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Samuel

@SamuelTravers

As iron sharpens iron so one man retweets another.

Manhattan, New York Joined Haziran 2009
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
Have a smoothie, run around, lift some weights, listen to music, do some reading, grab a drink, have a laugh. Do it again
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@AutismCapital But didn't you see Mark Cuban say Elon ruined it?
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Autism Capital 🧩
Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital·
The past 24 hours have been a meme renaissance. This app has been impeccable. Vibes immaculate. Almost every single person is having fun with this story. It's lovely.
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@RoyalFamily You guys were fantastic. All of us in America have only had glowing things to say.
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The Royal Family
The Royal Family@RoyalFamily·
Celebrating America’s 250th birthday in Front Royal! 🇺🇸   It was a joy to join the town at their community block party – and to take part in the ‘potluck’. Their Majesties contribution was none other than… a Coronation Quiche! 🥧   ‘America’s Potluck’ is a 250th celebration initiative, which aims to bring neighbours together across the country to share a communal meal and build a sense of connection in their community. Thank you for having us! 👋
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Ante D. Luvian@uncle_deluge·
"Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage" -President of the United States, 2026
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
I thought King Charles was excellent yesterday. Felt like the vibes were super positive throughout the events
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nizzy@nizzyabi·
what’s an appropriate time to leave a meeting someone hasn’t joined?
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Atsuko Yamamoto🇯🇵
Atsuko Yamamoto🇯🇵@piyococcochan2·
元々アフガニスタンは仏教国であり、シルクロードの中心に位置する豊かな国だった。しかしイスラムに侵略された後、次々と不幸な戦争が起こり、やがて近年タリバンに支配され、世界で最も貧しい国の一つになってしまった。イスラムは千年以上同じことを繰り返している。彼らが来たら、文明は失われる。
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎@NiohBerg

Never forget what the Taliban did to Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist heritage. Thousands of years of history. An irreplaceable marvel of the world. Blown up by bearded men screaming "Allahu Akbar".

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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@hskenncutter This is awesome. I would love to see this happen 🥹
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剣kenn@hskenncutter·
架空のイベント「アメリカ郷土料理フェスティバル」をChatGPT5.5で作ったらスゴいことになった🤣🤣 もうこのまま実施してしまいたいぐらい。
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Bobby Apartment@DrewBricks·
Anyone else just… completely lose interest in The Boys?
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@brivael You're pumping out bangers, my man. 🤝
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Brivael
Brivael@brivael·
Bonne question, je vais t'expliquer avec plaisir. D'abord, ta question contient déjà l'erreur qu'on vient de démonter. Tu compares un salaire (rémunération du temps) à une création de valeur entrepreneuriale (rémunération du capital risqué et de la coordination). Ce ne sont pas les mêmes choses. C'est comme demander "pourquoi un kilo de safran coûte 4000 fois plus qu'un kilo de patates, ils pèsent pareil non ?". La quantité (de travail, de poids) ne détermine pas la valeur. Ensuite, Arnault ne "gagne" pas 4000 SMIC en cash chaque mois. Sa fortune, c'est la valorisation boursière des actions qu'il détient dans les boîtes qu'il a construites ou rachetées. S'il vendait tout demain, le marché s'effondrerait et la "fortune" disparaîtrait. Cette valeur n'existe que parce que des millions de gens, librement, achètent des produits LVMH parce qu'ils les valorisent plus que l'argent qu'ils dépensent. Personne n'est forcé d'acheter un sac Vuitton. Maintenant, la coordination concrètement. Arnault dirige un groupe de 213 000 employés, 75 maisons, présent dans 80 pays. Il a transformé une boîte de textile au bord de la faillite (Boussac, 1984) en numéro un mondial du luxe. Ça implique de prendre des décisions stratégiques sur des décennies, lever et allouer du capital sur des paris à 10-20 ans, recruter et garder des talents qui valent des fortunes ailleurs, anticiper des tendances culturelles globales, gérer des crises (2008, Covid, guerre commerciale Chine), arbitrer entre des milliers de priorités contradictoires chaque semaine. Cette compétence est extraordinairement rare. C'est pour ça qu'elle est extraordinairement rémunérée. Pas par décret, par le marché. Si c'était facile, il y en aurait des milliers. Il y en a une poignée dans le monde. Et surtout, le point que tout le monde rate. Quand Arnault crée 100 milliards de valeur, il n'en "prend" pas 100 aux travailleurs. Il en garde une fraction (sa part au capital), les employés gagnent leurs salaires (qui sont parmi les plus élevés du secteur), l'État prélève des dizaines de milliards en impôts et cotisations, les fournisseurs sont payés, les clients reçoivent des produits qu'ils valorisent plus que ce qu'ils paient (sinon ils n'achèteraient pas), et les actionnaires (dont des millions de retraités via leurs fonds de pension) reçoivent des dividendes. C'est un jeu à somme positive. Tout le monde y gagne. Sinon personne ne participerait volontairement. Le raisonnement marxiste à somme nulle ("s'il a beaucoup, c'est qu'il a pris aux autres") repose sur une vision pré-industrielle de l'économie où le gâteau était fixe. Depuis 200 ans, le gâteau grossit. Le PIB mondial par habitant a été multiplié par 15 depuis 1820. Ce n'est pas en redistribuant un gâteau fixe qu'on y est arrivé, c'est en laissant des entrepreneurs créer de nouveaux gâteaux. Pour finir : des Bernard Arnault en France, on n'en a pas assez. On devrait en avoir des dizaines de plus, surtout dans la tech. Aujourd'hui le seul qui a vraiment réussi dans la tech française, c'est Xavier Niel, et il est très, très seul. Si on avait des dizaines de Xavier Niel, on aurait plusieurs Station F, on aurait beaucoup plus de startups financées, on aurait un écosystème beaucoup plus sain, et surtout on aurait des centaines de milliers d'emplois bien payés en plus. Le problème de la France ce n'est pas qu'on a trop de riches. C'est qu'on n'en a pas assez.
Human@Human1114112

