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[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.

We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.

Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz

[teleSUR TV @teleSURtv]

📌 Israel cambia nombre a plan de limpieza étnica contra los palestinos

🔴 Israel nombró su controvertida estrategia para la expulsión de la población palestina de la Franja de Gaza a "Plan de Libertad de Movimiento", abandonando el término anterior "migración voluntaria".

https://t.co/aZSCqJFnfO

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Physics teacher demonstrates how to inflate a bag with a single breath using Bernoulli’s principle.

[📹 Wolf_science]

[Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 @Abdullah_Om3r03]

Many people here in Gaza ask me, "Who are you writing for? No one feels our pain, and no one truly sees us. We were just a passing trend, and when the spotlight faded, we were left alone without homes, without tents. Our children are dying from the unbearable heat, yet no one asks about us, and hardly anyone even writes about us."

I tell them: I write so that no one can one day claim they did not know. I write because this is a responsibility, and because our voice must reach the world, even if the world chooses to close its ears and refuse to listen.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Our Congress is doing everything in its power to merge the terrorist IDF with our own military.

Vomitous.

If you’re in a rage, direct it in a productive direction and put your congressperson on notice.

Call or visit them repeatedly and everyday. Be clear and demand they vote no. When they inevitably avoid you, call their office anyway, repeatedly and everyday. Talk to their staffers repeatedly and everyday.

Let them know we’re coming for their fucking seats if they pass this utter garbage. Don’t let them sell us out to a genocidal terror state more than they already have.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping bombs on tents full of civilians in Khan Younis — in the middle of the night as families sleep.

There is no refuge left in Gaza.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Building one of today's Waymo robotaxis costs around $150,000. Tesla is trying to build the Cybercab for about $18,000, which is roughly what Waymo pays for just the spinning laser sensors, called lidar, bolted to its roof. The whole bet is swapping forty thousand dollars of sensors for eight cameras and software.

Eight cameras do all the seeing, with no lasers and no radar anywhere on the car. They feed one piece of AI software that turns the street into a live 3D model, guessing which blocks of space around the car are filled and which are empty. People drive with two eyes and a brain, so the wager is that a machine with sharper eyes and a big enough brain shouldn't need lasers to see. Tesla pulled radar from its cars in 2021 and stripped out the last backup sensors by 2023. What trains that software is almost 7 billion miles of real driving logged from its own fleet, every mile another example to learn from.

A Model Y takes about 34 seconds to come off the assembly line. The Cybercab is designed to come off every 10. Tesla calls the method "unboxed": instead of inching one hollow car body down a single line, the factory builds five or six big sections at once, bolts them together near the end, and snaps the outer panels on last, so the car never touches the floor until final assembly. Tesla says that cuts factory floor space by about 40% and labor by 30%, on a vehicle carrying roughly half the parts of a normal car.

Rain is the one thing that can blind the whole system. Heavy rain, fog, and low sun smear a camera lens the same way they blur your own eyes, which is why the Austin service still pauses in the rain and sat at around 20 driverless cars a year after launch. The Cybercab adds small washer jets to keep its lenses clear. Lasers struggle in heavy rain too, so whether cameras alone can carry the whole job is still a real open question.

If the cameras win, the math turns brutal for everyone else. Analysts think the Cybercab could eventually run near 20 cents a mile to operate, against roughly 40 for a Waymo weighed down with sensors. What fills that clip is a car steering itself through traffic. The engineering that actually resets the price of a taxi is the roughly $130,000 of cost Tesla is trying to strip out of every robotaxi it builds.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades. https://t.co/LsH2vznwS3

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Journalist Whitney Webb describes the global push for digital ID as essential for both central bank digital currencies and UN Agenda 2030.

She warns that while the system is promoted as "inclusive", in practice it excludes those without digital ID from rights, services, and freedom of movement.

"If you don't participate in digital ID, you won't have a legally recognised identity, you won't have rights, you won't be able to access services without it."

"So it's being framed as promoting inclusion, but the system itself is inherently exclusionary."

"It's inclusive in the sense that we want everyone equally included in... our new control system."

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Why must air traffic controllers retire at 56, FBI agents at 57, and pilots at 65—yet politicians can keep making decisions for future generations until 90?

[Marty Two Bulls Sr. @M2Bulls]

Donny The Hutt

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

Restaurants in America had to include a minimum 18% tip in the bill when world cup fans refused to tip which i find ridiculous 🙄 employers should pay a living salary 🤷

[Hunter @271k_only]

🚨 BREAKING

One fearless man just TORCHED the entire modern "jewish" origin story and EXPOSED Israel

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

@MatNuclear Sorry to break it to you, but you’re a retard

[Truth_teller 🇷🇺 @Truthtellerftm]

The corrupt Iraqi government is arresting the pro-Iran resistance members over expelling Mossad and US bases!

The Iraqi Special Forces, supported by US made Army M1 Abrams MBTs, Humvees and light armor started a major crackdown on multiple parties across Baghdad's Green Zone.

Dozens of pro-Iran politicians and activists were arrested on corruption charges, specially members of State of Law Coalition party, the main Pro-Iran Shia party in Iraq.

Reality check:

Meanwhile all of Iraq’s oil sales go to an American bank and part of it is reimbursed in cash to the corrupt Iraqi government to serve the U.S. and Israel’s interest.

The Iraqi Special Forces are operating under direct orders of the new Prime Minister of Iraq, Ali al-Zaidi.

Iraqi SOF Helicopters were spotted flying over Baghdad's Green Zone to defend American bases!

Note: The Green Zone in Baghdad is one of Iraqis famous high-security bubble, which include important sites such as the US Embassy and Saddam Hussein's former palace, which American pirates raided!

[Stan Smith @onegod7257]

@GeneralMCNews Net zero?!?
What about the fucking wars?!?
Yachts & private jets?!?!
Billionaires rockets 🚀?!?!
India & china pollution, coal, & garbage?!?!

[Jax @RightWingJax]

@GeneralMCNews They turned in their guns, and now the powers to be are going to just keep cracking down on them, harder and harder, until they're dead or totally enalaved.

[Gregory L Little, Ed.D. @DrGregLittle2]

"Chisca Mound" in downtown Memphis, Tennessee along the Mississippi River.