herald · Morning edition · Sunday 18 October

French protests turn violent; Limoges city hall burns, hundreds arrested

BBC Breaking had the official line: a major march in Paris, more than 160 arrested across France, then Macron saying there is "no place for violence" as the count reached about 400. The BBC's link says tens of thousands are protesting over the cost of living, many peacefully, with the government reporting looting attempts and attacks on police @BBCBreaking.

The feed's images did the rest. Limoges city hall was shown engulfed in flames, fire trucks and ladders out front, and @AutismCapital asked "What the hell is going on in France?". A car burned at Place de la République with a crowd around it, which got "Mostly peaceful riots." @AutismCapital. Another clip showed police vehicles targeted by a crowd near République at dusk @AutismCapital. A street of gutted cars and vans got the line "Paris looks like a map in Gears of War." @AutismCapital

ZeroHedge went with "Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron's Crisis Deepens", pointing readers at France's five-year sovereign credit default swap @zerohedge.

AutismCapital's own take was blunter, blaming "African invasion, bad economic policies, no money left, bankruptcy" and "leftist" decisions @AutismCapital. The BBC's framing, a cost-of-living protest, doesn't match that.

BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking Sat 11:29pm

Major protest march held in Paris as more than 160 arrested across France - follow live bbc.in/47YW8HX

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Major protest march held in Paris as more than 160 arrested across France - follow live

Tens of thousands are joining protests over the cost of living - many are marching peacefully, but the government says there have been attempts at looting and attacks on police.

Macron says there is "no place for violence" as about 400 arrested during protests across France bbc.in/3U9Lhrt

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'No place for violence,' Macron says, as protesters clash with police in cities across France -...

Tear gas and water cannons have been fired at protesters in Paris, as a minister says more than half-a-million people attended demonstrations across the country.

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zerohedge@zerohedge Sat 11:45pm

Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron's Crisis Deepens zerohedge.com/political/yellow-vests-return-fren

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Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron's Crisis Deepens

Pay attention to France's five-year sovereign credit default swap ...

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 5:26am

What the hell is going on in France?

Denis Carreaux@DenisCarreaux Sun 4:17am

La mairie de Limoges incendiée. Quel scandale et quelle tristesse !

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 5:32am

France wanted a globalized Paris and now they got it. This is the result of African invasion, bad economic policies, no money left, bankruptcy. Just years of bad (leftist) decisions.

Luc Auffret@LucAuffret Sun 4:41am

Des véhicules de police sont prises pour cible par la foule dans le secteur République à Paris. #Paris #17octobre

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 5:34am

Mostly peaceful riots.

RadioGenoa@RadioGenoa Sun 1:42am

Paris, Place de la Republique, right now.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 5:48am

Paris looks like a map in Gears of War.

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Claude cracks the ECDSA curve seed mystery; nic carter eyes Satoshi

Anthropic published research saying Claude has explained the decades-old mystery of where one of the most popular cryptographic standards came from. @sweis announced it as "CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS" @nic_carter.

@nic_carter's gloss: cryptographers puzzled over the ECDSA seeds for decades and "Claude figured it out in 30 minutes." From there he jumped to the obvious next target: "Frontier AI is clearly better than humans at esoteric detective work especially in technical domains. Have to imagine it's just a matter of time now until it figures out the Satoshi mystery".

@udiWertheimer went straight for the human casualty: "and then what adam back is going to be? just an old guy?". Carter's reply was a single stab: "An old guy who visited Epstein's island" @nic_carter.

nic carter@nic_carter Sun 12:28am

Frontier AI is clearly better than humans at esoteric detective work especially in technical domains. Have to imagine it’s just a matter of time now until it figures out the Satoshi mystery

Cryptographers have been puzzling over the ECDSA seeds for decades and Claude figured it out in 30 minutes.

Steve Weis@sweis Sat 5:41am

CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

www.anthropic.com

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

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nic carter@nic_carter Sun 12:28am

Frontier AI is clearly better than humans at esoteric detective work especially in technical domains. Have to imagine it’s just a matter of time now until it figures out the Satoshi mystery

Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer Sun 12:57am

@nic_carter and then what adam back is going to be? just an old guy?

