George Veelundbarrow

Observer, gambler, survivor, muscular bookworm. The warrior's primary duty is to ensure that his spirit remains unbroken. Be no weakling.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

Fragment of a dream sequence generated with @grok imagine

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

This absolutely shouldn’t be an issue. Why would you not want guys playing on the sharp edge, responsible for the nation’s defence and safety, not be in peak mental & physical condition, to be as sharp and as fit as possible?

Pete Hegseth wants to offer US troops testosterone screening https://t.co/NzTBBDU8t7 via @YouTube

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

@CattardSlim Sounds good, but not entirely accurate, CT...Try the corollary on for size: EVERY confession is an accusation, which is a better fit.

It's so refreshing to have corruption out in the open, rather than cloaked and muted, whispers behind closed doors.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

You have to admit, they may be clowns, but these clowns have balls!
A court filing claims about 3.8 million BTC across 39,069 dormant addresses, including ones tied to Satoshi. Plaintiff invokes NY abandoned property law; defendants contest ownership and abandonment.

New York, establishing a claim under the state's abandoned or lost property statutes is heavily reliant on the legal definition of abandonment, which requires an actual, intentional relinquishment of the property rather than just mere inactivity or dormancy.
Under New York Abandoned Property Law (ABP), the plaintiff faces a high threshold. Because the defendants are contesting ownership and abandonment, the plaintiff must typically prove that the owner intentionally abandoned the assets without the intent to reclaim them. If the property is instead deemed "lost" under Personal Property Law § 252, the property may need to be turned over to the local police or the state rather than transferring directly to the "finder".

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

@SirEdges007 @ai_rohitt Yes, I realise that…the guy in the video is the one we are told is better for our self improvement to watch instead of Netflix.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

“Never sell YOUR BTC…”
But I can sell mine.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

No, Bernie, no!

Although you are usually a sort of bumbling, half-assed, nonsense ridden loudmouth who often slips into silly realms of self-caricature, this idea of yours, that the government should be vested in Ai, in any shape, form, or manner…other than possibly as a regulator-of-last-resort, is foolish beyond belief and would result in an unbelievably (bleakly catastrophic) apocalyptical 1984esque style of landscape…to say the least!

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

Most influencers who know a smidgen more than we average folk trot out exclamations of the obvious like they’re lightning bolts ⚡️ of TRUTH & WISDOM from on high.

The people who really matter and exercise a modicum of self discipline tend to maintain a quiescent aura of silence until they have something useful to say.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

What a clever (& potentially lethal) little toy!

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Meet V-Bat, an AI-powered UAV developed by Shield AI for surveillance and defense missions.

It can fly autonomously using AI software and is powered by a single thrust-vectored ducted fan that enables vertical takeoff and landing similar to a SpaceX rocket.

The drone can be rapidly deployed, packed into a pickup truck, and transported by helicopters.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

First of all, it’s an EO, one assumes that Trump has advisors from the Directorate of Cybersecurity (or whatever) write it up (as POTUS is unlikely to know much about the deep technical aspects of Ai). So to summarise briefly it is an order specifying that anything new is required to be submitted to the government prior to it going live-which sounds just like a nightmare waiting to happen. Is there anybody in the government who is even competent to make decisions of this magnitude and significance?

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

@Svet1069788 @XFreeze You just mouthing off to hear yourself talk, babe?😳

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

It’s a dog’s life, in’it?

You can see the world in various ways: through your own eyes, through an artist’s eyes, through a tech billionaire’s eyes, or through the eyes of robot dogs…Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit https://t.co/geoHEnx7NT

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

“You do not lose civilisation in a war. You lose it in your sleep.”

Truth!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

Grok Imagine prompt:

Any resemblance to Mick Jagger is purely coincidental.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

@lyranheritage @Kasparov63 Aha! One of the spineless, I reckon!

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

@JamesMelville Not exactly “brilliant” mate. More like a hormonally unbalanced teenager. Hate that weird nervous laugh of his.

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

Yes, the new boss is looking alarmingly like the old boss. It’s just the way it goes.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

I worked at Universal Music when filesharing killed the album

I was literally in the building while it happened

The execs had two responses:

First they sued teenagers and when that failed spectacularly THEN they pretended streaming was their idea

We're watching institutions do the exact same thing with Bitcoin right now

First reaction was calling it a scam

Second reaction was launching ETFs and calling it innovation

I've seen this repeat so much in my carreer so much that the pattern is always the same:

Deny, fight, absorb, rebrand

Piracy (rejected) became streaming (accepted)

Bitcoin (rejected) became IBIT (accepted)

So the industry didn't die - the album format did

The industry just wrapped itself around a new distribution model and kept going

Record labels are worth more now than they were during the CD era btw

That's the part A LOT of people want to turn a blind eye to

You THINK the institutions died but they don't die they eventually pivot from the old model if they want to survive

And the same thing is happening to money right now

Fiat won't die (I come from Argentina where money died plenty of times - it never really dies)

it'll wrap itself around Bitcoin and call it monetary innovation

Yes, central banks will rebrand

Yes, the IMF will publish papers about it

And the people who thought they were fighting a revolution will realize they were building infrastructure for the next version of the same system

Not being cynical here btw - I welcome this

It's an upgrade

But this is a humble pattern recognition from someone who's watched this many times in my lifetime

[George Veelundbarrow @45CalibreX]

Peter Clack's post highlights rising CO₂ levels driving global greening, with NASA's AVHRR and MODIS data showing 25-50% of vegetated lands greener since the 1980s, equivalent to twice the U.S. land area.
The Sahara has shrunk by about 8% (over 700,000 km²), as CO₂ fertilization improves plant water efficiency by minimizing stomatal opening, boosting drought resistance in regions like the Sahel and Middle East.

While acknowledging climate challenges, the post emphasizes measurable benefits like enhanced vegetation in arid zones, aligning with a 2016 NASA study attributing 70% of greening to CO₂ effects. This net greening effect is counterbalanced by the loss of biodiversity of plant & vegetal species.

The type of information that people need to be aware of but is often omitted or diluted in half-truths.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

What a counterintuitive twist in the climate story.

The Sahara Desert of all places has shrunk by about 8% since the 1980s thanks to rising CO₂ levels fueling a remarkable global green renaissance.

Data from NASA’s AVHRR and MODIS instruments show that 25% to 50% of Earth's vegetated lands have become significantly greener, an area equivalent to roughly twice the continental United States.

CO₂ fertilization drove around 70% of this boom, making plants more efficient with water by reducing the time stomata (leaf pores) stay open, which in turn cuts water loss and boosts drought resistance.

This has allowed vegetation to reclaim arid edges in places like the Sahel (the Sahara's southern fringe), the Middle East and Australia's outback. The Sahara alone had lost around 8% of its desert, equivalent to over 700,000 km² of added green cover and pushing back the barren sand wastes in formerly inhospitable zones.

Atmospheric CO₂ now hovers around 430 ppm (early 2026 levels) enabling plants to thrive where they once couldn't. While climate change brings serious challenges, this greening shows a clear, measurable benefit from higher CO₂: and a greener, more resilient planet in many dry regions.