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[Temmy | DeFi Analyst🦇🔊 @Only1temmy]

how my brain feels after reading this:

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Now we completely understand exactly why the United States frantically placed a sweeping ban on the sale of advanced Nvidia chips and high-performance semiconductors to China.

The real threat to Western hegemony was never DeepSeek, Qwen, or other AI chatbots generating text, translating languages, and writing code. The real, terrifying threat is the massive supercomputers on the ground in China.
If China builds faster and more powerful supercomputers on their own soil, they can effortlessly run highly complex, real-world, and strategically vital simulations that have direct and far-reaching military and industrial applications.

And it is absolutely not surprising, nor is it a mere coincidence, that this historic, major spaceflight breakthrough involving the successful sea-based recovery of a reusable rocket booster comes practically alongside China’s unveiling of LineShine. LineShine is currently the world's fastest exascale supercomputer, built entirely with domestic components, running purely on homegrown CPU microprocessors without a single Western GPU, and completely outperforming El Capitan, the flagship national security supercomputer belonging to the United States. Clearly, it is now obvious that the aggressive export controls and tech sanctions being placed on China by Washington are not about AI safety, ethics, or international standards. They are designed strictly to slow down, sabotage, and cripple China's domestic production of these massive supercomputers.

The critical reason for this high-stakes global race for exascale supercomputers is basically the computational capacity to solve the notoriously complex Navier-Stokes equations. These Partial Differential Equations(PDE) are the absolute keys to the kingdom for all of aerospace engineering, advanced weather prediction, stealth submarine design, hydrodynamic modeling, and hypersonic weapons development. There is currently no known general solution to these equations in three dimensions, and you will be handed a whopping $1 million prize by the Clay Mathematics Institute if you can find a general formula or prove the existence and smoothness of these solutions. Since no such general formula exists, sovereign nations are completely dependent on using massive, raw computing power to numerically approximate, simulate, and solve these equations.

Before China unveiled LineShine, the previous, under-powered supercomputers at their disposal would take weeks, months, or even years of non-stop computing to numerically solve these Navier-Stokes equations. This is because the chaotic fluid dynamics, supersonic aerodynamics, and thermal turbulence of a massive rocket booster descending vertically through its own burning exhaust during retropropulsion, descent, and sea-based net-capture are so insanely complex that older supercomputers would literally choke on the math, taking months just to simulate a few fleeting seconds of flight. With exascale, GPU-free giants like LineShine running over two quintillion calculations per second, those exact same complex equations are now solved in real time, providing their engineers with the precise, high-velocity, and flawlessly accurate simulation data needed to successfully land, recover, and reuse an orbital booster on a platform at sea.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Paul Snively @JustDeezGuy]

Phil Williams. My boss’ boss at Apple. Surfer dude, feet on his desk. We guys asked each other over lunch “What does Phil do all day?”

Then Phil left.

“Oh.”

I’m sorry, Phil.

[陈剑Jason @jason_chen998]

这次美国访华晚宴坐在马斯克和库克中间C位最亮眼的，是蓝思科技创始人周群飞，从农村打工妹到中国女首富，完全没有任何背景全靠自己白手起家。她出生在湖南的一个小村庄，5岁时母亲去世，父亲也因工伤残疾双目失明，家徒四壁，16岁交不起学费被迫辍学去广东打工，在一家工厂流水线打磨玻璃，白天干活，晚上疯狂自学，考了会计证、电脑操作证等技能证书，就这样过了几年，她拿着靠打工攒的2万块，拉上哥哥姐姐、嫂子姐夫等8个亲戚，在深圳开了一家小作坊，做手表玻璃加工，她一个人修机器、跑销售，就这样又干了4年。
到了2000年后手机行业开始大规模发展，一次偶然的机会她的手表玻璃厂接到了TCL手机屏幕的订单，她看到了手机玻璃市场的巨大潜力，于是迅速成立了蓝思科技，专门负责手机玻璃的生产研发和销售，一开始只做国产手机和山寨机，但是直到有一次想谈下摩托罗拉的订单，但外企的质量要求非常严格，她赌上几乎全部的资源配合摩托罗拉，拿下了全球销售超过1亿台的V3订单，直接把蓝思科技推到了行业领先位置，随后顺利拿下诺基亚、三星等外企。
关键的转折点又一次出现在了2007年，当时乔布斯发布初代iPhone，彻底把手机往全玻璃触屏的方向变革，乔布斯那变态的工艺要求全球都找不到符合的厂商，周群飞敏锐的意识到这又是一个巨大的机会，于是带领团队和苹果工程师联合攻关了3个月，突破关键工艺，成功量产了第一代iPhone玻璃面板，从此拿下苹果长期合同，后续的iPad、MacBook等几乎所有苹果设备全部都交给了蓝思科技，也帮助蓝思科技在触摸玻璃面板领域成为全区最大公司。
这也是为什么她能坐在库克旁边，那为什么马斯克也坐在她旁边呢？
蓝思科技在玻璃面板干到全球第一后，开始往更加多元的智能化设备发展，包括汽车座舱和机器人，其中汽车领域包括车窗、中控等已经拿下了特斯拉、宝马、奔驰、理想等30家车企，机器人领域则主要负责关节、传感器等部件，这些都和马斯克的业务有深度重合。
一个15岁辍学只有初中文凭的女生，从湖南农村出来白手起家成为中国女首富，40年后进入中美会谈，坐在了马斯克和库和中间，这就是周群飞的故事。

