Beth Wang

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

More driverless trucks are on our roads

These are by Gatik AI, the make 26 and 30 foot box trucks that drive 100% without a driver

They’ve already partnered with PepsiCo, Walmart, Kroger and other Fortune 50 grocers and retailers

According to data, these driverless trucks will put over 400,000 long haul truckers out of a job

And by 2030 drivers vehicles as a whole are expected to put 4.4 million drivers are of work

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

I went to one of these schools, and literally know probably ~250+ people who attended one of them.

My wife went to a bay area public school that was pretty good but absolutely not a feeder. Suburban, high Asian population (largely first generation - country music, bud light, football and high SAT scores. No accents). Solid upper-middle class environment.

Her HS class sent ~10/400 to an ivy or equivalent like Stanford/MIT (applying a strict standard to equivalent - eg not even including Duke, Berkeley, JHU, other extremely good schools). My HS sent at least 50%. Not a typo.

I would say that her friends from high school are *significantly* smarter in average than the many hundreds that I know from these feeder schools. "Oh they aren't as well-rounded, that's why they didn't get in." This is totally false. They're more well-rounded, have more interesting hobbies, have wilder stories from college. They also work harder and are more ambitious - unclear if that's innate, or because they simply had to. They have better careers despite starting from behind.

I didn't have a strong opinion on all of this until I spent time with my wife and heard the stories, eg kids with perfect SAT scores getting rejected from 8 Ivys + Stanford. You hear that story and assume the guy is a total weirdo who pooped himself in front of the admissions team. Then you meet him and he's funny, cool, totally normal, interesting hobbies, lots of friends. It's radicalizing.

The skew of the Ivy admissions system is a straight up injustice and is bad for our nation, because we're filling so many of our most important launching pads with nepo babies.

[Mercurius @MercuriusFilius]

Elite feeder schools dominate Ivy League admissions and have long served as the primary pipeline for both old money and new money students. These are the institutions where America’s most elite families send their children to prepare for their future roles in society — far beyond mere education.

Roughly 20 high schools consistently send more students to Ivy League colleges than most others combined.

America’s wealthiest families have long funneled their children into these schools, many of which have been reliable Ivy League feeders since the 1600s and 1700s.

[i/o @avidseries]

Prior to 2003, how many points did the University of Michigan award applicants who had obtained perfect SAT scores?

Answer: 12 points

And how many points did it give an applicant for merely being black?

Answer: 20 points

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Lawmakers have little more than six years to find a remedy. If nothing is done, the immediate consequences will be dire for America’s pensioners: https://t.co/PtbCQCQ0It

[Beth Wang @BessWang3]

@VicentYip 哪儿有那么白 都很黑

[ℓ @L_eacc]

汇丰开始要求存量用户签署资金与内地无关的声明了
（本人 24 年初开户）

[Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt]

Breaking: A Seattle neighborhood declares WAR against pimps shooting up Aurora Avenue while engaging in turf wars over prostitutes.

Residents say they have been constantly dodging bullets since the city decriminalized prostitution in 2020, resulting in open-air sex trafficking and an increase in gun violence.

If the city refuses to address the yearslong issue, some residents want President Trump to intervene and order a federal crackdown.

[WangNextDoor @WangNextDoor2]

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[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1978, a student working a summer job at minimum wage could earn enough to cover an entire year of in-state tuition at a four-year public university, often without needing to take on debt.

In 1978, a student earning the federal minimum wage could realistically pay for an entire year of in-state tuition at a public four-year university with a typical summer job. With minimum wage set at $2.65 per hour and average annual tuition and required fees around $688, a student working 40 hours a week for 12 weeks could earn about $1,272 before taxes—more than enough to cover tuition and still have money left for books, transportation, and other expenses.

That reality has largely disappeared. While the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour for years, average in-state tuition and fees at public four-year universities have climbed to roughly $11,000 annually. Covering tuition alone at minimum wage would now require more than 1,500 hours of work before taxes, the equivalent of nearly 38 weeks of full-time employment—far beyond what a student could earn during a normal summer break.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Cloud streets are parallel, organized rows of low-level cumulus clouds that stretch across the sky in the direction of the wind.

They form when cool air moves over a warmer surface, creating rising columns of air called thermals.

[ABC News @ABC]

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. https://t.co/1MqjGh0Y00

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

Eric Trump claims that "80%" of his dad's company is Jewish:

"They used to say that our family hated Jewish people. It’s kind of ironic, considering how hard I fight for Israel, and the fact that 80% of the employees of my organization are Jewish, probably 50% of my best friends are Jewish and my sister is an Orthodox Jew."

[g1 @g1]

Experimento - Um estudante de engenharia de computação conseguiu registrar imagens de Goiânia a mais de 3 mil metros de altitude após prender um celular a balões de gás hélio e lançar o equipamento ao céu (veja o vídeo acima). Por fim, o jovem ainda conseguiu recuperar o telefone.

O vídeo do experimento viralizou nas redes sociais e já ultrapassa 2,4 milhões de visualizações. Um advogado alertou que lançamentos de balões não tripulados precisam de autorização do Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo.

O responsável pela experiência é Pedro Augusto, de 18 anos, que também é astrofotógrafo. Apaixonado por astronomia desde a pandemia, ele decidiu transformar o hobby em um projeto para coletar dados atmosféricos e registrar imagens da capital vista do alto.

Para o experimento, Pedro utilizou um celular antigo preso a balões de festa preenchidos com gás hélio. Além da câmera, o aparelho recebeu um sistema programado por ele para transmitir imagens e informações, como pressão atmosférica e temperatura em tempo real.

“Tive que programar o celular de modo que ele pudesse me enviar as imagens e pudesse me enviar também os dados de pressão, temperatura, da atmosfera remotamente. Para esse processo, eu precisei ter o conhecimento de programação e de software”, explicou em entrevista à TV Anhanguera.

Veja mais no #g1

#balão #goiás #imagensaereas

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

This is INSANE.

AIPAC controls 76% of the members of Congress, regardless of which party they belong to.

There’s def a uniparty, but it looks much different than I could have ever imagined.

I NEVER looked or paid attention to any of this until they took out Thomas Massie.

[ABC News @ABC]

The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the convictions of two former Aurora paramedics, who were convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man who was walking home from a convenience store. https://t.co/PowAbUT7cE

[Beth Wang @BessWang3]

@snowboat84 写一堆也没有写到核心 读一下 锡安山长老日记 他们绝对是由核心计划和步骤的 几百年规划 华人一盘散沙

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[ABC News @ABC]

An oceanfront home collapsed into the Atlantic in Buxton, North Carolina, on Tuesday. It's the 20th house in the area to collapse into the sea since September 2025. https://t.co/ifbl89SPpG

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: Honduran drug gangs have taken over the streets of San Francisco. We spent three nights documenting "the Hondos," who have cornered the market for fentanyl and meth—and who will slash you with a machete if you oppose them.