Moorduk

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The world's oldest café has one item on the menu.

It has been in Kyoto since the year 1000.

Not the 1900s. Not the 1800s.
The year one thousand.

It's called Ichiwa. A tiny tea house by a shrine gate,
run by the same family for 25 generations.

They sell aburi-mochi: little rice cakes on bamboo skewers,
grilled over a charcoal fire, covered in sweet white miso sauce.

That's it. That's the menu.
It has been the menu for a thousand years.

When this shop opened, Vikings were still raiding Europe.
The samurai class didn't exist yet.

And a family in Kyoto lit a charcoal fire
and started grilling mochi for tired pilgrims.

That fire has customers to this day.

Reporters have asked the family the secret
to surviving a thousand years.
The answer is almost embarrassing in its simplicity:

they never expanded. Never franchised.
Never added a second item.
They decided one small thing mattered,
did it perfectly, and kept doing it.

For a millennium.

My favorite detail:
across the street stands their rival,
a shop selling the same mochi since 1637.

Four hundred years old,
and the neighborhood still thinks of it
as the new place.

An order costs about three dollars.
You sit on a bench by an old shrine,
and you eat the exact same warm, smoky sweet
that a dusty traveler ate in the year 1000.

Some countries put history behind glass.

Japan hands it to you on a skewer
and asks if you'd like more tea.

[𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 🥷🏿 @hoodg3nius]

Nigga tore his HDMI, ARC, CPU and RAM 💔✌️ speedy recovery robonigga

[The Market Ear @themarketear]

Semis are selling off. Credit stress is rising. Meanwhile, protection has been getting cheaper. Read that again.
https://t.co/k8ORzr3LjJ

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

Let me explain women’s biology to you that your MOTHER wouldn’t teach you.

Women cannot survive by strength. So nature gave them a different survival trick: fit in or die.

They don't have a truth filter. They have a SAFETY filter.

A man hears an idea and thinks: "Is this true or false?"
A woman hears an idea and thinks: "If I say this, will other women still like me? Will I be cancelled? Will I be alone?"

Belonging matters to women more than truth. Always.

That's why mass media owns them.

You put the same slogan on every TV, every TikTok, every Instagram ad - "girlboss," "finding myself," divorce glow "you don't need a family," "freeze your eggs"

and her brain thinks it's REAL because every woman is saying it.

You don't need to convince her with evidence. You just need to make her think EVERYONE ELSE already believes it.

She will swallow any lie if it makes her feel included.

Tell her being a single mother at 35 with a corporate job is empowerment and she'll clap, even while she's on antidepressants and crying herself to sleep.

Tell her being a wife at 20 with 3 kids is oppression, and she'll laugh at her own mother.

The media doesn't win by being right. It wins by making her scared to be LEFT OUT!!!

Real intellectual independence requires the ability to stand alone and defend yourself when the whole crowd turns on you. That kind of courage is built on physical strength. Only a mind that knows it can survive outside the herd dares to ask:

"Is it true - even if everyone says it's false?"

Only men can do that.

_"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..."_
*- George Orwell, 1984*

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

This has AI designed spying written all over it. Measuring things you wouldn't even think of to track you.

Terrifying and awesome.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Just so people understand: It is Trump’s Iran war that is driving the debt and interest rate crisis. Asian economies are tanking because they are starved of oil, that, in turn, is punishing their currencies, and Japan in particular is selling our bonds to try to prop their currency up.

As they sell, that exacerbates the crisis. If Trump truly tries to target Iran economically next week further, it’ll be pouring the last gasoline we have right on the fire.

We’re watching this man break the global financial system for nothing. The deal Iran offered in February was better than what he can or will get now. And we’re all going down with him.

[Smash JT @SmashJT]

WTAF kinda PRO ALL DIGITAL ASS post is this? All my retro games still work perfectly fine. FOH

[Slumdog_Chillionaire @SlumRNA_Dog]

How often do you see men showing up at high profile family annihilator/domestic violence trials showing their support for the defendant?

[Vlad @VladTheInflator]

Trump admits its government manipulation that inflated home prices and people who can't buy the manipulated prices are just lazy.

They steal your money so they can weaponize that stolen money against you

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Iceland has a breed of sheep that nobody breeds for meat, because for a thousand years it has been bred for one quality only. Judgement.

They are called forystufe. Leader sheep. Taller, longer in the leg, narrower through the body, oddly marked, and always at the front, with their heads up while the rest of the flock has its head down. When they move, the flock moves. Nobody votes.

A proven leader sold for two or three times the price of a good sheep. Bloodlines became famous. When a great one died, the farm kept the head.

And the claim attached to them sounds like folklore until you read the records. They know the weather is coming, sometimes a full day out. If the leader will not leave the barn on a morning that looks perfectly fine, you do not move the flock. Farmers arranged their winters around the opinion of a sheep, and wrote it down as fact.

Autumn round-up, 1884. A large flock is being driven across the interior when a blizzard comes down on open sand and rock. Every landmark goes. You cannot pitch a tent on that ground and turning back is worse than going on.

