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[onlinemike @onlinemike]

Here are some insane questions that can guide your Architecture of Worth.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

If you're confused with what you want to do with your life, you need to watch this...

[Dangerously Dialed In @FitWealthyU]

The bar is so insanely low that if you work out 3x a week and stop eating like a moron, you’ll end up looking and feeling superior to almost everyone you know.

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

@thesigmamindset @grok who is this speaking?

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

The question is not whether the people building the AI future are intelligent.
Clearly, they are.
The better question is:
What assumptions are they carrying about human worth?
That is where the real danger — and opportunity — begins.
https://t.co/IsnSwjwSt9

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

AI is not just about LLMs.
It is about compute, chips, energy, devices, payments, data centres, finance, logistics, e-commerce, education, identity and power.
That is why the Air Force One delegation matters.
It represented the AI stack.
https://t.co/IsnSwjwSt9

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

The official story was Trump meeting Xi.
The more interesting story may have happened before the summit — on Air Force One.
The entrepreneurs connected to chips, AI, energy, finance, payments, logistics and platforms were locked together.
That matters.
https://t.co/IsnSwjwSt9

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

Important observation for content creators

[Handre @Handre]

If you live in South Africa, you need to read this. Your family might be in danger.

The South African government wants to hand criminals a comprehensive shopping list of every citizen who owns Bitcoin, gold, or other valuable assets.

This is not hyperbole. This is not paranoia about government overreach. This is what happens when bureaucrats create centralized databases of wealth while operating cybersecurity systems that cannot protect government servers from ransomware attacks, insider leaks, and just plain old corruption.

France provides the blueprint for disaster. So far in 2026, French criminals kidnap one crypto holder every two and a half days. Forty-one cases this year alone. One hundred and thirty-five incidents since 2023. The victims include an eleven-year-old boy kidnapped with his mother in Burgundy while criminals demanded four hundred thousand euros from the father's crypto holdings. David Balland, co-founder of hardware wallet company Ledger, lost a finger when kidnappers severed it and sent it to his associates as part of their ransom demand.

How do French criminals select their targets? Government data leaks.

A French tax official used government systems to identify wealthy crypto holders and sold that information directly to criminal networks. She worked inside the system designed to protect citizens and instead fed their personal data to the people who showed up at their homes with knives and demands for Bitcoin transfers.

Waltio, a French software company providing tax services, was hacked and exposed fifty thousand users' portfolio information on dark web marketplaces. Government employees selling data represents something far worse than mere cybersecurity incompetence. It reveals the inherent corruption that emerges when governments collect detailed wealth information about their citizens.

Pavel Durov warns that expanding government data collection on crypto holders expands the pool of kidnapping targets. Telegram's founder said the platform would rather exit the French market than hand private user data to French authorities.

South Africa's cybersecurity record makes France look competent by comparison. Hackers put 3.6 million Gauteng Provincial Government files up for sale on the dark web for twenty-five thousand dollars. Statistics South Africa suffered a breach in January 2026. Cell C leaked two terabytes of data belonging to 7.7 million customers. The Department of Justice lost control of over 1,200 confidential files in a ransomware attack that crippled systems for weeks.

These same people now demand that every South African declare their Bitcoin, gold, and alternative asset holdings within thirty days. Name, ID number, portfolio amounts. All stored in government databases operated by the same institutions that cannot even secure their own local servers.

The regulations extend beyond Bitcoin. Gold holders face the same mandatory disclosure requirements. Alternative investments fall under identical rules. The government wants comprehensive records of every citizen who owns assets outside the traditional banking system.

Free market economists understand why governments crave this information. Capital controls require detailed knowledge of citizen wealth. Currency restrictions need enforcement mechanisms. Confiscation demands target lists.

But the immediate threat comes from criminals. French kidnappers prove that government wealth databases become criminal targeting systems. The data will leak. Government employees will sell access. Hackers will breach the servers.

South African criminals will adapt French tactics to local conditions. Home invasions already plague wealthy neighborhoods. Adding detailed cryptocurrency and gold holdings data transforms random crime into precision targeting. Why rob houses blindly when government databases provide exact wealth information and home addresses?

