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[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

I made £20,000,000 this year
Life is beautiful
Money is a tool 🔨
I bought a Porsche
I own a beautiful home by the beach
I built my own gym and spa downstairs
I bought my parents a home
I bought my each of my friends watches
I’m so grateful
God is great
Faith goes along way

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

Drake is gonna be on my album one day

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Mark Zuckerberg is bankrupting a $22 billion startup because they refused to sell to him.

The company is Kalshi.

They run the largest prediction market in the US. Users bet real money on real-world outcomes.

Last year, prediction markets did $28 billion in monthly volume across the industry.

This month, they did $220 BILLION.

The sector literally 8x'd in a single year.

Bernstein now projects the entire prediction market industry will hit $1 TRILLION by 2030.

Zuckerberg saw the growth curve coming. Last year, when Kalshi was valued at only $2 billion, he sat down with founder and CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss buying the entire company.

Mansour said no.

Kalshi went on to raise at $11 billion in December. Then $22 billion in March. It is now pursuing a $40 billion round and openly weighing an IPO.

Zuckerberg's response:

He walked back to Meta headquarters, took every piece of information he learned in that meeting, and directed a small internal team to build a Kalshi clone from the ground up.

Meta's version is called Arena. It uses Llama to generate the questions. Every one of Meta's 3.5 billion daily users will get access.

And here's where the plan gets ruthless...

Meta is deliberately launching with play money. That single decision lets Zuckerberg dodge every gambling regulator on Earth while he trains billions of users to bet on prediction markets.

Meanwhile Kalshi is spending millions fighting state gambling laws, the CFTC, an Illinois sports tax, a Minnesota felony statute, and the Department of Justice.

Kalshi is the crash test dummy. Meta is the getaway driver.

The moment the regulatory war is settled, Zuckerberg flips the switch. Arena becomes a real-money market, and 3.5 billion users are already trained to use it. Kalshi's user base of a few million cannot compete.

This is the exact playbook Meta ran on Snapchat in 2016 when Instagram Stories launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on TikTok in 2020 when Reels launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on Twitter in 2023 when Threads launched.

The FTC took Meta to court over this pattern last year and called it "buy or bury." The judge sided with Meta. So the playbook is legally protected.

Tarek Mansour walked into a meeting with the most predatory copycat in tech history and gave him the entire pitch deck for the fastest growing product in Silicon Valley.

Six months later, Zuckerberg is executing on that intel while Mansour is stuck defending his company in courts across America.

Kalshi survived Zuckerberg's offer. But it probably will not survive Zuckerberg's clone.

Meta ended Q1 with $81 billion in cash. That is enough to buy every prediction market company on Earth six times over. Zuckerberg is choosing to STEAL them instead because he can, and because the courts already gave him permission.

The next 12 months will decide whether Kalshi becomes a $50 billion IPO or a cautionary tale about what happens when a founder says no to Meta.

What do you think?

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@HandofArsenal Worth every penny

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@GTA6Alerts This will be the optimum of gaming. The next level is virtual reality so this is the pinnacle of gaming as we know it.

[Coinvo Trading @CoinvoTrading]

🇺🇸 ROCKSTAR CAN MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRE WITH THE RELEASE OF GTA 6.

When $TTWO released GTA 5 in 2013, the stock exploded over 1,000% since.

This year, they are set to release GTA 6 but the expectations are much larger.

If they beat expectations, the stock will go parabolic.

Time is running out.

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@DeadlineDayLive One good game and now Hyped

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@FabrizioRomano @guardian He also gay

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@FabrizioRomano @guardian This guys so shit

[Kirill @kirillk_web3]

Claude Code + YouTube = $62,000/Month

He leaked the exact system. Most people will scroll past it.

Nothing complicated.

Bookmark this so you don’t lose it.

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@PolymarketSport Andddddddddd unfollowed

[Viktor Oddy @viktoroddy]

Claude Mythos is Insane!

❤️‍🔥Just recorded a 12-min tutorial on how to build animated, award-Winning websites with Claude Fable 5!

[Troll Touchline @TrollTouchline]

🚨🗣️ | Pep Guardiola Shocked on Arsenal fans Reaction towards Gabriel Magalhaes after missing the Penalty: 🤯

“I have to say something because I saw this and, honestly, it blew my mind. It blew my mind. We know how this business works. Usually, in a Champions League final, a player misses a crucial penalty against a top, top team like PSG, and the next day... it is a disaster for him. The social media, the media, it can be very, very cruel. Very ugly. You expect the anger, the threats, the terrible words. We see it all the time.

But what the Arsenal fans did for Gabriel? Wow. It is something else. Truly. To see a player fail in the most painful moment, and the response from the stadium, from the people, is just... pure love? I am told his shirt sales went up by three hundred and fifty percent in a few days. Three hundred and fifty percent! This is incredible. I have been in football a long, long time, as a player and a manager, and I have never seen anything like it. Never.

You know, you open Facebook, you open Instagram or Twitter, and the narrative is always the same. 'Arsenal fans are insufferable. They are the worst fanbase, they are annoying.' You hear this tag all the time. But I look at this gesture and I think, 'How?' How do they have this tag? If a fanbase can wrap their arms around a player like that, in the darkest moment of the club's history a trophy they have been dying to win for decades then everything we are told online is a lie. It is a massive misconception. They have been judged so harshly.
This shows me who they really are. It shows their class, their humanity, and their loyalty. To behave like this? It is not annoying, it is not insufferable. It is beautiful. They deserve incredible praise for this, because this is what football should be about”

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

I CONFIRM THAT YOUR IPHONE CAN DO TELEKINESIS AND READ YOUR MIND. I WOKE UP THIS MORNING. I HAD THE INITIAL THOUGHT IN THE MORNING, HAVE NOT OPENED MY MOUTH THIS MORNING. SCROLLED IG AND LOOK AND BEHOLD, A PRODUCT I DREAMT ABOUT, I HAVE NOT EVEN SPOKEN YET, THIS IS BESPOKE TOO

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@GistArsena99455 Football is rigged

[babajad. 🩵 @babajad_]

@FabrizioRomano click bait journalists

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a licensing deal that will let Spotify Premium users create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs from participating artists and songwriters.

The upcoming tool will launch as a paid add-on and is designed to let artists and songwriters earn money from licensed fan-made AI covers and remixes.

Spotify says the model is built around “consent, credit, and compensation.”

[Premier League @premierleague]

🏆 ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆

[🌺 لينة @ovoarabian]

Like Father Like Son

[Antonio Collins @AntonioCCollins]

Rythm Health is gonna be a monster company

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

🚨BREAKING: I launched an investigation into Lululemon over the potential presence of toxic "forever chemicals" in activewear.