Tippmann makes such cool silly things. Belt fed, drill... battery powered, variable power, .22 minigun.show more

OP1 has all the moves. It was designed to... be safe, productive, and easy to deploy. Many companies we've spoken with are concerned about legged and wheeled robots being tipped over; OP1's not getting knocked down. Many battery-powered robots need downtime to recharge or swap batteries; OP1 plugs directly into a standard power outlet and runs continuously, never needing to recharge. Many robots require difficult integrations, such as being bolted down to the floor; OP1 is on locking wheels and can be moved around easily when you need to move it. At Ultra, we're on a mission to make the world's most useful and deployable robot. OP1 is a big step (or in our case, extension) in that direction.show more

When people see me with this mug, a majority... of people will probably think it’s just a mug… But in reality it’s the Tesla Thermal Mug. It’s a precision engineered thermal masterpiece from the same team that built my Cybertruck. These signature ridges are more than just for looks… Tesla pulled heatsink principles straight from their vehicle power inverters and battery packs. It creates air pockets that manage heat distribution beautifully so it keeps my coffee hot and evenly warm, while the outside stays cool and super comfortable in my hand. I’m ridiculously picky about the temperature of my drinks, and this is hands-down the best mug I’ve ever owned. Tesla really makes the absolute best stuff on the planet…show more

🇹🇼🇮🇷 The Iran war's most dangerous casualty might be... your phone... Taiwan makes 90% of the world's advanced chips. Those chips need two things from the Strait of Hormuz: helium from Qatar to cool silicon wafers during manufacturing, and LNG to keep the power on. Taiwan gets roughly 70% of its helium and a third of its electricity fuel from the Gulf. The island has 11 days of LNG storage. Helium evaporates from tanks within 45 days regardless. Qatar's Ras Laffan has been bombed multiple times. A third of global helium supply vanished overnight. TSMC alone uses 10% of Taiwan's entire electricity output. No power, no chips. No chips, no phones, no cars, no AI servers, no modern economy. Put simply: Tech giants are spending $650 billion this year on AI infrastructure that depends on a supply chain running through a warzone. Source: Substack, Futurism, Atlantic Council Clip: Shawn Ryanshow more

Those investing in submarines today may be wasting money.... A Virginia-class submarine, powered by an S9G reactor, has a submerged displacement of around 10,000 tons and costs approximately $4–5.8 billion. Its top speed is over 30 knots. Now imagine a much smaller reactor, with power and weight around 15% of the Virginia's, used solely to continuously recharge a solid-state battery bank. Solid-state batteries weigh about half as much as lithium-ion batteries while offering 2-3x more energy capacity. In practice, this means that with the same battery weight, such a sub could achieve roughly 3x the energy gain, In terms of speed, solid-state batteries deliver double or higher discharge rates (potentially 10–20C vs. 5–10C for lithium-ion), ideal for sustained sprints above 30 knots lasting many days and a cruising speed around 25 knots. All this with 15% less overall weight, much quieter operation on batteries alone, and the same endurance as a conventional nuclear sub. And the cost? A micro-reactor would be 15–25% the price of a conventional one, small, modular, low-temperature/low-pressure. This means that when a more modern reactor is needed, you simply swap the module. A micro-reactor paired with solid-state batteries could make a Virginia-class sub $1.2-1.6 billion cheaper, quieter, and leave far more space for weapons, additional batteries, or crew comfort. That's why this system would put all existing submarines at a disadvantage in terms of cost, space, and stealth. Those not adopting micro nuclear reactors can follow what the Germans, Japanese, and French are doing. The Japanese pioneered lithium-ion batteries with diesel chargers, giving their submarines excellent value for money. The Germans chose a fuel cell AIP system to recharge lithium-ion batteries, while the French opted for a similar Japanese-style approach with a battery configuration allowing up to 80 days endurance, making the new Scorpène highly competitive. Starting around 2030, production will shift to solid-state batteries, tripling the capacity of these conventional submarines and enabling silent navigation at around 25 knots for days,making them superior in stealth and speed to many nuclear submarines currently in service. Submarines powered by solid-state batteries, recharged via micro-reactors, fuel cells, or diesel, will be superior: better armed, cheaper, and stealthier than anything we know today.show more

I got an up-close look at the engineering INSIDE... the new Tesla Roadster at yesterday’s unveil, and it’s pretty crazy. After watching this thing drive upside down, launch into the air, and do flips, I got to see the actual hardware that makes it all possible. 1/ The Electric drive unit is the heart of the Roadster’s electric powertrain, delivering power directly to the wheels. 2/ The battery pack has rows of cylindrical battery cells, with cooling systems and electrical connections running throughout. This is what powers the car before the rocket tech comes into play. 3/ The rocket thrusters has multiple cold-gas nozzles. Tesla says the four main rear thrusters blast compressed air faster than the speed of sound, producing more than 80,000 newtons of thrust. 4/ The SpaceX-inspired pressure tanks has two massive carbon-fiber-wrapped pressure vessels with a combined capacity of 600 liters, holding approximately 250 kg of compressed air. And the wild thing is the Roadster can recharge its own air supply, no special rocket fuel is required. 5/ An active rear wing has a variable-pitch wing that automatically adjusts downforce depending on what the car needs. It allows it to get more grip when cornering, less drag when going fast. 6/ The underbody engineering is the hardware underneath that brings everything together, including the systems that help the Roadster stick to the ground and launch into the air. And then there’s the fan suction system, which Tesla says can generate up to 2 g’s of suction force, enough to hold the car upside down. Tesla and SpaceX have built an electric sports car with a battery, electric motors, rocket thrusters, high-pressure air tanks, active aerodynamics, and a suction system powerful enough to let it drive upside down. And yesterday, I watched it actually happen with my own eyes… I’ve seen some incredible engineering from Tesla over the years, but getting this close to the hardware and then seeing what it can do was on a whole another level. This is what happens when you bring together some of the best automotive and rocket engineers in the world and let them push the limits of what’s possible. Great job Tesla! 👏show more

