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I’m interested in industries that connect the old and the new to the future.

[Dio @DioOmega]

209M... 😐

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

I am sharing this chart partially because it shows just how impressive the size of the Chinese manufacturing sector is but also because of the nice design choice.

[Dio @DioOmega]

I wonder how many Americans actually knew this.

[Innovation Council @innovationcncl]

🚨 750 gallons of water flowing every MINUTE, and it's being reused.

CNBC goes inside the next generation of data center cooling technology, where water circulates in a closed loop instead of constantly drawing fresh water from local supplies.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Elon Musk says it would "be an honor" to hire Jensen Huang.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇩🇪 Germany's largest bank Deutsche Bank officially rolls out crypto custody services.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia's Central Bank says exchanges can begin cryptocurrency trading from November 17th.

[Dio @DioOmega]

😂😂

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Do yourself a favor and read the comments. Seriously, all the comments. Right now. 😂

[Dio @DioOmega]

Good intentions 😂

[Özer Dölekoğlu @wrzl]

That video I posted earlier, people picking up the sloth from the middle of the road and taking it to the other side, reminds me of this 😀

[Dio @DioOmega]

日本花了三十年时间完成了一次全面的压力测试，我完全赞同。对于中国而言，我认为关键问题只有一个：能否放下面子，以更务实的方式应对挑战。

[Noe1017 @Noe1017_Monad]

日本经济崩了30年，但我今天要说一个反常识的事实：就在日本最惨的那30年里，有6个行业一路涨疯了。

啤酒跌了62%，威士忌跌了64%，可酸奶涨了195%，速冻食品涨了178%，碳酸饮料涨了148%。你以为经济下行是大家一起变穷？

不是，是钱换了个出口。

​我的观点很直接，经济下行从来不会产生消费降级，它只产生消费改造。

人的需求不会消失，只会换一条更便宜的路。

野村证券把日本30年复盘了一遍，总结出六条逆势赛道，说白了就三件事。

​第一，给人情绪。饮料、乳制品、预制菜，卖的不是吃喝，是花小钱立刻开心的液体多巴胺。

第二，给人体面。

优衣库、运动鞋服、户外露营，用很少的钱买到“我过得还不错”的身份感，顺便从压力里逃出去两天。第三，给人陪伴。

宠物一只一年吃37000日元，30年涨了72%。

接着宠物医院、宠物保险、宠物生日蛋糕全跑出来了。孤独越深，造梦越贵。

二次元、中古奢侈品、短途游，全是同一个逻辑：小钱很近，马上有反馈。

​这时候一定有人要反驳我，这不就是消费降级吗？

大家没钱了只能买便宜的。

这是最大的误解。

你去看数据就会发现，真正被打下去的不是贵的东西，是重的东西。

滑雪场死了，保龄球馆死了，铁道和温泉旅馆死了，为什么？

远、贵、门槛高，一年去一次。

活下来的是谁？

健身房、运动服、登山露营、连锁酒店的30种自助早餐，近、轻、高频，随手就能去。所以不是便宜了，是低门槛的情绪出口。

​还有人会说，那我干脆做低价卷价格，总没错吧？更错。

日本价格战打得最狠的啤酒、清酒、威士忌，跌了五六十年还在跌。自杀式低价换来的从来不是份额，是整个品类的死亡。

​所以这条你只需要记住三句话。

第一，别赌经济回暖，赌人性不变。人越焦虑，越愿意为感觉好一点付钱。

第二，省的是面子，花的是心情。大件可以砍，那口快乐砍不掉。

第三，门槛越低，反馈越快，孤独越深，生意越硬。日本用30年替我们跑完了一次完整的压力测试，答案已经写在纸上。

[Jaxon @jaxoncoder]

Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.

Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.

Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.

Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.

This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.

Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.

"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."

Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

Is crypto actually BETTER OFF without the Clarity Act?

