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[Apple Hub @theapplehub]

Apple has officially launched 'Apple Upgrade,' a new product leasing program provided by Klarna in the United States 🚨

Apple Upgrade offers 12 and 24-month leasing options for iPhone and Apple Watch, and 24 and 36-month leasing options for Mac and iPad. Leasing prices start as low as $17.99 per month for iPhone, $11.99 for Apple Watch, $24.99 for Mac, and $11.99 for iPad

[陈剑Jason @jason_chen998]

真到熊底了啊😥破产的公司一个接一个，曾经和Vitalik齐名的天才神童在2014年创办的存储项目Storj也在今天宣布破产，币价也从高点跌了99%几乎归零，上演了一场币圈版伤仲永的故事，其创始人Shawn和Vitalik年龄和经历都相近，并且都在2014年分别创办了自己的项目，当时刚加入OKX并卖掉自己房子梭哈BTC的CZ也对这两个初出茅庐的小伙子大加赞赏，有趣的是CZ还笔误把Ethereum打成了Etherium，这也是一段很有趣的历史，当时以太坊刚诞生还没有什么知名度，很多人都会拼错，你在推特搜这个错误的名字会发现包括马斯克都曾经这样拼写过。
后来的故事大家也知道了，这两个天才少年走出了截然相反的道路，一个成为了仅次于BTC区块链世界最重要的项目，另一个则被时代遗忘币价归零公司破产。

[Parker Ortolani @ParkerOrtolani]

This is so cool, we now know Lil Finder Guy's origin story. Go read the post by Sofia Coelho, the art director from Apple who dreamed him up on LinkedIn... https://t.co/XLbUJFtOtw

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

王虹谈法国科研制度：只看科学卓越，没有教学与行政负担

7月23日，法广报道，2026年菲尔兹奖得主王虹在谈及法国对其科研生涯的影响时表示，自己在法国学习和工作的经历“留下了深刻的印记”。

王虹特别称赞法国高等科学研究院的科研制度：招聘只以科学卓越为标准，研究人员受到充分信任，不承担教学和行政工作，可以自由、长期地专注于研究。

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Basic Apple Guy @BasicAppleGuy]

Think different is back!
https://t.co/Z9AH8TWqi9

[The Duskbloods @TheDuskbloods]

To all seekers of the First Blood:

Registration for The Duskbloods Closed Network Test will begin at 7:00 AM PDT | 16:00 CEST | 23:00 JST

[吴仁华 @wurenhua]

张益唐是中国民主团结联盟（中国民联）的资深成员，我与他相识于中国民联第五次代表大会，1991年6月初，加拿大多伦多市，交谈甚欢，相见恨晚，特意合影留念。后来十多年经常电话聊天，海阔天空，无所不谈。他爱好广泛，音乐，武侠小说，喝酒……除了武侠小说，其他的我都跟不上他的节奏。
他是侠义之人，对友人充满爱意。2007年5月我自费出版第一本六四专著《天安门血腥清场内幕》，他从《世界周刊》曾慧燕女士的特别报导得知信息，给我寄来了一千美元的支票，只要一本签名的书。当时他经济状况并不好，没有稳定工作，妻子在加州的中餐馆打工。我打电话给他，说钱数太大了，不能兑现他的支票。他告诉我：你必须兑现支票，不兑现支票就是不把我当作朋友。

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

which one of you sent this to my fucking work email

[Fenng @Fenng]

还好记录了下来。

[阑夕 @foxshuo]

硅谷这波AI造富潮有多夸张呢？私人飞机都卖断货了⋯⋯

来自The Information的报道，今年以来，美国本土私人飞机的销量暴涨80%，以致于一架全新湾流的交货时间拖到了2-3年之后，连二手市场的价格都在上调。

因为库存里的私人飞机全都销售一空，但同时又没有新增那么多的飞行旅程，所以用来停放私人飞机的机库也不够用了，月租涨到了6万美金。

市场调研显示，当一个人净资产达到1亿-2亿美金、年收入超过2000万美金的时候，他就会萌生下单私人飞机的消费欲，另外，购置私人飞机的额外好处在于可以减税。

因为今年的行情实在是太紧俏了，以致于私人飞机的合租平台开始大火，这类平台拥有一支机队，然后以100万-350万美金的年费售卖会员额度，会员需要的时候可以提前预定，然后在指定时间内就能暂时享有一架私人飞机的接送服务。

