Dave Birnbaum

Tech founder @ThinkForesight @Britebot70 | Co-Founder & President @TennesseeBTC | Thoughts on emerging tech and the future of money. ✍️ Forbes & elsewhere

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✴️ Combobulating…

[BogusThought @BogusThought]

Knight Rider is finally real 😘😘😘

$TSLA

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@romanhelmetguy Then the market will reject it. Why is this even worth commentary.

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@thdxr

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Someone asked me what my long term plan is and I just said

You know, I think we're going to need a breakaway space faring civilization

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@RBReich Equality of outcomes
…doesn’t make people happy

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If my neighbour increases the productivity of their vegetable garden and doubles their tomato crop, this does not subtract from the number of tomatoes I was able to produce in *my* vegetable garden. You are now more economically literate than all of leftist Twitter.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

This is incredibly impressive from the @BTCMedusa team. The bitcoin community needs less squabbling and more building!

[ValentinoZ @vazertuche]

So excited to finally launch the product I've been working on. Here's a quick video explaining it. Finally, you can privately get heuristics on your wallet without even running your own node! Feedback welcome!

[ValentinoZ @vazertuche]

So excited to finally launch the product I've been working on. Here's a quick video explaining it. Finally, you can privately get heuristics on your wallet without even running your own node! Feedback welcome!

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@AliceFromQueens @xwanyex Rent control caps returns, like utility regulation or drug pricing, but those are different because they come with a return floor. Hard rent control is a ceiling with no floor and rising costs underneath.

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We are ruled by scoundrels.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Britebot @Britebot70]

BCG's new report: 60% of enterprises haven't captured material AI value yet. The reason is the copilot era delivered only 10–20% gains. Agentic clients are already past that — and BCG is telling Fortune 500 boards that Agent Ops is how you close the gap.

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@nickgillespie Calling inappropriate is one thing, but "deeply offensive"? Good Lord.

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@vkhosla @Stanford @Google @sundarpichai These are your peeps. This behavior is downstream of your political philosophy.

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@TheWorthyHouse @romanhelmetguy We shall see 🤝

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@elonmusk Respectfully, we don’t need better short form video as much as we need Fable-level coding models. Hoping Grok comes through!

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@Keir_Starmer Thanks. Next time don’t hesitate to just post on X instead of screenshotting pompous letterhead.

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@TheWorthyHouse @romanhelmetguy Learn how these systems work and you’ll be able to predict outcomes, instead of waiting to see results and just reacting.

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@romanhelmetguy Recognizing isomorphism requires encountering two distant domains and holding them in mind together long enough to see the shared structure. Intuitively you’d expect AI systems to be better at this since they’re not limited by short lives and memory like we are.

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@mcguinnessfortx @friedberg @RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden Agreed. It’s like when people say that Communism is nice in theory. No, enslavement and state confiscation of private property is not well intentioned. It’s destructive, dangerous, and the people who advocate it know better.