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The founder of Niantic built Google Earth.
He has been building this for years.
I got a demo. It is stunning.
And is the platform that will bring us infinite realities.
I call it the Holodeck.
Most digital twin investments stall for one reason: They’re not grounded in how the world actually looks today.
Niantic Spatial’s Reconstruction capability fixes this, creating a living, machine-readable 3D model that stays in sync with reality, so every system, team, and workflow operates from the same ground truth.
In a new blog by Trista Pierce, Business Development Lead, explore how Scaniverse’s Reconstruction technology changes the cadence entirely.
Read more: hubs.ly/Q04brNtg0
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Mockup of how would @AnthropicAI's new labor automation chart would've looked 200 years ago.
For our ancestors, the outer ring would be almost unrecognizable.
"Computer & math" was nonsensical. Medicine and law were tiny and barely professionalized.
The first photo was just about to be taken, so it would have been unfathomable to have a single blockbuster gross more than the entire gross national product of that period.
"Office & admin" barely existed as a concept; counting-houses employ a tiny literate class.
Agriculture alone consumed maybe 70-80% of the labor force in the US.
There was a thick band of artisanal trades that don't map onto any single modern category: coopering, blacksmithing, weaving, tanning, milling.
Clergy was a major professional category and Maritime labor was its own significant sector.
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BREAKING: Iran has been supplying Russia with Shahed drones to kill Ukrainians since 2022.
The Pentagon just asked Ukraine to help kill Iranian Shahed drones in the Gulf.
That is not irony. That is the most elegant strategic reversal of this entire war.
Here is the economics that made this conversation inevitable.
One Iranian Shahed drone costs $30,000 to manufacture. One Patriot interceptor missile costs $1.5 million. For every dollar Iran spends building a drone, it costs the UAE $20 to $28 to shoot it down. Iran has tens of thousands of Shaheds. The Gulf states have a finite number of Patriot missiles and a finite production rate to replace them.
That ratio is a slow-motion financial siege. Iran does not need to get through Gulf air defenses. It just needs to drain them faster than they can be replenished.
Ukraine spent three years solving exactly this problem.
When Russia began deploying Iranian Shaheds against Ukrainian cities in September 2022, Ukraine could not afford to burn $1.5 million missiles against $30,000 drones indefinitely. So Ukrainian engineers built something different. Interceptor drones. Small, fast, cheap, designed specifically to kill other drones at a fraction of the cost. The interception ratio is not 1:50. It is closer to 1:1. Drone kills drone. The economics invert.
Ukraine went from being the world’s test laboratory for Iranian drone warfare to being the world’s leading expert in defeating it.
And now the Pentagon, watching Gulf air defenses burn through interceptor stockpiles against Shahed swarms, has picked up the phone to Kyiv.
The geopolitical architecture of this moment is worth sitting with.
Iran armed Russia. Russia used those weapons to develop tactics. Ukraine defeated those tactics under fire and built countermeasures. The Gulf is now buying those countermeasures to defeat the original Iranian weapons.
Tehran’s drone doctrine has completed a loop that ends with its own drones being hunted by technology born from fighting its own drones.
That is not a footnote to this war.
That is the war economy of the 21st century operating in real time.
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Everyone is watching the oil.
Nobody is watching the water.
The UAE operates at 1,533% water stress. Saudi Arabia at 974%. Kuwait gets 90% of its drinking water from desalination plants. Oman 86%. Saudi Arabia 70%.
There is no aquifer. There is no river. There is no rainfall to speak of. The entire Arabian Peninsula drinks water that is manufactured, using electricity, from the sea.
One drone. One plant. Millions without water.
That is not speculation. That is what a 2009 US diplomatic cable concluded about Riyadh specifically: destroy the right desalination infrastructure and you could force the evacuation of the Saudi capital within a week. That cable is 17 years old. The dependency has only deepened since.
Iran has not hit a desalination plant yet.
That restraint is a choice. It is also a card.
Here is the strategic geometry Iran is living inside right now. Its navy is gone. Its air force is degraded. Its supreme leader is dead. Its missile rate has dropped 70% as launchers get destroyed. Every conventional military option is being systematically closed.
