Bo Jangles

Life adventurer, Lubertarian, Traveller, Sailor & AC tragic, Sportlovin' Grandfather & Political dog chaser

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

@Kate3015 2PP a comedy for true representation

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

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Surely not windward start ‼️

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Chinese AI models are wiping billions off Big Tech right now.

Google just lost $200 billion in a single day, and the model it needed to fight back still isn't ready.

Gemini 3.5 Pro, Google's most powerful model, is months behind schedule.

Alphabet stock dropped 4.4% that same day.

The Deepseek moment is happening again, and the new model is FAR bigger.

On the same day Google's delay leaked, a Beijing lab called Moonshot released Kimi K3.

It is the largest open model ever built, with 2.8 trillion parameters.

It took the number one spot on the Frontend Code Arena, a live coding leaderboard, passing Anthropic's best model.

And Moonshot is giving it away for free on July 27.

The genius part:

Anyone with enough computers can download it and run a frontier level AI without paying a cent to a US company.

A single task on Kimi K3 costs about 94 cents.

The same work on some American models costs nearly double.

So why would a company keep paying premium prices for a model it can now get for free?

The entire US AI business is built on selling access to models that cost billions to train.

If a free Chinese version does most of the same work, that pricing power starts to crack.

And Kimi is close to the best. On one closely watched intelligence ranking it scored 57, just behind the top American models GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5, and ahead of Claude Opus 4.8.

Bank of America told clients that Kimi proves Chinese labs can keep making big leaps even with limited chips.

And the founder of Moonshot, Yang Zhilin, learned to build AI as a researcher INSIDE Google.

Google literally wrote the 2017 paper that made all of these models possible.

Now the people who studied its work are using it to destroy Google, and handing it out for free.

What happens next:

Kimi K3's weights go public on July 27.

Google reports earnings on July 22, and everyone will be asking the same question about Gemini.

If free models keep topping the charts, every valuation built on paid AI access has to be rewritten.

What do you think?

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

OAI & A Val’s have melt

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

And ANOTHER China-based AI company announces a bombshell. This is the FOURTH in four days: Kimi (Moonshot), Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek and now GLM (Z).

The U.S. is in an absolute panic at this point. Trump is panicking. Anthropic is panicking. OpenAI is seeing its entire valuation slip away. And Google is just evil, as always.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Those who say China hasn't caught up to U.S. frontier AI labs are flat-out wrong. The Summer of 2026 will be remembered as the moment when China surpassed U.S. AI technology and never looked back.

From here forward, U.S. AI companies will be desperately trying to copy China's innovations.

And it goes without saying that the entire retail inference revenue model for U.S. AI companies is collapsing.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

MIT atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen has said "there will be no climate catastrophe."

"When someone says half a degree more and it's the end of the species, that's not science, that's theatre," says Lindzen.

Every apocalyptic prediction, from famine to ice-free poles to snowless winters, has failed.

And they'll keep failing.

2030 will pass, 2050 will pass, 50 years will pass -- there will be no climate catastrophe.

Lindzen isn't a fringe voice, he's a leading atmospheric scientist, author of nearly 250 peer-reviewed papers, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Today's climate agenda, he argues, isn't about data, it's about power. "It's about controlling policy, controlling economies, and reshaping society under the guise of a crisis that doesn't exist."

The real threat isn't climate change. It's climate policy.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

It's always "Iran-backed Houthis" and never "American-backed Israel"

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

SpaceX builds rockets. Rockets run on chemical propulsion. Chemical propulsion has a ceiling.

It can reach Mars. Maybe deeper into the solar system.

But interstellar travel requires physics that doesn’t exist yet.

Weinstein: “You can’t get to the stars using SpaceX because it’s a chemical rocket company.”

The ceiling isn’t the universe’s. It’s ours.

Weinstein: “One of his slogans is ad astra, to the stars.”

To the stars. From a man who knows better than anyone that his rockets can’t reach them.

You don’t declare a destination your vehicle can’t reach unless you already know what replaces it.

The rockets were never the endgame.

Weinstein: “I think he’s given up on the corruption of science. He keeps talking about the fact that he doesn’t like the term researcher, he believes only in engineers.”

The breakthroughs that would get humanity past chemical propulsion should have happened decades ago.

They didn’t.

Not because the physics is impossible. Because the institutions responsible for discovering it optimized for everything except discovery.

Grant cycles. Tenure politics. Citation metrics.

The entire incentive structure of modern science rewards safe, incremental work and punishes the kind of risk that produces breakthroughs.

The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed.

It was just never designed for discovery.

Weinstein: “I think what he’s doing is he’s building Grok to do science in a time when humans are too corrupt to be truthful and real.”

Musk looked at the entire global scientific establishment and decided it was faster to build a mind that could do the physics than to fix the institutions that wouldn’t.

That calculation alone tells you everything about the state of modern science.

Everyone sees xAI competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the chatbot race.

Weinstein is saying it was never in the chatbot race. It’s in the physics race. The one nobody else is running.

Weinstein: “Look at the logo for Grok, I think it’s like a black hole profile. Look at its slogan, to understand the universe.”

Not to assist. Not to optimize.

To understand the universe.

SpaceX is the vehicle. xAI is the destination.

One builds the ship. The other discovers how far it can go.

The distance to the stars was never measured in light years.

It was measured in the limits of the mind reaching for them.