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↪ @nic_carter: Frontier AI is clearly better than humans at esoteric detective work especially in technical domains. Have to imagine it’s just a matter of time now until it fi…

Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer Sun 12:57am

@nic_carter and then what adam back is going to be? just an old guy?

nic carter@nic_carter Sun 1:46am

@udiWertheimer An old guy who visited Epstein’s island

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DeepSeek@deepseek_ai Sat 7:35pm

🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API. 🛠️ Optimized for @DeepSeekHarness, Tencent CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, and more. Upgrade to DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later for the best experience with the new model. 1/4

A comparison table displaying benchmark scores for various AI models, with the new DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 column highlighted in blue to showcase its performance against competitors like Claude Opus 5 and GPT 5.6-Sol. The chart lists metrics across categories such as HLE, Terminal-Bench, and coding — text in image
Benchmarks DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Kimi K3 GLM 5.3 GPT 5.6-Sol Claude Opus 5 HLE (w/o tools) 42.6/44.0* 36.8/39.1* 43.5 42.0* 44.5 56.3 Terminal-Bench 4.0 42.3 31.2 12.6 37.9 39.9 51.8 DeepSWE v1.1 77.0 74.2 67.5 66.9 73.0 74.0 ProgramBench 29.1 20.3 17.5 19.0 23.0 37.0 NL2Repo-Bench 68.2 65.4 58.0 58.0 56.8 75.3 Automation-Bench V1.0.6 60.5 54.8 46.7 48.8 45.8 50.3 Agents' Last Exam 35.4 31.8 27.6 28.6 26.7 28.6 Apex Bench v1.1 72.1 64.6 47.8 56.6 54.3 65.8 Chartography (w/tools) 83.0 78.9 68.1 - 79.9 84.0 BabyVision (w/tools) 92.5 89.6 85.7 - 88.9 94.1 ZeroBench-main (w/tools) 51.0 49.0 41.0 - 53.0 52.0 * denotes the text subset of HLE. Tests on Terminal-Bench 4.0 were conducted using the Claude Code framework, while DeepSWE was evaluated using the Mini-SWE-V2 framework; and ZeroBench-main was evaluated using Pass@5.

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DeepSWE v1.1 Pass@1 vs. cost per task Harness: mini_swe_v2 80% DeepSeek V41 Flash-1017 max · 77.0% low high 70% max high med xhigh GPT-6.1 Sol med Gemini 3.8 Flash GPT-6 Astra Claude Opus 5 med xhigh high xhigh max max Claude Fable 5 60% low max low xhigh GPT-6 Luna GLM-5.3 Flash · max DeepSeek V4 Pro · max med xhigh low max Kimi K3 · max GLM-5.3 · max 50% low DeepSeek V4 Flash · max 40% GPT-6 Sol low $0.1 $0.2 $0.5 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 Average cost per task (USD, log scale) Legend lists DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Other models including Claude Opus 5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GLM-5.3, and Kimi K3. Public: DeepSWE v1.1 leaderboard, mini-swe-agent harness, data 2026-09-22.

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Telegram court filing shows IPs and phone numbers handed to US

Joseph Cox of 404 Media posted a letter filed in a US court showing how Telegram passes user data to US authorities. The exhibit lists a user ID, a phone number with a name attached, and an IP address @josephfcox.

The bitcoin-privacy corner treated it as vindication. @erskingardner: "repeat after me. @telegram is not encrypted.". @callebtc went much further: Telegram "has been sharing chats and user data with governments for years," and Pavol Durov is "a liar and a manipulator" who "wants you to believe that Telegram is safe while it clearly isn't".

His verdict: "Telegram is the biggest privacy psyop in the world." His advice to the "durov simps" in the replies: "shut up and use Signal" @callebtc.

Joseph Cox@josephfcox Sat 1:33am

Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number. More: 404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-t

The image displays a legal document labeled Exhibit B from Telegram Messenger Inc., dated September 4, 2026, which lists specific user data including a phone number, IP address, and the name Mahmoud Almohtadi. The document includes a legal statement clarifying that the company is voluntarily providi — text in image
Case 6:25-cr-00285-DCJ-CBW Document 155-2 Filed 10/15/26 Page 1 of 2 PageID # 2131 Exhibit B Telegram Messenger Inc. Reg. No. 1968129 Commerce House, Wickhams Cay 1, PO Box 3140, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands VG1110 4 September 2026 Dear Sir or Madam, For this particular case, the following information was available: User #7149269705 : +201155664529 [Mahmoud Almohtadi] IP 184.186.72.239, 8 Oct 2025 2:08:12 We hope this information will be helpful in your investigation. Kind regards, The Telegram Team Legal statement This email address content-referral-u1@telegram.org is Telegram’s non-public contact point for requests made by law enforcement or judicial authorities in the United States. We have reviewed your request for information which was sent to us by email to content-referral-u1@telegram.org. In keeping with our desire to cooperate with competent authorities when consistent with laws applicable to us, we are voluntarily providing this reply and / or the enclosed information. In doing so, we (i) are not representing that this is a full and complete response to the requests you have made, as the case may be; (ii) are not conceding that we are subject to U.S. jurisdiction for this or any other request or any purpose; (iii) are not conceding that we were properly served with this request; and (iv) are not committing to provide any additional information in response to this request or any other request.

www.404media.co

https://www.404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-the-u-s-government-lo

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JeffG@erskingardner Sat 3:36am

repeat after me. @telegram is not encrypted.

