20 HUMANOID ROBOTS MARCHED ACROSS A WARSAW SQUARE WITH FLAGS TO PROTEST AI TAKING HUMAN JOBS.
Grey stone plaza. Office block. A Polish flag hanging off the wall above them.
2 loose rows of humanoids, each one holding a white flag or a paper sign. 4-legged robot dogs trotting between the legs.
They walk a slow loop. Stop. Turn. Walk it again.
No chanting. No drums. No crowd.
1 man sits on the steps in the back with his phone up, and that's the entire audience.
Look at what's written on the flags. Every single one carries the same word and a .com under it.
A picket line where all 20 signs are the same domain.
At roughly $16,000 a unit, that's $320,000 of hardware walking in a circle to demand protection for jobs the same hardware is being sold to do.
Nobody on that square lost a job. Nobody on that square has one.
The first picket line in history where the scabs brought the signs.
Sam Altman watching a guy run a memecoin book that clears $10K/month off a $200/month setup using an algorithm that's just "quantum-inspired" simulated annealing
> no quantum computer
> just math from a real published paper
I ask him how he sends me one article now I'm reading about QUBO formulations at 2am his Q-Alpha agent just told me which 5 tokens to hold and which 3 to skip because they're too correlated I didn't know "too correlated" was a thing you could just compute
XIAOMI JUST SHIPPED A PHONE THAT KNOWS WHEN A STRANGER IS READING YOUR SCREEN
The Xiaomi 18 Pro launched in China on September 23. Its front camera looks for faces over your shoulder. When it finds one, the display flips into a hardware privacy mode and goes dark from the side. It can also switch on by itself in crowded places, based on your location.
Samsung saved this privacy display for the S26 Ultra, its most expensive phone. Xiaomi put it on the compact 6.4-inch model.
Then the rest of the sheet. A 7,000 mAh battery in a 203 g body. Two 200MP cameras, the main one and a 3.2x periscope. A second 2.7-inch OLED screen on the back. IP68 and IP69. Price in China: 5,999 yuan, around $840.
I put it next to the iPhone 18 Pro. iFixit's teardown shows 4,288 mAh, so Xiaomi carries 63% more battery. Apple's telephoto is 48MP. The iPhone starts at $1,199 in the US, about $360 more.
I think the battery and the megapixels are the least interesting part. Every flagship has big numbers now. A screen that notices who else is looking changes how you use your phone on a train, and nobody has put it in a phone this size before.
$360 cheaper, 63% more battery, and it watches your back on the metro.
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