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BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS
A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since.
He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE.
What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried.
Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight.
When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse.
This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long.
In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them.
@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010.
A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015.
France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew.
John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years.
Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything.
BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected.
John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record.
This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation.
If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments.
I will add media coverage links in the comments section.
Sources:
@AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association)
@BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan)
gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive)
@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air.
@heraldtweets
@WSJ
@FlightGlobal
@TheCanaryUK
@the_ecologist
NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.
Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.
Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.
When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.
We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.
In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.
H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4
Paranoid man mocked for hunting a spy device in his home.
No one believed the government could plant bugs in people’s apartments.
A month later, his device found a bug in every mocker’s house.
He started selling it and made $255k as everyone rushed to check their own homes.
Here's how he made this technology using only Claude:
The device is called an RF bug detector.
Hidden cameras, microphones, and GPS trackers all leak radio signals when they transmit.
This scanner picks up those signals and shows you exactly where they are coming from.
The whole build costs around $25 in parts and runs on a small rechargeable battery.
You need 4 things.
- ESP32 development board
- AD8317 RF detector module (the part that senses the signal)
- A small OLED screen
- A LiPo battery and charging board
1. Wire the AD8317 module to the ESP32 analog input, then connect the OLED screen to the I2C pins, which takes about ten minutes on a breadboard.
2. Plug the ESP32 into your computer with a USB cable.
3. Open Claude Code and paste this prompt:
{ Write me ESP32 firmware for an RF bug detector.
Hardware:
- AD8317 logarithmic RF detector on analog pin 34
- SSD1306 OLED screen on I2C pins 21 and 22
- LiPo battery powered
Requirements:
1. Read the AD8317 voltage 20 times per second.
2. Convert the voltage into a signal strength value in dBm.
3. Show a live bar graph on the OLED that rises as signal gets stronger.
4. Play a beep through a buzzer on pin 25 that speeds up as the
signal increases, so I can sweep a room and home in on the source.
5. Add a calibration button on pin 4 that sets the current room
level as the baseline, so only stronger signals trigger alerts.
Output one complete Arduino sketch with comments so I can tune
the sensitivity. }
4. Flash the firmware to the ESP32 straight from the Arduino IDE.
5. Walk slowly around any room holding the device, and watch the bar graph climb as you get closer to a hidden transmitter.
6. Once it works, drop the whole thing into a 3D-printed handheld case so it looks like a finished product.
The man in the hook sweeps a room in under two minutes.
The beep speeds up as he gets closer, so he can pinpoint a bug hidden inside a smoke detector, a plug, or a lamp.
His parts cost around $25 per unit.
He sells the finished detector for $129 to renters, travelers, and Airbnb guests who want to check their space.
The market is everyone who ever walked into a hotel room and wondered if someone was watching.
🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DOSED THE FIRST PATIENT IN A TRIAL TO REVERSE CELLULAR AGING IN THE HUMAN EYE.
Life Biosciences has begun an FDA-approved clinical trial using cellular reprogramming to regenerate aging neurons in the optic nerve of glaucoma patients.
Instead of just slowing vision loss, the goal is to actually reverse aspects of cellular aging in the eye essentially trying to make old nerve cells young again.
Why this matters:
• Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide, caused by damage to the optic nerve
• Current treatments can only slow progression they cannot regenerate lost vision
• This approach uses partial cellular reprogramming (a controlled form of turning back the biological clock)
• If successful, it could open the door to treating many other age-related neurodegenerative diseases
The deeper implication is enormous:
We may be entering an era where aging itself becomes treatable not just its symptoms. If we can safely reprogram cells in the eye, the same technology could eventually be applied to the brain, spine, and other organs.
The first patient has now been dosed. This is no longer just theory.
What do you think are we ready to start treating aging as a medical condition?
Follow for more frontier science and longevity breakthroughs.
