Michael McLean

[Stellar Rippler🚀 @Stellar_Rippler]

Do You Now Realize Why BlackRock Is Delaying XRP and XLM ETFs?

Also why Larry Fink said, “I can’t talk about XRP ETF at this stage” and smirked?

They were never just “Trading assets” and BlackRock knew.

It’s going to be biblical…👀🔥

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 Belfast is shutting down.

Several streets and roads across the city are now completely blocked by protesters.

This after a Sudanese migrant allegedly tried to behead a local man

When the state fails, the people react. Belfast is making that very clear right now.

Source: Insider Paper / Writer: Oliver

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

3 days ago, Elon Musk sat in front of JP Morgan’s 3,500 wealthiest investors and explained why the AI economy is moving to space:

1. Starship is the first rocket in history designed to be fully reusable. Every other mode of transport... planes, cars, ships... you take reusability for granted. Rockets have always been thrown away after one use. That ends with Starship. Once you achieve full reusability, the only cost is fuel. Starship runs on liquid oxygen and methane. Both are cheaper than jet fuel.

2. Sending cargo to orbit will soon cost less than international air freight. This is not a distant projection. It is the direct mathematical outcome of reusable rockets plus cheap propellant. The economics of space change entirely.

3. Starlink V3 is 10 to 20 times more capable than what's currently in orbit. The satellite is so large it can only launch on Starship. It cannot fit on any other rocket on Earth. 100 times more bandwidth. Half the latency. It may become the highest bandwidth, lowest latency communication system that exists.

4. AI and robots will consume bandwidth at a scale humans cannot picture. Peak human bandwidth is a few hundred bits per second. A computer runs at a trillion. The appetite of AI for data infrastructure will be unlike anything built for human use. Starlink V3 is being built for that world... not this one.

5. Data centers are moving to space. Not as an experiment. As the primary way to scale AI compute going forward. It is increasingly hard to build power plants on the ground. Nobody wants one near their home. Space removes that constraint entirely.

6. From the moon, you can scale to 1,000 terawatts of compute per year. From Earth... maybe 1. The moon has no atmosphere and one-sixth Earth's gravity. You can manufacture solar panels from moon materials and launch data centers with a railgun. No rockets needed. The math on this is not close.

7. Current human civilization uses less than one trillionth of the sun's energy output. You could scale to a million times Earth's entire economy and still be using less than one millionth of what the sun produces. The ceiling on what's possible is so far above us it barely registers as a ceiling.

8. There is not a single high-volume computer memory fab in America right now. Zero. The chips needed to build the AI future do not exist in sufficient quantity anywhere in the Western world. That is why SpaceX is building one. Not to compete. Because there is no other option.

9. SpaceX has been cash flow positive since around 2014. The IPO is not a distress move. Past funding rounds were not even fundraising... they were liquidity events for employees. The company bought back its own stock. The IPO is happening now because the next phase requires capital private markets cannot absorb.

10. The senior team has barely changed in over a decade. The CFO has been there 15 years. Musk joined as the seventh employee in 2002. He says people who believe in the mission don't leave. And above technical skill, he now looks for one thing... whether someone is genuinely a good person.

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

DTCC Begins June 28th.

The Great Utility Cycle is coming ⏳

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has announced their new Gigasat factory in Bastrop, Texas, which will start producing AI satellites by the end of 2027.

• 1,000+ acres of land owned/under contract
• Over 11 million square feet of building potential
• Solar ingots and wafer, solar cells, and AI sats will also be produced here.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Imagine that.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I need everyone to share this.

The IDF found another massive number of Hezbollah weapons in storage sites in civilian buildings.

Hezbollah terrorists are using civilian buildings in Lebanon as weapons storage, just like Hamas does in Gaza.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

GUILTY.

A Texas jury just found Karmelo Anthony guilty of MURDER in the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

The "self-defense" claim collapsed instantly. The teammates who were there told the truth. The evidence was overwhelming.

Anthony brought a knife to a track meet and plunged it into the chest of an unarmed boy who died in his twin brother's arms.

The jury saw right through it.

This is the justice system at work.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The level of fraud here is mind-blowing

[Stellar Rippler🚀 @Stellar_Rippler]

BARCLAYS CEO JUST DROPPED THE BOMBSHELL ABOUT DIGITAL ASSETS‼️

Institutions are waiting for the green light(Clarity Act) to legally use Digital Assets.

