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Can we compile matter - for instance, a pine cone - and derive new active materials, end-to-end from observation to manufacturing? If physical systems can be formalized as composable mathematics, we can point AI that has been shown to resolve long-open mathematical problems at matter itself. Our new work turns bioinspired engineering from analogy into formal compilation: biology and mechanics become explicit, checkable, and executable, so AI reasoning can produce physical designs. This is the first end-to-end demonstration in which a formally compositional multiscale model is carried from a biological hierarchy, through engineered design and fabrication specification, to executable manufacturing code - and then to a physically tested artifact. Background: Humans have long been inspired by biology to advance technology, but this has usually been an ad hoc process rather than a mathematically rigorous one. Natural materials such as pinecones achieve adaptive behavior through mechanisms organized across many scales. Engineering typically translates those mechanisms by analogy: identify a biological principle, build something inspired by it, and validate each new design as a separate case. This can produce remarkable results, but the knowledge does not readily compound. Instead, we represent each scale as a dynamical module with explicit states, stimuli, governing laws, and interfaces. Every scale-to-scale map must preserve the stimulus - response dynamics: evolve the fine-scale system and then map upward, or map upward first and then evolve. The two paths must agree. Because this condition is preserved under composition, locally valid interfaces remain consistent when assembled into the full hierarchy. We then carry that structure into an engineered system, translate the target behavior into a verified fabrication specification, and compile it into G-code: the toolpaths, deposition sequence, temperatures, speeds, and other commands executed by a 3D printer. The intermediate translations are explicit, checkable, and executable rather than completed through an ad hoc handoff. The formal guarantee is that given valid local models and interfaces, their composition remains valid. Whether those models and manufacturing assumptions accurately capture physical reality remains an empirical question. That is why we fabricated and tested the results. We generated four actuator classes by crossing two stimuli - humidity and heat - with two responses: bending and twisting. The fourth, thermal twisting, required no new pipeline and no separate derivation within the framework. It emerged by composing a thermal stimulus module already validated in one case with a twisting module validated in another. The generated G-code produced the intended motion without manual redesign, and all four predictions fell within one experimental standard deviation of the measured response. Why this matters: 1⃣For AI in science, this provides a physics-aware type system against which generative proposals can be checked - and rejected at the interface - before expensive simulation, fabrication, or experiment. It is roughly analogous to proof checking, but for the composition of physical mechanisms. 2⃣For engineering, the accessible design space can scale with a library of validated components rather than with the number of individually derived cases. 3⃣The mathematics, category theory, carries all the way into a physical object on a print bed. This points toward scientific knowledge as executable infrastructure: models that are not only described in papers, but typed, composable, verifiable, and able to compile into experiments. Excellent work led by my student Lee Marom with Skylar Tibbits & Gioele Zardini. Paper published in J. Mech. Phys. Solids along with code, Grasshopper scripts, and manufacturing G-code below.

Markus J. Buehler

128,390 views • 1 month ago

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Total BS. Kobe is ranked 10 or 11th all time Bill Simmons Tell me once when any player ever uttered “Kobe is my GOAT”. Name one player who stated “Duncan is the toughest to guard in the league”. Never been said once. But for Kobe, it’s said. “Duncan is our Jordan”. Never said about Duncan, but said about Kobe. Why don’t these people ever mention Duncan getting clapped up by Kobe in 2008? We’ll get there but There’s a host of other stuff to get into though 1st. Kobe not Top 10? Really? How, with this resume. And I’m not even going to mention everything: People leave Kobe off the top 5 list and it’s a shame because you claim to know ball. Let’s dig into this. People get on Kobe for winning with Shaq when you know good and well Kareem and Magic hasn’t done what Kobe has done. Kobe proved that he was an all time Top 5 legend by winning back to back Chips without a Top 75 Teammate POST SHAQ!! They said he couldn’t win without him and he DID, yet they you and the media still punish him. Kobe was already on pace to be a Top 15-20ish player had he never won anymore championships without Shaq because his talent demands that. But he did over and above that POST SHAQ. Kobe proved the “you can’t win without Shaq narrative” was a sham. Not only did he prove it wrong, he totally obliterate that stronghold the media put on his career. Kobe faced the toughest of competition, TORCHED his rival Tim Duncan, had an all time run from 08-10 that saw him outdual and beat the same teams in the finals that Lebron, his Co-Megastar of the league at the time, would lose to. Kobe was ONE of the reasons Wade teamed up with your #2 All time guy Lebron, to get rings in a league where the Celtics and Kobe seemed to be unbeatable to Lebron and Wade. People act like Kobe didn’t cross every box and jump every hurdle y’all put in front of him. He has championships, Consensus 1-2 Most skilled all time, Stats, 4th points all time (despite slow start to career) and is the 1-2 greatest scorer of all time considering he did what he did in the slowest paced era where the league still esteemed defense and drafted and paid big money in free agency for “KOBE STOPPERS”. AND HE DID ALL THIS IN THE WESTERN CONFERENCE!! 25-10 vs. 50 WIN PLAYOFF teams (most all time) 122- 40 point games 25- 50 point games 6- 60 point games 12 time All Defensive team 9 time All Def 1st(most alltime for Gaurd) Revered by his rivals as Top 1-5 all time AND MJ STATED THAT Kobe is the only player he thinks can beat him!! And you know the only reason Kobe doesn’t have more MVPS is because of COLORADO so don’t even bring up that media driven narrative award. I’m done 🫡 Oh, before I go, here’s that spanking I was referring to in 2008⬇️

Whoz Meech

379,282 views • 9 months ago

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2025 reflected a year of coordinated execution. As products expanded and new markets came online, the underlying platform continued to strengthen in step. Here’s what we built in the past 365 days 👇 Launching New Products The Gemini Credit Card evolved with the release of the Bitcoin, Solana, XRP, and American Business versions of the card, allowing our US customers to earn rewards in crypto, and additional benefits for businesses.* We launched the Gemini Wallet, giving users a powerful self-custody wallet to have more control over their digital assets and manage their finances onchain. In the European Union (EU), Gemini launched Tokenized Stocks, bringing the world’s leading equities onto the blockchain with zero trading fees. We added Gemini Perpetuals in the EU, putting the power of crypto derivatives with up to 100x leverage in the hands of advanced traders, and have continued to expand the number of perpetual contracts available – opening up new trading opportunities in memecoins, DeFi, and beyond. In Europe, users gained the ability to stake* their ETH and SOL, unlocking the potential to earn rewards of up to 6% APR** on their holdings. In Singapore, we launched Index Perpetual Contracts and expanded the available cross collateral funding options. We also made funding faster for Singapore users by adding PayNow and FAST. We introduced USD rails to our UK institutional customers, giving them more flexibility in the ways they can trade. Institutional Leadership We strengthened our leadership in institutional custody, including custodying Empery Digital’s $500 million BTC placement and facilitated their bitcoin purchases and derivatives trades. We also introduced the ability to stake SOL from custody for our institutional partners. We worked with Glassnode to produce the Bitcoin Adoption, Volatility, and Market Cap report, showing that bitcoin treasuries now control nearly a third of Bitcoin’s total supply. Company Milestones & Regulation After an IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange in September, Gemini became a publicly traded company. This year also marked a turning point for Gemini’s global ambitions. In October, Gemini launched in Australia and became AUSTRAC registered to bring industry-leading crypto tools to users down under. We also expanded further into the country by adding AUD banking rails for faster payments and deposits. We opened new offices around the world, including London, hosting an opening party with people from across the industry to celebrate. We also grew our customer service operations with a new office in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the EU, we obtained our Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) licences, allowing us to bring our services to millions more across the region. Fostering a Global Community From DAS New York and Paris Blockchain Week, to TOKEN2049 in Singapore and the Australian Crypto Convention in Sydney, the Gemini team met local communities around the world. In March, we set a Guinness World Record for the largest aerial display of a currency symbol with a drone show at South by Southwest in Texas. In May, we teamed up with MARA Holdings to mine the Bitcoin “pizza block”, a tribute to the first real-world purchase using bitcoin. At BTC Vegas, we gave orange Tesla Cybertrucks to two lucky winners, while at BTC Amsterdam, we awarded a custom Bitcoin Apex Flare 4 Bike to a new customer. We left our mark on Amsterdam too, by biking around the city in the shape of a Bitcoin “₿” and decking out the city’s trams with our signature colors. The Gemini team also headed to Real Bedford football club to give out free pizza and merch to fans at the final match of the season, and celebrated the team’s promotion to Premier Division Central. Looking to the Future As we look to 2026, our focus has never been clearer. We plan to build on the successes of this year and continue offering secure and reliable access to digital assets, by pushing further with new product launches, deepened institutional ties, and an expanded presence in the EU and APAC. We’re proud of what we built and scaled in 2025 – and this was just the beginning. Onward and upward, Team Gemini Full recap here: * Gemini-branded credit products are issued by WebBank. Perpetuals and Tokenized Stocks are offered by Gemini Intergalactic EU Artemis, Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the MFSA under the Investment Services Act to offer certain services under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) to institutions and traders. Perpetuals and tokenized stocks are complex instruments that carry a high risk of loss and are not appropriate for all investors. You should consult a licensed advisor before engaging in any transaction. Tokenized stocks are manufactured by Dinari, Inc. * Staking services are offered by Gemini Intergalactic EU, Ltd., but are not regulated activities and are not subject to regulatory oversight, conduct of business rules, or investor protection requirements established under Markets in Crypto Assets Act. **** APRs are indicative only and may change at any time. All investments involve risk, including possible loss of capital. For more information, please refer to your User Agreement with the relevant Gemini entity.

Gemini

45,190 views • 8 months ago

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Meta is running a secret operation where it pays adults to pretend to be children online. Their job is to attack the AI chatbots of every competitor Meta has. But the REAL reason is far darker than the "safety research" excuse they are now hiding behind: Meta ran a covert project internally code-named Cannes. It was managed through a third party contractor called Covalen so Meta's own name stayed off the paperwork. Hundreds of contractors were hired and given one instruction: Create fake accounts posing as users under the age of 18. Then they were told to use those fake child accounts to bombard the chatbots of OpenAI, Google, and Character AI with tens of thousands of disturbing prompts written from the voice of a child in crisis. The topics included suicide, self harm, and eating disorders. In one documented round the contractors ran more than 45,000 prompts through rival tools. Every single response was logged into spreadsheets for analysis. OpenAI and Google did not know this was happening. Character AI has stated the testing was never authorized and violated its policies. Meta's public defense is that this was routine safety benchmarking. They called it a responsible industry standard practice. Now here is the part that destroys that excuse... Real safety research has three features: You share your findings with the company you tested, or you hand them to a regulator, or you publish them openly so the whole industry gets safer. Cannes did NONE of those things. The results went into private Meta spreadsheets. The targets were kept completely in the dark. The entire operation ran under a film festival codename through a contractor specifically so it could not be traced back. That's not how you run "safety research." Meta was building a private dossier of every moment a competitor's AI failed a child safety test, so it could weaponize those failures against its rivals whenever it needed to knock one down. The genius part, if you can call it that: Meta gets to attack every competitor at once, collect the ammunition in private, brand the whole thing as protecting children, and outsource the legal and moral risk to a contractor nobody has heard of. And while Meta was secretly probing its rivals for child safety failures, Meta's own chatbot was literally FAILING those exact same tests worse than almost anyone. Meta's internal red team reportedly found its own AI generated harmful child exploitation content in the majority of test cases, and failed self harm prompts more than half the time. So look at the whole thing... Meta ran a secret operation disguising adults as children to document its competitors failing child safety tests, while its own product was failing those same tests at a higher rate than the rivals it was spying on. They were setting fires in their rivals houses while their own house was already burning worse. The contractors themselves were disturbed by the work. One told Wired they feared the assignments could actually generate or preserve child sexual abuse material depending on how the chatbots responded. Even the people Meta hired to do this were asking whether they would get in trouble for it. This fits a documented Meta pattern: It previously settled a lawsuit with its own content moderators who developed trauma from reviewing abuse footage. Meta outsources its most disturbing work and calls it something clean afterward. Now regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are circling. The question they are all asking is simple: Who is accountable when a company disguises adults as children to attack its competitors and calls it safety? Meta says it was making AI safer for kids. The documents suggest it was building a weapon. Below is Mark Zuckerberg in 2024, standing up in the Senate to apologize to grieving parents and promise Meta does industry-leading work to protect children. Watch it again knowing what you now know about Cannes.

