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Congratulations to miner bc1q~g4m7 for solving the 321st block - yet another super lucky one at solo.ckpool.org with ~161TH of hashrate on a 161TH worker! A miner of this size has about a one in 126 chance of solving a block in a year.
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This is the Airbus Racer, and the trick isn't the propellers. It's the wings.
A helicopter can't just add power to go faster. Past a point the retreating blade stops making lift. So the Racer's wings carry about half the lift in cruise, and the main rotor can slow down.
The catch is that you pay for that speed in parts. Long driveshafts, wings, more to maintain. That's why Airbus still calls it a demonstrator.
Forget the 240 kt target. In cruise the main rotor gets only 20-25% of the torque.
Video: Aerowl Aviation
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Happy Veterans Day to all of our Veterans. Thank you for your Service and your Sacrifice! Thank you for your Courage and your Bravery! I salute you. #HappyVeteransDay2026
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Every Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., the sun lines up perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona.
JUST IN: BESSENT MOVES TO MILITARY BASE OVER IRANIAN THREATS
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved out of his home and onto a military base as Iranian threats against his life have reportedly reached a “more advanced stage,” according to The New York Times.
Biggest "the kids are fucked" moment I've had recently was dealing with home insurance.
Bought a starter home, paid my monthly premium every single month for 4 years straight without missing a dime.
A severe storm knocked tree branches through the roof. I called to file a claim for $3,500 in repairs.
Insurance adjuster walked out, wrote a check for $1,200 after my deductible, then sent a non-renewal notice two weeks later saying I was now "high risk."
Got me curious, so I looked into how property insurance models operate today.
Turns out insurance companies literally drop customers for using the exact service they paid thousands to hold, while raising rates across the board to protect corporate profit margins.
I was naive enough to think insurance was protection against emergencies.
In reality, you're just paying a mandatory subscription fee for a service you're penalized for ever using.
Phil Reale retweeted
New job interview rule:
If the interviewer is AI, you are legally required to bring an AI interpreter.
Do not go in raw. You will get cooked.
Watch what happens when the candidate has backup.
#AI #JobInterview #Hiring
Miami-Dade just announced homeowners can pay property taxes in Bitcoin.
Here's the part the headlines left out.
Paying with Bitcoin isn't paying with cash. To the IRS, it's selling Bitcoin.
Every time you spend crypto, you report a gain or loss: what the coins were worth when you spent them, minus what you paid.
Hypothetical: your property tax bill is $8,000.
Florida gives a 4% discount if you pay in November, so you owe $7,680.
You pay with Bitcoin you bought years ago for $2,000.
That's a $5,680 long-term capital gain. At 15%, about $852 of federal tax for paying a tax.
Now flip it.
Say you also hold Bitcoin bought near the top. The coins you spend are worth $7,680 but cost you $10,000.
Pay with those and you lock in a $2,320 capital loss instead (short-term if held a year or less).
Same bill. One way you report a $5,680 gain. The other, a $2,320 loss.
The county gets $7,680 either way. Your Bitcoin is converted to dollars the moment you pay.
Before you pay any bill with crypto:
1. Pick the coins on purpose, and pay from the wallet or account that holds them. For coins at a broker, you can identify the lot in your own records through Dec 31, 2026.
2. Save the receipt with the date, time and dollar amount.
3. Report it on Form 8949 like any other sale.
4. The property tax can still be an itemized deduction, subject to the SALT cap.
Florida has no state income tax. The federal bill still applies.
Would you pay your property taxes in Bitcoin?
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여섯번째 생존법.
재난이나 전시 상황에 도시를 탈출(Bug Out)하려던 사람들의 80%는 목적지에 도착하기도 전에 길 위에서 죽습니다.
영화 속 주인공들은 차를 타고 유유히 교외로 빠져나가 시골 은신처에 도착하지만, 현실의 피난길은 가장 처참한 약탈과 조난의 무덤입니다.
이번 사례는 우크라이나와 러시아를 참고했습니다.
문명이 붕괴하는 순간, 도시를 벗어나기 위해 반드시 알아야 할 5대 피난·탈출 생존 철칙입니다.
1. 재난 터지자마자 차를 몰고 고속도로로 나가지 마라
재난 사이렌이 울리는 순간, 수백만 명이 동시에 차를 끌고 나옵니다. 도심 주요 간선도로와 고속도로는 1시간 안에 '움직이지 않는 거대한 철창'으로 변합니다.
- 도로가 막히면 유턴도, 후진도 불가능합니다.
