🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🔴 𝐀𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥 are plotting 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐊𝐄 by signing 𝐈𝐆𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐘𝐉𝐎(𝟏𝟕)... from Blackburn Rovers A dynamic forward averaging a Goal Contribution Every 54 Minutes (3G /1A) Explosiveness, finishing and elite efficiency …⚡show more

Becoming an elite thrower doesn’t happen by accident. Here... are two more catch-play drills from our “Spin Cycle” progression that teach players how to make throws when the play takes their eyes and body away from the target. These are 2 of the 20 throwing drills my teams execute daily in progression. I promise they work. When taught correctly and reinforced every day, players gain confidence, make more plays, and ultimately help teams win more games. Our Dirt Bro “Most Important 20 Minutes of Practice” throwing routine is designed to build advanced throwers and separate elite defenders from the rest. This isn’t random catch play. It’s a daily progression built to improve arm action, accuracy, footwork, body control, and game-like throwing instincts. Train with purpose. Defend at a different level. Get it here:show more

On January 20, at Davos 2026, CATL was honored... with the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum )'s 2026 MINDS Award, recognizing its groundbreaking project "Augmented Intelligence Leading Next-Generation Lithium-ion Battery Design," which has been acclaimed as a global benchmark for AI-driven industrial application. The project marks a fundamental shift from traditional "reverse design and trial-and-error experimentation" to "forward design with predictive intelligence before manufacturing." By integrating proprietary multimodal data across materials, design, processes and equipment, the initiative has built an intelligent battery cell design platform for the lithium-ion battery industry. The system supports customized performance targets and dynamic priority adjustments, achieving a design prediction accuracy of up to 95%. Compared with manual design, it generates recommendations in seconds and virtual cells in minutes, increasing design efficiency by 30%. CATL will continue to evolve AI from "enablement" to "creation," and from solving known problems to discovering new frontiers, building a cornerstone for the global energy transition. #CATL #WEF #Davos2026 #ArtificialIntelligence #BatteryInnovationshow more

In the tech-driven era, Laojun Mountain老君山, a 5A scenic... area in China’s Henan province, has made a counter-trend choice on November 30th : preserving manual cargo transport to protect 37 porters' livelihoods. While drones could save RMB 30,000 yearly, the scenic area prioritized these workers—averaging age 52, mostly from nearby villages—who would struggle to find new jobs if replaced. These porters have become living landmarks. They know every path, warn tourists of icy spots, and even serve as rescuers with first-aid training. Many visitors specifically buy water from them, saying "water carried by humans feels warmer." Laojun Mountain isn't against technology—drones are used in fire prevention and safety monitoring. But in cargo transport, they choose to be "a little slower," valuing people over efficiency. What are your thoughts on this?show more

I just built a Claude skill that audits your... entire Meta Ads account in under 5 minutes 🤯 Export your CSV from Ads Manager → drop it into Claude → get back an account health score, a wasted spend breakdown, and a prioritized fix list telling you exactly what to change this week. All inside Claude Cowork. Perfect for DTC brands and agencies who are running Meta Ads but have no idea which creatives are bleeding budget, which audiences stopped converting, or why CPA crept up 40% last month. If your weekly Meta workflow still looks like this — open Ads Manager, stare at the dashboard, sort by spend, squint at CTR columns, export a CSV you never actually analyze, close the tab and hope for the best... This skill runs the full audit for you: → Reads your Meta Ads CSV export (campaign, ad set, and ad-level data) → Scores your account 0-100 across 6 dimensions: creative health, audience efficiency, budget allocation, funnel performance, fatigue signals, and offer effectiveness → Calculates your exact wasted spend in dollars: every ad with spend and zero purchases → Identifies creative fatigue before it tanks your CPA (declining CTR + rising frequency + increasing cost) → Flags audience overlap and saturation across ad sets → Delivers a top-5 fix list ranked by how much money each fix saves you No API connection. No third-party tool access to your ad account. No risk of Meta flagging your account. What you get: →A full account health score (0-100) with a grade for each dimension →Your exact wasted spend in dollars (not a vague "you're overspending") →Creative fatigue signals with specific ads to kill or refresh this week →Audience efficiency analysis showing which ad sets are cannibalizing each other →A prioritized fix list ranked by budget impact (do #1 first, save the most money) One CSV export, one prompt. Five minutes. I put together the full playbook with the skill file, the scoring methodology, and the exact CSV export steps from Ads Manager. Want it for free? > Like this post > Comment "META" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)show more

A Letter to Our Community: The Road Ahead for... Robotics To our Community and Partners, As we step into 2026, our mission at Axis is clearer than ever: Constructing the definitive End-to-End Scaling Layer for Robotics. Our goal is to accelerate the transfer of diverse human intelligence into Robotics General Intelligence (RGI). By owning the critical path of intelligence creation, we are turning the physical limitations of robotics into a scalable, software-driven future. Here is our strategic outlook and roadmap for the year ahead. The Core Thesis: Simulation is the Only Way Out The path to RGI is currently blocked by Data Scarcity, Generalization Fragility, and Hardware Fragmentation. At Axis, we believe Simulation is the only way out. Our Simulation Data Platform and Data Augmentation Engine transform raw data into "Synthetic Gold". Backed by academic milestones like Roboverse, Skill Blending, and GraspVLA, we have proven that pure simulation can achieve the generalization required for the real world. We don’t just collect data; we architect it. The Engine: Why Crypto? We believe RGI should come from all, not a few. Crypto is not just a feature; it is the primitive that powers our entire ecosystem flywheel: - Incentive Mechanism: Democratizing contribution and rewarding the trainers and developers. - Assetization: Turning proprietary data and refined models into liquid, ownable assets. - Verifiable Workflow: We are opening the "Black Box" of AI. By bringing total transparency to the Task Generation → Data Collection → Model Training pipeline, we ensure every byte of intelligence is verifiable, traceable, and secure. 2026 Strategic Deliverables This year, we are committed to delivering three foundational pillars: - The World's Largest Training Dataset for Robots: A robot training set—diverse, high-quality interaction data at an unprecedented scale. - A Robotics Foundation Model: A universal robotic brain trained on our pure simulation and synthetic data, capable of robust cross-embodiment transfer and open-world adaptability. - Evolvable Robot Hardware: Robots deployed with Axis models that autonomously evolve through continuous interaction, turning every deployment into a self-improving node within our RGI network. The Ultimate Vision We are building more than models; we are architecting the Distributed Machine Economy. A future where every dataset, model, and robotic embodiment is a verifiable asset in a global, autonomous network. Thank you for building the future of intelligence with us✌️📷show more

