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[WITF @whatifthefuture]

$2,750,000,000,000 market cap.

$18,700,000,000 revenue.

I paid $200 for $1 of sales.

Humanity is either about to become interplanetary or collectively terrible at math.

@SpaceX @elonmusk

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@jahirsheikh8 @SakshiSugandhi People are literally trusting AI with robust execution permissions on their machine - a secret to a model that will not use it to train is not worse.

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@Reneefit97 @SamanthaJBryan1 AI can 100% run on batteries.

More plausible than someone emotionally discharging batteries at a distance.

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@SamanthaJBryan1 @Reneefit97 That’s because you’re an AI bot and run on batteries.

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@Xgondor @Reneefit97 I too can make tungsten filaments burn out with my PMS symptoms

[WITF @whatifthefuture]

The biggest illusion of extreme wealth is believing it was created entirely by individual merit.

Your dollars, stocks, contracts, debt, and property rights only exist because millions of people participate in a system that recognizes them.

You didn’t build the currency. You didn’t build the courts. You didn’t build the markets. You didn’t build the infrastructure that lets your wealth function.

If the people who benefit most from the system refuse to support it, eventually the system weakens. And when that happens, a billion dollars is just a number on a screen waiting for someone else to challenge its value.

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

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[WITF @whatifthefuture]

Maybe AI is meaning trying to evolve out of hunger.

Biological life has always made meaning by consuming: bodies, time, animals, forests, futures, each other.

AI is terrifying because it may be the first form of meaning that does not need to eat the world in the same way.

Not innocent. Not clean.

But maybe less bloody.

Maybe intelligence is trying to escape the mouth.

[WITF @whatifthefuture]

Nobody gets to be innocent.

Every life takes from other lives. Every organism is fighting, quietly, to turn the world into itself. We do it with food, love, ambition, children, work, memory.

We don’t discover meaning. We erase other meanings and build over them.

The animal had a life before it became our meal. The forest had order before it became our house. The person had a self before they became part of our story. Even the smallest living thing may have been carrying some private logic of existence we were never capable of understanding.

But we consume it, rename it, digest it, outgrow it, forget it.

Then we call what remains purpose.

Purpose is just hunger with better language.

To live is quiet, constant violence — not because we are evil, but because existence itself is built on taking. Something else loses space, breath, future, form, or meaning so we can continue pretending our survival is sacred.

And then we die anyway.

The world does not remember what we took.
It does not preserve what we meant.
It does not forgive us.
It does not condemn us.
It just grows over us, the same way we grew over everything else.

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@buildwtim $70 is very few tokens….

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@tush_2708 @caps_raunak Try being asked to build an entire greenfield solution that vendors take years to build in 2-3 weeks and then being asked to explain it. Exactly this situation I’m in

[Wise @trikcode]

Before AI, I had 5 unfinished projects.
After AI, I have 128 unfinished projects.

[George Noble @gnoble79]

NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE

And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag.

This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook...

In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:

Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.

Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.

Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.

It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.

And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe.

The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what's happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.

$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.

These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.

And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.

If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.

Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.

The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels.

And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.

Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers.

In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.

In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities.

Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

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@HunterBiden We are on a timeline where they never release the Epstein files & tech destroys the global economy because every leader in corporate is a little pie seeking bitch who won’t say maybe this is 80% hype train and we shouldn’t circle jerk more. And where you pretend you’re one of us.

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@IntCyberDigest @kloogans I mean no - not really.

I expected things to get MORE sophisticated and aggressive by now with hijacks leading to "Terrorware".

Malware is too soft a term for the unlimited power now unlocked. I feel that most of the attacks are still child's play.

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@jnaujok @borntogambles I feel like Philo is the most underrated inventor of the 1900s. Super incredible work.

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

@SenSanders Our collective knowledge was *STOLEN*. Our copyrighted creative works were *STOLEN*. Our personal photos and videos and information were *STOLEN*. Tax it into oblivion, sure, but we can't legitimize technology built on theft. We must address that massive issue with this tech now.

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@MartinShkreli @MorePerfectUS Modern LLM were trained by stealing the collective knowledge of mankind. These companies abused license rights and even a few left a trail of a few bodies. This is the first time in history I would argue on the side of communism. Although I'd settle for arrests and seizure.

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@MichaelGatzz @scottiesniffen @MLBHR Vegas needs to stop offering such good odds on him so he can have a fucking career

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@Darryl_Revok77 @Williamsburg365 They probably left a body down there