- 히터를 틀다 연료가 바닥나면, 영하의 도로 한가운데에 버려진 금속 관 속에 갇히는 꼴이 됩니다.
- 차량 탈출은 재난 경보 후 '단 1~2시간 이내'에 도시 외곽을 완전히 통과할 수 있을 때만 유효합니다. 그 타이밍을 놓쳤다면 차라리 튼튼한 오토바이, 산악자전거, 또는 도보가 10배 안전합니다.
2. 밀리터리 전술 배낭을 메는 순간 당신은 1순위 표적이 된다
카키색, 카모플라주 무늬의 몰리(MOLLE) 전술 배낭에 전투화를 신고 나서는 것은, 약탈자들에게 "내 가방에 비싼 생존 장비와 비상식량이 가득하다"고 광고하는 자살행위입니다.
- 극한의 혼란 속에서는 누구의 눈에도 띄지 않는 '회색 인간(Gray Man)'이 되어야 합니다.
- 낡고 평범한 학생용 백팩, 허름한 스포츠 가방, 때 묻은 비닐 쇼핑백에 장비를 나누어 담으세요.
- 겉모습은 누구보다 가난하고 절박해 보여야 약탈자의 표적에서 벗어납니다.
3. '시골 친척 집'이라는 막연한 탈출은 노숙자로 가는 지름길이다
미리 연료, 식량, 방어 수단을 완벽하게 비축해 둔 '검증된 베이스캠프'가 없다면 무작정 도시를 떠나지 마세요.
- 평소 연락도 없던 시골 친척이나 지인의 집은 당신의 피난처가 되어주지 않습니다. 그곳 사람들도 이미 자원 고갈과 침입자 공포로 극도로 예민해져 있습니다.
- 연고도 없는 시골로 향하는 것은 스스로 자원이 고갈된 채 길거리 노숙자가 되겠다는 선언입니다.
- 확실한 목적지와 도달 경로, 예비 루트(Plan B)가 없다면 무리하게 길을 나서지 마세요.
4. 가장 강력한 탈출 무기는 총이 아니라 '신발과 양말'이다
피난길에서 당신을 살리는 것은 고가의 장비가 아니라 당신의 '발'입니다. 도로가 마비되면 결국 수십 킬로미터를 걸어야 합니다.
- 평소 신지 않던 새 등산화나 군화를 신으면 5km도 못 가 발뒤꿈치가 까지고 물집이 터져 그 자리에 주저앉게 됩니다.
- 완전히 발에 길들여진 편안한 트레킹화나 러닝화를 신으세요.
- 그리고 반드시 '여분의 울(양모) 양말 3켤레'와 물집 방지용 바셀린, 테이프를 챙기세요. 발이 망가지는 순간 당신은 이동력을 잃고 그 자리에서 낙오자가 됩니다.
5. 골든타임 2시간을 놓쳤다면, 탈출을 포기하고 실내를 요새화하라
재난 발생 직후 2시간이 지나면 도로는 패닉에 빠진 군중, 버려진 차량, 경찰의 바리케이드로 아수라장이 됩니다. 이때 뒤늦게 짐을 싸서 거리로 뛰쳐나가는 것은 무법지대 한복판에 맨몸으로 뛰어드는 짓입니다.
- 초반 골든타임을 놓쳤다면, 무리한 탈출을 포기하고 즉시 집 안으로 후퇴(Bug In)하세요.
- 문과 창문을 굳게 걸어 잠그고, 물을 최대한 받아두며, 초기 72시간의 대혼란과 군중 패닉이 가라앉을 때까지 조용히 숨죽이고 버텨야 합니다.
- 탈출은 도로의 혼란이 정리되고 군경의 통제가 시작되거나, 혼란이 진정된 이후에 시도해도 늦지 않습니다.
최고의 탈출은 영웅처럼 길을 뚫는 것이 아니라, 군중의 패닉에 휩쓸리지 않는 냉정함입니다. 가족의 안전을 위해 이 글을 북마크해 두세요.
Joel Osteen's megachurch reported $600,000 stolen from its safe. Seven years later a plumber took off a toilet in the church bathroom and the envelopes started falling out of the wall.
Lakewood Church in Houston is one of the biggest churches in America. More than 40,000 people come every week to hear Osteen preach.
In March 2014, sometime between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, someone opened the church safe. Inside were the weekend donations: $200,000 in cash and $400,000 in checks. Gone.
The church said the money was fully insured. Crime Stoppers offered a $25,000 reward. Nobody was ever charged.
