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[back in the day @backinthedayX]

1930s Drafting Table - Nestle, Germany

[Solvaix @Solvaix]

$164,000 A YEAR. THAT'S WHAT ONE COMPANY SAVES BY LETTING ONE PERSON RUN FOUR EXCAVATORS FROM A SINGLE CHAIR.

The machines sit at four separate rural gravel pits, each one busy for maybe 1-2 hours out of an 8-hour shift, one or two trucks a day. Not enough work to justify parking a full-time operator at any single site.

One operator runs all four from a single bank of screens, hundreds of miles from any of them. An AI layer watches all four feeds at once and tells them which pit needs attention first. The grade-control display does its own terrain read, catching depth errors down to a couple centimeters as the bucket moves.

Four site-based operators: about $224,000 a year combined.

One remote operator plus four AI-assisted consoles: roughly $60,000 a year in wages, $240,000 in equipment across all four machines, cameras, wireless control units, and the AI layer itself.

Under a year and a half, the hardware pays for itself in wages alone.

The article below calls this the next wave after digital agents. It's already stepping off the screen and into dirt nobody gets paid to stand in anymore.

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

I'm obsessed with cognitive biases.

A "cognitive bias" is a built-in glitch in our brain that sabotages good decisions.

These are the 11 craziest and most dangerous cognitive biases I've found: 👇

1. The Cobra Effect

[Priyank Ahuja @ahuja_priyank]

I gave ChatGPT my salary and career history.

It showed me income opportunities I didn't know I was sitting on. Here are the 7 prompts I used:

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

apparently ADHD is more strongly linked to struggling to let go of objects than OCD is. not because we’re hoarders. because our brains use objects as memory anchors. getting rid of the thing feels like getting rid of a version of ourselves.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Here's an interesting little fact...

From 1860 to 1996 Oregon voted 77% REPUBLICAN

Since 2000 ONLY DEMOCRATS have won Presidential elections

So what changed?

November 3, 1998: Oregon approved Ballot Measure 60 requiring vote-by-mail for ALL GENERAL ELECTIONS

Weird right?

[juan @juanbuis]

i can’t believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A pantomine horse isn’t a horse.
An open secret isn’t a secret.
A hot dog isn’t a dog.
A shrinking violet isn’t a violet.
Crow’s feet aren’t feet.
Fair game’s not a game.
Trans women aren’t women.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Eighteen-year-old Maël Le Lagadec has drawn international attention after carrying a newly built wooden cross to the summit of Pic d’Aneto, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees.

On May 9, the young Frenchman climbed for approximately fourteen hours while carrying the 35-kilogram cross on his back, together with a 15-kilogram backpack. Measuring 1.10 metres high, 70 centimetres wide and 11 centimetres thick, the cross was transported to an altitude of 3,404 metres in the Spanish region of Aragon.

The extraordinary journey began after the original metal cross, which had marked the summit since 1951, was cut down with a grinder and stolen in April 2026. Refusing to leave the mountain without its Christian symbol, Maël and a friend decided to build a replacement themselves from black walnut wood.

“A few weeks ago, we discovered that the Aneto cross had disappeared,” he explained. “With a friend, we launched this somewhat crazy project to rebuild it.”

After enduring the exhausting ascent, Maël finally reached the summit and restored the Cross to its place above the Pyrenees. Overcome with emotion, he knelt beside it and wept.

“I arrive, I kneel, and I cry.”

Someone tried to remove the Cross from the mountain.

An eighteen-year-old carried it back. ✝️🏔

[Justin Banks @RealJGBanks]

THIS IS HOW YOU WILL RETIRE IN THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS

I’ll be focused on where capital flows next.

Here’s how I believe the AI buildout evolves:

2026–2027: AI Infrastructure

AI demand accelerates.

Capital pours into the companies building the foundation.

• AI Compute: $NVDA $AMD $AVGO $MRVL
• Memory: $MU $SNDK $WDC
• AI Infrastructure: $VRT $SMCI $NBIS $IREN

2028–2030: Power & Grid

AI becomes an energy problem.

The world races to expand power generation, modernize the grid, and secure critical materials.

