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ELON MUSK'S NEXT TRILLION DOLLARS IS RIDING ON THIS ONE HALLWAY WALK.
The clip opens with Optimus Gen 2.5, Tesla's current-generation unit already deployed in a handful of pilot roles. Black-and-gold shell, glossy visor head, the same silhouette the world's seen since its reveal. It walks fine. It moves the way robots have moved for the last few years, functional, a little mechanical, joints doing their job without pretending to be anything else.
Then the video cuts to Optimus 3, and the difference isn't subtle.
The arm swing has natural counter-rotation now, the kind a human does without thinking about it while walking. Shoulder movement isn't locked to a single plane anymore. Hand gestures carry actual weight distribution, fingers curling and settling instead of snapping between fixed poses. It's a shift from "robot performing human motion" to something that reads, at a glance, as a person standing in a hallway.
Numbers behind that jump: Optimus 3 is reportedly targeting over 40 degrees of freedom in each hand alone, up from roughly half that on earlier generations, and Tesla's stated goal for the platform is 22 degrees of freedom in the actuated joints of the whole body working in tighter coordination, not just more motors, better sequencing between them. Production cost per unit is aimed at under $20,000 at scale, down from estimates north of $50,000 for early Gen 2 builds, the gap that has to close before 1,000,000 units a year is even mathematically possible.
That number matters because it's not marketing filler. It's one of the milestones tied directly to Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by shareholders in November 2025. Gen 2.5 proved Optimus could stand upright in public without falling over. Optimus 3 is the version that has to prove it can move through a normal room without anyone doing a double take.
The hallway in this video isn't a stage. It's the actual test.
The clip opens with Optimus Gen 2.5, Tesla's current-generation unit already deployed in a handful of pilot roles. Black-and-gold shell, glossy visor head, the same silhouette the world's seen since its reveal. It walks fine. It moves the way robots have moved for the last few years, functional, a little mechanical, joints doing their job without pretending to be anything else.
Then the video cuts to Optimus 3, and the difference isn't subtle.
The arm swing has natural counter-rotation now, the kind a human does without thinking about it while walking. Shoulder movement isn't locked to a single plane anymore. Hand gestures carry actual weight distribution, fingers curling and settling instead of snapping between fixed poses. It's a shift from "robot performing human motion" to something that reads, at a glance, as a person standing in a hallway.
Numbers behind that jump: Optimus 3 is reportedly targeting over 40 degrees of freedom in each hand alone, up from roughly half that on earlier generations, and Tesla's stated goal for the platform is 22 degrees of freedom in the actuated joints of the whole body working in tighter coordination, not just more motors, better sequencing between them. Production cost per unit is aimed at under $20,000 at scale, down from estimates north of $50,000 for early Gen 2 builds, the gap that has to close before 1,000,000 units a year is even mathematically possible.
That number matters because it's not marketing filler. It's one of the milestones tied directly to Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by shareholders in November 2025. Gen 2.5 proved Optimus could stand upright in public without falling over. Optimus 3 is the version that has to prove it can move through a normal room without anyone doing a double take.
The hallway in this video isn't a stage. It's the actual test.
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According to the Financial Times, Sonderstab Ukraine (Special Staff Ukraine), a group of fewer than 20 people is behind the €11.5 billion in annual military aid that Germany sends to Kiev.
It can conclude arms procurement deals in as little as two weeks thanks to a legal workaround: the contracts are signed not by the German government, but by Ukraine. Berlin pays. As the FT put it: "Ukraine provides the shopping list. Germany pays the bill". This structure allows the unit to circumvent procurement procedures and bypass the 13,000-person agency responsible for equipping the Bundeswehr. Is it clearer why the golden toilets in Kiev are small change compared to what is happening in #Germany and in other countries that are arming #Ukraine?
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It can conclude arms procurement deals in as little as two weeks thanks to a legal workaround: the contracts are signed not by the German government, but by Ukraine. Berlin pays. As the FT put it: "Ukraine provides the shopping list. Germany pays the bill". This structure allows the unit to circumvent procurement procedures and bypass the 13,000-person agency responsible for equipping the Bundeswehr. Is it clearer why the golden toilets in Kiev are small change compared to what is happening in #Germany and in other countries that are arming #Ukraine?
