Jaco du Plessis

✝️ Christian at Heart 🇿🇦Proud of my Afrikaans heritage 🏔️Based in Colorful Colorado 🇺🇸 #FaithAndFinance

[Jaco du Plessis @Jacoduplessis]

Major issue at the White House Correspondence Dinner

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Spectacular opening ceremony in Milan, Italy. So excited the Winter Olympics is finally here!!

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Same with all the beautiful architecture.

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And time is not on our side.

[Dr. Copper🔋🌎⛏️ @CopperBullish]

#Copper - Copper’s next shortage is structural, not hype: analyst
https://t.co/BHBypx9HAJ #mining

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@Nina_clo Wie is in Tel Aviv? Het ek iets gemis?

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Well, well, well. Here we go again.

[Matt Dursh @MattDursh]

Latest cost estimates on the rebuild of the Francis Scott Key Bridge have come in between a staggering $4.3B to $5.2B dollars!

This is more than double the original estimate of $1.9B.

[Jaco du Plessis @Jacoduplessis]

Is it true that 99.5% of all startups that apply for v-capital gets rejected, by all of them? I.e. they don't succeed in raising v-cap AT ALLl? Or, am I missing something? If so, then why do we, as startups, even bother to conform to the a VC pitch-deck template? We should be MUCH more creative.

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@kobyjconrad Such a nice observation, I almost want to change our logo to the bumble bee...

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@FinanceGhost @JSE_Group Nice observation.

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"Change only, nothing goes." - gambling term right? The inbreeding continues.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

JUST IN: $38 billion partnership deal between Amazon and OpenAI

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Sam is the inverse of Tim Berners-Lee.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 OPENAI ON TRIAL: ELON CALLS IT “THE GREATEST THEFT IN HUMAN HISTORY”

The gloves are off. Elon isn’t just suing OpenAI - he’s accusing Sam Altman of stealing humanity’s future.

Here’s the short version: OpenAI began in 2015 as a nonprofit, a utopian lab to “benefit all of humanity.”

Elon bankrolled it with $100 million and the promise it would never sell out. Then came 2019 - the pivot to a “capped-profit” model.

In other words, ethics with stock options.

Fast-forward to 2025 - the nonprofit’s control drops from 100% to 26%, and the company’s reportedly setting up for a $1 trillion IPO.

Elon calls it “a self-sale at a cosmic discount.”

The receipts: leaked emails show he tried merging OpenAI with Tesla in 2017, then a board coup in 2018. Both failed.

He stormed out, calling it “crazy.” Now his rival project, xAI, is taking direct aim - and the courtroom has become the battlefield.

OpenAI fires back, too: Elon’s playing “corporate sabotage” to kneecap a competitor. But a federal judge isn’t buying the noise - it’s going to trial.

If Elon wins, OpenAI’s trillion-dollar metamorphosis could implode.

If he loses, the age of “AI for humanity” officially becomes “AI for shareholders.”

Source: Al Jazeera, SSBCrack, Washington Post

[Jaco du Plessis @Jacoduplessis]

Gambling companies (both listed and unlisted) are the dark horse in the race over the next decade. No pun intended :)

[Johann Biermann 🇿🇦 @JohannBiermann1]

The evolution of the JSE's Top 10 over the last 35 years.

From De Beers to Naspers.

From Allan Gray's latest quarterly.

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Did Big Tech just figured out a very sophisticated pyramid scheme?

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Apple to use Google Gemini for next version of Siri

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@roelofbotha @sequoia Dit klink awesome.

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Why say something like this when you know the legislative process (... and thank goodness for that!!) of states doesn't allow the "printing of money"?

[Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO]

Today is Thursday, October 30th, and the state of Colorado is, as always, open, and our budget is balanced.

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Is it just me, or am I the only one experiencing AI nausia? Every report I read, especially regarding the problems in construction (and the suggested solutions), uses the same (AI?) buzzwords.

Now, everyone is a content creator, but who's actually reading? The genuine test will — and always has been — not the idea but the implementation.

Maybe a new trend will emerge called "Sonai"—Spell check only, no AI.

Not writing the "perfect post" will, arguably, soon be valued.
#Sonai.

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The best part is that it can rotate clockwise as well as anti-clockwise!!!

[Against Atheism @AgainstAtheismX]

This is a Bacterial Flagellar Motor.

But Atheists were saying life doesn't have a designer...

Right?

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Will be $4bn+ in no time.

[DUPLESS @duplessinc]

Nigeria eyes a $2 B loan with China to build a “super grid” across industrial corridors.
Dupless: Big loans need big accountability. Dupless ensures cost clarity, risk tracking & outcome focus.
#Nigeria #Energy #Dupless #News #Today #Construction
https://t.co/RDOqst7Si5

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70% of Rail Projects in Germany is behind schedule.

[DUPLESS @duplessinc]

Altona train station deal delayed by years, project still behind schedule.
Dupless View: Execution discipline = fewer delays. Dupless helps enforce it.
#Transit #Infrastructure #Dupless #News #Today #Construction
https://t.co/L0ctEHFn12