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Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

7 months ago

🚨🇻🇪 VENEZUELA’S PRESIDENT-ELECT TO MILITARY: THE DICTATOR’S GONE, NOW DO YOUR JOB Venezuela's legitimate president-elect, Edmundo González Urrutia, just called Maduro's arrest a turning point. He also made it clear: real change doesn’t happen while political prisoners are still locked up and the military sits on its hands. His message to the armed forces? Your loyalty is to the Constitution, not the narco-terrorist who just got arrested. González says the people already chose their future on July 28, and it’s not negotiable. No more persecution, no more fear, and definitely no more pretending that dictatorship and democracy can share the same stage. Source: @EdmundoGU

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DogeDesigner

@cb_doge

7 months ago

BREAKING: 𝕏 is now the #1 News App on the AppStore in Venezuela 🇻🇪 The people of Venezuela are receiving all the unfiltered and truthful news right here on this platform in real-time. Maduro once banned the 𝕏 app in Venezuela. Fate loves Irony.

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MDMnvest

@MDM_NFTs

7 months ago

They must have found Eliza! She’s coded (and looks great)

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Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

8 months ago

🇺🇸🇧🇷 OPINION: THE U.S. LIFTING SANCTIONS ON JUSTICE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES WAS THE FINAL BLOW TO BRAZIL'S DEMOCRACY Just 5 months ago, the U.S. hit Brazil’s censor-in-chief, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, with sanctions for jailing dissidents, censoring social media, and acting like a one-man Supreme Court. Sadly, it didn't last long. The sanctions were just lifted, and Brazil's tyranny shrugged off like it’s last season’s scandal. To Brazilians watching their country slide into strongman rule, it feels like betrayal. Justice Alexandre "Voldemort" de Moraes had become infamous for kicking in doors and freezing accounts just because someone tweeted the wrong thing. Americans noticed. Sanctions came. For a second, it looked like someone finally cared. That second’s over. The excuse? Trade talks and some vague political amnesty. The result? Lula’s loyal court stays stacked, dissenters stay scared, and the U.S. has left Brazil’s pro-democracy movement twisting in the wind. Let’s be clear. This wasn’t just a slap in the face to free speech. It was the final seal of approval on Brazil’s new reality: courts that answer to power, not law. The people risking their lives to speak out? They just got the message loud and clear. They're on their own. Brazil’s middle class is already vanishing. Inflation’s eating wages, investment is fleeing, and poverty is creeping back in like mold. The government offers cash handouts like it’s a fix, but it’s just gasoline on the debt fire. This is how Argentina collapsed under Peronism: bloated spending, no growth, and a generation stuck paying the bill. But the real nightmare is what’s happening to Brazil’s institutions. Congress is just background noise now. Lula’s Supreme Court does the heavy lifting, rubber-stamping decrees and crushing dissent. It’s starting to look less like pre-Milei Argentina and more like Venezuela with nicer branding. Judges act like kings, critics are criminalized, and nobody knows who’s next. And now that the U.S. has walked away, there's no pressure from outside. No lifeline, no leverage. Brazil needs a miracle, but so did Venezuela and it never came.

MarioNawfal's tweet photo. 🇺🇸🇧🇷 OPINION: THE U.S. LIFTING SANCTIONS ON JUSTICE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES WAS THE FINAL BLOW TO BRAZIL'S DEMOCRACY

Just 5 months ago, the U.S. hit Brazil’s censor-in-chief, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, with sanctions for jailing dissidents, censoring social media, and acting like a one-man Supreme Court.

Sadly, it didn't last long. The sanctions were just lifted, and Brazil's tyranny shrugged off like it’s last season’s scandal.

To Brazilians watching their country slide into strongman rule, it feels like betrayal.

Justice Alexandre "Voldemort" de Moraes had become infamous for kicking in doors and freezing accounts just because someone tweeted the wrong thing.

Americans noticed. Sanctions came. For a second, it looked like someone finally cared.

That second’s over. The excuse? Trade talks and some vague political amnesty.

The result? Lula’s loyal court stays stacked, dissenters stay scared, and the U.S. has left Brazil’s pro-democracy movement twisting in the wind.

Let’s be clear. This wasn’t just a slap in the face to free speech. It was the final seal of approval on Brazil’s new reality: courts that answer to power, not law.