🚨🇬🇧 BRITAIN IS PREPARING. THE QUESTION IS WHAT FOR.... Something significant is happening inside Britain's national-security machinery, and most people haven't noticed. I went through the government's own documents to work out what. Here's what I found. The government is planning the largest UK home-defence exercise in decades. It's called Exercise Albiston Shadow, set for 2027, a multi-day drill involving ministers and hundreds of officials. Its exact scenario is classified, but officials confirm it will test Britain's response to hybrid attacks: cyber disruption, sabotage, foreign interference and disinformation combined. Britain's classified "War Books", the secret plans for moving the country from peace to war, are being rewritten for the first time since 2004. The old versions covered military operations, food distribution, transport and keeping government running. The new one is built for threats that barely existed 22 years ago: large-scale cyberattacks, sabotage and coordinated strikes on infrastructure. The National Risk Register has been expanded, with seven new threats added, including cyberattacks on water, data and police systems. Parts of the home-defence programme have reportedly been pulled forward from 2035 to 2030. And the government is preparing a national campaign telling ordinary households to stock up on food, water and essentials so they can cope in an emergency. None of this is rumour. It's set out in the Resilience Action Plan, the government's Annual Statement on National Resilience, and the National Risk Register, all published this year. Then, in July, it stopped being theoretical. A cyberattack reportedly linked to Iran forced a small British electricity generator offline for four days. The government confirmed the incident but won't name the site, and stresses the wider grid was never at risk. Security analysts see it differently: a proof of concept, a test of what's possible. Let me be straight with you. None of this proves war is coming. It does not mean the government knows an attack is imminent, and ministers are clear the stockpiling advice is common sense, not panic. British Intel is not here to frighten you. But put it together, the war books, the drill, the new threats, the household campaign, a real attack on our power infrastructure, and one question deserves a proper answer: what exactly does the government know that has it preparing this hard, this fast? Here's my advice, and it costs you nothing to follow. Build a basic emergency kit. A few days of tinned food, bottled water, a torch, batteries, a power bank, a battery radio and any medicines you rely on. This is sensible whether the threat is a cyberattack, a storm or a power cut. Keep some cash at home. If systems go down, card payments go with them. Know your basics. Where's your water stopcock, your fuse box, your nearest help. Small things that matter when the lights go out. Don't panic-buy or spread fear. Quiet preparation beats loud alarm every time. The government is getting ready. There's no good reason for you not to. Don't be scared. Be prepared.show more

🇮🇳India today 1. is a $4.15T economy 2. is... the fastest-growing major economy 3. holds $700B+ in forex, 4th-largest 4. has ₹2.05L per-capita income 5. exports $863B in goods & services 6. ships $421B in services exports 7. is 3rd-largest by PPP, $18T+ 8. is set to be a top-3 economy soon 9. has the 4th-largest stock market 10. averages nearly ₹2L cr GST a month 11. files 9 crore+ tax returns a year 12. banks 55 crore via Jan Dhan 13. doubled its GDP in a decade 14. drives ~1/6 of global growth 15. sees record SIP inflows monthly 16. is the No.2 phone maker globally 17. makes 99% of its phones at home 18. exports ₹2.62L cr of smartphones 19. makes ₹13.11L cr of electronics 20. rolled out its first Made-in-India chips 21. is the 3rd-largest car market 22. leads in 2-wheelers & tractors 23. is the 2nd-largest steel maker 24. grew defence exports 34x in a decade 25. does 23.66B UPI txns a month 26. moved ₹29.88L cr on UPI in July 27. has 2.4L+ recognised startups 28. clears 763M UPI payments a day 29. runs UPI live in 7+ countries 30. is the 3rd-largest startup hub 31. has minted 100+ unicorns 32. made 23L+ jobs via startups 33. connects 900M+ to the internet 34. ranks 3rd in science papers 35. ranks 6th in patent filings 36. spends ₹12.2L cr on capex 37. has 99.6% rail electrification 38. rose to 38th on innovation index 39. ranks 4th in trademark filings 40. has 63.73L km of roads 41. has 1.47L km of highways 42. has 45,516 km of 4-lane roads 43. has 7,300+ km of expressways 44. has 165 operational airports 45. has the 2nd-largest road network 46. has the 4th-largest rail network 47. has 1,155+ km of metro rail 48. runs 160+ Vande Bharat trains 49. built the world's highest rail bridge 50. has 1,728 MMTPA port capacity 51. runs metro in 26 cities 52. grew its highway network 60% in a decade 53. has 552 GW of power capacity 54. more than doubled power since 2014 55. runs 300 GW of non-fossil power 56. is 3rd-largest in renewables 57. has 164 GW of solar power 58. added a record 55 GW of clean power in FY26 59. is 4th-largest in wind power 60. runs a Green Hydrogen Mission 61. has powered every village 62. targets 100 GW nuclear by 2047 63. grew renewable output to 478 billion units 64. grows 357.7 MT of foodgrain 65. grows 362 MT of horticulture 66. is the No.1 milk producer 67. leads in pulses, millets & spices 68. farms the most arable land 69. has 844 medical colleges 70. doubled its MBBS seats 71. enrols 4.3 cr in higher ed 72. keeps growing IITs and IIMs 73. has 1,100+ universities & 45,000+ colleges 74. runs the largest health cover 75. covers 55 crore under Ayushman 76. raised life expectancy past 70 77. is the 4th nation to dock in orbit 78. has 44 UNESCO heritage sites 79. hit the Moon's south pole first 80. is home to 1.46B people And we are just getting started. Happy Independence Day!show more

