LesserMidas
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brother you are the funding you have all the funds
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and use AI to automate them, per WSJ.
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Rasmr explains why meeting Alon made him bullish on Pumpfun
“I was at an event yesterday and out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the most majestic looking men I’ve ever seen in my entire life”
“I made eye contact with him and got chills up my arm when talking to him. I saw the glimmer in his eyes, I saw how much he deeply cares and how badly he wants it. He believes in what he’s building, he believes in the trenches and thinks it’s gonna come back”
“It was like talking to Mark Zuckerberg in 2005. He looks like FaZe Lacy but with double jaw surgery, a hair transplant, on peptides, all that stuff”
“I’m super bullish on PUMP just because of this. I know the IRL aura matters bro, so I’m hyped”
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@timmyhmshen IMO obv buy in the $1-5 range
Gemini is a good product and ain’t leaving crypto system
Will definitely return to at least half of IPO price in 5-10 years
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Gemini has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in New York, accusing the firm of misleading investors about its strategy before and after its 2025 IPO.
Gemini’s stock closed at $32 on its first trading day in September but has since fallen over 80% to around $6 as of Thursday.
full story ⏬
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Tech bros will never have taste because taste evolves from liking things purely for their own sake, and tech bros cannot conceive of value that is not tied to profit or clout
Kyle Chayka@chaykak
this week's column is for all my taste bros out there
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@AlgodTrading @iruletrenches Rich people can be miserable
Just look at the Epstein files
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@iruletrenches I sadly have to inform you that often people who have 8 figs + are actually far more miserable and end up being druggies looking for purpose
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i’d rather be sad with 9 figs than happy with 6
you can fix your family’s problems, remove their financial stress, and secure your loved ones
handle all your responsibilities and duties like a man and be sad
for men, happiness isn’t even top 5 priorities
CA Ronit Pereira@Ronitper
“If you aren't happy having $100,000, you're not going to be happy if you have $100 million." - Warren Buffett. 2019
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in new interview on orbital datacenters:
"The challenge of course is that cooling, you can't take advantage of conduction and convection, so you can only use radiation, and radiation requires very large surfaces, but that's not an impossible things to solve. There's a lot of space in space. We're going to go explore it. We're already radiation hardened. We have Cuda in satellites around the world. In the meantime, we're going to explore what is the architecture of datacenters look like in space. It'll take years, but that's ok. I got time."
via @theallinpod
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Ryan Serhant reveals how hard it is to buy an apartment in NYC
“The co-op board can turn you down for anything, and they don't have to tell you why. You could have $100 million in the bank and they can reject you without any reason. A condo board can't do that, they have the right of first refusal. If they turn down a purchaser, they do have to buy the apartment from the owner at the same exact price”
“You do have to fill out a massive condo application, two years of tax returns, get reference letters, both professional and personal. There’s background checks, there’s credit checks, it does create a barrier of entry”
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This scene is perfect. The two screen split in the middle gives the impression of a mirror. Modern Narcissus meeting his greatest fear. Everything is here. The awkward gestures. The flood of Pepsi revealing the character’s obsessive traits. The inability to form a word. Narcissus contemplates in awe what he could have been in a parallel reality, if not for the genetic lottery of life. It’s the moment he realised that this is the energy he feeds off.
Clavicular News@ClavicularNews
Clavicular meets his biggest supporter who donated him over 2000 subs ($10,000) on Kick 😳
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@BellicosityDave @AJA_Cortes A quote and consensus are very different things
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@LesserMidas @AJA_Cortes This is not true.
To quote Dan Carlin “Great men are usually bad men”
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Dune 2 sucked.
Villanueve ruined Paul and Chanis relationship on purpose because he hated the idea of a Great Man with godly power and loyal woman who believes him. Stripped it all out in favor of scowling and cynicism
Dune 3 will also be BS (pretty visuals aside)
The Cinéprism@TheCineprism
Can Dune surpass The Lord of the Rings legacy?
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@BellicosityDave @AJA_Cortes Great Men are categorized as being good
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@LesserMidas @AJA_Cortes Well somehow, even with the reading comprehension of a baboon, he understood the book better than you understood his tweet.
He never said Paul was the good guy, or right, he said he was a Great Man with a loyal woman, which is inarguably correct.
