Fuck you, @washingtonpost . Amal did not ‘die,’ she was deliberately targeted and murdered after receiving threats from the Israeli army. She was in touch with us, her colleagues, during this situation. We all know exactly what happened. Shame on you for intentionally diminishing the criminality of the actions of the Israeli army with this headline. Shame on all of you and your correspondents in Beirut.
I hope to see you on trial for your propaganda in my lifetime.
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
@FrameworkPuter Nobody gives a damn about efficiency. We want optical drives, 4:3 screens, and enough ports to be able to connect to literally any peripheral device made in the past 50 years. And you know what? Put a lead weight in there too so it hurts more when we bludgeon people to death.
56 years ago, as a 13-y.o. Monster Kid living in Hong Kong, I was fortunate to meet Boris Karloff's widow, Evelyn. We became friends until the end of her life. About five months after meeting her, a large envelope arrived from London with the words "Do Not Bend." Inside was a
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be my guest to provide a system that can store map data within 2 bytes, per feature, on a system running 256kb of RAM (running your own operating system, and custom kernel) written in C & Assembly, and then build a viewer just to display what you mean (which has its own rendering engine, & even theming, along with shortest path routing via vectors with zero address requirements)
if the answer is another dumb comment about readability, I'd suggest to probably not say anything!
Tysm for the attention to this matter!
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.
Media giants are now threatening to do this.
We can't let this happen.
Pass it on.
It’s curious how I ended up photographing the Kowloon Walled City, along with co-author Ian Lambot. We ended up making the most thorough (and most frequently referenced) record of the place. Why didn’t any HK photographers concentrate their efforts on documenting the place? One reason is that every parent told their kids to stay clear of the place. The other, and maybe more important reason, is that it wasn’t considered a worthy subject. Had the Walled City lasted just a few years longer (it was demolished in 1993), I have no doubt that young HK photographers and filmmakers would have been all over the place. But it was erased just moments before HK woke up to itself. A generational change. The culture generation now values HK in a way the previous generations didn’t.
“City of Darkness Revisited” will be republished later this year. Stand by for updates on pre-ordering!
1. Walled City, southwest corner.
2. Facade along Tung Tau Chun Rd.
3. Rooftop kids.
4. Mahjong at home.
Link to books in bio.
https://t.co/fcCHtVXXRf
No, I do remember 1979 and was there in the US Congress. The Iranian people were really pissed off after 26 years of the Shah's larceny and tyranny, joined the Revolution and forced the Shah to flee. All good. Then the idiots in Washington gave asylum to the Shah in the US when the crowds wanted him home to face the justice he deserved. So 400 enraged students took the US embassy hostage and asked for three reasonable things: 1) send the Shah back to Iran; 2) Return something like $20 billion that was hidden off-shore; 3) apologize for the 1953 CIA coup that ended their democracy. The warmongers on the Potomac said hell no, sent in the rescue helicopters in the middle of night which turned into the Desert One Disaster----and the rest is history. Very simply---the fools on the Potomac ultimately saddled the Iranian people with the theocracy that has made their lives miserable.
@joeroganhq I'm Italian and as much as I like him, this makes me laugh, it's utterly delusional to think that Italy's food is not full of GMOs. Sure, on average is better than US food, but we import the same wheat that goes also to the US.
i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling
searched london to new york on a tuesday
$483
checked again 2 hours later
$512
next morning: $547
panicked and booked it
the guy sitting next to me paid $391
same seat, date + airline
$156 less
he searched once i searched 3 times
the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke
the seat doesnt have a price
you have a price
and it goes up EVERY time you show interest
couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier
asked him what happened to me
"you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back"
asked how to beat it
"most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying"
"so what actually works?"
"you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity"
the protocol he gave me:
VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase
use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies
one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice
book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against
if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network
"we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab"
$900 billion industry
the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug
its the entire business model
stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable
I am gutted. Robert Duvall I will miss you brother.
