Melton Thomas

4x entrepreneur and tech aficionado on an insatiable quest for fitness, flyness and the occasional stogie.

[Melton Thomas @meltonthomas]

Caught Rozay talkin money

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump was about to sign the biggest AI executive order in history.

CEOs flew to Washington and the pens were ready.

But then ONE phone call killed the whole thing. And the guy who made that call literally owns 449 AI companies.

Here’s what happened:

On Thursday, every major tech CEO in America was either in Washington or on their way. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, and more.

The White House had invited them to watch Trump sign an executive order that would have given the federal government up to 90 days of access to test the most powerful AI models before they were released to the public. It would have created a coordinated response to AI-enabled threats against banks, hospitals, and critical infrastructure.

The order had been in development for months. White House staff believed everyone was on board.

Then at some point, David Sacks called the President directly.

Sacks is the venture capitalist who served as Trump’s AI and crypto czar until March 2026. His firm Craft Ventures holds stakes in 449 companies with AI products.

The New York Times investigated his portfolio and found he remained invested in hundreds of AI companies despite divesting from some holdings. A government ethics expert at Washington University called his ethics waivers “sham waivers” that were “like a presidential pardon in advance.”

On Thursday morning, Sacks told Trump the executive order could slow AI development and hand China the lead. He argued that the voluntary review process could one day be made mandatory. His pitch was simple:

Regulate AI, lose the race.

Elon Musk called Trump with the same message. So did Mark Zuckerberg.

Three billionaires who collectively own or invest in the majority of America’s AI infrastructure called the President in the span of a few hours and told him NOT to regulate their industry.

Trump walked into the room where the ceremony was supposed to happen and told reporters he didn’t like the order. Pulled the plug on the spot.

Now here is the part that makes this truly insane:

The executive order was VOLUNTARY. Companies did not have to submit their models.

There was no licensing requirement, mandatory approval process, or penalties for non-compliance. The government was simply asking to look at frontier AI models before they went live so they could test for dangerous capabilities.

And even THAT was too much.

Politico reported that White House officials believed Sacks supported the order all the way through the review process earlier that week. He raised zero objections during the meetings.

Then on Wednesday night, he suddenly had concerns. By Thursday morning, the order was dead.

The draft leaked to Axios on Friday. Now every AI company in America is operating in a policy vacuum because nobody knows what rules apply.

The national security team that spent months writing the order got overruled in 12 hours by a phone call from a man who profits directly from the industry staying unregulated.

But the companies that killed it are the ones building the most powerful systems with the least oversight. Musk’s xAI and Zuckerberg’s Meta AI are both developing frontier models. And both called the President to make sure nobody gets to test those models before release.

David Sacks officially LEFT his White House role in March 2026. But on Thursday morning, one phone call from a private citizen with 449 AI investments was enough to override months of national security policy work and cancel a presidential executive order hours before it was signed.

Nobody elected David Sacks or can vote him out. And he just decided what the rules are for the most powerful technology on Earth...

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.

Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.

The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.

The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.

At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.

Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.

But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.

Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)

[Melton Thomas @meltonthomas]

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[Melton Thomas @meltonthomas]

@rahsh33m He is risen 😜

[Indiana Hoosiers @IUHoosiers]

Our head Hoosier is the 2026 NACDA Athletics Director of the Year! https://t.co/oVUouWGhY3

[Mark Jackson’s Burner @casualtakeking]

In 1984, Nike signed rookie Michael Jordan to a 5-year $2.5 million deal requiring him to meet at least one of four criteria within 3 years to avoid early termination: 

• Be named Rookie of the Year
• Average 20+ points per game
• Make the All-Star Game
• Generate $4 million in shoe sales by year 3

Jordan met all criteria in his FIRST year 😳

Rookie of the Year ✅
28.2 points per game ✅
All-Star ✅
$100 million in shoe sales (1984–85) ✅

[RANTZINE @rant_zine]

DHS is suspending TSA PreCheck and Global Entry starting Sunday 6 AM ET.

40 million enrolled travelers lose expedited screening.

You paid $78-$100 for 5 years. Service suspended, fees still charged.

Partial government shutdown = longer lines for frequent flyers. The 4.4% who travel most just got hit hardest.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues. https://t.co/xgfoVnfAyU

[m.atticus @matticus2218]

@sciencegirl Side eye🤣🤣🤣

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Female dogs can tell when a person doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Dogs have lived alongside humans for tens of thousands of years, and research shows they pay close attention to how we behave not just how we sound or look.

In controlled experiments, researchers tested whether dogs judge human competence just by watching. The setup was simple: two people tried to open a container. One succeeded. One failed.

Later, both people offered the dogs treats.

Most dogs chose to approach the person who had succeeded. The effect was stronger in female dogs, though scientists are not yet sure why.

This ability is called third-party social assessment, judging someone based on how they treat others or perform tasks. It’s also seen in highly social animals like chimpanzees, dolphins, and ravens.

The dogs were not responding to voice, emotion, or body language. They were responding to performance alone. They watched, remembered, and made a decision.

This skill may come from evolution. Early dogs that could recognize reliable, capable humans would have had a better chance of survival. Over time, that ability may have become part of how dogs relate to us today.

It shows that dogs don’t just bond emotionally, they also observe, compare, and evaluate.

Source:
“Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans.”
Behavioral Processes, 2022.

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

You're just one win away..

[Melton Thomas @meltonthomas]

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[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

"Right now, at 50, I can tell you that I’m working on living life to the fullest."

@daddy_yankee looks back at his legendary career with Rolling Stone
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[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

This is the power of writing things down

[This Is Indiana 2025 Natty Champs @BleedingHoosier]

Shoutout to @TheBookieofEli for this one.

I cannot even imagine the feeling of being a student on campus in Btown right now playing this on repeat at every pregame. Best feeling in the goddamn world

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop

You can think of it like how 'computer' used to be a job that humans had. You would go and get a job as a computer where you would do calculations. They had entire skyscrapers full of humans....20, 30 floors of humans...just doing calculations. Now, that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers

So, you think about it: what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer. And so, really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop. It will happen very quickly

[Melton Thomas @meltonthomas]

@JasonPremoMFG @SenSanders We seem to her. I problem paying for a lotta bullshit — at least let’s get a better society for our money 💯

[Melton Thomas @meltonthomas]

😂😂😂 don’t act like this isn’t you too

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Do you remember?

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk: The single biggest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty is giving them an internet connection

We can provide low-cost, high-bandwidth internet to parts of the world that don't have it, or where it’s very expensive

I think the single biggest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty and help them is giving them an internet connection because once you have the internet connection, you can learn anything for free on the internet and you can also sell your goods and services to the global market

SpaceX has a very dominant position in space launches. So, of the mass launch to orbit this year, SpaceX will probably do 90%

At this point, maybe approaching 80% of all active satellites in orbit are SpaceX, and they're providing high-bandwidth global connectivity throughout the world