Said i'd always be your friend,I took an oath gonna stick it out till the end 📚 @diewithzero Founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/rHuhqa6lwF https://xitter.cf/t.co/7YZxlEYsJ5 Ad Hominem attack 🚫

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I've decided in a new etiquette rule. If a party has over 40 people do not thank the host. Having parties over 200 people, the hosts have to hide to avoid 3 hours ish of thank you conversations instead of enjoying the event.
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Great story and both do have one coming in about 6 months......
In 2022, a fraudster stole $1 million from us with a fake land deal. He was very convincing, and my team and I were doing a lot at once and got tricked. In July, a federal jury convicted him of wire fraud and money laundering. Today he was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, the top of the guideline range. It's not fun to lose money, but I’ll be fine, and we learned how to be more careful next time. Many other fraud victims won’t be fine, and every conman who walks free goes hunting for his next mark. We have real problems with law and order in this country. Justice still exists, though, and criminals need to know they WILL be caught and punished. It's a "white-pill" when you see the system working. Thank you to the FBI, the prosecutors, the team at Jackson Walker, the jury of my fellow citizens, and Judge Pitman for getting this right. 🇺🇸
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I get your point 😬
Next-gen nuclear that could provide affordable, reliable, low-carbon, baseload power almost anywhere would be holy grail of the energy system. Continued public investment in developing the tech is 100% justified. That said, here is the reality of where the SMR industry is today.
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In the words of @bp22 #TrueStory
Remember I told you about the person who was doing new brain/computer interface work since he has a spinal injury that keeps him from opening his hands, or walking? @TBabb02 is the guy, and is the director of marketing here. He is doing a bunch of R&D with brain/computer interface companies. Last Sunday he was the first to use a new kind of device from an Austin stealth mode startup that let him operate a robot hand. He showed it to me and it blew my mind. It can "listen to" the electricity headed down his arm to his hand. AI is going to help so many people that when doomers doom I just think about him and what's being worked on in labs around the world, but particularly in Austin (Neuralink has a big presence there, for instance). Inspiring. Along with @adamasonbrink and @grantweston they are building a new kind of "company brain" that's very different than the others I've seen. All starts with watching how you work over time. The future of work is right here. Scary as it might be, it will help many people work better together.
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There were 4 CVSS-10 security incidents over the past 24 hours. One of them is the worst incident I’ve seen in my life. So we created an auto-SRE tool that polls for security incidents, identifies which ones we're in trouble for, and automatically fixes them.
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Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti: Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè. Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan. Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal. Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan. Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou. Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa. Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan. Desizyon an nan men nou.
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Just a reminder that middle age is 38 ish for males and 39.5 for females. Enjoy the ride 👊🏾
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🚨🚨🚨 Russian intelligence operatives hiding behind fake identities aboard commercial vessels? A new investigation by @DanWatchDK reveals that 28 individuals aboard seven 🇷🇺 Russian commercial vessels transporting military equipment from Kaliningrad to Africa may have been sailing under fabricated identities. The findings are striking: 🔹 Passports with nearly identical numbers, apparently issued around the same time. 🔹 No identifiable digital footprint for the individuals concerned. 🔹 Older, non-biometric passports with no recorded travel history in the databases examined. The findings raise serious questions about the potential use of commercial shipping as cover for Russian intelligence operations and covert personnel movements through European waters. ⚠️
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On the 23rd of September 2026, SynMax's maritime domain awareness platform, Theia, detected and tip-and-cued high-resolution satellite imagery of the NING FENG LENG 2 (IMO 1026697), a 157-meter Chinese-flagged reefer, engaged in a ship-to-ship transfer with an unidentified squid jigger just outside of the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Peru and Chile (-15.8541, -80.9254). At the time of capture, AIS location data was not received from either vessel. The interaction between the two vessels is consistent with the resupply of personnel or provisions and the transshipment of catch at sea, practices that allow distant-water fleets to remain active near fishing grounds for extended periods and complicate the traceability of fish products. Tracking support vessels such as reefers enables analysts to identify the vessels, ports, and markets through which IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fish enter the supply chain, allowing enforcement to focus on a small number of high-value nodes rather than thousands of individual fishing vessels.  Theia ingests more than 40 million km² of satellite imagery daily, fusing it with global AIS and additional datasets to automatically detect, identify, and track tens of thousands of vessels across oceans, regardless of AIS output. Atlas, SynMax's Agentic AI, extends this further, enabling analysts to interrogate Theia's pre-processed datasets, generate network charts, and explore links between vessels, such as repeated rendezvous between support vessels and fishing fleets, shared patterns of life, and changes of identity, to map the networks behind transshipment activity at scale.
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One of the few times I've hoped it was AI. The robots are coming....
Unitree Introducing: H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian🤖 Powerful performance to serve and guard you, with a maximum endurance of approximately 8 hours. Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner.
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California's Billionaire Tax Act would collect roughly $30 billion. Accounting for lost income taxes from departures, the mean Net Present Value is negative $39 billion, from Benjamin Jaros and Joshua Rauh nber.org/papers/w35899
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AUSTIN MAN shoved a man to the ground on Congress Ave and punched him in the head repeatedly while yelling that he was in the CIA. The victim was just standing on the corner minding his own business. Police had been called about a fight involving a machete, and they found a hatchet lying in the middle of the street. The assault charge was dismissed. Since then, Gilbert Perez has asked police to take him to jail three times. In July he was caught outside a downtown 7-Eleven he'd been banned from, holding a rock, after he tried to break a window. He told the officer he wanted to go to jail. In August he walked into the same store with a rock and threatened to smash the windows unless staff called the cops. Prosecutors declined to charge him. Last month he went back again and told police he knew about the ban and "disregarded it." Prosecutors declined that case too. Two days later he refused to leave a business on East Riverside and told the officer he wanted to go to jail. The Chick-fil-A down the block banned him too. He kept coming back anyway. In March he was arrested for felony criminal mischief, more than $2,500 in damage. DA Jose Garza's office gave him 7 days. 9 cases. 5 declined or dismissed. His longest sentence was 7 days. He keeps committing crimes and telling the police he wants to go to jail, but prosecutors keep insisting he's safe for the street.
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I don't know William Ichioka never bet with him and live in Texas but apparently he's grifting and doesn't realize he's picked the wrong dude. He can EABOD and I love live courtroom drama. What an idiot waste of flesh
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This is quite something
BBC Bitesize is ‘indoctrinating’ and ‘brainwashing’ children. On @GBNEWS Here is what I’ve found 👇
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LASIK eye surgery costs roughly $2,100 per eye today. In 1998, it cost $2,200 per eye. Adjusted for inflation, you are paying about 60% less for a procedure that has simultaneously become faster, safer, and more precise. That is what markets do when left alone. Now compare that to a hearing aid. The FDA classified hearing aids as prescription medical devices for decades, locking you into audiologist appointments before you could buy a $3,000 device that a manufacturer could produce for $300. Or, look at insulin. Heavily regulated, patent-extended, and politically manipulated, a vial of Humalog ran over $330 in 2024 versus roughly $21 in Canada for a biosimilar. Same molecule. Different regulatory environment. LASIK sits in a peculiar gap. Insurers rarely cover it, which means third-party payment schemes never severed the price signal between provider and patient. You shop, clinics compete, manufacturers race to improve technology. The feedback loop that markets depend on functions exactly as it should. Regulated medical markets break that loop deliberately. The FDA's approval process costs pharmaceutical companies over $2.6 billion per new drug on average, erecting barriers that protect incumbents and punish smaller competitors who cannot absorb a decade of compliance costs. Patients then pay the premium on the back end. LASIK is the control in the experiment. The market won.
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Every study finding "evidence" that medical transition is beneficial is like 53 people sent a questionnaire two years after transition with a 40 percent loss to follow up rate. Meanwhile, Finland has rigorously tracked the mental health of every single patient who received gender medicalization over decades in the entire country and found that the rate at which patients required mental health treatment more than doubled after transition. The study is orders of magnitude larger and more methodologically rigorous than anything ever attempted by those claiming transition is medically necessary and lifesaving. And yet trans activists pretend that the vastly stronger study is weaker than their collection of hundreds of laughably weak, underpowered, and self-evidently tendentious studies. Any multiple of zero is zero.
The entire premise of ‘gender transition’ is a fraud. After cross-sex hormones and surgery, the share of young Finns needing psychiatric care went from 19% to 49%! Finland tracked every young person sent to its gender clinics, for up to 25 years. Among those given cross-sex hormones or surgery, 19.2% had needed specialist psychiatric care before their first clinic visit. After their last procedure, 48.9% did. Their matched peers stayed flat. We were told cross-sex hormones and surgery would fix these young people's mental health. Finland checked. After the drugs and the surgery, far more of them needed psychiatric care, not fewer. What Finland found Finland sends every young person who wants a medical "gender reassignment" to one of two university hospital clinics, in Helsinki and Tampere. Researchers led by Dr. Sami-Matti Ruuska, an adolescent psychiatrist, and Prof. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a professor of adolescent psychiatry at Tampere University, pulled the national health records for every one of them. That's 2,083 people under 23 who went to those clinics between 1996 and 2019. Each was matched with eight people of the same birth year and hometown, 16,643 in all. Some were followed for up to 25 years. The new numbers Critics claimed the first analysis might have counted people who hadn't had their drugs or surgery yet. So in September the authors ran it again, starting the clock only after each person's last step: cross-sex hormones, breast removal, or genital surgery. •Before their first gender-clinic visit, 19.2% had needed specialist psychiatric care. •At some point after their last procedure, 48.9% did. •Their matched peers, counted from the same dates, went from 14.4% to 13.2%. After their last procedure, these young people were about six times as likely as the general population to need specialist psychiatric care. That held for both males and females. billboardchris.com/news/2026…
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530A accounts ("Trump Accounts") are a great solution for many ultra-wealthy Americans who are philanthropically inclined, do not want a foundation staff, do want to give while living, and haven't been inspired by existing nonprofits. It's an American version of “GiveDirectly."
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Must watch! > ATXaudit.com AUSTIN VOTERS: Vote YES on Prop I (eye) to require independent, transparent performance audits of the entire City of Austin budget! @Jason @bgurley @bp22 @SaveAustinNow @AustinJustice @ATXVideos @austinreforms @data_atx @PoliticoBurner @_TeddyBrosevelt @mkelly007 @LoewyLawFirm
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