The most ambitious project on Earth right now isn’t a rocket program.

It’s an AI being built to find the physics that makes rockets obsolete.

[artembalabin @artembalabin1]

GOD'S FAVOURITE GAME
IS TO REMAIN INCOGNITO. ♥️

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Russia, Iran, and others are simply asserting control over their near seas just as the US has done for decades.

The empire no longer possesses unchallenged naval supremacy to dictate terms.

Ukraine’s strikes are desperate US proxy moves.

The current tanker wars expose the fragility of global energy chokepoints when the hegemon’s grip slips.

I would not call it a chaos but rather a multipolarity reasserting geography and firepower.

The US blew up the post-WWII rules and now everyone else is adapting.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Europe is exhausted.

Energy prices, inflation, and voter backlash are fracturing unity.

Germany’s deindustrialization, France’s political paralysis, and Eastern Europe’s quiet realization that they’re next in line for the meat grinder have eroded political will.

The US, stretched thin by its Middle East adventures, is diverting what little remains leaving Kiev with hollow promises and aging stockpiles.

It’s the death rattle of the post-Cold War order.

NATO’s “arsenal of democracy” has proven to be a just-in-time illusion.

Russia’s patient attrition is exposing the West’s inability to fight prolonged industrial war.

The Masters of Empire face a bitter choice….

Admit strategic defeat or double down into greater catastrophe.

Either path accelerates the multipolar reality they dread.

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

Why not UN? - broke ?

[Kate🦋M© @Kate3015]

The tender contract confirms the money has been put aside for this COP31 meeting which WE will pay for. And yet Pat Conroy dismissed it as a beat-up suggesting the costs of the rooms will be paid by each country’s delegates and unused reservations will be cancelled.

Then why have a tender contract? BUT then claims it’s all because to quote ..

“Other countries like China are trying to become good friends with the Pacific,” Conroy said. “If we’re not seen to be taking strong action on climate change, we cede ground to those other countries.”

And finally Conroy said the final cost to Australia will depend on how many foreign leaders attend the conference in October.

Read that as the tender is right, we’re footing the bill.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

For fucks sake, this war is ridiculous. Iran is no threat to America. Iran didn't kill 52000 of its own people. It's all bullshit. America, just go home.

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

I x’d over to the Open 🏆

[Nick 🇨🇦 @Nick28T]

I’m so lost with F1. I love the sport, I love motorsports in general, I love who is winning… BUT I cant bare to watch these races anymore, it’s so bad.

- they don’t show speeds or battery stats
- the cars are slow and boring
- it’s all about batteries and software
- driver skill is at a minimum in terms of their effects on the race

I mean I went outside and watered my garden mid way through the race at Spa today, I was that bored.

Anyone else feeling this way about current #F1? 😔

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

Where’s Paavy on this?

[Flushing It @flushingitgolf]

The on course commentator on Sky said she’d never seen a ball that far offline after Scottie Scheffler pulled it on 17 and it was “behind” the hospitality. The R&A rules officials then gave him free relief from hospitality even though they couldn’t find his ball. He made birdie.

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

Fair-weather Rubio 🌧️⚓️

[ANDRÉS.Cu @AndresB_Cu]

Ha sido católico, mormón, bautista, anti-Trump, pro-Trump, pro-inmigrante, anti-inmigrante, anti-guerra de Irán, pro-guerra de Irán...

Este hombre no tiene identidad más allá del oportunismo.

Este hombre es @marcorubio y es una vergüenza.

[Bo Jangles @BoJangular]

Pair the Claret Jug with the Olde Mug in Aotearoa ✨🏆 https://t.co/sFzNHc6s2p

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

US officials “suspect” China or Russia are feeding Iran targeting data?

How convenient.

After years of claiming Iranian weapons are primitive, they suddenly hit sensitive sites with precision that exposes every US base as a sitting duck.

Iran’s own geography, satellites, drones, and missile tech honed by necessity are more than enough.

Multipolar powers sharing intel against a common threat isn’t conspiracy.

It’s strategy.

America’s real problem isn’t foreign help but it’s the decision to confront an adversary it spent decades underestimating.

The precision strikes speak for themselves and excuses are irrelevant.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

pH 1.5. That is your stomach, and the only other animals down there eat things that have been dead for days.

Everyone wants to argue about teeth. Teeth are on the outside, where a campaigner can point at them. The stomach is filed in a 2015 review nobody handing out leaflets has ever read.

So read it. Scientists pulled gastric pH from 68 species of birds and mammals and sorted them by diet. Mean pH by group:

- Obligate scavengers, the carrion specialists: 1.3
- Humans: 1.5
- Facultative scavengers: 1.8
- Generalist carnivores: 2.2
- Omnivores: 2.9
- Fish and insect eaters: 3.6
- Herbivores: 4.1 to 6.1
- Every other primate alive: 3.0 or higher

pH runs on a log scale, so 1.5 against 3.0 is roughly thirty times the acidity. You are carrying an acid bath no other ape comes close to, and your only company is the vulture and the hyena, the animals built to eat the dead without dying.

That filter is expensive to maintain. Evolution does not issue a scavenger's stomach to a fruit eater for a hobby. It issues it to kill what is living inside meat that would put other animals in the ground.

You have the stomach of a vulture and the dietary opinions of a rabbit.

Have the steak. Bring the teeth.