Pretty over catching flak for just existing on peanut's... server. let's recap the "yOuRe RuInInG tHe SeRvEr" narrative: - Spent a lot of dedicated time helping teach/decorate/guide new people through the game - Suggested the SAM site solution to peanut in S2 (which fixed the problem for the whole server) - The imbalance of team numbers was a "fun problem" so I suggested the naval war as numbers are not nearly as important and everyone will have more fun doing it - Farmed my ass off to not only build a big cool fantasy base for Peanut in S1, but also to supply materials for multiple RPers and others who were struggling to get stuff on their own across every wipe so far. - Coupled with the point above, before peanut had pheetus to farm for him, I also secretly supplied his team with nearly a box of low grade and cloth overnight (really difficult resources to get) so they could continue playing with meds instead of needing to spend a day grinding for them. I never told him or anyone but everyone on stream new we did it to support the nut. - Went out of my way on multiple occasions to go on rescue missions to save people from the deep sea, cargo, and oil rigs I understand that people only see things through the point of view of their streamer, and don't know what I'm doing on my stream, but I spent the entire current wipe just hanging out with my friend, recruiting noobs to do silly ninja role play with us while teaching them about the game. One morning, without asking, I got a DM telling me I was unrestricted and could use guns, so I took an AK out to the deep sea and killed scientists (poorly) and it caused the entire server to lose their minds. Suddenly i have 20k hours (this number increases every time i hear about it), am going to use my 'expert builder skillz' to raid bases, and will abuse everything. Except I didn't do any of that. I still did stupid ninja RP for another 30-40 hours having silly interactions and using C4 for things like "Door breaking ninjitsu" until I was getting harassed to the point where I might as well have joined a sweaty pvp team anyways (so I did, and I did it out of spite). After joining said team I've still mostly only used pistols, not that it matters, but just wanted to include this. I'm too autistic and frustrated to understand how people are coming to the conclusion that I'm such a villain, kind of wish y'all would just tune in and watch instead.show more

P'Ker helped me write my name. Without P'ker, My... ZNN autograph event iswould have ended without a name. Thank you so much 🙇‍♀️ 정말 감사합니다🥹🫶 Ker By the way, my precious fan signing with only 30 seconds was ruined by some staff. I wrote both my English name and Thai on a piece of paper with the name to be signed (I wrote Thai with the intention of asking ZNN to read it), and before going on the signing stage, I showed the staff the paper with the name on it in advance, and received an OK because the name was written in English. However, as soon as the staff member saw the paper with the name on it while signing, She said, " Can't write your name in Thai. It's only available in English." several times, and even when I pointed to the English written on it, I ignored it and repeated the same words. My precious 30 seconds of autograph session, which I acquired by paying over 100,000 yen, ended without any conversation with ZNN due to the staff's shout in question. My kind ZNN tried to write my name until the end. I wonder how such unfortunate things happen at every event managed by this staff. Thai Festival merchandise booth incident is the same. Since I haven't experienced it myself, I'll refrain from speaking. However, no power, no matter what position they are in, can take the rights of consumers who have paid with dignity lightly. It's really the worst. Please stop collaborating with a company that can't do this again and makes fans sad. DMD SHOP GoodMemoriesDMDshow more

BILL GATES WHERE THE ART THOU?! I hope you're... watching the Tesla Semi event tonight... Tesla opens the Semi factory tonight at 6pm PT, live on 𝕏. In 2020 Bill wrote that an electric 18-wheeler would probably NEVER work. "The problem is that batteries are big and heavy. The more weight you're trying to move, the more batteries you need to power the vehicle. But the more batteries you use, the more weight you add, and the more power you need. Even with big breakthroughs in battery technology, electric vehicles will probably NEVER be a practical solution for things like 18-wheelers. Electricity works when you need to cover short distances, but we need a different solution for heavy, long-haul vehicles." BTW, he also bet against the company... he shorted $TSLA. In 2022 Elon texted him and asked if he still had a $ half-billion-dollar short position against Tesla. And he did. On December 17, 2025, Elon said that short was about 1% of Tesla's shares, and that it might have cost Gates over $10 billion by now. Elon even once said Gates told him in person, at Giga Texas, that a long-range Semi was impossible. The Tesla team has been grinding over the years as people gave up on the Tesla Semi program... every year it slipped, more of them walked away. In The Master Plan, Elon wrote the goal down on July 20, 2016... Tesla was NOT going to stop at cars. Heavy trucks had to go electric too, bc that is where a ton of the fuel actually gets burned. The team showed the Semi on November 16, 2017 and PepsiCo took the first ones in December 2022, hauling real freight with them ever since. And tonight they are opening the factory. The building is 1.7 million square feet, next to Gigafactory Nevada. Tesla sized it for up to produce 50,000 Semis a year. And Dan Priestley has said there will be many thousands by the end of 2026. So here are the facts. 1/ Standard Range is about 325 miles. Long Range is about 500. Both of those are at a full 82,000 lb load. 2/ It uses about 1.7 kWh per mile. A diesel Class 8 usually gets around 6 to 7 miles per gallon. A gallon of diesel holds about 38 kWh of energy. At 7 mpg that is a little over 5 kWh of fuel burned every mile. The Semi uses 1.7. The diesel is burning about 3 times the energy to move the same freight. 3/ The long range truck can take up to 1.2 megawatts. Tesla says about 60% of the battery comes back in 30 minutes. That is a driver’s required break, and on the 500-mile truck it is on the order of 300 miles. There is also a 25 kW outlet on the truck, so a refrigerated trailer can run off the battery. 4/ After the driver, fuel is one of the biggest bills a fleet has. $4 diesel at 7 mpg is about 57 cents a mile. Electricity at 15 cents a kWh and 1.7 kWh a mile is about 26 cents a mile. The direction is a lot less $ money per mile, and the price of electricity does not swing around the way diesel does. You also drop the oil changes, the diesel exhaust fluid, and the emissions equipment that keeps parking diesel trucks in the shop. Regenerative breaking slows the truck down, so the brakes last longer. It's clearly a financially better decision for businesses. 5/ Medium and heavy trucks were 23% of US transportation emissions. Transportation was the largest source of America’s direct emissions. These trucks are a small share of the vehicles, yet a huge share of the fuel. Take one diesel doing 100,000 miles a year at 7 mpg. That is about 14,300 gallons. The EPA puts about 22.5 pounds of CO2 in a gallon of diesel. Call it 145 metric tons a year, out of one tailpipe. The Tesla Semi also has no tailpipe, no diesel soot, no NOx on the street next to the warehouse, the port, or the school by the highway. A diesel is stuck burning diesel for the rest of its life. 6/ 800 kW is about 1,070 horsepower, from three motors. A lot of diesel tractors are 400 to 600 horsepower, and a full trailer makes them crawl on a grade while cars stack up behind. The Tesla Semi has the power to keep its speed. Tesla says those three motors can also catch a jackknife. The battery sits low, which makes the truck harder to roll. And Tesla Semis are designed for autonomy. 7/ PepsiCo has been running Semis since December 2022. Einride ordered 500, starting this month, across California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, and Georgia, including Amazon freight. This week ZET SCALE, a shipper group with Microsoft and PepsiCo in it, picked Tesla as the primary truck for a program of up to 2,500 electric Class 8 trucks. Tesla’s own account said 2,500 Semis. Kenworth, Volvo, and RIDE are also named in that deal, so the split is one of the things to listen for tonight. IMC ordered 50 for California port runs. DHL and ABF already bought after real pilots. Semis spotted at the factory today already had customer logos on them - PepsiCo, US Foods, DHL, Einride, ABF, IMC, WattEV, OK Produce, and more. So Bill, I hope you’re watching tonight. The truck you said would probably NEVER work is now getting its own 1.7-million-square-foot factory ready to be built at scale. The debate over whether an electric 18-wheeler can exist is over. Now the question is how big this gets. And knowing Tesla, the Semi we see today is probably only the beginning.show more

