OK - in Harvey Weinstein trial, now Beverly Hills Montage Hotel manager on the witness stand. Inner City Press is covering the trial & will live tweet, thread below matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/fallen-stars…
Judge Curtis Farber: Cross examination
Weinstein's lawyer Teny Geragos: This was during Oscar season?
Witness: Yes.
Geragos: He often used the ballroom there?
Witness: Yes.
Geragos: He used an alias?
Witness: Many do at the Montage
Assistant DA: I have a stipulation, regarding Tolita Maia. We have both understand diligent efforts to find her and procure her testimony. We have not been able to. Signed by Jacob Kaplan, counsel for the defendant Harvey Weinstein.
Judge: No objection? Received.
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗿, who was convicted of lying to US authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University, has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the 🇨🇳 government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain.
Lieber is among the world’s leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such as ALS and restoring movement in paralyzed patients. But it also has potential military applications: scientists at 🇨🇳 PLA have investigated brain interfaces as a way to engineer super soldiers by boosting mental agility and situational awareness.
Lieber was found guilty by a jury and convicted in Dec 2021 of making false statements to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese state program to recruit overseas talent, and tax offenses related to payments he received from a Chinese university. He served two days in prison and six months under house arrest, and was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $33,600 in restitution to the IRS. During the case, his defense said he was suffering from an incurable lymphoma, which was in remission, and he was fighting for his life.
Three years after he was sentenced, Lieber is now overseeing China’s state-funded i-BRAIN, or the Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, with access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment and primate research infrastructure unavailable to him at Harvard. The lab is an arm of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, or SMART.
Lieber: “I arrived on April 28, 2025 with a dream and not much more, maybe a couple bags of clothes. Personally, my own goals are to make Shenzhen a world leader.”
SMART last year appointed Lieber as an investigator, according to a post on i-BRAIN’s website dated May 1, 2025. That news was covered by some media outlets. The same day, i-BRAIN said Lieber had also been appointed its founding director — an announcement that went unreported at the time.
Lieber’s lab has access to dedicated primate research facilities and chip-making equipment; that it sits within a sprawling ecosystem of state-backed institutions bankrolled by billions of dollars in government funding; and that it is housed within an institution that is luring top scientific talent back from the US.
Lieber’s ability to reconstitute his laboratory after a federal criminal conviction for lying about his ties to China shows how US safeguards on technology with potential military uses haven’t kept pace with Chinese government efforts to acquire it. That concern is amplified because of Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy, whereby civilian scientific resources and research are shared with the military.
“China has weaponized against us our own openness and our own efforts for innovation. They’ve flipped that and turned it around against us, and they’re taking advantage of it.”
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵
Lieber’s new perch appears to give him richer resources than he had in the US.
In Shenzhen, i-BRAIN in Feb installed a DUV lithography system made by ASML. At Harvard, Lieber used shared lithography equipment at the university’s Center for Nanoscale Systems. The center serves more than 1,600 users annually.
i-BRAIN’s model is two generations behind restricted machines, but still likely to cost around $2M.
On the same campus, Lieber also has access to Brain Science Infrastructure (BSI) Shenzhen, a research lab with 2,000 primate cages and dedicated space for i-BRAIN’s work. Many researchers in the field consider primate trials a prerequisite for human trials for invasive brain-computer interfaces. The BSI facility is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is funded by the Shenzhen government.
Domestic and international researchers are being recruited by i-BRAIN for electrophysiology studies on rhesus monkeys as models for
human brain-computer interfaces, according to a Sep 2025 post on its website, which invites prospective applicants to contact Lieber.
There is no indication that Lieber conducted primate research at Harvard. The elite Massachusetts university closed its New England Primate Research Center in 2015 under sustained pressure over animal welfare and funding challenges.
Jung Min Lee, a researcher who co-authored nanofabrication papers with Lieber at Harvard, has joined him at i-BRAIN as research associate professor; Lee is an expert in stitching flexible electronics into brain tissue (ibrain.smart.org.cn/author/jung-mi…).
Primate work is “absolutely critical” in translating neural interface technology to humans, but faces regulatory and funding hurdles in the US.
“With so many hassles with non-human primate research here, to have somebody give you all this support, access to technology, a concentrated center, a national initiative — those are things that are very attractive.”