Mind-Blowing Views from Mars: Sol 530 Footage NASA has... just dropped stunning new footage from the surface of Mars, captured on Sol 530 — the 530th Martian day of a rover’s mission. At an average distance of about 250 million miles (roughly 400 million kilometers) from Earth, these images remind us just how far we’ve reached as a species.The red, rugged landscape unfolds under a butterscotch-colored sky: sharp rocks scattered across ancient crater floors, layered sedimentary hills hinting at a wetter past, and distant dunes shaped by relentless Martian winds. The thin atmosphere and harsh radiation make every frame feel alien — yet eerily familiar, like a desert that once knew rivers and lakes billions of years ago. Which Rover and What Are We Seeing?Perseverance (Mars 2020 mission) was active around Sol 530 in mid-2022, exploring Jezero Crater — an ancient river delta where it hunts for signs of ancient microbial life and collects samples for a future return mission. The footage (often compiled into panoramas or time-lapses from Mastcam-Z or Navcams) shows the rover’s surroundings in high resolution, revealing textures and colors that scientists use to piece together Mars’ geological story. These “insane” clips circulating online are usually stitched from multiple raw images sent back via the Deep Space Network. The distance means signals take 4–24 minutes one-way, yet we get crystal-clear views thanks to advanced cameras and engineering.Why this feels insane:You’re looking at another planet in near-real-time detail. Evidence of past water, potential biosignatures, and resources for future human explorers. A testament to human ingenuity: rovers designed to survive dust storms, extreme cold, and isolation. Mars continues to surprise us. Every sol brings new data — from seismic rumblings (InSight) to atmospheric methane spikes to these breathtaking vistas. What was once science fiction is now daily downlink from another world.If this is the viral video you’re referring to, it’s pure cosmic wonder: 250 million miles away, yet feeling so close through the eyes of our robotic explorers.show more

Mind-Blowing Views from Mars: Sol 530 Footage NASA has... just dropped stunning new footage from the surface of Mars, captured on Sol 530 — the 530th Martian day of a rover’s mission. At an average distance of about 250 million miles (roughly 400 million kilometers) from Earth, these images remind us just how far we’ve reached as a species.The red, rugged landscape unfolds under a butterscotch-colored sky: sharp rocks scattered across ancient crater floors, layered sedimentary hills hinting at a wetter past, and distant dunes shaped by relentless Martian winds. The thin atmosphere and harsh radiation make every frame feel alien — yet eerily familiar, like a desert that once knew rivers and lakes billions of years ago. Which Rover and What Are We Seeing?Perseverance (Mars 2020 mission) was active around Sol 530 in mid-2022, exploring Jezero Crater — an ancient river delta where it hunts for signs of ancient microbial life and collects samples for a future return mission. The footage (often compiled into panoramas or time-lapses from Mastcam-Z or Navcams) shows the rover’s surroundings in high resolution, revealing textures and colors that scientists use to piece together Mars’ geological story. These “insane” clips circulating online are usually stitched from multiple raw images sent back via the Deep Space Network. The distance means signals take 4–24 minutes one-way, yet we get crystal-clear views thanks to advanced cameras and engineering.Why this feels insane:You’re looking at another planet in near-real-time detail. Evidence of past water, potential biosignatures, and resources for future human explorers. A testament to human ingenuity: rovers designed to survive dust storms, extreme cold, and isolation. Mars continues to surprise us. Every sol brings new data — from seismic rumblings (InSight) to atmospheric methane spikes to these breathtaking vistas. What was once science fiction is now daily downlink from another world.If this is the viral video you’re referring to, it’s pure cosmic wonder: 250 million miles away, yet feeling so close through the eyes of our robotic explorers.show more

The graduation celebration has finally reached its closing moment.... From the initial preparations to the final presentation, we spent two months wholeheartedly pursuing what we love. Thank you to every Chinese Omelette who participated in this graduation gathering support project. Your heartfelt intentions have transcended the barriers of time and space, becoming the driving force for Orm's progress. Thank you to every Chinese Omelette who loves Orm. Our love is like a sturdy tree growing from solid soil. Its growth may be slow and may not yet shield Orm from the storms, but as we accumulate every bit of love, we will eventually see the day when the tree stands tall. Thank you to every fan who has helped OrmOmelette_CN (CN). Your selfless contributions and support have been a lifeline, helping us overcome complex challenges. Thank you to our CN teammates. We have stayed up late, vented our frustrations, and understood each other during the toughest moments. Looking back at the days of planning the graduation support starting in early October, nearly two months have passed. What once seemed like an unreachable goal of 5M THB support has now shone brightly in Bangkok. When we found out we couldn't create the flower wall, it felt like the sky was falling, but we later came up with alternative plan. The discarded old plans, the limited bank cards, the sleepless nights, and flights chased by typhoons—behind this grand celebration stand many “fools crazy in love.” This has been a wholehearted effort without expectation of return, without division. Although there are objective distances of time and space, and cultural and language barriers, this celebration born for Orm is a manifestation of the overwhelming love from the Chinese Omelette. Every sincere contribution is a heavy blessing. We wish orm kornnaphat🌈 a bright and unyielding future. We wish orm kornnaphat🌈 to always be loved and to always love others. We wish orm kornnaphat🌈 to always have the smile she has yesterday. We love you. CONGRATS ORMKORN #OrmSWUGradDay #ormkornnaphat #ออมกรณ์นภัส orm kornnaphat🌈show more