Joseph Cox@josephfcox Sat 1:33am

Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number. More: 404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-t

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calle@callebtc Sat 8:15pm

Telegram is not encrypted and has been sharing chats and user data with governments for years. Pavol Durov is a liar and a manipulator. He wants you to believe that Telegram is safe while it clearly isn’t. Telegram is the biggest privacy psyop in the world.

to all durov simps the comments: shut up and use Signal

Joseph Cox@josephfcox Sat 1:33am

Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number. More: 404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-t

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Ketan Ramakrishnan@ketanrama Sat 2:31pm

Anthropic’s new federal AI bill is, without any overstatement, astonishingly bad.

Nathan Calvin@_NathanCalvin Sat 12:06pm

Charlie's analysis is right but he is nicer than I am - I found myself viscerally angry at multiple points reading this bill. There are some good and sensible parts, but overall this legislation is not remotely close to meeting the moment and I overall think passing it would make us less protected against catastrophic risks than we are under existing law. Two parts that stand out as particularly infuriating when taken together: 1. Some of the preemption provisions are remarkably far reaching and consequential, and in addition to

preempting legislation like SB 53 would also remove general powers that state courts have to enjoin defendants and protect the public. Most outrageously, it has a provision that looks like its intended to stops states from enforcing laws or judicial decrees that "suspend the development, deployment, or internal use of an AI model" to protect their citizens from imminent catastrophic harms. Such powers to block and suspend model deployments would then only reside with the federal government. 2. The federal governments powers to restrict the development, deployment, or internal use of a frontier model has to meet an absurdly high bar. First, there needs to be an imminent risk of a catastrophic harm (meaning killing more than 50 people or causing more than a billion dollars in damage). But thats not enough! The agency head needs to make a detailed determination with no deference given to show why no alternative would prevent the imminent catastrophe. Next the court is also explicitly told to consider the harms to the developer and other harms from restricting the model, but no considerations in the other direction. This is absurd! For all of its warning about the potential for AI to cause a catastrophe that kills literally everyone on the planet, Anthropic's proposed federal law likely makes it harder than under existing law for a court to get an order blocking or restricting the development of frontier models? WTF?? There are also a bunch of others things that I would like to see improved - the substantive details of the auditing section and the potential for rule-making on substantive safety standards both come to mind - but I think these stand out as particularly indefensible.

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(1) REQUIRED FINDINGS.—The court may enter a blocking order only if the Agency establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that— (A) the frontier model presents an imminent enumerated risk; (B) the order is necessary to avert or mitigate that risk; (C) no less restrictive measure would adequately avert or mitigate that risk; and (D) the order is narrowly tailored to the pathway or pathways identified under subsection (b)(1)(A) and is no broader in scope or duration than necessary. (2) CONSIDERATIONS.—In applying subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (1), the court shall consider the harm the order would cause to the frontier developer, to users, and to the public, including any adverse effect on safety research, on cybersecurity, or on uses of the frontier model that do not contribute to the risk identified. In determining whether the frontier model presents an imminent enumerated risk, the court shall give significant evidentiary weight to any evaluation before the court under section 8(i). (3) EXCLUSIVE GROUNDS; BURDEN; NO DEFERENCE.—Paragraph (1) states the exclusive grounds for a blocking order, and the Agency bears the burden under paragraph (1) at every stage, including on renewal and on a motion to dissolve or modify. The court shall determine each question under paragraph (1) de novo, without deference to a determination of the Agency or to a prior order.

