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[Carat @Caarat1]

He's 26. Apple offered him $8.4 million for the tongue-controlled retainer he 3D-prints in a San Diego apartment on a $180 Prusa. He said no

The retainer sits inside your mouth like an Invisalign tray. Inside it: a miniature accelerometer array wired to a Bluetooth LE chip, all encapsulated in medical-grade epoxy he sources from a Kearny Mesa dental supply company for $28 a bottle. It reads tongue and bite pressure patterns at 240 samples per second, translates them into cursor movements and click gestures, and streams the output to any device paired over Bluetooth. Total hardware cost per unit: $47. He wears his own retainer eleven hours a day and hasn't touched a mouse in six months

He posted a demo video to Reddit r/AssistiveTech in October showing a full 47-minute Cursor coding session controlled entirely with his tongue and bite gestures. The post hit the front page in nine hours. An Apple Accessibility engineer found it through a Hacker News crosspost three days later. Tim Cook quote-tweeted the demo the following Wednesday - called it "the accessibility hardware Vision Pro should have shipped with." Apple's business development team wired an $8.4 million acquisition offer to his lawyer in November for the retainer design, the embedded firmware, and a three-year exclusivity contract that would make Apple the only distributor globally. He declined the offer in December. His public statement was seven words: "This should be open. Everyone needs it." He open-sourced the firmware and STL files on GitHub the same day

Apple Vision Pro burned $3.5 billion in R&D on the premise that spatial computing input requires their proprietary hand-tracking silicon and their multi-year hardware roadmap. Neuralink raised at $2 billion on the same premise for neural implants. Tobii runs at $340 million selling eye-tracking hardware to accessibility clinics at $12,000 per unit. He runs a Prusa in a San Diego apartment printing a $47 retainer that a nine-year-old with cerebral palsy in Argentina downloaded and printed at her local library last week

[Amazing Page @womengrom]

This is clear proof that he has been doing this for a very long time. He has made a deal with physics.

[CinemaCopa @CopaExMachina]

The reason Top Gun: Maverick was a cultural phenomenon is it managed to do what modern legacy sequels (think Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Terminator) failed at for years.

The movie didn't treat Maverick as some infallible god nor does it turn him into a broken loser.

He's still stubborn, reckless, but his flaws stem from his grief over Goose, not from some cynical corner of a writer's wet dream of writing Game of Thrones.

Maverick earns the respect of the younger pilots by demonstrating supreme skill, acting as their ultimate enabler.

The biggest piece of proof this was the goal is in the scene with Ice Man. They didn't recast or write him off screen. They brought in Val Kilmer and integrated his health issues, handling his character with incredible dignity. The conversation between Ice Man and Mav is the emotional anchor to the whole movie.

Top Gun: Maverick proves audience don't mind nostalgia bait or passing the torch as long as the characters they grew up loving are treated like they mattered.

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) | Joseph Kosinski

[Dave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DaveHP_]

Queer milk,
Campervans,
Zambian Dentists,
A shooting gallery,
Botched ferries,
Parent in law extraction funds,
11 grand Moroccan internet bills "for football"
Pretendy embassies,
Dave Doogan's speeding fine and window cleaning,
This never used charity hotline,

The list goes on and on.

We can't even get nice paved roads or a decent health service but heaps of your money is thrown at minority nonsense and foreign interests.

The SNP should have the word "Nationalist" stripped from their name. They're nothing of the sort.

[Alan Shatter @Alan__Shatter]

The Irish cricket team is about to play 5 one day cricket matches against Afghanistan . Men v Men. Women are banned from playing cricket in Afghanistan. They are also banned from taking their children to a park. They must be neither seen nor heard in Afghanistan.

No Irish campaign to stop or boycott the matches. No journalistic outrage at their taking place. No Irish political activists or women’s groups interested. Why? Afghanistan is ruled by fundamentalist, authoritarian, Islamic misogynists. No one Jewish to blame or demonise.

Irish political activists who speak the language of human rights have no real interest in human rights. Only interested in weaponising human rights language to promote a malevolent, deeply ingrained, indoctrinated, anti semitic agenda.

[𝟑 𝐞̀𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐞𝐢𝐥 @_3emeOeil]

🍫 Une Britannique vient de retrouver un Mars vieux de 35 ans… et il est ÉNORME comparé à celui vendu aujourd’hui 😳

Victoria Gordon a découvert cette barre datant de 1991 dans une maison du Lincolnshire.
Intriguée, elle a acheté un Mars moderne pour les comparer.