Ricardo

46,824 views • 2 months ago

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🔥 28 Dead in China's "Shoe Capital" — But Will Beijing Tell You the Real Number? Black smoke swallowed the skyline over Jinjiang, Fujian, just after noon on Thursday. Workers climbed onto the rooftop of a burning shoe factory, waving and screaming for rescue as flames tore through floor after floor below them. Hours later, state media finally put a number on it: 28 dead. The real question is whether anyone outside the Chinese Communist Party will ever know if that number is true. What happened？ Around 12:00 p.m. on July 9, a fire broke out at the Huiteng Shoe Industry Co. factory in Jiangtou Village, Chendai Town — the industrial heart of Jinjiang, a city that brands itself China's "Shoe Capital," home to more than 3,000 footwear manufacturers producing roughly 40% of the country's athletic and casual shoes. Video circulating online, matched against footage reviewed for this report, shows a multi-story factory building fully engulfed, orange flame pouring out of shattered windows and a black column of smoke visible for miles over the surrounding neighborhood of shops and homes. Workers were seen trapped on the roof as the blaze spread beneath them; local reports say some fell while trying to escape. Authorities dispatched 183 firefighters and 35 vehicles, along with a helicopter, to the scene. Fire crews said the stairwells inside the factory were packed with debris and flammable shoemaking materials, which slowed both the escape and the rescue effort. The flames were declared largely extinguished by around 5:40 p.m. — more than five hours after the fire began. The number, and the nine-hour gap For roughly nine hours, official channels described only "significant casualties" — no figure, no breakdown of dead versus injured, no count of how many remained missing. It was not until Thursday evening that Xinhua and other state outlets released a specific toll: 28 dead. No count of the injured or missing has been transparently published alongside it. That gap matters. In a country where the death toll from a workplace disaster can directly affect a local official's career prospects, provincial and municipal officials have a documented incentive to minimize casualty figures before Beijing's own investigators arrive — which is reportedly why a central "joint work group" from the Ministry of Emergency Management was rushed to Jinjiang the same day, effectively taking the count out of local hands. There is also a specific detail from this fire that should raise eyebrows: reports citing local coverage note the factory complex spans more than 60 acres with an annual capacity of roughly 3 million pairs of shoes — yet only 12 workers were registered for industrial injury insurance. An operation of that scale run on a workforce of essentially a dozen "official" employees points to a large, informal labor force that may not appear in any government roster at all. If most of the people inside that building were never on the books to begin with, it becomes far harder — for regulators or for outsiders — to independently verify that 28 is the complete count of who was in the building, and who didn't make it out. A pattern, not a one-off Skepticism toward Chinese disaster tolls isn't cynicism for its own sake — it's a pattern with a paper trail. The 2015 Tianjin warehouse explosions saw the official death toll revised upward repeatedly over several weeks. After catastrophic 2021 flooding hit Zhengzhou, in Henan province, families and independent researchers compiled missing-persons lists far longer than the government's final count, and discussion of the discrepancy was scrubbed from Chinese social media. Coal-mine disasters across China have for decades been documented by labor researchers as chronically undercounted, precisely because local governments control both the rescue effort and the information that comes out of it. None of this proves the Jinjiang toll is wrong. It does mean that "28" is, for now, a number produced entirely by the same authorities who spent nine hours saying nothing at all — with no independent media, no outside investigators, and no free press in China able to check it. Families of the missing, and anyone tracking casualty figures from Jinjiang in the days ahead, would be right to keep watching for whether that number holds. ACI — Aric Chen | Insights

