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text (138): Chinese scientists grew a cerebral organoid a mini brain made from human stem cells and connected it to a robot.

https://t.co/ulRJlt5g0c

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text (114): Acabei de ganhar o emblema Chatter para o Lightning Experience no @Trailhead. Ganhe o seu! https://t.co/HxQfUg0K4R

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text (100): Acabei de ganhar o emblema Leads e oportunidades no @Trailhead. Ganhe o seu! https://t.co/leAOS38koA

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text (96): Acabei de ganhar o emblema Contas e contatos no @Trailhead. Ganhe o seu! https://t.co/5c9SS5c4WT

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text (301): The Venezuela narrative is so distorted and internally contradictory:

1) There hasn't been "regime change." Maduro's government is still in place. That achieves none of the ends claimed.

2) Actual regime change would take massive US military conflict and economic investment. https://t.co/pJgbkGWSPo

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text (1406): The "1,800 gallons of water goes into making one pound of beef" statistic is brilliant deception.

They calculate "water footprint" using three categories: green water (rainfall), blue water (actual irrigation), and grey water (theoretical dilution water).

For beef, 94% is green water. Rain falling on pasture that cattle drink and piss back within days. This rain was falling anyway. It's the natural water cycle.

Only 4% is blue water - actual irrigation.

For almonds? They often only report blue water and leave out green water calculations they included for beef.

Actual blue water comparison:

Beef: 50 liters per liter

Almonds: 600 liters per liter

Almonds use 12 times more actual irrigation than beef. But the headline says beef uses more water because they counted rain falling on pasture.

British beef: 90% of water is rainfall on permanent pasture in Wales and Scotland. Rain that falls constantly whether cattle are there or not. The cattle drink it, piss it back, it returns to the water table within days. Closed loop.

California almonds: 80% of world's almonds grown in chronic drought region. Pumping groundwater from aquifers that took 10,000 years to fill. The Central Valley is literally sinking as water is drained. Some areas have dropped 28 feet.

One borrows from the rain cycle. One mines prehistoric water reserves. But the statistics make you draw the opposite conclusion.

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text (2766): Last quarter I announced a milestone.

30% of our code is now written by AI.

I called it "engineering velocity."

The board loved that phrase.

They didn't ask what the code does.

Neither did we.

It compiles. Usually.

That's the metric.

Someone asked about testing.

I said "AI-assisted quality assurance."

That means the AI writes the tests too.

For the code it wrote.

It finds no issues.

Very efficient.

This week we admitted Windows 11 core features are broken.

Audio doesn't work.

Explorer crashes.

Updates fail to install.

Users asked why.

I said "we're investigating."

Investigating means reading the code.

The code the AI wrote.

That no human understands.

Because understanding isn't scalable.

Our CTO says 95% of code will be AI-generated by 2030.

I believe him.

I have to.

We fired the people who would check.

They were "non-essential headcount."

Essential means writes code.

AI writes code.

Humans are overhead.

Overhead gets optimized.

We optimized 10,000 engineers last year.

This year the bugs arrived.

Unrelated, obviously.

The engineers we kept are debugging AI output.

They don't understand it either.

But they're "cross-functional."

Cross-functional means they do everything.

Everything means nothing well.

A user asked why their audio disappeared after an update.

I said "install updated drivers."

They asked why the update broke the drivers.

I said "report it via Feedback Hub."

They asked what happens to feedback.

I said "it helps us prioritize."

Prioritize means add to backlog.

Backlog means never.

But politely.

Someone on Hacker News called this "a privacy and consent disaster."

I called it "an evolving user experience."

Same thing. Different framing.

We released a fix.

The fix broke something else.

The something else was also written by AI.

The fix was also written by AI.

They're collaborating now.

I call it "autonomous iteration."

The autonomous iteration has created 47 new bugs.

Each bug spawns a fix.

Each fix spawns two bugs.

Exponential growth.

Just like our stock price.

Unrelated, obviously.

Satya told Mark we're at 30%.

Mark said he didn't know Meta's number.

Sundar said Google is also at 30%.

None of us know what the code does.

But we know the percentage.

Percentage is a metric.

Metrics go in earnings calls.

Earnings calls move stock prices.

Stock prices determine bonuses.

Bonuses determine success.

Success means the bugs don't matter.

Users asked when Windows will work again.

I said "we're committed to quality."

Quality means it ships.

Ships means it's your problem now.

Thank you for being part of the Microsoft family.

Family means you can't leave.

We're in your enterprise agreement.

For three more years.

The circle of innovation.

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text (268): The most enigmatic structure in cell biology: the Vault.

Often missing from science text books, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, produced within nearly every cell, of every animals, on the planet.

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text (127): Just earned the Chatter Administration for Lightning Experience badge on @Trailhead and you should too! https://t.co/q2DPEZ1WJt

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text (377): The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth.

Even if you burned 4 Jupiters, the Sun would still round up to 100% of all power that will ever be produced in the solar system!!

Stop wasting money on puny little reactors, unless actively acknowledging that they are just there for your pet science project jfc.