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Former spokesperson for President Zelenskyy, luliia Mendel, was scheduled to deliver her speech about peace at the European Parliament. However, she was banned from entering the building and prevented from giving her speech.
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#Ukraine #YuliaMendel #EU
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#Ukraine #YuliaMendel #EU
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#Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. [Thread]
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#aosp #Google #why
#Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. [Thread]
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#aosp #Google #why
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Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs.
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"I'm calling it the threatro-dollar. The US is basically threatening the rest of the world, particularly the nations that have a lot of bonds, and what it's going to do is say, OK, we want you to take this 100-year bond, and if you don't, your nations are going to be destabilized.
The way that it could work with the techno-dollar, which goes back to what we were discussing before, is if you have people take Tether, these digital dollars, because of the Genius Act, they have to buy U.S. Treasuries, so they're a forced buyer, so the more people you get using the digital dollar, the more treasuries get bought. So what they could do is just collapse all the other currencies, have a major financial crisis, melt it all down, and then force nations to take Tether and that will give a guaranteed buyer of treasuries too. There's going to be some major events in the coming years, probably the next 6 to 12 months regarding US debt.
I think that's what all of this with Trump has been building up to. It also explains why they put Bessent in, who's a guy who's crashed not just the British pound, but the Japanese in too, by the way. When you zoom out, you can see there's actually quite a coherent narrative here as to where it's going. Go read that paper by Stephen Moran (A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System). It lays it all out..." Cognitive Dissidents 💰🔥
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The way that it could work with the techno-dollar, which goes back to what we were discussing before, is if you have people take Tether, these digital dollars, because of the Genius Act, they have to buy U.S. Treasuries, so they're a forced buyer, so the more people you get using the digital dollar, the more treasuries get bought. So what they could do is just collapse all the other currencies, have a major financial crisis, melt it all down, and then force nations to take Tether and that will give a guaranteed buyer of treasuries too. There's going to be some major events in the coming years, probably the next 6 to 12 months regarding US debt.
I think that's what all of this with Trump has been building up to. It also explains why they put Bessent in, who's a guy who's crashed not just the British pound, but the Japanese in too, by the way. When you zoom out, you can see there's actually quite a coherent narrative here as to where it's going. Go read that paper by Stephen Moran (A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System). It lays it all out..." Cognitive Dissidents 💰🔥
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"When you look at Laurel Canyon and all the bands that came up out of Hollywood in LA in the 60s, all had military intelligence parents, their dads, or they had some kind of close family member that was a high-ranking military individual, right? So it's obvious that the kids of high-ranking military individuals were used because they were the ones that were proven and they knew that they were mostly going to keep their mouth shut.
This is why a lot of people don't actually make it. You can be as talented as you ever really want to be, but if you're not a part of the group, then you're not going to be a part of the group, right? You're not ever really going to get to that level. That high level of fame..." Ryder Lee of Linktr.ee/raisedbygiantspod 🎸🪖
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This is why a lot of people don't actually make it. You can be as talented as you ever really want to be, but if you're not a part of the group, then you're not going to be a part of the group, right? You're not ever really going to get to that level. That high level of fame..." Ryder Lee of Linktr.ee/raisedbygiantspod 🎸🪖
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"The European Union is an evil entity, a very dangerous entity. It's very communistic, and it's actually destroying the nations in Europe. Some of the countries are now at the brink of a civil war.
They need to find an external enemy. And they know that the population can be used as loose cannon. The Malthusian plan in the past could operate via starvation and wars. That took place in the past, and now they really believe that the best way to save Mother Earth, which is a pantheistic approach, is to reduce the size of those who are killing Mother Earth, namely us human beings.
While they further digital ID, they are probably engendering another crisis, perhaps COVID or something like that. Perhaps the ideal thing would even blame the Russians for that. I wouldn't be surprised if you have a so-called cyber attack and then we start a new world order..." Dr. Augusto Zimmermann 🇪🇺 🛂 👁
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They need to find an external enemy. And they know that the population can be used as loose cannon. The Malthusian plan in the past could operate via starvation and wars. That took place in the past, and now they really believe that the best way to save Mother Earth, which is a pantheistic approach, is to reduce the size of those who are killing Mother Earth, namely us human beings.