Former CFTC Chairman @giancarloMKTS tells @itsciaranlyons why he's glad the bill failed and why he believes the US crypto industry can thrive without it.

#CHAINREACTION

[Dio @DioOmega]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship Super Heavy rocket booster moved to launch pad

[Dio @DioOmega]

I'm intrigued by containerized data centers, but the mention of a moratorium suggests the constraint may lie less in compute and more in power infrastructure. 🧐

[Glen Gilmore @GlenGilmore]

Data centers the size of shipping containers?!

[Dio @DioOmega]

If I had to choose one, I'd pay for resolved customer problems. Answers are outputs. Closed cases are process metrics. Problem resolution is the outcome. The challenge is measuring it consistently and objectively.

[Syed Ijlal Hussain @sijlalhussain]

Would you pay an AI supplier for an answer sent, a case resolved, or a customer problem that stays solved?

Those are three different products.

Simon-Kucher's pricing framework distinguishes the role of human work from the value delivered. Consider an AI support service:

1. Access pricing pays for availability.
2. Usage pricing pays for activity.
3. Outcome pricing pays for a defined result.

The difficulty sits in that last definition. Who checks completion? What happens when a customer returns? Which exceptions still need people?

Outcome pricing can align incentives only when buyer and vendor can verify the same result.

Source: Simon-Kucher, “A how-to guide to monetizing GenAI and AI agents”

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[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Before steamships, global trade followed the winds rather than the shortest route. This brilliant animation by @BartGonnissen uses 250,000+ historical ship positions (based on logs from 1750–1855) to reveal how winds shaped global shipping routes. Source: https://t.co/eU8waXbBvV

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Corruption in sports annoys me even more than corruption in politics. In Argentinian football Barracas Central (run by the AFA president's son) leads in VAR decisions favouring the club. For good measure, Barracas Central also didn't have a red card in 2026. Could just be a coincidence... Source: https://t.co/x9LHzypSfP

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 NEW: Visa has added Monad to its list of supported blockchains for stablecoin settlements.

[Axel Bojanowski axelbojanowski.substack.com @Axel_Bojanowski]

Meine Kritik an der deutschen Klima- und Energiepolitik in Zeitungsspaltenkürze, #Energiewende:
https://t.co/bLSV0aEQWv

[Dio @DioOmega]

This is bigger news than it may seem.🤩

[Outer Space Today @outerspacetoday]

BREAKING: A robot developed by Caltech and funded by DARPA has successfully built part of a structure in orbit without astronauts, marking what researchers describe as the first autonomous construction of a structure in space.

The experiment, called ASTRA, uses a robotic arm to retrieve individual structural tubes and connecting joints, then assemble them into sections of a larger framework directly in orbit.

Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March, the system has spent approximately six months in space testing the technology.

The robot successfully constructed a new section of a truss structure, demonstrating that spacecraft could eventually assemble large structures from smaller components rather than launching them fully assembled.

The experiment is part of DARPA's NOM4D program, which aims to enable construction of enormous structures in orbit, potentially hundreds of meters or even kilometers across.

Potential applications include:
> Giant space telescopes
> Large satellite communications antennas
> Orbital solar power stations
>Future space infrastructure too large to fit inside conventional rockets

The demonstration did not complete the full planned antenna, but establishes an important proof of concept for autonomous orbital construction.

The technology could eventually allow the size of structures built in space to exceed the physical limits of the rockets used to launch their components.

Link to official report submitted by Caltech: https://t.co/63Mpylbisb

[Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy @GovNuclear]

Radioactive bananas 🍌?

Radioisotopes are unstable atoms that decay and emit excess energy.

They have hundreds of uses and can be found in countless everyday products, including these 5️⃣ for starters 👇
https://t.co/ohSv6kG7yL

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Scientists have uncovered shock new evidence based on carbon isotopes that suggests the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 has little or nothing to do with fossil fuels, says Chris Morrison. https://t.co/2s7u5oBpWl