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[EickyD @EickyD]

سياسة الناس أشد من سياسة الدواب
Mengatur manusia itu lebih sulit daripada mengatur hewan

(Adab asy-Syafi'i wa Manâqibihi 207)

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

- co-founded The Pirate Bay
- believed information should be free
- built the biggest piracy site on the internet
- millions of users downloading movies and music
- openly mocks corporations and governments
- joked about moving servers to North Korea

2003: The Pirate Bay goes live

- quickly becomes a global target
- domains constantly changing
- every lawsuit becomes free marketing
- traffic actually spikes after raids 😭

governments from multiple countries try to shut it down, none manage to kill it

- at one point tries to buy Sealand
- a micronation in international waters

plan: host Pirate Bay outside any jurisdiction

- doesn’t go through
- inspires sites like KickassTorrents and 1337x

becomes one of the most blocked websites in history

April 2013: adds a Bitcoin address to the site footer

- 73 random people send BTC
- total: 5.56 BTC
worth ~$700 at the time

years pass and donations keep coming

total received, 135 BTC, these are worth $10M equivalent

Gottfrid Svartholm was insane

[Naval @naval]

Good marketing is finding different ways to tell the truth.

[CR1337 @CR1337]

100 days until every Android app developer must register with Google before their software can be installed on any device, and it doesn't matter if it's happening via the PlayStore or not.

Android was supposed open to anyone, to enable people to install whatever apps they wanted.

However, it is 2026 & we are talking about Google, after all, a company that wants to dictate what software you can run on your phone that you paid for!

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

A man who studies his own patterns with brutal honesty eventually becomes harder to manipulate, because once he understands where he typically bends, panics, or seeks comfort, he can anticipate his own weaknesses and close the gaps before someone else exploits them.

[TSCS @SCapStrategist]

I’m still not calling Gold’s bottom.

Gold is still soft, the most beaten-down miners have not turned up ahead of bullion, and until they do, this is still going down. If you hold the miners, you’re early, not wrong. If you’re in cash, stay there, a starter at most, and wait for the real signal.

The selling that ends a flush like this is a liquidity event, someone forced to sell gold just to raise cash. We have had selling. We have not had that.

So we wait. Long Gold’s structural case.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The older I get, the more I realize you can reinvent yourself as many times as you need. New standards. New habits. New mindsets. New people. New career. It's never too late. You can change. Today, tomorrow, and as many times as it takes to create the life you want.

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

So you’re telling me Polymarket

according to the Wall Street Journal investigation

- reviewed 1,105 promotional videos
- generated more than 140M views
- paid creators $2,000–$3,000 per month
- showed $1.9M worth of bets on screen

what allegedly happened

- many of the bets were never actually placed
- creators used demo environments instead of the real platform
- some videos were recorded on a fake lookalike site

“poiymarketcom”

fake results

- 118 videos showed profits that allegedly never existed
- $900,000 in winnings were displayed

one creator appeared to win $100,000
according to WSJ the trade wasn’t real

the problem

- real users copied some of these trades
- those same positions would’ve lost more than $166,000
- while the videos showed massive gains

additional allegations

- creators were allegedly encouraged to make content more exciting
- clips were amplified through networks of repost accounts
- campaigns reportedly focused on US audiences
- despite Polymarket restricting US users

Polymarket’s response

- denies wrongdoing
- says markets remain accurate, fair and transparent
- announced a full audit of promotional content

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

INSANE VOLATILITY IN US MARKET.

$650 BILLION has been wiped out in the last 1 hour.

S&P 500 down -0.91%, wiping out $580 billion.

Nasdaq 100 down -1.36%, wiping out $270 billion.

Dow Jones down -0.43%, wiping out $50 billion.