SMART’s 2026 budget, funded entirely by Shenzhen’s government, rose nearly 18% to about $153M. The academy’s budget papers don’t indicate the proportion of that funding dedicated to i-BRAIN.
SMART was established in 2023 under founding president Nieng Yan (颜宁), a structural biologist. Her return to China a year earlier after 5 years at Princeton University was hailed in domestic media as the homecoming of a “goddess scientist.”
Alongside SMART sits the legally separate but functionally twinned Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, which launched in 2019 with a 5-year budget from Shenzhen’s government of around $2B. Both are based in Guangming Science City, a national science hub of manicured parks and waterways. The two institutions share the same leadership and offices, and will also occupy a dedicated 750,000-square-meter site that is under construction at a planned cost of $1.25B.
Signs guiding visitors to SMART’s premises are emblazoned with the slogan: “Innovate with the Party.”
Lieber joins at least six others who have moved to SMART from US institutions, though all of them are Chinese-born researchers returning home.
China named brain-computer interface technology a national growth priority in its new 5-year plan in Mar 2026. The rise of brain-computer interfaces and related technologies “will be equivalent to creating another Chinese high-tech sector in the next 10 years.”
🇺🇸 DARPA is also investing in brain-computer interfaces for drone and cyber defense applications. Research projects led by Lieber at Harvard received over $8 million in funding from 🇺🇸 Department of Defense since 2009.
Lieber’s 2021 conviction was one of few wins for 🇺🇸 Justice Department’s China Initiative, launched during the first Trump administration to counter Chinese economic espionage and intellectual-property theft. While still on supervised release, Lieber obtained court approval for at least three trips to China in 2024, including one granted for “employment networking”.
The Lieber case illustrates a broader failure of US policy.
“If you think of him as a vector for tech acquisition that runs contrary to US interests, we identified that, punished him, and that did nothing to stop the big-picture trend.”
US legal tools are inadequate.
“This is a guy who was convicted of precisely the thing that we want him to be convicted of in this context, and yet the minute he's released from house arrest, he’s off in China.”
📍 Last year neuroscientist 🇨🇳 Dan Yang (丹扬), the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, returned to China to join 🇨🇳 Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) as a senior principal investigator. She would collaborate with Lieber (x.com/byron_wan/stat…).
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Acabo de convertir un guion de 100.000 palabras en una serie cinematográfica de alta fidelidad utilizando el primer Short Drama Agent del mundo.
Sin equipos. Sin sets. Solo imaginación pura.
Así es como Pippit está reescribiendo las reglas de la producción:
Pippit tiene algo que se llama AI Short Drama Agent.
Pegas tu guion → hasta 100k palabras, una película de 120 minutos entera y el Agente no lee instrucciones: lee tu trama.
O si no tienes guion, el guionista IA lo genera desde cero.
El milagro de la caja negra. Impulsado por Dreamina Seedance 2.0, Pippit reduce la preproducción en un 90 % incluso antes de renderizar un solo fotograma.
1. Sube tu tema.
2. Selecciona entre 5 estilos dramáticos recomendados por la IA.
3. Confirma. Eso es todo. El Agente descompone automáticamente tu historia en un mapa de producción completo: diálogos, ubicaciones y estructura cinematográfica. Puedes revisarlo y ajustarlo, o simplemente dejar que el Agente se encargue del resto. 🎬
$NVDA just told you exactly where to invest your money.
They just poured $4 billion dollars into photonics.
Here are 10 of the most important photonics companies you need to be aware of:
1. $LITE - Lumentum (Lasers)
The laser source that powers photonics interconnects. NVIDIA just invested $2B with a multibillion-dollar purchase commitment for advanced laser components. Building a new 240,000 sq ft InP laser fab in North Carolina. Added to the S&P 500. When NVIDIA writes a $2B check to secure your supply, the market is telling you something.
2. $MRVL - Marvell (Electronic ICs)
Marvell owns the optical DSP layer - the brains that encode and decode data moving through photonic links. First to ship 1.6T DSPs in volume to hyperscalers. Full stack: Ara DSPs, Alaska PHYs, Nova coherent, silicon photonics light engine, plus TIA and laser driver chipsets. Acquired Polariton Technologies to push toward 3.2T.