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text (129): Just earned the Reports & Dashboards for Lightning Experience badge on @Trailhead and you should too! https://t.co/xZIAgdQnrB

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text (2542): The Hive Mind Paradox

Scientists just proved something wild: a swarm of bees is mathematically identical to a single AI learning algorithm.

Not 'similar to.' Not 'inspired by.'

Identical.

Here's why this changes everything we thought about intelligence

For centuries, we've thought about intelligence in two separate boxes:

Individual learning (how YOUR brain works)

Swarm behavior (how GROUPS coordinate)

Turns out? This split is artificial.

The math proves they're the same thing.

Picture this: A honey bee colony needs a new home.

500 scout bees fly out. They find 10 possible nest sitessome amazing, some death traps.

Each bee can only visit ONE site. The data is noisy. The stakes are life-or-death.

How does the hive choose?

Here's where it gets wild.

Researchers modeled the waggle dance mathematically.

They derived the EXACT equations governing how the swarm converges on a decision.

The result? The swarm doesn't act like a reinforcement learning agent.

The swarm IS the agent.

Think of it this way:

Each bee = one GPU in a data center

The waggle dance = gradient updates

The hive = a single neural network

500 bees = 500 processors running in parallel, solving the same optimization problem simultaneously.

Nature built distributed computing first.

But here's the crazy part

When they tested "smarter" individual bees (ones that process more data, verify information, think harder)...

...the system got SLOWER.

Smarter individuals = worse collective performance.

Why?

The calibration problem.

Imagine you and I rate restaurants. Your "7/10" might be my "9/10." We can't compare scoreswe don't share an internal scale.

Bees have the same issue. One bee's "great nest" rating means nothing to another bee's sensors.

So what do they do?

They don't compare at all.

Each bee just broadcasts enthusiasm (waggle dance frequency) based on ITS OWN experience.

The hive doesn't need shared metrics. It aggregates VOLUME, not values.

Evolution's insight: Don't optimize for smart individuals. Optimize for CHEAP cognition at scale.

The implications are staggering:

Robot swarms that coordinate without central control

Economic models where markets ARE the learning agent

Understanding Twitter/TikTok as literal hive-mind algorithms

Rethinking where "intelligence" actually lives

Evolution figured out distributed computing 30 million years before AWS.

Maybe instead of building smarter AI agents, we should be asking:

"What's the UPDATE RULE?"

The swarm isn't IN the bees. The swarm IS the brain.

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text (2098): ECB QUIETLY UNVEILS THE FINAL CHAIN: DIGITAL EURO LOCKDOWN BY 2029

In what central bankers are celebrating as the crowning evolution of money, the European Central Bank just confirmed the irreversible rollout: a fully trackable, programmable digital euro arriving no later than 2029, with pilot transactions and wallet seeding beginning mid-2027 - assuming the co-legislators rubber-stamp the cage in 2026.

The captured ECB blog post spills the real agenda in polite bureaucrat-speak: cash is going nowhere (for now), but every offline-capable digital euro will still be issued, held, and revocable by the ECB itself.

Translation: no one outside Frankfurt will ever transact anonymously again once merchants and banks are forced to accept it everywhere.

They admit the quiet part out loud: Europes payments are currently dominated by non-European providers, and that makes the continent a hostage in a polarised and fragmented world.

Their solution isnt competition; its total control.

One public ledger to rule them all, designed from day one to reduce external dependencies and guarantee the EU can freeze, limit, or tax any citizens spending in real time without begging Visa, Mastercard, or - God forbid - Washington for permission.

No more unapproved donations. No more cash under the mattress when the next temporary capital controls hit. No more buying a coffee or a car without the algorithm knowing your exact carbon footprint, political loyalty score, or vaccine status.

They promise it will complement private payment apps. It wont. The moment holding limits, negative interest rates, or emergency climate quotas become politically convenient, every private wallet will be throttled until the digital euro is the only one that still works.

Cash isnt being replaced. Its being gently, legally, permanently suffocated.

2026: the law.

2027: the pilots.

2029: the switch flips.

Welcome to the open-air digital prison theyre calling strategic autonomy. Your money was the last freedom they hadnt fully taken.

They just told you the exact date.

Source: ECB Europa,TheBanker

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text (22): Teste do Xmark Bridge

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text (1527): Cambridge professor on stage:

If you think spraying chemicals to dim the sun is playing God the only alternative is to cull the human population back to 1 billion. Anyone volunteer?

Dead silence.

Then he laughs: Didnt think so. Get over it we now have a permanent duty to manage the planet.

This is NOT a conspiracy clip from 2015.

This is 2025. This is the director of Cambridges Centre for Climate Repair.

And the UK just created a secretive DARPA-style agency called ARIA 800 million of taxpayer money, zero FOIA, zero accountability that is RIGHT NOW funding real-world experiments to spray particles into the stratosphere to block the sun.

Harvards SCoPEx got shut down after global backlash.

So Bill Gates & friends simply moved it to Britain.

Over 160,000 British citizens forced their government to respond to a petition demanding ALL geoengineering be banned.

Governments official reply: We have no plans to deploy.