Charlie Bullock@CharlieBull0ck Sat 9:47am

Big news. My take: Anthropic deserves some credit for actually proposing a pretty reasonable AI safety bill; that's more than other frontier labs have done. But they don't deserve *too* much credit, IMO; this bill is weaker than the Trahan-Obernolte FRONTIER Act in some key ways, and since the political momentum has shifted significantly in the direction of safety since FRONTIER was introduced back in July, I think new bills introduced today should ideally go further than FRONTIER was able to go rather than regressing. To be fair to Anthropic, the

main places where this bill is significantly weaker than FRONTIER are (a) rulemaking (very strong in FRONTIER, almost nonexistent in Anthropic's bill) and (b) the emergency shutdown authority. Even if you take safety seriously, it might make some sense to dial those authorities back if you didn't trust the executive branch to wield them responsibly, because those are the easiest provisions for a hypothetical President who hypothetically might not like a certain frontier AI company to abuse. There are some improvements over FRONTIER as well; for instance, this bill does specify that auditors are employed on a continuing basis and has better provisions regarding auditor access to information. Happy to see that from Anthropic (although I think their access provision is still a little undercooked and has Fourth Amendment problems). Overall, I think the embedded auditor bills that get introduced in the coming months are going to be significantly better and more ambitious than this, and I hope Anthropic supports those bills instead of opposing anything that treats catastrophic risks like the serious national security issue they are. Still, it's encouraging to see a frontier lab come this far.

POLITICO@politico Sat 8:46am

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

www.politico.com

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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2 posts from @KLoaec

A long-time bitcoiner reports back from two weeks of talking to other long-time bitcoiners.

Kevin Loaec 🧙‍♂️🐟@KLoaec Sun 2:35am

Talking to a lot of long time bitcoiners in the past two weeks, it's obvious that: - there is a bitcoin fatigue (tech is moving, but people don't care, single sig or custodian NGU mentality) - there is AI psychosis/FOMO Bitcoin is freedom money. We achieved that already. (1/n)

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Kevin Loaec 🧙‍♂️🐟@KLoaec Sun 2:35am

Obviously the world doesn't share that view. Normies either believe Bitcoin is some kind of an investment scheme, or worse, a club of weirdos. When things go to shit, they don't think of Bitcoin as an alternative. The narrative needs to shift to Bitcoin as Freedom money.

Kevin Loaec 🧙‍♂️🐟@KLoaec Sun 2:35am

I'm happy with Bitcoin the way it currently is, of course I think there are many things we can improve (privacy, security, usability), but I also understand why people feel that the industry is boring in comparison to the global reach AI managed.

The question is: can we make people understand Bitcoin is freedom money, or are we only building for ourselves? Both are fine, but the impact isn't the same.

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greg@greg16676935420 Sat 2:05pm

I’m officially throwing my hat into the ring to become the new United States Press Secretary Shoot me a dm @realDonaldTrump and let’s chat I’m ready to serve this country 🇺🇸

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Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens Sat 9:11am

Marx’s own father eventually called him out for his constant desire to leech off of everyone around him.

The image displays a text excerpt from an 1839 letter written by Karl Marx's father to him. The father expresses disgust at Marx's embitterment and questions why he complains despite having received talent, affection, and material comfort. — text in image
This excerpt, from an 1839 letter to Karl Marx from his father may put everything in perspective: “Frankly speaking, my dear Karl, I do not like this modern word, which all weaklings use to cloak their feelings when they quarrel with the world because they do not possess, without labour or trouble, well-furnished palaces with vast sums of money and elegant carriages. This embitterment disgusts me and you are the last person from whom I would expect it. What grounds can you have for it? Has not everything smiled on you ever since your cradle? Has not nature endowed you with magnificent talents? Have not your parents lavished affection on you? Have you ever up to now been unable to satisfy your reasonable wishes?“

Bohumilo@bohumilo Thu 8:34am

There's an even funnier letter. When Engels' wife died, Marx sent him a letter that barely acknowledged "Fred"'s loss in a single sentence before immediately jumping on to begging for money. Engels got angry with him over it. 😆

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Marx-Engels Correspondence 1863 Marx To Engels In Manchester Source: MECW Volume 41, p. 442; First published: abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in MEGA, Berlin, 1930. [London,] 8 January 1863 Dear Engels, The news of Mary [Burns]'s death surprised no less than it dismayed me. She was so good-natured, witty and closely attached to you. The devil alone knows why nothing but ill-luck should dog everyone in our circle just now. I no longer know which way to turn either. My attempts to raise money in France and Germany have come to nought, and it might, of course, have been foreseen that £15 couldn't help me to stem the avalanche for more than a couple of weeks. Aside from the fact that no one will let us have anything on credit — save for the butcher and baker — which will also cease at the end of this week — I am being dunned for the school fees, the rent, and by the whole gang of them. Those who got a few pounds on account cunningly pocketed them, only to fall upon me with redoubled vigour. On top of that, the children have no clothes or shoes in which to go out. In short, all hell is let loose, as I clearly foresaw when I came up to Manchester and

