Gods follow the good, virtuous way. Demons follow the bad, sinful way. We humans have the ability to decide, our dharma, our way of life.
Just take a moment before doing any action, you will just start following the right way.
Got an email from my ex employer @unacademy today saying our exercise window has been changed from 10 years to 30 days forcing us to cough up a huge amount to pay taxes or forfeit our vested esops.
@gauravmunjal this is an awful thing to do. Makes the startup industry look bad.
14 of the top 25 banks in the U.S. are building bitcoin products for their customers.
First they ignore it.
Then they fight it.
Now they're starting to embrace Bitcoin.
Latest podcast from @Gregory_C_Allen has an insane section on criminal activity at Meta.
Internal docs leaked to Reuters show:
• 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year)
• Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US
• That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year
• Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone
The China case study:
• In 2024, Meta made $18B+ from Chinese companies advertising to foreign consumers
• Internal teams found ~19% was scams/banned content
• An anti-fraud team successfully cut these ads in half
• When Zuckerberg saw the revenue impact, he told them to "pause" and the team was disbanded
• By mid-2025, banned ads climbed back to 16% of China revenue
• This results in money being stolen and going directly from ordinary Americans to Chinese criminals
The deliberate enabling:
• Fraud earns 10% of all revenue, but anti-fraud teams were blocked from any action costing >0.15%, so they couldn't effectively do anything
• Meta charged higher rates for suspected fraudulent ads — a "scam tax"
• Their algorithm naturally identifies people vulnerable to frauds and feeds them more and more
The cold calculation:
• Meta anticipated up to $1B in regulatory fines for this
• But they make $3.5B every 6 months from high-risk ads
• They view these fines as just "cost of doing business"
Senators Blumenthal & Hawley now calling for FTC/SEC investigations in a blistering letter, noting that all this happened while Meta cut safety staff and moved billions over to VR and AI.
WTF.
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