At the front is a ram called Surtur, from Svinavatn, already known as a superior leader. The fjallkongur, the man running the round-up, makes a decision. He hands the whole thing to the sheep and tells his men to stay together.

A third of the way across, Surtur stops, turns, and walks back down through the flock to find the men. His face is packed solid with ice and he cannot see. They clear it. He returns to the front and walks back into the weather.

He comes back for the same service several more times that night. Nobody has to fetch him.

Then he stops and will not move at all. The men feel about and find grass under their boots, which tells them they are off the desert and nothing else whatsoever.

At dawn the storm eases and they work out where they are.

They are standing on the exact spot the round-up stops every year after crossing the sands. Surtur had halted there since he was a lamb. Afterwards the fjallkongur told his owner that without the ram, men would have died out there as well as sheep.

There are fewer than 1,500 leader sheep left, all of them descended from one district in the north east. Iceland recognised them as a breed of their own in 2017. There is a small museum out there, run by a local teacher, with the heads of the great ones on the wall and a coffee blend named after the animals. The saying on the wall is that if you wear clothes made from their wool, you will always find your way home.

Genetic work has since confirmed they really are distinct from every other Icelandic sheep. The folklore was right. Folklore usually is, out where the weather kills people.

No laboratory. No pedigree software. No genome. Just farmer after farmer, century after century, watching which animal was at the front when the light went, and breeding from that one.

A thousand years of selecting a sheep for its judgement, and at the end of it they built it a museum.

And here we are, in the country that calls them stupid.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Astronomers have discovered a new kind of cosmic object, a Black Hole "Star"

The mysterious object, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope in the constellation Cetus, appears to be a black hole surrounded by glowing gas and is roughly the size of the Solar System

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

people are dramatically underappreciating how much this discovery rewrites history

> for decades, archaeologists believed the amazon could only support small, scattered communities because its soil was too poor for large, complex civilizations

> then deforestation started exposing giant circles + squares carved into the ground, and the theory began falling apart

> the intact jungle still hid the true scale, so researchers flew lidar over 4,500 km² and digitally peeled away the trees

> they found 396 previously unknown earthworks, some surrounded by ditches 5m deep + connected by roads

> across the full region, they estimate 20,000+ structures spread over an area roughly the size of syria

> most belonged to a 2,500-year-old society researchers call the aquiry

> its peak population is estimated at 1.25-3 million people (the city of rome had roughly 1 million)

> so while rome ruled the mediterranean, this supposedly impossible forest society may have supported 1-3 romes worth of people

> which raises the obvious question: how did a region archaeologists thought was infertile feed millions?

> it turns out this part of the amazon has unusually fertile soil, and they grew maize + squash while actively managing the surrounding forest

> then around 850-950 ad, their ceremonial centers were suddenly abandoned, and researchers still have no idea why

> and all of this came from a territory covering less than 3% of the amazon

what else is still hiding beneath the other 97% of the Amazon??

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

Wikipedia's ex-founder here. Four consequential policy discussions are happening on Wikipedia right now. Three of them would empower mainstream media to control what the encyclopedia says, and more importantly, what it doesn't say. A thread. 🧵 👇

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 BREAKING: Apple filed for a PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION against OpenAI AND asked a federal judge to put them under forensic supervision

"Apple respectfully moves the Court for a preliminary injunction to stop THE THEFT OF ITS TRADE SECRETS"

Apple filed NINE sworn declarations, a 28-page memorandum and a concurrent motion for expedited discovery

What Apple now says, under oath:

Chang Liu: 8 years at Apple, now OpenAI "Member of Technical Staff" exploited an authentication bug to steal Apple trade secrets "on AT LEAST FIVE SEPARATE OCCASIONS" from February to April 2026, WHILE working for OpenAI

Liu downloaded "THOUSANDS OF PAGES of Apple's most sensitive trade secrets"

The stolen files, NAMED:
>DisplayNotes.key — "several hundred pages" on Apple's custom display power development program
>Architecture analyses. Fabrication decisions. Testing results
>Engineering data for an UNANNOUNCED Apple product: 'touch, display, and power systems"
>Final.key + V2.key — compilations of two undisclosed Apple R&D projects
>and those are "only four of the dozens of proprietary documents Mr. Liu stole"

Liu fed OpenAI "a steady stream of Apple proprietary information that he actively concealed"

Liu also "coached Yu-Ting "Alyssa" Peng, then still INSIDE Apple, how to access and copy files from Apple workstations "to avoid trouble with the security team" and directed her to communicate with him on the encrypted LINE app "to avoid detection"

Tang Yew Tan: 24-year Apple VP, now OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer, "used an Apple internal project codename for an unannounced product to elicit still more trade secrets from job candidates."

Tan's own messages, quoted in the motion:
>"Just like last time, bring some parts you worked on" >"mlb, battery, shields type of stuff is interesting"

OpenAI recruiter, quoted: "No, you won't sign anything at the exit interview. If they do ask you to sign anything, let me know asap."

APPLE TOLD FEDERAL JUDGE:
>"OpenAI knows its misappropriation is wrong and has tried to conceal it."
>"This is not a case of 'mere hiring'... it is a case of repeated instances of deliberate theft."

