Ben

[Ben @benapick]

@AtticusMcTavish We’re gonna be up 5 hundy by midnight 😂

[Ben @benapick]

This is a very good take. Sports gambling is a scourge

[Riley Jensen @RileyJensen]

Gambling. I’m surprised at so much push back. As a mental performance coach who works with professional and college athletes, I can assure you that 99% of the vitriol, threats, and inappropriate behavior online towards athletes on social media is because of gambling. It’s typically a gambler who wants to blame someone else for their misfortune. It’s followed up with death threats, physical harm, and evil acts not only to athletes but their families. If you are mad about being told not to gamble, I am worried for you. And overall I worry about a society that values gambling over having good relationships and interactions with others.

[Ben @benapick]

Beautiful

[Maximus @shogun_3]

You will NEVER find anything so beautiful and angelic than Christianity. None.

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Aaron Rodgers is my new favorite player of all time.

Inject this entire rant into my veins.

[Ben @benapick]

@AdamAstro3 @ArneriDesign Also, wow you guys are building out a great team at https://t.co/OMnbsXVWs1! Congrats and looking forward to hearing more

[Ben @benapick]

@AdamAstro3 @ArneriDesign @adamastro3 any chance you can share an update yet on where you and KBam were on 5/3? We all can’t wait to hear! Love to hear about all the things you guys are working on

[Ben @benapick]

“If a squirrel crawled up your pant leg, would it come down hungry?” @notabigdeal111

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Western Civilization didn't flourish because "white males" stopped other groups from succeeding.

The West thrived because of rational thought, individual rights, and free enterprise.

"White males" that invented the steam engine, electric generation, the combustion engine, flight, and space exploration did not do so because they "stole" the ideas of minorities.

These inventions helped lift mankind out of ignorance and hardship, improving the quality of life for all of humanity.

"White males" didn't oppress the entire world, they helped make it a better place.

"White males" didn't oppress everyone's rights, they invented the idea of rights and paid in blood to liberate tens of millions of people.

"White males" didn't invent slavery, they ended it.

"White males" didn't invent tyranny, they devised a form of government to end it.

Destroying Western Civilization isn't about empowering groups that were "oppressed." It is about tearing down civilization itself so that globalist parasites can rule over all of us.

[Ben @benapick]

@factor_members Peter this is so helpful and so true. You have so much trading wisdom and to distill it down and pass it along is very difficult. I appreciate so much your efforts. I’ve learned so much from you. You are tireless in your efforts. There is no better teacher than experience

[Kevin Bambrough @BambroughKevin]

Fractal graphene aggregates are extremely special. I can’t wait to share our findings as to how uniquely special they are. Prepare to be mind blown…

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

The opponents of this war are rooting *for* Americans. The war's fanatical Zionist perpetrators are destroying America: severely degrading our weapons stockpiles, expending money we don't have, wrecking our alliances, killing increasing numbers of our soldiers, raising prices, killing jobs.

This war is damaging our country, both abroad and here at home, because the Zionist fanatics who started this war and are continuing this war love Israel and hate their fellow Americas. They care less about the damage they are doing to the U.S. as long as they can protect the only country they are loyal to, Israel. Zionists are at every level of their treacherous souls rooting against America and are indeed succeeding in damaging America for the sake of the foreign country they love.

[Ben @benapick]

Tim is right

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Tim Dillon just declared that MAGA is “the greatest scam in history.”

“To run as America First, and then turn around and go … we’re here to have a defense budget of $1.5 trillion.”

“And we’re here to fight wars.”

“It makes Enron look like a guy doing three-card monte on the street.”

“This is the greatest about-face in political history that I have ever seen.”

“JD Vance, when he came on my show he said, we want to stay out of Middle Eastern wars.”

“If you had said to me, is this guy going to launch a preemptive war in Iran, I would’ve said no.”

@TimJDillon

[Ben @benapick]

@Z06Z07 88,568 BTC purchased by MSTR since Jan 1

[Ben @benapick]

@BambroughKevin @Lavrossy Kevin, did you mean Paragraf? I’ve been researching them. It looks like they have a very cool patented production process that is different than $HGRAF but doesn’t require exfoliation. I don’t believe that Paragraf can ever scale as well as HGRAF and will always be niche

[Ben @benapick]

You’re a legend KB many thanks to you sir. Incredible work on $HGRAF. Can’t wait to see you make “Team Humanity” happen and change the world. I’ve caught this tiger by the tail with you my friend @BambroughKevin

[Kevin Bambrough @BambroughKevin]

I got a project, “Team Humanity” nonprofit that makes great products with graphene. Pays employees well. Gives profit away. The only advertising with be us giving money away.

Like ‘god plan video’ https://t.co/zUOH2PpUil

I had more than enough before Hydrograph. I came out of retirement for a few reasons.

1. I was bored

2. I wanted to teach my kids some shit and help them build businesses

3. I got sick of trying to help in the broken charity model.

Decided it would be easier for me to make money and then build a nonprofit and give money away then piss around trying to find raise.

This will be Team Humanity

This is the plan.

[Ben @benapick]

Woah, this feels significant. Feels like a fork in the road.

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. @HydroGraphInc]

HydroGraph ($HG | $HGRAF) secures major regulatory milestones:

✔ U.S. EPA TSCA Section 5(e) Order
✔ UK REACH
✔ EU REACH

Clear regulatory frameworks now in place across the U.S., UK & EU supporting commercial scale-up and customer adoption.

📖 https://t.co/ckz8lQvDKE

[Balaji @balajis]

They’re just going to destroy every Western fiat ledger. Anything stored on any fiat ledger, from currencies to stocks to bonds, will be first exorbitantly taxed and eventually simply seized. Or simply inflated to zero. That is the logic of the sovereign debt crisis.

[Ben @benapick]

#respect

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham is stepping down, he announced. He will coach in the Las Vegas Bowl.