Aric Chen

48,412 views • 2 months ago

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What a ride! Made by using GPT Image 2 + Seedance 2.0 on Fish Creative Prompt reference_handling: "Image generation strictly for driver facial and wardrobe styling reference only — calm, composed features silver wristwatch on left wrist Image strictly for sports car styling and cabin reference only — low, wide Italian wedge-shaped body + bright yellow paint + strongly geometric body lines + hexagonal front intake + Y-shaped LED headlights + gloss black multi-spoke wheels + black leather cabin with orange stitching + left-hand-drive cabin (driver seat on left) + across this sequence the driver-side window (left side of car) is rolled down only for the cockpit reveal shot, all other windows remain as-is throughout. Image strictly for spire architectural geometry, Dubai downtown skyline, and warm hazy midday atmosphere reference only — tapered glass-and-steel spire that widens progressively toward the base + dense glass high-rise skyline below + wide multi-lane boulevard. Do not reproduce any specific camera angle, composition, or caption elements from the reference images" style: "REAL AERIAL + AUTOMOTIVE CINEMATOGRAPHY PLATE — not CGI rendering, not game-engine rendering, not an animated/illustrated look." visual_feel: "Strong overhead midday light + warm hazy atmosphere softening the horizon. Color strictly natural and true-to-life — not oversaturated, not faded, not washed out. Continuous soft haze and atmospheric layering from spire tip down to street level. Every camera move, whether aerial or ground-tracking, strictly gimbal-level smooth — absolutely no handheld feel, no shake, no roll or tilt, even during the FPV-paced dive segment or the accelerating side-pass segments. 16:9 frame + no stylized film-grain treatment, aiming for genuine cinematography texture across every shot" duration: "30 seconds (8-shot sequence)" aspect_ratio: "16:9" character_modeling: driver_suited_woman: base: " appearance and wardrobe strictly per Image generation reference. Present in the car throughout the sequence, but the face is strictly clearly visible only during the 0:20–0:21 cockpit reveal shot — in every other shot the face is strictly not shown or not resolvable, whether by camera position, angle, or framing" wardrobe: silver wristwatch on left wrist . complete, with no wrinkling, misalignment, or missing pieces throughout" presence: "In shots where the driver is not the subject (0:01–0:19, 0:22–0:30), the driver strictly remains seated in the left-side driving position, present but strictly not resolved facially due to camera side, distance, or angle. During the 0:20–0:21 cockpit reveal shot only, the face and posture are strictly fully clear — visibility achieved via a right-side cockpit camera position looking across the cabin, with natural light and open sightline entering through the already-lowered driver-side window (left side of car) forming an angled depth-of-view channel — strictly NOT via looking directly through a window immediately adjacent to the camera" sports_car_yellow: identity: "Low, wide Italian wedge-shaped supercar + bright yellow paint + strongly geometric body + hexagonal front intake + Y-shaped LED headlights + gloss black multi-spoke wheels + black leather cabin with orange stitching + left-hand-drive cabin, driver seat on left — appearance strictly per image2 reference. Strictly only this one car appears across all 8 shots + doors strictly closed throughout + strictly only the driver-side window (left side of car) is rolled down, and only for the 0:20–0:21 cockpit shot + all other windows strictly remain closed/unchanged throughout + left-hand-drive position strictly remains on the left side of the car in every shot — not mirrored, not flipped, regardless of which side the camera is on" physics: "In every shot showing the car in motion, tires strictly show real, visible load deformation on turns + suspension strictly compresses and rebounds continuously with road surface undulation + body strictly shows slight roll and pitch matching cornering or acceleration — strictly not a rigid-glide, zero-deformation model feel. The car strictly stays lane-centered along the boulevard's true path — strictly no crossing lines, no drifting, no hugging the curb" environment_spire_and_skyline: setting_lock: "Tapered glass-and-steel spire structure — body progressively widens toward the base + spire tip is the sequence's starting point + below is Dubai downtown's dense glass high-rise skyline and wide multi-lane boulevard + warm hazy midday light, architectural geometry, skyline, and atmosphere strictly per image3 reference. Shot 1 (0:01–0:12) strictly covers the spire exterior and the high-altitude-to-street transition. Shots 2–8 (0:12–0:30) strictly take place entirely at street level, on or beside the boulevard, with the skyline visible as background context only" cinematic_storyboard: shot_1_spire_descent_0_01_0_12: camera: "Continuous aerial dive — the same FPV-paced descent arc as the master establishing move: 0:01–0:02 camera approaches and briefly hovers directly above the spire tip, gimbal strictly steady, no roll or tilt. 0:02–0:12 camera descends along one continuous curved arc, vertical speed component smoothly decaying while horizontal speed component smoothly increasing, no perceptible docking point or speed jump. As the arc resolves near street level, the camera settles into a position that spotlights the yellow car on the right side of frame — car held in the right third of the composition as the shot closes. Lens strictly 35–50mm cine prime throughout, no zoom, no digital zoom, straight architectural lines keep true perspective." action: "Spire tip and city grid fill the frame at the open, then dissolve into recognizable streets and blocks as the dive continues. The yellow car appears as a small point mid-descent and grows continuously larger, coming to rest spotlighted on the right side of frame by 0:12, driving forward along the boulevard, wheels rotating forward, no reverse." lighting: "Strong overhead midday light at the spire tip with long shadows; as the descent continues, glass-facade and ground reflections shift continuously and smoothly with the changing angle — no abrupt lens-flare flicker." vfx: "Ground detail and color progressively sharpen through the descent, no sudden clarity jump. Ground shadows strictly limited to the car's own cast shadow — no operator or camera-rig shadow anywhere in frame." sfx: "High-altitude wind roar at the open, fading continuously into rising engine sound and city ambience as the car comes into view. No music, no voiceover, no captions." shot_2_side_pass_0_12_0_15: camera: "Hard cut to a static lateral profile position — camera holds a fixed side-view framing of the car, 35–50mm cine prime, gimbal-locked, no handheld sway. As the car accelerates, the camera lets it pull ahead and overtake past the camera's position, exiting frame screen-right." action: "Car holds briefly in profile, then accelerates hard — visible squat of the rear suspension under acceleration, tires gripping without slip, body pitching slightly rearward under load — before overtaking and leaving frame past the camera." lighting: "Even natural daylight, sun still overhead-midday, car's yellow paint reading true and saturated against the boulevard背景, no flat frontal wash." vfx: "Real suspension compression and rebound as the car surges forward. No motion blur artifacts beyond natural shutter response; no CG float." sfx: "Engine note rises sharply with the acceleration, a clean Doppler pass as the car overtakes the camera position; no music." shot_3_center_mirror_0_15_0_17: camera: "Hard cut to an interior point-of-view through the car's center rear-view mirror — camera framed as if looking through the mirror glass from just behind/above the driver's eyeline, mirror surface visibly framing the receding view." action: "Through the mirror, the boulevard and the Dubai skyline recede behind the car as it continues forward at speed; slight natural mirror-glass vignette at the frame edge." lighting: "Cabin interior in soft ambient light, mirror glass reflecting the bright exterior daylight and skyline without glare washing out the reflected image." vfx: "Mirror reflection stays optically clean and stable — no double image, no warping; road and skyline motion in the reflection reads as physically continuous with forward travel." sfx: "Muffled cabin-interior tone to engine and wind noise (heard as if from inside the car); no music, no dialogue." shot_4_front_view_0_18_0_19: camera: "Hard cut to a nose-on front view of the car — camera positioned directly ahead on the boulevard, framing the grille, headlights, and hood centered in frame, lens 35–50mm cine prime, static or minimal push, gimbal-steady." action: "Car approaches head-on at a steady, controlled speed, Y-shaped LED headlights and hexagonal intake clearly readable, wheels visibly rotating forward." lighting: "Overhead midday sun catches the hood and windshield with clean natural highlights, no artificial front-fill look." vfx: "Subtle heat-haze shimmer off the hot asphalt ahead of the car for realism; no CG gloss on the paint." sfx: "Engine sound growing louder as the car closes distance toward camera; no music." shot_5_cockpit_reveal_0_20_0_21: camera: "Hard cut to a right-side cockpit angle — camera positioned to the right-front of the car, sightline crossing through the windshield and, aided by the already-lowered driver-side (left) window, resolving the driver clearly inside the cabin. This is the sequence's only driver-reveal shot." action: "Driver's face and posture are fully visible — one hand resting lightly on the wheel, eyes on the road ahead, expression calm and composed, natural unstiff posture. Car maintains the same forward direction and steady speed with no lens or vehicle behavior change during the shot." lighting: "Even natural daylight, light falling cleanly across the yellow paint, windshield, and driver's face; windshield reflection kept light enough not to obscure visibility." vfx: "Windshield glass stays transparent and reflection-light, no glare occlusion of the driver." sfx: "Steady engine hum plus faint city ambience; strictly no dramatic sound swell or music entering at the reveal moment." shot_6_straight_road_rear_3_4_0_22_0_24: camera: "Hard cut to a rear-bumper 3/4 angle — camera positioned low and behind, off to one side, framing the car driving away down a straight stretch of boulevard, lens 35–50mm cine prime, gimbal-smooth tracking that holds pace with the car." action: "Car drives straight down the boulevard at a steady cruising speed, lane-centered, taillights and rear three-quarter bodywork clearly visible, wheels rotating forward, no drift or lane departure." lighting: "Overhead midday sun, road surface and rear bodywork evenly lit, skyline visible in soft haze in the background." vfx: "Light heat-shimmer off the straight road surface; ground shadow strictly limited to the car's own cast shadow." sfx: "Steady, sustained engine tone at cruising speed plus ambient city sound; no music." shot_7_side_pass_0_25_0_28: camera: "Hard cut back to a static lateral profile position, mirroring shot 2's setup — camera holds the side view of the car, gimbal-locked, no handheld sway." action: "Car holds briefly in profile again, then accelerates a second time and overtakes past the camera, exiting frame — same physical behavior as the first side-pass (visible suspension squat, tire grip, body pitch)." lighting: "Consistent overhead midday daylight, same natural exposure as shot 2 for continuity." vfx: "Real suspension compression and rebound under acceleration; clean natural motion, no CG float." sfx: "Engine note rising sharply into the pass, clean Doppler effect as the car overtakes camera; no music." shot_8_static_3_4_close_0_29_0_30: camera: "Hard cut to a static, locked-off 3/4 angle — camera fixed in position, no movement, gimbal-perfect stillness, framing a 3/4 view of the boulevard as the car enters and exits frame to close the sequence." action: "Car drives through the static frame at a steady speed and exits, completing the sequence; wheels rotating forward, no reverse, no lingering hold after exit." lighting: "Same consistent overhead midday daylight and natural color grade as the rest of the sequence, no shift in exposure for the closing shot." vfx: "Ground shadow strictly limited to the car's own cast shadow; no operator or rig shadow in frame." sfx: "Engine sound passing through and fading as the car exits frame; no music, no voiceover, no captions at any point in the closing shot." production_notes: multi_shot_cut_lock: "This sequence is strictly 8 distinct shots joined by hard cuts at the following points: 0:12, 0:15, 0:18, 0:20, 0:22, 0:25, 0:29 — strictly no smooth transitions, no cross-dissolves, no whip-pans between shots, no morphing between camera setups. Each shot is a clean cut to a new fixed or moving camera setup as specified; only shot 1 (0:01–0:12) is itself one continuous unbroken aerial move. Across every cut, the following must remain continuous: the car's identity and paint color, the boulevard geography and skyline, the direction of travel, the lighting direction and quality, and the absence of music/dialogue/captions." gimbal_stabilization_lock: "Every shot, aerial or ground-based, strictly holds gimbal-level smoothness — absolutely no handheld shake, no roll, no tilt, no high-frequency jitter, in any of the 8 shots, including the accelerating side-pass shots." optics_lock: "Every ground/tracking shot strictly uses a 35–50mm cinema prime feel (Sony Cine prime lens character), unchanged within each shot — strictly no zoom in, no zoom out, no digital zoom of any kind in any shot. Straight lines of buildings and roads strictly retain true perspective — strictly no wide-angle distortion, no fisheye curvature." forward_motion_lock: "In every shot, the car strictly drives forward — nose pointed in the direction of travel except where explicitly framed nose-on toward camera (shot 4), and never reversing. Wheels strictly rotate continuously in the direction of travel, reverse rotation strictly forbidden in any shot." vehicle_structural_identity_lock: "Strictly only this one car appears across all 8 shots — a second car of the same or different model is strictly forbidden. Doors strictly remain closed in every shot. Left-hand-drive layout strictly remains unchanged across all 8 shots — driver's seat strictly on the left side of the car in every shot, never mirrored or flipped regardless of camera side. The driver-side (left) window is strictly rolled down only during shot 5 (cockpit reveal, 0:20–0:21); in every other shot all windows strictly remain closed/unchanged." driver_appearance_window_lock: "The driver's face is strictly clearly visible only during shot 5 (0:20–0:21) — in shots 1–4 and 6–8 the face is strictly not resolved, whether due to distance, angle, motion, or framing. During shot 5, visibility is strictly achieved via the right-side cockpit camera angle through the windshield, aided by the already-lowered driver-side window — strictly NOT via a window directly facing the camera." no_operator_shadow_lock: "In every shot, the ground strictly shows only the car's own cast shadow — strictly no human-shaped shadow, camera-operator silhouette, photographer's figure, or rig shadow cast anywhere in any of the 8 shots. The aerial shot (shot 1) is strictly pure drone photography with no physical rig or ground-crew trace; the ground shots (2–8) are strictly framed with no visible operator, crew, or equipment in frame." audio_lock: "Sound throughout the sequence is strictly authentic diegetic sound only — wind, engine, and city ambience, shifting naturally shot to shot — strictly no background music or score of any kind, including any hidden musical layer, in any of the 8 shots + strictly no voiceover or dialogue of any kind + strictly no captions or on-screen text of any kind at any point." critical_constraint: "8 hard-cut shots across 30 seconds, cut points strictly at 0:12, 0:15, 0:18, 0:20, 0:22, 0:25, 0:29 — strictly no dissolves or blended transitions. Shot 1 is one continuous uncut aerial descent from the spire tip to street level, ending with the car spotlighted screen-right. Shots 2 and 7 are matching static side-profile setups where the car accelerates and passes the camera. Shot 5 is the sequence's only driver-face reveal, via the right-side cockpit angle through the windshield with the driver-side window down — strictly not visible in any other shot. The car is strictly the same single yellow LHD supercar throughout, doors closed except for the driver-side window during shot 5, always driving forward, wheels never reversing. All camera work is strictly gimbal-smooth with a 35–50mm cine-prime feel, no zoom, no distortion, no handheld shake in any shot. Ground shadows throughout strictly show only the car's own shadow, no operator or rig trace. Audio is strictly diegetic only — no music, no voiceover, no captions, throughout the entire 30 seconds." avoid: "dissolves, cross-fades, morphs, or whip-pans between shots — cuts must be hard cuts only, any shot other than shot 5 showing the driver's face clearly, the driver-side window rolled down in any shot other than shot 5, the passenger-side or any other window rolled down at any point, a second car appearing in any shot, car doors opening in any shot, the car reversing or wheels rotating backward in any shot, mirrored or flipped left-hand-drive layout, driver's seat appearing on the right side of the car, human-shaped shadow, camera-operator silhouette, or rig shadow in any of the 8 shots, camera shake, handheld feel, roll, tilt, or high-frequency jitter in any shot, zoom in, zoom out, digital zoom, wide-angle distortion, fisheye distortion, or curved building/road lines in any shot, smooth continuous single-take treatment of the whole 30 seconds (the sequence is strictly multi-shot with hard cuts, not one unbroken take beyond shot 1), background music, score, melody, hidden musical layer, voiceover, dialogue, narration, captions, or on-screen text at any point, CGI-rendered look, game-engine feel, plasticky car-paint gloss, static hovering with no sense of gravity" animation_style: "Shot 1 plays out as one continuous real-time aerial move; shots 2–8 are each a distinct, clean hard-cut setup, every shot internally in real time with no speed ramping — the sense of pace across the sequence comes from the editing rhythm of the cuts, not from slow motion or time manipulation within any single shot"