Chris Freiman@cafreiman Thu 3:03am

Marxists: “Reject the bourgeois ethic of individual giving.” Marx:

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MARX TO ENGELS IN MANCHESTER [London,] 6 December 1868 DEAR FRED, Please send me £3 by this Wednesday* (the day after tomorrow), since the gas bill, etc., are due, and I have promised to pay by then. Salut. If you could send me a few £ for the Christmas week now beginning, it would be very welcome. Salut. Your K. M.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 5:03am

If this isn’t blackpilling then we have no idea what is. It turns out that love was *not* blind 🤦‍♂️

It gets worse when she explains it lmao. She was so icked/disgusted by his appearance that she literally panicked and ran away. It’s tough out there, men. The HR meme is real. If you aren’t attractive different rules apply. You’re subhuman to some lmao

Netflix@netflix Sat 5:00am

One of the craziest moments in Love Is Blind history

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Roy Carrilho@RuiCarrilho5 Sat 12:12am

people are starting to realize. there *are* no moats left. the only true moat in existence was intelligence, and now that's out of the equation.

This is a screenshot of a long-form text post by a user named valdiorn describing how he used the AI model Claude to decompile competitor audio processor firmware in a matter of hours. The text details the specific tools used, such as Opus 5.5 and Lexicon 224, and concludes that the competitive adva — text in image
valdiorn 21 hours ago | next [-] I've been having a silent panic attack for the last 3 days, and I don't really have anyone to talk to that would understand my concern. I run a small pro audio company, we make guitar pedals and audio effects mostly. My current key objective is building up a processor similar to the Eventide H90, that would compete on having top-notch algorithms for reverb, delay, chorus etc. we already have single-effect pedals on the market that are very successful. In the past 72 hours I have ONE-SHOT decompiled 3 of my main competitors products, including the Strymon Big Sky. I just... have their award winning algorithms now. Like, I could in theory just stick them in a box and resell. It took one prompt and 3 hours for opus 5.5 to work that out. The lexicon 224 then got added. While Claude was prepping It found someone else had already done the same thing 1 weeks earlier and dumped the result on GitHub, so it just stole that code and saved some time. It took all of 20 minutes to do the entire Ursa Major product range. And yes, I've tested them all - and they all sound phenomenal. I specifically asked Claude to first build an emulator and execute the original firmware/ROM so I could be certain it wasn't just making "something similar" but actually executing the same code. Then I asked it to convert it into a self contained c++ library and compare the result to the emulator. The problem is, everyone can now do this to my products as well. Basically, anyone with a Claude subscription can now rip of any best-in-class algorithm from any competitor. While I'm not going to do that, I know there are 30 Chinese companies that happily would. The moat of hardware effects processors has just vanished. reply.

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Bit Paine ⚡️@BitPaine Sun 3:11am

The man has demonstrated that he can take a ~250 ft tall, 300 ton rocket booster traveling at Mach 5 at ~300,000 ft altitude, reorient / decelerate it, and land it on a tower with a spatial and velocity error of < 1 m and < 1 m/s, and y’all retards are out here speculating that he must have faked a 4000 lb car doing a kick flip from rest at sea level. I’m sorry but you just don’t have any intuitive sense for physics or engineering difficulty. If you’ve seen a

man piss through a keyhole 100 m away, you don’t need a conspiracy theory to explain how he manages to piss in a lake.

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Bit Paine ⚡️@BitPaine Sun 3:39am

bro u can literally go to the store and buy an electric car that drives itself or a magic square that pulls gigabit internet from a satellite cluster delivered to orbit by reusable rockets you don’t have to like progress, but calling the man a snake oil salesman is retarded

Haze 𓅊@GodSon83 Sat 9:37am

Greatest snake oil salesman of my lifetime.

Jean-Claude Damn Van™ (commentary)@ChaosAgent_42 Fri 4:46pm

This is the size of the 10,000 psi nitrogen tank in the "flying" Tesla car. It's basically a bomb. Definitely not a production car.

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Polymarket@Polymarket Sat 7:09am

JUST IN: Chinese robotics company unveils a massive 13-foot-tall, 2,400-pound humanoid robot capable of lifting more than 1,100 pounds.

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JDi 京东工业 D JDI 京东工业劳保用品工具 SATATA +9770+ S6版数字环保产品线逐步覆盖环境监测

The image shows a large, futuristic humanoid robot with a sleek grey and blue metallic body featuring glowing purple accents on its chest, shoulders, and joints. It stands against a plain sky background in a pose that emphasizes its massive, armored build.

