taylor swift getting married this close to july 4th reads less like scheduling and more like IP protection, whenever the split lands, the album title’s already written itself ‘independence day’
ai was supposed to kill grunt work. instead it killed the small pauses in it, the seconds of drift where thinking happened without anyone clocking it as work. that time’s gone now. pure pace fills the space it left behind. what people are doing with it next is the opportunity.
the nvidia chip case keeps getting bigger. four firms. three executives in court today. a $55m bungalow frozen. the alleged play: tell the supplier the servers stay. ship them to malaysia instead. an anonymous tip started it.
singapore has no interest in being the soft node.
@ASvanevik china also posting a 1% point drop in blue-collar jobs this year while high-tech manufacturing PMI runs 3+ points above the headline. the open-source generosity and job displacement are happening in the same economy at the same time. just not the story getting told in the west.
@TriumphMarkets@unusual_whales memory cycles usually get explained after. this one's being narrated live, by the people it's happening to. you don't get that twice.
years on 12am calls. then last week, best read i've heard came from a guy in loafers, barbaresco open, watching the sun go down. greeks never confused effort with output. exhaustion's not a credential, it's noise pretending to be signal - it's why you miss what's already moved.
world cup in china only streams free on RedNote - a beauty lifestyle app, 70% female users, built on skincare hauls. so the bro's had to make accounts there just to watch a match. 3 wks in they haven't left. the app didn't add a sports section, it just absorbed a new demographic.
south korea just put a number on how seriously it's taking this. samsung and sk hynix are putting in $518 billion combined to build four new chip fabs - semiconductors, AI, and data centres as the country's "triple axis." its southwest has never been a tech hub before. it is now.
Aspire grew revenue 1,772% since 2021. it showed up on an FT list this week, not a single headline, just a row in a spreadsheet somewhere. an island smaller than your average US county keeps doing this.