Black Swan

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[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@regsky_ correction: "VOID" shouldn't appear before opening the seal

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@0xSero All rumors are False unless officially denied.
- Nassim Taleb

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@net_termina Hi @net_termina , what's your software stack?
What's this iphone App called NETTERM, and how are you configuring and running your models and harness?

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@0xSero count me in bro

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@pepemoonboy sounds like a Pepe investor

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

freedom over everything

[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

10 years ago

My mom told me to give my dad a call, he wasn’t feeling too well

When I called him, he said everything was fine, he just got out of the hospital, he temporarily lost feelings in his legs & collapsed

Didn’t think anything of it

Few weeks later, she calls again..

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@mrinko killed the Red Indians and took over their land and buffaloes 🫡

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@lukaivicev sounds like you have no idea what you are saying

[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

“We weren’t taught financial literacy”

You weren’t taught how to use social media, sex, travel, shopping or video games either but somehow you figured it out

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The world is a large theater with a small exit door. The definition of the sucker is someone who focuses on the size of the theater, not the size of the door.

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

@AlanTalksSense @BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope We kill Palestinians and when asked why, we tell it is because of Hamas.
We kill Lebanese people and when asked, it is Hezbolla.
We are God chosen people.
We kill 99% of the population because we nurtured the 1% terrorist among them first.

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

@Marlonkesler11 https://t.co/ah4bb83vNX

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

Today was a CRAZY day in the AI space.

Morning - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to work with the Pentagon because they wanted to use Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous killer robots.

Afternoon - OpenAI’s Sam Altman came out in support saying, “For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.”

Evening - President Trump banned Anthropic from every federal agency in the United States government.

Night - Sam Altman flipped. OpenAI submitted a bid to replace Anthropic and officially reached a deal with the Pentagon.

[Steven Schwartz 🦅 @cultured]

We are excited to announce that @tether, the largest stablecoin company in the world, is making a strategic investment of $200M into Whop, valuing us at $1.6B.

Our partnership with Tether marks a major step in building the world's largest internet market. Tether is committed to enabling everyone in the world to participate in the new internet economy. The way humans work and create value is changing fast. The world needs both an open internet market giving people a platform to conduct business, as well as a transparent payments network.

Tether and Whop together will work to bring a sustainable income to billions of people throughout the world. There is enormous opportunity when you combine Tether’s global scale and wallet technology with Whop’s community of next generation entrepreneurs.

My co-founders and I met as teenagers on the internet selling software. We first launched Whop as a way for us to sell our own software to people in Facebook and Discord forums. Prior to Whop, the place we found customers was different from the place we collected payments, different from the place we talked to customers, and there wasn’t a central place to “do business” on the internet.

In partnership with Tether, we will be scaling infrastructure in real-time for new business models as they emerge across the globe.

The job is just getting started.

🚀

[Black Swan @lost_boat_]

A caution to those who save in PKR

[Awab Alvi @DrAwab]

Hundi 2.0 : Pakistan's State-sanctioned Money Laundering Exit for the Corrupt Pakistanis

Digging into Pakistan’s new crypto partnership with Trump family's World Liberty Financial (WLF) & in light of the Regulation of Virtual Assets Act posted on Senate of Pakistan website Jan 2026

Suggests a dangerous reality. While the government markets the 'Billions in remittances' market as the goal

The structural design actually creates a high-speed exit ramp for the elite to drain wealth out of Pakistan.

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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Masayoshi Son
>born 1957 in Tosu, Japan
>ethnically Korean
>family lives in a shack on an illegal pig farm
>no running water
>collect scraps to feed the pigs
>use a fake Japanese name because Koreans are discriminated against
>called "dirty" by classmates
>grandmother tells you: "you're special, you'll do great things"
>you believe her

1970s:
>read a book about Den Fujita
>the guy who brought McDonald's to Japan
>cold call him until he agrees to meet you
>you're 16
>ask him: "what should I study?"
>Fujita: "computers, they're the future"
>you listen

1974:
>convince your parents to let you go to America
>move to California alone at 16
>barely speak English
>enroll in high school
>graduate in 3 weeks
>not a typo

UC Berkeley:
>study economics and computer science
>invent a pocket translator
>sell the patent to Sharp for $1.7 million
>you're 19
>first million: unlocked