The regulatory framework creates perverse incentives for corruption. Tax officials gain access to detailed wealth information about every compliant citizen. The temptation to monetize this data through criminal networks will prove irresistible for some percentage of government employees. France shows this corruption is inevitable, not theoretical.

Compliance rewards criminals while punishment awaits honest citizens. Those who declare their holdings create detailed target lists for kidnappers. Those who refuse face government penalties. The regulations trap law-abiding citizens between criminal violence and state punishment.

The solution involves rejecting the entire framework. No government database. No mandatory declarations. No centralized records of citizen wealth in Bitcoin, gold, or alternative assets. The French kidnapping epidemic demonstrates exactly why financial privacy matters for physical safety.

South African crypto holders should study French headlines carefully. Today's regulatory compliance becomes tomorrow's kidnapping victim list. The government promises protection while operating systems that guarantee data breaches.

Act now, or your family will be in danger.
https://t.co/o4xEomRIr2

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

I think the most significant part of the Trump / Xi meeting was the forced meetings on Airforce 1. Musk, Jensen, Cook and others in forced close proximity for hours. Imagine the outcomes.

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

There’s a world out there waiting for us. Agency has been given back to the ordinary guy but we haven’t understood it yet.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years.

By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.

The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.

That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?

After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.

A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.

- @hihongjie

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Every business is about to disappear into a model.

Mark Zuckerberg: “In the future every business is going to have an AI agent that interfaces with their customers.”

That is not a feature.

That is a replacement.

The website. The email. The support team. The founder’s voice. Collapsing into one trained model that never logs off.

Jensen Huang: “Every single restaurant, every single website will probably, in the future, have these AIs.”

Then it comes for the artist.

Huang: “If you’re an artist, whatever your style, you could take your style, all of your body of work, you could fine-tune one of your models.”

Your hand. Your eye. Your taste. Compressed into weights anyone can prompt.

The model paints in your style. The model writes in your voice. The model answers in your tone at three in the morning. Forever.

Huang: “All of that engagement with your customers, especially if they’re complaints, is going to make your company better.”

Every frustrated human becomes training data.

The model never forgets. The model never tires. The model learns from every conversation you forgot by morning.

Soon it knows your customers better than you do.

It speaks for you better than you can.

It outworks you, outlasts you, outscales you.

Identity used to die with you.

Now it scales without you.

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

So who is investing in energy. Directly or through stock exchanges.

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

@AnatoliKopadze Surely this signals the demise of the large corporation and the reclaiming of agency by individuals?

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

For those that haven’t yet reassessed their Architecture of Worth.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said AI will be smarter than every human on Earth combined within five years.

Musk: “I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year.”

Not a decade from now. Not five years. Months.

Musk: “No later than next year.”

He wasn’t finished.

Musk: “Probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.”

Every mind that has ever existed, fused into one, and still slower than what’s coming.

The man just described the end of human intellectual supremacy and the only response in the room was “Wow.”

This is how civilizations miss the moment. Not with resistance. With manners.

Musk isn’t guessing from a stage. He runs the AI company. He sees the acceleration that hasn’t gone public yet.

This isn’t prediction. It’s reporting.

The human brain was built for straight lines. Growth that compounds doesn’t register until it’s already past you.

You can see an exponential curve on a chart. You cannot feel it while you’re standing on it.

And there’s a deeper problem no one talks about. We have no way to measure an intelligence greater than our own. We can know something is smarter. We cannot understand how it thinks.

A mind built on pattern recognition cannot recognize patterns it was never designed to see.

The moments that change everything never feel like it to the people living through them.

This one won’t either.

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

Such an insightful article Dustin. Love your point of view. The success of Open Claw proves your point.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just revealed the largest transfer of power in human history.

He buried it inside a metaphor about a spreadsheet.

Musk: “One laptop with a spreadsheet can outperform a skyscraper of several hundred human computers.”

One person. One screen. One room.

Against an entire building of institutional effort.

