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[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

JEFF BEZOS:

“THE BOTTOM HALF OF AMERICANS SHOULD PAY ZERO FEDERAL INCOME TAX.”

HE CITED A NURSE IN QUEENS MAKING AROUND $75K A YEAR AND PAYING ABOUT $12K IN TAXES.

“WE SHOULDN’T BE ASKING THIS NURSE IN QUEENS TO SEND MONEY TO WASHINGTON.”

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”

“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...

WITH NO RAIL.”

[Dillon Loomis @DillonLoomis]

Many have grown disillusioned with Tesla because of the pace of the Robotaxi rollout but when we zoom out, it's a very clear picture of how hard autonomy really is. Just look at what's happened with Waymo in the past few months alone:

• Gen 5 hits a child
• Illegally passing school buses with active red lights
• Fully blocked a street obstructing ambulance and first responders en route to a mass shooting. Officers had to move the vehicle
• 6 vehicles failed to recognize ramp closure signs and drove into active freeway construction zones (TX)
• 7 vehicles drove between cones and entered freeway construction lanes (CA)
• Waymo voluntarily restricted its entire fleet from all freeway and highway operations
• NHTSA recall covering all 3,791 cars after vehicles drove into flooded roads
• Waymo suspends service in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Nashville

We all know Tesla could easily scale beyond where it is right now, but Tesla will not receive the same "turn the other way" treatment that Waymo gets from the media and the public

Some of the frustration is warranted given poor expectations being set by Tesla, but it's not like anyone else is doing any better

And all of the companies talking about their big plans (Rivian, Lucid) - it's going to be just that for years to come...talk and promises to feel like they're part of the game with no real scale or volume

Tesla is still far and away the best positioned company to reach scale, it's just going to take longer than most of us thought $TSLA

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

A mi no me preocupa que Elon se haga trillonario con sus empresas que avanzan la humanidad y generan decenas de miles de empleos y ahora de empleados millonarios.

A mi me preocupa que los líderes del PSOE se hagan millonarios robando de tus impuestos y los míos.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.”

As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you:

1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in.

2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business.

3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail.

If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor.

So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@elonmusk @robotaxi @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Depricate S3XY. Deploy C3RYS = Beloved. Cybertruck, Model 3, Roadster, Model Y, Semi. Welch roots

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Been waiting for this! gg

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@SawyerMerritt Where do EV leases fit into this? Or is that a separate category?

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🤔

[Andreas Steno Larsen @AndreasSteno]

https://t.co/XsVTFJwujq

[jussy @jussy_world]

35 DeFi protocols hacked in 2026 already

$453M+ lost in just 4 months

• January $103M across 12 protocols
• February $24M across 8 protocols
• March $41M across 14 protocols
• April so far $285M across 1 protocol

Smart contract bugs and compromised private keys

This industry has a serious security problem

When does it actually get fixed?

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@NASA seriously

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NASA’s Artemis II livestream really makes you appreciate @SpaceX’s launch broadcasts.

Bad camera tracking, no onboard cameras, countdown timer disappeared, NASA even showed people in the crowd instead of stage separation lol. The screen also blacked out twice during the first 10 seconds of the launch.

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@coinbureau List out all the banks please

[Solana Daily @solana_daily]

🌍 Solana neobank ecosystem is rapidly taking shape.

From self-custody cards and tax-efficient borrowing to privacy tools and high-yield rewards — all running on Solana’s fast, low-cost rails.

As more platforms emerge across payments, lending, and hybrid banking, Solana is steadily building the foundation for a new generation of onchain financial services.

Solana Neobank Ecosystem:

🔸Store: @phantom, @useTria

🔸Spend/Debit/Prepaid Cards: @KASTxyz, @avici, @itstuyo, @solflare, @RedotPay, @surfcashx, @surfcashx, @tempo, @stablekwon

🔸Credit/Borrow: @wefi_official, @sanafionchain, @zothdotio, @GetPyra, @xplaceapp

🔸Earn/Yield: @ether_fi, @SolidYield, @fusewallet

🔸Rewards/Cashback: @Gemini

🔸Privacy: @stealf_finance, @offgridcash

🔸Hybrid: @Revolut, @wirexapp, @Aisi_Space

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

MICHAEL SAYLOR ANNOUNCED STRATEGY WILL LAUNCH A GLOBAL EFFORT TO UPGRADE #BITCOIN FOR QUANTUM

LEGENDARY 🔥

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@coinbureau @FenoXBT Can oil prices rise over the weekend? Are those markets open then?

[VIDD @V1DD28]

@ventry089 Very cool. Please try several more weeks to see more data points around winners and losers

[James Shields @scaling_shields]

i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling

searched london to new york on a tuesday

$483

checked again 2 hours later

$512

next morning: $547

panicked and booked it

the guy sitting next to me paid $391

same seat, date + airline

$156 less

he searched once i searched 3 times

the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke

the seat doesnt have a price

you have a price

and it goes up EVERY time you show interest

couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier

asked him what happened to me

"you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back"

asked how to beat it

"most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying"

"so what actually works?"

"you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity"

the protocol he gave me:

VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase

use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies

one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice

book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against

if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network

"we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab"

$900 billion industry

the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug

its the entire business model

stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable