To ease high oil peices, the U.S. gave a 30-day sanctions waiver on ~140M barrels of Iranian oil already loaded on tankers at sea,

Iran's response?

'Sorry, we're sold out.'

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Andrej Karpathy on autoresearch with an untrusted pool of workers:

"My designs that incorporate an untrusted pool of workers (into autoresearch) actually look a little bit like a blockchain.

Instead of blocks, you have commits, and these commits can build on each other and contain changes to the code as you're improving it.

The proof of work is basically doing tons of experimentation to find the commits that work."

The idea that distributed & permissionless autoresearch ~= proof-of-useful-work remains a high-level intuition for now, but it is extremely intriguing to say the least.

Someone needs to take this further. See QT for more on what's missing.

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Cop kicks woman in the face after she falls in São Paulo

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Everyone’s watching oil, but that’s just the surface of a much bigger global problem

For almost 3 weeks, Hormuz being shut has trapped nearly 20% of global oil. But it’s also blocking the raw stuff behind everyday life.

Aluminum, chemicals, fuel inputs, even helium… all stuck.

Now factories are slowing down. Asia’s refineries are struggling, China and India already cutting output. Diesel and jet fuel prices are jumping fast.

Plastic makers can’t get materials, so some are just stopping production.

Then it hits tech. A major Qatar plant shutting means about 40% of global helium gone. That messes with chip-making, so phones, electronics… all get affected.

And the real pressure point? Food.

So yeah, this isn’t just an oil story anymore.

It’s slowly turning into a supply shock across everything… energy, tech, food.

One narrow waterway, and the whole system starts shaking.

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A single person once minted over 184 BILLION Bitcoins

In 2010 someone exploited a bug in Bitcoin's code and generated 184,467,440,737 BTC in a single transaction on a blockchain that was only supposed to have 21 million total supply

Satoshi and the developers caught it within 5 hours and pushed Bitcoin's first ever emergency fork to erase the transaction

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"For a brief period in the womb, human babies have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands, as shown in the scan below. Why? Because 250 million years ago, our ancestors were reptile-like creatures that had those muscles all their lives."

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Racists in 1986: all asians look the same, dont they!

racists in 2026: those wokoids can't even tell a woman from hebei from one from henan

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Stubborn perseverance maxxing: Men and animals who are high in testosterone persist at what they start, and they work longer at a task without being distracted

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The more testosterone you have, the more likely you are to persist in fighting, even against hopeless odds

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A 14-year-old black teen rapes his 24-year-old White school teacher when she takes a bathroom break. After raping her, the teen decides to kill her and stuff her body in a trash can and dumps it into the woods

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Economists found winter length correlates w long term orientation, & was puzzled that Korea, Taiwan, HK, Singapore were outliers w much higher long term orientation relative to their regional winter length.

Nothing in Econ Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution (Arcticism)

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Economists also found thriftiness was correlated to winter length, and once again East Asians (SG, HK, KR, TW) were outliers, being much more thrifty than the average of their regions winter lengths

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