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> The incredible offer appeared to loyalty card holders of the European electronics chain on November 8. After 11 days the company began contacting buyers, calling it a “clear mistake.”
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> On November 8, an offer for loyalty card holders appeared on the website of MediaWorld, a European electronics retailer. The deal: an iPad Air for 15 euros (about $17) instead of the usual €879 (about $1,012). No catch, no strings attached. The proximity to Black Friday only made the offer more plausible. And so several consumers immediately purchased the product by choosing the “payment and pickup in store” opetion, on paper the safest to avoid unexpected problems.
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> The process was seamless, even for those ordering online. According to the accounts of some users on Reddit, their order was accepted, and after about 40 minutes they received an email confirming the availability of the product.
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MediaWorld Accidentally Sold iPads for 15 Euros. Then It Asked for Them Back

Animal_World

This might be the first recorded tool use by a wild wolf

We'll never know for sure, but I'd bet money those wolfs are seriously smart.

> Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
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> While AI bubble talk fills the air these days, with fears of overinvestment that could pop at any time, something of a contradiction is brewing on the ground: Companies like Google and OpenAI can barely build infrastructure fast enough to fill their AI needs.
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> During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google’s AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months to meet demand for artificial intelligence services, reports CNBC. Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, presented slides showing the company needs to scale “the next 1000x in 4-5 years.”
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> While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking “for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level,” he told employees during the meeting. “It won’t be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we’re going to get there.”
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Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

> While researchers are divided on the conclusion, the behavior shows wolves may be smarter than we thought.
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> In 2023, crab traps along the coast of British Columbia started showing mysterious damage. The Heiltsuk (Haíɫzaqv) Nation, an Indigenous group, had set them up to capture destructive, invasive European green crabs. Sometimes the traps were destroyed. Other times their nets had been torn. Whoever raided the traps always went after the plastic bait cups, which held bits of herring or sea lion carcass.  It looked like the work of wolves or bears, but many of the compromised traps stayed submerged during the low tide, so maybe sea otters? 
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> To find out, scientists, in partnership with the Heiltsuk Guardians, a group that monitors the territory and conducts their own research, set up a camera pointed at an underwater crab trap in May 2024. The camera captured a wolf nabbing bait from a crab trap. In a new study describing this behavior in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the researchers suggest that the incident might be the first reported tool use by a wild wolf. 
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Photography

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Cristiano Ronaldo hit up Trump at the White House

Music

Awesome!

Oficial playlist: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3HOJ-INNEKAox1k-Q6JFIKFLr1xs4s5

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Pitchfork review: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/rosalia-lux/


Rosalía new album LUX

Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon!

Public_N_M_E

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nX776v0WQm8

Stacker_Stocks

New Predyx Market- Will MSCI delist MSTR from its indices?

grayruby

Strategy’s (MSTR) Michael Saylor Dismisses Index Concerns: ‘Our Conviction in Bitcoin is Unwavering’
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/strategys-mstr-responds-to-concerns



> Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, has raised a massive $1 billion round at a $11 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the deal. The round comes less than two months after the seven-year-old startup announced its previous fundraise of $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.
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> The latest round is led by the company’s returning investors Sequoia and CapitalG, the person said. Other investors in Kalshi include Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, Anthos Capital, and Neo.
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> Kalshi and Sequoia declined to comment. CapitalG didn’t respond to our request for comment.
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> Kalshi’s main rival, Polymarket, was reportedly in talks last month to raise another funding round at a $12 billion to $15 billion valuation, mere weeks after closing a $1 billion round at an $8 billion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reported.
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Kalshi's valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round

bitcoin

Bitcoin logo in the 1991 Space Quest game — Real or Fake?

