Veliko Atanasov

CA(SA) | Programmer | Challenge the masses and traditional thinking | Gamer 🎮😃

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NEW: GTA 6 leaker CyberLeek has issued a final statement, warning the entire gaming industry and demanding a public statement and apology from Rockstar Games

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How Comfort Zones Trap You 😵

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BREAKING NEWS

[淘沙者(TheSandPicker) @Etudecn]

这段马斯克 2003 年在斯坦福的 45 分钟闭门演讲，真的有点东西。
不是那种空话连篇的创业鸡汤。
而是他亲自把“怎么从 0 搞出一家公司”一层层拆给你看。
更狠的是，
他没在讲概念，直接把自己当时手里那三家公司，到底怎么活下来的，整个过程都摊开了。
这种内容放到今天看都不过时。

很多人听完的反应都很统一：
这 45 分钟，顶得上你翻十本创业书。
那种真正能用的干货，往往就藏在这种老素材里，不吵不闹，但句句都是实战。

[Veliko Atanasov @Roo_027]

@KobeissiLetter @grok confirm if this is true?

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Fun Games That Make Your Kid Smarter 💡

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Life hacks my dad taught me 👇

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘SCARY MOVIE 6’ has been released.

In theaters on June 12.

[James Shields @scaling_shields]

i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling

searched london to new york on a tuesday

$483

checked again 2 hours later

$512

next morning: $547

panicked and booked it

the guy sitting next to me paid $391

same seat, date + airline

$156 less

he searched once i searched 3 times

the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke

the seat doesnt have a price

you have a price

and it goes up EVERY time you show interest

couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier

asked him what happened to me

"you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back"

asked how to beat it

"most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying"

"so what actually works?"

"you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity"

the protocol he gave me:

VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase

use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies

one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice

book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against

if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network

"we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab"

$900 billion industry

the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug

its the entire business model

stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

This is a photo of Elon Musk's son at a meeting where his father met with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Notice that this child of the richest man in the world carries no phone, no iPad, or any other electronic gadget that entertains, while stealing children's attention span. Instead, the then-eight-year-old boy was reading Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur T. Benjamin and Michael Shermer, while his brother held another book.

That is the secret between the Rich Dad and the Poor Dad. The wealthiest man in the world is teaching his children mathematics and numbers, while your child has a phone, iPad and still plays video games on another device after watching Netflix.

Steve Jobs, the creator of the iPad and iPhone, did not let his own children use both devices. He instead gave them books and even paid them to read. Please fact-check me. Yet, you overload your children with digital devices.

Mark Zuckerberg is famous for not having a television in his house. Not even one. His reason is that it will distract his wife, his children, and him from reading.

Notice what all three of these tech billionaire founders had in common. Their children are readers.

If you don't teach your children to love learning, they will grow up to become adults who are not earning. Children who lead grow to become adults who lead. The expansion of the mind in childhood results in an increase in your wealth in adulthood, if you can apply what your books supply.

And by the way, notice how simply the children are dressed. It just reminds me of how simply Alhaji Aliko Dangote's children were absorbed when I met them last year after spending time with him.

Think about this and consider making a positive change in your child's life.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

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A secret 99% don't know. But all technicians do.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Neuroscientist study reveals that Gen Z has become the first generation to be less intelligent than its predecessor, the Millennials.

For the first time in 100 years, young people are scoring lower than their parents on IQ tests and core skills like memory, reading, and focus. This is happening mainly in the US and Europe.

The main cause appears to be excessive screen time and digital device use, particularly in schools and social settings. While some suggest Gen Z is just developing different skills, research shows actual declines in fundamental problem-solving abilities.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

The whole house is a gaming setup 😅🔥

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at Henry Cavill in the ‘HIGHLANDER’ remake.

Directed by Chad Stahelski (‘John Wick’)

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

In the year 2000, the idea that a gaming console could rival a supercomputer sounded ridiculous

Yet a few years later, the PlayStation 3 was quietly being used by the US Air Force as a supercomputer.

Early PS3 models officially supported Linux (Sony called it OtherOS), meaning you could run real workloads on it without jailbreaking anything. At around $400 per unit, it was absurdly cheap compared to traditional supercomputer nodes

The real magic was the Cell Broadband Engine. It combined a main PowerPC core with multiple specialized cores built for parallel computation. That architecture made it incredibly good at math-heavy tasks like image processing, signal analysis, pattern recognition, and early neural network research … the same class of problems modern GPUs dominate today.

So the Air Force Research Lab stacked 1,760 PS3s into what became the Condor Cluster. It reached close to 500 teraflops, ranked among the fastest supercomputers in the world at the time, and cost a fraction of enterprise hardware.

They used it for satellite imagery, missile detection research, and large-scale simulations. A consumer gaming console doing military-grade compute

Sony later removed Linux support from newer PS3 models, ending the experiment overnight

Ultimately It was a blueprint for today’s GPU and AI accelerator clusters

Truly a console that was simply ahead of its time.

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

December 18, 2026. #AvengersDoomsday

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wealth managers putting your money in an index fund

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December 18, 2026. #AvengersDoomsday

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