• Power Infrastructure: $VRT $ETN $PWR $HUBB
• Battery Materials: $ALB $SQM
• Copper/Grid: $FCX $TECK $SCCO
• Rare Earths: $MP $CRML $USAR
• Nuclear: $CCJ $UUUU $SMR $OKLO

2030+: Physical AI

Intelligence moves into the real world.

Robotics, autonomous systems, defense technology, and space become the next major investment themes.

• Robotics: $TSLA $SYM
• Autonomous Mobility: $ACHR $JOBY
• Defense: $LMT $NOC $KTOS $AVAV
• Space Economy: $RKLB $ASTS $LUNR $PL

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

Here's something truly funny in the darkest possible manner.

The "unflattering" traits listed as characteristic of white culture—even white supremacy culture—by institutions such as the Smithsonian share one fundamental psychological feature in common:

They are all indications of—are you ready for it—the Big Five trait conscientiousness.

Conscientiousness is the best known personality predictor of life success after general cognitive ability (otherwise known as intelligence).

So this means that the idiot leftists who developed and promoted such material proclaim their antiracism by insisting that the very trait most associated with productivity, reliability, diligence, and success is a flaw, unique to white people.

Hard work is key to success.
Work before play.
Delayed gratification.
Future orientation.
Planning.
Punctuality.
Self-reliance.
Respect for authority.

Pure conscientiousness.

"Yo--those n-words shore are lazee..."
Sincerely,
The Democratic Socialists of America

You can't make this stuff up.

In truth, by the way, racial differences in the major personality traits are negligible.

[Will Knowland @beherleader]

The wife’s submission is intelligent cooperation.

Too many wives hear the word and imagine silence, helplessness, enabling or the loss of their personality.

And most content about Christian masculinity contributes to this problem.

Submission doesn't remove the wife’s liberty or dignity, reduce her to the status of a minor or require obedience to unreasonable or degrading demands.

And when the husband neglects his duty, the wife may even take his place in directing the family.

At the same time, however, submission isn't a feeling that arises once the husband has performed perfectly.

It's a duty that requires the wife to respect the husband's legitimate authority, allowing him room to make decisions.

Although she should give counsel -- indeed, he has a duty to consult her -- she must do so without trying to control the outcome. And she must certainly refuse contempt, ridicule and maternal management by supporting good decisions once made and correcting him honourably when correction is necessary.

Husbands are weakened by mockery, constant criticism and the sense that nothing they do will ever be enough. And this weakens the marriage.

Too often, a wife may have legitimate grievances while using methods that make repentance and leadership less likely.

She must remember that her husband’s failures don't make her every reaction to them virtuous.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

America was not inherited. It was designed.

This is the most important difference between the American political system and every European one – and it explains almost everything about how they behave differently under pressure.

The European systems are the accumulated result of centuries of people grabbing, protecting, and occasionally reforming their privileges. The castle became the parliament. The knight became the aristocrat became the bureaucrat. The physical hierarchy of the medieval order dissolved slowly into the institutional hierarchy of the modern state – but the direction of power never fundamentally changed. It flows downward. The state is the source. The citizen is the recipient. Rights are granted, regulated, and can be revoked. The government rules. The people, from time to time, get to choose which version of the ruling class they prefer. But not too much.

America reversed the direction deliberately, constitutionally, and in writing. Power flows upward from the citizen. The government does not grant rights – it is created specifically to protect rights that exist before it and above it. The Bill of Rights is not a list of things the government allows you to do. It is a list of things the government is forbidden to touch. The distinction is not semantic. It is civilizational.

The founders had read their history. They designed against the accumulation of power: separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, the armed citizen as the ultimate check on all of it. Not a perfect system. A system designed to be imperfect in a specific way – to make the concentration of power difficult, slow, and visible.

Europe reformed its inherited systems. America built from first principles. The European instinct was to trust the institution. The American instinct is to limit it. The gun is the symbol of the difference – not as a weapon but as a principle. In America, the citizen is armed because the citizen is sovereign. In Europe, the citizen is disarmed because the state is sovereign. Everything else follows from that single difference in the direction of power.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hardcore

[Revenant @Orsonstfu]

@sovernTranch Sheep are amazing. I keep St Croix Katahdins.

