@SzabadonMagyar This is the best Dad dancing I've seen in a long time.
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Mr Accelerator
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The new government of Hungary after inauguration.
Never been so cool to be Hungarian.
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@theswansjr It would be OK if governments enforced the scarcity, but they don't.
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Bitcoin isn't real! It's not physical!
Yeah? Neither is the number seven, but I bet you'd notice if your bank balance dropped by seven figures.
Let me break the spell for you: money has never been "real."
Money is a collective hallucination—a social construct we all agree to pretend exists so we don't have to barter chickens for dental work.
Gold wasn't money because it fell from heaven with "LEGAL TENDER" stamped on it.
We picked gold because it was the least-bad physical object that checked the boxes:
- Scarce
- Durable
- Divisible
- Portable
- Verifiable
It was the analog solution to our shared idea.
But here's the thing about analog: it's slow, heavy, and requires armed guards.
And here's the thing about humans: we engineer better tools.
We went from abacus to iPhone. From carrier pigeons to satellites.
From gold bars locked in vaults to Bitcoin—verified by thermodynamics, secured by energy, and transmitted at the speed of light.
Bitcoin is the digital versioin of money. Just like X is the digital version of town hall.
Gold was the best we could do for many centuries.
Bitcoin is what we can do now that we have cryptography, distributed consensus, and proof-of-work anchored in physics.
Your grandpa trusted gold because he could hold it.
You trust Bitcoin because you can verify it.
One required faith in a metal. The other requires faith in math.
Guess which one has never been debased, diluted, or confiscated by executive order?
The concept of money is a human mental construct.
Always has been. Always will be.
The only question is: do you want your construct built on scarcity enforced by governments—or scarcity enforced by code?
Gold was monetary technology for the industrial age. Bitcoin is monetary technology for the information age.
Welcome to the upgrade.
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@elonmusk It's not safe for the pedestrians or other smaller cars that it might hit though. There's more to car safety than the owners of the vehicle, everyone should be considered.
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Only when you drive the Cybertruck do you realize how incredible it is: a bulletproof tank that moves like a million dollar sports car!
Reason for the angular shape is that the thick, ultra-hard stainless steel body panels cannot be stamped like the thin, feeble, paper-strength mild steel of other trucks. Cybertruck body panels would break 5000 ton stamping machines.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
One of Elon's most vocal critics just bought a Cybertruck. Brian Krassenstein, who has spent years publicly clashing with @elonmusk, announced the purchase yesterday. His reason had nothing to do with politics. He has a young family and the Cybertruck is the only pickup truck in America to hold both an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award and a perfect 5-star NHTSA rating simultaneously. When your fiercest critics are buying your product because the data leaves them no choice, that's a different kind of win.
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Jeff Booth on Bitcoin
Simply Bitcoin@SimplyBitcoin
Jeff Booth gives one of the greatest speeches EVER on Bitcoin 🙌
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Some interesting 3D printing tech
Founders Inc@fdotinc
He reinvented the 3D printer Introducing the polysynth mini:
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Fireside chat with Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo #autonomy #autonomousvehicles #selfdrivingcars #Waymo #tech
Konstantine Buhler@Konstantine
Waymo vehicles have a 13x lower rate of serious accidents than human drivers. Six generations of hardware. Thousands of innovations in AI and software. 170M+ fully autonomous miles. For 20 years @Dmitri_Dolgov has been focused on making driving safer. While dozens of companies have come and gone, Dmitri persisted. He knows that getting to "good" is easy, getting to "great" is hard and getting to "super human safety" is extreme. Dmitri chooses extreme. My favorite part about him? He’s extremely humble about all this and remains focused on what's next: scaling. We're grateful to have hosted Dmitri and his @Waymo team at @sequoia AI Ascent last week. Full video here: 00:00 Introduction 01:25 Origins 02:45 DARPA Challenge 04:18 Google Self Driving 05:44 Startup Grind 07:11 The AV Hype Cycle 09:47 Waymo World Model 12:41 End-to-End 15:28 Gen 6 Hardware and Scaling 19:53 Safety Stories and the Future
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Unlike Google, Amazon and Microsoft, Meta lacks a Cloud business, and is dependent on advertising for revenue, which is less stable and more susceptible to economic downturn.
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I particularly like the bit about deporting the foreign national lawyers and sending any British lawyers involved to prison for this
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
An undercover BBC investigation has found a ‘shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK’. WE KNOW. We’ve all been saying it for years, but the BBC is finally catching on... A Restore Britain Government would solve this in two ways. Deportations. Anyone who arrived illegally gets deported - included those already granted asylum. If you came here on a boat, you will be sent home. If a foreign national lawyer or worker has been involved in the fraud, they too will be deported. They can claim they’re gay if they like - they can explain all about it to the deportation officer on their flight home. Prosecutions. Any British national found defrauding the asylum system will go to prison - that includes those within the Home Office. Simple as that. We will pursue the judiciary - if they have been found to knowingly allow foreign sex pests and criminals to roam our streets? They will be held accountable. We will not be afraid to put judges in prison. Because the British people have all had enough of this. Restore Britain will finally end the vile piss-take, and thousands of people will go to prison for their role in it.
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Ha ha ha I like this Saylor analogy #Bitcoin
Bitcoin Micropig@BitcoinMicropig
But what is the $BSTR plan after the 51k? $XXI started with around that number yet have done nothing since December. These guys were supposed to at least attempt to rival $MSTR but both appear to be iced. Saylor is like a single guy who has invented Football and just plays against himself every week scoring goal after goal after goal waiting for a single opposition player to turn up at the ground, put their boots on, and attempt to tackle him. The 100k+ spectators in the stands look on bewildered every week as Saylor dribbles the ball down the centre of the pitch and kicks it into the net for the 717,000th time. Someone make it make sense. "Strategic Ignorance" as Saylor puts it, or something else.
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Genius British inventor Colin Furze at work, I hope he's got it patented => youtube.com/shorts/bzDM3HC… #inventions #engineering #cars #pickups
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Rivian Has Started Production of their R2 SUV Today, Weds 22 Apr 2026 => reuters.com/business/autos… #Rivian #cars #EVs #tech
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@elonmusk The high general availability of guns in the US makes it too easy for criminals to get hold of them. They should not be on sale to unvetted people in shops, the process of obtaining a gun needs to be more difficult. Only more qualified citizens should be able to obtain them.
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This is incredible.
An active shooter walked into Pauls Valley High School last week, but the principal tackled the shooter and disarmed him before he could harm any students.
Heroes walk among us.
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@CalontheRock @mboudry Nuclear power produces dangerous radioactive waste that requires expensive storage and remains a hazard for decades.
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It's insanity! There have been many advancements in safety for nuclear power.
On top of that, the waste is and has been safe to collect and dispose of. A nuclear reactor produces less overall waste than any other non renewable.
In the long run, nuclear power is better for the environment than running wind turbines and solar panels that need replacement every so often.
Solar and wind have their place in supplementing our grids, but not run it entirely.
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Germany’s shutdown of its entire fleet of nuclear reactors—among the best in the world—will go down as one of the most catastrophic acts of self-inflicted wealth destruction in history. More remarkably, it was enthusiastically applauded as a shining beacon of climate policy by many self-proclaimed “progressives,” seemingly indifferent to the billions of tons of additional emissions and air pollution it would entail.
Germany is in really, really dire straits, for a host of other reasons as well. But they're still feeling cozy and comfortable, mistaking decline for stability.
quillette.com/2026/04/12/ger…
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