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A lot of startups, a few exits.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Congratulations @ElonMusk and $SPCX on a historic IPO.

Thanks to you, 25% of the Mag8 now holds Bitcoin on the balance sheet.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

When I give my savings to @elonmusk they multiply. When I give them to you and all of the US government, they disappear.

[MartyParty @martypartymusic]

The 7th largest company in the world owns 18700 Bitcoin.

[Eric Weiss ⚡️ @Eric_BIGfund]

SpaceX is building the future.

Bitcoin is on the balance sheet.

Connect the dots.

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

Back to basics.

Fiat money is fake and immoral.

Humanity is being cattle herded into a debt slavery system enhanced by AI-enabled dragnet surveillance.

Bitcoin fixes this.

If you don't get it, I don't have time to explain it to you. Figure it out.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Do elephants remember who was kind to them?

Yes – and across decades. Our ex-orphans return to the stockades long after they've gone wild, recognise specific Keepers by name, and bring their wild-born calves home to introduce them. They even come back for help.

Last month, Melia walked her new daughter Moon to our Ithumba Reintegration Unit – sixteen years after we rescued her. She came back so the people who raised her could meet her calf.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $800 BILLION ALLIANCE BERNSTEIN JUST SAID #BITCOIN'S "LONG-TERM STORE OF VALUE THESIS REMAINS INTACT"

DIP IS TEMPORARY

THEY ARE CALLING FOR $150,000 🚀

[Patrick Witt @patrickjwitt]

Big week ahead for Clarity. The work has continued in earnest behind the scenes since the Banking markup. The issue set has narrowed, and good faith offers are being put forward to close the gap. But time is of the essence.

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

I did not spend years on this issue to watch another country write the rules that govern the assets Americans invented. Let’s pass the Clarity Act.

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

Good morning.

Some friendly advice for the perma Bit-doomers: Stop declaring Bitcoin "dead". It is not dead. It is not dying. It is an asset experiencing normal bouts of high volatility during its adoption and maturation phase.

Have a great day.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

trump tonight weaker vis both iran and israel. not easy to pull off but he’s managed it.

[Kentucky Statesman @ky_statesman]

She still does.

[Estado Mínimo @xestadominimo]

“El socialismo necesita propaganda porque la realidad siempre termina contradiciéndolo”.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Jewish terrorists spent the entire weekend terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank and you said NOTHING.

The IDF murdered a 7 month old baby on Friday and you said nothing.

You are a mental and physical slave to Zionism. You have NO BUSINESS holding ANY political office, especially one that involves representing US interests in/with Israel. You have proven to be 100% incapable of objectivity.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

MAGA -- soon as they got right back into power -- went from "The evil Deep State is interfering in our politics" to "We demand that the NSA and CIA have the right to spy on American citizens without warrants."

Pete Hegseth: give us this power or the terrorists will kill you.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

There are only 236 of them left on Earth. Every single one has a name.

The kākāpō is the world's heaviest parrot - a mossy green, owl-faced bird the size of a small dog that cannot fly, may live to 90 years, and only breeds every 2 to 4 years when New Zealand's rimu trees produce enough fruit to trigger the urge.

Rats. Cats. Stoats. Humans clearing forests. The kākāpō never evolved to outrun any of them.

By 1995, 51 birds remained. Scientists, rangers, and Ngāi Tahu - the Māori people who have always known this bird as taonga, a treasure—evacuated every last one to predator-free islands.

Each bird got a transmitter. Each nest watched around the clock.

This past February 14th, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched. They named her Tīwhiri. By spring, 59 chicks had been born.

236 birds. Every name known. Every nest watched.

Who's counting down the days until the rimu trees fruit again? 🦜

#DemsUnited #Nature

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Bedtime for Bumpy! He approaches his room at a sprint, then - one little whir of the ears later - flops onto his mattress. A day spent cavorting in the water is tiring work, and our little hippo is more than ready for a good night’s sleep.

Bumpy is one of our newest arrivals. His mother died, likely in a territorial fight defending her baby’s life. He spent at least a day huddled by her body before the Kenya Wildlife Service rescued him and brought him into our care.

You can become part of Bumpy’s journey. Read his full rescue story and support him through an adoption: https://t.co/qAEjrv65WE

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

@PeterSchiff If you think that’s cult-like behavior, would you agree that being bearish from $0 to $126,000 over more than 10 years and saying you were right every 4 years would also be cult-like behavior?