0xbitcoiner

Looks legit, but I'm guessing it's got nothing to do with Bitcoin.

charts_and_numbers

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CostofViolencewithFooter-1.webp

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/19-trillion-global-cost-of-conflict/

Visualizing the $19 Trillion Global Cost of Conflict

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeoRHaMfyic

The Genius Of Motörhead's "Ace Of Spades" (Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor)

> As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us?
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> It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces, humanity would suffer. Musk had been an early investor in DeepMind, the UK-based lab that was ahead of the pack in pursuing artificial general intelligence. After Google bought DeepMind in 2014, Musk cut ties with the research organization. He felt it was essential to create a counterforce incentivized by human benefit, not profits. So he helped create OpenAI. When I interviewed Musk and Sam Altman at the company’s unveiling in 2015, they were adamant that shareholder profit would not be a factor in their decisions.
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> Fast-forward to today. OpenAI is worth a half a trillion dollars, or maybe $750 billion, and its for-profit arm has become a public benefit corporation. Musk, the world’s richest human, runs his own for-profit AI company, xAI. So much for nonprofit labs leading the way. But even the most panicked Cassandra of a decade ago likely didn’t imagine that advanced AI would be controlled by a single, interlocking, money-seeking behemoth.
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> That’s what we have today. Even more concerning, this interlinked complex is funded in part by overseas powers and supported by the US government, which seems to prioritize winning over safety. This rococo collection of partnerships, mergers, funding arrangements, government initiatives, and strategic investments links the fate of virtually every big player in the AI-o-sphere. I call this entity the Blob.
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> https://www.wired.com/story/ai-industry-monopoly-nvidia-microsoft-google/

There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob

She definitely hasn’t checked the Bitcoin price

I'm guessing you're tryna tell us to just stack more Bitcoin!

science

> Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.
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> All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it when they’re solving their problems. They can take it for granted that sets behave the way they’d expect, and carry on with their work.
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> Descriptive set theorists are an exception. This small community of mathematicians never stopped studying the fundamental nature of sets — particularly the strange infinite ones that other mathematicians ignore.
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> Their field just got a lot less lonely. In 2023, a mathematician named Anton Bernshteyn(opens a new tab) published a deep and surprising connection(opens a new tab) between the remote mathematical frontier of descriptive set theory and modern computer science.
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> He showed that all problems about certain kinds of infinite sets can be rewritten as problems about how networks of computers communicate. The bridge connecting the disciplines surprised researchers on both sides. Set theorists use the language of logic, computer scientists the language of algorithms. Set theory deals with the infinite, computer science with the finite. There’s no reason why their problems should be related, much less equivalent.
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> “This is something really weird,” said Václav Rozhoň(opens a new tab), a computer scientist at Charles University in Prague. “Like, you are not supposed to have this.”
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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Stacker Saloon

saloon

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Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani

siggy47

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-countries-that-eat-the-most-meat-per-capita/

Countries That Eat the Most Meat Per Capita

econ

Sanctions Didn’t Destroy Venezuela’s Economy — Socialism Did

It's a never-ending dumpster fire as long as this kind of government is running things over there.

> Venezuela’s five-stage socialist collapse dismantled the rule of law, destroyed investment, and unleashed hyperinflation, long before Washington acted.
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> In recent weeks, the debate over Venezuela has intensified, largely due to the military pressure that the Trump Administration has placed on Maduro’s regime. This has led various political figures, journalists, and analysts to revisit Venezuela’s recent history and the causes that drove the Maduro regime to provoke the worst economic collapse ever recorded in the Western world — an 80 percent GDP contraction in less than a decade. The crisis becomes even more shocking when considering that Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves. 
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> As with Cuba, defenders of the Venezuelan regime have attributed the country’s economic collapse to US sanctions — which they incorrectly call a “blockade” — rather than to the political, economic, and social model imposed by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. That model brought massive state controls, expropriations, corruption, persecution of the opposition and the press, the destruction of the rule of law, and the elimination of judicial guarantees for investment. 
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> Recently, Dr. Steve Hall, a professor at Teesside University in England, argued on X that US sanctions were responsible for Venezuela’s economic deterioration. After facing widespread criticism, he made his account private — but this was the chart he shared: 
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> https://thedailyeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-2.png
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