This weekend my dream came into fruition. And it... still doesn’t feel real… I started Earnit Media in late 2023. There were many times when I did the weekly calls completely by myself, nobody would join. I’d sit there for an hour just hoping to hear the Discord join sound. Now I just hosted an irl meet up in Gdańsk with 18 members who’ve flown from all over the world. Shoutout DiPi for getting a 16 hour flight all the way from California. The power of the internet is wild and the opportunities YouTube and short form content have provided is a real blessing. I gave out awards for members that passed milestones like $10K and $100K since joining Earnit and seeing the amount of lives my community has changed in person is an indescribable feeling. The members also got me and my right hand man Ben a very special gift. A custom Earnit belt that was signed by all of them. I’ve been sleeping with it wrapped around my shoulder. It was so cool to see everyone sharing sauce and motivating each other. It doesn’t matter if you’re making 1K, 5K, 10K, 30K a month - everybody benefited from the conversations and provided value. It’s taken a long time to build such a supportive community but man was the effort worth it. I come from a small English town where nobody works online, let alone does YouTube. So to be able to meet like-minded people who understand exactly what you do, have the same sense of urgency + ambition is a rarity and is key for growth. I have no doubt that so many of us are gonna be lifelong friends. I keep telling myself that I’m so grateful and lucky to have been able to do this because I truly have been blessed with the cards life has dealt me and the path I’ve been put on. I strongly believe my purpose is to change peoples lives in a positive way, so to be told that I’ve done that in person by several people has made me realize that I’m executing my mission well. This is only the beginning. Earnit Media on top. Thank you for everything. Vlog coming soon.show more

In Year 2025 two EV’s came into my life,... One is my cute daughter “Evana” 👧 Other being my “Harrier.EV” 😊 In year 2023, It was month of April and one post landed on my dads social media handles that one EV which is 500+km’s of range is launching at just 20 lakhs. Dad got excited and thought of booking it and it turned out to be April fools joke & that time dad said getting and Indian EV with 500kms of real world range would be the time he would buy one and that’s when Harrier.EV entered the scenes in 2025 with its 500 km’s real life range in 21-25 lakhs Tata’s Harrier.EV helped and made an normal Indian believe that they can own an high class EV with 500kms real world range within 21-25 lakhs with functions like Auto Park & what not It deleted the impossible by converting the once April fools joke into reality (Achievement in itself) #IDeletedImpossible I was owning an Petrol SUV and petrol bills started climbing up due to high runnning due to business works & I wanted to make a switch but I wanted to make sure that whatever car I purchase it should be a true upgrade over existing one with regards to ✅Power ✅Running Costs ✅Looks ✅Features ✅Off-road Capabilities ✅Interior Space ✅Real World Range of 450-500kms ✅Lifetime Battery Warranty ✅Save 15-20k per month on fuel ✅ADAS That’s when Harrier.EV’s advertisement started playing in my office & I felt the car has ticked all the boxes Harrier.EV was delivered to me on 5th Of Nov 2025 With our Harrier.EV, we have travelled during day,evenings & nights & that too with my wife & daughter and we have uncovered beautiful Maharashtra in all its fancies without thinking much of range ✅Delete route Planning: Earlier people use to say, plan your journey before leaving home but now with real world range of 450-500kms and so many Tata.EV chargers, I just plot them on my route on the go and we do adhoc trips with any route of our choice and change plans midway as per our choice. ✅Adhoc Trips : Just a month back we planned a short trip to Mahabaleshwar from Mumbai but on my wife’s behest we roamed coastal towns of Mahrashtra & most interior parts of Maharashtra like Spiritual Town of GanpatiPule, whole Konkan coast and this car just glided over the beautiful scenery with ease and the best part was no need to visit fuel pumps as car was getting charged overnight at hotel or when we use to have our dinner/lunch/snack breaks at eateries, it was effortless. ✅Multiple Mumbai Goa Trips: Mumbai to Goa in Harrier.EV is breeze & we do these trips without any hassle every 2 months. We reach Mumbai to Goa with just one DC Charging session while we have our lunch 🥗 ✅ Power & Control : The sheer power & control which Harrier.EV offers is just unmatched at this price point. The car has excellent ride quality on Tarmac and just pulls and pulls and asks to be pulled due to its high torque figures. Things which Harrier.EV helped me achieve is to go to any terrain without any doubt because of its ✅Great Ground Clearance ✅360 Degree Cam ✅High Torque ✅Excellent Top Notch Suspension Setup ✅Excellent Real World Range Attaching one video which has steep hill dissent & we are getting down such ease while talking normally, it makes drives effortless, no matter the terrain 🛣️ #IDeletedImpossible TATA.evshow more