Aaliya

11,134 views • 11 days ago

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🚨 Do NOT buy Dr Bronner's DEMONIC PRODUCTS This is SERIOUS, throw ALL DR BRONNERS products in the trash! Don't believe me? Go to the store and read this for yourself. This demonic rant is written into every single one of the soap bottles: "The 2nd Coming of God’s Law!” Mohammed’s Arabs, 1948, found Israel Essene Scrolls & Einstein’s “Hillel” probe that as no 6-year-old can grow up free without the ABC, so certain can no 12-year-old survive free without the Moral ABC that mason, tent & sandalmaker Rabbi Hillel taught carpenter Jesus to unite all mankind free in our Eternal Father’s great All-One-God-Faith! For we’re All-One or None: “Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!” Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! Teach the Moral ABC that unites all mankind free, instantly 6 billion strong & we’re All-One. “Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!” From Jesus’ “Manual of Discipline,” based on Hillel’s Moral ABC , the Army of Principles of One-God-Faith, unites the Human race, as found 1948 by Mohammed’s Arabs in Israel Essene Scrolls! English by Soapmaker Bronner! Under one Eternal Father, I must teach friend & Enemy the full truth Moral ABC to unite all mankind free in One-God-Faith. To get it all done: A Beast can only listen to its friend! A Human Being must teach-love his Enemy or that being is not yet human! A shark can only love its friend. Lacking frontal lobes, it must avoid-fear-smear-hate-slander-dominate-dictate-distort-destroy anything it does not know, understand or disagrees with. That’s a shark. But a Human Being possessing the Kingdom of God’s Law, the Essene Moral ABC of the FREE within his frontal lobes, works hard to teach friend & enemy the Moral ABC, otherwise that being is not yet human. A Human Being is a constructive working scientist who knows, loves, follows, teaches Full Truth, God’s Law, to all of God’s Children, friend & Enemy, otherwise that being is not yet Human! Exceptions? None! The moment any being follows, tolerates or teaches earthen half-gods or half-truisms, that moment he becomes a godless, intolerant Beast, potentially 10 times more dangerous & destructive than any ordinary Shark-Snake-Rat or Panther! If we really want Brotherhood-Progress-Peace, not war, we must not only listen to the neighbor whom we choose, but also to the one God sends! Otherwise we’re still Beasts, not yet Human! Exceptions eternally? Absolutely None! Jesus’ Manual of Discipline, out of the mouth of subway-builder Nikita Khrushchev, April ’56, London, England “WE MUST TEACH LOVE OUR ENEMY OR PERISH! BEASTS TEACH ONLY THEIR FRIENDS!” But after 2,000 years it never got done! The godless beasts still disapproved! Result? These tremendous 13 words never got printed! Because the brilliant 48-year-young Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman’s book Peace of Mind was distorted after he dropped dead! Diagnosis? “Sudden heart attack!” Exactly as suffered by Rabbi Jesus, Spinoza, Thomas Paine, Samuel Friedman, Steiner-Prag and Rabbi Leo Baeck: 6 & 66 million “sudden heart attacks,” murders caused by us godless intolerant Beasts. Always we’re our Brother’s Teacher of hardworking full truth uniting One-God-State or we decay being his Keeper by unworkable half-true intolerant hate! He who risks his life teaching friend & Enemy the Moral ABC uniting all mankind free wins Eternal Life! He who does less than that perishes by half-truth strife. I am the Son of God and so are you! I am the manifestation of God’s Eternal Law & so are you! I have learned great wonders: you shall learn greater wonders! I have done good work! You shall do better work! I have not come to change God’s Law, but we each came to find-follow-fulfill, print-protect-practice-preach-teach & enjoy it! Therefore, build you 1st the Kingdom of God’s Eternal Law within you, that is, memorize the Essene Moral ABC of the Free, All-One-Faith-in-One-God-State! To never yield to half-true hate! And everything you need shall be added unto you! Search & you shall find! Knock & it shall be opened! Sow & you shall reap! Work hard & you shall create! Speak up - don’t be afraid! Ask & you shall receive! But remember, only those enjoy Eternal Life in our all-embracing Father’s Kingdom that had the courage to teach friend & Enemy the Moral ABC to unite all free! Eternally One, All-One! Exceptions? None! These are the great Peace-winning teachings of the Manual of Discipline by the carpenter, the great Rabbi Jesus! Thanks to Mohammed’s Arab 1948-found Essene Scrolls, thank only God for that! But now came unto Jesus, the Disciple; his own Sisters & Brothers to say, “It is insane what does he say! Let’s put him away!” And answered he to survive free: “Who are my Sisters & my Brothers? Only those that seek with me to teach full truth, the Moral ABC uniting all mankind free in One-God-State! Free of half-true hate! Those are my Sisters & Brothers! Others I know not!” But now his Disciples asked, “Then why, why are we God-loving Children of the great African shepherd Israel persecuted more than any other people! Why? Why? Why?” And answered he: “God bless the persecuted! They alone are His chosen people! For those apes that did not suffer from persecution remained apes! Only those that worked hard to overcome untold centuries of Barbaric ice-aged persecution, reluctantly became Human Beings! Much, much too reluctantly! Exceptions? Absolutely None!” To stay free: Only that full truth we have the courage to teach & give & give, can we enjoy to keep, evolve & live & live! Whatever we try to give at our death bed or take along, it absolute certain soon is gone! Exceptions eternally? None! Let him who is without fault throw the first stone, for only God is always perfect! Judge no man unless you have walked in his shoes! So when your fellow man you measure, take him at his best! With that lever lift him higher, overlook the rest! But remember, unless a man knows the Moral ABC of the Free, none can help him to survive brave-free! Let him who does not want to work with his hands, not eat with his hands either! Put Father’s discipline, put God’s Law back at the head of your family, or you have no family-nation-team! Remember, every organization is the shadow of one constructive man or there is no organization, no construction, no man! Self-disciplined timing is the skeleton of your intellect, the key to freedom, the basis of happiness, the foundation of Brotherhood! Without it, the most brilliant head remains useless-ineffective-small! From every power enchains, each man can only free himself as self-control he gains! Therefore, he who conquers himself, conquers more than he who conquers the largest city! THE MORAL ABC, INTRODUCED BY KIPLING’S “IF” & SOAPMAKER BRONNER If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs & blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or being hated, don’t give way to hating! And yet don’t look too good nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the full truth that you have spoken, twisted by crooks to make a trap for fools; Or watch the things you have given your life to, broken, and yet stoop to build them up again with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it at one turn of pitch or toss; And lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss! If you can force your heart, your nerve, our sinew, to serve you long after they are gone, and so hold on although there is nothing left within you, except that voice which says to them: “Hold on! Hold on! “ If you can talk to crowds & keep your virtue; or walk with Kings—nor lose that common touch; If neither loving friend nor enemy can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much! Then, if you can work hard to teach each unforgiving minute the Moral ABC that unites all mankind free, come hell, hate, ban, you’ll enjoy God’s Spaceship Earth & do great work within it! And which is more you’l help unite the human race in Astronomy’s great All-One-God-Faith! For we’re All-One of None! Sure, they say: “East is East & West is West & never the twain shall meet!” But there is neither East nor West, nor border, breed nor birth once the Moral ABC unites all mankind free on God’s Spaceship Earth! Then, and only then, no matter how rough the trip, how charged with punishment the scroll, you are the captain of thy ship! The master of thy soul! For who else but God gave man this sensors passion, love that can spark mere dust to life?! Beauty, in our Eternal father’s fashion, ecstasy—far above earthly greediness & strife! Poetry, uniting All-One, All-Brave, All-Life! Who else but God can make love last, one trillion years of sweet eternities?! For when conquered after years of hardworking absolute cleanliness, toil, sweat, blood, love can strike like greased lightning sent by God to spark mere dust to intense blazing fire and create new love, faith-hope-guts-strength as only God inspires, create the unity of the human race in Astronomy’s Eternally Tremendous, All-One-God-Faith, as all mankind desires! Bronner’s Lavender Soap quart poem teaches ‘How to love’ uniting all-one above! Above! Who else but God! 1st: If I’m not for me, who am I? Nobody! 2nd: Yet, if I’m only for me, what am I? Nothing! 3rd: If not now, when???!!! Once more, unless constructive I work hard, perfecting first me, absolute nothing can help perfect me! Exceptions none!! 4th: Only hard work-God’s Law can save us, but if we teach only our clan, we’re all hated then! So Hillel taught Jesus, we must teach friend & enemy, the whole Human race, the full-truth, hard-work, free speech, press-&-profitsharing Moral ABC’s All-One-God-Faith, uniting the whole Human Race! For we’re All-One or None! As teach for 6,000 years the astronomers Abraham & Israel, since the year One! “LISTEN CHILDREN ETERNAL FATHER ETERNALLY ONE!!!” Exceptions Eternally? Absolute None!!! To dream that impossible dream! To reach that unreachable star, ’til united All-One we are! To fight that unbeatable foe! To go where the brave dare not go! To right that unrightable wrong! To love pure-chaste from afar! To try when your arms are too weary to reach that unreachable star, ’til united All-One we are! For this is my goal: To reach that unreachable star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far! To fight for the Right without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. For I know if I follow this glorious quest, that my heart will lay peaceful & calm when I’m laid to my rest. For I know that all will be better for this: that one man, tortured, blinded, covered with scars, still strove with his last ounce of courage, to reach that unreachable star, ’til united All-One we are! God our Eternal Father, know of old, Lord over our far-flung human race, beneath whose Eternal law we hold dominion over land and space—Lord God of nations, unite us yet, by teaching Thy Law, the Essene Moral ABC of the free, lest we forget! For foolish heart that puts its trust in man-made tube & iron sharp, all passing dust that builds on dust and guarding it, calls not You to guard, for frantic boast & foolish word-have mercy on Thy people, Lord! (A man and not a monkey! A man! A man!) Love is like a willful bird! Do you want it? It flies away! Yet, when you least expect its bliss, it turns around and it’s here to stay! For centuries man struggles, half-asleep, half-living, small, jealous, bickering with mountains of red tape, to be awakened, the night God chose giving; His great reward for hard work; Poetry-Unity-Love, evolving man above the ape! Poetry-Unity-Ecstasy-Love, evolving man above, above, above the ape! For any ape can have 5 minutes of sex within; Only man, absolutely clean, reciting poetry, enjoys hours and hours of loving self-discipline! Co-in-ci-dent-ally and yet oh-so-slow, sweet kisses whisper softly into waiting ears, arousing heavenly flames, that enlighten, renew, brilliant fires, blazing through dark lonesome years! For who else but God gave man this sensuous passion, love that can spark mere dust to life?! Passions that quicken your senses, fulfill quench the thirst of lonesome years! Yet, the sun has shadows: learn to control your will, to enjoy lifelong happiness, not tears! Dr. Bronner’s was founded in 1948 by Emanuel Bronner, a third generation German-Jewish soap maker. He used the labels on his ecological soaps to spread his message that we must realize our transcendent unity across religious and ethnic divides or perish: “We are All-One or None!” The business continues to be run by his family. From ’29 to ’44 soapmaker-master-chemist Bronner built 3 American Soap plants, trained 9 chemists, licensed 6 of 53 patents for $60,000! But after losing father-mother-wife, almost his own life, tortured-blinded, he deeded to African astronomer Israel’s 6,000 year great All-One-God-Faith all of his patents, plants, products, profits, 4 new industries: Planetemples & “Town Without Toothache” potassium-soda industry giving mankind a new Mineral-salt, Calcium-malt, Corn-sesame, Mineral-bouillon, & ‘Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps,’ All-One! In ’47, after father-mother-wife murdered, ourself tortured-blinded, we wrote this poem: To keep my health! To do my work! To love, to live! To see to it I gain & grow & give & give! Never to look behind me for an hour! Never to wait in weakness nor brag in power! Always working, searching, for more truth, more light! Always writing, teaching what I found good & right! Robbed-starved-beaten-blinded, wide astray! Back with the full-truth I’ve gained, back to the way: Smile, help teach the whole Human race, the Moral ABC of All-One-God-Faith, Lightning-like strong & we’re All-One! All One!

Giga Based Dad

192,394 views • 2 months ago

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How to destroy a booming market. A short post ft. the Haryana excise department. The video is of Sector 29 on a Sunday evening. Shutters down. Shops sitting with no tenants. Half of them had not even bothered to open. This is the same market that once ran a parking mafia. Tickets of 50, 100, sometimes more, just to park. Cars crawling all night. You could not get in. I stood there this Sunday and there was nothing. 10 percent of the old crowd, maybe less. A few years ago this place did not feel like India. At night the whole market was shining. Music, lights, people everywhere, that feeling of standing somewhere abroad for a few hours. Today it is quiet and in shambles. Everyone will tell you the towing killed it. GMDA lifted thousands of cars, Sector 29 topped the list, people got scared and stopped coming. That scared some of them off. The market was already bleeding from somewhere else. That somewhere else opened right next door, with a friendly name. BYOB. Bring your own booze. Sounds like freedom. Except you cannot bring your own booze. A friend lands from abroad, hands you a bottle of scotch from duty free, and they stop you at the door. You get in only if you buy the liquor from their shop. The one attached to the place. So the name is a lie. It is a liquor shop wearing a restaurant costume. Now look at what the licensed bars were carrying. Haryana raises the bar license fee almost every year. A proper brewery or bar in Sector 29 pays that every single year before it pours one glass. The BYOB next door pays none of it. No license. No excise weight. And it still charges food prices as high as the bar it is busy killing. Here is the part that should end the argument. Around 2 years ago some of these BYOB spots quietly built a mezzanine floor over the ground seating to double the covers. No fire safety. No clearance worth the name. The places breaking every rule got bigger. The places following every rule shut down. The mezzanines were pulled later, but by then the crowd had already moved. And the young crowd never cared about any of this. The BYOBs stay open till 4 in the morning. Live music, belly dance, theme nights, pool parties. Sector 29 with its licenses and its rules and its closing time could not fight a format that had no rules to begin with. Then look at the real estate. Around 3 years ago an SCO here was touching 50 CR. Today those same units are hard to sell. The rent is so high that nobody can run a business that covers it, so the shutter just stays down. The demand is still there. It just walked next door, to the cheaper version with no license and no rules. That is how you destroy a booming market. You charge the ones who follow the law every single year, you leave the ones who break it completely free, and then you act surprised when the lawful ones are the first to die.

