I. The Drone War Evolves — Ring Wings, 3D-Printed Housewives, and AI as Disinformation Weapon
The Ukraine-Russia theater continues generating genuine hardware innovation at speed no defense contractor can match.
More information on the Russian ring-wing FPV, including a larger version apparently intended as an interceptor. They claim that the addition of the closed wing has tripled the range of an FPV to 50 km. The drones take off vertically and then transition to horizontal flight.
↳ The Russians have released images of their fiber-optic FPV "KVS" (Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavych) with its exotic ring wing, built around a 10 inch FPV frame. The closed wing seeks aerodynamic efficiency by eliminating wing-tip vortices.
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"It's Ukrainian housewives. They have 3-D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones. This is not innovation." —Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger
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A Belarusian blogger used AI to fake a scene of people with white-red-white flags in central Minsk—and sent it to police. Within minutes, three armed police vehicles rushed to the location. Of course, no one was there. Officers kept searching imaginary dissent.
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I got blackpilled on Russia. In 2023 I didn't like UA because of association with libtards and I didn't think their odds were good so why not sue for peace? It's been three years now with UA becoming Europe's premier fighting force, and all the historical nonsense doesn't [hold up]...
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The past week in brief. Results, strikes, and progress that shape the bigger picture. Stay tuned.
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II. AI Eats Everything — Open-Source TTS, Buddharoid Monks, and the Lump of Labor Wars
The commodification of AI capabilities accelerates while the discourse around what it means for work gets louder.
Mistral just open-sourced a text-to-speech model that beats ElevenLabs. 3 GB of RAM. Runs locally. Free. The thing people were paying per-word for last year runs on your laptop now.
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@pmarca · Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (reposted by Garry Tan)
Claude knows! → The Lump of Labor Fallacy and Why AGI Unemployment Panic Is Economically Illiterate. Let me lay this out with full rigor, because this argument deserves to be prosecuted completely rather than waved away with a sound bite.
↳ AI employment doomerism is rooted in the socialist fallacy of lump of labor. It is wrong now for the same reason it's always been wrong. (Hinton is a socialist.)
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Japan is running out of monks... so they're training AI robots called "buddharoid" to replace them. Japan's temples are closing because fewer priests are available to run them + aging population. The solution: ChatGPT robots trained on Buddhist sutras.
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Codex just dropped Hooks in the latest release — so I built a tiny macOS toolbar app, Loopndroll, that makes sure your Codex Agent never stops working. It's open source.
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III. Nuclear Startups Race to July 4th
American nuclear startups are racing to build working reactors by July 4th. We went inside one of the frontrunners, @AaloAtomics, to find out how they're balancing safety and speed in the push to power data centers.
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IV. Design Twitter — X Poaches Design Lead, Spatial for Feedback, Typography as Stretching
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X Hires Benji Taylor to Lead Design Dream Team
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Alpha feedback's been a firehose these past couple of months, and the quality's blown me away. Wrapping it up with tons of ideas. Also, using Spatial to sift through, make sense and prioritize it all has really been a treat.
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graphic design is all about stretching text
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This is getting out of hand… anyway, I might ship a tiny micro-lib with the piece I'm working on. LLMs made it way easier to turn my very "works-only-for-me" code into something others can actually use (because yeah… I'm terrible at documenting)
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V. Software as Torah — The Post-SaaS Vision
Dude we are not going to have Software as a Service 90% margins circle jerking each other forever. We're going to have software as a combination Spaceship and Torah that your people maintain and upgrade for generations unknown. Software as a City. Software as a Planet.
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VI. The DeepMind Deal That Made Google — And Zuck's VR Obsession That Didn't
Subtext: how Zuck's obsession with VR lost him AI leadership and "the greatest deal Google ever made." "If Facebook didn't buy DeepMind, they would end up in the arms of Google. Hassabis came out to the West Coast to have lunch with Larry Page, still the strongest suitor."
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@sama · Sam Altman (Jun 27, 2015 — resurfaced by Deep Prasad)
@elonmusk you're the best at naming droneships
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VII. Signal Noise — ByteDance Video AI, Tesla FSD V14, S&P 500
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ByteDance Launches Dreamina Seedance 2.0 AI Video Generation Model with Global Availability
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German TV Reporter Tests Tesla FSD Supervised V14 in Eifel Region
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VIII. Zeitgeist Lore
i often think about this..
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Thank you @Google, a real visionary product. #freaks #mmmph 🫂👣
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Direct Google Flights API access without scraping — github.com/punitarani/fli
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