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[Travis Kling @Travis_Kling]

You can't help but laugh at the irony-

1) Trump elected as the crypto president.

2) Trump pulls in $1.4 BILLION in crypto profits in 2025 from grift/scams/bribes.

3) Crypto legislature gets to the 1-yard line in Senate.

4) Dems are so pissed at how egregious the Trump grift/scams/bribes are, they want real teeth in the ethics provisions of the bill.

5) Trump refuses. Only agrees to super light ethics provisions.

6) Bill can't pass. Crypto legislature dies on the floor.

The "crypto president" clears $1.4bn in crypto grift/scams/bribes (in year 1) and doesn't pass a crypto bill.

Honestly exactly what the crypto industry deserves.

[Santiago @svpino]

Every developer thinks they’re “almost done” once they’ve completed about 80% of the work.

A lesson I keep learning over and over again: the final 20% usually takes 80% of the time.

You ain't done until you are.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It's only "dystopian" for OpenAI and Anthropic shareholders.

For the rest of us, the dystopia would be a world where the only AI models we can use are those from closed-source US labs that are increasingly part and parcel of the US security state.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

I will never A/B test video titles and thumbnails. I will tell you what to click on.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Here is the link for you:

https://t.co/xlNTelkiAz

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.

So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.

It's called World Monitor.

Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.

> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.

+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.

It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.

It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.

It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.

Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Nietzsche said a lot of contradictory stuff but one of his most consistent ideas is that archaic western culture used to value brute strength for its own sake but Judeo-Christianity inverted the relationship between strength and goodness and encouraged the strong to feel guilt and pity for the weak. He revered Homer's Odysseus much more than a contemporary Christian priest.

So it's funny that Nolan made The Odyssey kinda Christian—accentuating the main character's guilt, trauma—and then many Christian conservatives, who decided that they were going to hate the movie because it had a Black actress in the wrong role, instead have to twist themselves into the pretzel of arguing that making the Odyssey Christian is "woke" and they just really wanted to see a movie and hero that properly embodied the very same archaic and anti-Christian values that in any other context they would consider abhorrent.

[tristan | elfa.ai @hypetris_]

Hi @X, can you return my friend @dpycm his X account?

Heard from @decircusmaster there was mercury retrograde last month. If you were confused and banned him accidentally, we understand and forgive you.

He is a serious contributor of quality content to X. It's a loss to the world that you banned his account for no reason.

To my friends, and friends of @dpycm, help us out by RTing or engaging

@X @nikitabier @elonmusk

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Still true btw.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The declassified documents Trump just released tonight to “prove” the 2020 election was “rigged” actually show that Russia tried to interfere to hurt Biden and help Trump.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

We're running a fascinating experiment here.

How much corruption can leaders get away with if their supporters and movement simply don't care?

It turns out it's quite a lot!

All other leaders we've ever had look much better in retrospect.

[Him @himgajria]

No other industry has a wider dispersion of IQ than crypto, where you’ll find some of the smartest and some of the stupidest people going at it together.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The truth about Chinese industrial policy is opposite of what anti-China types argue.

China is lowering its own living standards on our behalf. The government keeps their own people poorer to subsidize the rest of the world.

This isn't something we should emulate!

[Neet @neet_sol]

The economy is so bad that scam messages went from “you won the lottery” to “remote job available $18/hr”

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

I have a friend I'm trying to hire who's basically unemployable and homeless however like, once u start knowing her you basically get roped into her life as if it's a tv show. Like, she causes insane amounts of property damage (one time she accidentally poisoned me) but her existence as living art is so enjoyable and also funny like she gets kicked out of everyone's house and then eventually ppl get sad and want her back so she basically circulates around like, I'm fairly certain this wud be a job in the medieval times but how does one employ someone like this ? I feel like I have an unusually large amount of unemployable but brilliant friends. Is there a healthier way for society to support these figures?

It's like Socrates syndrome

[Dumpty @Dumpty40]

@yh_0x Damn...and Ostium is one of the good ones...

[mika @mikasagrada]

basicamente, empresas pagam o YouTube pra mostrar anúncios e a gente paga o YouTube pra não mostrar anúncios

[Vin Sachidananda @vin_sachi]

Show makes a lot more sense now

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

One of the rhetorical moves I hate the most is the ol' lying switcharoo. for example:
"Aella lures/pressures young men into her fetish club for money"
"No actually, nobody gets paid, and we try to only do fetishes with ppl who actually wants it to avoid pressuring ppl who aren't truly into it"
"Ahah, she admits it! She will only reward sex to fetishistic men, thus setting up bad incentives!"

It's the like, lying, and then when corrected, completely ignoring the correction and acting as though they meant a completely different thing in the first place? I friggin hate this. I wish people were like 'okay. I acknowledge my original claim was incorrect. However I still have a second claim."

[Tahra Hoops @TahraHoops]

I'm featured in the @nytimes this morning: a thoughtful essay by @kylascan!

She connects the housing shortage, the decline of pensions, and retirement security into one cohesive story.