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[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@CryptoCobain

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@Krissy867530 @Polymarket @JulieSweet AFAIK Julie Sweet has already changed jobs; she now works for an NGO 🥳🥳😷
#yes_we_can

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@halvarflake https://t.co/A4ctfuSyrN it's complicated - very setup and hw dependent(frame rates), plugins failing, memory leaks, system overload w/o adequate gpu when encoding, using v4l2loopback(virtual video devices) should produce similar issues as with ffmpeg

[Umur Tugay Yücel @umur_tugay]

My New Analysis 👇

"A Voice Rising from New Delhi: BRICS' New World Order Manifesto"

🔴At the BRICS meeting held in New Delhi, one of the most detailed political documents showing the envisioned world order for 2026 was signed.
https://t.co/Jgi6LVO8yr

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@AlexFinn

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@chigrl as comparison
only 1% of electric cars are privately owned in Berlin (3.7 million inhabitants)
https://t.co/ZvdovvPgod

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@BowTiedMara OTOH: should EU and NATO decide to go to war against Russia, they will struggle to find men born in Europe who are willing to fight for their country

[𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘰 🇮🇹 @Andy_Calcio]

Declaraciones de Jurgen Klopp a ZDF, sobre la reanudación del juego retrasada por el árbitro, durante el cooling break del México-Sudáfrica para que terminaran los comerciales de algunas cadenas de TV:
"Esto es el fútbol siendo tomado como rehén por ejecutivos en oficinas con aire acondicionado".

"Estos supuestos 'descansos por el calor' nos los vendieron como un escudo para el bienestar de los jugadores, una noble espada contra el calor. ¿Pero en realidad? No es más que una jaula dorada construida para patrocinadores. Cuando vi a los jugadores parados durante un descanso por calor mientras los tiempos de televisión dictaban el ritmo del partido, no pude evitar preguntarme: ¿a quién está sirviendo realmente la Copa del Mundo? ¿A los aficionados?, ¿A los jugadores?, ¿O a los anunciantes?".

"Un partido de la Copa del Mundo debería fluir como un río. En cambio, estamos construyendo presas en medio de él para que los comerciales puedan pasar. Eso es peligroso para el espíritu del juego. El fútbol alguna vez fue el evento principal, pero ahora corre el riesgo de convertirse en la música de fondo de un espectáculo publicitario. Nos dicen que estos descansos son por el bienestar de los jugadores, y por supuesto la salud de los jugadores importa. Pero cuando el juego empieza a doblar sus rodillas ante los tiempos de la televisión, la gente va a hacer preguntas. El balón se supone que es la estrella. No un descanso comercial".

"La Copa del Mundo es la catedral del fútbol. Sin embargo, a veces da la sensación de que la hemos convertido en un centro comercial donde la caja registradora recibe más respeto que el propio partido. Si este es el futuro, entonces el fútbol ya no está siendo interrumpido por los anuncios. El fútbol se está convirtiendo en la interrupción entre los anuncios".

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@zerohedge correct, request was downgraded to sonnet

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

Andrej will no longer be with Anthropic in 2027

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time.

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!

[Adriana Vitan Balint @adrianavbalint]

Postarea cu drona filmată și cu dovezile că o dronă eșuată nu poate ocoli un dig, să întoarcă la 180 de grade chiar la capătul digului și apoi sa facă unghi drept direct către dana unde este Terminal Oil, dintre zecile de dane din port, am postat-o aici, de unde e preluată în mii de distribuiri în toate țările lumii, în sute de mii de vizualizări în doar câteva ore.

Europenii sunt pur și simplu oripilați, nu le vine sa creadă ce văd, filmarea aia cu drona ucraineană care zăcea între balize nu o știe nimeni din afara țării, cum nu o știu nici ai noștri, pentru că nicio televiziune nu o popularizeaza nici la ei, cum nici la noi nu apare pe nicăieri, e omerta pe subiect, se încearcă distragerea atenției.

Și te întrebi de ce, pentru că nu convine propagandei Bruxelles-ului care trebuie să spele bani prin ajutoare date Ucrainei sau nu se mai vând armele, nu se mai semnează contractele din programul SAFE cu vânzătorii de fier vechi care riscă să rămână cu tancurile în bătătură?

Iar minciuna aia cu bruiajul rușilor care au preluat controlul dronei este absolut pentru retardați. Păi dacă erau în stare rușii să facă asta, nu o făceau și când aceleași drone au aruncat în aer podul Crimeei sau când au atacat Moscova?

Ce e mizeria asta, de ce se încearcă punerea batistei pe țambal? Europa trebuie sa afle, lumea întreaga trebuie sa afle, dacă ai noștri, guvernanți și populație dorm în papuci și se scarpină în buric, hai să trezim celelalte națiuni care știu să fie demne, care nu au trecut prin istorie cu Servus.

Doar în ei ne mai stă speranța, așa că vă rog să faceți cunoscut tuturor atentatul criminal al Ucrainei asupra României, aratati-le tuturor filmul cu drona ucraineană controlată de ucraineni, ghidată cu țintă clară Terminal Oil, care ar fi spulberat jumate din harta orasului Constanța: clădiri și oameni erau rași de pe fata Pământului, dacă nu erau acele balize.

