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[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

It’s too late for humanity now. Claude has discovered the Kobayashi Maru test.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Palmer Luckey
>born 1992, Long Beach, California
>homeschooled by mom, dad's a car salesman
>build railguns, Tesla coils, lasers in the garage as a teenager
>electrocute yourself, burn a gray spot into your own vision cleaning a laser
>no regrets
>start college courses at 14
>build a six-monitor gaming rig worth tens of thousands of dollars
>collect 43 VR headsets by the time you're 18
>largest private collection in the world

2009:
>found ModRetro Forums at 17
>turn old game consoles into portable units for fun
>work part-time at USC's Mixed Reality Lab designing VR for veterans with PTSD

2012:
>build the Oculus Rift prototype in your parents' garage at 19
>drop out of college
>John Carmack (Doom creator) demos your headset at E3
>Gabe Newell endorses it
>launch Kickstarter asking for $250K
>raise $2.4 million

2014:
>Mark Zuckerberg shows up
>Facebook acquires Oculus for $2 billion
>you're 21 years old
>Forbes estimates your net worth at $700 million
>described as "the face of virtual reality"

2016:
>donate $10K to a pro-Trump group
>post anti-Hillary memes on Reddit under a pseudonym
>get exposed
>game developers boycott Oculus
>Facebook pressures you to publicly endorse Gary Johnson instead
>refuse

2017:
>get fired from your own company
>Zuckerberg won't say why
>negotiate $100 million+ payout for wrongful termination
>immediately found Anduril Industries
>name it after Aragorn's sword from Lord of the Rings
>partner with Peter Thiel
>start building autonomous weapons and AI defense systems

2020-2024:
>win $1 billion contract with U.S. Special Operations Command
>drones deployed to Ukraine
>revenue doubles to $1 billion
>take over Microsoft's $22 billion military headset contract
>Pentagon can't stop writing you checks

2022:
>build a VR headset that literally kills you if you die in-game
>inspired by Sword Art Online
>three explosive charges aimed at your forehead
>call it "office art"
>"it won't be the last"

2025:
>Anduril valued at $30.5 billion
>announce plans to build Arsenal-1
>5 million square foot weapons factory in Ohio
>autonomous fighter jets, missiles, torpedoes
>China sanctions you personally
>net worth hits $3.5 billion
>pay yourself $100K salary
>still wearing Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops to Pentagon meetings
>own a submarine, helicopters, and a PT boat
>keep one of the world's largest video game collections underground
>married a woman who sews historically accurate Tudor costumes
>won first place at Texas Renaissance Festival dressed as Henry VIII
>Sword Art Online author drew your wedding gift

from garage tinkerer to youngest self-made billionaire to America's most important defense contractor

all while looking like he's headed to a beach party

[DANNY @Danny_Crypton]

🚨 NEW: SUPREME COURT RULES TODAY AT 10:00 AM ET ON WHETHER TRUMP’S TARIFFS ARE LEGAL!

Polymarket is pricing a 75% chance they are ruled illegal.

Read that again.

75%.

And here’s the part that makes this ugly.

Trump is saying tariffs brought in around $600 BILLION.

So if the court nukes the tariffs, the market instantly starts asking one thing.

How much gets refunded, and how fast.

That’s not “clarity”.

That’s CHAOS.

Refund fights.
A giant revenue hole.
Emergency new tariffs.
Retaliation risk.

And markets reprice all of it at once.

THIS IS WHERE THEY FARM LIQUIDITY.

Bond rates PUMP/DUMP
Stocks DUMP
Crypto DUMP

So no, this isn’t bullish.

This is a volatility bomb landing at the worst time.

The market is pricing Supreme Court decision - tariffs are illegal.

It's NOT pricing the next move.

Because Trump will NOT sit calm and accept that outcome.
He will rename it.

Quotas. Import limits. Emergency fees. “National security” rules.
Same trade war. New label.

AND THAT’S WHERE THE REAL DUMP STARTS.

I’ve studied macro for 10 years and I called almost every major market top, including the October BTC ATH.

