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A man randomly spotted the exact car he had been the highest bidder on a year earlier at a gas station, discovered the owner was still trying to sell it, and bought it ON THE SPOT before driving to Chase for the check 😳⛽️💰
“This car was on Cars & Bids like a year ago. I was actually the high bidder on this car.”
“Do you want to sell it?”
“It’s still for sale.”
“I’ll buy it, dude. We have a deal.”
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Dear Elon Musk @elonmusk,
Three days ago, Block, the parent of Cash App, agreed to pay roughly $764 million to the Department of Justice for failing to stop money laundering on a product that looks a lot like X Money. Regulators found Cash App’s backlog of unreviewed suspicious activity alerts went from 18,000 to 169,000 in two years. The product grew faster than the people watching it.
I am writing because I believe the same thing is about to happen to you, and I would rather say so now than read about it later.
My name is Everett Stern. I am the HSBC whistleblower. In 2010 I was a compliance officer who found money moving through the bank for drug cartels, terror financiers, and sanctioned regimes. I documented it. I escalated it. I was told to stop. So I took it to the United States government, the way every citizen is told to. The bank paid $1.9 billion. Nobody went to jail. And I lost everything. My career ended. I was blacklisted from the industry I had tried to protect. I slept on a cot in an apartment with cockroaches and waited tables at @PFChangs to survive. I risked my life, and for a long time I was not sure it had been worth it. I rebuilt from nothing, and I decided the rest of my life would be spent preventing the next HSBC.
Last month Bank of America admitted to willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act. More than $5 billion in suspicious transactions went unreported. 475 sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism programs. The bank paid $1.2 billion, about two weeks of its profit, and not one person was charged. I wrote an open letter to Secretary Bessent asking him to refer the people responsible for criminal prosecution. 3.7 million Americans read it. Republicans and Democrats stood behind it. The Secretary never answered. No banker is going to jail.
Here is the problem we are facing, in plain terms. Every terrorist attack starts with a wire transfer. Every drug death in America starts with a cartel being able to move its money. The banks know it, pay their fines, and keep going. The government knows it and takes no real action. Fourteen years after HSBC, nothing has changed, and people are dying because of it.
But you can change it. You can on your own platform, from the first day, before the first alert backlog ever forms. The banks will not do it. Treasury has not done it. You could be the first person with the power to build it right who actually did.
I have the highest respect for you and what you have built. I know you have no interest in supporting terrorists or drug cartels. But I have spent fourteen years watching how they work, and they are already reading your website. It promises to “pay anyone on X, free and with no limits,” a Visa card with worldwide ATM fee reimbursements, no foreign transaction fees, and wires in and out. That is a feature list for an honest customer. It is also a feature list for a cartel. You have spent three years fighting bots on this platform. The day a bot can hold a wallet, the bot problem becomes a money laundering problem. Picture a fentanyl distributor in Phoenix with two hundred burner accounts, moving $900 at a time with no limits, cashed out through an X Card at an ATM anywhere in the world by Friday, with the fees reimbursed. Regulators call that structuring. Everyone else can see what it is.
Your website says a great deal about yield, cashback, and FDIC coverage. It does not say one word about how X Money verifies who a customer is or watches where the money goes. Maybe that work is being done quietly. If it is, I would be glad to be wrong. If it is not, that is the gap Block just paid $764 million for.
I am asking for a conversation. With you, with whoever leads financial crimes at X Money, or with anyone there who has the power to make a difference. Please allow me the honor of helping make X Money better and protecting the financial system of the United States of America.
Thank you for all you do for this country.
