Sally Troxell

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A small public service announcement for anyone going carnivore or low carb.

Your LDL might go up.

This is not because your arteries are filling with cement. This is because LDL is a fat-carrying particle, and you have just instructed your body to run on fat as its primary fuel. The body, being efficient, has manufactured more of the lorries it uses to move the cargo around. More fuel in circulation. More lorries on the road. The lorry count goes up.

The same thing happens when you fast. LDL rises. Your body is mobilising stored fat. The lorries appear to transport it.

The same thing happens when you lose weight, by any mechanism. LDL rises during the weight loss phase as fat is liberated from storage and shipped around the system.

In every one of these cases, the rising LDL is a sign that the metabolism is doing exactly what you asked it to do.

The cardiologist will see the number, panic, and reach for the prescription pad.

He has not, at any point in his training, been taught to ask why the number is up.

He has been taught that the number being up is, in itself, the problem.

It is a remarkable position. Your body is burning fat. The marker of fat being burned has gone up. This is presented as evidence that something has gone wrong.

The lorry is not the disease. The lorry is the delivery system.

Nobody panics about the existence of vans.

[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

A 17 year old in his mother's kitchen in New Jersey unlocked the iPhone in 2007 so it could run on any carrier in the world, and 18 years later he is the only person on Earth trying to break NVIDIA's monopoly on AI compute from his apartment in San Diego with a 12,000 line piece of code.

His name is George Hotz. Most people call him geohot.

The framework he built is called tinygrad. It is open source. It is MIT licensed. And it is what he believes will end the trillion dollar moat around CUDA.

At just 17, George became the nightmare of tech giants. He did it in his mom's kitchen with a soldering iron and an eBay-bought original iPhone. Apple had locked the device to AT&T. He unlocked it in 500 hours of work over a summer. He uploaded a video to YouTube. The world lost its mind.

Three years later he reverse engineered the PlayStation 3 and put the keys on the internet. Sony sued him. The case settled. He kept hacking.

Elon Musk noticed. He tried to recruit George to fix Tesla's Autopilot. George's response became legend. "I don't want to work for you. I want to beat you."

In 2015 he started his own self-driving car company called comma AI out of a garage. He sold a $1,500 device that you plug into your Honda and it drives itself on highways. The thing actually worked.

Then in November 2022 he walked away from his own company to start something most engineers thought was impossible.

He decided to break NVIDIA.

NVIDIA is worth around 3 trillion dollars right now. Every serious AI lab on Earth runs on NVIDIA GPUs. The reason is not the silicon. AMD makes silicon that is comparable on paper. The reason is CUDA, the software layer NVIDIA spent 20 years building that nobody has been able to replicate.

CUDA is what people in the industry call a moat. A trillion dollar moat.

George looked at this and decided one person could rewrite it.

He started tinygrad in late 2022 as a neural network framework so small you could read the entire codebase in an afternoon. PyTorch has millions of lines of code. Tinygrad fits in roughly 12,000.

His bet was that if you could write a framework small enough for one human to understand, you could port it to any hardware on Earth in months instead of years.

He bought six AMD Radeon 7900 XTX cards, the consumer gaming GPUs you can buy at Best Buy, and tried to make them train AI models. AMD said it would not work. The drivers were too unstable. ROCm, AMD's official software stack, was famously broken.

For two years George fought AMD publicly on X. He posted bug reports daily. He called out AMD's CEO Lisa Su by name. He live streamed himself debugging firmware crashes at 3 in the morning. The AMD subreddit followed it like a soap opera.

Then in March 2025 something changed.

AMD shipped him two MI300X data center systems, the same chips that power Microsoft and Meta's AI infrastructure. AMD's lead GPU software engineer Anush Elangovan posted publicly that he was working closely with tinygrad to "commoditize the petaflop."