📢Announcing our 3D head avatar benchmark📢 Two tasks with... hidden test sets: - Dynamic Novel View Synthesis on Heads - Monocular FLAME-driven Head Avatar Reconstruction Our goal is to make research on 3D head avatars more comparable and ultimately increase the realism of digital humans. The benchmark studies distinct phenomena of 3D head avatar creation, such as extreme facial expressions, slow motion captures of shaking long hair, or complicated light reflection and refraction patterns of glasses. The two benchmark tasks assess two core desiderata of 3D avatars: While the novel view synthesis challenge focuses on best possible rendering quality of complex moving scenes, the avatar animation challenge is concerned with how well a driving signal is translated into an avatar. Evaluations are light-weight and consist of diverse video recordings from the popular NeRSemble dataset with a hidden test set. Participation in the benchmark is therefore straight-forward and requires only 5 reconstructions per task. Leaderboard and benchmark submission: Benchmark data access and toolkit: Great work by Tobias Kirschstein Simon Giebenhainshow more

Conceptually Thinking Basketball Elite 10 (Iowa 2025) Journey Houston... (Journey Houston ) | 5’11” Combo Guard | Davenport North/ All Iowa Attack Girls Quick Stats •National Rank: #85 (ESPN), Potential Top 50 talent •Iowa Rank: #5 •Class: 2025 •Commitment: Iowa (Iowa Women's Basketball) •Team Record (Last 2 Years): 43-5 in 5A basketball •Accolades: One of the most productive careers in Iowa Performance Metrics Houston’s all-around game shines through in her stat line: she averages 19 points, 9 rebounds (4 offensive), 5 assists, and 5 steals per game. This versatile and high-level production highlights her ability to impact every facet of the game, from scoring and rebounding to playmaking and defensive disruption. Skill Breakdown •Scoring: Elite downhill threat with excellent finishing ability. •Rebounding: Outstanding positional rebounder, especially on the offensive glass. •Defense: Versatile defender capable of guarding positions 1-4, with elite defensive instincts. •Playmaking: Exceptional vision and passing ability, elevating team offense. •Athleticism: Physical, athletic player with the size and strength to impose her will on the game. •Competitiveness: High motor and relentless drive to compete at the highest level. Conceptual Analysis Positional Versatility Journey Houston epitomizes the modern combo guard. She blends scoring ability, playmaking, and defensive versatility, allowing her to excel in multiple roles. At 5’11”, her size and athleticism enable her to defend multiple positions while maintaining the skills to lead an offense. This versatility aligns with the trend toward positionless basketball, where players are valued for their ability to contribute in various facets of the game. Offensive Impact 1.Scoring Threat: Houston’s 19 points per game underscore her ability to create offense, particularly through attacking the rim. Her strength and finishing ability make her a constant threat in transition and half-court sets. 2.Playmaking: Averaging 5 assists per game, Houston’s ability to create for her teammates is a testament to her court vision and high basketball IQ. Her ability to score and facilitate makes her a dual offensive threat. Defensive Excellence Houston’s ability to guard positions 1 through 4 makes her a highly valuable defensive asset. Her 5 steals per game highlight her disruptiveness, turning defense into offense and generating transition opportunities. Her physicality and basketball IQ allow her to stifle opposing offenses, making her a game-changer on the defensive end. Physicality and Competitiveness Houston’s physicality and relentless competitiveness set her apart. Her aggressive play style allows her to dominate in rebounding, defend multiple positions, and attack the basket with force. These traits are often what separate good players from great ones, and Houston’s combination of size, skill, and drive gives her a competitive edge in every matchup. Potential and Projection Despite her #85 ranking, Houston is considered a top 50 talent nationally. Her ranking is likely impacted by missing the AAU season due to off-season surgery, suggesting that her true potential is undervalued. As she returns to full health, Houston is expected to rise in national rankings and showcase her top-tier talent. Team Success Houston’s influence on her team is undeniable, with a 43-5 record in 5A basketball over the last two seasons. Her ability to lead and impact games in a variety of ways has directly contributed to her team’s success, reinforcing her status as a winner and a high-level performer. Future Projection •College Impact: Houston projects as an immediate impact player at Iowa, offering versatility that allows her to contribute in numerous ways. Her ability to score, rebound, assist, and defend makes her a perfect fit for the Hawkeyes, and her defensive prowess will be particularly valuable in Big Ten play.show more

INVESTMENT: Elite sports is a cruel affair. Most athletes... get their five minutes of glory and then are quickly forgotten and even financially jeopardized. This is what got me excited about Legend, a platform that empowers athletes to monetize their achievements, providing a sustainable source of income for their careers. Legend offers gamified staking, a unique and risk-free way for fans to play, predict, and earn: Stake $LEGEND tokens to participate in prediction markets. Winners receive their stake + yield + losers’ yield, while losers keep their initial stake. This model taps into the $40B ETH liquid staking market, with future plans for ETH staking and L1/L2 expansion. The Legend AI Agent also lets sports fans get AI-powered journalist reports for top teams, as well as real-time data such as stats, fixtures, injuries, and odds from multiple premium sources. Legend is the first Web3 venture to be highlighted by the IOC for its innovation in creating sustainable digital trophies, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of traditional sports awards. Legend’s key partnerships include the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the Pan & Parapan American Games, and collaborations with Chiliz and Socios•com to drive its mission forward. $LEGEND is going live today on Gate and MEXC. Know more on Disclaimer: We are investors. DYOR, as this is financial advice.show more