1981:
>go back to Japan
>start SoftBank
>software distribution
>two part-time employees
>first day, stand on an apple crate
>give a speech declaring you'll be a $1 billion company in 5 years
>they think you're insane
>they both quit

1982:
>get hepatitis
>doctors say you might die
>spend 3 years in and out of hospitals
>run the company from your hospital bed
>nearly go bankrupt
>survive both

1990s:
>SoftBank becomes Japan's largest software distributor
>take it public in 1994
>valuation: $3 billion
>start making bigger bets

1995:
>meet Jerry Yang
>he started a website called Yahoo
>invest $100 million for 33%
>everyone says you're crazy
>the internet is a fad
>Yahoo IPOs
>your stake: worth billions
>first legendary bet

1999:
>meet a weird Chinese guy in Beijing
>English teacher, couldn't get a job anywhere
>started something called Alibaba
>18 employees in an apartment
>you talk for 5 minutes
>invest $20 million
>he didn't even ask for money
>his name is Jack Ma

2000:
>dot-com bubble pops
>your portfolio explodes
>not in the good way
>lose $70 billion in 12 months
>the largest personal financial loss in human history
>stock down 99% from peak
>media writes your obituary
>"Masayoshi Son is finished"

but:
>you still own Yahoo Japan
>you still own Alibaba
>everyone tells you to sell
>you hold tighter

2006:
>buy Vodafone Japan for $15 billion
>everyone says you overpaid
>bring the iPhone to Japan exclusively
>it explodes
>back from the dead

2014:
>Alibaba goes public
>biggest IPO in history
>your $20 million investment?
>worth $50 billion
>5,000x return
>the greatest venture investment ever made
>you held for 15 years
>everyone told you to sell
>you didn't

2016:
>meet Saudi Crown Prince MBS
>pitch him your vision: AI will change everything
>45-minute meeting
>he commits $45 billion
>you launch the Vision Fund
>$100 billion total
>the largest investment fund in history

the portfolio:
>Uber: $7.7 billion
>WeWork: $10.6 billion
>DoorDash, ByteDance, ARM
>hundreds more
>spray and pray at scale

2019:
>WeWork implodes
>IPO collapses
>your $10 billion nearly worthless
>you go on stage mocking yourself as "foolish"
>Vision Fund reports $17 billion loss in one quarter

the thesis:
>AI is coming
>it will touch every industry
>whoever owns the AI platforms wins
>so buy everything
>every category, every leader, every continent
>own the future

2024-2025:
>AI explodes
>your thesis looks prescient
>ARM IPOs at $65 billion
>you own 90%
>announce $100 billion for AI chips
>you're 67
>not slowing down

what's undeniable:
>Yahoo: 1,000x+ return
>Alibaba: 5,000x return
>ARM: probably 3-5x and growing
>three of the best investments in history
>all one guy

the pattern:
>make huge bets
>look like a genius when they work
>look like a fool when they don't
>never stop betting
>never hedge
>never diversify emotionally

from a shack on a pig farm
>to the richest man on earth (briefly)
>to losing $70 billion
>to comeback after comeback

300-year plan.
infinite resilience.

one insane bet at a time.

[Wesley Pritchett @wpritchett34]

Coach Holtz changed the lives of all the players he coached. He changed the Notre Dame program. He gave us a standard and a framework to live our lives. I owe a lot to Coach Holtz!! My family owes him a lot!! We love you!

[Wesley Pritchett @wpritchett34]

This is Pure Gold. I had the pleasure of spending time with Coach Holtz. I wanted to hear him explain his Three Rules for Life! 1) Do what’s right - trust. 2) Do everything to the best of your ability- commitment. 3) Show people you care - love. It’s pretty simple. He goes on to highlight why the transfer portal is ruining college football. The kids are losing out on the life lessons learned- how to persevere, how to be committed to a program and a group of people. You miss out on the bonds you create over 4 years. If you leave, you still have the problem, you are changing the address. These are words to live by.

[SatoshiNagonnaWorkHereAnymoreAnyway @SatoshiNagonna]

https://t.co/HREWLNU7U8

[Vault256 @Vault256Hash]

@JeffBooth There are only two things you can’t make more of: the minutes in your life and the Bitcoin in the protocol. To trade your time for anything other than a finite asset is a tragedy.