What remains is asymmetric warfare against infrastructure that the entire Gulf coalition cannot function without.
You do not need to win an air war to win an asymmetric war. You need to hit the thing your enemy cannot replace on any timeline that matters. Oil can be rerouted. Gas can be replaced. Water in the Arabian desert cannot be improvised.
The GCC has built redundancies since this vulnerability was identified. But redundancies are not immunity. And Iran knows exactly where every plant sits.
The oil war is being priced. The water war has not even entered the model yet.
If it does, this conflict has a second act that makes the first one look contained.
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🚨FUN FACT: Did you know that in The Matrix you can see the camera in the reflective doorknob when Morpheus and Neo go to visit the Oracle?
You never noticed because the shot is so cool and fast and you’re in the moment.
They covered the camera with a black coat to hide it.
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This article explains how to chain a Gateway API controller and an ingress controller behind a single LoadBalancer to incrementally migrate traffic from Ingress to HTTPRoutes
➜ ku.bz/NCl2NKfS_
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Andrej Karpathy explains the next generation of computers
the llm is the cpu, context window is memory, tools are system calls, and the prompt is the terminal, video/audio/text are I/O
"the llm is a new kind of computer"
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This is Clint Eastwood.
He's starred in 60+ films, won 4 Oscars, and is directing his 40th movie at 94.
His secret? 5 simple rules that keep him sharper than people half his age.
Let's break them down:
(The 'Eastwood Code' for staying young forever 🧵)
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The iPhone 16 is coming soon.
It will be Apple's biggest release with iOS 18.
10 features you can't miss:
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visionOS: Metal Shaders for SwiftUI is also supported on visionOS💡
- View Modifiers: colorEffect, distortionEffect, and layerEffect
- API: developer.apple.com/document…
- FYI: RealityKit
Custom Shader API [PDF]: developer.apple.com/metal/Me…
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#SwiftUI: You can animate an object's center of gravity (anchor) to create a subtle movement, for example, top-bottom or leading-trailing.
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Wow. White House spokesman John Kirby announces that funding for Ukraine is "coming near to the end of the rope" and is "not going to be indefinite."
[1]: Video is at c-span.org/video/?531061-1/w… from 39:11-40:18
[2]: Transcript: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Be an Open Source Absolutist!
It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is.
Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the most powerful companies in the world are the exact same ones available to hospitals, students, and everyone else. For free. And not just to use, but to inspect, modify, extend, and redistribute.
Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share.
It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better.
Open Source AI is in many people’s crosshairs today. They believe that giving free access to state of the art algorithms and models without any guardrails constitutes a danger to society, that the public can’t be entrusted with a research model that wasn’t hammered into a box of their designated dimensions. “As a large language model, I cannot…”
Unfortunately, this is actually inside the Overton Window of possibilities right now.
Let’s push it out.
In the spirit of the first amendment, congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.
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If you don't live in Israel or consume Israeli media, you don't know who Yair Golan is. He is a 61-year-old retired Major General in the Israel army and a former parliament MP. Spend a minute to read this story.
Yesterday, when IDF and the police were in complete chaos, Golan put on his old uniform, took his weapon, and drove into the war zone multiple times to rescue civilians under fire. He rescued two young adults hiding under a bush after 260 of their friends were murdered at an outdoor party. He answered a call from a journalist that his son was hiding under fire and simply said, "Give me his location, and I will bring him back home." An hour later, the son called his father from Golan's car.
Golan collected a small crew and went in and out of the war zone, rescuing dozens of people while exchanging fire with Hamas terrorists. He is 61, he could have stayed home, but he chose to risk his life for people he does not know.
Golan is one of the strongest voices from the Israeli left and was constantly attacked by the right wing in Israel. But when the time came, he was first fighting the barbaric attack. The same brain wiring that supports peace, is often the same wiring that drives people to do the right thing.
A true hero.
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What happens to an app's performance when it goes from react native -> native?
The @peacock app just made the switch on iOS & Android and had a significant change in size and startup time
🧵 Performance impact of switching to native
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E.g. Christoper Nolan's Plot for Inception
Turning the written script into a sketch opens up creative pathways