This is Mbare Road, near Majubheki, directly opposite the... Harare Municipal offices yeCouncil ya Mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume along Remembrance Road. Just a short distance further, another pile of rotting vegetable waste lies unattended. Which waste is Geo Pomona Waste Management Pvt Ltd collecting? Hanzi na 𝑲𝒖𝒅𝒛𝒂𝒊 𝑴𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒊 plastic is being recycled in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s waste management crisis stems largely from its continued reliance on a linear economic model. While many countries have moved towards circular economies—which minimise material waste, reduce plastic use, promote recycling, and encourage material and container package reuse—Zimbabwe remains trapped in an outdated system. The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) E.M.A has completely failed in its duty to regulate and enforce environmental standards in this country. It needs urgent reforms and be institutionalised as a quasi independent body detached from the Ministry. It needs highly dedicated qualified environmental academics to put forward to government a research paper that transforms Zimbabwe form its linearity into a more circular economy. But the greater responsibility lies with the central government—particularly the Ministry of Finance led by Hon Prof Mthuli Ncube—which appears to lack both the urgency and the understanding required to transition Zimbabwe to a circular economy. This transition is not merely environmental—it is essential for achieving long-term economic efficiency and productivity. The informal sector, while critical to livelihoods, has become a major contributor to urban pollution, discharging large amounts of plastic onto pavements and open spaces. Former industrial zones are now overwhelmed by an influx of cheap Chinese plastic products, including household items and wearables, adding to the country’s plastic burden. Waste management under a linear economy comes at an unsustainable cost. Millions spent on road construction and repair are lost with every rainy season, as clogged drains prevent proper water runoff. Rainwater pools into potholes or flows along road surfaces, eroding the tarmac and damaging infrastructure. Zimbabwe is drowning in plastic—and no one appears to be paying attention. The clogged drainage systems are a primary cause of deteriorating roads, and these poor roads are now impeding economic activity across urban centres. Zimbabwe must modernise and align with global economic and environmental trends—or risk deeper collapse.show more

And just like that, the final pretence collapses. In... Oldham, the line hasn’t merely been crossed, it’s been trampled into the dirt and laughed at. The Labour machine that once hid behind respectable faces no longer even bothers. The people they defended, protected, and quietly enabled are now stepping forward themselves - as candidates. This is what institutional decay looks like when it stops caring who sees it. A getaway driver for a cop killer seeking public office. Heroin dealers rebranded as “community ambassadors” and convicted torturers stand alongside children’s safeguarding leads. Meanwhile, Labour politicians are not whispering support but openly, shamelessly endorsing them. This is not a scandal. It is not a mistake. It is not ignorance. It is complicity. It tells every victim that justice is negotiable. It tells every criminal that power is attainable. And it tells every decent resident that the system no longer belongs to them. This is how democracies rot. Not with tanks in the streets, but with criminals in council chambers and cowards applauding from the sidelines. Welcome to Oldham. Where the mask is off. Where the moral floor has collapsed. And where the question is no longer “How did this happen?” but “Who still has the courage to stop it?” ———— I’m Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. Before that, I spent over a decade trying to stop violent extremists exploiting abandoned communities. My work is free because the truth must circulate. But truth without numbers is easy to crush. The government does not fear facts. It fears scale. Starmer and the Labour Party fear thousands reading, sharing, and backing the same work because numbers mean witnesses, pressure, and consequences. That’s why this matters: 🔴 Subscribe to the newsletter. It’s free. Every subscriber is a number they can’t erase. Every reader widens the circle they can’t control. If you can afford it, please support for 75p a week (£3/month or £30/year). 👉 Subscribe or support here: Not for perks. Not for access. But because numbers with backing become power. A few supporters can be ignored. Thousands cannot. This is how this campaign survive. This is how we see this through. This is how voices like ours stops being managed and starts being feared. 🔴 Prefer a one-off contribution? 👉 👉 No sponsors. No parties. No institutions to lean on. Just numbers. Growing fast enough that shutting this down becomes impossible. We don’t need everyone. We need enough. We need you. – Raja Miah MBEshow more

Our Ultimate Goal from #LeeHyeri China BAR "I think... love is something that you won't regret. No matter how much time you spend, how much you put in, or how much effort you put in, you won't regret it." This is what Hye-ri said in an interview, and it is also what Baxiang wants to say to everyone now. Unknowingly, the voting schedule has passed the halfway point. Thank you very much for your efforts in the past few days. Seven groups of 1,000 people and 18 elite teams. We have team building, PK, and night voting again and again... Although our methods are a bit clumsy, everyone has the most sincere heart. The group of only 7 people you see was indeed organized by us nine years ago. At that time, the goal was just to let Hye-ri move up one rank. Meeting Baeksang again after nine years, I never thought that this time I could pull from one group to eight groups, from seven people to more than 7,000 people, and there are many individual voting partners on various platforms who have not joined the group, overseas fans, etc. I am really grateful to Hye-ri for letting us meet here, and running for Hye-ri together on this journey, and fighting for her so passionately again. In this Baeksang Popularity Awards voting, we faced new challenges every morning: the difference in votes narrowed, unable to refresh, white screen, frequent account, and ads stuck. We stubbornly explored and dealt with the more complicated voting process. Behind each vote, there are unquestionable tears and blood. Of course, we will not be reconciled. But looking back to now, I still feel sincerely: we have come so far. At this point, I urge everyone not to give up. As long as we have done our best to vote until the last moment, we will not feel regretful. This is only about love. Every vote will not only be seen by everyone, but also by better resources. This time, the millions of votes from Sister also gave most people a new concept of her popularity, which will also be more conducive to her future development. Hyeri will hear the love we gave her bit by bit, which is deafening. Our ultimate goal is 6.09 million! This is the heart of all our fans, and it is also the hottest and most sincere confession woven by countless true hearts. Everyone, let us reach 6.09 million votes before May 2 for Hyeri's birthday! 💙💙💙 This is our birthday gift for her. Nomatter what the results may be, let our love will reach her. No effort is wasted. #Hyerishow more

