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[ZER @zerqfer]

A 19 YEAR OLD IN A ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT MAKES $15,200 A MONTH FROM CARTOONS SHE NEVER FILMED. YOUTUBE SENDS HER THE CHECK FOR EVERY VIEW.

She does not draw. She does not animate. She does not own a camera.

She opens one tab. YouTube. Types "kids shows." The top result pays its owner between $1,000 and $15,000 for every million views. She screenshots the number so you see it.

Then she opens the second tab. An AI video generator. She pastes the transcript of a cartoon that already went viral. The tool builds a character from it. A toddler named BJ, blue onesie, biting a banana, rendered in bright kid-safe 3D.

She never wrote BJ. She never voiced BJ. She copied a transcript, hit generate, and watched a cartoon she does not own get born in 90 seconds.

Most creators argue about whether AI art is "real." She is not in that argument. She is in the tab where the ad revenue shows up.

The "kids shows" search is not research. The "kids shows" search is the shelf she is about to stock.

She posts the clip. YouTube runs ads on it. A toddler in Ohio watches BJ bite a banana and her balance moves by cents that compound into four figures.

The cartoon is generated. The voice is synthesized. The ad check is real.

She films herself in a black tube top explaining "how it works" because the explanation is the part that goes viral. The money is in the tab she keeps behind her.

Save this post. The tool is an AI video generator. The niche is kids. The payout is YouTube's, and it does not ask who pressed generate.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

These COVID nightmares will never be forgotten...

21-year-old Australian mom of three was violently choked by police & arrested for not wearing a mask, even though she had a medical exemption.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

❤️🤣🤣

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

Stablecoin censorship tracker

Billions frozen

Good reminder that while stables have utility they are not freedom money

https://t.co/ob2N0Rexey

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@Mayhem4Markets The ability to store and transfer debasement-resistant value globally without centralized permission.

And among the ways to do that, it’s the protocol with the best liquidity and decentralized track record. Network effects.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

It took a while, but Donald Trump has finally figured out that the biggest threat to his administration is Israel.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

⚡️VIRAL: THE BTC VS. ETH DEBATE IS GETTING A LITTLE OUT OF HAND

An AI-generated clip featuring Michael Saylor and Tom Lee is making the rounds.

[Bob Loukas 🗽 @BobLoukas]

Despite Bulltards endless narratives, and hate, BTC was always going to retest this area (at min). A Cycle ending decline almost never comes that early & in one swoop.

Now bulls at least have something to work with here, structurally. Fairly unlikely they can hold it though.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

The longform piece I wrote for the latest print issue of Bitcoin Magazine is on their site now:
https://t.co/4QvBDr6K98

[Rahul @sairahul1]

instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture

it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how ChatGPT and Claude actually work

useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been using it every day for the past year

I took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide on how to actually get 100% out of Claude

everything in one place

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

This Scooby-Doo scene was cut for being too scary.

Test audiences were genuinely disturbed by it. The sequence showed a possessed Velma chasing Daphne’s soul, and it pushed the movie further than the studio was willing to go.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Meet Philip K. Dick.

Not just a science fiction writer.

But a man who claimed he *saw* beyond the simulation we live in.

And what he revealed at a secret conference in Paris left even top scientists speechless:

[MovieFrameX @MovieFrameX]

The genius

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

People who say math is painful

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

My latest thoughts on $BTC, $STRC, and $MSTR with @TheBonnieChang and @davidlin_TV at Consensus 2026.

0:00 - Strategy’s Bitcoin sale controversy
0:36 - Why Strategy may sell Bitcoin
3:12 - “Never sell your Bitcoin” explained
4:40 - How Strategy buys more Bitcoin than it sells
6:33 - Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin accumulation philosophy
8:04 - Using Bitcoin liquidity and market arbitrage
11:14 - Responding to Ponzi scheme criticism
13:32 - STRC trading patterns and Bitcoin buying
15:05 - What really drives Bitcoin’s price
17:58 - Bitcoin, macro risks, and Fed policy
19:43 - Bitcoin as digital capital and digital credit
21:52 - Strategy’s dominance in preferred stock issuance
23:09 - AI, digital credit, and Bitcoin’s future
24:36 - Saylor’s childhood inspiration and MIT story

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Your entire life is already written. You just haven’t read it yet.

When Einstein’s friend Michele Besso died in 1955, Einstein wrote to his family: “For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

In Einstein’s equations, time doesn’t flow. It exists as a dimension, like height or width, spread out in a four-dimensional block called spacetime. Your birth, your death, and every moment between exist simultaneously as coordinates in this block.

What you call “now” is just your consciousness moving through already-existing events, like a spotlight sliding along a pre-recorded film.

The experimental evidence for this is overwhelming.

GPS satellites prove it daily. Time runs faster in orbit due to weaker gravity. If time were universal and flowing, this wouldn’t happen. But if time is a dimension that gets warped by mass and energy, then different locations experience different rates of “passage” through the time dimension.

Particle accelerators confirm it too. When scientists accelerate particles to near light speed, those particles experience time dilation. From our perspective, they decay more slowly. From their perspective, our entire experiment happens in an instant. Same events, different coordinates in the time dimension.