[Kanika @KanikaBK]

WAIT... WHAT!!

Anthropic burned $3 million and 30 months running AI agents against real tasks in real companies and published everything in 12 pages and the people who read those 12 pages this week are going to make decisions about how they build and work that are fundamentally different from the people who scroll past it thinking they already understand what AI can do.

1,287 real tasks. 2.4 million lines of code. AI outperforming humans on their own projects. 63% of routine work automated. Engineer output multiplied three times with the right memory and the right cycles.

Someone paid $3 million so you could read that for free and most people are going to bookmark it and never open it again which is the most expensive free resource in the history of AI research.

But here is the gap that the 12 pages do not close.

Knowing that the right system multiplies output three times and knowing how to build that system are two completely different things and the second one is where everyone gets stuck and stays stuck while the people who figured it out quietly operate at a different level.

My article is the bridge between the $3 million research and the actual system build and it is the thing you read immediately after you bookmark those 12 pages.

Do not let this be another thing you meant to act on.

Full guide below.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

The state with the lowest rate of church attendance?
Massachusetts and Rhode Island -- 11% attend weekly.
New Hampshire (12%) and Maine (13%) are close behind.

The most religiously active? Utah at 44%.
Followed by a bunch in the Bible belt.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Lord have mercy on us

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

🔴 Are you wondering why the regime just rejected Trump’s ceasefire proposal and instead launched fresh attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan ( and handed them the perfect pretext to form a stronger coalition against it at the UN?)

It’s because Trump is exceptionally good at outmaneuvering these deceptive thugs. Look at this post from Jalal something. He is a member of the regime’s own parliament.

Trump carefully shaped the perception that the midterm elections are his top priority and that he would avoid any major military action until after November (Dey/Azar in the Persian calendar). That narrative was widely amplified by the regime’s favourite channels and made its way to Tehran. As a result, the regime now seems convinced that Trump is constrained and reluctant to escalate before the elections , so hey believe they hold the upper hand in any negotiation if they keep resisting and push oil prices even higher.

In reality, the party holding the White House typically loses ground in the House. That was never Trump’s primary concern. He was waiting for the necessary strategic alignment (particularly among the Arab states, the Europeans, and Saudi Arabia, to solidify a broader coalition). That alignment is now largely complete.

And the reason he offered another ceasefire? It reinforces the regime’s belief that he’s desperate. That kind of thinking encourages overconfidence and, well, miscalculation, exactly like the attacks they just carried out against the Arabs.

Trump can then say, with full credibility, that every reasonable diplomatic channel was pursued, multiple ceasefire proposals were extended, and the regime simply refused to
cooperate.

At the same time, the regime has not fully dispersed or gone underground. They believe they still hold the initiative and that Trump remains hesitant, so they continue operating more openly, and in the process are rapidly depleting their remaining missile and drone inventories.

The most interesting part is how completely blind they’ve become to the massive military buildup already in the region. The regime cannot realistically prepare for every possible contingency. When the moment comes, they’ll be caught by surprise and effectively paralyzed.

Now what I predict to follow: The next phase is likely to involve targeted Israeli operations against the remaining commanders and officials who haven’t secured protection. Don’t forget there’s already massive infiltration and defection inside the regime, people who have long been in contact with intelligence agencies.

Removing the rest of the officials would significantly disrupt command-and-control structures and slow the regime’s decision-making to a crawl. From there, the United States would be positioned to act and move into the country, creating enormous psychological pressure on the regime’s forces. They have never fought a real war; they are only tough facing unarmed protesters.

The death of Mojtaba Khamenei would then be announced. Morale collapses. The remaining officials who have already defected sign the surrender and issue a formal declaration that the regime has been dissolved. At that stage, the ball is in the hands of the Iranian people and Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to complete the transition.

War cannot be fully predicted but I assume this is the plan, it was, from the beginning.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

This is the Single Greatest Chart of the Trump Presidency

10 million illegals crossed in just 4 years under Biden

Trump closed the border within 48 hours of taking office

Now crossings are at virtually zero

The invasion was deliberate — Trump ended it

Put him on Mt. Rushmore

Chart H/T: @Geiger_Capital