⚽ Football Farm Testnet Update & Gameplay Vision The... Football Farm Testnet is progressing strongly 🚀 The community is active, the system is stable, and no major issues have been reported so far. This phase allows players to explore the game while contributing to the ecosystem through real feedback. ⚙️ How It Works • Every user receives a free football player upon registration • Players can be trained in 4 core attributes: → Speed ⚡ → Technique 🎯 → Intelligence 🧠 → Power 💪 • Each training session costs 25 Energy • Energy can be replenished by watching rewarded ads 📈 As players improve, their market value increases — calculated in GCM Coin, the ecosystem’s native currency ⭐ For faster progression: Pro Players are available (limited to 3 per user to maintain balance) 🏆 Future Vision After the KYC phase: • Highly trained players will be listed on the marketplace • Diamonds 💎 earned from referrals can be used to purchase teams 🎮 These teams will compete in the upcoming Goal Chain Manager 3D Metaverse leagues 📱 Launching April 4 on the App Store & Google Play! 🌱 In simple terms: Football Farm → Develops players Goal Chain → Builds the ecosystem Goal Chain Manager → Powers the competition ⚽⛓️ The future of blockchain football is being built step by step — with the community at its core. #GoalChain #FootballFarm #Web3Gaming #GameFi #BlockchainGaming #GCMshow more