With sincere respect,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
🤦♂️
>be me
>2x3090 in the basement
>qwen 4 27b drops
>pull it, quantize it, benchmark it
>numbers go up on localmaxxing.com
>feelsgoodman.jpg
>open twitter
>BREAKING: FT says US officials believe Jensen was "romantically involved" with a Megaspeed exec
>US intel says she was recruited by China's MSS
>Megaspeed under investigation for smuggling nvidia chips into china
>mfw the leather jacket man
>mfw "completely normal customer relationship"
>sure jensen
>scroll down
>schizo anon has entered the thread
>"ok so who paid for $4.8B of servers for a singapore cloud company nobody heard of"
>"iran can't sell oil in dollars"
>"so they sell it to china for yuan, at a discount, dark fleet, transponders off"
>"china can't buy B300s"
>"so the oil money goes through singapore shell banks and comes out the other end as a 'data center' in malaysia"
>"boxes never even get unpacked"
>"then the chips go north"
>"mount pickaxe"
>wtf is mount pickaxe
>"the biggest datacenter you've never heard of anon, somewhere in the mountains, a B300 for every barrel"
>"the whole banking system is just sanctioned oil turning into GPUs"
>"the spy wasn't there for nvidia secrets, she was there to keep the pipeline open"
>"follow the barrels"
>2 page infographic
>red string
>400 upvotes
>he's probably wrong
>he's probably not entirely wrong
>close twitter
>look at my 3090s
>built before the spies, the smuggling, the dark fleet
>pure
>honest
>720W of freedom
>qwen 4 27b finishes the run
>beats opus 5.4
>on two used mining cards
>no oil tanker had to go dark for this
>mfw I'm the only one in this story not under investigation
>tfw localmaxxing
What a legendary run. I hope it continues
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The drum machine behind more hit songs than any other in history was such a flop that Roland killed it after three years. Leftovers were going for under $100 in used music shops.
That flop is the reason a German marching band can make a whole crowd lose it with a tuba and a marimba.
Roland put out the TR-808 in 1980 so musicians could have a drummer without hiring one. Problem was, it didn't sound anything like a drummer. The kick boomed like a blown speaker and the cowbell sounded like a kid's toy, so studios paid up for the LinnDrum, which actually played back recordings of real drums. Roland built around 12,000 808s and quit making them in 1983.
The next year they tried the same trick with bass. The TB-303 cost $395 and was supposed to replace your bass player, except it came out sounding more like a squelchy mouth harp, and Roland pulled it in 1984.
Nobody wanted either one, so they got cheap, and cheap is how they landed with broke kids in Chicago and Detroit. A Chicago crew called Phuture got their hands on a 303, cranked the filter way past anything a bass player would ever want, and the noise that came out became "Acid Tracks" in 1987. Dance music basically grew up on the exact sounds Roland's customers had thrown back as fake.
MEUTE takes all of that and hands it back to humans.
Thomas Burhorn was a jazz trumpeter dancing at a techno club in Berlin when he started wondering why nobody had tried playing that music with a live bass drum, marimba and trumpet. He put the band together in Hamburg in 2015, and now there are eleven of them, each one doing a machine's job. Marco Möller's bass drum is the kick on every beat. Philipp Westermann plays the bassline on sousaphone that a 303 would've played. André Wittmann's marimba covers the looping synth patterns, while two snare drummers handle everything the drum machine used to do up top.
What makes this way harder than it looks is that a drum machine never gets excited. It doesn't rush when the crowd screams, and it doesn't get bored playing the same bar for six minutes. People do both. A jazz trumpeter spends years learning to change the line every time through, and this band asks him to play it the same way over and over until the whole crowd locks in.
Roland spent the early '80s trying to get a machine to sound like a band and never pulled it off. Forty years later, eleven guys in red marching jackets are working their butts off to sound like that machine, and everybody in the crowd has their phone up filming it.
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Nous just made the best case for Chinese open weights I have read all year. I do not think that was the plan.
They took Qwen3.8-27B, Apache 2.0, and fine-tuned the party line out of it. 52.8M tokens. 2 epochs. No RL. On their 803-prompt eval the propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%. Hermes Bench barely moved: 65.60% vs 65.77%.
Their own words: "the bias layer in a Chinese-aligned model is shallow."
Read that again. A Chinese lab gave away the weights, so an American lab could open them, change the values and publish the weights, the data and the eval. Try that with Claude. You cannot even see what Claude believes, let alone change it.
Now the parts I did not love.
The eval counts only one government. "Propaganda" means adopting the Chinese state's account. A model can repeat any other state's line all day and still score 0%.
The judge is Grok.
And in their own table GLM 5.3 scores higher on facts than Arete: 3.10 vs 2.98, both with thinking off.
Still, I am happy Arete exists. That is the whole point of open weights. Nobody had to ask Alibaba for permission.
Now show me the same eval for Washington's line.
xitter.gq/NousResearch/status/21…
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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Blake Griffin: “Then you get the half-court shot”
Luka: “That was a 3/4 shot, not half-court”
TALK YO SHIT GOAT 😂😂😂😂😂
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OMG TWO FANS HIT BACK TO BACK HALF-COURT SHOTS TO EACH WIN $10K 😱
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!!??!!
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Caitlin Clark gifted Jimmy Fallon a pair of the Caitlin 1 Friendship bracelet shoes, which don't come out til next February!