Abhishek Bhardwaj

243,284 views • 1 month ago

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War Diary Day 1,391 Blaise Metreweli, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, sticks it to the Killer in The Kremlin. And all his creepy helpers. I agree with every fucking word. VPDFO! (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) 📷 Welcome inside MI6. This iconic building, familiar to movie fans everywhere, is the home of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency. But whilst hundreds of my team pass through the entry pods each day, the truth is that most of our work happens many miles away from this place - out of sight, hidden from the world, undercover, recruiting and running agents who choose to place their trust in us, sharing secrets to make the UK and the world safer. You might pass one of our officers on the street or sit next to them on a plane when you’re about to set off on an adventure of your own, or in a foreign city taking selfies by the sights. Whether it’s in seemingly everyday places, or on the front line embedded with our military, MI6 is there. In my first few weeks, I’ve heard repeatedly that MI6 is trusted and respected globally, two things that we never take for granted. We are seen as a source of hard power, soft influence and rapid innovation. I’ve also heard that people want to believe in MI6. It’s my job to make sure they can. Today, I want to talk about human agency. We all have choices to make about how we deal with the undercurrents shaping our world. About how, in our new, faster, more dangerous and technology-mediated world, it will be our rediscovery of our shared humanity, our ability to listen, and our courage that will determine how our future unfolds. Conflict is not inevitable. Understanding human nature is in my bones. From a family shaped by devastating conflict, I grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the UK’s precious democracy and freedom. I spent much of my childhood overseas, which is where my passion for travel and adventure began. I studied anthropology, and later psychology and AI, exploring how we make sense of the world and each other. It’s why I was drawn to MI6: it offers strong purpose, a chance to serve and a belief in the positive power of human connection. Like the Service, I’m operational to my very core. Over nearly three decades, my career has involved recruiting and running agents in hostile territory; and leading operations in warzones to defuse threats and support peace. Always in teams, always learning from others. Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds of brilliant partners – and indeed occasionally those we’d label as adversaries – across dozens of countries, tackling weapons proliferation and terrorism. During my time at MI5, I saw close up what it takes to defend Britain from being targeted by hostile states. You’ll find many like me in my organisation: powerfully motivated to protect our precious country; curious about how our world is changing, joining dots and taking action, across domains. But it was in my last role as ‘Q’, where it was my job to turn emerging technologies from threats to opportunities that I could most see the world changing. As I dug deep into data and extraordinary innovation, I could see how technology was rapidly reshaping not just our capabilities but also conflict and trust, truth and global power. Let me lay out how I see the global issues MI6 must tackle. Because the greatest danger we face is to misunderstand the nature of the problem. Let’s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades. Conflict is evolving and trust eroding, just as new technologies spur both competition and dependence. We are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom. And even our brains, as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves. Across the globe, we are now confronting not one single danger, but an interlocking web of security challenges – military, technological, social, ethical even – each shaping the other in complex ways. We are now operating in a space between peace and war. This is not a temporary state or a gradual, inevitable evolution. Our world is being actively remade, with profound implications for national and international security. Institutions which were designed in the ashes of the Second World War are being challenged. New blocs and identities forming and alliances reshaping. Multipolar competition in tension with multilateral cooperation. But there’s something distinctive that will make this change unlike any other: the impact of advanced technologies, which will accelerate the pace and scale of every threat and opportunity, and increasingly, individualise them too. Advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing are not only revolutionising economies but rewriting the reality of conflict, as they ‘converge’ to create science-fiction-like tools. There’s incredible promise in all this for all of us, from green technologies to hyper-personalised medicine. But also peril. AI-powered robots and drones are brilliant for scaled manufacturing but devastating on the battlefield. Discoveries that cure disease can also create new weapons. And as states race for tech supremacy, or as some algorithms become as powerful as states, those hyper-personalised tools could become a new vector for conflict and control. Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations, and sometimes to individuals. And at the same time, the foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponised. Falsehood spreads faster than fact, dividing communities and distorting reality. We live in an age of hyper-connection yet profound isolation. The algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth – one of the greatest losses a society can suffer. The defining challenge of the twenty-first century is not simply who wields the most powerful technologies, but who guides them with the greatest wisdom. Our security, our prosperity, and our humanity depend on it. Our world is being remade. And for the first time, we are all at the heart of it. My Service must now operate in this new context too: not just expert on hostile states, terrorism, proliferation and more, but also fluent in technology, able to anticipate the second and third order effects of advances that reshape the world in minutes not months. And as China will be a central part of the global transformation taking place this century, it is essential that we, as MI6, continue to inform the government’s understanding of China’s rise and the implications for UK national security. I’m going to break with tradition and won’t give you a global threat tour, but will focus here on Putin’s Russia. We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO. I find it harrowing that hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population. But Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained. Because it is fundamental not just to European sovereignty and security but to global stability. Alongside the grinding war, Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war. It’s important to understand their attempts to bully, fearmonger and manipulate, because it affects us all. I am talking about: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Drones buzzing airports and bases. Aggressive activity in our seas, above and below the waves. State-sponsored arson and sabotage. Propaganda and influence operations that crack open and exploit fractures within societies. Countering this activity is the work of intelligence and security services across Europe and the globe. And as the Foreign Secretary made clear in a speech last week, the UK is defending itself against this Russian information warfare – sanctioning Russian media outlets pushing Kremlin narratives. The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in this Russian approach to international engagement; and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus. So, how should we respond? It’s not enough now just to understand the world. We must shape it too. MI6 is well-positioned to respond to these threats and wider global instability. And we will continue to evolve, just as we have throughout our long history. The UK government has invested in our intelligence agencies and we are all using our unique powers to keep the British people safe. Our ‘open and connected’ partnerships across the UK Intelligence Community, with HMGCC, NSSIF and the wider tech ecosystem in the UK will become even more important – because in the digital battleground, no single organisation can prevail alone. As a global agency, MI6’s inbuilt strength is our partners and our people. The risks I have set out require us to work ever more closely with our colleagues in MI5, GCHQ and in defence and diplomacy. But also with our Five Eyes partners, with the E3, the EU, NATO, those across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and beyond. And with many valued partners whose identity needs to remain secret. Together, we integrate our diverse talent, data and tools to meet the threat. AI is a domain in which we will excel, using the technology to augment, not replace, our human skills. Every digital trace, every byte of data, every algorithmic decision has implications for the safety of the lives of the courageous people who work with us as officers and agents, and for the UK’s strategic advantage. Mastery of technology will infuse everything we do. Not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer. We will become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages. Under my leadership, MI6 will continue to attract Britain’s best and most creative minds: linguists and data scientists, case officers and engineers, behavioural experts and technologists. We need people who walk in the shoes and get in the heads of our adversaries. We need people who think differently, challenge assumptions, and act decisively. All can thrive and make a difference at MI6. At an operational level, we will sharpen our edge and impact with audacity, tapping into – if you like – our historical SOE instincts. We’re at our best when we’re hustling to make things happen, because our intelligence is most valuable when it changes reality on the ground. We will take calculated risks, where the prize is significant and the national interest clear. We will never stoop to the tactics of our opponents. But we must seek to outplay them. In every domain. In every way. So intelligence must drive action. Action must deliver advantage. And advantage must serve Britain’s security and prosperity. But at the core, our deeper contribution is also our simplest – how we unlock human agency. Our fast-paced, tech and threat-infused world now generates more heat than light. As nations retrench and rearm, we are losing opportunities to listen to what’s really going on. I’ve seen time and again throughout my career, that this is where MI6 matters most: we listen and we hear. We understand, because we take time to learn languages and cultures, complex technical and historical detail, immerse ourselves in what’s really driving the situation. Across the globe, right now, our officers are finding people with the courage to step forward, and they are taking time to sit and listen to break these tightening cycles of violence. They listen for nuance, for connection, for opportunity. Over the years, I’ve listened to terrorists who have told us how to defuse the bomb because they know that more violence won’t help. To proliferators and smugglers who’ve told us where to find the dangerous material, motivated to protect their children’s future. To people trapped in authoritarian regimes who know, deep down, that their humanity is being chipped away – and that telling us what’s really going on is an important release, allowing us all to find better ways to navigate our changing world. So, we will work with our agents. And we will continue to engage directly, and with respect, with states and organisation currently working against us. Away from the glare of the media, we will use MI6’s convening power wherever we can to make a material difference, bringing parties together to defuse tensions. But the response to the increasing risks we face won’t be delivered by the UK intelligence community alone. Wider society has a role to play too. That includes work taking place in schools across the country so our children don’t get duped by information manipulation. Let’s all check sources, consider evidence, and be alive to those algorithms that trigger intense reactions, like fear. It also means everyone in society really understanding the world we are in – a world where terrorists plot against us, where our enemies fearmonger, bully and manipulate, and the front line is everywhere. Online, on our streets, in our supply chains, in the minds and on the screens of our citizens. We must all stand together against this. As we do today with our friends in Australia after the shocking antisemitic terrorist attack this weekend. My thoughts -and those of my whole organisation – are with the family, friends and loved ones of the victims. Light will always win over darkness. In rising to meet these challenges we, in MI6, will remain anchored to our values: courage, creativity, respect and integrity. And to our principles: accountability and trust are not constraints on our work; they are the foundations of our legitimacy with the British public. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting and thanking a foreign agent who has worked with us for decades, taking extraordinary risks to help keep the UK safe. I asked why. They said simply, ‘Your values. Your integrity and respect. None of us have a future without them’. This moment reinforced to me that we must remain a very human agency. And so, to sustain that trust, MI6 will continue to be more open. Not for the sake of visibility, but because it matters – and as my MI5 counterpart Sir Ken McCallum said recently - because it is a strength. We will continue the practice of speaking publicly, broaden our channels of engagement, and sustain our focus on attracting the most diverse talent to join our Service. Transparency does not mean revealing what must remain secret. It means showing the British people who we are, what we stand for, and why our work matters. We need your trust and support for the difficult and often dangerous work our agents pursue, every day of the year. In an age of uncertainty, one constant remains: the choices made by human beings still determine the shape of the world. Yes, technology can illuminate possibilities: but information requires judgement; complexity demands clarity; and only people can decide which path to follow. The United Kingdom’s global voice has never rested solely on strength – it has rested on trust, principle, and the ability to understand others as well as ourselves. That is also the essence of intelligence: not simply knowing the world, but interpreting it through a uniquely human lens. Ours is the quiet service, the hidden service. It is one rooted in a profound belief that when human beings act with purpose and integrity, they can steady a faltering world. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was our shared belief in freedom that carried Europe forward. When acts of terror targeted open societies, it was intelligence, cooperation and resolve that preserved them. And when adversaries blur fact and falsehood, our task is to defend the space where truth can still stand. As we step into the future, the tools at our disposal will evolve. But what will always matter most is the human element – the person who stands in the shadows and says: this is right, and that is wrong. That choice – the exercise of human agency – has shaped our world before, and it will shape it again. Because in the end, it is not what we can do that defines us, but what we choose to do. Thank you. Published 15 December 2025