@brivael "Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite". La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol." tu peux nous en dire un peu plus sur cette coordination qui mérite d'être payée 4 mille fois le SMIC ?

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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
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Teslaconomics@Teslaconomics

Today is the start of a very important day in the AI world... the trial between Elon and Sam/OpenAI begins today in Oakland Federal Court. The jury selection is happening right now in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and opening arguments are expected Tuesday. The civil jury trial is projected to last 2-4 weeks, with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers making the final call. So let me tell you why this fight all came about. 1/ In 2015 Elon co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman and others as a nonprofit to develop artificial general intelligence safely and openly for the benefit of all humanity... this was supposed to NOT be for profit or for closed corporate control. Elon was a major early funder, contributing around $38-44 million (~60% of early seed funding) plus resources like compute and recruiting. 2/ Then, Elon left the board in 2018 over disagreements for the direction of the company and Microsoft’s growing role of the company. 3/ Later, OpenAI took billions from Microsoft, restructured with a for-profit arm, initially “capped profit,” now more commercial... went closed-source in practice, and exploded in value with ChatGPT. FYI, the current valuation of OpenAI now sits at ~$852 billion and the company recently completed restructuring with a for-profit entity reporting into a nonprofit foundation. Now, with the trial, Elon is saying Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI breached the founding charitable trust and agreement by turning it into a “wealth machine” that prioritizes profits and insiders over the original mission. He claims they deceived him about their plans... This lawsuit was originally filed in November 2024, was withdrawn, and then revived in early 2026. And just this Friday, April 24, Elon voluntarily dropped the fraud claims to “streamline” the case and keep the jury focused on the mission issue... proceeding on breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment. This is what Elon is looking to get back from Sam and OpenAI: a/ substantial damages, with stakes in the $100B+ range, with many reports saying it's in the range of ~$134B and the winnings will be given to the nonprofit/charity arm and will NOT benefit Elon personally b/ possible unwinding/restructuring to restore the original nonprofit mission c/ leadership changes (e.g., getting rid of Altman/Brockman from key roles). On the other side, OpenAI is claiming: a/ Elon knew about and once supported commercialization steps, saying he even explored merging with Tesla or gaining control himself b/ OpenAI calls the suit competitive sabotage from rival Elon's company xAI and says this is driven by jealousy over OpenAI’s success This is SUCH an important trial in the world of AI... people may not fully understand. The reason is bc Elon has repeatedly warned that profit-driven, closed-source AGI is very dangerous. This is his chance to enforce the original “benefit humanity” mission he helped create and walked away from in 2018. A big win will hurt OpenAI’s valuation, upcoming IPO plans, Microsoft partnership, and market dominance/customer perspective of the company... and this will also force real changes in how the world’s leading AI lab operates, influencing the entire AI race and future regulations. For me, Sam Altman straight up CANNOT be trusted with the future of AGI, and this trial proves why Elon was right to fight it. This is the same guy who got fired by his own board in 2023 for not being “consistently candid,” then crawled back in and turned the nonprofit “open for humanity” promise into a closed-source, Microsoft-bankrolled profit machine worth hundreds of billions. Elon was the one who put up the early cash and vision to keep AI safe and beneficial for all of us... not to create a trillion-dollar insider club. If Altman gets away with rewriting the rules after the fact, it sets a dangerous precedent that mission-driven tech is just marketing fluff. I believe Elon isn’t doing this for ego or rivalry... he’s really doing it bc someone has to hold the line before profit-over-people AGI becomes unstoppable. This one’s personal for the man who actually wants to understand the universe instead of just cashing in on it. Humanity needs Elon to win. And that's who I'm rooting for!