$ASI watch out! We've got more projects popping up... on Bittensor and $TAO and just starting, Akash $AKT, Shell $SHELL, Einstein-AIT $AIT, Sturdy $STRDY, Stratos $STOS and Comtensor $COMAI and more. Each pushing what's possible with AI and crypto. MyShell: $SHELL First up, MyShell is doing something amazing work. They're all about making AI chat like humans. They're using this TTS Subnet on Bittensor, powered by thier tokens, to make it happen. AI doesn't have to be complicated thing only some can use. They want everyone in on the action, making AI smarter in the process. Einstein-AIT: $AIT Then there's Einstein-AIT. Imagine this as the network's brain but on a turbocharge. It's all about math, logic, and crunching numbers. This subnet makes the whole Bittensor network sharper. They've got NumPAL, and it's like giving the AI a smarter way to think about time and dates automatically. Sturdy: $STRDY Jumping into DeFi, we've got Sturdy. These guys are on a mission to make lending and borrowing way less of a headache. They've got isolated lending pools, you can pick and choose how to manage your risks and money. And they're using some serious tech to keep your investments growing without you needing to babysit them. It's like having a smart financial assistant. Comtensor: $COMAI Comtensor is where it gets interesting. Think of it as a bridge between CommuneAI and Bittensor, kind of like the best of both worlds. It's about making sure all these AI modules and subnets can talk to each other smoothly. The goal? To boost decentralized AI by making everything more connected and smart. Stratos: $STOS Teaming up with τensorage to supercharge the $TAO ecosystem on Bittensor. Stratos is all about solid, decentralized storage - think of it as the bedrock for making sure data's not just stored but also used right . Then there’s τensorage, making sure everything AI needs is stored safe. Together, they’re making sure Bittensor's AI brainpower gets a boost, making everything faster, safer, and smoother. Akash: $AKT Compute Subnet 27 linked up with Akash. All about keeping things open-source. With Akash as a decentralized GPU provider into the mix. Giving access to top-notch AI processing power on top of Neural Internets compute-composable subnet, integrating various cloud platforms. This partnership is all about breaking away from those giants and opening the doors wide for smaller teams and startups who need this tech to innovate. Whats this all about? Making decentralized AI a something that everyone can get behind and into. Whether it's chatting with AI, boosting the network's IQ, DeFi, compute or making sure all these projects work together, it's about pushing forward. Each project has its own way of making things better, faster, and smarter for all of us. Inviting everyone to join in, contribute, and be a part of community effort to make AI not just for the few but for everyone. Credit to Mr.Franc Q for the awesome video production!show more

