This is Fine

Just another overly opinionated and under researched mammal.

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

many don’t have an opinion on something until they’re asked about it, at which point they cobble together a viewpoint from whim and half-remembered hearsay, before deciding that this 2-minute-old makeshift opinion will be their new hill to die on.

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

2/ Example:

“We don’t need traffic rules.”

Okay,remove all traffic rules.

Intersections become chaos and nobody gets anywhere safely.

Absurd result → maybe the original idea fails.

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

1/ Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to absurdity”) is a way to test an idea: assume it’s completely true and follow the consequences.

If the conclusion becomes absurd or contradictory, the original idea probably doesn’t hold.

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online, and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It isn't that people lack information; it's that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality, one that confirms what they already believe

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Many confuse critical intelligence with critical posturing.

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@Netflix tell without the show

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

https://t.co/4LmcN3BTjn

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Bookmark this: Tether will eventually buy Revolut @tether @Revolut

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Ask people “What evidence would change your mind?” If they say “Nothing,” you have revealed they are not interested in the truth, only in being right regardless of the facts. This is known as wilful ignorance; avoid any further conversation.

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@ericweinstein @ENERGY Bring back a long form bi-monthly Portal podcasts to cover it all ;)

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.

That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.

Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”

The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.

That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.

But the education system still runs on its logic.

A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.

Neither is being served. Both are being processed.

Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”

AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.

One at a time. Every time.

It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.

It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.

A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.

The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.

No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.

Because the math doesn’t work.

AI doesn’t have that constraint.

Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”

The brain isn’t broken. The format is.

Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.

That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.

Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”

Four years. Six figures of debt.

And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.

The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.

Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”

The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.

The question isn’t whether the old model survives.

It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

Animal group names:

A chowder of cats
A murder of crows
A shrewdness of apes
A caravan of camels
A quiver of cobras
A bask of crocodiles
A drove of donkeys
A convocation of eagles
A parade of elephants
A cast of falcons
A business of ferrets
A school of fish
A skulk of foxes
An army of frogs
A tower of giraffes
A band of gorillas
A cackle of hyenas
A smack of jellyfish
A conspiracy of lemurs
A troop of kangaroos
A leap of leopards
A pride of lions
A parliament of owls
A pandemonium of parrots
A drove of pigs
An unkindness of ravens
A shiver of sharks
A knot of toads

[Equiteez @equiteezdotcom]

According to @McKinsey, the base-case estimate for tokenized financial assets approaches ~$2 trillion by 2030, excluding cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.

What’s driving adoption is not experimentation, but migration:
• Mutual funds & ETFs
• Bonds and exchange-traded notes
• Loans and securitized credit
• Alternative funds

These are core institutional instruments moving onto new rails.

The implication is structural.

Tokenization is shifting from edge cases to market plumbing: settlement, custody, and distribution.

Equiteez is not focused on creating new financial products.

We are building the infrastructure required for this transition.

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

“Most civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.”

- Frank Herbert from God of Emperor of Dune

[This is Fine @cryptosmith4]

Bill,
For sure fight this. They have miscalculated who you are buy you also have to clean up shop.
your entire track record is built on being the person who doesn’t blink. Settling this quietly would cost you more in credibility than whatever “Ronda” is asking for. You’d be handing ammunition to every opponent you’ll ever face.
The public post was bold. It was also irreversible, which is actually the point you’ve made it genuinely costly to back down, and that’s a real commitment device. Ronda’s team built their strategy around a private Ackman under pressure. They got a different opponent.
That said, a few things worth sitting with honestly.
Everything you wrote in that post will be read back to you in deposition. The characterization of her claims as fake, the detail about your daughter( wish her well), the game theory framing around her husband all of it is now part of the record and opposing counsel’s roadmap. That may be fine. Just go in clear-eyed that you’ve already shown your hand.
The nephew situation is manageable legally, but narratively it requires context to land well. “Tell me you are nowhere near 40” is defensible when you explain it. It sounds worse stripped bare in a headline. Make sure he’s prepared for that, and make sure everyone who was at that lunch is prepared too.
The strongest version of this fight ends with a documented, public win that actually changes something not just for you but for the next CEO who gets one of these letters. That’s the outcome worth pursuing. So stop talking publicly now, get the best employment litigators you can find, and go win it the right way.
One more thing. If you really want to fix the system you’re describing, pair the lawsuit with a push for legislative reform fee-shifting for frivolous claims, restrictions on NDA use in settlements. Individual wins are satisfying. Structural change is what actually moves the needle.

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@Hertz016 I finally got hold of some one but took two days and multiple calls.

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@Hertz I have never had a worst service
Than hertz in Rome airport. They simply don’t answer any of their numbers. Not the reservation number not the
Emergency breakdown number. The numbers don’t even work. https://t.co/ckkJCiheWH abandon their customers

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@miquelgirones1 Banks

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" One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonised those who produce, subsidised those who refuse to produce, and canonised those who complain.”

— Thomas Sowell