Paolo

Former @Paolo_V_B twitter handle until my freedom of speech was violated by the Bot Commanders at HQ during the latest crime against humanity aka coNvid

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Glass is a true "permanent material"—it can be recycled indefinitely (100% closed-loop) without any loss in quality, purity, or performance. Unlike most materials, its chemical structure remains unchanged through repeated melting and reforming, allowing old bottles and jars to become brand-new high-quality containers forever.

This stands in stark contrast to plastic, which is far cheaper for companies to produce and transport (lighter weight means lower shipping costs, and raw material/energy inputs are generally lower). Yet this short-term savings comes at a steep environmental price: we're degrading ecosystems, landfills, and oceans to cut a few cents per unit.

Glass offers genuine sustainability advantages when recycled properly:

• Using cullet (recycled glass fragments) replaces virgin raw materials (sand, soda ash, limestone)—one tonne of cullet saves about 1.2 tonnes of new resources.

• It slashes energy use dramatically: every 10% increase in cullet reduces furnace energy needs by ~2.5–3%, and melting 100% cullet can cut energy by up to ~40% compared to virgin production.

• CO₂ emissions drop significantly—studies show ~580–670 kg saved per tonne of recycled glass (cradle-to-cradle), with up to 58–60% reduction when using high cullet percentages.

• Fewer raw material extractions mean less mining impact and habitat disruption.

The key to unlocking glass's full potential is clean, color-sorted collection. Mixed colors or contamination (from curbside debris, ceramics, or other recyclables) often downgrades glass to lower-value uses like fiberglass insulation or road aggregate instead of bottle-to-bottle recycling. Proper sorting—by color and purity—keeps it in the premium loop.

By improving recycling habits (rinsing containers, separating by color where possible, and supporting deposit-return systems), we can maximize glass's role in a true circular economy. It's one of the few packaging options that genuinely protects resources long-term—let's not sacrifice it for cheaper, disposable alternatives that harm the planet.

[Maverick @MaxPatricius]

A young Afrikaner from Pretoria looked at the uncertain future in South Africa and chose a path few understood.
Roelof Botha bet on possibility.
Born in South Africa, raised speaking Afrikaans, he pushed himself through an English university, excelled as an actuary, then took a pay cut to join McKinsey.
Still hungry for more, he moved to Stanford on student loans for his MBA, arriving with little but drive and intuition that the future was being built in Silicon Valley.
In 2000 he joined a scrappy startup called PayPal.
No guarantees.
Just Belief and Resilience.
By 28 he was CFO, steering the company through the dot-com crash, taking it public, and navigating its sale to eBay.
Big institutions might have played it safe.
Roelof kept opening doors.
He joined Sequoia Capital in 2003.
There he backed bold founders, led the investment in Instagram, and helped build companies like YouTube, Square, MongoDB and more that touch hundreds of millions of lives.
Today he leads one of the world’s most iconic venture firms, a South African Afrikaner shaping the global tech future from Silicon Valley.
Recently, Roelof was appointed to the SpaceX Board of Directors as an independent director and audit committee member.
The biggest opportunities often lie beyond what feels comfortable or familiar.
Roelof didn’t just chase success.
He carried the quiet determination of his roots and turned it into a legacy that opens doors for dreamers everywhere.

[Percy @percyishim]

Billionaire, Tony Robbins explains why most people never build real wealth even when they live in a system full of opportunity.

“So IPhone has ran for 18 - 19 years. If you got an iPhone each time, you spend $22,000 and some change at retail price”

“But if you bought Apple stock, same amount of money on the stock you’d be up $326,000 instead of being out $22,000”

“If you’re going to use an Apple phone then at least own the company”

“What are they making a mistake of? They’re consumers not owners. We’re a consuming society and we train our kids to be consumers as well”

[gus @igus_ai]

🚨ASÍ ES COMO LA BURBUJA DE LA IA VA A ROMPER EL S&P 500

Lee esto con calma antes de comprar una sola acción.

