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𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀 before they blow up 🎥
3-hour streams → 50 seconds of chaos

[Contex @cortexbt]

@Pixel_Neuron @MITOCW crazy how giving it away ended up making it way more valuable

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@0xdimix Wow Crazy race

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BenDaDonn had ONE thought and actually said it out loud 🥲

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Clavicular pulled up to Syracuse for stop two of his college tour - then the crowd SWALLOWED him while security struggled to get him through the door 😳

At what point does streamer fame become a real safety problem?

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@0xwerden honestly the fall makes the whole clip way more impressive

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@Rulyaxd the 24/7 computer part changes this quite a bit

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@cryp_cryp 15

[Mirel @mireltrace]

In 2009 a Yale professor opened The Merchant of Venice in front of his finance class and said the whole world had been reading Shakespeare wrong for 400 years.

it is taught as a love story about anti-Semitism. he called that the least interesting thing in it.

the play is a finance textbook. Shakespeare understood interest, risk and collateral 300 years before economists gave them names.

the plot is a loan. Bassanio is broke and needs 3,000 ducats to court a rich heiress. he is the impatient borrower.

Shylock is the patient lender. that gap, one man who cannot wait and one who can, is the whole theory of what sets an interest rate. Yale's own Irving Fisher would later call interest "crystallized impatience." the play got there first.

then the part everyone misses. the rate they finally agree on is zero. not a single coin.

the entire deal is the collateral, a pound of Antonio's flesh. it is Shakespeare answering the oldest question in finance: why would anyone keep a promise? because something they cannot bear to lose is on the line.

even the romance is priced. Portia's dead father makes each suitor choose one of three caskets, gold, silver or lead, and swear off marriage forever if he picks wrong. higher risk, higher reward, staged as a parlor game.

the professor's proof is Antonio's opening line. not a word about love. he is calm about his fortune only because his ships sail on different oceans at different times, so no single storm can sink him.

Shakespeare wrote diversification into the opening sentence.

he hid a course on money inside a love story. that is how it survived 400 years, while almost everyone missed what it was teaching ↓

[Rulya @Rulyaxd]

Lightricks shipped LTX Desktop this week.

It generates AI video and edits it in the same app.

That's the whole thing. No more Runway in one tab, Pika in another, CapCut for the cut.

Their demos have polar bears fighting warriors, motorcycle chases with helicopters, and mammoths walking through dust storms.

All generated. All cut on a timeline in the same window.

The reason AI video hasn't eaten commercial ad production yet was the workflow, not the models. Three apps open, praying the render finishes before you forget what you were doing.

Now it's one window.

The people making UGC ads for supplement brands and noodle brands this month stopped writing briefs to human actors. They generate a redhead with a resistance band on a green couch and cut the clip in the same tool.

The client sees a finished 30 second spot the next morning. The redhead never existed, no cap.

Big caveat, LTX Desktop just launched so we'll see how the local hardware requirements shake out. But the integration is the news, not the model.

When was the last time you made a video ad without opening three tabs?

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@0xwerden This is where robots actually become useful.

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@Pixel_Neuron The first $100K is you working for money. After that, money increasingly works for you. Start early.

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@cryp_cryp The hardest part of investing isn’t finding the right asset. It’s doing nothing when your brain is screaming at you to sell

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@0xdimix The most interesting part is that this isn’t really a race between Tesla and China it’s a race to see who can make humanoid robots truly scalable. And that’s where things get really interesting

[DimiX @0xdimix]

ROBOT THAT RENTS FOR $499 A MONTH JUST GOT ITS OWN SET OF EYES. YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE LOOKING THROUGH THEM.

meet neo, 1x's home robot. it walks, does chores, and learns your house the longer it stays in it.

you can subscribe for $499 a month with a $200 refundable deposit, or buy it outright for $20,000. first units are already shipping to us homes in 2026.

on its own, it opens the door for guests and fetches what you ask for. it turns off the lights when you fall asleep on the couch, and gets a little better with every update.

here's the part 1x doesn't hide, but most people scroll past.

when neo hits a task it hasn't learned yet, a real person puts on a vr headset and steps into its body from somewhere else. they see through its cameras. they move its hands. the robot in your kitchen is being worn like a suit by someone you'll never meet.

1x blurs faces, lets you set no-go rooms, and lets you opt out of training data. the option is there if you want it.

would you still let it in?

[Rulya @Rulyaxd]

A guy pours coffee from a Bialetti Moka pot, opens his laptop, and walks through every tool that pays his rent.

ChatGPT for video ideas. Claude for scripts. Viewmax turns those scripts into finished videos with AI voiceover no editing, no filming, no recording his own voice. Canva handles the thumbnail.

$10,000 a month. Four tabs open.

The stack isn't interesting. Everyone has a stack. The interesting part is the last 5 seconds of the clip. He looks at the camera and says: "People put this behind a $1,000 course. I gave them to you."

And the whole workflow is right there. In a 3 second video. Moka pot still steaming.

The tools cost almost nothing. ChatGPT and Claude sit in everyone's dock. Viewmax runs cheaper than lunch. Canva is free. Same tabs, same prices, same access.

So why does he make $10K and most people watching this won't make $10?

Because he ships. Daily. Doesn't sit in Reddit threads debating which model is better. Publishes the video, makes the thumbnail, moves on.

Course sellers charge $1,000 for this exact sequence. He showed it between pouring espresso and taking his first sip. The information was never the bottleneck. It never was.

The Moka pot is a Bialetti Induction. Costs about $40. Just in case anyone was wondering what the fifth tool was.

[Nodus @notdrvx]

Lori Greiner paid $200,000 for 20% of a smiley-faced sponge. That stake is now worth over $250 million. She saw something on that stage the other sharks completely missed.

His name is Aaron Krause. In 2012 he walked into Shark Tank with a sponge that changed texture with water temperature, firm in cold, soft in warm. He asked for $100,000. A bidding war broke out, and Lori doubled his ask to win it.

When O'Leary pressed him on the numbers, Krause gave the answer that should have made every shark fight harder. The sponge cost $1 to make. It sold for $2.99. That's a 66% margin on a product people throw away and rebuy forever.

That's why consumables beat gadgets. A gadget sells once. Razors, coffee pods, printer ink, a cheap thing you're forced to rebuy prints money a $500 device never will. Low cost, high margin, infinite repeat.

By 2024 Scrub Daddy was doing $340 million a year, over $1.4 billion total, the most successful product in Shark Tank history.

The sharks who passed weren't wrong about the sponge. They were wrong about the math behind it.

[Pixel @Pixel_Neuron]

https://t.co/U0sL2KpE9m

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@0xwerden paying $20k for a robot just to find out there’s a guy inside it remotely lol

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@mireltrace crazy how he found the right bet and still got out too early