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[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

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[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

I’m getting more.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Why choose between equity’s performance and tax efficiency and credit’s yield and stability? Stretch was engineered to deliver both. $STRC

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Last week I spent $20,000 on Mac Studios so I could run OpenClaw locally

Fully powered by local AI models running 24/7

Now my agent:
• Is doing tasks 24/7/365
• Doesn't cost any tokens
• Is fully private

In this video I cover how it works and how you can do the same thing:

[Shannon Jean @ShannonJean]

That Ring pet commercial this weekend set a lot of people off.

I checked my privacy settings today.

These are the agencies that have requested access to our camera 👇

Uh, no.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

During the Super Bowl an ad was aired for Ring Cameras

The ad cleverly disguised a mass surveillance network that can be used to track everyone at all times accessing everyone’s home Ring Cameras

You need to be aware of this

1) The Ring Cameras Commercial
2) Explanation

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.

The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.

Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.

This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.

They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

[Larry Conger 🇺🇸 @eMTBrides]

The myth being kids and guns don’t mix. Children have been shooting, carrying and possessing firearms since their inception. Trusted to protect their family, property and livestock, bringing home meat for the table and recreational enjoyment. We are focused on the reality that firearms are American heritage. They should be taught at a young age and children entrusted with them as it has been from the beginning! Nothing builds confidence in a child like a parent teaching them a valuable life skill. 🇺🇸 ❤️
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[melody kim @melodyskim]

“is this some AI thing??” me trying to explain to Best Buy employees why everyone is coming in to buy the Mac mini

[WFAN Sports Radio @WFAN660]

Sam Darnold lost money on Sunday?? Boomer says the NFLPA should shut down any future Super Bowls in California:

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

MrBeast just bought a $920 million fintech for what’s almost certainly less than $200 million. And that’s not even the interesting part.

Beast Industries is valued at $5 billion. Step raised $500 million and hit that $920 million valuation in 2021 before the fintech downturn cratered neobank multiples across the board. An app with 7 million users, FDIC insurance through Evolve Bank & Trust, and a Visa card program already in production, picked up at a fire sale.

That distribution math is what makes this interesting. Step spent years paying $3 per referral and cutting deals with Charli D’Amelio to acquire users one at a time. MrBeast can do a single video and drive more signups in 48 hours than Step generated in its first six months. When your marketing channel has 600 million followers across platforms, your customer acquisition cost drops to near zero. For context, the average consumer banking app CAC runs $100 to $300 per user. MrBeast’s is effectively the cost of one YouTube video amortized across millions of signups.

Feastables already proved this model. Build a consumer product, attach MrBeast’s distribution engine to it, and watch it become the most profitable business line in the entire company, more profitable than the YouTube channel and the Prime Video show combined, according to leaked pitch docs. Step is the same playbook applied to financial services, except instead of building from zero, he’s buying 7 million existing users and a licensed banking platform. The revenue ceiling per customer in financial services is 10x higher than chocolate bars.

The timing tells you everything. Beast Industries took $200 million from BitMine, an Ethereum treasury company, in January. Filed trademark applications for “MrBeast Financial” listing crypto exchanges, lending, and payment processing in October. Now they’re buying a fintech with existing banking infrastructure and regulatory relationships. The acquisition gives them the licensed scaffolding to launch a full financial services platform without spending three years getting regulatory approval from scratch.

And here’s the part nobody’s pricing in. Step’s users are 13 to 18 year olds opening their first bank account. 88% of them say Step is their first. MrBeast’s core audience is the same demographic. Every user acquired here represents a first financial relationship, the one with the highest lifetime value in all of consumer finance, because the bank you open at 15 is the bank you’re still using at 30.

Chamath quote tweeted “We bought a bank” for a reason. A $5 billion distribution company just acquired a regulated financial platform at a fire sale valuation. The chocolate was the proof of concept. The bank is the business model.

[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

@mulberry506 @AmericanAir Translation: no breakfast for you on AA in first class, they gave up!

[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

@BitcoinForCorps @Strategy X

[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

@British_Airways still waiting for our bags after BA297 from LHR to ORD.
1 hour wait so far. Such poor service for the all your former passengers. Sad

[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

@Britishirway_7 still waiting for our bags after BA297 from LHR to ORD.
1 hour wait so far. Such poor service for the all your former passengers. Sad

[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

Why does #starlink not work when it rains #ElonMusk? Two nights in a row! The world changes fast and I can’t get on the #internet? Guess the news with the #realDonaldTrump is being #censored?

[Brian Rose, Founder & Host of London Real @LondonRealTV]

Bitcoin To Attract $1 Trillion From Institutions Amid "Raging Bull Market" https://t.co/NpoNTYBtBN

[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

@EclecticHams #edwardsappleorchard

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

This is one of the most articulate defenses of MAGA I’ve ever heard.
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[Bob 3 @RWR3rd]

@AltcoinDailyio $334 August 2020