The people risking their lives to speak out? They just got the message loud and clear. They're on their own.

Brazil’s middle class is already vanishing. Inflation’s eating wages, investment is fleeing, and poverty is creeping back in like mold.

The government offers cash handouts like it’s a fix, but it’s just gasoline on the debt fire.

This is how Argentina collapsed under Peronism: bloated spending, no growth, and a generation stuck paying the bill.

But the real nightmare is what’s happening to Brazil’s institutions. Congress is just background noise now.

Lula’s Supreme Court does the heavy lifting, rubber-stamping decrees and crushing dissent.

It’s starting to look less like pre-Milei Argentina and more like Venezuela with nicer branding.

Judges act like kings, critics are criminalized, and nobody knows who’s next.

And now that the U.S. has walked away, there's no pressure from outside.

No lifeline, no leverage.

Brazil needs a miracle, but so did Venezuela and it never came.

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Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

8 months ago

🇧🇷🇺🇸 U.S. BACKS DOWN: LIFTS SANCTIONS ON BRAZIL'S CENSOR-IN-CHIEF ALEXANDRE DE MORAES Rough day for anyone hoping Uncle Sam would keep the pressure on Brazil's rogue judge. The US Treasury just yanked all sanctions pinned on Alexandre "Voldemort" de Moraes and his wife, barely 5 months after slapping them on for his "oppressive campaign of censorship" and arbitrary detentions. Remember, this guy's the Justice who's been on a tear: freezing assets, raiding homes, making political prisoners, and strong-arming Big Tech to scrub critics, including US folks, all while railroading Bolsonaro's coup trial. This is a gut punch to the anti-authoritarian push in Brazil. Lifting the sactions is like handing the keys back to the jailer, emboldening more raids and blackouts on platforms like X. Free speech in Brazil just took a knee, and now the world will watch it crumble. Source: Bloomberg, Gazeta do Povo, Revista Oeste

MarioNawfal's tweet photo. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 U.S. BACKS DOWN: LIFTS SANCTIONS ON BRAZIL'S CENSOR-IN-CHIEF ALEXANDRE DE MORAES

Rough day for anyone hoping Uncle Sam would keep the pressure on Brazil's rogue judge.

The US Treasury just yanked all sanctions pinned on Alexandre "Voldemort" de Moraes and his wife, barely 5 months after slapping them on for his "oppressive campaign of censorship" and arbitrary detentions.

Remember, this guy's the Justice who's been on a tear: freezing assets, raiding homes, making political prisoners, and strong-arming Big Tech to scrub critics, including US folks, all while railroading Bolsonaro's coup trial.

This is a gut punch to the anti-authoritarian push in Brazil. Lifting the sactions is like handing the keys back to the jailer, emboldening more raids and blackouts on platforms like X.

Free speech in Brazil just took a knee, and now the world will watch it crumble.

Source: Bloomberg, Gazeta do Povo, Revista Oeste

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Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

10 months ago

HEART FAILURE’S NEW ENEMY: GADD45A JUST ENTERED THE CHAT Your heart gets bigger under stress - sounds cool, but it’s not. If the pressure keeps piling up (like in diabetes), that “growth” turns into dangerous thickening, scarring, and eventually failure. Scientists found that when the protein GADD45A is missing, the heart basically melts down - more inflammation, more fibrosis, more cell death. But when GADD45A levels go up? Damage drops. Hard. This could be a huge breakthrough for people with type 2 diabetes and chronic heart disease. Source: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

MarioNawfal's tweet photo. HEART FAILURE’S NEW ENEMY: GADD45A JUST ENTERED THE CHAT

Your heart gets bigger under stress - sounds cool, but it’s not.

If the pressure keeps piling up (like in diabetes), that “growth” turns into dangerous thickening, scarring, and eventually failure.

Scientists found that when the protein GADD45A is missing, the heart basically melts down - more inflammation, more fibrosis, more cell death.

But when GADD45A levels go up? Damage drops. Hard.

This could be a huge breakthrough for people with type 2 diabetes and chronic heart disease.