Seven years passed.
In 2021 a plumber named Justin was called in to fix a loose toilet. He took the toilet off the wall and pulled out the insulation behind it.
About 500 envelopes fell out. Cash and checks.
He handed it all to the maintenance supervisor. Then he called a Houston radio show and told the story live on air.
The church said only that "an undisclosed amount of cash and checks" had been found, and called the police.
Justin said nobody from the church ever thanked him. In the end Crime Stoppers paid him a $20,000 reward.
In the video below the radio host and the plumber explain what was hiding behind that toilet.
The safe was emptied. The money was insured. And for seven years it was sitting in the bathroom wall. Who do you think put it there?
Coolest story I've read on X in a while on flight stories.
I know first hand this is true. Early in my fighter pilot career (1980 timeframe), our 79th Tactical Fighter Squadron was deployed to Ovar, Portugal for "Open Gate 80" exercise. One of our assigned missions was to take our pair of F-111E jets and try to play the role of "Red Force" with a mission objective to see if we could successfully "sneak up" on the NATO Fleet in the Atlantic Ocean.
We carefully calculated the "ducting layer" (where radar energy can be ducted well beyond the horizon) from the atmospheric data over the ocean that day. The ducting layer was calculated to be 340 ft above mean sea level (MSL). So we chose to sneak in supersonic at 400 feet above MSL. We refueled from a KC-135 Tanker to top-off our 34,000 lbs of JP-8 fuel capacity (we would need every drop of it for this mission) before diving down to the deck.
We used our Low Altitude Radar Altimeter (LARA) to calibrate our barometric pressure altimeter to precisely match the LARA at 400 ft MSL. We then turned off the main radar, terrain-following radar (TFR) and LARA so we were emitting no electromagnetic energy from our F-111E jets.
We cruised as a 2-ship in line-abreast formation where I was positioned 6,000 ft abeam my flight leader. We set our supersonic cruise to about Mach 1.15 so that there was just enough extra thrust left for me to maintain formation with Tiger Lead. I noticed my flight lead's F-111 was totally enveloped in a cloud of vapor from the supersonic shock waves with only the tip of his nose visible and then realized that I must look the same when flight lead looked at me!
We managed to reach about 25 miles from the NATO Fleet undetected, but we knew that at that range, hiding just above the ducting layer now would no longer keep us hidden and Fleet radars would soon spot our non-stealthy F-111's. I was doing my best at scanning the skies above and around us for "bandits" when I spotted an F-14A Tomcat roll inverted and do a split-S maneuver that arrived supersonic, co-altitude and co-speed with us.
I called out to my Flight Lead on the UHF Radio (not remembering we were now on the NATO Fleet common frequency for safety) and said: "Tiger Lead, Bandit, Deep 6 O'clock, co-altitude, 8,000 feet, stagnated." Then, a voice that was not my Tiger Lead's voice came up on the UHF Radio and said, "Stagnated, eh?"
At that point, I watched that Tomcat march up slowly to my left wingtip and we were looking each other eye-to-eye in fingertip formation. He then flipped me the fighter pilot greating ("the bird") then smartly saluted and pitched up and out to head back to the carrier. Don't tell me that a Tomcat cannot fly at Mach 1.2 on the deck with ordnance because I have witnessed it and it was VERY IMPRESSIVE!
We were also aware of a Soviet Trawler that was shadowing the NATO fleet while gathering intel. We happened to spot it, and Tiger Lead wing tagged me into close fighting wing formation and we both went to full afterburner and lowered ourselves to about 150 ft MSL and flew directly over that Soviet intel ship at Mach 1.2+ in full afterburners. I am sure we broke some glass and destroyed some surveillance antennas & equipment with that pass.
It was a day I can never forget and I can attest fully to what Charles Smith @softwarnet stated about the Tomcat being able to achieve Mach 1.2 (~910 MPH) as ABSOLUTELY true!
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I created a security agent called 'Knight' who's purpose is to do security sweeps across all my devices connected on my tailscale weekly. It is VERY important that security is its ONLY identity
It acts as a living anti-virus and found some critical holes to patch (which it was able to do itself)
It keeps up with all major CVE exploits and also specifically checks for those when a new one comes up
It's doing fantastic so far. Highly recommend!
95% of my followers are still unaware of the lawfare being waged against me, my partners, and dozens of my companies.
The enemy finally has a name attached to it.
His name is Neville Roy Singham.
