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Apr 16
🚨A new study details that the climate value of algae & cyanobacteria lies not in CO₂ uptake alone, but in their capacity to generate long-lived, chemically recalcitrant C compounds, such as algaenan & carbonates that may contribute to durable sequestration pathways.

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2/ The study adopts a conceptual synthesis framework, integrating biochemical & geochemical evidence to examine carbon fate post-photosynthetic fixation, moving beyond uptake rates to study the thermodynamic and structural persistence of biogenic carbon. Image
3/ It constructs a functional distinction between:

1) Labile carbon fractions, which are rapidly cycled through microbial respiration

2) Recalcitrant fractions, which resist degradation & contribute to long-term carbon storage across terrestrial & marine systems.
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Apr 16
Opus 4.7 is live in Claude Code today!

The model performs best if you treat it like an engineer you're delegating to, not a pair programmer you're guiding line by line. Here are three workflow shifts we recommend for this model 🧵

anthropic.com/news/claude-op…
1. Use auto mode to let Claude make permission decisions on your behalf. This lets Claude Code finish larger chunks of work autonomously. Shift + Tab in the CLI to enable. Available to Max, Team, Enterprise.

Docs: code.claude.com/docs/en/permis…
2. Give Claude Code your full task context upfront: goal, constraints, acceptance criteria in the first turn. This lets Claude Code do its best work.
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Apr 16
Fx settlement is in my view the single best proxy for China's true intervention. It looks like China, Inc bought about $35b in fx in March even with all the turmoil in the oil market. That's down from the (crazy) $100b in purchases in Dec/ Jan but still big

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The magnitude of the purchases over the last 12ms of data $460b spot, $580b including forwards creates the basis for a Treasury finding of manipulation if it so desired --

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The Treasury would have to look to a period other the calendar 2025 in the April report -- but if it decided to base its determination of activity in h2 2025 (and q1 2026) the scale of intervention (measured by fx settlement) clears the existing threshholds

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Apr 16
@kennardmatt Well it took a bit of digging and it turns out this is an example of a lie getting around the world before the truth gets its pants on. /1
@kennardmatt An FR24 subscription allows you to you can look up the tracks for that aircraft and it was tracked all the way up and down each time.
@kennardmatt Some of the flightpath is often out of range of receivers, and right at the MPA end aircraft drop off coverage for the last few miles because the receivers are in Stanley, no conspiracy to hide anything just basic technical limitations of a system in the arse end of nowhere. /3
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Apr 16
90% of System Design interviews in 2026 are just these 7 concepts repeated again and again.
Requirements clarification

Functional requirements, non-functional requirements, scale assumptions, traffic patterns, read vs write ratio.
A lot of candidates start designing too early. Good candidates first understand what they are even building and what actually matters.
Capacity estimation

QPS, storage, bandwidth, memory, cache size, growth over time.
You do not need perfect math, but you do need rough numbers. Interviews want to see if you can think in scale, not just draw boxes confidently.
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Apr 16
🚨BREAKING: A peer reviewed study just confirmed your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds and sending them to company servers.

Samsung every minute. LG every 15 seconds. Running even when you are using it as a monitor.

Here is how to stop it:
The name of the feature is ACR, Automatic Content Recognition. It works by grabbing a tiny image of whatever is on your display and matching it against a database on company servers.

The result is a second by second record of everything you have ever watched. The researchers who exposed this found it running even when a laptop was plugged in through HDMI with nothing from the TV's own apps playing.
It was switched on before you got to the home screen. Somewhere inside the setup agreement you tapped through on day one was permission for all of it.

Turning it on required one tap. Finding where to turn it off requires six steps that most menus do not make obvious.
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Apr 16
ICT A+ Breaker Model: The Smart Money Strategy That Still Prints in 2026 🔥

Still one of the cleanest ways to trade with institutions in 2026 How to use Breaker Blocks to build consistency and work toward quitting that 9-5.

A Thread 🧵 Image
Before diving into our model, it's important to understand a few key concepts:

1. Institutional Order Flow
2. Liquidity Sweep
3. Breaker Block Image
What is Institutional Order Flow?

Big banks & institutions don’t trade randomly — they have a plan.

They push price to create or grab liquidity so they can fill massive orders.

You won’t see it on volume profiles.
You read it through pure price action. Image
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Apr 16
🚨 While everyone watches headlines… the real game is happening quietly.

Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Mexico’s Finance Minister.

Sounds boring?

It’s not.

home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
🧵 Here’s what stackers should see (and others will miss):

1/ The U.S. is locking down critical minerals supply chains with Mexico.

That includes metals essential for:

- EVs
- solar
- electronics
- defense systems

And yes… silver sits right in the middle of it.
2/ This isn’t about trade.

It’s about control over physical resources.

When governments start coordinating supply chains, it usually means one thing:

👉 Supply is tight.
👉 Demand is strategic.
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Apr 16
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision. Claude Opus 4.7 Benchmarks
Opus 4.7 also has substantially better vision. It can see images at more than three times the resolution and produces higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs as a result.
On the API, a new xhigh effort level between high and max gives you finer control over reasoning and latency on hard problems. Task budgets (beta) help Claude prioritize work and manage costs across longer runs.
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Apr 16
Joe Mizrahi is the Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW 3000, the largest private-sector union in Washington state. He also sits on the Seattle School Board representing District 4.

For decades, UFCW locals have used front groups to block WinCo stores from opening. Now a Portland-based entity with no apparent Washington presence has derailed WinCo's first Seattle store, and Mizrahi's union, which has a direct financial interest in keeping non-union grocers out of the market, has said nothing.

All while publicly mourning the loss of grocery access in the same Council District (5). /1
First, the basics. UFCW 3000 represents more than 50,000 workers across Washington, mostly in grocery and healthcare. Mizrahi is the #2, elected to the Secretary-Treasurer role three times. He co-chairs a $2 billion pension fund. He's not a figurehead. He runs the operation.

(Source: , LinkedIn) /2joe4schools.com/about
Between August and September 2025, Kroger announced it was closing four Fred Meyer stores in the Puget Sound region: Lake City (Seattle), Everett, Kent, and Redmond. UFCW 3000 said 703 workers would be affected across the four stores.

UFCW 3000 was furious. Their statement called it a threat to "food access for working class communities" and noted that three of the four closing stores were in zip codes below median income.

(Source: Fox 13, 8/19/25) /3
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Apr 16
1) The "old" influencers are now Gila Monsters, plodding through "analysis" at a glacial pace, able to snap up a poor prairie dog who actually wanders into their mouth, but unable to shape the desert.

2) The "New" influencers---and not to toot my own horn by inclusion here . . .
2) contd . . . have not only accurately predicted past elections, but more important have pretty consistently understood who Trump is and how he works. I would say this group includes:
*@RealSKeshel (no one better on voting stats, including certain former reliable pollsters)
*@ryanburge Absolutely the best religious trend coverage on the planet
*@jchilders98 Jeff Childers, who I think has emerged as the single best read (besides myself) on substack
*David Blackmon's substack

Taken together, you will have an accurate assessment of what news is.
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Apr 16
What Kind of Fruit are you Bearing? 🧵

The Word of God tells us that we are fruit bearers. We are likened to a tree that brings forth fruit when the season is right.
The righteous are said to bear fruit that causes both himself and others to prosper. How does he do this? By not walking with ungodly people, and by delighting in doing the will of the LORD, and meditating on God’s Word day and night.
Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.
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