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[Awet @AGhidewon]

God knows how many in Africa?

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Socialists under Stalin killed 20,000,000 people.

Under Mao 65,000,000

The National Socialist Party was **Socialist**

All told, socialists are responsible for 100,000,000+ deaths in the last century.

Think about that.

They will gladly take 100 million more if given the chance.

Because they think they are justified.

Socialism is the worst ideology ever conceived by man.

It is a form of religious extremism where the god is envy and worship is cruelty, justified by greed.

It has never "worked" and never will.

When idiots like Hassan Piker espouse socialism, they should be humiliated ruthlessly and potentially criminally charged.

Same with university professors.

Never give it a single inch.

[Alex 🧩 Scaling Video GenAI @alexmashrabov]

Kazakhstan just took #1 in the world at the International Physics Olympiad.

5/5 Gold medals won. 🥇 One of the medalist is already headed to MIT.

IPhO is one of the oldest and most prestigious physics competition on earth, where only the absolute top 8% survive with a Gold.

There’s a reason the tech industry tracks these pipelines. Menlo Ventures data from Deedy tracking 18,000 international olympiad medalists shows they are 4,000x more likely to found a unicorn (including the founders of OpenAI, Stripe, and Cursor).

At Higgsfield, our engineering core is anchored by these international physics medalists, including my co-founder and CTO, Yerzat Dulat. That physics pedigree is why we named our company Higgsfield (after the fundamental field that gives particles their mass). It's the ultimate metaphor for what we do: giving form to imagination.

Per capita, Kazakhstan is quietly an absolute powerhouse for deep tech:
• 146 medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
• 75 medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
• 2024 ICPC World Finals Gold (beating Cambridge, Tsinghua, and Waterloo the same year 142 elite teams like MIT and Harvard flew to Kazakhstan for the Finals)

My own path into AI started in these exact same olympiad trenches (2x ACM ICPC World Finals → startup later acquired by Snap).

Today, the talent density is how we built the #1 AI video platform in the world, out-shipping legacy Silicon Valley giants at 3x their velocity and driving the next wave of global innovation 🚀

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

what's about to happen:

> saas stocks see a massive correction
> pressure to boost profits
> saas companies see BIG productivity gains from AI
> saas companies lay OFF 100,000+ workers in 2026 :(
> hiring slows down
> laid off workers can't find jobs
> many become founders out of necessity
> build software companies with AI
> most struggle with distribution, not code
> new SaaS model emerges
> tons of new AI-first companies
> fewer employees, more automation
> most don't raise money
> they sell early, reinvest cash, and stay independent
> glad they got fired
> 10x the amount of entrepreneurs
> fewer unicorns, more "real' businesses
> boom in 1-10 person businesses
> becomes the dream thx old boss :)

[Machina @EXM7777]

how to do vibe-coding for beginners:

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

THIS IS WHAT'S KEEPING ME UP AT NIGHT:

1. AI will kill the concept of a 9–5 for millions. MANY get laid off, become freelancers, shift to portfolios of agent-assisted work.

2. livestreaming explodes 100×. it becomes the only way to prove you are real and not AI. Twitch will look like one of the greatest acquisitions of all time.

3. the creator economy is graduating into the founder economy. audiences are mobilizing into companies, funds, and franchises. MrBeast was just the prototype!

4. we’re entering the app recombination era. the biggest startups of 2026 will be built by remixing three or four existing AI tools into new vertical workflows.

5. agents will start talking to other agents, and you won’t be in the loop. every “human in the middle” job becomes an API call between two models.

6. AI is collapsing the value chain. agencies, recruiters, consultants, and project managers disappear while micro-operators running ten-agent stacks take their place.

7. distribution goes agentic. every AI company will run a thousand influencer agents testing titles, thumbnails, and CTAs nonstop. ad spend becomes a living organism. i hope you like testing.

8. personalization flips commerce. the same product sells for fifty prices through fifty custom funnels, each built by AI for that buyer. price discovery becomes dynamic. this is prob better for business owners and worse for consumers :( .

9. data privacy becomes the new luxury. entire brands form around “human-only,” “no-model,” or “offline verified.” authenticity becomes a trillion-dollar aesthetic.

10. creators will own AI studios instead of channels. one prompt becomes a short, an app, a brand, a product line. the boundary between content and company disappears.

11. the big social platforms fracture into signal markets. people will trade ideas, audience data, and prompt assets the way day-traders swap stocks. virality gets financialized. already happening.

12. energy becomes the next constraint. every AI boom ends in a power bottleneck. whoever solves cheap, local compute with solar or geothermal wins the century.

13. storytelling becomes an economic engine again. the only moats left are narrative, taste, and trust.

14. AI-native insurance becomes a massive opportunity. once agents handle billions of decisions, someone must underwrite the risk.

15. an AI glut means deflation everywhere except in ideas. when intelligence is free, originality becomes priceless.

16. governments create national models to protect sovereignty. data turns into a weapon and compute becomes foreign policy.

17. as agents handle logistics, humans move up the stack into aesthetics. art direction becomes a daily skill. everything becomes branding.

18. the next decade’s wealth comes not just from building AI but from deciding where not to use it. restraint will make fortunes.

19. AI compute arbitrage becomes a trillion-dollar trade. people buy cheap cloud in underdeveloped markets and rent it globally, like Airbnb for GPUs.

20. AI-native brands dominate e-commerce by owning micro-trends. they launch new products daily, test a thousand ad variants, and kill losers overnight.

21. the AI gold rush ends with a massive data rush. whoever owns or licenses niche, verified datasets controls the supply chain of the future.

22. the next $10 billion fund is hybrid: part VC, part compute allocator, part data warehouse. capital moves from money to intelligence.