I would like to explain the latest batch of... viral videos I'm working on to the bemused brainrot-curious reader who is not familiar with "the culture". Why are these characters, mixed with this song, going viral? It's all about connecting infinite referential mirrors. What makes this video interesting are not its individual parts but the signifier links it draws. Let's look at the individual parts: ONE: The song is a Brazilian funk or "pancadão" song called MC Lan e MC WM - Sua Amiga Vou Pegar, these days part of what's broadly referred as Brazilian phonk or just phonk (not to be confused with the original phonk, a Memphis-derived genre from the early 2010s built around chopped Three 6 Mafia samples, cowbells and lo-fi tape hiss and etc. The Brazilian version comes an entirely different lineage and got its name adapted from “funk” to “phonk” exclusively because the names sounded similar. It has a similarly menacing posture but swaps the rap cadence for funk's 4/4 with kicks on 1 and 3 rhythm and a much heavier, distorted 808 synth sound). Phonk is often used for its exaggerated reverb feeling bass lines to signify power, style or simply "aura", which you can take as a shorthand for poise, coolness, being de-bon-air and a general detached positive feeling of high status. Aura. Because most users cannot understand the Portuguese lyrics (which are often quite vulgar and sexual), the singing takes the characteristic of a chant, something to be appreciated entirely for its sound, texture and gravitas. The vocals are just another instrument where you can appreciate the menace and swagger of the delivery directly without the cognitive friction of meaning. Non-Portuguese-speaking audiences are not missing anything they were supposed to get, they get “the vibe” that matters, which is not lyrical. These songs are often paired with (male) characters that are taken to display these traits like American Psycho's Patrick Bateman (yes, yes I know that’s the opposite of what you should feel about the character), Peaky Blinder's Thomas Shelby and a menagerie of anime characters like Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen), Yujiro Hanma (Baki) and Goku and, really, any male character that is just a little bit cool. TWO: The man in the suit is a minor Family Guy character called Tom Tucker. The reference comes from a scene where Meg sees him walking through her school and says "It's Tom Tucker from the news!” We then cut to her POV, where he is walking in slow motion with soft romantic music swelling and birds chirping, the whole love-at-first-sight trope. Then a camera crew member off-screen yells "hurry up Mr. Tucker," and we get to see he is not walking in slow motion because Meg is infatuated, he is just walking that slowly in real life. Only the music and the birds were in her head. The gag is built on the viewer recognizing the romantic-slow-motion trope, briefly accepting it as the scene's reality, and then being shown that we (and Meg) projected the trope onto what is actually just a man walking very slowly. HA! The original gag is already about projection: a neutral image (slow walk) being assigned an external meaning (romance) by a viewer's pattern-recognition. This is what makes the edit-culture appropriation work so well. The clip got stripped of its context, paired with phonk and text overlays (AURA or “Me and the boys going to detention”), and retroactively assigned a new meaning, only this time it’s the cinematic nonchalant walk, the slow deliberate gait that signifies a man who knows he's the most important thing in the frame (ta la any 1980s Schwazerneggerian action movie hero walking away from an explosion without looking back, every yakuza boss entering a room, every western gunslinger approaching the duel). The edit is ostensibly projecting a trope onto a neutral image. The first projection was romance; the second projection is aura. Family Guy clips and gifs are easy to access and repost, which makes it a readily available and easy to use building block. The show has, through sheer volume of output and over two decades of YouTube and cable TV saturation, become a kind of public-domain visual library, a default vocabulary that any editor can pull from knowing the audience will recognize the source without having to be told, and we can just keep loading meaning onto it. THREE: The character in the background is Tom, from Tom and Jerry, doing a pose made famous by an iShowSpeed fan who encountered him during a livestream. By quickly and correctly identifying Speed by his full legal name ("Darren Jason Watkins Jr"), she showcased herself to be a true fan, which he responded to with his characteristic exaggerated reactions. The pose the girl hit, with the knowing look to the camera, produced a perfect “aura moment” complete commitment, zero irony, the unshakeable conviction that what she was doing was the coolest possible thing to do. As a result, the clip then got endlessly edited with "aura 🥶🥶🥶" captions to canonize it. Aura, in this lexicon, is not granted by the universe; it is summoned by the person's own belief that they have it and by displaying the correct attitude. Tom is also dressed as the previously mentioned Thomas Shelby from Peaky Blinders, which is itself a double signifier. The name match (“Thomas”, get it?) and the suit-and-flat-cap costume turn the cartoon cat into a stand-in for the perhaps most used "high-aura" male character of the past decade, the brooding gangster patriarch whose every cigarette drag has been set to phonk, cinematic scores and electronic music a thousand times over. On top of that, he is made entirely out of chrome, a popular trope of asking ChatGPT (one of the few AI tools people have easy and broad access to) to render things out of very high quality materials to indicate "rarity" or "status" like diamonds, platinum and etc. A sign that itself descends from a longer lineage of in-game cosmetic rarity tiers (League of Legends, MMOs, various skin economy freemium game, the Fortnite battle pass, the Pokémon shiny, dacha games and etc) where material finish is the visual shorthand of value. So "chrome" or "platinum" Tom on top of all previous signifiers signals a “maximized” or “maxxd” version. The image is suppose to invoke the superlative highest possible tier, rarest-drop, legendary-rarity version of aura, the way a kid in a playground would describe their dad as not just strong but the strongest in the world. FOUR: Finally, the background black hole calls back to the original Tom image, where he is surrounded by the universe itself, having ascended. The character has transcended the diegetic frame of his own cartoon and now exists at a cosmological scale, with the black hole standing in for the kind of unmotivated, vibes-based "cosmic" imagery that has become the default background for any video trying to signify that something Big is happening (the same visual motif that has powered comic book characters, anime transformations, video game power ups and anything wants to feel grandiose or “epic” without specifying what about). The black hole means significance in the abstract. At this point I think you understand the mechanism at play here. None of these references resolve to a stable meaning on their own. Tom Tucker is “cool” only in the very short context in which his image served as a substrate; he was convenient footage to pair with a song, and the absurdity of doing an "aura edit" on such a minor, strange character scene makes it all funnier and easier to share. Tom-the-cat is doing the aura pose > the aura pose comes from the iShowSpeed girl > the iShowSpeed girl was cool because she correctly played her part in an established bit of a large streamer with the correct timing and theatrical flair > the bit was cool because it was a shared convention unified by a popular central streamer figure > the convention existed because phonk edits had already trained this exact scenario to be read as confidence-plus-detachment as aura > the chrome finish points to AI image generation quirks > the AI image generation style can be mapped to gaming visual rarity shorthands; the gaming rarity tiers point to a much older logic of precious-metal-as-status. Each step on the referential chain is propped by the one behind it, and the one behind it is propped up by the one behind that, so on and so forth. There is no natural endpoint, the entire structure functions more akin to a network than a linked list. If you stop at any single point and ask "but why is particular signifier cool or funny or interesting”, the answer is always "because of the thing behind it.” It’s hyper-citation, Here, what matters is the structure of the whole rather than the content. This is structure is what I mean by infinite referential mirrors. The rate at which a concept is referencing, remixing and calling back to another is what’s interesting. In other words, It’s the velocity that matters. The chain of recognitions, each "I get that reference," and the cumulative effect of getting six references stacked on top of each other a short span of time gives you the feeling that you are participating in something dense and alive, because it allows you to recognize the shared meme ecosystem of the platform that you are participating in, even if only a glimpse of it. You are inside the culture rather than outside it. The brainrot-curious reader who watches this video and feels nothing, has “failed” to understand the joke because they are outside the hall of mirrors I am describing. You can only get the magic if you step in and start counting the reflections: the song, the suit, the cat, the chrome, the black hole, the transitions the video uses. You are looking at connected parts of this network of symbols and at the speed at which one image hands you off to the next. The entire thirteen-second clip is functioning as a single compressed referential payload that decompresses in the viewer's head into a small private essay exactly like this one. The video allows you to recognize yourself as someone capable of decoding it, and that recognition is the reward. That’s why media like this goes viral.show more

