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[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

Have you guys seen the at guy who uses an Apple Vision Pro to do all his installs?

Feels like looking at tech from the future

[RGK @rgk_degen]

Northwestern engineers built a drone that spins its own body 25 times a second to disappear mid-flight.

It's called Phantom Twist.

No paint. No clear plastic shell. No camouflage.

Most of the frame rotates. 25 turns per second. 1,500 per minute. A full turn every 40 milliseconds.

The propeller spins the other way.

That's the trick. The counter-rotation cancels the spin, and the aircraft holds steady while its body turns into a smear.

The eye tracks a bird. It tracks a normal quadcopter.

It can't lock onto a shape that redraws itself 25 times a second.

You see motion. You see blur. You never see the outline.

Every camouflage in history tried to match the background.

This one just refuses to hold still.

[Naval @naval]

The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Holy smokes
Single Largest Private Sector Capital Investment in History of Canada
Premier Scott Moe and Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic today announced a major expansion of Bell’s AI Data Centre project in Saskatchewan, bringing the total estimated capital investment to more than $50 billion.
https://t.co/vzLDWTzqrS

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.

So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.

Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.

A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.

But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.

The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.

His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.

One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.

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[Mason @webdevMason]

All that needs to be said about pit bulls was said by S-tier dog trainer Stonnie Dennis in 3 minutes

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Televisão Argentina @tvargentina_]

A BEIRA DO INFARTO: Pablo Giralt, da Telefe, enlouquecendo narrando o gol da virada da Argentina em cima da Inglaterra!

[DENZO FC @Denzo_R2]

Zlatan Ibrahimović on Colombia's goal being ruled out for offside against Portugal:

🗣️ “This is a disgrace. The referee and VAR have just stolen a perfectly good goal from Colombia. If that's offside, then nobody understands the rules anymore.”

“How many screens, cameras, and replays do they need to get one simple decision right? They had every advantage, and they still found a way to make the wrong call. That's embarrassing.”

“The referee isn't the talking point because he got it right he's the talking point because he completely failed in one of the biggest moments of the match. VAR didn't save him; it made the mistake even worse.”

“You don't just take away a goal you take away the players' hard work, the fans' celebration, and possibly a place in the next round. That's unforgivable.”

“If officials can't get decisions like this right on the biggest stage in football, then they shouldn't be officiating World Cup matches. Colombia deserved better than this.”

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

🇫🇷 THIERRY HENRY: “¿Cómo demonios es eso fuera de juego? Lo he visto una y otra vez, y todavía no entiendo cómo el árbitro y el VAR llegaron a esa decisión. Ese gol debería haber contado.”

“Esto es exactamente por lo que los aficionados están perdiendo la confianza en el VAR. La tecnología se introdujo para corregir errores obvios, no para crear controversias aún mayores.”

“A Colombia le han robado un momento enorme. No puedes anular un gol así en el escenario más grande sin estar absolutamente seguro. Por lo que hemos visto, no había nada claro en esa decisión.”

“El árbitro no solo anuló un gol, les quitó la emoción, la celebración y un momento potencialmente definitorio del Mundial. Eso es devastador para cada jugador y aficionado colombiano.”

“Si este es el estándar de arbitraje en un Mundial, entonces el fútbol tiene un problema serio. El árbitro y el VAR tienen que responder por una decisión que podría cambiar todo un torneo.”

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

More about this.

CTV's title is wrong.

Should say Canada's counter-tariffs on U.S. goods. https://t.co/co5sS4nTLo

[matthew sigel, recovering CFA @matthew_sigel]

Tether is buying more Gold than China

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

SpaceX is only ~200 satellites away from having launched as many satellites as the rest of the world combined

(despite giving the rest of the world a 61-year head start)

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Tether purchased +6 tonnes of gold in Q1 2026, bringing total holdings to a record 132 tonnes, now worth ~$19.8 billion.

This follows +21 and +26 tonnes acquired in Q4 and Q3 2025.

Tether’s gold holdings have more than DOUBLED in just 12 months and nearly TRIPLED in value over the same period.

In 2025, the crypto firm acquired more gold than every central bank except Poland.

In Q1 2026, the only central banks that bought more gold were Poland, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and China.

Tether is competing with central banks for gold.

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

This photo deserves a Pulitzer.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Before you get started with muh infrastructure, Baoding doesn't have a metro system and its urban population is 6M+.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

In double-blind placebo-controlled trials, 'gluten-sensitive' people who *think* they're going to eat gluten have reactions.

But if they don't expect gluten, there's no reaction.

Expectancy has a bigger effect than actually eating gluten!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The sun was free. They sold you SPF 50 and a vitamin D deficiency.

Sleep was free. They sold you an app, a pill, and a wearable that tells you your sleep was bad.

Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill, a fitness tracker, and a £180 pair of trainers.

Fasting was free. They sold you meal replacement shakes and the anxiety that skipping breakfast would wreck your metabolism.

Cold water was free. They sold you a £3,000 plunge barrel and a podcast episode about it.

Silence was free. They sold you a meditation app with a premium tier.

Animal fat was cheap. They sold you seed oils, then supplements to replace what the animal fat contained.

Tallow was cheap. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine and a clinical trial proving your face needs ceramides.

Meat was cheap. They are currently selling you the idea that you shouldn't eat it.

The 20th century removed access to everything the body needs to function.

The 21st century is selling it back, one subscription at a time.

Your great-grandmother had none of the products.

She had all of the things.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Qatar just signed a 10-year defence co-production agreement with Ukraine.

Not an advisory partnership. Not a training exchange. Co-production facilities. Joint defence industry projects. Technological partnerships between companies. Signed by the Chiefs of General Staff of both nations on March 28 per Zelensky’s verified account and Qatar News Agency.

Qatar shares the world’s largest natural gas field with Iran. The North Field / South Pars reservoir holds 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas per the IEA. Two-thirds lies in Qatari waters. Ten days ago, Iran hit Ras Laffan Industrial City, the facility that processes all the gas from Qatar’s side of their shared field per CNN and QatarEnergy. Seventeen percent of Qatar’s LNG capacity is offline for three to five years. Fourteen percent of helium exports are cut. Force majeure declared.

Iran bombed the other half of its own shared gas field. And now Qatar is building weapons factories with the country that mastered killing the drone Iran used to do it.

The drone is the Shahed-136. Iran designed it. Russia industrialised it. Russia fired it at Ukrainian cities for four years. Ukraine developed the $2,100 Sting interceptor that kills it at a 70 percent rate. Zelensky told The National he can deliver 1,000 interceptors per day. The 10-year deal ensures Qatar will not just buy these weapons. It will manufacture them on Qatari soil with Ukrainian technology.

This is the first time in the history of this war that a Gulf state has committed to building the production line, not just purchasing the product. Saudi Arabia signed a defence cooperation agreement on March 27. The UAE agreed to security cooperation on March 28. But Qatar went further. Co-production means factories. Factories mean sovereignty over supply. Qatar will no longer depend on anyone for the weapon that protects the gas field that powers 30 percent of the world’s helium.

Zelensky met Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. He updated them on Russia’s ongoing attacks and its cooperation with the Iranian regime. He told them air defence remains Ukraine’s absolute priority. Then he asked for what he has asked every Gulf leader this week: Patriot missiles that the Gulf possesses and that Ukraine desperately needs to stop Russian missiles that use the same guidance components from the same Chinese rare earth processing chain.

The exchange is now visible across three countries in 48 hours. Ukraine gives cheap interceptors and expertise. Gulf states give expensive missiles and investment. Ukraine gets what it needs for Russia. The Gulf gets what it needs for Iran. And the drone that connects both wars, the Shahed that Iran designed and Russia upgraded, becomes the mechanism through which two separate conflicts merge into a single weapons economy.

Trump called Zelensky “the greatest salesman on Earth.” In 48 hours, Zelensky signed three defence agreements across three Gulf capitals, secured a 10-year industrial partnership, deployed over 200 specialists, and positioned Ukraine as the sole provider of the one capability America’s $3.9 million Patriot cannot replicate: cheap, high-volume, battle-proven drone interception at $2,100 per unit.

The country America said it did not need just locked in a decade of Gulf defence contracts while America raids Swiss accounts to cover its own interceptor shortfall.

Full analysis - https://t.co/32ixeQpN7N

[shirish @shiri_shh]

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