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 The Wall Street Journal just dropped a bombshell report on the inside story of the Iran war...

The key revelations:

Trump used to call the Middle East "blood and sand" and wanted nothing to do with it.

Then Netanyahu gave him a "persuasive February briefing" in the Situation Room, backed by repeated calls from Lindsey Graham, and Trump changed his mind.

He thought it would be as easy as Venezuela.

Trump was "in awe" of the scale of the bombs, watching clips of explosions every morning.

But he did "little to sell the American public on the war" and grew frustrated when he didn't get praised for it.

His own team showed him midterm polling that proved the war was dragging down Republican candidates.

He "quickly began ruminating on how the military action could turn into a catastrophe."

On the Strait: Trump told his team before the war that Iran would "likely capitulate before closing the strait."

His advisers were "caught off guard" that tanker traffic stopped so quickly.

Trump later "marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed," saying "a guy with a drone can shut it down."

By late March, before the F-15 was even shot down, Trump ordered his team to find a way to start talks.

The war was already over in his mind weeks before the ceasefire.

His aides begged him to stop doing impromptu interviews because he was contradicting himself publicly.

He agreed to stop, then went right back to calling reporters.

The April 1 address to the nation was Susie Wiles' idea to "reassure the country Trump had a plan."

Trump didn't want to do it because, in his own words, he couldn't declare victory and didn't know where it was going.

This report paints a picture of a president who was talked into a war by Netanyahu and Graham, realized it was a mistake within weeks, spent the rest of the conflict looking for the exit, and was frustrated that nobody would give him credit along the way.

The war was an impulse, sold by an ally with different objectives, enabled by advisers who couldn't say no, and sustained by a president who was too proud to admit the mistake until the economy forced his hand.

[PhD en Lógica y Libertad @PhDenLogica]

El CERN acaba de transportar antimateria en un camión. Apenas 92 antiprotones.

Un grano de sal tiene1.200.000.000.000.000.000 átomos.

Si algo hubiera salido mal, no habría explotado, simplemente se habría desaparecido en un parpadeo de luz

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Michael Clarke on Iran: The US achieved everything it wanted militarily. It was militarily flawless and politically clueless.

Washington hit all the targets it wanted, but got almost nothing politically that it did not already have at the start. 1/

[Ashraf @Ashraf17773]

@ijbolistical Aku berak taik keras sampai betul2 koyak. Menitik darah dalam air tandas. Hahaha ni 15 tahun lepas tapi sampai sekarang nak berak pun trauma halus2

[Fit With Dr Sam @FitWithDrSam]

I got into a huge argument with my wife because I wouldn’t let her check my phone.

She said:

We should have each other’s passwords. That’s what real couples do.

I told her:
A phone is personal.

So finally, I asked a famous marriage counselor who was right.

He said this:

[Ashraf @Ashraf17773]

Dah masuk darjah 3.

[C. Gray @angelwakingup2]

@KeruboSk

[Ashraf @Ashraf17773]

“Can i take my armor off here? Or do i have to fight you too?”

[Ashraf @Ashraf17773]

@zamirmohyedin Rasa terkesan dengan kematian dia. Waktu dia Pres Iran dulu, aku baru berjinak-jinak dengan geopolitik, usia belasan tahun masa tu. Dari dia aku kenal negara Iran. Ahmadinejad lah arkitek besar yang pecut nuklear Iran, tapi diketepikan dari politik Iran. Dibunuh sebab dia hebat.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 I just learned about a concept, I can't stop thinking about.

The Four Burner Theory.

It destroyed Elon Musk's first marriage.
It explains why Bezos is jacked but divorced.

