Todd

I have built the world's fastest beach cruiser lol The bicycle industry will never sell anything like this so here's the parts list if you want to build one for yourself: etherpad.mit.edu/p/No_Quarter

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"Perhaps more unsettling was that even when the AI was giving wrong answers roughly half the time, participants’ cognitive surrender went up." executiveeducation.wharton.upenn.edu/thought-lead...

"Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

Since SCOTUS allowed states to legalize sports betting in 2018, Americans have legally bet more than $600 billion. Apps like DraftKings and FanDuel say they have tools to protect bettors who lose control. We spent 10 weeks testing their safeguards.

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"In a gold rush, sell picks and shovels" In a Sloprush® the picks and shovels are as worthless as the slop itself. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

What will ICE do when he tries to enter the U S. without a valid passport? Trump cancelled all political asylum entries in July.

Speculation: the faulty usage data of people lying about how many times a day they check their phones. Testing corpus says twenty times a day, actually two thousand times a day. Screen durability built for the former.

Supports my long held conviction - slop won't sell and thus the tool used to create the slop won't sell either. Hideo Kojima's original work cannot be synthetically generated, only poorly imitated.

Apparently Boston Dynamic owner Hyundai didn't get the memo... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

New leaked audio: Flock’s CEO tells a private conference of police chiefs he believes the opposition to his company isn’t real, full of paid protesters/bots. Says company is at “the bottom” but is waiting out criticism www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

the author at work

GOP Rep. Randy Fine says he's been open to deporting Melania Trump and Elon Musk if it turns out they lied on their paperwork

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Heads down, eyes on the prize y'all #NoKings

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

Serbia votes out their pro-Putin authoritarian government. Ending strongman Vucic after 14 yrs. Students, educators & farmers rallied together to reclaim their democracy by voting in historic numbers. See America, it's all on us. We vote. We win. Fascist fade share.google/MpOmcEDB2o1n...

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

Ghost in the machine vs. Shoe in the machine 👻⚔️👞