3. $GLW - Corning (Passive Optics)
Every photon needs fiber to travel through. Corning's optical comms revenue hit $6.3B in 2025, up 35% YoY with data center revenue up 61%. Signed a $6B multiyear deal with Meta for U.S. data center buildout. Launched new multicore fiber, micro cables, and co-packaged optics connectors at OFC 2026. The nervous system of AI infrastructure.
You can instantly make Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini feel 20× smarter—just by adding one powerful sentence.
Here are 10 decisive, high-impact prompts that most people overlook:
[Save these for when you really need results]
« Think outside the box »
→ If you want non-traditional ideas
Artificial intelligence stops giving you repetitive responses and brings up angles that wouldn’t cross your mind.
« Read Between the Lines »
If you want to convey a meaning with a hint that's hard to explain
A magic sentence that makes the AI understand the context and feel your emotion.
A former NYPD detective looked at what I found hidden in New York's voter rolls and said one word:
"Plutonium."
The NY State Police Special Investigations Unit agreed.
Law enforcement and military intelligence both gave me the same instruction: publish fast.
This thread is why. 🧵
Every New York voter has a State Board of Elections ID — a 20-character number that is supposed to be a meaningless serial number.
999 quadrillion possible unique values per state.
It is not meaningless.
Someone engineered four hidden algorithms into New York's SBOEID number space. I found them.
Here is how they stayed hidden for years.
New York's SBOEID number space is divided into invisible territories — each county assigned a specific numerical range. Four algorithms run simultaneously across these ranges, their records interleaved so no county's data reveals any pattern on its own.
All four were deployed in one two-week window: June 1–15, 2007.
That is not database maintenance. That is an operation.
1) שתי יוצאות גוגל גייסו 300 מיליון דולר בשביל ללכת על הגרון של חברות עם שווי שוק מצטבר של 10 טריליון דולר🤯, ועד ש @EBGera יחזור מהחל"ט, נתקעתם איתי כדי לדבר על מה הן עושות ולמה זה כל כך מיוחד בנוף הרגיל של הון סיכון וסיליקון (או שמא הון סיקון?? 😅😅 סליחה😔)
@EBGera 2) פעם באונליפאנס של @DannyLeshem שאלו את אדן שוחט למה אלף לא משקיעה בחומרה (לא מדויק. השקיעו בסייטפול, קיו ונקסט סיליקון). התשובה של אדן: "כי זה קשה!!!!"
אדן צודק, כמובן.
@EBGera @DannyLeshem לתכנן צ'יפ זה ממש יקר. כאילו, מאות מיליונים יקר. וגם לוקח שנתיים פלוס. וגם כולל סיכון טכנולוגי כי אולי הצ'יפ לא יהיה טוב בריצה הראשונה ויידרש respin🥹
Les hardcore users de Claude Code dans le monde anglophone facturent entre 15 500 et 42 000 $ / mois à leurs clients…
et le pire, c’est que Anthropic a quasiment tout expliqué en 30 minutes officiellement 😂
Moins de 1 % des européens sont au courant, et si ça se répand, c’est fini
J’ai résumé en français, donc ajoute en signet 🔖 avant que ça se diffuse :
Sérieusement, c’est le genre de truc où les premiers qui bougent gagnent…
D’abord, les termes de base
Les mots qui apparaissent dans ce thread si tu connais juste ça, tu peux tout comprendre ↓
• Claude Code = outil pour faire tourner Claude depuis le terminal (l’écran noir avec des commandes)
• GitHub = cloud où les devs du monde entier stockent leur code (version Google Drive pour code)
• SDK = kit pour appeler une fonction depuis ton propre programme
• Automatisation = faire exécuter par une machine ce que les humains faisaient à la main
Avec ça, tu peux tout lire
1- C’est quoi le Claude Code SDK ?