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I think it’s pretty obvious that the philosophical message of Paul is that 1. He is a complex hero archetype 2. The idea of a hero is equally complex and nuanced 3. Hero’s are not always “good”
I think Dennis did that pretty well, the problem is without 600 pages it’s not quite obvious to the average viewer unless you just say it
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@LesserMidas @AJA_Cortes And somehow he managed to critique this idea without having Chani monologue to the reader about how “Paul is a bad guy, actually.” And no, it’s not the “whole point” of the first book, because Herbert was a serious thinker who drew from a rich pool of ideas and experiences.
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@a16z Explain to me how this is any different from the mechanisms of social media?
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Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara: "I think that politics are going to get better because you're going to have a way faster feedback loop on the messaging and the policies."
"Right now when a candidate says 10 things and they win or they lose, you're trying to make one assessment of so many things that the candidate did."
"But now you can have real time of like, 'they said this, what was the response?' And you can get that in that faster feedback loop, which I think makes startups great."
"If candidates are able to... optimize their message to what people really want and what policies people want... they're just going to know what people want better."
Tarek Mansour:
"It's like you get a score on all of the different things you've done."
@luanalopeslara and @mansourtarek_ on Cheeky Pint with @collision and @matthuang
John Collison@collision
Prediction markets are one of the most hotly-discussed new technologies of the past few years. @mansourtarek_ and @luanalopeslara, founders of @kalshi, joined @matthuang and me in the Cheeky Pint pub. We discussed their landmark lawsuit against the CFTC, how market making works on Kalshi, and where prediction markets go from here.
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@capexbt The answer is you’re wrong and retarded. You think whatever you’re told to think.
Stop rationalizing Bitcoin price movements
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Nobody is asking why Bitcoin rallied during a war. The answer is Iran.
- Iran mines Bitcoin for $1,300 per coin. The cheapest on earth.
- The IRGC runs the operation. Every coin gets sold to fund imports and bypass US sanctions.
- They’ve been dumping tens of thousands of BTC on the open market for years. Constant invisible sell pressure.
- Then the US bombed their power grid. Mining went offline overnight. The hashrate dropped within hours.
- The sell pressure that nobody knew existed just vanished.
The US accidentally made Bitcoin more scarce by bombing the world’s cheapest mining operation. And nobody is connecting the dots.
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@sagharborcap @JohnnyDrama0 I know one at AQR and one at Maverick
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@JohnnyDrama0 Actually I do have a friend that got a P72 seat solely through nyc nepotism
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“Oh yea, I got the job at Point72 through my boy Nick from elementary school” -said literally no one ever
Heidi N. Moore@moorehn
Parents are not angling to get their kids into Dalton or Spence to turn their kids into nerdy little research scientists. It's to make the friends that will recommend them for a job at a hedge fund or the boards of cultural institutions and to marry someone who will be a plausible spouse in the NY Times Vows section, which is the contemporary equivalent of the Social Register.* *The Social Register still exists, it's just that Astors are thin on the ground these days
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Park City billionaire Matthew Prince, who’s made very clear he wants to buy Park City Mountain from Vail, tries to get in on an investor dinner. Says he even owns the building where it’s being held but the answer from Vail is no.
Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota
Molly says I’m not welcome at dinner…
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@JayCostaUSA Ngl I like this one, but instead of banning lights require street lights and outdoor lights to be modified to reduce light pollution
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🚨 TURN OUT THE LIGHTS - New York has introduced a bill in Albany that would FORCE ALL residents to TURN OFF their outdoor lights at 11 PM or face FINES of $250-$500+ EACH TIME!
The "New York State Dark Skies Protection Act" is a bill aimed at "reducing light pollution, conserving energy, protecting wildlife, and preserving views of the night sky."
The law would require property owners of all kinds, (single family homes, multi-family homes, apartment buildings, commercial buildings, etc) to shut OFF their outdoor lights from 11 PM until sunrise.
Leave it up to New York to IGNORE blatant problems like CRIME, BUDGET DEFICITS, and HOMELESSNESS surrounding us, yet FORCE it's LAW-ABIDING residents to comply to their USELESS and DRACONIAN Lighting mandates, OR ELSE!
Keep Fighting 🇺🇸
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