But the deepest confirmation comes from quantum entanglement experiments.

When two particles become entangled, measuring one instantly affects the other across any distance. Einstein called this “spooky action at a distance” because it seemed to require faster-than-light communication. But if past, present, and future all exist simultaneously, the communication isn’t happening across space. It’s happening across the complete four-dimensional structure where both measurements already exist as eternal facts.

The measurement doesn’t cause the correlation. The correlation exists timelessly throughout the block universe.

Think about what this means for free will.

Every choice you believe you’re making exists as an eternal coordinate in spacetime. Your decision to read these words was never “made.” It simply exists at these coordinates the same way the Eiffel Tower exists at its coordinates.

You experience the illusion of choosing because your consciousness encounters each decision point sequentially. But the choice itself is as fixed and permanent as your height.

Your memories aren’t records of the past. They’re present-moment brain states that create the subjective experience of having had a past. Your anticipation of the future isn’t prediction. It’s a present-moment brain state that creates the subjective experience of approaching events.

The flowing river of time is a construction your consciousness creates to make sense of its movement through eternally existing coordinates.

What you call life is just consciousness reading itself.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

Nothing has none more to discredit itself in recent years than the judiciary

And that includes the medical establishment during Covid, and Congress with all of its disgusting and craven antics

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incredible that it was only 66 years from the first controlled, powered flight to landing on the Moon!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

On March 12, India formally asked China for emergency urea to keep its fertilizer plants running.

On March 16, China halted NPK fertilizer blend exports and extended its phosphate suspension through August.

Read that sequence again. The world’s most populous nation asked the world’s largest fertilizer producer for help. The response was a lockdown.

This is the second trap.

The first trap is Hormuz. One-third of global seaborne fertilizer trade physically blocked. Transit collapsed 97 percent. Gulf urea, ammonia, and sulfur stranded behind mines, drones, and an insurance market that has fractured beyond repair.

The second trap is China. Beijing looked at the Hormuz crisis, calculated that Gulf sulfur (over half of China’s imports) would not arrive, and made the rational decision to protect 1.4 billion of its own people first. Strategic sulfur reserves activated. Commercial nitrogen and phosphate stocks released early. NPK blends locked down for export. Phosphate banned through August. The 725 million tonne grain target in the 15th Five-Year Plan does not bend for India’s Kharif season.

Nobody should be surprised. This is exactly what China did in 2022 when the Ukraine shock hit. It is what China will always do. And it is what every government with the capacity to hoard will do when the molecules run short. The crisis does not produce global solidarity. It produces national triage. And in national triage, the countries with domestic production and strategic reserves survive. The countries that depend on imports from those countries do not.

India has 17.7 million tonnes of fertilizer stockpiled, up 36.5 percent year-over-year. That is a buffer, not a solution. Plants are running at 60 percent capacity. The subsidy bill has been revised to 1.86 lakh crore rupees, over 40 percent of the entire subsidy budget, with urea sold at 242 rupees per bag against international prices many times higher. If Skymet’s 60% probability of below-normal monsoon materializes during Kharif, India faces a food production challenge of a severity not seen since the crisis that prompted the Green Revolution.

Bangladesh has shut 4 to 5 of six urea factories. Boro rice season is underway with no domestic nitrogen. Pakistan’s debt service consumes 81 percent of tax revenue. Egypt feeds 69 million on bread subsidies at prices it never budgeted while owing $28 billion in external debt. Southeast Asia faces granular urea above $700 per tonne. Sri Lanka, the country that already proved what happens when fertilizer vanishes, faces 15 to 30 percent yield risk from the same import dependence that collapsed its rice output 40% in 2021.

Now map the sulfur cascade that almost nobody is tracking.

Roughly half of global seaborne sulfur trade is Gulf-sourced. Sulfuric acid is the chemical required to convert raw phosphate rock into plant-available fertilizer. Without Gulf sulfur, phosphate processing breaks globally. Morocco’s OCP, the world’s largest phosphate exporter, imports roughly 3.7 million tonnes of Gulf sulfur annually. China imports over 4 million tonnes. The sulfur shortage does not just constrain nitrogen supply. It simultaneously fractures the phosphate chain, creating the first simultaneous disruption of all three primary crop nutrients since the Haber-Bosch process was industrialized.

Two forces are now converging on the global food system from opposite directions. Iran blocks the molecules physically. China blocks them administratively. Neither is acting irrationally. Both are executing national survival logic. And the countries caught between them, the ones with no domestic production, no strategic reserves, and no fiscal capacity to compete on the spot market, absorb the full force of both.

318 mn people were at crisis-level hunger before either trap snapped shut.

The math does not require malice to produce catastrophe. It only requires geography, chemistry, and a planting calendar that waits for nobody.

https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Unfiltered Chinmay @pmroadmap25]

@jack While https://t.co/Qe9SXAn6nY spotlights the human cost of conflict, its editorial line often leans toward a particular geopolitical lens—reminding us that even peace‑advocacy outlets carry their own biases.