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Give me your best tax saving tip
I gotta really strategize this year
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🇮🇳🇮🇷 An Indian oil tanker paid cryptocurrency to someone impersonating an IRGC official for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Then the real IRGC showed up and opened fire.
The captain of the Sanmar Herald transferred a large amount of USDT to a scammer posing as an IRGC Navy officer, who issued fake clearance.
The vessel was then fired upon by actual IRGC forces who had granted no such permission.
Source: UMKTO
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇷 Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen or heard in public since being announced six weeks ago. That absence may be the regime's most useful political tool right now. - Khamenei reportedly suffered a fractured foot, bruised eye and lacerations in the same strikes that killed his father - Is reportedly participating in meetings via audio call and approving major decisions, but not micromanaging talks - The regime is using AI-generated videos to simulate his public presence - Analysts say officials are attributing views to him as political cover against hardline criticism - Vance said after the failed Islamabad talks that Iran's delegation needed to go home for approval from "someone else" - Araghchi came under fire from hardliners for opening Hormuz without apparent leadership sign-off Nobody knows who's actually calling the shots, and that's exactly how the regime wants it Source: CNN
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I am genuinely struggling to understand this logic.
If the rest of the world is willing to pay a small toll to Iran to keep oil flowing and stabilise markets, then why does the U.S. feel the need to block all shipping, especially when it is not dependent on that oil?
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@nikitabier Did Nikita get a new girlfriend that he’s trying to impress or what?
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I’ve seen a few people promote a theory that if X brings in new communities (e.g., women, vloggers) that it will somehow damage their community’s experience.
This is categorically false: the Timeline algorithm serves tons of niches that you never see. Growth of new audiences will not pollute your Timeline (and if it does, that is a failure of the algorithm and we will fix it).
X is for everyone and the product only gets more resilient and more relevant when more people are on here.
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@nikitabier @bearlyai Way ahead of its time. Breathtaking design
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@bearlyai Nice rewriting of history by Evan.
Luxottica approached Snapchat first and he turned them down because he thought he didn’t need their designs.
His designs:
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Evan Spiegel talks Snap Spectales vs. Meta Raybans.
Feels a vertically-integrated approach targeting higher end (eg. Tesla with Roadster, Apple with iPhone) is the move for smart glasses.
Also, says brand association is risky for Luxxotica:
“I think it’s much more harmful for Luxottica than it is for Meta. I think Meta needed to partner with Luxottica because the Meta brand…is not something that people want to put anywhere near their face.
So, I think that Meta really needed [them]. I think what’s challenging for Luxottica is they took the most iconic, crazy high-margin product and they destroyed the margin and then they associated it with Meta. So I think we’ll see if that pans out over a longer period of time, if that was the right brand choice for them.
But I can definitely see why Meta needed to camouflage their brand, which I think a lot of people don’t resonate with and don’t like, with the Ray-Ban brand. But I think people are misreading the dynamic of what’s happening when you have Meta Ray-Bans on the shelf next to a regular pair of Ray-Bans and they’re both about the same price.”
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Full interview with David Senra here: youtu.be/Sr6n-9mzYnk?si…
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Bearly AI@bearlyai
Apple is releasing AI smart glasses to take on Meta Ray Bans. It will be a more luxury product with key differentiations: ▫️tight integration with iPhone (and new Gemini-powered Siri) ▫️fully in-house (Meta works with EssilorLuxxottica, Google with Warbus Parker and Gentle Monster) ▫️high-end material called acetate (vs. plastic for competitors) This is part of Apple’s multimodal AI wearables strategy, including adding a camera to AirPods and camera-equipped pendant.
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Pour one out tonight for the reply bots. This week is going to hurt 🪦
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@1vanillazoo @NickJFuentes he's definitely not on time 😏
the live chat is out of control 🤪
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@klara_sjo The algo likes to dip your toe in the water before pushing you in
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The algo is weird, you just can't get instant feedback on posts anymore.
Used to be I'd post and within 30 mins would know if a post was doing well or not, these days it takes 12 hours or more before the algo even picks it up, posts initially only go out to a few people.
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@NickJFuentes @gc22gc Why does the AF distressed hat look like an Abercrombie and Fitch knockoff. Do better
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