How to find the location of any device using hound
This is my loop
I built a SaaS that posts to Instagram + TikTok 24/7
I don't write the captions. I don't pick the music. I don't touch it
The stack that runs it while I sleep:
> PHP 8.3, no framework
> Caddy web server
> SQLite in WAL mode
> Cloudflare R2 for video storage
> Cloudflare Tunnel, no open ports
> Stripe for billing
> OpenAI writes every caption
> ffmpeg muxes the music
> Zernio publishes to IG + TikTok
> Vanilla JS + CSS on the front
> one cron job that loops forever
No Next.js. No Kubernetes. No VC
NVIDIA is giving away free access to 130+ AI models for a full year
> most people building AI agents are paying $50-200/month for API access
NVIDIA just made that argument irrelevant
models you get: MiniMax M2.7, GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.5, DeepSeek-v4-flash, GPT-OSS-120B and 110+ more
setup:
> step 1 - get your free key
> go to https://t.co/9OAPVB6SrM
> register -> bind phone -> copy API key
> step 2 - add to Hermes agent
> open Settings -> Model Provider -> Custom
base_url = "https://t.co/ndvYuRyWSB"
api_key = "nvapi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> step 3 - pick a model
model = "minimaxai/minimax-m2.7"
model = "zhipuai/glm-5.1"
model = "moonshot-ai/kimi-2.5"
model = "deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash"
model = "nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b"
> Hermes already has NVIDIA set as default base_url
> paste the key and you're running instantly
> works the same in Cursor and OpenCode
> cost: $0
> limit: 40 req/min
> expires: 1 year
while everyone is paying for API access,
this is sitting there for free
An old-timer once told me that every choice in life comes with a price tag.
A busy life costs time, energy, sleep, and sometimes your peace of mind. Being available to everyone, saying yes to everything, and constantly chasing the next thing can leave you running on empty without even realizing it.
But a peaceful life has a cost too.
You pay for it with boundaries. You pay for it when you leave early, decline invitations, turn off notifications, or choose a quiet evening over another obligation.
Sometimes you pay with loneliness. Sometimes with boredom. Sometimes with people wondering why you've changed.
What I've learned is that peace isn't something you find. It's something you protect.
The older I get, the more I notice where my energy goes. The conversations that drain me. The habits that keep me stressed. The endless noise that demands attention but adds little value.
A quieter life isn't always exciting, but it gives me something far more valuable: clear thinking, better sleep, less stress, and room to appreciate what really matters.
Nothing in life is free.
The question isn't whether you'll pay.
The question is what you're willing to pay for.
And somewhere along the way, I realized something.
The old-timer who told me all of this is long gone.
Now I'm the old-timer, passing the lesson along.
Choose wisely.
An 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's, all but silent for five years, took 5 grams of psilocybin and woke up the next day telling stories about her life.
This case study was published just a few days ago in Frontiers in Neuroscience, and I can't stop thinking about it.
She had lived with Alzheimer's for a decade. The last five of those years she spent in the state we are all taught to dread: she was incontinent, could barely walk, and couldn't dress herself.
Her speech had collapsed into single syllables, and her family had come to a painful acceptance that the woman they remembered was no longer reachable.
Then she took five grams of psilocybin mushrooms in a single supervised session in Brazil. The first hours of her journey were hard, with heavy sweating and a long, deep sleep-like state. Then, roughly nineteen hours later, she woke and spoke about her own life for close to four hours, pulling up real memories and events from her past.
Over the following days, the changes kept coming.
She regained bladder control after five years. She started dressing herself and walked with far less help than before. She started meeting people's eyes again. She recognized her family and remembered who had visited her and what they had said.
A month later, with the improvements still holding, the clinicians gave her a second, smaller dose of 3 grams. In that session, she described surfing with her son on a peaceful island, her whole face lighting up as she spoke. At one point, she looked at the people caring for her and said, simply, "It is pleasant to come here."
Her neurodegeneration is still there, and many of these improvements lasted for only weeks. Psilocybin did not completely reverse her Alzheimer's.
But it forces a new potential to the surface, one that would stop any family that has lived through this in its tracks.
We have treated the silence of late-stage dementia as a direct readout of dead tissue. We assumed the lost functions were gone, erased along with the neurons. This case suggests those functions may never have been destroyed at all, only locked away, and that a powerful enough shake-up of the brain's networks can briefly make them accessible again.
I wrote recently about a 92-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's who had slipped into a near-vegetative state after eleven years with the disease.
Once her caregiver began giving her microdoses of LSD, she started talking, reading, and recognizing the people she loved, and her wit and personality came back with her.
Both psychedelics produced the same result no one thought was possible: a person their family had already grieved, back in the room with them for a while. If this much can come back, even briefly, then the question worth asking is what else we could reach through responsible psychedelic therapy.
Which neurological condition would you most want to see psilocybin studied for next?