And why Zuckerberg has no real friends.

Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

[Dating Dynamics @Dating_Dynamics]

My parents were married for 33 years.

I never once heard the word “Divorce” in our house.

Not during fights, money stress, hard seasons. Never.

Before my wedding, my father pulled me aside and said a few things that still live in my head to this day....

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Boss said, "My team is burned out, but they're not even working that much."
The real problem was invisible.

"They're exhausted," the boss told me. "But most leave by 6 PM."

I'd seen this before.

"Tell me about their typical day," I said.

"Normal stuff. Meetings, projects, the usual."

"How many tools do they switch between?"

He started counting on his fingers.
Stopped at ten.

"How often do priorities change?"

"We're agile," he said. "We adapt quickly."

"How quickly?"

"Daily. Sometimes hourly."

"Show me one person's calendar," I said.

He pulled up his marketing director's schedule.
Seventeen meetings in three days.
Eight different projects discussed.
Zero focused work time.

"She's drowning," I said.

"But she's only here 45 hours a week."

"Hours aren't the problem. Decisions are."

He looked puzzled.

I explained.

"Research shows that every context switch can take over 20 minutes to recover mentally.
She switches contexts more than 15 times a day.
That's 5 hours of mental recovery time, every day.
It's only an 8-hour workday."

His face changed.

"Your team isn't tired from working.
They're tired from switching.
From deciding what's actually important.
From never finishing anything."

"What do I do?"

"Three changes:

First: One main priority per week.
Not seven. One.
Written down. Shared with everyone.

Second: Batch meetings.
All meetings on Tuesday/Thursday.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday for deep work.

Third: Pick three tools. Kill the rest."

They were using Slack, Teams, email, Asana, Monday, Notion, and four others.
Now they use three. Total.

Six weeks later:

"How's the team?" I asked.

"Same hours. Completely different energy."

"What changed?"

"Maria finished a project last week.
The whole thing. Start to finish.
First time in two years."

He paused.

"She actually smiled in our one-on-one.
Said she forgot what it felt like to complete something."

The truth about burnout:

It's not always about the hours you put in.
It's about where your attention is pulled.

You can work 40 hours and feel destroyed.
Or 55 hours and feel energized.

The difference?

Whether those hours are spent starting things.
Or finishing them.

Most leaders count hours.
The smart ones protect focus.

Because burnout doesn't come from hard work.
It comes from work that never ends.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Marriage triggers universal personality changes in less than two years.

Marriage goes far beyond a legal or social commitment—it acts as a powerful catalyst for genuine psychological shifts in both partners. A landmark longitudinal study followed 169 heterosexual newlywed couples, assessing their Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) at 6, 12, and 18 months post-wedding. The findings reveal consistent patterns of change that emerge early in marriage, largely independent of factors like age, premarital cohabitation, or the presence of children.

Husbands typically showed increases in conscientiousness, becoming more responsible, organized, and dependable—traits that support the demands of shared life and household stability. Wives, on the other hand, experienced notable declines in neuroticism, reporting reduced anxiety, anger, and emotional volatility, which translated into greater overall emotional stability.

However, these adaptations came with trade-offs. Both partners tended to become less open to new experiences, possibly as they settled into familiar domestic routines and routines. Extraversion also declined, with couples often prioritizing their relationship over wider social networks, leading to fewer outings and interactions with friends. Additionally, agreeableness decreased for both husbands and wives, suggesting that as the initial "courtship mask"—the idealized, highly accommodating behavior of early romance—fades, partners may become less patient and more prone to friction in everyday interactions.

These shifts appear remarkably universal across the sample, occurring regardless of baseline differences. While some changes (like heightened conscientiousness in men or reduced neuroticism in women) correlated with higher marital satisfaction over time, others (such as drops in agreeableness) highlight potential sources of strain.

Because these personality transformations are largely inevitable, experts emphasize that marital longevity depends not just on initial compatibility but on deliberate efforts to cultivate self-control, patience, and forgiveness. Couples who actively work to adapt to these evolving dynamics are better positioned to maintain a healthy, satisfying relationship as the honeymoon phase gives way to long-term partnership.

[Lavner, J. A., Karney, B. R., & Bradbury, T. N. "Personality change among newlyweds: Patterns, predictors, and associations with marital satisfaction over time." Developmental Psychology, 54(6), 1172–1185. DOI: 10.1037/dev0000491]

[🔺meingl🔻 @meinmokhtar]

Hope 2026 semua jadi lagi better and kita jumpa lagi 2027