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Tibo@thsottiaux Sun 3:20am

Day 13/ Le limit reset

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LE LIMIT RESET

Landing sometime today by EOD PST

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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil Sat 4:11am

Paper and pencils ready. It's time to take the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity. First question:

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Question 1. Hattie Mae Johnson is on the Country. She has four children and her husband is now in jail for non-support, as he was unemployed and was not able to give her any money. Her welfare check is now $286 per month. Last night she went out with the highest player in town. If she got pregnant, then nine months from now how much more will her welfare check be? a. $80 b. $2 c. $35 d. $150 e. $100

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Theo - t3.gg@theo Sat 9:46pm

Failing to understand jokes like this is way more cringe than being a "vibe coder"

sudox@kmcnam1 Sat 5:41am

ROFLLLLL this is painful...

This is a screenshot of a satirical Reddit post from r/blender announcing a fake software called BlenderCraft, claimed to be a reverse-engineered version of Blender created using AI agents. The humor relies on the punchline at the bottom, where the 'mysterious public repository' containing the sourc — text in image
r/blender u/ofdavarci · 35m WE DID IT! We reverse-engineered Blender with AI and made it open source. Introducing BlenderCraft 🚀 Critique My Work After an entire weekend of running 19 autonomous Claude agents and burning an irresponsible amount of tokens, we're proud to announce BlenderCraft. A 100% free, open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Blender. We achieved something incredible: ✅ 100% feature parity with Blender ✅ Modeling, sculpting, animation, Geometry Nodes ✅ Cycles and Eevee rendering ✅ Native .blend file support ✅ Windows, macOS, and Linux ✅ No subscriptions. No paywalls. Free forever. We even managed to reproduce the original source code almost line by line. Our biggest breakthrough came when we discovered a mysterious public repository containing the entire source code: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender

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Nick Timiraos@NickTimiraos Sun 1:27am

Nearly two-thirds of builders said immigration enforcement is affecting their labor force, up from 23% in March and 13% a year ago, according to a September John Burns Research & Consulting survey. “We’re almost dead in the water because our workforce is gone,” said Scott Brannock, president of Jacksonville-based Tidewater Homes and the Northeast Florida Builders Association. “We have national builders who are missing projections, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because they have slabs sitting on the ground and no one to frame.” wsj.com/us-news/the-immigration-crackdown-is-mak

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The Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build Houses

Home building, which relies on foreign-born workers, is suffering a labor shortage that is freezing projects and raising costs.

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Lydia Moynihan@LydiaMoynihan Sun 2:29am

Today I learned the fines American tech cos pay to the EU generate more money for Europe than the taxes their own tech companies pay. The world literally runs on American innovation.

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Michael Saylor@saylor Sun 2:25am

At the ParaFi Investor Day this week, I presented an overview of digital capital, credit and equity, and then joined Jeff Park (@dgt10011) for a fireside chat on digital assets, digital intelligence, and the future of finance. 01:23 – Bitcoin as Digital Capital: bull market tailwinds and scarcity in the AI era 05:05 – CLARITY, regulatory tailwinds, and Bitcoin banking adoption 06:06 – Reinventing gold-backed credit with $STRC 10:10 – Returning $STRC to par: USD Reserve, buybacks, and investor feedback 17:24 – Amplifying Bitcoin Per Share and Strategy’s triple flywheel 21:06 – From quarterly to daily

dividends: liquidity and volatility 25:42 – Digital Money: the vision for a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin 29:11 – Digital Credit adoption and the path to institutional acceptance 34:12 – Beyond Bitcoin: digital currencies, derivatives, exchanges, and regulation 38:51 – Advice to founders: build a magic product in the AI era

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Gary Cardone@GaryCardone Sat 2:34am

Wow!

Tyler Rowe@TylerCompiler Fri 1:26pm

JUST IN: Strive $ASST CEO Matt Cole just said the company's $SATS IPO is upsized from $500M to $700M notional, priced at $90/share. 16.7% effective yield at IPO pricing and settles Tuesday. #Bitcoin digital credit demand is oversubscribed again. 🔥

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Theo - t3.gg@theo Sat 7:17pm

Gemini is 50% more expensive than it should be because their cache doesn't work. 27% cache miss rate. Insane.

