b𝕏nks.

25WAGG3DOU2 ✞ No Peak, Just Pressure

[b𝕏nks. @chulo2flyy]

our planet is using cloud services to store some of its water.

[F&M 🦅 @FEMBR23]

Future after his performance at the opening ceremony of the World Cup.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The quickest way to realize we are not as clever as we think is to read someone who lived 200 years ago.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Google hid a fully working flight simulator inside Google Earth back in 2007 and never told anyone.

You unlocked it with a secret keystroke: Ctrl+Alt+A. No menu, no announcement. One user stumbled onto it, the combo spread, and it got popular enough that Google made it official the next year. Two planes, an F-16 and a Cirrus SR22, flying over real satellite imagery of the entire planet.

Then it stayed locked inside the downloadable desktop app for 18 years. The browser version was a stripped-down viewer that couldn't run it. Today that changed.

Here is the part that makes it impressive. A flight simulator is the single hardest thing you can ask a 3D map to do. Panning is easy, the software has all the time it wants to load the terrain ahead of you. Flying low and fast strips that away, forcing it to fetch, decompress, and render the world faster than you are crossing it. The hardest possible job for every part of the system at once.

So "just for fun" is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence. Getting this to run in a browser tab is the cleanest proof that the web version finally matches what used to need a desktop app.

The toy is the benchmark.

[Weffrey Jellington @jeffwellz]

She said even if you wear a condom and put it in the bin like any reasonable person would, it’s still not enough. You should carry it home

[Uselu Park Chairman @StatiQfit]

If she looking at Lord Future like that then she’s unfortunately already under his Genjutsu, we can only pray for her now.

[Remi @Miss_Oluremi]

I learnt this from my uncle.
He and his ex fiancé had issues. He went to her family house to plead with her.

Her parents were present, he went there with just his friend. Another heated argument started as they both narrated their sides of the story.

My uncle kept quiet because he was in the midst of his to-be in-laws. The girl continued running her mouth until she pointed a finger to my uncle and said, "eleyii naa."

That statement changed everything.

My uncle said, he stood up, thanked his ex parents, and told his friend to meet him in the car. He left.

Later, everyone pleaded with him later to forgive the girl. The girl too pleaded. They got back together, but he told the girl he'll never marry her.

She thought he would change his mind, so she got pregnant. He took care of the pregnancy and accepted the child. But he never married her.

Years later, he married someone else.

[NZ ☄️ @CodeByNZ]

Anthropic: “If we’re going down, everybody’s coming with us.”

[Rayyy👨🏾‍🦯 @Greatnesss99]

The day I come home saf den she go funeral, she call me the following day say make I meet am for the junction with wheel barrow…

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Kris Kay | 🎲 444 Capital @thekriskay]

if you have a $1 net worth,

you are closer to the 2nd richest person on earth, than he is to Elon.

read that again.

[kong @helloimkongv]

@ClaudeDevs @asahiXXXXXXXXX dev after fable 5 is banned

[Spencer Shulem @Spshulem]

@ClaudeDevs this day will go down in history

[young boy problems.wav @adolphussss_]

#need

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[Mario @yeatmario]

How I expect women to be wit me on the first date

[alexei @alexeixbt]

doctor: "you're eating wrong"
parents: "you're living wrong"
girlfriend: "you're wrong"

porsche salesman: excellent choice sir

[AIロイド @airoid1111]

ワールドカップ2026開幕だ！

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

When Nokia engineers examined the original iPhone in the summer of 2007, they found a 2-megapixel camera with no flash, no autofocus, and no video. Their flagship phone, released three months earlier, had a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens (the optics brand used in Leica cameras), autofocus, an LED flash, and video recording. Nokia beat Apple on every camera specification. Nokia also no longer makes phones.

Apple's advantage came from three engineering decisions, none of which appeared on a spec sheet. Speed was the first. Nokia's camera took 6 seconds just to open the app, with the whole process reaching 8 seconds before a first photo could be taken. Apple chose fixed focus deliberately, locking the lens at a fixed point where anything from arm's length to the horizon stays sharp. With the autofocus delay gone, the whole process took under 2 seconds from pocket to saved photo. For the actual photos people take of people and places, that speed was worth more than 3 extra megapixels.

The second decision was matching resolution to the actual use case. A 2-megapixel image is 1,600 by 1,200 pixels. The iPhone's own screen in 2007 was 320 pixels wide. The most common destination for a camera phone photo was a text message or an email with a file size limit. Apple sized the sensor for where photos were going, not for what looked best on a product box.

The third decision was the path from shutter to shared. Sharing a photo on the Nokia N95 meant opening the image, pressing Options, choosing Send, picking Bluetooth or email or a picture text, and working through sub-menus from there. On iPhone, every photo went straight into a built-in album, swipeable with a finger, emailable in two taps. Apple designed the camera as a communication tool first.

Nokia held roughly half of global smartphone sales in 2007. By 2013, that number had collapsed to single digits. Microsoft bought Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion and wrote off virtually the entire investment as a loss within 15 months. Digital camera shipments peaked at 121 million units in 2010 and fell 94% by 2023. Apple became the company most closely linked to the phrase "digital camera" in media analysis by 2013, built from a sensor that lost to Nokia on paper.

The Nokia engineers who analyzed that first iPhone were right that the numbers didn't add up. The market had simply stopped counting them.