Tobias C. Friedrich

Quality engineer, used to work on mobile things, now serverless. I’m passionate about cycling, improving urban infrastructure and active travel.Views are my own

[Tobias C. Friedrich @tobitests]

Air pollution is responsible for shortening people's lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and insect-born diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and smoking, according to a study published in Cardiovascular https://t.co/Fhzp8BVUHM

[Patrick Brok @patrickbrok]

De overwinning van MVDP met de legendarische stem van Rob Hatch.

Mooier wordt het niet 🥲🔥

#TDF2026

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

This is powerful!!

The video strikingly illustrates the game of misinformation that’s being played by Nigel Farage & others. It shows who’s actually benefiting from it.

Absolutely worth watching!

Video sent to me by @nowayjomo

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Bugatti just lost its all-time speed record. To the Chinese EV in this video. 308 mph at Papenburg, on a battery.

The Chiron Super Sport had held the record for six years. 1,600 hp, 8.0L W16, four turbochargers. Bugatti needed every horse of that to hit 304 mph. BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme did 308 with four electric motors and a battery pack.

Marc Basseng, the driver, won the Nürburgring 24 Hours. He said the run was "technically not possible with a combustion engine." He's right.

A combustion engine produces a power curve that peaks at a specific RPM and falls off either side. Past 9,000 RPM the valves float, the connecting rods stretch, the pistons can't reverse direction fast enough. The W16 is the absolute thermodynamic ceiling of 100 years of internal combustion. Every mph past 290 cost exponentially more engineering for diminishing returns.

The U9 Xtreme uses four electric motors. Each produces 744 hp. Each spins to 30,000 RPM. No valves. No pistons. No connecting rods. Total system output is 2,978 hp, almost double Bugatti's W16. Power-to-weight is 1,217 hp per tonne.

The motors were never the hard part. Mate Rimac said this years ago. The constraint was always the battery, because to deliver 2,978 hp into four wheels you have to discharge faster than any production EV ever has.

BYD built the world's first 1,200-volt production car. Everyone else uses 800V. The Blade Battery runs lithium iron phosphate cells with a 30C discharge rate, ten times what a conventional EV battery handles. Heat generation falls 67% versus 800V at matching output.

That last number is the whole game. Heat is what kills high-power EV runs. Other automakers derate within seconds at full power because the battery cooks itself. BYD's architecture lets the Xtreme hold maximum discharge long enough to actually approach the aerodynamic limit of the chassis.

Bugatti spent 20 years engineering the W16 to its physical ceiling. BYD spent 18 months building the architecture that cleared it.

They're making 30 of them.

The crown for fastest production car on Earth has belonged to Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Hennessey, SSC. All combustion, all European or American. The crown is Chinese now, and it runs on a battery.

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

this is so accurate 😂

[Growth Labs @growthhub_]

He really compressed 4 years of therapy into 60 seconds.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

A blog post just wiped $30 billion off IBM in a single afternoon.

Not a product launch. Not an earnings miss. Not a competitor undercutting on price.

A five-minute blog post explaining that Claude can read COBOL.

IBM dropped 13%. Worst single-day loss since October 2000. Twenty-five years of stock resilience ended by one AI company publishing a capability update.

Here’s what happened:

95% of ATM transactions in America run on COBOL. Hundreds of billions of lines power banking, airlines, and government systems. The developers who built them retired decades ago. The knowledge left with them. Finding engineers who can even read COBOL gets harder every quarter.

IBM’s moat was never the technology. It was the fact that nobody else could understand it. Entire consulting empires existed because the code was too old, too tangled, and too critical to touch. Companies paid IBM billions because the alternative was catastrophic system failure.

Then Anthropic published a blog post saying Claude Code can map dependencies across thousands of lines of COBOL, document workflows, identify migration risks, and translate legacy logic into modern languages. Modernization in quarters instead of years.

The market heard: the priesthood just lost its monopoly on the sacred language.

And this isn’t the first time. Last week Anthropic announced Claude Code Security for vulnerability scanning. CrowdStrike dropped. Okta dropped. Cloudflare dropped. One company is serially destroying legacy moats with blog posts.

Now here’s where it gets surreal.

