Uh oh...
BREAKING: US military is preparing for the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids, disrupt supply chains and threaten critical infrastructure on US soil, per NY Post.
It comes as Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino tells Americans to take the emergency preparedness warnings seriously, saying "Get your stuff today. Please. Do it for your family."
Why not learn beauty?
A simulator for only beautiful cities.
And it's only going to get better.
Try it out here: game.theaestheticcity.com
Dysfunctional Britain.
Look at this, stashed away on page 118 of the budget...
The Government is implementing visa salary requirement changes from spring 2027 that will reduce 'occupation-specific minimum salary thresholds from the median to the 25th percentile of wages'.
In short, making it FAR easier for firms to hire migrants.
Why are they lowering barriers to overseas workers instead of training British men and women?
British people do not want more immigration.
At all.
Nev Rhea retweeted
Neutron’s Stage 2 and Thrust Module have arrived to Virginia. After a short barge ride from the Neutron Factory, these major assemblies have now been offloaded on Wallops Island and are going through arrival checkouts.
Next up: integrated fluids testing and launch mount interface checkouts for the Thrust Module, with Stage 2 to follow on the test stand beside it soon after.
Indeed, it will be so painful that even our children won't see the end of it; but needs must and this has to be done. The system needs rebuilding from scratch.
A Budget that amounts to pissing into a westerly gale - tinkering around the edges while the British economy burns, with a treasury packed full of economic arsonists.
It is an insult to every taxpayer, every struggling business and every family being bled dry by this rotten economic system. Nothing will change - we continue our uninterrupted plunge into the abyss.
The country is drowning in debt. I don’t know how else to say this…
We are BANKRUPT. We cannot afford any of this. Nothing.
A crushing tax burden remains, small businesses are strangled and as employers we’re punished for creating jobs. For what? To fund millions of scroungers who can’t be arsed to work like the rest of us? Foreigners who turn up and expect housing, benefits, healthcare? When our tax goes up, THAT is what we are funding.
Debt is now THREE TRILLION. We can thank lockdown for a large part of that. But please think about it. Three trillion. The scale is just unimaginable. Yet we get another Chancellor fiddling with the numbers while the country goes up in flames. Billions and billions and billions get added every month. It is GROWING. I don’t know how else to say this.
The people governing us seem absolutely incapable of understanding one basic principle.
Wealth is created by businesses and workers. NOT by politicians spending somebody else's money to win votes. NOT by the state. NOT by the public sector. I detest it.
The British people, working mums and dads, are expected to work longer and harder to fund this corrupt charade - all while giant multinationals shift vast profits out of our country on the back of their work and bloated corporates extract outrageous contract profits from the taxpayer thanks to criminal public sector mismanagement.
I challenge Healey or Burnham. Go and start a business. A cafe, a contractor, a small shop. Try being a sole contractor on the tools. Experience these taxes, the regulation, the stress. Have their families rely on sporadic invoices. Watch their earnings get siphoned off by a corrupt state. Let’s see how they get on.
The system does not need reforming, or conserving - it needs smashing up. We need to rip apart, limb from limb, the failed assumptions that have governed British economic policy for decades.
Cut the waste. Shrink the state. Slash the tax burden. Back small British businesses. Reward work. Restore the incentive to invest, build, employ and succeed. Get millions of healthy Brits OFF benefits. Give people a reason to work. BE UNPOPULAR. If healthy scroungers hate me for taking their benefits off them, good. Get used to it.
It’s all that, on a scale never seen before, or the country will collapse further into a third world hellhole - only this time we’ll get the hyperinflation and total economic catastrophe in addition to the migrants.
I refuse to leave a broken, bankrupt nation to my children and grandchildren.
Restore Britain is offering a route out.
It will be painful, more than anyone realises.
But it is the only way.
Nev Rhea retweeted
JUST IN: The Pentagon has published a remarkable image of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane in orbit, captured by a Maxar satellite and featured in its newly released 2026 space threat assessment.
The reusable, uncrewed spacecraft launches aboard a rocket and returns to Earth on a runway, similar to the U.S. military's X-37B.
China has conducted four orbital missions since 2020, demonstrating the ability to deploy and maneuver near other objects in space.
The DIA warns that technologies used for satellite inspection and proximity operations could also support anti-satellite capabilities.
China has disclosed few details about the spacecraft's missions or capabilities.
Fascinating view of tomorrow's job market. Moore's law in action. AGI will have vastly changed things by 2028 when high middle class joblessness will be an official figure.
What happens to human jobs when AI can do almost every kind of work? Will this wipeout middle class?
A new paper from Yale economist Pascual Restrepo explores what the economy could look like in a world with AGI.
The central idea is that compute could become more important than human labor as the engine of economic growth.
The paper argues that essential tasks would eventually be automated as AI and computing power improve. Humans might still work, but wages could increasingly depend on how cheaply AI can perform the same tasks.
One surprising conclusion is wages don't necessarily fall to zero, but labor's share of total economic income could approach zero as more income flows to computing resources.
For the middle class, this raises difficult questions about job security, salaries, savings and the value of skills built over decades.
That raises a bigger question what if AI creates most of the wealth, who owns the compute and who benefits from the growth?
This is a theoretical economic model, not a prediction that AGI or full automation is inevitable.
We went from a functioning society to one that makes it difficult to demand excellent quality for the services we pay for. Time to restore logic driven systems for best performance.
It's a particularly confusing day when a luminary like Daniel Hannan is blinded by bias and does not check the veracity of an image on the Internet, especially one that is so farfetched that it would activate one's nonsense detectors by default (Grok can check anything on X, and elsewhere).
Donald Trump has a strange effect people.
Nev Rhea retweeted
How about the robot is looking down while assembling a Swiss watch with one hand and then, without looking up, catches an oblique 100mph baseball with the other hand?
I also like the idea of juggling chainsaws on fire while riding a unicycle.
Harry Kane wins the Ballon d'Or whilst also being a very decent chess player at 1500, in the best fashion of a fellow who does things with fully applied dedication.
Absolute legend/10
Modern warfare.
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
Nev Rhea retweeted
Why Open-Weight AI Matters semiengineering.com/why-open…
Proprietary models still hold the edge, but open-weight models add more flexibility for deploying AI.
#openweightAImodels #AImodels #AI
