Greatest trick internet platforms ever played was convincing societies they're not responsible for contents & equate them to free speech.Sooner governments realize that SM in its current form, and X in particular, are detrimental to societal progress the less painful it will be to fix this

Good news is save for kickass application layer(and even considering these), boomers tend to be averse to learning and can't exploit these to best of their capabilities

Bad news is they are right, high productivity gains in menial tasks means bottom of the pyramid, where juniors learn, narrows. This is in an already shrinking industry

There is going to be some profoundly annoying tone in how older PMs talk about this that is characteristic of boomer entitlement, similar to the superior tone in which older 2007 distressed or 2010-2021 tech guys act and talk about

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

My favourite thing reg Epstein files is whoever is making money buying up expired domains to feed off conspiracy theorists. Ex: "Pizza menu=clearly little children. Look at how sketchy website is"Except that it got re-registered in 2026 and looked like the other picture at the time of email

If i may have my "have to give it to ISIS" moment, it strikes me that he was a master networker(money and parties helped) and a shameless social climber and a lot of the emails from him claiming proximity/credit are just part of the sham.
But maybe one of these days will see if can deconstruct $$

He was also a pedo, probb used that as Blackmail for a few very important people. And he was known by horndogs to throw some "sick" parties with lots of young attractive women (age never disclosed) and some probb took the bait and may have been blackmailed

Im becoming less sanguine on this, thinking mainly Wexner + Black have lots of explaining to do.
He def. was an intelligence asset. He was also very likely a fraud who liked to claim more proximity and take more credit for certain things than he should

Whole Epstein thing reminded me of Sean Parker(Victoria Secret->Social Network scene) and holy crap he hasn't posted since 2019 and has been AWOL? I'm surprised he didn't turn into a vocal POS a le Chamath, kinda respect that

1) The echelons of power are filled with very average people that somehow ended up there one way or another
2) As always, all roads lead to Russia. The Putin regime poses an essential threat to Europe and if Europe doesnt end it the regime will end Europe

Nothing too surprising here. FBI agents involved say at this point both Thiel and Musk were targets of what was perhaps the largest and most elaborate recruitment operation that Russian intelligence was running, and the most successful.

How they all use the Island line is hilarious. Would love PR team for those that went to the island to go "went to the island but did not exchange emails about women, adult or otherwise"

🐐🐐🐐 yeah, think I saw it way back when, then there has literally been zero follow up from the media (ex for a brief moment Leon). Dont need to go to journalism school to know rule #1 is follow the money!

Many multi-billion fund managers aren't worth that.Unlike public at large, you should point out what very clearly was happening and why ppl invested in a *nobody*(hi Leon). Would rather read about that than minister of agriculture of Tanzania "implicated" because someone wrote his name in one email

Incredible all the talk reg. Epstein for yrs, if he so much as wrote your name on his book your reputation is ruined, but financial media doesnt highlight that dude was worth $800 million and that the P&L associated with being worth that is very significant yet nobody on the street heard of him

Remarkable its the last bastion where Western tech clearly superior vs China (gut says they will get to parity in a lot of semis stuff next 5 or so years)

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La France est la cible de campagnes de désinformation venant à la fois de Russie et de comptes trumpistes aux Etats-Unis

There is very few things more annoying than < 25 years old trying to jump on whatever VCs are trying to pump that year and vocally proclaiming it as their religion thinking its cool

Tether is a fascinating case study of investing these days. Can you really just fraud your way into holding more Gold than central banks, or are you also lying now about your Gold holdings? I guess we will never know

I dont know man.. It would seem those guardrails are not so good in the US anyways?

Its 25th of Jan and one of my favourite letterboxd accounts to take new reccs from is at 73 movies already jfc slowdown man

Janan really is the king of shit takes and I cannot be convinced at this point this is not an act

It would all be so much easier if these people weren't also the biggest pieces of shit. Just truly garbage human beings

I missed the Kash article when it came out. Holy sh*t, its bad BAD. Capital B bad.

My distressed/shortseller is havent bought a house because I will wait these to collapse, inc LDNs largest operator, so I can buy a nice lil property to refurbish. Councils are actually required to report registered HMOs(there are A LOT) so you can just use those+gmaps to see what's good value

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Special Investigation: The spectacular rise and sudden fall of Gurpaal Judge At the age of 24, a property agent in Wolverhampton had an awakening at a Buddhist retreat and decided to solve homelessness. This year, his companies collapsed owing £13m. What went wrong?

There was some very good reporting on the bizarre world of HMOs www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/investigatio...