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The attacks on Wildberries warehouses appear far more serious than they might initially appear.

Wildberries in Russia has long ceased to be a simple marketplace. The company's aggressive and successful development has led it to a stage where it has become a significant part of the country's everyday economic infrastructure. This includes hundreds of thousands of sellers, pickup point owners, logisticians, and other dependents. For many of them, Wildberries is their primary source of income.

Enormous amounts of money from small and medium-sized businesses accumulate within the confines of this empire. And besides the money, often almost the entire infrastructure. Imagine the horror of losing inventory, logistics, and the ability to operate normally in a single blow. No one will be able to cover these losses. And when I talk about scale, I'm talking about over a million sellers, the majority of whom are small and medium-sized businesses.

Most importantly, such attacks create tension in the sector that is the most difficult for the state to control. Oil, banking, and defense have long been effectively controlled, but dealing with thousands of sellers, employees, and customers is much more difficult.

Yes, these aren't blows to the core of the Russian economy. But they are significant enough that many Russians will feel their impact. And not just on television, but in their own pockets.

Such an operation won't change the course of the war. But it does increase tension in Russian society, which is a favorable backdrop for Ukraine.

Nobody can manipulate a guy who studies patterns instead of words.

When a guy realizes he’s being studied and not supported it gets fun 💯

Dario and Sam watching Moonshot AI release an open source model that costs 90% less

Life starts to feel a lot better when you realize that not everything is a zero sum game

For you to win, it is not required that someone else must lose

And the people who tend to end up the wealthiest are amazing at creating win-win situations for everyone around them

The key is to surround yourself with as many of these people as possible, and win alongside with them over long periods of time

Anthropic employees realizing what the K3 model release means for their equity stake

They’re all multi-millionaires at this point anyway - I’d hope they find ways to cope 😂

Moonshot just dropped Kimi K3. Open weights.

2.8 trillion parameters. 1 million tokens of context. 6.3x faster decoding on million-token runs.

Most people read that as a spec sheet. It's a permission slip.

Long-horizon agents + self-evolving workflows + a context window that holds your whole project - that's the secret. The loop stops forgetting what it did yesterday.

9 out of 10 builders still run agents that lose the plot after twenty minutes. This is the fix, and it costs nothing.

Quant from Jane Street ran it as one loop overnight.

⚡️ +12 energy nodes. Operation "Crimean Switch: OFF," against the backdrop of fleet decline, has not been canceled.

83 "Ilyich Candles" from July 1st to 18th.

As part of the ongoing Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) operation in Crimea and the temporarily occupied territories, 83 energy nodes located deep within enemy operational territory were successively struck by SBS drones between July 1st and 18th.

In the last 72 hours, 12 of them were hit:

🔥 110 kV "Koktebel" Power Station, Shchebetivka, Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 1st SBS Operational Center.

🔥 110 kV "Kertchenska" Substation, Kerch, Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 1st SBS Operational Center.

🔥 "Kuban-Crimea" Power Transfer Point, Glazivka, Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 413th SBS Unit "Raid".

🔥 220 kV "Azovska" Substation, Mariupol, Donetsk Region – "Phoenix" Drone Group.

🔥 220 kV "Komysh-Buroun" Substation, Kerch, Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 1st SBS Operational Center.

🔥 220 kV "Chronomorska" Substation, Vulkanivka, Autonomous Republic of Crimea – 9th "Kairos" Battalion, 414th SBS Brigade "Birds of Madyar".

🔥 Electrical substation, Kadiivka, Luhansk region – 20th SBS Brigade “K-2”.

🔥 Electrical substation, Solidarne, Luhansk region – 20th SBS Brigade “K-2”.

🔥 Electrical substation, Hrechychkyne, Luhansk region – 20th SBS Brigade “K-2”.

🔥 Electrical substation, Yasynivka, Donetsk region – 2nd Battalion “Wormbusters”, 414th SBS Brigade “Birds of Madyar”.

🔥 Electrical substation, Komyssarivka, Luhansk region – 20th SBS Brigade “K-2”.

🔥 Electrical substation, Havrylivka Drukha, Kherson region – 20th SBS Brigade “K-2”.

We will hold firm.

Moscow will fall.

The cracks in Russia's economic alliances are widening into canyons. Kazakhstan has officially banned all imports of Russian wheat, delivering a massive economic blow to the Kremlin from within its own trade bloc.

The strategic consequences of Astana's decision:

The Death of EAEU Unity: Both nations belong to the Eurasian Economic Union, designed to ensure the free flow of goods. Kazakhstan breaking the rules to blockade Russian grain proves the bloc is functionally fractured under the weight of regional instability.

Choking the Transit Route: Russia is facing a massive grain surplus and desperately needs Kazakhstan’s rail infrastructure to smuggle and export wheat to Central Asia, Iran, and China. This ban effectively bottlenecks Russia’s agricultural escape route to the East.

Economic Self-Preservation: Moscow’s heavily discounted, sanctioned wheat was cannibalizing Kazakhstan's domestic market. Astana chose to protect its own economy rather than bail out Putin's war-torn finances.

First Beijing freezes the gas pipelines, now Central Asian allies block the grain corridors. Russia is learning the hard way that a vulnerable, isolated petro-state has no real friends—only neighbors protecting their own interests.

‼️‼️🇺🇲🇮🇷 The US Air Force has resumed attacks on regions in southern Iran.

At this moment, strikes are being carried out on the port city of Bandar Abbas and military facilities in the surrounding area.

🇺🇦22:45 | 18/07

Approximate flight routes of our UAVs:

🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement;

According to Russian sources, around 300 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.