"If you could limit man’s wants [machinery] might be called 'labor-saving,' but as there are no limits to his wants, the machinery really [only multiplies them rather than reducing toil]." ~ Leland Stanford
Looks like the human version isn't far behind...
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This is so incredible, I have a hard time believing it. Plastic -> fuel?
Polyethylene contains ~46 megajoules/kg (~10x TNT). The Oak Ridge molten-salt process announced this week is a way to release that energy as liquid fuel rather than letting it sit in a landfill
Polyethylene contains approximately 46 megajoules of chemical energy per kilogram (about ten times the energy content of TNT by mass) stored stably in its carbon-hydrogen bonds rather than as explosive potential.
The Oak Ridge molten-salt process announced this week is essentially an engineered way to release that energy as liquid fuel rather than letting it sit in a landfill.
Let's put this in the hard to believe pile
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Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
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Oregon State researchers built a crystal that produces hydrogen from water using only sunlight
The material, BVR-19, a metal-organic framework, absorbs light through its sulfur bonds. When light hits it, a bond breaks
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Oregon State researchers built a crystal that produces hydrogen from water using only sunlight.
No platinum. No iridium. No expensive metal catalyst.
The material, BVR-19, a metal-organic framework, absorbs light through its sulfur bonds.
When light hits it, a bond breaks. That energy drives the reaction that splits water.
It also forms spontaneously in a water-based solution at room temperature.
Most hydrogen production today relies on fossil fuels or rare metals.
This opens a route to solar hydrogen that doesn't depend on either.
Oregon State University. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Oct 10 2026.
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⚠️VERY RARE⚠️
🇺🇸US Strategic Command HF-GCS
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Germany arrested August Hanning, head of the BND from 1998 to 2005, on suspicion of treasonous espionage, attempted treason and intelligence-agent activity. His former bureau chief, who worked at the BND until spring 2026, was also arrested
He may have been spying for Azerbaijan
Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason bbc.in/4AN9QLn
Ethiopia severed diplomatic relations with Eritrea on Thursday, hours after drones attacked targets in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.
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Ethiopia severed diplomatic relations with Eritrea on Thursday, hours after drones attacked targets in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. on.wsj.com/4hAT7SK
Background on the Ethiopia conflict
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At minimum, this noxious woman is a grifter trying to incite panic to sell her two poorly-sourced scaremongering back-to-back books about “nuclear war” and “biological war.” At worst, she is something closer to an information warfare vector for Russia. Seek other sources.
Red Army Faction / Rote Armee Fraktion / Baader-Meinhof gang were the footsoldiers of the KGB and the Stasi in West Germany. They were provided military equipment, guns and money by the KGB's station in Dresden where Putin was their contact
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This only applies to Venezuela & only while Smartmatic was taking orders from Chavez.
Those days were over before the 2020 elections because the US forced Smartmatic to sell off Sequoia & Smartmatic later broke ties with Venezuela
They called you a conspiracy theorist. Then they released the paper that blows up their own story.
The CIA just released a document that contradicts the CIA. Their own file on Venezuela and Smartmatic.
Their own file called Smartmatic a U.S. national-security threat in 2006. It said Chávez wanted to stop a sitting American president. It described a 2012 Venezuela rigging plan: targeted machines, a set margin, built to beat an audit. The CIA’s source reported Chavez “congratulated” the team for rigging the election with the previously set margin. Then the CIA wrote “no large-scale fraud” next to it.
Eleven years later, Smartmatic showed up in the U.S. to build L.A. County’s system for $282M — America’s largest election jurisdiction — just in time for the 2020 election. Now its executives are federally charged with bribery and money laundering on that contract.
And we are the conspiracy theorists?? 🫨🤯
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French CDS blowing out
European credit default swaps and risk premia for euro-area government bonds exploded today (Thursday) to levels not seen in over a decade following a French bond rout sparked by its fiscal and political situation. French CDS more than doubled in the past month on mounting fiscal viability fears. It's not just America.
PROMIS before PROMIS
The CIA and West German intelligence secretly bought Swiss encryption maker Crypto AG in 1970, turning the machines governments paid to protect their secrets into a way to read them.
Those governments had no idea the machines were rigged to read their messages.
In the 1980s, Crypto devices accounted for roughly 40% of the foreign government messages the NSA decoded.
The CIA didn't sell the company until 2018 and called the operation "the intelligence coup of the century."
PROMIS after PROMIS?
H/T @ericgarland
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Scotland Yard used spy software said to have been secretly developed in Russia, The Telegraph can reveal.
British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show.
Read the full investigation ⬇️
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