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Unicorn Riot @UnicornRiot@mastodon.social
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

NEW: A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents, on a video provided to Unicorn Riot.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal

Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: 'The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.' - UNICORN RIOT

A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota's status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents.

unicornriot.ninja · UNICORN RIOT

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an actual bus @renardboy@mastodon.social
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Quick explainer on what gives cryptocurrency value

(1/N) This isn't advocacy for crypto, it's advocacy for understanding things. Okay so:

1. A "currency" is a system of tokens that have in themselves no intrinsic value but are accepted as having value by communal agreement.

2. The backbone of this agreement is trust in the scarcity of these tokens. If someone handed you a slip of paper as payment and you had no proof that they didn't just print it five minutes ago, you wouldn't trust it.

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Unicorn Riot @UnicornRiot@mastodon.social
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NEW: A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents, on a video provided to Unicorn Riot.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal

Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: 'The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.' - UNICORN RIOT

A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota's status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents.

unicornriot.ninja · UNICORN RIOT

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

Link: openciv3.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

OpenCiv3 Home

OpenCiv3 is an open-source, cross-platform, mod-oriented, modernized remake of Civilization III by the fan community built with the Godot Engine and C#, with capabilities inspired by the best of the 4X genre and lessons learned from modding Civ3.

openciv3.org · OpenCiv3.org

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뉴스봇 - 정치 @news_politics@802.3ether.net
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"해병대의 고향" 포항시, 조례로 해병문화 진흥 나선다
(포항=연합뉴스) 손대성 기자 = 해병 신병 교육훈련단과 핵심 부대가 모여 있어 '해병대의 고향'으로 불리는 경북 포항시가 해병문화 진흥에 나선...
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202602061514

"해병대의 고향" 포항시, 조례로 해병문화 진흥 나선다 | 연합뉴스

(포항=연합뉴스) 손대성 기자 = 해병 신병 교육훈련단과 핵심 부대가 모여 있어 '해병대의 고향'으로 불리는 경북 포항시가 해병문화 진흥에 나선...

www.yna.co.kr · 연합뉴스

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mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca
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Being on Team Words Mean Things is difficult these days, particularly when multibillion-dollar companies put out breathless press releases saying "By using our massive language model, whose training data includes every version of GCC ever released, and having it autocorrect its own output by testing it against GCC, we managed to make a C compiler that mostly works for only $20,000 in a week and gosh I have so many feelings."

I mean, what the fuck are we even doing here.

anthropic.com/engineering/buil

The fix was to use GCC as an online known-good compiler oracle to compare against. I wrote a new test harness that randomly compiled most of the kernel using GCC, and only the remaining files with Claude's C Compiler. If the kernel worked, then the problem wasn’t in Claude’s subset of the files. If it broke, then it could further refine by re-compiling some of these files with GCC. This let each agent work in parallel, fixing different bugs in different files, until Claude's compiler could eventually compile all files. (After this worked, it was still necessary to apply delta debugging techniques to find pairs of files that failed together but worked independently.)
mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca
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Shared by Patrik Svensson

Great news everyone thanks to my significant advances in modern algorithmic analysis I am personally able to outperform a warehouse full of specialized GPUs by five orders of magnitude with a single ARM core for one one-millionth the cost in 0.1% of the time by training the "cp(1)" command on only the GCC source and then compiling the output of that program with GCC.

The resulting compiler - which I'm calling "mhoyecc", or as I've taken to calling it, mhoye plus cc, passes 100% of GCC's tests.

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