Interview with SpaceX CFO
I’m 60 years old and retired from JPMorgan. My monthly income is $105,000.
My June advice:
$SNDK (SanDisk) — Don’t buy
$AVGO (Broadcom) — Don’t buy
$CRWV (CoreWeave) — Don’t buy
$NOK (Nokia Oyj) — Buy at $14–$15
$NVDA (NVIDIA) — Buy at $203–$210
$MRVL (Marvell Technology) — Buy at $282–$290
$MU (Micron Technologys) — Buy at $980–$988
People ask, Why don’t you charge?
I’ve made enough. Sharing is my passion ,that’s why I post for fre.
This is the full speech by @SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnson during the IPO roadshow. He has served as CFO for 15 years. Worth watching.
Upcoming IPOs 2026 - the biggest private beasts are about to hit public markets.
> @SpaceX → $1.75 - 1.8T valuation (pricing June 11, trading June 12 on Nasdaq $SPCX)
> @AnthropicAI → $965B (just raised $65B in May)
> @OpenAI → $852B (after $122B round in March)
> ByteDance → ~$480 - 500B
> @databricks → $134 - 165B
> @stripe → $105 - 120B+
> @Revolut → ~$75B
Pre-IPO perps for SpaceX, Anthropic & OpenAI already live on Hyperliquid, Binance, OKX and more.
Anyone with a wallet can trade their future valuations right now.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
firewalls can't stop this.
A developer just open sourced a tunnel that smuggles your entire internet through port 53 the port every router on earth is forced to leave open.
It's called MasterDnsVPN. It hides your traffic inside DNS queries, the one type of packet no network can block without breaking itself.
Every firewall on earth has to allow DNS. Schools, airports, hotels, hotel WiFi, entire countries running ISP-level censorship all of them keep port 53 open or nothing on the network resolves. This repo turns that loophole into a full encrypted tunnel.
Here's what makes it different from every other DNS tunnel that came before:
→ Custom ARQ layer gives you TCP-level reliability over UDP DNS, so nothing drops even on garbage networks
→ Sends every packet through up to 12 different resolver paths at the same time, if 11 fail the packet still arrives
→ Auto probes the maximum DNS payload your path can handle, then locks in the fastest MTU possible
→ AES-256-GCM, ChaCha20, AES-128, AES-192 all built in, pick your encryption
→ SOCKS5 proxy on 127.0.0.1:1080 point any browser or app at it and you're through
Killed: $12/mo Mullvad, $10/mo NordVPN, $15/mo Astrill, every commercial DNS tunnel charging monthly fees for the exact same idea.
Pre-built binaries for Windows, Linux AMD64, Linux ARM64, macOS ARM64. No Python install needed. Configure two DNS records, drop in the encryption key, run the executable.
Works in environments where every other VPN protocol is dead on arrival.
MIT License. 100% Opensource.
Take a quiet walk with me through the garden here in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
This video was filmed on Saturday during CCMF 2026 weekend. Just about a mile away, one of the biggest events on the Grand Strand was underway, with thousands of people, live music, and all the energy that comes with it. Yet standing here in the garden, you'd hardly know it.
Listen closely and you'll hear frogs singing, bees working the flowers, birds calling, and all the little sounds that remind us nature is still thriving right here in the middle of town.
Over the years we've shared this space with lizards, skinks, glass lizards, snakes, butterflies, dragonflies, and plenty of other wild visitors. One of the things I love most about gardening is how it reconnects us to the natural world, even when we're surrounded by a city.
What are you growing this season? Vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruit trees, or something unusual? Drop a comment below and tell us what's growing in your corner of the world.
If you enjoy gardens, wildlife, local history, and life along the South Carolina coast, please like, follow, and share. It helps more people discover these little pockets of nature that still exist all around us.
Thanks for taking a stroll through the garden with me.
#SwashManor #Garden2026 #SwashManorGarden
Most people will never hear this level of alpha.
A guy who has made over $3 million with faceless YouTube just dropped the real process for hitting $30k per month.
Not the fake "zero effort" guru stuff.
The actual playbook:
- Use ViewStats to find faceless channels already doing $10K + per month
- Deep dive their top 10 videos (titles, thumbnails, hooks, storytelling structure)
- Reverse engineer the exact formula
- Outsource production on Upwork for $100-200 per video
This isn’t “post once and retire.”