O țară din afara NATO a atacat o țară NATO, e mai mult decat evident. Unde e articolul 5? Unde e expulzarea ambasadorului și închiderea Ambasadei Ucrainei la București? Ucrainenii mai au canal de televiziune exclusiv în limba lor, din banii noștri, la televiziunea de stat? Mai primesc bani din impozitele noastre să își plimbe câinii și bebelușii născuți aici, câte 2-3, în timp ce ai noștri își numără banii și decid ca ăsta nu e un moment bun pentru un copil, ca avem de crescut lepre cu banii noștri?

Cat mai suportăm jegurile astea care nu au nicio jenă sa ne extermine în masă și acum nici măcar scuze nu își cer?

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canadian Dollar looks sick.

Canada’s currency is sending a signal policymakers appear unwilling to hear.

The recent softness in the Canadian dollar is not a transient fluctuation driven by cyclical noise. It reflects a deeper reassessment by global capital markets of Canada’s structural trajectory—one increasingly defined by weak productivity, regulatory overreach, and a persistent misallocation of capital away from its core competitive strengths.

For much of the past two decades, Canada benefited from a favorable external environment: rising commodity demand, proximity to the world’s largest consumer market, and a stable financial system. That foundation has been gradually eroded. Productivity growth has stagnated to near-zero levels, business investment has lagged OECD peers, and regulatory burdens, particularly in energy and infrastructure, have constrained the very sectors where Canada retains a natural advantage.

Instead of addressing these structural deficiencies early, policy discourse has largely normalized them. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth are framed as manageable. Declining output per worker is treated as an abstract statistic rather than a direct threat to living standards.

Meanwhile, the public sector has crowded out the private sector for over a decade. Yet Bay St and the BOC say it’s but a flesh wound.

Currency markets are less forgiving.
They function as a real-time referendum on policy credibility and long-term growth expectations. The Canadian dollar’s weakness is not merely a reflection of interest rate differentials; it is a signal that global investors are demanding a higher risk premium for exposure to an economy with deterioratin fundamentals.

Compounding this dynamic is an extraordinary degree of home bias among domestic investors. Canadian portfolios remain heavily concentrated in domestic equities and real estate despite clear evidence of underperformance relative to global benchmarks. This insularity amplifies vulnerability: when domestic fundamentals weaken, both the currency and asset prices adjust simultaneously.

The core issue is strategic drift. Canada possesses abundant natural resources, a highly educated population, and geographic advantages that should position it as a leading beneficiary of global energy transition and supply chain realignment.

Yet policy choices for decades have systematically undermined these advantages, favoring redistribution and regulation over growth and competitiveness.

Absent a meaningful shift, toward investment, productivity, and resource development, the message from currency markets is unlikely to change. Exchange rates do not move on rhetoric. They move on relative performance.

And on that measure, Canada is falling behind.

[Adam Taggart @adamtaggart]

Think politics are tough in your state?

Here in Nevada, if you're not named like a bloodthirsty marauder, you pretty much have no business running for office...

KILLoran
STABbert

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

@eecmd @derJamesJackson @Nightmare_Snake Sept 6 2026
state election in Saxony-Anhalt could be pivotal
AFD 42%

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

I bet these are mostly non Muslim German citizens who have left.

291,955 migrants from Syria acquired German citizenship in 2024(28 % of all naturalization)
90% are Muslim.

https://t.co/T3eelR3oq5

About 5.5 million followers of Islam live in Germany. Nearly 3 million of them are German citizens. Muslims account for about 6.6% of Germany’s total population.
https://t.co/5cUHjlKWQS

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[möchtegern @heft_ig]

China's career advancement is unheard of in the West

Metrics reward scale of production, industrial capacity, supply-chain development, and innovation outputs (e.g., patents, R&D, high-tech growth) because these advance national industrial policy goals and demonstrate effective resource mobilization under central guidance

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

Many have tried industrial policy: India, Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, even the US. But why have some been more successful: Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan?

Great FT piece by @tejparikh90: “China’s comparative advantage is industrial policy” https://t.co/N5QLZ4OdOU

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

The propaganda has become so absurd that perhaps we should finally discuss the REAL reasons Russia would supposedly invade Europe:

To acquire Germany’s energy policy expertise and finally learn how to shut down functioning nuclear plants while importing expensive energy from everyone else.

To experience the thrill of open borders and historic levels of crime in culturally enriched cities.

The reality is that the political class in Europe needs Russia psychologically more than Russia needs Europe economically.

[Dr. Dr. Rainer Zitelmann @RZitelmann]

Die sozialen Leistungen verteilen sich auf zwölf Sozialgesetzbücher mit mehr als 3200 Paragrafen und zahlreichen Sonderregeln. Der Bund allein hat über 300 verschiedene Programme aufgelegt, die sich teilweise überschneiden. Über 17 Prozent aller Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Dienst arbeiten in Deutschland inzwischen im Bereich der sozialen Sicherung. Allein bei den Sozialversicherungen sind 364.000 Menschen beschäftigt und verursachen Verwaltungskosten von 25 Milliarden Euro, so Stelter @thinkBTO

https://t.co/Hobq6h5xQ3