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[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Introducing Mistral OCR 4. It creates structure with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores in 170 languages. 🧵👇

[thoughtspresso @MminaMac]

This is a recurring question even Filipinos ask too. Part of it comes from history.

Malaysia and Indonesia had earlier contact with India since ~100AD, and Hindu-Budshist states around ~700AD. While PH islands traded with them, our Indianized kingdoms come later ~13th Century.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Onboard views from Starship and Super Heavy V3, which are equipped with upgraded cameras capable of streaming 4K video through every phase of flight via @Starlink

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship on its twelfth flight test

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This may be the fastest race in swimming history…

James "The Missile" Magnussen is 6'6", 35 yrs old, 2x world champion, and Olympic medalist.

I'm commenting the @enhanced_games tomorrow night where James is competing.

Insane stats on him...

#1
His resting heart rate is 28 bpm (cleared by his medical team). For context, elite endurance athletes are typically 40–50 bpm. Mine is around 39-42 bpm.

#2
Last year he was 253 lbs. This was after his first cycle of performance-enhancing-drugs. He got too big. He was sinking in the water. He's down 40 lbs this year to try and hit the sweet-spot of muscle and buoyancy.

#3
He's so big he can barely fit into his enhanced suit. Enhanced Games swimmers wear full-body polyurethane "supersuits" that World Aquatics banned in 2010. These are the same suits that broke 43 world records in 2009.

#4
He came out of a 7-yr retirement for this. He retired from competition in 2019.

Tomorrow night, I'll be reviewing their protocols and measurements live.

[John Mangun @mangunonmarkets]

Corruption is the only truly efficient institution left in the Philippine economy.
It processes influence fast, moves capital more predictably than any bank, and delivers results while regulators and judges deliberate for years.
The real decisions happen in the shadows where time is bought and sold.

[Johan @Adityapandeydev]

your brain is always becoming better at whatever you repeatedly do. that’s why repetition changes people more than motivation ever will. if you spend every day stressing, overthinking, comparing yourself to strangers online, replaying old mistakes, and expecting the worst, your brain slowly starts treating those patterns like home. it begins scanning the world for more proof that you’re not enough, that life is against you, that things won’t work out. the scary part is your brain doesn’t care if the pattern is helping you or destroying you. it only cares about what gets repeated.

but the same thing works in your favor too. when you repeatedly choose discipline, growth, gratitude, focus, and belief in yourself, your brain slowly reshapes around those things as well. at first it feels unnatural because your old patterns are louder, but over time your perspective changes. challenges stop feeling like signs to quit and start feeling like part of the process. your mind becomes whatever it practices most. so be careful what you keep giving your attention to because eventually, your thoughts become your reality.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

it’s funny because this is genuinely the best approach

Simply not thinking about stressful situations makes you less stressed

[Rían @Rscabards]

time to learn mandarin

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Philippine President Marcos announces the Philippines would have “no choice” but to be involved in any Taiwan conflict.

[SilverFoxLeo @BowTiedHRT]

If you’re trying to build your physique, lose fat, or simply improve your cognitive and physical performance, not to mention increase your work capacity, and you’re doing anything remotely close to low-carb, you are sabotaging yourself.

Intermittent fasting is absolute garbage. You’re just using the clock to reduce your calorie intake and simultaneously torpedoing your metabolic health and performance.

Keto, outside of those who’ve made the prior commitment to becoming metabolically fluid, is absolute garbage.

And anything low-carb outside of those with severe metabolic disorders or insulin resistance is absolute garbage as well.

Carbohydrates are the cleanest fuel you can run on.

Carbs refill muscle glycogen, which is what actually powers a hard training session, and they keep your central nervous system fed so your output in the gym and your output at work both stay sharp.

Fat and ketones can keep you alive. Carbs let you perform.

Eat more carbohydrates. Time your macros properly. But don’t deprive yourself of the finest form of energy you can feed yourself with.