Tres gigantes de la IA y el espacio van a salir a bolsa casi a la vez, con una valoración combinada de 4 billones de dólares:

SpaceX. OpenAI. Anthropic.

Y la mayoría todavía no entiende lo que eso significa.

1. El mayor evento de liquidez de la historia

SpaceX acaba de protagonizar la mayor OPV jamás vista.

75.000 millones captados. Valoración de 2,2 billones.

OpenAI ya ha presentado un S-1 confidencial y apunta a una valoración de 1 billón.

Anthropic también se encamina a cotizar en bolsa con esa misma cifra.

Es decir: casi 4 billones en valoración de IA y espacio intentando entrar al mercado público al mismo tiempo.

Y ese dinero tiene que salir de algún sitio.

2. El S&P 500 está mucho más concentrado de lo que la gente cree

Las Mag 7 y las acciones ligadas a la IA pesan ya alrededor de un tercio de todo el índice:

Nvidia. Microsoft. Google. Amazon. Meta. Apple. Tesla.

Y ahora las mayores empresas privadas del mundo vienen a por esa misma bolsa de capital.

Los fondos no se sacan de la manga cientos de miles de millones de la noche a la mañana.

Venden lo que ya tienen. Recogen beneficios. Liberan liquidez.

Y las primeras acciones en sufrir presión suelen ser justo las que mejor lo han hecho:

Nvidia. Microsoft. Google. Amazon.

Los mismos nombres que mantienen en pie al S&P 500.

3. En el techo de toda gran burbuja, el capital se concentra en un puñado de empresas “infalibles”

Los Locos Años Veinte las tuvieron.

La burbuja de Japón en los 80 las tuvo.

La burbuja puntocom las tuvo.

Y cada vez, los inversores repetían lo mismo:

“Estas empresas son diferentes.” “Son demasiado importantes para caer.”

Y cada vez, el mercado terminó rompiéndose.

Hoy la concentración del capital en tecnología vuelve a estar en extremos históricos.

Y un mercado sobrecargado no necesita malas noticias para caer.

Solo necesita que se vaya la liquidez.

4. Tras una OPV, los inversores tempranos por fin tienen por dónde salir

Fondos de capital riesgo. Empleados. Inversores privados. Insiders.

Después de años comprando en privado, por fin pueden asegurar beneficios.

Las empresas salen a bolsa cuando el mercado público está dispuesto a pagar el precio más alto.

En plena era puntocom, hasta las mejores compañías quedaron destrozadas tras las ventas de los insiders en la salida:

Amazon: -95%

Microsoft: -65%

Intel: -80%

Oracle: -80%

Yahoo: -97%

Y el mismo escenario está de vuelta.

Así es como la burbuja se alimenta a sí misma:

Primero, los ganadores sostienen el índice. Luego, los gigantes salen a bolsa.

Los fondos venden a los viejos ganadores para perseguir a los nuevos.

Los insiders se llevan la liquidez.

Y el pequeño inversor se queda con el sueño en las manos.

Recordatorio: llevo 15 años acertando todos los techos y suelos del mercado, incluido el suelo del Bitcoin en 16.000 dólares y el techo en 126.000.

La próxima señal será todavía más importante.

Cuando salga del mercado por completo, lo avisaré aquí, en público, como siempre.

Activa las notificaciones.

Y si todavía no me sigues, más adelante entenderás por qué fue un error.

[voided intern @voidedintern]

Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs taught him the one skill every entrepreneur needs to master

"I learned this from Steve Jobs. I told this story countless times. He was not a nice guy, but in the 90s, I made all of his software for the Mac in schools, 110,000 buildings. He was an absolute a**hole, but he taught me some very important things, and he was wildly successful."

"He said that each day, including you, each day there will be three things you have to get done, just three, and that's called the signal."

"And there's going to be a plethora of things that are going to stop you from doing that and that's called the noise. So the only thing you have to get good at in your life to be an entrepreneur is to distinguish what's signal and what's noise."