(99 % des gens ne savent pas)
La plupart des développeurs utilisent Claude via le chat et s’arrêtent là
Mais avec le SDK (outil pour appeler Claude depuis ton programme), tu peux lancer un agent Claude Code (une IA autonome qui travaille) en mode headless (sans interface, en arrière-plan)
C’est conçu comme un outil Unix → intégrable directement dans :
• terminal
• scripts bash
• CI/CD (automatisation des tests et déploiements)
Recherche: Nazi und Faschist #Hoecke hatte 4,5 Stunden Zeit sich ohne kritisches Hinterfragen zu äußern. Damit Räumen wir jetzt mal auf. Analyse der 4,5 Stunden im Anflug: #AfD #NoAfD
@Volksverpetzer
@ThomasLaschyk
@KreuzAcht
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Punkt 1 - Multikulti rückabwickeln = Menschen aussortieren
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Höcke sagt nicht offen: „Alle Gastarbeiter raus.“
Aber seine Logik führt genau dorthin: Wer die „Multikulturalisierung Deutschlands“ beenden und „rückabwickeln“ will, redet nicht über ein paar Verwaltungsfälle. Er redet über Millionen Menschen.
After 3 years of using Claude, I can say that it is the technology that has revolutionized my life the most, along with the Internet.
So here are 10 prompts that have transformed my day-to-day life and that could do the same for you:
1. Research
Mega prompt:
You are an expert research analyst. I need comprehensive research on [TOPIC].
Please provide: 1. Key findings from the last 12 months 2. Data and statistics with sources 3. Expert opinions and quotes 4. Emerging trends and predictions 5. Controversial viewpoints or debates 6. Practical implications for [INDUSTRY/AUDIENCE]
Format as an executive brief with clear sections. Include source links for all claims.
Additional context: [YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS]
2. Writing white papers
Mega prompt:
You are a technical writer specializing in authoritative white papers.
Write a white paper on [TOPIC] for [TARGET AUDIENCE].
Structure:
- Executive Summary (150 words)
- Problem Statement with market data
- Current Solutions and their limitations
- Our Approach/Solution with technical details
- Case Studies or proof points
- Implementation framework
- ROI Analysis
- Conclusion and Call to Action
In 1962, C.S. Lewis was asked to name the books that most influenced his life philosophy.
The list he came up had many classics, but also some lesser known gems. Here’s his list:
1. The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
Written while he awaited execution, the work is a dialogue between Boethius and Lady Philosophy who consoles the author by discussing the fleeting nature of worldly goods. It influenced the late-antique mind more than any other work.
2. Theism and Humanism, Arthur Balfour
Based on a 1914 lecture, Balfour discusses naturalism and challenges adherents to explain phenomena like art, human reason, and human rights. He states:
“My desire has been to show that all we think best in human culture…requires God…”
@BicklerUS @Awk20000 I hear your loud and clear: the primary intercessor that holds water is @djclancy999 and the majority of the staff at @Twitch and without that relationship that's only found on Twitch, The Piker doesn't have the domain or environment freely to do whatever he wants.
@BicklerUS @Awk20000 @djclancy999 @Twitch I've seen him before he started his career on Twitch where he has a scripted segment on The Young Turks called "The Breakdown", this show would have him read a script on a prompter and perform a commentary segment of roughly 3 to 5 minutes.
@BicklerUS @Awk20000 @djclancy999 @Twitch These were concise videos that got the point across clearly to what The Piker wanted to say at once. But they're not convincing because people will listen to the video, assess the arguments and move on; with the audience being primarily adults at the time.
Rockefeller had a lot of China ties, through this he served as a blueprint for outsourcing.
We also have the Puerto Rico Sugar colony that's hidden.
Puerto Rico was America's first NeoCorporate Colony. This is hidden history.
There's never been public condemnation, sympathy, or reconciliation.
Even to the point where our Congress ignores Puerto Rico's consecutively passed referendums for Statehood while being diminished and blamed for modern hurricanes.
The Rockefeller Foundation's 1920s China medical partnerships laid groundwork for modern outsourcing. The Puerto Rico sugar racket (Foraker Act 1900) was America's first corporate colony, using tariff tricks to extract wealth while keeping islanders as "second-class citizens".
Puerto Rico has been America’s oldest colony—Since 1898.
The Foraker Act created a corporate playground where US sugar trusts bled the island dry while denying them Citizenship.
Today’s statehood votes are theater while hedge funds feast on the debt corpse and politicians along with the media act like they never happened.
Real reconciliation would require admitting the crime, canceling the debt, and giving Puerto Ricans the sovereignty Congress has stolen for nearly 130 years.