Being an uncensored platform, I find it amusing how little of the controversial content is actually posted on here.
I guess people are scared to express their true standing points, humour, their "dark sides" so to speak.
Unfortunately, this includes myself as I would probably become massively unpopular amongst the users here. And that would most likely lead to a bunch of downvotes (although that is not how downvotes should be used IMO)
There are many ways to improve decentralisation, which could add huge value to the Hive eco-system, but the centralised aspects of Hive prevent these improvements, unless we have community collaboration with anonymous fractal voting.
You have a good point here. The anonymous voting would make a huge difference and could, most likely, make Hive more decentralized and possibly more well-rounded too
Anonymous voting is essential for autonomy imo. and Hive needs autonomy to be used more, also imo. We wiyld need a system to prevent socks & bots influencing governance meaningfully though, and a well designed Reputation system too. A "fractal" consensus system is also a key.
I've seen a few, but most of that doesn't offend people - and many of the jokes I like would offend a bunch of people here despite it just being jokes (as Ricky Gervais also say)
Well what king of content are you talking about, what are some of your "true standing points"? It doesn't matter how nice you try to be here, you'll always piss some troll off.
Today I want to start a #threadcast with pets, whether they are your own or not, or maybe some little animal from the street that caught your attention. Let's fill the ecosystem with fun pets!
We'll be using #pets, so don't forget.
"This distillation technique is just so extremely powerful and so extremely cheap, and it's just available to anyone," said Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, adding that he expects to see innovation when it comes to how large language models, or LLMs, are built. "We're going to see so much competition for LLMs. That's what's going to happen in this new era we're entering."
Distillation is now enabling less-capitalized startups and research labs to compete at the cutting edge faster than ever before.
Using this technique, researchers at Berkeley said, they recreated OpenAI's reasoning model for $450 in 19 hours last month. Soon after, researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington created their own reasoning model in just 26 minutes, using less than $50 in compute credits, they said. The startup Hugging Face recreated OpenAI's newest and flashiest feature, Deep Research, as a 24-hour coding challenge.
DeepSeek didn't invent distillation, but it woke up the AI world to its disruptive potential. It also ushered in the rise of a new open-source order — a belief that transparency and accessibility drive innovation faster than closed-door research.
“Because of the protracted childcare in humans, a premium has been placed on post-partum parental investment, so female mate choice is governed by the desire to obtain resources from long-term mates, an objective that conflicts with man’s desire for multiple partners.”
These forces put man in a position of wanting it both ways – stable long term partners associated with producing heirs and secondary partners used outside the accepted relationship. Indeed, Scheidel asserts that the first monogamous societies (Greece and Rome) were socially imposed. By this he means there was social pressure to monogamous based on the increasing importance of cooperation among coalitions (peer groups), needed to deal with external challenges. This pressure led to a moral standard that monogamy should be the only acceptable marriage practice.
"Open source always wins in the tech industry," said Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, which makes an AI-powered search engine for enterprises. "You cannot beat the momentum that a successful open-source project is able to actually generate."
OpenAI itself has walked back its closed-source strategy in the wake of DeepSeek's accomplishment.
"Personally I think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open-source strategy," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a post on Reddit on Jan. 31.
In both Greece and Rome there grew to be severe penalties for having sexual relations with someone else’s wife, but no penalties for relations with slaves or concubines.
Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) takes a selfie with a greets customers on arrival for the release of the Vision Pro headset at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024
For $4, Roszyk's Night Vision app lets a Vision Pro user tap the depth-sensing cameras of the device to see objects in the dark. If you spend $5, you can perform a chore in a Luigi's Mansion-like video game using the app Vacuume, which overlays virtual coins on your floor that you can vacuum up, along with any real dirt or dust. And for $6, Roszyk's app Scan Export lets users create a 3D digital scan of an entire building just by walking around, a useful tool for those in construction or real estate.
"We are still early, and we don't really know how it can be really useful in your life," Roszyk said. "There's so many different ideas that just come to your mind."
Aristotle wrote two short pieces on dreams and their meaning: On Dreams and On Prophesying on Dreams. In the first he presents arguments for the origin of dreams and their relationship to other aspects of human existence. In the second he analyzes whether dreams can foreshadow the future.
Aristotle approaches his subject as a scientist, looking for a practical explanation for an experience men found mysterious and frightful. Given that the only ways to acquire knowledge are through sense perception or intelligence, and that our senses are not operating during sleep, he asserts that the senses cannot contribute to dreaming. That means dreams must originate in our intellect. Of course the experiences in dreams are still based on sense perception (we see things when we dream), but that experience is disconnected from reality.
Roszyk continues to work on Vision Pro apps because he said he believes "spatial computing" — Apple's preferred terminology for headset and glasses technology that can integrate 3D objects with the world around them — will be the next big platform. Roszyk is betting that developing apps now can put him in prime position when more people are walking around with a Vision Pro or, perhaps some day, lightweight glasses.
"This type of computing is the future," Roszyk said. "I would definitely compare it to the first iPhones."
Residual perceptions are common in everyday life. If you look at the sun briefly and then look away, the image of the sun remains in your eye for a while. In the same way, Aristotle asserts that when the external object of a perception has been removed, there still remains an impression which itself is an object of perception. While we sleep, these impressions are re-created in dreams.
Sensory impressions present themselves when an individual is awake and asleep, but the senses work with the brain during the day to keep reality in perspective. At night there is no balance between impressions because the senses are not available, so dreams produce wild and obscure sensations.
Aristotle describes the dream sequence as “little eddies in a river forming and breaking into other forms by colliding with obstacles.” He believed there could be no dreaming immediately after a meal because the heat caused by digestion disturbed the flow of phantasms in the brain. Similarly, dreams that occur during a fever or intoxication reflect a disturbed state of the body in their weirdness of form and character.
Roszyk's efforts have made him money, but not enough for Vision Pro development to become his full-time job. His 17 apps have cleared about $4,000 on the App Store in the last three months. That number is growing as he releases more apps and more people find out about them, Roszyk said.
Apple updated its most recent Vision Pro app count in August, with CEO Tim Cook telling investors on an earnings call that the platform had 2,500 apps. That number covers fully immersive apps that overlay virtual objects over the real world as well as 2D apps with some spatial components.
In On Prophesying on Dreams, Aristotle contemplates what he calls the divination that takes place during sleep and whether it caused by dreams. Since there is no known cause of this divination it is normal to be skeptical about it. It cannot come from a god because these experiences occur in common people and god does not communicate to them. So is it merely that dreams act as causes or tokens of divination? Indeed, it may be that some of these representations are the causes of actions cognate to them. We may think and plan some activity during the day whose significance causes a vivid dream at night. In this case the activity has paved the way for the dream. But the converse is also true, because thoughts which occur first in sleep may be the starting points of something that occurs when we are awake.
Aristotle believes that most “prophetic” dreams are coincidences based on the fact that the dreamer has no real participation in the story of the dream. We often mention things during conversation that later come to pass and this same phenomena occurs in dreams. Because the engine of both wakefulness and dreams is the brain, we understand why this has to be so. Again, because god does not communicate to the common people, their visions must be a random result of their physical temperament – “excitable and garrulous”. The common people have chance experiences where visions play a part in their slumber, like the gambler who plays even and odd.
Prophetic dreams are caused by the condition of sleep; the fact that there is less to disturb the body than during the day. There is no wind at night to disturb the senses and compete with the visions of our dreams.
There are also about 1.5 million Vision Pro apps that are ported versions of iPhone and iPad apps. Apple automatically ports iPhone and iPad apps to the Vision Pro when they're uploaded, but companies can decline. Those apps can be used inside the headset but appear as 2D flat screens. Meta started to emulate that strategy last year with 2D Android apps for Quest, but the company doesn't have the same library of millions of existing mobile apps.
Apple doesn't publish Vision Pro sales, but one estimate from IDC suggests fewer than 1 million devices have been sold.
To Aristotle, the most skillful interpreter of dreams is the man who is able to observe resemblances in them. That is he can make sense out the forms in disturbed water; to put the pieces together which, to the common man, can only be seen when the water is calm.
Although many of those games are 2D, some are exclusive to the Vision Pro. In January, Apple released Gears & Goo, a Vision Pro app that enables the player to control an army of goofy frog-like characters on a table in the real world.
Meanwhile, Meta is actively courting VR developers with a promise that they can make money. Meta in January said that its payment volume for Quest headsets rose by 12% last year, although it didn't cite a total number. Meta has also said it has 200 apps that have made more than $1 million through software sales.
Ancient cultures, from Egyptian through late Roman times, paid as much attention to their nights in the arms of Morpheus as they did to their waking moments. They felt curiosity, awe, and sometimes terror at their dreams, at the strange symbolic language of the sleeper.
And they sought help. How do we know this? Ancient literature is littered with speculations and advice about dreams, along with insights about their medical use as diagnostic tools. Furthermore, a handful of millennia-old dream manuals have survived—to be gleefully recycled by cut-and-paste oneiromancy entrepreneurs today.
The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed at the Fifth Avenue Apple store on Feb. 2, 2024 in New York City.
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The Vision Pro app gold rush has seen slower uptake than the iPhone's app boom.
A year after the iPhone App Store was launched in 2008, Apple was crowing about the platform having 50 million customers, 2 billion downloads and 85,000 apps. Apple regularly told investors and developers how much money it had paid from App Store sales — it hasn't released any similar stat for the Vision Pro.
In pre-Classical times, Homer wrote, “Dreams come from Zeus.” Because medicine was in its infancy, by circa 500 BC the wellbeing franchise was taken over by the healing god Asclepius. Although few would recognize him and his single-snake staff in a lineup today, Asclepius set up shop in Epidaurus, the first of what would be a chain of Mediterranean-wide healing centers that resembled today’s luxurious spas in natural settings.
In 293 BC, Asclepius gained further prominence. Summoned from Epidaurus to combat the plague in Rome, he appeared as a sacred snake aboard ship on the Tiber River. Slithering ashore, Asclepius took up residence on Tiber Island, where his temple was built; the plague obediently stopped.
In pre-Classical times, Homer wrote, “Dreams come from Zeus.” Because medicine was in its infancy, by circa 500 BC the wellbeing franchise was taken over by the healing god Asclepius. Although few would recognize him and his single-snake staff in a lineup today, Asclepius set up shop in Epidaurus, the first of what would be a chain of Mediterranean-wide healing centers that resembled today’s luxurious spas in natural settings.
In 293 BC, Asclepius gained further prominence. Summoned from Epidaurus to combat the plague in Rome, he appeared as a sacred snake aboard ship on the Tiber River. Slithering ashore, Asclepius took up residence on Tiber Island, where his temple was built; the plague obediently stopped.
Apple has not said if it will update the Vision Pro. According to analysts, the company is working on a successor. Developers want it to be lighter and less expensive. They welcome any improvements that would get it on more faces.
"Over time, everything gets better, and it too will have its course of getting better and better," Cook told The Wall Street Journal in October. "I think it's just arguably a success today from an ecosystem-being-built-out point of view."
Besides the incubation overnight chambers where patients sought Asclepian intervention to dream their cures, the facilities emphasized holistic healing, from diet and exercise to drama and the power of music. Aristocratic writers like Aristides, a career hypochondriac, heartily endorsed the Asclepieia, having spent lengthy periods of time at facilities in Pergamum, Epidaurus and elsewhere.
Yiu pulled out a pair of Meta's recently launched Ray-Ban branded glasses, which use AI to translate speech from one language to another or describe images for the visually impaired.
"This is a profound and very human application of the technology, and it is slow to arrive in Europe because of the issues that we have around regulation," Yiu said.
Meta only began rolling out AI features for its Ray-Ban Meta glasses in some European countries in November, after a delay the firm claimed was caused by the need to reach compliance with Europe's "complex regulatory system."
The AI Act was first introduced by the European Commission, the EU's executive body, in April 2021. OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022.
"There is a way to use policy to create a better investment environment when it's done in a way that promotes business" Chou said, referring to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act as an example of policy that has led to benefits, like subsidies for electric vehicles.
According to ancient sources, for the first five years of his reign, Nero slept like a baby, suffering no qualms about his homicidal activities. After the murder of his mother, however, she began to haunt Nero, whereupon he brought in a Persian exorcist to call off her vengeful ghost.
But rest was no longer to be found. As Lives of the Twelve Caesars author Suetonius noted, Emperor Nero began to have extravagant nightmares. In one, Nero was buried under a mass of winged ants. In another dream, he was terrorized by the sight of his favorite Spanish horse, with only its head still in equine form—the rest having turned into a hairy ape. (The first “Godfather” film took this nightmare idea and ran with it, to staggering effect.)
"I think what's difficult is when you are regulating on a time scale that doesn't match the technology," Chou added. "I think what we need to do is both regulate to ensure that there is responsible application of technology, while also ensuring that the industry is thriving it all the right ways."
Big Tech ups the ante
Big Tech firms more generally have been upping their rhetoric against the EU's approach to tech regulation and ramping up lobbying efforts in an attempt to soften aspects of the AI Act.
Kent Walker, Google's president of global affairs, told Politico last month that the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models — which refers to systems like OpenAI's GPT family of large language models, or LLMs — was a "step in the wrong direction."
The EU AI Office, a newly created body overseeing models under the AI Act, published a second-draft code of practice for GPAI systems in December.
Earlier this month, Meta's newly appointed Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan suggested in a live-streamed interview at an event in Brussels that the tech giant would not sign up to the code in its current form.
Tech giants' pleas for softer EU tech regulation have been emboldened of late by President Donald Trump's new administration.
At the international AI Action Summit in Paris last week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance blasted Europe for being too heavily focused on regulating artificial intelligence rather than embracing the technology's growth potential.
Tech giants' pleas for softer EU tech regulation have been emboldened of late by President Donald Trump's new administration.
At the international AI Action Summit in Paris last week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance blasted Europe for being too heavily focused on regulating artificial intelligence rather than embracing the technology's growth potential.
The Battle without Tears
In 369 B.C, while Sparta was trying to recover from Leuctra, the rest of Greece came under attack from Thebes, who saw itself as the next great power. Aligned with Athens, the Spartans debated with their ally how to overcome this new aggressor. At the same time, Thebes was aligned with the Arcadians and Argives, giving them assets in the Peloponnese which could threaten Sparta. But that alliance did not survive the ascendancy of Lykomedes of Mantineia who argued that the Arcadians and Argives were great in their own right and did not need an alliance with anyone. He convinced the Arcadians and Argives to break away from Thebes and act on their own.
Meanwhile, Dionysios, King of Syracuse, sent an armed force to the aid of Sparta. The Athenians wanted them to be used against Thessaly, but the Spartans successfully argued they were needed in Laconia to fight the Arcadians.
Harmonizing EU rules for startups
Big Tech weren't alone in calling for a more simplified regulatory regime for technology firms operating in Europe.
Several venture capitalists investing in European tech startups also decried complex regulatory compliance burdens on their portfolio companies.
