a decent amount. An itemless Viktor will do around the same amount of damage as before, but now giving him items will feel much better! This should get Viktor in line with the other 6 costs. And while we were at it, we had to fix what is probably the most annoying issue...the 50/50. Now if both players have a Viktor and neither is interrupted, instead of it being an awkward coin flip, they will now both properly cast and stun everything. Huzzah! (See video) Ok that's it for today's update. Hope you have a great day! Take it easy :)show more