有不少等不及私人飞机交付时限的用户选择了这种合租方案，他们的平均净资产在5亿美金左右，30%的人在硅谷工作，是OpenAI、Anthropic、xAI这些大厂的研究员。

你们想买哪一款私人飞机呢？来说说看叭。

[AB Kuai.Dong @_FORAB]

我以为有人用 Kimi K3，搞了个仿苹果 MacOS 系统网页够离谱的了，直到看到 Windows XP，居然还能运行 GTA 罪恶都市和红色警戒 2。

https://t.co/hfYsE9Revz

[AB Kuai.Dong @_FORAB]

一位 Ins 上的博主，发视频表示如果西班牙赢了法国，愿意为评论区热度最高的那个人，做任何事情。

结果有位老哥，列举了上万美金的电脑配置清单，成为了最高热门评论，现在一群网友在西班牙获胜后，在下面拱火，说如果博主不给买，就让她塌房。

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Matt Damon reacts to Tom Holland saying that he has never watched ‘THE MATRIX’:

“Are you fucking kidding me? I’m so jealous you get to see that for the first time. I wonder if it’ll feel as groundbreaking to you as so much has been subsequently based on it.”

(Source: @Complex)

[AB Kuai.Dong @_FORAB]

这一波新冠，似乎爆炸式的传开了，官方通报全国 6 月，新增确诊病例 7.9 万。虽然本轮绝大多数为轻症，病程 3 - 5 天，但仍普遍反馈会有发烧、咽痛、感冒等症状。

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

JUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reunites with former Sega leaders in Tokyo to thank them for the $5 million investment that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995.

[Polymarket Traders @PolymarketTrade]

Perps beta is now live on https://t.co/5lywVxdwoA for select users. We’ll be rolling access out to more people over the next 4 weeks. Get ready.

[小牛 @Xiaoniu6161]

富途、老虎“百人内幕交易案”出现首批实名被告，资金线索牵出香港政商人物梁锦松、吴启楠。

梁锦松的老婆: 伏明霞
吴奇楠的老婆：文咏珊

也就是美国人这么认真，直接全部曝光了。

[Pickle Cat @0xPickleCati]

Reading this brought back a very specific feeling.

I’ve been in crypto 13 years, long enough to watch things arrive looking like the future and leave without anyone announcing they were gone.

Late 2017 I was flipping cryptokitties almost every day while eth went straight up. I explained them at dinner, to grown adults, and I probably sounded insane, but I wasn’t talking about cartoon cats.

I thought I was looking at the beginning of digital ownership, culture moving onchain, and a new kind of internet where users could actually own the things they created and collected.

I didn’t think I had caught a mania.

I thought I had seen the future a little earlier than everyone else.

Then 2018 came and robbed me blind… the money disappeared fast. But the belief took years to die.

And even then, it didn’t really die.

It just kept coming back wearing new clothes. NFTs, creator economy, socialfi, onchain social, creator coins. Not all of them were the same, obviously, but somewhere underneath them was a future I had already wanted to believe in once.

That’s why the ideas that hurt the most when they die are rarely the obvious scams.

Nobody mourns those.

It’s the BEAUTIFUL ones, the ones that made sincere people think, “if this works, crypto actually changes the world.”

You don’t just invest in those ideas! You build your life around them! You make friends through them, attach your name to them, spend years defending them, and start living inside a future that hasn’t arrived yet!!

Then one day the market goes somewhere else.

Usually there’s no dramatic ending. The users stop showing up. The group chats get quieter. The people who used to post about it every day slowly move on. The thesis still sounds beautiful when you say it out loud, it’s just that nothing is walking toward it anymore.

You’re the last one standing in a room explaining what it was supposed to become.

That’s a hard thing to admit, especially in public.

Because you’re burying years of conviction, relationships, reputation, and a version of yourself that genuinely believed you were helping build what came next.

Reading @jessepollak’s post today reminded me I’ve watched this happen over and over again, to other people and to myself.

People outside crypto think the hardest losses are financial.

After enough cycles, you realize some of the hardest losses are the stories you had to stop believing, and the futures you had already started living in.

I still don’t know if I’ve fully let go of all of mine.

Probably not.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

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