Jon Binder @jonbinder

Japanese researchers created a system that simulates an entire city by generating up to 1 million virtual residents who behave like humans using LLMs. And it predicted real-world with terrifying accuracy. They created an urban simulator called "CitySim" that populates a digital twin of Tokyo with up to 1 million autonomous AI agents. Each resident is powered by an LLM, complete with: • Personal memories • Long-term goals • Human-like desires (hunger, fatigue, social connection) • Spatial awareness and navigation Most urban simulations rely on rigid, hand-crafted rules, if A happens, B follows. CitySim is different. It’s "value-driven." The agents have agency. They generate their own schedules based on their personal habits, situational needs, and changing environments. When researchers ran the simulation in Tokyo, the output was chillingly accurate. Weekday commuting patterns, weekend leisure activities, and shopping habits matched Japanese government statistical data with near-perfect precision. It even successfully predicted crowd distributions in Shibuya and identified which stores would actually become popular, months before the real-world data caught up. The implications for urban planning are massive. We can now safely and cost-effectively test disaster preparedness, commercial site planning, and public infrastructure upgrades without moving a single physical person. But it’s not just about planning. The researchers are already looking at implementing high-level human drives, like "self-actualization," into these agents to see how they evolve. The paper went up on arXiv in June 2025 and almost nobody outside computational social science has read it.

@benwehrman It doesn’t make sense but how do you reconcile genealogy, family trees, no accounts from Native Americans etc? Wouldn’t there be a few accounts of people discovering lost cities in N. America?

🚨 SHOCKING: Australia, the SKIN CANCER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, just Dropped a Bombshell 🚨 They're finally admitting popular sunscreens are packed with CANCER-LINKED chemicals... fragrance toxins, parabens, petroleum byproducts, and 4-MBC (banned in parts of Europe for wrecking hormones). We’ve been rubbing this on our kids’ skin for decades... while melanoma explodes. The very product pushed as our savior may be making us sicker. WHY are we terrified of the Sun... the literal source of life, yet trust chemical cocktails from corporations that profit from our fear? Is sunscreen fueling the cancer epidemic it claims to prevent? Vitamin D deficiency = higher cancer risk. Sun avoidance = disaster. Coincidence? Or the biggest medical gaslight in history? Your skin is absorbing endocrine disruptors daily. Your children’s future fertility and health are on the line. Wake up. What are you putting on your body this summer? Repost if this hit you like a slap on a burnt back. The truth must burn brighter than any SPF lie. Let me know what you think, and SHARE THIS so that others may too. And if you're not already following @TrueOnX... What the heck are you doing?!

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, says that passengers on the Titanic actually didn’t want to leave the ship for almost two hours after it hit the iceberg. Pavel Durov says we are in a similar situation: our ship has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink without even realizing it. He is talking about the ship of our personal freedoms. He says that personal freedoms have been eroded almost everywhere in the world, with very few exceptions. He has witnessed firsthand the methods governments use to suppress our freedoms and take away our basic rights. He has seen all the tricks: the PR tricks, the legal tricks, the political tricks, the manipulations, and the official excuses. The thing that bothers him most today is that some of the same tricks employed by authoritarian regimes in places like Russia, China, and Iran are now also being used in some Western countries. ————— Here are some key statements from Pavel Durov: “Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts.” “You say something politically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison. In Germany, people get arrested and persecuted for insulting politicians online, thousands of people every year.” “You call a politician a bigot or a thief online and you can serve up to 3 years in prison. So, now people are afraid to use their real identities. People stop using their real names when they make comments online.” “The criminals will be fine. It will be the law-abiding citizens who will be put in danger.” “Last year, a French tax official was caught stealing the financial data of people who held large amount of crypto assets… you have a catastrophic rise in the number of kidnappings in France. Just in the first 3 months of 2026, you have over 40 victims of kidnappings in France.” “Another trick that has been used by authoritarians for decades. And now it is being increasingly exported from the East to the West. I’m talking about selective enforcement of laws. The way it works is pretty straightforward. First, you need to introduce a large number of laws. You need to overburden a certain industry with excessive, mutually exclusive, contradictory regulation. As a result, you make compliance impossible. Now you can treat every entrepreneur, every CEO, every business owner in this country as a criminal. But then the government carefully starts to choose who to persecute. If the business owner is loyal, if it complies with immoral, unlawful demands from the government, gives certain political favors, then the law enforcement system and the judicial system look the other way. But if the business owner decides to stand up for the constitutional rights of his or her fellow citizens, if they refuse to cave in to political demands from the authoritarian government, then the persecution comes in full.” “We cannot afford to have this ship sunk. There is nowhere to escape. In the past, dissidents from authoritarian countries could flee to the West. But if the current trajectory continues, in a decade or two from now, they will have hard time trying to understand whether they have already left their repressive homeland or they’re just entering another open-air prison.” “Those who are willing to give up their essential liberty for some temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ————— Which would you choose: essential liberty or temporary safety?

🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels. Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance. Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it. It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present. More people voted no than yes. It still passed. Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest. This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran. Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF BRITISH FREEDOM! Good morning to the millions of everyday Brits. You are probably still asleep after we knocked out the Mexicans last night, but you need to wake up to a terrifying new reality! It has just leaked that Andy Burnham is quietly preparing to enforce strict new VPN restrictions to stop teenagers bypassing his under-16 social media ban. 🤡 They are trying to spin this as protecting the kids, but here is the absolute nightmare they are hiding from you. You cannot restrict VPNs just for children. To enforce this, the state will be forced to ban, monitor, or require a mandatory Digital ID check for every single VPN user in the United Kingdom. They are literally building a state-controlled internet firewall, copying the exact digital prison models used by China and North Korea. They want total control over what you are allowed to see, say, and access online so they can completely kill off independent free speech. We are trading a failed Prime Minister for a high-tech socialist dictatorship. RT to completely blow up the UK timeline and demand our freedom back! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

Do not eat these. Discard immediately if you recognize any of these in yours or a loved one’s kitchen, it’s the easiest act of love you can do for them today. A French study in PLOS Medicine examined the impact of emulsifiers (food additives used to improve texture and extend shelf life) on cancer risk. Researchers analyzed data from 92,000 adults over nearly 7 years and found that certain emulsifiers significantly increased cancer risk: Mono & diglycerides of fatty acids (E471)—found in processed baked goods, margarine, and ice cream—were linked to: 15% higher risk of overall cancer 24% higher risk of breast cancer 46% higher risk of prostate cancer Carrageenan (E407 & E407a)—a thickening agent in dairy alternatives, deli meats, and plant-based products—was linked to: 32% higher risk of breast cancer. Cancer is complex and multifactorial, but one thing is certain: the food we eat plays a massive role in shaping our long-term health. Cutting out ultra-processed foods and focusing on whole, nutrient-dense foods is one of the most powerful steps you can take to reduce disease risk. Thank you to my friend Vani Hari for this image + bringing awareness to this critical issue.

BREAKING: The EU is planning to require a passport to access the internet. And they want to block VPNs to enforce it. "The new age verification system cannot be bypassed via VPN." Read that again. A digital passport. For the internet. Enforced by blocking the tools that protect your privacy. This is what the trajectory looks like. - Cash banned above €10,000. - Bitcoin requires ID above €1,000. - Privacy coins banned. - MiCA eliminating 90% of crypto firms. And now internet access tied to your identity. With VPN circumvention specifically blocked. Every layer of digital privacy. Being dismantled one regulation at a time. While America debates zero capital gains on Bitcoin. Europe is building a system where every click, every transaction, every website visit. Is tied to your passport. This is not consumer protection. This is digital authoritarianism. And they're not hiding it anymore.

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This 1min clip has changed the way I interact with people on a daily basis. Enjoy.

@benwehrman Can you share your notebook?