A data visualization comparing prompt cache reliability across different AI models, showing that while Claude and GPT achieve 100% cache hit rates, Gemini only achieves 73%. A bar chart below illustrates how Gemini's costs rise significantly compared to competitors when cache gaps increase. — text in image
Prompt cache reliability in agent loops Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol hit the cache on every turn. Gemini 4 Argon did not, and paid 1.20x to 1.48x what a perfect cache costs, on the same workload. 100% Claude full hits (228 of 228 turns) 100% GPT full hits (228 of 228 turns) 73% Gemini full hits (167 of 228 turns) 1.48x Gemini cost at a 120s gap Cost vs a perfect cache 1.00x means every turn read the whole previous prompt from cache. Dashed line is 1.00x. Claude 5s 1.00x Claude 30s 1.00x Claude 120s 1.00x GPT-6.1 5s 1.00x GPT-6.1 30s 1.00x GPT-6.1 120s 1.00x Gemini 5s 1.20x Gemini 30s 1.34x Gemini 120s 1.48x

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Theo - t3.gg@theo Sat 6:23pm

I did not expect to feel this difference as much as I do

It's almost trippy. Model starts responding almost immediately after I press enter.

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Diff is most notable with steering imo, you can see model correcting in real time. I'm enjoying it a lot, great ship

ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevs Sat 8:34am

We keep improving performance across Claude, and you may have noticed it starts responding sooner! Claude Code now gzips the conversation it sends on every turn, so it reaches the model faster. Cloud sessions also start up as soon as you start typing.

A performance chart displays the reduction in wait times for the first token across various Claude services between August and October 2026. It highlights that local Claude Code sessions became three times faster, while cloud sessions improved by 2.8x. — text in image
3x faster in Claude Code, 1.5x faster in Claude Wait before the first token, excluding model time p90 · August → October 2026 Claude Code (local sessions) 3x faster 4.07 s → 1.33 s Claude Code (cloud sessions) 2.8x faster 16.99 s → 6.00 s Claude (chat and Cowork) 1.5x faster 3.36 s → 2.17 s Claude API time to first token, including model time · p50 1.5x faster 1.53 s → 1.01 s

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sat 3:42pm

Legendary chart. Can get lost in it. Really enjoyed exploring this.

Josh Barzon@JoshuaBarzon Fri 10:06am

6,000 years of world history on a single timeline. Zoom in. You could spend 30 minutes exploring this.

This is a dense, colorful infographic titled 'Timeline of World History' that uses vertical bars of varying heights and colors to represent the duration and overlap of civilizations from 3000 BCE to 2000 CE. The chart organizes history into eras like 'Bronze Age' and 'The Middle Ages' on the left ax — text in image
TIMELINE OF WORLD HISTORY CHART ORIGIN ChartOrigin.com 2000 BCE MILESTONES OF CIVILIZATION 1. Moon Landing 2. Wi-Fi Innovation 3. Route to India 4. Discovery of the Americas 5. Printing Press 6. Automobile 7. Birth of Democracy 8. Justian Code 9. The Concept of Zero 10. Papermaking 11. Discovery of Insulin 12. Laws of Motion & Gravity 13. Watt's Steam Engine 14. Natural Selection 15. Metric System 16. Renaissance 17. Classical Music 18. Olympic Games 19. Code of Hammurabi 20. Yoga 21. Lean Manufacturing 22. Bullet Train Legend Historical Landmark EARLY BRONZE AGE 3000 BCE 2700 BCE 2400 BCE 2100 BCE BRONZE AGE 1900 BCE 1600 BCE 1300 BCE IRON AGE 800 BCE 600 BCE 400 BCE 1 BCE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY 100 CE 300 CE 500 CE 700 CE 900 CE 1100 CE 1300 CE 1500 CE THE MIDDLE AGES 1600 CE 1700 CE 1800 CE 1900 CE 2000 CE THE MODERN ERA Sumerian Civilization Liangzhu Culture Early Dynastic Period Xia Dynasty Shang Dynasty Vedic Period Zhou Dynasty Han Dynasty Yamato State Tang Dynasty Song Dynasty Yuan Dynasty Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty Meiji Era Persian Empire Roman Empire Roman Republic Byzantine Empire Arab Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Ottoman Empire Mughal Empire

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beeple@beeple Sat 2:57pm

when monkes fly

The image depicts a man standing in a rainy parking lot at night, looking up at four cartoon monkeys flying through the sky using jetpacks. A brightly lit Waffle House restaurant is visible to the right, contrasting with the dark, starry background. — text in image
WAFFLE HOUSE

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Jack@tracewoodgrains Sun 2:41am

Claims: Game detects “ad whales,” then periodically gives them smooth runs until they barely beat their high scores. Right at that point, it kills them deliberately and offers a revive if they watch an ad. $100 million annually in revenue. Hellish.

Ayo O@TheDonAyo Thu 7:04am

i used AI to reverse engineer the block blaster mobile app.