Apple says OpenAI went after its SUPPLIERS:
>OpenAI "directed a trusted Apple partner [name redacted] to perform [Apple's proprietary metal finishing] process for them, knowing it was proprietary to Apple... because they were involved in this partnership while at Apple."

Apple put its own Surface Finishing Manager, Jackie Hughes, under oath to prove it.

Apple named ELEVEN MORE former Apple employees at OpenAI — beyond Liu, Tan, and Peng — Fourteen people total.

Apple also filed a concurrent motion for EXPEDITED DISCOVERY demanding depositions:
- Liu. Tan. Peng.
- A fourth unnamed OpenAI employee
- Plus OpenAI itself, under oath, through Rule 30(b)(6)

Apple has asked a federal judge to put OpenAI under forensic supervision RIGHT NOW:

>Forensic inspection of ALL OpenAI devices
>ALL cloud storage, Slack, email
>Including anything that "previously contained" Apple data — deleted included

Demanding the "first available hearing date," citing "imminent threat" to its trade secrets.

APPLE:
> "The harm is happening now — every day that passes without an injunction allows OpenAI to embed their knowledge of Apple's stolen information into its hardware development efforts."

Hearing: October 1, 2026. Judge Edward J. Davila.

ITS HAPPENING

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.

An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.

here's what happened in between.

Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.

she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."

police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.

This means:

Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.

the message was private.

it wasn't.

[Nic0le @nicole_clash]

After exploring China more as an American it’s pretty apparent why the US is getting mogged.

1.Drugs.

Drugs are a pure negative on society and I haven’t realized the impact until now. It makes sense why the Chinese don’t have “homeless”. Homeless to Americans mean people lazing around on the streets, often high. In China, there are a ton of people below the poverty line, but they are all doing something. Swarming around hotel lobby entrances selling umbrellas, back to back fruit sellers, etc. They weren’t given the option to turn to drugs that’ll ruin their life.

2.Politics induced polarization

In the US, the two political parties are incentivized to brainwash voters with their talking points. Polarizing takes will always perform better than neutral ones due to how the internet engages with content.

That is why I start most of my tweets with some form of ragebait if I want it to gain traction. “As an American”. The dangerous thing about political rage bait is that they don’t need to be lies, it’s so easy to invoke certain reactions by presenting truths in a certain way.

For example, the datacenter water argument. One side has clearly been fed propaganda on how data centers are destroying people’s lives with their water consumption and environmental impact. The other side has been fed propaganda about the water usage numbers compared to golf courses and how data centers don’t use that much water. As a result, you have one half of the country in protest and the other half thinking the first half’s retarded.

If only presented with one truth, both parties would reach the conclusion to simply focus on making better data centers in a way that doesn’t disrupt people’s lives.

3.Short term profit incentives

When politicians are elected for 4 year terms, they gain absolutely nothing by investing in a long term plan that takes 20 years to pan out. Thats not going to get them re-elected. They get re-elected by fucking over the economy for short term glowups during their 4 years.

The Chinese can implement public infrastructure projects that span decades. They’ve been doing that shit since the Great Wall. Nowadays it’s resulted in high speed trains and citywide subway systems.

4.Anti-tech mindset

50 years ago the United States was the world’s leader and China was a shithole. The Americans did not see much improvement in their lifestyle with the rise of tech. Meanwhile China was transformed in a large part due to the technological advancements over the years.

Along with nostalgia and political talking points, it is not a surprise that many in the US are against tech advancements.

This was made very clear with AI. Almost everyone in the US opposes it, they see it as massive corporations taking advantage of the people and milking them for profits with the result with their own work. Which is true.

Meanwhile the Chinese understands that advancements in technology makes everyone’s lives better. The models are the culmination of everyone’s work and should be opensourced.

5.Illogical empathy

Due to diversity and polarization incentives, society’s been broken down into many layers of sub identities. Race wars, gender wars, class wars, sexual orientation wars, etc etc. It’s resulted in a massive web of what is considered morally correct within your own group of people, at the risk of alienation if you break ranks.

For example, if you buy a Tesla in the US you are against trans people. Meanwhile, the majority of cars I’ve seen in China is electric. The Chinese have no qualms about EV adoption, it’s quieter, reduces smog, and environmentally friendly. Pure net positive for the government to subsidize various EV manufacturers so the cost is lower on the consumers, and the consumers were happy to make the switch as the result. Win win.
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TLDR Beijing/Chongqing is hard gapping NY/SF rn and we need to pull our shit together.

[Moorduk @Moorduk]

@TheApeOfGoldST @joekent16jan19 It’s Israeli logic. They always consider their lives worth more than those of the barbarian goyim

[Moorduk @Moorduk]

@Breaking911 Oy vey, I’m sure that’s what actually happened 👃🏻🧃🇮🇱

[TFTC @TFTC21]

"It's like a mafia where if you criticize it too much, they might just decide to make you wait a year. Unchecked, unaccountable power. We shouldn't have that in a free society."

Lonsdale says the FDA needs competition and accountability.

[Moorduk @Moorduk]

@zerohedge What does that even mean?