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[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

"One of the most American values that I love is Optimism. We're gonna make the future good."

一 Elon Musk

[Alex @aabboud_]

@littlecaesars @BLSmith2112 @littlecaesars, it sounds like you need to get with the times - use https://t.co/fPPq9I2i7Q

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthset.

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[BSF 🇬🇧🐀 @BSF42069]

We’ve come a long way

[Chris Abiaad @Chrisabiaad]

https://t.co/rhx7mYpsML

[Alex @aabboud_]

@AutismCapital I personally know this individual. He was one of the first people to get a message out to call the cops for everyone’s benefit. It was his first day as a working adult and he does not work at Blackstone.

[Alex @aabboud_]

@chrisabiaad Insightful read. Thanks for sharing.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Dragon’s first spacewalk with the @PolarisProgram’s Polaris Dawn crew https://t.co/svdJRkGN7K

[Giorgos Verdi @giorgosverdi]

1/ Europe doesn't have a tech industry. But why is that the case? The short answer: it's not because of regulation.

🧵A thread:

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Power is power.
Misuse of power leads often to decline of states and Blair has certainly contributed to the power decline of his country.
In the 21st century, size will matter again, but the European countries are all too small in terms of power. Some just don’t realize it yet.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Unlimited knowledge. Knowledge is Power.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic to regulate. Your car industry is about to be wiped out by the Chinese. Your biggest economy shut down nuclear out of spite and with fraud. Your capital markets have no liquidity and your startups are drowning in bureaucracy. Your border is being attacked by Russia and your defence spending will have to triple just to be where it was with US subsidy given that part of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc is now part of the EU. Your economy has slumped from the world’s largest to way behind the US. Your pensions are paid by three times less people and cost five times as much as people live longer. Your infrastructure is a model for the world but is configured for rail over self drive. Your electricity grid needs half a trillion of investment to cope with planned capacity and replacements, for the switch to renewables, within a decade. There are bright spots such as pharma and your healthcare system is a model for what civilisation looks like it. But to afford it, you need to completely transform from the industrial to digital age, to reform your institutions and rout the sclerotic bureaucratic system.

[Alex @aabboud_]

Congrats to the @torqueprotocol team!

[Metaplex @metaplex]

🥇 Grand Winner - @torqueprotocol

Torque (prev Onnyx) is an offers protocol building the decentralized attention economy. Torque helps builders launch on-chain campaigns using crypto primitives to gain distribution.

[Michael Antonelli @BullandBaird]

This is the kind of stuff we need more of. Positivity. Optimism. Understanding how lucky we are.

[Alex @aabboud_]

@Chris__AA GM - good to have @Chris__AA back in the big 🍎

[Frank Hoogerbeets  @hogrbe]

Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). #deprem

[Brian Stoffel @Brian_Stoffel_]

I’ve read thousands of books.

In 2010, I picked one up that would change my life.

The book: *Fooled by Randomness* by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb)

Over a decade later, the 5 lessons that have stayed with me:

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

As you may have heard The James Webb Space Telescope will be releasing "data from its first five targets" on Tuesday. I'm no astronomer but here's what I've gathered about what that means, and what we'll see.

[Alex @aabboud_]

@Chris__AA gm!