New mass surveillance technology is being deployed in America, it will track Americans via Bluetooth connection from their devices If “you thought Flock was bad, something even more terrifying is being installed all over America. It's made by a defense contractor called Leonardo, and here's what it does” So the biggest problem with these LPRs, license plate readers like Flock, is that it needs to use a license plate to identify you This company has found a way around that They've made a device that can be installed next to any existing license plate reader that once it's installed, that next time they pull your license plate, it will pull all the unique Bluetooth identifiers from all the smart devices in your car. But it doesn’t stop there, it gets worse Once they have those devices, they link them to you via your license plate, and now they never need to scan your license plate again. These new sensors can be installed anywhere, and they can even see who's traveling with you It’s made by Leonardo DRS, they are a defense and technology company that works with U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies These devices are reportedly being deployed or tested in various US cities alongside existing LPR networks It’s called SignalTrace and it can be easily added onto any existing camera of their or Flock It’s described as “An advanced intelligence system that upgrades standard license plate readers to track people by their smart devices they carry, rather than just by their vehicles This is insane and should be federally banned. This is the surveillance state

🚨 CARNEY’S GOVERNMENT JUST GAVE CABINET THE POWER TO OVERRULE SCIENCE ON WHAT GETS SPRAYED ON YOUR FOOD. It passed yesterday. They buried it inside an omnibus budget bill. It gives Cabinet the power to authorize pesticides Health Canada has deemed unsafe. For “food security.” A term the bill doesn’t define. The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment called it “cabinet overruling science.” The pesticide industry called it a win. Both are right. This is madness. x.com/mario4thenorth… STOP THE POISONING ☠️☠️☠️

Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth

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🚨 CARNEY’S GOVERNMENT JUST GAVE CABINET THE POWER TO OVERRULE SCIENCE ON WHAT GETS SPRAYED ON YOUR FOOD. It passed yesterday. They buried it inside an omnibus budget bill. It gives Cabinet the power to authorize pesticides Health Canada has deemed unsafe. For “food

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An American checks her student loans. She borrowed $49,548.74. 120 payments later, she’s paid $25,558 — and now owes $50,121. After paying for years… she owes MORE than she originally borrowed. This isn’t aid — it’s a SCAM.

Screen detoxing is going to be critical if you care about your mental health and wellbeing.

A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc

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This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned. “Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.” Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s. So, what happened?

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There miracle cures are here. Will modern medicine accept them?

A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc

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Jackson's spinal recovery stunned news stations & millions online. Doctors said he'd never walk, breathe, or move again. His mom's secret? DMSO—a simple compound vets use on spine injuries the FDA won't approve But that's not the only "incurable" neurological disorder it helps.

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This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

@V33KEE @mandyarthur @grok Is this quote true?

WOW 🚨 Entire countries are exempting American candy companies from regulations in regards to their new chocolate gene editing programs Mars Candy Company’s CRISPR Gene Editing of Cocoa Trees is taking place in Ghana, well Ghana exempts most CRISPR edits from regulation entirely. What authority does Mars have to edit the genetics of cocoa trees worldwide, this is far riskier than growing cocoa cells in a controlled tank which can be shut down if issues arise This will cause Irreversible Environmental Spread via Pollen Gene-edited cocoa trees are perennial, cross-pollinating plants that release pollen year-round for 25–40 years. New edited pollen can escape via insects or wind into the regional gene pool, affecting non-owned trees. Engineered genetic edits skip nature’s slow filtering process for harmful mutations; problems may not show for years, cocoa takes 5–10 years to mature and lives decades, allowing widespread issues to happen before detection Why does any company have the right to edit genes across all cocoa trees globally, including those they don’t own, given inevitable cross-contamination? “Ghana exempts most CRISPR edits from regulation entirely. As long as the company just clips out sections of genetic material and doesn't add foreign DNA, there's no application, no risk assessment, no field trial requirement. Ghana's own guidance says gene edits present no unique environmental concerns. Côte d'Ivoire grows 42% of the world's cocoa. They passed a biosafety law in 2016 with no functioning regulator to enforce it. So in the two countries that most of the world's cocoa, the regulatory answer is either "this is exempt" or "nobody's home." The scariest part of the chocolate story isn't happening in a tank. It's happening in a field. By the time we figure out what we've done, it'll already be everywhere.” Then there’s the worst part. We are going to be eating this new chocolate without any long term tests. It’s going to be in essentially our entire candy isle We are bypassing safety and our own health so that these companies can maintain and increase their profits There has to be other solutions than lab grown or gene editing. We can’t let this happen