Paul Ryder

Husband, Father, Free Thinker, Flight Test Engineer, Infinitely Curious, Loving Keto and drawn to US politics like a moth to flame 🔥

[Paul Ryder @Rydo111]

A democracy needs leaders who have integrity; where what they think,say & do are in alignment,& are for the common good ~Ghandi (paraphrase)

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@SuperdoucheDoge @NOELreports Mmmm, superpower you say.

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NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE

And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag.

This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook...

In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:

Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.

Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.

Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.

It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.

And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe.

The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what's happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.

$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.

These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.

And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.

If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.

Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.

The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels.

And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.

Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers.

In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.

In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities.

Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

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Shhhhhhhhh, don't wake the baby.

[Paul Ryder @Rydo111]

@Sylvie744417783 @Panchenko_X Nope, Russia is a terrorist state, run by thieving fascists. Has been for decades. There will be no peace until Russia is defeated.

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@ML3democrats

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@WhiteHouse

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@PragueArtist @steadystate2025

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@Sylvie744417783 @Panchenko_X The data don't lie bro

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@Sylvie744417783 @Panchenko_X Russia invading their neighbours has nothing to do with westerners. It's been happening for centuries.

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@glenn_tunes

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@MaskedDefender @ianbremmer

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@bridgemindai Prefer DeepSeek v4 or minimax m3

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@Charbax @mtracey It's called survival dipshit

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@TroySweezey @mtracey Russia is invading Ukraine. Ukraine wants to survive. Counting population is stupid. Survival from fascist invaders is all that matters.

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@Midnight_JJ0 @mtracey How's the 3 day war going?

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@wint3rmute35126 @mtracey If Russia gets its way, you're right. That why Ukraine is defending, for is survival

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@J_B_T @mtracey Bullshit.

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@TranLongmoore @mtracey

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@FirstSquawk 2 weeks? 🤣

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@OlgaNYC1211 I'm seeing an increase in Kremlin accounts, and they're desperation is rising