It has been my mission to put this man in a federal prison since 2010, when he opened ThoughtWorks' Beijing agile-software conference, using the keynote to tout his own influence on Huawei. ☠️
The basics, all on the record:
- American-born, Shanghai-based. He sold his tech firm, ThoughtWorks, for $785M in 2017, then moved to China.
- Married to Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.
- Funneled roughly $278–285M into a cluster of US nonprofits since 2017 — Tricontinental, The People’s Forum, Peoples Dispatch, BreakThrough News, Code Pink — routed through donor-advised funds at Goldman Sachs.
- That same money and personnel network supplies the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which has become the on-the-ground muscle behind anti-AI-data-center activism in 14+ states.
- Net effect so far: ~$23.6B in delayed or blocked data center projects, 10 local moratoria, and one permanent ban.
And now the adults have noticed:
- A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York is examining the money flows.
- House Ways and Means subpoenaed three of the nonprofits after they turned over zero documents on $39M+ in funding.
- Senate pressure from Cotton and Banks, and a FARA question nobody in the network wants to answer.
Here’s the part nobody says out loud: this isn’t grassroots. It’s an influence operation with a balance sheet. They sue. They protest. They file. They stall. And the bill lands on American builders.
For years, my partners, dozens of my companies, and I have been on the receiving end of these filings. We’ll keep building.
The era of pretending this is organic is over.
As of today, I’m $5,700 short on necessities, including housing.
My four law firms have graciously agreed to defer payment until, God willing, my financial circumstances improve. After years devoted to caring for Yolanda, I am now beginning the difficult transition back to full-time work at ExponentialThink.com while grieving her loss. I am committed to rebuilding, but it will take time to catch up financially.
In the meantime, if you are able to help, any amount would mean more than I can express. If giving isn’t possible, simply sharing our fundraiser can make a huge difference. Thank you for helping me find my footing during the hardest chapter of my life. 🙏🕊️❤️
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Is America Done, Finished, Finite?
I do not want to believe it, but maybe Neville Roy Singham is right?
This morning, after making fun of my fledgling GiveSendGo.com/TonyAndYoland… fundraiser, acknowledging he was even aware of my outstanding security services invoices and even threatening, once again, to make me homeless, he shared with me that MAGA and America First are afraid of their own shadow and, after January 6, have been neutered of any and all courage. A feckless, useless shell of what they once were. 😡
🚨 Who is Neville Roy Singham, and how does his $3B network operate?
HISTORY: A network of about 500 groups, with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenue, had organized the nationwide “No Kings” protests on Saturday, March 28.
A Fox News Digital investigation revealed significant participation from communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon living in China who openly praises Marxism and Maoism…
How his funding ties into nationwide protests and activist groups.
Where the money is going — including direct links to the Chinese Communist Party.
And what his long-term agenda means for America and the world.
And why did China demand that Amazon remove the exposé on Neville Roy Singham, “The Shanghai Puppet Master Neville Roy Singham, The People’s Forum, and ‘Outrage’ for Pay”?
The book’s description: In the shadows of Manhattan’s radical hubs, a billionaire exile in Shanghai pulls invisible strings, turning American tax-exempt charities into weapons of foreign subversion. The Shanghai Puppetmaster unmasks Neville Roy Singham’s sinister empire: hundreds of millions in dark money channeled through anonymous funds to The People’s Forum and its allies, breeding professional agitators who orchestrate campus sieges, urban riots, and narratives that whitewash Beijing’s atrocities while demonizing the West. Congressional subpoenas, IRS threats, and international raids expose a calculated betrayal, philanthropy twisted into propaganda, dissent manufactured into division.
Even ambitious politicians fall under the spell: NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, was bolstered by over $4,200 in donations from Singham’s Shanghai-based sister, Shanti, and brother-in-law, Daniel Goodwin, while Singham’s niece, Alicia Goodwin, spearheaded a campaign to shield him from scrutiny. No mere coincidence, this web of family cash and activist alliances hints at deeper infiltration, where foreign shadows reach into the heart of American power.
The book is a chilling exposé of loyalty bought in secret, sovereignty sold in whispers, before the strings tighten irretrievably. link.amazon/B07xKPKiP
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Anthropic is about to sell the public a trillion-dollar company controlled by 2 shares worth less than a penny.
And the people buying it will have almost no way to change anything that happens next.
I read the voting section of Anthropic's IPO filing, and I think it's the most one-sided deal ever offered to regular investors at this size:
There is exactly ONE Class F share. It belongs to an LLC owned by 7 of Anthropic's co-founders, and it carries 50.1% of all the votes.