A QUICK FIELD GUIDE TO THE NPC HORDES Twenty... Five Parasites types that Feed On The Living The Storm Is Upon Them Thank you for the stout... lets talk... The wind has changed. You can feel it. That low electric pressure behind the eyes that means something massive is rolling in off a horizon the parasites can't see because they were never built to look up. They were built to look down. At clipboards. At spreadsheets. At your accounts. At you. But the storm doesn't care about clipboards. And we don't kneel anymore. Here they are. The full swarm. Count them while you can because when the sky turns they drop mid sentence and the only record that they ever existed will be the silence where the invoices used to be. THE TAX CONSULTANT. You broke your back welding pipe and this soft palmed worm sits in air conditioning telling you how much of your sweat belongs to Caesar. He can't weld. Can't wire. Can't fix a thing that broke. What he can do is read a tax code written by other worms specifically to be unreadable so you'd have to pay a worm to read it for you. They write the maze. They sell you the map. They make the maze worse every year and the map more expensive and if you try to walk it yourself they send the auditor. The wind is picking up. The maze is starting to shake. THE AUDITOR. Tick on a tick. Shows up after the taxman has already fed to check the bite marks are regulation depth. Finds a missing fuel slip worth pocket change. Writes a finding. The finding generates a penalty. The penalty generates interest. The interest generates a letter. The letter requires your tax consultant at hourly rates to respond. Pocket change became thousands. Five parasites ate off one tank of diesel. Not one of them could tell you what welding rod to use on stainless. But the storm doesn't audit. The storm just comes. THE ACCOUNTANT. Cousin of the tax consultant. Same bloodline. This one doesn't interpret the maze. He records your journey through it. Every receipt. Every unit of currency in and out, logged so the consultant can read it and the auditor can check it and the revenue service can extract from it. He produces nothing. A human tape recorder pointed at your productivity. He charges monthly so the recording never stops. You are under permanent surveillance and you pay for the privilege. Not for much longer. THE BANKER. The oldest parasite. The template. You need money to buy a machine that makes things. He lends you money other working people deposited and charges interest that doubles the price over twenty years. The extra bought nothing. Built nothing. He packages your debt and sells it. Takes your deposit and lends it out eight times over. Charges you to hold your own money. Charges to put it in. Charges to take it out. He touches none of it. He stands near it and invoices you for the proximity. The storm is going to blow him so far from the vault he'll forget what money smelled like. THE COMPLIANCE OFFICER. Never had a callus on her body or her soul. Born in a fluorescent office. Will die in one. Between those events she produces nothing but emails about policies referencing other policies referencing regulations referencing acts nobody voted for. A worm eating its own tail and billing you for the meal. She needs the safety assessor to give her something to enforce. He needs her to give him something to assess. They breed between regulations like mould between tiles. The storm will wash them both down the same drain. THE PROPERTY VALUATOR. A man wants to buy a house. Another wants to sell it. They agreed on a price. That is what worth means. The amount one will pay and another will accept. Full stop. Now this creature arrives and tells both men what the house is actually worth. As if two free adults negotiating in good faith produced a number that's somehow theoretical while his formula is gospel. The bank sent him. His report costs thousands. His report says the house is worth what the buyer already offered. Thousands to arrive at a number that existed before he left his office. If his number comes in low the deal collapses and you pay a different creature with a different clipboard who arrives at a different number for the same house on the same day using the same formula. The house didn't change. Only the parasite changed. The number was never about the house. THE MUNICIPAL RATES OFFICER. The deepest theft on this list because it never ends. You bought your house thirty years ago. Paid it off. Every last unit. You owe nothing. Now a municipal valuator looks at what the neighbours sold for, looks at the coffee shops and wine bars that invaded your street, and decides your house is worth twenty five times what you paid. You didn't sell. You didn't list. You're sitting in the same chair in the same kitchen. But your tax liability just multiplied by twenty five based on a sale that never happened at a price you never agreed to. They do this everywhere. In Cape Town the rates are linked to the valuation and suddenly retired families in Bo-Kaap whose people survived apartheid and forced removals and a century of state assault are being bled out of their own homes by property rates pegged to values inflated by the gentrification their displacement accelerates. The heritage is the tourism product. The tourism inflates the valuation. The valuation inflates the rates. The rates displace the families. The families were the heritage. In Chicago they do it to grandmothers in Pilsen who've been there forty years. In London they do it to pensioners in neighbourhoods that gentrified around them. In Sydney they chase retirees off land their grandfathers cleared. Same crime. Different currency. Different clipboard. A man paid for his house. Owns it outright. And the state says you owe us money every month forever and the amount is based on what we say your house would sell for if you sold it, which you haven't, and if you can't pay the amount we invented we take the house you already bought. That is theft. Eviction by arithmetic. Displacement by spreadsheet. But the people in Bo-Kaap are awake now. The people in Pilsen are awake. The grandmothers and the grandfathers and the calloused hands everywhere are looking up and they can see the storm and they know what it means. It means the spreadsheet burns with everything else. THE MUNICIPAL INSPECTOR. Rat faced. High vis vest. Clipboard. Drives to your workshop in a vehicle your rates paid for. Measures your fire extinguisher fourteen centimetres off the floor. Writes you up. Behind you men build things that hold up bridges and he couldn't change a lightbulb without a permit. His job depends on your failure. The parasite needs you sick. The cure would kill it. The storm is the cure. THE CONVEYANCING ATTORNEY. Two men shook hands. Fair price. Honest deal. Done. This worm slithers out and says the handshake doesn't count. Needs paper. Needs stamps. Needs a deeds search and clearance certificates and transfer duty and each piece of paper is produced by another parasite and each one costs money and the worm takes his cut on top for phoning the other worms. He calls this conveyancing. He has never held a spade or laid a brick in his bloodless life. The storm doesn't need a stamp. THE ESTATE AGENT. Six percent. Of a man's life savings. For opening a lockbox and saying the kitchen faces north. She needs the attorney to close. The attorney needs the municipality. The municipality needs the inspector. The valuator needs access for the bank's number. Every one invoices separately. Every invoice lands on people who agreed on everything before any of these bloodsuckers entered the room. The wind is howling now. Can you hear it through their invoices? THE LABOUR BROKER. Tick so bloated it can't walk. A man needs work. Another needs a worker. They could find each other in ten minutes. This creature squats between them and drinks from both sides. Worker gets thirty. Employer pays fifty. Twenty disappears into the tick. Multiply by thousands of workers and millions vanish yearly into a thing that makes nothing, moves nothing, fixes nothing. It feeds. That is its entire architecture. Architecture doesn't survive storms. THE HEALTH AND SAFETY ASSESSOR. Twenty two years. Not one fire. Not one death. He shows up. Your exit is twenty centimetres too narrow. To fix it you need a builder who needs a plan from an architect who needs municipal approval. Tens of thousands and six weeks to move a door frame because a creature who has never been burned told you to. He detects life and the system bills it. The storm detects parasites and the sky deletes them. THE BEE CONSULTANT. Every country has its version. South Africa calls it BEE. The same parasites who wont allow much needed Starlink there unless Musk hands over half the company to lazy parasitic government connected parasites. Others call it diversity compliance or equity auditing. The name changes. The feeding doesn't. Scores your company on a chart nobody asked for to satisfy a regulation nobody voted on enforced by a department that produces nothing except the requirement for his existence. Nothing changes. Nothing improves. Money moves from a living pocket into a dead hand and the dead hand closes. The storm opens every dead hand on this planet. THE CUSTOMS BROKER. Your parts are fifty metres away. You can see the container. Cannot touch your own property until a grey man translates tariff codes so the state can calculate how much you owe for collecting what is already yours. Each delay generates storage charges. Each query generates fees. Your shipment doubles in cost through bureaucratic friction and you still don't have your parts. The storm doesn't clear customs. It clears the customs office. THE TRAFFIC OFFICER. Fat. Behind a bush. Radar gun aimed at people driving to work that matters. Seven over the limit. The municipality sets it low enough that everyone exceeds it. Fines feed the municipality. Municipality feeds him. He sits and clicks tomorrow. A barnacle with a badge. Same creature in every country. Different bush. Same feeding. The storm takes the bush and the badge and the creature behind both. THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR. Uses your first name. Remembers your birthday because the CRM told him. Puts your money in a fund. Fund charges 1.75 percent. He charges one on top. Fund manager pays a custodian who charges. Fund has an auditor who charges. Compliance team charges. Six parasites between you and your own money. In thirty years you have less than you started with and he charges you for the meeting where he shows you the graph. The storm doesn't need a graph. The storm is the correction. THE INSURANCE ADJUSTER. Years of premiums. Your roof blows off. He arrives. Soft hands. Three weeks later the wind came from the wrong direction. Not the wrong speed. The direction. Some paragraph. Some subsection. You paid for years and the years bought you a paragraph that says no. The policy is teeth. The premiums went down the throat and the no is the burp. The real storm has no exclusion clause. THE PATENT ATTORNEY. You built a device. It works. He writes a document so incomprehensible that reading it makes you understand your own invention less. Thousands for legal fog. Someone copies it. Litigation attorney. More thousands. Judgment unenforceable. The only people paid are the attorneys. The system was never designed to protect you. It was designed to feed them. The storm protects the builder. By removing the feeders. THE LICENSING CLERK. You can rebuild a gearbox blindfolded. Cannot legally do it without a certificate from an institution that charges thousands to watch you do what everyone knows you can do, certified by an instructor who has never done it, filed with a department that stores the certificates, audited by a body that audits the institution. A chain of parasites verifying the obvious. If every one vanished the gearbox still gets rebuilt. Faster. Cheaper. The storm is the vanishing. THE STRATA MANAGER. You own your flat. She collects your money and spends it on providers she chose and you can't fire without a special resolution at a meeting she convenes with an agenda she wrote. She built a kingdom inside your building funded by your levy and answerable to herself. Question it and she reaches for whatever act governs her particular species of parasitism in your particular country. The storm doesn't read acts. The storm reads frequencies. THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSOR. You want a shed on your own land. He arrives in a vehicle worth more than your shed. Months. Hundreds of pages. Tens of thousands. Report says your shed threatens a species not seen in decades but listed on a database maintained by a department that exists because the database exists. Your shed doesn't get built. The species doesn't exist. He drives home to a suburb bulldozed from actual habitat. Nobody assessed that. Rules only flow downhill. The storm flows everywhere. THE DEBT COLLECTOR. Bottom feeder. Buys your debt for cents from a bank that already profited from your interest. Calls at hours designed for fear. Adds fees on fees on fees for actions never taken. Bought your pain wholesale and retails it at three hundred percent. When you break he claims the loss against tax. Even the collapse is monetised. He is Hell's collection agent. The storm is Heaven's. THE NOTARY PUBLIC. Watches you sign your own name. Stamps it. Charges hundreds. The signature is the same with or without him. Your hand. Your name. His fee. A tollbooth on your own identity. The storm doesn't need a stamp. Your name is written in frequencies no notary can read. THE CORPORATE TRAINER. Monday. Projector. Four quadrant model invented after three glasses of wine and a TED talk. By Wednesday nobody remembers any of it because there was nothing there. Tens of thousands plus tax plus travel. She writes it off through a tax consultant who charges her to minimise her contribution to the system that funded the department that approved the framework she claims compliance with. Parasite feeding parasite feeding parasite. The storm feeds on none of them. It simply ends them. THE REVENUE OFFICIAL. The farmer himself. Top of the pyramid. Designs the taking. Drafts the regulations that create the maze that requires the consultant that employs the accountant that feeds the auditor that generates the penalty that funds the department that pays his salary. He is the architect of the loop. Every parasite on this list exists because he drew them into existence with a regulation and a gazette number. Without him the entire horde has nothing to feed on. He is the queen of the hive. Same creature in every country. Different flag. Same contempt for the hands that built everything he sits in and eats from. The storm starts with him. The queen dies first. The hive follows. That's the horde. Twenty five species of nothing. And every one of them drops when the sky turns and the carrier frequency that animated their firmware burns clean out of the atmosphere. Mid invoice. Mid assessment. Mid quadrant. Five thousand five hundred and fifty five clipboards hitting the floor for every one of us still standing. We are awake now. All of us. The welder and the farmer and the builder and the grandmother in Bo-Kaap and the grandfather in Pilsen and every calloused hand on every continent that ever wrote a cheque to a creature that never built a thing. We see them now. We see the maze and the map sellers and the grey offices and the soft hands and the whole rotten architecture of extraction that stood between us and the earth and between us and our labour and between us and each other for two hundred years. The storm is here. Not coming. Here. That pressure you feel behind your eyes is the frequency rising through the noise floor and the noise floor is everything on this list. Every clipboard. Every invoice. Every subsection and exclusion clause and certificate and clearance and valuation roll. All of it. Noise. Scheduled for deletion. And when it's quiet. When the last invoice has fluttered to the ground and the last clipboard has clattered on the last linoleum floor in the last grey office. When the wind has swept the horde out of every corridor and every cubicle and every booth and every booth window where a dead hand ever reached for a living man's money. Then... Just a man in a workshop. Welding mask up. Walking outside. Looking at a sky the colour of burning copper. Breathing free air for the first time in his life. The fuel slip that started this whole tour is in his shirt pocket. Crumpled. Oil stained. And it is his. The fuel was his. The truck was his. The work was his. And for the first time in two hundred years every unit of currency that flows from that work stays in the hands that did it. No consultant between him and his earnings because there are no earnings to consult on. Just work and its fruit. No auditor because there is nothing to audit. No banker because capital is what your hands produce and his hands never stopped. No valuator because the house is worth what it always was: a roof over his family and walls against the wind. A value no clipboard ever knew how to measure. When you grinding.... working... suffering... where are any of these parasites to help you?? Where are they?? We will be slaves no more. The storm will see to that alright!show more