Antoine Moyroud, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, said that whereas the U.S. has been pushing forward initiatives such as the $500 billion Stargate investment project that strike a "hopeful" message around AI," Europe's narrative tends to be more "dramatic."
The King of Sparta, Archidamos, joined the Syracusans with his own force, and began a campaign against the Arcadians. As he was attacking Parrasia, the Arcadians and Argives started to apply pressure and he retreated to the hills above Melea. At this point, the Syracusan commander, Kissides, said that his appointed time had expired and he departed with his army. As he marched south, The Messenians blocked him so he sent to Archidamos for help. Then, while the Spartan Army was marching to join him, they were cut off by the Arcadians and Argives, who had inserted themselves between the two allies.
Archidamos placed the Spartan Army in battle formation and exhorted his troops to fight saying,
“Let us no longer feel shame before our children and wives, elders and
foreigners, those very people in whose eyes we were in past time the
most renowned of all Greeks.”
For example, there's a European Company Statute under the 28th regime that makes it simpler to set up public limited liability companies in the EU.
The likes of Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus are among the startup founders looking to set up a new entity under the 28th regime, called "EU Inc."
"Europe is a fragmented place, and what you want to do is [to] be able to hire across any country," Luke Pappas, a London-based partner for venture capital firm NEA, told CNBC in an interview on the sidelines of Techarena.
The subsequent attack was a rout and the Spartans achieved a great victory. Archidamos sent a message to Sparta telling of the great victory and how it was achieved without a single Spartan being killed. All in Sparta wept for joy making the Spartan victory “tearless” from grief even though it brought many tears of joy.
A key issue with attracting talent in this way, according to Pappas, is that currently "the process of giving equity cross border in Europe is not very easy."
"If we can standardize equity, for example, that will dramatically help," he added.
"DeepSeek demonstrates that China is at or near the cutting edge of AI development, which boosts the prestige of China's economy and tech ecosystem, making them more attractive for global investors," said Gabriel Wildau, managing director at Teneo.
The company's launch of a cheaper and more efficient AI model came as a timely confidence boost as the Chinese leadership faces a prolonged economic gloom, partly owed to the slump in its property market, while the specter of a fierce trade war with the U.S. looms large.
Once the long walls were destroyed the Athenian assembly was asked to choose thirty men to rewrite their laws. The names of the chosen were Polychares, Kritias, Melobios, Hippolochos, Eucleides, Hieron, Mnesilochos, Chremon, Theramenes, Aresias, Diokles, Phaedrias, Chaireleos, Anaitios, Peison, Sophocles, Eratosthenes, Charicles, Onomacles, Theognis, Aeschines, Theogenes, Cleomedes, Erasistratos, Pheidon, Dracontides, Eumathes, Aristoteles, Hippomachos, and Mnesitheides. Of these men, twenty-five are obscure, three are known only by anecdote, and two were major players in the drama that would follow.
Beijing's stamp of approval
In a well-choreographed meeting earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping warmly greeted DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng and granted him a coveted front-row seat next to leaders of the country's biggest private enterprises.
That showed Beijing is eager to support the company, said Huiyao Wang, founder and president of Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing-based think tank.
Theramenes, who had been to Sparta as part of the negotiation team to end the war, opposed this step as unlawful and immoral. He demanded that The Thirty allow more participation in the Athenian government so they responded by drawing up a list of three thousand who would participate in the government. All other Athenians were disarmed and excluded from the system. Now The Thirty began their reign of terror against the rich and all who opposed them.
Kritias, the unofficial leader of the group, was again opposed by Theramenes, who was denounced and forced to take poison. This caused a general revolt that saw a rebel group located in Peiraieus defeat the army of The Thirty killing Kritias and Hippomachos. The remainder of The Thirty retreated to Eleusis and begged for Spartan help.
"DeepSeek represents exactly what Beijing is keen to see by 'new-quality productive force' that will push China forward," Wang added, referring to a strategy coined by Xi last year that bets on technological breakthroughs to fuel growth and productivity gains across the economy.
Chinese leadership last year vowed "a leap forward" by spurring new growth drivers based on innovation in advanced sectors, such as AI and semiconductors, as U.S. export controls on advanced equipment and the most advanced semiconductors thwarted its ability to make major tech breakthroughs.
With Beijing signaling support for the startup, a growing number of local governments, from Hohhot in northern China to the southern city of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, are launching DeepSeek-powered "public servants" to automate governance, handling requests from administrative paper work to general public services.
This time fortune favored the oppressed. Lysander, the Spartan Admiral sympathetic to The Thirty, was preparing to defend their interests when the Spartan king Pausanias overruled his attack fearing that Lysander was becoming too powerful. He also believed that blind support for the ultra-conservatives was a mistake. After a skirmish with the rebels, Pausanias decided to use them to broker a peace with Athens. In the end a new government was formed and The Thirty were banished to Eleusis.
One year after the Spartan/Athenian treaty created The Thirty, it was gone – destroyed by its oppression and ruthlessness. This same model had been employed by the Spartans in other Poleis, typically with a ten man oligarchy, but the notion of a Spartan garrison backing a group of local henchman did not go down well with the oppressed any place where it was tried.
Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs
Meta's executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary under the company's new executive bonus plan, up from the 75% they earned previously.
Executives at Meta stand to get bigger bonuses this year.
The company said in a corporate filing Thursday that it had approved "an increase in the target bonus percentage" for its annual bonus plan for executives. Meta's named executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary under the new plan, up from the 75% they earned previously, according to the filing.
The updated bonus plan doesn't apply to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the filing noted.
The disclosure of the new executive bonus plan comes a week after Meta began laying off 5% of its overall workforce. The company had previously said this would impact its lowest performers.
Meta also slashed its annual distribution of stock options by about 10% for thousands of employees, according to a report published Thursday by the Financial Times. The report noted that the stock option reduction may differ based on where the workers live and their position at the company.
Meta shares are up more than 47% over the past year and closed Thursday at $694.84, underscoring investor enthusiasm over the social media company's growing sales in the digital advertising market and the potential for its artificial intelligence investments to eventually generate big returns.
The company said in January that its fourth-quarter revenue grew 21% year over year to $48.39 billion.
What can we conclude about the Spartan Army during this period?
There is no question that the traditions of the agoge were degraded after Leuctra. It must have disappeared at some point because we know that Cleomenes tried to revive it in 236 B.C. It is likely that the few Spartiates and commanders retained the style of Spartan armor and weapons over time with some exceptions. Torso armor was replaced with a tunic during the fifth century. The Doru (six foot spear) was replaced by the Macedonian sarissa during the time of Cleomenes, as the Macedonian Phalanx became the accepted model for a battle formation. What the auxiliaries and mercenaries wore is unknown. Perhaps they wore whatever they owned because war was their profession and they needed to be prepared for it.
Block shares fall on profit, revenue miss
Block, formerly known as Square, got off to a sluggish start on Wall Street this year after underperforming the Nasdaq in 2024.
Block reported fourth-quarter results on Thursday that fell short of Wall Street expectations. The stock dropped more than 6% in extended trading.
Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG.
Earnings per share: 71 cents adjusted vs. 87 cents expected
Revenue: $6.03 billion vs. $6.29 billion expected
Revenue increased about 4.5% from $5.77 billion a year earlier.
Block said it expects to deliver gross profit growth this year of 15% to $10.22 billion and adjusted operating income of $2.1 billion for a margin of 21%.
Block's payments business has expanded beyond traditional point-of-sale transactions to include lending and financial services. In 2021, the company acquired Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay for $29 billion, integrating the service into Cash App and Square's ecosystem. This week, Afterpay on the Cash App card begins rolling out.
Analysts see lending as a key driver of future monetization, with some pointing to additional revenue opportunities in merchant services and advertising within Cash App. The unit recorded $1.38 billion in gross profit, a 16% year-over-year increase, exceeding the $1.36 billion average analyst estimate, according to StreetAccount.
Dorsey also articulated the long-term vision of integrating Cash App and Square into a single financial ecosystem, reducing the need for users to rely on multiple apps.
"There will be a significant reason to use Cash App and not have to go to the App Store for 10 different apps," he said. "Everything is in one app, and that will be the Cash App."
Aristotle believed that all substances, such as the above, were made up of earth, air, fire, and water in differing proportions. Consider the burning of wood. It breaks down into fire and earth (ash). You can obtain fire from wood, but not wood from fire, so fire must be a component of wood.
He goes to great lengths in On the Heavens to derive the properties of the elements and how they are related to each other. He explains how they are subject to generation and destruction. For example, fire can be destroyed by two methods: by its contrary (water) when quenched and by itself when it burns out.
Under Dorsey's leadership, Block made a big jump into bitcoin, including a years-long effort to design and build mining rigs.
Block's open bitcoin mining system is called Proto. Ahuja said on the earnings call that the company expects the initiative to start benefitting growth in the second half of 2025.
Dorsey has long said Block's goal is to open bitcoin mining up to the masses.
"We do think the market is large, and we do think we're poised to take a significant percentage of it," Dorsey said.
Walmart still leads the way in annual sales, though Amazon is gaining ground. Walmart is projected to reel in $708.7 billion in the fiscal year ahead while Amazon's full-year revenue for 2025 is expected to reach $700.8 billion, according to FactSet.
Amazon's core retail unit remains its biggest revenue generator, but its top line is also being fueled by its massive cloud computing, advertising and seller services businesses. Third-party seller services, which includes commissions and fees collected by Amazon on fulfillment and shipping, advertising and customer support, accounted for 24.5% of the company's total sales last year. Amazon Web Services was responsible for nearly 17%.
“Secondly, like the upward movement of fire, the downward movement of earth and all heavy things makes equal angles on every side with the earth's surface: it must therefore be directed towards the centre. Whether it is really the centre of the earth and not rather that of the whole to which it moves, may be left to another inquiry, since these are coincident.” (Gravitation)
On Generation and Corruption – do things come from causes, prime material, or alteration?
On the Soul – the kinds of souls possessed by living things. This does not mean soul in the religious sense but the character of the mind (ego?).
Trump this week came down firmly in favor of House Republicans' plan for a single sweeping bill, which includes extending $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. House Republicans have a narrow and fractious 218-215 majority, which will make passing that bill difficult.
The Senate's bill, which leaves the issue of Trump's desired extension of his 2017 tax cuts to a later date, will serve as a backup in case House Republicans cannot come to an agreement on how to pay for the tax cuts in their bill without slashing funding for popular safety net programs like Medicaid and Social Security or adding significantly to the country's $36 trillion debt.
Both chambers of Congress need to pass the same budget resolution to unlock the parliamentary tool that would enable Republicans to enact Trump's legislative agenda in a way that circumvents Democrat opposition and the Senate filibuster.
Republican leaders in the House hope to advance their version of a budget outline next week.
Only two amendments to the bill were adopted, both introduced by Republicans. Their sponsors said they were aimed at reducing excessive regulatory burdens and federal spending, and safeguarding Medicaid and Medicare.
"I know my Democratic colleagues are going to try tonight to use scare tactics to message that Republicans don't support these vital programs, but we do," Republican Senator Dan Sullivan said upon introducing his amendment.
One assumes that when the true history of antiquity became widely known during the enlightenment, popular opinion of the ancient political systems was equal to that held today. This is not so. In those days, Sparta was seen as the model political system – structured, authoritarian, and efficient. Democracies, like Athens, were seen as idealistic examples of excess power given to the common people.
“This principle settled, it may perhaps be generally conceded, that on comparing the democracies of Greece with all other contemporary forms of government, we find them the most favorable to mental cultivation—not more exposed than others to internal revolutions—usually, in fact, more durable,—more mild and civilized in their laws—and that the worst tyranny of the Demus, whether at home or abroad, never equaled that of an oligarchy or a single ruler. That in which the ancient republics are properly models to us, consists not in the form, but the spirit of their legislation.
Protagoras said that man is the measure of all things. That is what is perceived to be the case by one man really is the case for him. By this definition, that which is must also be not, or is at the same time both good and bad, based on the perception of the viewer.
Being, for things that are, consists of their being perceived. “It is clear to you, being present, that I am sitting. To one who is not present, however, it is not clear that I am sitting. Therefore it is unclear whether I am sitting or not sitting.”
The Sophists
Societies evolve and change over time. Whether the causes are economic, driven by war, or merely fallout of an evolving political system, the results are the same. New generations have new outlooks and seldom embrace tradition.
So it was in Athens during the middle of the Golden Age, when the Sophists began their rise to prominence. Athens, during that time, had grown more man-centered, not unlike the Renaissance two thousand years later, when traditional views were called into question. The Greeks decided they wanted to rule themselves instead of being ruled by the unseen world of myth.
Idea number 1 -- Those who sought teachers for their sons wanted them to develop the skill to gain the voluntary support of other men. What a profound step this was to overcome “might makes right” with logic in a way that would put man on a path to rational behavior. We owe the stable political systems of today to this concept, and, even though men fall back to the use of force from time to time, the world as a whole has accepted the legitimacy of a government based on wisdom instead of force.
The Sophists built a system of higher education in Athens around a concept of Greek culture different from the culture of non-Greeks. There was a sense of pride on the accomplishments of Athens and the power of the new Athenian Empire. Maybe this was overdone and more hubris than pride, but it was a natural result of the position Athens held at the time.
The first well known Sophist was Gorgias (c. 473-386 B.C.) of Sicily, who brought rhetoric to Athens. He traveled throughout Greece, giving speeches for pay, taking impromptu questions from audiences, and answering them. He was particularly fond of taking an absurd position and making it seem stronger than its rational opposite. Gorgias introduced the concept of paradoxical arguments.
Idea number 2 – The Sophists disconnected rhetoric from ethics to the horror of the traditionalists who saw rhetoric only as a technique to support proof of the ideal. This “disconnection” made rhetoric the most valuable tool for debate – fortifying a position with logic instead of arguing its innate rightness or wrongness.
In Phase 3 (411-404), the Spartans made a devil’s bargain with the Persians in exchange for the money they needed to build a navy. The bargain was to allow the Persians to retake the lands in Ionia previously lost to them. This turned out to be the end for the Athenians because the combination of an great army and navy was enough to wear them down to defeat. The Athenians won the first great naval battle in 406 B.C, but the Spartans under Lysander took the Hellespont in 405 with a re-built navy. After wiping out the Athenian fleet, Lysander sailed south to blockade Athens in support of the Spartan land forces under King Agis. The Athenians starved through the winter of 405-404 before they finally surrendered.
But we get ahead of ourselves because this post is about the events leading up to the Peloponnesean War and not its results. So we ask ourselves what it was that lead to this debacle? Was the war preventable? It seems not, because it was one of those times in history where men put themselves on a path to destruction seemingly without logic - when ego or fear puts emotion above reason.
According to Thucydides, the Peloponnesean War was inevitable because Sparta could never trust a strong Athens. Sparta saw Athenian policy as provocative, and couldn’t get past their own paranoia.
