Incredible stuff.
A Maryland mall closed down over 20 years ago and the lot has been sitting vacant since. A developer planned to invest $5 billion in a data center.
Instead, a China-tied group worked with a local activist to block the development.
https://t.co/0vgv30lnvG
"The closed off stall with the toilet has open condoms and lubricant. Children are present please clean ASAP."
Reported today in Junipero Serra Playground Park
Re-recommending Lost City of the Monkey God:
> Bros hear rumor of ancient city
> Told it’s fake
> Sounds cool anyways
> Fly LIDAR over Honduran jungle
> Told it’s not “real archaeology” by academics
> Largest Mesoamerican discovery in modern history
You can just do things!
https://t.co/Gha3XhI5Gs
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Nima Momeni, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2024, has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for the 2023 killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee. https://t.co/fTXrEw4jrh
@ArghAnotherName@TheAtlantic Hello, if you read the book you will learn that Black Hawk Down is about how a Somali warlord was stealing aid and killed UN mission troops that were trying to deliver it :)
Good public housing is run ruthlessly by competitive technocrats (Singapore HDB).
Bad public housing is run by nonprofits of political allies and tend to be fraud and/or state-funded crack dens (San Francisco NGOs).
Guess which one NYC chose?
Zuck did this for the literal hospital and progressives on the board of supervisors tried to cancel him for it.
It’s great that Chesky is donating to the city but let’s not pretend that the miserable progressives won’t hate him for it.
I guess now’s as good a time as any to announce that my new hobby is…chronicling the hobbies of legendary operators. We’re launching the podcast in January. Here are some of the folks we have in pipeline, 5 of which are filming in the coming weeks.
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Third worldism in action: facing a $150M deficit, the county is turning down a $5B project to keep a mall lot that's been abandoned for 24 years.
25,000 signatures for $0 in revenue.
I guarantee the same people will be complaining about underfunded social programs next.
I'm genuinely worried for America's future. We have so many reliant on entitlement spending and we are nuking the thing that could pay for it while everyone has ultra high standard of living demands and a gun.
wild fable 5.2 took the last turbojet engine I built in ntop and converted it into a turbofan in one prompt over ~40min, I asked it to use the same core, and instead of it adding a second shaft, it designed and built in a gearbox, hmmmm