There is exactly ONE Class T share. It belongs to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, and it elects a majority of the board.
If Anthropic were ever liquidated, each of those 2 shares would get its par value of $0.00001.
The public gets Class A shares instead. And Anthropic's own filing says this structure may effectively eliminate their ability to influence important decisions, including a sale of the company.
So here's what that means for anyone who buys:
- They can't replace the board if the company stumbles, because the trust picks the majority and the founders hold half the vote.
- They can't push for a sale, even if someone offers a huge premium.
- They can't stop the board from putting the mission ahead of their money. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, so the board has to weigh shareholders against the long-term benefit of humanity.
- And they can't easily sue over it. Delaware law requires at least 2% of the shares or $2 million worth of stock to bring that kind of claim.
This isn't some far-off hypothetical either.
The filing warns that slowing AI development for safety may not maximize stockholder value. It also says Anthropic recently paused training a next-generation model for more than a month over safety and security concerns.
A public shareholder would've had zero say in that pause.
And here's the part I can't get past:
Each co-founder has pledged to give 80% of their Anthropic equity to charity. The Class F vote stays at 50.1% no matter how much stock they still own.
So the founders can give away most of their money and keep all of their control.
Dario Amodei told 60 Minutes last year that he's deeply uncomfortable with AI decisions being made by a few companies and a few people. When he was asked who elected him, he said no one.
Now his company's IPO hands 50.1% of the votes to 7 people, and he's one of them.
And guess who's being lined up to buy it?
Anthropic has weighed reserving 15% to 20% of the IPO for individual investors, according to Bloomberg. JPMorgan is leading the US retail push, and Citigroup is handling retail buyers in places like Japan, Britain and Canada.
The same filing warns that AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.
So regular people are being asked to buy a company that says its product could threaten humanity, with no real vote on how it's run.
Anthropic's answer is that this is the whole point. The structure is built to keep Wall Street from pressuring it into cutting corners on safety. The trustees have no financial stake in the company. Google and Meta gave their founders control and still made shareholders rich. And every buyer gets all of this in writing before they buy.
But Zuckerberg's control comes from shares he owns, so when Meta's stock falls, he loses money too. Anthropic's 2 control shares can't lose anything.
Anyone buying this IPO is paying full price to hand control to 7 founders and 5 trustees.
They're desperate for money and they don't care about your money.
Anthropic has launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering: anthropic.com/news/roadshow-…
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
A locked Mercedes EQS battery won't even let you repair it. One cell dies, the slave BMS latches the whole pack, throws P1C80 and kills the high voltage — and here's the trap: you can't just clear it, the fault is burned into the BMS memory and no diagnostic tool on this planet can wipe it. Dealer answer? New battery. Thirty grand. For one dead cell. That's exactly where we come in.
We cracked it the only way that actually works — read both slave BMS EEPROMs byte by byte, decode the stored faults, map the internal resistance of all 108 cells, and watch the failure replay itself: cell 12 in module I collapsing from 3.8V down to 1.5V under load while the BMS counted down to lockout. No scanner shows you that. We pull it straight out of the chip — and we even caught the next cells starting to go before they strand the car again.
And here's the clever bit nobody talks about — this pack is really two batteries in one. Two 400V strings running in parallel, each on its own BMS. When the right string went bad, the system did exactly what it was built to do: it cut the faulty right side off from its own control and kept the car running on the left string alone. The car literally drove on half its battery, limping along on the healthy left side while the dead right one sat isolated — until the left slowly drained itself down to empty. That's redundancy doing its job, and most people never even know it happened.
And get this straight — the lockout is wiped while EVERY byte of the original factory calibration stays untouched. No donor BMS. No swapped-in module dragging someone else's data into your pack. Nothing compromised. The battery keeps its own brain, its own calibration, its own identity — just without the fault. That's the difference between a real fix and a bodge.
Full breakdown, pictures and part numbers at the bottom of the article:
EQS V297 · slave BMS M95M02 + TC277T - Cells CATL
TOP A789 900 2801 · BOTTOM A789 900 9800
Faults cleared: P1C80 · P1540 · P0F18 · P0F64 · P0B63 · P0B64 · P0B67 · U357D
Software side is done — the lockout is beaten, calibration intact. Now we are waiting brand new modules from Poland to install into battery and finally run the car without any locking faults and with more range.
Sustainablity of EV in comparison with ICE is measured in repairability!
Full article: evclinic.eu/2026/11/10/the-m…
