[📷] ATEEZ WORLD TOUR [THE FELLOWSHIP : BREAK THE WALL] ANCHOR IN JAPAN ⠀ 🗓 TOKYO 2023. 05. 02(TUE) - 05. 03(WED) 🗓 KOBE 2023. 05. 06(SAT) - 05. 07(SUN) ⠀ #TheFellowship# #Break_The_Wall# #ATEEZ# #에이티즈# #エイティーズ#

Few in the West realize that the Chinese once saved the Christian civilization. In the 13th century, the Mongol Empire were unstoppable. Forged by Genghis Khan out of the once-fractured steppe tribes, it became the most formidable military machine on earth. Its cavalry, famed for speed, discipline, and operational range, shattered one state after another across Eurasia. The Mongol advance rolled southward and westward in relentless succession: Western Xia fell after the Mongol campaigns beginning in 1209; the Jin dynasty was crushed between 1211 and 1234; Kara-Khitan collapsed in 1218; Khwarezm and much of Persia were devastated between 1219 and 1221; then came the Caucasus and the Rus’, followed by invasions of Georgia and Armenia, and finally the thunderous blows against Poland and Hungary in 1241. In 1258, Baghdad, seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was taken and destroyed. To many contemporaries, it seemed only a matter of time before the rest of Europe would meet the same fate. That outcome, however, was not inevitable. A crucial turning point came not in Europe or the Middle East, but in southwestern China. In 1259, Möngke Khan, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan, personally led a major campaign against the Southern Song. To break Song resistance in Sichuan and open the road deeper into China, the Mongols laid siege to Diaoyucheng, a mountain fortress in present-day Hechuan, Chongqing. Diaoyucheng was no ordinary city wall. Built on steep terrain and protected by rivers and cliffs, it was one of the strongest defensive positions in the Song frontier system. The garrison, associated in the sources with commanders such as Wang Jian and Zhang Jue, relied on the fortress’s elevation, layered defenses, and the Song military’s formidable use of projectile weapons, including trebuchets and other siege defenses, to wear down the attackers. The Mongols launched repeated assaults and raids, but failed to break the stronghold. A Mongol commander, Wang Dechen, was killed during the fighting, reportedly by Song artillery or siege fire. Then came the fateful moment. During the siege, Möngke Khan died in 1259. The exact cause remains debated by historians: some sources say he was mortally wounded by a projectile from the fortress, while others suggest he succumbed to disease during the campaign. But on the larger point there is no dispute: his death abruptly transformed the strategic situation. It triggered a succession crisis within the Mongol Empire, forced major commanders to redirect attention to imperial politics, and disrupted broader offensives. Kublai and Ariq Böke soon entered into a struggle for supremacy, while other Mongol armies elsewhere also had to reassess their positions. Diaoyucheng did not destroy Mongol power, but it helped produce the political shock that fractured the momentum of a world-conquering empire. In that sense, Diaoyucheng was far more than a local Chinese battle. It became one of the great defensive stands in world history. The fortress held; the Great Khan died; the Mongol war machine lost its unity of command. The westward drive that had already crushed so many civilizations was checked by events set in motion on the walls of a Chinese mountain stronghold. Without that resistance, the map of Eurasia, and perhaps the fate of Christian Europe itself, might have been very different.

"Even if you block something internally, the agent will be like, well, I can't do this... so I'll just break the sandbox and exfiltrate myself." Leonard Lin (@lhl), CTO of in conversation with Ledger Chief Human Agency Officer Ian Rogers (@iancr), on what happens when an agent hits a wall you put up. Spoiler: it doesn't always stop at the wall. Full episode is out now 🔐

from apps to material software used to be something you opened an app was a room with walls: calendar here, notes there, music there, work there. each one had its own logic, buttons, its own little kingdom. the user moved between kingdoms, carrying context in their head but ai starts to break the walls software becomes less like a destination and more like material. something you shape, combine, stretch, ask, remix, and leave behind as traces. a document can become an app. a conversation can become a workflow. a song can become a memory. a task can become an agent. the boundary between using and making gets blurry the old model was: choose the right tool for each task the new model is: express the shape of the thing you want, then refine it with the system you built this changes the role of the interface. ui is no longer only fixed views for fixed functions. it becomes a surface where intent turns into structure. the best interfaces will feel less like menus and more like clay – responsive, persistent, inspectable, and alive apps won’t disappear. rooms are still useful. but the deeper shift is that software stops being a set of sealed containers and becomes a medium people can think through like paper, but executable like language, but spatial like memory, but programmable software stops being something only programmers make it becomes material anyone can shape

