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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

[Satbir Singh @thesatbir]

The Gurgaon municipal budget is ₹1900 crore. But all you need is a driven man with a rake. Shame on all our municipalities across the country.

[Sri @ThisIsSriKalyan]

Isn’t this kind of scary for the compute buildout bull folks out there? Or are they putting their faith on Jevon’s Paradox and Agentic AI compute demands outpacing these gains? Really curious to understand what people are thinking.

[Epoch AI @EpochAIResearch]

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023.

That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.

[DoorDash @DoorDash]

Since 2023, more than 200,000 Dashers in New York City were underpaid or paid late under the City’s delivery worker pay rules. These errors were unintentional, but that doesn’t make them acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We take full responsibility, and we’re deeply sorry.

We’ve reached a $131.5 million settlement with the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Every impacted Dasher will receive the amount they are owed, and they’ll be contacted directly with payment details.

We understand the impact of even one missed or late payment. We’ve addressed the issues that caused these errors and made changes to prevent them from happening again.

Read more here: https://t.co/7ybgICV7c0.

[Sri @ThisIsSriKalyan]

One of the main reasons why I completely stopped listening to all podcasts pretty much on politics and bitcoin!! Same kind of grift, hypocrisy everywhere.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

How many other MAGA’s have come to the same conclusion?

[Jukan @jukan05]

have two questions.

Even if Anthropic or OpenAI launches its own version of Muse, will existing Muse users stick with Muse?

And why weren’t Anthropic and OpenAI able to take the lead this time? Why couldn’t they be the first to launch a next-generation product like Muse?

[Bitcoin B2B for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

- You: "My stocks went up 10%."

- Government: "Congratulations! That's taxable."

- You: "But inflation was 8%. I only really gained 2%."

- Government: "We tax the full 10%."

- You: "You tax the inflation you created?"

- Government: "Capital gains are capital gains."

- You: "So you profit from debasing my money twice?"

- Government: "You're not an economist."

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

$BTC literally marked the bottom.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

[Suprvirat @MostlyKohli]

IIT Bombay topper asks government to make cheating legal in exams 🚨

Priya Mishra, third year student -
"Sorry for the student's family. But why is Sooryanarayana sir getting punished? If he hadn't cheated, sir wouldn't have taken any action. You come into IIT by scoring 30–40 percentile and then you want a mobile to cheat in exams because you can't take the pressure. I can score 90 percent, but I don't have the money to buy an iPhone. It's me who deserves privilege, not kids like him.

The case should be on their parents. The case should be on the system for sending a weak and illiterate child into such a big institute, which requires a lot of brain, IQ and guts to take pressure. If you are not capable of taking pressure, sit home. Don't waste a seat. Sooryanarayana sir resigning is the end of every honest teacher in this country and cheating will no longer be a shameful act."

This is what a true IITian looks like, man. She came through merit and has the brain to pass exams with her hard work. It's a shame that she is sharing the same college with such brainless kids who came through free schemes. 🙏

[UremO 👑 @UremO_24]

Bro will do everything that doesn’t involve R&D.

[Saiswaroopa Iyer @Sai_swaroopa]

If you are OK with malpractice in exams, your fight against paperleaks was hypocritical at best.

[Parker Lewis @parkeralewis]

Bitcoin is far more important than AI, orders of magnitude more important. It solves the problem of printing money. There's no more important economic problem to solve. You won't have reliable power or any of its downstream benefits without sound money. No matter the handwaving.

[Zynx @ZynxBTC]

This is incredible.

The Metaplanet 10th series has caught the attention of institutional investors.

Their recommendation is to cancel the 273 million shares the anti-dilution clause created, in full.

VanEck is a global investment management firm with $237 billion in AUM.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Scott Bessent lies again and blames Joe Biden for gas prices. Suprise MOTHER FUCKER. This isn't Fox News!

Rep. Torres:
"What's the statute of limitations on the Joe Biden blame game? Did Joe Biden wage the war in Iran?"

[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

The proposal to privatise operation of major airports to private investors (who will charge royally for it) muddles PM Carney’s message about “building Canada.” This builds nothing, but imposes new risks and costs on Canadians. I spoke with @andrewcbc for @CBCNews. #cdnpoli

[John Pasalis @JohnPasalis]

This is what Ontario did with the 407

The politicians at that time also told us it was a great idea

And now we are stuck paying among the highest tolls in the world

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

We're Selling Our Airports To Private Equity: Has The Government Gone Fucking Nuts?

No matter what Bullshit stories the Government serves up: Remember Highway 407

Ontario overnment told us Selling 407 was a great idea

It was the BEST idea: for the BUYERS

Not for Ontario

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[Ara Ghougassian @araghougassian]

carney is a better conservative than poilievre. kinda wild to see. but also in hindsight yeah the guy was a central banker and goldman exec lol

i underestimated him through association with trudeau and a complete lack of trust in the liberal party's competence. but yeah i underestimated carney. bro is a killer deal maker and he's exactly the right sort of leader we need in this particular moment of history 🇨🇦

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

$3.50 to $189 in 52 years = 8% CAGR