Follow and turn notifications on. I’ll post the warning BEFORE it hits the headlines.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

🚨FIVE Studies Link Aluminum-Containing Vaccines to Asthma, Autism, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Aluminum is a potent neurotoxin that's been used in MOST vaccines for nearly 100 years.

It’s time to ELIMINATE aluminum from all vaccines.

[0xNobler @CryptoNobler]

🚨 CHINA WILL CRASH GLOBAL MARKETS THIS WEEK!!

Bank of China just released new macro data and it's truly horrifying.

They're currently dumping trillions into the market.

Biggest liquidity surge EVER.

This will spark the largest commodity squeeze in history.

Here’s what’s going on:

China is rolling out the biggest money-printing event in its history.

Their M2 supply has gone parabolic - now over $48 TRILLION (USD equivalent).

Let that sink in.

That’s more than DOUBLE the entire US M2 money supply.

And historically, when China prints like this, the money doesn’t just sit in stocks.

It spills into the real world - mostly assets and commodities.

They’re trading paper money for REAL stuff: gold, silver, copper etc.

While China (the world’s biggest commodity buyer) is printing trillions to buy assets, the biggest Western banks are reportedly sitting on massive gold and silver short positions.

We’re talking about 4.4 BILLION ounces short.

Global mine supply per year?
Only about 800 million ounces.

That means these banks are shorting ~550% of the world’s annual silver production.

Yes, you read it right, 550%.

This is a straight-up macro train wreck waiting to happen.

On one side: China debasing its currency, which naturally pushes gold and silver higher.

On the other: Western institutions betting AGAINST rising prices with positions that literally cannot be covered.

You can’t buy 4.4 billion ounces of silver.

It doesn’t exist.

This is shaping up to be Commodity Supercycle 2.0.

If silver starts moving fueled by Chinese demand (solar, EVs) and currency debasement, these banks could face margin calls.

And in a market this tight, a short squeeze doesn’t just mean “higher prices.”

It means a full-on repricing of gold, silver, and other metals.

Fiat money? Infinite.
Metals in the ground? Not even close.

In a world where central banks are racing to destroy their currencies, the smart move is owning what they can’t print.

Global market crash is coming, and you should start paying attention now.

I've called multiple market crashes previously, and I'll call this one as well.

Ignore at your own peril.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

BREAKING: President Trump announces steps to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

"People live in homes, not corporations." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

[Bruxão petersoniano 🇮🇹 @aassibarreto]

C.S. Lewis foi ateu por 30 anos.

Finalmente, uma conversa com J.R.R. Tolkien o fez mudar de ideia.

Então, o que Tolkien disse?

Aqui está o que eles discutiram e como isso levou à conversão do maior teólogo do século XX... 🧵

[Matheus | IA @MatheuusIA]

A Internet é um lugar lindo.

Passei os últimos dois anos reunindo os melhores sites.

Aqui estão minhas 10 escolhas favoritas:

[Moise Buliga @moisebuliga]

RULES FOR MEN:
1.NEVER GO BACK TO THE WOMAN WHO CHEATED; (Thread)

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

How to destroy a society,

- Make art ugly
- Make porn free
- Make God a joke
- Make food poison
- Make Dads optional
- Make politicians rich
- Make money worthless
- Make buildings oppressive
- Make men and women compete
- Make children hate their ancestors

What’d I miss?

[1bitcoinguy @1bitcoinguy]

@SaveYourSons The only possible path to true happiness and success is through sacrifice.

[1bitcoinguy @1bitcoinguy]

@LulaOficial O cara criou o nós contra eles, chama o agro de fascista, eleitor do Bolsonaro de burro fascista, pessoal do interior de São Paulo de burro e ignorante.
E agora vem com essa?
Que papinho em Lula...

[1bitcoinguy @1bitcoinguy]

@BillClinton @LulaOficial Wtf?

[Tobi Emonts-Holley @tobi_emonts]

If you struggle with procrastination, open this:

[Art of Work @Art0fWork]

YouTube has more than 50,934,583 channels.

Here are 8 channels that will teach you more skills than a 4-year degree:

[PragerU @prageru]

Which party founded the KKK? 🧐

[1bitcoinguy @1bitcoinguy]

@POTUS ?

[Catriona Agg @Cshearer41]

What’s the area of this rectangle?