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Ragıp Soylu@ragipsoylu Sat 4:45pm

The best part is he is 25 years old, not 29.

New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews Sat 9:08am

There are picaresque novels everywhere for those with eyes to see.

The image displays a block of white text on a dark background recounting a sensational and fictionalized biography of a Turkish man involved in international intrigue, marriage, and political scandals. It references real-world figures like Trump, Maduro, and虚构 officials such as Todd Blanche and Kash — text in image
This is an insane story. Turkish kid marries into a local oligarch family, then uses his father-in-law to somehow get himself a Congolese diplomatic passport, after which he lands in Venezuela where he dumps his wife and takes up with the daughter of a local admiral, which he parleys into contracts running Maduro’s cement plants, and after the decapitation strike in January puts him in hot water, he escapes US sanctions by dumping his fiance to marry Trump's personal lawyer, in a wedding attended by Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI director Kash Patel, and White House Council Will Scharf. Oh, and: he’s still only 29 years old.

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Alexandra Marshall@ellymelly Sat 10:26pm

Let's talk about MISINFORMATION and FAKE NEWS, Anika Wells - Minister for Communication. You said at the National Press Club - and stated as a position of fact: "...where a billionaire can buy a platform and strip it of moderation." This is very clearly a reference to @elonmusk purchasing Twitter. You are a government minister proposing some of the largest fines in the history of social media - and yet you are beginning your objective from a position of untruth. Twitter - now X - was

NOT 'stripped of moderation'. X has - and has always had - one of the stricter and more responsive systems of automatic and user-reported community safety guidelines in the industry. X responds faster to complaints than the government - that's for sure. None of these systems disappeared. None of them vanished. To imply that X has been 'stripped of moderation' is to spread misinformation about an individual, their intent, and the company activity for the purpose of justifying a new law with severe financial consequences. What did Elon Musk do that upset the Australian government so much? He made public the previously secret 'takedown orders' made during the Covid pandemic which robbed victims of government policy of their voice. The Australian government - quite literally - tried to silence the injured and bereaved. The government tried to silence information and scientists who disagreed with a political policy that cost lives, broke privacy laws, broke human rights norms, and forever crippled the economy. The government leaned on social media - threatened social media - and made social media complicit in HIDING the serious consequences of their Covid and Climate Change policies. A relationship they obviously want to re-establish via the coercive force of fines. In other words, Elon Musk embarrassed the government and exposed censorial demands that go against public expectation. And the government want it stopped. Elon Musk also removed OVERT POLITICAL CENSORSHIP that had been silencing conservatives online and removing criticism of progressive and left-wing policy and narratives. That is - and in particular - he removed Covid, Climate Change, and biological censorship that was corrupting the truth with political propaganda. Musk REMOVED a layer of political influence from X and in doing so left-wing governments around the world immediately had an angry public on their hands and the consequences are being felt at elections. Anika Wells should be forced to RETRACT and APOLOGISE for her comments and the untruth that she said in front of the National Press Gallery while speaking from a position of power. And if not, let's hope Elon Musk can use this against the Australian government in the future.

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Chay Bowes@BowesChay Sat 8:58am

In Germany, there are many "ghost" apartments where large numbers of Ukrainians register for welfare payments, while having moved to another EU state, where they receive other benefits, or home. Remarkably, Ukrainian "Refugees" are free to travel back to Ukraine at will, to "visit family" or get medical care. No restrictions.

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Dr -ck@ckpooldev Sat 2:01pm

Infrared composite colour capture of Saturn on 2026-10-14.

The image displays a processed infrared composite photograph of Saturn and its moons Mimas, Rhea, and Tethys against a black background. Yellow text overlays in the corners provide technical capture details, equipment specifications, and coordinate data. — text in image
Mimas, Rhea, Tethys, & Saturn IR850 / IR642 / Red composite derotation. Moons shown brighter than captured. 2026-10-14, 11:31:42 UTC CM1:57.4° CM2:26.2° CM3:412° LS:198° Alt:42° Dia:19.7" Mag:0.4 Con Kolivas, Melbourne Australia +145°03' :-37°40' Meade LX200 EMC16, Siebert barlow, ZWO ADC, Player One Uranus-M

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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil Sun 12:13am

It still feels surreal that Trump got rid of the penny.

This is a screenshot of a U.S. Department of the Treasury webpage titled "Penny Production Cessation FAQs" dated December 23, 2025. The image displays the official header and seal of the department above the article title. — text in image
An official website of the United States government Here's how you know U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY FEATURED STORIES Penny Production Cessation FAQs December 23, 2025

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