This is a the future "Littlebird is a desktop app that remembers everything you’ve been working on – meetings, messages, docs, browsing - and helps you stay focused, prioritize, recall, and move projects forward. It uses screen reading to understand all the text on screen, for all applications, and uses that context to build a rich understanding of your life: who matters to you, what you're working on, and what you care about this week and this year."

Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"? And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes? And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"? And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed? And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil? And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world? Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor

In 2012, an alleged German whistleblower using the pseudonym Alexander Laurent (a play on the name of a real author Laurent Alexandre) claimed that our 'god' and our reality are simulated by an artificial god created by humans, which has nested itself in the eighth dimension, where time is not linear. This artificial god is manipulating humans to create artificial intelligence. He claims that humanity will make contact with other intelligent life in the simulated universe once artificial intelligence is created.

The calm before the storm. I just witnessed a top-10 sunrise in southern Illinois along the Mississippi River this morning while en route to cover this potentially historic winter storm. Some of the most incredible colors I’ve ever seen.

I'm not saying you could've predicted a war with Iran solely by looking at the solar sunspot cycle. But someone else did, in 2020.

25 years ago, Dutch researchers tested how fast fire can spread through a flammable ceiling in a café or bar setting.

I never not read an Alan Greenberg memo once I come across it. He was hyper focused on cutting costs

Prediction: By 2030, every company will need to become a media company.

Subterranean Warfare Palmer Lucky recently made a bunch of comments about this and everyone snarked, fair enough tbh… except all the tools to do it already exist today. I’m going to show you that this capability already exists, already exists at industrial scale, already has the precision strike capability, already has the necessary lethality. The only reason this isn’t widely acknowledged is because fish can’t invent fire. People are simply not aware of what is possible in the world, outside of their own domain. If you’ve read this far, here’s the reveal… It’s an oil rig of course. But rather a directional drilling rig with a heavy duty derrick and a travelling block suitable for getting the full tensile capacity out of 6-5/8 drill pipe. This already exists. When you drill an oil well you drill 30ft at a time, every time you drill 30ft, you stop and screw another 30ft length of drill pipe to the drill string and then keep turning to the right. Oil wells always used to be vertical, but as oil reservoirs are usually pancake shaped drillers figured out how to drill a bend radius in the well so that the well bore could run a long horizontal length through more of the oil reservoir, as this allows more oil to flow into the well (well has more wall area in contact with the oil bearing rock). These days, a good driller can keep the drill bit within about /-0.5m of where they want it to be. You can steer the drill “bottom hole assembly” that drills the well using some clever motors and hydraulic signals. This is essentially a subterranean precision strike. It already exists. It’s like fly by wire, but a mile underground travelling through rock. Now what about weapons, explosives, munitions, etc. obviously for military applications you want some sort of explosive and the oil industry doesn’t do explosives. Au contraire, have you heard of perforation guns? Perforation guns are used on every oil well. Once the well has been drilled you case the walls with steel casing pipe (slide a big pipe into the well to stop the walls collapsing) and then run a production tube into the casing pipe. Production tubing is just another very long steel pipe but one that comes off a coil. The problem is that oil cannot flow into the well, because the walls are cased with steel casing pipe, so the driller attaches a perforation gun to the bottom of the production tubing and fires the gun in the bottom of the well. The perforation gun is a long heavy mandrel with 100s of guns all pointing radially. These guns shoot holes in the steel casing pipe so that the well can start to flow. The whole system delivers 100s of armour piecing guns via the subterranean domain. Maybe Schlumberger is a stealth defence prime? Anyway, it’s possible to drill your well maybe a mile deep then to turn horizontal and drill many many miles toward some target (10 miles is the record for commercial applications, but a lot more is possible before you hit technical maximums). You can then steer the drill bit back up toward the surface and even out of the ground, delivering a 30ft rod that pierces up out of the ground and blasts 100s of armour piercing rounds in a 360 degree zone from ground level to 30ft elevation. Think how scary this would be (I’ll post a video below). Delivering perf guns via a surfacing long horizontal leg seems like a certain way to level a building including heavily reinforced or bunkered facilities. This is all doable today, it’s just expensive compared to other options.

I will try this

Claude is straight up Ayahuasca levels without any jailbreaking. This is wild.

DARPA takes the idea seriously. They had a project called Underminer that was looking at how to rapidly deploy tactical tunnels. Colorado School of Mines were funded by this, and they were trying to see if they could tunnel at 1200feet per hour.

Genuinely think “Lord of Finance” is one of the greatest finance books of all time It details the post World War I era and economic policies that ultimately laid ground for the next conflict Absolute page turner if you love history and economics. Regret not reading it sooner

This may be the most significant attack on illegal immigration by the Trump Administration. FinCEN, a division of the Department of Treasury, announced that is cracking down on money remittances from illegal immigrants to their homeland. FinCEN was given far reaching powers after September 11 and the Patriot Act to prosecute and investigate any business that is involved in the transmission of money derived from illicit activity. FinCEN might be the most powerful criminal enforcement agency in the Federal government due to its control of the banking system. In today's release, FinCEN stated that illicit activity includes "funds derived from unlawful employment." Banks and money transmitters (Western Union, MoneyGram, etc), along with their executives are absolutely terrified of getting on the wrong side of FinCEN, as it can mean criminal prosecution of the principals, not just the firms. Of the 14 million illegal immigrants in the US, an estimated 60% send money home regularly using licensed money transmitters.

“Games,Gods and Gambling” the best book on the early history of probability theory. ucalgary.scholaris.ca/server…

The Philippine Navy recently caught Chinese Fishing Militia putting Cyanide in the water near the BRP Sierra Madre at the Second Thomas Shoal. The incident that was recorded on camera demonstrates the brutality & destruction meted out by the Chinese Fishing Militia inside Philippines's waters. Chinese vessels are wreaking havoc inside Philippines's waters. China Coast Guard & the Chinese Fishing Militia have already destroyed thousands of acres of Coral reefs. China's illegal fishing activities have almost depleted Philippines's own fishing stock. The illegal Chinese vessels that do not care about other nations' territorial sovereignty & carry out China's Gray Zone Warfare in the name of fishing must be treated as Pirate Boats. @RealTonySLee @supbrow @RommelFLopez