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An open offer to Tesla: We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands.
We’d fund it with a consortium of investors and run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus. All of that goes to Cybercab. Cybercab gets first call on battery cells too. We’ll wait our turn.
Tesla gains incremental profit: a license fee, plus FSD and Robotaxi network revenues on every vehicle built.
We’d build the Cybertruck, a three-row CyberSUV, and an unmanned CyberCargo hauler. More autonomous miles, across every surface of this planet and beyond.
Worth a conversation?
Another supercharger rate increase. 1 to 2 cents per kwh at the local units.
Starting to think I should have traded in for a Cyberbeast with the lux package after all.
This rate it will probably pay for itself after only a few years
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The Fae Realm is closing its doors soon. 🍂❄️🌸 Brambletooth, Snownip, Foxglove and the whole enchanted crew are waiting to come home with you, and so much more. Our Fae Realm campaign ends Thursday at 10am CT, so this is your last chance to get your Fae Realm.
backerkit.com/c/projects/ten…
This makes it so tempting to make a trailer myself. There's one project that will never see the light of day, but maybe a trailer might peak interest again!
DuckTales premiered 39 years ago today.
I loved that show. Not for the gold. For the idea that adventure meant going somewhere wild with people you love.
It was Indiana Jones for kids.
Nobody's making the movie, so I made the trailer. Sound on. 🦆
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New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
Every single AI is down. Grok, Claude, GPT, Gemini, all of them.
*Opens local model* Carry on.
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Chilean photographer Juan Alonso Gutiérrez captures the blood-red eyes of a white-tufted grebe
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Honey, here's some money. Go buy a new purse and some shoes.
"Why? What did you do?"
Can't I just shower my wife with gifts for no reason?
"No. Spill it."
I want to buy a laser defense system for our backyard. It kills mosquitoes.
"..."
I'll take that as a yes, then?
NEW: Photon Matrix built an Iron Dome for mosquitoes.
The Blue Laser Mosquito Air Defense is built for patios, campsites, and outdoor dinners, using sensors to find mosquitoes mid-air and zap them with a visible blue laser.
-Scans a 20-foot, 90-degree field in front of the unit
-Targets flying insects as small as 2 mm
-Uses LiDAR, radar, and AI vision to confirm targets
-Internal aiming system points the laser at the mosquito
-Outdoor kit adds a rotating base for 360-degree coverage
-Runs about 4–5 hours from a power bank
-Blue flash shows when it fires
Pricing starts at $1,088.
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Quick tip: download the open models you care about from Hugging Face as soon as you can. You never know what the next few years may bring.
Keep multiple sizes like:
• Gemma 4 12B
• Qwen3.8-27B
• DeepSeek-V4-Flash
• GLM-5.3 once the weights are released
For each model, keep a GGUF Q4 copy and, when available, an MLX 4-bit copy for Apple Silicon. If you have Blackwell hardware, grab NVFP4 too.
4-bit is a great sweet spot for preserving quality without wasting storage.
Maybe you can’t run the biggest models today. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to tomorrow.
Keep them somewhere safe. There may come a day when you’ll be very glad you did.