Russell 2000 down -0.99%, wiping out $27 billion.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

MODERN LIFE IS QUIETLY DRAINING YOU:

1. Consuming news all day
2. Never saying no to anyone
3. Carrying problems you cannot solve
4. Zero time alone to think
5. Comparing yourself to everyone online
6. Sleeping with your phone next to you
7. No deep conversations with real people
8. Skipping meals or eating at wrong times
9. Living on caffeine and no water
10. Never finishing what you start
11. Always being reachable by everyone
12. No time in nature or fresh air
13. Multitasking instead of doing one thing well
14. Chasing perfection and finishing nothing
15. Filling every silence with noise
16. Never sitting still without feeling guilty
17. Saying you are fine when you are not
18. Starting each day already overwhelmed
19. No hobbies that have nothing to do with money
20. Treating tiredness as a badge of honor
21. Rushing through meals without tasting them
22. Letting your inbox control your entire day
23. Absorbing everyone else's stress as your own
24. Never unplugging even for one hour
25. Spending evenings recovering instead of living
26. Having zero rituals that ground you daily
27. Staying in situations that slowly wear you down
28. Forgetting what silence even feels like
29. Being productive everywhere except in your own life
30. Never asking for help until you break
31. Waking up already counting what needs to get done
32. Living for weekends and dreading every Monday
33. Letting other people's urgency become your emergency
34. Never tracking how your time is actually spent
35. Scrolling to numb feelings instead of facing them
36. Going to bed with a full mind and empty soul
37. Saying yes out of guilt not genuine desire
38. Never spending a day without a screen
39. Losing yourself trying to keep everyone else happy
40. Treating self care as something to do when time allows
41. Never asking yourself what you actually want
42. Forgetting to breathe deeply even once during the day
43. Letting the algorithm decide what you think about
44. Carrying yesterday's weight into every new morning
45. Never protecting your energy from people who drain it
46. Confusing constant motion with actual progress
47. Living in your head instead of your actual life
48. Scheduling everyone else before scheduling yourself
49. Letting noise fill every moment of potential peace
50. Surviving each day instead of actually living it
51. Never pausing long enough to notice you are burnt out
52. Giving your best hours to a screen and your worst to people
53. Treating rest as laziness instead of a biological need
54. Forgetting that you are a person not just a function
55. Never ending the day with a single moment of gratitude
56. Running on empty and wondering why nothing feels good
57. Letting modern life set the pace instead of choosing your own
58. Waiting for life to slow down before you start truly living

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

THE SYSTEM BUILT TO PREVENT ANOTHER 2008 CRASH JUST FAILED.

After the 2008 financial crisis, regulators rebuilt a type of bond product from the ground up specifically to stop this exact failure from happening again.

They added stricter rules and called the new version CLO 2.0. For over a decade, it worked exactly as designed.

This week, for the first time ever, a CLO built under those post crisis rules actually defaulted.

The fund involved is run by Bain Capital.

Fitch downgraded its riskiest tranche to default after the fund returned €7.4 million to investors on a tranche that was supposed to pay back €11.2 million.

A CLO works by taking a large pool of corporate loans and slicing them into different risk tiers. Investors in the riskiest tier get paid last, but earn the highest return when everything performs well.

This tier did not perform well, and the entire post 2008 safety system did nothing to stop it.

Here is what is actually causing this.

A large share of the loans inside CLOs are tied to software companies.

AI is now directly threatening the business model behind a huge slice of that industry, because AI tools can increasingly do the work that used to require buying and running entire software platforms.

When Anthropic released a major update to its Claude AI model earlier this year, it triggered a real selloff in software company loans, the exact loans many CLOs are built from.

This is not isolated to one fund.

Fitch downgraded three more CLO tranches to triple-C just last month: Barings Euro CLO 2029-2, Man GLG Euro CLO V, and Toro European CLO 6.

JPMorgan estimates that between $40 billion and $150 billion of loans sitting inside CLOs are in sectors directly exposed to AI disruption.

UBS has gone further, warning that in an aggressive AI disruption scenario, default rates across the broader private credit market could climb as high as 13%, compared to roughly 8% for leveraged loans and 4% for high-yield bonds.

There is also a structural problem making this hard to fix from here. Older CLOs like this one have exited what is called their reinvestment period, meaning the manager can no longer swap weak loans for stronger ones.

Refinancing the whole structure is not realistic either, since borrowing costs today are far higher than when these loans were originally written. That leaves only one option: sell off the loan pool and return whatever cash that raises. Nothing more.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has already warned that stress in one corner of private credit can signal hidden problems elsewhere, describing it as looking for "cockroaches."

This is the first one confirmed.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

People who are lazy and undisciplined are much more prone to feeling envy.

[Corporate Machiavelli @Mach_Tactics]

You are not paid what you are worth.