While they further digital ID, they are probably engendering another crisis, perhaps COVID or something like that. Perhaps the ideal thing would even blame the Russians for that. I wouldn't be surprised if you have a so-called cyber attack and then we start a new world order..." Dr. Augusto Zimmermann 🇪🇺 🛂 👁
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I am hearing from farmers who are confirming — given diesel prices, they are walking away from their crops.
The math just doesn't add up for them. It is economically unviable to farm.
And as they destroy the family farms, they roll out the gene-edited food... with extremely dangerous consequences to all living creatures (especially microbiome).
Folks are feeling the pain from diesel and are wondering what's going on — ensure they get the big picture agenda, not some partisan blame game nonsense. Spread the word.
The math just doesn't add up for them. It is economically unviable to farm.
And as they destroy the family farms, they roll out the gene-edited food... with extremely dangerous consequences to all living creatures (especially microbiome).
Folks are feeling the pain from diesel and are wondering what's going on — ensure they get the big picture agenda, not some partisan blame game nonsense. Spread the word.
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https://archive.is/20260914094952/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/world/europe/moscow-russia-putin-digital-surveillance.html
On the surface, today’s Moscow is a technological wonderland. You can use your face to pay for almost anything, like subway fares, or even to finalize the purchase of an apartment. Robots scurry across sidewalks making 15-minute grocery deliveries, and driverless taxis are set to begin commercial service this year.
Underpinning many of the modern amenities is a robust digital infrastructure developed by the city government that has made life not only easier, but also safer. Policing aided by digital tools has helped cement Moscow’s transformation from the raw, unforgiving place it was 25 years ago, plagued by home burglaries, street muggings and murders.
But there is a cost to the convenience and security: an expanding surveillance state.
Moscow’s roughly 300,000 CCTV cameras make it one of the most heavily watched cities in the world. It is impossible to avoid a lens while simply walking through the city. The same cameras that whisk subway passengers through turnstiles are also used to monitor and flag people.
On the surface, today’s Moscow is a technological wonderland. You can use your face to pay for almost anything, like subway fares, or even to finalize the purchase of an apartment. Robots scurry across sidewalks making 15-minute grocery deliveries, and driverless taxis are set to begin commercial service this year.
Underpinning many of the modern amenities is a robust digital infrastructure developed by the city government that has made life not only easier, but also safer. Policing aided by digital tools has helped cement Moscow’s transformation from the raw, unforgiving place it was 25 years ago, plagued by home burglaries, street muggings and murders.
But there is a cost to the convenience and security: an expanding surveillance state.
Moscow’s roughly 300,000 CCTV cameras make it one of the most heavily watched cities in the world. It is impossible to avoid a lens while simply walking through the city. The same cameras that whisk subway passengers through turnstiles are also used to monitor and flag people.
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The Largest #PYSOP Since COVID is Now Unfolding: The #AI Threat Narrative
A coordinated psychological operation appears to be underway, leveraging the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, along with mainstream media, to create panic around artificial intelligence. The effort, which included dire warnings from figures like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders, was seemingly kicked off by a whistleblower's dubious claims about a 10% chance of AI killing everyone.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1ZhIP4lk0
A coordinated psychological operation appears to be underway, leveraging the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, along with mainstream media, to create panic around artificial intelligence. The effort, which included dire warnings from figures like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders, was seemingly kicked off by a whistleblower's dubious claims about a 10% chance of AI killing everyone.
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The very moment hate speech anything was being discussed in any of our countries was the moment the first bullet was heard around the world. We could argue much earlier things but that is the foundational moment when we lost our own countries.
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■■□□□ Results of hackers reverse engineering a flock camera and using the hardcored key 🗝️ inside to decrypt data onboard.
Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy them. The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. The hackers shared the material with 404 Media and the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which shared the data with WIRED. 404 Media and WIRED then analyzed those files as part of a joint investigation. While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag.
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❗️🗣😈🤪💫SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO NOW...
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#Germany #Iran #Yemen #Oil #EnengyPrice #Russia #Ukraine
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#Germany #Iran #Yemen #Oil #EnengyPrice #Russia #Ukraine
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Von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the EU’s first “associate member” is a clear step toward further militarisation of the EU. The plan includes integrating Canadian and European defence industrial bases, elevating Arctic cooperation to a flagship project, and creating a European Security Council that would bring together the EU with Canada, the UK, Norway and Ukraine. ▪️Canada, which sheltered Ukrainian Nazi collaborators after WW2, is already a major contributor to the Kiev regime. Since February 2022 it has committed more than $26 billion in total assistance, of which around $8.5–9 billion is military aid. This places Canada among the largest donors overall. Its support has included Leopard tanks, M777 howitzers, hundreds of armoured vehicles, a NASAMS air-defence system, ammunition, drones, and extensive training of Ukrainian forces under Operation UNIFIER.
