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@OptimoPrincipi Stunning

An incredible find unveiled from Roman Scotland. This altar was unearthed in the most northerly Temple of Mithras in the empire, located near modern Edinburgh. Its depiction of the unconquered sun god was lit from behind, giving the deity a fiery glow in the gloomy temple. 🔥

@gnoble79 @NickSzabo4 How do we short it?

In 45 years on Wall Street, I've never seen anything like this. Sam Altman just convinced 3 of the world's smartest investors to fund his losses. $110 billion. But ZERO profit in sight. The largest private funding round in history. Let me explain why this is borderline criminal & what you have to understand as an investor: Amazon. Nvidia. SoftBank. 3 of the world's most sophisticated investors just handed OpenAI $110 billion at an $840 billion valuation. That's more than double the $40 billion OpenAI raised last year. For context: all US venture capital combined invested $170 billion into American startups in all of 2023. Altman just raised 65% of that. Alone. In one round. And the company STILL isn't profitable. Let's look at the actual numbers: OpenAI burned $8 billion in 2025. They project burning $17 billion in 2026. $35 billion in 2027. $47 billion in 2028. Cumulative losses before any projected path to profitability: over $115 billion. Meanwhile, Amazon's $50 billion comes with strings attached. $35 billion is contingent on OpenAI either achieving AGI or completing its IPO by year end. Read that again. $35 billion is conditioned on ACHIEVING AGI. They're literally writing checks against a scientific breakthrough that may not happen on any predictable timeline. This is what peak cycle financing looks like. The circular logic every investor should understand: Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI. OpenAI commits to spending $100 billion on Amazon Web Services. Nvidia invests $30 billion. OpenAI commits to buying 3 gigawatts of Nvidia compute. These aren't arms-length investments. They're vendor financing dressed up as venture capital. Amazon and Nvidia are essentially paying OpenAI to buy their own products. The $840 billion valuation prices in a future that doesn't exist yet. At $13 billion in 2025 revenue, that's 65x revenue. Even in 2021 - the most speculative bubble in recent tech history - Snowflake peaked at 50-80x revenue. And Snowflake was actually profitable. J.P. Morgan calculates that the AI industry needs $650 billion in annual revenue just to generate a 10% return on total infrastructure buildout. The entire industry currently generates a fraction of that. I've seen cycles my entire 45-year career. The 1980s defense build-up. The dot-com bubble. The 2008 mortgage machine. The pattern is always the same: When the biggest players start financing each other's growth through circular investment structures, you're not witnessing a revolution... You're watching the LAST PHASE of a credit cycle. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said OpenAI is going to be "one of the very big winners long term." Maybe. But $840 billion assumes they've already won. Stock prices follow earnings. Always have. Always will. And right now, OpenAI's earnings are deeply, structurally, massively negative. The IPO is coming. The hype will peak. And the question every serious investor needs to answer is simple: At what price does this actually make sense? Sam Altman doesn’t know either - he just keeps raising money faster than he can burn it. This can’t end well.

@JackSlackMMA hi Jack I have been trying to buy your book “finding the art” on the Italian Amazon but it is not available Anyway to purchase this for an Italian guy? Thanks

@FraSilvestriM5S Idiota

Oggi abbiamo evitato la morte della democrazia. Lo abbiamo fatto fisicamente perché dentro la Camera possono entrare tutte le idee del mondo, ma non possono entrare i nazisti e i neonazisti.

@SaP011 Firmato.

REMIGRAZIONE: Non sarà la violenza rossa a fermare gli italiani. Bloccare la conferenza stampa è stato inutile, in meno di 2 ore è già stato raggiunto il 15% del quorum. Ci dev’essere una marea di firme. Firmate e fate firmare. Link nei commenti. 👇🏻

@NOprisonersEVER Basta cambiare lavoro

6000 precari che si spostano da una regione all'altra per lavorare. Sveglia di notte, 10/12 ore fuori casa e parte del loro stipendio speso in trasporti, benzina, parcheggi, abbonamenti di treno e metro.l'italia è una zattera alla deriva, non un paese.

Stop watching short-form videos. Meta-analysis of ~100k people shows how it is associated with decreased cognition and increased stress + anxiety. I know this is correlation, not causation but ask yourself - do you feel great after a session of consuming reels/shorts?

Stephen Wolfram at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. youtube.com/watch?v=8SD9Wg…

When I used to be depressed and anxious all the time, I tried mindfulness concepts that taught me to “watch my thoughts” and detach myself from them. This didn’t do any harm, but it certainly didn’t help, because the bad thoughts were still there. This approach ignores the root cause of bad thoughts, which, in many cases, is poor health. Improving my digestion made it so that I didn’t have to have to do any mindfulness practices or hacks, because my thoughts became pleasant and vibrant naturally, just like they should for a healthy person.

@LorenzoZL74 Mi vedo già Ahmed e Mahmoud dallo psicologo finanziati dalle famiglie italiane

E alè, anche gli psicologi a carico dei contribuenti. Poi qualcuno si chiede come mai il PD non scende mai sotto il 20% eh?

@nicolomontarini La solita mantenuta dall’ONU che non ha fatto nulla di realmente produttivo per la società Non sono sicuro che la causa palestinese sia rafforzata da questa persona

Francesca Albanese: "Unione dei popoli, unione delle cause: dai queer a chi si batte per la pace. Il nemico è unico e comune: è quello che trasforma i popoli in schiavi. L'economia che abbiamo adesso è: produci, consuma, crepa". Si diletta anche di economia.