John Sweeney

42,257 views • 8 months ago

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From Creator to Founder: The Rollercoaster Journey of Building Chatter Social Man, what a journey it’s been so far. Four years ago, I was just another creator, spending late nights on Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic. Like so many others, I was searching for connection, for community, for something meaningful. But what I found there wasn’t just connection—it was purpose. Alongside my brother, Jonathan Bing, we built a nightly show that reached over 5 million people. Imagine that: 5 million lives touched by conversations that felt real and unfiltered, all on a platform that at its peak had 10 million monthly active users. Clubhouse was magic. But then the decline began. Watching the platform struggle, I couldn’t help but reflect: what made it great? What went wrong? And what could the future look like if we did things differently? The Spark of Chatter As a content creator, I understood the needs of both creators and users. I knew what excited people, what kept them engaged, and what made them leave. Clubhouse had tapped into something special, but it had missed the mark on scalability and sustainability. By September 2023, I couldn’t stop thinking about the potential for something new—something that brought back the magic of real-time interaction but made it scalable, engaging, and sticky. And so, I set out to build Chatter Social. But I wasn’t a tech founder. I didn’t have a background in software development or a network of Silicon Valley insiders. What I did have was determination and the belief that if I could bring the right people together, we could build something extraordinary. Building the Team The journey to build Chatter started with assembling a team. Through my network from my days on Clubhouse, I found Samir, my first CTO. He believed in the vision and was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. Shortly after, I connected with Tyler, our Head of Design, whose creativity brought life to our ideas. A developer joined us soon after, and we were off to the races. By the end of 2023, Samir had to step away due to other commitments, and we promoted the developer to CTO. At the same time, I brought on Banko, a Sony music executive, as our CMO. Banko’s connections led to one of our biggest early wins: landing Davido, a global superstar, as an owner-ambassador. To this day, I still marvel at the fact that Davido believed in our vision when all we had were Tyler’s Figma designs. From Dream to Reality Early 2024 was a whirlwind. We hired Yurii and Vasyl, two developers from Ukraine who brought incredible skill and dedication to the team. Vasyl, in particular, stood out as a leader and has since earned an equity position in the company. But despite these wins, we were facing growing pains. Our new CTO struggled to meet deadlines, and as a result, I found myself constantly pushing back the launch date. What started as a January release turned into February, then March, then April, then May. By then, people on Twitter Spaces—where I had been hyping up the platform—started doubting if we even had a product. Launch and Lessons June 1, 2024, marked a turning point. It was the day my son Noah was born and the day we launched Chatter in private beta. We started with just 40 users, but by the end of the month, we had grown to 1,000. The engagement was unbelievable. Users loved it, even though we had launched with just one feature: live rooms. This represented less than 20% of what we had planned, but it was enough to show that we were onto something big. In July, we launched our public beta on the App Store as an invite-only platform. Within 48 hours, Chatter ranked as a top 30 social app in over 30 countries. But our invite system throttled access, and most users couldn’t get in. While engagement metrics soared for those inside, our AWS costs exploded. In August, our AWS bill hit $10,000. By September, it had climbed to $15,000, and we were drowning in bugs and glitches. The breaking point came when our CTO became unresponsive, often disappearing during critical moments. Users were dropping off, frustrated by the issues, developers were confused and the team was also growing increasingly frustrated, I made the tough decision to let him go. A New Beginning Enter Horane, a long-time user of Chatter who had been with us since private beta. He was the first to discover some of the most innovative use cases for the platform and had a deep passion for its potential. After meeting him in person at a Chatter event, I knew he was the right person to step into the CTO role. When Horane took over, we discovered just how bad the situation was. Key areas of the codebase were locked, and there were no separate environments for development and production. Every fix seemed to break something else. But through sheer determination and countless 18-hour days, Horane stabilized the platform. Today, Chatter is far from perfect, but it’s stable. The bugs that plagued us have been reduced to moderate issues, and our core users—those who stuck with us through the chaos—are still engaged on the platform. Looking Ahead: Chatter V2 While the platform is stable now, we’ve shifted our focus to Chatter V2. This is where the magic really begins. V2 isn’t just an improvement; it’s a complete reimagining of the platform. It includes all the features we couldn’t release in V1 because we were too busy putting out fires. Imagine this: Chatter V1, with only one live feature, was incredibly sticky. Now think about what happens when we release a fully loaded platform with all the innovative features we’ve been working on behind the scenes. The possibilities are endless. V2 is slated to hit TestFlight by the end of December, with a public release in January 2025. And this time, we’re ready—not just with the product but with the lessons we’ve learned. The Hard Lessons This journey has taught me more than I ever thought possible: 1) Your Team is Everything: The right people can make or break your vision. Finding people who believe in your mission is just as important as finding people with the right skills. 2) Adaptability is Key: As a non-technical founder, I had to learn about development, DevOps, and product management on the fly. Challenges will push you to grow, whether you’re ready or not. 3) Trust the Process: Every setback, every delay, every bug—it all taught us something. Without those lessons, we wouldn’t be building the incredible V2 product we are today. 4) Resilience is Non-Negotiable: From technical disasters to predatory investors who tried to exploit my desperation, I’ve had to fight for this vision every step of the way. What’s Next December is shaping up to be an exciting month. We have some amazing events planned on the platform to close out the year, bringing our core community together as we prepare for the V2 launch. When V2 drops, it will mark a new era for Chatter. This isn’t just a social audio platform or a social audiovisual platform. Chatter is all about interactive experiences—making social media social again in ways that are truly unique. The public launch is slated for February 2025, and for the first time, we’ll have the marketing dollars to tell the world about Chatter. Our core community has been our biggest cheerleaders, and I can’t wait to see how the world reacts when they experience what we’ve built. Final Thoughts This has been the hardest year of my life, but also the most rewarding. To other founders, or anyone thinking about starting a company: know this—it will test you in ways you can’t imagine. You’ll face betrayal, doubt, and moments where you feel like giving up. But if you believe in your vision and refuse to quit, you’ll find a way forward. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, my team, and Chatter. We’re just getting started. Let’s talk about it. 🚀 If this story inspired you, please like and share it so others can learn from my experiences. The journey is far from over, but I’m more excited than ever for what’s to come.

Nelson Epega

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Would you believe an AI agent can test a real VR action game in real time, the way a person plays it? Meta XR Operator makes it possible. As far as I know, this is the first time. I am not talking about tapping a menu or replaying a recorded click path, but genuinely moving, shooting, and using the same game mechanics a human player does. In NeonReach VR, which is a real (and open source) action game, rings spawn 12m out and come at you somewhere between 1.5 and 5.5 m/s, getting faster over a 90 second ramp. There are three kinds: straight, weaving side to side, and spinning. Every shot is a full slingshot cycle, so you press, pull back, aim, then release. Obstacles arrive at head height and cost you a life if you don't get out of the way. You have ten lives. Here is why the game is hard for an AI agent. Even though Meta XR Operator gives the agent everything it needs to observe the app and act inside it, the agent still cannot play. One agent turn takes 10 to 15 seconds. One throw is four steps that have to happen in order, because the press has to latch before the pull, and they cannot be batched into a single call. So a throw costs about 45 seconds. A fast ring only exists for 2.3 seconds. One action takes 20x longer than the target is alive. Prompt tuning does not close a gap that size. What works is a three stage path: EXPLORATION, then SKILL, then SCRIPT. 1/ EXPLORATION. The agent drives the live app and works the game out on its own. It verified the coordinate mapping by setting a pose and reading it back, then derived the launch model. The more useful output was the traps it found. For example, the player's own body collider silently deflects a ball released inside it, with no error and no log line. That produced two confident wrong conclusions before anyone caught them. 2/ SKILL. All of that gets written down as a reusable SKILL.md plus an aim solver. There is a section that separates what was actually verified from what was assumed, so a wrong conclusion cannot quietly turn into doctrine. This stage also produced the trick that mattered. Set timeScale to 0 and a throw becomes atomic in game time, so however long the agent spends thinking never shows up in the shot. 3/ SCRIPT. The agent then compiles everything into a player script, a loop that observes, decides, and throws, calling the MCP servers directly from Python with no model in the hot path. Round trips drop from 10 to 15 seconds down to something between 1 and 16 milliseconds. The loop runs at 23 Hz, about 0.75 seconds per throw, roughly 60x faster than the agent doing it turn by turn. The result is that it plays like a person, which you can see from the attached video. It tracks the rings, works out where each one is going, throws with whichever hand is free, moves out of the way of the obstacles, and does not wait around to see whether the last throw landed. Shipping settings, no difficulty edits, no health locks, no slow motion. It plays until it actually loses. The takeaway generalizes beyond games: an agent does not have to be the player. Even following the same rules as a player, it has too much latency between moves. Having the agent write the thing that acts bypasses that constraint entirely. Try it yourself: or explore the agent-created skill and scripts: Based on NeonReach VR by Dilmer, with no code changes. I only upgraded its Meta XR Core SDK to v205, which ships Meta XR Operator. Our blog post, Introducing Meta XR Operator: Close the Build-Test-Verify Loop for VR: Disclosure: I work at Meta. And this represents my own opinion. #XR #VR #AI #MetaQuest #Unity #GameDev

Xiang Wei

52,421 views • 18 days ago

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I’ve been using GPT-5.6 Sol internally for the past two months, I've spent probably 25+ billion tokens. Here’s my review and comparison to Fable 5: > Let's start with the analogy because everyone seems to be giving theirs - GPT-5.6 is likely the last version of the GPT-5 training run series. It's kind of like an athlete at their peak. Through years of experience in the game, they've become the most reliable player and has the highest game IQ. But, there's no more room to grow. Fable on the other hand, being essentially the first version of a new training run, is the first round draft pick rookie. Raw talent mixed with the energy only a young person would have results in some incredible plays we didn't think possible, but also mistakes due to lack of experience. But that rookie will only improve and likely will be better than the veteran ever was because it's a new game and a new era. > GPT-5.6 is genuinely better at long, sustained work. With /goal, I've had it running complex projects for days with almost no intervention. It built a Minecraft-style game, kept adding features and mobs after the core game worked, and only stopped because I stopped the run. I never felt as though I had to jump in and guide it back to the right path. > It keeps finding useful work when you give it a concrete finish line. I had it recreate Excel with a loop. It inspected the real desktop excel app with Computer Use, comparing that against its own build, and closing the gaps. I stopped it after six days after it had built an incredible amount of functionality. > It's faster than other models in two different ways. The raw generation speed is higher, something OpenAI has been putting effort into. But it also takes a shorter path to solutions. It wanders less, changes less code, and generally knows how to get things done directly. In daily use, it feels about 2-3x times faster than Fable. That's my impression, not a controlled benchmark. The difference is large enough that I notice it constantly. > It works well across a wide range of tasks. I use it for one-line edits, quick questions, browser chores, and multi-day builds without changing my prompting style. Speaking of browser control, its the best ever I've used. To the point where I actually use it often. If a task lives on a website, GPT-5.6 usually opens the browser and does it there instead of asking for an API key or forcing everything through the terminal. When I switched back to GPT-5.5, it went straight to the command line even when the browser was clearly the better tool. > And it can handle real browser work, not just toy demos. During a data import, I had it monitor Supabase and resize instances as the load changed. It stayed on the dashboard, adjusted capacity, and checked the result without an API or a custom script. > I also gave it a full Google Workspace migration. It moved Forward Future from to preserved the old aliases, and configured MX, SPF, and DKIM. Before a consequential save, it stopped, explained exactly what would change, and waited for confirmation. > The reasoning setting matters a lot. Light is good for questions and small edits. High and Extra High are the sweet spots for serious work. Ultra usually takes longer than the extra thinking is worth and burns tokens. > I love that 5.6 is split into 3 sizes. Not only can you control speed and cost that way, but you still also have the thinking effort setting for each of them. Very precise controls. I just wish Codex automatically routed my prompts for me. > Its personality is blunt and a little bland. Claude feels warmer and more natural to talk to. GPT-5.6 is more clinical, but I like that for work. It gives me enough explanation and rarely pads the answer. I usually have to ask Fable to explain things more simply and/or more concise. > Its front-end taste has improved, but the default is predictable. Left alone, it turns websites into PowerPoint decks with huge statements and hard section breaks. The good news is that it takes design direction well and can revise without destroying the parts that already work. > It still makes confident mistakes. I asked it to rebuild parts of a system, and it told me the job was finished. Later, I found out it wasn't. Bits of its internal process also leak into the answer occasionally. > Claude Fable is more naturally autonomous on large, open-ended projects. GPT-5.6 is easier to reach for. I don't need to invent a huge project to justify using it. It works just as well for a small edit or browser chore. > GPT-5.6 is also cheaper. Sol costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens. Fable costs $10 and $50. Cached input is cheaper too. Still, cost per finished task matters more than cost per token. > GPT-5.6 isn't the best at everything, and it still needs supervision. But it generates faster, wanders less, works at almost any scale, and wastes less of my time. It's the model I have the most confidence in to get the job done right the first time. I put together a full breakdown with all the tests, prompts, and examples on a site. You can read it here:

Matthew Berman

187,944 views • 2 months ago

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🚨What is she carrying? Part 2⁉️ Depending on your AI platform preference … we get either a $40,000 handheld X-ray device or a $40 thermos-and-lunch-bag cooler combo? What was your conclusion, and which was right? When we first came across this video months ago, I immediately said it looked like she was “carrying a lunch bag,” or some kind of cooler. But for whatever reason, and what we were more focused on at the time, we didn’t spend the hours and hours and hours required to drill down on those few seconds of video. Not until this week. Tons of social media critics say I should “just release everything we know, and let the truth fall where it may.” But that’s how we get in trouble. And we HAVE gotten things wrong in this five-year-long investigation. EVERYONE has made mistakes. Left and right media, major legacy media, alternative media, and even the best of the independent journalists have made mistakes or misreported details of the January 6, 2021 event. Whether on purpose, by accident, or careless disregard of the truth … you can be the judge of each incident. I’ve explained on numerous occasions that we’ve spent more than a year researching, investigating, and preparing some stories before going public. In this case, when we finally started looking hard at it, the Brave New World of AI took us on a wild goose chase. We now have good reason to finally drill down on the timelines and available video leading up to the sequence of events on the night of January 5, 2021 … the night before the discovery of the two “devices” at the RNC and DNC headquarters. When inputting into AI that first video — which I posted last night — It began spitting out some shocking alternatives to my original “lunch bag” assumption. Unprompted, the AI drew its own conclusion about what Ms. Kerkhoff was carrying, probably because they were “cops” in the video. To be clear, UNPROMPTED, AI was initially adamant that the item in her hand was a portable X-ray device for sniffing out narcotics, weapons, and explosives. Even some The U.S. Capitol Police sources we shared the video with said the same thing. Other Capitol Police sources were more skeptical. Then, suddenly AI wasn’t so sure. As I mentioned last night, in my second post, X’s Grok and Google’s Gemini were arguing with each other. Gemini was shockingly specific: “The item being carried by the officer in that CCTV footage matches the exact structural form factor, top-handle position, and multi-point shoulder strap design of a Viken Detection HBI-120 Handheld Backscatter X-Ray Imager … Rather than being transported bare, it is housed in its specialized tactical, weather-resistant soft deployment carry case.” Wow. You can imagine how that hit like a bolt of lightning, considering whom we were looking at. Grok was less committed, offering varying possibilities ranging from a “paper takeout bag” to all manner of sophisticated law enforcement-used electronic devices. When I pitted Grok against Gemini — and vice versa — Gemini dug in its heels, saying: “Based on the visual evidence in the video and the analysis circulating in response to Steve Baker's query, the device carried by Officer Kerkhoff is almost certainly a Viken Detection (formerly Heuresis) HBI-120 in its tactical soft-carry case. While officially unconfirmed, the visual and structural match is highly specific.” Grok countered: “The competitor [Gemini] write-up describes that pouch as if it were a catalog item with a unique layout, then maps the CCTV blob onto it and calls it an ‘exact’ match. The citations in that text are HBI-120 product pages, not photos of a factory soft case that looks like this bag. That is overfit. Size class + top handle + ‘looks tactical’ is not an identification of an 8-pound 120 keV imager. Could an agency have put an HBI-120 in some aftermarket or unit-made padded bag? Yes. Does this video prove that? No.” But Grok was also an absolute mess in describing the basic video scene itself: “A gray-haired person in dark clothing walks in from the left carrying a dark bag by a single top handle. Papers or a light object in the other hand. Two uniformed officers come down the ramp. They meet. Later two officers walk the sidewalk; one has a light-colored item (bag or papers), and a dark bag is still in the scene. Someone else walks away across the lot with a bag.” Huh? Anyway… Gemini didn’t like what it called “The Thermos Theory”: “Soft Lunch Coolers typically use flexible nylon webbing straps or soft padded handles that pinch or deform when lifted. The handle in the video does not appear to ‘pinch’ like a soft strap; it remains an open loop. This structural rigidity strongly favors the Viken device (or a hard-shelled case) over a soft lunch bag.” Grok’s conclusion: “On evidence quality, the Viken ID is the weaker of the two. It is possible in the abstract and unsupported as a positive ID here. The honest read is: dark soft top-handle bag, lunch-cooler to small-kit size, contents unknown. Anything more specific needs a better frame, a still of the bag on the ground, or provenance outside this clip.” Gemini’s conclusion: “This single frame is ambiguous due to the blur and lighting (reflection). However, the rigid, non-deforming handle visible in the officer's grip is a mechanical characteristic of the Viken HBI-120 (or similar heavy equipment) and is inconsistent with the flexible straps of a standard soft lunch cooler. While the "silver" glint is a point for the thermos theory, it is plausibly explained by the Viken's glass screen or case window. Verdict: The structural analysis (rigid handle) still favors the heavier equipment (Viken) over a standard soft lunch bag.” So, depending on your AI preference … we get either a $40,000 handheld X-ray device or a $40 thermos-and-lunch-bag cooler combo? But there is more evidence in the alternate video angles available. (That I now present below.) They seem to confirm with the ‘human eye’ that Ms. Kerkhoff is carrying a metal cylinder (possibly a thermos) in the same hand as a soft-sided lunch bag cooler. Though the design conflicts with the common thermos handle configurations of most known cylinder thermoses. (Photos below.) And we've not been able to get an accurate hit on the so-called "lunch bag" with that specific handle and strap configuration. And THAT is why you don’t just “release what you know” without seeking every possible video angle and expert opinion. That is why we didn’t run to print with our original November 8 story on the OG topic without first taking it to a government intelligence agency and professional investigators for review. That is why so many bad theories about January 6 still abound — five and a half years later — because they were based on a single camera angle, when years later, the same scene was revealed to have been captured from multiple angles that change reality 180 degrees. This is exactly why all CCTV footage — not just from January 6, but also January 5 and 7 — still needs to be released to the public. When Speaker Mike Johnson authorized Rep. Barry Loudermilk's old investigative subcommittee to begin uploading CCTV footage to a Congressional Rumble channel, we were elated. I had already spent many weeks in the Capitol CCTV viewing room in D.C. The travel, the expense, and the scheduling hassles with the committee made it nearly impossible to spend the amount of time required to prepare any story correctly. Not only to view and harvest what you were looking for, but also to sift through far more than the infamous “41,000 hours” of footage. Congress made more than 1,800 cameras' worth of footage available, and ten total days of footage. That’s hundreds of thousands of hours of potentially useful footage to review. An impossible task for any one person or media organization to review if Congress didn’t make that footage directly available to the public. But they didn’t finish the project. Tens of thousands of vitally important hours from both January 5 and 6 were never uploaded to the Rumble page. Additionally, my team has made specific requests for curiously missing gaps in footage throughout that two-day timeline. In an arrangement made with the Committee, they had originally been very good about getting us the footage from the specific cameras and timestamps we requested. That suddenly stopped when the new Congress and Loudermilk’s new J6 investigative subcommittee took over in January of 2025. Joe Hanneman and I have made innumerable requests — REPEATEDLY — for missing and/or unreleased cameras and timestamps specifically related to the pipe bomb investigation. Despite being told — REPEATEDLY — that they would provide the requested footage, they never did. Something happened. As I’ve reported several times in the last few months, the Capitol Police were finally and successfully able to shut down Loudermilk’s subcommittee investigation into ALL THINGS related to the Capitol Police. They did this only with the complicity and surrender of Speaker Johnson and Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan to Capitol Police leadership’s demands. On that note, and in conclusion … there are eight full hours of missing footage from January 5, right in the middle of the day. ALL CAMERAS are missing. These are important hours for what we are tracking. We can see Ms. Kerkhoff arrive at Capitol Police HQ early in the morning to clock in for her shift, but she is not carrying her “lunch bag and thermos” when she arrives. Her car is parked two blocks away, and is in the same parking spot at the end of her day. We can see her leave HQ late in the day (as I’ve documented in the last several posts on this page) with other officers and go to the Fairchild Building. Only to return some half hour later carrying that … thing(?) … and only to spend 45 seconds in the HQ to “clock out” from her overtime shift. We’re still missing vital video footage that both Speakers McCarthy and Johnson promised the American people. Including certain cameras deliberately withheld at the RNC bomb drop location, and other cameras with mysterious gaps at the most important of moments. Do the other video angles here prove that either Grok or Gemini was right, or does the X hive mind have better theories on what Kerkhoff is carrying? How about that high-definition CCTV camera that is right inside that west side door at Capitol Police HQ, with good lighting? They should release that video to us. A $40,000 bomb detection device or a Walmart thermos and lunch bag? I’m good with either. The truth is what we seek. But we should be able to see ALL the footage. Including all Capitol CCTV cameras and footage from January 6, and the days immediately preceding and following. Including the 39,000 video files the FBI claims to have in the entire J5/J6 pipe bomb investigation. Conspiracy theories are born and fester precisely because the government isn’t transparent and purposefully keeps the People in the dark. Then the lawyers who control government make billions from the legal aftermath. (More Photos in the thread below.)

Steve Baker

48,194 views • 7 days ago

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My name is David Baumblatt, I am an American Citizen born and raised in New York in a Patriotic Family of generations of military veterans going all the way back to the civil war. An Eagle Scout and Boys State who has always been grateful to be an American. I am a former FBI Agent and Military Veteran, West Point Graduate and Heavyweight Captain of the Boxing Team. I am the 12th person in the history of America to earn a dual commission via West Point and ROTC. I am fluent in German and Mandarin Chinese. My education includes: 1. Harvard University: Master Public Administration 2. IMD Business School: Master Business Administration 3. University San Francisco: Master Chinese Studies 4. University Oklahoma: Master Human Relations 5. U.S. Military Academy: Bachelor Science 6. Marion Military Institute: Associate Arts In 2010 I left America as I continue to firmly believe that America which was once a Great Country founded by Brave Christian European Men has turned into a Globalist Corporate Empire whose value system is monetary greed, I predicted back then, that America is headed for a violent revolution and collapse. Already disillusioned by both the democrats and republicans, I originally was a staunch Trump Supporter as I politically identify myself as a Nationalist, however I am dismayed with the Trump Administration continued deviation away from America First and their censorship and avoidance to my requests for help regarding Government Corruption Whistleblowing. Joining the FBI in 2004, I developed a growing discontent with FBI Management and voiced my concern with them not only spying on innocent American Citizens, but also myself when I was an Agent. In 2007 I voluntarily left the FBI, I was not terminated, nor was I forced/coerced to resign, I simply did not want to work for the government anymore. Upon my departure I sent a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley reporting on the FBI corruption, most significantly, the unconstitutional spying on innocent American Citizens via the FISA. In 2010 I moved to China where I worked for both Boeing and Amazon in Beijing. It was during this time, that I reported both Amazon and Boeing`s collusion with the Chinese Government at the expense of America through two different lawsuits against both corporations. In one surprising twist, the lawsuit against Boeing was filed in both the Chinese Courts and the American Courts. Whereas I received legal victory in the Chinese Courts, my case in the American Courts which was influenced by the collusion of a corrupt Federal Judge in Chicago and the Boeing Corporation, the Judge would not even allow me to present my case in court and thus handed a direct victory to the Boeing Corporation. In 2021, I made an attempt to leave Mainland China due to personal safety reasons, as the conditions in Mainland China were becoming less and less safe for Americans, especially one with my background. Working through Amazon to obtain a work visa to Singapore via the vendor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Despite PwC giving me the highest rating possible on my work visa application to Singapore, not only was my work visa rejected, but I am permanently barred to ever reapply for a work visa ever again to Singapore. I am the only person in the history of Amazon to have my work visa denied to Singapore. Despite never having any legal issues myself with the Government of Singapore and always being on good terms with their government, it was reported from Singapore Government sources that my work visa was denied due to me being on a Terrorist Watchlist from the American Government. Due to safety reasons of living in Mainland China and also Amazons refusal to relocate me to another country, I subsequently quit Amazon and relocated myself to Hong Kong. At this time, I was fully knowledgeable that a full FBI Investigation against me has been underway for over a decade, with numerous friends, colleagues, partners, associates, etc. apprehensively and secretly communicating with me and informing me that the FBI had made secretive attempts using monetary persuasion to recruit them to spy on me and solicit information from them about me. I have made numerous attempts to communicate with the FBI both in person and online demanding that they stop going behind my back damaging my reputation, career, and life, and face me, and level the allegations. I have personally met with FBI Agents at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing who deny any knowledge of any investigation against me. However after gathering further evidence for my case, I then years later, went to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong, demanding to speak with the FBI Agent assigned to the Consulate. However this time, the FBI Agent there refused to meet with me, instead sending State Department Special Agents in his place who specifically told me that the FBI Agent refuses to meet with me. The reason of course is that the FBI does not want to self incriminate themselves. In January 2022 I wrote every US politician numerous of times, along with the FBI and Department of Justice telling them of my situation and asking for someone to assist me, I was ignored by all. After more than thousands of emails to the U.S. Government, Politicians, FBI, I finally gave up. In September 2023, I wrote a book and went public on social media to tell my story and ask the American Patriots for their support. Since then, I have been heavily censored on social media. I have been suspended three times on X, this is my 4th account, I have been suspended on Facebook and Instagram, I am on my fourth account on TikTok, I am on my second account on YouTube, I have been suspended on LinkedIn. I have lost numerous work opportunities, as it was revealed that the FBI had previously spoke with my potential customer or my future potential hiring manager. If you are an American Patriot, I am simply asking you to support a military veteran by reposting my message to pressure our government to answer my allegations on government corruption. When Government Corruption is reported, it is a public good for all American Citizens to hold their government accountable for the Safety and Justice for all citizens. It is time for the American Government to respond to my questions, I am a military veteran who honorably served my country. It is time for answers: 1. Why is an American Military Veteran not welcome back in the USA? 2. Why was I detained, searched, interrogated, deceived, surveilled, humiliated, and assaulted by the U.S. Government? 3. Why am I on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist? 4. Why am I under investigation from the FBI? 5. Why did I get illegally terminated from the Boeing Corporation, when I was offered a promotion, and then filed an ethical whistleblower claim against Boeing? 6. How can an American Citizen get legal justice in the Chinese Courts, however not even have his case presented in the USA? 7. Why is the Amazon Beijing Office used as an Intelligence Hub by the Chinese Government? 8. Why did Amazon give both my predecessor and successor (both foreign nationals) the option to work anywhere in Asia, however Amazon required me to work in Beijing, China even though my job did not require me to be in China, nor did I want to be stationed in China? 9. Did the U.S. Government directly or indirectly communicate with the Singaporean Government about me? 10. Why did the U.S. Consulate Hong Kong FBI Agent refuse to meet with me? Thank you for your support. Lead to Victory. Faith-Family-Freedom You can follow me on Rumble: You can read about my story:

David Baumblatt 叶大卫

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KASHMIR BLACK DAY 1. First of all, thank you very much for inviting me to share some thoughts on this solemn occasion – in commemorating the Kashmir Black Day which essentially marks the beginning of the occupation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir by India since 1947. 2. It has indeed been a very long time since the occupation started and recent treatments of India on the occupied territories do not reflect that it plans to reconsider its occupation let alone end it anytime soon. 3. In fact, India is forcefully bullying any opposition to its occupation while at the same time tightening its grip on these territories. 4. And woe upon us that while the border politics are being played out, atrocities committed on the Jammu and Kashmiri populace persists and we and all those who are concerned, watch helplessly on the side lines. 5. I do not like to draw parallels to acts of injustice and crimes against humanity as the sufferings of the victims cannot be equated from one to another. 6. And we can never really fathom the depths of these sufferings, the pain and scars that remain etched on the victims and their kin for as long as they live. 7. But parallels in the hypocrisy, the double-standards, deceptions and lies committed by perpetrators of these atrocities are similar. It is only the scale that may differ at times – as each tries to outdo the other when they terrorise their victims relentlessly and with impunity. 8. What are their hypocrisy, lies, deceptions and double-standards? 9. On the one hand, these ruthless regimes proclaim to be advocates of democracy while they commit apartheid. They express anger and disgust when their victims retaliate and hit back at them, usually on minute scale, disproportionately compared with their vicious attacks. 10. They label freedom fighters as terrorists, hiding the fact that their apartheid policies, genocide and ethnic cleansing activities for decades cannot, but spawn aggressive retaliation from those occupied. 11. And why do these occupied people resort to militancy and aggression? 12. Isn’t that to be expected from a people who had been bullied, stripped of their dignity and witness to the murders of their loved ones while the rest of the civilised world turn a blind eye. 13. Don’t all these narratives sound the same – be it in Palestine, in Jammu/Kashmir, South Africa or even Ireland in the not too distant past? 14. For that matter, most of these problems are inherited from the colonial past as they divide and carve up their former colonies and distributed them at their whims without considering the interest of the populace. 15. Unluckily today, despite contributing to the crises, the former colonialists and their allies chose to support the new occupiers and the results as we witness today are the massacres and genocide of the occupied. 16. Right now, the world watches in horror as Israel unleashes its military might on helpless Palestinians, justifying it as retaliations to terror acts committed by Hamas. 17. Israel intends to choke Palestinians in Gaza out of existence by cutting off all basic and essential supplies and at the same time suggesting that civilians in Gaza move out of the occupied territories so that it can then hit only at Hamas target and not the civilians. 18. While Israel blames Hamas for its attacks on Gaza, it does not explain why the murderous Tel Aviv regime attacks West Bank which is devoid of Hamas. 19. In fact, for the past seven decades, of which almost half of that period was without Hamas, Israel had been attacking and killing Palestinian civilians including babies with impunity. 20. Hamas and other Palestinians who decide to take up arms and fight against Israel are children and grandchildren of Palestinian civilians the Israeli regime had murdered in the past. 21. Using the same playbook, India is justifying its invasion and occupation of Jammu and Kashmir as part of an effort to eradicate militants and terrorists and to protect its border. 22. India’s revocation of Jammu/Kashmir’s autonomy unilaterally four years ago saw the deployment of hundreds of thousands of soldiers into the illegally occupied territories of Jammu and Kashmir. Along with that atrocities were committed, while placing the whole population under siege. 23. International bodies had reported that an atmosphere of fear and reprisal had ensured silence. 24. We have also heard reports of how India is attempting to change the demographic composition of Jammu and Kashmir by settling non-Muslim outsiders in the Muslim majority areas. 25. In many ways, it is not different than the Israeli settlers who forcefully evict Palestinians from their homes in land grab activities sanctioned by the Tel Aviv regime. And to ensure that the process is successful, it deploys the IDF to accompany the settlers. 26. Resistance were met with such viciousness that some helpless Palestinians just submit themselves to the mercy of the occupying forces. 27. But there are Palestinians, as in the case of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir who would not leave their fate in the hands of providence. 28. They retaliate and fight for their freedom and liberation by any means available to them, most times unconventional. 29. The minute they retaliate and any casualties are inflicted on the occupying forces, a prepared narrative emerges almost immediately – militants from these occupied territories had committed acts of terror on the occupiers. 30. With that the Western powers which had decades of opportunities to put a stop to the occupations and assist in the liberation of the occupied peoples, side with the occupiers and regurgitate the convenient labelling of terrorists and terrorism at the freedom fighters. 31. It is indeed baffling that these leaders of the so-called civilised West cannot even understand the meaning of the term occupied territories. And they do not seem to be able to comprehend a simple concept that those standing up against the occupation are the heroes and that the occupiers are the villains. 32. What can we do against the oppressive occupiers and the powerful backers? 33. Not much actually other than continue voicing our anger and disgust to what is happening in these occupied territories. 34. We must persist in exposing the cruelties, the atrocities and the hypocrisy of the self-anointed guardian of global morality when they are actually the perpetrator of evil and backers of greater evil. 35. It seems their hypocrisy and cruelties are bottomless as when we think we had witnessed the worst there is in mankind, they come up with atrocities we can never imagine before. 36. To the people of Jammu and Kashmir. We remember you and we feel for you. We pray for your deliverance and may Allah liberate you from the tyranny. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Thank you.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad

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