The Corcyrians were livid when they became aware of the Corinthian involvement and immediately laid siege to Epidamnus. Later, when they heard of Corinthian preparations for war, the Corcyrians sent an embassy to Corinth to negotiate a settlement. Their offers were ignored by Corinth who sent an armada to Epidamnus to break the siege. At the resulting battle of Leucimme, the Corinthians were defeated.
Stung by defeat, the Corinthians spent the next year building ships to prepare for a decisive battle. Corcyra, for its part, appealed to Athens seeking arbitration. Both parties gave presentations to the Athenians in 433, who eventually sided with Corcyra and executed a treaty of protection in case Corcyra was attacked. Athens had walked a fine line between protecting Corcyra and breaking the Peloponnesean Treaty.
Concerned about Corinthian preparations for war, Athens acted against a Corinthian colony at Potidaia in Thessaly. They ordered the Potidaians to pull down their fortifications and send hostages to Athens. The city revolted and Athens sent thirty ships with hoplites to put it down. Corinth, in its own response sent an army along with mercenaries to defend Potidaia. A siege began between the parties, which was paused when the parties sent representatives to Sparta in 432. After speeches from both sides, the Spartan king Archidamos, pleaded for restraint and negotiation to avoid war. Unfortunately, his words of caution were negated by the Ephor Sthelaidas who incited the assembly’s emotions and got them to agree that the Athenians had broken their treaty.
The character of the Ancient Greeks. Will mankind ever achieve anything like this again?
The Greek attitude during the Golden Age was marked by a driving spirit to learn and develop an understanding of the world. The Greeks were able to reach a profound clarity of thought driven by a motivation that sought balance and oneness in the world – the whole instead of the parts.
We see in their accomplishments fact and beauty working together: in the tragedies, ideas and emotion; in the sculpture, reality and ideality; in the temples, logic and simplicity. Moreover, the Greeks were able to live with what is seen and unseen – geometry and the gods in balance.
Few in America speak for the whole these days, as we evolve toward the ultimate relativism, the special interest group. There is no whole, but only the parts that do not add together. Each has its own agenda and no one looks for what’s common in all.
The end of relativism can only be produced by a unity by common cause, a reset of the individual in favor of the whole. Its seems that only a catastrophe will get us there, because we no longer possess the spirit and will to see its value on our own.
There is no evidence of Troy before the beginning of the Bronze Age, and most likely began at the end of the line of Mesopotamian influence. The early city is referenced in Hittite texts implying at least a trade relationship between those two cultures. The successive Troys formed a stready march through time -- as devastating as each destruction may have been, a new one rose soon after.
As you can see from the diagram above, the fortress of Troy was actually quite small; unlike the massive city depicted in the movie Troy.
Troy VIIa is the stage chosen by scholars as the player in the Trojan War. There is a problem with the opponent, however. During this period Mycenae itself was under attack from the north so it seems unlikely that it could muster an attack on Troy of the magnitude described in the Iliad. Who then attacked Troy?
These two great cultures were not only opposites, but outliers. The Greeks were too theoretical and less practical than they should have been for their own good. For example, their brilliant military formation, the Phalanx, was basically used in the same form without modification for 500 years. The Romans tried the Phalanx for a time, but fairly quickly abandoned it for the maniple, which was more adaptable to uneven terrain. Greek architecture was limited by their inability to devise the construction materials required for large structures. The Romans expanded building practices to a new level and invented concrete along the way.
The social classes of Rome were more strongly differentiated than Athens and there were few leveling forces. The patron/client relationship provided enough support for the plebs to accept their lower status. It wasn’t until the rise of the middle class (Knights) that the class balance was upset and the patricians lost power.
The first of these invasions is marked by evidence of fire in many Greek settlements including Asea, Korakou, and Eutresis. Corinth was deserted afterward and Asine (Argolis) badly damaged.
The second invasion, more relevant to this post, was much more widespread. All of the Eastern Mediterranean was in decline and vulnerable, so the stage was set for traumatic changes to the early civilized world. Egypt, furthest from the source of the invaders, beat off attacks in 1230 and 1190 B.C. The coasts of Cyprus, Palestine, and Syria were attacked. The Assyrians were humbled and rendered impotent as a power and the Hittite Kingdom disappeared all together.
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In Greece, Mycenae fell. Recovered tablets from Pylos record an effort to bolster coastal defenses against the invaders, to no avail. From Thessaly to Messenia, Delphi, and Attica, all were destroyed.
The Greeks, more shallow rooted than the cultures of the Fertile Crescent, fell hard and writing disappeared. The winners were the Dorians – barbarians who invaded a civilized land. The invasion was a catastrophe because it broke down a developed civilization, but the end of the Mycenaean Age at the hands of the Dorians was significant because the old ways were also destroyed. The Mycenaean view had been too tied to the outside – its predecessor Minoan culture. Now those external links were broken, freeing up the minds of the Greeks toward a new path. For three centuries the Greeks were separated from the east and moved forward in isolation. This new spirit was not Dorian. It was Greek forged by the invasion of the Dorians.
The Knowledge Travels by Sea
The first urban settlements on earth were in Mesopotamia, where man was able to prosper because of the geography – farming made easy. The technology of the Mesopotamians was not a secret for long, and it moved south to Egypt and westward over the Mediterranean.
These are not movements of people in groups, they are the pathways of knowledge. Perhaps the craftsmen did move – the smiths and potters who were skilled enough to go with the highest bidder. Still, it was the absorbing of what was previously unknown that built the foundation of each successive society.
You see green arrows and white arrows, showing knowledge transfer by sea and by land. Funny thing about the land route, though. It stops at Troy. There is little evidence of knowledge crossing from Troy by land to the Greek Peninsula. Conversely, there is ample evidence for the sea route: to Crete, the Cyclades, and then Lerna in the Peloponnese.
Maybe this should be obvious, because man could transfer new ideas faster by sea than land. Trade would expose the importer to new wares and create demand for the style locally. Pottery styles follow the arrows as they make their way west. Still, individual differences remained. The Greeks never quite understood the Minoan pottery’s lack of precision. They admired the craft, and maybe copied the technique, but never gave up that which was uniquely Greek.
The Great Civilizations of Antiquity
All the talking we do about the Greco-Roman Civilizations, got me thinking about older more ancient civilizations. Often we focus on the west and the ancestor civilizations to Europe, neglecting the rest of the world. For example, we have discussed Mesopotamia and Egypt in recent posts, because they are most familiar to us. But what other civilizations were extant?
It turns out that anthropologists commonly identify six civilizations as preceding all others – Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Indus River Valley, Peru, and Meso-America (Central America).
Our two civilizations of the Western Hemisphere are mostly alike and very different from the others. Their formative periods began in the middle to late second millennium B.C, as a result of maturing agricultural techniques. In both cases, advancing agriculture was fused with religious belief systems to produce chiefdoms.
We see in all of these civilizations the catalysts of human development: fertile soil producing from the most primitive farming techniques and eventually a surplus of crop leading the way to a differentiation of human skill and the population density of a city. Urbanism was, in the beginning, protective against the invader, but later evolved according to local forces.
Data from the chart came from Elman's book Origins of the State and Civiliza
When influencer and budding architect Catalina Gutierrez suddenly vanished, she left her family, friends, and more than 100,000 followers in fear. While the police slowly clocked in to investigate, Catalina’s parents were hard at work listening to the rumours growing around town - and after following reports of an ominous vehicle, they were left with a chilling discovery… and that would only be the beginning of this horrible story.
It has been suggested by Anthropologists that cities arise from a human need for defense. Then, once they are established, urban areas develop in different ways. As we have said, Egypt needed no defense, so the primary driver for urbanism was lacking.
This great ancient Egyptian society featured a bureaucracy, which was the greatest in the history of man. It directed an economy of craft specialization and mass labor projects focused on division of labor by perso
Corinth forms coalitions against Athens. Alcibiades stirs up trouble and is exiled. Betrays Athens to Sparta. Both sides seek the alliance of Argos but in the Battle of Mantinea she loses most of her military and becomes an Athenian ally.
415-413 - Athenian expedition to Syracuse. Sicily.
3rd Stage of the Peloponnesian War from 413-404
Under the advice of Alcibiades, Sparta invades Attica. Athens continues to send ships and men to Sicily even though it is disastrous. Athens, which had started the war with the advantage in naval battle, loses this advantage to the Corinthians and Syracusans. Sparta then used Persian gold from Cyrus to build her fleet and destroys the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegosotami.
By fall, after much argument among the commanders, Nicias decided to withdraw, but was held up by a lunar eclipse on September 13th, which frightened his soldiers. A soothsayer advised that he wait 27 days before withdrawing which gave the Syracusans enough time to attack and destroy the Athenian fleet in the great harbor. Now forced to withdraw by land the Athenians were attacked and defeated. Nicias and Demosthenes were executed. Much of the blame for this debacle rests on Nicias, who was unsure of his goal and overly cautious. He also was carefully guarding his reputation as a winner and unwilling to return home in defeat, fearing the consequences.
This is a classic case of the danger of distance in war (think Viet Nam). The Athenians risked their future on hubris, sending an army far away to a conflict removed from their current struggle. They reinforced a weak commander and wasted an army and navy two times. Thucydides, the great Greek historian, is highly critical of the Athenians for their arrogance during this period. It is hard to get beneath his bias, however, to determine whether the Athenians were as foolish as he makes them out to be. One thing that is beyond dispute – the expedition to Sicily helped produce a Spartan victory in the Peloponnesean War.
Talk about choice real estate—the Eltz Castle in Wierschem, Germany, is a spectacular medieval structure that sits within a valley, surrounded by serene forestland. The Eltz family has owned this piece of enchanting beauty since 1157, and has kept residence at the estate for 34 generations. Although none of the Eltz clan currently occupies the 120-room castle full time, it is open to visitors, who travel from all over to witness the vast collection of historic treasures, including weapons, armor and art.
They actually left out the most important part. Eltz castle is basically an aristocratic co-op. It’s something called a Ganerbenburg—a castle owned by multiple families. Basically only a super rich noble family could afford a big castle—so sometimes multiple small noble families, knights, and branches of the same family would team up to be able to pay for one collective castle. So Eltz has multiple separate sections for different owners—and then they would all team up if say the castle was attacked. That’s what gives it this distinctive cluster structure. I thought it still had multiple owners? Maybe they’re branches of this same family.
Mesopotamia and Agriculture
It is interesting to contemplate the following progression:
Irrigation → high production farming → cities.
This is the story of Mesopotamia, the first substantial farming culture on earth. Its agricultural productivity supported the population density required for urbanism.
Before the settlements at Sumer, irrigation was developed in the steppe areas of Mesopotamia between the rivers and the Zagros Mountains. But there were limitations to productivity, including the supply of water and the characteristics of the soil. Men, in their crude knowledge of farming, had to rely on natural processes which were unpredictable.
To harness the river’s power irrigation canals were constructed to hold water and control distribution, further extending the growing season.
Large crop production density supported a high population density which set the stage for development of urban areas. These were not large cities, but they were the first cities, numbering 15-20,000 people. Sumeria created a new dynamic of human interaction, including social stratification, labor differentiation, and sophisticated political systems.
DeepSeek's sudden emergence has put the AI industry's focus on a technique called distillation.
Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than American ones.
But the underlying fears and breakthroughs that sparked the selling go much deeper than one AI startup. Silicon Valley is now reckoning with a technique in AI development called distillation, one that could upend the AI leaderboard.
Distillation is a process of extracting knowledge from a larger AI model to create a smaller one. It can allow a small team with virtually no resources to make an advanced model.
A leading tech company invests years and millions of dollars developing a top-tier model from scratch. Then a smaller team such as DeepSeek swoops in and trains its own, more specialized model by asking the larger "teacher" model questions. The process creates a new model that's nearly as capable as the big company's model but trains more quickly and efficiently.
OpenAI may be preparing to release GPT-4.5 as early as next week - anonymous sources say that the next model could hit the scene sometime this month. GPT-5 may be released as early as May. Microsoft has a good reason to want GPT-5 in May - its annual developer conference is on May 22. While GPT-5 may be more capable and efficient, it doesn't necessarily mean there will be any new use cases for AI.
The Broccoli family, which has long controlled the 007 franchise, will hand over creative control of the series to Amazon MGM Studios in a new joint venture with the studio. Amazon will now control who will play Bond, who will write the next script, and when the film goes into production. The financial terms of the joint venture have not been disclosed. Amazon and the Broccoli family have been at odds since the tech company acquired the rights to release Bond movies about three years ago.
Scientists have released an artificial intelligence model for biology trained on 128,000 genomes spanning the tree of life. It can make sense of existing DNA and also write whole chromosomes and small genomes from scratch. The model is available to scientists through a web interface - it can also be downloaded freely. The model could be used to help identify hard-to-interpret changes in people's genomes, decipher complex genomes, predict the effects of mutations, and more.
Apple said in August that the Vision Pro had 2,500 apps. According to one firm's analysis, fewer than 1,900 remain active.
When Apple revealed the Vision Pro in 2023, it called the $3,500 headset its next "major platform." Two years later, and a year after going on sale, the device is thin on apps.
Apple doesn't regularly release stats on the number of Vision Pro apps that are available, and it's hard to tell how many new apps come out in any given month. According to consultancy AppFigures, which tracks Apple's platforms, the number of new Vision Pro apps has declined every month since the device hit the market in February 2024.
When Apple unveiled the Vision Pro, executives said that developers would be able to create new experiences that weren't possible with traditional computers. But so far, top developers remain mostly focused elsewhere, and major tech companies like Google, Meta and Netflix have yet to release their most important apps for the headset.
Many of the new apps and ideas for the Vision Pro are coming from independent developers, hacking on the weekends while holding down day jobs.
One person in the indie camp is Adam Roszyk, a programmer in Poland who has created 17 Vision Pro apps since the headset was first released.
Figure has revealed a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for humanoid robots. VLAs leverage vision and language commands to process information, enabling robots to be trained through a combination of video and large language models. Figure's Helix model enables robots to follow natural language commands and pick up novel items with varying shapes, sizes, colors, and material properties never encountered before in training. Work on Helix is still at a very early stage, so demonstrations should be taken with a grain of salt.
There has been a 35% decrease in the number of software engineering job vacancies in the US since January 2020. While the story is similar in Canada, things are different in the UK, France, Germany, and Australia. Australia is the only country where the number of jobs listed is not lower than in 2020. Software development jobs have been the biggest boom and bust in vacancies compared to all industries. This post discusses the reasons for the decrease and predictions for what growth in the tech industry is likely to be like this year.
Tech startups used to raise huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast, but AI tools are enabling workers to be more efficient, making tiny teams more successful. Startups are using AI tools to increase employees' productivity in everything from customer service and marketing to coding and customer research. They are able to gain more revenue with fewer employees and less cash, something that wouldn't have been possible without the technology. The potential for AI to let startups do more with less has led to wild speculation about the future.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring a digital ledger-based settlement system for central bank money, aiming to improve financial market efficiency while maintaining stability. This initiative includes a two-track plan: developing a settlement platform and enabling central bank money use in digital asset transactions, especially for foreign exchange and cross-border payments.