C.S. Venkatakrishnan: “Digital assets and stablecoins will be the backbone of future banking platforms and payments.”

Translation? They’re not just “exploring”, they’re positioning for the crypto-powered future rails.

Remember, Barclays couldn’t touch XRP directly due to regulatory restrictions, so they quietly co-invested in “SendFriend” with Ripple using XRP for remittances indirectly.

Now the same bank is publicly hyping exactly what Ripple does best.

This isn’t random. The quiet partnerships, the stablecoin plays, the tokenized future… it’s all connecting.

The Official Announcements from banks and institutions once Clarity Act passes, will have a Ripple effect on Digital Assets.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

WILD: Chilean police seized 104 tons of drugs concealed inside timber using a liquid concentrate - a method officers called one of the most sophisticated they've ever encountered. The shipment was destined for overseas transport by sea.

[Dr. Heidi Klessig @heidiklessigmd]

After heart surgery, the parents of a 13-year-old girl were told that their daughter was dying, and that they should start making end-of-life decisions, including donating her organs.

Upon transferring their daughter to another hospital however, they were told that doctors at Oregon Health and Science University had installed her new heart valve upside down.

“Doctors at Seattle Children's removed the inverted valve and replaced it with a different one, properly positioned. Her heart promptly began to function correctly. She was successfully taken off cardiac bypass and no longer required ECMO.

Her condition continued to stabilize over the following days in Seattle Children's ICU. After more than a month in critical condition, she was able to return home with her parents.”

[Stellar Rippler🚀 @Stellar_Rippler]

🚨🇯🇵 HUGE: Japan's SBI Shinsei Bank will let customers convert a portion of their deposit interest into $XRP starting June 10!!

Japan has roughly $8.6 trillion in total bank deposits.

Even at Japan’s low rates (often under 0.5% for many accounts), this still represents tens of billions in annual interest payouts across the system, a massive pool that SBI’s move could tap into for XRP conversion.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

SBI Japan knows the new financial system runs on XRP. That’s why their CEO said it’ll be obscenely expensive.

Japan is running way ahead of the U.S. 😳🔥

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Edison V. Campos @Edison_vander]

Um homem de 25 anos mandou mensagem para uma menina de 13 anos.

"Oi, gatinha." "Meu sonho é ficar com você." "Seria uma honra tirar a virgindade dela."

O que ele não sabia: era a mãe quem respondia.

A mãe perguntou diretamente: "Isso não é pedofilia?"

Ele deu risada. E marcou o encontro.

Chegou lá — e encontrou a mãe.

Sete dias sem dormir. Conhecia o homem há 20 anos. Viu a filha crescer.

Ela bateu nele. Depois acionou a polícia, fez o boletim e entregou o celular como prova.

Ele foi à delegacia, prestou depoimento.

E foi embora. Não ficou preso.

Uma mãe passou 7 dias em colapso, montou uma operação, colheu as provas, entregou tudo — e o Estado soltou o homem na mesma noite.

Ela fez o trabalho da polícia, do MP e do judiciário.

E mesmo assim, não foi suficiente para mantê-lo atrás das grades.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Meet Abigale Freeman, a math teacher and coach at @boswellhs in TX. She posted a tiktok online about how she came out to her students and discusses her lesbian relationship to "normalize" it to children.

Any comment @boswellhs?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

McDonald’s is testing new drive thru AI technology that has facial recognition that can recognize you when you pull up

They are also equipped with license plate readers

The demo shows future capabilities like facial and license plate recognition to greet repeat customers by name and recall “usual” orders

This isn’t just a concept, it’s live and being used right now

It’s testing at 5 U.S. locations right now and has already processed over 1 million transactions, with 90% handled completely without human intervention

I don’t want McDonald’s to have my biometric and license plate data

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥NOW: SpaceX has unveiled its first AI satellite with a 150 kW peak compute payload and 70-meter wingspan.

Elon Musk described it as simpler but bigger than a Starlink satellite.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

My sister lives in Los Angeles.

She's a Democrat but voted for Spencer Pratt.

I was with her when she dropped her ballot in the mail weeks ago.

We checked today and it hasn't been received back.

Are they just TOSSING ballots for Spencer Pratt?