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Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two

Even if you're not in $DOGE. Start rooting for it. Historical on chain data shows that when $DOGE pumps, so does everything else.

⚠️ Meta is shutting down its Metaverse, a $80 Billion collapse: In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg was so confident in the metaverse that he renamed his entire company after it. Facebook turned into Meta. The stock immediately lost $700 billion in value. That should've been the sign. But instead of pivoting, he doubled down. Then tripled down. Then quadrupled down every single year for five straight years. Each year the losses grew. Each year the vision stayed the same. Each year fewer people cared. Peak users: 300,000. The target was 1 billion. He missed by 99.97%. 20 million headsets sold. More than half abandoned within six months. Turns out people don't want to attend meetings as a cartoon with no legs. 21,000 employees fired. 1,500 more from Reality Labs alone. And now, Horizon Worlds is officially shutting down in June 2026. $84 billion spent. The most expensive product launch in corporate history. And the legacy? A company that changed its name for a product nobody wanted, built a world nobody visited, and burned more cash than most countries produce. The metaverse was never the future. It was one man's $84 billion bet against reality. And reality won.

The United Kingdom has demanded that 4chan pay a £520,000 fine for failure to comply with UK age verification laws. However, since 4chan is based in the USA, the UK has no jurisdiction to fine Americans in America. “As has been explained to your agency, ad nauseam, the United Kingdom lost the American Revolutionary War. We are not in the mood to discuss the matter further, and have not been in the mood for 250 years.” The letter to the UK’s Ofcom ended by suggesting that “maybe, you could just stop sending Americans stupid letters and acknowledge the sovereignty of the United States.” 4chan’s attorney, @prestonjbyrne also included a picture of a giant hamster dressed as Godzilla.

I’m on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it’s so incredibly frustrating that I’m slowly realizing it’s actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.

Meet Raven:

Damn, they actually passed it? Unlicensed operation of 3D printers and CNCs is now a felony in Washington? I get that it's fashionable to hate manufacturing in some places but how many kids and FIRST robotics teams are going to end up with criminal records because of this?

Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children. The dissent is pure gold:

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. sweepthestrait.com

Probably nothing, but I think there might be weird, demonic, ritualistic things going on globally... alptransit-portal.ch/en/events/erei… youtube.com/watch?v=gIZszF…

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

yeah so this is insane 24 year old turned $225M into $5.5B in <12 months. dug into his recent investments and… holy fuck - MASSIVE $885M position in Bloom Energy (specialises in portable energy turbines for… you guessed it - ai data centers) - this 1 position is 20% of the entire fund lol - massive SHORT position on Infosys. he’s betting claude code, codex are going to replace outsourced IT work (he’s right) - added $300M to his corweave position totalling $700M (someones gotta run those gpus) - aggressively pivoted investments into electrical and energy infra (aka AI’s biggest constraint right now) - dumped $100Ms of NVIDIA and Intel positions. - aggressively buying bitcoin mining companies and re-purposing them for ai data centers. (cipher, bitdeer) - fund up $1.5B in the last 3 months (+35% last quarter) - now owns 10% of core scientific (levered bet on coreweave 😂) He outperformed the S&P500 8X in the funds first 6 months. fucking goated.

This man singlehandedly destroyed science as an institution His name was Robert Maxwell, and he was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell He turned scientific knowledge into a commodity, locked it behind a paywall, a created the system which breeds authoritarian, conformist scientists who are terrified to challenge established dogma His system weaponized science for elite control British jew, media tycoon, and Mossad agent He was the first to turn scientific publishing into a ruthless commercial business, locked behind steep paywalls. In 1951 he founded Pergamon Press, which launched hundreds of niche scientific journals - each a tiny monopoly in its field, demanding expensive subscriptions Overnight, freely available public-domain scientific knowledge became gated behind high costs, accessible only to an “intellectually elite” class… the new “intelligentsia” He called this setup “a perpetual financing machine.” and it became the template for the entire industry today. This commercial monopoly on science extracts free labor from scientists, who work tirelessly to write papers, review work and edit manuscripts to further their career prospects - all at no cost, The profit margins for scientific journals far exceed almost every other industry. The top publisher’s margins are higher than Google and Apple. Elsevier, for example, brought in ~ $1.4 billion profit in 2024 alone. This is a huge business which artificially inflates the cost of knowledge dissemination - that is ironically funded in large part by the taxpayer. Unfortunately the entire business model incentivises VOLUME over QUALITY: Careers, grants, and promotions tie to publication count in "prestigious" (high-fee) journals. This means that researchers are penalized for publishing less, and are instead rewarded for pumping out high quantity with little inherent value. In other words, there are tangible benefits to publishing junk science, manipulated data and fabrication. This model disincentivizes and actively punishes genuine scientific curiosity, independent thinking, long-term/risky work, and controversial opinions or lines of research which challenge established dogma. It breeds authoritarian, conformist, self-censoring scientists who are averse to risk. Furthermore, it laid the foundation for a gated elite class of “intelligentsia”. Only those in the “club” at wealthy scientific institutions, who tow the party line, are granted access to scientific knowledge. Those who stray too far from the norm are shunned and expelled. The ultimate result? A bloated, generic mess of low-rigor, irreproducible papers This model, which still dominates to this day, facilitated the corporatization and weaponization of of science What began as a relentless pursuit for truth was coopted and sacrificed for endless greed & elite control of knowledge itself

Many such cases. Remember the Syrian migrant who stabbed a 14 y/o boy to death in Austria last year? He did the exact same thing. They’re smiling because they succeeded at what they came to do: invade, kill and conquer.

My weirdest belief is that science demystifies the world and strips it of divinity until you spontaneously achieve gnosis and realize that material reality IS inextricably divine

Chicago has a public school with space for 912 kids, yet only 28 students are enrolled. The school is 97% empty. It spends $93,787 per student. It's staff to student ratio is 1:1. ZERO of the kids are proficient in reading.

First nuclear-related strike I’ve heard so far, if true The reactor at Arak is of no real concern though. It was a heavy water reactor for research and plutonium production, but was defueled and filled with cement years ago There are allegedly facilities there for heavy water production and plutonium processing, but the concern for radioactive releases are near-zero This would maybe be a strike to truly, permanently destroy the reactor and supported facilities

As I get older, I'm realizing he's kinda right