Institutional investors increased their spot Bitcoin ETF holdings to $38.7B in Q4 2024, more than triple the $12.4 billion reported in Q3, according to SEC filings. Major entities like Wisconsin's investment board and Paul Tudor Jones' hedge fund expanded their positions to tens of millions of dollars of BTC. BlackRock's IBIT has attracted around 1,100 institutional holders since its release in January 2024 – by this time, most ETFs have fewer than 10 institutions invested.
Crossmint has introduced Solana Smart Wallets, a new generation of programmable, gasless wallets designed for mass adoption. These wallets enhance user experience and security by eliminating transaction approval prompts, supporting multiple authentication methods, and integrating seamlessly with AI, gaming, and financial applications.
Executives at Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation.
Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump's administration that the region's strict tech rules are choking innovation.
Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy chiefs at both Google and Meta used the stage as a platform to voice their concerns about the bloc's strict approach to regulating technologies such as AI and machine learning.
"I think there is now broad consensus that European regulation around technology has its issues, and sometimes it's too fragmented, like GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], sometimes it goes too far, like the AI Act," Chris Yiu, Meta's director of public policy, told an audience of tech founders and investors at Techarena on Thursday.
"But the net result of all of that is that products get delayed or get watered down and European citizens and consumers suffer," he said.
NEAR Protocol has launched Shade Agents, a new framework for creating autonomous agents that can execute transactions across multiple chains. They use trusted execution environments and Chain Signatures for decentralized key management and chain abstraction. The system combines on-chain smart contracts with off-chain worker agents that can interact with AI models and external data sources, while maintaining security through a decentralized network of TEE-verified workers rather than relying on single points of failure. This infrastructure enables various applications including automated trading, decentralized solving, and AI-driven asset management.
AI-powered information analytics company Kaito released their token at a $1B+ valuation, breaking from the traditional venture capital path typically followed by offchain entities like research and data companies. With challenging market conditions making raising from venture capital more difficult, a token launch is an attractive alternative to traditional equity fundraising. This precedent could trigger a broader trend of centralized crypto companies opting for token launches over venture capital rounds, potentially accelerating the movement toward tokenization of traditional equity structures.
AI has dramatically increased startup productivity, reducing costs across software development, marketing, and operations, with coding efficiency skyrocketing from 1.5x to 4x in just three years. As startups require less funding and fewer employees to scale, defensibility will rely on proprietary data, network effects, deep integrations, and trust rather than just software alone.
The summary database has been successfully decentralized. All summary data can now be found as custom jsons in the @summarydb account
Why this is important
It is likely that more summary services will arise in the future. This establishes a standardized framework that developers can utilize, and a way for anyone to look up the summary data of any video
Anyone can now pull data and statistics, thus anyone can now build tools that interact with the summary database
It lays the foundation for future development/application, both by me and others
It removes the reliability on the centralized version of the summarydb that is stored on my server.
I'm also planning to build some open source tools that developers will be able to utilize. Those tools will rely on this data being publicly available on Hive.
I have 180 SWAP.HIVE more than yesterday. 😂 But I don´t know where it came from.
Can someone tell me where I can check this exactly? Thank you!! ❤️
I checked Hive-Engine, https://he.dtools.dev/ but I still don´t see where it comes from. I guess someone wanted to donate which is awesome and such a huge amount! But there must be a way to find out where the money came from. 😂
Weird… Yeah I went back like 3-4 days and didn’t see anything except a bunch of he-lease transactions that look like they could add up. Are you putting up any HP for lease?
Over what time period. They are all small, but you have many, many transactions from he-lease of SWAP.HIVE over many days for delegating HP to other users!
Thanks. I also checked there and nothing so see. I know I have these small ones. But I have them every day. This cannot be it. It´s normally not more than 1-2 Hive per day. And now it´s 180 Hive somewhere during the last 16-18 hours I would say.
Went to peakd. Went to your wallet page. Clicked on Hive-Engine tab on the left. Scrolled down the page to transactions. Started scrolling down the transaction list for the first 24 hours. Hit 6 hours and there it was all by itself amongst a bunch of curation rewards. Sticking out like a sore thumb. Not sure it would of been easy except it was the only one of its kind in that section.
Something is wrong with my system - deeply. Browser tabs do have the behavior of loading for an endless time - it's all over all browsers.
Something is timing out - but must be in the network or something.
Just go to Settings and select what language you want to see on the UI. It will translate the words that are part of the interface. It will not translate content such as threads or posts, though
Haha, does that mean you going to upload haunted content enough to influence Leo AI?
The idea of this chatbot gaining data from here means we can determine what it will be good at. That's amazing
😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥 I love your energy bro... Your future definitely has a pretty lady in it with this kind of energy... I feel so welcomed and thank you a lot #newlion #happytobehere
Whenever a new token comes up especially in a community, there is a hype around it that makes it surge. When that hype fads, it then gets down to utility and the management involved. So the next surge will be a healthy one
I don't know how to create funny videos on my own, but I see a lot of them on YouTube. Is that wrong to download and post it on Leo shorts so there will be more content here? I hear there are rules to this platform.
We just want you to be original. So don’t post it as an actual post. Just post the video to threads if you are wanting to share. No rules, just guidelines. There is a group called Hivewatchers that will blacklist you if you are posting content in a full post that is not your content or AI generated. Threads is much safer for that content than main posts.
Okay, thank you very much, I will be doing it only on threads. I read a few of their rules and that's why I wanted to confirm if that was even possible. I'm I suppose to reference the maker of the video when doing it as a short?
if it’s not yours or you are not actively trying to feed the LeoAI video summary bot, then ALWAYS give original credit to cover yourself. The reason is that on this platform, upvotes come with monetization value. So if you are just ripping off someone’s work and sharing it to get rewarded, that’s what we have a problem with.
1/ 🧵 One might say there’s no place for skill in Splinterlands: once you pick the monsters to fight for you, all you can do is watch them in action. That’s true to an extent, yet there remains space to analyze your opponent’s previous battles and adjust your strategy for the monsters you might face on the battlefield.
2/🧵 When you do so, you can blow out a high-mana golden Fire set as if it were nothing more than a graveyard candle shivering in a cold breeze. I managed it in this battle.
3/🧵 Oh yes, I extinguished the last flame of otherwise lethal fire in just over one round. Admittedly, the ruleset modifications—Explosive Weaponry and Are You Not Entertained—helped speed things up, ensuring swift encounters.
4/🧵 I anticipated a similar Fire set, as my opponent had used it in most of their recent battles. Fire monsters tend to resist brute force, so I considered two options to counter them.
The drink is called Avocado Smoothie and I enjoy it a lot all the time. I have a long history and beautiful memories with Avocado so when the season is here, it's always like revisiting those memories.
I shared this recipe in a post and you should actually check it out. Learn the recipe, prepare it and let me know what you think about this tasty drink.
How are you my beautiful people of this beautiful platform #hive, I wanted to share with you, this beautiful picture I took some time ago, so you can see the wonder that is lived in my small hometown, as it is Puerto Cabello, Carabobo State, #Venezuela and that I keep in my heart, where at the end of the afternoon this beautiful sunset, which surely intertwine hearts in this month of love and friendship, I hope you like it, here a served @theshot2414, who writes for you with much affection. From Buenos Aires, #Argentina, happy Friday to all.
I had a few of them, but got into LunC and still in losses. Yes I know your craze for mining DOGE and Lite. At least Doge is still a thing and will become a nice valuable token.
Heck I flip DOGE into LTC and Monero mainly, lol. But yeah, give me something with some actual fundamentals. Most of this crap out there is all vaporware with absolutely nothing backing it. Proof of work, there is actual power and industry behind it.
Being an uncensored platform, I find it amusing how little of the controversial content is actually posted on here.
I guess people are scared to express their true standing points, humour, their "dark sides" so to speak.
Unfortunately, this includes myself as I would probably become massively unpopular amongst the users here. And that would most likely lead to a bunch of downvotes (although that is not how downvotes should be used IMO)
Yeah. Pissing people off seems scary around here. 🤣
Don't try it at Hive (at all😅)
It can be fun sometimes though. 😀
Some people here get pissed of because for breakfast
Haha! Butthurt...it's what's for breakfast!
Exactly! And because of that, I have to restrain myself a lot 😂😂
Hive is not very well decentralised.
There are many ways to improve decentralisation, which could add huge value to the Hive eco-system, but the centralised aspects of Hive prevent these improvements, unless we have community collaboration with anonymous fractal voting.
You have a good point here. The anonymous voting would make a huge difference and could, most likely, make Hive more decentralized and possibly more well-rounded too
Anonymous voting is essential for autonomy imo. and Hive needs autonomy to be used more, also imo. We wiyld need a system to prevent socks & bots influencing governance meaningfully though, and a well designed Reputation system too. A "fractal" consensus system is also a key.
Have actually not seen many downvotes here on Inleo.
Me neither, but I am sure that if I started I would get some very quickly 😂
Man you must have some juicy controversial opinions. I can hope ypu start posting them 😅
I definitely do. Crowdsplitting so to say 😂
Butmaybe my jokes arethe ones that would attract more downvotes 😂😂
!BBH
Oh, every now and then I go on a good rant ;)
I've seen a few, but most of that doesn't offend people - and many of the jokes I like would offend a bunch of people here despite it just being jokes (as Ricky Gervais also say)
Fuck it. Do the jokes ;) !BBH
Well what king of content are you talking about, what are some of your "true standing points"? It doesn't matter how nice you try to be here, you'll always piss some troll off.
The meme is stupid, but still, I wanna have that windmill costume
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Can I get some hearts
#firstthread #freecompliments #hive #cent
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Hello love, welcome to Inleo. Enjoy your stay.
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Today I want to start a #threadcast with pets, whether they are your own or not, or maybe some little animal from the street that caught your attention. Let's fill the ecosystem with fun pets! We'll be using #pets, so don't forget.
That's nice. One thing animals thought me is that behavior is genetically passed down.
this cat seems like a sad because i can see in the eyes. good to see you are taking care of animals.
She's not sad, she was actually upset because she woke up from her nap when she felt I was close.
My little dog friend!
Please, someone saw my pet because I can't find him. Please help. #pets
Cute!
Lovely!
A great threadcast. Keep it up.
People sharing pets is awesome.
nice
Beautiful
GM GM! I made yogurt again today!
That must be so tasty. Home made yogurt taste great.
Yeah! I eat some sweet with fruits and some savory for salad dressing
wow that's one of my favorite 😍 sweet sweet yogurt
I love it. And now I can buy a small one and make more with milk haha. Until I discover where to buy the starter
it's going to be a yogurt party for you then 😍🔥
Se ve muy bueno 🍽
Si! Está muy bueno. Me sale más barato comprar uno pequeño y hacer más :D
Mucho mejor 😂
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Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 2/21/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Have you guys seen I got @bradleyarrow to start adding ai summaries?
You got the whip out ;) !BBH
I just noticed. Good to see @bradleyarrow get into the game.
How many Newfoundland videos are there on YouTube. That would be a nice foundation to put into the database.
He seems to have choosen the haunted niche 😅
All are feeding. The vector database loves things coming from different areas.
OH, I will have to check for Newfoundland content ;)
Thank you :)
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"This distillation technique is just so extremely powerful and so extremely cheap, and it's just available to anyone," said Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, adding that he expects to see innovation when it comes to how large language models, or LLMs, are built. "We're going to see so much competition for LLMs. That's what's going to happen in this new era we're entering."
Distillation is now enabling less-capitalized startups and research labs to compete at the cutting edge faster than ever before.
Using this technique, researchers at Berkeley said, they recreated OpenAI's reasoning model for $450 in 19 hours last month. Soon after, researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington created their own reasoning model in just 26 minutes, using less than $50 in compute credits, they said. The startup Hugging Face recreated OpenAI's newest and flashiest feature, Deep Research, as a 24-hour coding challenge.
DeepSeek didn't invent distillation, but it woke up the AI world to its disruptive potential. It also ushered in the rise of a new open-source order — a belief that transparency and accessibility drive innovation faster than closed-door research.
“Because of the protracted childcare in humans, a premium has been placed on post-partum parental investment, so female mate choice is governed by the desire to obtain resources from long-term mates, an objective that conflicts with man’s desire for multiple partners.”
These forces put man in a position of wanting it both ways – stable long term partners associated with producing heirs and secondary partners used outside the accepted relationship. Indeed, Scheidel asserts that the first monogamous societies (Greece and Rome) were socially imposed. By this he means there was social pressure to monogamous based on the increasing importance of cooperation among coalitions (peer groups), needed to deal with external challenges. This pressure led to a moral standard that monogamy should be the only acceptable marriage practice.
"Open source always wins in the tech industry," said Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, which makes an AI-powered search engine for enterprises. "You cannot beat the momentum that a successful open-source project is able to actually generate."
OpenAI itself has walked back its closed-source strategy in the wake of DeepSeek's accomplishment.
"Personally I think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open-source strategy," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a post on Reddit on Jan. 31.
In both Greece and Rome there grew to be severe penalties for having sexual relations with someone else’s wife, but no penalties for relations with slaves or concubines.
The combination of distillation's newfound traction and open source's rise in popularity is completely altering the competitive dynamics in AI.
Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) takes a selfie with a greets customers on arrival for the release of the Vision Pro headset at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024
For $4, Roszyk's Night Vision app lets a Vision Pro user tap the depth-sensing cameras of the device to see objects in the dark. If you spend $5, you can perform a chore in a Luigi's Mansion-like video game using the app Vacuume, which overlays virtual coins on your floor that you can vacuum up, along with any real dirt or dust. And for $6, Roszyk's app Scan Export lets users create a 3D digital scan of an entire building just by walking around, a useful tool for those in construction or real estate.
"We are still early, and we don't really know how it can be really useful in your life," Roszyk said. "There's so many different ideas that just come to your mind."
Aristotle wrote two short pieces on dreams and their meaning: On Dreams and On Prophesying on Dreams. In the first he presents arguments for the origin of dreams and their relationship to other aspects of human existence. In the second he analyzes whether dreams can foreshadow the future.
Aristotle approaches his subject as a scientist, looking for a practical explanation for an experience men found mysterious and frightful. Given that the only ways to acquire knowledge are through sense perception or intelligence, and that our senses are not operating during sleep, he asserts that the senses cannot contribute to dreaming. That means dreams must originate in our intellect. Of course the experiences in dreams are still based on sense perception (we see things when we dream), but that experience is disconnected from reality.
Roszyk continues to work on Vision Pro apps because he said he believes "spatial computing" — Apple's preferred terminology for headset and glasses technology that can integrate 3D objects with the world around them — will be the next big platform. Roszyk is betting that developing apps now can put him in prime position when more people are walking around with a Vision Pro or, perhaps some day, lightweight glasses.
"This type of computing is the future," Roszyk said. "I would definitely compare it to the first iPhones."
Residual perceptions are common in everyday life. If you look at the sun briefly and then look away, the image of the sun remains in your eye for a while. In the same way, Aristotle asserts that when the external object of a perception has been removed, there still remains an impression which itself is an object of perception. While we sleep, these impressions are re-created in dreams.