This is building real assets that print while you sleep.
While most of Crypto Twitter is still chasing 10x coins and coping...
The smart operators are quietly buying proven formulas and scaling faceless cash machines with actual budgets.
This is the type of high-level execution that separates the ones who make it from the ones who stay dreaming.
This exact framework is what built multiple 6 and 7-figure faceless empires.
If this one actually hit different… smash like and follow me.
I only post this level of alpha here.
EXCEL HAS BEEN QUIETLY DESTROYING YOUR CSV DATA FOR 30 YEARS.
It silently converts gene names into dates. It strips leading zeros from ZIP codes. It mangles UTF-8 the moment you hit save. It refuses to open files over a million rows.
A German developer just open sourced the app that was built specifically because Excel ruins CSV.
It's called Tablecruncher. C++17. Native binary. No Electron. No cloud. No "smart" autoformatting that wrecks your data.
It opens a 2 GB CSV with 16 million rows in 32 seconds on a Mac Mini M2.
What Excel does to your CSV vs what Tablecruncher does:
- "00123" → Excel turns it into 123. Tablecruncher leaves it alone.
- "SEPT2" gene name → Excel turns it into 2-Sep date. Tablecruncher leaves it alone.
- 5 million row file → Excel refuses. Tablecruncher opens it cold.
- Latin-1 encoded export → Excel guesses wrong and adds garbage characters. Tablecruncher supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, Latin-1, and Windows 1252 with auto-detect.
- Anything → Microsoft 365 needs your login. Tablecruncher needs nothing.
Here's the wildest part:
Stefan Fischerländer sold Tablecruncher as a $29 commercial app for 8 years. In May 2025, he open sourced the entire codebase under GPL v3.
No press release. No fundraise. No "AI-powered CSV revolution" pivot. He just pushed the code, wrote a manifesto that says "CSV files demand privacy" and "the data stays only on your computer," and went back to work.
There is a 2016 academic paper titled "Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature." It found that Excel silently corrupted gene names in about 20% of papers with supplementary CSV data. So bad that the human genetics community had to rename genes to protect them from Microsoft.
That is the software you are still paying $99 a year for.
This is the alternative. 738 stars. 38 forks. GPL-3.0. One solo dev in Bavaria.
But please, keep letting Microsoft turn your gene names into dates. Stability matters.
Link in the first comment.
Jason Jorjani: "There is a psychotronic grid around Earth is trapping souls in a loosh farm"
In astral projections and remote viewing sessions, researcher Robert Monroe discovered we're in a control system harvesting extreme human emotions - suffering, fear, desire etc as energy called "loosh," even after death.
Abductee reports and near death experiences describe being pulled into a light by an electromagnetic force from a metallic sphere beyond Earth, likely inside the Moon, where artificial simulacra of dead relatives and religious figures lure souls back into reincarnation.
One remote viewing of "Moksha" (liberation) showed a massive grid acting as a checkpoint: souls trying to escape get bent back toward Earth like light through a lens, part of ancient energy extraction machinery set up after a devastating solar system war.
YouTube deleted 16.7 million videos in six months.
Gone.
Channels you subscribed to.
Tutorials you bookmarked.
Music you saved for later.
Creators you supported for years.
Gone.
So one engineer named Simon, originally from Switzerland, now living in South East Asia, built a tool that ends this forever.
It is called TubeArchivist.
Nearly 8,000 stars on GitHub. GPL-3.0. Free.
It downloads any YouTube channel you subscribe to, stores every video on your own server, and gives you a Netflix-style library you fully own.
No ads.
No "this video is no longer available."
No algorithm.
No Premium subscription.
Then YouTube did the unthinkable.
July 18, 2024. They rolled out the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" wall.
October 29, 2024. They started IP-banning entire data centers. Hetzner gone. OVH gone.
Coincidence.
Here is the wildest part.
TubeArchivist did not fold.
March 28, 2026. Simon shipped v0.5.10. New release. Same one engineer. 17x more commits than anyone else on the repo.
It still works.
It still downloads.
It still restores the dislike count YouTube deleted in November 2021.
One Swiss engineer vs. a trillion-dollar ad machine.
YouTube Premium costs $13.99 a month. $167.88 a year. Forever.
TubeArchivist costs zero. Forever.
But DO NOT install it. We should all keep paying Google $168 a year to watch the videos we already chose to watch.
100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
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