LesserMidas

@CarlZha And then research what comes next…

I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

@AnishA_Moonka Why do we need foreign funds to fund our country? Are there not enough risk takers in the US? It’s honestly deplorable

The largest buyout fund in history raised $28 billion. Jeff Bezos is reportedly raising $100 billion, more than 3x that record, to buy manufacturing companies and automate them with AI. The Wall Street Journal broke the story today. Bezos has been meeting sovereign wealth fund managers (government-owned investment pools in the Middle East and Singapore), pitching what investor documents call a "manufacturing transformation vehicle." The targets: chipmaking, defense, and aerospace. The money flows through Project Prometheus, the AI startup Bezos co-founded in November 2025 with physicist Vik Bajaj, formerly of Google X. Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion and over 120 employees poached from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. The company says it builds "AI for the physical economy," meaning AI that learns from real-world environments and physical materials, not just text and images. Prometheus is the brain. The $100 billion fund is the body. Bezos is worth about $234 billion. This fund would represent roughly 43% of his entire fortune. Most of the capital would come from outside investors, but there is only one precedent at this size: SoftBank's Vision Fund, which also raised $100 billion in 2017 ($45 billion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund, $15 billion from Abu Dhabi). That fund posted a $32 billion loss in a single year. Masayoshi Son publicly said he was "embarrassed" and "ashamed" of the results. U.S. manufacturing is a $3 trillion sector with 113 million workers. Its share of GDP has dropped from 11% in 2012 to 9% today. The bet is that AI can reverse that decline by making factories radically more productive. Just last week, Travis Kalanick (former Uber CEO) came out of 8 years of stealth to launch Atoms, a robotics company targeting factory automation. Multiple billionaires are converging on "physical AI" this month. Bezos is just doing it with a checkbook 3x the size of anything the buyout industry has ever seen.

@protosphinx Men are spineless today Bet more risk it all

brother you are the funding you have all the funds

@Jackkk “It was like talking to mark Zuckerberg in 2005” Rasmr in 2005:

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”

@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

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 ⏬

@dotmariusz @annakatherines_ 😉

@LesserMidas @annakatherines_ “traveling to rome” lmao

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

@AlgodTrading @iruletrenches Rich people can be miserable Just look at the Epstein files

@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

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

@SawyerMerritt @elonmusk @jason looks so fat here wow

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

@CryptoMikli Private governance

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”

@0xUnihax0r *Dorian Gray going up to the attic*

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.

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@BellicosityDave @AJA_Cortes A quote and consensus are very different things

@LesserMidas @AJA_Cortes This is not true. To quote Dan Carlin “Great men are usually bad men”

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)

@BellicosityDave @AJA_Cortes Great Men are categorized as being good

@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.

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

@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.

@a16z Explain to me how this is any different from the mechanisms of social media?

@a16z Retarded

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

@capexbt The answer is you’re wrong and retarded. You think whatever you’re told to think. Stop rationalizing Bitcoin price movements

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.

@sagharborcap @JohnnyDrama0 I know one at AQR and one at Maverick

@JohnnyDrama0 Actually I do have a friend that got a P72 seat solely through nyc nepotism

“Oh yea, I got the job at Point72 through my boy Nick from elementary school” -said literally no one ever