Source: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

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Cryptor ⚡️

@cryptorinweb3

11 months ago

Ever wondered why crypto didn’t have its adoption yet? It is a question that keeps me wondering often. If I throw this into a group discussion with friends, the classic response is: “Bro, you think your grandma is gonna use MetaMask to leverage loop stables on protocols like @SiloFinance or @pendle_fi?" Ok, fair enough. I have been yielding 100%+ APR on stables, farming governance tokens, lending out BTC, experimenting with NFTs and DAOs. Inside the bubble, crypto felt revolutionary. But outside of it? Nothing. That is because of the following: Crypto is everything you do not understand about money combined with everything you do not understand about computers. Of course it never looked ready for mainstream adoption. Or do you think everyone has a degree in business economics, studied computer science at MIT, and has spare time to dive into these kinds of technologies? I do not think so. But what if we used the wrong benchmark? What if it was never built for your grandma using MetaMask in the first place? When the iPhone launched, people did not care about TCP/IP or 3G. They cared about the apps. The same happened with social media. No one thought about the backend, they just joined Facebook and Instagram. Crypto never had that simple surface layer. It stayed as infrastructure, powerful but invisible to the average person. Maybe that is the point. Maybe crypto was never designed for mass consumer adoption first. Maybe it was designed for something else entirely. Six years ago @MTorygreen made a bold claim in one of his articles: "Skeptical that this nascent technology could generate that much value? You should be. Because blockchains weren’t designed for your tiny human brain. They were designed for the machines." At the time, “machines” sounded like a throwaway provocation. In hindsight it was pointing directly to autonomous intelligence, where billions of AI agents and IoT devices need a trust layer to transact and coordinate without humans in the loop. What sounded crazy then is the core thesis of DeAI today. Back in 2019 it felt almost laughable. I was still crawling out of the ICO crash licking my wounds. Bitcoin was stuck near $3K, MakerDAO had just launched, and Uniswap v1 was brand new. The whole space felt fragile and experimental, barely useful for people, let alone machines. But looking at where we are today, it feels almost inevitable. Artificial intelligence has become the fastest-scaling technology in history. It reached mass adoption in months, not years. Entire industries are reorganizing around it. And why is that? Because we built a technology whose entire purpose is to get smarter. The smarter it gets, the better it integrates into society, solving problems across medicine, logistics, education, and creativity. But that same acceleration comes with a cost. Each leap forward demands more GPUs, more data, and more energy. The smarter AI becomes, the heavier its infrastructure burden grows. And that is why centralized systems are already straining under their own weight. Training frontier models requires thousands of GPUs running for months, costs are spiraling into the billions, and access is limited to a handful of corporations with the capital to play. Models are closed, opaque, and biased. Control sits in the hands of a few giants deciding what you can or cannot build on. This is the inflection point. AI is showing us the future, but it is also showing us the limits of centralized infrastructure. And this is where crypto comes back into the story, because the very problems centralized AI is hitting today are the same ones decentralized crypto solutions were built to solve. A new wave of projects is already stepping in to solve this: - @ionet $IO turns idle GPUs across 130+ countries into on-demand clusters, logged transparently on Solana. It directly eases the compute shortage and cost crisis in AI. - @bittensor_ $TAO runs a decentralized knowledge network where hundreds of subnets compete and cooperate, replacing black-box systems with open, auditable intelligence. - @MacrocosmosAI SN9 builds a full-stack DeAI ecosystem on Bittensor, using subnets for training, data, and DeSci, distributing talent and access globally instead of leaving it to Big Tech. - @grass $GRASS creates a decentralized data marketplace by letting anyone share their unused bandwidth, turning a passive resource into an active input for training AI. - @akashnet $AKT offers decentralized cloud compute through a peer-to-peer marketplace, delivering cost-effective and resilient service, which is a strong alternative to centralized data centers. Together, these projects are proof that the bottlenecks hitting centralized AI in scale, trust, access, control, and cost, are already being solved in the open. They show that crypto was not a failed experiment waiting for adoption, but the infrastructure layer that intelligence itself will run on. People waited for crypto’s iPhone moment. The irony is it will not come from DeFi, NFTs, or RWAs. Those are just the warm-up, and quite frankly, have barely even started yet. The real breakthrough is DeAI. It is crypto’s endgame, the reason blockchains exist in the first place. And when it converges with everything else, adoption will not be a moment. It will be an avalanche. Crypto was not late. It was early.