Sensory impressions present themselves when an individual is awake and asleep, but the senses work with the brain during the day to keep reality in perspective. At night there is no balance between impressions because the senses are not available, so dreams produce wild and obscure sensations.
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Aristotle describes the dream sequence as “little eddies in a river forming and breaking into other forms by colliding with obstacles.” He believed there could be no dreaming immediately after a meal because the heat caused by digestion disturbed the flow of phantasms in the brain. Similarly, dreams that occur during a fever or intoxication reflect a disturbed state of the body in their weirdness of form and character.
Roszyk's efforts have made him money, but not enough for Vision Pro development to become his full-time job. His 17 apps have cleared about $4,000 on the App Store in the last three months. That number is growing as he releases more apps and more people find out about them, Roszyk said.
Apple updated its most recent Vision Pro app count in August, with CEO Tim Cook telling investors on an earnings call that the platform had 2,500 apps. That number covers fully immersive apps that overlay virtual objects over the real world as well as 2D apps with some spatial components.
In On Prophesying on Dreams, Aristotle contemplates what he calls the divination that takes place during sleep and whether it caused by dreams. Since there is no known cause of this divination it is normal to be skeptical about it. It cannot come from a god because these experiences occur in common people and god does not communicate to them. So is it merely that dreams act as causes or tokens of divination? Indeed, it may be that some of these representations are the causes of actions cognate to them. We may think and plan some activity during the day whose significance causes a vivid dream at night. In this case the activity has paved the way for the dream. But the converse is also true, because thoughts which occur first in sleep may be the starting points of something that occurs when we are awake.
Aristotle believes that most “prophetic” dreams are coincidences based on the fact that the dreamer has no real participation in the story of the dream. We often mention things during conversation that later come to pass and this same phenomena occurs in dreams. Because the engine of both wakefulness and dreams is the brain, we understand why this has to be so. Again, because god does not communicate to the common people, their visions must be a random result of their physical temperament – “excitable and garrulous”. The common people have chance experiences where visions play a part in their slumber, like the gambler who plays even and odd.
Prophetic dreams are caused by the condition of sleep; the fact that there is less to disturb the body than during the day. There is no wind at night to disturb the senses and compete with the visions of our dreams.
There are also about 1.5 million Vision Pro apps that are ported versions of iPhone and iPad apps. Apple automatically ports iPhone and iPad apps to the Vision Pro when they're uploaded, but companies can decline. Those apps can be used inside the headset but appear as 2D flat screens. Meta started to emulate that strategy last year with 2D Android apps for Quest, but the company doesn't have the same library of millions of existing mobile apps.
Apple doesn't publish Vision Pro sales, but one estimate from IDC suggests fewer than 1 million devices have been sold.
To Aristotle, the most skillful interpreter of dreams is the man who is able to observe resemblances in them. That is he can make sense out the forms in disturbed water; to put the pieces together which, to the common man, can only be seen when the water is calm.
Although many of those games are 2D, some are exclusive to the Vision Pro. In January, Apple released Gears & Goo, a Vision Pro app that enables the player to control an army of goofy frog-like characters on a table in the real world.
Meanwhile, Meta is actively courting VR developers with a promise that they can make money. Meta in January said that its payment volume for Quest headsets rose by 12% last year, although it didn't cite a total number. Meta has also said it has 200 apps that have made more than $1 million through software sales.
Ancient cultures, from Egyptian through late Roman times, paid as much attention to their nights in the arms of Morpheus as they did to their waking moments. They felt curiosity, awe, and sometimes terror at their dreams, at the strange symbolic language of the sleeper.
And they sought help. How do we know this? Ancient literature is littered with speculations and advice about dreams, along with insights about their medical use as diagnostic tools. Furthermore, a handful of millennia-old dream manuals have survived—to be gleefully recycled by cut-and-paste oneiromancy entrepreneurs today.
The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed at the Fifth Avenue Apple store on Feb. 2, 2024 in New York City.
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The Vision Pro app gold rush has seen slower uptake than the iPhone's app boom.
A year after the iPhone App Store was launched in 2008, Apple was crowing about the platform having 50 million customers, 2 billion downloads and 85,000 apps. Apple regularly told investors and developers how much money it had paid from App Store sales — it hasn't released any similar stat for the Vision Pro.
Greek dream treatments
In pre-Classical times, Homer wrote, “Dreams come from Zeus.” Because medicine was in its infancy, by circa 500 BC the wellbeing franchise was taken over by the healing god Asclepius. Although few would recognize him and his single-snake staff in a lineup today, Asclepius set up shop in Epidaurus, the first of what would be a chain of Mediterranean-wide healing centers that resembled today’s luxurious spas in natural settings.
In 293 BC, Asclepius gained further prominence. Summoned from Epidaurus to combat the plague in Rome, he appeared as a sacred snake aboard ship on the Tiber River. Slithering ashore, Asclepius took up residence on Tiber Island, where his temple was built; the plague obediently stopped.
Greek dream treatments
In pre-Classical times, Homer wrote, “Dreams come from Zeus.” Because medicine was in its infancy, by circa 500 BC the wellbeing franchise was taken over by the healing god Asclepius. Although few would recognize him and his single-snake staff in a lineup today, Asclepius set up shop in Epidaurus, the first of what would be a chain of Mediterranean-wide healing centers that resembled today’s luxurious spas in natural settings.
In 293 BC, Asclepius gained further prominence. Summoned from Epidaurus to combat the plague in Rome, he appeared as a sacred snake aboard ship on the Tiber River. Slithering ashore, Asclepius took up residence on Tiber Island, where his temple was built; the plague obediently stopped.
Apple has not said if it will update the Vision Pro. According to analysts, the company is working on a successor. Developers want it to be lighter and less expensive. They welcome any improvements that would get it on more faces.
"Over time, everything gets better, and it too will have its course of getting better and better," Cook told The Wall Street Journal in October. "I think it's just arguably a success today from an ecosystem-being-built-out point of view."
Oracles and other competition for Asclepius
Besides the incubation overnight chambers where patients sought Asclepian intervention to dream their cures, the facilities emphasized holistic healing, from diet and exercise to drama and the power of music. Aristocratic writers like Aristides, a career hypochondriac, heartily endorsed the Asclepieia, having spent lengthy periods of time at facilities in Pergamum, Epidaurus and elsewhere.
Yiu pulled out a pair of Meta's recently launched Ray-Ban branded glasses, which use AI to translate speech from one language to another or describe images for the visually impaired.
"This is a profound and very human application of the technology, and it is slow to arrive in Europe because of the issues that we have around regulation," Yiu said.
Meta only began rolling out AI features for its Ray-Ban Meta glasses in some European countries in November, after a delay the firm claimed was caused by the need to reach compliance with Europe's "complex regulatory system."
The AI Act was first introduced by the European Commission, the EU's executive body, in April 2021. OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022.
"There is a way to use policy to create a better investment environment when it's done in a way that promotes business" Chou said, referring to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act as an example of policy that has led to benefits, like subsidies for electric vehicles.
According to ancient sources, for the first five years of his reign, Nero slept like a baby, suffering no qualms about his homicidal activities. After the murder of his mother, however, she began to haunt Nero, whereupon he brought in a Persian exorcist to call off her vengeful ghost.
But rest was no longer to be found. As Lives of the Twelve Caesars author Suetonius noted, Emperor Nero began to have extravagant nightmares. In one, Nero was buried under a mass of winged ants. In another dream, he was terrorized by the sight of his favorite Spanish horse, with only its head still in equine form—the rest having turned into a hairy ape. (The first “Godfather” film took this nightmare idea and ran with it, to staggering effect.)
"I think what's difficult is when you are regulating on a time scale that doesn't match the technology," Chou added. "I think what we need to do is both regulate to ensure that there is responsible application of technology, while also ensuring that the industry is thriving it all the right ways."
Big Tech ups the ante
Big Tech firms more generally have been upping their rhetoric against the EU's approach to tech regulation and ramping up lobbying efforts in an attempt to soften aspects of the AI Act.
Kent Walker, Google's president of global affairs, told Politico last month that the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models — which refers to systems like OpenAI's GPT family of large language models, or LLMs — was a "step in the wrong direction."
The EU AI Office, a newly created body overseeing models under the AI Act, published a second-draft code of practice for GPAI systems in December.
Earlier this month, Meta's newly appointed Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan suggested in a live-streamed interview at an event in Brussels that the tech giant would not sign up to the code in its current form.
Tech giants' pleas for softer EU tech regulation have been emboldened of late by President Donald Trump's new administration.
At the international AI Action Summit in Paris last week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance blasted Europe for being too heavily focused on regulating artificial intelligence rather than embracing the technology's growth potential.
Tech giants' pleas for softer EU tech regulation have been emboldened of late by President Donald Trump's new administration.
At the international AI Action Summit in Paris last week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance blasted Europe for being too heavily focused on regulating artificial intelligence rather than embracing the technology's growth potential.
The Battle without Tears
In 369 B.C, while Sparta was trying to recover from Leuctra, the rest of Greece came under attack from Thebes, who saw itself as the next great power. Aligned with Athens, the Spartans debated with their ally how to overcome this new aggressor. At the same time, Thebes was aligned with the Arcadians and Argives, giving them assets in the Peloponnese which could threaten Sparta. But that alliance did not survive the ascendancy of Lykomedes of Mantineia who argued that the Arcadians and Argives were great in their own right and did not need an alliance with anyone. He convinced the Arcadians and Argives to break away from Thebes and act on their own.
Meanwhile, Dionysios, King of Syracuse, sent an armed force to the aid of Sparta. The Athenians wanted them to be used against Thessaly, but the Spartans successfully argued they were needed in Laconia to fight the Arcadians.
Harmonizing EU rules for startups
Big Tech weren't alone in calling for a more simplified regulatory regime for technology firms operating in Europe.
Several venture capitalists investing in European tech startups also decried complex regulatory compliance burdens on their portfolio companies.
Antoine Moyroud, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, said that whereas the U.S. has been pushing forward initiatives such as the $500 billion Stargate investment project that strike a "hopeful" message around AI," Europe's narrative tends to be more "dramatic."
The King of Sparta, Archidamos, joined the Syracusans with his own force, and began a campaign against the Arcadians. As he was attacking Parrasia, the Arcadians and Argives started to apply pressure and he retreated to the hills above Melea. At this point, the Syracusan commander, Kissides, said that his appointed time had expired and he departed with his army. As he marched south, The Messenians blocked him so he sent to Archidamos for help. Then, while the Spartan Army was marching to join him, they were cut off by the Arcadians and Argives, who had inserted themselves between the two allies.
Archidamos placed the Spartan Army in battle formation and exhorted his troops to fight saying,
“Let us no longer feel shame before our children and wives, elders and
foreigners, those very people in whose eyes we were in past time the
most renowned of all Greeks.”
For example, there's a European Company Statute under the 28th regime that makes it simpler to set up public limited liability companies in the EU.
The likes of Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus are among the startup founders looking to set up a new entity under the 28th regime, called "EU Inc."
"Europe is a fragmented place, and what you want to do is [to] be able to hire across any country," Luke Pappas, a London-based partner for venture capital firm NEA, told CNBC in an interview on the sidelines of Techarena.
The subsequent attack was a rout and the Spartans achieved a great victory. Archidamos sent a message to Sparta telling of the great victory and how it was achieved without a single Spartan being killed. All in Sparta wept for joy making the Spartan victory “tearless” from grief even though it brought many tears of joy.
A key issue with attracting talent in this way, according to Pappas, is that currently "the process of giving equity cross border in Europe is not very easy."
"If we can standardize equity, for example, that will dramatically help," he added.
"DeepSeek demonstrates that China is at or near the cutting edge of AI development, which boosts the prestige of China's economy and tech ecosystem, making them more attractive for global investors," said Gabriel Wildau, managing director at Teneo.
The company's launch of a cheaper and more efficient AI model came as a timely confidence boost as the Chinese leadership faces a prolonged economic gloom, partly owed to the slump in its property market, while the specter of a fierce trade war with the U.S. looms large.
Once the long walls were destroyed the Athenian assembly was asked to choose thirty men to rewrite their laws. The names of the chosen were Polychares, Kritias, Melobios, Hippolochos, Eucleides, Hieron, Mnesilochos, Chremon, Theramenes, Aresias, Diokles, Phaedrias, Chaireleos, Anaitios, Peison, Sophocles, Eratosthenes, Charicles, Onomacles, Theognis, Aeschines, Theogenes, Cleomedes, Erasistratos, Pheidon, Dracontides, Eumathes, Aristoteles, Hippomachos, and Mnesitheides. Of these men, twenty-five are obscure, three are known only by anecdote, and two were major players in the drama that would follow.
Beijing's stamp of approval
In a well-choreographed meeting earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping warmly greeted DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng and granted him a coveted front-row seat next to leaders of the country's biggest private enterprises.
That showed Beijing is eager to support the company, said Huiyao Wang, founder and president of Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing-based think tank.
Theramenes, who had been to Sparta as part of the negotiation team to end the war, opposed this step as unlawful and immoral. He demanded that The Thirty allow more participation in the Athenian government so they responded by drawing up a list of three thousand who would participate in the government. All other Athenians were disarmed and excluded from the system. Now The Thirty began their reign of terror against the rich and all who opposed them.
Kritias, the unofficial leader of the group, was again opposed by Theramenes, who was denounced and forced to take poison. This caused a general revolt that saw a rebel group located in Peiraieus defeat the army of The Thirty killing Kritias and Hippomachos. The remainder of The Thirty retreated to Eleusis and begged for Spartan help.
"DeepSeek represents exactly what Beijing is keen to see by 'new-quality productive force' that will push China forward," Wang added, referring to a strategy coined by Xi last year that bets on technological breakthroughs to fuel growth and productivity gains across the economy.
Chinese leadership last year vowed "a leap forward" by spurring new growth drivers based on innovation in advanced sectors, such as AI and semiconductors, as U.S. export controls on advanced equipment and the most advanced semiconductors thwarted its ability to make major tech breakthroughs.
With Beijing signaling support for the startup, a growing number of local governments, from Hohhot in northern China to the southern city of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, are launching DeepSeek-powered "public servants" to automate governance, handling requests from administrative paper work to general public services.
This time fortune favored the oppressed. Lysander, the Spartan Admiral sympathetic to The Thirty, was preparing to defend their interests when the Spartan king Pausanias overruled his attack fearing that Lysander was becoming too powerful. He also believed that blind support for the ultra-conservatives was a mistake. After a skirmish with the rebels, Pausanias decided to use them to broker a peace with Athens. In the end a new government was formed and The Thirty were banished to Eleusis.
One year after the Spartan/Athenian treaty created The Thirty, it was gone – destroyed by its oppression and ruthlessness. This same model had been employed by the Spartans in other Poleis, typically with a ten man oligarchy, but the notion of a Spartan garrison backing a group of local henchman did not go down well with the oppressed any place where it was tried.
Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs
Meta's executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary under the company's new executive bonus plan, up from the 75% they earned previously.
Executives at Meta stand to get bigger bonuses this year.
The company said in a corporate filing Thursday that it had approved "an increase in the target bonus percentage" for its annual bonus plan for executives. Meta's named executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary under the new plan, up from the 75% they earned previously, according to the filing.
The updated bonus plan doesn't apply to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the filing noted.
The disclosure of the new executive bonus plan comes a week after Meta began laying off 5% of its overall workforce. The company had previously said this would impact its lowest performers.
Meta also slashed its annual distribution of stock options by about 10% for thousands of employees, according to a report published Thursday by the Financial Times. The report noted that the stock option reduction may differ based on where the workers live and their position at the company.
Meta shares are up more than 47% over the past year and closed Thursday at $694.84, underscoring investor enthusiasm over the social media company's growing sales in the digital advertising market and the potential for its artificial intelligence investments to eventually generate big returns.
The company said in January that its fourth-quarter revenue grew 21% year over year to $48.39 billion.
What can we conclude about the Spartan Army during this period?
There is no question that the traditions of the agoge were degraded after Leuctra. It must have disappeared at some point because we know that Cleomenes tried to revive it in 236 B.C. It is likely that the few Spartiates and commanders retained the style of Spartan armor and weapons over time with some exceptions. Torso armor was replaced with a tunic during the fifth century. The Doru (six foot spear) was replaced by the Macedonian sarissa during the time of Cleomenes, as the Macedonian Phalanx became the accepted model for a battle formation. What the auxiliaries and mercenaries wore is unknown. Perhaps they wore whatever they owned because war was their profession and they needed to be prepared for it.
Block shares fall on profit, revenue miss
Block, formerly known as Square, got off to a sluggish start on Wall Street this year after underperforming the Nasdaq in 2024.
Block reported fourth-quarter results on Thursday that fell short of Wall Street expectations. The stock dropped more than 6% in extended trading.
Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG.
Earnings per share: 71 cents adjusted vs. 87 cents expected
Revenue: $6.03 billion vs. $6.29 billion expected
Revenue increased about 4.5% from $5.77 billion a year earlier.
Block said it expects to deliver gross profit growth this year of 15% to $10.22 billion and adjusted operating income of $2.1 billion for a margin of 21%.
Block's payments business has expanded beyond traditional point-of-sale transactions to include lending and financial services. In 2021, the company acquired Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay for $29 billion, integrating the service into Cash App and Square's ecosystem. This week, Afterpay on the Cash App card begins rolling out.
Analysts see lending as a key driver of future monetization, with some pointing to additional revenue opportunities in merchant services and advertising within Cash App. The unit recorded $1.38 billion in gross profit, a 16% year-over-year increase, exceeding the $1.36 billion average analyst estimate, according to StreetAccount.
Dorsey also articulated the long-term vision of integrating Cash App and Square into a single financial ecosystem, reducing the need for users to rely on multiple apps.
"There will be a significant reason to use Cash App and not have to go to the App Store for 10 different apps," he said. "Everything is in one app, and that will be the Cash App."
Aristotle believed that all substances, such as the above, were made up of earth, air, fire, and water in differing proportions. Consider the burning of wood. It breaks down into fire and earth (ash). You can obtain fire from wood, but not wood from fire, so fire must be a component of wood.
He goes to great lengths in On the Heavens to derive the properties of the elements and how they are related to each other. He explains how they are subject to generation and destruction. For example, fire can be destroyed by two methods: by its contrary (water) when quenched and by itself when it burns out.
Under Dorsey's leadership, Block made a big jump into bitcoin, including a years-long effort to design and build mining rigs.
Block's open bitcoin mining system is called Proto. Ahuja said on the earnings call that the company expects the initiative to start benefitting growth in the second half of 2025.
Dorsey has long said Block's goal is to open bitcoin mining up to the masses.
"We do think the market is large, and we do think we're poised to take a significant percentage of it," Dorsey said.
Walmart still leads the way in annual sales, though Amazon is gaining ground. Walmart is projected to reel in $708.7 billion in the fiscal year ahead while Amazon's full-year revenue for 2025 is expected to reach $700.8 billion, according to FactSet.
Amazon's core retail unit remains its biggest revenue generator, but its top line is also being fueled by its massive cloud computing, advertising and seller services businesses. Third-party seller services, which includes commissions and fees collected by Amazon on fulfillment and shipping, advertising and customer support, accounted for 24.5% of the company's total sales last year. Amazon Web Services was responsible for nearly 17%.
“Secondly, like the upward movement of fire, the downward movement of earth and all heavy things makes equal angles on every side with the earth's surface: it must therefore be directed towards the centre. Whether it is really the centre of the earth and not rather that of the whole to which it moves, may be left to another inquiry, since these are coincident.” (Gravitation)
On Generation and Corruption – do things come from causes, prime material, or alteration?
On the Soul – the kinds of souls possessed by living things. This does not mean soul in the religious sense but the character of the mind (ego?).
Trump this week came down firmly in favor of House Republicans' plan for a single sweeping bill, which includes extending $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. House Republicans have a narrow and fractious 218-215 majority, which will make passing that bill difficult.
The Senate's bill, which leaves the issue of Trump's desired extension of his 2017 tax cuts to a later date, will serve as a backup in case House Republicans cannot come to an agreement on how to pay for the tax cuts in their bill without slashing funding for popular safety net programs like Medicaid and Social Security or adding significantly to the country's $36 trillion debt.
Both chambers of Congress need to pass the same budget resolution to unlock the parliamentary tool that would enable Republicans to enact Trump's legislative agenda in a way that circumvents Democrat opposition and the Senate filibuster.
Republican leaders in the House hope to advance their version of a budget outline next week.
Only two amendments to the bill were adopted, both introduced by Republicans. Their sponsors said they were aimed at reducing excessive regulatory burdens and federal spending, and safeguarding Medicaid and Medicare.
"I know my Democratic colleagues are going to try tonight to use scare tactics to message that Republicans don't support these vital programs, but we do," Republican Senator Dan Sullivan said upon introducing his amendment.
One assumes that when the true history of antiquity became widely known during the enlightenment, popular opinion of the ancient political systems was equal to that held today. This is not so. In those days, Sparta was seen as the model political system – structured, authoritarian, and efficient. Democracies, like Athens, were seen as idealistic examples of excess power given to the common people.
Lytton wrote,
“This principle settled, it may perhaps be generally conceded, that on comparing the democracies of Greece with all other contemporary forms of government, we find them the most favorable to mental cultivation—not more exposed than others to internal revolutions—usually, in fact, more durable,—more mild and civilized in their laws—and that the worst tyranny of the Demus, whether at home or abroad, never equaled that of an oligarchy or a single ruler. That in which the ancient republics are properly models to us, consists not in the form, but the spirit of their legislation.
Protagoras said that man is the measure of all things. That is what is perceived to be the case by one man really is the case for him. By this definition, that which is must also be not, or is at the same time both good and bad, based on the perception of the viewer.
Being, for things that are, consists of their being perceived. “It is clear to you, being present, that I am sitting. To one who is not present, however, it is not clear that I am sitting. Therefore it is unclear whether I am sitting or not sitting.”
The Sophists
Societies evolve and change over time. Whether the causes are economic, driven by war, or merely fallout of an evolving political system, the results are the same. New generations have new outlooks and seldom embrace tradition.
So it was in Athens during the middle of the Golden Age, when the Sophists began their rise to prominence. Athens, during that time, had grown more man-centered, not unlike the Renaissance two thousand years later, when traditional views were called into question. The Greeks decided they wanted to rule themselves instead of being ruled by the unseen world of myth.
Idea number 1 -- Those who sought teachers for their sons wanted them to develop the skill to gain the voluntary support of other men. What a profound step this was to overcome “might makes right” with logic in a way that would put man on a path to rational behavior. We owe the stable political systems of today to this concept, and, even though men fall back to the use of force from time to time, the world as a whole has accepted the legitimacy of a government based on wisdom instead of force.
The Sophists built a system of higher education in Athens around a concept of Greek culture different from the culture of non-Greeks. There was a sense of pride on the accomplishments of Athens and the power of the new Athenian Empire. Maybe this was overdone and more hubris than pride, but it was a natural result of the position Athens held at the time.
The first well known Sophist was Gorgias (c. 473-386 B.C.) of Sicily, who brought rhetoric to Athens. He traveled throughout Greece, giving speeches for pay, taking impromptu questions from audiences, and answering them. He was particularly fond of taking an absurd position and making it seem stronger than its rational opposite. Gorgias introduced the concept of paradoxical arguments.
Idea number 2 – The Sophists disconnected rhetoric from ethics to the horror of the traditionalists who saw rhetoric only as a technique to support proof of the ideal. This “disconnection” made rhetoric the most valuable tool for debate – fortifying a position with logic instead of arguing its innate rightness or wrongness.
In Phase 3 (411-404), the Spartans made a devil’s bargain with the Persians in exchange for the money they needed to build a navy. The bargain was to allow the Persians to retake the lands in Ionia previously lost to them. This turned out to be the end for the Athenians because the combination of an great army and navy was enough to wear them down to defeat. The Athenians won the first great naval battle in 406 B.C, but the Spartans under Lysander took the Hellespont in 405 with a re-built navy. After wiping out the Athenian fleet, Lysander sailed south to blockade Athens in support of the Spartan land forces under King Agis. The Athenians starved through the winter of 405-404 before they finally surrendered.
But we get ahead of ourselves because this post is about the events leading up to the Peloponnesean War and not its results. So we ask ourselves what it was that lead to this debacle? Was the war preventable? It seems not, because it was one of those times in history where men put themselves on a path to destruction seemingly without logic - when ego or fear puts emotion above reason.
According to Thucydides, the Peloponnesean War was inevitable because Sparta could never trust a strong Athens. Sparta saw Athenian policy as provocative, and couldn’t get past their own paranoia.
The Corcyrians were livid when they became aware of the Corinthian involvement and immediately laid siege to Epidamnus. Later, when they heard of Corinthian preparations for war, the Corcyrians sent an embassy to Corinth to negotiate a settlement. Their offers were ignored by Corinth who sent an armada to Epidamnus to break the siege. At the resulting battle of Leucimme, the Corinthians were defeated.
Stung by defeat, the Corinthians spent the next year building ships to prepare for a decisive battle. Corcyra, for its part, appealed to Athens seeking arbitration. Both parties gave presentations to the Athenians in 433, who eventually sided with Corcyra and executed a treaty of protection in case Corcyra was attacked. Athens had walked a fine line between protecting Corcyra and breaking the Peloponnesean Treaty.
Concerned about Corinthian preparations for war, Athens acted against a Corinthian colony at Potidaia in Thessaly. They ordered the Potidaians to pull down their fortifications and send hostages to Athens. The city revolted and Athens sent thirty ships with hoplites to put it down. Corinth, in its own response sent an army along with mercenaries to defend Potidaia. A siege began between the parties, which was paused when the parties sent representatives to Sparta in 432. After speeches from both sides, the Spartan king Archidamos, pleaded for restraint and negotiation to avoid war. Unfortunately, his words of caution were negated by the Ephor Sthelaidas who incited the assembly’s emotions and got them to agree that the Athenians had broken their treaty.
The character of the Ancient Greeks. Will mankind ever achieve anything like this again?
The Greek attitude during the Golden Age was marked by a driving spirit to learn and develop an understanding of the world. The Greeks were able to reach a profound clarity of thought driven by a motivation that sought balance and oneness in the world – the whole instead of the parts.
We see in their accomplishments fact and beauty working together: in the tragedies, ideas and emotion; in the sculpture, reality and ideality; in the temples, logic and simplicity. Moreover, the Greeks were able to live with what is seen and unseen – geometry and the gods in balance.
Few in America speak for the whole these days, as we evolve toward the ultimate relativism, the special interest group. There is no whole, but only the parts that do not add together. Each has its own agenda and no one looks for what’s common in all.
The end of relativism can only be produced by a unity by common cause, a reset of the individual in favor of the whole. Its seems that only a catastrophe will get us there, because we no longer possess the spirit and will to see its value on our own.
There is no evidence of Troy before the beginning of the Bronze Age, and most likely began at the end of the line of Mesopotamian influence. The early city is referenced in Hittite texts implying at least a trade relationship between those two cultures. The successive Troys formed a stready march through time -- as devastating as each destruction may have been, a new one rose soon after.
As you can see from the diagram above, the fortress of Troy was actually quite small; unlike the massive city depicted in the movie Troy.
Troy VIIa is the stage chosen by scholars as the player in the Trojan War. There is a problem with the opponent, however. During this period Mycenae itself was under attack from the north so it seems unlikely that it could muster an attack on Troy of the magnitude described in the Iliad. Who then attacked Troy?
These two great cultures were not only opposites, but outliers. The Greeks were too theoretical and less practical than they should have been for their own good. For example, their brilliant military formation, the Phalanx, was basically used in the same form without modification for 500 years. The Romans tried the Phalanx for a time, but fairly quickly abandoned it for the maniple, which was more adaptable to uneven terrain. Greek architecture was limited by their inability to devise the construction materials required for large structures. The Romans expanded building practices to a new level and invented concrete along the way.
The social classes of Rome were more strongly differentiated than Athens and there were few leveling forces. The patron/client relationship provided enough support for the plebs to accept their lower status. It wasn’t until the rise of the middle class (Knights) that the class balance was upset and the patricians lost power.
The first of these invasions is marked by evidence of fire in many Greek settlements including Asea, Korakou, and Eutresis. Corinth was deserted afterward and Asine (Argolis) badly damaged.
The second invasion, more relevant to this post, was much more widespread. All of the Eastern Mediterranean was in decline and vulnerable, so the stage was set for traumatic changes to the early civilized world. Egypt, furthest from the source of the invaders, beat off attacks in 1230 and 1190 B.C. The coasts of Cyprus, Palestine, and Syria were attacked. The Assyrians were humbled and rendered impotent as a power and the Hittite Kingdom disappeared all together.
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In Greece, Mycenae fell. Recovered tablets from Pylos record an effort to bolster coastal defenses against the invaders, to no avail. From Thessaly to Messenia, Delphi, and Attica, all were destroyed.
The Greeks, more shallow rooted than the cultures of the Fertile Crescent, fell hard and writing disappeared. The winners were the Dorians – barbarians who invaded a civilized land. The invasion was a catastrophe because it broke down a developed civilization, but the end of the Mycenaean Age at the hands of the Dorians was significant because the old ways were also destroyed. The Mycenaean view had been too tied to the outside – its predecessor Minoan culture. Now those external links were broken, freeing up the minds of the Greeks toward a new path. For three centuries the Greeks were separated from the east and moved forward in isolation. This new spirit was not Dorian. It was Greek forged by the invasion of the Dorians.
The Knowledge Travels by Sea
The first urban settlements on earth were in Mesopotamia, where man was able to prosper because of the geography – farming made easy. The technology of the Mesopotamians was not a secret for long, and it moved south to Egypt and westward over the Mediterranean.
