SteyerHigher

Political Content Creators. We are all in for Tom Steyer for Governor. A Businessman to fix California. 🇺🇸

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The world just paid $2 trillion for a rocket company that lost $4.9 billion last year. And the rockets are not why it lost the money. They are the only part making any.

SpaceX went public Friday, the largest IPO in history. Up 19%, a $2 trillion valuation, Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Then you open the filing.

Three businesses sit inside it. Starlink, the satellites, brought in $11.4 billion, 61% of all revenue, and $4.4 billion in profit. It is the only piece that earns a dollar. The rockets that land themselves run a small loss reinvesting in Starship. And the AI arm, Grok plus the app once called Twitter, folded in this February, lost $6.4 billion in a single year on $12.7 billion of spending.

Read that again. The satellites pay for everything. The AI loses more than the satellites make. And the AI is the part the market fell in love with.

It gets bolder. The prospectus claims a total market of $28.5 trillion, the largest any company has ever put in a filing. Larger than the GDP of the United States. That is the number underwriting a $2 trillion price tag built on a division bleeding $6 billion a year.

Now the structure. About 4% of the company trades. That sliver sets the price for all of it. Musk is locked up for 366 days and holds roughly 80% of the votes. The public bought a company they cannot steer, priced on the one segment losing the most.

This is the whole year in one ticker. The profit is satellites. The story is AI. The market bought the story.

The rockets were never the risk. The risk is a $2 trillion price resting on the one bet that has yet to make a cent.

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@CuriosidadesBRL Football Royalty 🫅👏👏

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@LeftyWinter FWIW his voters can defeat Becerra..

[CryptoGoos @cryptogoos]

🚨 WHALES ARE PRINTING MILLIONS SHORTING SPACEX.

One day before the biggest IPO in history, the top traders on Hyperliquid are ALL short $SPCX.

Over $14 MILLION in short positions.
Up a combined $2.6 MILLION.

The biggest one entered at $204.
The perp now trades at $162.

Wall Street is fighting to get in with $250 billion in orders.

Crypto's smartest wallets are betting the other way.

Tomorrow we find out who's right.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

California governor jungle primary

✅🟦Becerra: 28.0%
✅🟥Hilton: 24.8%
🟦Steyer: 22.6%
🟥Bianco: 10.2%
🟦Porter: 4.4%
🟦Mahan: 3.6%

94% in according to NYT/AP

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

As I’ve said 100 times on this platform, Republicans in California will always get the same 33 to 35%. But that’s their ceiling.

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@LeftyWinter Seems like he needs 10,11% more than Hilton from here on very much possible

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@LeftyWinter Are you Kat?

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

Rescued a deer stuck in a fence. My good deed for the day

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@SoarAI How about SFO to Rome Mid August?

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk’s ultimate goal for the future of humanity:

• Humanity as a thriving, multi-planetary species
• An economy of total abundance powered by AI & robotics
• Uninterrupted global connectivity
• Maximum personal freedom with zero government oppression
• A growing population to sustain the light of consciousness

A world where anything you can imagine, you can have it

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@LeftyWinter Seems like it’ll take Hail Mary so sad 😞

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@Quadcarl @DIRECTV That’s AT&T for you the worst of the worst

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@HunterBiden @LePapillonBlu2 Buddy if presidential elections were held today..

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You paid Avast to block trackers.

Avast was the tracker.

435 million users. 6 years of selling your full browsing history. Every search, every site, every location.

The FTC caught them in 2024. $16.5 million fine. Here is the full story and how to stay safe.

Avast was one of the biggest free antivirus companies in the world. At its peak it had 435 million active users. Its entire marketing pitch was simple: install us, and we will block the trackers that follow you across the web.

Millions of people trusted that pitch. Most still have it installed.

In January 2020, Motherboard and PCMag published leaked Avast internal documents. The truth: since 2014, Avast had been collecting the full browsing history of its users and selling it.

The data was sold through a quiet subsidiary nobody had heard of, called Jumpshot. This was not a leak. It was the business model.

What Jumpshot was actually selling, in the FTC's own words: "detailed, re-identifiable browsing data." That data included "religious beliefs, health concerns, political leanings, location, financial status, visits to child-directed content."

Each URL came with a precise timestamp and a unique device identifier.

Avast's defense was that the data was "anonymized." The FTC said that was the lie. Every URL came with a unique device ID and a precise timestamp. Any company holding its own customer data could match those timestamps and identify the real person behind the clicks.

Anonymous in theory. Trackable in practice.

The data was sold to over 100 different companies. One contract, with the advertising giant Omnicom in December 2017, paid Jumpshot about $2 million a year. In exchange, Omnicom received an "All Clicks Feed" covering 50% of Jumpshot's entire user base across the US, UK, Mexico, Australia, Canada and Germany. Every URL clicked, across all domains.

The contract also let Omnicom map Jumpshot's user IDs to identifiers from data broker Neustar and LiveRamp. In plain English: re-identify the people.

The timeline:

-August 2014: Avast starts feeding browsing data to Jumpshot.
-2018: Jumpshot says it has data from 100 million devices.
-January 27, 2020: Motherboard and PCMag publish the leak.
-January 30, 2020: Avast shuts Jumpshot down 3 days later.
-February 2024: The FTC files formal charges.
-June 2024: $16.5 million fine. Permanent ban.

What the FTC ordered Avast to do, on top of the fine: delete every dataset given to Jumpshot. Delete every algorithm trained on that data. Get explicit consent before selling any browsing data ever again. Notify every affected user. About 3.6 million Americans were eligible for refunds. The claim window closed June 5, 2025.

So how do you actually stay safe.

Step 1. If you are on Windows 10 or 11, you already have Microsoft Defender built in. It is free. It updates automatically. PCMag, AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives all rank it as a top-tier antivirus every year. You do not need anything else.

To confirm it is on: open Settings, click Privacy and Security, click Windows Security, click Virus and Threat Protection, confirm "Real-time protection" is On. That is the entire setup.

Step 2. On Mac, you do not need a third-party antivirus at all. macOS already has Gatekeeper, XProtect and App Sandbox built in. They scan every app before it runs. Apple's malware database updates automatically in the background. If you want extra protection once a month, Malwarebytes Free is the most respected free name in that space.

Step 3. On any device, also remove these: any browser "security" extension you do not recognize. Any free VPN you do not pay for, because most sell your traffic. Any antivirus you installed years ago and forgot about.

If the software is free and it touches your browsing, it has a way of making money. Usually with your data.

The bigger lesson from the Avast story.

Free software is never actually free. Someone is always paying. Often it is you, with data you did not know you were giving.

Before you install anything next, ask one question.

If I am not paying for it, what is the product.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The original idea behind the Everything App was simple:

Why keep jumping between ten different apps all day?

𝕏 started checking boxes.

* Breaking news – the story reaches you before the headline does

* Grok AI – your research assistant, analyst, coder, and creative partner
rolled into one

* XChat – private messaging and calls built for modern communication

* X Money – send, spend, save, and manage money from the same ecosystem

* Cashtags – track markets and see what millions of people are thinking in real time

* Jobs – opportunities increasingly show up where the conversations already happen

* Community Notes – context added by people instead of gatekeepers

* Global conversations – world leaders, CEOs, scientists, journalists, builders, and citizens all sharing the same digital town square

The bigger 𝕏 gets, the more other apps start being exhausting.

@X @XFreeze

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

𝕏 is the set of all things

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@LeftyWinter It’s going to be a nail biter pulling for @TomSteyer

[SteyerHigher @pollsmortem]

@chiky_handlr Secretary of Entertainment fits him right