▪️The architecture proposed by Von der Leyen would expand Europe’s military capacity and draw Canadian defence resources into a framework oriented against Russia. The absence of the United States from the proposed security council perfectly suits Washington’s strategy of offloading defence costs onto its vassals. By encouraging Europe and Canada to pool industrial capacity, share security burdens and build parallel structures, the United States reduces its own financial and operational commitments while retaining strategic influence. The countries involved are NATO members, while Canada and the UK are part of the 5 Eyes. ▪️The narrative of a rift between Washington on one side and the EU and Canada on the other should be seen for what it is — a deliberate ruse. Apparent tensions and talk of “strategic autonomy” serve as a convenient cover to push "allies" into shouldering a greater share of the burden while the underlying hierarchy of power remains unchanged. ▪️For the time being Von der Leyen's proposal is just a political initiative. The European Commission President can propose ideas and open negotiations, but she cannot unilaterally create new membership categories or security structures. Any concrete implementation would need agreement by the EU member states (Council of the EU), consent of the European Parliament, negotiations with Canada on the exact rights, obligations, and scope of the relationship, and national ratifications in some EU member states.
@LauraRuHK
▪️The architecture proposed by Von der Leyen would expand Europe’s military capacity and draw Canadian defence resources into a framework oriented against Russia. The absence of the United States from the proposed security council perfectly suits Washington’s strategy of offloading defence costs onto its vassals. By encouraging Europe and Canada to pool industrial capacity, share security burdens and build parallel structures, the United States reduces its own financial and operational commitments while retaining strategic influence. The countries involved are NATO members, while Canada and the UK are part of the 5 Eyes. ▪️The narrative of a rift between Washington on one side and the EU and Canada on the other should be seen for what it is — a deliberate ruse. Apparent tensions and talk of “strategic autonomy” serve as a convenient cover to push "allies" into shouldering a greater share of the burden while the underlying hierarchy of power remains unchanged. ▪️For the time being Von der Leyen's proposal is just a political initiative. The European Commission President can propose ideas and open negotiations, but she cannot unilaterally create new membership categories or security structures. Any concrete implementation would need agreement by the EU member states (Council of the EU), consent of the European Parliament, negotiations with Canada on the exact rights, obligations, and scope of the relationship, and national ratifications in some EU member states.
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Israel’s three-headed spy machine | The Cradle
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#Unit8200
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Aman will continue to depend heavily on Units 8200 and 9900, along with automated surveillance, artificial intelligence (AI), and the vast machinery used to generate targets. The expansion of Unit 504 reflects a lesson driven home by the Al-Aqsa Flood failure. Israel’s intelligence services had amassed enormous quantities of data but failed to understand what their adversary intended to do.
Israel’s three principal services remain divided by geography, institutional culture, and competition for access to the prime minister. Their mandates overlap whenever an operation crosses a border, moves from collection to assassination, or links Palestinian resistance to a wider regional front.
Behind the separate names stands one security architecture, tying clandestine reach abroad to the occupation’s informant networks and the army’s capacity for force."@thecradlemedia
#Unit8200
US approves possible $24 bln sale of F-35 fighters to Saudi Arabia
The #US has approved a possible sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters to Saudi Arabia, marking #Riyadh’s first planned acquisition of the fifth-generation aircraft.
The package is valued at up to $24.3 billion and includes 49 Pratt & Whitney F135 engines, weapons, training, maintenance support and related equipment.
The proposed sale is now subject to the US Foreign Military Sales process and congressional review.
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#Yemen #KSA
The #US has approved a possible sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters to Saudi Arabia, marking #Riyadh’s first planned acquisition of the fifth-generation aircraft.
The package is valued at up to $24.3 billion and includes 49 Pratt & Whitney F135 engines, weapons, training, maintenance support and related equipment.
The proposed sale is now subject to the US Foreign Military Sales process and congressional review.
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#Yemen #KSA