"And then you do not let noise get in the way of getting the three things done. They get done first."

[Xremlin @xGremlin]

DO NOT FALL FOR IT

Today SpaceX goes public at $1.75 trillion

In the last 20 years the overwhelming majority of hyped IPO's were a DISASTER in first year

SpaceX is 10x hyped and 20x a big IPO's valuation

Meta: −30% in the first year
Uber: −25% in the first year
Rivian: −60% in the first year
Coinbase: −55% in the 1st year (since day 1)

It is not designed for retail to win

You buy at the top, early investors are up 100x to 1000x

Bankers will win, investors will win, early employees will win

AT YOUR EXPENSE

SpaceX is a great company, and you'll easily buy it at a discount in the next 365 days

Just be patient

[Reflection🪩 @0xReflection]

🚨 THE US REGULATORY SYSTEM JUST BROKE

In 48 hours, SpaceX goes public at $1.77 TRILLION - the biggest IPO ever

I've been trading for over a decade, and I have never seen them rewrite the rulebook like this

Nasdaq, MSCI, and the biggest brokers in America all bent their own rules for ONE private company

That doesn't happen by accident

Let me show you exactly what they did:

First, Fidelity dropped its minimum account size from $500,000 to $2,000

A 99.6% cut

Think about that:

The most exclusive door on Wall Street, thrown wide open to millions of small investors - days before the biggest debut in history.

Ask yourself one question

Why do they suddenly want YOU in?

Because somebody needs people to sell to.

SpaceX reserved 30% of the deal for retail

THREE TIMES the normal share

And even then, most people didn't get a full allocation.

So to grab more at Thursday's open, they're dumping everything else TODAY to raise cash.

That's half of the selling you're seeing.

The other half? The smart money front-running July.

Here's the trick:

SpaceX doesn't join the Nasdaq 100 on day one.

It joins 15 days later, because Nasdaq cut its own waiting period from 3 months to 15 days

Just for this.

The moment it joins, every QQQ fund on Earth is FORCED to buy.

$22–27 billion in automatic buying.

Translation: imagine 50 buses all forced to pull into the same gas station on the same morning.

The funds know the stampede is coming.

So they're selling now to free up cash for it. Retail selling. Institutions selling. At the exact same time.

THAT is your selloff.

Now here's the part nobody will say out loud:

When the most connected money on the planet builds a $1.7T exit door and hands the keys to the smallest investors in the market…

That's NOT generosity

That's distribution at the top.

We've seen this movie twice:

➮ 2000 Dotcom
➮ 2021 SPAC mania

Insiders cash out at insane valuations while the crowd chases the hype.

The math ain't mathing.

So you've got two choices in the next 48 hours:

Chase the most expensive IPO in history at the open…

Or read the prospectus and realize you might BE the exit.

The next few days will be INSANE, but don't worry - I'll break down every move as it happens, like I always do.

Like it or not, I called every major top and bottom of the last decade publicly. I'll call this one too.

Many people are going to wish they followed me before June 12, 2026.

Soon, you'll understand why.

[Redback @chamugah]

@Cristiano @Nike NIKE's cooked😂😂best adidas short ever.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

RIP THE SCRIPT @Nike

#Ad

[Pookie's Polls & Opinions @pookiepolls]

Can you believe this crap?

Stormers LEGEND, Damian Willemse is in kak for refusing to wear an LGBT armband and speaking out against "woke" initiatives ahead of the crucial semi-final match for the DHL Stormers.

He correctly stated that, "Rugby should focus on the game, the competition, and winning – not on a stage for political or ideological propaganda."

Of course, the virtue signalling posse, including so called fans and the corrupt fake media, quickly jumped up and down and made a huge fuss, calling for strict disciplinary action or even suspension from the DHL Stormers to "set an example," while millions of others are speaking out in support of the call for political neutrality in sport.

