Branden George

[Branden George @Albreham]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[Branden George @Albreham]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

average left wing "NGO" 😂😂😂

[J.P. Morgan @jpmorgan]

Live from our global headquarters: Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk discuss SpaceX and more. https://t.co/WQfJ3j8atX

[MaryAnn Martinez @MaryAnnreports]

New state witness, Coach Rob Starr, the head track coach at Memorial High School where Austin Metcalf went to school. He is testifying about track culture and how the tent was a big deal. Each school has a tent with their name, logo on it, and kids who don't belong to that school do NOT go to the tents of other schools.
"As far as the tent specifically--basically the tent marks your spot," Starr said.
"What the tent represents is kind of like your bench. Think of it like a football or basketball bench. That tent is a safe area for your team."

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Florida homeowner lifts her home 24 feet in the air following the 2024 hurricanes.

The homeowner in Pinellas County, Florida, says she doesn't want to deal with flooding again but doesn't want to move.

The project, set to be completed in December, will cost a whopping $575,000. The woman plans on adding a second floor beneath the current house.

"Typically we do 12 to 14 feet, sometimes ten. But 24 feet, this is the first," said Modern House and Building Movers worker Kristi Robinson.

"They will go in and they will form columns around this house. and when it’s all structurally engineered and where they’re supposed to be, then they’ll build the beams, and then they’ll start removing the columns."

Wild.

Video: andreas_zene / tt.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Natural gas is so abundant in West Texas that prices have plummeted below zero, per Bloomberg

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

PAPER: https://t.co/FDV6cmw5sr

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

I feel attacked 😂

[Jack @jackunheard]

NEW: Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert just pulled off one of the strangest plays in MLB history…

A 107.8 mph line drive slammed straight into his jersey and got completely lodged there.

It took him a few seconds to figure out where the ball even went.

The play was ruled a single because the ball was considered dead once it stuck in his uniform.

First time that’s ever happened in the majors. Wild.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

This indie dev is making a handyman simulator set in the stone age where you literally help cavemen.

- Use a dinosaur to mow lawns & move heavy loads
- Open-world repair contracts
- Upgrade your home & workshop

Would you play this? It's called Primal Repairs.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025.

But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it.

Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions.

Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are.

Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale.

Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is.

Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.”

If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about?

Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy.

Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades.

They couldn’t even manage that.

So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates.

If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

People don't understand how insane the explosion of Christianity was:

- There were maybe a thousand Christians at Jesus's death.

- In 100 AD there were still only about ten thousand Christians.

- One hundred years later it was still less than one percent of the Roman empire.

- And then a hundred years later there were over SIX MILLION Christians, more than 10 percent of the population.

- Go forward another 150 years and there are over 30 million Christians and it is the official state religion of the Roman empire.

It's one of the most stunning transformations in world history.

And yet there is wide disagreement on why it occurred.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨 NEW: Elon Musk shows his vision for how to reach a petawatt of power: Electromagnetic Mass Drivers on the Moon. Whoa.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate.

On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other".

Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion.

Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself.

Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo.

Rest in peace, Chuck!

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🤣This is a hilarious montage of Chuck Norris jokes.

If you think about it, he really was the first 80’s action hero and pretty much started the genre of 80’s and 90’s action movies.