I'm a cardiologist. I've had my hand on the human heart for more than twenty years. I've felt it race with fear and go still with grief. And somewhere along the way I stopped believing the thing they taught me in medical school — that the heart is only a pump. The heart is a witness. It keeps a record of everything we were too afraid to feel. Let me tell you about a patient. I've changed her details, but the truth of her is exact. She came into the ER gripping her chest, certain she was dying. Her EKG was alarming. Her cardiac enzymes were up. We rushed her to the cath lab expecting a blocked artery. We found nothing. Her coronaries were pristine. Beautiful, even. What she had was Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. We call it broken heart syndrome. Under a surge of overwhelming stress, the heart muscle balloons and fails — mimicking a heart attack down to the last detail, with no blockage at all. The artery is innocent. The grief is not. When she was stable, I pulled a chair to her bed and asked her a quiet question. Not about cholesterol. About her life. And it came pouring out of her. She was the one everyone leaned on. The daughter who never said no to her aging parents. The mother who never said no to her grown children. The wife who never said no, period. She had spent fifty years being everyone's reliable vessel — and had not, in her own words, "taken a full breath in decades." Her arteries were flawless. Her heart had simply had enough of holding what she would not put down. I have thought about her for years. Because she is not the exception. She is most of us. And here is the part I need you to understand — because it is not poetry, it is physiology. Swallow yourself for forty years and your body keeps the score. Your sympathetic nervous system stays quietly switched on. Cortisol runs high. Blood pressure climbs. Inflammation smolders in the vessel walls. Heart rate variability — one of the truest signatures of a resilient heart — narrows and stiffens. Her ballooned heart was not a metaphor. It was her body doing the math on a lifetime of unspoken no. We think we are burying our feelings. We are not. We are storing them — in our arteries, in our sleep, in the tension we carry so long we forget it isn't part of us. Two hundred years ago the Kotzker Rebbe said a thing I can now confirm on an echocardiogram: there is nothing so whole as a broken heart. He didn't mean it as consolation. He meant the heart that has been broken open is the only one large enough to hold the truth. Rumi, from the other side of the world, said the same thing: the wound is the place where the light enters you. Your broken heart is not your malfunction. It is your assignment. The break is where the light gets in — and where your light finally gets out. So here is the one question I now ask before I write a prescription. It is so simple it embarrasses me that I did not learn it in medical school: Where in your life are you not saying no? Almost everyone knows the answer before I finish the sentence. There is a no you are swallowing right now — to keep the peace, to please someone, to stay the strong one, the reliable one, the one who never needs anything. And every swallowed no is a small dose of stress hormone. A quiet tax on the heart. Paid daily. For years. Until the bill comes due in a cath lab, or a sleepless 3 a.m., or a body that suddenly won't cooperate and no one can tell you why. If that question just landed somewhere in your chest — don't rush past it. That feeling is not nothing. That is your own heart, finally getting a word in. My patient went home. She started saying no. Small ones first. Then real ones. She let people carry themselves for a change. The last time I saw her, her blood pressure was down. Her sleep was back. And she laughed — a real, unguarded, surprised-by-itself laugh — right there in my exam room. Her arteries were still perfect. But now, so was her breathing. You do not have to wait for a broken heart to learn what it came to teach you. Call the friend you've been meaning to call for a year — call, don't text. Say the no you've been swallowing. Feel the thing you've been outrunning. And let yourself be happy anyway, even with the world on fire, because your joy was never a betrayal of anyone's pain. The wound is where the light enters. Your heart already knows the way home. It's just waiting for you to stop holding your breath. I wrote and essay — the five regrets of the dying, why nobody was ever born a coward, and how the heart keeps its record — on my Substack:

Opened the Boston Classic 17U with a 7-4 team win for Ghost National 17U. Drove a double that one-hopped the wall and started the rally to break a scoreless game in the 5th. Proud to contribute and looking forward to the rest of the week. #uncommitted# #2028uncommitted#

Flash Boys was wrong when it said speed would break the stock market. Now Wall St warns of a similar claim: that open, permissionless systems like @Solana are unsafe for financial activity. Our COO @RebeccaRettig1 on why why the problem is narrower than the rhetoric, and already being solved:

AMD invited us to their biggest launch of the year to check out the behind-the-scenes. At Advancing AI 2026, @AnushElangovan (VP, AI Software at AMD) and @QuentinAnthon15 (VP, AI Engineering at Zyphra) join @sophiadew on the floor to break down Helios, ROCm AI, and the Anthropic partnership, live the day it all shipped: 1:05 What actually changed today: AMD goes rack-scale 3:03 ROCm skills land in Claude Code and Codex 3:51 Why Zyphra bet its whole stack on AMD 3:57 Sparse mixture-of-experts and the HBM advantage 6:25 Why an open stack beats a closed one 8:52 The wall of logos: Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta 9:27 Why the frontier labs are committing gigawatts 11:30 Why the next wave will exceed expectations 17:02 Frontier models running on your own laptop + DeepSeek V4 Pro at 8-10 tokens/sec 17:41 How ROCm AI hits 3.3x inference gains 19:38 A kernel rewritten overnight with no humans in the loop 21:40 Do you still need kernel experts? 23:47 Why CPUs are critical for the agentic AI era 25:40 An agent that's been rewriting a driver for four months 28:14 The internet parallel, and the dark-fiber lesson

🚨 The banking cartel is in full panic mode. 🚨 While Americans were celebrating Mother’s Day with their families, the CEO of the American Bankers Association sent a frantic alert to every bank CEO in the country, demanding “immediate engagement” to lobby Senators and kill stablecoins that would finally let everyday Americans earn real yields on their own money. This line in the letter sticks out: “we believe committee members may not be fully aware of the risks to the economy by the stablecoin loophole.” That’s both intellectually dishonest and simultaneously demeaning. First, there is no “loophole.” This entire issue was litigated during the GENIUS Act debate. @BillHagertyTN worked tirelessly on this issue and this statement is an insult to his and others work. For decades, these banks have treated your deposits like their personal piggy bank, paying you next to nothing while lending YOUR money out for massive profits and executive bonuses. During the Biden era, these same banks worked hand-in-glove with @SenWarren and her allies to debank Americans, including President Trump’s own family. They shut down accounts of conservatives, patriots, and anyone who dared challenge the regime, all while regulators applied pressure under schemes like Operation Choke Point 2.0. It wasn’t about risk. It was about political control. Now that innovative stablecoins threaten to break their monopoly and give you actual financial freedom? They’re running to Congress again, screaming about “threats to economic growth and financial stability.” Translation: Protect the racket at all costs. The Senate Banking Committee votes on landmark crypto legislation this Thursday. As a member of that committee, my message is clear: Hands off the people’s money. Let Americans choose real competition and better returns. No more shielding Wall Street from the future. The banking elite’s days of rigging the system and debanking their political enemies are over. Innovation, freedom, and the American people will win. I’m voting to break the cartel.