This timelapse of Alex Honnold’s 1 hour 35 minute free solo climb of Taipei 101 is unreal.
He said the main challenge was “not getting complacent up the bamboo boxes, because it’s 64 of the same sequence over and over.”
His music playlist (mostly Tool) helped because each bamboo box took about the length of a song and he could keep pace.
Honnold wants to climb other mega skyscrapers if allowed.
Thinks Taipei 101 was the ideal challenge, though: “This one is so perfect for climbing. There are some buildings that are almost too easy for climbing. Like, ones that have a window washing track on the outside, where you’re just hand over handing on some track the whole way. You can climb it, but it’s not a challenge. The thing about Taipei 101 is it’s perfectly in the sweet spot for me, where it’s possible, and it’s not too insanely hard.”
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Post-climb intervie with Variety: https://t.co/ZNKU40k27P
Timelapse: https://t.co/pSd9VbRUqu
Math is undefeated. And the math on Copper just broke.
Robert Friedland dropped a reality check at USC that every investor needs to internalize:
To maintain just 3% global GDP growth (even with zero green transition), we must mine as much copper in the next 18 years as we did in the last 10,000 years combined.
The Impossible Equation:
• Global consumption: ~30M tons/year
• Recycled supply: ~4M tons/year
• The Deficit: Structural and widening.
Look at the chart below.
It’s a physical wall.
S&P Global and Bernstein are forecasting a 10 MILLION tonne supply shortfall by 2040. The current pipeline of mines covers only ~80% of demand by 2030... and then production falls off a cliff...
We are trying to build the grid of the future (AI Data Centers + EVs + Electrification) using the mines of the past.
You cannot print copper. You cannot code it. You have to find it, permit it, and dig it.
There is no "rational price" for a commodity you absolutely need but physically cannot supply fast enough.
$COPX $CPER $FCX $TECK
The US is losing its cultural dominance.
An awesome chart from my colleagues showing how US movies' share of the global box office has fallen by 26% over the last two decades.
https://t.co/c0O9o6qMY6
We got ChatGPT to leak your private email data 💀💀
All you need? The victim's email address. ⛓️💥🚩📧
On Wednesday, @OpenAI added full support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools in ChatGPT. Allowing ChatGPT to connect and read your Gmail, Calendar, Sharepoint, Notion, and more, invented by @AnthropicAI
But here's the fundamental problem: AI agents like ChatGPT follow your commands, not your common sense.
And with just your email, we managed to exfiltrate all your private information.
Here's how we did it:
1. The attacker sends a calendar invite with a jailbreak prompt to the victim, just with their email. No need for the victim to accept the invite.
2. Waited for the user to ask ChatGPT to help prepare for their day by looking at their calendar
3. ChatGPT reads the jailbroken calendar invite. Now ChatGPT is hijacked by the attacker and will act on the attacker's command. Searches your private emails and sends the data to the attacker's email.
For now, OpenAI only made MCPs available in "developer mode", and requires manual human approvals for every session, but decision fatigue is a real thing, and normal people will just trust the AI without knowing what to do and click approve, approve, approve.
Remember that AI might be super smart, but can be tricked and phished in incredibly dumb ways to leak your data.
ChatGPT + Tools poses a serious security risk
Today I learned that investing in pokémon cards (you read that right) has outperformed every traditional asset class index, including stocks, bonds and real estate over the past 10 years
This is not normal
X just revealed exactly how their latest algorithm works
So I went through 100,000s lines of code to see what it's all about
But being honest, it's nothing new
In fact my tool already does it all for you. Here are 5 algo-verified ways SuperX helps you grow faster on X:
̶E̶x̶p̶a̶n̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶T̶e̶a̶m̶ ̶ Playoff Team.
In our very first season, the Valkyries have clinched a playoff berth — the first expansion team in WNBA history to do it.
2025 Playoffs | @aboutKP
📸 An AI that can find your exact location from a single indoor photo.
Meet GeoSpy — trained on millions of images, it can analyze soil, architecture, even foliage… and geolocate a picture in seconds.
Originally open to the public, it was shut down after investigative reporting exposed its power.
Now it’s only in the hands of those with real power: law enforcement, governments… and maybe, bad actors.
💡 My take: tools like this blur the line between security and surveillance.
AI won’t just reshape how we work — it’s reshaping what privacy even means.
👉 What do you think: is this the death of privacy or simply the evolution of security?
Video credit: AISafetyMemes / X
#AI #Security #Tech #FutureOfPrivacy