[Bloomberg @business]

Jollibee Foods’ profit fell 39% in the first quarter as costs surged, prompting the Philippines’ largest fastfood chain operator to review its targets and spending plan. Shares fell to the lowest in five years. https://t.co/Q3LLstJWJo

[Aeneas @SonOfAnchis3s]

The fundamental error of modern historiography is that we believe every war is between good and evil. The modern mind cannot comprehend a war that’s not between good and evil; where both opponents are virtuous, nobly pursuing their tragically conflicting ends.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

Seneca on Reading

“Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner.”

― Letters from a Stoic

[Karthik @karthikponna19]

bro won coding hackathon with zero coding experience using Claude

[alexei @alexeixbt]

the audacity to believe in yourself with no physical evidence is literally the entire cheat code

[sono✖️🌗 @sosonosonosono]

executive dysfunction straight up just feels like this

[Rían @Rscabards]

e send ni nako sakong kuya

[Neural Space @NeuralSpace_]

🚨🧬 ALERTE INFO - AVANCÉE MAJEURE

Des chercheurs au Japon ont identifié une NOUVELLE CELLULE qui favorise la REPOUSSE COMPLÈTE des CHEVEUX.

Une découverte prometteuse dans la lutte contre la CALVITIE.

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

The Artemis II crew's Earthset and eclipse images are now on https://t.co/OOSOoeWeyD in full resolution:

Earthset: https://t.co/pVFle2FKFb

Captured with a Nikon D5 and Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 at 400mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO 400

Eclipse: https://t.co/Ig6WT3s5q1

Captured with a Nikon Z9 and Nikon 35mm f/2D at 2", f/2, ISO 1600

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

NASA has 32 cameras on the Artemis II spacecraft. The top science priority during the Moon flyby was the four astronauts looking out the window and talking about what they saw.

NASA's lunar science lead confirmed it. What the crew says out loud about the Moon's surface matters more to the science team than anything the cameras capture. NASA trained this crew in Iceland's volcanic highlands and at an impact crater in Labrador, Canada, teaching them to read rock textures and spot geological details at 25,000 mph.

There's a reason NASA trusts human eyes over cameras. In 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was walking near a small crater called Shorty when he scuffed the dirt with his boot. The soil underneath was orange. Schmitt was the only trained geologist to ever walk on the Moon, and he got so excited he blurred most of his own photos. That orange soil turned out to be tiny glass beads from a volcanic eruption 3.64 billion years ago, one of the biggest finds of the entire Apollo program. A boot and a pair of trained eyes caught what no camera did.

For this flyby, NASA sent the crew a final list of 30 surface targets. They killed all the cabin lights to cut window reflections. They worked in pairs, rotating every 55 to 85 minutes, calling out craters and lava flows while scientists at Johnson Space Center analyzed everything in real time. Pilot Victor Glover reported that the Moon's south pole, where NASA wants to land astronauts by 2028, looked "more jagged" than the north with much steeper terrain. One observation from a human eye at 4,070 miles could shape where the next crew touches down.

At 6:44 PM Eastern, Orion slipped behind the far side and went radio silent for 40 minutes. Four people, completely cut off from every other human alive, the Moon blocking every signal back to Earth. The last time humans experienced that was December 1972.

They broke the all-time distance record on the way. Apollo 13 held it for 56 years at 248,655 miles from Earth. Artemis II passed that mark and kept going to 252,760. Jim Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13 and held that record his whole life, died last August at 97, eight months before these four beat it. Before he died, Lovell recorded a message for the crew. "Welcome to my old neighborhood," he told them. "Don't forget to enjoy the view."

The crew named two craters during the flyby. One for their spacecraft, Integrity. The other, Carroll, for Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, a nurse who cared for newborns and died of cancer in 2020 at 46. Wiseman has raised their two daughters alone since. When Jeremy Hansen read the name to Mission Control, his voice broke. The crew hugged. Wiseman and Koch wiped tears. Then they got back to work, because they still had hours of Moon left to map with their eyes.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

All I feel is gratitude for this experience.