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remember when everyone was parking money in anchor on terra for like 20% a year on a stablecoin
sounded safe right its a dollar coin it doesnt move
over 14 billion dollars sat in there
what nobody really read
that 20% was supposed to come from people borrowing but barely anyone was borrowing compared to how many people were depositing
so they just kept topping up a reserve to cover the gap
70 million once, then 450 million more
in may 2022 the money ran out and ust and luna went down together
if someone has to keep pouring cash in to pay your interest, you're not earning yield, you're getting paid to stay until they stop
so now whenever i see a juicy apy i just ask
who is actually paying me this and what happens when they stop
@RallyOnChain this is the fine print nobody reads
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2010: we consumed content
2020: we created it
2026: we generate it with ai
2035: ai runs the business
which step are you on right now?
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Zoom into "I'm not a robot". It never ends.
That checkbox exists to catch machines. Machines now pass it better than we do: in a 2023 UC Irvine study with 1,400 people, humans solved distorted-text CAPTCHAs 50 to 84% of the time. Bots got almost 100%, in under a second.
So the video follows a machine trying to look human: captcha, server rack, a chip that looks like a city, a laptop at night, 99% buffering, 1% battery, Snake, a 3D hand with one finger too many. Then back to the fresco.
From the first frame to the loop you zoom in about 500 billion times. The fresco is the real Michelangelo, every other scene is drawn in code.
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Everyone says Claude can replace an assistant. So I gave it 15 real work emails and one prompt.
It caught a cancelled request buried in a follow-up, found a deadline hidden at the end of a long email, and converted time zones on its own.
It also dropped a late fee and ranked a contract that dies Wednesday below the morning standup.
Fast first pass. Not a replacement.
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i asked claude to build a robot panther and take it apart piece by piece.
eyes, claws, spine, battery, every joint. then it walks and pounces out of frame.
no blender. no video generator. just code 👇
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This is one workflow, built by hand, node by node.Somebody sat there and wired every connection: this output goes into that input, this branch handles the error, this one retries. Hours of work, and it only does one job. Change the job and you are back in there moving wires.Agents are eating this part. Not the thinking, the wiring. You describe what should happen and the plan assembles itself. Which means the valuable skill moves from knowing the tool to knowing what you actually want.How much of your week goes into wiring instead of deciding?
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Green screens are officially dead.
Kling 3.0 just turned an empty white wall and a black
t-shirt into a full cinematic detective thriller-while keeping every subtle head movement and sip perfectly synced.
No set design. No lighting rig. No wardrobe budget. Just raw footage and AI restyling.
Indie filmmaking will never be the same.
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A Chinese startup put Claude Code on a pair of glasses that weigh 48 grams.
Buildroot Linux inside, an ARM chip in one arm, battery in the other, a bone conduction mic on the nose bridge. You speak, the agent runs, and the output lands on a heads-up display in the corner of your eye. No phone open, no laptop.
$399 for early backers and still preproduction, so plenty of room for this to never ship. But somebody is actually building the version where you debug while walking down the street.
Would you code with no screen in front of you?
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A Columbia scientist told ChatGPT she picks coconut ice cream 70% of the time.
It chose coconut for her 100 times out of 100.
That's Sandra Matz in this TEDx talk. Her biggest worry about AI sounds small at first: that it will make us boring.
Her logic:
• Every choice is a trade-off between the safe favorite and something new
• Recommendation systems and chatbots get rewarded for safe bets that keep you engaged
• So they keep picking the favorite, and you slowly stop exploring
Another test of hers: asked 100 times as a new customer, ChatGPT named one of Baskin-Robbins' two most popular flavors 96 times.
Newer research adds a twist. In a 2026 experiment, people writing with AI produced more varied stories when they were paid for originality. The sameness follows whatever gets rewarded.
Her fix: a dial on your apps, from "spot on" to "wildcard."
13 minutes, worth every one. Would you turn the dial?
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I had a dream today, so I recreated it using AI :
The backrooms as a waterslide🌊:
Imagine going down a waterslide that takes you straight into the Backrooms.
Created with Flux 3 by @bfl_ai.
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🚨 THIS WEBSITE IS REALLY SCARY.
It's called World Monitor and it's like having a radar to detect what's happening in the world before everyone else.
Welcome to world-monitor.com, where you don't read the world, you monitor it.
