@BigCatTrillOG@jasonwhitlock He's an anchor baby. Do your homework and ask why his 7-month pregnant Britain-via Nigeria Mum came to Brooklyn while being 7 months pregnant.
OpenAI negotiating deals that involve the governemnt taking equity stakes in AI companies is the purest distillation of the dangers that come from competing to appease regulators, rather than attract consumers.
"The bitterest pill to swallow isn’t physical pain. It’s the sudden absence of someone who genuinely wants to listen to you." 💔
At 96, Clint Eastwood shattered our comfortable illusions about growing old, refusing to sugarcoat the harsh truth. He brought his trademark grit to a topic most people prefer to avoid, painting a stark, unflinching picture of what happens when a human being approaches a century of existence.
"The light hurts your eyes, and even breathing can feel like hard work," Eastwood shared. "Your body just doesn't cooperate the way it used to, and every step requires a strategy."
But the structural decline of the body is merely the surface. The real weight of extreme old age is emotional.
Once you cross into your nineties, your social landscape undergoes a profound transformation:
The people who shared your youth, your inside jokes, and your struggles have vanished.
The circle of familiar faces shrinks to almost nothing.
The phone stops ringing, and the pace of the days slows to a crawl.
When the present becomes isolated, the mind seeks refuge in the past. Eastwood explained that navigating through old memories isn't mental weakness—it's a vital search for continuity.
"You find yourself repeating stories, adding details, not to convince anyone, but just to feel like you’re still connected to something," Eastwood admitted. "You try to pass things down to the younger generation, even when you can see the boredom in their eyes."
We live in a culture that treats longevity like a trophy, while totally ignoring the crushing loneliness that accompanies that survival. We praise the shiny, the fast, and the hyper-connected, leaving no space for the slow rhythm of the very old.
Clint Eastwood may be a cinematic giant, but his words speak for every anonymous 90-year-old sitting at our family dinner tables. They are the living libraries of our history.
The wrinkles on their faces aren't just signs of aging—they are a beautiful roadmap of a life fully lived. Slow down. Put away the distractions. It is a privilege to sit by their side and just listen. 🕊️✨
#ClintEastwood #PerspectiveShift #GrowingOld #WisdomOfAge #HumanConnection #DeepThoughts #LifeLessons #EmpathyMatters #Loneliness #InspirationalQuotes
"Donald Trump’s pledge to unleash a ‘golden age’ of US manufacturing sputters"
"Announcements are what people say they’re going to do, but dollars spent is what’s actually happening"
"[Output] isn’t reflecting the true health of the manufacturing economy, and it’s more worrying than it is encouraging"
A single Starship launch will deploy 60 next-gen @Starlink V3 satellites and add 61,000 Gbps of network capacity. By comparison, a Falcon 9 carrying 27 Starlink V2 satellites adds 2,600 Gbps.
In other words, one Starship launch will add as much capacity as 23 Falcon 9 launches combined.
Just 10 Starship launches carrying Starlink V3 satellites will add as much network capacity as the entire Starlink network has today. Absolutely wild.
.@mlevchin spent "zero minutes" introspecting on his failed companies:
"I kept going because I realized I liked the journey as much, if not more than the destination."
"The day my co-founders and I declared our first company dead, I found myself thinking, 'What will be the next one?'"
"I took exactly zero hours or minutes contemplating, 'Is this the right thing for me to do?'"
Guys we need to remember what profit is: the difference between how much a buyer is willing to pay for a thing versus what it cost to create it.
Profit happens only when the outputs are worth more than the inputs.
Profit is literally value creation.
Profit is good.
The US builds an average of 3 ships per year. A single Korean shipyard builds 40 or more. The Jones Act — meant to protect American shipbuilding — has effectively destroyed it.
@RIKKISCHLOTT and @cpgrabow discuss what real reform would look like.
➡️ https://t.co/WesZX7PfEj
I can't help but think, if he was still an i-banker...how many of these AI-era IPOs would @dottkhan be leading. Many of them and certainly the biggest ones. 🚀