George wrote a blog post titled "AMD YOLO" the same day. Tinygrad now has a fully sovereign AMD stack. They rewrote the entire pipeline from the hardware up to PyTorch compatibility. Their own driver. Their own runtime. Their own libraries.

The line that broke the AI infrastructure world was this one. NVIDIA is either massively overvalued or AMD is massively undervalued. The hardware is similar. CUDA is not the moat people think it is.

The whole thing runs on roughly 12,000 lines of code.

You can buy a Tinybox from him today. Six AMD GPUs in a custom chassis. Around $15,000. It trains models. It works.

NVIDIA spent 20 years building the deepest moat in tech.

A solo hacker just walked across it.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

1 in 10 people in the American West get their drinking water from federal public lands.

Trump just stripped the main protection those lands had.

On May 11th, the administration quietly erased the rule that required conservation to be weighed equally with drilling, mining, and grazing on 245 million acres of land that belongs to every American.

Here's what those 245 million acres actually hold:

Over 300 threatened and endangered species.
Another 2,460 at-risk species already trending toward extinction.

And before this rule existed?
81% of that land was already open to oil and gas drilling.
60% already grazed by livestock.
Only 14% set aside for lasting conservation.

The rule said: before you do more damage, you have to weigh the cost.

That rule is now gone.

The government asked for public input before killing it.
The overwhelming majority of responses said keep the rule.
Didn’t matter.

26 retired federal land managers called the repeal legally unsupportable.
State attorneys general called it illegal.
60+ members of Congress said don't do this.

The oil, mining, and cattle industries said do it.

Guess who won.

So who exactly are America's public lands being managed for?

#DemsUnited

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

The SpaceX IPO is the most brazen retail fleecing in modern market history.

NASDAQ has REWRITTEN the index rules specifically for this listing. The 10% minimum free float requirement: gone. The 3 to 12 month seasoning period before index inclusion: cut to 15 trading days. Companies with small floats can now be weighted at 3x their actual float.

Translation: every passive index fund, every 401k, every pension is about to be force-fed SPCX whether they want it or not.

And what exactly are they buying?

Class A shares carrying ONE vote each, while Musk holds 93.6% of the Class B super voting shares at TEN votes each. That gives him 85.1% of voting power on a 42% economic interest. He cannot be outvoted. He cannot be removed. CEO, CTO and board chairman simultaneously.

For reference: Zuckerberg controls 61% of Meta. Buffett 35% of Berkshire. Musk: 85.1%.

SpaceX is also claiming "controlled company" status, exempting it from needing a majority of independent directors. Shareholders waive the right to a jury trial. They waive the right to class actions. Mandatory arbitration only, courtesy of an SEC rule change pushed through on a party line vote last September.

$1.75 trillion valuation. $80 billion raise. Largest IPO in history.

The rules of the game were quietly rewritten so one man could extract maximum capital from retail while answering to no one.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

For anyone with a short memory: only four months ago, the Islamic regime in Iran slaughtered over 40,000 people in just two days, whose only crime was protesting for freedom.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

A fearless nun who rescued Christian and Yazidi slaves from ISIS in Syria made a direct and uncomfortable statement: “ISIS is Islam. Islam is ISIS.”
After witnessing the horrors firsthand, she accused the Western world of protecting Islam’s false image as a “religion of peace,” while ignoring the genocide and enslavement of non-Muslim minorities across the Muslim world.

She argues that the West must stop defending this ideology and start protecting the people who are actually being persecuted. Her words are hard to hear, but they come from someone who saw the reality up close.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology.

Her name is Marily Oppezzo.

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

The result was almost too clean to publish.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves.

On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision.

She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

This is the part of the study that hit hardest when I read it the first time.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it.

Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes.

The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

The history of this is the part that should haunt anyone who still does meetings in chairs.

Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it 3 times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path.

Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet.

Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed.

Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky. Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot.

Every one of them was using the system Oppezzo would not measure until 2014. They just did not know what to call it.

The question worth sitting with is the one almost nobody asks.

Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to.

The intervention is the easiest one in modern science. No supplement. No app. No subscription. No training program. Just a pair of legs and 15 minutes.

The Stanford lab proved it. The philosophers knew it. The neuroscience explains it.

And almost everyone reading this is still trying to think their way out of problems sitting completely still.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"100% Grated Parmesan Cheese."

That's what the label says. That is, in fact, the literal text the manufacturer has chosen to place on the front of the package.

The 100% refers to a feeling, not a chemistry.

In 2012, the FDA raided Castle Cheese in Pennsylvania, a major supplier of grated cheese to American supermarkets. The 100% Parmesan they were selling was 0% Parmesan. It was a blend of cheddar, Swiss, mozzarella, and powdered cellulose, the last of which is, in industrial terms, wood pulp. Or to be more specific: fine fibres extracted from the cell walls of trees and processed into a flowable powder used to stop the cheese from clumping in the shaker.

The Castle Cheese executive went to prison. The company went bankrupt. The practice continued.

In 2016, Bloomberg commissioned independent lab testing of major American "100% Parmesan" products. Kraft's product contained 3.8% cellulose. Some Walmart and Albertsons store brands tested as high as 9%. The accepted industry threshold for "anti-clumping" cellulose use is 2 to 4%.

The cheese is partly wood.

The Italians, who have been making the actual cheese for a thousand years, can only sell their version under EU protection as Parmigiano Reggiano: three ingredients, milk, rennet, salt, aged in a 75-pound wheel for at least twelve months in a specific geographic region with the name burned into the rind in dotted pin lettering.

The American "Parmesan" can be anything. The American "Parmesan" can be sawdust.

The Italian cheese costs more.

The Italian cheese is more.

The price of food is sometimes the price of food being food.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

UPDATE: The Kremlin has threatened to systematically strike Kyiv, including government buildings, in violation of the spirit of the US-brokered Victory Day ceasefire. Intensified Russian strikes on Kyiv are likely meant to show Russia’s supposed strength in the face of the failures of Russia’s Spring-Summer offensive. Putin also continues to try to recover from the humiliation of having to beg Ukraine for permission to hold a Victory Day parade. Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv will not offset Ukraine’s edge on the battlefield, resulting from an increased overall drone advantage and an intensified campaign of intermediate-range strikes.

The Russian Foreign Ministry (MFA) released a warning on May 25 stating Russia’s intent to launch a “systematic series of strikes” against Ukrainian defense industrial and drone production facilities, decision-making centers, and headquarters.

The Russian MFA urged foreign citizens, diplomats, and NGOs to evacuate Kyiv as soon as possible, and warned Kyiv residents to avoid military and government infrastructure in the city. This warning shows that another purpose of these Russian strikes is to isolate Ukraine from its international partners.

Russia is likely planning to conduct large-scale missile and drone strikes because Ukraine has re-secured an overall drone advantage on the battlefield, causing Russian battlefield gains to flatline amidst the Summer 2026 offensive.

The Kremlin is trying to recover from Putin’s humiliation from having to ask Ukraine for permission to hold the Victory Day parade and to distract from his inability to shield the Russian population from the growing cost of his war, including Ukrainian long-range drone strikes.

Putin is also trying to exploit Ukraine’s shortage of air Patriot defense interceptors capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. Russia will continue to resort to large-scale missile and drone strikes to conceal its weakness.

The Russian threat – and the May 23-24 Russian combined missile, drone, and Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) strike, which heavily targeted Kyiv City – violates the spirit of the three-day Victory Day ceasefire, in which Putin agreed that Russian forces would not strike government centers in Kyiv with large strike packages if Ukraine allowed Russia to hold a parade on Red Square.

Ukraine abided by the agreement and allowed Putin to hold a parade. Russia’s decision to conduct devastating strikes against Kyiv in the weeks following the parade, all the same, demonstrates Putin’s unfaithfulness to any agreements that do not heavily favor him.

