MickeyGates

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[Ballon d'Or @ballondor]

Rest in peace, Kevin Keegan 🕊️

Double Ballon d’Or winner, back-to-back in 1978 and 1979. Football icon.

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

HOW LIFE FEELS AFTER SUCCESSFULLY DIGGING YOURSELF OUT OF THE HOLE NOBODY KNEW YOU WERE IN.

[MickeyGates @MickeyGates5]

@EricNjiiru GD all the way

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“I hated school, I really hated school. I hated school generally.”

“I wanted to pursue understanding, I was built this way. I have a great conceptual memory but a terrible rote memory. I always like understanding.”

- Ray Dalio

[Sam Stoffel @sam_stoffel]

Netflix co-founder: "Business is not about having a good idea"

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇨🇳 NEW: China Launches 100 Autonomous AI Mining Trucks.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk literally broke down his 5-step process for applying first-principles thinking to build anything:

[RT @RT_com]

⚡️HISTORIC RECORD

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes FIRST person EVER to run a marathon UNDER 2 HOURS with London Marathon time 1:59:30

Yomif Kejelcha from Ethiopia also finished in less than 2 hours, but came second place (1:59:41)

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

Most Powerful Speech On Failure 🗿

[TheManMaker @TheManMakerx]

Finding a truly loyal, supportive woman who genuinely cares for you?

Maybe 5%.

Becoming a man who is calm, self-reliant, and emotionally steady?

20–30% hard
but fully in your control.

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING : Massive victory for Spanish 🇪🇸 PM Pedro Sánchez due to his spine

Algeria 🇩🇿 has decided to give gases to Spain 12% cheaper due to his firm stand against Israel and US in Iran war 🔥🔥

He's standing on the right of history and also getting free passage through Strait of Hormuz along with cheap energy 🫡

That's what courage does

[Sherwin Bryce-Pease @sherwiebp]

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution that unequivocally condemns the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic slave trade as the most inhumane and enduring injustice against humanity.

123 in favour
3 Against (USA, Israel, Argentina)
52 abstentions

The resolution also seeks to recognize the profound and lasting impacts of the abhorrent regimes of slavery and colonialism and emphasizes that claims for reparations represent a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs against Africans and people of African descent.

#sabcnews

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

🚨 The Case for Merging SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla

The real play isn't three separate companies.

It's one unstoppable system: Tesla + xAI + SpaceX.

Energy. Compute. Manufacturing. Robots. Data at planetary scale. Global satellite distribution. And literal access to space.

Tesla already owns the intersection of batteries, vehicles, Optimus bots, and a massive distributed energy + compute grid. Every car on the road is a rolling data node. Every Megapack is energy infrastructure.

Add xAI and suddenly Tesla becomes a vertically integrated AI powerhouse with proprietary real-world data no one else can touch. That's the rocket fuel for frontier models.

Now layer in SpaceX. Starlink gives you a global communications blanket. Rockets solve the ultimate constraint: getting massive compute and power into orbit.

Put it all together and you have something nobody else can copy: full-stack industrial intelligence. Energy generation and storage. Physical hardware and distribution. Global comms. Launch capability. And the smartest AI models on Earth.

Apple, Microsoft, Google? They don't own this stack. Not even close.

Capital-wise, it gets even better. Tesla starts throwing off cash. SpaceX has long-duration contracts and Starlink revenue. xAI brings the explosive upside. One entity means smarter capital allocation instead of three separate balance sheets fighting for resources.

And the narrative? Markets pay huge premiums for category kings. Right now investors have to stitch Musk's vision together themselves. A unified company hands them one clean bet on an AI-powered, energy-abundant, multi-planetary future.

Yes, there are risks: execution complexity, valuation fights, regulatory heat, and serious key-man exposure. Merging won't be clean.

But the upside is wildly asymmetric.

Tesla shareholders get instant exposure to AI and space. SpaceX holders get liquidity and manufacturing muscle. xAI backers plug straight into real-world data, distribution, and capital.

This isn't just a bigger company.

It's the first true full-stack intelligence machine. Capturing energy, turning it into intelligence, deploying it through physical products, and beaming it around the planet (and eventually beyond).

If the mission has always been to build the future faster, combining these three might be the single biggest accelerator.

What do you think? Inevitable or too crazy?

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Actor Anthony Mackie: "For the past 20 years, we’ve been living through the death of the American male, they’ve killed masculinity in our communities…"

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

How to teach your kids how to learn things fast

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Iran has kept the Straight of Hormuz toll-free for decades despite being vilified, sanctioned, and Isolated.

Egypt charges $300,000 – $700,000+ per transit through the Suez Canal. Ultra-large container ships or tankers can exceed $1 million.

Panama charges $150,000 – $450,000 per transit. Large Neopanamax ships cost up to $500,000+ to pass the Panama Canal.

Turkey charges fees for the Bosporus Strait.

Canada charges fees for the St Lawrence Seaway.

The United States charges for the St Lawrence Seaway.

But Iran is a bad country.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

How Can You Move to China, Answered.

A lot of people asked me how they can:
*Move to China
*Get Permanent Residence.

Click the Link in the Comments for the Full Answer.👇

[Myron Gaines @MyronGainesX]

WHY are Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, 2 Jewish zionists doing the "peace" negotiations in the Middle East?!

Kushner's family is extremely close to Netanyahu, and Witkoff is a NYC real estate guy, not a diplomat.

Both have business dealings in the Middle East which is a GROSS conflict of interest.

High level negotiations like this are Marco Rubio's job as the Secretary of State, but he wouldn't have done better either...

The fact Trump sent Witkoff and Kushner to negotiate with Iran was proof the US was NEVER serious about real nuclear discussions for peace.

It was strategic warfare disguised as diplomacy all along...

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Researchers at the University of Milan have identified that an enzyme called phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) can effectively mobilize cholesterol from arterial plaques, sending it back into the bloodstream for natural disposal. This discovery is a potential game-changer because, unlike current treatments that primarily focus on preventing new plaque from forming, this method actually targets and dissolves existing blockages.

Atherosclerosis occurs when cholesterol and inflammatory cells create stable, hardened deposits in artery walls that resist traditional removal methods. When these plaques become too large, they severely restrict blood flow, often necessitating invasive procedures like stents or bypass surgery to prevent heart attacks or strokes.

The PLTP enzyme acts as a natural extraction system, pulling cholesterol out of the arterial wall and transferring it to HDL, or "good cholesterol," for transport to the liver. Scientists found that many people have naturally low levels of this activity due to genetic factors, which is why they have developed a gene therapy to boost PLTP expression directly where it is needed most.

In animal models, this localized boost in enzyme activity resulted in a 40% reduction in plaque volume in just three months, allowing narrowed arteries to reopen to nearly their original diameter. These results suggest that plaques not only become smaller but also more stable, which significantly lowers the risk of a sudden rupture that could cause a cardiac event.

While human clinical trials are currently focusing on patients with severe coronary artery disease who cannot undergo surgery, the long-term goal is a biological "reversal" of decades of arterial damage. If successful, this could shift cardiovascular medicine away from mechanical bypasses and toward a more natural, enzymatic cleaning of the circulatory system.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Switzerland says US-Israeli attacks on Iran 'a violation of international law'

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/8t6RYvYZVK