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Spotted in NYC: A downtown bus stop now displays the live price of #bitcoin.

Spotted in NYC: A downtown bus stop now displays the live price of #bitcoin.

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Bitchat just leveled up. calle merged source-based routing and mesh topology for way more efficient, battery-friendly direct messaging. No servers, no internet needed.

Bitchat just leveled up. calle merged source-based routing and mesh topology for way more efficient, battery-friendly direct messaging. No servers, no internet needed.

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The new Bitkey is here. No seed phrase, multisig by default, built-in inheritance, and now it has a screen. Being able to verify transactions directly on the hardware before signing is a big upgrade for a wallet built to make self-custody easy.

The new Bitkey is here. No seed phrase, multisig by default, built-in inheritance, and now it has a screen. Being able to verify transactions directly on the hardware before signing is a big upgrade for a wallet built to make self-custody easy.

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“Do you own #Bitcoin Ray?” Ray Dalio: “Yeah I have some.”

“Do you own #Bitcoin Ray?” Ray Dalio: “Yeah I have some.”

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Family of 5 paying $2,000/month for the cheapest plan available. Then she finds out every appointment costs less without insurance. This is the system working exactly as intended.

Family of 5 paying $2,000/month for the cheapest plan available. Then she finds out every appointment costs less without insurance. This is the system working exactly as intended.

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"Pretend to sell your $800K house to your buddy for $1.7M, take out a mortgage on the new price, use the cash to buy another house. Repeat." Melody Wright exposes the real money printing happening in housing right now.

"Pretend to sell your $800K house to your buddy for $1.7M, take out a mortgage on the new price, use the cash to buy another house. Repeat." Melody Wright exposes the real money printing happening in housing right now.

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Sam Altman: Advancing AI may require "changes to the social contract." "The entire structure of society will be up for debate and reconfiguration."

Sam Altman: Advancing AI may require "changes to the social contract." "The entire structure of society will be up for debate and reconfiguration."

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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

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"Insurance companies would rather own Treasuries at 5% all day long than private credit. The fact that they're not tells you the problem is way worse than anybody thinks." Luke Gromen on the hidden crisis at the long end.

"Insurance companies would rather own Treasuries at 5% all day long than private credit. The fact that they're not tells you the problem is way worse than anybody thinks." Luke Gromen on the hidden crisis at the long end.

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TD Bank fined $3 billion for enabling drug cartel money laundering, the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history.

TD Bank fined $3 billion for enabling drug cartel money laundering, the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history.

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Marc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents."

Marc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents."

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World, Sam Altman's digital identity project, just unveiled World ID 4.0, what the company calls "full-stack proof of human" infrastructure. The partner list: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, and Vercel. Altman opened by saying we're heading to a world where AI generates more content than humans. Pantera Capital says we've already crossed that threshold. World's answer is an iris-scanning device called the Orb that creates a unique cryptographic ID proving you're a real person. 18 million people across 160 countries have already verified. Tinder is rolling out "verified human" badges in the U.S. after a Japan pilot. Zoom built a feature called "Deep Face" that verifies the person on a video call isn't a deepfake. DocuSign is adding proof-of-human checks to digital signatures. Shopify is enabling verified-human commerce. The most significant announcement is AgentKit, infrastructure that lets AI agents carry cryptographic proof they're acting on behalf of a verified human. Okta built an agent delegation system on top of it. The problem World is solving is real. The question is whether a centralized iris-scanning identity layer controlled by the same person whose company helped create the problem is the right answer. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He built the flood. Now he's selling the ark.

World, Sam Altman's digital identity project, just unveiled World ID 4.0, what the company calls "full-stack proof of human" infrastructure. The partner list: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, and Vercel. Altman opened by saying we're heading to a world where AI generates more content than humans. Pantera Capital says we've already crossed that threshold. World's answer is an iris-scanning device called the Orb that creates a unique cryptographic ID proving you're a real person. 18 million people across 160 countries have already verified. Tinder is rolling out "verified human" badges in the U.S. after a Japan pilot. Zoom built a feature called "Deep Face" that verifies the person on a video call isn't a deepfake. DocuSign is adding proof-of-human checks to digital signatures. Shopify is enabling verified-human commerce. The most significant announcement is AgentKit, infrastructure that lets AI agents carry cryptographic proof they're acting on behalf of a verified human. Okta built an agent delegation system on top of it. The problem World is solving is real. The question is whether a centralized iris-scanning identity layer controlled by the same person whose company helped create the problem is the right answer. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He built the flood. Now he's selling the ark.