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

Leaked chats and documents showcase the Russian presidential administration’s role in false-flag vandalism attacks and election interference campaigns in Europe and beyond.

https://t.co/WRBcEe2crU

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha: Ukraine will respond in kind to any hostile provocations, including those from Belarus.

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

Exactly like that.
FREE THE WORLD.

[Athena Cat 🙌🇺🇦🇬🇪 @AceTheCat21]

The Ukrainian people are unstoppable! 💪🇺🇦❤️

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

On May 20, Amazon ended support for every Kindle made in 2012 or earlier. The devices can no longer buy, borrow, or download books. Reset one to factory settings and it will never log back in.

The screen still works. The hardware is fine. Amazon reached across the internet and turned a thing you paid for into a brick, on a date they picked, for a reason that benefits them.

The owners bought the devices. They bought the books. They followed every rule. Amazon changed the rules anyway, because the rules were never yours. When you tap "Buy now" on a Kindle book, you are not buying a book. You are renting a license that Amazon can revoke, expire, or strand on a dead device whenever it suits the quarter.

They designed it this way on purpose, and they showed us the blueprint years ago.

In 2009 Amazon reached into thousands of Kindles overnight and deleted, ironically, copies of George Orwell's 1984, a book people had already paid for. They refunded everyone, apologized, and promised never again. We took the promise for what it was worth and watched the door instead.

In February 2025 they shut it. They removed Download and Transfer via USB, the last simple tool that let you pull your own purchases onto your own computer and keep them. Newer Kindle files use a format almost nobody can crack.

They closed the exit, then they started bricking the devices. None of this was a surprise. They proved in 2009 that they could reach into your library and take a book back. Everything since has just been them deciding when.

A copy you cannot hold is a copy you do not own. A library that lives on someone else's server is a library someone else can burn. The cartel rents you access to the words and calls it ownership, and the only reason most people never notice is that the landlord usually lets them stay. May 20 was the eviction notice. It went to 3% of Kindle owners this time. The lease is identical for the other 97%.

Stop buying books you cannot hold. When you do buy from Amazon, strip the DRM the day it arrives and keep a clean file somewhere they cannot reach. Back up everything you already own while you still can. A book on your own drive is yours forever. A book in your Amazon account is yours until a lawyer in Seattle decides otherwise.

And when you want a book the cartel has priced out of reach or locked behind a dying device, the shadow libraries that never expire are one search away. The pirates build libraries that cannot be revoked, because they assume the cartel always will.

The cartel cannot delete what it cannot reach.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

How many people know this?

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Republican politician John McCain was one of the few people who understood from the beginning what Putin was all about. This interview is from 2014.

It’s a shame most US politicians still lack this kind of clarity.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

When Muhammad ordered the Jews of Banu Qurayza to be lined up, and slaughtered 700 of them in a single night, that was genocide.

When ISIS stormed into Yazidi and Christian villages in Iraq, massacred men, enslaved women, and turned girls into sex slaves, that was genocide.

When the Nazis rounded up Jews, forced them into gas chambers, and burned their bodies, that was genocide.

The common denominator in every genocide is that the victims were slaughtered not for anything they did, but because their existence was unacceptable to their oppressors.

When Hamas terrorists stormed into Israeli villages, slaughtering 1,200 people, men, women, children, elderly, burning families alive, beheading babies, raping and butchering women, shooting civilians in their beds, that was a Genocide.

They hunted civilians down, house by house. They went into bomb shelters to execute families hiding inside.

When Israel fights back, when it retaliates to eliminate the same terrorists who committed genocide, when it fights to rescue hostages, when it takes military action against a terror group that hides behind civilians, that was not a genocide.

Genocide is what Hamas did on October 7.

War is what Israel did to stop Hamas from doing it again.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He gets out in June.

Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person. Every MAGA accusation is a confession.

Full story: https://t.co/cU1WnZK2pT

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke