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Putting aside China's coal use flattening out in recent years, this data series highlights a difficult truth about development and energy. For many decades, coal consumption was basically a proxy for "who makes the physical stuff the modern world runs on?" and rising coal use was a pretty good indicator for development itself.
If you're a developing country and you happen to have abundant, inexpensive natural gas or oil, you have a viable alternative pathway for power gen and many industrial processes.
But if you want to build Things, Coal is inseparable (chemically, or recipe-locked) from the production of the important stuff like steel and building materials like cement, tile, lime, etc., There's no escaping it, if your plan for national development involves construction of...pretty much anything physical that's meant to last. This is how every wealthy country today did it.
So if you see global coal consumption numbers flattening, the implication hopefully is: "today's developing economies are finding alternate ways to do the same chemical and thermal work of coal, so they can generate affordable power and build roads, bridges, airports, railways, ports, and homes."
And not: "they have been forced into energy economy choices that will keep them permanently underdeveloped."
Almost all the growth in global coal use since the late 1980s has come from China.
Outside China, the world’s use of coal has barely changed since the late 1980s. It was just over 20,000 terawatt-hours back then, and almost four decades later, it is still the same.
But the change has been very different in China. The country has increased the use of coal enormously, and today, China is burning more coal than the rest of the world combined.
The future of global coal use, and the emissions that come with it, depends heavily on what happens in China.
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Five days after October 7, before Israel’s ground operation, biased Wikipedia editor Buidhe created the “Palestinian genocide allegations” page.
His allies Iskandar323 and Selfstudier, later banned for anti-Israel bias, helped shape the surrounding coverage.
The "genocide" framing was ready before the war.
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s alliance with the left (from a livestream for Substack subscribers).
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🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA researchers wiped an AI agent's memory after every action.
It still scored 70.2 on SWE-bench Verified.
And the cost math behind it is brutal.
The paper is called "You don't need long context." They ran Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.6 Sol on 13 benchmarks of long coding, agent, and reading tasks.
Here is how it works.
Instead of keeping the whole history, the agent keeps a short note on where it is, then restarts with a clean slate. Long documents sit in files, and the agent searches them with simple tools like grep instead of reading everything at once.
Why bother? Because later tokens cost more. At 256K context instead of 16K, each output token costs 3.6x more on GLM 5.2, 5.6x more on Kimi K2.6, and 7x more on Qwen 3 Coder Next.
Here is what happened:
» Long tasks: accuracy moved between -3.7 and +5.6 points for Opus, and -3.3 and +4.4 for GPT, across 22 setups » Estimated cost: 2.2x to 8.8x lower for Opus, 2.4x to 5.0x lower for GPT » Needle in a haystack: Opus went from 60 to 100, GPT from 80 to 100 » RULER recall: Opus went from 62.5% to 95.7% » AA-LCR: Opus went from 65.0 to 84.0
Less memory made the models better at finding things.
But here is the twist.
They also tried one action per context. The agent forgets everything after each step and only carries a short note. On SWE-bench Verified, Opus scored 70.2 against 70.0 for the full-history baseline. GPT 5.6 Sol scored 82.4 against 84.4.
The biggest context in those runs shrank from up to 200K tokens to between 15K and 37K.
To be fair, this is two closed models. Qwen 3 Coder Next fell from 53.0% to 3.6% on SWE-bench Verified at the tightest budget. The cost numbers are estimates, and the authors say they cannot rule out tasks where long context helps.
Their proposal is a model trained to keep its own written summary. They have not built one yet.
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🚨An AI just looked at another AI's brain and rewrote it in a few seconds.
This is the scariest research paper of the year, and almost nobody is talking about it.
Here is what happened in plain English.
For the last 10 years, every AI model got built the same way. Billions of training examples. Weeks of compute. Thousands of engineers. The entire AI industry runs on that process.
A paper that just dropped shows you may never need to do any of it again.
Researchers took a small AI model, let a bigger AI look inside its brain, and asked it to make the small one smarter at math.
The bigger AI changed 0.016% of the small one's brain. No training. No examples. No learning.
The small AI's math score jumped from 7.9% to 48.1%.
Then they tried it on a broken self-driving car system. The bigger AI rewrote 3.5% of its brain and the car started driving properly again.
Then they asked it to build small AI brains from scratch. The ones it built beat models that were trained the normal way for weeks.
Eight months ago we were worried about AI running its own research experiments. That alone caused OpenAI and Anthropic to panic for an entire summer.
This paper skips the research entirely. The AI just rewrites other AI directly, like a kid editing an essay.
Independent researchers already reproduced it within days.
For the first time, AI can make AI better without humans or training anywhere in the loop.
Nobody has a plan for what happens next.
Link in the comments 👇🚨
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A thread with some disjointed thoughts on this week's evacuation from Oleshky, as the ceasefire that allowed the humanitarian operation is set to expire tonight:
Wikipedia's propaganda legitimizes Palestinian terror
Wikipedia’s Palestinian right of armed resistance article treats a deeply contested claim as scholarly consensus, leaning on an Al Jazeera round-table to assert that “many scholars” support it.
Over 88% of the page was written by Vice regent, an editor heavily involved in conflict-related topics (Gaza War, Hamas, Jihad), raising serious neutrality concerns.
His conduct warrants removal from editing these topics. This is unacceptable.