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Bob Lazar: "Iran's not getting nukes." "If I was Iran, I would enrich to 80 or 90%, that's where you can make a weapon, and stop there." "Any physicist has the technology to get nukes. The difficulty is actually making the material." "They're gonna absolutely make a weapon now, because we're kicking their ass. As has been learned, I guess you have to have nuclear weapons now."

Bob Lazar: "Iran's not getting nukes." "If I was Iran, I would enrich to 80 or 90%, that's where you can make a weapon, and stop there." "Any physicist has the technology to get nukes. The difficulty is actually making the material." "They're gonna absolutely make a weapon now, because we're kicking their ass. As has been learned, I guess you have to have nuclear weapons now."

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TFTC 789 w/ Michael Every: "The whole 45-year superstructure is unraveling. This is reverse perestroika, everyone's being told: you're with us, or against us." We discuss: ⚡ The reverse perestroika thesis ⚡ Inflation that won't leave ⚡ The grand strategy behind it all

TFTC 789 w/ Michael Every: "The whole 45-year superstructure is unraveling. This is reverse perestroika, everyone's being told: you're with us, or against us." We discuss: ⚡ The reverse perestroika thesis ⚡ Inflation that won't leave ⚡ The grand strategy behind it all

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"This is a Western sovereign debt issue. Hyperscalers are the bond vigilantes, borrowing at 5-6% in a snake eating its tail dynamic." Luke Gromen on the collision between Big Tech's AI buildout and sovereign debt markets.

"This is a Western sovereign debt issue. Hyperscalers are the bond vigilantes, borrowing at 5-6% in a snake eating its tail dynamic." Luke Gromen on the collision between Big Tech's AI buildout and sovereign debt markets.

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U.S. Bitcoin merchant adoption keeps growing. This is what you should be paying attention to.

U.S. Bitcoin merchant adoption keeps growing. This is what you should be paying attention to.

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TFTC 787 w/ Melody Wright: "Foreclosure starts just went up 150% month over month. That's not something you ever see in the default world. It's worse than the GFC." We discuss: ⚡ The 150% foreclosure spike ⚡ Why multifamily is the next 2008 ⚡ The $2.3T crash hiding in the data

TFTC 787 w/ Melody Wright: "Foreclosure starts just went up 150% month over month. That's not something you ever see in the default world. It's worse than the GFC." We discuss: ⚡ The 150% foreclosure spike ⚡ Why multifamily is the next 2008 ⚡ The $2.3T crash hiding in the data

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"I don't think there's anything coming to save bitcoin. The asset just has to survive on its own merits." Lyn Alden on why legislation and strategic reserves won't drive the next move. The market has to find its own bid.

"I don't think there's anything coming to save bitcoin. The asset just has to survive on its own merits." Lyn Alden on why legislation and strategic reserves won't drive the next move. The market has to find its own bid.

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"China's applying AI to continuously improve manufacturing, which is very deflationary, as opposed to the Western model which is 'let's create God in a box and then charge everybody to use it.'" Luke Gromen on why Chinese yields are at 1.4% while the West drives inflation.

"China's applying AI to continuously improve manufacturing, which is very deflationary, as opposed to the Western model which is 'let's create God in a box and then charge everybody to use it.'" Luke Gromen on why Chinese yields are at 1.4% while the West drives inflation.

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Jensen Huang: "If I have a choice between a new college graduate with no clue what AI is and one that is expert in using AI, I would hire the one who's expert in using AI. Accountant, marketing, supply chain, lawyer, salesperson. Every single time."

Jensen Huang: "If I have a choice between a new college graduate with no clue what AI is and one that is expert in using AI, I would hire the one who's expert in using AI. Accountant, marketing, supply chain, lawyer, salesperson. Every single time."

744,399 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

AOC: "There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC: "There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can't earn a billion dollars."

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Gary Stevenson dodges every question about his own net worth while arguing the rich should be taxed more. "I don't want the richest people in the world to know where I live."

Gary Stevenson dodges every question about his own net worth while arguing the rich should be taxed more. "I don't want the richest people in the world to know where I live."

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CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.”

CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.”

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California just passed a bill to seize #Bitcoin left idle on exchanges. After 3 years of inactivity, assets can be taken by the state under 'Unclaimed Property' laws. Bill now heads to the Senate.

California just passed a bill to seize #Bitcoin left idle on exchanges. After 3 years of inactivity, assets can be taken by the state under 'Unclaimed Property' laws. Bill now heads to the Senate.

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