L'ancien pesait environ 65 g, tandis que les nouveaux ne pèsent que 40 g, cela représente près de 38 % de produit en moins.

C'est exactement ce qu'on appelle la shrinkflation : plutôt que d'augmenter visiblement le prix, un fabricant peut réduire progressivement la quantité vendue.

[The Louden Tavern @TheLoudenTavern]

So is this the thing that kept showing that the refs were getting decisions wrong?

[Jimmy Hoffa @JamesRHoffa1975]

"Right, so we're not bothered our officials make mistakes. We ARE bothered that these mistakes are highlighted."

[Angry bear @newcogawaJ]

Willie Collum “we introduced the KMI panel so we aren’t seen to be marking our own homework.

However it now appears they don’t like someone else marking their homework because it’s wrong.

A full independent review of the SFA and SPFL must happen now!

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

The UK is not a voluntary union, it’s a sovereign state. The ‘voluntary union’ describes a historical event, not a continuing arrangement. When Scotland and England legislated to unite they ceased to be sovereign states and a new sovereign state, Great Britain, was created.

[Ghost @ghostofSanFran]

After handing out massive bans to Elliot Watt and McInnes for putting a spotlight on their corruption. They’ve decided to go one step further and prevent anyone else highlighting it.

The criminals that run our league make Infantino look like a saint 😭

[Adrenalin Patlaması @adrenaIinIendnz]

Tek bir bakış yetti. Askeri görev köpeği, TSA güvenlik kontrolünde eski eğitmenini tanıyınca kimse onu durduramadan güvenlik bariyerini aştı.

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

I am an Iranian woman raised in “Islamic republic” of Iran, now living in the West, and I know these behaviours very well.

Let me tell you where this comes from and what awaits them.

They are exactly the same behaviours of the Islamic regime’s thugs and their supporters.

“If you’re safe, it’s only because of us. Otherwise there’s a Muslim mob outside.”

This is not strength. It is a deep inferiority complex, and it appears most clearly in those Muslims who refuse to treat Islam as a private faith and instead turn it into a loud political project of power and dominance in the West.

These people feel the gap in competence, achievement and civilisational confidence every single day.

Instead of facing that reality, they overcompensate with arrogance, intimidation and grandiose claims.

Then they start believing their own lies because admitting they are secondary and dependent is unbearable. Self-awareness collapses. They become completely reality-blind.

And here is the truth they cannot see:
Their current ability to speak this way does not come from any real power of Islam.
It comes from leftist and globalist governments and elites who deliberately imported and protected them as useful chaos agents.

These governments and networks profit from division and demographic disruption. Political Islamists are the perfect tool for that.

The moment those same leftist and globalist structures begin to lose real power, these political Muslims will be the first ones thrown under the bus, without hesitation or mercy.

European history has shown this pattern again and again. When survival and order are at stake, the slogans about “diversity” and “human rights” disappear overnight.

The woman in that clip, and her horde of Muslim thugs, cannot see it coming.
Their arrogance has made them blind.

When the correction arrives, it will be sudden and extremely painful. Just like what is coming for regime’s thug in Iran.

The tide is turning already. I have no doubt it’s coming for them sooner or later.
I have zero pity for that.

Thank you for your resistance and strength @TRobinsonNewEra

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

if LEGALLY BLONDE and A FEW GOOD MEN were in the same movie 😂👏
I need to know who did this

[🇬🇧 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐆 🇬🇧 @trueblues1872]

Who remembers Daniel Candeias getting a red card for this 👇😏

[iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno]

The inconvenient truth.

[Del Souness @DelSouness]

Celtic Football Club were a criminal organisation setup by the Irish to launder money, groom children into their religious cult, and spread sectarian division throughout the UK and in the process they stole Hibernians players (illegally paying them) and identity to mask their nefarious plan.

[sec557🟥⬜🟦🇬🇧 @MMcculloch2563]

Can you expand on this "cheating for years" claim?

When have Rangers ever been awarded a pen for a guy winning a header that won the league?

When have we won a cup final with 3 players offside?

When have we won a cup from goals wrongly ruled out or stonewall pens not given?