You are paid what you negotiate for.

[MacroMicro @MacroMicroMe]

📈 Markets celebrated a ceasefire, cheaper oil, and another Fed hold. The more important move came from what the Fed stopped saying.

The June FOMC dropped much of its forward guidance. The dot plot shifted higher, with nearly half of participants now projecting more hikes. The debate has shifted too. Less about when cuts arrive, more about whether another tightening cycle is coming.

The answer will come from the data, not the statement. Watch the next PCE prints. Oil below $80 helps, but inventories are still tight. Outside the US, the BOJ, BOE, and RBA all left the door open to more tightening. China's high-tech manufacturing is holding up; everything else is losing momentum.

🔗 Full report: https://t.co/3vRJQnk5YA

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨JAPANESE AI STARTUP JUST MATCHED CLAUDE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS PERFORMANCE.

Japanese AI lab just launched Fugu, a model trained to command other models.

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI startup, was co-founded by researchers including one of the authors of the original Transformer paper, the blueprint that basically every AI model today is built on.

Sakana Fugu is a multi-agent AI system that feels like a single model, automatically orchestrating specialized models behind one API endpoint.

Fugu Ultra is claimed to match Anthropic's Fable 5 & Mythos Preview on the hardest engineering/science/reasoning benchmarks — and to beat Gemini 3.1 Pro, Opus 4.8 & GPT-5.5 on tasks like AutoResearch, mechanical design & financial forecasting.

Everyone's racing to scale ONE giant model but Fugu flips it: an LLM that orchestrates a pool of the world's best models (choosing who does what, delegating, verifying and merging it into one answer), even calling itself recursively.

Think of it as a conductor. You send one request to one API, and Fugu figures out the move: answer it solo, or assemble a squad of expert models and run the whole thing for you.

Sakana AI launched two models:
Fugu - fast, low-latency, everyday coding/chat
Fugu Ultra - max quality on hard, multi-step problems (AI research, paper reproduction, cybersecurity, patent search)

Export controls are hitting frontier models now, but because Fugu's agent pool is swappable, if a provider restricts access, it routes around it.

Both Fugu and Fugu Ultra can be accessed through a unified API, with subscription plans for everyday users and pay-as-you-go pricing designed for high-volume and enterprise workloads.

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

If a normal woman is attracted to you, she will treat you better than other men whom she isn't attracted to.

If a damaged woman is attracted to you, she will treat you worse than men she isn't attracted to and can only pair bond if you treat her just as bad or worse.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Major life hack: ask for the big, unreasonable thing. The Universe meets you at your level of audacity.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🇵🇭PHILIPPINES SEC SAYS RWA TOKENIZATION FRAMEWORK IS READY

SEC Commissioner Rogelio Quevedo says the Philippines already has the legislative framework for real-world asset tokenisation and blockchain innovation.

This opens the door to regulated RWAs, tokenised assets, and on-chain capital markets in the country.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨SHOCKING: POLYMARKET PAID CREATORS TO STAGE $1.9 MILLION IN FAKE BETS

A WSJ investigation reviewed 1,105 videos posted by Polymarket creators and found that NONE of the bets were real.

Creators were filming trades on FAKE copies of the Polymarket website and getting paid $2,000 to $3,000 a month to post them.

The same bets they showed as wins would have actually LOST over $166,000.

Polymarket says it will now audit its promotional content.

[Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) @chigrl]

🪙Hong Kong Is Pulling in Large Gold Bars Ahead of Clearing Launch

Traders are receiving orders from some of the clearing banks to move 400-ounce gold bars into the city, according to people familiar with the matter.

The 400-ounce bars are typically traded by banks and sovereign entities in London, the world’s largest bullion trading hub, but are less common in the Asian market, which is dominated by much smaller kilobars. The banks need to build up inventories to allow for physical delivery when clearing begins next month, some of the people said.

By launching its gold clearing system, Hong Kong could secure first-mover advantage in a push to become Asia’s preeminent hub for bullion trading. Last week, Singapore announced its own plans to launch a clearing mechanism by the end of the year.

Both cities are aiming to capitalize on strong demand in Asia, where many investors remain bullish about the long-term prospects for the precious metal as an alternative store of wealth. (Bloomberg)

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

Day trading is a scam.

Long-term investors always win.