23. once personal AGIs hit, subscription fatigue dies. consumers will want one AI that handles everything. the first “super-app for life” could be a trillion-dollar company.

24. most billion-dollar outcomes this decade come from repackaging existing industries through AI... the AI accountant, AI real-estate broker, AI logistics coordinator starting as highly vertical versions of familiar services.

25. mobile UI shifts from taps to chat + camera. the screen becomes a lens, the conversation becomes the interface. the app era quietly turns into the agent era. @meetLCA is a design agency i co-founded that is behind the biggest AI apps rn, seeing it play out now.

26. every industry is about to unbundle into interface companies. whoever owns the customer interface, not the backend or the model, controls the value chain. it’s Shopify vs AWS all over again.

27. vertical media merges with vertical SaaS. every niche publication births a product; every software company births a content arm. the media-product line disappears.

28. the internet used to reward consistency. the new internet rewards experimentation. the faster you test, the faster you compound.

29. AI blurs the line between work and art. products start to feel authored, like albums or films. founders become creative directors of automation.

30. AI regulation prob will look like climate policy... too slow, too messy, full of loopholes. innovation moves to places that treat compute like oil.

31. the internet fragments into private ecosystems. niche communities curated by AI become the real web. public feeds feel like Times Square; private groups feel like homes!!

32. the first fully autonomous startup launches within 3 years. no employees, no meetings, no deadlines, just connected agents generating profit. insanity.

33. we are living through the great compression. timelines that used to unfold over decades now happen in months. this is the closest thing to a gold rush most people will ever see.

34. people will look back on 2026–2029 the way we look at the early internet. the difference is you don’t need permission, capital, or credentials. you just need to build something people actually care about.

35. mobile consumer apps feel alive again. they talk back, remember you, and evolve with you. static interfaces begin to feel prehistoric.

36. the next decade of wealth will belong to people who understand three things: distribution is leverage, taste is strategy, and AI is infrastructure.

im tired because i havent slept but wired because...

THIS IS THE BEST TIME IN HISTORY TO BUILD.

our future will look very different than our past/present. life as we know it changing.

i hope you get some sleep.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

This week paints the saddest portraits of our continent. #Cameroon, #Côte d’Ivoire, and #Tanzania are burning because selfish tyrants have once again decided to abuse their citizens and trample on their right to choose.

Biya, Ouattara, and Suluhu all began by blocking their opponents from running. And even when people managed to unite behind the few remaining opposition candidates, they resorted to their usual tricks : stuffing ballot boxes, fabricating results, and declaring themselves winners.

Now, they unleash violence on citizens who dare to protest this daylight robbery. Young people are being killed in the streets for demanding nothing more than respect for their votes. The dictators expect that, after enough blood is spilled, after enough people are arrested, after the internet is shut down, fear will do its work and silence will return. They are counting on our exhaustion to secure another five or seven years of illegitimate power.

And, as always, our so-called regional institutions rush to congratulate them. They release their shameful, recycled statements: “we are observing the situation and call for calm and peace.” Words that reek of hypocrisy and cowardice.

This is the kind of pain you can’t explain. The pain of seeing your vote stolen and your future crushed in front of your eyes. The pain of growing up in a country where you have no say, no power, no right to decide your destiny. You watch those who created your misery parading in luxury cars, guarded by soldiers you paid for, living off your sweat while you struggle to survive.

This is the tragedy of #Africa: a continent with so much brilliance, so much promise, yet held hostage by those who fear the awakening of their own people.

[Awet @AGhidewon]

And The Oscar 2025 goes to the best actors from the Horn of Africa

[Awet @AGhidewon]

@KalKassa 😆😆

[Awet @AGhidewon]

Incompetent leaders always target freedom of speech

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Another elected official in Brazil -- a Congressman -- telling Moraes to go fuck himself, proclaiming that he's using a VPN to access and post on X, and that he will continue to do so.

Congratulations to Brazilians engaging in collective civil disobedience for their freedom:🇧🇷

[Awet @AGhidewon]

@BehiwotTilahun Don’t worry bro. You still have the tana lake to swim and maybe ride a boat. If you behave well you might get a tourist visa to visit Assab 😉

[Awet @AGhidewon]

IN NUMBERS: The IMF rates Swedish krona as world's most undervalued currency https://t.co/nsIXDWyRLX

[Eddy Quan @waronweakness]

I've lived in both cold and warm weather.

I can say without a doubt warm weather is far superior for your physical, mental and spiritual health.

[Lotto-Intermarché @LottoIntermarch]

Ertra, Ertra,
Ab alem chebitato gbue kbra 🇪🇷

#TDF2024

[Lotto-Intermarché @LottoIntermarch]

Biniam Girmay extends with Intermarché-Wanty until 2028 🥰💚

"Intermarché-Wanty is like a family to me, the perfect team to achieve my goals. In all circumstances, the team supported and trusted me, even during the most difficult times. Extending the adventure for two more years is obvious choice. I'm convinced that we can still achieve great things together, and I'm already looking to the next goals, starting with the Olympics!"

[Awet @AGhidewon]

American runner Weini Kelati's Olympic journey from Eritrea to Paris is a childhood dream in the making https://t.co/Hk5AOHxiR7 via @nbcnews

[Lotto-Intermarché @LottoIntermarch]

The streets of Asmara celebrating the Tour de France victory of Biniam Girmay 🇪🇷😍 #TDF2024

[Biniam Girmay @GrmayeBiniam]

Let me open the door.

[Awet @AGhidewon]

Why going cashless has turned Sweden from one of the safest countries into a high-crime nation https://t.co/Bb8mGbD5uG

[Awet @AGhidewon]

@RTRcharts 💪💪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is a Black Mirror episode.

Definitely turning this “feature” off.