The building lost.

The margin was not close. The margin was extinction.

Now stretch that compression ratio across artificial intelligence.

Musk: “What this means is that companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not.”

He was talking about companies competing against companies.

But he missed the deeper implication of his own metaphor.

If one laptop replaced a skyscraper of mathematicians, one person commanding AI does not need the company at all.

The media heard this and wrote the predictable headline.

Corporations will weaponize AI to eliminate the working class.

They read the equation completely backwards.

This is not a story about the corporation replacing you.

This is a story about you replacing the corporation.

For a century, building an empire required an empire.

Venture capital. Legal departments. Thousands of employees. Bureaucracy folded inside bureaucracy.

The friction itself was the fortress. No individual on earth could breach it.

AI dissolved the fortress.

One laptop out-calculated a skyscraper of mathematicians. One mind armed with AI will out-produce a Fortune 500.

The billion-dollar company used to require a billion dollars of infrastructure to exist.

Now it requires a vision and a machine that does not tire.

The establishment can feel the floor shifting.

When friction drops to zero, scale becomes a death sentence.

The massive organization does not pivot. It committees. It deliberates. It drowns in its own weight while a single operator moves at the speed of instinct.

The spreadsheet did not make the mathematicians more efficient.

It made them unnecessary.

AI will not make the corporation more productive.

It will make the corporation optional.

This is a transfer of power from institution to individual. The largest one in history.

You were a cell in someone else’s spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet just became yours.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America.

Previously, I believed AI would replace many entry level roles typically filled by young employees. The technology would then work its way up the organization and eventually reduce the total number of jobs in a company.

The data is saying something different, so when I get new information I am willing to change my mind.

The number of software engineers being hired has been increasing. The number of open software engineer roles is growing.

The number of new college grads who get hired has increased 5.6% over the last 12 months. The unemployment level for people aged 20-24 years old who have a college degree has fallen from nearly 9% to almost 5% as well.

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote “AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as Head of AI and AI engineer.”

And I am starting to see companies throughout our portfolio aggressively hiring to keep up with the demand for their products and services.

If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind.

AI appears to be a magical technology that will make companies more productive and more profitable. The net result will be more corporations, more startups, and more jobs.

All three are big, positive wins for the American economy.

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

So how does AI or rather LLm’s work. https://t.co/xZtt9Q7rBk

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

Shocking

[onlinemike @onlinemike]

Interesting. And amazing if true.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i don't think people realize what just happened with brain implants in china

for the first time in history, a brain implant has been approved for commercial sale. you can actually buy one.

it's called neo. costs around $15,000.

the question everyone asks first: does it actually work?

here's what the implant does.

a coin-sized chip gets placed on the surface of the brain, right over the area that controls movement.

when a paralyzed patient imagines moving their hand, the chip reads that signal, sends it to a computer, and the computer drives a mechanical glove that moves for them

picking up objects, gripping utensils, handling daily tasks.

all from thought alone.

the whole surgery takes an hour and 40 minutes.

surgeons thin the skull, open a small window, and place two electrodes directly on the surface of the brain.

then they close it up, patients go home within a week.

32 patients with spinal cord injuries were implanted in a clinical trial led by huashan hospital

> ALL 32 regained the ability to grab objects through the glove.
> 100% improvement rate.
> zero adverse side effects.

no other brain implant company on earth has received approval to sell their device commercially.

elon's neuralink is still in clinical trials.

side effects from their more invasive approach have stalled any path to regulatory clearance.

china is the only country where you can buy a brain implant right now.

this is by design.

months before the approval, china published a national policy document with 17 steps to dominate the brain implant industry within 5 years.

they want brain-reading devices to be as common as hearing aids. headbands, visors, earpieces that pick up brain signals...

all mass-produced for consumers.

and the government is coordinating the whole thing.

funding the research, building the manufacturing, clearing the regulatory path, all at once.

the West is moving painfully slow in comparison...still running controlled trials one patient group at a time.

china already has a commercial product, a 72-year-old moving his leg on state television, and a national playbook to own the entire category.