Michael B.

I love people & talking about personal growth, finding meaning and purpose. Looking to find like-minded people and have honest & meaningful chats.

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

Turning 30 in 2 days. I plan on using the mistakes I've made in my 20s as inspiration and motivation to:
- help others fight with addiction & depression
- using what I learn from & with you - X family- to be a better husband
- provide free online psychological therapy worldwide

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇦 This is the reality of conscription in Ukraine

A woman screaming for her boyfriend as he's brutally dragged out of the car to be sent to the front line meat grinder

Meanwhile, the politicians who send people to die on both sides gleefully claim they're winning, but they never have to pay this price

Writers: Mhedi, Ian

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

@zerohedge A high likely sequence is:

inflation → rates rise → credit contraction → forced selling → deflation → massive policy response → renewed higher inflation

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Oh sh!t... @andreijikh just went down the rabbit hole.

Except it isn't 2028...🤫

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Today I've been putting Hermes Agent to the ultimate test of dramatically cleaning up the Hermes Agent repo.

One /goal and it's been working for ~15hrs now and has simplified, unified, optimized, removed, or in some way cleaned up the repo enough to shed 375,000 lines of code.

it's had waves of ~120 subagents, 3x sets of 15 subagents with all of those subagents able to spawn their own subagents (yes, recursive subagents all the way down) for almost the entire time - and my single desktop machine has handled it like a champ.

Pretty epic test of the limits of both the latest gen models and Hermes Agent

Stay tuned for more!

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

@guanlan Good to know. So I can stick with Hermes. Thanks!

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇩🇪🚨‼️ Germany defines super rich as minimum €3,500 after tax!

The German government has approved the reform of the Income Tax Act. The top tax rate will be applied from a taxable income of 70,600 euros per year.

This is €5,000 per month before taxes, and €3,500 after taxes.

So if you earn €3,500 you’re basically in the “super rich” group … but still can’t afford a house.

[Rico Go | Ricardo Gorski @ricardogorski]

If you make 1.000.000€ as an entrepreneur, this is how much is left after tax:

🇦🇪 UAE: 920K
🇨🇾 Cyprus: 845K
🇵🇱 Poland: 800K
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 745K
🇺🇸 USA: 660K
🇦🇺 Australia: 530K
🇩🇪 Germany: 515K
🇫🇷 France: 500K
🇬🇧 UK: 455K
🇩🇰 Denmark: 450K

Same business, different tax bill.

Entrepreneurs will optimize everything except the 1 thing that actually makes a difference.

> They skip the 5€ coffee.
> Cut the ad budget.
> Argue with their accountant over a 300€ bill.
> Try to find softwares to cancel to save 20€ a month.
> Man, some even spend a whole weekend optimizing their landing page for a 2% better conversion rate.

But then they proudly pay 50% in tax & say "at least we have free healthcare".

Since I left Germany in 2019 I saved over 1M€ in tax contributions. Pure profits.

Without ever needing to skip a coffee.

[Alan Gorrita 🍸🐍 @cabemaiden]

GTA IV :INDIA EDITION 🇮🇳

[Tencent AI @TencentAI_News]

1.5TB → 214GB. Seven times smaller, barely a dent.

That's Hy4 preview. The trick is Sherry — our quantization method that packs weights down to 1.25 bits each. (The image shows how.)

It also unlocks a new way to run it: stitch the GPUs you already have
across machines, and they work as one.

GGUF (quantized): https://t.co/EC2ZYpVnC4
Original model: https://t.co/olB85l7dxy

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

JUST IN - EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that people's savings accounts are a problem

and that she must put this money "to the service of European companies"

says her plan to "securitize them" and "supervise them"

They're coming for your savings, Europe.

[Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ @burrytracker]

If you aren't investing you won't make it

[Fthegurus @fthegurus]

Average U.S. household net worth:

2000: $400,000
2026: $1.35 million

That’s up 3.4× in dollars.

In Gold:

2000: 1,430 ounces
2026: 295 ounces

Americans are 80% poorer in real terms.

You’re not mad enough.

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

@tonysimons_ I've just read your post and don't expect a reply, but I simply can't find out WHERE to learn about how a business should work in 2026 so that I can translate what I know AI tools can do into something that would fit a business?
Should I focus on just a niche? How to reach folks?

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

@hugoinformatik Nah you don't buy them, but lease them so that your investment is minimal.
And you run only one model: Minimax H3 uncensored and you know... create "Facebook ads" 😅

[Alessio @AlessioTMAD]

Look at the stock market the economy is booming

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

In other words, Apple might beat NVIDIA in Local AI if the later doesn’t change course

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

After the AI bubble bursts:
Microsoft sucks up Open AI.
Amazon eats Anthropic.
Google becomes the top AI for everyday users. It stays free to use.
Deep Seek becomes the top business AI beyond the west - also free.
AI subscriptions die.
50% of planned data centres never get built.

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

@AlexFinn Why is it so expensive?? Are my laptop prices references outdated?

[Michael B. @TalkFoReal]

@AlexFinn How large is the bandwidth?

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Grok 4.6 is 50% off in Nous Portal for the next week, in partnership with @SpaceXAI.

Built with a focus on long-running agents and ambitious interactive work, and perfect for use with Hermes agent.

https://t.co/KCXV2EtbOa