Why is the market selling off today? (Save this).... The semi selloff right now is being driven by a mix of macro fear, profit taking and investors questioning how quickly all of this AI spending will actually pay off, not because demand for AI infrastructure suddenly disappeared. The market is basically trading this chain reaction, the ongoing US Iran escalation pushes oil higher, higher oil keeps inflation elevated, sticky inflation keeps Treasury yields high and that increases the risk of the Fed staying hawkish or even hiking again. That is a terrible setup for semis because many of these companies are valued on the massive earnings investors expect them to generate years from now. When yields rise, those future earnings become worth less today which is why the highest multiple AI and semiconductor names usually get hit first. (I don't think there will be a hike this year). This is also why everything is moving together right now. Nvidia, Micron, Nebius, SanDisk, Broadcom and Applied Optoelectronics are all completely different businesses, but institutions are not separating memory, networking, optics, compute and cloud infrastructure at the moment. They are reducing exposure to the entire AI trade, taking profits in the names that have already run the most and moving into a more defensive position potentially ahead of the Fed. There is also growing pressure around hyperscaler capex. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google are still spending enormous amounts on GPUs, data centers, networking and power but the market is starting to ask when all of that spending will actually turn into revenue and free cash flow. Investors are no longer satisfied with hearing that AI capex is growing. They want proof that the returns are arriving fast enough to justify the valuations already priced into the entire AI ecosystem. That creates a weird situation where hyperscaler capex can continue rising while semiconductor stocks still fall. The market is not asking whether AI spending is growing anymore but rather asking whether it is growing fast enough to beat the expectations already baked into these stocks. Crowded positioning is another major factor. Semis and AI infrastructure stocks have been some of the biggest winners in the market so institutions are sitting on huge profits and many funds own the exact same names. When macro risk increases, investors usually sell the most liquid winners first. That does not mean demand for memory, optics or custom chips suddenly collapsed but rather means investors are locking in gains and reducing risk. Tariffs add another layer because even when they are not directly placed on chips, they can still raise the cost of servers, electrical equipment, cooling systems, construction materials and the overall data center buildout. That makes AI infrastructure more expensive while also adding another source of inflation. Then you have Jensen Huang’s letter to the White House this morning about open weight AI models, which I think is one of the most important long term developments here. Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir and several other companies are pushing Washington not to place broad restrictions on open weight AI. OpenAI and Anthropic were notably absent because open models are much more of a threat to their business models. OpenAI and Anthropic benefit from a world where a few closed frontier labs control the best models and companies have to pay them through subscriptions and APIs. Open weight models weaken that advantage because businesses can download a model, customize it for their own use and run it on their own infrastructure or through a neocloud. That is bad for OpenAI and Anthropic because it puts pressure on pricing, margins and the idea that they will control the intelligence layer of the economy but it is very good for the AI ecosystem as a whole over the long run. But the question is what does this mean for all the OpenAI and Anthropic commitments? so that's adding to the fear as well. But with that being said open models make AI cheaper and more accessible. Instead of AI being controlled by a few giant labs, thousands of startups, universities, governments and regular businesses can deploy models themselves. That spreads AI adoption across the entire economy and creates a much larger infrastructure opportunity and that is exactly why Jensen cares. Nvidia does not need OpenAI or Anthropic to win. Nvidia just needs more people using AI. Whether the model comes from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Kimi or some startup nobody has heard of yet, it still needs GPUs, memory, networking, data centers and electricity. So open weight AI could actually weaken the model companies while making the infrastructure layer much bigger. More open models mean more companies running inference. More inference means more GPUs. More GPUs mean more HBM, optical transceivers, switches, data centers and power. That is bullish for Nvidia Nebius, Micron, Broadcom , Marvell and Applied Optoelectronics over the long run. So my take is that the current semi selloff is being driven mostly by macro uncertainty, higher oil, rising yields, Fed fears, tariffs, crowded positioning and questions around the return on hyperscaler capex. The underlying AI infrastructure thesis has not suddenly broken. We are not broadly seeing hyperscalers cancel GPU orders, slash capex, abandon data center projects or report that AI demand has collapsed. What has changed is the valuation investors are willing to pay while the macro environment remains unstable. The market is lowering the price it is willing to pay for semiconductor growth but is not necessarily saying that growth is gone. And while Jensen’s open weight push may be bad for OpenAI and Anthropic, it could be one of the best things possible for the AI ecosystem over the long run because it creates more models, more developers, more competition and ultimately much more demand for the infrastructure underneath all of it. Nothing about the AI thesis has changed for me, so I will be going shopping and taking advantage of this sale while the market is selling everything together. I am an analyst at Milk Road Pro, and if you want to see exactly what I am buying, you can join for just $1 using the link below.show more