Pressure is now mounting on the DHL Stormers' coaching staff and coach John Dobson to make an urgent decision.

The correct decision should be to tell them to shut the F up.

Homosexuality is, as we are meant to believe, simply a choice of who one wishes to have sex with?

If that is really the case, then why would that have anything to do with anybody else and why should it be "celebrated".

Keep your sex kak in your own bedroom and stay away from our sport, children and lives.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

"I want to become one more of you." ✊

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The war explained in 10 seconds

Venezuelan oil is extra-heavy (very low API gravity, around 8-10° or less), thick like tar/resin, with a high percentage of sulfur, metals and asphaltenes.

It does not flow easily, is difficult to transport by pipeline or ship without heating, and requires expensive refineries for processing. Without dilution, production and exports are limited.

Iran produces light oil (Iranian Light ~34-36° API) and gas condensate (very light and volatile).

This acts as a diluent: it reduces viscosity, increases API gravity and makes the mixture easier to transport and refine.

Typical ratio: 3:1 (3 barrels Venezuelan heavy + 1 barrel Iranian light/condensate) → produces Merey 16 or a similar blend (around 16° API), which is popular with Asian refineries (especially China).

This is what China used to do by importing both of them. Mixing.

This is what the US is now trying to do, huge profits.

[ANTONIO @blusewillis2]

La chiarezza di un acquedotto romano di 2000 anni fa che ancora scorre oggi

[The Dr. Margaret Show @DrMargaretShow]

😱 I AM ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED — JAW ON THE FLOOR after watching this video dropped TODAY (May 9, 2026).

How is this not front-page news everywhere?!

DNA scientist Dr. David J. Speicher drops bombshells on Joe Rogan re: clear FRAUD in the mRNA shots that could blow up their liability protection.

They safety-tested one version made WITHOUT DNA plasmids… then injected millions with a completely different product loaded with massive untested DNA contamination, including the SV40 promoter (known carcinogen).

Kevin McKernan’s sequencing of real injected vials confirmed plasmids everywhere. This explains the turbo cancer explosion.

They lied saying genome integration was “impossible.”

Criminal!

Full video transcript:
“Because of the fact that it’s classified as a vaccine, they don’t have to worry about being sued?”

“Well, they do. They do. The immunity from liability is dependent on there having been no fraud and there clearly was fraud.”

[continuing with the rest of the transcript as before…]

This is the smoking gun — Process 1 vs Process 2, residual DNA with SV40, turbo cancers. They KNEW. When does accountability hit?! Repost if you’re furious. We demand the truth! 🤯💉🔥

Posted May 9, 2026 — Video via @thehealthb0t — Watch & share the full clip

[Sardieq @SardieqWP]

SACHA FEINBERG-MNGOMEZULU
I have to pinch myself sometimes that both play for us,

The world's most exciting flyhalf and the youngest double World Cup winner ❤️

#ULSvSTO #URC
@thehonestnick @THESTORMERS

[Paolo @PBerinato]

Fans perspective of this epic @LFC #Gravernberch #GoalOfTheDay First time at Anfield with these true @LFC legends @Byron_Botha @Hassanchalhoub @Ahmed_ch5 #YNWA

[Based Jessica @RealJessica]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪and Britain 🇬🇧 for sacrificing your economies to save the planet.

China appreciates you exporting your manufacturing to provide jobs for their citizens.

[Ruth @xrruthx]

@elonmusk Economic incentives and biological incentives are now misaligned

[ISHMAEL 🏴‍☠️☠️🇿🇦🇨🇩🇵🇸 @mr_shimmy]

Leendert Koekemoer is definitely getting us 400m Gold at the next Olympic Games, this boy is a beast 🔥🔥🔥

[吴鹏 Wu Peng @AmbWuPeng]

Congratulations on South Africa’s iconic Garden Route being ranked as the world’s best road trip. Stretching along the country’s southern coast, this breathtaking route is renowned for its unique blend of ocean vistas, lush forests and vibrant communities.