@SalisIlaria @Corriere Vigliacca

Sul @Corriere di oggi un articolo dedicato all’imminente voto del Parlamento europeo sulla mia immunità, accompagnato da alcune mie dichiarazioni. corriere.it/politica/25_se…

This is the culture we are importing

@duren_matto Quanto sei scemo porco dio Leggi Hayek

La produttività non esiste. Il cassiere della lidl di Como e quello di Chiasso hanno la stessa produttività ma il primo prende 1300€ ed il secondo 5000€ per fare lo stesso identico lavoro a 2km di distanza.

@brainenergy4me You should create a song about gut problems I wonder why everybody keeps talking about love. Boring

I don’t care or plan to make money from music, ever. I wouldn’t care at all if I died and never made a cent. However, trying to make the music I know im capable of making, making something that I think is really good (which I haven’t done yet) and trying to grow an audience is such a fun project. That’s enough for me, and it will keep me going for life.

@SalisIlaria Secondo te perché le case sono sfitte? Demente

Prima tappa : Palazzo Marino, Comune di Milano. All’incontro con il Sindaco Sala ho posto due questioni che considero fondamentali. La prima riguarda le case vuote: recuperare lo sfitto, pubblico e privato, è essenziale per garantire il diritto all’abitare e favorire l’accessibilità alla casa. Oggi l’enorme patrimonio immobiliare lasciato colpevolmente inutilizzato spinge in alto i canoni di locazione ed espelle dalla città chi ci lavora. La seconda questione è quella degli affitti brevi, AirBnb & affini. Come già avvenuto in molte città europee, è necessario e urgente introdurre una regolamentazione drastica. Lasciati senza regole, drogano il mercato e fanno impennare i prezzi a scapito delle locazioni a lungo termine. Il Sindaco ci ha infine chiesto se siamo favorevoli a dare maggiore responsabilità alle Città Metropolitane nella gestione dei fondi europei destinati all’housing. Ho risposto di sì, ma non come una cambiale in bianco per costruire sempre di più. Ogni risorsa deve essere vincolata in modo preciso all’edilizia sociale e pubblica, al rispetto dell’ambiente, e a una seria regolamentazione degli affitti brevi e delle case vuote.

Oggi a #Milano prende il via la missione istituzionale della “Commissione speciale sulla crisi degli alloggi nell'Unione europea” — giovedì saremo invece a Palermo. 👉europarl.europa.eu/committees/it/… Alla missione partecipano deputati e deputate di tutto l’arco politico, dall’estrema destra (sic) alla sinistra — me compresa. In programma incontri con attori istituzionali, università, sindacati, ONG e associazioni della società civile. Sono previste anche visite a luoghi direttamente colpiti dalle difficoltà abitative e a spazi di cosiddetta “rigenerazione urbana”.

@brainenergy4me What about adding a bit of beef? How do you digest it?

4-month update: it’s been almost four months since I started drinking 7 quarts of goat milk per day, which is almost 5000 cals per day. Before that, I had been drinking 5 quarts per day for about two years. So I increased by two quarts daily, which is +1,300 calories I increased my milk intake in May for several reasons: 1) my ferritin and folate were getting low and I wanted to increase, 2) more stool bulk, because whole milk is great for stool bulk. When I did the increase, I was at 184 pounds (6 ft tall). I haven’t done new blood tests yet so I’m not sure about the ferritin and folate, but my digestion has definitely improved since the increase. My bowel movements are better than they were before. I also sleep better and have a better mood. I’m currently at 195 pounds, so have gained ten pounds during this time period. Hopefully I’ve plateaued. Even though I’m noticeably thicker than before, I don’t think my body looks unhealthy or fat. My face is a bit thicker, and my belly has a little more pudge than before. My waistline is 33 inches, which is healthy for a 6 foot guy. All my lifts have increased too, so I’m sure I’ve put on muscle along with fat. Overall I’m happy with where I’m at and I’m gonna continue drinking 7 quarts per day. I love milk and I love losing all my hard-earned wages to milk addiction. Now I just need to burp and I’ll be home free.

@GCerqueti Sei un miserabile Spero che fra qualche ora tu ti vergogni di quello che hai scritto

Un dato appare oggettivo: rispetto a Thomas Matthew Crooks, Tyler Robinson ha avuto una mira micidiale. Ha solo 22 anni. Dove e come si è allenato? Chi lo ha aiutato per farlo diventare così infallibile?

The Danish Prime Minister shows that left-leaning politicians in Europe need not be trapped by suicidal empathy forever. They can, like her, accept that mass immigration demanded an assimilation that never came, and change course. politiken.dk/danmark/politi…

@DanielLMcAdams I guess I have to follow you with this based take

So many male Karens trying to get disgusting public school teacher people fired for saying things they find offensive about Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination. Waste of time. Dudes - dial down your estrogen and if you don't want trannies diddling your kids in public schools make a financial sacrifice and have your wives school your kids at home. Yes - stand up to your wives and tell them to put their "careers" on hold. I did, even as hers was more profitable than mine. Man up or shut up. I bet you are afraid to be a man in your family. YOU are the problem. Oh but OMG I need my boat and all that crap. OK your kids may end up gay and hate you and shoot people. Idiots. Enjoy your boat. Many of us have very little beyond the basics because we have had a single income household believing that the mother should be responsible for imputing the values and intellect of the parents upon the children. How radical - only the norm for 5,000 or whatever years. Get out of public schools, end the "career" of your wife, have her educate your children according to your (hopefully traditional) values. You will not be able to afford that stunning house and everything else you think you deserve, but you will at least have a chance (not guaranteed) that your offspring will not be complete idiots who hate your guts after taking $200K from you to study absurd things and have 100 piercings and hate your guts. And be lesbians.