MicroStrategy ($MSTR) just pulled off one of the smartest financial moves we’ve seen in a while. Their new STRK preferred shares are not just about raising capital, they’re a strategic play that strengthens the company’s balance sheet, rewards investors, and fuels their Bitcoin accumulation.
Here’s why this is a big deal:
If you put $10,000 into long-term US gov bond shitcoins 10 years ago, you'd have $8,550 today.
If you put it in bitcoin, it'd be $1,700,000
The bond market is a way to bankrupt people who lend money to pedophiles to mass murder foreigners, enrich cronies & buy elections
A crying baby on a plane is an even better litmus test than the shopping cart.
If it genuinely makes you angry, you have no empathy. No compassion. No soul. No ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. You are the epitome of what's wrong with the modern world.
@ianbremmer The US can open Hormuz next week by simply evacuating all US bases in the Middle East, ending all military and economic aid to Israel, and lifting sanctions on Iran. The entire world wins except Israel's land thieving regime.
@PeterDiamandis India is only emerging as battleground for AI consumption produced by companies not native to India like with every other product.
There is nothing to be proud of and boastful about especially for Indians.
I know you are not, putting it out for other dumb Indians.
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Finance-related job openings are collapsing:
Finance and insurance job openings fell -117,000 in December, to 134,000, the lowest level since February 2012.
Available vacancies in these sectors have dropped -410,000, or -75%, since the 2022 peak.
Openings are now even lower than at the 2001 recession bottom.
By comparison, the largest monthly decline during the 2008 Financial Crisis was -125,000.
As a result, the finance and insurance job openings rate fell to 1.9%, meaning fewer than 2 out of every 100 jobs in the sector are currently vacant, the lowest since February 2010.
Excluding the 2009-2010 lows, this is the lowest rate recorded this century.
The finance industry is bracing for more layoffs.
There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born.
@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do.
Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is.
A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?
Indian model Sarvam-105b is really really good
Sarvam AI has open-sourced two India-built reasoning models, Sarvam 30B and 105B, positioning them as globally competitive open models.
The big unlock is not just benchmark scores like 98.6 on Math500 for 105B or strong local deployment efficiency for 30B, but the full-stack story: in-house data, training, RL, tokenizer design, and inference optimization built for both frontier GPUs and consumer devices.