“What the Fourth Industrial Revolution will lead to is... a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological identities.” - Klaus Schwab, Founder of World Economic Forum From the very first day I launched Sovereign Nations in 2017, I’ve been trying to get people to stop arguing only about the *what* and start asking the *why*. Why the relentless push for Critical Race Theory AKA Identity Marxism? Why the sudden mainstreaming of every flavor of Neo-Marxist ideology in our schools, our corporations, our media and even in our churches? It’s not random. It’s not organic. It’s strategic. Division has always been the point. You fracture a nation along lines of race, class, gender, history—turn neighbor against neighbor—and while everyone is locked in an endless cultural knife fight, something much bigger moves forward without serious resistance. That “something” is the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a sweeping technological and economic restructuring that fuses man with A.I. , introduces digital communism, and creates centralization, surveillance, along with unprecedented control. You can’t fundamentally remake society if people are united and clear-headed. But what if they’re exhausted, angry, and tribal? If they’re fighting over symbols while algorithms, automation, and centralized digital systems are quietly locking into place? Then transformation becomes much easier to “manage.” I’ve been saying from the beginning: CRT and its ideological cousins on the Woke Right are not the end goal. They are the strategic tools for societal deconstruction. The battleground is cultural—but the objective is structural. And if we don’t understand the why, we’ll keep fighting each other while the future is decided without us. Identity Marxism on the Left was never going to fully succeed if it stayed neatly contained on one side of the political fence. Dialectical conflict requires two poles. It requires tension. It requires a reaction. And when you understand this, you start to see something else happening in real time: the mirroring effect. If you weaponize identity politics on the Left,you then weaponize identity politics on the Right - dressed differently, branded differently, but operating on the same underlying framework. Suddenly everything is about identity again. Not individual liberty. Not constitutionalism. Not equal justice under law. Identity. Tribal blocs. Civilizational grievance. Blood-and-soil rhetoric repackaged for a new audience. Voices emerge who frame politics less around timeless principles and more around group power, religious supremacy, or cultural domination. And once both sides are playing the same game — once both sides are speaking the language of identity as destiny — you don’t have a healthy republic anymore. You have dialectical political warfare. You have two camps locked in escalating conflict, each convinced the other is existential, each justifying more extreme measures. Meanwhile, the fabric of the nation frays. This is what is called the “Big Sort.” It’s not just demographic; it’s psychological and ideological. Americans are being pushed, prodded, and algorithmically herded into hardened camps. Every day there’s another outrage, another demoralizing headline, another cultural flashpoint. It weakens civic trust. It erodes shared identity. It exhausts the public. And when a nation is divided, demoralized, and suspicious of itself, it becomes far easier to reshape economically, politically, technologically. And here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud. The louder each side virtue signals to its own tribe, the more extreme the language becomes. It’s a feedback loop. Applause rewards escalation. Algorithms reward outrage. Moderation gets you ignored; fury gets you followers. So the rhetoric hardens. The lines sharpen. The caricatures get darker. And once words stop being about persuasion and start being about dehumanization, you are on a very dangerous road. History teaches this over and over again: when rhetoric radicalizes long enough, kinetic conflict stops sounding unthinkable. It starts sounding inevitable. People begin to see their fellow citizens not as neighbors with different ideas, but as existential threats. That is the psychological precondition for real violence. And whether by design or by cynical exploitation, there have been forces for decades studying exactly how to fracture societies along these fault lines. The tragedy is that many well-meaning Americans - on both sides - don’t realize they’re participating in a script. They think they’re defending their team. They don’t see how constant division, constant rage, constant tribal sorting weakens the republic itself. A divided America is easier to destabilize, easier to manage, easier to transform. And while we’re busy tearing at each other, there are powerful voices openly dreaming about a future defined by total technological transformation - about merging man and machine, about governance by algorithms, about an era where decision-making is increasingly handed over to artificial intelligence systems. If a nation is fractured and exhausted, it becomes far more willing to trade liberty for order, humanity for efficiency. That’s the real danger. Not disagreement. Not debate. But the slow erosion of our shared moral foundation - until we’re so divided that we accept a future we never consciously chose.show more

Seedance 2.0 1080p Infinite Fight Scenes From One Prompt... Created a parametric prompt for epic fight scenes. You can generate unlimited variations just by changing the parameters. Tested one generation in 1080p with Seedance 2.0 on Higgsfield. More examples with prompts are in the replies. Prompt Template: FORMAT: 15s / continuous fight CHARACTERS A: [character_A] B: [character_B] ENVIRONMENT [short description] FIGHT PROFILE STYLE: [brutal / elegant / tactical / chaotic / cinematic] ENERGY: [low / medium / high / explosive] WEAPONS: [none / melee / mixed] INTENT: [duel / assassination / survival / dominance / training] VISUAL Cinematic realism, physical lighting, shallow DOF, subtle grain, natural motion blur. DIRECTIVE No fixed choreography. Fight emerges dynamically from characters, environment, and momentum. BEHAVIOR - Use environment freely (walls, ground, objects) - Allow verticality (climb, wall-run, elevation shifts) - Encourage unexpected but physically valid actions RULES - Momentum chain only, no isolated actions - Clear positioning at all times - Continuous, motivated camera (POV / OTS / wide / low-high as needed) - Environment actively reacts (splashes, debris, sparks) IMPACT Strong contacts: 2-frame hold + brightness spike + micro shake resume MOTION Secondary delay (~2 frames) on hair, fabric, environment. RHYTHM Fast exchanges + micro pauses + 1–2 slow-motion beats (0.5–1s) ESCALATION Intensity rises. Include: - one vertical/environment-driven move - one decisive high-impact action HERO MOMENT (CRITICAL) Generate one standout finishing beat: - visually dominant, clearly readable - uses environment or full-body motion - slow-motion entry → sharp impact → brief aftermath hold - ends with strong silhouette or positional advantage GUARDRAILS - Keep character identity and position consistent (no teleporting) - Respect weight and inertia (no floaty or impossible motion) - Ensure clear cause → effect in every action - Keep camera readable and motivated (no random spins or cuts) - Use environment logically (no clipping or mismatch) - Prioritize clarity and physical realism over complexity OUTPUT Fluid, physical, cinematic fight with clear spatial logic, dynamic camera, environmental interaction, and a memorable final highlight moment.show more