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Leading design and product for Struck Studio. Past life: mushroom dealer, @lyft

[gordee @_gordee]

One of the surprising things we’ve learned building Payloop is that most AI companies don’t actually know their margins.

They can tell you usage, but not who’s driving costs, or which agents eat into profitability.

It shouldn’t be that hard.

We’re fixing it with 1 line of code. https://t.co/UAOvapfpDB

[gordee @_gordee]

Why did Ferrari pit Leclerc? Lost position to Hamilton and grip, which led to him going into the wall.

[Mike J Mitch @mikejmitch]

I directed a full AI-assisted series using Invideo Agent One. Here are the 8 things that experience taught me about what actually matters in AI filmmaking.

[gordee @_gordee]

Cutting funding for this research for over 60 years is one of the greatest impediments to curing alzheimer's and dementia. Too many people have suffered because of politically motivated drug policy.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

BREAKING: ADVANCED ALZHEIMER’S PATIENT REGAINED SPEECH, MEMORY, AND BLADDER CONTROL AFTER SINGLE PSILOCYBIN DOSE

An 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s — who had barely spoken for YEARS — experienced RAPID and SUSTAINED improvement after taking 5g of psilocybin mushrooms.

During the acute phase, she entered a prolonged deep sleep-like state with profuse sweating.

~19 hours later, she spontaneously started talking again for HOURS — sharing detailed autobiographical memories she hadn’t expressed in years.

Over the following days, her family reported improved memory, walking, emotional connection, speech, and regained bladder control.

After 1 month, bladder control REMAINED RESTORED, and she was still functionally improved compared with baseline.

While this is just one published case report, the implications are enormous given that there are currently NO approved medications known to produce effects like this in advanced Alzheimer’s.

These findings urgently need replication. For millions watching a parent or loved one disappear to Alzheimer’s, even the possibility of restoring lost function warrants serious scientific investigation.

[shira @shiraeis]

if you’re into neuro and think we live in a simulation, read on:

just found this paper arguing the hippocampus may be more of a world model compiler than infra for archiving memory.

as we learn, it seems to break down noisy continuous experience into discrete latent states we can plan or reason with.

so human memory is likely actually for deciphering what kind of game you’re in

which makes the world computationally tractable by compressing the past into a map you can use to navigate new terrain,

and which imo, is way more interesting than just storing what happened to you.

[gordee @_gordee]

@paulg Was it https://t.co/vKx4cvH8ds?

[gordee @_gordee]

@RealSKeshel The ballot harvesting is happening now, and no one is doing anything about it. At this point, what is going to be the catalyst to effect change?

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Stumbled upon a Codex skill that creates cool illustrations to explain topics or tell stories.

You feed it text (blog, article, narrative, even code) and it makes explainer graphics with this cute blob character.

I gave it the repo for the X recommendation algo and got this 👇

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

“Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms, has previously been touted as an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD — but now researchers say it has the potential to be used in Alzheimer’s intervention as well.

In this case study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers focused on an 80-year-old Japanese American woman with Alzheimer’s. She had declined over the previous decade and was reduced to urinary incontinence, speaking in single syllables, and dependence on caregivers for mobility support and daily living.

She was then given a 5g dose of magic mushrooms.

During the initial phase, she was agitated, sweated profusely and entered a prolonged sleep state that suggested unconsciousness. But around hour 19, she began speaking in full autobiographical sentences, recalling life events she had been unable to articulate for years.

In the days and weeks that followed, more incredible changes emerged. She regained urinary continence, even in the evenings, and began dressing herself. She was able to make and maintain eye contact, remember social interactions, emotionally respond to others, and hold lucid conversations.”

[Stella X @Stellaaa]

PSA: a large group of LA County residents are at the ready to form a class action and VERY PUBLICLY SUE the ever loving Hell out of ANY individual or corporation caught attempting to STEAL or TAMPER with the Los Angeles Mayoral or Governor election in ANY form.

We are watching, relentless, unforgiving, our pockets are DEEP and memories long.

If you violate our civil rights you will never be welcome to step foot or be employed in Los Angeles again. We will bankrupt you, your company and your entire family…and we will enjoy it.

You have been warned.

Have a great day! 👍🏻

[Rohan Varma @TheRohanVarma]

We just launched Sites into Codex!

Software creation was always about more than writing code. Sites in Codex fundamentally gives the power of end-to-end software creation to every user, no matter their technical fluency.

These Sites are fully deployed to a URL, private to workspaces, come with authentication, can have static files, and can store dynamic data in databases.

It is in preview for business and enterprise teams and will be rolling out to all workspaces over the next day. Give it a try by typing @ Sites into Codex and ask it to build anything!

This project took a massive amount of effort across hundreds of people at OpenAI - proud that we were able to get this out and excited to see what you all build with it!

[Ritwik Pavan @ritwikpavan]

this is amazing

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[Zach Brown @the_zb_]

There’s so much clear misunderstanding and misinformation going around, it’s probably worth noting for those that are curious to learn more about F1: contrary to the allusions of anyone, drivers don’t design cars.

They’ve simply made some bits of feedback for what they’d like the car to kind of feel like, and it’s up to the engineering team to deliver it or not. Whether they do so is based upon the theoretical fastest car they can achieve. Then it’s up to the drivers to adapt to it. it’s all down to engineering.

There is no “well, if the car’s rear could be less planted/more planted the driver would be more comfy, but the lap time suffers by 3 tenths.” How absurd 😅

It’s “this is the engineering nature of the quickest car we can build, what micro adjustments can be made to help you be as comfy as possible?”

In 2025, Ferrari found themselves with a car that Leclerc absolutely despised that didn’t fit his driving characteristics at all. Same for Lewis. They both had to completely alter their style to drive it, and Leclerc just did a bit of a better job at that, aided by both GE and familiarity with the team. It makes sense it was a tougher path for Lewis. But the underlying problem was an engineering one - remnants of a Cardile led technical team made a major miscalculation in trying to help deliver some of the stated goals of the 2025 car, which was more rearward downforce.

In 2026, Lewis was able to provide even more feedback of his preferences, which have helped him specifically be more comfortable than he was able to in 2025. Likewise, the nature of the regs this year help him return to his previous driving style - which has much less to do with the specific car or his input than it does the actual nature of the new regulations.

This logical and obvious reality of driver vs engineer is why Lewis, using him as an example, was not responsible for the fantastic McLarens of his early years, nor was he responsible for the relatively poor McLarens that came along later. Same holds true in the Mercedes years. Same holds true of Max at Red Bull, or for Leclerc in all his Ferrari years.

People have an interesting ability to be so disingenuous and illogical about all of this - all the good things are attributed to MY driver. And anything bad, even in MY driver’s same team? Well obviously he doesn’t have anything to do with that. 🤣

Ultimately, drivers don’t design cars.

Where drivers have the ability to make a more appreciable impact is with in-season development. They are largely just test mules for “better to you, or worse to you” during the car development with digital tools that may or may not correlate. It’s nothing like what development was like in the 90s and 00s after testing bans.

The reason the 2026 Ferrari is a decent (not the best in the field yet) chassis, is because the technical leadership within Ferrari began a massive shift in 2023, and because Loic Serra and Diego Tondi have done great work.

I know that’s not something that some want to believe, but I do find it helpful to demonstrate the illogical nature of attributing to drivers that which is all about engineering, because it overstates the role of the driver and understates the significant role of engineering. And those guys deserve their credit, as they’re arguably the most important part of F1.

It doesn’t require acceptance or agreement to be intrinsically true, that is the reality of the sport. Figured I’d share for anyone that was curious to know more.

[Maranello Paddock @FerrariF1FRA]

🔴 Ferrari : au volant de la SF-26, Lewis Hamilton semble avoir retrouvé toute sa force, poussant la voiture à fond entre les murs, parvenant à tirer son épingle du jeu lors des essais. Le tout en exploitant avec une aisance totale la superbe maniabilité de la SF-26 à basse vitesse, ainsi que la façon dont elle réagit à l'accélérateur et aux freins.

- La SF-26 offre de loin la meilleure maniabilité en milieu de virage de toutes les voitures sur la grille, et la manière audacieuse dont Hamilton aborde les virages, en freinant tardivement tout en trouvant le point idéal de rotation lorsqu’il relâche la pédale de frein à l’entrée du virage, sans pour autant perdre la vitesse acquise à l’entrée, fonctionne à merveille.

- Lewis arrive à conduire cette voiture à sa manière. Et il se réjouit que son équipe d'ingénieurs ait mieux cerné ses besoins. Non seulement la SF-26 n'est pas une voiture à effet de sol, mais elle a été développée grâce à une meilleure compréhension, de la part de l'équipe d'ingénieurs, des caractéristiques dont il a besoin sur sa voiture.

- La Ferrari, avec ses performances exceptionnelles dans les virages lents, son équilibre réglable et l'excellente réactivité de son petit turbo, est parfaitement adaptée à un circuit comme Monaco, un endroit où son manque de puissance est d'ailleurs moins préjudiciable qu'ailleurs.

- Mais attendons des confirmations dans les prochaines courses pour valider définitivement le retour de Lewis à son plus haut niveau.

(🌖 https://t.co/E7GQEDLu8L)

[gordee @_gordee]

Great way to kill racing. Let the drivers drive.

[The Race @wearetherace]

F1 will limit cars' top speed potential on straights at the Monaco GP, The Race can reveal 👀

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@markpoloncarz Teddy Roosevelt regularly staged boxing matches in the White House. He lost sight in one eye from a detached retina because he himself was fighting at the White House in one of these matches.

And the Founding Fathers regularly dueled with pistols, one of them died doing so.

[gordee @_gordee]

Please do not be this dumb.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: California's one-time "billionaire wealth tax" all but officially confirmed to be on the ballot.

93% chance.

[gordee @_gordee]

@daniel_mac8 and spend infinitely more tokens.

[gordee @_gordee]

Launching today on @ProductHunt!

Memori: Persistent memory from agent trace, not just conversation. https://t.co/OetPLQgUVZ

[gordee @_gordee]

It sounds like @Ferrari didn't actually want to take on designing an EV themselves, and offloaded the work, and responsibility of the outcome to Ive.

The result is something completely disconnected from the brand. This is their misguided @Jaguar moment.

[Cleo Abram @cleoabram]

Ferrari Chief Designer Flavio Manzoni explains the process behind the Ferrari Luce (full section)

- Why bring in Jony Ive
- How the LoveFrom team worked alone in SF for 8 months on both interior and exterior
- What surprised Ferrari
- Why design a larger electric car, not a two-seater
- Why the Ferrari Luce is like a "capsule collection"
- The aerodynamics of the first all electric Ferrari

Full episode including Jony Ive on HUGE* Conversations.