kid_Rnc

It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward 👊💥💯

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

steady hands

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🤖 BIG: Sony showcased a micro-surgical robot capable of suturing a single kernel of corn with extreme precision.

The future of medicine is incredible.

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

"Necrodrones" ? Good name, or nah?

[Aprajita Nafs Nefes 🦋 Ancient Believer @aprajitanefes]

They’re using the parts of dead birds to make drones, by fitting the the feathers, wings and other parts of the dead bird onto robot bird mechanisms!!!

These fake birds are being fitted with cameras and microphones, controlled by AI, most likely solar

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

pretty clever

[The Little NomNomNom 😺❤️🍉🥕🍯 @thelittlenomnom]

🇨🇳CHINA SPYING bird-like drones have emerged.
These crazy communists are obsessed with spying!

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

surreal!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

China has revealed a spherical police robot designed to autonomously pursue and immobilize criminals by shooting nets and rolling at speeds of up to 35 km/h.

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

Thinking about getting a Vizio TV? Read this post 1st.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Walmart is selling you an unprofitable TV that watches everything you do and reports it back to their $6.4 billion advertising machine.

And the TV literally won't turn on until you give them permission.

This is one of the most sophisticated consumer surveillance operations in history and 150 million people walk into their stores every single week with no idea it's happening.

Here's the full story:

In December 2024, Walmart bought Vizio for $2.3 billion. Everyone assumed it was about selling more TVs.

But it had nothing to do with TVs.

Vizio's TV hardware business was actually LOSING money, posting a $6.7 million loss in its final quarter as an independent company. The advertising division made $115.8 million in profit that same quarter.

Walmart bought 19 million living rooms - not a TV company.

In March 2026, Walmart flipped the switch.

Every new Vizio TV now requires a mandatory Walmart account before you can access any smart features. No account, no streaming apps.

Without signing in, your TV is useless.

The moment you create that account, something called Automatic Content Recognition activates.

ACR runs silently in the background, taking screenshots of everything displayed on your screen and comparing them against a database to identify exactly what you're watching, second by second, across 700 TV networks and over 100 streaming apps.

It knows what you watched, when you watched it, how long you watched it, and what you did afterward.

Now here's the part that makes this genuinely unprecedented in the history of retail:

Walmart ALREADY knows what 150 million Americans buy every week.

They know your grocery habits, your clothing preferences, your pharmacy purchases, your financial behavior through Walmart Pay, and your location data from the app. But what they couldn't see was the 4 to 6 hours a day Americans spend staring at their television screens.

By connecting your Walmart account to your Vizio TV, they've closed that loop.

They can now prove that you saw a 30 second ad for gardening soil Sunday night and bought that exact brand at Walmart Monday morning. L'Oréal is already signed on as a launch partner for this kind of targeting.

The math on this is just insane:

Walmart Connect, their advertising arm, generated $6.4 billion last year with 46% year-over-year growth. Advertising runs at 70 to 90% profit margins compared to traditional retail's 3 to 4%.

Their CFO admitted that ads and membership fees already account for one-third of Walmart's total operating income. The advertising business is now more important to Walmart's bottom line than entire product categories in their stores.

And they're just getting started.

Analysts calculated that Walmart's ad revenue currently represents only 1% of total sales. Amazon's ad business runs at 8% of sales.

The gap between where Walmart is and where Amazon is represents roughly $50 billion in untapped advertising revenue. The Vizio deal is the bridge to get there.

This is WHY they're selling certain TVs at a loss.

When you break down the $2.3 billion acquisition across 19 million households, Walmart paid $121 per living room.

A lifetime of behavioral viewing data from a household that also shops at Walmart is worth infinitely more than that.

The cheap TV is a trojan horse.

Vizio has already been fined $2.2 million by the FTC for secretly collecting viewing data on 11 million TVs without consent. The Texas Attorney General sued them for "spying on Texans." Walmart bought them anyway and made the surveillance MANDATORY.

The company that built its empire promising everyday low prices is becoming the most powerful advertising platform in the world, and the TV in your living room is the entry point.

What do you think?

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

No thanks

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Fox News crew in Beijing got ticketed by CCP surveillance cameras after illegally parking for just two minutes.

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@TMZ FINALLY THE ROCK HAS COME BACK.. TO TMZ

[IGN @IGN]

Everything you need to know to preorder Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, including pricing, availability, release date, and more. https://t.co/soALvq8NeJ

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@BitcoinMagazine Yea it is (going up) but is this a breakout or a sophisticated bull trap?

[Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus 📱⌨️🖱️🎮 @majornelson]

I THINK I still have the most followers on Xbox.

Attention: If you are an indy dev on Xbox, let me know so I can play your game and get you in front of this audience!

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Prepare for the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year.

Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and a woman who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used.

Her exact words:
“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”

Then she turns the knife inward:
“These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up. But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken. At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’ Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.”

She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues.

This isn’t some random podcast bro.

This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying:
“We were the useful idiots.”

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@EndWokeness I'm gonna fly down and bust her loose... maybe we fall in love and get hitched along the way? Lol

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@TheRippaverse @EricDJuly

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@TheRippaverse Hey Rip, whatever happened to the Horseman animated series voiced by Dean Cain? Is that still a thing?
https://t.co/RLUqjrtjiI

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@Nerdrotics Not worth it, Gar

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

Cool 😎

[The Associated Press @AP]

Lego launches Smart Brick and high tech Star Wars toys at CES 2026

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

When you understand physics

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

🇺🇸 JAMIE DIMON, CEO OF CHASE, GOES ON NATIONAL TV AND SAYS:

"CRYPTO IS BETTER THAN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL SYSTEM!" THE "EXPERIMENT" PHASE IS OVER.

THIS IS THE PIVOT OF THE CENTURY 🔥

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Interestingly Walmart does not accept Apple Pay

[kid_Rnc @__spectacle__]

@spectatorindex @sonofdavidj eth next?