I took this photo of Bobby on his back porch after a lovely meal prepared by his wife Luciana at their ranch in Virginia. That whole day is engraved in my memory.
Luciana cooked the beef Argentina style and we sat for hours talking. We talked about the film we made with Billy Bob Thornton, Jayne Mansfield’s Car. Bobby called Billy Bob “the redneck Orson Welles” and he meant it lovingly.
We talked horses, dogs, Clemson football, dancing the tango and Marlon Brando. At one point he told me to go find the letter Marlon had sent him after they worked together on The Godfather. It was typed and perfectly composed. Bobby was more proud of that letter than his Oscar. Marlon was the actor he looked up to.
I had ridden across country to attend Rolling Thunder with New York Myke and I so enjoyed being with Bobby. He was the actor I looked up to. His ability to find the truth of a scene was something special.
Over the years I would call Bobby and we’d talk movies and barbecue. He loved barbecue and I’d always let him know when I was having it in Lockhart, Texas. Smitty’s or Kreuz or Blacks… which one was best.
I will miss Bobby. I will always be proud that I got to play his son. Rest in peace brother.
BREAKING: The $610 Billion AI Ponzi Scheme Just Collapsed
Last night at 4pm EST, something unprecedented happened. Nvidia stock rallied 5% on earnings, then crashed into negative territory within 18 hours. Wall Street algorithms detected what humans couldn’t: the numbers don’t add up.
Here’s what they found.
Nvidia reported $33.4 billion in unpaid bills, up 89% in one year. Customers who bought chips haven’t paid for them yet. The average wait time for payment stretched from 46 days to 53 days. That extra week represents $10.4 billion that may never arrive.
Meanwhile, Nvidia stockpiled $19.8 billion in unsold chips, up 32% in three months. But management claims demand is insane and supply is constrained. Both cannot be true. Either customers aren’t buying or they’re buying without cash.
The cash flow tells the real story. Nvidia generated $14.5 billion in actual cash but reported $19.3 billion in profit. The gap is $4.8 billion. Healthy chip companies like TSMC and AMD convert over 95% of profits to cash. Nvidia converts 75%. That’s distress level.
Here’s where it gets criminal.
Nvidia gave $2 billion to xAI. xAI borrowed $12.5 billion to buy Nvidia chips. Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion. OpenAI committed $50 billion to buy Microsoft cloud. Microsoft ordered $100 billion in Nvidia chips for that cloud. Oracle gave OpenAI $300 billion in cloud credits. OpenAI ordered Nvidia chips for Oracle data centers.
The same dollars circle through different companies and get counted as revenue multiple times. Nvidia books sales, but nobody actually pays. The bills age. The inventory piles up. The cash never comes.
AI company CEOs admitted it themselves last week. Airbnb’s CEO called it vibe revenue. OpenAI burns $9.3 billion per year but makes $3.7 billion. That’s a $5.6 billion annual loss. The $157 billion valuation requires $3.1 trillion in future profits that MIT research shows 95% of AI projects will never generate.
Peter Thiel sold $100 million in Nvidia on November 9. SoftBank dumped $5.8 billion on November 11. Michael Burry bought put options betting Nvidia crashes to $140 by March 2026.
Bitcoin, which tracks AI speculation, dropped from $126,000 in October to $89,567 today. That’s a 29% crash. AI startups hold $26.8 billion in Bitcoin as collateral for loans. When Nvidia falls another 40%, those loans default, forcing $23 billion in Bitcoin sales, crashing crypto to $52,000.
The timeline is now certain. February 2026, Nvidia reports fourth quarter and reveals how many bills aged past 60 days. March 2026, credit agencies downgrade. April 2026, the first restatement. The fraud that took 18 months to build unwinds in 90 days.
Fair value for Nvidia: $71 per share. Current price: $186. The math is simple.
This is the fastest moving financial fraud in history because algorithms detected it in real time. Human investors are 90 days behind.
Read the full data driven deep dive article here - https://t.co/sDEf5Mdrtc
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