These are not movements of people in groups, they are the pathways of knowledge. Perhaps the craftsmen did move – the smiths and potters who were skilled enough to go with the highest bidder. Still, it was the absorbing of what was previously unknown that built the foundation of each successive society.
You see green arrows and white arrows, showing knowledge transfer by sea and by land. Funny thing about the land route, though. It stops at Troy. There is little evidence of knowledge crossing from Troy by land to the Greek Peninsula. Conversely, there is ample evidence for the sea route: to Crete, the Cyclades, and then Lerna in the Peloponnese.
Maybe this should be obvious, because man could transfer new ideas faster by sea than land. Trade would expose the importer to new wares and create demand for the style locally. Pottery styles follow the arrows as they make their way west. Still, individual differences remained. The Greeks never quite understood the Minoan pottery’s lack of precision. They admired the craft, and maybe copied the technique, but never gave up that which was uniquely Greek.
The Great Civilizations of Antiquity
All the talking we do about the Greco-Roman Civilizations, got me thinking about older more ancient civilizations. Often we focus on the west and the ancestor civilizations to Europe, neglecting the rest of the world. For example, we have discussed Mesopotamia and Egypt in recent posts, because they are most familiar to us. But what other civilizations were extant?
It turns out that anthropologists commonly identify six civilizations as preceding all others – Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Indus River Valley, Peru, and Meso-America (Central America).
Our two civilizations of the Western Hemisphere are mostly alike and very different from the others. Their formative periods began in the middle to late second millennium B.C, as a result of maturing agricultural techniques. In both cases, advancing agriculture was fused with religious belief systems to produce chiefdoms.
We see in all of these civilizations the catalysts of human development: fertile soil producing from the most primitive farming techniques and eventually a surplus of crop leading the way to a differentiation of human skill and the population density of a city. Urbanism was, in the beginning, protective against the invader, but later evolved according to local forces.
Data from the chart came from Elman's book Origins of the State and Civiliza
When influencer and budding architect Catalina Gutierrez suddenly vanished, she left her family, friends, and more than 100,000 followers in fear. While the police slowly clocked in to investigate, Catalina’s parents were hard at work listening to the rumours growing around town - and after following reports of an ominous vehicle, they were left with a chilling discovery… and that would only be the beginning of this horrible story.
It has been suggested by Anthropologists that cities arise from a human need for defense. Then, once they are established, urban areas develop in different ways. As we have said, Egypt needed no defense, so the primary driver for urbanism was lacking.
This great ancient Egyptian society featured a bureaucracy, which was the greatest in the history of man. It directed an economy of craft specialization and mass labor projects focused on division of labor by perso
2nd Stage of the Peloponnesian War from 421-413
Corinth forms coalitions against Athens. Alcibiades stirs up trouble and is exiled. Betrays Athens to Sparta. Both sides seek the alliance of Argos but in the Battle of Mantinea she loses most of her military and becomes an Athenian ally.
415-413 - Athenian expedition to Syracuse. Sicily.
3rd Stage of the Peloponnesian War from 413-404
Under the advice of Alcibiades, Sparta invades Attica. Athens continues to send ships and men to Sicily even though it is disastrous. Athens, which had started the war with the advantage in naval battle, loses this advantage to the Corinthians and Syracusans. Sparta then used Persian gold from Cyrus to build her fleet and destroys the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegosotami.
By fall, after much argument among the commanders, Nicias decided to withdraw, but was held up by a lunar eclipse on September 13th, which frightened his soldiers. A soothsayer advised that he wait 27 days before withdrawing which gave the Syracusans enough time to attack and destroy the Athenian fleet in the great harbor. Now forced to withdraw by land the Athenians were attacked and defeated. Nicias and Demosthenes were executed. Much of the blame for this debacle rests on Nicias, who was unsure of his goal and overly cautious. He also was carefully guarding his reputation as a winner and unwilling to return home in defeat, fearing the consequences.
This is a classic case of the danger of distance in war (think Viet Nam). The Athenians risked their future on hubris, sending an army far away to a conflict removed from their current struggle. They reinforced a weak commander and wasted an army and navy two times. Thucydides, the great Greek historian, is highly critical of the Athenians for their arrogance during this period. It is hard to get beneath his bias, however, to determine whether the Athenians were as foolish as he makes them out to be. One thing that is beyond dispute – the expedition to Sicily helped produce a Spartan victory in the Peloponnesean War.
Talk about choice real estate—the Eltz Castle in Wierschem, Germany, is a spectacular medieval structure that sits within a valley, surrounded by serene forestland. The Eltz family has owned this piece of enchanting beauty since 1157, and has kept residence at the estate for 34 generations. Although none of the Eltz clan currently occupies the 120-room castle full time, it is open to visitors, who travel from all over to witness the vast collection of historic treasures, including weapons, armor and art.
They actually left out the most important part. Eltz castle is basically an aristocratic co-op. It’s something called a Ganerbenburg—a castle owned by multiple families. Basically only a super rich noble family could afford a big castle—so sometimes multiple small noble families, knights, and branches of the same family would team up to be able to pay for one collective castle. So Eltz has multiple separate sections for different owners—and then they would all team up if say the castle was attacked. That’s what gives it this distinctive cluster structure. I thought it still had multiple owners? Maybe they’re branches of this same family.
Mesopotamia and Agriculture
It is interesting to contemplate the following progression:
Irrigation → high production farming → cities.
This is the story of Mesopotamia, the first substantial farming culture on earth. Its agricultural productivity supported the population density required for urbanism.
Before the settlements at Sumer, irrigation was developed in the steppe areas of Mesopotamia between the rivers and the Zagros Mountains. But there were limitations to productivity, including the supply of water and the characteristics of the soil. Men, in their crude knowledge of farming, had to rely on natural processes which were unpredictable.
To harness the river’s power irrigation canals were constructed to hold water and control distribution, further extending the growing season.
Large crop production density supported a high population density which set the stage for development of urban areas. These were not large cities, but they were the first cities, numbering 15-20,000 people. Sumeria created a new dynamic of human interaction, including social stratification, labor differentiation, and sophisticated political systems.
!summarize #ai #agi
How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI
DeepSeek's sudden emergence has put the AI industry's focus on a technique called distillation.
Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than American ones.
But the underlying fears and breakthroughs that sparked the selling go much deeper than one AI startup. Silicon Valley is now reckoning with a technique in AI development called distillation, one that could upend the AI leaderboard.
#deepseek #openai #ai #distillation
Distillation is a process of extracting knowledge from a larger AI model to create a smaller one. It can allow a small team with virtually no resources to make an advanced model.
A leading tech company invests years and millions of dollars developing a top-tier model from scratch. Then a smaller team such as DeepSeek swoops in and trains its own, more specialized model by asking the larger "teacher" model questions. The process creates a new model that's nearly as capable as the big company's model but trains more quickly and efficiently.
!summarize #microsoft #ceo #agi
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 May Arrive Next Week, but GPT-5 Is Just Around the Corner
OpenAI may be preparing to release GPT-4.5 as early as next week - anonymous sources say that the next model could hit the scene sometime this month. GPT-5 may be released as early as May. Microsoft has a good reason to want GPT-5 in May - its annual developer conference is on May 22. While GPT-5 may be more capable and efficient, it doesn't necessarily mean there will be any new use cases for AI.
#technology #ai #openai #chatgpt
Amazon MGM Studios Gains Creative Control of James Bond Franchise From Broccoli Family
The Broccoli family, which has long controlled the 007 franchise, will hand over creative control of the series to Amazon MGM Studios in a new joint venture with the studio. Amazon will now control who will play Bond, who will write the next script, and when the film goes into production. The financial terms of the joint venture have not been disclosed. Amazon and the Broccoli family have been at odds since the tech company acquired the rights to release Bond movies about three years ago.
#technology #movies #amazon #jamesbond #007
Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand
Scientists have released an artificial intelligence model for biology trained on 128,000 genomes spanning the tree of life. It can make sense of existing DNA and also write whole chromosomes and small genomes from scratch. The model is available to scientists through a web interface - it can also be downloaded freely. The model could be used to help identify hard-to-interpret changes in people's genomes, decipher complex genomes, predict the effects of mutations, and more.
#technology #biology #ai #dna
Apple’s Vision Pro has a problem a year into its existence: Not enough apps
Apple said in August that the Vision Pro had 2,500 apps. According to one firm's analysis, fewer than 1,900 remain active.
When Apple revealed the Vision Pro in 2023, it called the $3,500 headset its next "major platform." Two years later, and a year after going on sale, the device is thin on apps.
Apple doesn't regularly release stats on the number of Vision Pro apps that are available, and it's hard to tell how many new apps come out in any given month. According to consultancy AppFigures, which tracks Apple's platforms, the number of new Vision Pro apps has declined every month since the device hit the market in February 2024.
#apple #visionpro #mixedreality #apps
When Apple unveiled the Vision Pro, executives said that developers would be able to create new experiences that weren't possible with traditional computers. But so far, top developers remain mostly focused elsewhere, and major tech companies like Google, Meta and Netflix have yet to release their most important apps for the headset.
Many of the new apps and ideas for the Vision Pro are coming from independent developers, hacking on the weekends while holding down day jobs.
One person in the indie camp is Adam Roszyk, a programmer in Poland who has created 17 Vision Pro apps since the headset was first released.
Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house
Figure has revealed a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for humanoid robots. VLAs leverage vision and language commands to process information, enabling robots to be trained through a combination of video and large language models. Figure's Helix model enables robots to follow natural language commands and pick up novel items with varying shapes, sizes, colors, and material properties never encountered before in training. Work on Helix is still at a very early stage, so demonstrations should be taken with a grain of salt.
#technology #robotics #ai #figure
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
There has been a 35% decrease in the number of software engineering job vacancies in the US since January 2020. While the story is similar in Canada, things are different in the UK, France, Germany, and Australia. Australia is the only country where the number of jobs listed is not lower than in 2020. Software development jobs have been the biggest boom and bust in vacancies compared to all industries. This post discusses the reasons for the decrease and predictions for what growth in the tech industry is likely to be like this year.
#technology #software #jobs
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups
Tech startups used to raise huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast, but AI tools are enabling workers to be more efficient, making tiny teams more successful. Startups are using AI tools to increase employees' productivity in everything from customer service and marketing to coding and customer research. They are able to gain more revenue with fewer employees and less cash, something that wouldn't have been possible without the technology. The potential for AI to let startups do more with less has led to wild speculation about the future.
#technology #ai #startup #silliconvalley
Hello, DeepSeek Open Infra!
DeepSeek is open sourcing five repositories that contain the building blocks of its online service to share its progress with full transparency.
#technology #deepseek #opensource #github #repo
European Central Bank explores using digital ledgers to settle transactions in central bank money
The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring a digital ledger-based settlement system for central bank money, aiming to improve financial market efficiency while maintaining stability. This initiative includes a two-track plan: developing a settlement platform and enabling central bank money use in digital asset transactions, especially for foreign exchange and cross-border payments.
#technology #crypto #ecb #europe
TradFi Investors Piled $38.7B Into Bitcoin ETFs, Three Times More Than Previous Quarter
Institutional investors increased their spot Bitcoin ETF holdings to $38.7B in Q4 2024, more than triple the $12.4 billion reported in Q3, according to SEC filings. Major entities like Wisconsin's investment board and Paul Tudor Jones' hedge fund expanded their positions to tens of millions of dollars of BTC. BlackRock's IBIT has attracted around 1,100 institutional holders since its release in January 2024 – by this time, most ETFs have fewer than 10 institutions invested.
#technology #crypto #tradfi #etf #bitcoin
Introducing Solana Smart Wallets
Crossmint has introduced Solana Smart Wallets, a new generation of programmable, gasless wallets designed for mass adoption. These wallets enhance user experience and security by eliminating transaction approval prompts, supporting multiple authentication methods, and integrating seamlessly with AI, gaming, and financial applications.
#technology #crypto #solana #crossmint #smartwallet
!summarize #microsoft #quantum #majorena
Google, Meta execs blast Europe over strict AI regulation as Big Tech ups the ante
Executives at Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation.
Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump's administration that the region's strict tech rules are choking innovation.
Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy chiefs at both Google and Meta used the stage as a platform to voice their concerns about the bloc's strict approach to regulating technologies such as AI and machine learning.
#google #meta #europe #ai #regulations #bigtech
"I think there is now broad consensus that European regulation around technology has its issues, and sometimes it's too fragmented, like GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], sometimes it goes too far, like the AI Act," Chris Yiu, Meta's director of public policy, told an audience of tech founders and investors at Techarena on Thursday.
"But the net result of all of that is that products get delayed or get watered down and European citizens and consumers suffer," he said.
!summarize #Humanoid #robots #tesla #technology
LIVE: Vladimir Putin delivers remarks at the Future Technologies Forum
!summarize
Introducing Shade Agents
NEAR Protocol has launched Shade Agents, a new framework for creating autonomous agents that can execute transactions across multiple chains. They use trusted execution environments and Chain Signatures for decentralized key management and chain abstraction. The system combines on-chain smart contracts with off-chain worker agents that can interact with AI models and external data sources, while maintaining security through a decentralized network of TEE-verified workers rather than relying on single points of failure. This infrastructure enables various applications including automated trading, decentralized solving, and AI-driven asset management.
#technology #near #ai #agents
Implications of KAITO Token Release
AI-powered information analytics company Kaito released their token at a $1B+ valuation, breaking from the traditional venture capital path typically followed by offchain entities like research and data companies. With challenging market conditions making raising from venture capital more difficult, a token launch is an attractive alternative to traditional equity fundraising. This precedent could trigger a broader trend of centralized crypto companies opting for token launches over venture capital rounds, potentially accelerating the movement toward tokenization of traditional equity structures.
#technology #ai #kaito
How AI Has Changed Startups Forever
AI has dramatically increased startup productivity, reducing costs across software development, marketing, and operations, with coding efficiency skyrocketing from 1.5x to 4x in just three years. As startups require less funding and fewer employees to scale, defensibility will rely on proprietary data, network effects, deep integrations, and trust rather than just software alone.
#technology #ai #startup
Ok so I'm supposed to go look for tech YouTube stuff and drop them here to help build the ai.
Summarizer #devlog - Feb 21
The summary database has been successfully decentralized. All summary data can now be found as custom jsons in the @summarydb account
Why this is important
I'm also planning to build some open source tools that developers will be able to utilize. Those tools will rely on this data being publicly available on Hive.
Thats great news! Hopefully we can see more tools grow from this initiative
Dear Leos, I challenge You to Try This:
and finally ..
#health #lifestyle
that's good activities and i think people can follow it easily because not that much hard but it is good for basic level. Thanks
One thousand pushup will be cool. My brother goes for 2000 I think. Everyday
Question:
I have 180 SWAP.HIVE more than yesterday. 😂 But I don´t know where it came from.