A new wave of protests is underway in Iran,... a strategic partner of Russia. They started in late December 2025 and quickly became the most significant in several years. This time, the initial driving force has not primarily been cultural or human rights slogans such as "Woman, Life, Freedom" (as in 2022), but rather an economic shock. People are joining the protests because of rapid impoverishment, price increase, and a growing sense that the state has lost control over basic economic rules. The main trigger is a currency collapse. On the "open" (effectively parallel) market in late December, the US dollar was valued at roughly 1.39-1.42 million rials, while inflation in December reached over 40% in some estimates. For ordinary families, this means one simple thing: wages and savings are losing value faster than people can adapt, and basic purchases are becoming increasingly unaffordable. The protests were the largest in Tehran, particularly in commercial districts linked to major markets and urban trade. Notably, a key form of pressure has been not only street demonstrations but also merchants’ strikes - mass shop closures and an effective shutdown of trade. Such actions are harder to neutralize through targeted arrests, as they immediately affect urban life and the economy. Within days, the protest wave started spreading to other cities and reached parts of the university sector as well. Students and young people have taken up economic demands and quickly moved on to political questions about the accountability of those in power. The authorities’ response has been mixed. On the one hand, the government has publicly spoken of readiness for dialogue with representatives of the protesters and the trading community. On the other hand, reports from the ground indicate coercive containment measures: arrests, dispersals, and crackdowns. In several provinces, deaths and injuries have already been reported. The figures vary across sources, which is typical for Iran due to information restrictions, but the very fact of fatalities during clashes has been confirmed by several major media outlets. What makes this wave of protests particularly risky for the regime is that it rests on the urban economic base: small and medium-sized businesses, commerce, and the "bazaar." Even if these groups have not always been at the forefront of political protests, they serve as a sensitive barometer of legitimacy. When the "bazaar" shuts down, it signals not only discontent, but also doubt about the state’s ability to maintain basic order. Alongside the internal crisis, external risks are also mounting. Sanctions continue to narrow Iran’s financial and technological room for maneuver, while signals are emerging in the media about the possibility of a new round of coercive pressure on Iran in 2026 - particularly following discussions within the Israel-US-Iran triangle. ❓ What could come next? Four trajectories appear most realistic, and they may even overlap. ▪️ First, controlled de-escalation: the authorities attempt to "cool things down" through targeted economic measures and negotiations with the trading community. This would work only if the exchange rate and prices stabilize. ▪️ Second, wave-like protests: smaller in scale but more frequent and more radical, with repeated flare-ups across different cities and sectors. ▪️ Third, harsh repression: a tightening of the security apparatus and severe sentences, which may temporarily suppress mobilization but typically accumulate deferred anger. ▪️ Fourth, external escalation: which could either temporarily shift the domestic agenda or, conversely, sharply worsen economic conditions and bring people back onto the streets even faster. ‼️ Iran is one of Russia’s authoritarian partners, which raises a logical question: what consequences could the current crisis have for Russian-Iranian relations? If the situation in Iran deteriorates but the regime as a whole survives, the partnership with Russia is likely to be preserved or even strengthened. For Tehran, Moscow remains one of the few major partners available under sanctions and diplomatic isolation; for Moscow, Iran is an important component of its "anti-sanctions" infrastructure and political rear. In the short term, this is unlikely to significantly weaken Russia’s position. The most critical military component for Russia - the Shahed/Geran drone line - has already been largely integrated into Russian domestic production, meaning that a direct disruption of Iranian supplies would probably not be a turning point. More tangible risks for Russia emerge in the medium term if Iran enters a phase of governance paralysis or prolonged instability that undermines its ability to honor agreements. In that case, logistics and infrastructure projects would be hit first - especially those Russia views as alternative sanction-era routes, including the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and its critical segments. In such a scenario, Moscow would lose the Iranian vector for trade and transit and would face a less predictable partner in technology transfers and financial settlements. The most ambiguous scenario is one in which Iran’s deterioration is linked to a new external escalation (strikes or war). The effects for Russia could be mixed: on the one hand, heightened risks in the Persian Gulf often push oil prices higher, potentially boosting Russian oil revenues; on the other hand, war increases the likelihood of tighter sanctions enforcement and maritime controls, complicating both Iranian and Russian sanction-evasion schemes and disrupting logistics. In other words, "deterioration in Iran" does not guarantee a weakening of Russia, but it does increase environmental instability. Moscow may gain from higher energy prices, but lose in terms of partner predictability and transport capacity. ‼️ Russia’s position would weaken most sharply in a scenario where a new leadership in Tehran moves toward normalization with the West or at least distances itself from Moscow. In that case, the entire "anti-sanctions" framework - financial settlements, technological cooperation, and joint projects - would come under pressure, including the North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and its key Rasht-Astara segment, in which Russia is investing both financially and politically. For Russia, this would mean the loss of an important (though not the only) route and partner infrastructure in the region. While the purely military Shahed/Geran component may be somewhat less critical due to partial localization of production inside Russia, Iran’s political and logistical value as a partner would nonetheless diminish.show more

A Citadel quant sat down next to me at... Verve on Gough and asked why my laptop had four terminals open I was scanning Polymarket. Four panes. Each one a different agent. He was killing time before a flight. Saw the screens. "Is that a multi-agent setup on prediction markets. Who's orchestrating" Claude. One prompt per agent. They don't share memory. Only a queue file. He pulled up a chair. "Walk me through. I do this for equities at work. I want to see your agent separation" Agent 1 is the scanner. I piped raw JSON from the official Polymarket CLI straight into Claude and told it to score every live market on three things. Edge against my probability estimate. Book depth on both sides. Hours to resolution. Thresholds kill 93% of markets before the brain ever sees them. Edge under 7 cents gone. Depth under $500 gone. Under 4 hours to resolution gone. Over 168 gone. 487 live markets collapse to 35. "Seven cents is your transaction cost buffer" Yes. Below that the gas and spread eat the trade. A green fill popped. +$52 on a BTC dominance market. "And the brain" Agent 2. Runs four checks on every survivor. Base rate from history. News in the last six hours. Whether any of the 47 top wallets are currently holding. And a disposition check - is the crowd making a known cognitive error. Three out of four must agree. Otherwise drop it. 86 million trades. I let Claude rank every wallet with 100+ fills and a 70%+ win rate. It returned 47 names in four minutes. Top 20 wallets made more than the bottom 13,000 combined. "Concentration like that means the signal is there. Most retail books look like a normal curve. Yours looks like power law" Kelly sizing does the rest. Capped at quarter Kelly. If f-star goes negative the trade dies no matter how confident I feel. "Overbet once and the bankroll is gone. You respect that. Good" Agent 3 is execution. Three strategies pulled out of a 53k line Typescript repo. Arbitrage across related markets. Convergence when price moves toward my estimate. Whale copy with a 60 second delay on the 47 wallets. Two agents agree full position. One agent only half. Disagreement no trade. "What did you cut" Sports. 52% win rate. Already priced in before the scanner flags it. Markets under $50k in depth. Slippage makes every edge a coin flip. Holding to settlement. The top wallets exit at 73% of max profit every time. I copied that. Agent 4 watches exits. Three triggers. Target hit at 85% of expected move. Volume spike 3x the ten minute average. Thesis stale 24 hours with no movement. "91% of the smart wallets exit before resolution. That's the trade" Yeah. Being right is not the same as being profitable. Setup: Claude API $20 Hetzner VPS $5 Four repos free Total $25 a month $200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now. 271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47. Copy here: "How long did the build take" Two weekends. One to wire the scanner and the CLI. One to get the agents talking through the queue file. He watched the volume exit trigger fire on a Fed cut market. Position closed at 0.71. +$184. "Nobody at my shop runs four agents on their own money. We run eight on the firm's. You got the same structure on a laptop for the price of a sandwich a month" He asked for the repos. I sent them. He messaged me from the gate. "Publishing this tomorrow. My PM is going to ask me why I didn't do it first" I told him his PM already has a Bloomberg. That's the problem.show more