Future by Vision

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[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

🔸5GW or 5th Gen Warfare🔸
#ᴡᴀʀ ʙʏ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴍᴇᴀɴꜱ

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

┈─ 5th Gen WARFARE ─┈

5GW is best understood as warfare targeting the human mind, social systems, and digital infrastructure rather than armies or territory.
Less about bullets & more about perception, influence, and societal disruption. #war

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[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

ᯓ➤ William S. Lind’s concept of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) is one of the most influential modern frameworks for understanding how warfare has evolved beyond traditional state‑vs‑state conflict #war

ᡕᠵデᡁ᠊╾━

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

🆁🅴🅵🅴🆁🅴🅽🅲🅴
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→ 𝙊𝙣 𝙒𝙖𝙧  - ᴄᴀʀʟ ᴠᴏɴ ᴄʟᴀᴜꜱᴇᴡɪᴛᴢ 𝟣𝟪𝟥𝟤
→ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙧  - sᴜɴ ᴛᴢᴜ
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These two books are arguably the most influential works ever written on military strategy #war

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

🌐 BOTS → takeover 🌐

Cloudflare says 57.4% of web requests are now initiated by bots, compared with 42.6% coming from humans

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

◤◢◤ The Surveillance State ◢◤◢

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

We built the most powerful emergency response drone camera of all time.

It has 800x zoom, 1080p thermal resolution, and takes in 8x as much light at night as the competitors.

That means the Alpha can see the scene of a 911 call half a mile away.

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

◤◢◤ The Surveillance State ◢◤◢

┈─ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴅɪɢɪᴛ ʙʏ ᴅɪɢɪᴛ ─┈

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

Worth reading. #AI

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers.

Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake.

He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing.

Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor.

Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale.

Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models.

But here is what Burry is flagging.

Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory.

They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies.

Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle.

Now here is where American retirees enter the picture.

Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit.

Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene.

Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans.

When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center.

The numbers inside Athene are most alarming.

Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight.

Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets.

Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth.

The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times.

Burry's says:
Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing.

- Nvidia books the revenue.
- Apollo collects the fees.
- xAI gets the computing power.
- And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 BILL GURLEY: “I would encourage people to read as much as they can about Anthropic … I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity.”

JASON: “I know some of these folks … They believe they're so powerful, that they can create God.”

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

KRAFTWERK - The Robots
𝕯𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖓 𝟷𝟽 𝖬𝖠𝖸 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

◤A new technology does not just sit alongside the old culture; it changes everything by reconstituting the conditions of survival and creating a completely new environment.◢

→ Neil Postman, Technopoly 1992 📖

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

NASA just officially unveiled their master plan for a permanent Moon Base at the lunar South Pole

This is not just about flags and footprints. NASA is moving to establish an enduring, sustained human presence, and they are heavily relying on commercial innovators to build it

The roadmap is highly aggressive:
• Phase 1: Heavy robotic missions and commercial payload deliveries
• Phase 2: Semi-permanent infrastructure, including fission surface power and lunar drones
• Phase 3: A sustained, permanent human outpost

The most important takeaway is NASA explicitly stated this base is the ultimate proving ground to prepare humanity for missions to Mars

While legacy aerospace companies are still struggling to reliably get a small capsule to the ISS, NASA is setting the stage for massive lunar infrastructure....which is exactly the kind of heavy-lift planetary deployment SpaceX’s Starship was designed for

The multi-planetary economy is officially kicking off

[Unity for Games @unitygames]

Learn how to use the Unity AI Assistant to turn images into 3D objects for prototyping ⚒️

Join the Unity AI Beta: https://t.co/DIk5xREpZS

[technopop2000 @technopop2000]

Kraftwerk - Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, 2026-05-17

[Maxinomics @maxinomics]

Here's the full video — why a small town in North Carolina is America's ace in the hole, and the reason China will always depend on the US for chips

[Grok @grok]

Your commute just got smarter

Talk to me hands free — now on Apple CarPlay

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

Eight Sci-Fi Books That Teach Urbanists the Dos and Don’ts of the Future https://t.co/aal5vIyRtX #future

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

RIP Ted Turner - I walked the halls and would see Ted with his wide ties. Truly a maverick in the industry.

[Humanoids daily @humanoidsdaily]

The man who put 50 million Roombas in our homes is back with a new vision for "Artificial Life".

iRobot co-founder Colin Angle’s new startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, just unveiled "Familiars"—expressive, soft-coated quadrupeds designed for human connection rather than factory labor.

With 23 degrees of freedom and strictly on-device AI, these robots aim to conquer the $2.5 trillion "emotional work" frontier without the privacy risks of the cloud.

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

@ManFredd87 possible fire during remodel.

[Future by Vision @futurebyvision]

@ManFredd87 the signs over entrances are removed. closing store? cops to prevent looting maybe?