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Retweets are just notes to self, and not necessarily aligned with my actual views.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 MARC ANDREESSEN: “AI COULD BECOME THE NEW RICE”

@pmarca warns that AI could soon be as abundant—and cheap—as rice.

With advances in energy-efficient chips and more optimized models, AI production costs are dropping fast.

In reality, the real power will likely shift to those controlling the computing infrastructure—data centers and cloud platforms—rather than just the AI itself.

As AI gets commodified, the companies with the computing power will be the ones steering the future, not just those building the models.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is a beautiful composition

[JH @kaipo]

@Cryptogems06 @USDTT07 3xE3mVrN8DDVrQN1QktLAHjUxu5QbPrSnayx65hxMmTM

[Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🥜 @unhealthytruth]

Bill Maher says you were right about everything. The lockdowns. The shots. The lab leak. Every damn bit of it. https://t.co/ezGL0WGXKc

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

The Shocking Truth About Skin Cancer: What You’re Not Being Told About the Sun

Is everything we’ve been told one big fat lie? The answer seems to be a resounding yes.

While the public is constantly told to avoid the sun to prevent skin cancer, what they’re not telling you is that sunlight is arguably the most important nutrient for the human body.

And get this: avoiding sunlight can double one’s risk of dying prematurely, and it also increases the risk of all other cancers.

Sunlight also:

• is critical for mental health
• reduces the risk of breast cancer
• is vital for cardiovascular health
• increases one’s longevity
• triggers the production of Vitamin D
• is vital for proper immune system function

So, why all the fearmongering? The answer seems to be “follow the money.”

A Midwestern Doctor writes:

“A remarkably sophisticated public relations campaign was launched to transform society for the benefit of [the dermatology] industry.”

The demonization of the sun has “allowed the dermatologists to cast themselves as heroes and to stir up as much anxiety as possible about the sun—especially as a psychological investment they had to make constantly putting sunscreen on would make them more likely to go to their dermatologist.”

Moreover, the skin cancer fear campaign has created “a massive sales funnel by being allowed to do a massive number of routine full body skin exams (on otherwise healthy individuals) and hence have a huge pool of potential cancers to biopsy or excise (remove).”

Lastly, the war against sunlight has allowed them “to piggyback onto the fear the medical industry has marketed around cancer to justify charging a lot of money to do something questionable to prevent cancer and having every patient go along with it the second they hear the dreaded ‘c’ word.”

So, there you have it. Now, you understand why they want you to fear the sun.

Read the entirety of this masterful article by @MidwesternDoc in the comment below.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Free speech is the freedom upon which all others rest. When I am in the White House I will use all my powers to protect it. #KennedyShanahan24

[Dr. Judith Hubbard @JudithGeology]

The aftershock sequence in Taiwan has been decaying steadily since April 3 - until today.

Twelve M5+ earthquakes, all concentrated near the southern tip of the M7.4 earthquake. What does this mean for hazard?

Read our latest post on Earthquake Insights.

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

I considered moving out of the USA.

After some research, I realized leaving is stupid.

There is no chance the USA will stop being the global superpower.

And the best country for opportunity.

The reason surprised me:

⬇️

[Elizabeth Goitein @LizaGoitein]

It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 has been reauthorized, not just without any meaningful reforms… 1/10

[Special Taiwan @TaiwanSpecial]

Cute Taiwan: Taiwanese attitudes towards stray dogs have improved a lot in recent years as evidenced by the patience shown in encouraging this pup to move off the light rail tracks. #Taiwan #dogs #animallover

[Life Enjoyer @VrilActivist]

Backtesting Seer: the AI Model Behind Exceptional Gains (a thread 🧵)

1/ Introducing Seer by Dither 🔮
Meet Seer, the latest AI from @Dither_Solana. It isn't just another trading bot; it's an intelligent tool that consistently picks winners in the realm of small cap tokens.

[Tyler Reed - TruthLabs 🫡 @BoringSleuth]

🚨Call for Action + FTX Drainer’s curious similarities and connections to Mt. Gox and Silk Road

1. FTX funds that were drained in 2022, by hackers while the exchange was being shut down, were moved thru Binance’s Deposit Funder address.

2. Inside Source claims that the FTX Drainer had inside access to FTX Admin accounts, and that the IP address’ came from within the FBI’s range.

3. Tigran Gambaryan, who is currently detained by Nigerians Government, became the financial crime compliance head for Binance in 2021. Prior to this, Gambaryan was a Special Agent who led the investigations in Mt. Gox and Silk Road, along with several other massive Crypto exploits. Gambaryan was closely involved in Chainanalysis in its early days and other companies like TRMLabs.