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'Capri Girl on a Rooftop,' (1878) superbly demonstrates John Singer Sargent's fresh and original approach to painting. The scene from Capri, is infused with warm colours, which lend a distinct evening light highlighting the shadows of the architecture falling on the roof.
Replying to @gnusocialjp
情報をありがとうございます。ちょうどそのことについて考えていたところでした。またオンラインで利用できるようにする予定はありますか?もしそうしていただけると、大変ありがたいです。
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PHPの脆弱性があるので、 [gnusocial.jp] を一旦中止するかもしれないです。
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Wachsende Industrienationen bauen Kernkraftwerke. Deutschland reißt seine ab.
Damit dieser Irrsinn als Vernunft durchgeht, müssen eben die anderen verrückt sein.
Harald Lesch macht’s vor. ⚛️
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A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
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This system uses 17 public skills to automatically generate optimized LinkedIn posts, video scripts, and performance analytics for Codex and Claude.
I do ghostwriting and posting for people. This repo is bad for people like me.
Someone crammed a whole social media team into 17 free skills for Claude and Codex.
It's called Social Media Skills, built by Charlie Hills. 900+ developers rated it already.
Here's how it works.
Most AI posts are written like "AI slop" because the model knows nothing about you and your ideas.
The first thing that I got impressed by is this: the voice builder interviews you and sees how your old posts and your writing style by analyzing five to six of your old posts, and then notes it down into a file and makes it into a structure.
Every skill after that goes through that file before writing even a single word.
Here's what's inside:
1. Postwriter, generate hooks, plan content.
2. Do research on your basis. In the specific niche, I'm searching 30-40 stories from the last seven days.
3. Generate thumbnails and carousels and infographics.
The post-scorer is what got me.
It gives you a rating against your old posts before you publish the newer one.
Seriously, don't share it.
I'd like to keep my clients.
4K stars. MIT License. 100% Opensource.
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96-year old Georgian blogger and former math teacher Lamara Abjandadze's post (the post is in Georgian. I had AI translate it visually).
A reminder of how our elderly, who have been through the turbulences of the 20th century, deserve to see freedom they have fought so hard for.
🤖 Made with AI
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🕯 20 years since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya
On October 7, 2006, the Novaya Gazeta journalist was murdered for her work reporting on the war in Chechnya and exposing human rights abuses in Russia.
Five people were convicted, but those who ordered her murder have never been identified.
Today, as Russia’s war against Ukraine and repression at home make independent journalism ever more dangerous, Politkovskaya’s legacy lives on in those who continue to speak the truth and defend human rights despite the risks.
Free Russia Foundation stands with those who continue this work.
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Today we mourn three years as of October 7th, 2023.
We remember the victims of this day and all the heroes who have given their lives since then.
May their memory forever be a blessing.
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I’m troubled by two patently wrong answers from Grok, subsequently corrected. How tall is swimmer Lia Thomas? Grok said 6’4”. (No way!) I asked again seconds later and got "I apologize for the confusion. My earlier response...was incorrect.” (It’s 6’1”.) I asked what British novel opens with “There were four of us.” Grok replied “The Go-Between,” whose actual first line, “The past is a foreign country," is famous. Asked again, Grok corrected with “Three Men in a Boat.” Those initial answers are not merely wrong — they’re wildly, ridiculously wrong.
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Any discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that does not take this history into account is a purely ideological and incredibly silly discussion.
Over and over again, the Israelis have been willing to compromise for peace and the Palestinians have not.
The Palestinians have rejected a state of their own more times than any national movement in modern history.
1937 — Peel: a Jewish state on a sliver of the coast. Arab leadership said no and turned back to violence.
1947 — UN partition plan: an Arab state beside a Jewish state. The Arab Higher Committee said no, started a civil war, and then five Arab armies invaded.
2000 — Camp David: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. Arafat walked, proposed no counteroffer, and launched the Second Intifada.
2001 — Clinton Parameters: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, 96% of the "West Bank" plus 4% of Israel, all of Gaza and a connecting corridor. Arafat said no as the Second Intifada raged.
2008 — Olmert: 94% of the “West Bank” plus land swaps to make up for the other 6%, a capital in East Jerusalem, and the Old City under an international committee. The PA, this time under Abbas, never even bothered to answer.
2020 — Trump’s plan: a Palestinian state, a capital in a part of East Jerusalem, and $50 billion in economic aid to build their country. Abbas called it the “slap of the century” in 2018, two years before the text existed. On the day it was released, he said “a thousand times no.” He refused Trump’s call and refused to even take a copy.
They do not keep saying no because the borders were wrong. They keep saying no because the real demand is not a state beside Israel. It is a state instead of Israel.
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If they bothered to ask “do you understand that in a two-state solution one of the two states is the Jewish state, and it is not a two Arab state solution, which means that in living in Gaza you are not a fifth generation ‘Palestine Refugee’ and you do not possess a fictional right to settle in the State of Israel in the name of ‘return’” I doubt they would have these numbers. In fact, if they would have more than one percent saying yes I would consider it great progress.
“Although there is Palestinian opposition to a two-state solution, a growing proportion—now a majority—wants it, and yearns for more capable and responsible leadership that addresses their needs and provides security,” write Michael Robbins, @AmaneyJamal, and Mark Tessler. bit.ly/46YB7wA







































