Kenneth N. Onyango

Essentialist.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

ELON: STARLINK WILL BE FASTER THAN FIBER — THANKS TO PHYSICS

Elon says Version 3 Starlink satellites launch in 6–9 months aboard Starship and will cut latency below 20ms.

They’ll orbit at 350km, not 550km - shaving ~5ms just from shorter light-travel distance.

Laser links in space move data ~40% faster than fiber.

No traffic, no friction, just vacuum.

Packets will fly faster off Earth than on it.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 ELON: OPTIMUS WILL BE THE BIGGEST PRODUCT OF ALL TIME

"The only company with all the ingredients for making intelligent humanoid robots at scale is Tesla.

This is a super big deal.

My prediction on this front is that Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far.

Nothing will even be close.

I think it will be ten times bigger than the next biggest product ever made.

Like that level."

Source: @Tesla

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Call me naive if you want.

But I think there’s an imminent deescalation with China coming.

1. We are just weeks away from a full collapse of our economy without Chinese inventory. If ships start leaving China this weekend, they’ll get to the U.S. just in time to avoid that disaster.

2. Yesterday, Trump said he wouldn’t reduce tariffs on China under any circumstances. Today, he said he is very open to reducing the tariffs. He obviously knows his time is up playing the tough guy.

3. Trump said buy stocks today. The same exact comment he made before he paused all the tariffs on the rest of the world on April 9th.

4. Risk assets are relentlessly ripping. Bitcoin, Stocks, even Oil. Safe haven assets like Gold and Treasuries are selling. Really seems like the major market participants - whom we know have gotten tipped off by the administration before - know what is coming.

Feel free to disagree with me.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

NEURALINK REACHES $8.5B VALUATION — HERE’S WHO ELSE IS BETTING BIG ON ELON’S BRAIN TECH

Neuralink is raising $500 million at an $8.5 billion valuation.

The chip’s already in a human patient, doing what Elon promised: moving cursors, browsing the web — with nothing but brainwaves.

But another side of the story now is who’s writing the checks...

@foundersfund, backed by @peterthiel , is leading the round. Thiel — who co-founded PayPal with Elon — has long believed in radical tech to extend human capabilities. He sees Neuralink not just as medical innovation, but as the first serious step toward brain-machine fusion.

@gigafund, run by Luke Nosek and Stephen Oskoui, is back in too. These are the early SpaceX insiders who helped fund Elon’s rocket dreams. Behind the scenes, they’ve stayed tightly aligned with his vision of turning science fiction into infrastructure.

Also returning: @blakebyers ex-Google Ventures, now running Byers Capital. Insiders say Byers was sold early after Neuralink’s first patient demo — the moment cursor control went from concept to reality.

The new round follows Neuralink’s 2023 raise of $280 million, which insiders say was oversubscribed within days.

This time, top-tier funds were reportedly pre-calling to lock in allocation — even before terms were finalized.

What’s next? The FDA-approved trials continue. Insiders close to the company say the next demo will push beyond movement — possibly involving memory or speech decoding.

@elonmusk , as always, is already looking ahead.

He’s hinted that future versions will allow high-speed mental communication and digital memory backup.

The current raise? Just fuel for that vision.

Source: Reuters, Bloomberg News

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Scott Bessent accused China of having the world's most imbalanced economy due to its larger trade surplus. But a trade surplus is a sign of a productive economy. In contrast, the U.S. has the world's largest trade deficit. So our economy is also imbalanced, but in a bad way.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Tim Cook explaining why Apple manufactures in China and not the United States.

Hint: Tariffs won’t fix this.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇨🇳BREAKING: CHINA HITS BACK WITH 125% TARIFF ON U.S IMPORTS

China just raised tariffs to match the rate the U.S currently imposes on Chinese goods.

This jump from the 84% announced Wednesday signals tit-for-tat escalation is back in full swing.

Beijing’s message? If Washington hikes, we hike too.

Source: BBC

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

A 1996 video resurfaces of Nancy Pelosi discussing tariffs and the trade deficit with China.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The world doesn't need Americans to buy stuff. Americans need the world to make stuff. There are consumers all over the world eager to buy what Americans can no longer afford. As the U.S. dollar falls and their own currencies rise, that is precisely what will happen.

[George Gammon @GeorgeGammon]

According to NY Times this seems to be the calculation for the only “reciprocal tariffs” in history that aren’t calculated based on tariffs. 😂

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

So let’s just use Orange Boy’s brain rot poster for a second.

Vietnam is getting charged 46% because:

Vietnam exports $140B to us and only buys $10B from us which led to a $130B trade deficit.

$130B/$140B is ~90%

90% divided by 2 is ~46%.

Even when Vietnam drops their tariff rate from 7% to 0%, and the grifters start cheering for that “massive” victory, does that exempt Vietnam from this brain dead tariff?

Or are we asking Vietnam, a country with a $400B GDP to start buying $100B per year of our exports to balance this?

Is this about unfair tariff rates? Or unfair trade balances?

This is so utterly chaotic and stupid.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Nike just lost nearly $10 billion in market cap in under an hour—because Trump slapped a 46% tariff on Vietnam, where Nike has over 450,000 workers and 130 factories.

The stock cratered nearly 7%, and investors hit the panic button.

That’s not “America First.” That’s tanking American companies while pretending it’s patriotism.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Just Imagine.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

ISAAC ASIMOV: ROBOTS WILL BECOME ORGANIC AS HUMANS BECOME MACHINES

“We will have robots becoming less metal, more organic.

At the same time, we will have human beings who will make more and more use of artificial organs of metal and plastic — artificial hearts, artificial kidneys, artificial lungs — replace bones with light metal substitutes.

In short, we may have a society in which robots will drift away from total metal.”

Source: @JonErlichman

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨BREAKING: Full President Trump x JD Vance x Zelenskyy argument (MUST WATCH)

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨REPORTER: "Mr. President, do you still think that Mr. Zelenskyy is a dictator?"

TRUMP: "Umm...did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question." LMAO! 😂

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇨🇳AI ROBOT ATTACKS CROWD AT CHINESE FESTIVAL

A humanoid robot suddenly stopped, advanced toward attendees, and attempted to strike people before security intervened.

Officials suspect a software glitch caused the erratic behavior, dismissing any intentional harm.

This comes after an AI-controlled drone reportedly targeted its human operator, raising fresh concerns about AI safety.

Source: shafaq, @gadgetech94

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced...

Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed.

After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.

It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.

The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller.

They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor.

Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!

Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible.

It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world.

And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft.

This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe.

It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨STARLINK MINI: POCKET-SIZED INTERNET THAT WORKS ANYWHERE

SpaceX shrinks satellite internet into a backpack-friendly package.

The Mini combines dish and router in one, runs on USB-C power banks, and connects to satellites flying 17,000mph overhead.

Tests show it handles multiple devices across five countries.

Perfect for remote work from anywhere on Earth.

Source: @Starlink
Media: @DNTYPHOS

[Nancy Kacungira @kacungira]

🧵 If you’ve seen the news about Trump's threat of 100% tariffs on BRICS but aren’t really sure why it matters, here's a simple explainer: