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Entrepreneurial & finance career; Kidder P’body;Synovus; Wachovia; Mortgage Banking. Enjoy dry ironic twisted humor, curious about history and laughs often ...

[ed @DiscernedEd]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Poltava, Kharkiv native Vlada Kalashnikova set a National Record of Ukraine by picking up an apple with her teeth while performing a backbend, from the highest platform ever achieved in this discipline.

[📹 vladyxaaa_k]

[Jeanne Perego 🥨 @jeperego]

Chapeau agli strateghi della comunicazione della squadra norvegese ai Mondiali. #WC2026 #NOR

[ed @DiscernedEd]

@BlackScholesMan Agree. You do spectacularly good /efficient analysis.

PKE … undiscovered and yet absolutely necessary. A ton of money coming their way.

[ed @DiscernedEd]

@RootofGoodBlog It’s NOT a “loss”. It’s a virtue donation… a way to get money to a politician or political cause that doesn’t get counted. Book deals, charities, … coins…. hate to be negative but politics is a corrupt sport. It just is. ✨😎

[Fact @Fact]

The sentence "Are you as bored as I am?" can be read backwards and still makes sense.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Finance, Sales, Marketing, IT

[Noosheen Hashemi @HashemiNoosheen]

I looked into the U.S. Navy's Corsair drone boat that just rescued two American pilots in the Strait of Hormuz, and the engineering is remarkable.

Built by Texas-based Saronic Technologies, the Corsair is a 24-foot autonomous surface vessel powered by AI. It hits 40 mph, carries 1,000 pounds of payload, and can sail more than 1,000 miles without a human aboard. Each unit costs roughly $1 million to produce, which is a fraction of what comparable manned naval assets cost.

The platform runs on Saronic's autonomy stack, which fuses real-time sensor data, computer vision, and AI decision-making to navigate, identify targets, and execute mission objectives without remote piloting. It's part of the Navy's Task Force 59, the unit dedicated to AI-powered unmanned vessels operating in the Middle East.

Saronic stood this up in 12 months from prototype to production. The company is on track to build more than 20 vessels per year by 2027.

This is what American AI looks like in the field. 🇺🇸

[hrdk @hrdktwt]

Someone on Reddit built a game where you ride a dirt bike on top of any company's stock chart.

[ed @DiscernedEd]

Ouch …

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

BREAKING: New Spurs logo released after blowing 30-point lead in the NBA Finals

[ed @DiscernedEd]

Outstanding…✨😎

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[naiive @naiivememe]

This is why only 20% of traders succeed in the market

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

Whoever is married to this man won the lottery👌

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Uno de los fenómenos más extraños que verás en los últimos días…

Algunas vez te habías preguntado en dónde termina la lluvia?

Pues en este partido de fútbol los jugadores pudieron descubrirlo 😱😱😱

El arte de la naturaleza!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A new device writes homework by hand for students.

The arms race between teachers and lazy geniuses continues.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I've never been at a medical conference where the results have been greeted with a standing ovation

Tremendous breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

Through science

Hard work, rigorous research, clinical trials.

Science

Not the quack pseudoscience of social media

[B. Miller @BlaiseInKC]

There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle.
But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I was six years old."

"John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world and, today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do everything better than he could."

"When I was born, the dentist didn't use novocaine!"

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

They don’t make commercials like this anymore

[ed @DiscernedEd]

Seriously… there is a valid point being made here. Nuance … it’s like a fire. Sometimes it heats your home, cooks your. All good. Then it catches the couch on fire 🔥 and the whole house burns down 😳

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.