Translation: ARIA is doing it anyway, behind closed doors.

Meanwhile in America, venture-backed startups are already releasing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere and selling cooling credits like crypto.

They are literally dimming the sun that grows your food, gives you vitamin D, and keeps Earth alive without asking a single person on the planet for permission.

Watch the full 7:47 expos unedited quotes, funding docs, government statements

One question for you right now:

Do you consent to billionaires and unelected bureaucrats permanently controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth?

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text (575): Multiple, serious security vulnerabilities found in the Rust clone of Sudo which shipped with Ubuntu 25.10 (the most recent release).

Not little vulnerabilities: Were talking about the disclosure of passwords and total bypassing of authentication.

In fact, were getting new reports of showstopper grade issues every few days on the Rust-based clones (like sudo, du, date, and others) which were forced to ship in Ubuntu before they were fully tested.

Which is, of course, *exactly* what was predicted.

But, never fear! At least these Rust clones are memory safe!

PHEW!

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text (1441): A giant reservoir of water has been discovered 400 miles beneath Earth's surface.

It could harbor three times the volume of water found in every ocean on Earths surface combined.

Yet this is no familiar liquid. It doesnt course through hidden rivers or pool in vast underground chambers. Instead, its imprisoned inside ringwoodite, a mineral deep in the mantle that functions like a molecular sponge, clutching HO within its crystal lattice under crushing pressure and searing heat.

For decades, researchers speculated about such a subterranean reservoir, but this marks the most compelling proof to date. The revelation emerged from seismic waves: subtle variations in how earthquake vibrations propagate through Earths interior betrayed the signature of water-saturated rock.

The finding compels a radical overhaul of Earths hydrologic cycle. Conventionally, we viewed nearly all planetary water as confined to the surface and shallow crust. This concealed ocean, however, unveils a far-reaching, globe-spanning circuit that may shuttle water between oceans, mantle, and perhaps even greater depths across geologic timescales.

Lead geophysicist Steve Jacobsen suggests this buried trove could explain the origins of Earths abundant surface water. It may also govern volcanic eruptions and the restless drift of tectonic plates.

["Gigantic ocean of water found hidden beneath the Earths surface." Brighter Side of News, 30 April 2025]

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text (2159): BOMBSHELL: DECLASSIFIED FILES PROVE HILLARY AND SOROS ORCHESTRATED THE RUSSIA HOAX FROM DAY ONE

The smoking gun just dropped.

Newly declassified intelligence files show Hillary Clinton personally approved a plan to frame Trump as a Russian asset.

The goal? Distract from her email scandal by manufacturing the biggest political hoax in American history.

The 24-page intelligence annex reveals "confidential conversations" between DNC leaders and George Soros' Open Society Foundations laying out the conspiracy in black and white.

Leonard Benardo (Open Society Foundations VP, July 27, 2016 email):

"HRC approved Julia's idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing email"

The plan was surgical.

Clinton's foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith (now Biden's NATO ambassador) designed a scheme to "demonize Putin and Trump" and have the FBI "put more oil into the fire."

John Brennan briefed Obama on Clinton's plan in July 2016. Days later, the Russia investigation launched.

Brennan would later overrule his own CIA analysts to push the false narrative, responding to their objections with "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"

Leonard Benardo (July 25, 2016 email):

"During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated...from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications"

Foreign intelligence services knew about the plot before it happened, predicting FBI involvement "with alarming specificity."

The media won Pulitzers for reporting lies.

The FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane knowing it was based on Clinton-funded opposition research.

Chuck Grassley (Senator, R-Iowa):

"The Obama and Biden administration's law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump.

This is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history"

The conspiracy worked perfectly.

It consumed Trump's first term, divided the nation, and the architects walked free. Until now.

Source: NYP/Fox News

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text quote (686):πŸš¨πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ KASH PATEL WARNS "MORE TO COME" ON CLINTON-RUSSIA HOAX REVELATIONS

FBI Director just confirmed this is only the beginning.

After releasing Durham Report docs showing FBI knew Hillary created the Russia collusion narrative, Patel promises additional bombshells.

Patel (FBI Director):

"Good summary of what we @fbi found and declassified, for the first time ever. More to come"

First drop reveals: FBI tried destroying evidence in "burn bags," Obama ordered fake intel report, and Clinton orchestrated the whole thing to hide her emails.

If this is just the appetizer, what's Patel holding back for the main course?

Source: Durham Report Appendix/Sen. Grassley/@charliekirk11

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text (229): This false nomenclature of researcher and engineer, which is a thinly-masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system, is being deleted from @xAI today.

There are only engineers.

Researcher is a relic term from academia.

text quote (189):we at @xai are looking for researchers and engineers for scaling up our rl environments with user feedback and preference in the loop. apply here (or drop me a dm):

https://t.co/5jwtimaFZ1

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text (254): THIS JUST IN: Spanish intelligence is has emerged as the Number 1 seed in this years Darwin Awards competition. It has granted Huawei the contract to manage its wiretap and communication intercept programs. This is NOT a joke. https://t.co/fsqKgQDBG9

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