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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@ankoromochuu Side note: I collected G.I. Joes as a kid. I had a limited edition Nisei soldier that came with a Medal of Honor. It was awesome
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
Even during the war, American soldiers had tremendous respect for the brave Japanese soldiers. The Japanese American soldiers (nisei) of the 100th battalion were highly decorated, including receiving the Medal of Honor (America's highest military honor). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-… War is complicated. The men who fight in them are almost never the ones who decided to go to war in n the first place. Japanese and Americans fought bravely for their countries and treated each other with honor and respect after the fighting ended. The people on X who try to rage bait my Japanese bros with this nonsense about the Japan-USA friendship are losers and envious.
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うさこ🐰🌸@ankoromochuu·
日本の先祖の気持ちは、私たち日本人にしかわからない。 私たちがアメリカ人と仲良くしてるのを見て、誰よりも喜ぶのが私たちの先祖。 子孫が平和な世界で生きることを誰よりも望んで戦っていた。 その平和を得たのが私たち。 私は先祖に感謝してる。 憎しみではなく愛を残してくれた。
うさこ🐰🌸@ankoromochuu

本気でぶつかり合い、命をかけて戦った者たちにしかわからない友情って存在すると思う。 🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸

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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@tasogare_plus You make a valid observation. We do know why our vending machines are vandalized and yours are not, but we are forbidden to speak it
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たそがれ+@tasogare_plus·
日本に来た外国人が まず驚くものがある。 自動販売機だ。 道の端に、ぽつんと立っている。 人気のない場所に。 夜中でも、煌々と光って。 なぜ壊されないの? そう聞かれると、 答えに詰まる。 壊す理由がないから。 でも、それだけじゃない気がする。 機械を、ものとして扱わず なんとなく、そこにいる存在として 接してきた文化が、 この国にはずっとあった。 八百万の神、という考え方。 自販機にも、魂が宿る。 そう思えば、 壊す気にはなれない。
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
"Cui bono" is a Latin phrase, meaning "who stands to benefit?" It is still the logic we use today when investigating. LeBron James criticizes Trump because it is good for LeBron James. His businesses and brand would suffer if he said he supports Trump. I like LeBron and do not mean to disparage him. He serves a global audience. Being pro-America or right wing doesn't help Nike sell LeBron shoes. Much the same as the biggest stars of Hollywood. To answer your question question, our intellectuals would have supported Stalin if we were in DD the USSR (the New York Times literally did promote Stalin's Russia and later Mao's China and later Castro's Cuba and later Chavez's Venezuela etc etc) and they will say the earth is flat if that keeps them paid.
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スーパー左嫌人極右@ジャンプ派
日本だと海外ルーツの知的層、少なくとも芸能界ではみんな右寄りになって日本の左翼を叩いてるという現象が起きてるがこれは日本特有の現象なのだろうか アメリカだとレブロンジェームズがトランプ批判してたけど、日本ではボビーオロゴンがトランプ応援してたからな
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Samuel@SamuelTravers·
@loakeweald I believe the tweet to which you refer described Japanese as "kindly and benevolent spirits" (or deities). I thought it was great, too
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Loake Weald@loakeweald·
海外の方が最近のXでの日本人との交流を「食べ物をお供えするとやってくる妖精たち」って表現してるの愛を感じる表現で素敵だなと笑わせて貰いました。 日本人の私から見ると、インプ稼ぎツイートであろうと食べ物にはつい反応する日本人はどちらかというと芋を食べに罠にのこのこ入る愛らしいタヌキ。
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山口慶明(Yoshiaki Yamaguchi)
アメリカ人の芝生への情熱はマジ異常。大概のことは雑なのに芝刈りだけはマメ。私が一時帰国で1ヶ月間アメリカを離れる際、アメリカ人同僚から仕事の心配の話は一切なかったが「1ヶ月間、家の芝生の手入れはどうするんだ!?」と芝生の心配だけはされたw。私が「日本から戻ったら頑張って芝刈りするよ」と言ったら「1ヶ月も芝生を放置するなんてダメだ!分かった、家も近いし俺がお前の庭の芝刈りもついでにやっておいてやるよ」と申し出てくれて、ありがたく依頼し、私はアメリカ人の芝生への情熱に感動すら覚えました…。まあ1ヶ月後アメリカに戻ったら庭の芝生は見たことないくらいボーボーだったけど。
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ひきこうもり@Hikikomori_·
少し前まで他の国のでかい肉で平和に交流してたのに、最近は一転して他の国の人による、謎の日本叩きがされているの見ると悲しくなっちゃうな
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