This same company, on the same day, also published evidence that three Chinese AI labs ran 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million exchanges to steal Claude’s capabilities. DeepSeek used it to build censorship tools. MiniMax pivoted within 24 hours when a new model dropped, redirecting half its traffic to steal the latest version.

And yesterday, the Pentagon summoned this same company’s CEO for what officials called a “sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting,” threatening to blacklist them like Huawei for refusing to let the military use Claude without safety restrictions.

Three stories. One company. Twenty-four hours.

The company destroying legacy moats faster than the market can reprice them is simultaneously being threatened by its own government and looted by foreign competitors.

Anthropic is valued at $380 billion. Its CEO says a 12-month delay in AI would make him bankrupt. The Pentagon wants to designate it a supply chain risk. Chinese labs are running industrial espionage against it. And it just proved it can vaporize $30 billion in market cap with a Monday morning blog post.

Whatever you think about AI disruption, IBM’s stock just settled the argument.

Full institutional analysis on my Substack.

https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Das @BMI_Bund möchte nicht, dass diese Video geteilt wird.

[DJ P.R. 🙄 @djpr]

Der Elektrotrucker zerlegt das hanebüchene Zwei-Prozent-Argument von Merz mit einfachen Analogien, die wirklich jeder verstehen sollte.

[Tim Pelzer 🗽 @TimXPlz]

@NurderK Hier ne Liberale Idee:
Flüsse renaturieren
Moore und Wälder erhalten
Entsiegelung von Städten
Wasserspeicher ausbauen durch wasserrückhalte Becken. Bessere Landwirtschaft (Agroforstsysteme)

Ein freies Land braucht gesunde Flüsse :)

[Twítterperlen 🏆 @tperlen]

Typisch! 🙄

[London Cycling Campaign @London_Cycling]

🚫 We've championed LTNs since our report first coined the term, cos evidence shows they work, reducing collisions AND creating safer-feeling streets that help people walk/wheel/cycle.

Faster action on this data means faster action on lives saved: https://t.co/WW9CZOr41M

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

„Und dann der sagenumwobene Investitionsbooster, von dem @larsklingbeil immer spricht. 72 Prozent der Entlastungswirkung der Unternehmenssteuerreform werden beim reichsten Prozent der Bevölkerung landen. Beim reichsten oberen Prozent! Das ist widerwärtig!“

@inesschwerdtner

[Mark Müller @markmueller1979]

Ich esse Fleisch. Die Tochter (11) isst kein Fleisch. Habe ich sie bei mir, koche ich vegetarisch oder vegan. Niemand macht ein Drama daraus.

Zu Beginn der Ferien ist sie nun in einer Freizeit. Außer ihr essen alle Kinder Fleisch.

Heute gab es Chili con Carne. Für sie einen kleinen Topf Chili sin Carne.
Niemand macht ein Drama daraus.

Ich würde mir wünschen, wir würden öfter kein Drama daraus machen.

[Tobias C. Friedrich @tobitests]

@BenGeskin This brings some great memories up from when I was living in London 💛

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

I live on a cycling route in Hackney and have had a Telraam cycle counter for 6 months. Yesterday, it recorded an impressive 2,441 cycles, despite not counting overlapping cyclists or tracking at night.

Provide people with safe routes to cycle, the results speak for themselves

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

And Relax.

You are now entering one of the oldest LTNs in London, De Beauvoir Hackney, protected from through traffic by bollards since 1974.

London needs more LTN's

[Ingwar Perowanowitsch @Perowinger94]

Wie Paris durch seine Verkehrspolitik, die Feinstaub- und NO2-Belastung v.a. seit Amtsantritt von Anne Hidalgo ab 2014 verringern und so zehntausenden Menschen ein längeres Leben schenken konnte, ist eine so krasse Erfolgsgeschichte, die gar nicht oft genug erzählt werden kann❤️

[Tobias C. Friedrich @tobitests]

@Rodman1_r2 but he weighs 66 KG according to PCS https://t.co/ZA1GksWfOj

[Tom ☯️ @kamuro_yokai]

@nocontextmemes Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Josip Broz Tito and Sigmund Freud all lived in Vienna in 1913, frequenting the same cafe's in the city centre.

Imagine the black sitcom potential.