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TSA is an easy choice: 1. It’s only 25 years old, so plenty of people remember a time when it didn’t exist. 2. That service would be easily replaced by airports and/or airlines, so it’d be a relatively smooth transition. 3. It’d be an easy win to point to later when we want the next thing abolished. 4. It’s super annoying, and privatized security would be much more efficient. It’s the perfect combination of uselessness and public awareness. Only drawback is a lot of dumb people assume it’s preventing more 9/11s, and the propagandists would lean heavily into that.

🇫🇷 A French tax official was arrested for selling crypto investors' home addresses and financial records to criminal networks. 41 kidnappings followed. One every 2.5 days since January 2026. The criminals didn't need to hack anything. They bought a list from someone inside the government. France is the most dangerous country in the world right now if you hold crypto and someone knows about it 💀 Source: Le Mond

@krxsctr Try buying two packets of paracetamol in the UK and they won’t let you for your own safety

on the other hand this is how much a generic paracetamol costs in the US Vs UK

Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm. Insane that I can’t do this already. My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana. @Spotify please fix this.

Look guys, it's actually really straightforward, a bunch of people staked their ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield, except they didn't want their capital to be locked up, so they actually staked with a liquid staking protocol called Lido who provided them a liquid staking receipt token called stETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer, except they didn't want to lock up their capital, so they actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided them with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called Aave so that they could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero that was hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry

Hope you all learned your lesson

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

If you miss a court date you go to jail but the former attorney general can just not show up for a congressional subpoena and it's nothing.

The more enterprises I talk to about AI agent transformation, the more it’s clear that there is going to be a new type of role in most enterprises going forward. The job is to be the agent deployer and manager in teams. Here’s the rough JD: This person will need to figure out what are the highest leverage set of workflows on a team are (either existing or new ones) where agents can actually drive significantly more value for the team and company. In general, it’s going to be in areas where if you threw compute (in the form of agents) at a task you could either execute it 100X faster or do it 100X more times than before. Examples would be processing orders of magnitude more leads to hand them off to reps with extra customer signal, automating a contracting review and intake process, streamlining a client onboarding process to reduce as many straps as possible, setting up knowledge bases than the whole company taps into, and so on. This person’s job is to figure out what the future state workflow needs to look like to drive this new form of automation, and how to connect up the various existing or new systems in such a way that this can be fulfilled. The gnarly part of the work is mapping structured and unstructured data flows, figuring out the ideal workflow, getting the agent the context it needs to do the work properly, figuring out where the human interfaces with the agent and at what steps, manages evals and reviews after any major model or data change, and runs and manages the agents on an ongoing basis tracking KPIs, and so on. The person must be good at mapping the process and understanding where the value could be unlocked and be relatively technical, and has full autonomy to connect up business systems and drive automation. This means they’re comfortable with skills, MCP, CLIs, and so on, and the company believes it’s safe for them to do so. But also great operationally and at business. It may be an existing person repositioned, or a totally net new person in the company. There will likely need to be one or more of these people on every team, so it’s not a centralized role per se. It may rile up into IT or an AI team, or live in the function and just have checkpoints with a central function. This would also be a fantastic job for next gen hires who are leaning into AI, and are technical, to be able to go into. And for anyone concerned about engineers in the future, this will be an obvious area for these skills as well.

Government regulation in France: Above a certain size, building new homes requires a licensed architect. Outcome:

You cannot go anyhwere in the US anymore without feeling taking advantage of. Every restaurant, every lease agreement, every purchase. Everything is so blatantly predatory. Like they don't even care to be subtle about the fact that they're operating in bad faith. And we're all just submissive to it

Best summary of America I have seen

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

People who moved abroad alone in their 20s, handled all docs, bank account, visa, tax, jobs, accomadation, and culture difference These people fear nothing anymore

Thing of absolute beauty. Give whoever made this video a big fat raise, Wyze

When you lose 40% because you hedged against 3% currency debasement with crypto

you’re telling me silver is $112, gold is $5,100 and there isn’t a SINGLE wealth fund/bank saying fuck it let’s just send bitcoin? how

When you were right about currency debasement but bought bitcoin instead of gold, silver or copper

@ScarcityAlpha @RayDalio When there are lines at ATMs

@RayDalio Late stage 5: “When in doubt, get out.” What threshold would lead you to leave? Where to go?

@DCinvestor There will only be a transfer from boomers to end of life care facilities

the biggest transfer of housing stock / wealth in modern history will occur when the boomers move out of their homes how we handle it as a society may set the tone for the next 30-50 years will we double down on owner-occupants or create conditions where institutions will acquire everything desirable? call me cynical, but i have very little faith in an Executive Order doing anything meaningful