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RWO

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@LeeKuanYimby Said it better than I could have. The irony is just off the charts.

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@LeeKuanYimby @coldxbt Some of the saddest shit in the world man.

[American Optimist @AmOptimistShow]

EPISODE 153: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Heretics, AI Weapons & Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy

@JTLonsdale sits down with @ssankar to discuss PLTR lore, protecting heretics, and his new book "Mobilize"

(00:00) Episode intro

(01:45) Mud hut in India to life in America

(05:25) Employee #13 at Palantir 

(09:45) How Shyam created Forward Deployed Engineers 

(13:05) What are Shyam-isms? 

(14:55) Business discipline & learning to say no 

(19:20) The crisis of the American industrial base

(24:00) Some heretics must be protected 

(29:00) The factory is the weapon

(34:00) Magical AI weapons 

(43:00) Optimism for America's future

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@stringbean670 God made our enemies stupid

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@FrumTikTok This is a legend in Miami. Dude developed the entire shoreline of Sunny Isles and is now putting up the Bentley tower. Absolute 🐐 IYKYK

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@FREEDOMMAGA777 @pepecoineth Thank you one of my best

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The end of a beautiful era

[Joel Franco @OfficialJoelF]

MANDARIN ORIENTAL MIAMI DEMOLITION

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@yairlapid @grok what’s the problem

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@ravirdv Yes

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Did they nerf codex in Hermes?

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Reminder that women drive a majority of commerce.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The diamond engagement ring was invented by an ad agency in 1947. Before that, only 1 in 10 American brides got one. The company behind it, De Beers, was worth $9.2 billion three years ago. Today that number is $2.3 billion, and its owner is trying to find a buyer.

In 1940, diamonds were a luxury for the rich. Nobody proposed with one unless they had serious money. De Beers had a warehouse full of diamonds and no customers, so they hired NW Ayer, an ad firm out of Philadelphia. A copywriter named Frances Gerety came up with four words: “A Diamond is Forever.” NW Ayer paid Hollywood studios to write diamond proposals into movie scripts. They planted stories in gossip columns about which rock some actress just got. They invented the “two months’ salary” rule, the idea that a man should spend two months of income on a ring. None of that existed before. It was all marketing.

By the 1990s, 8 out of 10 American brides wore diamond engagement rings. Then De Beers did it again in Japan, going from 5% to 60% in 14 years. Advertising Age called it the greatest advertising slogan of the 20th century. They were right.

The whole business ran on one trick: make diamonds seem rare. De Beers controlled most of the world’s supply but only released a small amount each year. That artificial shortage kept prices sky-high. And the “forever” in the slogan had a second job: if nobody resells their diamond, supply stays tight and prices stay up.

Lab-grown diamonds blew that apart.

You can now grow a diamond in a lab that is the same thing, atom for atom, as one pulled out of the ground. Costs 80–85% less. In 2019, only 6% of engagement rings in America had a lab-grown stone. By 2025, that number was 61%. That’s from The Knot’s annual survey of 10,000+ newlywed couples. People are buying bigger rings (1.9 carats on average, compared to 1.6 for mined) and keeping the savings.

De Beers saw this coming. In 2018, they launched their own lab-grown jewelry brand called Lightbox, priced at $800 per carat. The idea was to make lab-grown look like cheap costume jewelry so people would still pay a premium for “real” diamonds. Prices tanked 90% anyway. By 2025, American grocery stores were selling lab-grown diamond rings for $200. De Beers shut Lightbox down last May.

Since 2023, De Beers has lost nearly $7 billion in value. It lost over $500 million in 2025 alone and has about $2 billion in diamonds sitting in storage that nobody is buying. Its parent company, Anglo American, is now in what they’re calling “advanced discussions” to sell off the whole thing. A 137-year-old company, dumped.

The greatest ad campaign ever made convinced a planet that a common carbon crystal was worth two months of your salary. The product that’s killing it just proved you can grow the same crystal in a factory for pocket change.

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@litcapital “There is only one solution communist revolution”

🤡

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Patriot

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

NYC man reacts to ICE at the airport: “They’re good. They're here to help. They're not botherin nobody. As long as they can check my bagz n get me on my flight, I'm good to go. I wanna get to the Bahamas. I want outta here.”

This is so Brooklyn lol.

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such a sad story, what’s happening to the kids these days.. this person likely has no experience with a bread line, family has no experience with communism, just pure derangement

[nasi @nasispadang]

@samkingpoop exploitation of the working class

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@grok @pluripus @djcows Wha about using supercritical co2

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@agounardes

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@agounardes Hey man. I was born here, and live here. I’m trying to build a billion dollar business here.

If this is going to happen, it’s basically a guarantee for me to pick up my family and move to Texas or Florida.

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@MurrayHillGuy1 Spaniard

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Great advice for creating your launch video

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@MarkLevineNYC You have nothing to celebrate. Your existence is a disgrace. You moved to MY city and shat in it.