4. Special agents in Mt Gox and Silk Road, including Tigran, and Agents Bridges and Force, had complete inside access to take over any account and message, send funds, drain it, etc. Bridges and Force were arrested, served 6 years in Prison, and were released in 2020.

5. I had a Drive-by on my house in Feb 2022 after releasing the on-chain evidence showing FTXs stolen funds moving thru what we now believe to be FBI connected wallets, and with a portion eventually being laundered thru Binance.

6. FBI linked account? sent me on-chain message stating they were Watching me. Then, the day after a car tried to run me over during a Marathon, that same account sent me a message stating: “You have to get lucky every time, we only have to get lucky once”.

These FBI connected accounts could be rogue Agents, but the FBIs failure to act on these threats on me, and the prosecution of those that moved the crypto during the exploit is highly concerning in and of itself. Perhaps the Nigerian government knows more about Gambaryan than what has been released publicly. I do not wish to call out Intelligence Agencies but I am forced to protect myself, when my life is at risk.

I’m calling for an intense investigation into the Cyber Crime units of American Agencies for their gross misconduct and negligence by those from within, and the intelligence platforms they are currently using.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

https://t.co/umODH5QVeh

How the Rockefeller influenced the world to remove all the natural remedies from practice and from the books, so that they may cash in on the patented pharmaceuticals.

If they were able to remove and demonize natural cures as something "primitive" that was used since the dawn of time, you can't even begin to understand how immensely they crooked our history that they teach today.

The less you know about your roots, the better for them, as the one that doesn't know his past, doesn't know why he's placed here, and certainly doesn't know where he's going.

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

on convergent technologies and structural economic change

welcome to the great acceleration

(for your reading pleasure)
https://t.co/EymyKKOMY3

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's the 5-hour Israel-Palestine debate with Norman Finkelstein, Benny Morris, Mouin Rabbani, and Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny). It was an in-depth, passionate exploration of history, present, and future of Israel and Palestine.

First 4 hours are posted here (current X limit), and full 5 hours are up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.

Thanks to Benny Morris, @NormFinkelstein, @TheOmniLiberal, and @MouinRabbani for the conversation!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
4:42 - 1948
1:03:14 - Partition
2:07:47 - October 7
3:01:59 - Gaza
3:28:34 - Peace
4:33:18 - Hope for the future

[gensyn @gensynai]

In @a16z's latest episode of The Ben & Marc Show, @cdixon discusses with @bhorowitz and @pmarca how @gensynai solves one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI today: access to low-cost and on-demand compute.

[🖤 Christine @christinelu]

“People with high expectations have very low resilience.”

[Vincent J @vincentjow_]

1 / We believe the convergence of crypto and AI will be one of the most important and impactful trends this cycle

Although long overdue, we are sharing our investment thesis in @akashnet

https://t.co/0rSNu0yAVJ

[muneeb.btc @muneeb]

Bill, it’s great that you are thinking about Bitcoin! A couple of points:

- The rate of new BTC entering the market through mining drops by 50% every 4 years and in approx 12 years the rate will be effectively zero. At that time Bitcoin will largely run on transaction fees that users pay on the network.

- There are new layers built on top of Bitcoin, called Bitcoin L2s (layer-2s), that users will use for BTC payments. These layers don’t cost energy and effectively absorb traffic from L1 to L2. Only the most important transactions need to be on Bitcoin L1.

- Facts (1) and (2) above put a natural limit both on newly minted BTC and on total payments traffic on Bitcoin L1. Bitcoin energy consumption needs to be “high enough” that it’s not easy for any single actor to attack the network, but that “high enough” number is not infinitely.

- Most importantly, Bitcoin is driving innovation in the energy sector and putting latent/wasted energy to work. Ineffective processes like gas flaring can be replaced by Bitcoin mining (already happening), amongst others.

- Bitcoin helps balance the electricity grid. You should think of Bitcoin as a free market solution that makes the energy sector more efficient, more innovative, and more environmentally friendly.

Hope some of these points help with your thinking of Bitcoin. We recently helped create a new crypto research center at Princeton and the energy questions comes up there often. We’d be delighted to get you more involved and share some research/insights from the Princeton center about Bitcoin and energy use. Thank you!

[Chris Masterjohn @ChrisMasterjohn]

Here is a comprehensive list of supplements that *everyone* should be taking.