Can someone tell me where I can check this exactly? Thank you!! ❤️
I checked Hive-Engine, https://he.dtools.dev/ but I still don´t see where it comes from. I guess someone wanted to donate which is awesome and such a huge amount! But there must be a way to find out where the money came from. 😂
#question #help #hive #support
Weird… Yeah I went back like 3-4 days and didn’t see anything except a bunch of he-lease transactions that look like they could add up. Are you putting up any HP for lease?
Yes I do. But that is max. 1-2 Hive per day. We found it finally. It was an NFT sale on DCrops. It just showed like this:
Ahhh
Over what time period. They are all small, but you have many, many transactions from he-lease of SWAP.HIVE over many days for delegating HP to other users!
https://he.dtools.dev/@ravenmus1c?symbol=SWAP.HIVE
Thanks. I also checked there and nothing so see. I know I have these small ones. But I have them every day. This cannot be it. It´s normally not more than 1-2 Hive per day. And now it´s 180 Hive somewhere during the last 16-18 hours I would say.
Found this. Did some kind of NFT of yours sell??
Yes that´s it!! Thank you! Can you expain how you found this please? Thanks! =)
Went to peakd. Went to your wallet page. Clicked on Hive-Engine tab on the left. Scrolled down the page to transactions. Started scrolling down the transaction list for the first 24 hours. Hit 6 hours and there it was all by itself amongst a bunch of curation rewards. Sticking out like a sore thumb. Not sure it would of been easy except it was the only one of its kind in that section.
I hate a mystery! 😂
Ahhh ok thanks alot! I didn´t know that down there were all the transactions. I thought it only showed my coins.
Thank you!
Yes I hate that too hahah!
Hmmm...its a mystery! I am pretty much out of ideas. 😆
You can try peadk or Hive engine using keychain browser to login.
It´s SWAP.Hive so that doesn´t help. I don´t know where to go to see all transactions.
I thought SWAP.HIVE is the Hive engine version of HIVE.
It is, but some transactions you can´t see there. It takes another website to check, but I don´t know which one.
How about tribaldex
Beeswap is also there to check Hive engine tokens.
Tribaldex is basically the same like Hive-Engine. And on Beeswap I can´t find anything either.
On Hive Engine on the SWAP.HIVE transactions, it doesn´t show.
☀️ Buenos días Homosapiens! #humanitas
Buenos dias!
que tengas un grandioso día
Buenos dias! Cómo amanece?
Mucho mejor ❤️🩹 eso creo jajaja vamos a ver cómo transcurre el día. Tú qué tal?
Espero que ya te recuperes jeje
Yo bien, hice yogurt, me desperté buscando eso :D
Feliz día ☕️
que tengas un grandioso día
Gracias.
🦁
This is SO accurate!
Something to ponder on , thanks for sharing this
And that is a fact
very well said and i can say these are the golden words that everyone should remember.
Many people could learn from this!
i totally agree with this
Decency, modesty should not be considered as timid traits. Mannerism matters a lot.
The best way to show who you are in real. It matters the most.
Is #brave & #inleo working? #askingforafriend
I never have problems with Brave. It’s not the browser that is the issue…
Something is wrong with my system - deeply. Browser tabs do have the behavior of loading for an endless time - it's all over all browsers.
Something is timing out - but must be in the network or something.
Turn it all off, then turn it all back on starting with the network first.
both seem to work fine for me
Nested threads are not loading, can't reply, asked to re-log 😖
!PIZZA
oh thats weird :(
mine crashes sometimes on iPhone. Not usually though. It started with the new iOS update
@monkmasters just thought me how to use bookmarks on Leo. I will be using it more often.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/monkmasters/re-kwesidope-2uqtkrjpo
The Largest Expansion to #hive Trading is Ready
#inleo team does not take too long to ship features once they are in testing. The future of HIVE is INLEO (pun intended).
https://inleo.io/threads/view/khaleelkazi/re-leothreads-28u2cyxl8
Time to acquire $RUNE? #bbh #crypto
No not now.
We are not at the floor?
No idea, but last analysis told me of 0.95 since it was on high sell volume.
mhhh let's go for that!
Something to be proud of. ❤️
The #world is a #village - did you know that? #cent #bbh
Nope, could you elaborate on that?
Did you know there're just 6 hops - statistically - from you to everyone on the planet - sounds like a village to me
If I'm getting you right, you mean:
Judging by the number of people on the earth and the space of land?
Judging by the relations between the people, geographical distance can far exceed 6
Yes it is a global village
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☀️ GM #humanitas
Morning !BBH
GM!
gm gm 🫡 ☀️
I still don't know how the language switch on InLEO works, please who knows?
Just go to Settings and select what language you want to see on the UI. It will translate the words that are part of the interface. It will not translate content such as threads or posts, though
Okay, thank you. Was thinking it would translate threads or post, that's where it will make more sense.
I think LeoAI will be able to do that in the future
Okay, we hope so.
When I am done we are going to have Haunted LeoAI. lmfao
Haha, does that mean you going to upload haunted content enough to influence Leo AI?
The idea of this chatbot gaining data from here means we can determine what it will be good at. That's amazing
Going to try ;) lol
!BBH
Haha, can't wait to use Leo ai then
@thehivetuber @logen9f @falcon97
#weekendshoutout #shoutoutonleo
by @calebmarvel01You look good and sound good on video!
thanks man!!! how is your day going
Good so far bro. I'm writing a post but haven't finished yet. 😀
Try and get it done, i hope you are following the curation trail of @bradleyarrow?
Yes I follow his curation trail 😀
Thats pretty cool..
Awww my twin made a special video with my name in it. Thanks very much. One day I can assure you that we will meet in person.
Wow!!!
This is so great, i'm also working towards it..
we also plan to see Dad and Mom too.. lol
it will be a great celebration..
Yep, a very big moment
😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥 I love your energy bro... Your future definitely has a pretty lady in it with this kind of energy... I feel so welcomed and thank you a lot #newlion #happytobehere
Wow, this video got me pumped
I'm waiting to see your shorts. .lol
Not good at creating videos. I'm looking for ideas
We are hear to help each other in any area, feel free to ask me if you find my stuffs interesting.. lol
I will be sure to do that friend
YOu are all time welcome 🤗🤗..
50th Day woah
I learnt that Leo was once up to $1 per token. What was the magic that took it up to that price, can it be repeated?
Whenever a new token comes up especially in a community, there is a hype around it that makes it surge. When that hype fads, it then gets down to utility and the management involved. So the next surge will be a healthy one
Get a 0.3% reward when you convert $HIVE to swap.hive 👇🏼👇🏼
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I don't know how to create funny videos on my own, but I see a lot of them on YouTube. Is that wrong to download and post it on Leo shorts so there will be more content here? I hear there are rules to this platform.
#feedback.
We just want you to be original. So don’t post it as an actual post. Just post the video to threads if you are wanting to share. No rules, just guidelines. There is a group called Hivewatchers that will blacklist you if you are posting content in a full post that is not your content or AI generated. Threads is much safer for that content than main posts.
Okay, thank you very much, I will be doing it only on threads. I read a few of their rules and that's why I wanted to confirm if that was even possible. I'm I suppose to reference the maker of the video when doing it as a short?
if it’s not yours or you are not actively trying to feed the LeoAI video summary bot, then ALWAYS give original credit to cover yourself. The reason is that on this platform, upvotes come with monetization value. So if you are just ripping off someone’s work and sharing it to get rewarded, that’s what we have a problem with.
I see where lines get drawn now. Thanks for this clarification. Will try and stay clear of that.
"Intents-based bridging, similar to Across Protocol, enables users to transfer assets more swiftly compared to traditional canonical bridges."
⛺️
To said I don't understand anything you just said. I'm guessing it's Blockchain stuff right?
1/ 🧵 One might say there’s no place for skill in Splinterlands: once you pick the monsters to fight for you, all you can do is watch them in action. That’s true to an extent, yet there remains space to analyze your opponent’s previous battles and adjust your strategy for the monsters you might face on the battlefield.
#threadstorm #outreach #play2earn #splinterlands
2/🧵 When you do so, you can blow out a high-mana golden Fire set as if it were nothing more than a graveyard candle shivering in a cold breeze. I managed it in this battle.
3/🧵 Oh yes, I extinguished the last flame of otherwise lethal fire in just over one round. Admittedly, the ruleset modifications—Explosive Weaponry and Are You Not Entertained—helped speed things up, ensuring swift encounters.
4/🧵 I anticipated a similar Fire set, as my opponent had used it in most of their recent battles. Fire monsters tend to resist brute force, so I considered two options to counter them.
5/🧵 A fast Water monsters to flood the flames or a Life Splinter magic set. I opted for the latter.
Read more in my latest Splinterlands post: https://inleo.io/@godfish/blowin-out-golden-fire-crb
That's before you press play right? Because once the battle starts there is no changing of anything
Yes, but with certain summoners, you can still buff selected monsters at the battlefield.
I should try this game out today
!summarize
Learning English
Polite for "Fcuk" is "Make Love"
Makes sense. Except, no censorship here, so no need to misspell it 😆
!BBH
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!LOLZ
That's true 😂
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Nothing. It just let out a little wine.
Credit: reddit
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(3/8)
PLAY & EARN $DOOM
@caspermoeller89, I sent you anSharpy English matters (a lot).
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At least the message was real, haha!
This is epic. !LOLZ
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A penguin with a sunburn.
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Farm LOLZ tokens when you Delegate Hive or Hive Tokens.
Click to delegate: 10 - 20 - 50 - 100 HP@onealfa, I sent you an
Lool 😅
Error counts
That wall of doom. Hate seeing it when trying to open a site
Learning English
i prefer the basic one
Oh, my! IELTS is a real nightmare, haha!
Quite educating
The basic really looks simpler and better to me
IELTS much better. proper choice of words imrpoves sentence structure.
1/🧵
In preparation for the weekend, I made a healthy drink from avocado and banana for my family.
#outreach #threadstorm #drink
2/🧵
The drink is called Avocado Smoothie and I enjoy it a lot all the time. I have a long history and beautiful memories with Avocado so when the season is here, it's always like revisiting those memories.
3/🧵
I shared this recipe in a post and you should actually check it out. Learn the recipe, prepare it and let me know what you think about this tasty drink.
https://inleo.io/@george-dee/healthy-avocado-smoothie-9ub?referral=george-dee
Nice, now add some protein shake to it and it's a beast mode drink
Canada 3 beat USA 2 in 4-Nation Face Off kick-off match. The heated match finally came to an end in the overtime.
#hockey #canada #nhl
How are you my beautiful people of this beautiful platform #hive, I wanted to share with you, this beautiful picture I took some time ago, so you can see the wonder that is lived in my small hometown, as it is Puerto Cabello, Carabobo State, #Venezuela and that I keep in my heart, where at the end of the afternoon this beautiful sunset, which surely intertwine hearts in this month of love and friendship, I hope you like it, here a served @theshot2414, who writes for you with much affection. From Buenos Aires, #Argentina, happy Friday to all.
#thdearscat #inleo #cent #bbh
Wow, this picture is a masterpiece. So captivating.
!BBH
Thank you for stopping by and reading, the truth is something very beautiful, I always remember it with great affection.
You're welcome. I couldn't pass by without appreciating it, and you the photographer
Thank you 🙏
Brazil is under the spotlight!
Good move from Brazil
Yes, Brazil did it already and USA still interested in lawsuits.
The USA knows XRP is centralized trash that its founders dump consistently on users. Thats why it hasn’t passed.
Centralized stuff often crashes like Luna. Good point
yeah don’t remind me about LUNA… Lost well into 6 figures on that crap… You see why I am pretty much only proof of work main coins these days.
I had a few of them, but got into LunC and still in losses. Yes I know your craze for mining DOGE and Lite. At least Doge is still a thing and will become a nice valuable token.
Heck I flip DOGE into LTC and Monero mainly, lol. But yeah, give me something with some actual fundamentals. Most of this crap out there is all vaporware with absolutely nothing backing it. Proof of work, there is actual power and industry behind it.
That's great.
Learning English
Bookmarked.
Impressive
I'm in something between B1 and C1 level. Very proud of myself.
B1 sounds better to me
I will plan on visiting my twin in person next year for sure. Thanks @calebmarvel01
https://inleo.io/threads/view/calebmarvel01/re-rrupxzxxiq
You are most welcome my twin, inleo has brought us together and i appreciate each moment we spend here..
yep one hundred percent. We will grow together
By the end of 2026 almost all states have some investment in BTC.
Great one from the committee
I have to get premium, I'm getting sick of the threading wordcount limitation.
#premiumgang
I have never been sorry! It is worth it for the increased word count alone!
Plus there is more. 😀
You're right. i have to get 10 dollars on chain now. don't want to swap leo for that as it worth be stupid at this low point
oh premium on this platform 🤔
Yep, it unlocks everyother thing here. Just be super active and you would even get you money back
that's awesome wow
#premiumgang is the best 🦁🤩
I agree
Go for it, friend.
need to get some cash on chain, not gonna swap leo at this point for it. and that's the only liquid big enought to do that i've got on chain.
Okay.
Just do it ASAP.
Searching for someone to blame is completely futile.
Those who experienced #THORFi are the very ones responsible for the #StreamingSwaps!
In France, there’s a saying: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs!"
That’s just how things function... =) ¯_(ツ)_/¯
$RUNE
"In giving him the benefit of the doubt, one might wonder if he’s been unaware of recent events for the past three months."
Spot on 💯
He's such a shameless scammy pumper.
Be careful guys xD. .... #bitcoin #crypto
This is exactly how it's going to happen
xD.
That's true :(
LOL!!
Yep!
Every. Time. 🙄
yes every single time
🇺🇸 JUST IN : Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht calls for 'Bitcoin💰 Jesus' Roger Ver to be freed next.
#crypto
My friend built a Time Machine out of a traditional portable shrine
In the same universe? !WRD !BBH
are we?
Is there method to test that^^ !LOLZ
lolztoken.com
A cab.
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@selfhelp4trolls, I sent you anI guess you guys have a great love for shrines.
hahahaha after the last one? Well we are in Japan so it’s kind of just rubbed off on us.
If it works I will give you my hive keys
Hell you can have my house and my parents house
hahaha if it works I can probably figure out how to get those on my own. And I won’t need them. Hell, let’s go on a journey!
Haha, true, I thought i could trick you but it didn't work. I mean what a stupid bargain that would be right.
If there is something like that, OMG I'm giving up everything just for it. Nothing in this world is worth more than time itself
just bitcoin alone will pay for everything. Plus i will change some decisions I made in the past. The benefit is endless
the problem is it can only go back to watch Dead Kennedy concerts
Ooh shit. haha. But can i at least roam around after the concert, or it takes me back right after?
looking desperately for a loop around this. haha
#gmfrens #freecompliments
Hello to everyone on INLEO. Happy Friday
#thoughtoftheday #quotes
!summarize
!summarize
Love to see you add summaries ❤️🔥
Ya, someone had to push me ;) lol !BBH
I love cloudy days #liotes #bbh #cent
Where you at, I might ask?
away
Am in Asaba, at work