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[Neet @neet_sol]

"We locked 40 people in a room to work 40 hours a week for 40 years."

[bloo @yesimbloo]

higher then your worst nightmare

rules of the universe, you didn’t buy so the universe will punish you into being poor

i don’t make the rules is what it is sorry bro

[Bloomberg @business]

The Reserve Bank of Australia won’t allow surcharges on debit and credit cards from October, a move that will hit banks’ revenue and bring the country in line with peers in Europe and the UK https://t.co/JLeK1pwM27

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

💥BREAKING:

🇦🇺 Australia’s $105B pension fund Hostplus is exploring Bitcoin and crypto options.

[Raves @Ravers]

- the NFT I bought isn't worth 800 SOL anymore
- the SOL isn't worth $270 each anymore
- and the $270 isn't worth $270 anymore

but at least I own a digital image of a pixelated baby monkey

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Once you accept no one is watching,
you’re finally free to build without fear or performance.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what a $2 billion “cow collar” actually is 👇

They put an AI collar on a cow. It tracks location. Health. Movement. Behavior. Every second of every day.

A farmer opens an app. Draws a line on a map. That line becomes a fence.
No physical fence. No wall. Nothing visible.

When the cow gets close to the boundary.. the collar vibrates. The cow turns around. Within 10 days the animal doesn’t even test the boundary anymore. It just stays inside.

700,000 animals are already wearing them.

They called it a “cowgorithm.” They want you to laugh at it.

Now read the technology again without the word cow..

24/7 GPS tracking on every individual. Real time health and behavior monitoring. Invisible boundaries drawn from a phone. Movement controlled through vibration and sound. Subject learns compliance within days.

$2 billion. And guess who led the investment…

Peter Thiel. The same man who built Palantir. CIA backed surveillance from day one. The same man who just got a $10 billion Pentagon contract to run AI inside the military.

His entire career is building systems that track and control. Now he’s funding a collar that does exactly that.

They’re not investing in farming. The farming is the test…

Most people have no idea what’s coming…

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million.

None of it was real.

I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off.

I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier."

The frontier closed last week.

It's a mobile app now.

Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me.

I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs.

The avatars didn't have legs.

I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis.

I called myself a "digital land baron."

I put it in my Twitter bio.

I put it in my LinkedIn headline.

I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts.

My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment.

My actual apartment has furniture.

Location, location, location.

My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court.

I held.

Diamond hands.

That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait.

A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users.

He said I didn't understand the technology.

I didn't.

I still bought more.

We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts.

We voted to "acquire strategic parcels."

The vote passed unanimously.

I voted four times.

My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY."

The slide had a rocket emoji.

That was my entire financial model.

In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000.

It's worth $14,000 now.

I don't talk about the Ape.

I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera.

My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was.

I said "digital art on the blockchain."

She asked why it cost more than her car.

I said "you don't understand Web3."

She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment."

She's not in my Discord.

Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million.

It's worth about $90,000 now.

I felt better about mine after I heard that.

That's community.

WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero.

We're all gonna make it.

None of us made it.

But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something.

It doesn't.

But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus.

Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse.

I need to say that again.

$84 billion.

More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines.

They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets.

It lives on as a mobile app.

My beachfront villa is now a mobile app.

Location, location, location.

Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that."

Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025.

That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun.

They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables."

The pivot took four years and $84 billion.

I pivoted too.

I'm an AI real estate investor now.

I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models."

I don't know what that means.

I gave him $40,000.

He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan.

The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank.

Q4 is always blank.

That's where the exit scam goes.

My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes.

I said $1.2 million.

He said "current market value."

I said $6,400.

He stared at me for eleven seconds.

I know because I counted.

He asked if I had any other investments.

I showed him my NFTs.

He stared for longer.

I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance."

He asked if I'd considered a 401k.

I told him a 401k was "legacy finance."

He told me to leave his office.

The metaverse is dead.

I don't accept that.

I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car.

Location, location, location.

The location is nowhere.

But I'm early.

I'm always early.

That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

[Mastercard @Mastercard]

@chainlink The future of crypto in one tap 🙂‍↕️

[Adam Back @adam3us]

bitcoin does fix this. all the things.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Best cities in the world, 2026.

1. 🇦🇺 Melbourne
2. 🇨🇳 Shanghai
3. 🇬🇧 Edinburgh
4. 🇬🇧 London
5. 🇺🇸 New York
6. 🇿🇦 Cape Town
7. 🇲🇽 Mexico City
8. 🇹🇭 Bangkok
9. 🇰🇷 Seoul
10. 🇯🇵 Tokyo
11. 🇨🇭 Zurich
12. 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
13. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
14. 🇧🇷 Sao Paulo
15. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
16. 🇵🇱 Krakow
17. 🇵🇹 Porto
18. 🇲🇽 Guadalajara
19. 🇪🇸 Madrid
20. 🇪🇸 Valencia
21. 🇦🇺 Sydney
22. 🇫🇷 Paris
23. 🇸🇬 Singapore
24. 🇲🇦 Marrakesh
25. 🇻🇳 Hanoi
26. 🇬🇧 Bath
27. 🇪🇸 Bilbao
28. 🇩🇪 Berlin
29. 🇦🇺 Adelaide
30. 🇨🇳 Beijing

(Source: TimeOut)

[Tesla Semi @tesla_semi]

North to the future

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

My daughter got a job offer from Tesla

"Papa, it's $250k a year and I'll work on autonomous driving!"

I sighed

"You have only a bachelor's degree. You are not qualified to work on anything"

She started showing me the offer letter

I closed the laptop

"You will do your masters. Then a traineeship at a respectable German company. Then we can talk"

"But dad, my friend moved to the US with just a bachelor's and already makes over $300k..."

"And does your friend have a recognised European postgraduate qualification?"

She didn't answer

Case closed

In Europe we educate first and work later

That's why our companies are built to last

[Shang @gianlucap__]

@k_ovfefe2 Unemployment move

[Shang @gianlucap__]

@eurofounder Where do I sign?

[Phantom @phantom]

he’s not unemployed he’s monitoring the situation

[zubic @zubic_eth]

Crypto mfs watching their portfolio tank even further because Israel bombed Iran

[Pepijn Leonard Demortier @PepijnDemortier]

Born to enjoy the beauty of Europe, forced to look at illegal immigrants all day

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You always lose, until you learn, then you win.